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Liz Peek: Grandiosity, Not Common Sense, Drives Health-Care Bill

Dear John Wayne avatar person: Richard Lindsen is another person, like you, I imagine, that has true grit and agrees, from what I have read about him, with 90% of what the global warming scientists are warning us about. It seems to be the 10% that puts him in the category of the nay-sayers. He once was getting big bucks from oil and coal companies for speaking engagements which makes me wonder just how much his grit was really true. I always think "money" when issues like this arise––who are the losers, who gains, and all the while our planet is slowly imploding. You may believe global warming/climate change/ is a non-issue and that all this is a "way to tax and control Americans into a global treaty which would by design put this country under a global governance" but that kind of thinking seems to me to be ill conceived and wrong sighted. Your post also smacks a little of paranoia––just a wee bit?

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Manhattan Transfer’s Comely Commuters: Last Stop––Wonderland.

LIZ SMITH FLASH! A Question From National Review

And Maggie: Isn’t it awful that you can’t in the end say, "I told you so!"

LIZ SMITH FLASH! A Question From National Review

Or–––take some LSD like Joe and pretend you and the mirror are one.

LIZ SMITH FLASH! A Question From National Review

Mr. Smith––not your regular Joe–––a very busy man, indeed.

LIZ SMITH FLASH! A Question From National Review

Yes, Laurel, I know. I, too, have delved into all this for many moons.

LIZ SMITH FLASH! A Question From National Review

Hey, Snooks–-funny, my thoughts exactly, and the question is: Do all prophets profit? One ponders this in deep contemplation on rainy days.

LIZ SMITH FLASH! A Question From National Review

Since God is the concept of man whose to say that the god of the Muslim is the same god as the Christian or any other sect? And since the old testament god presented as a many-faceted character whose precarious dealings confused even him, the new testament had to be tweaked. As far as myths, give me the Greeks any day––their panoply of gods and goddesses were far more interesting and much more imaginative. Virgins, in religious myths, always seem to be white, the color of purity, I suppose. In certain pagan religions, a virgin was slaughtered (later replaced by a goat) every year in the belief that the Corn God would bring good harvest.

Estrogen in the Air, by Barbara Guggenheim

Thank you very much, Joni.

Liz Peek: Grandiosity, Not Common Sense, Drives Health-Care Bill

Here’s the skinny of some of those projects that amuse Ms. Peek that she mentions but doesn’t explain and in doing so they seem silly and frivolous, but instead make sense and have good purpose:

"Combating unwanted teen pregnancies, which are on the rise in Syracuse, and searching for ways to prevent sexually transmitted diseases is no joking matter. These kinds of studies go to the heart of ensuring the long-term economic viability of communities."

WASHINGTON — Anything that hops, burrows, buzzes, crawls or grazes near a nuclear weapons plant may be capable of setting off a Geiger counter. And at the Hanford nuclear reservation, one of the dirtiest of them all, its droppings alone might be enough to trigger alarms.

A government contractor at Hanford, in south-central Washington State, just spent a week mapping radioactive rabbit feces with detectors mounted on a helicopter flying 50 feet over the desert scrub. An onboard computer used GPS technology to record each location so workers could return later to scoop up the droppings for disposal as low-level radioactive waste

It’s part of the first stimulus, signed by George W. Bush. It was designed as incentive to purchase electric vehicles, but soon golf carts were being upgraded with lights, turn signals and beefed up batteries to take full advantage of tax credits. In some cases, a $9,000 LSV can qualify for $6,000 in tax credits.

…of the most surprising things about the golf cart tax credit is that it gives people almost as much money as the tax credit for first time home-buyers, which is $8,000.

The economic stimulus package is also paying people to install things like solar panels and energy efficient windows.

Estrogen in the Air, by Barbara Guggenheim

How about going "balls out" and giving us a transcript or parts of the conference or can we get that elsewhere? Sounds like I’d have to bring a whole box of tissues for me alone.

One study from Yale says that women are evolving to become shorter and fatter. In recent years have you shrunk or gotten fatter?

There are dangerous side effects of your good old Premarin especially if taken for many years. One has to weigh these risks with whatever benefits you think you are getting. Here’s a link you might find helpful.

http://menopause.peruvian-maca.com/hormone-replacement-therapy.htm

Dancing With the Dead: Mr. wOw Is Not Rushing to Michael's Last Moonwalk

Ah, Baby, guilt is good.

Dancing With the Dead: Mr. wOw Is Not Rushing to Michael's Last Moonwalk

I am sorry to learn of that. I remember a piece I read years ago when Elizabeth evidently was not that revealing and she spoke of her father in hushed tones and her mother as more of a "stage mom." The beating of children I find abhorrent.

Dancing With the Dead: Mr. wOw Is Not Rushing to Michael's Last Moonwalk

I think Elizabeth’s mention of her very up-right, staid Englishman of a father’s abuse was of the emotional kind and not physical, which is not to say that physical abuse is not emotional. Her befriending man and beast probably started with Pie (her horse in National Velvet) and Lassie. If you watch her closely in A Place in the Sun the relationship with Clift is almost maternal––that great scene where the camera zooms in on the two of them out on the veranda capturing their first kiss and she whispers, "Come to Mama"–––So, Mr. Wow of the averted eyes, I agree with wishing she would have been a little less accommodating to Mr. Jackson or as you said, that they had never met.