Projector Screen Stands
Does anyone in the bay area have 2 projector screens with stands I can borrow? Preferably 8' x 8' (96" x 96") 5'x5' is good too.
If you were wondering what we were up to . . .
Here is a picture:
Thought of the now
If there is an afterlife, I wonder what kind of conversation Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne would have.
I'm just amazed sometimes at how short the collective memory is.
I'm just amazed sometimes at how short the collective memory is.
Dogs
mhat and I want to get a dog. Probably by as early as September and as late as November. He want's a german shepard. I'd prefer a pound puppy, that we hung out with a while before adopting but that may be dog 2 if dog 1 is a success, but the problem with that is you don't know how big they might be when they grow up sometimes. It is important for us to get a puppy to train it to be nice to the cat. We do not want a cat eating dog. Blood is a bitch to get out of clothing, hard wood and porous tile. Also, we like the cat.
I know some people will get in a tizzy about not adopting a pound puppy. Convince Mhat, not me.
Anyway. We both agree, female dog.
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Dime-a-can Tax on Soda for Healthcare?
From astroprisoner
If your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.
--President Barak Obama, State of the Union address, February 24 2009
House eyes new taxes as senators pare health bill
Quote:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Early work on the ambitious health care overhaul the Obama administration is seeking has exposed the kinds of in-house fights that typify just how hard it will be to get meaningful legislation this year. Case in point: A proposal to help bankroll universal health coverage with a dime-a-can increase in the price of soft drinks.
Apparently, the correct of draft of the state-of-the-union speech should have read "If your family earns less than $250,000 a year and only drinks water, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime."
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Me:
And as pointed out in the comments, almost every president (in recent history) has made promises about no new taxes, and at some point reality smacked them in the face and we had to have more taxes. The question is, how much is the liberal press going to smack him? We know the right wing will.
Personally, this isn't a bad way to do it if he does actually have to raise taxes. There are zero health benefits from soda, and if anything drinking cans of slow-acting-yummy-poison willfully only increases likelihood of health problems, whether it is diet or full sugar.
I'm a coffee, water and booze girl myself, throw in some tea and crazy vitamin smoothies. Tax the booze too, I don't care.
astroprisonerIf your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.
--President Barak Obama, State of the Union address, February 24 2009
House eyes new taxes as senators pare health bill
Quote:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Early work on the ambitious health care overhaul the Obama administration is seeking has exposed the kinds of in-house fights that typify just how hard it will be to get meaningful legislation this year. Case in point: A proposal to help bankroll universal health coverage with a dime-a-can increase in the price of soft drinks.
Apparently, the correct of draft of the state-of-the-union speech should have read "If your family earns less than $250,000 a year and only drinks water, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime."
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Me:
And as pointed out in the comments, almost every president (in recent history) has made promises about no new taxes, and at some point reality smacked them in the face and we had to have more taxes. The question is, how much is the liberal press going to smack him? We know the right wing will.
Personally, this isn't a bad way to do it if he does actually have to raise taxes. There are zero health benefits from soda, and if anything drinking cans of slow-acting-yummy-poison willfully only increases likelihood of health problems, whether it is diet or full sugar.
I'm a coffee, water and booze girl myself, throw in some tea and crazy vitamin smoothies. Tax the booze too, I don't care.
You may not be aware of this, but there is a new addiction
It isn't so much that it is a new problem, just a newly recognized problem.
Millions of people have this problem. If this problem is in a person's life, it has adverse affects on their well being. It makes them late for work and appointments, it interferes with their ability to connect with peers, they often crave more when they are away, you schedule your life around them, they put stress on your physical well being often increasing significantly the amount of time you are sick, and they are very costly.
The problem my friends, are TODDLERS.
Yes, toddlers. They are addictive if you have them. This is what I have observed from my toddler wielding friends.
Millions of people have this problem. If this problem is in a person's life, it has adverse affects on their well being. It makes them late for work and appointments, it interferes with their ability to connect with peers, they often crave more when they are away, you schedule your life around them, they put stress on your physical well being often increasing significantly the amount of time you are sick, and they are very costly.
The problem my friends, are TODDLERS.
Yes, toddlers. They are addictive if you have them. This is what I have observed from my toddler wielding friends.
Say a little prayer, it works, according to my mom
My grandfather is in the hospital with either pneumonia or a small heart attack, or both. Not that much information yet.
My mom says "I know you're agnostic, but say a little prayer anyway"
I just said "ok mom"
Rather than "mom, would you like me to send you the empirical data that prayer does not work?"
The point of prayer, as I see it, is to make people who are helpless to do anything to improve a situation feel less helpless.
Anyway, that aside, I certainly *hope* he gets better. I know he wants to live to 100. He's 94 already, he only has 6 more years til he gets there. He's held on this long.
He really likes the story Candide. Although he still has the optimist pov, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" where as I am of the other view "we must cultivate our gardens". Anyway, a story I would like to read. Maybe on tape and send it to him, since his wife won't let him listen to it or read it to him. He is legally blind, macular degeneration.
My mom says "I know you're agnostic, but say a little prayer anyway"
I just said "ok mom"
Rather than "mom, would you like me to send you the empirical data that prayer does not work?"
The point of prayer, as I see it, is to make people who are helpless to do anything to improve a situation feel less helpless.
Anyway, that aside, I certainly *hope* he gets better. I know he wants to live to 100. He's 94 already, he only has 6 more years til he gets there. He's held on this long.
He really likes the story Candide. Although he still has the optimist pov, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" where as I am of the other view "we must cultivate our gardens". Anyway, a story I would like to read. Maybe on tape and send it to him, since his wife won't let him listen to it or read it to him. He is legally blind, macular degeneration.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Happy Birthday to these people
martak - Michael Martak
madspark - MadSpark
greencorinna - Corinna Green
twistedcat - Our Lady of Perpetual Meanderings
syncretin - Mikolaj Habryn
tybuc - Crazy Uncle Olaf
enwrong - enwrong
johntchoe - Jay Double-Yoo Tee
antoinebugleboy - Antoine Bugleboy
minorninth - minorninth
pixels_of_light - Victoria
slownewsday - Germ Tall
madspark - MadSpark
greencorinna - Corinna Green
twistedcat - Our Lady of Perpetual Meanderings
syncretin - Mikolaj Habryn
tybuc - Crazy Uncle Olaf
enwrong - enwrong
johntchoe - Jay Double-Yoo Tee
antoinebugleboy - Antoine Bugleboy
minorninth - minorninth
pixels_of_light - Victoria
slownewsday - Germ Tall
