Several years ago hypertension (> 200 / 100) drove me to cut back on, well, everything. I was virtually vegan, hence my gall bladder had virtually nothing to do.

          A couple of years ago, I had what seemed to be a severe angina attack. As the med tech was doing the ultrasound routine, she said, incredulously, "I can't find it !". I asked, "What ?" It turns out she could not find one of the standard "mile posts" the gall bladder.

          My radical shift in diet had allow my gall bladder to waste away to virtually nothing before generating any noticeable symptoms. The punch line: My still very concerned (Dr House like) cardiologist stopped by my room and out of curiosity performed a nystagmus test. He looked crestfallen as he muttered "vestibular migraines" and wandered off, no longer interested in my case.

          Funniest comic routine ever . . . I wish I had a video of it all. So instead of angina, and minor strokes all these years, I have been experiencing vestibular migraine attacks. So, they removed the "sludge and rocks" and sent me on my way. And, I now carry a card (in case I ever get pulled over) explaining why a field sobriety test doesn't work.

          Ain't life a hoot.

It's why I mentioned him. And will keep doing so. Hopefully, he'll see the balloons and come on over!

          the Lesser Sandhill Cranes are flying south today, and they live their lives on the edge of winter.

had a lot to do with it as well. I don't see that guy as being the most ethical person on the 'intertubes'. He's a big old hypocrite too.

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SNIPPET FROM SMOKING HOT POLITICAL JUNKIES

On April 29, 2008 – a period where the campaign between then-candidate Obama and Clinton was anything but foregone – Markos Moulitsas didn’t sit on his lofty perch and plead for party unity. He didn’t halt his own rhetoric to preserve it. He was bashing Clinton:

Clinton going on O’Reilly, at the end of the day, shows she’ll do anything in the pursuit of power . . . It’s an ugly trait.

In a May 2008 story on Slate.com, Moulitsas said of Hillary Clinton,

She’s already ignored and belittled every state and voter demographic that doesn’t support her. So it only follows that since in her world, the only things that are important are things that support her, she’d ignore election results in favor of the one (outdated) poll that confirms her manufactured reality.

On March 15, 2008, Markos Moulitsas, writing for the Washington Post, made the same arguments against Clinton that Bernie supporters are making today:

She is a leader who fails to lead. She does not appear ‘electable’ . . . activists will be demanding the sort of change that can come only from outside the Beltway. Hillary Clinton leads her Democratic rivals in the polls and in fundraising. Unfortunately, however, the New York senator is part of a failed Democratic Party establishment . . . And therein lie Hillary Clinton’s biggest problems. She epitomizes the ‘insider’ label of the early crowd of 2008 Democratic contenders. She’s part of the Clinton machine that decimated the national Democratic Party. And she remains surrounded by many of the old consultants who counsel meekness and caution. […] Afraid to offend, she has limited her policy proposals to minor, symbolic issues—such as co-sponsoring legislation to ban flag burning. She doesn’t have a single memorable policy or legislative accomplishment to her name . . . The last thing we need is yet another Democrat afraid to stand on principle . . . her advisers have stripped what personality she has, hiding it from the public . . . what remains is a heartless, passionless machine, surrounded by the very people who ground down the activist base in the 1990s and have continued to hold the party’s grassroots in utter contempt. The operation is rudderless, without any sign of significant leadership. And to top it off, a sizable number of Democrats don’t think she could win a general election, anyway. Can Hillary Clinton overcome those impediments? . . . we have attractive alternatives to back (and fund) . . . Her obstacles are big, and from this vantage point, possibly insurmountable.

http://smokinghotpoliticaljunkies.com/markos-moulitsas-clinton-bashed-we...

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Like I said, I think the money has something to do with it.

endorsed Hillary.
I'd see those and just shake my head.
They thought that they were endorsing her because of Trump instead of because they thought that Trump was such a bad candidate.
They endorsed her because they believed in her agendas.
Bill would have privatized SS if the Monica Lewinsky scandal hadn't happened.
Newt and the democrats that were on board with him had to distance themselves from him after that.

“Donald, you and I have had our differences, but here we are now, here’s what you’re gonna need to know. First of all, these are the s.o.b.’s you’re gonna have to watch out for. I’m talking about people who—there’s a certain culture in some agencies. A certain thinking that’s been around since the 1950s and ’60s, that they’re above, or beyond the reach of, the president. Some even think they can—if they don’t get what they want, or if their own grand plan or parochial interests are being threatened—they can, you know, remove the president. You and I have both had to deal with the Mafia in our time. You know what I’m saying. So, at all times, watch your back. Ideology has nothing to do with it. It’s just power. So anyway, the first one is—”

candidate ever to grace the ballots.

And what does that say about Hillary?

          A different interpretation from a different point of view: Perhaps there is a systemic problem. Perhaps the Ides of March surge was a change in policy designed to counter the long decline trend. The anticipated recovery suffered some set backs as certain well respected individuals vacated TOP. Then as you point out the final culling may have begun.

          I have very little experience with TOP, but I think the long slow decline is significant.

I never instigated anything but only had one HR'd comment. And I was in the Women for Bernie group. I don't know if they delete an account for being inactive for a certain number of months.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/10/1596337/-WTF-s-wrong-with-us-...
comment posted by Avila 11/10 - 10:56 pm.
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Now please know, I hear 'forgive them for they know not what they do' in my head but hey, I ain't Christ and no one dissing the disabled gets a pass from me.