I'm up much earlier than usual & I like it. Woke up at 7:45a this morning which for our schedule is pretty early. I'm getting used to spending ALL my time alone these days. Pete has been either working straight through the weekend at work (all 7 days) or he's been out campaigning this past weekend. Weekends were supposed to be for family, but I guess there's always something more important. :( I've got a Netflix account that we hardly ever use anymore & it's not worth the money. If we
only watch movies on Saturday, but no one is ever here on Saturday ... this DVD has been collecting dust for a long time now. One of the things I needed help with was coloring my hair, but that's not going to happen now. I was hoping to order out for lunch yesterday but 1st it was "too early", then he ate lunch without me, then I had to wait until dinner to eat. Eh ... not been enjoying the weekends for a while now. I'm hoping this changes soon. A lot of things on
the weekend get skipped if it's just me. I started out Saturday with French toast for breakfast & then got to work cleaning the house. I Windexed the bathroom mirror, changed the bedding & the afghan on the sofa, fed the cats & dogs, dusted the dining room blinds & kitchen light, did 2 loads of laundry, Windexed the televisions, dusted my PC, & swept the bedroom. I grilled burgers, but it was just Kyle & I. Kyle was hungry though, so nothing was left over. He
ate 3½ burgers. Where does he put it? He's a stick. I finished the panel on the knitting machine that I had started previously, checked out some YouTube videos, went through the mail, checked Twitter, & then loaded up Sims. I worked on LizC864 11 & finished the laundry room, kitchen, dining room, & great room. It's looking good so far & I like it. After that I loaded up Nottingham. Queen (2nd gen) was born into the game & she's easily impressed, insane, a Libra who likes classical music, autumn salad, & the color Irish green. She's still a baby. When Pete finally got home I took a shower & we went out to dinner at TGI Fridays. I really like their Jack Daniels baby back ribs! It figures though, as soon as we leave the FD gets toned out to an unauthorized burn. When we got home we watched TV & headed off to bed. Sunday Pete was right back out on the campaign trail. Over half of the signs he had put out were STOLEN. Sign posts & all. How do we know they were stolen? Easy. We haven't had any stormy or windy weather, the signs his were right next to were still there, & they weren't on the ground. The post had been pulled right out of the dirt & they were gone! That's theft, plain & simple. It's theft from me because I paid for the signs. It's theft from Pete because he was the one using the signs, & it was theft from the city because the city loaned us the sign posts. Talk about dirty politics ... these people have NO morals, they don't mind mud-slinging, they don't mind flat out lying, & they apparently theft doesn't bother them either. THESE are the types of people we have living in this pretty little town. Not so pretty. I could go on & on about the stuff that goes on in this little country town. It's horrible. Get out there & vote tomorrow! We need BIG changes across the board ... in both our cute little town AND in D.C. The way it is now is unacceptable. While Pete was out replacing his signs Sunday morning & then hitting the campaign trail I was home getting my day started with an Eggo waffle. I went through the Sunday paper, checked facebook, went through my email, started another panel on the knitting machine, & then loaded up Sims & played Glenborough. Gary is my 2nd generation Sim who's easily impressed, hates the outdoors, is artistic, an Aries who likes French music, fried peanut butter & banana sandwiches, & the color sea foam. He's rebellious & wants to be a professional author. He's also a bookworm. He was SO successful that he broke records among all my Sims. By the time his child was school-aged, he had already completed his lifetime wish & had a whopping 118,000+ lifetime wish points racked up. He cranks out the best-sellers & his weekly royalties is over $7,000 & growing. As a young adult, only halfway to fully mature adult he was able to afford an age freeze potion (he could have gotten this much MUCH sooner if he wanted), so he's now immortal. He married the repair Sim who came to fix his PC one day (I have no idea how he met NO ONE in school all that time). Her name is Theresa Engel. They had a son named Neo (3rd generation). Neo is excitable & disciplined. He's a Scorpio who likes roots music, vegetarian dim sum, & the color grey. He's also a coward. Gary adopted Maya for Neo. A cute little French Bulldog puppy who's skittish & hydrophobic. After Sims when Pete finally got home late from campaigning, we picked Josh up from work, I cooked a great Teriyaki pork chop dinner with stuffing & then we watched TV & went to bed ... earlier than normal which is why I was up so early this morning. I even had time to check for new iPhone apps & do my weekly app update already. Don't forget to go out & VOTE tomorrow if you haven't already. It's important. Remember ... if you don't vote, you have NO right to complain after the fact. On the other hand, if you have NO opinion, don't care, or don't know who to vote for, stay out of it. Closing your eyes & voting for someone at random isn't helpful, it's dangerous. Don't do it. This isn't the Lotto ... picking random people is bad. There was a guy here installing a new electric meter ... the new one is all digital. Hmmm ... easier to read.
On this day in 2009, 13 people are killed and 32 others are wounded when
a U.S. Army officer goes on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in central
Texas. The bloody assault was allegedly carried out by Major Nidal
Hasan, an Army psychiatrist.
Early in the afternoon of November 5, 39-year-old Hasan, armed with two pistols, allegedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” (Arabic for “God is great”) and then opened fire at a crowd inside a Fort Hood processing center where soldiers who were about to be deployed overseas or were returning from deployment received medical screenings. The massacre, which left 12 service members and one Department of Defense employee dead, lasted approximately 10 minutes before Hasan was shot by civilian police and taken into custody.
The Virginia-born Hasan was the son of Palestinian immigrants who ran a Roanoke restaurant and convenience store and entered active military duty following his 1995 graduation from Virginia Tech University. In 2003, he completed his psychiatry training at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, and went on to work at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., treating soldiers returning from war with post-traumatic stress disorder. In May 2009, he was promoted to the rank of major in the Army, and that July, was transferred to Fort Hood. Located near the city of Killeen, Fort Hood, which includes 340 square miles of facilities and homes, is the largest active-duty U.S. military post. At the time of the shootings, more than 50,000 military personnel lived and worked there, along with thousands more family members and civilian personnel.
The motivation for the massacre at Fort Hood remains unclear. At the time of the shootings, Hasan was facing deployment to a combat zone in Afghanistan or Iraq, about which he apparently had voiced reluctance. Additionally, several years prior to the attack, he told relatives he wanted to leave the Army, where he believed he was harassed for being a Muslim. In the aftermath of the shootings, reviews by the Pentagon and a U.S. Senate panel found Hasan’s superiors had continued to promote him despite the fact that concerns had been raised over his behavior, which suggested he had become a radical and potentially violent Islamic extremist. Among other things, he reportedly publicly defended Osama bin Laden and said America’s war on terror was really a war against Islam. Prior to the Fort Hood rampage, government authorities reportedly also learned Hasan had repeated communication with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric and proponent of violent jihad against America; however, this information about Hasan was apparently not reported to the Army.
Hasan, who is paralyzed from the waist down as a result of shots fired at him by police attempting to stop his rampage, remains in a Texas jail awaiting trial.
Early in the afternoon of November 5, 39-year-old Hasan, armed with two pistols, allegedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” (Arabic for “God is great”) and then opened fire at a crowd inside a Fort Hood processing center where soldiers who were about to be deployed overseas or were returning from deployment received medical screenings. The massacre, which left 12 service members and one Department of Defense employee dead, lasted approximately 10 minutes before Hasan was shot by civilian police and taken into custody.
The Virginia-born Hasan was the son of Palestinian immigrants who ran a Roanoke restaurant and convenience store and entered active military duty following his 1995 graduation from Virginia Tech University. In 2003, he completed his psychiatry training at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, and went on to work at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., treating soldiers returning from war with post-traumatic stress disorder. In May 2009, he was promoted to the rank of major in the Army, and that July, was transferred to Fort Hood. Located near the city of Killeen, Fort Hood, which includes 340 square miles of facilities and homes, is the largest active-duty U.S. military post. At the time of the shootings, more than 50,000 military personnel lived and worked there, along with thousands more family members and civilian personnel.
The motivation for the massacre at Fort Hood remains unclear. At the time of the shootings, Hasan was facing deployment to a combat zone in Afghanistan or Iraq, about which he apparently had voiced reluctance. Additionally, several years prior to the attack, he told relatives he wanted to leave the Army, where he believed he was harassed for being a Muslim. In the aftermath of the shootings, reviews by the Pentagon and a U.S. Senate panel found Hasan’s superiors had continued to promote him despite the fact that concerns had been raised over his behavior, which suggested he had become a radical and potentially violent Islamic extremist. Among other things, he reportedly publicly defended Osama bin Laden and said America’s war on terror was really a war against Islam. Prior to the Fort Hood rampage, government authorities reportedly also learned Hasan had repeated communication with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric and proponent of violent jihad against America; however, this information about Hasan was apparently not reported to the Army.
Hasan, who is paralyzed from the waist down as a result of shots fired at him by police attempting to stop his rampage, remains in a Texas jail awaiting trial.
On this day in 2008, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois defeats Senator John McCain of Arizona
to become the 44th U.S. president, and the first African American
elected to the White House. The 47-year-old Democrat garnered 365
electoral votes and nearly 53 percent of the popular vote, while his
72-year-old Republican challenger captured 173 electoral votes and more
than 45 percent of the popular vote. Obama's vice-presidential running
mate was Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, while McCain's running mate was Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, the first female Republican ever nominated for the vice presidency.
Obama, who was born in 1961 in Hawaii to a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, graduated from Harvard Law School and was a law professor at the University of Chicago before launching his political career in 1996, when he was elected to the Illinois State Senate. He was re-elected to that post in 1998 and 2000. In March 2004, he shot to national prominence by winning the U.S. Senate Democratic primary in Illinois, and that July he gained further exposure when he delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, which included his eloquent call for unity among "red" (Republican) and "blue" (Democratic) states. That November, Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate in a landslide.
On February 10, 2007, in Springfield, Illinois, Obama officially announced his candidacy for president. A victory in the Iowa caucuses in January 2008 made him a viable challenger to the early frontrunner, Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, whom he outlasted in a grueling primary campaign to claim the Democratic nomination in early June 2008.
During the general-election campaign, as in the primaries, Obama's team worked to build a following at the grassroots level and used what his supporters viewed as the candidate's natural charisma, unique life story and inspiring message of hope and change to draw large crowds to his public appearances, both in the United States and on a campaign trip abroad. His team also worked to bring new voters--many of them young or black, both demographics they believed favored Obama--to become involved in the election. Additionally, the campaign was notable for its unprecedented use of the Internet for organizing constituents and fundraising. According to The Washington Post: "3 million donors made a total of 6.5 million donations online adding up to more than $500 million. Of those 6.5 million donations, 6 million were in increments of $100 or less."
In terms of campaign issues, Obama pledged to get the United States out of the war in Iraq and expand health care, among other promises. A crushing national financial crisis in the months leading up to the election shifted the country's focus to the economy, and Obama and McCain each attempted to show he had the best plan for economic improvement.
On November 4, more than 69.4 million Americans cast their vote for Obama, while some 59.9 million voters chose McCain. (Obama was the first sitting U.S. senator to win the White House since John Kennedy in 1960.) Obama captured some traditional Republican strongholds (Virginia, Indiana) and key battleground states (Florida, Ohio) that had been won by Republicans in recent elections. Late that night, the president-elect appeared before a huge crowd of supporters in Chicago's Grant Park and delivered a speech in he which acknowledged the historic nature of his victory (which came 143 years after the end of the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery): "If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer… It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment, change has come to America."
Obama was inaugurated on January 20, 2009.
Obama, who was born in 1961 in Hawaii to a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, graduated from Harvard Law School and was a law professor at the University of Chicago before launching his political career in 1996, when he was elected to the Illinois State Senate. He was re-elected to that post in 1998 and 2000. In March 2004, he shot to national prominence by winning the U.S. Senate Democratic primary in Illinois, and that July he gained further exposure when he delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, which included his eloquent call for unity among "red" (Republican) and "blue" (Democratic) states. That November, Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate in a landslide.
On February 10, 2007, in Springfield, Illinois, Obama officially announced his candidacy for president. A victory in the Iowa caucuses in January 2008 made him a viable challenger to the early frontrunner, Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, whom he outlasted in a grueling primary campaign to claim the Democratic nomination in early June 2008.
During the general-election campaign, as in the primaries, Obama's team worked to build a following at the grassroots level and used what his supporters viewed as the candidate's natural charisma, unique life story and inspiring message of hope and change to draw large crowds to his public appearances, both in the United States and on a campaign trip abroad. His team also worked to bring new voters--many of them young or black, both demographics they believed favored Obama--to become involved in the election. Additionally, the campaign was notable for its unprecedented use of the Internet for organizing constituents and fundraising. According to The Washington Post: "3 million donors made a total of 6.5 million donations online adding up to more than $500 million. Of those 6.5 million donations, 6 million were in increments of $100 or less."
In terms of campaign issues, Obama pledged to get the United States out of the war in Iraq and expand health care, among other promises. A crushing national financial crisis in the months leading up to the election shifted the country's focus to the economy, and Obama and McCain each attempted to show he had the best plan for economic improvement.
On November 4, more than 69.4 million Americans cast their vote for Obama, while some 59.9 million voters chose McCain. (Obama was the first sitting U.S. senator to win the White House since John Kennedy in 1960.) Obama captured some traditional Republican strongholds (Virginia, Indiana) and key battleground states (Florida, Ohio) that had been won by Republicans in recent elections. Late that night, the president-elect appeared before a huge crowd of supporters in Chicago's Grant Park and delivered a speech in he which acknowledged the historic nature of his victory (which came 143 years after the end of the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery): "If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer… It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment, change has come to America."
Obama was inaugurated on January 20, 2009.
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How many times a second does the pileated woodpecker—the largest woodpecker in North America—peck away at a tree?
If your heart is pounding, give it a musical rhythm. The idea isn't to fight the symptom but to ride it like a wave.
Perfidious:
Of, relating to, or characterized by faithlessness or disloyalty : treacherous.
A perfidious campaign worker revealed the senator's strategy to his opponent's team.
We wouldn't lie to you about the history of "perfidious" - even though the word itself suggests deceitfulness. The modern English meaning of "perfidious" remains faithful to that of its Latin ancestor, perfidus, which means "faithless." Since at least 1572, English-speakers have used "perfidious" to mean treacherous." One of the earliest recorded uses of the term can be found in Act V of Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well : the "perfidious slave" Parolles is thought to be an unreliable witness who will say whatever suits his purpose, whether true or not. In contemporary usage, "perfidious" not only implies treacherousness, but an inability to be reliable or honorable.
Preparing your guest list carefully is key to a successful party. After the list is set, do as much as you can ahead of time, cleaning & preparing food & refreshments. (Lower stress level by serving what you know will work.) It's optional, but in advance you might also want to ask a guest whom you don't know very well if he has any food restrictions or allergies. Doing so especially makes sense if he's going to be your only guest, a houseguest, or part of a small party. Get everything ready well before your guests arrive, so you'll feel relaxed from the very beginning.
Thanksgiving is 24 days away. Tackle to do's that you can do now to make the week of Thanksgiving easier. Iron the cloth napkins & table cloth you plan to use on Thanksgiving.
What Scottish lake contains more fresh water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined?
Loch Ness, in the Scottish Highlands. Home of the fabled Loch Ness
monster, it’s about 23 miles long and 754 feet deep at its deepest.
What was unusual about the ice hockey puck described in the first known written rules of the game?
It was square. The rules were written by W. F. Robertson, a student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in the 1870s.
Which animal has been extinct the longest?
A. Dodo bird
B. Tasmanian tiger
C. Passenger pigeon
Which long-running teen drama was produced in Canada?
A. Gossip Girl
B. Degrassi High
C. Dawson's Creek
D. One Tree Hill
Answer: B. Degrassi High
Which of these foods isn't considered a source of fiber?
A. Lentils
B. Chicken
C. Oatmeal
D. Strawberries
You don't have to drive a beater car until you pay off your house. You would drive the minimum car that you can drive until you get past Baby Step 3, which is a fully funded emergency fund of 3-6 months of expenses. Don't move up to a new car, but save & pay cash for a better car.
Your favorite scrapbook page is
( ) Your trip to __________.
( ) __________ you've squished & saved.
( ) the 3 chapters about __________.
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