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I Really REALLY Mean It.

It’s happened again. The “I really, really mean it” scenario.

The first time was with my medical insurance company; the second with the school nurse. When presented with a prescription, they needed a note from the doctor, saying, in essence, “I know I wrote this prescription, and that should be de-facto proof that I meant for these pills to be dispensed and consumed as ordered, but just in case you weren’t sure, I really, really mean it.”

Let’s follow the chain of custody in this scenario, shall we? For simplicity’s sake, we’ll use the most recent episode of “Really, Really Mean It” with the school nurse.

The child visits the doctor with Mom. Mom and doctor agree on a course of action which includes a prescription. Doctor, long in practice and known to the school for many years, hands Mom, also long in practice (as a Mom) and known to the school for many years, a prescription. Mom takes the prescription to the local pharmacy, again, known to the school as a legitimate source for prescription drugs. Pharmacist asks Mom to show a driver’s license. Pharmacist deems license and prescription to be legitimate and that the drug may legally be given to Mom to dispense to child. Mom brings the now filled prescription to the school nurse, along with the information on the drug that was stapled to the bag when she picked it up from the pharmacy. On the bag and on the label of the bottle is the name of the well known pharmacy and the doctor long known to the school. Mom, again, long known to the school says, please dispense drug as ordered: one pill at lunch time.

Here’s where we go to the weird parallel universe place.

“I need a note from the doctor.”

“Huh,” I say, mouth agape.

“I need a doctor’s order,” the nurse says.

“Um... it’s prescription. Do you think the doctor was unfit to write the prescription when she wrote it? I was there. I saw her write it. She was not under the influence of any hallucinogenic substance. She was not having an epileptic seizure and have a pen in her hand and a prescription pad nearby and write it by accident. She was lucid, and intelligible and meant to write the prescription which I filled and is sitting before you.”

“It’s policy,” she says.

“Do you think she didn’t mean to write it?” I say, still trying to figure this out.

“No. But I need a note.”

“Saying WHAT? I know I wrote the prescription but I didn’t mean it until NOW?”

“There’s no need to be pugilistic, Mrs. Fields,” she says.

“I’m not, I’m just trying to understand why you need a note in addition to a prescription.”

“It’s policy,” she says again.

That’s when I gave up. I’ve seen this movie before. I try to make sense of the nonsensical with someone who doesn’t have a prayer of seeing how nonsensical it is and I’m old enough now to know it’s not my job to teach them, and further, it wouldn’t work anyway...

We got the fax. My kid got the pill. And I still don’t understand.

Obama has gone to Crazytown...

After hearing the President's SOTU, I am left to conclude that he is either:  dangerously delusional or has acheived a level of arrogance never before seen in public life...or more frightening... both.

Below is the text from Glenn Beck's radio show the morning after the State of the Union. I heard it live and I don't think I've ever heard a radio host (and I've been in/on/consumer of radio for 20 years...) who I thought might actually BURST through the speakers on sheer force of emotion alone. As usual with Beck, some of it was laugh out loud funny, and some of it, to quote him, "makes blood shoot out of your eyes."

If you're among the population that thinks Glenn is an idiot, fine. Once again, I ask you, "What is he WRONG about and produce FACTS to support your position." Call him or those who think like him anything you want. Blah, blah, blah... FACTS please. FACTS, FACTS, FACTS. WHAT IS HE WRONG ABOUT?????????????

January 28, 2010 - 14:16 ET

GLENN: Man, I whoa. I have never been so outraged by a president. I don't think I've I've never seen anything like it last I don't even know where to begin. Should we begin with we're going to drill for oil offshore and we're going to have nuclear power plants? Whoa, what? Coupled with a comprehensive cap and trade program. Oh, I see, I see. Cap and trade, let's see. If we had a cap and trade program, how much would it cost then for you to drill for oil in Alaska? It wouldn't be worth it. This guy, I said to you last week, we are going to have evidence on whether everybody says, "Oh, no, he's just a politician, he's just like all the other politicians we've always had, they are all like this." And I've been saying for how long, no, they're not. No, they are not. This guy is in a different category. He is a revolutionary. Look at the revolutionaries that he has appointed. Let's see what I can share here. The people that he has appointed, they are the good ones. Try the revolutionaries that he's tried to appoint and didn't make it through the screening process. This guy is an amazing revolutionary. Last week I told you if he is a politician, he will then triangulate because they are hemorrhaging, hemorrhaging. They'll triangulate. If he people say, oh, fundamentally transform America, no, he doesn't, he just wants to stop all the rhetoric and all the infighting and everything, work together, hope and change. If that was true, he'd triangulate. If he wants to fundamentally transform America and he is being led by the nose by revolutionaries, there's no way he's going to do anything but follow the words and the advice of Saul Alinsky and that is step on the accelerator. If this speech wasn't a step on the accelerator, I don't know what was. The arrogance from the moment this guy walked in, the arrogance. There's no humility there. The arrogance of the lies that he told last night, I've never you know, every president, everybody, you can take it and you can say, okay, well, you know, let's spin this, let's spin that. No, no, no. I don't appoint lobbyists? We sat in my office today and named 12 in his administration! How does he expect to get away with this? With an exception of, he knows the media won't corner him. The media is complicit. The media is damn near treasonous.


When the president last night went in, I'm going to show you there's two things that should speak volumes to you, and it's amazing to me that the media is spinning one of them as, did you see what Alito did? He talked back to the president. I want to play this whole section here for you. I want you to hear what he did last night.


PRESIDENT OBAMA: To close that credibility gap, we have to take action on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, ban the outside influence of lobbyists, to do our


GLENN: Stop. Is he not the guy who has Andy Stern, is he not the guy who says, hey, I want to talk about immigration, I talk to SEIU; I want to talk about healthcare, I talk to SEIU; your agenda is my agenda. He wants to stop outside influence? Oh, my gosh.


Then you have, he says that we have to restore a credibility gap. He's lying in his advice on how to repair a credibility gap because too many people think that Washington are liars, cheats, thieves. So let me lie to you and tell you what I do, which he doesn't on lobbyists. I'm sorry, I got sidetracked. Go ahead.


PRESIDENT OBAMA: Work openly, to give our people the government they deserve.


GLENN: Stop. Stop.


PAT: Openly.


GLENN: He wants to work openly. How about honoring your promise of C Span hearings? He wants to work openly. Okay.


PRESIDENT OBAMA: That's what I came to Washington to do. That's why for the first time in history my administration posts on our White House visitors online.


GLENN: Stop. Stop! Because it was demanded through a Freedom of Information Act. How long did Fox try to get the Freedom of Information Act to get the White House visitors? "We post online." Months after, and not everybody. Believe me, we filed for the Freedom of Information Act. If you are a schlub that still thinks, we're America, we'll weather anything, don't worry about it, and you are just watching him, this is a brilliant speech. But I truly believe those days are over in America. What these politicians don't know is you are dealing with a different group of voters. You are dealing with people who are not playing politics. They don't care anymore. They are seeing the end of their children's financial future and they want the truth. You cannot push them like this. You cannot do it. He's raised the stakes beyond your wildest imagination. I think he's doing it intentionally as well. Arrogance. Go ahead.


PRESIDENT OBAMA: We've excluded lobbyists from policy making jobs or seats on federal boards and commissions.


PAT: Listen to the reaction there. Because they know.


GLENN: I've never heard anything like it.


PAT: He's got lobbyists from Raytheon in his cabinet for electric utility companies.


GLENN: Goldman Sachs!


PAT: Goldman Sachs. Eric Holder himself was a lobbyist.


GLENN: I mean, it is Timothy Geithner's assistant is a lobbyist of Goldman Sachs. I mean, I'm going to show you the influence of big banks tonight on television. I mean, it's and listen. I have never heard. I'm not a guy who said Joe Wilson, I understand his frustration, but I don't agree with, you're in for decorum. This is the president of the United States. This is the state of the union. You know, when he says "Liar" or "You lie," I wasn't for that. But when you hear what happened last night and the groans, I got news for ya. His lies were breathtaking.


PAT: I don't think they could stifle them. I really don't.


GLENN: I don't think so. If I were in there, I would have done the same thing: Oh, my gosh.


PAT: I was at home doing it.


GLENN: I was, too. How could you possibly say that? I mean, and he expects to get away with it.


PAT: I woke up the kids yelling at this guy.


GLENN: The bigger the lie, the easier it is to swallow.


PAT: Oh, yeah.


GLENN: You what?


PAT: I woke up the kids yelling at this guy. So when they were groaning I'm thinking, you know


GLENN: The restraint?


PAT: Yeah.


STU: Red State put together a list of lobbyists after he said this line: William Lynn, Eric Holder, Tom Vilsack, William Corr, David Hayes, Mark Patterson, Ron Klain, Mona Sutphen, Melody Barnes, Celia Muñoz, Patrick Gaspard and Michael Strautmanis?


PAT: Those are just top jobs.


GLENN: Yeah.


PAT: That doesn't even scratch the surface.


GLENN: That's not, okay, I got one in there, I don't know how he slipped in there. There's no attempt to stop these guys!


PAT: No.


GLENN: None, none. I mean, how long? We covered those for a week when he broke that promise and he started breaking it and it was like break, break, break, break, break, break, break. And we were like, where did that promise go? And nobody held him to it.


STU: And this goes back to the point you make over and over again about arrogance. He's got to know everyone knows this.


GLENN: He does.


STU: We've talked about it a million times.


GLENN: This is beyond arrogance. This is beyond arrogance. This also includes, the people are stupid; they'll never know. I'll just say whatever I want because it sounds good. I'll say it well. I'll do a good speech. I look presidential. They're stupid.


STU: You know who else was like this was Jon Edwards. I mean, this is stereotypical, him out there talking about his family, how much he loves his cancerous


GLENN: They are not afraid. This guy is more afraid of the left than he is of you. This is what our founders talked about. When there is fear of the government, there is tyranny. But when the government fears the people, there is freedom. They do not fear you.

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Glenn Beck: State of the Stupid, er, Union

UpDaTe! BeSt UsE oF mOrSe CoDe JeWeLrY eVeR!

(Click the image for a much enlarged view.)

Patrick, a Marine, gave Ingrid, a Navy nurse, a morse code jewelry "Marry Me" bracelet before he shipped out for a ten month deployment but DIDN'T tell her what the code meant until he got back.  His mother was in on the secret in case the worst happened.  Mercifully, it didn't and he returned home safely... only to have Ingrid get orders for Afghanistan!

Here is their website where you can follow their progress to their wedding day:

http://patandingrid.wordpress.com/

If you missed their story, it's FASCINATING... It's got romance, pirates, swine flu, CNN... all kinds of drama... You can catch up through this previous posting.  Take a few minutes and click into it and read about Patrick's deployment and their "knot" site where the each write about the engagement.  I defy you to read it and not get goosebumps.

http://morsecodejewelry.blogspot.com/2010/01/update-best-use-of-morse.html

Obama the "Tax Man" with a little help from his friends...

Thanks to the wonderful folks at Breitbart.tv for this!

"Priceless"

Joe the Plumber, once again, gets it right...

Explaining the Tea Party Movement and the Bewilderment of the Political Class

NOW they decide to commit journalism...

http://ow.ly/ZSSx NOW they decide 2commit journalism!If it weren't so vapid,hollow,hypocritical&ridiculous,I might be able to get behind it!

It's been one big OUCH ever since...

Sunday Open Thread: Income Tax Edition

Senator Elect & Mrs. Brown Election Night

Aren't they a sight for sore eyes?  Click the link below for more behind the scenes photos.

More behind the scenes photos here. http://ow.ly/ZNHE 

Why Che and Mao AREN'T Cool...

One of the producers of this documentary holds a Master's in History and remarked that she was ANGRY that she was never taught much of what she learned while putting together these video clips.

If you have ever seen a college student or a Hollywood celebrity wearing a Che or Mao t-shirt, forward them to this five part documentary.  And if you/they are inclined to believe Glenn Beck is an idiot, fine.  Watch it anyway and then produce some facts to support your assertions on where his is WRONG on his facts here.  I'm tired of people making ad hominem attacks on him and people who think like him.  Fine.  He's fat.  He cries.  He's a (sober) alcoholic.  Blah, blah, blah... WHAT IS HE WRONG ABOUT AND PRODUCE SOME FACTS FACTS FACTS to support your position!

Part ONE



Part TWO



Part THREE



Part FOUR



Part FIVE

UPDATE! Best Use of Morse Code Jewelry Ever!

Remember the Marine/Navy couple who got engaged w/mcj's "Marry Me" bracelet?  (You can catch up here:)

http://morsecodejewelry.blogspot.com/2009/11/updatebest-use-of-morse-code-jewelry.html

Here is a link to Ingrid's deployment blog.  Wish her well...

http://adventuresinthesandbox.blogspot.com/

Coakley Says You're WRONG...

You're WRONG says Martha.  We peons just don't know what's good for us... Oh... sorry... that was Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC... I keep getting my smug, insulated, limousine liberals mixed up.

No-one watches MSNBC, but even if they did...

Who needs widespread, historically provable, 99% democrat voter fraud, or even our own Secretary of State being the ONLY Secretary of State who had to sign a federal document that he would agree to federal oversight of his ballot counting because he is so desperately corrupt and can't be trusted, when you have the likes of Ed Schulz promoting the virtues of voter fraud on national television.

Good thing no-one's watching.

The Scott Heard Round the World

I couldn't agree more.

Obama Guts States Sovereignty

Need to read this closely and let it digest, but it appears to be another one of those under the radar acts of Obama's that can lead to no good...

Obama Guts States’ Sovereignty

Coakley's Gafferama Won't Quit!

I'm getting tired of the following phrase, because I say it so often, but here we go again:


"If this had been a REPUBLICAN...."


Yet another gaffe from Coakley.  She says here that Curt Schilling is a YANKEES fan... Do I even need to comment?



Okay...


So what's the list?
On foreign policy:  "I have a sister who lives overseas."
On Afghanistan:  "The terrorists are all gone."
On Massachusetts:  "Massachusettes"
On campaigning:  "What should I do?  Stand outside Fenway Park, shaking hands, IN THE COLD?"
On Scott Brown:  He's a richy-rich because he has a time share in Aruba, and she put a headshot of him over THE WORLD TRADE CENTER in a tv ad.


She makes GWB look like a Rhodes Scholar.

Coakley pays for a Brown vote!

Gawd.  I love the bloodsport known as MA politics.  The text below was lifted from a tweet from Michelle Malkin.  The whole country is watching this one.  What fun for a political junkie like me!
Heh. Video: Union workers admits being paid by Coakley camp…but he’ll vote for Brown - http://is.gd/69wq2 #masen
3 minutes ago from TweetDeck

A Vote Heard 'Round the World or...

...just another MA DEM stealing an election to be forgotten the next day. Read this BRILLIANT article by 10-2pm 96.9 host Michael Graham.

By Michael Graham 
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - Added 18h ago
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ARTICLE: Rage against machine
RADIO: Listen to his show here.

G'head. Try. We'll stop you...

I find myself clicking into this website, The American Thinker, more and more these days. Here's a clip from the last paragraph of an excellent post there:

"The answer to the vast expansion of the federal government is that the states need to be willing to nullify unconstitutional laws. Federalists shouldn't worry so much about changing the federal government to respect state sovereignty as they should about working within their own states to throw off unconstitutional acts of the federal government."

Full article is here:

American Thinker: Kentucky's Answer to Unconstitutional Federal Actions

Uppity Brunette on National Security Issues.

KT McFarland. Fearless. Smart.

Minot Beach, Scituate, MA, New Year 2010 Storm Video

Huzzzband got a new Flip video from tha wife (that's me) for Christmas. Usually, he has this unbelievably-make-your-hair-hurt habit of taking long, long takes of things that don't move, which is excruciating in a way that only a wife can truly understand, but on this day, he got it right. Things moving. Lotsa things moving. Snowflakes. Wind. Waves. Lotsa. For locals, this was right at the end of Gannet Road. Surfside and Bailey's Causeway were already flooding...

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Minot Beach, Scituate, MA, New Year's Weekend Storm 2010

Waves are crashing over the seawall and making the coast roads in/out Minot Beach in Scituate flooded and impassable, and it happened quickly.

Some cars went down to the end of Gannet Road, got to Surfside where the water was piling up, and turned tail to go home.

It truly is an exercise in natural selection. "Hey Martha. Look at that wave." Oopsie. Elmer is never heard from again!

It was snowing when I took this. The beach is about twenty feet down below the top of those rocks. The tide is high, the moon is nearly full, and the winds are whipping. There's truly a storm on the coast tonight, for sure.

Click to see a larger view, and note the white caps on the horizon line.