Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) update:
By on Dec 14th, 2006 at 6:42 pm
Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) update:
Admiral John Eisold, Attending Physician of the United States Capitol said, “Senator Tim Johnson has continued to have an uncomplicated post-operative course. Specifically, he has been appropriately responsive to both word and touch. No further surgical intervention has been required.”
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I pray for his speedy recovery so he can take his rightful place at the 110th Congress.
December 14th, 2006 at 6:48 pmI’m thrilled that this man is doing fine and appears to be on the road to recovery. The sick, twisted corporate media whores and pimps are out swarming over his bedside. They’re really showing what they’re made of….doing ANYTHING for a dime. No different that pimps and prostitutes – all CMSM.(corporate mainstream media)
December 14th, 2006 at 6:49 pmExcellent news! My prayers are with Sen. Johnson and his family.
December 14th, 2006 at 6:53 pmKeep up the prayers…. let’s not get lazy…
December 14th, 2006 at 6:56 pmMy loathing of the corporate media has hit a new low. Salivating over a Senate seat they say ‘We pray for him’ and follow that with all the scenarios of a Republican Senate and breaking news updates, Is he dead yet? Is he dead yet? Is he dead yet?
December 14th, 2006 at 7:06 pmTim Johnson: He’s Gotta Serve Even If He’s Just a Marionette:
Towards the horrible end of his too-long life, Republicans made sure that the decaying corpse-that-rolled Strom Thurmond could still serve out his term so that the Democratic governor of South Carolina would not be able to name a replacement for him. While everyone around him, including the Republican leadership, lied about his ability to put together a thought that was more cogent than, “Ngah, pudding,” Thurmond himself was merely an empty vessel shitting out his innards into a nauseatingly full diaper. That didn’t matter to the GOP, clinging to a seat that would have to be re-upholstered every week because of the acidic urine stains….
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December 14th, 2006 at 7:06 pmI noticed that of all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers that I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same 50 percent rate. Half the time I get what I want. Half the time I don’t. Same as God 50-50. Same as the four leaf clover, the horse shoe, the rabbit’s foot, and the wishing well. Same as the mojo man. Same as the voodoo lady who tells your fortune by squeezing the goat’s testicles. It’s all the same; 50-50. So just pick your superstitions, sit back, make a wish and enjoy yourself.
—George Carlin
December 14th, 2006 at 7:14 pmUnbelievable……….
December 14th, 2006 at 7:28 pm“If something is 50 percent believable, go for it…” (author unknown)
and
“Knowing which god to pray to in any given situation improves the odds” (Raven)
Good post as usual Unbelievable…I will do what I alway’s do send good wishes and Hope for my Blessings to work along with every one elses prayer’s…To each his or her own or not as they choose….Blessings all..
December 14th, 2006 at 7:57 pm“If something is 50 percent believable, go for it…†(author unknown)
50% of the voting population voted for Bush in 2004, so I’ll stick with the unpopular opinion – logic and evidence.
Though, I think gods are 0% believable. Hence ‘un’believable… I’d rather rely on knowledge and logic than silent unknowns.
“Knowing which god to pray to in any given situation improves the odds†(Raven)
Comment by Raven — December 14, 2006 @ 7:28 pm
I have seen zero proof of this, and think people waste time praying, which does no good, instead of doing. Actions, not prayers, will solve our problems.
December 14th, 2006 at 7:57 pmGood post as usual Unbelievable…I will do what I alway’s do send good wishes and Hope for my Blessings to work along with every one elses prayer’s…To each his or her own or not as they choose….Blessings all..
Comment by Sharon Cox — December 14, 2006 @ 7:57 pm
Thanks Sharon, I just think people stop with the prayer and forget the actions required to make change.
If we’d prayed for a Dem victory on November 7th but not voted, along with the rest of the liberals, where we would be today? Not in the majority…
How’s the tree hugging? :)
December 14th, 2006 at 8:03 pmI wish Senator Johnson a speedy recovery. I’m not the praying kind, but my thoughts are with him and his family. (Actually, according to a recent study, people tend to have a worse recovery prognosis when they know people are praying for them than when they don’t.)
December 14th, 2006 at 8:05 pm#14.
December 14th, 2006 at 8:17 pmdear Unbelievable
I totally respect you view.
I am an extremely rational and logical person, to excess perhaps.
My contributions here are often a release for the pain I absorb daily out in the world.
I do pray, and while mine own “God” is an often amorphous (and evolving) understanding, I do have a belief in a higher consciousness.
I sincerely apreciate your knowledge and contributions, and especially your work with the ascending generations who will have to deal with the mess we have created for them.
#17..
December 14th, 2006 at 8:22 pmExactly…
when people know others are praying for them, the results are worse……they then start to fret about meeting expectations…..
keep it under your hat, it’s the thought of well wishes and well being put out into the universe that count…. it don’t matter if any one knows about it…….
I don’t prey, I send good thought’s and Blessings…Like Unbelievable and many others I think they work about 50% and I choose to have good thought’s sent out.. May I add, I honor others choices even if I don’t agree…..
Worrisom tree hugging day and I’m working over time with the tree Blessings….Our soil is so saturated and most of our trees in this state have a very shallow root system…In fact the root’s look like a pancake when the trees blow down…..The worst wind’s expected between 9p.m tonight. and 5 a.m. tomorrow morning….Hope for the best and what will be, will be…….Blessings all…Nite
December 14th, 2006 at 8:46 pmRaven,
Sounds like the views I had myself when I was transitioning from the Christian god upon who I’d been raised. I called myself Spiritual and started reasing a lot on Buddhism, learned to mediate and believe god was more like the sea of energy in which we exist.
It’s interesting how many of the atheists I know went through that unravelling of convention via amorphous views of gods to end up with the view that the universe is indifferent, and the only purpose in our lives is that which we assign to it. The ultimate freedom, I think…
Just so much pain has been done in the name of ‘beliefs’ rather than accepting the harshness of reality that I am skeptical of them. I also think they are a large reason for so much of the pain we feel. We are not taught to accept the reality that exists – but instead are told of one that our collective culture wishes existed. And then, when we come into contact with the real universe, it is painful that it is not the one we were taught to function within. There is no ‘happily ever after’ when you think you are owed one. And that is what our culture sets us up for… believing that there is some force for ultimate good battling one of ultimate evil – when really, both are simply a matter of perspective.
I watch the documentary about the Grizzly Man. If you haven’t seen it – the guy thought bears were good and people were bad – so he went off and lived with them. When they had to resort to eating other bears when food was scarce, he couldn’t handle it. It caused him serious anguish. Yet, he was fine with them ripping the flesh off of live salmon to eat. It was all perspective…
It will be interesting in time to see how your logical view on the world solves your evolution.
December 14th, 2006 at 8:49 pmThe worst wind’s expected between 9p.m tonight. and 5 a.m. tomorrow morning….Hope for the best and what will be, will be…….Blessings all…Nite
Comment by Sharon Cox — December 14, 2006 @ 8:46 pm
Stay safe Sharon… I finally saw and Inconvenient Truth (can’t believe they had the DVD in the store, since we didn’t get the movie in theatres), and it looks like the weather is going to get worse… so sad.
December 14th, 2006 at 8:54 pmYet, he was fine with them ripping the flesh off of live salmon to eat. It was all perspective…
Comment by unbelievable
I think I’m missing something…
What are bears supposed to eat?
December 14th, 2006 at 8:57 pmAnd didn’t those bears end up eating tht idiot?
Yep! right again Unbelievable….I’ve seen some very stunning thing’s in the forest’s and my garden alone…We have had some extremes right here, drought and hot above normal summers, more rain and massive flooding along with high wind’s ,more than usual…..Some of my plant’s have bloomed more often than in the past and then just died because of the weather pattern changing…Untill we can try to change it we are on crash and burn mode….Sad….Blessings
December 14th, 2006 at 9:04 pmBear’s will eat anything that doesn’t try to eat them first….I just asked him and he said Woof! that yes in 125 pound big Bear talk…..LOL
December 14th, 2006 at 9:09 pmZooey and Unbelievable…
December 14th, 2006 at 9:12 pmI did suffer through “The Grizzly Man”……
what a goofus,…….. !
G’night #20…….. clink clink clunk
December 14th, 2006 at 9:15 pmWhat are bears supposed to eat?
And didn’t those bears end up eating tht idiot?
Comment by Zooey — December 14, 2006 @ 8:57 pm
Anything. They are omnivores. He was upset when they ate mammals, but not fish – therefore it was a double-standard of which ‘killing’ is acceptable and which is not – from his perspective – the essence of ‘beliefs’. If he’s accepted that bears will eat anything, the reality, then he wouldn’t have been so distraught and freaked out when they ate each other… the reality of their lives.
He was most likely eaten by an older bear who could not find enough fish, berries or other food by the time most bears were fully and bedding down for the winter. He was filming it and himself talking toit like a teddy bear the night before he and his girlfriend were attacked (in the middle of the night). The ultimate irony, I suppose.
December 14th, 2006 at 9:18 pmHas Bill ‘Catman’ Frist phone in his diagnosis yet?
December 14th, 2006 at 9:19 pmwhat a goofus,…….. !
Comment by Raven — December 14, 2006 @ 9:12 pm
LOL… most definitely. I felt sorry for him because he was soooo out of touch with reality that he wound up living in an alternate universe that well… ate him up…
December 14th, 2006 at 9:20 pmIt was a great film, all in all, the director pulled no punches in letting the astute viewer in on what actually happened.
December 14th, 2006 at 9:21 pmfrom a link on michaelmoore.com:
Senate Has History of Lengthy Health-Related Absences
By CQ Staff | 4:06 PM; Dec. 14, 2006 | Email This Article
The following is adapted from an article published Wednesday on CQ.com.
South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson underwent surgery Thursday after being diagnosed with bleeding on the brain, and even under the best of circumstances faces a period of recuperation that could cause him to miss work time after the 110th Congress convenes Jan. 4.
But the Senate has a long history of holding the seats of members forced to be away for months or even years.
The following list, dating back to 1942, was provided by Senate Historian Richard A. Baker; it names the senators along with the durations and causes of their absences.
• Styles Bridges, New Hampshire Republican: January-June 1942; fractured a hip in a fall on Dec. 31, 1941.
• Carter Glass, Virginia Democrat: June 1942 until his death on May 28, 1946; absent because of old-age infirmities, even as he held the posts of Senate president pro tempore (1941-45) and chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Despite his declining condition, Glass was re-elected by Virginia voters in November 1942.
• Robert F. Wagner, New York Democrat: January 1947 until his resignation on June 28, 1949; had a heart ailment that prevented him from attending any sessions in the 80th or 81st Congresses.
• Arthur H. Vandenberg, Michigan Republican: October 1949 until his death on April 18, 1951; after a major surgery to remove a tumor on his lung in October 1949, he returned to the Senate briefly in January and February 1950, then was absent for most of 1950. He had a second surgery that April and another brief return to the Senate in May of that year.
• Clair Engle, California Democrat: Various periods from 1963 until his death on July 30, 1964; underwent repeated operations for brain cancer, which left him partially paralyzed. In June 1964, he was carried into the Senate chamber to cast a key vote on the Civil Rights Act; unable to speak, he signaled in the affirmative.
• Karl E. Mundt, South Dakota Republican: November 1969 to January 1973; suffered a stroke that prevented him from returning to the Senate, but he declined to resign and served until the expiration of his term.
• Joseph R. Biden Jr., Delaware Democrat: Feb. 12-Sept. 7, 1988, after undergoing surgery for a brain aneurysm.
• Al Gore, Tennessee Democrat: April 3-May 1, 1989; on opening day of the major baseball season in Baltimore, the senator’s son — four-year-old Albert Gore III — was struck by an automobile and seriously injured as he and his father were leaving the stadium. The elder Gore spent much of his absence at Johns Hopkins Hospital caring for his son until his release en route to a full recovery.
• David Pryor, Arkansas Democrat: April 15-Sept. 10, 1991, after suffering a heart attack in Washington, D.C.
December 14th, 2006 at 9:24 pmUntill we can try to change it we are on crash and burn mode….Sad….Blessings
Comment by Sharon Cox — December 14, 2006 @ 9:04 pm
Very sad indeed. I think the public is starting to wake up and believe their own lying eyes for a change…. And when we get consensus, we get change…
I certainly have introduced my students to the realities of what we are doing to this planet. And they seem to care. I figure it’s a satrt… :)
December 14th, 2006 at 9:24 pmZooey, when I lived in northern Idaho I had the misfortune to get up close and personal to black bear’s often…Lucky for me I was packing a good cannon and had common sence to boot..Never had to kill one but was ready…..Black bear’s, according to an old fish and game magazine I read once, kill more people than grizzlies, very unpredictible and opertunestick….They will eat any thing or any one…Wild animal’s will do what they must and people are foolish to be in their area and think they can live with them….Blessings
December 14th, 2006 at 9:25 pmComment by unbelievable — December 14, 2006 @ 7:57 pm
I … sense connections beyond what is perceived by the “5″ senses.
Prayer…can go by many different names. In Wicca and Witchcraft, prayer is in the form of spells. In many forms of Christianity…it’s a ritualistic “Our Father, which art in Heaven…” But the essence is focused intent.
Yesterday I had another happy coincidence. At 8 a.m. it was overcast and threatening rain. A collegue remarked it would be nice if it cleared by 10 so things would warm up for an outdoor assembly. According to the weather reports, it was due to clear by the afternoon. I asked for it to clear by 10, and by 10 we had sunshine.
Coincidence? Or, do we really affect things on a larger scale with focused thought? Is prayer without action really prayer, or merely wishful thinking? Thought affects actions affects thoughts.
If you throw a rock into the ocean, you have just changed the sea level.
I’m not really trying to convince anyone here of anything, but the interplay between energy and matter is really more sublime than any of us can possibly imagine.
December 14th, 2006 at 9:46 pmI’m not really trying to convince anyone here of anything, but the interplay between energy and matter is really more sublime than any of us can possibly imagine.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
Have you ever breathed away a cloud…? ;)
December 14th, 2006 at 9:50 pmHmm Sharon, Jim ‘weatherman’ Cantore is standing on the beaches way up there in his blue coat. Must be bad.
December 14th, 2006 at 10:04 pmI love you’re post’s BnF….Collective concensences (sp)..Yep! All paths lead to the same end….My hope for a better result for all….
Zooey, no I have never breathed one away but I have been part of one….I know you didn’t ask me but thought I would throw it you’re way…Blessings
December 14th, 2006 at 10:09 pmGood luck with that storm, Sharon. I’ll expect the worst out my way, too.
December 14th, 2006 at 10:16 pmTerry, all thing’s are relative, right.?Blessings
December 14th, 2006 at 10:16 pmPrepare for the worst, work and hope for the best…Good night all….Blessings
December 14th, 2006 at 10:20 pmHang tight Sharon – that storm has me marooned in Houston… can’t catch any breaks this week.
December 14th, 2006 at 10:49 pmCoincidence?
In this case, yes. I don’t think a human has enough energy (in terms like magnets) to make this impact.
I think we need there to be meaning, because we have created a culture that takes the best parts of being human and gives them away to supernatural forces.
You may be right. I’m agnostic about certains aspects of collective consciousness – but for the most part science does not support anything but an indifferent universe.
Or, do we really affect things on a larger scale with focused thought? Is prayer without action really prayer, or merely wishful thinking? Thought affects actions affects thoughts.
Your thoughts affect your actions, and others who allow your actions to impact them. But I see no evidence for much more than that. People really can’t bend spoons with their minds, so I’m thinking the weather is pretty unlikely being that it is so much larger.
If you throw a rock into the ocean, you have just changed the sea level.
A physical reaction to a physical action. The only thought involved was in telling your body to pick up and throw the rock. And that connection, via nerves is valid.
I’m not really trying to convince anyone here of anything, but the interplay between energy and matter is really more sublime than any of us can possibly imagine.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire — December 14, 2006 @ 9:46 pm
Maybe, I just don’t think it is conscious, because I have seen no proof that it is.
December 14th, 2006 at 11:11 pmComment by unbelievable — December 14, 2006 @ 11:11 pm
It takes very little energy. I am reminded of humming in a tiled room (shower, for example). Certain pitches suddenly resonate quite loudly, even though my humming is very soft, because that particular pitch has hit the resonant frequency of the room.
And yes, Zooey, I have breathed away a cloud, often. And when I think “thanks” afterwards, I get this overwhelming sense of gratitude in return.
Unbelievable, I appreciate the fact that you respect our differences in our personal points of view.
December 15th, 2006 at 12:13 amLot of prayin’ goin’ on here from the atheists.
December 15th, 2006 at 1:59 amunbelievable I hope that doesn’t make u too uncomfortable.
You’ve come pretty far (monkey to man). Keep teachin’
them students/comrades that old evolution crap. U r stuck in the mid-1800’s girl.
#48: Of course, your formulation assumes that Lieberman is stupid enough to accept the nomination
Oops.
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December 15th, 2006 at 4:07 amDon’t let Cheney near that room!
December 15th, 2006 at 4:12 amWe hope this news is encouraging for the family. We all wish his full recovery very soon.
December 15th, 2006 at 9:12 amKeep teachin’ them students/comrades that old evolution crap. U r stuck in the mid-1800’s girl.
Comment by Flaco — December 15, 2006 @ 1:59 am
I don’t teach Science this year, but anyone who thinks evolution is out-dated really should be taught some science.
Your delusional need to live forever impedes you ability to accept the reality that exists. It’s what makes so many other aspects of yoru rotten life unbearable as well. You’re just not conscious enough to see anything this obvious.
Good luck with that.
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