Question submitted by mopinko

turn on rachel maddow right now part the whole enchilada restarts now.

turn it on.
she is on fire.

rachel about to roll tape. just another strong man.

she is adamant that trump incited this. about to run the clips, especially from st louis today.

turn rachel maddow on right now.

she is on fire about chicago.

the whole world is watching.

Alzheimer’s disease could be caused by herpes virus, warn experts

"There is incontrovertible evidence that Alzheimer's Disease has a dormant microbial component. We can't keep ignoring all of the evidence."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12188092/Alzheimers-disease-could-be-caused-by-herpes-virus-warn-experts.html

yuck city. carry the herpes virus and have a good bit of trouble w it. also have immune/neuro weirdness since contracting west nile.

dear science, please hurry up.

single payer advocates probably have heard of dr quentin young. sad news

Dr. Quentin Young, Chicago activist for civil rights and public health, dies at 92

Dr. Quentin Young, a champion of civil rights and public health reform who was chairman of medicine at Cook County Hospital during a tumultuous period in the 1970s, died Monday, according to his family.

Young, 92, died of natural causes in the Berkeley, Calif., home of his daughter Polly, where he had been living since July 2014, his son Michael said. He had lived in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood for most of his life.

Young maintained his Hyde Park medical practice into his mid-80s while also keeping busy with any number of causes. He pushed to end discriminatory practices at Chicago-area hospitals in the 1950s, co-founded the Medical Committee for Human Rights in the 1960s, marched for civil rights and against war and spent decades advocating for national health care.

"It's true that over the years I've aligned myself with unpopular causes," Young told the Tribune in 2001. "But over time they've become the majority opinions."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-quentin-young-dead-20160308-story.html

fans of chicago (the band) a question.

i was a big fan early on. crazy high school girl fan. catholic high school. i started to burn out at about 8 or 9. plus i had a kid, and.....

so, my kid the drummer listens to the classic rock station. and turns out he is a big fan. so i download the 1st 3, which i havent heard in forever, but remember every word.

and i kinda knew they were still around, but was still a little shocked to see XXX. rly?

so my question for fandom- which ones are really worth listening to? i'm not going to live long enough to listen to all 30+however more there are.
i am iffy about live albums. usually the hits are not my favorites.

anybody seen them live lately?

a fun local article w map of donors in chicago.

took me a second to figure out that they were mapping number of donors and not dollars of contributions. but fun.

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160301/rogers-park/is-your-hood-feeling-bern-or-with-hillary-dem-contributions-mapped?utm_source=Chicago&utm_campaign=a31c1c507e-Mailchimp-CHI&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4061d3bea7-a31c1c507e-174081213

guess i forgot to post this- biff the therapy dog.

so, i have been doing a little hospice volunteering. when i had my interview w the agency, one of the questions they ask is- what special things would you bring to this job?
i had 2 things. one, since i was specifically interested in pediatric cases (tho on the inpatient unit, there are often kids) was a big toy collection that i was interested in sharing.
but the other was- i have this big dog.
biff is 90 lbs of patient, loving english bulldog. everyone who gets to know him is convinced that he especially loves and connects with them.
in order to bring him to the hospital, he had to be certified with therapy dogs international. we passed the test in january, and recently got his full credentials. i was a little unsure of just how desirable the agency found this. that is until i got an email from my "boss" asking when i was going to bring him in.
then saturday i was a part of a new volunteer orientation. i asked if i should bring him, but didnt get a reply, so i didnt. the boss was disappointed that i hadnt brought him.
i asked him if there was someone in particular i was supposed to check with when i signed up for a shift. he said "they all know"

so, next time i will bring him along. i am only worried that i will be chopped liver when i dont bring him thereafter.

eta that he is the first k9 volunteer for the agency, and lots of folks are excited about it.

opinions on modern stucco?

so, after a successful divorce, i find myself w some money to invest. as luck would have it, my sister and her hubs have made a midlife career change, and are flipping houses. they are paying a fortune for short term money, so i agreed to do a little venture capital lending w them. i feel that this is very safe, as the worst thing that could happen is that i end up getting a rental property.
anyway, i sort of got the bug from them. the house across the alley from me was recently foreclosed on. so, guess who the new owner is. yes, tis i.

it is a little frame single family in need of quite a bit of repair. i intend to keep it as a rental property.
one thing it needs is replacement of the old shingle siding. one of my partners in this venture tells me that it is getting to be the thing out in the burbs here to replace siding w stucco.
the old siding comes down, walls are foamed, then they put up stucco.
this would fit in very nicely in the hood, where old fire codes discouraged clapboard. about 1/3 of frame houses around here are stucco.

i know the old stuff is a pain in the ass, especially here in the snow belt. but the new stuff is supposed to be pretty well improved, w fiberglass meshes and fiber and all.
anyone have any experience/opinions on this?