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45703. Trillium - 1/11/2014 9:07:35 PM My impression of Christie is that he tries to be pragmatic, but this snafu was a BIG mistake. NYC runs on bully and mob politics -- anything is possible including murder so I'm not surprised. If I had been stuck in that traffic though, I would be mad about having been used as a political tool. 45704. judithathome - 1/11/2014 9:08:34 PM Best coverage on Christie is from Steve Kornaki on MSNBC...he knows many of the "actors" personally and used to work for one of them. He is presenting "just the facts" but at least he has more background knowledge on some of them than other reporters.
This sounds like politics as usual where I'm from...our Lt. Gov. recently called a police station and demanded they release his sister-in-law who was being held for drunken traffic violations and angrily identified himself with "I am David Dewhurst, the ------ Lt. Governor of this state!" 45705. judithathome - 1/11/2014 9:11:21 PM Trillium:
To heck with dealing with relatives...I'm at the age where I will need to deal with nursing homes MYSELF! ;-) 45706. Trillium - 1/11/2014 9:19:06 PM Judith, you're being honest... I'm still trying to avoid thinking about the prospect of nursing homes for myself!
But thanks to working with disabled elderly clients, I've gotten religious about trying to get out and exercise, and watch my diet a bit more carefully.
Even that is no guarantee; I helped one poor guy who had his stroke while at the gym doing his daily workout! But his chances of recovery are much better than if he were totally decrepit and overweight... I hate being sick. ...also right now half my family is down with some version of flu. I bring soup to the door, and DVDs, and run away and wash my hands. Don't want the crud, I hate being sick. 45707. judithathome - 1/11/2014 9:39:40 PM Get some of those painters' masks and use them when you deliver soup.
My neighbor is 84 and still flies to Oregon each year to see her son...she ALWAYS gets sick when she goes.
I have urged her to wear a mask on the plane and she refuses...says she doesn't want to "look funny". She has COPD and gets a chest infection every single time she flies...and is too vain and/or stubborn to believe me that she could avoid getting sick if she'd only wear a mask. 45708. Trillium - 1/11/2014 10:07:04 PM The mask thing is a good idea. I've thought of wearing them on airplanes but haven't done it yet. Maybe some group ought to get this started, if people are too shy as individuals to get the trend started. Dang, the airline should encourage people to do this, just pass out the masks and encourage people to mask up voluntarily whether they are sick or not. Or pass them out at cost (what could it be, a few cents?) for smart people to use -- include photos of passengers wearing masks on the seat belt videos! 45709. Trillium - 1/11/2014 10:10:29 PM Don't think all that much about Chris Christie, in Tennessee we have a different scandal... Mark "Coonrippy" Brown and his confiscated pet raccoon Rebekah. I'm not against Gov. Haslam who usually does a decent job... but it is disgraceful that Brown's petition with thousands of signatures was deleted, without even being read. Somebody needs re-education in that administration
Nashville on Coonrippy
45710. arkymalarky - 1/11/2014 10:12:17 PM Trillian, this should be in health (I'll repost there), but we have very few options here and even if you find what you want, being able to get her in would be a huge challenge. Right now she's in the hospital, but she's delirious and cannot do anything without two or three people helping. She's bedfast since Thursday and has to be watched constantly to keep her from pulling out her IV. This all came about just Wednesday night and we haven't been at work since. It's a long drawn out process, that in some ways is just now starting. Up to now family and hired help has been able to live with her at home and up until recently one person could manage to help her. Over the last two or three weeks that has changed dramatically and it takes at least 2 at all times. Now, since Thursday night, she can't even get by with that. The only reason I'm here today is because Stan's brother's there today. Will be back on duty tomorrow. It's just what happens when you get old. She was extremely healthy until she wasn't, had surgery to fix the problem, and lost oxygen during the surgery and got dehydrated and got a uti and it's been a downhill rollercoaster ever since.
One thing that I would strongly advise, is watch doctors in elderly people and the medications they give them, because she was being given the wrong medication (diuretic and bp meds which worsened her dehydration and dropped her already below normal bp), and when she got off of it it was too late and she needed the surgery but it was too little too late. No choices are good ones. The healthcare system in this country for average people is a disgrace and the lack of concern for patients is appalling. My dad, 82, went to an endocrinologist who was rude and unfriendly until he found out Dad was an emeritus.
excuse typos. Voice to text on my phone. 45711. arkymalarky - 1/11/2014 10:28:02 PM I meant to mention on the vihart video that she and an MIT prof work on projects together, and she's just one of a growing number of amazing young talents comprising a web subculture that is increasingly brilliant. I was reading about quants the other day and what people are accomplishing is mind blowing. 45712. robertjayb - 1/12/2014 2:31:16 AM An observer I admire, but don't always agree with, Col. Pat Lang, says this on Christie:
IMO Christie will be lucky if he survives this crisis in his political life. Having watched prosecuters and legislative committees work on things like this I am pessimistic on the governor's chances. There is a civil class action lawsuit for damages, but worst of all is the performance yesterday of Wildstein before the NJ legislature. He refused to answer many questions while citing his right to do so under the 5th Amendment. In my experiece someoone who does this is often constructing a negotiating position for a "deal" with some future prosecuter.
My guess is that there are many people who can be pressured in one way or another into "dropping a dime" on Christie. Rats do not "hang together" under fire. pl
Me? I plan to enjoy the show.
45713. judithathome - 1/12/2014 2:55:26 AM There is little doubt Wildenstein is going to drop a TON of change on Christie...not just a dime. His lawyer said as much to the committee yesterday...he said that should his client be granted immunity by local, state, and federal authorities, Wildenstein's "responses will very different and of great interest" to those asking the questions.
He all but did the cartoon wink with the eyeball extended. 45714. Wombat - 1/12/2014 7:15:06 AM From what I've read about him, Wildenstein is a big enough shit to do something like that that. I'd like to see him go down as well. 45715. judithathome - 1/12/2014 7:38:30 AM Me, too! 45716. alistairconnor - 1/12/2014 11:02:41 PM Somebody shoot me...
I agree with John McCain
John McCain seeks congressional investigation into 'broken' NSA | World news | theguardian.com McCain told CNN on Sunday that Congress was probably going to need to pass legislation to implement Obama’s recommendations, and was obliged to run its own investigation into the wider controversy over US surveillance. “Is there anybody believes that this system is not broken in many respects? I think not,” he said. “There has been overreach, it seems to me,” he added. “Sometimes these agencies have done things just because they can.
45717. judithathome - 1/18/2014 8:01:44 PM Another nail in Christie's coffin: Governor's Staff Held Sandy Money For City of Hoboken Hostage
This is really low...but, as everyone says, it's New Joisey...whadda ya gonna do?
Two senior members of Gov. Chris Christie’s administration warned a New Jersey mayor earlier this year that her town would be starved of hurricane relief money unless she approved a lucrative redevelopment plan favored by the governor, according to the mayor and emails and personal notes she shared with msnbc.
The mayor, Dawn Zimmer, hasn’t approved the project, but she did request $127 million in hurricane relief for her city of Hoboken – 80% of which was underwater after Sandy hit in October 2012. What she got was $142,000 to defray the cost of a single back-up generator plus an additional $200,000 in recovery grants.
45718. Wombat - 1/22/2014 6:25:12 PM Now in the frigid Nation's Capital, we are all agog over the flameout of former Republican golden boy Virginia's Governor Bob McDonnell. He was indicted yesterday on multiple counts of illegally accepting gifts and loans from a donor. A quick plunge from a potential VP candidate to suspected felon. Gov. Christie, are you paying attention? 45719. judithathome - 1/22/2014 7:41:24 PM I have been following that story since last summer...Rachel Maddow seemed to report on it daily; she had ALL the info on it.
I'm pretty sure the Governor's wife is what brought him down...yesterday she was standing by his side in fake blond extensions down past her shoulders...a woman her age should have better sense. Or at the very least, better taste. 45720. judithathome - 2/12/2014 8:46:19 PM Rand Paul Suing The President of The United States
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul is going after the National Security Agency – in court this time.
“I am filing a lawsuit against President Barack Obama because he has publicly refused to stop a clear and continuing violation of the 4th Amendment,” Paul said in a statement Tuesday announcing his filing of a class-action lawsuit against the NSA. “The Bill of Rights protects all citizens from general warrants. I expect this case to go all the way to the Supreme Court and I predict the American people will win.”
Paul is teaming up with former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and the conservative advocacy group Freedomworks in filing the suit against the NSA over its collection of phone records from American telecommunications companies. The program, which is carried out under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, collects the date, time, duration and phone numbers that are party to a call. There are several lawsuits challenging the program already pending in federal courts across the country.
But those several lawsuits don't give Rand Paul the spotlight which he so desperately craves. 45721. alistairconnor - 2/14/2014 12:56:47 PM Somebody shoot me PLEASE...
I agree with Rand Paul. 45722. Trillium - 2/14/2014 3:47:27 PM I've met Rand Paul in person, at a Kentucky State Park. My impression: I don't think he "craves the spotlight" so much as he believes in a particular version of the American Dream, and is trying to put his shoulder to the wheel to make it happen.
In a different way (as community organizer) Obama did the same thing, working for HIS version of America. We all have a voice.
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