I'm so really done with doctors and hospitals and clinics this year, especially after an intensive emergency surgical procedure which I had to undergo this morning.

While the pain and after effects of the procedure are really affecting me tonight, I can't get over the outpouring of love and devotion from my friends N, M, C, S, and a new friend in Los Angeles, D, who was prepared to come down from Los Angeles to take care of me on a moment's notice. "I can be down there in two (hours)," this individual insisted. Of course, those were the words of the afore mentioned friends, as well. And then there was the moral support of my friend S in Reno, Nevada.

Out of my experience today, yes, it is true that what comes around, literally does go around. I took care of an individual in the same manner for five years in so many ways, and most recently, when Last May, I took care of someone who has meant the total world to me. This individual who was a part of my active life was very sick...severe chills, stuff coming out of every conceivable orifice to the point of scaring the bejesus out of me, which had me rousting the individual's doctors with the thought that the individual who have to be taken to the hospital to be rehydrated and have tests done, etc., etc. It was only one instance of all the things I did for the individual to make them happy. Yet this individual, with no regard to my extreme sorrow over the passing of my mother and the constant 7/24 caring I gave to for seven months, made a conscious decision to consciously kick me emotionally in the stomach, so they could pursue their own agenda of trying to find their nirvana paved with the psychobabble so tolerated these days by society. Not only have I had to endure my own extreme grief, but the emotional strain of this Judas-like act by this individual.

But you know, I find solace and satisfaction that with their pursuit of Nirvana, ultimately what they have metted out, will "come around" for them. Karma keeps very accurate books.

Woohoo!

I have joined the growing legions of DirecTV satellite whores!

Tired of being monkeyed around by Cox Cable (an evil company, in my opinion), I took advantage of DirecTV's superduper offer of all Showtime channels + Sundance and The Movie Channel and all Starz channel for $59 a month in perpetuity. THere were some problems with completing my order online necessitating me to call in, so they bonused me all the HBO channels and a DVR unit for $4.99. It is fun to record and watch all the movies I've always wanted to see! In the midst of it I get IFC and the Fox Movie Channel which also show movies uninteruppted.

Woohoo!

Barbra Streisand doesn't have a bad voice....but I hate her politics...and her lack of class. During her fourth final farewell concert she confronted a heckler in the audience by saying "Shut The Fuck Up." Well now a New York DJ has come up with a new dance song based on her tirade.... It DEFINITELY is very creative and good and shows Badaboom Babs at her "best." Click here to go to the song link Warning: You will have to expend mouse clicking energy by having to click on the media player on the page.

Here's the original article about Badaboom Babs:

ashington, Oct 27: Barbra Streisand is best known for her love ballads such as ‘The way we were’ and themes from movies such as ‘Hello Dolly’, but now she is set to conquer the music charts with a song that samples her four-letter-word abuse she made at a recent concert .

A few weeks back, the 64-year-old ardent Democrat, used the opportunity of her first U.S. tour in 12 years to take a dig at President Bush, by employing a Bush impersonator to sing a duet with her while blasting his policies.

Not all members of her audience appreciated her performance, and one concertgoer yelled out asking if the concert was a fundraiser.

After first imploring to the heckler to be polite and be quiet, Barbara reportedly lost her temper and yelled out; "Why don't you shut the f**k up! If you can't take a joke, why don't you leave and get your money back."

Now, Lucian Piane, a New York songwriter/producer, has turned Barbara’s four-letter-word tirade into a thumping club track entitled, "STFU."

The track is currently doing the rounds on the Internet and, is expected to be quite a hit considering Streisand’s loyal following.

"It portrays her in a positive light, making her into a champion," TMZ quoted Lucian as saying.

And if she doesn't like the track, Lucian jokingly adds he would tell her, "Shut up if you can't take a joke!" (ANI)

I saw a great bumper sticker today:

THE WORLD IS GOING TO HELL
I'M DRIVING THE BUS

It reminded me of what a friend said to me several months ago when I admonished him that something he had just said to me was going to cause him to "go to hell." "Ivars," he said, "I'm in training to be a supervisor in hell."

I really doubt that this person is going to go to hell...a real friend in comparison to the Judas' that have had roles and places in my life in the past year.

It is interesting to watch liberals spin what they can in order to make the Iraq war as ugly as possible when they put out a controversial new study contends nearly 655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war, suggesting a far higher death toll than other estimates. In a dispatch released by the Associated Press, the timing of the survey's release, just a few weeks before the U.S. congressional elections, led one expert to call it "politics." I couldn't agree more.

In the new study, researchers attempted to calculate how many more Iraqis have died since March 2003 than one would expect without the war. Their conclusion, based on interviews of households and not a body count, is that about 600,000 died from violence, mostly gunfire. They also found a small increase in deaths from other causes like heart disease and cancer.

But of course, we ignore the fact that World War II ultimately killed more people, involved more nations, and cost more money than any other war in history. Altogether, 70 million people served in the armed forces during the war and 17 million combatants died. Civilian deaths were ever greater. At least 19 million Soviet civilians, 10 million Chinese, and 6 million European Jews lost their lives during the war.

World War II was truly a global war. Some 70 nations took part in the conflict, and fighting took place on the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe, as well as on the high seas. Entire societies participated, as soldiers, war workers, or victims of occupation and mass murder.

Of course, the way liberals love to argue they will simply dismiss facts such as these and repeat their diatribe.

I made an interesting observation today....and think I finally understand why America so appealed to my father. It came about after chatting with my 36-year old cousin in Latvia, and a chat friend in London...as well as others along the way. My father was a very outgoing/outward looking man who appreciated that potential of things. On the other hand, you have a real European mentality of people who are willing to accept their poorer lot in life. When I asked my cousin in Latvia if he would be interested in coming to the U.S., he said to me, "I'm too old to adapt to change of a new place," while my acquaintance in England would love to visit the U.S. and live here, "but it is so difficult to get a landed immmigrant visa and be able be able to work."

My dad always said, where there is a will, there is a way....and that's what made my dad so different from the old world view of so many in Europe.

What bunch of lunatic scum -- both Republicans and Democrats -- are we sending to Washington DC to the point that we need to protect the House pages...and establish a 1-800 abuse hotline for them????

The time has come to dissolve both houses of congress and start again...no more Hasterts, no more Kennedys, Foleys, Murthas, Pelosies....

WASHINGTON Rep. Dennis Hastert, the man in charge of the House of Representatives, is defending his office's handling of questions raised about Rep. Mark Foley last year, saying the parents of a male former page were bothered by an e-mail Foley sent their son but did not want the matter pursued.

Hastert said neither he nor other Republican leaders were aware until last Friday of far more lurid computer exchanges two years earlier between the Florida Republican and another page.