*runz in circles*
Eggos! aaaargh!
Not bad enuff?
Srsly. I’m gonna have a mutiny of 30 on my hands with no punky pie…
11/20 at 08:40 AM •
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Apparently the job of a “bookseller” in and around San Francisco is not so much to sell product, but rather to give comfort to like-minded individuals and convert the remaining unwashed masses to lockstep ideology. Politics trumps profit, even though profit generates the much needed tax revenue, job growth, and consumer spending this state dearly needs....
“Our customers are thinking people,” said Nathan Embretson, a bookseller at Pendragon Books in Oakland. “They’re not into reading drivel.”
”Anything like that we wouldn’t carry,” said clerk Emily Stackhouse at Cover to Cover Books in San Francisco. “We’re a small store and it would probably gross us all out. Some things you carry because of freedom of speech, but a book like that is just gross.”
Thanks to the dedicated staff of Capital Medical Center and the cooperation of the U.S. Army, an army sergeant stationed in Iraq was able experience the birth of his second child via the Internet using Skype, a real-time video and audio program.
The sergeant was able to communicate with his wife throughout labor and delivery with the use of a laptop computer at the woman’s bedside. He watched as his new daughter got assessed and bathed; got to see her long eyelashes, and know that everyone was healthy.
Special kudos to Laurinda Elgin, the hospital’s neonatal nurse practitioner and military wife who has expertise in computers. She spent many hours talking with Army staff and Capital’s information technology staff to arrange this feat.
As a registered nurse in this department, I feel it is an honor to be involved with the administration and staff that supported this event and enabled it to happen.
Our troops deserve it.
MELINDA HARRIS-MOULTON, Olympia
Name a personal accomplishment that you are proud of.
I can do 33 real push-ups in a row without stopping...and I’m almost 20 4/5th years old! My goal is 40 by the new year. Pushups!
I bought a couple boxes of the hand warmers that the troops in Afghanistan seem to really appreciate and that we’re going to buy a bunch of then and send them to Chris Rudzinski’s unit for Christmas…
*exhale*
The guy at the post office was very helpful and we figure I can fit a box of 40 handwarmers ($15 at Costco/40), unopened with room to stuff a few loose ones in one of those flat rate boxes perfectly....and if I purchase and print out the postage online we can mail them for about $10 a box.
Bottom line, $25 will get you one full box. AnnoyingMike said they also appreciate air fresheners and I could, instead of loose handwarmers, jam a whole bunch of them in each box. I haven’t looked into any bulk ones but I can if you all think that’s a good idea.
I still haven’t heard back from my contact about piggy-backing a part of the shipment via the ARMY. This would obviously save us a bunch of money but working out these things takes a little time and it would ship a LOT slower (we’re dealing with the US government here :) and we’re really cutting it close with time so I would like to get started accumulating the funds as we work out the final stuff. But like I said, bottom line/top dollar $25 per box plus maybe a couple bucks extra for the air fresheners. The postage remains the same no matter what fits inside the box. If we mailed them regular postage the case of handwarmers would cost about $20 to ship so this is a pretty good deal.
Same as usual, put “little hotties” in the description line if you go the PayPal route or e-mail me for my PO Box addy.
Just for knowing, I pay $1 for each piece of mail I get there (it’s a nice courtesy so I don’t have to pay for and maintain a monthly box fee in between support endeavors and my birthday and stuff :) so.......I know a lot of you hate PayPal but it’s a real convenient service and costs less that what I have to pay for my mail. I’ve actually been pretty happy with it.
But I understand if you won’t/don’t/can’t bring yourself to use it.
I’ll probably nudge you and this post up every couple of days until maybe the Friday after Thanksgiving and then we’ll see what our options are and get them sent.
Send our fighting men and women some Little Hotties!
OH! If you do decide to mail a check and already have the address please shoot me an e-mail so I know to expect it. They try to call me when stuff comes in but when there’s a deluge and especially with the holiday rush starting up…
I just realized...if I could find some of those pine tree scented air fresheners it would be PERFECT!!!!!!! :D
Santa Claus with his Reindeer and sledge in Rovaniemi’s Christmas theme park in Finnish Lapland. Santa has promised children he would travel around the world to bring them Christmas presents despite the global swine flu pandemic.
Anyway, there he was in Seoul, the last stop of his journey.
And out of the Seoul sky, President Lee Myung-bak hands over to the American leader a tae kwon do outfit. And then Lee, who practices tae kwon do himself, presents Obama with a coveted black belt.
After zero long years of study.
I spent one Saturday afternoon watching a couple of the guys at my gym go for their brown belt. They trained for years and the beating their bodies took that day to EARN it STILL stands out in my mind as one of the most impressive accomplishments I have ever witnessed. I’m sure there’re a few Nobel prize nominees who’re as disgusted as I am right now.
If he had any, this is one honor he should have respectfully declined.
HotAir
...because I’ve missed a few birthdays lately..........
( and who am I to decide :)
Mild content warning.
Kick THAT ginger and you might lose a leg.
People suffering from a form of incurable blindness could soon become the first patients in the world to benefit from a new and controversial transplant operation using stem cells derived from spare human embryos left over from IVF treatment.
...I have some weird leftovers in my fridge, but they’re more likely to cause Jekyll-and-Hyde syndrome, bleeding sphincter, or spontaneous decapitation.
A HarperCollins insider told The Daily Beast that the book [ Going Rogue ] sold a staggering 300,000 copies on the first day alone, which was Tuesday. “Sales are phenomenal, and we are convinced that the book will continue to sell phenomenally for some time to come,” says the insider. They’re not prevaricating: As of 2:30pm today, the book was #1 on Amazon…
While Hannity’s audience of more than 4 million viewers with the author of Going Rogue aboard at the start of her national book tour well exceeded the 2 million-plus turnout that the FOX evening news got with a long-sought Obama interview, both shows were ratings leaders for the No. 1 cable news network:
Hannity’s ratings were his second-highest for the year, according to the Nielsen Media Research count, and he beat the network’s top-drawing Bill O’Reilly, who had 3.868 million viewers Wednesday night.
Nielsen found that FOX News Channel’s Hannity drew 4.2 million viewers with Palin’s appearance - far surpassing the competition in the time slot: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, with 957,000 viewers, and CNN’s Larry King, with 835,000.
FOX’s Special Report with Bret Baier, airing an interview of Obama conducted by FOX White House correspondent Major Garrett in China, drew 2.235 million viewers - a number which FOX will take as a sign of playng to a wide audience.
This is now an Open Thread.
Enjoy.
and warning . . .
Friday, November 20, is “National Kick a Ginger Day”.
Ok - so this is another one of those pathetically impotent Canadian ”Holidays”, mostly cuz Canada has to import their minorities. I mean, sure—they’ve got Eskimos, but seriously.... Ya wanna kick someone who kills and eats polar bears? With pointy sticks?!? Ermm, No. So who’s left—that’s right: us gingers. Lame, but there ya have it.
BTW, anyone wanting to bring this hate crime festival to The States be warned: we’re erm… they might be armed. Ya never know, yanno?
11/19 at 01:52 PM •
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This is a woman who has got into a position of leadership by sending very powerful sexual signals. And we see that in the way that men like her much more than women do…
Major Nidal Hasan seemed worried about the results of an HIV blood test taken a week before the Fort Hood shooting rampage, according to federal investigators piecing together background details on Hasan’s life.
The information came from a member of the Fort Hood medical staff who was in the building where Hasan is accused of opening fire on November 5 and killing 13 people.
The investigators said there was no indication that Hasan was HIV positive, although a bottle of medicine used to treat HIV-positive individuals, Combivir, was seen in Hasan’s apartment by ABC News last week. Medical experts say many doctors also have Combivir on hand in case of an accidental needle stick. A second drug seen in the apartment, clarithromycin, is an antibiotic designed to treat respiratory infections. However, it can also be used to treat specific opportunistic infections in patients with HIV.
Hasan, who is not married, was a regular at a Killeen, Texas strip club which features nude dancers, according to employees there…
Investigators said Hasan followed his own strict interpretation of how a Muslim should live --
Obama arrived on the base 3:19 p.m. local time (1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time), and received a rousing welcome from 1,500 troops in camouflage uniforms, many holding cameras or pointing cell phones to snap pictures.
”You guys make a pretty good photo op,” the president said.
Standing on a riser wearing a blue suit and red tie, with a cluster of troops and a large American flag behind him, Obama expressed “the gratitude of the American public” and said his meetings in four countries over eight days in Asia will help deliver a “safer more prosperous world for all of us.”
He got a huge cheer when he told them he was increasing military pay. ”That’s what you call an applause line,” he said, before boarding his jet and taking off at 4:11 p.m.
No word if their salary increase would be a cost of living raise or combat pay.....
Mother says school work sheet is racist
Lenape Middle School principal Nick Chubb said administrators are investigating the matter.
When she was helping her son with his homework Saturday night, a Central Bucks mother noticed something that surprised and shocked her.
”I couldn’t understand what I was looking at,” ...
