Abbott and Costello do Windows

If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their famous sketch,
"Who's on first ?" might have turned out something like this:

COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT

ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you ?
COSTELLO: Thanks. I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking about buying a computer.
ABBOTT: Mac ?
COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou.
ABBOTT: Your computer ?
COSTELLO: I don't own a computer. I want to buy one
ABBOTT: Mac ?
COSTELLO: I told you, my name's Lou.
ABBOTT: What about Windows ?
COSTELLO: Why ? Will it get stuffy in here ?
ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows
COSTELLO: I don't know. What will I see when I look at the windows.
ABBOTT: Wallpaper.
COSTELLO: No, never mind the windows, then. I need a computer and software.
ABBOTT: Software for Windows ?
COSTELLO: No. On the computer ! I need something I can use to write proposals, track expenses and run my business. What do you have ?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything ?
ABBOTT: I just did.
COSTELLO: You just did what ?
ABBOTT: Recommend something.
COSTELLO: You recommended something ?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: For my office ?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office ?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yes, for my office !
ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows.
COSTELLO: I already have an office with windows ! OK, let's just say I'm sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I need ?
ABBOTT: Word.
COSTELLO: What word ?
ABBOTT: Word in Office.
COSTELLO: The only word in office is office.
ABBOTT: No, the Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows ?
ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue "W".
COSTELLO: I'm going to click your blue "w" if you don't start giving me some straight answers. OK, forget that. Can I watch movies on the
Internet ?
ABBOTT: Yes, you want Real One.
COSTELLO: Maybe a real one, maybe a cartoon. What I watch is none of your business. Just tell me what I need !
ABBOTT: Real One.
COSTELLO: If it's a long movie, I also want to watch reels 2, 3 and 4. Can I watch them ?
ABBOTT: Of course.
COSTELLO: Great ! With what ?
ABBOTT: Real One.
COSTELLO: OK, I'm at my computer and I want to watch a movie. What do I do ?
ABBOTT: You click the blue "1".
COSTELLO: I click the blue one what ?
ABBOTT: The blue "1".
COSTELLO: Is that different from the blue w ?
ABBOTT: The blue "1" is Real One and the blue "W" is Word.
COSTELLO: What word ?
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: But there are THREE words in "office for windows" !
ABBOTT: No, just one. But it's the most popular Word in the world.
COSTELLO: It is ?
ABBOTT: Yes, but to be fair, there aren't many other Words left. It pretty much wiped out all the other Words out there.
COSTELLO: And that word is the real one ?
ABBOTT: No. Real One has nothing to do with Word. Real One isn't even part of Office.
COSTELLO: STOP! Don't start that again. What about financial bookkeeping ? You have anything I can track my money with ?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: That's right. What do you have ?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: I need money to track my money ?
ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer.
COSTELLO: What's bundled with my computer ?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer ?
ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge.
COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with my computer ? How much ?
ABBOTT: One copy.
COSTELLO: Isn't it illegal to copy money ?
ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money.
COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money ?
ABBOTT: Why not ? THEY OWN IT!

(A few days later)

ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you ?
COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off ?
ABBOTT: Click on "START" . . . . 

International Human Rights Day

December 6, 2011: Secretary Clinton delivers remarks in recognition of International Human Rights Day.

Most Americans Still Have No Idea What the Affordable Care Act Law Does

Most of the people that I speak with have no idea what the health care law - Affordable Care Act passed last year does. I admit, it's been a while since we've heard much about it lately so I appreciate this refresher article by Nona Willis Aronowitz at Good. Everyone should check out this article, especially those that think they know all about the law because chances are, you probably don't really know as much as you think you do!

What do you see?

If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating ping dot, the dots will remain only one color - pink. However if you stare at the black “+” in the center, the moving dot turns to green.

Now, concentrate on the black “+” in the center of the picture. After a short period, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will only see only a single green dot rotating.

It’s amazing how our brain works. There really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don’t disappear. Proof enough that we don’t always see what we think we see…

Historic Memorandum - Equality for LGBT Patients Finally

A historic memorandum was issued today by President Barack Obama to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) directing relevant agencies to take steps to ensure that individuals are not discriminated against in hospital settings on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The memorandum requests agencies to develop rules to protect LGBT patients and their families and address issues of hospital visitation, medical decisionmaking, or other healthcare issues.

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The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release April 15, 2010

Presidential Memorandum - Hospital Visitation

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

SUBJECT: Respecting the Rights of Hospital Patients to Receive Visitors and to Designate Surrogate Decision Makers for Medical Emergencies

There are few moments in our lives that call for greater compassion and companionship than when a loved one is admitted to the hospital. In these hours of need and moments of pain and anxiety, all of us would hope to have a hand to hold, a shoulder on which to lean -- a loved one to be there for us, as we would be there for them.

Yet every day, all across America, patients are denied the kindnesses and caring of a loved one at their sides -- whether in a sudden medical emergency or a prolonged hospital stay. Often, a widow or widower with no children is denied the support and comfort of a good friend. Members of religious orders are sometimes unable to choose someone other than an immediate family member to visit them and make medical decisions on their behalf. Also uniquely affected are gay and lesbian Americans who are often barred from the bedsides of the partners with whom they may have spent decades of their lives -- unable to be there for the person they love, and unable to act as a legal surrogate if their partner is incapacitated.

For all of these Americans, the failure to have their wishes respected concerning who may visit them or make medical decisions on their behalf has real onsequences. It means that doctors and nurses do not always have the best information about patients' medications and medical histories and that friends and certain family members are unable to serve as intermediaries to help communicate patients' needs. It means that a stressful and at times terrifying experience for patients is senselessly compounded by indignity and unfairness. And it means that all too often, people are made to suffer or even to pass away alone, denied the comfort of companionship in their final moments while a loved one is left worrying and pacing down the hall.

Many States have taken steps to try to put an end to these problems. North Carolina recently amended its Patients' Bill of Rights to give each patient "the right to designate visitors who shall receive the same visitation privileges as the patient's immediate family members, regardless of whether the visitors are legally related to the patient" -- a right that applies in every hospital in the State. Delaware, Nebraska, and Minnesota have adopted similar laws.

My Administration can expand on these important steps to ensure that patients can receive compassionate care and equal treatment during their hospital stays. By this memorandum, I request that you take the following steps:

1. Initiate appropriate rulemaking, pursuant to your authority under 42 U.S.C. 1395x and other relevant provisions of law, to ensure that hospitals that participate in Medicare or Medicaid respect the rights of patients to designate visitors. It should be made clear that designated visitors, including individuals designated by legally valid advance directives (such as durable powers of attorney and health care proxies), should enjoy visitation privileges that are no more restrictive than those that immediate family members enjoy. You should also provide that participating hospitals may not deny visitation privileges on the basis of race, color, national
origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. The rulemaking should take into account the need for hospitals to restrict visitation in medically appropriate circumstances as well as the clinical decisions that medical professionals make about a patient's care or treatment.

2. Ensure that all hospitals participating in Medicare or Medicaid are in full compliance with regulations, codified at 42 CFR 482.13 and 42 CFR 489.102(a), promulgated to guarantee that all patients' advance directives, such as durable powers of attorney and health care proxies, are respected, and that patients' representatives otherwise have the right to make informed decisions regarding patients' care. Additionally, I request that you issue new guidelines, pursuant to your
authority under 42 U.S.C. 1395cc and other relevant provisions of law, and provide technical assistance on how hospitals participating in Medicare or Medicaid can best comply with the regulations and take any additional appropriate measures to fully enforce the regulations.

3. Provide additional recommendations to me, within 180 days of the date of this memorandum, on actions the Department of Health and Human Services can take to address hospital visitation, medical decisionmaking, or other health care issues that affect LGBT patients and their families.

This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

You are hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

BARACK OBAMA

The Politics of Anal Sex . . .

Got your attention didn't I? LOL In the youtube video below, Rep. Nancy Elliott describes anal sex during debate of HT 1590 in New Hampshire. Do you want your Representative discussing this stupidity? I think there are FAR MORE IMPORTANT issues to discuss than anal sex!

This debate is about allowing gay marriage and she says that if gay marriage is allowed, then teachers would have to teach about gay anal sex . . . really? I don't remember learning in school in detail about a penis being inserted into a vagina and be "wiggled around." This psycho says that if gay marriage is allowed, then teachers would have to teach about "taking the penis of a man and putting it in the rectum of another man and wriggling it around in excrement." WTF??? This woman is off her rocker to say the least! If anyone wonders what's wrong w/ this country, just look at the dumb asses we elect into office . . . it's very clear!

Is this dumb bitch for real???

Huffingtonpost Exclusive

Closer inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, during a speech in which she mocked President Obama for his use of a teleprompter, reveals several notes written on her left hand. The words "Energy", "Tax" and "Lift American Spirits" are clearly visible. There's also what appears to read as "Budget cuts" with the word Budget crossed out.