Palin’s first interview – Does she really believe she is ‘ready’?
Posted by michellemoquin on September 12th, 2008
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You know I really wanted to write about something else this morning…focus on the good happening in this election…you know, the inspiring candidate who at the very least knows what the hell he is talking about….Obama, my choice for the president, the one I am supporting. I am giving Palin way too much airtime on my blog but everyday there is so much news on her I just can’t help but feel compelled to point out her stupidity.
Did you see ABC’s Charles Gibson interview Palin last night? Can this woman give a straight answer to a question?! Palin is unbelievable – It is so obvious that she has no idea what she is talking about in so many areas. You can see the frustration in Gibson’s face while he questions her. He has no respect for her, and I can only imagine what is going on in his mind. To me he clearly thinks she is incompetent to be running for veep. The way he just moves onto the next question not giving her any time to answer because she clearly does not have an answer worth listening to…an answer worthy of any further discussion.
Palin’s answer to the Bush Doctrine is ignorant. When Charlie clued her in on exactly what it is, let me tell you she was taking it all in as if she was in school. I could see a slight panic and embarrassment on her face. It was so revealing. I mean how could she not feel this way knowing she is running for a second in command position. Her face says it all. This is totally absurd and so scary.
When Gibson asked if she was ready to take on the second in command position and possibly the presidency, could she look the country in the eyes and say that she is ready (and he pointed to the camera). She couldn’t even look into the camera because everyone would know she was lying when she said she was ready, when she said that she thought yes right off the bat. BS. I don’t believe her. Ludicrous. Forget that what she stands for goes against everything I stand up for, she is clearly incompetent to run this country as a second and definitely not as our Commander in Chief.
She says, ‘You can’t blink..you have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission…I didn’t blink then even…’ Hello! Did you notice how often she blinks her eyes? She’s blinking them because she has no idea what to say. Believe me she’ll not only be blinking her eyes all right if she ends up in office but she’ll be burying her head, thinking “What the fuck am I doing here? I can’t handle this job.’ She’s dumbfounded. And her answers always lead back to protecting our country from the evil terrorists – once again inducing fear into the public – the repugnicants canned answer and attitude to everything. And the only answer she seems to give because she has nothing else to offer.
The only fear I have is her and McCain winning this election. I’m not worried about the evil terrorists outside of our country; I’m more concerned with the terrorists holding office and the ones running for office. They are the terrorists this country needs to be concerned about. I’m not going to apologize; it is truly how I feel. Remember the James Pence video that I posted? Maybe you should look at it again.
Can you tell I’m a bit riled over this? I wonder how revealing the next interview will be?
Lastly, if we elect McCain and Palin to run our country, we deserve everything we’re going to get.
I know I am not the only one feeling this way. Readers: Step up. Blog me. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Oops sorry. I was so focused on today’s write that I just now saw the banter between the anons from yesterday. I have not read it. Will catch up with all of you tomorrow.
Peace out…
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September 12th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Hey Misch, I just posted this on yesterdays entry, sorry…here it is…I was tired of Palin taking up my head space so I went with O’s handling of pig lips : )
OK, are there 2-3 different anon’s out there? Whatever…it’d be nice to have an identifier of some kind, you know, anonA, anonB, hahaha…
anyway, enough about Palin, check it out: http://www.lilliandevin.com/ ‘Obama taking care of biz – lipstick on a pig biz’ – oh and her ‘interview’ this am was kind of pathetic, I almost feel sorry for her, she’s clearly a mega-amateur, the body language of defensiveness was tough to watch, that’s just my opinion. anon from Alaska, I’m sure she’s a nice person but that’s not a qualifier for possible commander in chief, neither is governor w/pop less than 1/4 of NYC, sorry and that’s not a knock to small town living, not at all.
Ciao, have a Zen morning, ZL
September 12th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Dangerous Medication Risks for Seniors
Robert N. Butler, MD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Modern medications are so powerful that they both save lives and endanger them. After age 50, just when people are most likely to take several medications prescribed by multiple health professionals who often don’t communicate with each other, they become increasingly vulnerable to adverse drug reactions.
Reasons: Aging slows recovery… diminished liver and kidney functions result in altered metabolism and excretion. Also: Reapportionment of fat and lean body tissue changes drug distribution.
Surprising: The drugs most commonly implicated in adverse drug reactions are time-honored medications prescribed for chronic conditions.
Examples: Diuretics (water pills), such as hydrochlorothiazide (HydroDiuril) and furosemide (Lasix), to reduce fluid retention and blood pressure… oral anticoagulants (blood thinners), such as warfarin (Coumadin), to limit clotting after a heart attack or stroke.
DANGEROUS INTERACTIONS
An often-quoted 1998 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that in the US, more than 2.2 million people a year have serious adverse reactions to prescribed drugs and 100,000 of them die, making drug interactions one of the leading causes of hospitalization and death. Watch out for these…
Drug-food interactions. Some labels say, “Take with food.” Which food? Grapefruit juice often triggers a drug-food interaction that may be good (helps the body absorb certain AIDS drugs) or bad (deactivates some blood pressure drugs and cholesterol-lowering drugs). Oat bran also can make blood pressure medication less effective.
Solution: Ask your doctor or pharmacist which foods might affect the actions of your medications and how.
Although taking drugs with a meal may reduce stomach upset, food may delay the drug’s absorption, alter its characteristics or make its actions less predictable. Speak up — ask whether this applies to any medication you take.
Reduced body mass and increased fat make older people more sensitive to alcohol, which interacts with many commonly prescribed drugs and many commonly prescribed sleep aids, such as sedatives and hypnotics.
Danger: Alcohol is a major ingredient in many liquid medications, especially cough syrup.
Drug-drug interactions. Prescription drugs known for interacting with other drugs include cholesterol-lowering statins, such as atorvastatin (Lipitor) and pravastatin (Pravachol), and blood pressure-lowering antihypertensives, such as furosemide, propranolol (Inderal) and clonidine (Catapres).
Self-defense: Find out which potential interactions apply to each medication you take now… and whenever a new one is prescribed, ask your doctor and/or pharmacist which drugs or foods not to take with it. Perhaps just separating the food and the drug by two or three hours would be safer.
Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs can wreak as much havoc as prescription drugs.
Examples: Antacids, antihistamines and heavy use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as aspirin and ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin). According to an estimate by James Fries, MD, of the Stanford University School of Medicine, NSAID-induced gastrointestinal bleeding sends about 76,000 Americans to the hospital each year… and kills about 10% of them.
Antacids (Milk of Magnesia, Tums, Amphojel) can reduce the effectiveness of antibiotics, such as tetracycline and ciprofloxacin (Cipro)… antihypertensive drugs, such as propranolol and captopril (Capoten)… and heartburn drugs, such as ranitidine (Zantac) and famotidine (Pepcid AC). But antacids can also increase the potency of valproic acid (Depakote/Depakene), for seizures and bipolar disorder… sulfonylurea (Glucotrol), for diabetes… quinidine (Quin-Release), for arrhythmias… and levodopa (Larodopa), for Parkinson’s disease.
The older (first-generation) antihistamines, taken widely for allergies, colds and flu, can have dangerous interactions when taken with other drugs that cause drowsiness, such as antidepressants, alcohol, pain relievers, muscle relaxants and medications for seizures or anxiety.
Examples: Brompheniramine (in Robitussin Allergy & Cough) and doxylamine (in NyQuil).
The examples listed above are drops in the bucket. Check your own medications.
PERILOUS FALSE ALARM
Some drugs can drain certain vitamins from the body. If these vitamins aren’t replaced, resulting symptoms may mimic those of dementia or other age-related conditions.
Examples: Tuberculosis drugs can deplete vitamin B-6, leading to amnesia, and vitamin-B complex, leading to apparent senility. Seizure drugs (anticonvulsants) can deplete vitamin D, leading to hearing and walking problems and general weakness. An older person displaying characteristics that are associated with dementia may just have an easily corrected vitamin deficiency.
MEDICATION ERRORS
More than 7,000 deaths in US hospitals were caused by medication errors in a single year, according to a major report published in 1999 by the Institute of Medicine.
As it happens, the drugs found by the United States Pharmacopoeia* to be most frequently implicated in medication errors are commonly taken by seniors.
Examples: Insulin (for diabetes)… warfarin and heparin (to control clotting, such as in cardiovascular disease)… albuterol (Proventil, for asthma or bronchitis).
This year, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) asked hospitals to start providing every hospital patient with a list of all his/her prescribed medications and instructions for taking new ones. Patients, JCAHO said, should be encouraged to show the list to everyone providing care in the hospital, at any follow-up facility and after going home.
Have an advocate — a family member or friend — with you when you’re in the hospital. Anyone hospitalized in my family is attended by a relative night and day.
Potentially fatal danger: Poor communication about meds when a patient is moved, such as from a critical care unit to a general medical unit or from one health-care facility to another… or when nurses or other caregivers change shifts.
Self-defense: If you don’t get a list from the hospital, maintain and hand out a list of your own. A free brochure is available on-line from The Joint Commission at http://www.jointcommission.org/NR/exeres/FE60C8FE-FB0F-42D8-A118-6A773CC8D1BE.htm. Also, question every drug youre given by anyone, anywhere, anytime.
SOME NOT-SO-BENIGN HERBAL SUPPLEMENTS
If you take herbal supplements, ask your doctor or pharmacist whether these supplements can cause harmful side effects in combination with other herbals or medications. Some that can…
Supplement
Often taken for…
Interacts with…
Result…
GARLIC
Clotting reduction, lowering LDL cholesterol levels
Saw palmetto for prostate problems… ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) for arthritis or other pain… warfarin (Coumadin)
Potentially fatal internal bleeding
GINKGO
BILOBA
Memory loss, leg pain from narrowing arteries, tinnitus
Saw palmetto, ibuprofen
Potentially fatal internal bleeding
KAVA ROOT
(Kava Kava)
Anxiety, stress
Levodopa (Larodopa) for Parkinson’s disease… sleep, seizure and anxiety drugs
Reduces drugs’ effectiveness… liver failure, possible need for transplant
ST. JOHN’S
WORT
Depression
Cancer drugs, such as irinotecan (Camptosar), and HIV drugs, such as indinavir (Crixivan)
Reduces drugs’ effectiveness
*The nonprofit public standards-setting authority for prescription and OTC medicines, dietary supplements and other health-care products made and sold in the US.
September 12th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
With all of the different lies and misdeceptions and disinformation I am hoping to clear up all of the political madness…
Let me see if I have this straight…..
* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re ‘exotic, different.’
* If you grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, you’re a quintessential American story.
* If your name is Barack, you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* If you name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.
* If you graduate from Harvard law School, you are unstable.
* If you attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.
* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian.
* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system, while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you’re very responsible.
* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America’s.
* If you’re husband is nicknamed ‘First Dude’, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
OK, *much* clearer now.
I wish our press core would get a backbone and simply ask the relevant policy questions to which then all of the personality doodoo would get answered in its appropriate due time (fast) and without all of the fluff that covers everything. But, then we would find the truth so revealing that there would then be no need for a vote. The Repugnicants did quite well with their lies and disinformation during the Bush campaigns, but this is rediculous. If we can see all of the shit that is being thrown around this time the the Repugnicants, what does that show us that would take place in their White House…?
Just get to the basics and the rest will easily take care of itself. Obama and Biden can certainly stand on their own when it is against the truth for both campaign rivals.
Maybe the corporate press will get a backbone someday…
September 13th, 2008 at 7:44 am
How to Catch Billing Mistakes
Edgar Dworsky, JD
ConsumerWorld.org
Overcharges by companies — cell-phone service providers, credit card issuers, utilities, banks and more — are commonplace. In fact, they could be costing you hundreds of dollars a year.
These errors aren’t deliberate. Companies point out that overbilling actually costs them money because customer service representatives must spend valuable time dealing with the resulting billing complaints.
Bottom line: It’s up to you to scrutinize what you are charged and then question what you don’t understand. Here are the most common billing mistakes and how to handle them…
BANKS
Common errors: Misapplied charges, such as check-writing fees when you signed up for free checking… bounced check fees when your account has overdraft protection… out-of-network automated teller machine (ATM) fees when you didn’t use an ATM outside your bank’s network.
What to do: Call the number on your statement within 60 days from the date your statement was mailed — most will quickly remove such fees.
UTILITY COMPANIES
Common errors: Reading the meter incorrectly… bills based on estimated usage — when a reading cannot be obtained — that are wildly over the mark. Estimated usage is based on your patterns over the past year, so charges might even reflect errors on past bills.
What to do: Demonstrate that the reading is incorrect by taking a picture of the meter or scheduling a time for the utility company to send a meter reader to your home. Check the reading with him/her, and write down the number yourself. If the amount doesn’t match what appears on your bill, report the error to the utility company. If the problem goes unresolved, contact your state public utilities commission (listed in your phone book).
TELEPHONE COMPANIES
Common errors: Charges you paid in the previous month that appear on your bill again because they weren’t credited to your account… fees for services you didn’t order, such as call-waiting… unreasonably high charges because a discount plan you signed up for was discontinued. Example: Your plan had a rate of five cents per minute for calls to Canada. Several months later, the plan was discontinued, but you never saw the notice. Your new rate is 25 cents a minute.
What to do: Complain to the phone company. It may correct your bill and offer to switch you to another plan that will save you some money — it might charge you less than 25 cents but more than five cents. In general, you should report mistakes and/or overcharges to your phone company as soon as you receive your statement. You have 60 days to dispute unauthorized pay-per-call charges.
Helpful: Consider a one-price plan — for instance, an unlimited monthly domestic calling plan as part of your long-distance service. Anything you can do to simplify the number of charges on your bill will reduce the likelihood of mistakes and save you time when scrutinizing the bill.
STORES
Common error: An item scans for a higher price than the one marked.
What to do: Of course, you should ask for the correct price, but because scanner mistakes happen frequently, it’s worthwhile to shop at stores that have “price accuracy guarantees.” This means that if there’s a mistake, you get the item for free, or in the case of expensive items, you may get $3 to $10 off the correct price. Guarantees are offered by many drugstores and supermarkets.
HOTELS
Common errors: Mistaken charges for use of the minibar, movie rentals and telephone calls from your room. A recent study by Corporate Lodging Consultants found that 11% of all hotel bills are incorrect. Guests were overcharged an average of $11 per stay. Reasons: The complex structure of rates and fees… and the hotel industry has become lax about mistakes because business travelers rarely complain. Many business travelers figure it’s not worth fighting inaccurate charges if the expenses are going to be paid by their employers anyway.
What to do: If you use a hotel’s express checkout service, take a moment to review your bill for obvious mistakes. Get an employee or customer rep ID number when confirming a negotiated rate for a room — or ask to be E-mailed a confirmation. Caution: Credit card issuers generally won’t credit you back the money if a dispute with a travel vendor is over a rate discrepancy.
CREDIT CARDS
Common errors: Charges from a former service provider that you no longer use… extra charges tacked on by your card company, such as credit insurance or other services it sells and you don’t want… a merchant’s failure to post a credit for returned items… charges for services or goods that you ordered and never received.
What to do: Federal law requires that you first try to resolve the mistake with the company that overcharged you, not the credit card issuer. Technically, to dispute the charge with your credit card company, you must make the request in writing. Practically speaking, many people just call their card issuer. Review your credit card bills on-line once a week. You’re more likely to remember what you bought and spot mistakes than if you wait for paper statements to arrive the following month. Also, you’ll have fewer items to check than at the end of the month.