Republic -- "If you can keep it." [Democracy]
Accountability for Jan. 6 insurrection
U.S. Select House Committee on Jan. 6th Hearings
Thursday, October 13, 2022 -- 1:00pm ET (10am PT)
QUESTION: Why has our ex-President DJT kept classified government documents and continues to do so as the Department of Justice reports believing he is still doing?
The James Bond movie series celebrates 60 years anniversary 2022.
"Dame Shirley closes the 2011 Classic Awards Show (May 12, 2011) by paying tribute to John Barry. ... Goldfinger was co-written by John Barry, Leslie Bricussee, Don Black and Anthony Newley. Bassey is the UKs most successful female recording artist of all time, with 140 Million records sold worldwide!" (Read more at this YouTube site HERE.)
Shirley Bassey -- GOLDFINGER (2011 Live)
Unexpected events keep intruding into my life including some thought to be previously resolved.
Once again would you believe I was subjected to having to contact my phone company's customer service number? That's the number I described in my previous post. The call reaches a recorded message explaining how unusually busy they are, so they offer a call back service when an agent is available. That sounds customer oriented. Surprise! No agent is available.
Instead I hear the same recorded message, we're busy, so sorry, we'll be with you soon, but no callback offer this time. I had to hold a whole hour before a live agent answered. This process is a real joke and an insult to the customer. They could at least not call back until there is an agent available.
I don't understand what sort of cockamamie system this phone company has -- it certainly isn't geared to caring about their customers and reflects poorly on them.
Another inconvenience two weeks ago when I went out to my car only to discover what I thought must be a dead battery which the emergency service person later confirmed. He simply jumped the battery, and I was soon able to drive away.
My car isn't driven as much as in the past, and not necessarily every day as I told him. This accounts for why I encountered this older battery dead again this past week. The different service company replaced the old battery with a new one. There was still a one month guarantee on the old battery so the new one was free.
Why didn't the first guy replace my battery, especially since he said it was over five years old? I hadn't checked but I told him I thought it was newer than that. The new service man reported the old battery had been installed in 2019. Maybe the first guy wasn't good at math.
Also, several weeks ago I started experiencing itchy, eventually hot red inflamed swollen areas on various finger and arm areas of my body. These were not rashes or even like hives which can indicate an allergic reaction. Conferring virtually with family I learned one of them had at one time experienced much the same symptoms that were diagnosed as angioedema.
Reading some reliable medical internet sites I am inclined to believe this is what I have caused by an allergy. A fruit is named which I rarely have eaten until recently when I ate three over a one-week period. I immediately stopped eating that fruit and my symptoms went away.
I had several more of the fruits on hand but thought I couldn't be quite sure that fruit was the culprit. I decided to eat one earlier this past week to see what happened. A few days after I ate that kiwi the symptoms appeared again. I'm more convinced now that the kiwis are the cause of my apparent allergic reaction which I'm still experiencing as I write this. Nothing else has recently been new in my life or my diet.
Light-skinned people (I'm a redhead) can be susceptible to some medical issues so perhaps this is one for me. My body could never tolerate highly seasoned foods such as with some raw onions and hot peppers until I was in my mid-twenties. Even now I still best take some care.
I've eaten strawberries in great quantities much of my life though I know they can cause allergies for some people. Given that I am a confessed strawberry addict I'm grateful to be able to safely indulge that berry addiction without any problem.
Allergies can be really troublesome, even life threatening for people. I recall the last commercial flight I took some years ago eating a nut mix I had brought from home in a small plastic bag. The stewardess came to me to ask that I put them away since there was a passenger with a peanut allergy. She then went on to say, "That's why we didn't distribute any peanuts." It almost seemed as though she thought I should have known.
Certainly, I was more than willing to put away my nuts which weren't peanuts and wouldn't have gotten them out to eat had I known the situation. They hadn't announced they weren't distributing peanuts, but then I didn't know they typically did as not all airlines did. I glanced around and saw a young girl wearing a mask (this was before Covid) in the seat behind the ones across the aisle from me.
I recall a family friend contemporary of my mother. She was allergic to some foods, citrus, also monosodium glutamate. The family ceased eating at restaurants as in those years MSG was used much more prevalently than in more recent years. She was a marvelous cook even of foods she could not eat but never used MSG in what she prepared.
She lived to 103 years of age. When she was in her 80s or 90s she began to be able to eat some of the foods, such as citrus, she had not been able to tolerate before. Our bodies are certainly functionally complex and change in numerous ways over time.
People can develop allergies to all sorts of foods and other substances. You likely know this from your own experience or what you know of others.
