As Cool As We Are

(((Murphy))) – sorry, I missed your hello to me downstairs; I went off to help my husband with a computer problem and when I came back I got caught up in another conversation.

Okay, I’m going to go back down and tell them again that the conversation has moved up here. BRB

Ty to Murphy and all Pumas who have the courage to navigate sore and confounding issues. Peace out for now.

OK Off topic… But, really on topic… Hey, MKfromLA and PumaBear this one is for YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You two are the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pu0Fn1oRN4 Hope you enjoy it!! I am very grateful to have met both of you and call you my friends…

MK and PUMABear I am SO sorry to hear you are caught up in the Proposition 8 state of limbo. I really hope your marriage is not invalidated by the hatred and intolerance of others. And again, I apologize if I offended either of you. It was certainly not my intention.

Casper Cat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh thank you for your gift!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pu0Fn1oRN4

You’re pretty nifty yourself!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you again Antifish.

Pumapac is a good place to call home.

Goodnight antifish

MK,

I think we are all up here for now…

MK
we’re all here because we’re not all there.

DWP… #19 UHM!!!!!!!! I am here.. and I am all there… Just trying to make a point.. Here, there we are everywhere!!!

whoa
It’s the So Ca Pumas!!!!!!!!! WOOT!!!!!!

What!! my cover has been discovered?? Dwp you are tooooooooooooooooFunny!!!!!

So Cal Pumas RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, Ya!!!!!!!!!!!! Great to see everyone is here…. Hey, goofsmom…

I’m off to bed.
Love that the blog has simmered down again.
Goodnight…
Love yas, So Ca!

MKfromLA 05.06.09 at 1:01 am
I feel like the grownups are gone & we can jump on the beds if we want to
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seee… now I wanna stay up.
Let’s start a rock band

Casper Cat can pick our music Boy, can she pick music! Let’s sing this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pu0Fn1oRN4

Ok, DWP a night cap for you… this one, I don” think you have seen…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkvLq0TYiwI hope you enjoy!!

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE vincent van gogh. I think I was a friend of his in a past life.

MK
YES!! Angela Davis. I missed it the last 200 times Casper made me watch that video.

I have negatives of Angela Davis from the late 60s.
She gave a talk… 100 or so of us were there… hippie / lesbian/feminists, or thesbian/leminists, as we liked to call ourselves. Us and three men dispersed through the auditorium …white males, crew cuts, suits, and tan trenchcoats! They really blended in. LOL

Casper Cat 05.06.09 at 1:08 am
Ok, DWP a night cap for you… this one, I don” think you have seen…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkvLq0TYiwI hope you enjoy!!
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awwwwwwwwwwww I LOVE that one!

MK
Potato Eaters… saw the van gogh show in LA.
one speck (tan) reflective light… made me cry.
Have always had a strong emotion response to art… but that show was what made me experience what people meant whenever they said a gallery show was a “spiritual experience”.
I have a habit of getting up close to see the details in paintings… that speck of light on the potato in the foreground was when I started crying.

DWP.. correction… 201 times… Thank You very much… Wishing you sweet dreams and a wonderful tommorrow…

Casper, I really really really liked your 2nd video.
Really.
In fact I think I will watch it again & save it.

Hey So. Cal Puma’s….

Nighty-night Dances… I’ll be wearing my puma bracelet tomorrow so I’ll know you are all with me…

((((Love my Pumas))))

Hills,

#46 – Hell yes, if they every had any in the first place….

goofs… and I’ll wear mine to work tomorrow! Like handcuffs of the heart… well, no, but you get what I’m trying in my ever clumsy way to spit out.

I like DeFazio

((((Dances))))

Yep, I know exactly what ya mean… it helps, really does…

Hills,

Do you think that “O” will move Napolitano to SC?

I remember seeing a vid of defazio criticizing teh stimuloss hemorrhage. Presented good arguements. Straight shooter. Liked him

goofsmom, what’s SC? South Carolina? Sorry I’m not sure what you’re asking, I’m always behind on “the latest”…! ;D

Hills,

SC = Supreme Court. A way to move her out and get a crony in Homeland

Mk,

Ahhhhh… that’s what is in the Koolaid…

PAXIL in the KOOLAID, ROFLMAO!!! ;D

Hills,

It only makes sense… maybe it’s a mix of tranquilizers and mind control drugs… now that really makes sense…

MkfromLA… take a look…. Julio version of starry night… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlE_ksyDyE beautiful song and images of his work….. Hope you like it…

Homeland Security

OK so first they made that bogus terrorist list,
then they flew over the Twin Towers & scared the poor NY’er’s,
now this. What is up w/them??!

Bonne Nuit… (good night) Pumas… Have a wonderful night and wishing all of you the very best in health, happiness and love always… Casper……

I thought they were drinking Thorazine

Nighty night © goofsmom

see you manana

This is UPDATE from CDC I received today 5/05/09

Update on Situation

The ongoing outbreak of novel influenza A (H1N1) continues to expand in the United States and internationally. CDC expects that more cases, more hospitalizations and more deaths from this outbreak will occur over the coming days and weeks.

CDC continues to take aggressive action to respond to an expanding outbreak caused by novel H1N1 flu.

CDC’s response goals are to:

1. Reduce transmission and illness severity, and
2. Provide information to help health care providers, public health officials and the public address the challenges posed by this emergency.

CDC is issuing updated interim guidance daily in response to the rapidly evolving situation. This includes updated interim guidance for clinicians on how to identify and care for people who are sick with novel H1N1 flu now that more widespread illness has been detected in the United States. CDC recommends that testing and antiviral treatment be prioritized for those with severe respiratory illness and those at highest risk of complications from seasonal influenza. This includes children younger than 5 years old, pregnant women, people with chronic medical conditions and weakened immune systems, and people 65 years and older. In addition, CDC has provided information for the public on what to do if they develop flu-like symptoms.

CDC has completed deployment of 25 percent of the supplies in the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) to all states in the continental United States. These supplies and medicines will help states and U.S. territories respond to the outbreak. In addition, the Federal Government and manufacturers have begun the process of developing a vaccine against the novel H1N1 flu virus.

Response actions are aggressive, but they may vary across states and communities depending on local circumstances. Communities, businesses, places of worship, schools and individuals can all take action to slow the spread of this outbreak. People who are sick are urged to stay home from work or school and to avoid contact with others, except to seek medical care. This action can avoid spreading illness further.

U.S. Human Cases of H1N1 Flu Infection

As of 11:00 AM ET on May 5, 2009, CDC has confirmed 403 human cases and 1 death in 38 states:

Alabama: 4
Arizona: 17
California: 49
Colorado: 6
Connecticut: 2
Delaware: 20
Florida: 5
Georgia: 1
Idaho: 1
Illinois: 82
Indiana: 3
Iowa: 1
Kansas: 2
Kentucky: 1 (resident of Kentucky but currently hospitalized in Georgia)
Louisiana: 7
Maine: 1
Maryland: 4
Massachusetts: 6
Michigan: 2
Minnesota: 1
Missouri: 1
Nebraska: 1
Nevada: 1
New Hampshire: 1
New Jersey: 6
New Mexico: 1
New York: 90
North Carolina: 1
Ohio:3
Oregon: 15
Pennsylvania: 1
Rhode Island: 1
South Carolina: 16
Tennessee: 2
Texas: 41 (and 1 death)
Utah: 1
Virginia: 3
Wisconsin: 3

I’ve heard about this before, but didn’t believe it.

It sounded much too far-fetched.

Now there are more news sites reporting on it.

So, I am beginning to think it’s true.

And I am getting mighty scared!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97208

Delle

I notice a few of you here enjoy the art of Vincent Van Gogh.

Does anyone know if ‘The Potato Eaters’ has been found.

This was one of the paintings stolen several years ago and I haven’t heard anything about it since.

Thanks.

Delle

So I was following he puma/hillbuzz discussion last night and I was trying desperately to come up with something ridiculous to to throw everyone off track when the conversation crossed the line from thoughtful intellectual debate to hateful personal attacks , and guess what ? I never posted ! Instead of posting , I ended up clapping and praising my computer screen “YES ! That’s the way to have a conversation , pumas ! ”
Although , considering those involved in the discussion , I expected no less than the clear expression of beliefs – the AMAZING introspection and self analysis wrought by the conversation was , however, just the icing on the cake !
In other words – a big thank you to all of the pumas who participated in that discussion – I went to bed happy and very proud to be an itty bitty part of such an amazing group . (even though I did not participate I may get some ’smart by association ‘ points .

Found this link on Drudge about the Texas woman – wierd that it is from Reuters India …

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-39423520090506

Does a tinfoil hat and face mask protect you from swine flu?
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no
but it might just scare away the census employee taking GPS coords of your front door.
i say go for it.

I wouldn’t put too much stock in World Nut Daily, Delle….this big brother crap way preceded Zerobama. There are cameras everywhere…put up during the Bush era. Washington D.C. in particular. And why stop at the government? You can go online and get a picture, both satellite and street level of your own house. It’s creepy, all right, and of course the government’s going to use it, but they’ve been collecting info on us for a long time.

Every day, yahoo news reports on how the Swine Flu has “slowed.”

Today they were reporting on Mexicans going home?

I’m going to try the tinfoil hat thing – right now we just slather on Germ x all day ..

Maybe it has slowed – I am becoming more and more convinced that I live in the Twilight Zone anyway …..

TexasTigress…I would trust local news sources more than any other. So, whatever your papers/stations are reporting!

Thanks #95 and #96

I don’t usually take seriously anything I read on World Net Daily.

In fact, I hardly read it at all.

This time the story disturbed me because I’ve seen it reported on several other sites.

I suppose this administration has made a nervous wreck out of me.

I never know what to expect, or what to believe.

Gotta Calm Down.

Delle

Delle

WND is a nuthouse-but the article about the census workers taking GPS coordinates is true.

They came and did my front door, paying no mind to the fact that this is private property and the official census is supposed to be next year.

WND is not the only site covering this.

Zee

In my town if you don’t return the census forms you get dropped from the voter registration rolls.

Not sure if this is MA or local law-do you know?

They came to my front door, too….I didn’t answer. I then watched them go down the street. They did have some handheld device. I was baffled because I thought it was supposed to be next year, too…

“Hello. I must be going.”

I know the feeling, dances!

I need to be in three different places right about now…!

So many good blogs, so little time..!

Murphy, some time today please put up a link to the radio show tonight. I can never seem to find my way to the shows without the direct link..! Thanks…

I know that last comment didn’t fit in , but it needed to be said

#116 persephone…

Yeah, reduce SS payments to vulnerable older people…and how many hundreds of billions did it come out today that Bank of America needs?

Wouldn’t it be easier to bail out all Americans individually?

TT I agree with your comment #118
ALL OF IT!

Ok gotta shut up and work now

must. not. refresh. must. not. refresh…

crap – I meant persephone-

“Tide may be turning in favor of domestic partner benefits
By Alyssa Rosenberg arosenberg@govexec.com May 5, 2009 Five years ago this March, Michelle Schohn joined the Foreign Service.
Diplomacy wasn’t her initial field of choice; she already had a job as an archaeologist. But there was one very significant factor influencing her decision to change careers. Schohn’s partner, Mary Glantz, already was a member of the Foreign Service. And when Glantz was posted overseas, things got complicated. The State Department classifies the spouses of gay and lesbian employees as “members of household,” according them different benefits than heterosexual couples who are legally married.
Members of household are not eligible to participate in special early-round applications for jobs at embassies, as heterosexual spouses can. They cannot be covered by their partners’ health insurance, so they are not guaranteed coverage when they go overseas. They do not have access to diplomatic posts’ medical facilities. And if posts have to be evacuated, members of household are not guaranteed evacuation pay or subsidies to cover expenses.”
continued at
http://www.govexec.com

Hello, Polopony

busted.

persephone #107

Please tell me what you mean by – they did your front door.

I don’t want to sound stupid – althight I just may be – but I’m not sure what a GPS is exactly.

It is a physical gadget that is placed on the front door?

Can it be removed when no one is looking?

Delle

Delle, from what I saw, they stand in front of your house and punch info into their hand held device. They don’t attach anything, like a meter….for now…we shouldn’t give them any ideas!!!

TexasTigress 05.06.09 at 10:21 am

HERE, HERE! I conquer!

Just wanted to thank all of you who donated to my campaign yesterday….it certainly meant a lot to me. Anyone else who can help out, I would very much appreciate the help!

Thanks! http://www.mimiplanas2010.com

OK…one more link…warning: GRAPHIC photos of a gunshot victim.

Here is the world’s first face transplant. A woman whose face was destroyed when her husband shot her has received a new face. She still has a ways to go but can now smell and taste food again and smile.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090506/ap_on_he_me/med_face_transplant

and, i also ready the Foreword and Afterword.
and, i am horrified by people who read the end of a novel out-of-sequence

if anyone here does that, please do not tell me. Too many heroes have fallen already.

#138 MK,

Heh. Don’t talk to me of OCD. I either read *only* Murphy’s posts or the post plus *all* of the comments. Nothing in between.

I also love how Donna Darko says “progs” like an insult, so that there’s a separate word for all the Obots!

She also calls out the “cultures” that mistreat women instead of maintaining that “polite fiction” in the name of “tolerance.”

hi HP!!!!

I have a very big dog with a very big bark. My mailman is afraid to come onto my porch.

But I really should be more friendly, dontcha think? Like when the obots come I should open the door & invite them in for tea.

“I never answer the door or the phone, that is why I have an answering machine!”

Hahaha, HP!! Me either…if it’s that important, they’ll leave a message.

Delle, it’s a different world now. I do know people who have moved to Maine with the express purpose of dropping off the grid.

What is the grid?

“I have a very big dog lapdog with a very big bark.”
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She’s a pussycat… but the poor mailman and solicitors do not know that.

BigCatLover 05.06.09 at 10:51 am

cost of loving raise……….

fingers—->EARS<——fingers

HP Boston 05.06.09 at 10:56 am

BigCatLover 05.06.09 at 10:51 am

cost of loving raise……….
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I try to tell Billie Jo that I have more typos than she does, but she insists she is the queen of typos. I’m runnerup.

Z
people mentioning that Viagra is covered under health insurance. I have no idea if this is true, but I keep meaning to look into it.
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hiya!
I think it’s covered for treatment of diabetes.

HOLLAND… here we come!

Costa Rica ? Holland ?
EAST TEXAS ! ‘Boots in the deepest woods’ , my ass – BRING IT !

#158 wow…clever solution.

I mostly read poetry books or magazines, so I randomly open to any page and read in any direction. That’s how I write, too. Randomly open to any blank page in a notebook.

Not sure there are any solutions for that syndrome. Maybe when I get one of those electronic readers? Which I want if they can make the font big enough to read…

Zee
is your eyesight deteriorating, or is it stablized now?

Red light camera controversy

CNN’s Carol Costello explores whether traffic light cameras are for safety or profit.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/05/04/am.costello.traffic.cams.cnn

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I would say profit and another way to annoy Americans.

profit.

Murphy and D – you have mail ….

D- shucks . When will she lear to ste her Coke somewhere safe !!!????

or learn to set

Delle….good question!

And one I might’ve been able to answer if I’d opened the door!

But I bet they don’t need permission because I watched them punch my neighbor’s data in from the sidewalk.