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"People are saying what in the world is going on with North Carolina, we look like Mississippi." - NC Gov. Bev Perdue (D) on the passage of Amendment One, 5-11-12
Calling in sick today
(Scroll down for Monday Update)
I am “calling in sick today – am not feeling well and will be bedridden probably for the rest of the day (am composing this on my laptop).
I’ll explain more when I can about what’s wrong – in the meantime, please consider this an open thread.
Sat. Update: I’m doing much better today – thanks for the well wishes 
I’ve got some things to do this morning that I’ve gotten behind on from being sick on and off the last few days but – assuming I’m still feeling ok – I’ll be back to blogging later this afternoon or evening.
Monday Update: I am experiencing more health issues today. I had wanted to explain to everyone what I’m going through over the weekend but I wanted to forget about it rather than talk about it at the time.
The short version is that back in March on my first ER visit that month I was diagnosed with a what is called gastritis. To find out more about it, click here and make sure to follow the various links like the one to “signs and symptoms.” I had two ER visits in March and none, thankfully, in April but I did have a couple of flare ups in late April after my prescription to Prevacid ran out. I was prescribed something for nausea and something else for pain and have had to utilize both drugs quite a bit in the last week. I’ve scheduled a Dr. appt early this week to get a more thorough diagnosis and discuss more treatment options (I really should have scheduled an appt. sooner, but I had the housewarming to prep for and I was really wrapped up in that and stupidly put my health issues on the back burner). The link I provided tells you in most cases that gastritis is not serious, but I fear mine is. The pain is so intense when you are going through it that the only way you feel halfway decent is to lay down – and sometimes not even then. Right now I’m going through the symptom of eating but still feeling like I’m hungry afterwards. It’s an awful feeling. The usual feeling, though, that I have from it, is feeling like I have a thick rubber band squeezing my midsection like a vice. Anyone who has gone through it will know what I mean. I have done good about avoiding foods I am not supposed to eat, but now I am getting sick off of foods I CAN eat. So now I hate to eat.
Because I’m having to change my diet completely, and because I’m afraid to eat, I’m not getting enough to eat, which is leaving me with less energy. It is all I can do to get out of bed sometimes.
I hate feeling abnormal and hate the fact that this is keeping me from being able to do things I love to do – and even simple, everyday things. Right now, walking the stairs to my house is a chore. Simple things like brushing my teeth, when I’m going through the pain, require effort. I live for the days that I don’t feel the pain. I am saying all this not to start a pity party, but because I want you to know that the reason I’m not blogging much lately is because I haven’t had the energy to blog like I normally do. I’ll be missing a few days from work this week and will be absent from blogposting and emails for at least the next couple of days (I’ll check in to release moderated messages, though, when I can) while I try to rest, get treatment from my doctor, and hopefully be able to plan a course of action for the future to recover from this.
So for the time being, please continue to use this thread as an open thread. Thank you for the words of encouragement already posted in this thread and in email. I miss blogging and chit chatting with all of you, and hope to be back to myself VERY soon.
(Originally posted 4/28/03 at 12:23 pm ET – Bumped Monday for update)
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Hmmm: our esteemed blogmistress is taking of Grand Boicot, claiming that she’s sick!
I think it’s time we checked her green card!
- Hmmmmm. Si’ hablah este’ confusiono. Any particular reason this “beaner out” was held on the “Glorious suppressed workers of the world” day, May 1st, given to us by our beloved Marxist leaders in the former USSR (CCCP for those of you that can read cyrillic). Probably just one of those wild assed coincidents that seem to plague the left unfairly.
- Locally the crowds downtown managed to eat into the usual heavy flow of bag-people plying their trade along Broadway, resulting in a few shouting matches of “Hey f***head – git cher own f***ing corner, this ones mine”, and several million less toco’s sold to the illegals that scarf them down everyday. The touristo’s at Sea Port Village stood along the route and watched with the usual sort of zombie faces you see when the crowd around you suddenly realizes that they really have been at Disneyland for six straight days.
- Someone mentioned the Policia along the border. They were nicely but firmly “redirecting” the mob of illegals trying to swarm across at San Ysidro, and take advantage of the confusion, austensibly to “join their feeelow eemmeegrints” in a show of solidad”.
- Effects on community: One local gas station was closed, so I was forced to drive two more blocks and pay 20 cents less a gallon. Traffic was very much lighter, and I noticed not one “Broom truck” on the road which I’m usually obliged to follow for miles at 3 mph under the speed limit, watching like a hawk should any bumpers or tail pipes fall off.
- All in all I don’t think this whole miss-guided campaign is going to get the results they want. As a side thought, I wonder how much social services money the state saved today. That, and the reduced traffic, would be enough to suggest we do this two or three days every week.
- Bang
- I echo the comments of other readers ST. Glad you commented on your distress, and hope you are back at your normal stand soon.
- Bang
Get well soon!
Ah, our wonderful CA government supporting all of this. It’s funny, considering that many hospitals in the LA area aren’t faring so well because of it. Then again, it’s pandering for votes.
ST—Had to put in my nutritional two cents. You most likely need to cleanse and maintain a vegan style diet for awhile. It’s not so much a particular food that hurts us as it is all the different foods we eat that we shouldn’t. It affects everyone in different ways, but the simplest explanation is, there’s only one disease–poor nutrition, and there’s only one cure–good nutrition. A bit simplistic but not by much. Check out totalhealthinstitute.com or innerlightinc.com/enterprise. (the second is a slight plug for a friend, but I use their stuff and the theory is more than sound.) Dietary lifestyle changes suck, but it really doesn’t take long to acclimate. Good luck, good health and God Bless.
Man she blabs on and on for being sick.
- One of the protesters asked me how I felt about the immigration issue. Calling on my command of hispanic I looked very thoughtfully for a moment and said:
“Su brindis está en el automoblis tronco con el armodillo”
(Your toast is in the car trunk with the armodillo)
- I just left him standing there before he could ask anything else.
- Bang
Bang: RE your 4/29 12:16 post, when the “reporter” was squawkin’ about having to watch Fox on the tube, Scott should’ve counseled the stringer to resume his previous position, whether it was sandy or stinky, it really wouldn’t matter. No one forces them to watch reality either, as evidenced by their “reporting ” skills.
BTW, Bang, were you the one that called in to Rush explaining how nice the driving was w/o the illegals on the roads? I wonder if the crimes fell off any, since the majority of criminals were all at the rally?
As the Captian put it in a recent post, there is going to be more scrutiny put on illegals now that they have done this.
Link
Your going to see alot more comparison between how much is contributed and how much is given to illegals now since they wanted what they do put into the lime light.
I have no problem with LEGAL immigration, and went through the process with my wife who is Canadian, but why should they break the law and be GIVEN anything?
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Two things on my mind today.
1. For “Uno de Mayo” I worked 14 hours on TWO different jobs. Lazy Americans my Six! Not only that, but Saturday I drove FOUR hours each way to see my father in the Wisconsin Veterans’ Home. I worked 11 hours on the TWO different jobs on Sunday, too. So I did my working and spending over the last 72 hours. Up yours, Illegal Aliens and No Borders supporters.
2. I did some research on converting my ride to E85. I got around 30 MPG driving 72 MPH with 3 people in my Thunderbird on Saturday. I find that is against Federal Law for me to convert the car, and I could wind up in a Federal pokey for doing so.
I’d like O’Reilly and any other bloviator clammoring for more fuel efficient cars to talk to me about this. The Feds, Congress, and the “Watermelons” are the ones stopping us, not BIG OIL!
BTW, I think I can get 280 HP, 35 MPG highway and 20+ City if I were allowed to make my E85 and other “smog” modifications, AND HAVE A CLEANER BURNING CAR TO BOOT!!!
UP YOURS Fmr. Gaylord Nelson’s daughter for wanting even higher priced gas. Tell Fat old sot, Kennedy and Cranky Walter Chronkite to stop blocking a windmill farm in THEIR backyards. F***ing Hypocrites!!!
Big oil is a cartel and the price will be what the cartel members say it will be.The price has nothing to do with supply and demand or free markets. The sooner the USA stops using fossil fuels as it’s primary source of energy, the better off we will all be. Joe Biden and the Zionists from the New American Century have presented us with their latest war-plan and that is to divide Iraq into 3 sections. Only the Zionists, the Armageddonist Christian conservatives, neo-con ex-Trotskyites and Big oil could come up with such a stupid plan. But, Biden needs to do it because those are the same groups that McCain is pandering to. The USA needs to imediately re-establish full diplomatic relations with Iran. Peace
Democrats must fight illegal immigration
“Democrats must fight illegal immigration”
If you want to increase their wages, make them legal, and give them better union rights and employment lawyers.
ST: How’re you doin’? Ready for my japanese recipes yet?
NC: I see a mission in your near future.
ST,
I sure hope you get better quick! It sounds rough, and from what I’ve been reading, you don’t strike me as the type who does bedrest well (too many irons in all your fires I’d bet). FWIW, the internet is a big place, but it seems smaller and lonelier without your sage words and firey rhetoric applied when needed.
Best wishes and get well soon!
Sluf
Kevin Kenney,
Did you ever live in the Chgo suburbs (NW)? Just wondering.
steve,
blah blah blah
A Photoshop Contest for all y’all to enjoy and even participate in.
I like the rent-a-mob union sign. The morning chuckle was the sign, “If you deport the illegals, I’ll never get LAID!”
Damn that is just plain funny.
– Lorica
Andrew laughingly said, “Exactly. Make them legal”
You’re funny. OK. Tell them to go where they came from and then come back legally so that we know who is in this country. People who come here legally also have to give thousands of dollars to do so. Would like to see that too. People who come here legally are also screened. I’d like to see them go through that process also.
AGAIN. We are the most generous nation that allows MORE legal immigrants than all other nations combined and all you can say about illegal immigration is “make them legal”. It isn’t a smart retort and isn’t a very well thought out one. It’s a reply that shows very little knowledge about the issue but one that shows you are willing to play games.
dave, I’m not sure what you are talking about with the head gear but using a standard English retort does not address (deflects) my statement to you that: “We allow MORE “LEGAL” immigrants than all other countries combined so why then must we allow “illegal” immigration when national security is at stake? Do you not care about national security dave?”
Why don’t you address things. You can tell me my English isn’t standard a hundred times and it will NEVER address the issue.
I am suffering from a nasty cold, but it will clear up soon. Whatever you have, ST, make sure you do what the doctors tell you to do.
Then get back to blogging. Okay?
Correction of more disinformation from the left about Iraqi women. This from Betsy’s Page:
Taxes on Big Oil. Betsy’s Page has:
OUR economy in the last 3 months GREW more than the ENTIRE economies of many nations.
Republican Counties/States have more people moving there than Democrat Counties/States
I like this quote, “The growth is driven by entrepreneurs and large corporations, alike, taking advantage of policies and conditions that are conducive to growth. Americans are migrating to places that maximize freedom, economically, and otherwise”
That is 100% correct Will… All of this windfall profits tax and this and that tax and extracting more from the rich tax helps people vote with their feet by moving to areas of the country that are more economically friendly. CA’s budget problems are due to this. Many “smart” rich people in CA have left. There are less doctors per person for this reason I believe.
BTW, Andrew.
Expose the Left has Ted Kennedy about the Star Spangled Banner
And if you are for illegal immigration… how do you solve this? Not a good method for immigrating is it? Can you repeat after me… “Illegal immigration is bad for national security, women security, health care access and affordability, government spending and promotes slave wages to those who made it here and are ‘undocumented’”. Or you can just admit you are for less national security, slave labor and women being raped…. your choice.
- The tsunami Watch alerts for Hawaii, Austrailia, Fuji, New Zealand, issued as a possible result of this mornings South Pacific/Tonga centered 7.8 Earthquake have been cancelled. the new tsunami warning system seems to have worked well.
- Bang
The bottom 50% of the American wage earners got a 15% average wage increase in the last 25 years. The average salary has gone from $38,000, in 1979 to $43,700, in 2005. In the same 26 years the top 1% got a wage increase of 111.3%. Their average income has gone from $298,900 to $631,700. Clearly, wealth is being re-distributed upward which indicates increasing greed and corruption. The Rebublicans have been in charge most of the past 25 years in Washington, but that’s OK because it’s only 6 months until November. A clean sweep, for a clean slate. Peace
A moving story about rape and two lives.
Time.com has an interesting article from a woman who ran from the Democrat party recently.
NYTimes.com has an interesting article about how the Roberts Court (Supreme Court) is more deliberative and there is more room for argument.
It contains:
Heh – Sounds like a little buttering up going on here, since the NYTrash, its reporters and Eds, are probably worried about the ongoing repercussions of McCarthy/Priest/Miller.
- The Verdict on Moussaoui is about to be read. the Jury has reached its conclusion.
- Bang
Sen. Alexander to Introduce Resolution in Support of Anthem in English
I wonder if Ted Kennedy will put his vote where his mouth is? See earlier post with link to Expose the Left….
Moussaoui gets life
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12615601?GT1=8199
http://leaningstraightup.com/2006/04/26/zacarias-moussaoui-death/
Good. I was hoping they wouldn’t kill him. Anything that makes him happy is something we should avoid doing.
Get well soon ST!
“AGAIN. We are the most generous nation that allows MORE legal immigrants than all other nations combined and all you can say about illegal immigration is “make them legal”. It isn’t a smart retort and isn’t a very well thought out one. It’s a reply that shows very little knowledge about the issue but one that shows you are willing to play games.”
I have quite a bit of knowledge. I think quite a bit of the proble is that they are vulnerable due to their status. End their vulnerability and the problem goes away. Get them to pay taxes, etc…
“Expose the Left has Ted Kennedy about the Star Spangled Banner”
He’s wrong. It ought to be sung in all the languages of the world: they should all hear and understand our anthem.
End the vulnerability by having them GO THROUGH the PROCESS. That also ends OUR vulnerability. But that’s not what they want. They don’t want to go through the process either because they can’t afford it or don’t have the time compared to people who come here legally (might I add in higher numbers than all other countries combined).
So you disagree with Ted. Goody for you. Isn’t it nice to see that people can disagree. Do you and TP.com folks have to be so condescending about it?
There are too many drivers who have lost their license from speeding tickets, but still drive because they have to go to work. This also makes it impossible to get insurance, which hurts all drivers in the long run.
As Andrew says, “the problem is they are vulnerable due to their status”. End the speeding laws and the problem goes away…
There are too many rapists and murderers living in fear in America today. The criminals who rape and murder have to hide from the police and lead a horrible life drifting from town to town in hiding. Let’s end their vulnerability by making murder and rape legal. The problem goes away again…
It seems like we should probably just cancel all laws that people want to break. That should solve the problem, eh Andrew? I feel safer already.
You treat disagreement as the person you disagree with is either lying, stupid, racist, etc.
It does nothing for debate. You have an opinion and so does the person (Bush) who was asked the question. I agree with Bush. Who cares. Next question.
Time warner profit jumped 60% this quarter.
Clearn Channel profit more than doubles.
The USA spends more per person on health care then any other country. For example we spend $5200. per person per, year and England spends $2600. Yet, a report released on monday, shows the health of the English is far better then the health of Americans in most areas. We spoke of incomes earlier and this report also shows that the bottom 80% of income earners in the USA had static incomes. In England all income grous showed a marked increase, even with a National Health Care System in place. Peace
Sistah –
Since I’ve been off-line for a bit, I haven’t known about your health issue.
Note this: YOUR HEALTH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING! Never equivocate on that.
Take care and be well.
You only have one life to live (at least as far as “we” know). Take care of it! Truly. We need you here ’bouts.
All best, Sistah!
and how much does the US spend (tax money) on Education steve?
How much of that is illegal aliens?
If the walkout showed anything, we pay a helluva alot for education, 3.25 Billion in LA alone….
Perhaps we should cut that and fund your universal healthcare?
Yes. Health Care is rationed in England (and Canada). They’ll cut their losses and not spend a million dollars on someone who is dying to save money….
Not a system that you can really compare to… especially since Americans eat more (fatter), exercise less, eat more junk (diabetes) and whatnot. You have to be careful equating health with good monetary policy. What is the unemployment rate in these European countries? Do you know Steve?
Additionally, people in this country can move up from the bottom quintile VERY easily. What you saw in that report is that the bottom quintile stayed near the same but you didn’t see is that people move in and out of quintiles easy in this country as opposed to classist systems in other countries. Your arguments are shallow and easily dismantled. I’ve seen EVERY ONE of your arguments before for over a decade.
Yes Health Care in Canada is the best in the world too. You only have to wait 3 days for emergency heart surgery. That is much better than most of the 3rd world countries. – Lorica
Ask yourself this: If you lived in Mexico with no opportunity and wanted something better for your children, would you just sit there and wait the 5, 10, 20, years it takes to get a visa, or take a chance at opportunity where the worst punishment is getting sent back to where you already live. These aren’t people trying to commit a crime or hurt America; they’re trying to better themselves and their family. Then once they’re here, working 12 hour days in the fields in spanish-speaking communities, it isn’t easy to just magically “learn” english. So give them a break and let them celebrate their patriotism in whatever way they’re capable of.
Hey Steve(fn) move to England and don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Do the British pay less in healthcare because they never visit the dentist?
A British dentist is about as lonely as the Maytag® repair guy.
Wowsah, I will gladly let them celebrate their patriotism, but I don’t consider waving a Mexican flag Patriotic toward the United States. Also, thank you for admitting that you are complicite in the thousands of deaths that occur from people sneaking over our border. Yes nothing worse than being sent back, or dying in the desert. You people are horrible in your cherry picking of facts. What kind of human being would forget that many of these folk die as they are trying to enter this country??? A tighter border would end that too. I love the Hispanic Community in this area. In the little city of Silvis IL, there is a project called Hero Steet, many of the heros honored on this street are of Hispanic heritage.
http://www.herostreetusa.org/monument.html
What I am against is what I have posted earlier. It could be very harmful to the citizens of this country. – Lorica
Wowsah wrote, “Ask yourself this: If you lived in Mexico with no opportunity and wanted something better for your children, would you just sit there and wait the 5, 10, 20, years it takes to get a visa, or take a chance at opportunity where the worst punishment is getting sent back to where you already live.”
That’s why women are risking rape to get here.
Wowsah generalized by saying, “These aren’t people trying to commit a crime or hurt America; they’re trying to better themselves and their family.”
Many/Most are hard working. But 17% of the federal prsion population is illegal immigrants who committed felonies. And that isn’t the issue. We need to secure our border because national security demands it.
Wowsah wrote, “Then once they’re here, working 12 hour days in the fields in spanish-speaking communities, it isn’t easy to just magically “learn” english.”
CA passed a proposition that has worked well. English immersion is the key. It used to be that Hispanics had separaste classes teaching them in Spanish. Now they are immersed in English and have rapidly done better in every subject. Of course they have a while to go and that is why CA schools are behind most other states.
Wowsah generalized again by saying, “So give them a break and let them celebrate their patriotism in whatever way they’re capable of.”
OK. Maybe you didn’t generalize but you don’t seem to be aware of Reconquista. Visit Michelle Malkin’s blog for lots of links to that mindset. The mindset that CA belongs to Mexico and we stole it and they are going to get it back. That my friend is a threat to national security and we should take it seriously. You don’t dismiss threats as unbelievable.
Show compassion for human life… build the wall
An opinion by a latino American citizen
May day parade video showing it’s not about ALL good people just coming to work.