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  • Wired for sound

    Number of comments: 3
    Now that Multaq is working its way out of my system, I’m feeling pretty damn good.  We’ll be leaving shortly to go to the kids’ place to pick them up so we can retrieve Sweetie’s car from the Renown parking lot. Being as I’m not allowed to drive, we have to [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:41am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Petition: Don’t let women lose access to mammography

    Number of comments: 5
    From my inbox: You’ve no doubt heard the news this week about the new recommendations concerning mammography screening. While this shows that there is disagreement among experts about when mammograms should begin and on what schedule, all agree that mammograms save lives – in women over 50 and women in their 40s.  Sign [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 5:27pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Light posting, in case you haven’t noticed

    Healing, dealing, contemplating. I’ll be back soon. Posted in Blogging [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 5:05pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Love comes in all kinds of packages

    Number of comments: 7
    Through the events of the last couple of weeks and days, I have been showered with love and kindnesses too numerous to count. And I am humbled. Posted in Cardiac Chronicles [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:41pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Tonight’s the night

    Number of comments: 10
    Sending this from my iPhone: Pacemaker is going in this evening. Posted in Cardiac Chronicles [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:31pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Pacing Myself

    Number of comments: 9
    There is no underlying heart disease, and aside from the electrical issues, my heart muscle is strong and undamaged.  The ablation appears to have worsened what I had already before the ablation: that is, the long P-R interval(First Degree Atrioventricular Block).  And unless I could sit with you and draw you [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:29pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Cost savings at the expense of women’s lives?

    “At least 40 percent of the lives saved by mammographic screening are of women aged 40-49. These recommendations are inconsistent with current science and apparently have been developed in an attempt to reduce costs. Unfortunately, many women may pay for this unsound approach with their lives.” Unbelieveable. Here is a rundown of [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:33pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Critters soothe everything

    Number of comments: 1
    This one is for Sweetie: This one is for Omie: This one is for Ali: Posted in Diversions Tagged: Miscellaneous Diversions [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 4:48pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Elizabeth Warren: “It’s socialism for the rich”

    A must watch: What exactly is going on with the economy? Stocks are up and big bonuses are back, but while they’re throwing parties on Wall Street, there’s pain on Main Street. One out of every six workers is unemployed or underemployed, according to government statistics – the highest figure since [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:03pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Sunday Morning Short

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    “I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my church.” ~ Thomas Paine Posted in Freethought, Sunday Morning Reading [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 9:21am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Wondering

    I’ve been gone two nights now. I wonder if the pups think the coyotes got me? I am missing them so much. So I just close my eyes and pet them in my mind. Daisy’s thick fur gives under my palms. I can feel her old lady moles on her [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:38am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Diagnosis: First Degree AV Block

    Number of comments: 10
    Hokay. Dr. John (one of the cardiologists with Reno Heart Physicians) came to see me this morning with the news.  And basically the problem is both mechanical and electrical.   I’ve got what’s known in cardiac circles as an First Degree Atrioventricular  Block , hereinafter referred to as “FDAVB.” In normal individuals, the AV node slows the conduction [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 1:35pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Hospital Rules

    Number of comments: 3
    IV plugs are required. No matter what. No matter how many times you’ve told them, and they’ve either written it in your chart or entered it into your electronic records, the next doctor in the door will make you go through your entire medical history again. If you are admitted from Emergency, [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 6:40am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Sarah

    Number of comments: 2
    How did I miss this? Go read. Posted in Universal Health Care [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 6:19am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Healing Heart

    Number of comments: 7
    I’m required to take it easy this week. No lifting anything over five pounds. I’m really not supposed to be driving, but when you’ve got an automatic with power everything and cruise control, does that really count as driving? More like sitting in a moving chair. So, after one day [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:02pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • A short review

    Back in September I wrote: Even if rates don’t go up because of an individual claim, I’ve heard that rates may be charged by your community demographic.  Could that mean, for instance, that residents in Fallon, because of the leukemia cluster will pay higher rates than people in my town? Or will it mean, as [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:20am EST
    by bluelyon

  • “take this with perspective…”

    Number of comments: 3
    Email exchange between me and a supposedly “progressive” male friend. Sent before yesterday’s vote and under the subject line “One More Chance” said progressive sends me this Truthout article and pulls this quote:  Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 7:50 AM ´The congressman also said he doesn’t accept the decision to remove the [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 2:37pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • And we get? Updated

    Number of comments: 5
    I got an email today from HealthJustice with the subject line: Single-Payer Vote Called Off It said: On the eve of what could have been the first vote on single-payer legislation in our nation’s history, we have just learned that because of last minute developments, the vote and debate on Congressman Weiner’s [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:06pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Can’t win

    Number of comments: 3
    Posted in Atheism, Freethought [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:14am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Dude, there’s a reason they give you a script

    Out here in the wild and woolies of Nevada, we rely heavily on volunteers to do jobs that actually earn a paycheck for people living in the metropolitan areas. Volunteers are our  jewels and we know that they sacrifice time and treasure for the communities they love. We are grateful for [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:53am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Ablation done

    Oh yeah, he found the spots. Six of them, to be precise, and if he could, he would have zapped some more. It appears that my heart, when it repaired itself after the ASD surgery, decided to put in a whole lot of extra wiring. I was awake for some [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:20am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Okay, one thing before I go

    Thanks to Derek of Skepticality for posting this on FB.  As he put it: “Now, here is a case where woo can get people directly killed/dead.” The American military does not use the devices. “I don’t believe there’s a magic wand that can detect explosives,” said Maj. Gen. Richard J. Rowe [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:43am EST
    by bluelyon

  • It’s the day…

    Number of comments: 3
    Today I go in for my procedure.  I’ll most likely be spending the night. Yeah, I admit it. I’m nervous. I mean, it is my heart we’re talking about. But mostly I’m worried that he won’t be able to fix it. Anyhoo…if you don’t hear from me by Saturday evening, then you [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:00am EST
    by bluelyon

  • You have no right not to be framed

    Number of comments: 2
    Welcome to 1984. Or Stalinist Russia. Or Mao’s China. Really. Between this and this and this and this, do we even have any individual rights at all?  From the first (and latest) link: But here’s the twist: The prosecutors say that they can’t be sued for anything they do in their official capacities, even [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:15am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Post-election musings

    From the headlines this morning: ABCNews: GOP Sweep: Big Governor Victories in Virginia, NJ Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a troubling sign for the president and his party heading [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by bluelyon

  • I’m ready to move to Canada now.

    Number of comments: 2
    Greenwald Yesterday, the Second Circuit — by a vote of 7-4 –  agreed with the government and dismissed Arar’s case in its entirety.  It held that even if the government violated Arar’s Constitutional rights as well as statutes banning participation in torture, he still has no right to sue for what [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:32am EST
    by bluelyon

  • 3 Beliefs

    Really worth the click.  Especially #3. Posted in Freethought [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:27am EST
    by bluelyon

  • CIT Stiffs Taxpayers

    What the hell? Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) — CIT Group Inc.’s decision to seek court protection probably will keep money flowing to bondholders and 1 million customers of the 101-year-old commercial lender. Shareholders and taxpayers won’t be as fortunate. CIT’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy may give bondholders new notes at 70 cents on the [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:47am EST
    by bluelyon

  • There shouldn’t have been “bail” – there should have been jail!

    First you have to read Matt Taibbi’s article. Read all of it. It begins: On Tuesday, March 11th, 2008, somebody — nobody knows who — made one of the craziest bets Wall Street has ever seen. The mystery figure spent $1.7 million on a series of options, gambling that shares in the [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 5:04pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Joe Bageant: The Iron Cheer of Empire

    Number of comments: 1
    It may be my bias, or my imagination, or my distaste for toil, but from here America looks like one big workhouse, “under God, indivisible, with time off to shit, shower and shop.” A country whose citizens have been reduced to “human assets” of a vast and relentless economic machine, [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 1:19pm EST
    by bluelyon

  • Magical Thinking

    We Americans are in love with magical thinking.  On the light side, we would rather believe an email from our sister-in-law that tells us that a mixture of honey and cinnamon will cure our arthritis, and so we will down the concoction, Just In Case, even though a quick Google search shows that [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 11:38am EST
    by bluelyon

  • Added to the Quotes Page

    If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. – Rene Descartes Posted in Skepticism [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 7:46am EST
    by bluelyon

  • I dunno. Do you ...

    Number of comments: 2
    I dunno. Do you all like the new look? I may switch again. Posted in Blogging [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 7:31am EST
    by bluelyon

  • It’s all a big conspiracy!

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    What the anti-vaxers and alt-healthers think mainstream medicine is like. (H/T to Rebecca at Skepchick) Posted in Pseudoscience [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 1:17pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • “I guess the progressives are going to be the good soldiers on this one, one more time.”

    What’s the big win here? Oh yeah, Democrats get to say they passed health care “reform.” The progressives have caved.  We are screwed. (H/T to Lambert) After claiming for months they couldn’t vote for a bill without the strongest possible government-run insurance option, liberals are putting aside their disappointment over the [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 11:35pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Separate, and not equal

    I want to read this book. “For most working people under 65, we’re Germany or France or Japan,” Reid writes. “For Native Americans, military personnel and veterans, we’re Britain, or Cuba … For those over 65, we’re Canada … For the 45 million uninsured Americans, we’re Cambodia, or Burkina Faso or [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:54pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • With Democrats Like These: Opt-In???

    Number of comments: 1
    You have GOT to be kidding me. The Senate health bill is drifting toward ending up with an “opt-in” provision versus an “opt-out,” one Democratic senator said Friday. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) predicted that healthcare reform in the upper chamber would shift from its current construction, which allows states to opt out of [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:31pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Stuff that is sticking in my craw

    Number of comments: 1
    While I’m waiting for a huge report to download, I’ve got a couple of things on my mind. Well, Congress passed a Hate Crimes Bill.  I’ve got mixed emotions about that. You see, I hate (no pun intended) legislation that appears to prosecute someone differently on the basis of their “motivation” for the [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 12:02pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Wow

    No. Really. Wow! Astronomers have confirmed that an exploding star spotted by Nasa’s Swift satellite is the most distant cosmic object to be detected by telescopes. In the journal Nature, two teams of astronomers report their observations of a gamma-ray burst from a star that died 13.1 billion light-years away. The massive star [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 3:23pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Another sounds-good-until-you-look-closer move by Obama

    “Hagel will be charged with overseeing the work of the intelligence agencies for the president and investigating violations of law by the clandestine community. “ Isn’t that Congress’ job? Or DoJ?  Oh. Wait. And the fact that the board works “mostly in secret” and had many of its powers stripped by [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 6:12am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • “I’m not some peacenik, pot-smoking hippie who wants everyone to be in love”

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    U.S. official resigns over Afghan war (Washington Post) A former Marine Corps captain with combat experience in Iraq, Hoh had also served in uniform at the Pentagon, and as a civilian in Iraq and at the State Department. By July, he was the senior U.S. civilian in Zabul province, a Taliban [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 6:20am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Stress

    Number of comments: 5
    My stress test got moved up to today (instead of tomorrow) and bumped up an hour. This means that I have been forbidden to have any caffeine since noon yesterday, which wasn’t so bad yesterday but is more problematic this morning.  I also cannot eat anything in the four hours [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 6:44am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Can we say it now?

    Yes we can! President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as part of health care reform. In its place, say multiple Democratic sources, Obama has indicated a preference for an alternative policy, favored by the insurance [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2009, 10:58am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • An Epidemic of Fear

    Number of comments: 6
    A must read. Amy Wallace takes the reader on a tour of the anti-vaccination movement, the importance of science and reliable data, and what we risk when we cave to pseudo-science and permit it to trump rational thinking and science. Just a snippet below. An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 11:46am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Formatting Issues

    WordPress is acting weird. Click on post titles if portions are missing. You’ll be able to read the full post that way. Posted in Blogging [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 11:25am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • I’m there

    Number of comments: 10
    I’ll never forgive Matt Taibbi for his CDS, but he’s on the money on this. You must read the whole thing, especially his run down on how our supposedly “progressive’ White House finds out about how the majority of Americans live. (You though George H.W. Bush was out of touch [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 11:20am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Say what? Um…no you can’t

    Via Pharyngula. Jonathan Turley on the Obama administration’s support for blasphemy laws. In the resolution, the administration aligned itself with Egypt, which has long been criticized for prosecuting artists, activists and journalists for insulting Islam. For example, Egypt recently banned a journal that published respected poet Helmi Salem merely because one [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 6:27am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Where’s my pitchfork?

    “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”  ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt Do ALL roads lead to Goldman Sachs? Not quite, but it sure feels that way. They get [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 6:07am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • It’s not just about the pink

    Some may put down the pink. But let’s be honest, breast cancer is 99% a women’s disease. What survivors choose to do to get through, survive, and celebrate is completely up to them. I began with the Race for the Cure in Nevada eleven years ago as an individual participant. Through [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 7:56pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Pet Cuteness

    Number of comments: 2
    Every morning the Dogs go out to do their business. Every morning the ritual goes thusly: After they’ve had an appropriate amount of time to do what they need to do I let them back in and I gather them around me for dog biscuit distribution. But Buddy, my rottweiler-shepherd mix, also has [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 6:12am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • “the ho-hum business of lending”

    Number of comments: 1
    This: Titans like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are making fortunes in hot areas like trading stocks and bonds, rather than in the ho-hum business of lending people money. They also are profiting by taking risks that weaker rivals are unable or unwilling to shoulder — a benefit of less competition [...]
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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 12:36pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Paul Pillar: “an expanded military effort in the cause of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan would be unwarranted”

    Must read: Paul Pillar’s (bio) October 14, 2009 testimony before the House Armed Services Committee on the wisdom of continuing (and expanding) our presence in Afghanistan. (pdf) He begins by reiterating what we American people have been told is our purpose for remaining in Afghanistan and warns against conflating that primary objective with mission creep. The [...]
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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 10:22am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • A Sunday morning reading (a day early): Sooner or later…

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    In cleaning out a box I packed when we moved here nine years ago, I discovered a beat up dime-store picture frame, the glass long-since broken, that contained a small essay that a friend had given to me a long, long time ago. It’s worth a renewed embrace on my [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2009, 9:39am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Outrageous

    Number of comments: 6
    SEIU sent this to me today. This woman was told to “get sterilized” if she wants insurance. http://action.seiu.org/page/speakout/peggy Posted in Universal Health Care [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 11:55am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • I’m a grinch

    Number of comments: 5
    You read that right. We’ve got millions of people out of work. Millions of people without health insurance (or next to useless high deductible policies), infrastructure is crumbling, and yeah, we’re still engaged in two wars.  For many with jobs, pay has not kept up with inflation. For most, there is [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 6:20am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Heroes and Friends

    Number of comments: 3
    It’s late, and I should be in bed. Can’t sleep. Can’t cry. We had our third RIF this year today.  In the morning, whispers moved through the halls as word spread about our friends now gone. Those of us left behind passed each other and could barely look at one another.  When we did, the look [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 11:14pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • ATM Americans

    Greenwald quotes Bill Moyers’ interview with Marcy Kaptur and Simon Johnson. This jumped out at me and I found it interesting which line GG emphasized. Referencing President Obama’s speech to Wall Street: BILL MOYERS: A reality check. Not one CEO of a Wall Street bank was there to hear the President. [...]
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    Posted: October 11, 2009, 8:14am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Cardiac Update

    Number of comments: 10
    Well, I’ve been using the Life Watch monitor for close to three weeks now. A week ago (or so) I got a call on all three phone numbers (work, cell, home) from my cardiologist. They told me that the feed they’d gotten from the past couple of days had shown [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 12:58pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Ardi

    We’ll be watching.   Ardipithecus Handbook. Posted in In the News, Science Tagged: Evolution [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 9:46am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Andrew Sullivan can kiss my ass

    Number of comments: 4
    egalia points to Andrew Sullivan’s post wherein he takes on Obama and the Human Rights Campaign. In some ways, Obama’s fealty to the big gay lobby rather than to the real gay community is testimony to why Democratic party politics remain repulsive to me. HRC has achieved nothing substantive for gay [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 8:16am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Striving is enough. Doing? Not so much

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    When I first heard the news, I thought it was a story from The Onion. Nope. It’s real. The Nobel Committee just turned themselves into a big joke. That is some powerful hopium they are smoking. U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world “hope [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 5:50am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Down and Out in Lyon County

    Number of comments: 2
    The Red Queen has an amazing post up about the real cost of living. Go read. It reminded me of a presentation that Christy McGill of the Healthy Communities Coalition gave to the Lyon County Democratic Party. She showed us how many Lyon County residents fell far short of having their incomes meet their [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 5:54am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Tuesday Tidbits

     Saturday Night Live nails it. Damned depressing. John Ensign as The Professor? Maven, say it isn’t so!  Ya know, I think I  have to echo Violet’s observations about males in positions of power.   I’m never going to write about politics again. I won’t have time. The Dicks Gone Wild news is all-consuming. [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 6:19am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Sotomayor Speaks, Thomas Timid

    I love it!  Looks like Sonia Sotomayor is not going to be a wallflower.  In just an hour, the court’s newest justice asked more questions than Justice Clarence Thomas has asked over the course of several years. Sotomayor’s aggressive role in a Fifth Amendment case, in turn, underscored how she could [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 5:28am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • A possible link? Not to the Washington Post

    This Washington Post article dances all around the issue and is chock full of conjecture as to why it may be so, but the facts are clear:  infant mortality and pre-term birth rates in the United States are abysmal. Around the world, about one in 10 babies are born prematurely each [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 6:11am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Out of touch

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    I’m completely out of the loop. I know there are goings on that should get my attention, but there is only so much time in the day. But crunch time is over. Tomorrow is Race Day. Posted in Politics Tagged: Race for the Cure, Susan G. Komen Northern Nevada [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2009, 9:57pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Joy

    I left work yesterday after putting in a full day with big plans to prepare for Sunday’s race. I headed over to Macy’s Furniture Store to take our In Person Registration Chair the lists she’d need for registration and packet pick-up over the next three days. After going over the [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 9:24pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Weather

    Hmm…It has started to turn cold here, but I’m glad that I’m not living in American Samoa A huge emergency effort is under way in the Samoan islands after tsunami waves triggered by an 8.0 earthquake left scores dead and flattened or submerged entire villages. At least 111 people are confirmed killed [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 5:51am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Breasts and Burgers

    Just a reminder that today is: RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGER’S KOMEN DAY – Wednesday, September 30 On Sep. 30, Red Robin is sponsoring a Gourmet Burgers Komen Day. Stop by the Sparks/Spanish Springs or Reno Red Robin, enjoy anything on the restaurant’s menu. 15% of all proceeds will be going to the [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 5:40am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Goings on and a tiny rant

    Aside from the usual newsfeeds and promotional emails from Macy’s, Coldwater Creek, Target, Borders, and Pettags.com, my inbox is full of back and forth emails between the committee members for next weekend’s 11th Northern Nevada Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.  It’s definitely crunch time, and the emails are flying [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2009, 10:43am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Yes! Yes! Yes!

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    Anglachel (my emphasis in bold italics): But here is the irony – the moralistic and non-political use of racism as a shaming mechanism by party leaders in combination with the passionate rejection of “white trash” (the working class) by those same leaders has made the Republicans’ political strategy just that much [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 8:31am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • I’m not ignoring you

    Number of comments: 2
    It’s eleven days until the Race for the Cure and as the race database chair I’ve got my hands full entering scads of offline registrations. Between that, my job, my family, and the critters, there is barely time to blow my nose, let alone catch up on the news and [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 6:18am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Hmm…

    Number of comments: 3
    President Obama said Friday that he did not believe his race was the cause of fierce criticism aimed at his administration in the contentious national debate over health care, but rather that the cause was a sense of suspicion and distrust many Americans have in their government. “Are there people out [...]
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    Posted: September 19, 2009, 12:16am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • A Fine Line

    Number of comments: 6
    I started writing this post yesterday morning, but Sweetie and I had to leave for the Air Races and I was too pooped to finish it last night. Because of other obligations, I’m not at the races today and can spend a little more time fleshing this out.  (Edit: I’m [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 11:06am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • And in the spirit of the rest of my week

    I’ll be volunteering with Sweetie at the Reno Air Races  working box security through Sunday. If you happen to be there, come on down to the box seat gate closest to the pit and say hello. We’ve got to get up at the crack of dawn every day, so posting [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 8:48pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Drinking the Sand?

    Number of comments: 4
    Joe Cannon is torn about whether or not to just suck it up and support HR 3200. Joe writes: Let’s face it — Jane Hamsher is right. The “mainstream” House and Senate plans can be considered neoliberal giveaways to the insurance industry. That industry which has no valid role to play [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 5:49am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • RIP – Patrick Swayze

    Number of comments: 3
    Everyone should have a love like this. NYT Posted in Politics Tagged: Obits, Patrick Swayze [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 8:07pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Obama to poor women: Fuck You

    Obama to poor women: Nothing will change for YOU. I don’t give a damn if you’re married and you just can’t afford another child. I don’t give a shit if your birth control fails. I don’t care. You’re all a bunch of sluts. You’re poor. You shouldn’t be having sex anyway. And nothing [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 6:03am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • For Nancy

    Number of comments: 3
    For my friend who’s been done wrong. Full of palm trees and pretty boys… Keep putting it out there babe. This one always makes me smile… Posted in Friends [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 6:09pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Sorry, but no

    Number of comments: 2
    This is not 1.5 to 2 million people. This crowd doesn’t even come close to… THIS: Police declined to estimate the size of the crowd but it stretched out more than a mile down one of the city’s main thoroughfares. Or THIS. Believed to be a crowd of about 250,000. Posted in In the [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 9:25am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • In the meantime…

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    While tea partyers have their temper tantrum in D.C., and while the partisans on the left foam at the mouth about Joe Wilson, the drip, drip, drip continues unabated.  Don’t look at the man behind the curtain. On the civil liberties front we’ve got Greenwald on Obama’s upcoming “unveiling” of his [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2009, 3:01pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • This has to stop

    Regardless of how much a person disagrees with someone else’s beliefs, no one has the right to shoot anyone.  Period. Posted in Crime [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2009, 2:00pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Darwin movie “too controversial” for American audiences

    This is, frankly, fucking embarrassing. Creation, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin’s “struggle between faith and reason” as he wrote On The Origin of Species. It depicts him as a man who loses faith in God following the death of his beloved 10-year-old daughter, Annie. The film was chosen to open the Toronto [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2009, 1:03pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • It’s simple

    Number of comments: 1
    So says George. But what seems missing in the current battle is a single proposal that everyone can understand and that does not lend itself to demagoguery. If we want comprehensive health care for all our citizens, we can achieve it with a single sentence: Congress hereby extends Medicare to all [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 7:50pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Local Events for Susan G. Komen for the Cure

    In the next couple of weeks, there are events happening around Reno to benefit the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Northern Nevada Affiliate.  I’ll be at Coldwater Creek on Sunday, getting my massage on Tuesday morning, and Sweetie and I have September 30th calendared for a rare work-day lunch together.   COLDWATER [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 7:36pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • More questions than answers

    I’ve taken the day off from work to get the final item checked off on my fifty-something service check. So while I sit here waiting for the second batch of prep to finish my internal cleansing, I’ve got a little time to reflect. Unless I don’t. In which case this post [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 8:54am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Lessee if I’ve got this right…

    Number of comments: 1
    When Hillary wanted mandates it was BAAAAD. When John McCain wanted tax credits to help pay for insurance it was BAAAAD. Conscience clauses are still a go. But when Obama wants it, it’s doubleplusgood. Let’s just say, I’m underwhelmed. Maven thinks Obama hit it out of the park. Others are not of the same [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 12:19am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Euphemisms and Obsfuscations

    Via Butterflies and Wheels Posted in Skepticism Tagged: Miscellaneous Diversions [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 2:16pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • I hope I do this

    And many thanks to those of you who do. From my Google Quote of the Day widget:  “The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.”   – Edwin Schlossberg Posted in Blogging [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 6:24am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Reagan and Bush’s School Speeches

    Ronald Reagan, November 14, 1988 – At the White House, and broadcast via C-SPAN and Instructional Television Network. (pdf)  This speech was given after the election of GHWB. After the speech Reagan took questions from the kids, and hoo-boy…he hit every mark of the conservative agenda. Read it all. First three [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 5:14am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Wish I could write like this

    The woman’s got a way with words. Posted in Politics Tagged: Barack Obama [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 9:34pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • The Speech

    Number of comments: 7
    Well, I’ve read it. Can’t see what all the fuss has been about.  Yeah, yeah, lesson plans, yada, yada.  In my personal opinion, it isn’t anything these kids haven’t been hearing in assemblies and student/teacher conferences all their lives. So, I’m so-so on the content.  I think it’s hard to write [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 6:53am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • If someone else signs your paycheck, you’re a worker

    Got that? No matter how much you make, if you get a paycheck  you are a member of the working class.  You may never have belonged to a union, but you owe them plenty. Happy Labor Day! Some Labor Day posts from around the blogosphere. The State of Labor (riverdaughter) Labor Day: What’s that about? A [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2009, 10:36am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Ruh Roh

    This WaPo article in my morning email caught my eye: Request For Review Of D.C. Tests Languished …The analysis was commissioned last summer by then-State Superintendent Deborah A. Gist after more than 20 public and public charter schools showed gains of 20 points or more in reading or math proficiency on [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2009, 8:09am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Why I’ll never be a Republican, #532

    Number of comments: 3
    But also why I have lost faith in the Democratic Party. The base is passionate, its leaders are not. And the Republicans? They don’t want to solve any problems. They just want to be the opposition, no matter what. It appears the Right Wing Noise Machine has really cranked it up this summer, [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2009, 8:48am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Lois Beckwith: A Sunday Morning Reading

    Number of comments: 1
    From The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit: An A to Z Lexicon of Empty, Enraging, and Just Plain Stupid Office Talk by Lois Beckwith Under the letter “I” ID 1. abbr identification, referring to an indentification badge. 2. the piece of plastic given to you on your first day that enables you to [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2009, 12:01am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Somebody explain this to me

    Number of comments: 6
    I saw this headline, Obama unveils measures to spur retirement saving and thought, “Okay, I’ll bite.” After reading into it a bit, I was scratching my head. It didn’t get better the further I got. Obama, in his weekly radio and Internet address, said the government would enact rules making it easier [...]
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    Posted: September 05, 2009, 5:55pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Checking In

    Number of comments: 2
    If I hold true to form, this week of thin posting will be followed by a weekend binge. I’ve got stuff on my mind and have had no time this to put it into prose. In the meantime here are some links you may enjoy. Nica Lalli, author of Nothing: Something to Believe In Her interview [...]
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    Posted: September 05, 2009, 3:24pm EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Amodei vs Reid?

    Hmm. It looks like my state senator, Mark Amodei, may just be jumping into the race against Harry Reid. Mark Amodei will have to get through the Republican Primary, but if he does, Harry will have a tough campaign ahead of him because Mark seems more down to earth than Harry. In [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 6:04am EDT
    by bluelyon

  • Step by Step

    Number of comments: 2
    Yeah! From the New York Times: “This is a civil rights issues,” Mr. Paterson said, citing issues like hospital visitations, health insurance coverage and inheritance that are connected with marriage. He called for an end to “a legal system that has systematically discriminated against all of them.” He continued: Anyone that has ever experienced [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 6:53pm EDT
    by bluelyon
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