BCer medical updates:
Sam Rawls -
Friday Evening
Well folks it was a frustrating day today. Before anyone gets too excited there was not a lot of bad news. Sam is still in the 50/50 club but last night he didn't do as well as we would have hoped. By that I mean he had a few minor setbacks and it took his wonderful team of doctors and nurses all day to get him back to where he was yesterday afternoon. Now that we are back to good readings on all of his monitors this day was just what the doctors told us to expect earlier this week. Peaks and valleys until he gets strong enough to help himself get better. He probably won't be awake at all this weekend but is resting comfortably and we hope for some signs of improvement this weekend. I continue to read your notes to Mom, and we print them so that she can read them to Dad. Mom is hanging in there but she did get a little discouraged this morning. We are trying to keep her spirits up and make sure that she eats a little and gets some rest. That is not as easy as it may sound. Again thank you all for your thought and prayers as they mean the world to all of us especially Mom. I won't bore you with medical details today because as the doctor told us this morning it's like a baseball player with a black eye. He can still play with it and we'll throw a steak on it later. Hope you understand that better than I did. I think it means don't get bogged down with the details. INCH BY INCH we are going to get Dad better. Hopefully a good update tomorrow.
Brother Rosenberg - Colleen says he's taken the characteristics of a 'wounded' grouchy grizzly bear that he resembles in real life,(but we know what a soft touch he is under that exterior. He's in 647 at the Medical Center, probably til Tuesday.
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Online headline: "Giant Rat Killed With Pitchfork In Brooklyn" -- Ooops, my bad. Just knew it had to be Schumer, Rangel, Bloomberg or one of the Clintons.
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Bernanke says "the Fed" still has 'tools' to boost the economy. Yeah, right...what's 'the Fed" gonna do, issue shovels and power tools with every new TARP project as an incentive to take the money; or perhaps give TARP money out and PAY banks interest on what they receive? Remember when banks gave out toasters when you opened a savings account?
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Online headline: "Earthquake Strikes Central California Coastal Area" -- Looks like Pelosi may be a target of Mother Nature.. Earthquakes in Washington and California... wonder if she has a Vacation Home that's due to be next?
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The "whitewater project'" is beginning to mimic the progress of the National Infantry Museum....every time there was an update, the project end was moved back, and the project cost was moved up. Same here.
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If the dam is about to fail, why are we spending money planning to remove it? If the dam fails on its own, won't it create the same whitewater rapids that people are trying to spend $23 Million tax dollars to complete?
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From a L-E story: The lead partner for the Mayor's previous employer said, "However, Columbus believes that the rule of law will ultimately prevail, that Expedia will be made to remit all of the monies that it has actually collected for taxes and to pay for the cost of litigation that it has visited upon the city" -- How easily Pope substitutes "Columbus" to cover his own personal interests. What costs is he talking about? The only costs 'visited on the city' are the losses of accommodation taxes, accommodation and entertainment revenues for the City's businesses, and the 'black eye' of being nationally exposed as not a good place to do business.
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L-E headline: "Rainbow/PUSH ends boycott at Walmart * The Rev. Howell says reason for the boycott is gone" -- Gone? It was 'never there'! Time has a way of embarrassing those who's motives for such are for personal gain.
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L-E headline: "ASSOCIATED PRESS-GFK POLLS * Analysis: Obama faces trouble with key voters" -- potUS O'Blather is the victim of the two-edged sword. In 2008, we were asked to finalize Dr. King's 'dream' that the character of a man overshadow the color of a man's skin. We did. In 2012, the same aspect will be put back to a vote, and if Dr King's 'dream' has been met, we'll find out by potUS O'Blather being defeated on the basis of his lack of character regardless of the color of his skin.
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L-E headline: "LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES * California to face Japan for LLWS title
Championship game moved up to noon today to avoid Irene’s rain" -- Is California going to be competitive enough to play Japan using real rules of baseball? I mean, since California is so liberal, I'd think the California legislature would make laws that every batter be awarded a base each time they struck out so the players' self-esteem wouldn't be shattered.
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How can a California jury convict (and be upheld by a California judge) a baseball player for 'juicing' himself, but a Florida jury can let a baby-killer go free because the jury isn't sure how the baby died? The fact that the baby is dead of other than natural causes didn't matter.