Morning Feature: Talkin' Turkey

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Wednesday January 13, 2010 · 6:33 AM PST

2010/01/13 · 06:33

Today the faculty was ~~blind with hangovers~~ taking a break and invited a guest lecturer to speak. Packing a thermos of ~~hot buttered rum~~ coffee, the class will go out and ~~freeze their buns off~~ listen to Susanl143 give a talk on raising turkey talk.
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Sunday December 06, 2009 · 11:57 AM PST

2009/12/06 · 11:57

I've spotted the debate on MS-NBC:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

It's available on c-span:

http://c-span.com/...

Senator Grassly, aka gas -tly, is speaking now.

If you wish to join me in watching and commenting, I'll live blog -- at least until it's time to deal with my real turkeys.

SusanL143

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Friday December 04, 2009 · 10:42 AM PST

2009/12/04 · 10:42

As a New Hampshire resident, I am ashamed and angry to say that Judd Gregg, Senator from this state, is leading the effort to derail health care reform in the Senate. He has written and distributed a guide to using procedural details in lawmaking to stop the Senate from even voting on reform. Although Gregg won't be running for re-election next year, the likely Republican candidate, Kelly Ayotte has endorsed Gregg's guidelines.

If you want to raise your blood pressure, here is the text of the guidelies Gregg has distributed to every Republican Senator.

http://www.adobe.com/...

SusanL143

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Friday November 20, 2009 · 8:44 AM PST

2009/11/20 · 08:44

Thanksgiving is almost upon us. Christmas shopping is coming with its Black Friday and other efforts to encourage shopping and consuming. Before you go out to buy x for your dear y, please go to this web site and play "the story of stuff" The story of stuff goes into why buying of throw away junk and toys is a way to destroy the world. We need to consider carefully before deciding that the way to our dear ones' hearts and to rebuilding the economy is to buy a lot of things that people don't really need and won't use for very long if at all.

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Poll

96 votes Show Results

What are you giving?

96 votes Vote Now!

What are you giving?

Toys from the top 10 list. Kids should get what they want

10 votes

Appliances designed to take the place of a spoon or knife. People have everything but should get something.

1 vote

I'm making homemade stuff this year, as love is included with each gift

10 votes

Christmas? I'm not Christian and don't mess with this holiday

8 votes

But I do give Hanakuh gifts

0 votes

I'm buying good used stuff at the Christmas bazaars in town

5 votes

Lumps of coal, cords of wood, and other useful gifts

2 votes

Donations to worthy causes in friends' names

9 votes

Clothes

2 votes

Fruit, jams, and chocolate

4 votes

Crafts made by local artisans

7 votes

Bah Humbug!

20 votes

Pies

18 votes

Live blog #4, Senate health care hearings (update)

SusanL143

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Tuesday September 29, 2009 · 9:56 AM PDT

2009/09/29 · 09:56

This is a child diary. Do not recommend this diary. Recommend the mothership diary instead.

http://www.dailykos.com/...

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Saturday August 29, 2009 · 6:39 AM PDT

2009/08/29 · 06:39

The service has yet to start as the many attendees make their way from the Kennedy Center to the church.

I have no TV so live streaming on the computer is my only way to follow this. Here is an MSNBC link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

will live blog here.

SusanL143

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Tuesday August 04, 2009 · 5:41 PM PDT

2009/08/04 · 17:41

I know that some people here have used these diaries to express their love for their pet who has just died. I hope you will forgive me for sharing my loss with you.

I'm just back from the vet. I brought my 12 year old husky/shepherd mix Spirit there, not really thinking I'd be bringing her home again but I always have hope. We've been going back and forth to vets a lot in the last few months. Blood tests showed nothing which worried me immensely as tumors wouldn't show up on blood tests. Spirit has had fatty tumors since puppy hood but as she has gotten old, more have shown up and the ones she has have grown. I spoke to the first vet we saw about tumors and cancer but the vet didn't think that was her problem. We didn't have x-rays done as the vet knew that money was hard for me to come by and that extreme and costly measures weren't going to be done for an old dog.

When the vet saw Spirit today, we knew there was no hope.

SusanL143

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Monday August 03, 2009 · 1:01 PM PDT

2009/08/03 · 13:01

The for profit private health insurance companies and their paid minions are out in force trying to scare the public and our representatives with lies and meeting disruption tactics that have been well described in other diaries. Their tactics have gotten me thinking about how they murder by spreadsheet. I used to train race horses. I used to say of the mob that they wouldn't hesitate to kill horses since they were willing to kill people -- that despite the fact that a mobster could be charming, they weren't nice people. I am impressed by how little difference there is in that description and the leadership of these for profit health insurance companies. They are willing to kill for money and everything else unethical and immoral is on the table as well as, despite the fact that they can be charming, they are not nice people.

Poll

25 votes Show Results

Now that the public option is threatened

25 votes Vote Now!

Now that the public option is threatened

let's up the ante and see universal, single payer back as the major issue

17 votes

we'll get public option despite the tactics and that's enough

2 votes

we've lost already

4 votes

send the thugs to jail

0 votes

lets support opponents of every representative who caves

1 vote

lets just be satisfied with wthe status quo

0 votes

hey, other stuff is more important

0 votes

pie

1 vote

Urgent: Help Needed

SusanL143

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Tuesday July 28, 2009 · 11:32 AM PDT

2009/07/28 · 11:32

I received this notice from the American Association for Health Freedom but it isn't about the ever present topic of health care reform. It is about endangered access to local food from small farmers.

HR2749 is set on the House Suspension Calendar for a vote Tuesday or Wednesday of this week— WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE BILL MAY BE MODIFIED BUT THE NEW LANGUAGE HAS NOT YET BEEN RELEASED! A bill considered on the suspension calendar means no amendments are allowed and only 40 minutes of debate is permitted equally divided between the opponents and proponents of the bill.

More over the fold:

SusanL143

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Sunday June 28, 2009 · 2:19 PM PDT

2009/06/28 · 14:19

The headline for the Washington Post Article says "Health Activists Targeting Dems." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

Having been one of those activists who demonstrated in Washington, DC a few days ago, all I can say is in my best surfer dude tone is "Well, yeah. Of course." We didn't work so hard to elect a Democrat majority to allow a few Democrats to sell out the country.

What is it about 73% of the citizens of the nation wanting a public option that those holdouts can't understand? I figure of the 27% polled who didn't want a public option, 13% were people who think that the Hitler genocide approach to chronic illness was a good one and the other 19% are simply too disconnected from reality or too dumb to understand that the private system is a total disaster which is rapidly getting worse and will sink the nation's economy.

Poll

74 votes Show Results

Do you think that a Public Option

74 votes Vote Now!

Do you think that a Public Option

is already a compromise, as Howard Dean said?

47 votes

is a gateway to single payer?

8 votes

is a sell out and no bill is better than no single payer?

2 votes

just isn't necessary because health care is fine now?

2 votes

isn't necessary because the private health care companies will be good from now on?

2 votes

will keep privarte health care companies honest?

5 votes

the private health care companies were never honest so there is nothing to keep honest about them?

4 votes

public option means freedom to order any kind of pie you want?

4 votes

How Can They Be So Wrong?

SusanL143

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Thursday June 18, 2009 · 10:58 AM PDT

2009/06/18 · 10:58

Human history is full of really bad ideas. We have had the idea that owning humans as slaves is a good thing. Time and time again, we have had the idea that genocide is a good thing. We have had the idea that exterminating entire species to starve our enemies is a good thing. A by product of that is that killing animals is a sport. I'm sure you can come up with some more and possibly even better ideas of really bad ideas that have been incorporated in world cultures -- How about burning heretics at the stake?

Of course, not everyone shared these ideas but they held sway enough to make them the law of the land in the lands where such things happened. Compared to these bad ideas of the past some of the ideas put forth by the Republicans in the US today don't look all that bad but they come close.

SusanL143

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Wednesday June 17, 2009 · 6:44 AM PDT

2009/06/17 · 06:44

Yesterday an event happened with my turkeys that warms my heart every time I think about it. With all the troubles in the world, I thought I'd share the story in the hopes that it will also give you good feelings. We need more of those.

I've been raising and writing about Royal Palm turkeys since last summer. After problems with predation, my original nine turkeys came down to two survivors. I named them John and Priscilla. Two just weren't enough turkeys. I saw an ad on Craig's list and went and bought four more young turkeys -- three Royal Palms and a mixed Royal Palm and Black Spanish. I never meant to name them but they ended up with names that described them. I solved the predator problems, managing to have all six birds survive the winter although my dog Bear, who is half Siberian Husky, has done some turkey chasing this spring that took away a lot of feathers before I got him stopped. The three hens have been brooding on eggs since mid April.

Below the fold is the story that still makes me feel happy every time I think of it.

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