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 Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder.
Somehow I feel better, even though I have it!!  

 Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. -  
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.  
This is how it manifests itself:

I decide to water my garden.

As I turn on the hose in the driveway,   I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.

As I head towards the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I picked up from the post man earlier.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the recycling box under the table, and notice that the recycling box is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the recycling first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the post-box when I take out the recycling paper anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my cheque book off the table, and notice that there is only one cheque left.

My extra cheques are in my desk in the study,
so I go inside the house to my desk where
I find the cup of coffee I'd been drinking.

I'm going to look for my cheques, but first I need to push the coffee aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

The coffee is getting cold, And I decide to make another cup.

As I head toward the kitchen with the cold coffee, a vase of flowers on the worktop catches my eye - the flowers need water.

I put the coffee on the worktop and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.

I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.

I put the glasses back down on the worktop, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote control.Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realise that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.

I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor.

So, I put the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.

Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day:

The car isn't washed

The bills aren't paid

There is a cold cup of coffee sitting on the counter

The flowers don't have enough water,

There is still only 1 cheque in my cheque book,

I can't find the remote,

I can't find my glasses,

And I don't remember what I did with the car keys..

Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all damn day, and I'm really tired.

I realise this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail....

Do me a favour. Forward this message to everyone you know,Because I don't remember who the hell I've sent it to.
 Don't laugh - if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!   
  
   

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Så ska surströmmingen intas

Publicerad 19 augusti 2010 - 12:53
Uppdaterad 19 augusti 2010 - 15:52
I dag är det surströmmingspremiär, en dag som delar landet mellan de frälsta och de som vägrar. SVT ringde upp surströmmingsambassadören Ruben Madsen för att höra vad som gäller.

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Sverige: Nyheter Surströmmingspremiär Så ska surströmmingen intas Publicerad 19 augusti 2010 - 12:53 Uppdaterad 19 augusti 2010 - 15:52 I dag är det surströmmingspremiär, en dag som delar landet mellan de frälsta och de som vägrar. SVT ringde upp surströmmingsambassadören Ruben Madsen för att höra vad som gäller. Surströmmingsquiz Kan du din surströmming? Tidigare nyheter 29/1: Surströmming blir riksdagsfråga 21/1: Dioxin - hot mot surströmmingen För ordföranden för Surströmmingsakademien, Ruben Madsen, har torsdagen börjat intensivt. Mycket mediekontakter som ska avhandlas och surströmming som ska köras kors och tvärs till olika butiker och evenemang. Men efter den hektiska starten på dagen ser han fram mot ett lugnare avslut, i goda vänners lag. -Senare i dag ska jag bara ha en liten privat sittning med en kompis här i Stockholm. När det gäller surströmming lever jag ett ganska offentligt liv med mycket middagar och stora festligheter. Det är nästan så man blir lite less på surströmming, och då är det rätt så skönt att bara umgås några få och njuta i lugn och ro, och det ska jag göra i kväll, säger Ruben Madsen. Ruben Madsen Lärde Jamie Oliver äta surströmming Han är en entreprenör och en mångsysslare. Håller föreläsningar om bland annat företagskultur och kroppspråk, och har en bakgrund som professionell clown. Surströmmingen kom in på allvar i hans liv när han flyttade till Ulvön utanför Höga kusten, som han beskriver som surströmmingens Mecka. Där startade han ett salteri som tillverkar surströmming. Det var för drygt tio år sedan och sedan dess har han kommit att bli något av en surströmmingsgeneral, en av industrins ivrigaste förkämpar. Som sådan gör han allt från att lobba för ett förnyat svenskt undantag från EU:s regler om dioxinhalter i fisk, till att guida kändiskocken Jamie Oliver i odörens förtrollade värld, när Oliver var på Sverigebesök för ett matlagningsprogram. Hur tycker du att surströmming bäst ska ätas? -Det är viktigt att burken är kall när det serveras. Man har en tidpunkt då man ska mötas och äta det här. Och då ska man känna doft från potatisen, dillen och löken och kanske ta en skiva Västerbottenost. Man kanske tar en fördrink i form av champagne, säger Ruben Madsen. -Sedan sätter man sig vid bordet, som ska vara lite festligt dekorerat. Därefter går man och hämtar burken som ska vara riktigt kall. Är man flera kanske man har flera burkar, och då kan man prova flera sorter. Sedan ska man öppna burken i lugn och ro och njuta. Årets strömming behöver mogna När det gäller surströmmingen i år har han ett viktigt tips att komma med. -Årets surströmming har inte mognat riktigt än. Det beror på att fisket kom igång sent i år på grund av den långa vintern. Så hela processen är fördröjd några veckor. Därför kan man tjäna på att köpa en burk nu och låta den stå framme i skafferiet tre-fyra dagar så den mognar lite. Ska man vänta länge med att äta den så ska den in i kyla. Men ska man äta den snart så rekommenderar jag att låta den stå framme och mogna lite till så den blir riktigt saftig och fyllig. Linda Bock Read more at svt.se

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From the Daily Telegraph 19.8.2010:

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Gaining in translation

Sir- I shall wait for the German edition of " A Journey", Tony Blair's
book. Eine Fahrt sounds like a much more appropriate title.

Colin McDonald
Nottingham

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You have come across an application on Twitter that will find your level of smartness with a click. You connect it to your Twitter account (using OAuth) and then you suddenly realize that that app has published your score to Twitter as well using your own account.
Such Twitter apps may be rare but they do exist and may sometimes embarrass you.

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You have come across an application on Twitter that will find your level of smartness with a click. You connect it to your Twitter account (using OAuth) and then you suddenly realize that that app has published your score to Twitter as well using your own account. Such Twitter apps may be rare but they do exist and may sometimes embarrass you. For instance, a popular directory would automatically change your Twitter profile as soon as you added yourself to that directory. More recently, we saw another Twitter app that would automatically tweet on your behalf and it nearly went viral. How to Avoid Surprises on Twitter If you would like to prevent apps from fiddling with your Twitter stream without asking, the easiest solution would be to not use them at all. That’s however an extreme approach as you’ll then miss a whole lot of other apps that are both nice and useful. The solution is however simple. When you add an app to your Twitter account, you’ll see an authorization page where you can either allow or deny the app access to your Twitter data. Read the language carefully. If it read something like “the app would like to access and update your data on Twitter,” you are granting the app permission to post to your Twitter stream. Majority of the Twitter apps won’t misuse that privilege but some may.

Avoid Getting an Unwanted Surprise on Twitter Read more at www.labnol.org

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A smile - is a sign of joy.
A hug - is a sign of love.
A laugh - is a sign of happiness.*

And a friend like me??
Well...that's just a sign of good  taste!!

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The worst part of it is that Obama has cleared the way for a GOP landslide in November followed by 8-years of President Sarah Palin.

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By Mike Whitney August 13, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- I figured it out. I figured out why White House press secretary Robert Gibbs is so pissed off at the professional left. It's because the P.L.'s thought that Barack Obama was sincere when he promised to close Guantanamo, end the war in Iraq, pass a decent health care bill, clean up Wall Street, push through "card check", restore habeas corpus, and change Washington. They didn't realize that the "Hope Campaign" was a fraud and that Obama was another flannel-mouth, silver-spoon, Harvard-educated phony who'd promise anything to get elected, and then kick his supporters down the stairwell as soon as the votes were tallied. They believed in him. They trusted him. But it isn't the professional left's fault that Obama's numbers are in the toilet or that the Democratic Party is going to get trounced in the upcoming midterms. Oh, no. Our strutting, celluloid hologram president managed that feat himself. All Obama had to do was "fight the good fight"; take on the corporations, the banksters, the Pentagon, the special interests. No one expected him to win.....The winning-part wasn't even important. What was important was sticking up for the little guy who can't afford a high-paid lobbyist to help him keep his house or his job or avoid destitution because his kid broke his fu**ing arm on the school playground and he doesn't have the $150,000 to pay the fu**ing hospital bills. That's all we expected; someone who'd represent ordinary working slobs. Not superman; just somebody who gave a shit. But that's not what we got, is it? Obama won't fight for anything, because Obama doesn't believe in anything. Period. It's a character-thing; either you got it or you don't. It should have been obvious that Obama didn't have it during the campaign, when he knifed his pastor Jeremiah Wright in the back and tossed him to the sharks to placate Sean Hannity and the right-wing media rabble. So much for loyalty, eh? Ask yourself this: Why would anyone give an inch to rightwing blowhards after we just got 8 years of their protofascist vision for America? Huh? Why? The truth is, Jeremiah Wright is a bigger man than Obama will ever be, because Wright stands for something, believes in something, and has put his life on the line for something. What does Obama believe in? Charter schools? War in Pakistan? Cuts to Social Security? Obama can talk-the-talk, but he can't walk-the-walk. He can roll up his sleeves, point at the horizon, and work his magic on a stadium full of fans. But he can't shut down Gitmo, indict a few bankers who blew up the financial system, nationalize an oil company that poisoned an entire quadrant of the country, or charge the people who dragged the country to war on a "pack of lies". Obama is WAY too busy for any of that stuff. He's got much more important matters to tend to. Just think of the photo-ops he'd miss. Gibbs is right about the professional left. We aren't happy. We are disappointed; crushed really. Dejected, depressed and despairing. It may be the worst case of buyer's remorse in history. We thought we were voting for FDR and we got Ronald Reagan. We got reamed. The worst part of it is that Obama has cleared the way for a GOP landslide in November followed by 8-years of President Sarah Palin.

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"This organization will not be threatened by the Pentagon or any other group," Julian Assange told reporters in Stockholm. "We proceed cautiously and safely with this material."

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STOCKHOLM — WikiLeaks will publish its remaining 15,000 Afghan war documents within a month, despite warnings from the U.S. government, the organization's founder said Saturday. The Pentagon has said that secret information will be even more damaging to security and risk more lives than WikiLeaks' initial release of some 76,000 war documents. "This organization will not be threatened by the Pentagon or any other group," Julian Assange told reporters in Stockholm. "We proceed cautiously and safely with this material." In an interview with The Associated Press, he said that if U.S. defense officials want to be seen as promoting democracy then they "must protect what the United States' founders considered to be their central value, which is freedom of the press." "For the Pentagon to be making threatening demands for censorship of a press organization is a cause for concern, not just for the press but for the Pentagon itself," the Australian added. He said WikiLeaks was about halfway though a "line-by-line review" of the 15,000 documents and that "innocent parties who are under reasonable threat" would be redacted from the material. "It should be approximately two weeks before that process is complete," Assange told AP. "There will then be a journalistic review, so you're talking two weeks to a month." Wikileaks would be working with media partners in releasing the remaining documents, he said, but declined to name them. The first files in WikiLeaks' "Afghan War Diary" laid bare classified military documents covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. The release angered U.S. officials, energized critics of the NATO-led campaign, and drew the attention of the Taliban, which has promised to use the material to track down people it considers traitors. Read more at www.huffingtonpost.com

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"Mr Assange," Mullen commented, "can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family."

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Consider the following statement offered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at a news conference last week. He was discussing Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks as well as the person who has taken responsibility for the vast, still ongoing Afghan war document dump at that site. "Mr Assange," Mullen commented, "can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family."

Whose Hands? Whose Blood? Read more at freethoughtmanifesto.blogspot.com

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"Mr Assange," Mullen commented, "can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family."

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Consider the following statement offered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at a news conference last week. He was discussing Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks as well as the person who has taken responsibility for the vast, still ongoing Afghan war document dump at that site. "Mr Assange," Mullen commented, "can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family."

Whose Hands? Whose Blood? Read more at freethoughtmanifesto.blogspot.com

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Tim Jackson, a professor of Sustainable Development and author of the book, Prosperity Without Growth. He argues it's time to re-think the very notion of growth and what it means to be genuinely prosperous.

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Summary So much of the analysis of how we respond to climate change assumes that economic growth and emissions reduction are compatible goals. But is this wishful thinking? To question maximizing economic growth as an organizing principle of society seems close to economic heresy. Enter Tim Jackson, a professor of Sustainable Development and author of the book, Prosperity Without Growth. He argues it's time to re-think the very notion of growth and what it means to be genuinely prosperous. Jackson is speaking as part of the 2010 Alfred Deakin Lecture series, "Brave New World?" Curated by Tim Flannery, the 2010 Deakins presents the climate change challenge from ten different perspectives, with a focus on ten different spheres of life. Are we, the series asks, willing to take the hard personal, political and economic choices that will truly reduce emissions? Are we brave enough to make the changes -- in thought and deed -- that are required of us? Are we able to shape this new world, or will it shape us?

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Since we have lived beyond our means as a nation for nearly 40 years, our cumulative current-account deficit — the combined shortfall on our trade in goods, services and income — has reached nearly $8 trillion. That’s borrowed prosperity on an epic scale.

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Four Deformations of the Apocalypse

IF there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing. The nation’s public debt — if honestly reckoned to include municipal bonds and the $7 trillion of new deficits baked into the cake through 2015 — will soon reach $18 trillion. That’s a Greece-scale 120 percent of gross domestic product, and fairly screams out for austerity and sacrifice. It is therefore unseemly for the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, to insist that the nation’s wealthiest taxpayers be spared even a three-percentage-point rate increase. More fundamentally, Mr. McConnell’s stand puts the lie to the Republican pretense that its new monetarist and supply-side doctrines are rooted in its traditional financial philosophy. Republicans used to believe that prosperity depended upon the regular balancing of accounts — in government, in international trade, on the ledgers of central banks and in the financial affairs of private households and businesses, too. But the new catechism, as practiced by Republican policymakers for decades now, has amounted to little more than money printing and deficit finance — vulgar Keynesianism robed in the ideological vestments of the prosperous classes. This approach has not simply made a mockery of traditional party ideals. It has also led to the serial financial bubbles and Wall Street depredations that have crippled our economy. More specifically, the new policy doctrines have caused four great deformations of the national economy, and modern Republicans have turned a blind eye to each one. The first of these started when the Nixon administration defaulted on American obligations under the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement to balance our accounts with the world. Now, since we have lived beyond our means as a nation for nearly 40 years, our cumulative current-account deficit — the combined shortfall on our trade in goods, services and income — has reached nearly $8 trillion. That’s borrowed prosperity on an epic scale. Read more at www.nytimes.com

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