Displaying 1,351 To 1,380 Of 4,429 Comments We lived in the city, Cher! They always joked about his medals, and my mom used to always say that my dad could never mind his own business and when the ship came under fire, he opened the hatch, stuck his arm out to take a look and took a bullet. I wish so much that my parents were alive so that I could ask them so many things that I never thought to ask while they were alive. And more than anything, I wish so much that I had thanked them for everything that they did for me and for loving me so unconditionally. I did get to tell them that I loved them and trust me, we were a family that never said those words and hugging was out of the question. LOL This is why people hate the holidays! » Posted By javaz On December 31, 2010 @ 2:57 pm My father loved birds, and he went to great lengths to preserve our yard for them. Arizona does have cardinals, besides the football team, but we don’t hardly see them where we live, but we do see them nearby on walks. On my wedding day, a cardinal landed on our patio chair outside, and we lived in a suburb back then. Today, a cardinal sat on the fence of our front yard, and what a beautiful thing. I know that it’s stupid, but I always like to think that when I see a cardinal that it is my dad telling me that everything’s okay. That’s my true New Year story! » Posted By javaz On December 31, 2010 @ 2:17 pm Happy New Year, Kalima, and everyone! Beautiful sentiments for AdLib and B’ito, and I fully agree with you and extend the thanks to everyone at the Planet for making the site so friendly, fun and thought-provoking. New Year’s Eve always makes me sad, too, and I usually shed a few tears for the ending of another year. Good luck visiting your in-laws and wishing you the very best, Kalima, for a healthy and Happy New Year. » Posted By javaz On December 31, 2010 @ 6:50 am It is rather amazing, isn’t it, the power that Murdoch has worldwide. Randolph Hearst was powerful but not sure if his power was at the global level as Murdoch’s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst -The India Gate Monument looks awesome. Good morning, Kalima and everyone! » Posted By javaz On December 28, 2010 @ 6:00 am It reminds me of the pink panther!
» Posted By javaz On December 23, 2010 @ 5:19 pm He’s fortunate that his last name wasn’t Balls! LOL » Posted By javaz On December 21, 2010 @ 4:55 am Good morning Kalima and everyone. Battling a miserable cold/walking pneumonia and decided to get up early – 3:30 am – so that my hacking wouldn’t keep my husband awake. Went outside to see the eclipse and unfortunately it was too cloudy to see the moon, but was allowed a peek as the clouds are moving quite fast and allowed me to see that I missed it. Always enjoy the 24 Hours in Pictures and my favorites today are – – The wild geese photo is amazing! Hope you have a good night, Kalima, and hope everyone has a great day! » Posted By javaz On December 21, 2010 @ 4:53 am Good morning, Kalima and everyone. It’s way past time that the law is changed in Ireland, the RC Church cannot be allowed to rule women’s lives any longer. How is the life of a mother worth any less than that of a fetus if all life is sacred? It’s not just in Ireland that the RC Church needs to back-off – Remember this story? A pregnant woman at the hospital suffered from pulmonary hypertension, a condition that limits the ability of the heart and lungs to function and is made worse, possibly fatal, by pregnancy. After consulting with Sister Margaret McBride, a member of the hospital’s ethics committee, doctors terminated the pregnancy. Olmsted condemned the surgery as an abortion, which is prohibited by church doctrine, and at the time said the decision effectively meant the excommunication of McBride, a St. Joseph’s vice president. Here is an update from the Phoenix Bishop – The Catholic bishop of Phoenix will strip St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center of its Catholic status on Friday if the hospital’s parent company, Catholic Healthcare West, does not meet his demands to guarantee compliance with church teachings. Three demands were contained in a Nov. 22 letter Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted sent to Lloyd Dean, president of Catholic Healthcare West. The bishop wants the hospital to give him more oversight of its practices to ensure it complies with Catholic health-care rules, provide education on those rules to medical staff and acknowledge that the bishop is correct in a dispute over a procedure the diocese says was an abortion. “There cannot be a tie in this debate,” Olmsted wrote. “Until this point in time, you have not acknowledged my authority to settle this question.” Where is the Bishop’s outrage over Arizona’s Governor Brewer cutting funds for life-saving transplants for the poor? There are several ways to describe the patients, family members and others who question Gov. Jan Brewer’s death panel. The governor calls them “ankle biters.” But when elected officials are making tough decisions about money it seems logical – and humane – that the very last to be cut off should be sick people who might die without treatment. “No one wants to be in the position that I’m in,” one man in need of a transplant told me. “You work all your life then you get sick and all the money goes away until you wind up on AHCCCS. You don’t want it but at the same time you have a family and you want to get back and provide for them. That’s all I’m asking.” That doesn’t sound bickering or ankle-biting. It sounds like pleading. http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/EJMontini/110583/sort_D It can’t be fun to find yourself cast as Scrooge in the 2010 version of An Arizona Christmas Carol. (Are there no workhouses where desperately ill people can get jobs to pay for their own organ transplants?) Unfortunately for our leaders (and us), the bah-humbug role won’t end when the egg nog runs dry. If you think Scrooge 2010 is cold hearted – and make no mistake, withholding possibly life saving surgery from an estimated 15 people to save $1.4 million is cold hearted — wait until you see what’s coming in January. “Everything we cut, they’re going to scream bloody murder about,” House Appropriations Chairman John Kavanagh told me. “A lot of people are going to be screaming.” Parents, advocates for the mentally ill and disabled, the poor and the sick, the young and the vulnerable, university presidents. They’re all going to be in there scraping and clawing to save their funding. Dire predictions of decimation and devastation – not to mention loss of federal funding – will be involved. Public schools may be spared, given that we already boosted the sales tax to shore them up. That’ll put the bull’s eye squarely on universities and DES, which means poor and abused children, the disabled and the vulnerable. Of course, the Legislature could look at ways to raise more cash, taking a run, for example, at some of the tax credits and tax exemptions on the books. Tax credits for private school tuition – most of which went to religious schools — cost the state $65 million in 2008, according to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. Public school extracurricular activities sucked another $45 million from the general fund. You can’t yank away the only source of hope for desperately ill people. Well, you can, but you shouldn’t, and anyway it’s a drop in the bucket. If nothing else, Brewer can renege on her $2 million pledge to fund algae research, a commitment of stimulus funds announced just days before funding for transplants was cut off. http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/LaurieRoberts/110502 Am I wrong in not wanting my tax dollars to go to ‘richer’ people who choose to send their children to private and mostly religious schools? I’d rather my tax dollars go to save lives. » Posted By javaz On December 17, 2010 @ 5:12 am Good morning, Kalima. Due to dial-up, was unable to view your friend’s artwork, except for the 3 pictures at the side of the youtube. Beautiful paintings. The photograph of him with Hillary Clinton is awesome! Had to laugh also at the story about Iran criticizing police tactics in the UK. As always, enjoyed the world of pictures and especially the one with the lighthouse and ice and the people in the Netherlands skating on wooden skates! » Posted By javaz On December 14, 2010 @ 5:55 am GOOD NEWS! The House passed DADT repeal: 250-175 http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/15/house-dadt-vote/ AND – Vote shows enough votes for ratification of START http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/15/vote-shows-new-start-has-enough-support-for-ratification/ And my favorite – Harry Reid tells Republicans to stop whining about having to work over the holidays! http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/reid-to-republicans-quit-whining-about-working-this-holiday » Posted By javaz On December 15, 2010 @ 4:09 pm B’ito, here’s something that I always wonder about when anyone uses the ‘disrespectful to Christians’ or similar rhetoric. If this is such a Christian nation, why aren’t religious folks outraged that nearly every store in the country is open on Sunday? Do you remember when everything was closed on Sunday? I remember my dad driving to the gas station and filling up the tank on Saturday nights, so that we’d have a full tank for Sunday. And there are stores open on Christmas Day, fast food places, gas stations etc – where is Kyl’s outrage over that? Plus, doesn’t Kyl realize that many people must work the day after Christmas and the entire week until New Years Day? Where’s Kyl’s outrage over that? I suppose the answer is that Kyl and other Christians who play the victim-card about holidays and Sunday, is that it’s all faux outrage and political theater. » Posted By javaz On December 15, 2010 @ 2:00 pm Hey BDM! Yesterday, Yahoo ran an article about Minnesota and the ratio of 1:3 Somali people living there. The comments were unreal with people laughing about Minnesota being a ‘liberal’ state. Now, is Minnesota a ‘liberal’ state with Pawlenty and Bachman? (I can’t find the link.) » Posted By javaz On December 15, 2010 @ 11:51 am Interesting story about the possibility of paid posters on Internet sites – » Posted By javaz On December 15, 2010 @ 10:58 am Good morning, B’ito! Sorry to say that I cannot view it – need to update flashplayer and there’s no way to do that with dial-up. But I am curious about the census figures in my area. » Posted By javaz On December 15, 2010 @ 10:46 am Fun times – because it worked so well with Gingrich – Republicans to shut-down government? Republican and Democratic leaders are now engaged in a brinksmanship that could result in a temporary shutdown of the federal government. After the election, Republicans voted among themselves to eschew all earmarks for two years, and now they have to make good on their pledge. Yesterday, Democrats’ chief appropriator, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) unveiled what’s known as an omnibus spending bill — a bundled up package of appropriations legislation, earmarks, and other measures — which would keep the government running for a year. In response, most Republicans — even those whose multimillion dollar earmark requests are included in the legislation — are saying, “Hell no you can’t!” And it gets even better – a BIG thank you to Jim DeMint! Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), who led the GOP’s anti-earmark crusade, will use the rules of Senate procedure to force the 2000-page omnibus to be read allowed on the Senate floor — a tactic which could eat up enough time to force the Democrats’ hand. Too bad they can’t lock the Senate doors and make all the Senators listen to Jim DeMint reading up to 72 hours! » Posted By javaz On December 15, 2010 @ 10:40 am Hey Cher! Good to see you! I’ve been thinking about you and the wonderful articles that you wrote last year explaining Hanukkah and the dreidel! » Posted By javaz On December 14, 2010 @ 1:20 pm B’ito, you know how it is though. Like when Sharron Angle was running against Reid and she denied saying certain stupidities and when shown the actual videotape, she still denied it! When the above article was printed on Yahoo, several of the comments accused the writers of being LIBERAL and LIARS. I’m not sure what it’s going to take for people to wake up to reality. I’ve another example of voter-ignorance – It just doesn’t seem like the truth can win! » Posted By javaz On December 14, 2010 @ 1:17 pm Sarah Palin was correct about the ‘death panels’ but wrong about Obama’s HIR bill being the culprit. Arizona Governor Brewer replies to British reporter’s question about cuts in Medicaid – Brewer is no stranger to sacrificing the welfare of vulnerable constituents for a buck. But this particularly callous dogma made enough waves across the pond to bring Britain’s Channel 4 News Washington correspondent Sarah Smith to her doorstep. “How many people have to die before you are prepared to reverse your decision on the transplant operations?” seemed like the obvious question. She said she thought that was unfair and started to explain how dire the state’s financial situation is. If people are so worried about the transplant patients then they should ask the federal government in Washington to send us more money, she said. But she would not explain to me, or to any Democrats in the state capitol, what she has done with the nearly $200 million she was already given in ‘stimulus funds’ to spend on anything she liked. While suggesting that Arizonans should request more federal funding, Brewer openly vilifies a law — the Affordable Care Act — that provides exactly that. The health care law’s Medicaid expansion will foot 100 percent of the bill for states to expand until 2016 and 90 percent after 2020. However, to receive this funding, states have to maintain current eligibility levels in Medicaid and CHIP, something Brewer does not wish to maintain. And despite being well-aware of Arizona’s need for the health care law’s financial support, Brewer remains an outspoken champion of its full-scale repeal. In other words, Brewer is telling transplant advocates to ask for a helping hand she fully intends to bite. http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/14/brewer-medicaid-money/ How many more people must die before Arizonans wake-up? Medicaid costs are shared by the federal and state governments. It’s not just the poor and disabled who benefit. Wealthier people do, too, such as when middle-class families with elderly parents in nursing homes are relieved of financial pressure after Medicaid starts picking up the bills. Contrary to stereotype, it’s the elderly and disabled who cost nearly 70 cents of every Medicaid dollar, not the single mother and her children. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101214/ap_on_he_me/us_medicaid_cuts_states » Posted By javaz On December 14, 2010 @ 12:31 pm Want to read something truly frightening? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/southwest-60year-drought-study/ A worst-case scenario devised by US researchers shows that the American southwest could experience a 60-year stretch of heat and drought unseen since the 12th century. » Posted By javaz On December 14, 2010 @ 5:26 am Oh God, B’ito. That story is horrific and just makes me cry. I am not a proponent of capital punishment, but there are times that I feel it justified and this is one. I do not think that there is an explanation for evil psychopaths. So very sad. » Posted By javaz On December 13, 2010 @ 10:44 am Three men walk into a bar: a Frenchman, an Italian and an Irishman. Each orders one beer. Three flies fly into the bar and one fly lands in each man’s beer. The Italian man plucks the fly out of his beer, says “tutto e bene” (all is well)” and drinks the beer. The Frenchman shows his beer with the bug still inside it to the bartender and demands another beer. The Irishman yanks the bug out of the beer, grabs it by it’s wings, shakes it while yelling “Cough it up, you wee theivin’ bastard!” » Posted By javaz On December 12, 2010 @ 3:15 pm B’ito – if anyone ought to be able to recognize a mean drunk, it would be Tricky Dick. President Richard Nixon was better known for his political failures, but his aides were concerned at times that his personal demons might be even more dangerous. According to historian Robert Dallek, Henry Kissinger complained to outsiders of “our drunken friend, the maniac.” At one point Nixon’s heavy drinking directly threatened national security. During the Yom Kippur War, when Egypt sparked an international crisis by invading a nuclear-armed Israel, Nixon drank so much that that his staff had to hide him from the British prime minister’s phone calls for fear he would be unable to function. This was, according to aides, not an unusual occurrence. “Nixon drank exceptionally at night and there were many nights when you couldn’t reach him at Camp David,” one former aide, Roger Morris, told Seymour Hersh in an interview for The Atlantic. http://www.thedailybeast.com/big-fat-story/2009-07-29/the-white-houses-greatest-drinkers/ And for some reason, the Nixon quote reminded me of this –
» Posted By javaz On December 12, 2010 @ 2:58 pm B’ito, what was the senate debating that Bernie started talking about the tax cuts? Were they debating the deal Obama made with McConnell? Is there anywhere that transcripts are available, do you know? Any indication that Franken will back Sanders? Thanks! » Posted By javaz On December 10, 2010 @ 10:37 am Arizona’s de facto governor, Russell Pearce, has once again claimed that Obama was not born in the USA – A little levity is okay, I hope cause I like to [inaudible] at most things. But I can tell you that the best thing about [SB]-1070 is that Obama may not be visiting Arizona because we actually require papers now. Here’s another claim by the newly elected state Senate President – Back in November, Pearce accused Obama of waging jihad against the state of Arizona and stated that it was an impeachable offense. “When you talk about jihad, that is exactly what Obama has against America,” said Pearce. “It’s outrageous and it’s impeachable.” At a tea party rally in August, Pearce similarly stated, “I think it’s treasonous, in my opinion.” Russell Pearce’s ties to white supremacist group, which he has since distanced himself – In ’06, he circulated emails from the National Alliance, a white supremacist group. The email defended a racially conscious white person who “looks askance at miscegenation or at the rapidly darkening racial situation in America.” (Miscegenation refers to interracial relationships.) http://www.politicalruminations.com/2010/12/idiot-of-the-week.html http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2010/11/russell_pearce_corrupt_bigoted.php » Posted By javaz On December 10, 2010 @ 10:07 am Rut-roh – Goldline International under investigation – “One is that customers say that they were lied to and misled in entering into their purchases of gold coins,” he said. “And the other group is saying that they received something different from what they had ordered.” Glenn Beck is not a happy camper – Beck called the recent ABC News report about Goldline “the biggest spin you’ve ever seen” and suggested it was part of a government conspiracy to deprive mainstream Americans of choices in how they invest their savings. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/glenn-beck-fires-back-goldline-investigation/story?id=11218568 » Posted By javaz On December 8, 2010 @ 2:44 pm John Lennon— RIP— Friday Music Thread. Is it Yesterday? » Posted By javaz On December 10, 2010 @ 3:51 pm John Lennon, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton – Yer Blues
» Posted By javaz On December 10, 2010 @ 3:49 pm Jagger and Lennon –
» Posted By javaz On December 10, 2010 @ 3:40 pm Bowie and Lennon – Fame – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whcgt_NBT30 Ain’t That A Shame –
» Posted By javaz On December 10, 2010 @ 3:31 pm Woman – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dzjbj7451g Well Well Well –
» Posted By javaz On December 10, 2010 @ 3:25 pmComments Posted By javaz
That’s what’s so incredible.
We were 9 miles from Detroit.
My father built that house before the war broke out, and then he signed up for the Navy once Pearl Harbor happened, because he didn’t want to be drafted into the Army.
He was awarded three separate medals for bravery, and had a bullet scar on his arm.
I don’t think so.
It can be depressing!
LMAO
But I love remembering the good times, and if a few tears fall, so be it.
Our yard was surrounded by huge pine trees that were a gift as seedlings years before from his friend.
The birds would build nests in the trees, and when I was a young girl in grade school, I’d walk around the trees with my dad and he’d show me all the nests with the baby birds.
He’d wiggle his fingers above their heads and they’d raise their little bald heads and chirp for food.
Most of the nests were cardinals.
We’re usually in bed long before midnight but this year might be different with fireworks being legal now in Arizona.
Am wondering if we’ll be awakened at midnight with loud booms, and hopefully it won’t be from gunfire as usually happens.
Always makes me nervous when we hear gunshots too close to home.
-An elephant beauty contest! Who knew?
-Brrr – never did understand the traditional cold water swims
-New York City with snow is the favorite of the day!
Drats.
– The pics of the Church of the Nativity is also incredible and will research that later.
– Love the Sphinx Cat!
-Indian men dressed as Santa Claus – never knew that Santa Claus existed in India!
Bone marrow transplants that can save the lives of children?
Any idea how he met her?
It’s been 26.6C here the last few days with an abundance of sunshine, and I am not complaining, but it sure does not feel like the holidays.
I do love seeing snow and ice from the distance though!
Either that, or it’s hypocrisy.
Great to see you!
I do believe the population in my area triples when the snowbirds come into town and I always wonder if the snowbirds list their main residence as here or from where they are from.
It seems that during elections in November that polling places are quite crowded compared to other times.
People only see and believe what they want to see and believe.
In Pinal County, Babeu’s brother ran and won Justice of the Peace.
A couple weeks back, the little local paper ran an article that stated that the new Justice Babeu must recuse himself from several cases, which will cost the county hundreds of thousands of dollars because they must bring in an impartial justice.
People were outraged that they did not know that and that no one told them that.
The little paper replied to the anger by publishing all the articles that they wrote about the conflict of interest before the election, but people still ignore it and believe it or not, some are even blaming Obama!
LMAO
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I managed to “doorstep” her as we call it in TV – i.e. I caught her at a public event and just started asking questions, uninvited.
Some people have no conscience nor souls.
The email went on to blame the media for forcing on the public the notion of equality of the races, the truth of the Holocaust and “the wickedness of attempting to halt the flood of non-White aliens pouring across our borders … .”
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