04.30.09

How Many Unreported Cases of Swine Flu Are There?

Posted in News & PSA's, Rants at 4:30 pm by Donna

We all know how many cases of swine flu have been reported and confirmed but, how many people have been experiencing some of the symptoms and aren’t bad enough to go to to the doctors?  How many people have the full-blown flu and wouldn’t go to the doctors unless they went in feet first?  <as in, being carried in>

I’d love to know exactly how many people really do have the swine flu and aren’t reporting it.

Scary, huh?

Pelosi To CNN: “Now We Can Get Things Done Without Explaining Process”

Posted in News & PSA's, Rants at 7:33 am by Donna

The Hill’s Briefing Room Blog tells how Nancy Pelosi really feels about Arlen Spector switching teams.

Sen. Arlen Specter’s decision to switch parties will make it easier for Democrats to move forward with their agenda, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday.

Specter’s switch will give Democrats 60 caucus members in the Senate (assuming Al Franken wins his legal battle in Minnesota). That is enough votes to end debate on a bill and overcome Republican filibusters.

Very exciting, very exciting for the American people, because now we can get things done without explaining process,” Pelosi told CNN’s Candy Crowley.

Specter has said that he will not be that “automatic 60th vote.”  <thank Gosh!>

FULL ARTICLE

I am so disgusted that I can barely see straight!

I’ve never seen pompous defiance blatantly smeared in our faces like this and, I cannot understand why the citizens of this country are not in an outraged regardless of party affiliation!

My mind is blown.

Digg!

04.29.09

I Thought He Said “Breaking” America!

Posted in News & PSA's, Random Thoughts at 1:53 pm by Donna

During this morning’s Barack Obama speech, he stated,

“We have begun to pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off, and we’ve begun the work of remaking America,”

and I could have sworn that he said,

“and we’ve begun the work of breaking America”!

Freaky, huh?

You can’t say that I heard what I want to hear because that couldn’t be further from the truth!

I just thought it strange…

Maybe I heard what he meant?

Don’t Call It Swine Flu!

Posted in News & PSA's, Rants at 7:50 am by Donna

According to ReportOnBusiness.com: [paraphrased][emphasis mine]

Pork producers and hog farmers around the world say they are being sideswiped by the swine flu outbreak and many want the name of the disease changed to “North American flu.”

So far, the World Health Organization has rejected the idea, saying Tuesday that it plans to stick with “swine flu.” But U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he is considering using another name.

This is not a food-borne crisis,” Mr. Vilsack said. “It’s important to not refer to swine flu. It’s important to convey the message that consuming pork will not cause this illness.”

European Union officials have suggested calling the disease “novel flu.”

Won’t book publishers protest then? <ha ha>

Wait……
Get the heck out of here!  Seriously?
We should change the name so that people “who don’t think right” idiots will understand?

Are we more concerned about the pork industry than life?  A 23-month old just died in Texas from swine flu and our leaders are considering making a name change?

I’m so ashamed!

Tell-All Book About Brad and Angelina…Would You Read It?

Posted in Entertainment, Random Thoughts at 7:14 am by Donna

Mickey Brett, Brangelina’s former bodyguard, is shopping around for a publisher of his memoirs from the time that he spent as a nanny/bodyguard for them.

Full Story at NY Daily News

The Jolie-Pitt lawyers are fighting tooth and nail to stop this from happening and are doing all that they can to smear Brett’s character but, one has to ask if he has such a sordid past, why did they hire him?

Well, while the legal eagles battle this out and Brangelina back-peddle as to why this guy was employed for so long without a thorough background check, I wonder…

Obama’s First 100 Days

Posted in News & PSA's, Rants at 4:58 am by Donna

The only thing that’s grown more than Obama’s ego is the national deficit!  He is solely responsible for the distinguished honor of spending more than any other president in history with flagrant disregard for anyone’s future.

The only people that put America down and slap it in the face more than Obama is the fundamentalist sicko’s that want to kill us as Obama destroys us from the inside out!

According to the Washington Times: [emphasis mine]

President Obama’s media cheerleaders are hailing how loved he is. But at the 100-day mark of his presidency, Mr. Obama is the second-least-popular president in 40 years.

According to Gallup’s April survey, Americans have a lower approval of Mr. Obama at this point than all but one president since Gallup began tracking this in 1969. The only new president less popular was Bill Clinton, who got off to a notoriously bad start after trying to force homosexuals on the military and a federal raid in Waco, Texas, that killed 86. Mr. Obama’s current approval rating of 56 percent is only one tick higher than the 55-percent approval Mr. Clinton had during those crises.

I could have told you that, though!

If you really want to know how Obama has done in his first 100 days, check out the Official Obama Administration Scandal List on ConservativeAmerican.org.  It’s much more telling of what the first 100 days of Obama’s presidency were really like.

And, ObamaClock.org is counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until the greatest event in history!

To heck with the first 100 days!
Only 1,362 days left to go!

04.28.09

Remember the Mercenaries Who Were Burned and Hung?

Posted in News & PSA's, Rants at 5:48 am by Donna

Hmm…what a tough decision as to whether we were a little harsh on fundamentalist  detainees when you remember that in March of 2004, four US Mercenaries were torched, dismembered and hung around the town!

Los Angeles, Alta California – March 31, 2004 – (ACN) In a scene reminiscent of George Romero’s “The Night of the Living Dead”, four US mercenaries suffered a horrific and gruesome death at the hands of about 30 Iraqis near the town of Fallujah early this morning. The four US mercenaries employed by Blackwater Security Consulting where traveling in two SUV vehicles when they were ambushed and their vehicles set on fire. A large crowd of angry Iraqis approached the torched vehicles with shovels and rocks and pulled the four charred corpses out onto the roadway. Two of the bodies where dragged throughout the town’s streets. The other two were dismembered and one was decapitated. Two of the torsos were then taken to a bridge that crosses the Euphrates River and hung like animals. The crowd, in addition, took one leg and one arm, tied ropes on them with a rock on each end, then swung both of them over electric power lines.
FULL ARTICLE + PHOTOS

Does anyone remember that?
Yea?  No?  Maybe?

Yes, we provide an atmosphere that sustains life comfortably while we try to extract information that will possibly stop the fanatic’s attacks!

Yes, the same people who are being held at Gitmo would just as soon torch you and I and drag our bodies through the town, dangling our body parts on wires while shooting their rifle into the air with reckless abandon!

They have no fear of repercussion and they have no moral compass that tells them that what they have done is wrong nor do they want one!  They hate us…PERIOD!

I am completely ashamed of the present administration’s decision to release the photos from detainee facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan and churning up the same type of militant acts against us!

The Department of Defense announced late Thursday that at least 44 photos depicting treatment of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan will be released. FULL ARTICLE @ FOX

Mr. Obama,
You should be ashamed!
But, you’re not!
That’s messed up!

04.27.09

If You Can Read This, You’re Not Dead

Posted in Random Thoughts at 3:38 pm by Donna

Have you ever light-heartedly checked through your local obit’s for anyone you know, fingers crossed that you don’t know anyone and, WAM! Your name is there?

I did that today.

My deepest condolences for the family and friends of the other Donna Hagan from Maple Shade.

I’m not from Maple Shade but, I went to High School there in the 80’s.

04.23.09

I’m Not the Tweeter That I Thought I’d Be But, I AM a SodaHead!

Posted in Raves at 8:19 am by Donna

I’m not into social networking so much. I used to manage a few discussion groups on the MSN Boards but, that fizzled out.  I’ve never been into instant messaging because, like the telephone it keeps me anchored to one spot and that’s just not me!

I like to keep in touch with some people that I met over the years in my discussion groups but, I start an email and have no idea what to say so I delete it.  Sometimes I just say “hi” but, usually I delete it.

So, along comes Twitter.  At first it was a whisper.  It soon became a little more of a chatter as Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher became household Tweeters all over the world and finally, it has budded into an all-out heavy metal jam!  People are competing to get the most followers and all! …I just think it’s silly…

I’ve never been one of those people who jumps on a wagon because everyone else is on it but, I joined Twitter and gave it a shot.  Because I’ve gone through life collecting only genuine friends, I only have two…my husband and my daughter and they don’t Tweet.  I basically have Mimioso, who’s blog is a treat, and a bunch of celebrities who really couldn’t give a crap what I’m doing.  I update now and then but I go there to read more than anything.

I tweeted Chris Cornell but, he never answered me.  Whatever. He’s all “in love” and…!  Whatever!

I like reading what Kevin Smith has to say and, there are the Fox & Friends tweets but, basically Twitter has shown me what a social network butterfly I’m not!

I’ll keep Tweeting, though.  It’s a little embarrassing to have 1 follower and only a handful that I’m following but, I guess it’s really not that bad when you think about some of the anonymous nutbags that you could be talking to…out there in the world wide web <of deceit>!

My online networking addiction is SodaHeadWhat’s bubbling in your head?

SodaHead is the place to connect with like-minded and sometimes not so like-minded ones in thought provoking discussions or light-hearted questionnaires and all things in between!

How weird!  I just clicked on their “About Us” page and realized that the first paragraph of their description is incredibly similar to mine!  oooo

You should check it out!  A really neat feature is that as when you share your opinion, SodaHead can generate a page of people who are “matches” or, people whose opinions are along the same line as yours!  And the people aren’t all nutbags promoting the latest and greatest ED medication.  It’s all legitimate people discussing every topic under the sun and everyone’s pretty nice to eachother!

I like it a lot!

The links are always on the sidebar for your convenience to follow me on Twitter and on SodaHead!  Maybe I’ll see you there!

Later!♥

04.22.09

Philip Markoff – Do No Harm?

Posted in News & PSA's at 8:17 am by Donna

A physician’s creed is “do no harm”
Does that only apply to medicine?

The news has spread that the Craigslist Killer is Philip Markoff.  A 23 year old Boston University medical student who is/was slated to be married that apparently had a gambling problem that led him to armed robbery, kidnapping and murder charges!

If you haven’t heard about it yet, it’s everywhere but you can check out USA Today.

I was thinking about his Megan McAllister, the girl that he was going to marry.  That poor girl!! Ugh!!

The website that had created for their wedding has been taken down since his indictment yesterday.  However, they  can be seen at the Huffington Post.   Megan is still standing by her man saying that he couldn’t hurt a fly and, to be fair, the law has been wrong before but, there is overwhelming evidence that Phil Markoff is “the Craigslist Killer”! It has also been reported that she was with Philip when he was arrested and they had cash in the car and were heading for…wait for it…a casino! <?> Did she have anything to do with it?  Did Megan know what Philip was doing?

There was that Bonnie and Clyde story that broke out of Philly when spoiled-rotten Drexel University student Jocelyn Kirsch, 22, and Edward K. Anderton, a University of Pennsylvania graduate, were charged with identity theft, forgery, unlawful use of a computer and a laundry list of other counts in order to live an extravagant lifestyle.  Read Article

When I see the plans that Megan and Philip were planning, I get a little suspicious but, I’m not going there until I’m taken there.  All that I can say is, “Megan.  Better to find out now than after the wedding!  You’ve got your life ahead of you!  Consider this a near-miss and thank your Guardian Angels!”

And, I imagine his parents!  How incredibly sad! Can you imagine being his mother and knowing that he did something like this?  <allegedly but, with a whole lot of proof taken from his residence that puts him at the scene> My heart truly goes out to the family, friends and fiance. Some people may try to understand how you feel or say that they do but, I have the dishonor of truly knowing.

I remember when my brother was arrested.  Let’s just say that it wasn’t a complete shock like this did but, it was the worst thing I’d ever experienced…and I’ve experienced a lot of bad when I was young!  The worst part was the grieving not only for my brother but, for the victims! Absolutely heartbreaking!

I have to wonder when Philip turned.  Did he know the he could do harm when he started in the field of medicine?  Did he want to go into medicine or was he “encouraged” by pressure?  I don’t know…but, I’m sure that this will not go away as detectives continue looking into other crimes that Markoff could be involved with!

Finally, IF you are a parent of a young one, you could use this as an example to teach them that there is no sign on a bad guy’s face!  They come in all shapes and sizes!  Their age, sex or relationship doesn’t matter!  They come in business suits and in the form of female school nurses, friends, friend’s families and sometimes even within your own family.

And, God’s angel might be the homeless guy that most people would rather not look at or help…or allow to help them!
You just never know so always be mindful!
And let your conscience be your guide!

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