A Piece of My Mind... Venting and other Stuff

Damn! I thought they were going to send you to Hawaii, too. I figure you deserve it after Amsterdam.

I agree whole heartedly about the drinks. Never waste good booze on a mixer. Let's taste that stuff. Scotch, it's not just for breakfast anymore.
 
Trops said:
Damn! I thought they were going to send you to Hawaii, too. I figure you deserve it after Amsterdam.

I agree whole heartedly about the drinks. Never waste good booze on a mixer. Let's taste that stuff. Scotch, it's not just for breakfast anymore.
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Vodka is the new scotch.
 
We got an all potato vodka distilled on LI that is very good. I'm not the biggest vodka fan, but it's nice when it's ice cold.
 
Trops said:
We got an all potato vodka distilled on LI that is very good. I'm not the biggest vodka fan, but it's nice when it's ice cold.
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All good vodka should be stored in the freezer unless you're just mixing it into a Bloody Mary or a Caesar.

For a vodka martini, it has to be the good stuff and I particularly like the fact it pours like syrup when it's ice cold ;)

I have a couple of faves ... it's tough to get the really good vodkas unless you work in a bar.
 
BOOBIE PSA

Sports Bra Statistics

New year, new you, right?? What about new sports bra? Do you remember the last time you bought a new sports bra? If it's been more than a year, it's time for a change!

Sports bras typically last 6-12 months (six months if you are machine washing/drying, 12 if you are hand washing and hanging to dry).

Feel like maybe you can stretch out the life of your sports bra a little longer? Remember, a properly fitting bra is designed to delay sagging and provide maximum support. When that sports bra gets stretched out, the Cooper's Ligament (the ONLY support in breast tissue) stretches out, too. And it doesn't go back.
 
maleficent said:
BOOBIE PSA

Sports Bra Statistics

New year, new you, right?? What about new sports bra? Do you remember the last time you bought a new sports bra? If it's been more than a year, it's time for a change!

Sports bras typically last 6-12 months (six months if you are machine washing/drying, 12 if you are hand washing and hanging to dry).

Feel like maybe you can stretch out the life of your sports bra a little longer? Remember, a properly fitting bra is designed to delay sagging and provide maximum support. When that sports bra gets stretched out, the Cooper's Ligament (the ONLY support in breast tissue) stretches out, too. And it doesn't go back.
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YES, do everything to protect those boobies!!!

Havent stopped by in a while. Hope all is well.

Matt
 
maleficent said:
BOOBIE PSA

Sports Bra Statistics

New year, new you, right?? What about new sports bra? Do you remember the last time you bought a new sports bra? If it's been more than a year, it's time for a change!

Sports bras typically last 6-12 months (six months if you are machine washing/drying, 12 if you are hand washing and hanging to dry).

Feel like maybe you can stretch out the life of your sports bra a little longer? Remember, a properly fitting bra is designed to delay sagging and provide maximum support. When that sports bra gets stretched out, the Cooper's Ligament (the ONLY support in breast tissue) stretches out, too. And it doesn't go back.
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See, that's another advantage of having a compact form. It doesn't take much to keep my boobies in place. I will never have to worry about getting my boobs caught in my thighmaster....there just ain't enough to make the trip. :)

I hope you're doing well Mal.:seeya:
 
I have the most unusual of coughs - damn people with their freakin' children and the germs they mus share...

Disinfect your damn kids already...

Monday there was a burning in my lungs and it felt like a 50lb weight sitting right on top... Every cough hurt... today - burning is gone but the cough remains... and it's makig my head hurt...
 
So what my culinary challenge for monday is...



How can you go wrong with a recipe who's key ingredients are 2 lbs of bacon and 1 1/2 lbs of sausage :D
 
The Associated Press: Ill. senate votes 59-0 to impeach Gov. Blagojevich

Ill. senate votes 59-0 to impeach Gov. Blagojevich

By CHRISTOPHER WILLS – 6 minutes ago

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted at his impeachment trial and thrown out of office Thursday, ending a nearly two-month crisis that erupted with his arrest on charges he tried to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. Blagojevich becomes the first U.S. governor in more than 20 years to be removed by impeachment.

After a four-day trial, the Illinois Senate voted 59-0 to convict him on the broad charge of abuse of power. Under state law, the verdict instantly removed Blagojevich, a second-term Democrat schooled in the bare-knuckle politics of the Chicago Machine.

Democratic Lt. Gov. Patrick Quinn, one of his critics, automatically became governor.

Blagojevich's ordeal is far from over. Federal prosecutors are expected to bring a corruption indictment against him by April, after which a trial date will be set.

Blagojevich, 52, had boycotted the first three days of the impeachment trial, calling the proceedings a kangaroo court. But on Thursday, he went before the Senate to beg for his job, delivering a 47-minute plea that was, by turns, defiant, humble and sentimental.

He argued, again, that he did nothing wrong, and warned his impeachment would set a "dangerous and chilling precedent."

"You haven't proved a crime, and you can't because it didn't happen," Blagojevich told the lawmakers. "How can you throw a governor out of office with insufficient and incomplete evidence?"

The verdict brought to an end what one lawmaker branded "the freak show" in Illinois. Over the past few weeks, Blagojevich found himself isolated, with almost the entire political establishment lined up against him. The furor embarrassed the state, paralyzed its government and made Blagojevich and his helmet of lush, dark hair a punchline from coast to coast.

"State government has come to a standstill because of lack of trust in this administration," Sen. Bradley Burzynski, R-Clare, said before the vote. "We now have the opportunity to move forward, to begin moving past this era of corruption, pay-to-play politics and abuse of power."

The verdict capped a head-spinning string of developments that began less than two months ago. It was generally known that federal prosecutors had been investigating Blagojevich's administration for years — some of his closest cronies already have been convicted — but his Dec. 9 arrest by the FBI caught everyone off guard.

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said prosecutors had no choice but to step in and stop a political corruption "crime spree" — one that was gaining speed before a tough new campaign finance law took effect Jan. 1.

The most spectacular allegation was that Blagojevich had been caught on wiretaps scheming to sell an appointment to Obama's vacant Senate seat for campaign cash or a plum job for himself or his wife.

"I've got this thing and it's (expletive) golden, and I'm just not giving it up for (expletive) nothing. I'm not gonna do it," he was quoted as saying on a government wiretap.

Prosecutors also said he illegally pressured people to make campaign contributions and tried to get editorial writers fired from the Chicago Tribune for badmouthing him in print.

Obama himself, fresh from his historic election victory, was forced to look into the matter and issued a report concluding that no one in his inner circle had done anything wrong.

In the brash and often theatrical style that has infuriated fellow politicians for years, Blagojevich repeatedly refused to resign, quoting Kipling and Tennyson and declaring at one point last month: "I will fight. I will fight. I will fight until I take my last breath. I have done nothing wrong."

Even as lawmakers were deciding whether to launch an impeachment, Blagojevich defied the political establishment and stunned everyone by appointing a former Illinois attorney general, Roland Burris, to the very Senate seat he had been accused of trying to sell. Top Democrats on Capitol Hill eventually backed down and seated Burris.

Mocked by comedians and under immense pressure to resign, Blagojevich launched a media blitz as his trial got under way, appearing on ABC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CBS and more to proclaim his innocence. He likened himself to the hero of a Frank Capra movie and to a cowboy in the hands of a Wild West lynch mob.

The impeachment case included not only the criminal charges against Blagojevich, but allegations he broke the law when it came to hiring state workers, expanded a health care program without legislative approval and spent $2.6 million on flu vaccine that went to waste. The 118-member House twice voted to impeach him, both times with only one "no" vote.

By making a speech in the Senate chamber instead of testifying, Blagojevich did not have to take an oath or answer any questions.

In his plea Thursday, Blagojevich portrayed himself as a victim of retaliation from the Legislature for his efforts to help the poor.

He acknowledged the truth about his conduct is "maybe not flattering in some cases," referring to the secretly recorded conversations. But he said the tapes captured something that "all of us in politics do in order to run campaigns and win elections."

Seven other U.S. governors have been removed by impeachment, the most recent being Arizona's Evan Mecham, who was driven from office in 1988 for trying to thwart an investigation into a death threat allegedly made by an aide. Illinois never before impeached a governor, despite its long and rich history of graft.

Blagojevich grew up in a working-class Chicago neighborhood, the son of a Serbian immigrant steelworker. He graduated from Northwestern University and earned a law degree from Pepperdine University in California.

He came up through the infamous Chicago Machine of back-room bargaining and big-money deals, getting elected to the Illinois House in 1992 and Congress in 1996.

In 2002, he was elected governor on a promise to clean up state government after former GOP Gov. George Ryan, who is serving six years in prison for graft. But he soon wound up in open battles with lawmakers from his own party, leading to gridlock. And scandal followed as well.

Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a former top fundraiser for Blagojevich, was convicted of shaking down businesses seeking state contracts for campaign contributions. Witnesses testified Blagojevich was aware of some of the strong-arm tactics. Rezko is said to be cooperating with prosecutors.

Quinn, the new governor, is a 60-year-old former state treasurer who has a reputation as a political gadfly and once led a successful effort to cut the size of the Illinois House.
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My favorite quote:
But he said the tapes captured something that "all of us in politics do in order to run campaigns and win elections."
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Clearly he's never spent any time with my mother -Now Mal, if all your friends were jumping off the bridge would you? Just because everyone else MIGHT be doing it -doesn't make it right... What about integrity and ethics?

my definition of character has always been - How a person acts when no one is looking - what an absolute characterless clown...
 
So a woman already has 6 children... and no mention of a husband but lives with her parents with those 6 spawn... And then because she doesn't clearly have enough kids - uses the turkey baster method and pops out 8 more... that leaves her with 14 children... She had the option to reduce in utero some of the fetusses to give them a better chance of survival but nooo - she wants all 8....

What kind of moronic fertility doctor turkey bastes a woman who already has 6 chidlren that she can't take care of already... Quote the woman - yes, she knows raising 14 children will be a challenge... geee moron - ya think?
 
and my favorite part of the litter mom...


The mom is staying anonymous for the time being, but I'm not sure why. She's going to need all the help she can get. And while it would be an incredible thing (not to mention very cost-effective), to breastfeed this brood, it will be virtually impossible to do without some supplementation. Assuming a newborn baby nurses for 30 minutes every 3 hours, that adds up to 4 solid hours of feeding a day, per baby. Or 32 hours for octuplets. Therein lies the problem.

If she always nursed two babies at once (tricky but not impossible, so I'm told), she could cut her time down to 16 hours, leaving herself with about 8 hours a day to change diapers, do laundry and get some sleep.
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