Hope you are feeling better. Just think, on the same weekend you had your gallblader removed, CNN removed theirs too! You will be up and around and feeling well long before CNN will be.

Thank you for a very informative answer. I am saving it as a reference.

Lucky for me I went to bed before I read you post, I bought myself one night of chemically unaided, good night sleep

Mark,

ìThe next six months are going to be more interesting than anyone expects, I think.î

Oh, oh, interesting times! I think we are cursedÖ

Inexplicably, Joe Biden is still being trotted out as a foreign affairs expert. Has no one else in the Senate ever bought a plane ticket to somewhere east of Paris?

Then we got to the pundit panel, and the brontosaurs paraded. Everybody seemed to think that the selection of Howard Dean was no big deal, that his public statements would be of no matter next to his abilities to organize and raise money (they seemed unaware that it was Joe Trippi who raised the money and did the organizing, but never mind). But Howard Dean didn’t really matter to the Dems’ future, because the electorate doesn’t vote based on the Party Chairman, but because they love old Ironbritches Clinton. So Howard Dean, not really a big deal.

Then they got to the Eason Jordan dismissal. Everyone agreed, the bloggers did old Eason in, although to a man, woman and Juan Williams they were puzzled and surprised by his resignation, because they just didn’t see what he did as a firing offense. In short, after two weeks, these elite journalists were completely ignorant of the story they were blathering on.

And they couldn’t make the important connection. Howard Dean matters because bloggers took down Eason Jordan, and Dan Rather, and Trent Lott. Hillary will not be able to run away from the Howler, whose every speech and comment will be broadcast throughout the internet and hung around her neck like the anchor chain of the Titanic. This is either going to cripple her ability to run to the center, or cripple Dean’s ability to get out his leftwing vote for the party. But not one of the experts, right or left, on TV this morning, got that.

I think that about sums about NK’s entire foreign policy.

Zefal – yes I did see that! Freaked me all to hell! The paralytic part of the anesthesia worked but not the hypnotic part of it – leaving people fully conscious and pain-aware but completely unable to move or speak. One woman went through a several hour operation to have a hernia removed and felt every moment of it (including the cauterization). Another woman had her eye removed from its socket. They heard the music, the surgeon’s casual banter but they couldn’t signal any awareness. For some strange reason the monitors showed no distress. Now they’re experimenting with brain wave monitors to see if they pick up something to indicate conscious awareness. Utterly gruesome. I did learn – don’t ever lie to the anesthesiologist about how much you drink or whether you use drugs, because that affects their calculation of the dose during surgery (users presumably being more resistant to the anesthesia).

Oh I’m sorry. Where were we? Yes – we were talking about Roger and hopes for a speedy recovery! I Do hope the surgery is already done lest he read this in advance. Ummm – terribly insensitive of me. Nevermind…..

Why the left is so loony.

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