Governor Romney was so crude on the Libya tragedy that he didn't even bother to know the President's Rose Garden talk.
He walked into his own 47% remarks.
I hope he won't waste our time this way again next week.
I am so happy POTUS addressed Romney directly, even though he was actually not talking to the
governor. He was talking to us. I really liked that in this debate.
Romney was so odd by walking right to the President's side of the room every time he spoke. He kept
ignoring his side of the room unless a question came directly to him from there on occasion.
President Obama refrained from doing that, which made him seem determined to be more polite.
The press is not jumping up and down, screaming. So that means our President did what he decided
to do.
Candy Crowley was beyond masterful. She wasn't afraid of either of them!
I wish that Romney hadn't continually tried to filibuster all evening. Ms. Crowley saved us. I also wish that town hall group had been the least bit interesting.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
I Am Getting Excited To Hear
I guess I wasn't so anxious to hear the first Presidential debate. I knew Romney would lie like a rug.
I knew if the American public was listening to Romney at all, President Obama would be talking not only to the faithul, but also to Fox News types. I knew the left wing would do all they could to put the words they wanted to hear in the President's mouth.
This time, knowing the President, as we all should, I feel certain no one knows what he will do. That
makes me able to look forward to this debate with a bit more interest in what will be said.
President Obama did halt the financial meltdown, thereby saving so many pensions and savings.
He has done many things to halt foreclosures.
He did help the auto industry become number one in the world again, noting a new global economy
was at work.
He has expanded trade.
He has gotten us to the point where we don't have to be half dead before we consider medical care.
He made sure citizens in the Gulf Coast were not the ones who had to pay for BP's negligence.
He has brought Al Queda and Bin Laden to the light of justice.
He has handled two wars, bringing one to an end.
He has created so many of the kinds of jobs which pay a lot more than minimum wage.
He has been staring down Republican filibusters and junk legislation for years.
He stopped DADT...and helped many young Hispanic persons.
OK. It has begun!
I knew if the American public was listening to Romney at all, President Obama would be talking not only to the faithul, but also to Fox News types. I knew the left wing would do all they could to put the words they wanted to hear in the President's mouth.
This time, knowing the President, as we all should, I feel certain no one knows what he will do. That
makes me able to look forward to this debate with a bit more interest in what will be said.
President Obama did halt the financial meltdown, thereby saving so many pensions and savings.
He has done many things to halt foreclosures.
He did help the auto industry become number one in the world again, noting a new global economy
was at work.
He has expanded trade.
He has gotten us to the point where we don't have to be half dead before we consider medical care.
He made sure citizens in the Gulf Coast were not the ones who had to pay for BP's negligence.
He has brought Al Queda and Bin Laden to the light of justice.
He has handled two wars, bringing one to an end.
He has created so many of the kinds of jobs which pay a lot more than minimum wage.
He has been staring down Republican filibusters and junk legislation for years.
He stopped DADT...and helped many young Hispanic persons.
OK. It has begun!
Of All Places
On page B1 of the 9-10-12 Business Page of The New York Times Duff Wilson has written an article
about the disagreement advisory board officials are having with each other and with the FDA about
what sort of labelling to put on osteoporosis medicines.
Apparently the FDA doesn't find evidence of advantage in using these longer than five years.
That's too bad, because old age brings enough challenges without the threat of being more bent than
is absolutely necessary, right?
Apparently, a relatively small number of long term users will suffer unusual thigh fractures, or serious
jaw disease.
Doctors who are weighing the risks and benefits of the medicines effects relative to a patients' overall health landscape, cannot agree on the severity of keeping to the medicinal regime versus
stopping after a few years.
Dr. Jennifer P. Schneider's thigh broke as she stood in a New York subway. Now that's scary!
Dr. Schneider has herself studied both osteoporosis and osteopenia.
Osteopenia is a post osteoporosis condition.
As I am not looking forward to having more bone problems than I already have, I sure hope they come up with something soon.
Why was this article on page 1 of the Business Section?
Worldwide sales of these drugs last year was $7.6 billion.
So many of us are getting older so quickly now.
about the disagreement advisory board officials are having with each other and with the FDA about
what sort of labelling to put on osteoporosis medicines.
Apparently the FDA doesn't find evidence of advantage in using these longer than five years.
That's too bad, because old age brings enough challenges without the threat of being more bent than
is absolutely necessary, right?
Apparently, a relatively small number of long term users will suffer unusual thigh fractures, or serious
jaw disease.
Doctors who are weighing the risks and benefits of the medicines effects relative to a patients' overall health landscape, cannot agree on the severity of keeping to the medicinal regime versus
stopping after a few years.
Dr. Jennifer P. Schneider's thigh broke as she stood in a New York subway. Now that's scary!
Dr. Schneider has herself studied both osteoporosis and osteopenia.
Osteopenia is a post osteoporosis condition.
As I am not looking forward to having more bone problems than I already have, I sure hope they come up with something soon.
Why was this article on page 1 of the Business Section?
Worldwide sales of these drugs last year was $7.6 billion.
So many of us are getting older so quickly now.
Affordable Care Will Create A Lot Of Good Jobs And Better Medicine
When Obamacare takes center stage in this country, we will have so many more tech jobs available
we may have to hire from abroad if we don't hurry up and educate a great many young people.
I Charlie Rose interviewing Gina Kolata of The New York Times a few days ago. Years earlier, I'd read her book, Flu about the pandemic of a century ago.
In this new interview she was speaking about projects in which scientists had discovered 'dark matter'
in human cancer cells. The discovery is momentous because science has found that if genes in the 'dark matter' of offending cells is turned off, the attackers become harmless. So the aim now is to find medicines which will turn off said 'dark matter'.
Cancer treatments in our future will not revolve so much around a lot of invasive surgery or extensive
time-consuming chemo therapies. Therapies will be tailor made to turn off destructive matter. The remainder of work to be done to get rid of material left behind in healthy tissue will be likely a process to aid the body as it does the bulk of the work itself, naturally.
What has spurred the new discoveries? According to Ms. Kolata, the sheer volume of data scientists have been able to process because engineering and software processes have advanced so quickly.
Information has become so voluminous, and so much easier to put into real time, that patterns which give rise to problem-solving insights have become much easier to discern these days.
What is one of the things The Affordable Care Act has inherent in its character? Data. Reams and reams more data patients allow providers to share will become available to general information pools.
I hope we will solve many more diseases now on the verge of yielding their terrible
secrets; and I hope Americans will be using the newer and newer methods of processing and cataloguing this data.
we may have to hire from abroad if we don't hurry up and educate a great many young people.
I Charlie Rose interviewing Gina Kolata of The New York Times a few days ago. Years earlier, I'd read her book, Flu about the pandemic of a century ago.
In this new interview she was speaking about projects in which scientists had discovered 'dark matter'
in human cancer cells. The discovery is momentous because science has found that if genes in the 'dark matter' of offending cells is turned off, the attackers become harmless. So the aim now is to find medicines which will turn off said 'dark matter'.
Cancer treatments in our future will not revolve so much around a lot of invasive surgery or extensive
time-consuming chemo therapies. Therapies will be tailor made to turn off destructive matter. The remainder of work to be done to get rid of material left behind in healthy tissue will be likely a process to aid the body as it does the bulk of the work itself, naturally.
What has spurred the new discoveries? According to Ms. Kolata, the sheer volume of data scientists have been able to process because engineering and software processes have advanced so quickly.
Information has become so voluminous, and so much easier to put into real time, that patterns which give rise to problem-solving insights have become much easier to discern these days.
What is one of the things The Affordable Care Act has inherent in its character? Data. Reams and reams more data patients allow providers to share will become available to general information pools.
I hope we will solve many more diseases now on the verge of yielding their terrible
secrets; and I hope Americans will be using the newer and newer methods of processing and cataloguing this data.
My Girls
I called my little one today, to see if her three-year-old felt well enough to go to school.
Well, for me she might always be a ten-year-old sweetie with a constantly distraught, mean mommy. Actually, though, she is a couple weeks past forty. I like to see how she is doing with her babies in the mornings when she has a moment to chat, or when something may have gone wrong.
I knew the moment my three-year-old granddaughter answered my daughter's cell phone, that she was indeed on her way to play at her preschool, not in bed with a fever.
She said "Hi grandma", as though she were tired. I said a few more things. Then the phone went dead- twice.
The next time I called, I asked her to give the phone to mommy.
I heard my little (well, she's actually quite tall) daughter say: "Tell gramma to stop calling, you will
talk to her later so you can play your game."
Then a light bulb went off in my recent memory. My daughter did take the phone and tell me baby
wanted to play "plants" and something on the phone.
So I hung up, remembering a few weeks ago I watched same baby sitting propped up on my couch,
feet crossed at the ankles, working her little thumbs feverishly over the cell phone keys in a complete
concentration. Hilarious. I was only then becoming accustomed to my eight-year-old granddaughter
being so caught up in having her own private cell phone. -Of course, nearly everything is blocked.-
The story hasn't much to do with politics except that this little one actually does need the games.
They relax her, and give her something she makes her own in real time.
She is gone from parents about nine or ten hours every day whether she wants to be or not. She is like
millions of kids in big cities.
When I think about it, I realize how much I admire our current administration for attempting to make sure every location in the country has cell phone access.
These little things, the barely publicized things, make one proud to be American.
Well, for me she might always be a ten-year-old sweetie with a constantly distraught, mean mommy. Actually, though, she is a couple weeks past forty. I like to see how she is doing with her babies in the mornings when she has a moment to chat, or when something may have gone wrong.
I knew the moment my three-year-old granddaughter answered my daughter's cell phone, that she was indeed on her way to play at her preschool, not in bed with a fever.
She said "Hi grandma", as though she were tired. I said a few more things. Then the phone went dead- twice.
The next time I called, I asked her to give the phone to mommy.
I heard my little (well, she's actually quite tall) daughter say: "Tell gramma to stop calling, you will
talk to her later so you can play your game."
Then a light bulb went off in my recent memory. My daughter did take the phone and tell me baby
wanted to play "plants" and something on the phone.
So I hung up, remembering a few weeks ago I watched same baby sitting propped up on my couch,
feet crossed at the ankles, working her little thumbs feverishly over the cell phone keys in a complete
concentration. Hilarious. I was only then becoming accustomed to my eight-year-old granddaughter
being so caught up in having her own private cell phone. -Of course, nearly everything is blocked.-
The story hasn't much to do with politics except that this little one actually does need the games.
They relax her, and give her something she makes her own in real time.
She is gone from parents about nine or ten hours every day whether she wants to be or not. She is like
millions of kids in big cities.
When I think about it, I realize how much I admire our current administration for attempting to make sure every location in the country has cell phone access.
These little things, the barely publicized things, make one proud to be American.
Don't Mind Me
I wanted the real refs back in the NFL as much as anyone, so I can feel more sure of the calls and of the
instant replays. However, I didn't see the glaring mistakes everyone else saw. I'm not saying I have
20/20 eyesight. But I couldn't say everyone but the replacement refs had it either. I thought they did
a good job- even on their lasts days.
instant replays. However, I didn't see the glaring mistakes everyone else saw. I'm not saying I have
20/20 eyesight. But I couldn't say everyone but the replacement refs had it either. I thought they did
a good job- even on their lasts days.
The Second Presidential Debate
I agree with Dr. Howard Dean. President Barack Obama won the first presidential debate this year.
If all one has to do is start lying and backtracking in order to debate, anyone can do that. Staying
calm while someone lies and lies, then calls the other debater a liar all in the same breath- now that is a feat of leadership. As soon as the President pointed out Romney's new position was "never mind"
that is when President Obama won the first debate.
This debate itself may have been a failure because as soon as a lie hits the airways, someone needs to be there to say the liar has forfeited.
On the other hand, Gov. Romney would be more difficult to pin to the truth than an honest man would be, because whatever position he claimed during that debate, he truly had held at some point
in the primaries, or in his career. Either that or he was then adopting it anew.
For him to say he'd never had a 5 trillion dollar tax plan was simply obfuscating the facts of what
he had been presenting a bit too much for anyone to consider his new offering honest.
Unlike a great many persons in the news and in polls, I hope not very much happens tonight.
I suppose the President could point out the temporal boundaries of Romney's most recent positions
if he has committed them to memory. Everybody could freak out then. They could say POTUS nailed
the guy.
Maybe then the rest of us could define "truth", and nail Mitt Romney to it as something well-defined
and deserved and expected.
I hope foreign affairs won't include the Republicans' insistence disgracing the memories and the family wishes of our leaders in Libya. What's more, I hope no one attempts to blur all the boundaries
between embassies and consulates, and security we provide, and security host countries have to provide. Any of that could harm the newly-formed good wishes the Libyan people have for our country. Additionally, since our President is responsible for our continued good relationship with Libya now, he would be debate-handicapped as regards making public statements about possible culpabilities abroad not yet publicly discussed.
If all one has to do is start lying and backtracking in order to debate, anyone can do that. Staying
calm while someone lies and lies, then calls the other debater a liar all in the same breath- now that is a feat of leadership. As soon as the President pointed out Romney's new position was "never mind"
that is when President Obama won the first debate.
This debate itself may have been a failure because as soon as a lie hits the airways, someone needs to be there to say the liar has forfeited.
On the other hand, Gov. Romney would be more difficult to pin to the truth than an honest man would be, because whatever position he claimed during that debate, he truly had held at some point
in the primaries, or in his career. Either that or he was then adopting it anew.
For him to say he'd never had a 5 trillion dollar tax plan was simply obfuscating the facts of what
he had been presenting a bit too much for anyone to consider his new offering honest.
Unlike a great many persons in the news and in polls, I hope not very much happens tonight.
I suppose the President could point out the temporal boundaries of Romney's most recent positions
if he has committed them to memory. Everybody could freak out then. They could say POTUS nailed
the guy.
Maybe then the rest of us could define "truth", and nail Mitt Romney to it as something well-defined
and deserved and expected.
I hope foreign affairs won't include the Republicans' insistence disgracing the memories and the family wishes of our leaders in Libya. What's more, I hope no one attempts to blur all the boundaries
between embassies and consulates, and security we provide, and security host countries have to provide. Any of that could harm the newly-formed good wishes the Libyan people have for our country. Additionally, since our President is responsible for our continued good relationship with Libya now, he would be debate-handicapped as regards making public statements about possible culpabilities abroad not yet publicly discussed.
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