Rush Limbaugh's girlfriend, Kathryn Rogers, gave Page2Live an inside account of the radio host's heart scare.

Rogers first heard about the incident, which occurred during a Hawaii vacation, while she was getting her nails done with her mother.

"Due to Rush's [hearing loss], we don't often speak over the phone, more via e-mail and text," Rogers said in an email. "When I saw that he was calling, I thought that's weird he never calls. I answered with my one free hand. Rush said 'Kate, I think I'm having a heart attack!' in a very stressed tone. I hung up, pushed back the nail table and yelled to my mom: 'Rush is having a heart attack! Call 911!'"

She explained that while Limbaugh did not have a heart attack, doctors told her that the quick arrival of paramedics played a major role. She described the experience as "extremely scary."

A cardiologist who treated Limbaugh made the same point: "Time is very, very important, and the sooner you can get to the medical care for your heart, the sooner we know what the problems are and the sooner we can treat it."

Rogers, a 33-year-old Florida party planner, has been dating the 59-year-old Limbaugh since 2007.

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We who are your closest friends
Philip Lopate

We who are
your closest friends
feel the time
has come to tell you
that every Thursday
we have been meeting,
as a group,
to devise ways
to keep you
in perpetual uncertainty
frustration
discontent and
torture
by neither loving you
as much as you want
nor cutting you adrift.
your analyst is
in on it,
plus your boyfriend
and your ex-husband;
and we have pledged to disappoint you
as long as you need us.
In announcing our
association
we realize we have
placed in your hands
a possible antidote
against uncertainty
indeed against ourselves.
But since our Thursday nights
have brought us
to a community
of purpose
rare in itself
with you as
the natural center,
we feel hopeful you
will continue to make unreasonable
demands for affection
if not as a consequence
of your disastrous personality
then for the good of the collective.

positive buyer feedback for:
pleasesupriseme, hazy_penguin, and oobugletteoo

still selling whats left of the last post:

7/8" :
SF sky blue/black Gorilla Glass tiger stripe plugs $15
SF black colorfronts 2nds - have different lengths, fronts not perfectly round. $10
13/16" SF gold plated tunnels $10
3/4" :
Pauls Plugs Burnt Maple Rings diameter 1 7/8" $30
black grooved NF acrylic $4
clear glitter kaos eyelets $15
SF bling $20
hot pink glitter kaos eyelets $15
df lime green glitter acrylics $3
df clear glitter acrylics $3
df peach fried glass $10
df light blue fried glass $10
20mm sf bling eyelets (one gem missing) $15
df pink glass $10
df opalite $10
nf light blue/lavendar (unique color, hard to describe) acrylics $5
5/8" :
blurple glitter kaos eyelets $10
nf grooved white acrylics $4
nf grooved clear acrylics $4
red glitter/black df acrylics $4
sf silver faux dichro $4
nf grooved black acrylics $4
11/16" :
df rose quartz (there is a chip on the outer edge of one of these) $2
df green stone (green aventurine i think) $10
df black acrylics $4
df blue goldstone $6
nf grooved clear acylics $4
plus miscellaneous singles and cbrs 5/8"-20g

pictures under the cut. please add $2 for shipping in the U.S., contact me for shipping elsewhere.

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i am also seeking jewelry in 7/8" and 1" - no bone or horn, and i may be picky. also 6g cbr with a diameter of less than 1/2" for my septum.
trades from this post, generous trades from my selling lj run_2_the_hills, or paypal.

Dream Dust
Gather out of star-dust,
Earth-dust,
Cloud-dust,
Storm-dust,
And splinters of hail,
One handful of dream-dust,
Not for sale.

- By Langston Hughes

Todd Harris, GOP Strategist, DECIMATED By Chris Matthews (VIDEO)

What have the Republicans done for America lately? Or in the past couple decades?

That's what Chris Matthews pressed Republican strategist Todd Harris about during Hardball on Wednesday.

Matthews repeatedly asked for examples, while citing negative examples like Bush-era spending bills, Katrina, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Harris tried to keep the focus on the 2010 elections and expressed hope that Democrats would keep going after Bush so the GOP could stay on message about being a balance against the current Democratic leadership.

Matthews suggested one answer, which Harris latched onto. "The Bush administration kept the country safe," said the guest.

"Except the one big day," the host shot back.

"YouTube is watching," he told Harris. "You're the Republican consultant. One of the best in the country. Tell me what the Republican party has done for this country in the last ten to 20 years."

Harris stayed silent.

"Thank you," Matthews said to his recurring GOP guest as he closed the segment. "We'll have you back with the answer."

WATCH THE WILD FINISH:

Rhode Island's state legislature opened their 2010 session yesterday by voting overwhelmingly to override Governor Don Carcieri's veto of a bill that allowing same-sex couples and unmarried heterosexual couples to make funeral arrangements for each other, reports the Providence Journal. 

 

The issue was introduced to the General Assembly last year after Mark Goldberg, a Providence man, struggled for five weeks to reclaim the body of his deceased partner.  Although the couple had been together for seventeen years and had wills attesting to their partnership, the state refused to release the body to Goldberg because he was not legally considered family.

 

 

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I guess this was inevitable. ETA, rereads article again 'aborogines' really, oh dear.

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Kentucky Fried Chicken has pulled a controversial Australian cricket ad and apologised for "any misinterpretation" as furious debate raged in the American media about whether it was racist.

The commercial, featuring a white Australian cricket fan offering fried chicken to West Indies supporters, has been pulled from the air in Australia.

( We apologise for any misinterpretation of the ad as it was not meant to offend anyone )

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In the ultimate battle between our real and fantasy lives, Lost's final season premiere may be bumped by President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.

The White House is currently considering either Jan. 26 or Feb. 2 — the night of the premiere — for the State of the Union speech, The Wrap reports. Lost fans aren't exactly the most patient bunch, and a Twitter hash tag has already been started to protest the possible scheduling conflict, #NoStateofUnionFeb2.

The Obama administration hasn't decided on Feb. 2, the site reports. However, if officials do choose to take that major piece of primetime real estate, Lost may have to move its premiere until the following Tuesday, Feb. 9.

Of course, there's no pleasing everyone: The Jan. 26 date would interrupt an all-new episode of American Idol. The White House refused to comment on the scheduling matter.

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Just over a year ago, I posted about my shadowboxes - I am excited that I have just begun making greeting cards out of select designs. This is a fairly new addition to the boxes themselves and fun to do. If interested, I have most of them up on my etsy site.

Click Here to Take A Peek



More Info: http://www.morbidanatomy.com

City Councilman Argues Against Removing Public Garlic Plants For Fear Of Vampires (VIDEO)

The residents of Lawndale, California are causing a stink over the town's plants. Apparently, the roads are lined with garlic--which either smells like skunk or marijuana depending on who you talk to. KTLA did a report on the dispute and spoke with Councilman Jim Ramsey who argued against the removal of the plants:

"The only reason we had garlic put in was so we could keep the vampires out of town. And since we have had garlic I haven't seen one single solitary vampire in town."

I was having a terrible time looking for a tutorial online for this (the one from HGTV is TERRIBLE), and a friend of mine helped me find a couple. This one was helpful for figuring out the sides. I figured out a lot of the rest on my own, and the top flaps are my own design.

I did the sides in vinyl, which kind of worked. I used about a fat quarter's worth of fabric for the lining. It turned out a little wonky, but I think that's because of the vinyl sides. Oh well, I know for next time.

Click here to go to the photo set at my flickr with pictures from almost every step That way I don't spam you with pictures. :D

Yup, It was my day off, and I got a lot done.

x-posted to my journal

The Airport Scanner Scam

Scan, baby, scan. That’s the mantra among politicians at all levels in the wake of the thwarted terrorist attack aboard a Detroit-bound passenger jet. According to conventional wisdom, the would-be “underwear bomber” could have been stopped by airport security if he’d been put through a full-body scanner, which would have revealed the cache of explosives attached to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s groin.

Within days or even hours of the bombing attempt, everyone was talking about so-called whole-body imaging as the magic bullet that could stop this type of attack. In announcing hearings by the Senate Homeland Security Commitee, Joe Lieberman approached the use of scanners as a foregone conclusion, saying one of the "big, urgent questions that we are holding this hearing to answer" was "Why isn’t whole-body-scanning technology that can detect explosives in wider use?" Former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff told the Washington Post, "You’ve got to find some way of detecting things in parts of the body that aren’t easy to get at. It’s either pat downs or imaging, or otherwise hoping that bad guys haven’t figured it out, and I guess bad guys have figured it out."

Since the alternative is being groped by airport screeners, the scanners might sound pretty good. The Transportation Security Administration has claimed that the images "are friendly enough to post in a preschool," though the pictures themselves tell another story, and numerous organizations have opposed them as a gross invasion of privacy. Beyond privacy issues, however, are questions about whether these machines really work—and about who stands to benefit most from their use.

As I documented in my book The Five Unanswered Questions About 9/11, airport security has always been compromised by corporate interests.When it comes to high-tech screening methods, the TSA has a dismal record of enriching private corporations with failed technologies, and there are signs that the latest miracle device may just bring more of the same.
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Buffalo woman stabbed in eye in gay-bashing incident
Woman leaving club on New Year's Eve is stabbed in her right eye during attack

A Buffalo, New York woman was stabbed in her right eye after she and two friends were attacked by two gay-bashing women outside a downtown club following a New Year's Eve celebration.

Lindsay C. Harmon said she and two friends were minding their own business as they walked out of Roxy's, a lesbian nightclub, at about 2 a.m. Friday to head home when two women, in the company of four men, shouted gay slurs at them and then attacked them.

Harmon, a 29-year-old West Side resident, does not have vision in her eye, and it is not known whether she will regain it. She has seven stitches in her right eyelid and eye, along with several stitches in her right cheek and her left arm.
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Police are still looking for the attacker(s), fyi.

PF for sugarkike for the 00g snowflake obsidian plugs! They got here in three days (!!) and are lovely, I can't wait to wear them!

We're having a get together soon, and new people will be attending. These new people are not vegan, but they do dairy free, gluten free, and soy free diets. Now *my* family is most certainly vegan, so all of the food here will be vegan as well.

Main issue : The new family has several children as well. Like most children, they enjoy bland or sweet foods, nothing spicy or too challenging. I have no idea where to start! The only things I can think of are hummus and peanut butter, and things to dip into them, and maybe potato or squash soup (made with rice milk I guess?). That's fine for appetizer foods, but I need meal foods as well.

Does anyone have any ideas for kid friendly vegan soy free gluten free foods?

Bacteria Linked To Feces Found In Nearly Half Of Fast Food Soda Fountains

Didn't think the fast food industry could get any grosser? Well it can.

This time, it's not the food, but the soda fountains to be worried about. According to Tom Laskawy, a media and technology professional and blogger for grist.org, a team of microbiologists from Hollins University found that 48% of sodas tested from the fast food fountains contain coliform bacteria, which is typically fecal in origin. And most bacteria found were antibiotic resistant, as icing on the cake.

The microbiologists published their findings in the International Journal of Food Microbiology. They tested 90 beverages from 30 soda fountains. Their abstract states:

...Coliform bacteria was detected in 48% of the beverages and 20% had a heterotrophic plate count greater than 500 cfu/ml. [...] More than 11% of the beverages analyzed contained Escherichia coli [E. Coli] and over 17% contained Chryseobacterium meningosepticum. Other opportunistic pathogenic microorganisms isolated from the beverages included species of Klebsiella, Staphylococcus, Stenotrophomonas, Candida, and Serratia. Most of the identified bacteria showed resistance to one or more of the 11 antibiotics tested.

Laskawy notes that only one recorded outbreak linked to a soda fountain has occurred, and that was ten years ago. But on a smaller scale, these bacteria could cause sickness on an individual level that can go unreported.