Mar 27, 2016

I Will Never Call Her Again: Mother The Narcissist

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'I Will Never Call Her Again': Daughter of Missing Indiana Woman Discovered 42 Years Later Has No Plans for a Happy Reunion

staff@people.com (Hilary Shenfeld @HilaryShen),People 2 hours 20 minutes ago 
this is my best friend

Mar 26, 2016

An Officer and a Gentleman and a Dog: So Sorry for the Loss of Your Daughter

An officer from Alabama trekked all the way to Arkansas to reunite a grieving family with their dead family member's beloved dog. McKenzie Catron, 19, died in a car crash last weekend in Dothan, AL while on spring break. Her car ran off the road and struck a utility pole. The passenger in Catron's car was critically injured, but survived. Catron did not. Sgt. Jonathon Whaley was the first on the scene, according to KHBS. As Catron's passenger was rushed to the hospital, witnesses told Whaley about the dog seen running from the wreck.jonathon Whaley,

"We felt we needed to find the dog," Sgt. Whaley told Fox 5 Atlanta. "We were going to do whatever we needed to do to reunite this dog with this family."

Police officers, firemen and, eventually, hundreds of local volunteers combed the area looking for Kai, Catron's pit bull. A Facebook group was started to help coordinate search efforts. People began scouring the area and posting posters alerting people to the missing dog. A local law firm, Cherry & Irwin Trial Lawyers, put up a $1,000 reward. It was Benjamin Irwin, one of the lawyers who fronted the reward money, who eventually found Kai. Kai didn't come quietly however. It took Irwin and eight other volunteers chasing the pit down side streets and into yards before they cornered her and could grab Kai's collar.

"I just know if I were them I would want the last tangible thing of someone I loved," Irwin told Fox 5. He plans on donating the reward money to the shelter Kai was adopted from. Once Kai was found Whaley packed his family up and drove the to Bentonville, AK. Catron's family were amazed by the town's act of generosity. Kendra Mulherin, Catron's mother, told reporters that the dog's presence would help the family heal after this tragedy.

"For us, it was just a part of her. And we found it. And now we can kind of start healing," Mulherin told KHBS. Police are still investigating the cause of the crash. The passenger in the crash remains hospitalized.


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Framat Shares a Beautiful Hymn on His Telecaster: Dunlap Volume Pedal GCB 80 Akkord & Melodie TELECASTER

The headstock of my acoustic Fender Telecaster.
The headstock of my acoustic Fender Telecaster. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)








Hello dear listeners, 
I played a well-known hymn on my TELECASTER (with a volume pedal & a Tremolo effect).
I really appreciate it if you find the 90 seconds to listen to it. It is a melody played with chords.
Happy Eastern from Berlin
Framat

in DEUTSCH:

Hallo Freunde der Musik!
Ich würde mich nicht wundern, wenn Euch mein 1 1/2-Minuten-Instrumental irgendwie bekannt vorkäme.
Die Melodie wird mit Akkorden gespielt. Gitarren-Effekte sind neben dem Verstärker-Hall, ein Lautstärke-Pedal und ein Tremolo-Effekt.
Viel Spaß & frohe Ostern
Framat



Thank you for sharing, Framat, your music is beautiful.


Chloe Louise


The Ronnie Republic


Mar 24, 2016

Kasich Polls High in Pennsylvania: Calling out CNN for non-news headlines


First Read: Why Trump Can't Afford to Miss the 'Magic Number'



 Trump Warns Against Republican Split 1:43
First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.
Why Trump can't afford to miss that 1,237 magic number
As the Republican presidential race turns next to the April 5 primary in Wisconsin, the reality for Donald Trump is that, heading into the Cleveland convention, he can't afford to miss hitting the magic number of 1,237 -- the delegates needed to clinch a majority to win the nomination. Why? Because there's an active effort to stop him on a second ballot if anyone falls short of the number. "[John] Kasich and [Ted] Cruz are scrambling to secure commitments from bound delegates to break off on a second-ballot and vote against Trump. In many cases, that means asking delegates to buck Republican primary voters in the name of settling on a nominee," Politico writes. An unbound delegate from North Dakota, Curly Haugland, was even more candid with National Review, pointing out that Arizona -- which Trump won on Tuesday -- would probably see its delegates defect to Cruz after the first ballot. "Voters in the primaries are not representative of the people who are gonna' be sittin' in the chairs in Cleveland," he said. "The convention delegates from Arizona are going to be very conservative people, I guarantee ya'." Of course, Trump has threatened that "you'd have riots" if he was just 50 or 100 delegates short of the magic number yet still leading his nearest competition. But you now see why clearing that magic number is so important for Trump.
Where the GOP delegate race currently stands
Here are NBC's updated numbers after allocating additional delegates from the previous contests:

Republican Delegate Count

Trump needs to win 54% of remaining delegates to reach 1237 magic number.
Cruz needs to win 85% of remaining delegates to reach 1237 magic number.
Kasich needs to win 122% of remaining delegates to reach 1237 magic number.
The Unbound
We mentioned that North Dakota delegate above who's unbound -- due to the fact that his state isn't holding a presidential primary or caucus. And as it turns out, according to NBC's Decision Desk, there are more than 100 unbound delegates on the first ballot in Cleveland. They include 28 delegates from North Dakota, 37 delegates from Colorado (which also didn't hold a primary or caucus), 54 from Pennsylvania, and even nine from Guam.
Where the Democratic delegate race currently stands
As it turns out, Bernie Sanders had a much better Tuesday after we allocated additional delegates from Arizona, Idaho, and Utah. Sanders ended up netting 17 delegates over Clinton for the evening, 72-55 -- including 13 in Idaho (18-5) and 20 in Utah (26-6), while Clinton netted 16 from her Arizona win (44-28). So after those numbers, as well as additional delegates we've allocated from the previous contests, here is where the Dem delegate race stands:
In pledged delegates, Clinton holds a 298-delegate lead over Sanders
  • Clinton 1217 (57%)
  • Sanders 919 (43%)
In overall delegates, Clinton holds a 711-delegate lead over Sanders
  • Clinton 1653 (64%)
  • Sanders 942 (36%)
Clinton needs to win 34% of remaining delegates to hit 2383 magic number
Sanders needs to win 66% of remaining delegates to hit 2383 magic number
Look where Kasich is polling in Pennsylvania
While Kasich needs to win 122% of the remaining delegates (!!!) to hit the 1,237 number, look where he's polling in Pennsylvania (April 26), according to a new Franklin & Marshall poll:
  • Trump 33%
  • Kasich 30%
  • Cruz 20%
As our colleague Dante Chinni quips, is it time for Mitt Romney to record a robocall for Kasich in the Keystone State? In the Democratic race in Pennsylvania, it's Clinton 53%, Sanders 28%.
Biden to give speech on SCOTUS battle
The other non-horserace political story we're watching today is Vice President Biden's 12:30 pm ET speech on the Supreme Court vacancy, which he'll deliver at the Georgetown University Law Center. He's expected to say, per excepts of his speech: "In my time as the ranking Democrat or as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I was responsible for eight nominees to the Supreme Court—some I supported, others I voted against. And in all that time every nominee was greeted by committee members. Every nominee got a committee hearing. Every nominee got out of the committee to the Senate floor. And every nominee, including Justice Kennedy—in an election year—got an up or down vote by the Senate. Not much of the time. Not most of the time. Every single time." The Republican National Committee is pre-butting Biden's speech by calling him out for "hypocrisy." Per the RNC: "Today, Vice President Joe Biden will give a speech calling on the Senate to take up Obama's election year Supreme Court nomination, despite creating an "election-year blockade" while serving as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1992."
On the trail
Bernie Sanders campaigns in Washington state…. Ted Cruz spends his day in Wisconsin… And Chelsea Clinton also stumps in Wisconsin. 


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Let CNN and the other major news outlets talk about something other than the "hair on fire" ridiculous statements from the donald.

Unfortunately donald trump is a product of the 24/7 news networks--he never stops providing headlines in what could otherwise be a somewhat boring policy conversation.  

Seriously, I get it but in the long run the promotion of a very scary figure like donald trump in an effort to get ratings is a dangerous and horrible practise for our country.

And in the long run it is really not news.

Mar 23, 2016

American Airlines: Hellish

American Airlines MD-80 Taxiing at Dallas/Fort...
American Airlines MD-80 Taxiing at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. (Taken from Terminal D). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
departing LAX
American Aairlines:  What Gives?
San Diego to Wichita:  Sunday evening--6 hours with a stop in Dallas/Fort Worth.

How in the world did my 6 hour flight turn into a 26 hour disaster.

What just happened?


The New American Airlines:  My flight from hell........


For starters we took off an hour late in San Diego--that would have been bad enough but the connecting flight in Dallas/ Forth Worth took off without us.

No direction to the connecting gate was provided--there was no information given--no heads up as to how to get there fast or they would wait for us or what to do in the event they did not.

So there we were in Dallas and told in no uncertain terms there were not be any more flights that day--no way in the world to get to Wichita and nothing could be done about it.

We were told we could stay at the cigarette infused Super 8 Motel and get 3 hours of sleep and be at the airport to leave at 7 AM the next day.  No apologies, no feeling bad about missing work, no sympathy about this dilemma with the "crew."

No choice, what to do, anger ensued:  schedules totally messed up thanks to American
Airlines.

Somewhere the "New" American Airlines advertising campaign does not hold true with the actual functioning of this unsatisfactory carrier.

Further anger and disbelief--no one really seemed to care.

7 AM, Dallas to Wichita by way of Denver.....Really!


Okay, there was no choice but to play along.

Weirder than weird, crazy and unbelievable the same thing happened again!

We missed our flight in Denver--again the fault of American Airlines.

Stuck in Denver we were forced into standby and what happened--we missed the flight again--no space available for stand-by.

Now, after a meaningful conversation with the gate personnel they gave us to United.

Home at 10 PM the next night--how did this happen.

What can be done.

Why did this happen--is it commonplace and can one be financially reciprocated in any way.

Never, ever, ever taking American Airlines again.

How do they get away with this stuff?




Looking for suggestions, comments welcome.


Does the average person getting on American Airlines know how they can wreck havoc on their schedule without the slightest interest or compensation?


Dallas/ Fort Worth is a large hub--isn't American Airlines a large carrier.  Wouldn't there have been an easier alternative for a flight to Wichita.  What consideration for the passenger goes into the decision and choice of alternate flights?