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Ron Paul nails Newt with Newt

scanjack — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:49:55 +0000

Please note, no actual Newts were harmed in this posting and video.

In My Humble Opinion Gingrich is quite possibly a psychopath.

Hospital again(this makes six)

~baba — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:34:56 +0000

Last night my chronic back pain flared up, I happened to have a massage therapist handy but it turned out not to be muscle soreness, it was a flare up of my colitis. I’ve been diagnosed and treated once with an antibiotic, then rediagnosed as chronic back pain though I’ve always known it was colitis. This morning it wasn’t any better and I went to the hospital emergency room(cheaper than a doctor here) After an examination and various tests and check ups I was told it was indeed colitis and I also had high blood pressure and early signs of kidney problems. I guess the old body needs some supplementation. I was given a list of 11 prescriptions and told not to eat hot or salty foods, all they have here most places. I’ve decided to fill the antibiotic and the steroid and see if they work to aleviate the pain, I don’t have too many of the other symptoms, some are pretty bad so I guess I’m lucky. Colitis is now thought to be an autoimmune disease and runs in families. I’ve never heard of anyone related to me who has had it but I have an email to my brother discussing family health. The doctor I had spoke English very well and I complemented him on it, most health professionals here have limited if any English skills(and I’ve spent 13 days in hospitals here) Not much about Thailand here but just to make even I’m not going to post a photo of my colon……………baba

Family

~baba — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:47:14 +0000

I’ve done some of the tourist stuff, rode an elephant, seen Khosan Road area, seen cobras, one in my room, done most things a tourist would do here in Thailand(even taken a couple of bar girls home). But yesterday was better than all of that. Koy, my landlady, and I went to pick up her children from school. I had to wait outside as the kids came out of the various grade classes, one shyly came over and offered his hand and I shook it, immediately about 50 boys of different ages came over and shook my hand, some introducing themselves, some asking questions, it was nice to see them. In the Thai schools that I’ve seen the children are in uniforms and are very well behaved, even off of the school grounds. After we got the girls, who were very proud to have their ‘falang’ ‘papa’ come pick them up, we went to the country where an uncle of Koy’s had cut about 20 saplings to build an addition to her restaurant(minimal structure, best food I’ve had in Thailand) We Then went to the market. Koy told me to take the kids and get out of her way, she was going to shop! Wew, Wei, and I went and got crepes with various sweets, orange slushies and the cost for two of each was about a dollar. By this time Koy had finished shopping and we went to her restaurant. The her father and I unloaded the saplings and the women folk built a fire to light the charcoal and proceeded to cook. Soon it was ready and instead of eating on the restaurant tables, mats were spread and the feast was laid out in the center and a plate of rice for each person. There was about a two pound fish, fresh salad greens, side dishes of all types and it was all good. I realized that few foreigners had the opportunity to see the ‘real Thailand’ by just vacationing and I was lucky to become part of a family and see the country’s every day life. I love these people, not just my family, I love the guys who work hard all day for less than $10, the toothless old ladies who wave at me as I bike by, the rice farmers, harvesting now, drying rice everywhere on blue tarps… Some places one lane of the highway is for rice drying. These are hard working and beautiful people. Can you tell I’m impressed?…..baba