Labrador Heaven posted on Main Page The Lobby Many years ago, when L.com was just in its infancy, I was awaiting my new sign-on and password as the one I had been using, along with the sign-on I registered with, got jumbled in the early servers for some reason. I sent Cap an email about something he wrote and wanted to know if he would post as my sign-on was in limbo. He gladly did and we had a nice exchange of emails after that. Incredible man, incredible life well-lived,and he is now Home. Maybe he'll get a heavenly version of Lucianne.com going - after all, we have enough posters there already and you know Josh is in charge of the heavenly tech end of things!
March 30 at 21:28 EST .
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Lana720 Very true, LH! Tech-wise, I wish that when you post here, it didn't take you back to the beginning of the thread! Josh, Kevin, any help?
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Labrador Heaven posted on Main Page The Lobby For all Downton Abbey lovers, here's a glimpse of the upcoming Season 4 of the show. It does contain a spoiler since the seasons run in full in the UK before they run here in the US. I adore this show. (There is a new cookbook out of the recipes in the show, too. )
Belwhatter Trying desperately hard not to buy the next DVDs until present series plays out. Fellowes is proving himself a redoubtable writer keeping so many pots boiling among family and staff, and relevancy to the situations of their times
January 26 at 14:43 EST .
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Labrador Heaven Dame Maggie Smith is an absolute hoot! Sounds like Shirley MacLaine will return as Cora's mother as well. But Matthew Crawley character.....that's a different story.
January 26 at 14:51 EST .
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FL Homeschool Mom Started watching Downton Abbey in December (watched 2 seasons on Prime in no time! ) and then counted the days until the new season started. I pre-ordered the DVD on Amazon so I don't have to wait for the new episodes on Sunday night!
I don't care for Shirley MacLaine on DA, would have preferred Olympia Dukakis in the role. Just my humble opinion.
January 26 at 22:56 EST .
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StormCnter I'm a Downton Abbey fan, too. A fellow L-Dotter pointed me to "The Grand", during the DA off-season. I highly recommend that series, too. It's available on DVD and is centered on a family-owned, very upscale, elegant London hotel with big-time money troubles. The time-frame is similar to Downton Abbey. Try it. You'll love it.
January 27 at 12:17 EST .
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Labrador Heaven Between Amazon Prime and Netflix, and even PBS' own site/IPad app, it's covered. The PBS app also has the closed captioning for some dialogue you might miss, but the episodes are only up until March 3rd via PBS. I have the IPad Amazon app and it does not yet support closed captioning.
Tonight, DVR is set for 3 programs to record, one being Boomtown, on "Hannity" and then Downton and "The Good Wife." Can't stand TGW's liberal bent throughout but the writing is fairly crisp. I'll be watching an old episode of "Columbo" while the others record. Love Columbo!!
January 27 at 19:31 EST .
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Labrador Heaven posted on Main Page The Lobby I'm putting this up here again, because it gets lost in all the other Petraeus threads....think it's rather an important item that no one could tie together when it was published, but look at the descriptor of "other man" job and scope, and note "The Ethicist" author's response and call-out. This was "her" husband putting several people on notice, indeed:
The word is that the second letter in the column linked below is from Broadwell's husband, showing knowledge of the affair. More interesting is the reply from "The Ethicist" column author. Intriguing. From July of this year:
Labrador Heaven posted on Main Page The Lobby Doozy of an article that can't be posted on main site. Don't know if anyone put it up here or not and don't have time check.
Montanabound I'd love for a reporter to ask him about it, but it'll never happen.
October 11 at 00:25 EST .
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Labrador Heaven posted on Main Page The Lobby Has this ever been posted here on The Connection? Haven't been able to visit as frequently as I want. If not, enjoy and marvel at how things once were and really, why our country was so promise-filled and full of hope.
Escaped commieny He also has a FREE service to make sure you are registered to vote. Stats are 20% of conservative donors are Not registered, even when they think they are. With lists being purged, please double check. Just your name and zip. You can also check your neighbors to make sure they are registered.
Escaped commieny Of course the leftist are attacking him: Attacks on David Barton Same as tactics of Saul Alinsky Question: What do elitist professors have in common with Adolf Hitler & Saul Alinsky? Answer: They masterfully use the powerful art of innuendo to falsely defame those with which they disagree. Definition of Innuendo: A derogatory hint or reference to a person or thing. The internet is abuzz today with leftwing bloggers, elitist professors, and downright jealous peers licking their chops and rubbing their hands in excitement as they repeat the juicy quotes about David Barton books being full of “embarrassing factual errors, suspiciously selective quotes, and highly misleading claims.” Yet not a single article can point to a single factual error, quote out of context, or misleading claim. full article here: http://www.rickgreen.com/attacks-on-davi d-barton-same-as-tactics-of-alinsky-hitl er/
JoeDanMedia Barton is great. OF course the Godless Left hate him.
August 13 at 22:46 EST .
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Labrador Heaven posted on Main Page The Lobby Question for Ldotters going to new physicians: Have any of you run into the new Obamacare-mandated (it seems ) questionnaires of new patients going to new physicians that ask any of the following (or more intrusive ones than listed here ):
Do you own a gun? Where did you purchase the gun and from whom? Are you divorced? From whom? Who left whom? Why did you divorce? Were you depressed about it? How many times do you leave your state of residence per year, and to where do you travel? How often do you leave the country, and to where/why do you do so? Do you own a home, have a mortgage or rent? If mortgage, how much is it for? Please state your full work history, including salaries.
This is part of a 3 page questionnaire of new patients - can't say by name which one on this board - but the patients-to-be were told if they did not fill it out in full, they could not be seen by that practice. It was a new questionnaire they said, in "compliance" with Obamacare (they called it by the official name ACA, etc. )and it must be answered in full. There were more detailed and intrusive questions than the ones I just delineated, but you get the point. Some answers were multiple choice only, even further limiting what you could say.
Many simply refused to fill it out and walked out. This is a specialty care practice, not gen med. I haven't yet seen any kind of selective questioning like this show up on our hospital's new patient info sheets, but I'm wondering if anyone else has. The above practice is in North Carolina.
April 23 at 10:05 EST .
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Gerty I have been asked if I owned a gun when filling out new patient information. However, none of the others mentioned above.
April 23 at 10:15 EST .
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Rake King I would refuse to answer on the grounds of my privacy and safeguards in the Bill of Rights.
April 23 at 10:52 EST .
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Rake King I have filled out several patient forms for the conversion to computers, but none had anything like the questions above. What they asked were normal/usual questions in the past.
April 23 at 10:56 EST .
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Labrador Heaven That's why so many would-be patients walked out. Privacy is paramount, but this practice did not seem to care. They refused care to anyone who did "comply." It was a cardiac practice. We're wondering if they received payments of some sort for even those who refused to answer and walked out the door. It was a substantial amount of people with long-booked appointments.
Are you divorced? From whom? Who left whom? Why did you divorce?
I'm not sure I recall.
Were you depressed about it?
Depressed about what?
How many times do you leave your state of residence per year, and to where do you travel?
I don't keep count of my travels away; but when I go I usually spend the time visiting government bureaucrats' dreams to give them grief for prying into other people's private lives.
How often do you leave the country, and to where/why do you do so?
We haven't had a sovereign country to leave (or to live in ) since the mid-to-late 1990s.
Do you own a home, have a mortgage or rent? If mortgage, how much is it for?
I think I own a home somewhere. But someone else lives there, another person makes the payments, and I've never actually seen the place. (It's so much easier and cheaper to live vicariously and let others take the risks. )
Please state your full work history, including salaries.
I've been your full-time assistant for over ten years, and you haven't noticed yet?
How often do you leave the country, and to where/why do you do so?
To 'leave the country' you have to be in the country to begin with. I live in-town and don't spend much time in the country.
April 23 at 12:43 EST .
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Nugoddess Are you divorced? From whom? Who left whom? Why did you divorce?
I'm not sure I recall.
Were you depressed about it?
Yes, I so wanted to be a widow ...
April 23 at 14:17 EST .
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RoseOfTexas I saw an awesome rebuttal form a while back. It asked for the doc's signature taking responsibility for any injuries caused by intruders I was unable to defend myself from because I didn't have a gun.
April 23 at 22:23 EST .
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Labrador Heaven posted on Main Page The Lobby For all 9/11 Search and Rescue Dog lovers: I posted this on the mother site, with Miss Lucianne's permission.
Planned ahead of time, before Liz's death, as they attempt to start transitioning viewership affinity to new viewers of OLD movies. Robert Osborne is aging and hurting, and he's helping that transition along. He's the last of old Hollywood still there at TCM and his memory bank is vast - I hope they never stop his movie introductions even after he's gone. His days go back to before Lucy and Desi - he was close to Lucy early in her career. I'm stunned by the amount of people who work at TCM who have NEVER seen their product - ever. Should be a requirement - there was life before they were born, and Robert Osborne is trying to make certain they GET that, frustrating as that may be...
TCM cannot ever be movies from the 80s and beyond....EVER. Let's make certain that never happens. And I wish Robert Osborne the best health possible, but it's clear he's transitioning out of the offerings. Just hope that TCM keeps his intros on forever. He knows and knew everyone!
March 25 at 02:19 EST .
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Sis2011 Yes, Robert Osbourne is primo. He knows so much about the "olden days." I really enjoy the stories about the movie and the stars.
My Man Godfrey - filled with great comedic timing and writing. You have to listen carefully, or you miss half of the great stuff. Powell and Lombard had divorced by this time, but were still very close.
Favorite lines:
Blake: "This place slightly resembles an insane asylum!" Bullock: "Well, all you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."
As woman comes in to party with goat on a leash... Blake: "Take a look at the ditzy old gal with the goat" Bullock: "I have had to take a look at her for twenty years; that's MRS. Bullock."
Wish Lombard had lived longer - she was layers above what passes for great Hollywood comedy now.
(I'm way too young to remember ANY of these people in their prime - Gable was long dead by the time I was born, but I LOVE old Hollywood and all its originality. I watch all old stuff, love TCM. It will never be like that again. And I still Love Lucy.)
March 24 at 23:32 EST .
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MsCharlotteVale Well, I'm old enough to have been alive when most of the great entertainers were alive. I love old movies and I collect them. The Lombard/Gable love story is one for the books. She seems to have been the love of his life and she died tragically. I read a great bio of Lucille Ball and she and Desi were Gable's neighbors out in their weekend country houses. I can't remember the name of the town but it was close to where Roy and Dale Rogers had their home.
March 25 at 02:07 EST .
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Labrador Heaven Read several bios of Lucy and Desi, separate and together. They were in love to the end.
Chatsworth is what you're thinking of - now overrun with high density housing, no matter how expensive. Used to have large land density instead.
March 25 at 02:53 EST .
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MsCharlotteVale They loved each other but Desi made a fool of Lucy by his brothel-flings and other dalliances. I once read a lib article that excused Desi's flings by saying he was a hot-blooded Hispanic. Libs are insane and racist.
March 25 at 03:16 EST .
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Labrador Heaven Well, it was a different time and era - love is blind forever. It wasn't liberal vs. conservative, no matter how much many want to paint it in those corners. That had nothing to do with it.
March 25 at 04:59 EST .
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Surfhut My husband's grandfather was great friends with Gable and Lombarde. They escaped to his ranch all the time when they wanted to be out of the public eye. My favorite family picture from those days is of Carole carrying a bucket of oats, still dressed in her flannel PJ's. (He gave them matched sets of Palomino horses for their wedding gift.)
Rather Read My favorite Lombard movie is Nothing Sacred. Her character is supposed to be dying of radium poisoning and Frederic March plays the reporter who brings her to New York so the poor dying girl can get a taste of the Big Apple. Of course she isn't dying. It's too funny for words. Lombard is a delight and Frederic March was great as the cynical reporter.
Yottyhere Oh Dear Lord that poor sweet pup Stracks was so hurt. I almost fell out of my chair when I first saw and realized what I was seeing. Certainly need the tissues if you watch this video... God Bless these people.
March 24 at 22:50 EST .
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Labrador Heaven Another aside - the narrator/voice-over of the beginning part of the piece is the same who did the "In a New York Minute" tribute to the 9/11 victims.
March 25 at 00:48 EST .
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Labrador Heaven "I Want to Live" music is so appropriate for Stracks. Anyone watching the video has to see it all the way through, or you miss the result. Alex, thank you for your $$.
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