Kings and fishers… 24 March 2010
Posted by marisacat in 2010 Mid Terms, 2012 Re Election, DC Politics, Democrats, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
Kingfishers in action: He emerges from the water empty-handed after an unsuccessful dive [JOE PETERSBURGER / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC / CORBIS]
Little tidbits in the legends accompanying the photos. One that was especially riveting… when the kingfisher, often the father, returns to the nest with food, the chicks have been waiting in a circle. They are fed in turn: one is fed, then revolves to the back of the circle, so the next in line is fed with the next catch.
Another tidbit, if the fish is to be fed to the chicks, the head is held out first, to avoid fins catching in the chicks throats.
In a related tidbit… I happened to catch a very brief news report a few weeks ago, that one of the big charities fishing for cash donations in the Haiti earthquake, Feed the Children or Save the Children… one of those, was determined to have distributed nothing… nothing at all in Haiti. Not a single food package nor any cash. Nothing.
Hanging is too good for that bunch.
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well well… ta.
Hard to believe some one got “fired”. Wonder what cushy job they have lined up for Magee in Rome.
So… do the people in charge of the fucking big deal know what is in the bill? At all?
via Mike Allen’s Playbook/Politico:
How many more
are there…
I bet quite a few.
Oh – but tanning salons will start charging a 10% tax today. So, there’s that!
Whoops. You still have until July to tan to your heart’s content (and your skin’s misery) before the tax kicks in. I wouldn’t want to mislead wannabe fake ‘n bakers.
thank god I never had any interest in a tan. Or freaked over a burn.
gah.
Given that many cancers are being increasingly linked to vitamin D deficiency, one would think that our public health policy would encourage tanning…
why is anyone who tans or smokes or HORRORS does both even alive?
shouldn’t we just shoot them? After we shoot fat people of course.
Mrs. Obama’s smarmy face is on some magazine this month, lecturing us all to get our vitamins.
What else do we need?
Ad Age had an analysis a few months ago… neither is a sure fire higher than normal selling cover.
As for Mother Obama, she and the wee pops just had pizza (so I read at Ben Smith) in Brooklyn, pepperoni and sausage.
Maybe if they run thru the streets for a few hours ….they can whack off the cals and carbs.
So what happens to individuals who use UV treatment for Psoriasis? [Very common and apparently effective]
well you know the USA!! USA!! is nto into passive therapeutic treatments. Not really, unless it requires a doctor. $$ And hopeflly an incision.
Everybody is supposed to go to some stadium sprts event, partake in a tail gate and feel ‘all better now’.
Yeah – it’s better to get them all on biologics so they develop AIDS [I mean really - you want to take a drug that blocks T cells?] or cancer….
As an aside I have to laugh every time a commercial comes on for biologics for psoriasis & they are required to tell you that the drugs cause cancer and death!
First do no harm. Etc.
I think the path of least resistance is to see more and more health plans plugging in annual maximum benefits. Many dental plans have these. This way you can cover anyone but never have to worry about busting your actuary tables.
Of course, if a flying hockey puck nails them in the choppers they’ll wish they’d read page 45 of their member handbook.
I agree they have lots of creative ways to get around full coverage. For startes in the bill itself they allowed to charge the elderly 3x premiums… and you just know other things are built in.
I heard one caller to our local talk radio (so tied to the Dem party, as we are a machine town) say a doctor she knew mentioned that the current “penalty” in the bill for denying a doctor ordered procedure is 100.00 a day. Which as she said, will nto discourage the ins cos at all. (if that is accurate)
I just got our renewals as part of a PEO – 14% increase [as opposed to the average in the NY Metro area of 19%]. The only cheaper alternatives are either plans with built in deductibles of $2,000 or more and/or max annual benefits… already happening.
kingfisher feathers used to be inlaid in very expensive premodern chinese jewelry (headdresses, especially), i run across it now and then in antique markets. it’s such a brilliant sort of blue, took me forever to figure out what the substance was at first, i had assumed it was some kind of jewel. the social behavior is fascinating as well.
chinese opera headdresses with kingfisher feathers
sorrry! this fell into spam file, rescued now…
wow, beautiful
I really love that use of them, in jewelry and headress… Very beautiful color…
I was orginally told that the kingfisher only had a few feathers of that color, at his or her throat, but actually it is a bit more than that…
LOL.
Love Israeli papers, checkout the headlines.
Two meetings, but no agreement between Obama and Netanyahu
Israeli and American leaders could not even agree on a joint statement after their White House talks.
http://www.haaretz.com/
Persoanlly I think this is all cover for whatever they are really discussing. Iran most likely. Or the retaliation for even discussion of 3rd Intifada (which I am reading about) on the part of the Palestinians.
NEITHER side gives a flying hoo hoo about settlemts… and both know they will go on.
Debkafile said that the bunker buster bombs that were headed to Israel were diverted to Diego Garcia. Bibi can’t be too happy about that.
well the idea they are going to DG is to prep the area for Iran War.
Who knows. I am sure we give the Israelis whatever they want.
You’re right.
Hilarious. Israel announced 100 more units in E Jerusalem after Obama met with Netanyahu.
Israel ‘spits in Obama’s eye’ by announcing new settlements in east Jerusalem
The only thing missing was a sternly-worded letter.
Spin it, Rob!
I got your “clarification” right here, replied Bibi.
Obama is not Bush, and is not Clinton.
Times have changed.
Asia Times:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LC25Ak03.html
As pointed out by Ioz, good lord! That’s exactly what we don’t need.
‘radical center’ is an oxymoron.
I read somehwere the other day…that someone (don’t you love my precision) refers to themselves as “radical traditionalist”
Wish I could remember who it was.
Oooh
Quite the slobberfest on Huffpo (would that be a Huff to the po?) on our new ‘Reform.’ CHANGE, it’s good, …. ALWAYS. So remember ya’ll, when you discover ya got cancer and ya can’t afford the treatment:… it’s all good ……..
And yeah marisa, I do remember when she was equally intellectually vociferent (i.e. vociferous) for her hideous hubby, on the far right republican side, when he was doing battle with the equally hideous, Dianne Feinstein Blum for the crown
Oh..and time out for that Highly Relevant HUFFPO headline about who has the finest boobs and skin in town Jolie hands down, as the Ambassador of the Po……..
ooooh and that vial of blood she sucked, on her neck……………….
YA GOTTA MASTURBATE TO IT???????
Airport worker caught photographing screen as female worker passed through naked scanner
just wow, no firing?:
A first-instance harassment warning has been issued to a 25-year-old male.”
how many “instances” does is he allowed to traumatize his preferred victims?
Loverly!
amazing, ain’t it?
I’d like to say yes hon
:0(
and I would think that would be a life long trauma for her. I know it would for me, living in this “Morally Upright, Free and Privacy Protecting” country that we live in.
oh wait …Lord Obama, …scanners
Oh, but hey. You have absolutely nothing to fear about the use of those scanners. Nope. Nothing. Nada.
The interesting thing is that you can’t scan people under 18, because that would violate child porn laws.
That says it all, doesn’t it? After they’ve been ‘reassuring’ the public that the images are never stored etc….
One of these days I’m going to figure out how to use Twitter. I can’t even find the instructions on their site. D’oh is me.
In totally unrelated news: Obama Twitter account ‘hacked by Frenchman’
And in more unrelated news, you can actually be arrested for not tweeting?
Oh FFS! Why does the 99% NOT see with crystal clarity that we live in a god damned police state.
truly
speaking of police state… the news is nothing but irritation. martha raddatz on ABC acting like [anti] depressants prescribed in theatre to us mil is Some Big Fucking News.
I am sure she knows it is not.
Pope Implicated In Cover-Up Of Wisconsin Sex Abuse Case
Now a School for the Deaf… what is next a Hospital for the Incurables? For the Insane?
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