Displaying 15,721 To 15,750 Of 16,275 Comments Years ago, I had a small fruit/vege farm. We always raised chickens for eggs and meat. Plucking chickens really wasn’t that bad. You got all that you could get off the bird, then held it over a fire and scorched the pin feathers off. It was just a thing you did,like making jams, picking the fruit/veges, snapping peas….. You just tried to make it fun. Gotta eat.Do what it takes. » Posted By bito On November 25, 2009 @ 4:19 pm I can’t remember the salesman’s name. Just his hair, womanizing and plaid clothes. » Posted By bito On November 25, 2009 @ 3:50 pm Really, “Occifer” just one beer!lol » Posted By bito On November 25, 2009 @ 3:38 pm Thom Hartman played the clip from “WKRP” yesterday » Posted By bito On November 25, 2009 @ 3:36 pm Cat hairs-Pin feathers. No difference. Just use a torch an burn those suckers away. » Posted By bito On November 25, 2009 @ 3:21 pm X2 » Posted By bito On November 25, 2009 @ 3:17 pm In the early 70’s (remember those) my roomie and I hosted a Thanks giving dinner. Instead of the standard turkey, I decided to roast Cornish hens. I adapted a recipe and made them » Posted By bito On November 25, 2009 @ 3:11 pm javaz, good job! Let’s have fun. Happy T-Day all!! » Posted By bito On November 25, 2009 @ 2:54 pm Kev, A warm welcome from the Planet POV. A civil home for all! » Posted By bito On November 25, 2009 @ 1:27 pm Food mishaps at Thanksgiving? just a thought. » Posted By bito On November 25, 2009 @ 1:04 pm javaz, “Think Progress” is one of my first sites I go to in the morn. Their sourcing is really good, it takes me all over the progressive sites. » Posted By bito On November 25, 2009 @ 12:51 pm My thought to the vast RW audience in the U.S. : put up or shut up. » Posted By bito On November 24, 2009 @ 4:39 pm e’cat, I think this is the point I get confused. » Posted By bito On November 25, 2009 @ 9:46 am Do not go gentle into that good night (well, on second thought…) Now, now, easy girl 🙂 I get all tingly when the nurse rubs my arm for a blood test. » Posted By bito On November 24, 2009 @ 4:42 pm Kalima, I had that same thought this morning. I get up, stumble around, and when I turn on the laptop you are saying “Goodnight”. I do like the webcam. Adds a little personal touch on your corner. You and the hubby wave when you go to that store. 😆 » Posted By bito On November 24, 2009 @ 4:19 pm BDM, made me chuckle. When I was exec.for my friend, she would laugh about getting rid of many of her belongings. “Why should I worry about that, I won’t have to worry about it when I’m gone. some one in the family can take care of that.” (she did end up getting most everything marked and a list written down). She had fun with that attitude though. » Posted By bito On November 24, 2009 @ 4:07 pm Morning Kalima, looks pretty cloudy today. Suffering on one’s own with one’s decision and suffering due to someone else making the decisions is certainly a vast difference. Is respect so difficult? » Posted By bito On November 24, 2009 @ 3:48 pm Why is health care a political question? Why is dieing with dignity such a difficult question? Why is compassion for one’s fellow man perplexing? Perhaps I know so little of purpose of life, to be so damned sure of the “after.” » Posted By bito On November 24, 2009 @ 3:36 pm KQ, Something about hearing “You have Stage IV…… here is what we can do…..” Certainly made me jell my thoughts. This being after losing both my parents to cancer. Fear, or lack of, has a large effect on ones’s attitudes. » Posted By bito On November 24, 2009 @ 3:13 pm javaz, let’s not get carried away now~blush~ » Posted By bito On November 24, 2009 @ 2:53 pm javaz, when my mother was in Hospice, the staff Doc was also a prof. at UMC (Tucson). Years ago he started a course for the Med students on end of life and hospice care. He would bring in a couple of students a week to the hospice so that they may gain the experience. Very kind man. He treated my mother like it was his own. » Posted By bito On November 24, 2009 @ 2:20 pm Monk, If I knew what I was doing, I wouldn’t need help 😉 » Posted By bito On November 24, 2009 @ 11:46 am Escriba, My heart goes out to you. Your story brought tears to my eyes. I lost both my parents and I was the principal caregiver for both of them. I was also their executor in their living wills. I was also executor for a good family friend (or as the family joked I was the executioner) The difference from your experience, was I had very understanding and sympathetic Doctors. In all three cases they honored their wishes. My observations: A: is that you had asshats for doctors! B: The Hospice nurses and helpers are saints. C: Consider it an honor that you helped your mother in her time of need. D: Everyone should have a living will/ directive and a person that you trust (discuss with them your last wishes)to act as you executor. Peace » Posted By bito On November 24, 2009 @ 11:39 am Agree, this uploading a pic seems to be a problem for many of us. AdLib, Oh Wise One, can you give us some guidance/clarification with this problem? What the hell are we doing wrong? » Posted By bito On November 24, 2009 @ 11:07 am For anyone tempted to go to HuffPo and vent your anger, may I offer you an alternative. Read this post on “Poverty- Remembering those Less Fortunate” @ http://pr.thinkprogress.org/ Then go to Bill Moyers Journal and watch “Lessons on a Quagmire” @ Then come back here and share your thoughts on your Thanksgiving and the situation in Afghanistan. » Posted By bito On November 24, 2009 @ 8:46 am Morning Kalima, left you a note in the morning blog » Posted By bito On November 23, 2009 @ 6:02 pm My understanding is that congress already is using the same exchange as all Federal employees use. Really need a search word to input into the PDF of the bill to find out. What search word would one use? » Posted By bito On November 23, 2009 @ 3:48 pm Senate of Kings: Can voters ever really claim their democratic power? Thank You~blushing~ Too kind. » Posted By bito On November 23, 2009 @ 4:51 pm Add up the numbers. Progressives have already lost: » Posted By bito On November 23, 2009 @ 4:01 pm What is the plugin and where can I find it » Posted By bito On November 23, 2009 @ 3:52 pmComments Posted By bito
“I swear–I thought turkeys could fly! 😆
Did Grandma Hicks really do that?
About those knickers. 😆
It is too bad about the Palin book tour, it is overshadowing all her in depth op-eds and position papers on HC, foreign policy, climate change,etc. Ya know those presidentialy thingys. 😉
We, in order to advance or continue the Afghan war we will re-instate the draft and apply a 5% surtax on every one making more than $250,000.
Thanks nellie, Guess this means I will have to compose something to try this out. 🙂
I just try to learn from others and attempt to understand what ground they have walked on in their lives. Perhaps not so much understand as realize the different, yet similar, lives we all lead.
To steal a line I recently, “Live your life conservatively, treat others liberally.”
In my fathers case he wised and chose no medical intervention immediately after the diagnoses and went into home hospice. He died 2 months later with compassion and dignity in his own bed.
My mother’s and the friend’s cases were different, but in both, the died under hospice care and I made every attempt to follow their wishes
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/23/fox-pie-chart/
Gop now owns 193% of all voters!!
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