[EdGreene]

I have to participate in a conference on Diabetes Tuesday, then I'm off to NYC (Brooklyn) after that until after June 1.
*I recently (March) wrote a 3 part series on Diabetes in our weekly paper and now, the community has me down as some sort of "expert" on Diabetes-Ha!
Anyway, I'll get the usual rubber Chicken lunch and have exactly 12 minutes for my presentation.

I'll keep an eye on TSG but I'll be way busy closing out my Dad's affairs and helping Mom get thing in order around the house.
**I m constantly appalled at how repair people swindle the elderly on home repairs, selling them worthless insurance-etc.
At least with me in the house teling them precisely what is to be done Mom gets a good job at a fair price:
(I'll "shop" the buggers, making them give us bids for the jobs).
I imagine everyone has an "elderly ripped off" story they could tell. While Dad was alive, contractors-sales people had to contend with him.
He would escort them into the parlor, and stand in front of the 11 x 14 photo of him in his deputy Commisioner of Prisons uniform while he talked.
*He always got the right price
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"AIRBORNE"!-had to get that in!
Q. "How many US Army Paratroopers does it take to whip one US Marine"?
A. "Ten. Nine to shake him out of the tree, one to kick his asphidistra"!

Democrats are warm blooded; Republicans are cold hearted

If a Dubya and a Yellow dog were running for President...I'd vote for the Yellow dog

Democrats have done more for the poor, the sick, the lame, the halt and downtrodden accidently, than Republicans have ever done for them on purpose

As for all:

take care...even you LAN
PS: Hey Al-Firdaus: "May the fleas of a thousand Camels infest your Mother's armpits"

[jackal969k]

Good luck and safe journeys Ed!

[valley]

Originally Posted by EdGreene

I have to participate in a conference on Diabetes Tuesday, then I'm off to NYC (Brooklyn) after that until after June 1.

Have a safe trip, Ed. Dont forget to come back or we'll be forced to come looking for you.

[angelize56]

Have a nice trip Ed! Since I have IDDM let me know if you learn anything new! Take care! angel

[columbo]

Take care Ed.

[EdGreene]

That any would care but it's good to know some do...
Makes things better.

I read today that tens of thousands of well paid workers who used to make home furniture and kitchen and bath cabinets and the like in the US, (mostly in the South), have been laid off.
Seems the Japanese and now the Chinese are, under the aegis of "Free Trade", been buying up thousands of acres of raw trees in the Northwest US (Washington, Oregon, Wyoming-etc.) and shipping them to factories owned by the Japanese and Chinese (but "off-shore" from Japan And China), turning the raw timber into furniture and shipping the "trees" back as value added wood and wood derivative products.
What blipping the %#&(* reckafletsin @@*&#$ next; they gonna buy cows and ship back frozen hamburgers and steaks?
*I have no idea of how American fruit growers are making it when I can buy Red seedless Peruvian grown Grapes for .99 cents a pound? What's that all about?

What kind of country (President-Party-a$$hole(s) literally gives away their trees by damn? How frippin-frappin foolish can one knuckle-dragging Party (And "Free Trader" Clinton) be?
We've been set-up folks, the country is making a "Giant sucking sound" (jobs and money being sucked out of this country) as more and more raw materials and jobs are sent to foriegn countries and coming back to us as value added products.

It was one thing to close down our steel mills, or even a whole town in Ohio that once made "Maidenform" bras and girdles.
*[i]The whole damn town had about 2,000 jobs (800 of them at Maidenform, with about another 250 jobs that supplied the Maidenform plant).
When Maidenform closed and shipped the construction of Bras and girdles overseas, the town began to slowly gag to death.
It is quite another thing when our raw materials get sold for pennies and come back as whole dollar products.

We (Americans, buying imported cars) turned the upper mid-west into the now pejoratively famous "Rust Belt".
*Hundai is a big player now in the American Automobile market. A Korean car, "Big player"? "Hundai"? "Big Player"? You bet your sweet bippy it is and all because we Americans put up with the four-wheel trash they first began shipping over here.
We (American consumers) said: "Make it better" and they did and we can't get enough of them suckers.

As American home builders and buyers buy the value added trees back to fill new houses, we Americans are getting the double shaft...or can't we see that?

Can anybody hear me screaming?

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by EdGreene

take care...even you LAN
PS: Hey Al-Firdaus: "May the fleas of a thousand Camels infest your Mother's armpits"

Thank you, Ed .... for BOTH of those sentiments.

You mentioned, "closing out my Dad's affairs." If you had a recent loss of your Dad, I must say that I am truly sorry, and extend my sincere condolences.

[valley]

thanks for pointing that out, Lan. Missed the obvious implication in what he said.

My condolences as well, Ed. I lost my father-in-law a few years ago. He was 85. I had to fight off so many salesmen who tried to swindle him into buying a bunch of crap he didnt need. Someone even conned him into buying a 13 hundred dollar vacuum cleaner one day while we werent there. The man could barely walk at the time, let alone vacuum and shampoo the floors, for goodness sake!

Hope you get your mom straightened around ok.

[pyritechips]

they gonna buy cows and ship back frozen hamburgers and steaks?

They've been doing that for a long time now - Slash and burn clearing of the rainforests to creeate graving land for cattle. I refuse to buy the canned corned beef, "product of Argentina"

Closing out your dad's affairs? Did you lose your Dad and I missed it. I feel terrible. Forgive me if I missed offering condolences. I also lost my Dad recently and the pain is still fresh and sharp.

[bassetman]

Take care Ed!

[eggplant43]

Hope everything goes smoothly, and we'll talk when you get back.

[Infidel_Kastro]

My condolences also Ed. We'll see you when you return and we'll continue the sparring, until then, may you and your family be well.

[plschwartz]

My condolences to you and your faily Ed.

Just as a flyer figured I would post this NYC event

Sam Waterston, the actor who has often interpreted Lincoln for modern audiences, said that Lincoln's address on Feb. 27, 1860, was "a lengthy political argument that was supposed to be heard, and not read.''

"I'd be interested," he said, "to find out if an audience can sit still for it now.''

The answer will be forthcoming Wednesday. At 6:30 p.m., Mr. Waterston is to recreate the original speech at its original interminable length in its original locale, the Great Hall of Cooper Union at East Seventh Street and Fourth Avenue. And Mr. Waterston will hold forth from what is believed to be the original 3-foot-8-inch lectern. But instead of the original admission price - 25 cents - this time entry will be free to all.....

The conclusion of the address must have been thrilling: The Times reported that "three rousing cheers were given for the orator and the sentiments to which he had given utterance.''

Four newspapers, including The Times, reprinted the entire address the following morning. "He had a public-relations sense - it was the spin-doctoring of the era,'' said Mr. Holzer, who noted that Lincoln read proofs of his speech at The New-York Tribune later that night to ensure their accuracy.

(In the interest of full disclosure, it should be noted that Henry J. Raymond, while he was editor of The New-York Times, served not only as the chairman of the Republican National Committee, but was also Lincoln's national campaign manager for his successful 1864 re-election campaign.)

After his triumph, Lincoln intensified his public-relations campaign with the virtually unprecedented step of taking the speech on the road in three different states. Soon, Republican organizations around the nation began reprinting Lincoln's address in an abundance of pamphlets. Three months later, Lincoln, known even then as "old Abe," won the nomination.

In the end, Dr. Donald said, the Cooper Union appearance transformed Lincoln from an Illinois favorite son "into a viable presidential contender."

[columbo]

Didn't he play the assistant DA on Law and Order?

[plschwartz]

Yes he does.
Law and order has several stars who have legitmate credentials.
Jerry Orbach was a B'way song and Dance man.