Open thread for Saturday August 18th
August 18, 2012
I got a little carried away on the internet yesterday and forgot to post the open thread before heading off to work, but here is today’s open thread. Feel free to post links and discuss anything that comes up over the course of the day.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!
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America's Watchtower 
Isn’t dental surgery a drag? Because of a bridge in my mouth, a tooth was abscessing behind it and has been infected for a few years. I went to Aspen dental, I think they’re nationwide and in one hour took away alot of pain for me. I can’t believe how sick you can get from your teeth or lack of.
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MT, with a bridge you really have to floss around and over them. My daughter has 2 bridges from the eye teeth not coming down in place early on, she has had them replaced once, she was 15 the first set and 37 now. She really has to take care of them, so they are great and a pain at the same time. Glad you got the pain taken away, there is nothing worse than pain the mouth! I have had an abscess, they are miserable. If they go on too long, and it sound like yours was there awhile, that poison can go thru the system and make you very sick.
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I was wondering where you were and I hope you are feeling better.
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Thank You Steve, I am feeling much better!
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Still in Arkansas, I had forgotten all the time it takes to watch a 2 year old. He is going at one speed most the day. It reminds me why we have kids early, at 58 I would not like to take it on full time again. It is about 20 degrees hotter here that Central Illinois, we finally got a break in our temps there and I am not able to take advantage of it.
We are in the dry area there, imagine from what it looks like, most the country can be labeled that. Does anyone else have a well and if so how are they doing? We have never had trouble with it, in the 25 years we have been there, but it is straining now.
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2yo’s are definitely a handful, we’re at our highest intelligence at age 2. I have found more toys I like at thrift stores than dept. stores that are selling chinese crap that has lead on it. The public library has a children’s section where they read to the kids, hope this helps because my heart go out to you with the work that’s neede for our little ones. My daughters live in California and I miss them terribly, I would join them but I can’t just march off from my house in no man’s land.
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We live about 10 hours away, so it is a pretty boring drive, but worth the trip. I agree about the toys, I order alot from The Vermont Store, they have the oldtime toys that are made here and not toxic. My daughter keeps a library stocked for her nephew, she took that upon herself before he was born, she loves good classics. I wish we were closer, as well, but not in the position to be moving either. When I was growing up my granddad was a big part of my early years along with the extended aunts and uncles, that was wonderful, but with families moving further away from home, that is not happening as much.
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You really can’t take your eye off them for a second and they consume all your time, don’t they? But I wouldn’t change the experience for anything. My wife and I had our boys early also and you forget how much work they are as time goes by until you see someone else going through it and then it brings back memories.
We have a well and about three years ago it went dry because we hadn’t had much rain and I filled one of those pools with the inflatable ring on top as well as watering my lawn everyday. We had the tank on the well replaced and I no longer water the lawn and we haven’t had a problem since, keeping my fingers crossed!
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They are touchy, but I will take well water over the city water any day.
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Same here!
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This morning on fox news, media matters is putting down our beloved Navy Seals. media matters founder and co founder don’t have the CAHONES to do the dangerous work our Navy Seals do and I take this personally because my niece is in the NAVY in Japan and it’s a slight to her and our NAVY as well. TAKE IT BACK MEDIA MATTER BECAUSE YOU DON”T MATTER TO ME. Apparently obama is behind this bad mouthing organization that is TAX EXEMPT!
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Lack of integrity on the medias part comes to mind…they will never be on the same level as our military when it comes to integrity. They are just a bunch of controlled hacks.
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There’s SO MUCH of lack of integrity, manners and patience, not to mention common sense has been thrown out the window and the door slammed behind it. The fort hood shooter comes to mind because he’s being allowed to delay his own trial because he won’t shave…can’t we HELP him shave? we have to do that in hospitals everyday, what’s the dif???
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Of course the Ft. Hood shooting was NOT terrorism, I repeat, NOT terrorism! Now I am sure you believe that one like the rest of the people, right? Given how our men and women that have been taken prisoner, I doubt that THEY would have a choice in the matter. We have become too politically correct in war and that is so dangerous for our troops.
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The left is now engaged in a despicable attack on the SEALS and I think many people are offended by it. Please thank your niece for her service for me.
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I agree, it’s very dangerous for us, especially when we have russian nuclear attack submarine operating in our waters. No other president would have ignored this but we’re losing alot more of our troops as well, while obama is president. Romney and Ryan will have their hands full after the election, however long their in charge the left will slaughter them in the news day after day, just like they did George W> Bush, they NEVER let up.
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The story of the Russian submarine is one that has not got the attention it deserved and I am guilty of this as well. I have to wonder of Obama knew it was there, it seems hard to believe it could have gotten all the way there without being detected.
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Hard to believe they didn’t know…they know everything about all of US, don’t they? Spy on US, not on the “less than friendlies”, how typical.
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Good point Lou, they have no problem spying on us. I wish they were as diligent when it came to other nations who might not always have our best interests at heart.
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Truly this president had to know as well as Mexico, a giant submarine is floating right next to them, amongst all those oil refineries??? since obama was given a blank check from BP after the explosion, it makes me suspicious who was behind that explosion?? since the nuclear attack sub is reported to be able to plant bombs, how convenient is that?
Thank You for acknowledging my niece, she was in Japan when that earthquake hit and she’s tolk us about it.
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MT, I think our government knows where everything is in the water and on land. With all the technology we have it would be hard to believe that this would get by them. If we knew the half of what shady stuff is going on behind the scenes, we would probably not want to see most of the “elected” back in office. Surely this was done with full knowledge!!! My question is,,,why???
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There was a report in the UK back when it happened that a North Korean sub blew up the oil rig because the rig was built by South Korea, and then Obama sat around and did nothing to the point of refusing help from dozens of nations who were ready to help. Something is going on.
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Wow,I agree wholeheartedly Steve, obama has an agenda and we don’t know what it is but we know it ain’t good. Something else obama has been and is presently doing is gutting medicare to help pay obamacare, our prepays are going thru the roof. I am thrilled to see Ryan battle obama on medicare, I saw ALOT of seniors on c-span rallying around Ryan.
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Exactly!
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