Usually when I receive a bunch of letters marked "Confidential to be opened by addressee only" they are form letters from an insurance company hawking life insurance.
Good one, Don A. But this was a legitimate testing lab reporting my results. Nine identical copies mailed the same day. I did get a good laugh out of them so that’s a plus.
I thought I had clarified that, Jim. My happiness came from the activity, not the news. I like to stay informed and having the luxury of time and the technology to keep up is what I was describing.
Great piece Katharine! How very witty and clever of you to document a very scary experience in a way that informs and educates. So glad it was a scare and not the worst case scenario.
Glad it turned out okay for you. Scary moment there... and the shrimpies in the ocean will thank one more human for letting them live their lives out. So as I'm writing this, just waking up this morning, my mind drifts in the current and as I read about all those letters you got from the wealth sharks (corrupt US medical corporate industry, Murder Inc.) suddenly I see us (humans in the USA) being like shrimp, getting fished by the oligarchs of our corrupt medical & political system, eaten, and spat out dead in pieces while the oligarchs laugh harshly.
Time to stop the seafood... overthrow the corporate republican reptilian monsters....put an end to the age of dinosaurs once and for all. Start with Putin, Xi, DingDangDong of No Korea, and quickly follow with Donald Dump and his herd of tyrannosaurs...
I'll have my morning coffee now, or is that my mourning coffee? Turn the Land Of The Fee ($$$ medicine) into the Land Of The Free (Universal Health Care, approved by Jesus). How can this nation have been so stupid for such a long time, when every other industrialized nation has Universal Health Care? It's better, cheaper, faster, and totally more humane.
Oh yeah, that brings back once again the incredibly stupid, cruel, meaningless, greedy words (turds) of Ronny Ray Gun back in 1965 as LBJ was pushing through Medicare: "If Medicare becomes law, we will never again be a free people."
I turn that around by saying: "If Universal Health Care becomes law, we will finally be a free people."
Think about it, folks. What good will overthrowing the Dump regime (Putin & Co) do if we just go back to being a shrimp farm for the inhumane wealth sharks of the medical fraud industry? We need to emerge from the age of the dinosaurs, step on to sunny dry land, and become fully human. The sharks won't let us, but we'll insist. Start by locking Dump & his circus up at Guantanamo.... they've got the empty tents and armed guards waiting... for innocent immigrants and other people caught in their web of madness... so let's lock 'em up.
Especially capture Rupert Murderdork and his outfit, and do what they so loudly shouted out about our legitimately elected President Hillary Clinton in 2016: "Lock her up." No, LOCK THEM UP AND THROW THE KEY AWAY. There is no 'electoral college' in the Constitution. There are electors, YES... but that weird mumbo-jumbo (meaningless) dates from the primordial days of the Articles of Confederation, a stupid idea later championed by the 850 plantation owners (oligarchs) of the South to murder a million citizens (Civil War) in their attempt to keep slavery (another shrimp farm) and so they could eat people and laugh while spitting out the gristle.
Lock them up! BIMO: Bankers + Industrialists + Militarists = BIMO. They are the people who put Hitler in power a few generations ago. They put Ronny Ray Gun in power more recently. And now they have put Donald Sharkdump in power (so crazy he belongs in a cage). Oops, I need to go get another cup of coffee. Good morning!
Thanks for reading, Richard. Actually already put myself on an anti-inflammatory diet years ago with particular attention to the experts on AFib. No caffeine and I also avoid dairy and too much sugar. No need to change my eating habits—except for the shrimp—! But I’m glad you thought of me.
Usually when I receive a bunch of letters marked "Confidential to be opened by addressee only" they are form letters from an insurance company hawking life insurance.
Good one, Don A. But this was a legitimate testing lab reporting my results. Nine identical copies mailed the same day. I did get a good laugh out of them so that’s a plus.
‘I spent the rest of the afternoon reading political blogs quite happily’. I get no happiness from anything political.
I thought I had clarified that, Jim. My happiness came from the activity, not the news. I like to stay informed and having the luxury of time and the technology to keep up is what I was describing.
Great piece Katharine! How very witty and clever of you to document a very scary experience in a way that informs and educates. So glad it was a scare and not the worst case scenario.
Glad you liked it, Irma. And also glad I was able to share. Talk about chest clutching!
Glad it turned out okay for you. Scary moment there... and the shrimpies in the ocean will thank one more human for letting them live their lives out. So as I'm writing this, just waking up this morning, my mind drifts in the current and as I read about all those letters you got from the wealth sharks (corrupt US medical corporate industry, Murder Inc.) suddenly I see us (humans in the USA) being like shrimp, getting fished by the oligarchs of our corrupt medical & political system, eaten, and spat out dead in pieces while the oligarchs laugh harshly.
Time to stop the seafood... overthrow the corporate republican reptilian monsters....put an end to the age of dinosaurs once and for all. Start with Putin, Xi, DingDangDong of No Korea, and quickly follow with Donald Dump and his herd of tyrannosaurs...
I'll have my morning coffee now, or is that my mourning coffee? Turn the Land Of The Fee ($$$ medicine) into the Land Of The Free (Universal Health Care, approved by Jesus). How can this nation have been so stupid for such a long time, when every other industrialized nation has Universal Health Care? It's better, cheaper, faster, and totally more humane.
Oh yeah, that brings back once again the incredibly stupid, cruel, meaningless, greedy words (turds) of Ronny Ray Gun back in 1965 as LBJ was pushing through Medicare: "If Medicare becomes law, we will never again be a free people."
I turn that around by saying: "If Universal Health Care becomes law, we will finally be a free people."
Think about it, folks. What good will overthrowing the Dump regime (Putin & Co) do if we just go back to being a shrimp farm for the inhumane wealth sharks of the medical fraud industry? We need to emerge from the age of the dinosaurs, step on to sunny dry land, and become fully human. The sharks won't let us, but we'll insist. Start by locking Dump & his circus up at Guantanamo.... they've got the empty tents and armed guards waiting... for innocent immigrants and other people caught in their web of madness... so let's lock 'em up.
Especially capture Rupert Murderdork and his outfit, and do what they so loudly shouted out about our legitimately elected President Hillary Clinton in 2016: "Lock her up." No, LOCK THEM UP AND THROW THE KEY AWAY. There is no 'electoral college' in the Constitution. There are electors, YES... but that weird mumbo-jumbo (meaningless) dates from the primordial days of the Articles of Confederation, a stupid idea later championed by the 850 plantation owners (oligarchs) of the South to murder a million citizens (Civil War) in their attempt to keep slavery (another shrimp farm) and so they could eat people and laugh while spitting out the gristle.
Lock them up! BIMO: Bankers + Industrialists + Militarists = BIMO. They are the people who put Hitler in power a few generations ago. They put Ronny Ray Gun in power more recently. And now they have put Donald Sharkdump in power (so crazy he belongs in a cage). Oops, I need to go get another cup of coffee. Good morning!
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Wow, John. You definitely expounded (and expanded) my thoughts. Gotta take a water break now.
"I eat to live" Hey Katharine Eat to Live is the title of Dr. Joel Fuhrman's book on nutrition. Most libraries have a copy. It'll change your life.
Thanks for reading, Richard. Actually already put myself on an anti-inflammatory diet years ago with particular attention to the experts on AFib. No caffeine and I also avoid dairy and too much sugar. No need to change my eating habits—except for the shrimp—! But I’m glad you thought of me.
You bet Katharine and good luck.
At this age we are always aware that everything can change in one second-9-and usually for the worse.
I must admit I’m particularly grateful for life today! Glad to hear from you, too.
Wow, that is crazy about the shrimp. Glad you are ok!
Thank you, my dear. Life feels extra precious today.