My resolution this year is not to be struck by a meteor. I decided that after years of breaking my resolution before January was over, I’d pick one this year that even I can’t fuck up.

Happy New Year to all y’all.

also, the New Years baby will have to prove that she is fully in compliance with the individual insurance mandate or face immediate arrest by the IRS.

This makes my heart leap with joy. After years of lurking on this site I love, I have finally found the courage to overcome the fear of speaking out to other like-minded people as well as those who are not so like minded. People who I admire and who educate and amuse me with their well-thought positions on all things political and most blessed of all – their humanitarian viewpoints. I believe God watches and pays heed to positions taken and expressed in these media, and even though some of the comments sometimes appear superficial, He realizes they are too often borne of frustration and feelings of helplesness. He is more understanding than any of us can begin to imagine – and He knows our hearts. I see hard-core cases of closed-mindedness whose hearts are often softened once they engage thoughtful posters here. I have seen hard-core and angry liberals (myself included) reach unimagined positions of compassion and understanding for their bretheren who had hitherto irreconcilable differences of opinion. (Many of us pray for the recovery of Mr. Limbaugh)This is the epitome of class, and maybe by the grace of God, it can catch on. I pray to my God that we of good faith in our causes can find that common ground which is the only route to rapproachment with those with whom we often disagree. May the true God bless you all this new year, and may we all find sensible and honorable positions on those issues we care about – positions not impossible to both break our own barriers as well as draw our bretheren to consider.

Welcome! WELCOME!

Matters not how long you lurk…….only that you delurk. FDL hasn’t had a *delurk* post in a while (that I’ve seen – Christy, missed you, we have) and the New Year is an appropriate time for a return to that tradition.

Happy New Year to all the pups; may it be better than the one just past.

And Fox seemingly getting booted off Time-Warner cable!

Happy New Year, pups. It’s Bobo and Prof. Krugman this morning. Bobo, in “The God That Fails,” gurgles that it would be nice if we reacted to the inevitable failures of centralized agencies with resiliency instead of rabid denunciation and cynicism. Well, Bobo, honey, if you and your ilk on the right hadn’t tried your best to keep us all in a pants-piddling state of panic for the past 9 years maybe that resiliency you yearn for might not have been eroded away. Just sayin’… As for the rabid denunciation, go research Newt Gingrich and get back to me. Then you can STFU. Prof. Krugman, in “Chinese New Year,” says Chinese mercantilism is a growing problem, and the victims of that mercantilism have little to lose from a trade confrontation.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got gingerbread made from my grandmother’s recipe. Don’t forget to eat greens and black-eyed peas today, to bring money and luck for the New Year.

And a big welcome to sudnurge. (Great nym!) Please stay de-lurked — every voice adds something to the chorus. Have a great day, y’all.

Welcome.

Happy New Year to all.

Wishing everyone- and especially Y’All’s 4 legged pals, a year that’s filled with good health, prosperity, strength and Blessings! And pleasant surprises (hey, if you’re gonna wish, wish BIG, right?)
Happy New Year, Puppers!

A little good news for the New Year -

Washington DC levys tax on plastic shopping bags (effective today):

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iw87xnFm3GLxRXMbiVNopnrez8-g

Welcome to a new year, and a new beginning. Struggle like you mean it!

Bobo probably had to stay up late and miss his New Year celebration working on that piece but now I know that the next time I fly (that will be the day!) I will smile happily as I am stripped searched, will thank the TAC idiots hard workers for removing my underwear, (It was tight anyway) and I will write letters of praise to the Secretary of Transportation for allowing me the “down” time of at least three hours resting on the runway. Unfortunately, in those short three hours, I will not have time to praise all the government agencies private contractors that have protected me by sacrificing themselves and murdering those foriegners in such far away places as Iraq and Afghanistan. Oh, I nearly forgot my BOBO thank you list also includes president fucknuts and his do nothing friends in congress.

PS Welcome sudnurge to our enlightened discourse.

Now if we could afford to shop…….

Welcome, sudnurge. Just as a heads up, there are some people here who are very intolerant of belief in God. I usually just ignore them.

Nice first comment Welcome:) Any questions please ask someone will answer.

Lots of new folks joining up lately or is it just me?

As I do the believers, most of the time.

….
“I signed this law in July to cut down on the disposable bags that foul our waterways,” said Mayor Adrian Fenty in a statement last month, saying that one particularly urban waterway, the city’s Anacostia River, has been particularly befouled by the plastic shopping bags.’
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To prepare for the change, the city government has distributed some 122,000 reusable shopping bags to elderly and low-income residents who complain that their limited spending power will be further hampered by the levy.

The measure is opposed by the American Chemistry Council, which says standard issue plastic bags already are reusable and work just fine.
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Yeah, right…..they’re “reusable”……..so why the hell do so many of them wind up fouling our environment?

So here’s a q. Anyone have any suggestions on a sinus infection short of going to the doc & getting anitbiotics? Cold I had after Thanksgiving never completely went away and has now settled in my sinuses. I don’t feel bad, except for the nose blowing & coughing.

I tried to edit to put article quotes in…..and #17 is the result. Bluuuuuuuugh!

I’m in between on this who cares if you believe or don’t in God its what we believe is best for America as a whole is why we are here. Sure I mock fundies every religion has a problem with false prophets and yes I use the Bible often to make points why because there are some good ideas there.
Peace folks we got enough stuff to deal with in the real world if belief in God leads a person here cool. If lack of belief leads you here cool.
We need all the friends we can get.

I reuse my plastic bags. Get a 5 cent credit for each one. What’s the tax/bag?

True it is. Yesterday’s post from Ms Hamsher gave some facts about new registrations which were quite impressive. She also listed some of the probable reasons. It seems that the Lake is gathering commenters as cat hairs to a chair. Good to see, the more diversity the better as far as I am concerned.

We are expecting a three day blizzard here in the North East so today is a “load as much firewood into the house as I can” day. I think I will have to fill the house with smells of baking bread.

Steam. My mother used to have us put our heads, covered with towel, over a steam pot and that cleared the sinuses. Later I developed a simpler method by adding lemon juice and boiling water to a cup of bourbon.

This liberal’s prayer for the new year:
May this new year see an end to innocent blood spilled on our earth.
May we rejoice in the hope that the hungry will be fed.
May peace finally reach those places where the sword reigns supreme.
May our beloved planet see a reprieve from the ravages of mankind.
May hope visit the hopeless; courage replace fear; health and cheer replace destitution.
God willing.

Yes. I took a long shower yesterday, but I should make a more determined effort to do steam a couple of times/day until it’s gone. Thanks for the reminder.

Many of us pray for the recovery of Mr. Limbaugh

Surely that is going entirely too far.

Don’t forget decent bloody health care.

More of this, please. Juan Cole’s 10 good 2010 news stories from the Muslim world that you never heard of.

Lots of hot liquids force yourself to drink up, rest, garlic raw or garlic lemonade to thin the blood stop eating dairy foods your body turns it to snot. turn up the heat keep a humidifer in your room, lots of vitamin C, Echinacea is great lemon cinnamon tea or hot cider with lemon and cinnamon.
Run do something to get the lungs pumping if you can everyday if you are able to do it, and only in a warm place. Hot baths a hot wet towel on your face might help, Vicks vapor rub under the nose breathed in mixed in steaming hot water.
Hot peppers have tons of vitamin C and they can can make your nose run but only eat them if you feel strong enough.
Tell me which ideas work for you everyone is different. Oh and avoid the cold.

Change the water and clean the humidifer every few days or you might get stagnant germ filled water pumping all over your room.

For the record, I don’t have anything against atheists, unless they’re assholes about it. I was an atheist most of my life.

As long as he is off the air I’m ok with it. Sure I do want to see him get a little payback though just how many hate crime perps listened to him before they went nuts?

I’ve been doing the hot liquids thing. Haven’t gotten out much owing to weather, but I could make more of an effort. Can always go for a brisk walk and get the ‘lungs pumping’.

Steam rooms, hot tubs are great if you can get real warm then jump in cold water or maybe just warm water the rapid temperature changes loosens up the body’s fluids.

The same iirc.

Cool! hope you feel better:)

I wonder if rubbing cut hot peppers or an onion, garlic or neem oil on the sinuses might help?

Do that by a sink neem oil is painless the other stuff might cause pain.

Thanks for being my mommy on this. (((TCU)))

Cod liver oil is what they gave my dad and cousin when they found out my Grand Aunt had TB despite living in the same house as her they did not catch it and TB is very contagious. Plus the new lemon flavored cod liver oil is quite good on pasta but pricey.

I used Murphy soap and washed everything in the house then vacuumed real good and that helped. Don’t know if it was the exertion or the dust elimination though.

If you have a real strong stomach you can juice a hot pepper and some tomatoes and garlic and try to drink a little juicing releases everything quick that should clear your sinuses me and my dad juiced 5 tomatoes and I think 2 peppers once it took us each a half hour to finish a glass but it did clear everything up add salt have a chaser ready.

Good idea I like it:)

Honey in the tea

and tons of lemons, limes or just the concentrate from the store don’t skimp.

My dad always said I should have been a Witch Doctor:)

Might I add wash the bed sheets in hot water lots of germs get there when we are sick and hang in bed all day.

It’s not to late:)

Interesting–up to now the only use I have heard of for neem oil is killing bugs on houseplants.