INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours
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good thing about being small...tank tops are just fine...good luck finding a comfy bra queenie. Never could myself cause of swelling under arms that never went away. Lucky I can be bra less
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Smaarty: 00oo, that is cheap. Good post-surgery bras, then?
Susan3: (makes 'harrumph' face) Once things settle down, I'm hoping to return to the Playtex 18 hour. But for now, one of my incisions runs right along where the bands meet the cups on those.
Politics: (shudders)
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Queenie, I wore surgical bras for first couple weeks. Only these since. They worked fine when I had the dog ears removed in the office, so yes, good for right after.
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Smaarty: I'm on board with these, then! I expect I'll want a bit more support than scooshy-Hanes bras can provide once the swelling starts going down, but not yet ready for seamed bras.
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The only good thing about Trump is that if he's running as the candidate... it's the biggest motivator in history for every democrat to vote. So it's helping the cause. Guess what side I am on? Ok No more politics.. I'm the "sorry there's one in every family" a black sheep who defected. My Dad used to laugh and say "it's that commie ba*tard you married.." Haha.. My DH (before we were married) came back from 8 week in Communist China with a graduate student exchange program. He brought my die hard Republican father a Mao hat with a big red star! Truly my father's expression was one of the greatest ever to happen on a human face! Makes me belly laugh now years later just to remember.. my Dad with a Mao hat.. I should have taken a photo. About as likely as Donald with a Mao hat! Wouldn't that be rich!!
We gave our pups a squeaky gingerbread man to play toss with! Ohhh they so love the new treasure. Ruby our 16 pound terrier snipped off the foot and started in on the stuffing. She's trying to get the sqeaker out. Our border collie will play toss till she drops and not tear her toys up. What is it about terriers?? Right now gingerboy is on the mantel... safe until monitored!
All this bra talk.. stopped wearing bras in 2008. The girls came off and so did the bra. I have lymphadema in my left arm and the bra made the swelling much worse, so I don't miss it.
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Rose: (giggling until soda came out of my nose) Can't imagine my father in a Mao hat at all! Dad and I haven't talked much about politics for a few years now. Not that I'm a black sheep or anything.
As for bras, never been crazy about the bleep things. And now I have to fuss with special ones! Criminy. I've thought in my low moments that mightn't miss bras, had things gone differently for me, but I apologize if I've bothered you with bringing it up at all.
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Heavens NOOO!! It doesn't bother me a bit and even if it did, that's what the BCO boards are best at exchanging info to make this journey better. I miss having a normal shape. With my ascites... I look pot bellied, flat chested. Not a good look. Oh well. Got to say the Mao hat was the best joke my DH ever pulled. My Dad was kidding about the commie ba*tard part. He's dead now and they always got along.
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Spookie has temporarily left the building.
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Rose: phew. I didn't think it would, but wanted to make sure!
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sas said " Obama has issued more Executive Orders than any president in hx."
That is simply not true. I can't post links, but all you have to do is google "number of executive orders by president". I don't know where you're getting your news from (though I could make an educated guess) but you might consider a more reliable source.
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And the only reason Obama uses executive orders in because if the GOP congress refuses to cooperate and do their elected jobs.
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Spookie- Chicken! Ha ha... Merry Merry... holiday ban on politics. Besides I feel so awful this morning... wildly nauseous. Trying to distract myself. ugh.. not working. Cancer sucks.
Be well... somebody has to!
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Will read back but just popping on. PBS is running program on Christmas in Europe new for 2015
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Okay you guys..... I don't think we should talk about politics, because we are not going to agree. I mean you could hit me over the head with facts, and I would still think I had to check them out. I don't like some politicians, and lately my list has grown a LOT!
I don't want to be afraid for my country, and I don't like radical views, and I trust all the other Americans will know a lot better than I do, who to vote for....
It's just heart-breaking for our 2 parties to fight, and not agree.... And they need each other to get anything done! One man, isn't going to "fix" this country..... I just hope and pray we will all be okay...... IMOHO.....
Okay.... now what will we talk about....Oh wait! Rosie..... Exactly..... let's talk about something nice.... or fun! And hoping you are feeling better!
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good idea Chevy. Let's all find sexy santas. Be careful!
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and let's not forget Santa's helper!
Nobody choke on their coffee!! 🙄0 -
Good morning ladies- waking up to a bit o rain here this morning which we need. Enjoying some Starbucks Xmas blend and enjoying slow start to my day. I slept in, which felt good and is quite rare for me.
I love how this thread goes EVERYWHERE from politics to Xmas porn! You guys crack me up!
I am going to a holiday concert tonight to see a group called the Ten Tenors. Here is a clip for you!
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ah come on jazzy! You couldn't find one??
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OMD, I jump on for the first time in days and go straight to the last page and see the porn and politics stuff. I agree, Jazzy, gotta love these women! I'll catch up now that I have the last eye surgery over and healing. My lipo knees are still sore and face is still sore - probably won't do that again. But I'm hoping to see better now that both eye lenses/cataracts are done. Gonna leave the chest lopsided. Don't want to mess with that at all.
Hope all is having a good Saturday!
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Oh Jazzy, could you take me with you??
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I prefer sexy men in clothes....
Could you believe this is what Google gives me?? On the search again...
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Loveroflife life, they have a Xmas album you can buy!
Wow, check this one out. I love this song and hard to follow the vocals of Freddie Mercury, but what a great job!
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Obama has issued more executive orders than any U.S. president in history
Posted on February 17, 2015 by Dr. Eowyn
Whenever conservatives object to the POS using Executive Orders to take unilateral action in disregard of Congress, his defenders inevitably trot out the fact that President George W. Bush had issued more Executive Orders than Obama. Indeed, as of Nov. 21, 2014, Obama has issued 194 Executive Orders, whereas George W. had signed 291 Executive Orders in the 8 years he was in office. (Wikipedia)
In so doing, the Left are merely repeating what Obama himself had said in a speech in Austin last July, "The truth is, even with all the actions I've taken this year, I'm issuing executive orders at the lowest rate in more than 100 years. So it's not clear how it is that Republicans didn't seem to mind when President Bush took more executive actions than I did."
However, what Obama and his defenders conveniently leave out is this:
Obama, cunningly, also deploys another form of executive action known as the presidential or executive memorandum, and he has issued those memoranda more often than any other president in history.
There is no constitutional provision or statute that explicitly permits either Executive Order or Executive Memorandum. Both are forms of executive orders (note the small e and o) or directives, and both have the full force of law.
As Gregory Korte points out in a thoughtful and informative article in USA Today, Dec. 17, 2014:
President Obama has issued a form of executive action known as the presidential memorandum more often than any other president in history — using it to take unilateral action even as he has signed fewer executive orders.
When these two forms of directives [executive orders and executive memos] are taken together, Obama is on track to take more high-level executive actions than any president since Harry Truman ….
Obama has issued executive orders to give federal employees the day after Christmas off, to impose economic sanctions and to determine how national secrets are classified. He's used presidential memoranda to make policy on gun control, immigration and labor regulations. Tuesday, he used a memorandum to declare Bristol Bay, Alaska, off-limits to oil and gas exploration.
Like executive orders, presidential memoranda don't require action by Congress. They have the same force of law as executive orders and often have consequences just as far-reaching. And some of the most significant actions of the Obama presidency have come not by executive order but by presidential memoranda.
Obama has made prolific use of memoranda despite his own claims that he's used his executive power less than other presidents…. Obama has issued 195 executive orders as of Tuesday. Published alongside them in the Federal Register are 198 presidential memoranda — all of which carry the same legal force as executive orders….
Obama is not the first president to use memoranda to accomplish policy aims. But at this point in his presidency, he's the first to use them more often than executive orders…even as he's quietly used memoranda to signal policy changes to federal agencies….
While executive orders have become a kind of Washington shorthand for unilateral presidential action, presidential memoranda have gone largely unexamined. And yet memoranda are often as significant to everyday Americans than executive orders.Executive Orders are numbered; Obama's begin with #13489. Memoranda are not numbered, not indexed and, until recently, difficult to quantify.
Kenneth Lowande, a political science doctoral student at the University of Virginia, counted up memoranda published in the Code of Federal Regulations since 1945. In an article published in the December issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly, he found that memoranda appear to be replacing executive orders.
Indeed, many of Obama's memoranda do the kinds of things previous presidents did by executive order. "If you look at some of the titles of memoranda recently, they do look like and mirror executive orders," Lowande said. The difference may be one of political messaging in that an "executive order immediately evokes potentially damaging questions of 'imperial overreach'" whereas memorandum sounds less threatening.
Another difference between Executive Orders and Executive Memoranda, ironically, is spelled out in an Executive Order. Executive Order 11030, signed by President Kennedy in 1962, says that an Executive Order must contain a "citation of authority," saying what law it's based on, but Executive Memoranda have no such requirement.
Whatever they're called — whether executive order or executive memorandum or "presidential determination" or "presidential notice," those executive actions are binding on future administrations unless explicitly revoked by a future president, according to legal opinion from the Justice Department.
The Office of Legal Counsel signs off on the legality of executive orders and memoranda. During the first year of Obama's presidency, the Office of Legal Counsel asked Congress for a 14.5% budget increase, justifying its request in part by noting "the large number of executive orders and presidential memoranda that has been issued."
Below are some examples of Obama's executive memoranda:
In his State of the Union Address in January 2014, Obama proposed a new retirement savings account for low-income workers called a MyRA. The next week, he issued a presidential memorandum to the Treasury Department instructing it to develop a pilot program. In April, Obama directed the Department of Labor to collect salary data from federal contractors and subcontractors to monitor whether they're paying women and minorities fairly. In June, Obama told the Department of Education to allow certain borrowers to cap their student loan payments at 10% of income. Obama issued three presidential memoranda after the 2012 Sandy Hook school-shooting false flag:- ordering federal law enforcement agencies to trace any firearm that's part of a federal investigation;
- expanding the data available to the national background check system; and
- instructing federal agencies to conduct research into the causes and possible solutions to gun violence.
The most controversial Obama executive memorandum is his amnesty-to-illegals memo, which both congressional Republicans and many states say exceeds his authority. Please see my next post (to come) on the rulings of two federal judges on Obama's amnesty executive memo.
~Éowyn
Dr. Eowyn's post first appeared at Fellowship of the Minds.
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USA today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/12/16/obama-presidential-memoranda-executive-orders/20191805/
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Album is not the same as live. Jazzy, how do you post video from YouTube?
Ok I found a few, but they are not in Christmas costumes.
I know I am so boring. Something about eyes and collar shirt.
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I want the elf that Smarrty posted, the one with the little green shorts
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Loveroflife- yes, I know what you mean. Live concerts are the best!
Last year I went to a Michael McDonald concert and did a meet and greet with him. I have a photo of us together. Too bad he is married, he would make an awesome boyfriend.
To post a link, go to the tool bar above and to the right of where you see the little picture icon. Click on the link icon and choose Insert Link, and copy the link into URL field and then you can type in any other TEXT below for what you want to call it. Once you have it done, click INSERT and it will put it on your post. I like to check the link via the Preview function below before I post it to make sure it works?
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Sassy in the name of decency hang it up. Hang stockings.. lights and holly.
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Mema, do you want to arm wrestle me for that cute elf....
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I hear you Sas, been watching what he's been doing since 2010 and Obamacare. What a mess he's made. All informed people around the world know it
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