"Don't be breathing on me ..... 

five times,  right?"

I got to thinking ..... Obama gave the Ebola nurse a hug .......

Could start a whole new trend in the white house .... what name should we give those "kinds" of hugs?

In this case he was showing his lack of fear about Ebola, after five tests indicated that she no longer carried the virus, not three or four, FIVE tests. I doubt that he will meet any planes to welcome visitors from Africa, or any of  the workers who were there. No, this one was tested five times, then, he hugged her.

I guess the only statement he made was ..... "I hug healthy people." In reality, it is almost pathetic, what he did, proved nothing, made a big show, she was probably the healthiest person he has hugged since he has been ..... well you know ... the president ..... "I don't be huggin no republicans though,"

I wonder if "Testing" is mandatory now, on all persons who enter the white house .... well, it is, except when he is out playing golf or off in his jet ..............

We are a great people, here in the USA

Washington (AFP) - Raucous celebrations over San Francisco's World Series baseball triumph degenerated into street violence Thursday, with two people shot and injured, news reports said.

In repeats of unrest that broke out after the San Francisco Giants won the baseball title in 2010 and 2012, crowds of revelers set bonfires, got into fistfights on the streets and threw bottles, sparking the deployment of riot police, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Two people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds that were not life-threatening, while another man was stabbed, the Chronicle reported, quoting police.

Rowdy and drunken fans rampaged through several districts of the California city after the Giants won game seven of the best-of-seven series against the Kansas City Royals in Kansas City with a 3-2 victory.

Several arrests were made over the course of the night and some officers suffered minor injuries after being hit by bottles or fireworks, the paper quoted police spokesman Gordon Shyy as saying.

I wonder if this happens in other places in the world. Here, a policeman shoots a robber and riots break out, a team winds a baseball game, the above. Any excuse, I guess, probably some looting of stores, a FREE shopping experience. I guess I have seen too much of this. I think the first riots I remember were in Detroit, a long time ago, race riots, I guess we are just "big" on riots. I watched that game lat night, when it was over, I went to sleep .....................

Finally a TV channel I like ....................

We've got an irritating thing on our TV, other than the programs and the commercials, it has an automatic shut off thing, I guess on a timer, it pops up with a window, a message about use, or something, and turns the channel off.

I was watching some game channel, nothing else on, and, well, it shut off ...... and, the quiet is so refreshing, the silence is ..... restful, peaceful and nice.

Finally, a Chanel I like ............... nothing, no picture, no idle patter, just ..... silence.

I just got back from Walmart, needed some "treats" for a couple of Great Grandkid goblins that may show up tonight ..... Walmart had a whole department with Halloween stuff, costumes, all sorts of goodies, lights, candy, CANDY and more CANDY. People spend more on Halloween stuff now, that we used to spend on Christmas.

I DID NOT DO THIS .... but joked to the cashier, I could have gotten two bottles of wine, little bottles, given them those, and they would be happy, really happy, AND, I would have spent less money. I repeat, I DID NOT DO THAT and would not have, it was just something that entered my mind when I saw the wine display ..... price comparison ..............

Amelia Earhart plane fragment identified

A piece of an aluminum aircraft discovered on an uninhabited atoll in the southwestern Pacific has been identified as belonging to the twin-engine Lockheed Electra of U.S. aviator Amelia Earhart, according to Discovery News.

The fragment was located on Nikumaroro, in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati in 1991.

Researchers at The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery say the metal was part of a patch installed on Earhart’s plane in Miami, where she stayed for eight days on her mission to circumnavigate the globe.

“The Miami Patch was an expedient field repair,” Ric Gillespie, executive director of the group, told Discovery News. “Its complex fingerprint of dimensions, proportions, materials and rivet patterns was as unique to Earhart’s Electra as a fingerprint is to an individual.”

Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared 77 years ago on their journey around the world. The Nikumaroro fragment could prove that Earhart and Noonan did not crash into the Pacific Ocean after running out of fuel as some believe, but instead made a “forced landing” on the atoll’s coral reef, and then lived on the atoll as castaways before eventually dying.

No, I don't think so ....................

Question on Facebook today: Like if you agree - President Obama is a Failure

How is he a failure .... He is a success ... He has held one of the most important jobs in the world, for eight years, with absolutely no experience or qualifications to do so. How could that be considered a failure?

I forget now if he actually promised to do anything, if it had to do with healthcare, he got a program pushed through. Remember, He could NOT beat Hillary, He could NOT win the election, He could NOT win re-election, He could NOT get his obamacare passed ... all those things he could NOT do, he did. AND, we really don't even know if he is even qualified to hold the job.

How could that be considered a failure in any way. He has been SUCCESSFUL in all he has attempted. And we still, really, know little to nothing about him, all insinuations, about his nationality, his sexuality and his background.

So, don't think for a minute that he is a failure, his chef will be preparing his dinner tonight in the kitchen of the White House for he and his family. He is surrounded by his family, an army of security, an army of servants, a large army of advisers, limos at his disposal, helicopters, a couple of glamorous airplanes, and, thousands of supporters, and a small movie theater with 24/7/365 camera operators available, and, I don't know how many, people to take care of his dog, or dogs.

That don't sound like no failure to me ...............

Obama gives Ebola survivor Nina Pham a bear hug at the White House

"Five times, you're sure, all five OK, .....I'm still gonna hold my breath, take the picture fast, OK, NOW!"

A bear hug is worth a thousand words? President Barack Obama embraced Ebola survivor Nina Pham in the Oval Office on Friday, shortly after the 26-year-old Dallas nurse was discharged from the National Institutes of Health.

The White House photo op came as the Obama administration struggled to reassure jittery Americans that they should trust medical and scientific authorities and that the deadly disease does not threaten them.

In a show of faith in the nation’s elite doctors and scientists, the White House did not subject Pham to any additional screening before her face-to-face meeting with the president.

“Ms. Pham was tested five different times to confirm that she no longer had the virus,” press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters. “So all the necessary testing that allowed her to safely return home with a clean bill of health is the same guidance that she has gotten in terms of meeting the president.”

10/30

Broncos fan who disappeared during game found safe

By SADIE GURMAN
Associated Press

DENVER (AP) - A Denver Broncos fan who disappeared during last week's game has been found safe, police said Tuesday.

Denver Police Sgt. Steve Warneke said Paul Kitterman, 53, was found Tuesday night in Pueblo, about 100 miles south of Denver. Warneke did not have any information about Kitterman's disappearance, but he said no criminal charges are expected.

"All we were trying to do was make sure he was unharmed, and he was," Warneke said. "So at that point, we're finished."

Police referred all other questions to Kitterman's family. The man's stepson, Jarod Tonneson, did not immediately respond to a message left by The Associated Press on his cellphone Tuesday night.

Family and friends of Kitterman had been searching for him since Thursday night's game against the San Diego Chargers at Sports Authority Field.

Tonneson told investigators his stepfather had not been seen since he left his seat to meet friends during halftime. Tonneson filed a missing persons report with Denver police, scoured the sprawling stadium, called local hospitals and detox centers, and taped fliers around the city.

The two went to the game with two of their friends after a day spent working and hunting at another friend's ranch in Kremmling, a small town in the mountains of northern Colorado.

Kitterman and Tonneson, both construction workers, hurriedly made the 100-mile trip to the stadium after a friend offered tickets. It was Kitterman's first time there, and in his haste, he forgot his cellphone and took no credit cards and very little cash.

Kitterman had four or five beers in the course of a four-hour span - not enough to become disoriented, said Tonneson, who noted that his stepfather did not have any known health or personal problems.

Thanks Ernie .....

The best description of Obamacare so far: 

Remember when Nancy Pelosi said, 

“We have to pass it, to find out what's in it." 

A physician called into a radio show and said, 

"That's the definition of a stool sample."

"Do you speak Spanish?"

"Well, no, I don't."

"Then why do you have the Spanish music station on your radio turned on?"

Went to Walmart today, before getting out, was talking with a guy that works there that I have gotten to know, he overheard my radio playing as I pulled up, thus, this scenario.

I enjoy the Spanish station, and the Spanish, Mexican or whatever, music.

Well, here is why. First, I enjoy the music, it seems like it is all the same. If I have English speaking music on I continually hit the "Seek" button to find something I like. And, I hate commercials, radio commercials, TV commercials, all kinds. If they are in Spanish I don't know if they are commercials or not. There are occasionally some English words I hear, Colonel Sanders, Wendy's, some names I recognize.

So, nice, good, catchy music, melodic, one right after another, I have not heard one yet that I did not like, understood none, but liked them all.

That is why I listen to the Spanish Music station.

Buenos Tardes, Amigos ... I took Spanish in school, know a few words .....

How do they do it?

I am watching TV, early morning TV, loaded with commercials .... getting ready for Christmas Selling, and I have to wonder, how, do they come with all these TOOLS. New and improved tools that I have to have to save .................... so much. Every Father's Day and Christmas new tools.

An electric screwdriver, 360 degree swivel, you can ao anything with it, use it anywhere.

And, then, a socket wrench, well, to use in tight spaces, the slightest turn of the handle will loosen or tighten a nut.

Now a stepladder that one can almost live it, it does so much.

As Seen On TV .... products everywhere, A.J. is happy. Walmart, Kroger's, the drug store, all have a portion of an aisle devoted to such products. I went to CVS yesterday to get some sore shoulder relieving stuff for my daughter, got stuck in that aisle, checked out at least 20 products, most I had seen before, but they always interest me.

Mr. Khubani, Mr. As Seen On TV, I have met and spent time talking with. Very interesting man. He listened a lot, said little. One time, we were at my sons studio in NJ, and AJ was doing a "shoot" and we were at the front counter talking. There were 5 or 6 of us. All of us had an idea or a product we were running by him. He listened to us all, said little, but he summed it up with ..... "Is there a need for it?"

I have never forgotten that, is there a need for it? And, if you think about it, each of his products, there is a "need" for them.

Is he wealthy ............ ? The new owner of the record $34 million penthouse at the Seville Hotel redo / Residences at the Marriott Edition is infomercial king, sovereign of the 'As Seen On TV' empire, Ajit "A.J." Khubani, according to the New York Post.

I also think he bought a comparable airplane to fly from NJ or NY to his little place in Florida.

As I say, I have met and chatted with him, a very nice person, and when he spoke, I listened.

REMEMBER - Sunday ..............

Impressive ..... to say the least.

Colorado Man Vanishes at Stadium During Broncos Game

Paul Kitterman told his friend Tia Bakke that the experience of being at his first ever Denver Broncos game in person with his son was "awesome" - and that was the last she heard of him.

The 53-year-old from Kremmling, Colorado, seemingly vanished into the Sports Authority Field crowd at the Broncos-Chargers game Thursday night in what Denver police now call a missing persons case.

"He would never bail on his son, or anyone," Bakke told ABC News, "so by Friday night, we knew something was really, really, wrong."

Bakke, who traveled with Kitterman and his son, Jarod, to the game, said they had plans to meet afterwards at a stadium gate.

"We go down to gate 8. No Paul. We wait an hour. No Paul," she said.

Bakke's group contacted stadium security and searched around the grounds until 1 a.m. before finally heading back to Kremmling without Kitterman.

Kitterman has few contacts in Denver and had no cell phone, credit card or vehicle with him, Bakke said. She added he had plans to go hunting with his son the next morning.

Denver police have filed a missing persons report, are assisting the family and are investigating, but are not actively searching on foot because they are not certain a crime was committed.

"With 70,000 people and cameras all over the stadium, you would see something if a violent crime occurred," Sonny Jackson, a police spokesman, told ABC News.

IRS seizes woman's entire savings because she deposits less than $10,000 at a time

An Iowa woman named Carole Hinders saw her bank balance go from $33,000 to zero thanks to IRS confiscation. Hinders, who owns a small, cash-only Mexican restaurant, has not been charged with any crime and is not suspected of tax fraud. The IRS says they took her money solely because she deposited too little of it at a time, and the agency claims she did so to avoid the required reporting of any bank transaction over $10,000. She says she just thought it was helpful to save the bank paperwork.

Though the $10,000 rule is ostensibly designed to help catch terrorists and drug dealers, it is far more often used on regular citizens who are unlikely to ever see their money returned. "I don't think [the IRS is] really interested in anything," said a lawyer representing another seizure case. "They just want the money."

To keep her restaurant afloat following the confiscation of her savings, Hinders has had to take out a second mortgage and max out her credit cards. "How can this happen?" she asks. "Who takes your money before they prove that you've done anything wrong with it?"- - Bonnie Kristian

Custom urns courtesy of company's 3-D printer

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota startup is using a 3-D printer to create custom urns shaped like objects that were important to the person whose remains they hold.

The Eden Prairie-based Foreverence offers urns that are made with a ceramic material that looks different than the plastic material typically produced by a 3-D printer. The process takes nearly an entire day, starting with about nine hours of printing, and then followed by several hours of touchups, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported (http://bit.ly/1tRLCM6 ).

Each urn is unique and can take the form of just about anything, including ballet slippers, cars and instruments.

"I'm fascinated by the endless possibilities," company CEO Pete Saari said.

It has even made an urn shaped like the signature hats worn by rock band Devo when co-founder Bob Casale died earlier this year. Foreverence offered Casale's family the urn and ended up making two for them. Casale's family told the company that it was "the first joyous moment in a dark period of time for them," Saari said.

Foreverence sells its urns, which typically cost thousands of dollars, through funeral directors.

I wonder?

Is it just me, or are politicians determining Ebola protocol? Why not get the advice of people in the medical profession, in no way is it a political issue.

pol·i·ti·cian

ˌpäləˈtiSHən/

noun

1. a person who is professionally involved in politics, especially as a holder of or a candidate for an elected office.

   synonyms:

   legislator, elected official, statesman, stateswoman, public servant; More

   • US

     a person who acts in a manipulative and devious way, typically to gain advancement within an organization.
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   I don't see where the definition says anything about expertise in anything. Why and how have we allowed them so much power and supposed knowledge about ............ everything.
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3. By virtue of winning an election does not give them any super powers. One can be an unemployed, uneducated oaf, win an election, and be a world leader, in one day, dictating policy, and leading.
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Hospital: Teen wounded in school shooting dies

MARYSVILLE, Wash. (AP) — One of the teenagers wounded in a Washington state high school shooting died Sunday night, raising the number of fatalities from when a student opened fire in a cafeteria to three.

Officials at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett confirmed the death of 14-year-old Gia Soriano. Another girl was killed during the shooting Friday by a popular freshman at Marysville-Pilchuck High School north of Seattle. The shooter, Jaylen Fryberg, died of a self-inflicted wound.

Three other students remain hospitalized, two in critical condition and one in serious condition.

At a news conference, Dr. Joanne Roberts read a statement from Gia's family.

"We are devastated by this senseless tragedy. Gia is our beautiful daughter, and words cannot express how much we will miss her," the statement said.

Roberts said Gia's family was donating her organs for transplant.

A thought ...........

I sit here and read all of the Postings on Facebook, of those I know, and all they are doing, trips, football games and other things, and I am envious, and then, I think of all the things I have done, the places I have been, the people I have seen .... and there was no Facebook to show the world the good times I was having.

Then I think, I've been there, I've done that, and I am no longer envious. Do I wish I could do it all over again, not sure.

I saw some folks in San Francisco, I was there in '52, lived there for a year or so, San Bruno, lived on the beach for a month or so, had some friends there who lived near the park, would weekend with them, go "crabbing" or "lobstering" .... she fixed us great food, Seal Beach, that big museum place, had some great times in San Francisco. I did have a problem with her soup though .... a fish eye staring up at me .... never really told her what a I thought.

I guess I can live with my memories, and let all those others create theirs .... different times, different places .....