Birmingham Blues

I’m back from Georgia, at least briefly. Sorry not to post sooner, but we had no Internet access there.
Daddy’s surgery was successful, and he’s recovering well. The doctor removed his right lung and some lymph nodes, and the tumor is gone!!!
Yesterday was very long — we got up at 3:30 am so we [...]

I’m heading to Georgia today (Sunday). Daddy’s surgery is scheduled for 10 am tomorrow, but of course we have to be at the hospital by 6. It might be easier to go spend the night in the waiting room…
If I can find internet access, I’ll let y’all know how he’s doing.

Both Pam and Paul the Spud at Shakespeare’s Sister have good posts on the results of a new study by the non-partisan Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute. Here are the primary findings:
- Against a backdrop of increasing public acceptance, social science research concludes that children reared by gay and lesbian parents fare comparably to [...]

Imagine the stories Addwaita could tell; he was thought to be 250 years old at his death.
Addwaita, which means “the one and only” in the local Bengali language, was one of four Aldabra tortoises brought to India by British sailors in the 18th century.
[Calcutta] Zoo officials say he was a gift for Lord Robert [...]

…to go with his whine. Jim Shea, Jr. has dropped out of the race for the Utah state legislature because he apparently didn’t meet the three-year residency requirement. He withdrew one day before the chief election officer was scheduled to rule on a challenge to his candidacy.
“Apparently, I’m getting my first taste of [...]

…but they’re happy to take the money generated at GOP fundraisers.
Bush has scheduled fundraisers Friday for Rep. Mike Sodrel of Indiana at The Murat Centre in Indianapolis and for Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., at a private residence in the Pittsburgh area.
He’s doing another one at a Washington hotel on Monday for Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., [...]

Freshman Representative Micky Hammon (R-Decatur) is all fired up to go after the illegal immigrants in Alabama. He’s introduced five bills that will allow even more harassment of Hispanics here in Alabama, and he’s buddied up to Jeff Sessions in an attempt to get federal money to train local police to enforce immigration [...]

A combined effort by US, British, and Canadian forces freed three hostages who had been held in Iraq for four months. The men, members of Christian Peacemaker Teams, had been held along with Tom Fox, who was found dead earlier this month.
The freed men were Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, [...]

We visited my parents this past weekend. Daddy was feeling much better; he’d been tilling up the vegetable garden, and he and my husband even played some golf while we were there. He went back to Atlanta today for a bronchoscopy and a stress test, expecting that he’d hear back from the doctor [...]

My friend Melissa passed along this report on Roy Moore’s speech to the Blount County Chamber of Commerce:
The Blount County Chamber of Commerce is in the middle of using its monthly breakfast meeting to host the four gubernatorial candidates. Today, former Chief Justice Roy Moore spoke at the breakfast in Oneonta. The majority [...]