It’s almost as bizarre as it sounds. Who could believe that someone would try to sell a Senate seat? A senate seat that belongs to a recently elected President of the United States. And, not just a President-elect, but a President-elect who happens to be the first African-American elected to hold that office.
Now, how insane or plain pompous can anyone be to think that they can sell a United States senate seat? I must admit, that when I first heard that the governor of Illinois had been accused of doing such, I thought that it was a joke. A bad joke nonetheless. Something of that sort, you’d expect to find in emails that only crooks could make up.
When you think Alaska’s Governor Palin putting the governor’s plane on Ebay, now it would not surprise me if this guy tried to sell the vacant US senate seat on Ebay. Sounds ridiculous? Nothing does after this scandal. It is so outrageous that it is comical. When a governor attempts to sell a United States senate seat; that, has go to be the mother of all political corruptions. No stained blue dress, no Watergate tapes, no Katrina or frozen money could possibly top this one. This governor’s reported actions make President Nixon look like a pussycat; the states of New Jersey and Louisiana can claim to be transparent states. As a matter of fact, both those states now can be absolved. Just imagine how a powerful individual you must be, when you hold a United States Senate seat in your hands and auction it.
Really now, does the public need to ask the governor to resign? Shame.
The federal government has had to step in and hand out money to keep private institutions afloat, broke companies fail to see that flying in private jets is excessive and is bad PR, people are losing their homes left and right, consumption is so excessive that people can’t pay their bills, young girls walk around barely dressed, there is extreme level of violence in many of our cities, there is a high level of high school drop out, politicians hide money in freezers, These excesses are alarming.
Where did morality go?
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Recipe for a dental emergency
Ever wonder what to do during emergencies? Where should I go? Who should I call? What will happen and what should I do? These questions always seem to puzzle my mind. Well, aside from dialing the 911 telephone numbers for life and death situations, even those of us who can carry “many hats” have limited assortment of ideas as to what to do during some non-life threatened emergencies.
Spilling red wine on your beige or off white carpeting calls for emergency administration of some expert help. Someone once told me if that were to happen to pour as much salt as possible on the carpeting, then vacuum the carpeting then, repeat until after all the wine has been absorbed with salt. Someone else told me, "Never serve red wine if you have off white or beige carpeting". Two different recipes for a similar situation. I’m sure both work and one works better than the other of course, it depends on the individual.
Red wine on a rug is not as painful on the body as a toothache however. So, if you should find yourself sitting in a dentist’s chair in agonizing pain screaming bloody murder while your dentist pulls an impression off your upper jaw? Only to realize that the pain was real when the look in your dentist’s face confirms that one or two of your teeth got yanked out in the process? Or one or two of your teeth, got knocked out “avulsed”, do you ever wonder what you would do? First of all, I can attest that a tooth avulsion is brutally painful. The physical pain can send you near panic.
What to do? Ask the dentist. I’d assume that the dentist should know what to do. Not in every case that your dentist will immediately react positively. The dentist may also panic after he/she has yanked a tooth out a patient’s mouth without anesthesia. If the tooth or teeth cannot be re-implanted, you may have to ask your dentist to do something immediately for a temporary replacement. Is it because the dentist does not care, or is it the dentist is afraid of being sued that he or she acts as deers do when they’re caught in the headlight of a moving vehicle? Information, as always, is one of the ingredients in the recipes for a good life. If you don’t know, just ask.
If you’ve had a non-life threatened emergency or a tip on how to deal with one, please feel free to contact me or share the recipe on how you handle your non-life threatened emergency.
Spilling red wine on your beige or off white carpeting calls for emergency administration of some expert help. Someone once told me if that were to happen to pour as much salt as possible on the carpeting, then vacuum the carpeting then, repeat until after all the wine has been absorbed with salt. Someone else told me, "Never serve red wine if you have off white or beige carpeting". Two different recipes for a similar situation. I’m sure both work and one works better than the other of course, it depends on the individual.
Red wine on a rug is not as painful on the body as a toothache however. So, if you should find yourself sitting in a dentist’s chair in agonizing pain screaming bloody murder while your dentist pulls an impression off your upper jaw? Only to realize that the pain was real when the look in your dentist’s face confirms that one or two of your teeth got yanked out in the process? Or one or two of your teeth, got knocked out “avulsed”, do you ever wonder what you would do? First of all, I can attest that a tooth avulsion is brutally painful. The physical pain can send you near panic.
What to do? Ask the dentist. I’d assume that the dentist should know what to do. Not in every case that your dentist will immediately react positively. The dentist may also panic after he/she has yanked a tooth out a patient’s mouth without anesthesia. If the tooth or teeth cannot be re-implanted, you may have to ask your dentist to do something immediately for a temporary replacement. Is it because the dentist does not care, or is it the dentist is afraid of being sued that he or she acts as deers do when they’re caught in the headlight of a moving vehicle? Information, as always, is one of the ingredients in the recipes for a good life. If you don’t know, just ask.
If you’ve had a non-life threatened emergency or a tip on how to deal with one, please feel free to contact me or share the recipe on how you handle your non-life threatened emergency.
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