tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post7075997802241409783..comments2023-10-03T07:01:41.144-05:00Comments on Always On Watch: Semper Vigilans: FEATURED QUESTION: Healthcare ReformAlways On Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comBlogger184125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-3681293832453348542012-02-12T09:07:07.602-06:002012-02-12T09:07:07.602-06:00Kawanio che Keeteru! :)Kawanio che Keeteru! :)-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-62171968474149704212012-02-12T07:16:01.640-06:002012-02-12T07:16:01.640-06:00|
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-...|<br />|<br />|<br />|<br />|<br />|<br />|<br />|<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-LUoMLiEvs<br /><br /><br />An Offering by FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-12212121546276894022012-02-12T07:14:17.529-06:002012-02-12T07:14:17.529-06:00Thank you, AOW.Thank you, AOW.(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-66840159044486205102012-02-12T04:40:06.561-06:002012-02-12T04:40:06.561-06:00Stop.
Or take it elsewhere.
By "elsewhere&q...Stop.<br /><br />Or take it elsewhere.<br /><br />By "elsewhere" I do not mean to another thread on this blog.<br /><br />When I posted on this topic in the body of the post, I expected trouble to erupt. But I posted on this topic anyway because the topic is one that I've been struggling with. Yes, on a personal level.<br /><br />Anyone is welcome to comment on a topic at hand. But stalking, feuding, whatever you want to call it -- those actions are accomplishing nothing any longer.<br /><br />Any who read the comments at this thread and at the other thread with over 800 comments are drawing and will drawn their own conclusions. In my view, there really is nothing left for either of you to say.<br /><br />At this point, continued discussion serves only to irritate me. If you have any consideration for me at all, you'll stop. Now.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-20819135671019575632012-02-11T20:31:27.104-06:002012-02-11T20:31:27.104-06:00Uh, yeah. Except that that "first post" ...Uh, yeah. Except that that "first post" of yours in this thread abandoned your relentless four-month long berating me and stalking me across the blogosphere for my position on health care reform in favor of actually adopting my position wholesale.<br /><br />I guess you slipped a bit in your quest to be a pest to me, but you've restored your faith in that approach quite admirably.<br /><br />Now all that's left is for you to go back to sock puppeteering to yourself on the public dime while cogent discussions take place without you.<br /><br />But you'd have to admit to all as you have already to yourself that you've been a sore loser on arrival with your left-wing Naderite advocacy of totalitarianism all along, huh?<br /><br />And we can't have that. It might put you in the psych ward again, loser.<br /><br />You derive your perverse proxy for self-esteem from attacking your betters and polluting the blogs of people you can't hang with intellectually with sock puppet shows. Why you thought expanding beyond sock puppeting to yourself on your several imbeciliic Greek pederasty appreciation blogs would result in people giving a fuck about what idiots like yourself have to say on any topic is perhaps even more indicative of how low your intelligence actually is.<br /><br />Continue your bizarre obsession with getting your teeth kicked in by me at your leisure, but leave AOW alone.(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-47182612056082442142012-02-11T20:18:33.764-06:002012-02-11T20:18:33.764-06:00...and all AoW has to say is "go" and i&......and all AoW has to say is "go" and i'm history, beamish. I won't darken her doorstep again. I'm not here to aggravate AoW. It's a by-product of your negative presence.<br /><br />So much for wishing her the ability to control her blog.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-7564859818378408942012-02-11T17:34:59.327-06:002012-02-11T17:34:59.327-06:00AOW,
Does FJ's threadjacking to pursue his im...AOW,<br /><br />Does FJ's threadjacking to pursue his immature gay crush on me upset you?(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-65275025146234720922012-02-11T14:56:42.620-06:002012-02-11T14:56:42.620-06:00Has beamish convinced AoW that he's not an imb...Has beamish convinced AoW that he's not an imbecilet yet?Speedy Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01640242783952822072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-8656588912148792202012-02-11T14:05:02.984-06:002012-02-11T14:05:02.984-06:00FT,
I've bookmarked that poetry site. Today, ...FT,<br />I've bookmarked that poetry site. Today, at the public library, I picked up a collection of Dorothy Parker's poems and short stories. Some good bedtime reading, I think.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-65150802630420587582012-02-11T14:04:14.716-06:002012-02-11T14:04:14.716-06:00Beamish,
Has FJ convinced you that he's an imb...Beamish,<br /><i>Has FJ convinced you that he's an imbecile yet?</i><br /><br />Well, there's so much noise here in this thread and so many sock puppets that I honestly having been paying much attention.<br /><br />I've had bigger fish to fry, including getting my tax stuff together. I've made a significant dent but am not finished. Such is the price of running one's own minuscule single proprietorship. Ugh. <br /><br />I'm not in a good mood now, I can tell you. And I'm exhausted too. Numbers and I are not best friends on the best of days.<br /><br />Off to do laundry and get dinner ready.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-79502216078286854512012-02-11T13:59:19.067-06:002012-02-11T13:59:19.067-06:00FT,
I'm not particularly heroic. I'm just...FT,<br />I'm not particularly heroic. I'm just a "determined German" (a phrase I coined). Fortunately, although Mr. AOW's condition is one of extreme disability, he is cognizant and strong enough to do some tasks now. So, instead of entering a decline, he has gone the other way, albeit in very tiny increments.<br /><br />You're had more than your fair share of caregiving. Whatever "fair share" is.<br /><br />Unless one has done down-and-dirty caregiving, one cannot possibly understand how grueling that task is. It wears on body <b>AND</b> mind.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-10009408486200563162012-02-11T10:40:44.537-06:002012-02-11T10:40:44.537-06:00I didn't know that "I" was the topic...I didn't know that "I" was the topic of this thread, beamish. But thanks for playing. :)<br /><br />More tp for your bunghole?Bumheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12105281775105450462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-80268791876047283752012-02-11T09:05:47.989-06:002012-02-11T09:05:47.989-06:00You should be named Captain of Wikipedia's &qu...You should be named Captain of Wikipedia's "<i>Trivial Mistake Pursuit Team</i>", beamish.<br /><br />Nobody can find trivial mistakes better than you, beamish.<br /><br />That's why you post at Wikipedia.<br /><br />...but who corrects YOUR mistakes, beamish? I know, THAT was a stupid question. Beamish never makes <i>trivial</i> mistakes.<br /><br />...heh, heh, heh, heh.Bumheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12105281775105450462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-69851143995571298082012-02-11T09:02:30.986-06:002012-02-11T09:02:30.986-06:00AOW,
Has FJ convinced you that he's an imbeci...AOW,<br /><br />Has FJ convinced you that he's an imbecile yet?<br /><br />He's really giving it his all, you know.(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-43110588749635663042012-02-11T08:47:11.558-06:002012-02-11T08:47:11.558-06:00Have you done many "Supply Side Abracadabra&q...Have you done many <i>"Supply Side Abracadabra"</i> posts for Wikipedia, beamish?<br /><br />You should DEFINITELY do one. That way, people wouldn't be so stupid anymore.<br /><br /><br />...heh, heh, heh, heh.Bumheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12105281775105450462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-83942520875411497742012-02-11T08:44:40.256-06:002012-02-11T08:44:40.256-06:00Wanna 'nother grape, beamish?
...heh, heh, he...Wanna 'nother grape, beamish?<br /><br />...heh, heh, heh, heh.Bumheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12105281775105450462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-61657174239495604792012-02-11T08:43:05.998-06:002012-02-11T08:43:05.998-06:00You're so smart beamish. No one could have fi...You're so smart beamish. No one could have figured out what that bumhead had said if you hadn't pointed out the missing word at the end of the sentence, "is".<br /><br />beamish is SMART. He's a re-writer for Wikipedia! He re-writes, and re-writes and re-writes whatever is never quite right!<br /><br />Everyone else is so stupid when compared to beamish.<br /><br />...heh, heh, heh, heh.<br /><br />You should be an editor, beamish. Maybe perhaps then you could express a complete and coherent thought of your own. Oh yeah, but then it wouldn't have been YOUR thought. And I know how you HATE that! But then, what do you do at Wikipedia again? Pose for NAMBLA posters?<br /><br />...heh, heh, heh, heh.Bumheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12105281775105450462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-56443086130114361972012-02-11T08:32:11.985-06:002012-02-11T08:32:11.985-06:00Isn't THAT what Wikipedia's core business ...<i>Isn't THAT what Wikipedia's core business model?</i><br /><br />I see you're still grammatically stunted, illiterate fool.<br /><br />Come back when your bell stops ringing.(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-63596034370507202662012-02-11T08:28:05.590-06:002012-02-11T08:28:05.590-06:00Here's a iink to Parker's poetry online:
...Here's a iink to Parker's poetry online:<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/dorothy-parker/<br /><br />Like Emily Dickinson she wrote short pithy bits of verse. <br /><br />~ FTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-79189378861214107652012-02-11T08:16:05.071-06:002012-02-11T08:16:05.071-06:00I don't know how you do it, AOW. I had a lot o...I don't know how you do it, AOW. I had a lot of help managing my aunt's care from age 90 till she died at 97. She had adequate funds to pay for in-home healthcare. I took a nursing course, and became an official home health aid in order to understand the situation better. I worked one eight-hour shift a day, myself, and did all the shopping and cooking for two households during those seven long years. <br /><br />The hardest part was managing the nurses, who were great at tattling on each other and making up horrible stories about me. They were often spiteful, uncooperative and openly jealous of my aunt's financial circumstances. Hiring, firing and running interference between them was a real JOB, but I could never have done it all on my own without their help. <br /><br />After three years of intrigue, back-biting and treachery, I was lucky to find two Russian woman who were well-educated. They had worked as professionals in Russia -- one had been a school principal the other a civil engineer. They worked well with me. They were much easier to deal with than the generally low-class, whiny, petulant, sometimes absurdly pretentious American women. Virtually all of them were aging divorcees down on their luck who'd had lousy husbands or tragic childhoods, etc. To add insult to injury they were all Democrats. ;-)<br /><br />During this period I also had an invalid living in my house -- my former business partner. We had always gotten along very well, but he lost all his money making risky investments. He was much older than I and ill with diabetes, emphysema and heart disease. I felt very sorry for him, so so I took him in. I won't say it was a mistake, because it was the decent thing to do, but it certainly did nothing to ease my burdens. <br /><br />He had to undergo quintuple bypass surgery almost immediately after moving in, and soon developed cancer, then kidney failure which required thrice weekly trips to the dialysis clinic. <br /><br />So maybe I've done my share, though I'm no Albert Schweizer or Mother Teresa, that's for sure.<br /><br />You look back at these things and say, "How the hell did I DO it?" But I did -- coping with rapidly progressing corneal dystrophy all the while.<br /><br />That's why I truly believe God HAD to be with me. How else cold I have survived? No He doesn't "talk" to me, I could never say that, but I talk to Him -- quite a lot -- and I never feel as though I'm just talking to myself.<br /><br />God bless you I think you're genuinely heroic. Somewhere Oswald Chambers wrote that <i>we derive our strength from the strain we must endure.</i><br /><br />Sounds austere, I know, but I find comfort in the thought.<br /><br />~ FTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-74039864121847034182012-02-11T08:05:41.507-06:002012-02-11T08:05:41.507-06:00FT,
Quick reply here before I dash off to run a fe...FT,<br />Quick reply here before I dash off to run a few errands.<br /><br />I am not familiar with Dorothy Parker's poetry. But that one you posted is excellent. Perhaps there is a collection of her poems online.<br /><br />I <b>AM</b> familiar with Dorothy Parker's advocating the study of Latin and have quoted her many times in that context.<br /><br />Back later. Gotta get a few errands done before the brutally cold weather rolls in tomorrow!Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-26772873053480253392012-02-11T07:35:00.624-06:002012-02-11T07:35:00.624-06:00You're very welcome, AOW. I just discovered it...You're very welcome, AOW. I just discovered it in this morning's email -- all new to me. Fascinating!<br /><br />Here's Dorothy Parker's wry twist on the pleasures and pains of growing old:<br /><br /><br /><i><b>AFTERNOON<br /><br />When I am old, and comforted,<br />And done with all desire,<br />With Memory to share my bed<br />And Peace to share my fire,<br /><br />I'll comb my hair in scalloped bands<br />Beneath my laundered cap,<br />And watch my cool and fragile hands<br />Lie light upon my lap.<br /><br />And I will have a sprigged gown<br />With lace to kiss my throat;<br />I'll draw my curtain to the town,<br />And hum a purring note.<br /><br />And I'll forget the way of tears,<br />And rock, and stir my tea.<br />But Oh, I wish those blessed years<br />Were further than they be!</b></i> <br /><br />~ Dorothy Parker <br /><br />Don't know about you, but I <i>love</i> Dorothy Parker. I've read nearly all her poetry, and some of her short stories too. There was a great deal more to the woman than wisecracks and sarcastic humor. I'm afraid she wasn't very happy, but she sure was bright -- and very tender-hearted just below her brittle surface. <br /><br />~ FTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-39205962303655165582012-02-11T07:30:13.893-06:002012-02-11T07:30:13.893-06:00FT,
I think that my resentment these days stems fr...FT,<br />I think that my resentment these days stems from the many battles I've had to do with the healthcare industry. All those forces were lined up to consign Mr. AOW to a nursing home for the rest of his life. <br /><br />The only one I didn't have to do battle with was our family doctor. <br /><br />At one point, I told the social worker at the nursing home, "We're not going to roll over just because <b>YOU</b> say so. People took care of others who had strokes for millennia before you people came along." The woman cringed as if I'd physically struck her.<br /><br />Yes, I know that God is beside me at all times. But I don't "feel" His presence very often. Sure, I can look back and see how He guided me; for example, if not for blogging, I'd not have had that blogger come to Virginia from Florida to help me for six weeks about two months after I brought Mr. AOW home and was near collapse due to the workload of laundry alone. Five loads a day! Never one single night of sleeping all the way through without dealing with one or more loads of laundry, or a fall.<br /><br />But I don't feel <b>PRESENT</b> guidance from Him. Strength from Him? Sure -- after the fact.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-30197036565971413612012-02-11T07:12:59.264-06:002012-02-11T07:12:59.264-06:00FT,
I love that video that you posted a link to! ...FT,<br />I love that video that you posted a link to! <br /><br />I posted it a long while back at one of my previous sites, but will post it again here -- probably next week.<br /><br />Thanks!Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-51775489729732600592012-02-11T06:06:13.921-06:002012-02-11T06:06:13.921-06:00Wikipedia editors tend to frown on you "fake ...<i> Wikipedia editors tend to frown on you "fake it 'til you make it" types as well.</i><br /><br />Isn't THAT what Wikipedia's core business model??? lol!<br /><br />And keep writing. Eventually you'll learn to express a coherent thought... but it won't likely be on anything as substantive as "Supply Side Abracadabra".Speedy Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01640242783952822072noreply@blogger.com