A Greenpeace inflatable boat is seen next to Japan’s whaling fleet’s factory ship Nisshin Maru and hunter vessel Yushin Maru No 2 in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary January 18th, 2008. Greenpeace said its protest ship, Esperanza, had successfully stopped Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean after intercepting the fleet’s factory processing ship, the Nisshin Maru, at the weekend and chasing it north through heavy seas.
The little thermometer out by the pond says it is -2°F out there this morning! The little greedheads at AmerenCILCO got to be loving this!
MjL 20 Jan 2008, 4:17 a.m.
I dined with Alan, Glo, DD and Mom last evening. Tracey didn’t make it because she was at work. She worked this Saturday so one of her nurses could have a birthday off. Alan said that was nice of her, but would the nurse do the same for Tracey. I don’t know —— I would like to hope so.
Other than the cold wind we didn’t have much to complain about last evening. And after a phone call to my sister Rhonda who lives up on the shore of Lake Superior in northern Minnesota —— we didn’t feel too so bad about the temperature down here.
Alan called her on his cell phone and then we passed the phone around so everybody had a chance to gab with her. Rob and Rhonda moved up there last fall and this is their first full winter there. Rhonda said they have three feet of snow on the ground now and the temperature will be -25° F. by this morning. They go out to start the car every evening before going to bed and let it run so it will start again the next day. I told her I would be getting a heater for the engine!
CNN had a bunch of talking heads running off at the mouth about the Nevada primary but I never did hear any numbers last night. This morning they are all squawking about Hillarity winning big in Nevada but from what I can see she got twelve delegates and Obummer got thirteen delegates.
I get so sick of the media spin on all of this. They want to yak about the percentage of votes when ALL that really matters is the delegate count. Obama is still beating Hillarity in actual delegates representing real people.
Now if only the Dimocrat party were actually democratic he would be winning. But this not so democratic political party also has over 400 Superdelegates —— backroom luminaries who sell their delegate votes for political leverage.
Hillarity will get most of those because she sleeps with Bill. (Or maybe I should say USED to sleep with Bill?)
MjL 20 Jan 2008, 5:00 a.m.
“This is as bad a result for the drug as anybody could have feared,” said Dr. Nissen, a widely published researcher and senior consulting editor to the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Millions of patients may be taking a drug that does not benefit them, raising their risk of heart attacks and exposing them to potential side effects, he said. Patients should not be given prescriptions for Zetia unless all other cholesterol drugs have failed, he said.
What!? I had to read that last sentence a couple times to be convinced of the stupidity it represents in the medical industry. Why on Earth would you EVER give it to patients after reading the preceding sentence? Duh? It’s no wonder there is a category called “Death by Doctor”!
Further —— read between the lines in the argument between cholesterol and atherosclerosis (fatty plaques) and you realize that a good cholesterol reading may say nothing about the true health of heart and arteries. The bottom line is these companies have been causing more harm than good with their drugs. Not word one about those crippled and / or killed by the side effects.
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