Thanks to everyone who has been commenting. Will get back to you but today’s a computer free day, because frankly I can’t stand to look at it anymore.
I’ve been getting a new type of spam or something, in comments, in old posts. I delete them before entering here so….says it’s from Direct TV–hidden IP address. I’ve also been getting many e-mails telling me that my e-bay account has been suspended. Well I don’t have an e-bay account so….
“So” is my favorite word. Used to have entire conversations with my mother where only the word “so” was used. We could tell from each others inflections what we were talking about.
I write about Cao not because I want to but because she represents an extreme that more and more Americans are falling into. However she has made herself look so stupid this weekend, I doubt anybody but her most faithful adherents will listen to her anymore.
If you’re interested in seeing a comment by Cao, and the depths of her stupidity. please go to The Cranky Liberals Saturday post.
Technically I’m probably more qualified to write about the Terry Schiavo case than Cao is as I have extensive training and work experience in end of life issues. However there are many variables in that case that make me wary of talking about it.
People should be wary of talking about things when they are lacking complete knowledge of the facts.
I’m not an extremist which is why when I get e-mail saying that I am, I’m generally amused. However, I lost it last week because I allowed myself to fall into a trap. Never again.
I didn’t and don’t want this to be a completely political blog
I like writing about New York because I was born here, live here, and know it well.
My coop is a typical New York building. It looks exactly like the facade of the building in Will & Grace, but the entrance is on the side street.
Most Riverside Drive buildings have side entrances as do many Central Park West and Fifth Avenue buildings. The reason for that is simple. We’re wind magnets, and when the building were built, they didn’t want ladies to have to go out into the wind.
I enjoy writing about my life because it’s been a bit out of the ordinary.
My sister found an eight page type written essay our father wrote about the day before and the day of my adoption. I’m not ready to share it, and might never be, but I think it sums up the feelings adoptive parents have around the time of the adoption beautifully.
She also found poems that I had written in high school, and our father saved.
My sole ambition in high school was to be a beat poet, however I was a bit young tor that group, and I don’t think that beat poets encouraged girl beat poets.
I have to say that my poetry was good, and I will put some of that in.
It brought me back to a time when anything was possible; my future seemed limitless.
My dad was an amazing person who found his greatest career success after 55. Not that he hadn’t been successful, but this was on an entirely different level.
No The Rolling Stones weren’t his clients but I’m probably the only person who could say that her father kept her from meeting them, not once but at least three times.
The first time was when I was in high school. We were in London during spring break, and were visiting a friend of my dad’s. It’s a much longer story of course and at the time I thought it equalled teen age abuse, or would have had I known the name.
Stay tuned. Courting Destiny’s about to go onto a whole new level! Literally, now that I finally understand what “pages” mean in Word Press 1.5.
I know that I’m really behind in answering comments.
My bedroom pipes are finally working when I go to sleep. That means I wake up at three AM, boiling hot, and wonder if I’m finally having a hot flash. Then I touch the pipes. They could give me third degree burns.
But there’s no way of regulating heat in old buildings, so that the apartments that face Riverside Drive get more, and apartments like mine get less.
Even with all the windows wide open I couldn’t fall asleep until 6 AM. Now of course there’s no heat, and I’m dressed in many layers.
And you thought life in a big deal Manhattan coop was glamorous. It can be, but right now I’m in a constant state of sleep deprivation, and I really love to sleep.
Hiya:
> I’ve also been getting many
> e-mails telling me that my e-bay
> account has been suspended…
This is called “phishing” and it is a huge problem on the Internet today. You can help to stop these scammers sending the phishing emails your receive to the Anti-Phising group:
http://antiphishing.org/
We all need a nice can of cao-be-gone.
I can’t believe that anyone views his/her pages except for an occasional laugh.
My question for those of that ilk, would you gladly trade places with Terri and assume all her liabilities?
Cao is a twit. I’m sure she’ll have some way of wiggling out of what she said. I wonder if she’s Ann Coulter’s little sister who dropped out of high school? She certainly writes the same sort of rhetoric, but with far lower writing skills….
I have been wanting to write about the “Blogs For Terri” crowd, but have been too preoccupied with more mundane things lately to write what I really want to.
I find it interesting that Randall Terry and other so called “pro life” people are in the front of the ranks screaming to “save” Terri’s life.
And I can’t help but wonder if all the “save Terri” bloggers would want total strangers stepping in and telling them what medical treatment their loved ones can and cannot receive. Somehow I doubt it.
Isn’t it funny how conservatives are always going on about government NOT intervening in people’s lives, but when it comes to medical matters, it seems to be fine because they KNOW what God would want?
This isn’t about what God wants….this is about stopping an evil man from killing a woman that is very much alive and in need of therapy.
Terri is not brain dead, not in a persistant vegetative state, and certainly not cared about by her spouse.
This has deeper implications than just Terris’ life.
WOW – I thought all you liberals preached “freedom of speach”. In reality, your hate reveals your reality – that only liberals should have freedom of speach and no one else. “Cao is a twit” – words from “Elizabeth” – really profound, NOT.
Ok, so Cao made a mistake. That is no reason to focus your hate on someone. Some people sure find it so easy to hate – even their own.
Maddie, I thought all Americans were in favor of freedom of speech (note spelling) including the right to criticize. I agree about name-calling, but accountability isn’t hateful.
maddie… damn this sounds familiar. have I seen this comment somewhere before?
why of course, the CLP.
what’s the matter? we’re not worth a little more than cut and paste?
I will never ban people from commenting, but I will never answer Kender again.
Not out of lack of responses but because Kender can take personal attacks to a level where nobody has before.
All Kender does is inspire hate–even from people who might like his thoughts.
You double standard liberals just crack me up. Keep on, keeping on, I love the entertainment that y’all provide.
Hugs and Kisses from the
Blue State Killer
I think you misrepresent, and mis-underestimate, both Cao and Kender. I find many of their comments interesting & thought provoking, regardless of the fact that I agree with most of them
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As to not speaking on topics which we are not ‘experts’ … who defines expertise, and are we not allowed to share our opinion? The fact that very smart people are on both sides of the Terri issue devalues your connotation … (IMHO, Terri’s case is unlike many others in that she is not brain-dead, is not on life support, etc. What they (her husband, specifically) want to do is to kill her – and if I were in her case I would hope someone, anyone, would step up to try and help!)
/TJ
NIF
The Wide Awakes