Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Krotee Didn't Help His Heights Communty

Last week a Newport Beach Hearing Officer denied the request for "Reasonable Accommodation" to Pacific Shores Recovery which youmay know runs the sober homes whose 3 house-campus compound is on the corner of Clay\Orange in Newport Heights. This means...
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Monday, March 30, 2009

Mauled by a Student Nurse

Alert readers will recall that Cancer Bitch has a rare blood disease that borders on cancer. It becomes cancer when plaintiffs' lawyers go after the people who allegedly caused it in their clients. Otherwise it's pre-cancerous. It appears mostly in men...
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Our local hero!

There have been some great sports moments. The "Immaculate Reception" by Franco Harris from Terry Bradshaw against the evil Al Davis Raiders! The "Miracle on Ice" against the Russians at the Olympics. Or, the bases loaded home run against the Jim Fregosi...
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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Help Your Eyes Beyond Belief

Nothing can stop you from making any mistake in your life. But if you can turn back the time and fix it maybe you will. Unfortunately not everyone have ability to turn back the time. So all we can do is fixing whatever can be fix present, this time,...
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Friday, March 27, 2009

Cheap Car Hire in Barcelona

Having interesting about car rentals? Obviously this is one of the good solutions for those who do not owning car or for those who want to take the save and cheap way for traveling. If you plan to go traveling over Barcelona and want to try the cheap...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

The Small R "republicans" on the Newport Beach City Council

I've been complaining of it for a while, Newport Beach has Six of the Seven Council members as "registered" republicans, who truly do not act as Republicans, between the...Borrowing to balance the budget,The City Council telling Newport Beach restaurants...
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Bring More Home Entertainment for Your Family

Television has been widely used around the globe in these decades. Throughout the whole years the demands towards the televisions has always been increasing. To answer all these demands therefore many television channels are established and many television...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Purchase Tramadol on Best Licensed Online Pharmacies

Are you suffering from pain and don’t have any idea about trying medicine to reduce your pain? Have you ever try Tramadol? Tramadol can be a recommendation medicine which is useful to reduce your pain. Tramadol is kind of analgesic which can blocked...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Media coverage in two time zones

Cancer Bitch has been in the news lately:Grand Rapids Press, March 15, 2009Time Out Chicago, March 19-25, 2...
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The Balboa Underground!

"You can lead a horse to water...but you can't make them drink!"....is the old saying! Heck, it doesn'ttake much imagination to know how invasive those telephone poles are in the alleys on Balboa Island.If they had a buck for every time someone put a...
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Business School for Your Business Skill

When you are thinking of starting your own business, you have to realize that you have so many things to prepare. Besides the capital and funds to support your company, you have to prepare yourself with the best business skills. Many company founders...
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Friday, March 20, 2009

Good-bye, Grand Rapids

Cancer Bitch has returned from Grand Rapids, the town where Gerald Ford is still a hero. She had many adventures there. Among them:She found that her friend B, who invited her to Aquinas College (after she asked him to), is more nature-phobic than she...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Newport Beach City Manager Guilty of a Misdemeanor?

Hmmmm...Intermixed in the Daily Pilot's story about whether embattled Newport Beach Police Chief John Klein should keep his job, is this interesting tidbit."City Ordinance No. 866 requires the chief to be selected from a list of candidates. That list...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Coattails

I have been trying to figure out for the last week and half why we want to get our pictures taken with the famous. We're projecting a false image to the world; this is a person we got to stand next to us for a millisecond and he already forgot who were...
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Councilwoman Leslie "Wordsmith" Daigle LOVES Pork!

You know...every time Councilwoman Daigle writes something in the papers (here and here...as examples) I really, really try to read it with an open mind......and make sure I have extra time to read the opinion piece over and over again to make sure I...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

Grand Rapids, the West Coast of Michigan

(The photo to the left is not from Grand Rapids.)I am in Grand Rapids, home of the Gerald Ford airport, which doesn't bother me half as much as the George H. W. Bush airport in Houston. I came by car with my student A, who is an alum of Grand Valley...
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In Line

(On Line, for you East Coasters.)I stopped at the Large Pharmacy to pick up two prescriptions before I leave town on Monday for the first stop, Grand Rapids, on Cancer Bitch's World Tour. I was in a hurry and there were three people in front of me. I...
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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Huntington Beach Goes for the Video City title!

Huntington Beach is right across the Santa Ana Riverfrom the City of Newport Beach....with a border to Costa Mesa a stone throw up that same SA River floodcontrol channel. When we moved here in 1952 that border was a long way from any residential building.Hey,...
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Friday, March 13, 2009

Thank you President Obama for our Dredge Cash!

The big "Ear Mark" Stimulus bill recently passed byPresident Obama...has finally hit Orange County. Asyou might have assessed...the dredger is busy in theBack Bay right now. Those familiar slamming metalsounds are echoing across from Fletcher Jones Mercedesinto...
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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Local public service announcements

Saturday, March 14, Loyola Water Tower Campus: Ethical Journalism in a Digital World, brought to you by the Chicago Headline Club and Poynter Institute. $5 for students and $25 for nonmembers. All details here.Golan’s Moving and Storage Inc. will pick...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Good news about ovarian cancer?

A study shows that the CA-125 blood test and ultrasounds can help diagnose ovarian cancer in post-menopausal (which is the same as menopausal) women before it has metastasized. Ovarian cancer, you may recall, is what Gilda Radner died of. It's called...
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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Results

hysteroscopy photos, San Francisco Women's Healthcare, Inc. So I called the doctor again and left a plaintive message with the assistant, saying I didn't know if I had cancer and would like to know before the weekend. The doctor called back and said...
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Friday, March 6, 2009

The Unringing Phone

They say they're going to call, in a week, on Thursday. So on Thursday you wait. You don't have to wait at home anymore like people did for most of the 20th century, you take your cell with you and take your waiting with you. On Thursday afternoon you...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

On the other other hand...

...the blood test showed that my cholesterol is a slender 133, down about 50 points from last year. I have been eating more vegetables, but still I was surprised. And after being surprised, I became quite quite proud of the number. I'm working it in...
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Monday, March 2, 2009

More from the Annals of Polycythemia Vera

L's office brings in people to test our blood every year in a "wellness screening." I have polycythemia vera, that in layman's terms means I have too many platelets. (I want to link to earlier posts about PV but the linker isn't working. See 2/20/08,...
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Public Smoking Ban in Communist Newport Beach

The Orange County Register has this article which shocked the heck out of me..."Newport Beach considers smoking ban in 'public places'"Wow.First no smoking on the beaches...which if you go to the beach,1. You'd know is practically impossible to enforce.2....
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Spy Cameras in Huntington Beach?

NO Redlight Cameras…..EVER! Here we are in the midst of the biggest economic meltdown in world history…and what do the great powers that be in Huntington Beach decide to consider? Yep, up to 20 Lockheed-Martin (type) redlight cameras may be coming...
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Sunday, March 1, 2009

Things to Know Before Launching Your Business in the Internet

Basically there are two ways people may earn the money either being a labor or an entrepreneur. Those who have no sufficient capital or money would generally choose to be a labor while those have some sufficient capital may make a living by establishing...
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We Will Miss You Paul Harvey!

As inspirations go, Paul Harvey was the great stuff of Urban Legend. Those Golden Pair Shaped Tones that canonly be described as uniquely distinctive for his entireRadio Career...ended yesterday at 90 years old. As weall know 90 is the new 70.....so...
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