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Cause we're all in this together / Re: Remembering our friend Croghan27

« on: July 27, 2011, 11:33:11 AM »

I just saw in my FB feed, thought that this would be the place to head to......Condolences to all.
Croghan was a good guy, and will be missed.

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Feminist News / Re: C-484 in the Media

« on: July 09, 2008, 04:17:58 PM »

talk about showcasing your stupidity  :roll:

I just hacked that one to bits before I saw this comment. What claptrap eh?

CannedWest's spin cycle. Letting LTE's do the lying.

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Life from a feminist view / Re: Childbirth: a matter of choice?

« on: June 25, 2008, 01:51:27 AM »

Some people really get in an uproar about this stuff. I have 4 kids. Done this a few times myself.

I wish I had been able to deliver at home. I HATE hospitals. The hospital here actually has one birthing/maternity room in the maternity ward, with no windows. Its just stuck it in any old way. I guess it was a storage closet at one time.
No sun. No light. No way to tell the time of day even. Thats medical science for ya! Women are incubators who we are forced to accommodate when they give bith. Period. cold bastids.

Guess which room they put me in last time? Uh huh.
 
You cannot sleep, its not your bed.....its too narrow to lie with baby.  No window, dog food for food. (literally, serious ongoing issues at the local hospital here)....

wanna talk PPD?
PPD can be deadly. I'm not being an alarmist as many of you know.  
That last time they wouldn't let me out, and I just cried, and cried. It affects everything, and I am sure the babe as well.

Hospitals are for sick people. We always come out with some gawd awful bug.

On the other hand, I'm a bleeder. They hook me up to IV's and get the blood supply ready before you can say....."blood type"...

Me? I have no choice. But many are not in that boat, and can choose. With the level of care available at so many hospitals now, a midwife giving one on one attention can often spot problems a lot better, and get appropriate help sooner than a ward nurse who is so bogged down with a patient overload she misses stuff. (and that wouldn't be her fault either).

Homebirth? nah. I wouldn't. But I'm me, and everyone is everyone else. Guess I could have just said that and been done with it.
:)
4 medication free births. BTW. Heh. Im more skeered of the epidural than the pain.

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Environment / Re: Global Warming/Climate Change

« on: June 20, 2008, 06:20:48 PM »

So I'm thinking of writing a letter to Gordon Campbell and suggesting that with all the rules, regulations, laws, etc., being tossed around to promote less use of non-renewable fossil fuels they might take a look at how many gallons are being burned up taking, for example Island milk to the mainland and mainland milk to the Island and surely to heaven it's more carbon smart to stock and sell Island spuds than ship'em in from Idaho...and we grow apples in the Okanagan so don't really need them from Oregon and...y'know?

Amen. Im in BC too, and we have been having a heck of a time getting Canadian veggies.
And Idaho spuds, are teh suck for french fries. PEI not so bad.
I was so proud of myself the other day for finding ALL local produce.



Here's my fave visitor. My new bud

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Technology & Science / Re: I hate technology!

« on: June 17, 2008, 12:58:14 PM »

Entry level tech help at large companies like Bell (or Rogers, etc.) consists of people who read from the supplied scripts. If your question is on the script, then the tech support person has an answer for you. If your question isn't on the script, then tech support will say "We don't support that." So 1) you get them to kick you upstairs to a supervisor or 2) you lie to them and tell them you're running Internet Explorer or whatever (I've done that) or 3) YOYO (You're On Your Own).

Even small companies are completely condescending.
My first war with my cable comp lasted a year. My connection would drop. I would reboot, turn everything off. reset. Run the cable straight out from the modem instead of the router. ETC ETC. Then it would magically start again, whenever it bloody well felt like it.
Call the techies. Their response was that it was my PC. (I had many coming in and out at that point. I was working on them for people)
Then it was my router. Then my firewall. then.....then.....
I finally got sooooooooooooooooo fed up one day, I called and said. TAKE THE GODAMNED THING BACK. NOW!
Thats a chunk'o'change for them. So, they came and put in a new modem and power supply, and that was it. Didn't happen again, until few years later. (With a new PC, and a new router)
The last time I just told them to come change it over, or they would be getting a cancelled account. Didn't even bother with the techies. All fixed. :)
I dont bother with the technical dept now. Straight to accounts.

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Work, Employment, Money / Re: Uh. Geez. Just, wow.

« on: June 17, 2008, 12:32:23 PM »

Yanno. One could actually see the rationale behind the three strikes legislation and the War on drugs, if one knew this was going on.


Private prisons. Steve wants to do that here too. I have some links somewhere.

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Politics / Re: NDP

« on: June 15, 2008, 12:49:08 AM »

I *heart* Firefox.

 

If it works. lol.

I lost hours of work one day. Bah. (dog unplugged my pc.)

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Write On! / Re: The wardrobe of recovery

« on: June 14, 2008, 04:04:22 PM »

Clothes. Bah. Getting gussied up is such a chore. I think Dr Dawg is vexxed to, because what does one wear into the "enemy" camp?

What you have arranged sounds nice Toe. :)


I found a coat at the thrift a couple weeks ago, and this winter it will cover for my lack of nice clothes. Literally LOL.

What was once a very expensive, retro trenchcoat with beautiful buttons. They are black with gold sunbursts. (used clothes are a badge of honour in my house)

$5. woo hoo. Ok, I have no life. Small things.....:)

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Feminist News / Re: C-484 in the Media

« on: June 08, 2008, 12:16:03 PM »

Im willing to make a rebuttal tube. Wouldn't be hard. Certainly wouldn't be hard to find a better narration.

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Health / Re: C-section and insurance in the US

« on: June 01, 2008, 04:37:42 PM »

nyceve covered this today too.

Usually theres some good stuff in the comments.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/1/ ... 202/526614

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Banter / Re: How to make rice

« on: May 27, 2008, 09:26:13 PM »

Basamati is the only rice I don't screw up. lol.

1 part rice to 2 parts water.

I rinse the rice till the water runs clear.

Boil rice and water, till craters actually appear. Turn to super low.` (or use the two burner method, and have one already set to low. ) add lid. Leave 10 mins or so, till it fluffs up with a fork. Poifect every time!
woo hoo. Just about any other rice? (I make great sushi sticky rice) not so good. Fortunately everyone loves the Basamati.

When its cratered, I sometimes add peas, corn, beans....That steams nicely.

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Feminist News / Re: Fetus Fetishist Watch

« on: May 24, 2008, 01:01:54 PM »

errr frink?

:)

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Banter / Historical info.

« on: May 15, 2008, 10:08:19 AM »

I found this site a few years back, and it popped into my little brain last night in connection to a post......

museum

There was a book too. Heres the Review.

 :lol:

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News / Re: Khadr goes on trial

« on: May 14, 2008, 12:34:34 PM »

In a statement I saw quoted somewhere over the last few days (of my reading, not Kenney's speaking), Kenney misrepresents what is known as the Optional Protocol of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

This is always kind of mind blowing to me. The US never signed onto the Declaration of the rights of a child.

Canada. Did. But the Cons will not acknowledge that. It was a "previous" government.

A long time ago I put the link to the Declaration on one of ACR's sidebars, along with a link to the Charter.
I guess I was feeling Nostalgic that day. Now I just feel sad.

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Chef's Corner / Re: The Barbeque Thread

« on: May 13, 2008, 10:16:45 PM »

Thanks!  How do I know if my burners need to be cleaned :?:

We just have a boo at them every couple months. More if you use it a lot. If you have flameplates that keeps them much cleaner. We should do it more often.

Less fires that way too. Heh.