My Cadillac Health Plan

Sub my name for the example at Alegre’s corner.  My company has had three layoffs this year, costs are being cut all over the place, but the one thing I’ve been able to count on is my health plan.  We are offered two options: One which has a lower premium but has a large deductible and the [...]

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If I were the DNC

I’d quit putting out memos about Sarah Palin! and focus on this. QUESTION: In the 2010 Congressional elections will you definitely vote, probably vote, not likely vote, or definitely will not vote? The results were, to put it mildly, shocking: Voter Intensity: Definitely + Probably Voting/Not Likely + Not Voting Republican Voters: 81/14 Independent Voters: [...]

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Pre-emptive Arrest?

Looks like Denmark is taking a page out from the U.S. playbook. The Danish parliament today passed legislation which will give police sweeping powers of “pre-emptive” arrest and extend custodial sentences for acts of civil disobedience. The “deeply worrying” law comes ahead of the UN climate talks which start on 7 December and are expected [...]

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What Glenn said

Add this to the list of reasons I am a registered independent. I really got tired of this sort of horse pucky, from both sides. Greenwald: I could understand and accept a lot more easily this blithe acquiescence to Obama’s record if it weren’t for the fact that progressives and Democrats spent so many years screaming [...]

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Is it just me?

Or is this the first year that retailers have actually used the words “Black Friday” in their advertisements for their Day(s) After Thanksgiving sales? It is everywhere on t.v., in print, and online. No mention of the “spirit of giving.” No mention of finding that “perfect gift.”   It’s as though they all got the same memo. The [...]

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Entry Interface

We watched the shuttle land this morning and I heard them speak of ”entry interface” which is where the shuttle moves from space into the the earth’s atmosphere.  The goal of guidance, navigation and flight control software is to guide and control the orbiter from this state (in which aerodynamic forces are not yet felt) through the atmosphere [...]

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Thanksgiving

While we wait for The Kids to show up, my heart is beating at an even 60 beats a minute. I know because I just took my pulse, and it was so.  It will never go below that because of this amazing piece of technology under my left clavicle. I am so very grateful for the [...]

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Pink Glove Dance

What makes this even sweeter, is that this video was made at the hospital where I got my open heart surgery in 1982, St. Vincent’s in Portland, Oregon.

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Wired for sound

Now that Multaq is working its way out of my system, I’m feeling pretty damn good.  We’ll be leaving shortly to go to the kids’ place to pick them up so we can retrieve Sweetie’s car from the Renown parking lot. Being as I’m not allowed to drive, we have to drive in to get [...]

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Petition: Don’t let women lose access to mammography

From my inbox: You’ve no doubt heard the news this week about the new recommendations concerning mammography screening. While this shows that there is disagreement among experts about when mammograms should begin and on what schedule, all agree that mammograms save lives – in women over 50 and women in their 40s.  Sign our petition [...]

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