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Love the bread winner! I guess it was too windy today to eat outside. On a beautiful, still fall or spring day, breakfast there at an outdoor table is simply wonderful. Good for the palate and the soul. And it's busy there from opening til closing.

>>Finally, why don't more places in LR do Sunday brunch?

Take a Sunday break and drive over to the Arlington some week. Their
Sunday morning buffet was once wonderful. Haven't tried in it in a few
years.

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I'm all about Breadwinner's. Love the little bread plate they send out when you get there while you try to figure out what you want to eat. Plate on bluename... if TypePad will allow me to post here today. Sheesh! Nine times already!

Kat....bear down! Let's have a baby!

My holiday overeating caught up with me about midnight last night. About 10 pm I just had to have another piece of homemade chocolate pie. Man....diabetes sick hit and every cell in my body was trying to do the wave. Today I feel like I was on an all night drunk last night and I haven't had a drop to drink in 9 days.

So I guess I'm not much into talking about food right now. From a diabetic standpoint, 90% of it's bad for me. I'm not supposed to be eating anything of the stuff talked about on this blog. And don't you think probably the worst type of joint to eat, from a health standpoint, is any Mexican joint? Carbs carbs carbs as far as the eyes can see. A healthy eater talkin bout their favorite Mexican joint is like an anti-smoker talking about loving their fireplace in the winter time.

Now that I sound like a Nazi, let me back up. It is my belief that life is for living, not for winning oldest geezer at the rest home. Go ask anyone whose 100 how much fun they're having and they'll tell you they wish they were dead. What is it you girls say....it's not the size, it's the motion? I would avoid walking in front of speeding buses, but other than that.....have fun...live it up...try it all and if you have a great life and only make it to 58....so be it!

Since my spell with the end of Ma, I know in my bones it's better to smack the pavement with your suddenly dead head at any age rather than be trapped in a useless body in a nasty rest home full of underpaid, overworked people with a 3rd grade education who burned out back in the 90s. Living too long is worse than not living long enough. Living to the fullest right up to the moment the party is over and then a clean, quick exit.....now you're talking!

My first mother in law is 85, looks 65, and will outlive me. She was into healthy when healthy wasn't cool. But she hates every human on earth, is mean and nasty and if she had any fun in life it was before WWII. I used to wish the old bag would die....but now that she's outlived 2 husbands, 1 daughter, and 2 sons and her last living child moved away as soon as high school was over and would rather be shot than visit with her. I hope she lives forever! Go Fang Go! And yes, I know this sounds hateful......but you all don't know her....and be very thankful for that! Rave on! And Kat.....let's have a baby!!!

In case you missed the Noam Chomsky interview earlier in the day here are snippets of it.

......................the investment theory of politics.................

"If the financial crisis hadn't taken place at the moment that it did, if it had been delayed a couple of months, I suspect that prediction would have been correct. But not speculating, one thing surprising about the election was that it wasn't a landslide.

So one might ask why wasn't there a landslide? That goes off in an interesting direction. And other respects the outcome was pretty familiar. So once again, the election was essentially bought. 9 out of 10 of the victors outspent their opponents. Obama of course outspent McCain. If you look at the-and we don't have final records yet from the final results, but they're probably going to be pretty much like the preliminaries a couple of months ago. Which showed that both Obama and McCain were getting the bulk of their financing from the financial institutions and for Obama, law firms which means essentially lobbyists. That was about over a third a few months ago. But the final results will probably be the same. And there is a-the distribution of funding has over time been a pretty good predictor of what policies will be like for those of you who are interested, there's very good scholarly work on this by Tom Ferguson in Umass Boston, what he calls the investment theory of politics.
Which argues essentially that elections are moments when groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state and has quite the substantial predictive success. Gives some suggestion as to what's likely to happen. So that part's familiar. The-what the future is as I say, depends on people like you.
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Actually what happened here is understood by elite elements. The public relations industry which runs elections here-quadrennial extravaganzas essentially- makes sure to keep issues in the margins and focus on personalities and character and so on-and-so forth. They do that for good reasons. They know- they look at public opinion studies and they know perfectly well that on a host of major issues both parties are well to the right of the population. That's one good reason to keep issues off the table. And they recognize the success."

The rest on bluename

Typewhatever is going to shut me up like no other human has managed to do.

I've known a few folks(not many) like your mom-in-law, dbi...hate-filled to the core. Of course I've spent lots of time trying to look past the hate...trying to remember that hate tends to come from hurt. But I'm beginning to change my mind about so much effort spent on brick walls that only hide more hate-filled brick walls. No truer statement than 'misery loves company'; so I'll let karma have em and move on...including relatives.

Noam Chomskey is a brilliant man. His books changed my way of looking at the media/money/corporations...and made me want more.

Second try...

It's a Christmas Miracle...typemasters let me through the second try!!!!

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