KOEB Meeting 2/24/10 Postponed Due to Curling Edition

[Berry Cool]

"They preempted me for CURLING??? Go figure!!"

Keith will be with us as soon as the overtime curling is done.

UPDATE: Keith is with us NOW, and will have a Special Comment on health care: a "message to everyone who enters tomorrow, from my father."

[ralps]

1. Hi Berry Cool! Hi Everyone! Oh No!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :shrug:

[bluedigger]

2. That's it. KO is KO'D

:rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

3. Curling rocks!

:hi:

Since Keith's not here... This is completely O/T, but, if you haven't seen the Old Spice commercial "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like", do it now. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.

http://www.oldspice.com/videos/

[Berry Cool]

5. Hi Pats and everyone else!

:hi: Pats is stoned on curling.

[SharonRB]

8. Oh. My. God.

Talk about H-O-T!

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

10. Please.

"I'm on a horse." :rofl:

:hi:

[SharonRB]

13. ????

I didn't watch the whole thing. Maybe I should go back to it.

[Patsy Stone]

14. Yes.

You must.

[SharonRB]

16. LOL

Last time I stopped at the oyster, before the diamonds. It's too bad he's seems so arrogant.

[Patsy Stone]

17. :)

I think that's supposed to add something to it.

If I'm not mistaken, the commercial has a Facebook group. LOL.

[SharonRB]

18. I'm not surprised

Doesn't everything have a Facebook group now? Soon there will be an app for that, too.

[ralps]

4. Yay for Anthony Weiner!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[CBHagman]

34. He was on fire, and I thought he was going to quote...

...another great New Yorker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBI5mC0h-jg&feature=related

"Whatever it is, I'm against it!"

[RevCheesehead]

6. I was wondering how Keith'd dad was doing.

I guess we'll learn a bit more tonight.

Hi everyone! :hi:

Oreo says MEOW!!!!!! to everyone, too.

[ralps]

7. Hi RevCheesehead, Crook & I are doing good & Hi to Oreo, & lil' Keith! How are you all doing?

& Crook says Meow back!! :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[Berry Cool]

9. I say Meow to Oreo, Lil' Keith and Crook

and Hi to all else.

Go Weiner!!!!! Let's hear it for the boy!!!!!!! :applause:

[RevCheesehead]

11. He ain't no hot dog!

That was beautiful to hear... an outbreak of truth. :fistbump:

:hi:

[RevCheesehead]

12. Oreo has me well-trained.

I come up to the office to watch Countdown, she jumps in front of the computer and meows until I give her THE TREAT OF HER CHOICE. There are, right now, SEVEN different treats for her to choose from. :eyes:

Keith is back to being friendly again... yesterday, he was all cuddly, so I couldn't get up here to post at all! :)

:hi: and :meow: to Crook!

[Berry Cool]

26. OMG, you are a slave to your cat!

[RevCheesehead]

31. I spoil her because she's almost 20...

and I love her dearly.

[RevCheesehead]

15. Someone remind me again....

why do we care what Newt thinks?

[Berry Cool]

19. We don't.

And damn, I wish Keith hadn't changed the name of WPITW just to appease idiots who don't get that it's not literal. I hate when he goes wimpy like that.

Anyway, he really socked it to Dan Abrams tonight, didn't he? Sounds like some bad blood there, for sure. And the way he said "hell...to pay" and made it sound like "hell...toupee"...well, I wonder if that was meant as a double entendre...

[RevCheesehead]

20. DAN ABRAMS???

I am sorry I ever said a good thing about him. What. an. asshole. :eyes:

(I was thinking it was Tucker)

[RevCheesehead]

21. Miss "Beverly Hills"

is, believe it or not, dumber than Carrie.

[RevCheesehead]

23. "I have friends who are gay"??????

"It's just that, um, I'm Christian...." :banghead: :grr:

[SharonRB]

24. And far less attractive

[ralps]

25. Yes, Right Ms. Ashley, Sure you have Gay Friends! Like your hairdresser! Grrr

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :grr:

[SharonRB]

22. The fake Miss Beverly Hills isn't even attractive n/t

[RevCheesehead]

27. I am already crying about Keith's dad.

This is hitting home for me. :cry:

[SharonRB]

28. Me, too, Rev

:hug:

[RevCheesehead]

29. ...

:hug:

[Berry Cool]

30. Me three.

It's already been a bad enough week for me. I was stunned when I learned about the Canadian figure skater (Joannie Rochette) whose mother died of a heart attack almost as soon as she set foot in Vancouver last night. I watched her daughter skate last night thinking "God be with her..." And he was.

But this...this, on top of that.

I just don't know how much more I can stand.

:hug: God be with them. God be with them all.

[Botany]

32. And in the end we all cry out for Dog

Reading Thurber and making sure his dad suffers no more is what I would expect from Keith.

[RevCheesehead]

33. That's why we love him so much.

And you, too, Cuddles. :hug:

[CBHagman]

35. More Cuddles.

:grouphug:

[Botany]

36. If his Dad is on kidney dialysis, has a failing liver, and has advanced ....

..... infections that keep coming back then Thurber and pain killers are
what he needs the most.



I hope this night finds you warm and that Wisconsin's real beauty
is yours to see.

[RevCheesehead]

37. You have such a beautiful heart.

:hug:

[Botany]

38. You have such a beautiful heart. .... Not really

just for fun

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4282249

[SeattleGirl]

39. I just watched it. Here is what I said about it in GD.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7789258&mesg_id=7790726

:cry:

[RevCheesehead]

40. Thank you for sharing your story, SG.

and extra :hug::hug::hug:, just because.

[SeattleGirl]

41. Thank you, dear Rev.

:hug:

[Berry Cool]

42. Same from me, SG.

:hug: to you and to Bot for being so goldenhearted also.

I know so many of us here have either been through or are going through this slow process of watching a beloved parent suffer and possibly die. As you know, I was spared all this with my mother. My mother's loss was sudden and shocking and agonizing, but if there was one silver lining to it, it was that my siblings and I did not have to make life-and-death decisions about it and we did not have to watch her suffer for a long time.

However, we still have our father, and that's a whole different matter. Right now we're not geographically close to him and if he becomes critically ill again (he's already survived one heart attack) he still has a wife capable of making decisions for him or with him based on his desires. But if anything happens to her first (and she's already beaten back cancer once), the decisions will fall into the hands of his children: children to whom he was not the best or most generous of fathers in their childhood, but who was making sincere efforts to make up for that in their adulthood. And who, in the end, is still their father.

I have no idea what kind of mess that would create if it were to happen. No idea at all. None of us lives anywhere near him and none of us could just afford to go there and be with him if such a thing were to happen, because we have jobs (except me) and no spouses or savings to financially support us if we had to quit or take an unpaid leave to be with him. (Even I couldn't do it, because of course leaving the state to live elsewhere would be a violation of my unemployment insurance conditions. How can I tell my state--even while technically receiving federal rather than state compensation--that I'm making a good-faith effort to find work if I go live in another state?) And I don't know what kind of health care he has for himself based on the small businesses he has operated for years. We would have to find out, and make out for ourselves how it all works.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we didn't have to worry about that, because we knew every bill was covered? What if it's not? What would we have to do?

God only knows.

I feel for all of you who have been through this and are going through it. And I only wish Congress could hear us, and care.