Breaking: Saudi King Abdullah has died

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Thursday January 22, 2015 · 3:45 PM PST

2015/01/22 · 15:45

90 years old. More or less a friend to the US. It will be interesting to see what happens next.

Washington Post story

NYT story

Bloomberg Endorses Obama

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Thursday November 01, 2012 · 12:53 PM PDT

2012/11/01 · 12:53

Bloomberg just endorsed Obama.

Storms have consequences.

Wanted to get the word out quickly, because I think this is a significant endorsement coveted by both parties.

A tunnel (or bridge) too far?

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Thursday September 20, 2012 · 1:18 PM PDT

2012/09/20 · 13:18

Skimming the local news, I ran into an astonishing quote regarding possibly tunneling from Virginia to Maryland. I'm not sure this county supervisor was quoted correctly, but if he was it certainly raises some interseting questions:

With traffic constantly congested and more people crossing state lines to work, Loudoun County Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio says a tunnel should be studied.

"Is there a godly way to do what is common sense? Logic?

"This will take many decades of understanding of what needs to be, what can't be and what must be," he says.

More after the ungodly squiggle.

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Monday October 31, 2011 · 2:48 PM PDT

2011/10/31 · 14:48

Washington Post has just reported in their blog that the Loudon County Republican Party has a halloween montage prominently featuring President Obama with a bloody bullet hole in his forehead.

I won't post the picture, which is entirely sick-making.

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Monday October 11, 2010 · 8:15 AM PDT

2010/10/11 · 08:15

Flying late last week, 3 back to back flights. 2 or 4 am I was up late, annoying the steward and stewardess in the galley by standing in their already cramped space, because I couldn't take the seat back 5 inches from my face and no way to move at all. I'm sure most of us who have flown long haul have been there.

Feeling my oats (all I had left at that point), I brought the conversation round to politics.

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Tuesday January 12, 2010 · 2:24 PM PST

2010/01/12 · 14:24

And Tsunami warning through Bahamas and points south. BBC reports

There were no confirmed reports of damage or casualties in Haiti.

But witnesses in the capital Port-au-Prince spoke of feeling the shock and one report said a hospital was damaged.

Not a diary, but important. Please use as open thread for updates.

Prayers for Haiti-they have dealt with way too much hard times to get another blow.

A "shelter dog" and a "mutt like me"

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Friday November 07, 2008 · 4:09 PM PST

2008/11/07 · 16:09

In these days of hard economic times, thousands more homeless animals are dropped at our local animal shelters, which cannot keep up with the overflow. Some come from families that find they can no longer affford the costs of food and veterinary bills (per the humane society, one should allot at least $1,000 per year per animal in the household budget for animal care needs). Some from homes that have been foreclosed, leaving families often searching without luck for pet friendly rental accomodations. As always, some from inadvertant mixed breedings. Unhappily this leads to many animals being euthanized. Adoption of a shelter dog or cat is a chance to save a life. And how many times in our lives do we get a chance to do this? Enter Obama, below the fold and one of our fold.

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Have you adopted from a shelter?

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Have you adopted from a shelter?

A dog

83 votes

A cat

69 votes

One of each

18 votes

More than one of each

111 votes

Pootie Pie

13 votes

FDA plans to mislabel your food

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Tuesday April 03, 2007 · 2:36 PM PDT

2007/04/03 · 14:36

I thought about calling this "Vegetables of Mass Destruction--purloined edition" but figured I wouldn't come close to meeting the high standards set by the author of that brilliant series. However, I couldn't keep from a little mini-rant about a likely minor threat to our food supply, but an extremely serious threat to our intelligence. And a request to all Kossacks who may be interested in submitting comments to the FDA, to please please do so.

Orwell is chuckling again. In fact, he is probably rubbing little bone-dry fingers together with glee and cackling. Why? Just a little bit more of inaccuracy, one might almost say lying, in labelling and communicating to the american sheepulace.

The newest disgrace comes to you courtesy of the US FDA, which is giving a day's notice of a proposed rule to deliberately mislabel food. More below the indigestion....

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Friday March 23, 2007 · 8:24 AM PDT

2007/03/23 · 08:24

Every single one.

Blue Cross in California has been routinely cancelling the coverage of women who (horrors!) become pregnant, or people who (heaven forfend!) get sick and need medical care.

Kudos to NCEve and others who have been diarying steadily and conscientiously about the health care scadal that is our current insurance system. The yo-yo (You're on your own) policies of our government, not limited to republican or democratic leaders, alas, is that if you get sick you are screwed.

More below the appendectomy...

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Tuesday January 09, 2007 · 2:18 PM PST

2007/01/09 · 14:18

Ken Kesey would be so proud of the cuckoo's nest we seem to have flown into in the war on Iraq. Inadequate treatment of the mentally ill, the PTSD victims, the soldiers stressed beyond any ability to reason. The consequences are heart breaking. More if you can stand it below the fold.

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Sunday June 18, 2006 · 1:36 PM PDT

2006/06/18 · 13:36

"As you wander throughout life, brother
Whatever be your goal,
Keep your eye upon the doughnut,
and not upon the hole."
(On wall mural in old Mayflower Hotel coffee shop in Washington DC)

This is probably good advice, but it really depends on the size of the hole that you, or people you care about, are about to fall into. An estimated 24-38% of enrollees in Medicare Part D are expected to hit the doughnut hole, where they have no coverage for prescription drugs, but do have to keep paying the insurance premiums. Many will hit this hole much earlier than they expected, because of an apparently little understood provision in the plan.

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Blowing into the Wind

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Saturday June 10, 2006 · 7:09 PM PDT

2006/06/10 · 19:09

I played a concert today blowing into a full gale coming off the water. The band was distraught; not just music blowing away, but stands falling over, instruments damaged. The infinite frustration of not being able to hear oneself, not hearing one's companions...(more) Read More

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