Elaine’s Place

Wow what a busy week this has been getting ready to leave tomorrow. This trip has a lot of logistics to work out, flying/driving and involves packing for 4 different locations and weather! From snow in Michigan, to 70’s in Texas, cold and no snow in DC, and chilly in North Carolina. This will be [...]

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What a nasty day here! I never would have left the warmth of my home had I not needed milk (or drink my coffee black tomorrow morning). I opted for pulling out the boots, warming up the vehicle and making my way to the nearest grocery store. The snow is coming down fast and furious [...]

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Last night was the HBO Real Time season finale with Bill Maher. He ends with his new rules. If you are easily offended than you probably don’t want to watch.

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I was surprised last night while preparing dinner and listening to the NBC Evening News that the percentage of Americans who smoke cigarettes has fallen below 20% for the first time since at least the mid-1960s. The CDC says in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that the prevalence of smoking fell in 2007 to [...]

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Sorry for my absence but boy what a week it was! The end to the nastiest election I have seen in my lifetime. We had a few days to bask in the victory of President Elect Obama, and watch the fallout from the GOP. I was surprised that Sarah Palin’s plane hadn’t even hit cruising [...]

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"I look forward to a great future for America, a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. . . .   And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its [...]

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The night before the election the phone is ringing and the flyers are being delivered.  On the Democratic side the phone calls are from a real person and the flyer put on the front door handle is hung by a person who took the time to walk up my driveway to the front door. On [...]

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I nabbed this from Nate Silver over at FiveThirtyEight if you haven’t checked out his site you should, Electoral Projections done right. These are Barack Obama’s leads in the likely voter models presently included in the Real Clear Politics average, plus the Research 2000 poll which they arbitrarily exclude. The polls in the Cingular-y orange [...]

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Don’t forget to turn your clocks back tonight, it’s heart healthy. Turning your clock back on Sunday may be good for your heart. Swedish researchers looked at 20 years of records and discovered that the number of heart attacks dipped on the Monday after clocks were set back an hour, possibly because people got an [...]

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