HELEN:
Well Margaret, once again I am going to say what the media won’t. Mitt Romney is a lying sack of shit and he wouldn’t know a middle class tax cut if it bit him in the middle of his gold plated ass. Evidently the media seems to think that the person who slings the bullshit the farthest wins the debate. Well if that ain’t the damnest thing.
Who exactly was that man debating the President last night? Clearly somebody finally decided to shake the Etch A Sketch and now Romney is against lowering taxes for the wealthy. He’s also pro choice and for entitlement programs. But what the hell he has against Big Bird is beyond me.
If lying whenever your mouth moves is what they mean by style points then, yes, I would definitely have to say that Romney won the debate. He had to temporarily become a Democrat to do it, but yes he won. And it was clear that even the President didn’t see that one coming.
According to Etch A Sketch Romney there will be no tax cuts for the wealthy. After all, the 14% that Romney has been paying wasn’t so bad once he compared it to what everyone else was paying. Also there will be no government interference in healthcare decisions for Americans. Thank goodness because that government ban on abortion the Republicans want and Romney has promised really was a deal breaker for me. I am also delighted to know that Romney is going to force all of the states to finally implement healthcare reform. Considering they haven’t done it yet, I am not sure what he has in mind but I say bully for him. Yes. Romney needed a game changer and tonight he changed the game alright. He changed parties and became the liberal democrat we all knew he wanted to be.
If anyone out there has any idea of which Romney is running for President, please let me know because I can’t keep them all straight. Is he the guy who wants to end Medicare or the guy who wants to spend more money on Medicare? Is he the guy who wants to control my vagina or the one who believes that government shouldn’t be making healthcare decisions? Is he the guy who thinks that 47% of Americans are victims or the guy who thinks that tax cuts for the wealthy are a bad idea? Is he the guy who wants to work on day one with Democrats in Congress or the guy who on day one wants to reverse everything the Democrats accomplished? Is he the guy who likes Big Bird or the guy who will cancel Big Bird?
Margaret, that man has more faces than I have chins. I can’t keep up with which lie is the real lie. All this would be so much easier if Governor Romney would just do what he says his five sons do: pick a lie and stick to it.
The way I see it, we’re all just a bunch of Big Birds. Romney looks right into the camera and says he likes us, but given the chance, he’ll fry us up and serve us on the closest ironing board Ann can find. I mean it. Really.
MARGARET:
Helen, I couldn’t follow either one of them most of the time. They both seemed a little too angry for my liking. The one I felt sorry for was that poor Jim Lehrer. I’ve left the house many a time and forgotten my teeth too.
Click here to support Margaret and Helen’s website.
I left an email if people who are interested and can or want to have a discussion..I’m always doing debating with a gentleman in Colorado..and of course he and are on different sides of fence but amicably we agree to disagree. I just don’t need people with bad “karma”
I certainly don’t want to cause a dust up on the porch..I feel I’ve got some real friends I do not want to re-arrange the chairs on the porch.
Peace and love to all who have expressed such.
I wish only the best to those who continue to fight this hideous disease
And would be glad to discuss with her and share..but I know she is doing good just to stay afloat as cancer keeps the caretaker busy 24-7.
By: Craig Robinson on October 9, 2012
at 8:31 PM
Tine–how nice to see you.
Craig–thank you. That is lovely of you. However, I’m not on facebook. I do hope to see you here. You obviously have friends on this blog who care for you.
By: Donna on October 9, 2012
at 3:50 PM
Craig-
Like a few others, I too am an “oldie” here who doesn’t comment much anymore. (I read regularly, but resist getting drawn in because it gets too infuriating/distracting.)
I clearly remember you and Valerie, and I want you to know how sorry I am for your loss. I hope you won’t mind having the prayers of a heretical Catholic, because I’ll be praying for peace for you and your son and all who love Val. And…although it seems strange to congratulate you in the same breath…congratulations on your granddaughter! May she bring you comfort and delight.
Mageen, I’ll be praying for you as well. May the time you have left with your husband be filled with joy and love.
By: Tine on October 9, 2012
at 12:54 PM
Romney Proudly Explains How
He’s Turned Campaign Around.
“I’m lying a lot more, and my lies are far more egregious than they’ve ever been…It’s a strategy that works because when I lie, I’m essentially telling people what they want to hear, and people really like hearing things they want to hear. Even if they sort of know that nothing I’m saying is true…It’s a freeing strategy, really, because I don’t have to worry about facts or being accurate or having any concrete positions of any kind.”
PEACE ~ Δ
By: Whirled Peas Δ on October 9, 2012
at 12:29 PM
belltvguy@yahoo.com
By: Craig Robinson on October 9, 2012
at 9:40 AM
Craig- there’s a whole other thing too, right now. You just spent 2 years working very hard with and for your beloved Val without a whole lot of thought for yourself.
Getting used to living inside your own skin after such a sustained period of looking outward can be as disorienting as mourning the loss of your life partner Val . Be kind to yourself.
Most especially, be kind to yourself.
Blessings on you, neighbor.
By: alaskapi on October 9, 2012
at 9:12 AM
Craig: In response to your question about time, I think that JC put it very well. At this time, I think that you hold to your faith and get through each day by living the way your Val would want you to live. She would want you to take care of yourself and eat right and enjoy your dear son and beautiful grandbaby. She would not want you to neglect yourself. I truly believe she is watching over you.
By: Donna on October 9, 2012
at 7:06 AM
Jean, I trust you , Donna and Delurker and Olr Virginney.. I’m located on Facebook in Lubbock Texas as Craig Robinson. I would like to friend ” you all” that a Texas thing.
I await your response.
Thanks to all of you who have offered me
Your live and support in my grieving
And if I could help Ole Virginnay pardon the misspell .. I will.
Regards
CRAIG
If you can’t get thru ill offer my email…
By: Craig on October 8, 2012
at 10:14 PM
Auntie Jean,
Thank you..I remember that name from way back..Kubler Ross
I’ll pick that up..
Reading the daily devotional my Val read ” Jesus Calling”
Has been unusually on in my day to day life..not an astrology thing
But it’s 365 daily words and thoughts from God extracting bible verse along with additional words make for a pretty straight on version of what my days are or will become..either looking forward or backward as I did..concerning the day of Val’s death..it was if God was telling her to wait patiently..I’am with you …etc etc…had I been Val…I know she was expected somewhere else.
By: Craig Robinson on October 8, 2012
at 6:41 PM
Dear Craig,
I lost two loved ones to cancer. Here are a few thoughts that might help you through this so, so difficult time. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, the Swiss-American Psychiatrist was the pioneer in dealing with such traumatic events in our lives. You could get her book “On Death and Dying.” If that would be a little too heavy right now, some of the shorter literature from Hospice could help you through the five stages of grieving we all experience.
The most important aspect is NOT to get stuck in one of the stages and stay there. Your beloved Valerie would not have wanted that for you.
Again, heartfelt aloha!
Auntie Jean
By: waialeale on October 8, 2012
at 6:31 PM
The empty feeling will be filled up with other things, in time. The business of living takes care of that – not so much a distraction as a counterirritant, perhaps. The hurt is different. The wound will heal over and not be so raw, but things or songs or circumstance will remind you poignantly and without warning. Right now it will feel like a body blow, but later it will dull to an ache, and even sometimes make you smile reminiscently.
Please don’t expect too much of yourself: to help someone you dearly love out of this world and into the next must be one of the hardest things a person ever does. All of us are pulling for you, some even are facing their own similar issues. You will be able to bear them up when they need a friendly word – and they will!
As for the Karma commenter – I would not care to reap a crop of her sowing. Bitter indeed! Do not give it a second thought. There are people I don’t like that don’t like me here, but I do not wish them ill, although one I like to annoy. Not nice, merely human! I don’t particularly care if they wish me ill, but I wish they would not be so unkind to people I like, like Gato! Even the trolls: I wish they would go pester someone else and I just delete their silly posts! So don’t let that Terri disturb you: it is HER problem not yours!
By: JC on October 8, 2012
at 5:12 PM
Does the empty hurt feeling ever go away…people say a year..or two..
I can’t imagine putting any time limit on it.
She was “MY” life.
Thanks Man for your thoughts
CR
By: Craig Robinson on October 8, 2012
at 4:03 PM
downloaded The Rumble 2012 O”Reilly vs Stewart
LMAO
this is good also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGMUGjlV5HU
By: uawtradesman on October 8, 2012
at 4:02 PM
Sorry for your loss Craig………been there…….
By: uawtradesman on October 8, 2012
at 3:54 PM
Craig:
Like many posters on this site I’ve been somewhat lax about coming here lately because the tenor of the comments so I almost missed your message about Val. Belatedly, please accept my condolences on her passing.
I’m sure we’ve had conflicting views on this site separating us but, as someone who is much farther along in life, I share the pain of Valerie’s illness after having been exposed to similar situations within my own family in the past and while currently facing others today and with still others most likely in the future. It is a sober reminder to all of us of the fragility of our existence on this planet and the best way to compensate is to do good on behalf of others at all times possible.
It is obvious from your comments that Val was a very special person and her dedication to the healing arts and sciences is so ironic because, in the end, those same healing arts couldn’t save her. But your devotion to her needs was paramount in making her as comfortable as possible under impossible circumstances. I admire that.
Again, I’m truly sorry to hear of your loss..
By: jsri on October 8, 2012
at 1:47 PM
Craig,
It has been awhile since I have posted here myself. I am a daily reader and a huge fan of M&H, but I have so many things going on in my life right now, that it is just too much energy to comment.
I just want to tell you that you are a wonderful husband and a true and devoted man. I am so very, very sorry for your loss. Cancer is such a destructive force. It has touched us all in one way or another. I pray for the day it is irradicated. I wish you peace and joy where ever you can find it. A new grandaughter is a blessing, may she help you keep joy in your heart.
Mageen,
Peace to you and your hubby as well. I will donate to the childrens cancer fund here in your name. Best wishes for a full recoverery.
By: mikat on October 8, 2012
at 9:10 AM
Delurker, donations to any cancer research group would work. Thanks to you and everyone who has come forth and commented so humanely.
By: mageen in old virginny on October 8, 2012
at 5:49 AM
You had me so emotional at “quiet house” Craig. It must really be difficult for you right now. I lost my father 33 years ago today and it was the quiet that got me, every day for the three months I stayed in the house after he was gone until I moved away. Might I add that there were other people in the house besides myself and still, the quiet in his quarters was something I could not get used to. I can only imagine your quiet. Please do get out some time and try not stay by yourself too much right now. That granddaughter is sure a godsend. Congratulations on being a grandfather. You and Val sure did have something special and I am glad you shared your story with us.
By: Easier on October 7, 2012
at 8:52 PM
DeLurker..anything you can do is a $ more than they had yesterday.
Thank you.
By: Craig Robinson on October 7, 2012
at 8:00 PM
It is a beautiful story and tribute, Craig. Thank you for honoring us with it.
By: Donna on October 7, 2012
at 7:57 PM
Donna, I met my Valerie in 1965. I turned around at a high school game and was introduced to these big eyes and smile…she was an ROTC sponsor but I was in a different unit. I pursued her every weekend …calling on Mondays for a Friday- Saturday dates. I had only one date with another girl the week before this. Val was 16 ..and I was 14 turning 15 in three weeks on Oct 9.
She died almost to the date we met some 47 years later. She went abroad after her senior year as an exchange student in Belgium since she was going to be a French major. Upon returning she entered TCU as a French major freshman taking senior courses. She felt un challenged and since her mother was a nurse and sister was studying nursing as well she went that route.
We dated thru college..sending her roses sometimes twice a day getting the attention of the dorm mother…and other girls. On a dare from another student and before she entered masters of nursing she took and past the MCAT test. She applied to Texas Tech Medical school in 72 and was admitted in their first class graduating 3 years later in 75. I kept AT&T and Braniff air afloat by my visits and calls from Fort Worth. We married two weeks after she graduated and she matched at UT Southwestern where she became a pediatrician…but in her last year a young 11 year old girl with cancer came to her and asked her to help plan her funeral. With that , Val found her calling…and switched over to three more years to become a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. Me, I was a TV producer for Southern Baptist Radio-Tv, then the medical school, ED’S and Ross Perot for a year then 21 years with Bell Helicopter till 911 when I was laid off with the man who hired me. A white collar lay off no one saw coming. I basically went back to work for about 4 years from 2003-2006 working part tie and making 4 times more than they had paid me…until they hired a 30something..sound familiar.
We had a charmed life..with a great son who became a Lt. In Navy for four years and just blessed us with our first grand child July 30th.
The circle continues. God took my angel Valerie home…but gave us a beautiful baby girl for me to dote on. More than you wanted to know..but it takes my mind off sitting here in a very quiet house.
Take care Donna. Thanks for your thoughts and prayers.
By: Craig Robinson on October 7, 2012
at 7:33 PM
Oh jeez.
Karma crap?
Pfftt!!!!!!!!
May your toilet back up and flood your home with the same kind of horsepunky you dumped here, other- Terri.
Call it karma if you want…
I call it horsepunky
Craig -
I remember very well when a dear friend of mine dropped dead of a heart attack after losing his job of many years how thoughtful your remarks and concerns were.
On a human level you were always very reachable though I often wanted to pinch your face off over politics
Take best of care neighbor.
By: alaskapi on October 7, 2012
at 7:28 PM
Craig: If (and only if) you’d like to say, how did you meet?
By: Donna on October 7, 2012
at 4:37 PM
OK, Craig. Since I have a Sunday school student with leukemia and a dear friend with lymphoma, I often give to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. I will do that for you. I can’t ever give a lot at one time, but my small donation is matched 100% by my employer. Nothing will bring Val back but it’s all I know to do to rage against the evil that is cancer.
By: delurkergurl on October 7, 2012
at 4:25 PM
Not really..but any children’s cancer fund.thank you.
By: Craig Robinson on October 7, 2012
at 4:08 PM
Craig, I am very sorry about your wife. I pray God carries you through these dark days and that you find comfort in your memories.
Mageen, I don’t know what to say. I had hoped that your dear husband’s treatment would do the trick. I pray that the treatments he’s getting are affording you guys more time for accumulating memories and sharing your love.
I would like to make donations on both of your behalf to the cancer research organization of your choice. Do you have a preference?
By: delurkergurl on October 7, 2012
at 4:05 PM
Thank you Auntie Jean,Donna Meagen,Alaskipi,Cynthia,Easier…all of you for your respect and thoughts…
Some people ..that’s all of us will have to stand before our maker one day
And will have to answer for our actions,deeds and words…
I forgive this lady/ person. They evidently have some serious issues.
By: Craig Robinson on October 7, 2012
at 3:53 PM
Hi, again, Craig – As I’ve mentioned, I didn’t know you “when”… All I know is what you wrote recently, which I found very moving.
Karma, in my understanding, anyway, has nothing to do with anything other than how we react to whatever the Universe hands us. As far as I can tell, both you and your wife have dealt with a dreadful illness, and you with a heartbreaking loss, with courage and great love for each other. My guess is that if anything impacts your “karma”, it will be that.
Gato
By: gatodicima on October 7, 2012
at 3:48 PM
Donna, thank you.
I saw that post about Karma…and I thought to myself..I’ve been gone for almost two years. Really I caused that much hatred?
Before I left, yes I tried to be a moderate, listening more than talking.
I can only say this person will have to look in the mirror every morning and some day will stand before God to learn his version of Karma, which I believe
Is a forgiving God.
By: Craig Robinson on October 7, 2012
at 3:40 PM
Mageen, may the universe hold you and your family tight in its embrace. Your husband gave it his all and is still fighting the good fight. Keeping you in my prayers. Cancer sure is a b…My father succombed to it. It was no fun to watch him waste away, big burly man that he was, being reduced to nothing. I really empathize with what Craig went through and what you are going through Mageen. Wishing you continued courage.
By: Easier on October 7, 2012
at 1:51 PM