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All right, you all-niters. This’ll keep ya going for a bit. From Nawlin’s. It’ll set yer hair afire. Coffee up y’all. 😆
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The pause that refreshes.
Thank you.
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Tanks Tex!!! It’s COLD outside, it’s the wind!!!! Air temp 12*, wind chill -05, winds W 18-20, heavy overcast….. Need to warm up!!!!!
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11.6 °F
Baby, it’s cold outside…
Time for another log on the fire.
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Still enjoying Mary’s tea and treats.
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-3°
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I can take the Cold, not the wind……. Morning lovely!!!
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Good morning Col. I know, my friend and I were visiting a mutual friend, when we left her house we were like, I think it warmed up a little bit, as soon as we got away from the protective wind barrier of her home we were like “Nope!”
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May have to restart the fire, need a warm up……Thanks Impeach…..
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15.8 °F
Temp is heading south.
Definitely time to put
another log on the fire.
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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
— Robert Heinlein, “Time Enough for Love”
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Dang, caught somewhere between a man and a bug. Yep, sounds about right.
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I was just thinking about RHeinlein last week… about Stranger in a Strange Land… I loved everything he did… but it has been so long, I might as well go back and just do them all over…
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I recently bought a couple of old Asimov collections (used).
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Read ’em quickly, from what I’m seeing you may need to burn a few to stay warm Monday and Tuesday…at least. Give us a 1st person report on the local climate change, will ya?
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I very recently reread that – wasn’t nearly as entertaining as it was when I was 18….
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I was hoping it would be better… 🙂
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One of my favorite quotes, though I usually just truncate it to, “Specialization is for insects.”
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I’ll take the last three, thank you. But then, who says I am a human being? I am a cat, so what do I care!
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Still workin’ on a couple of those but getting closer…
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Seen on FB (Wretchard T. Cat is Richard Fernandez):
Education (or human capital development) may be the decisive arena in international strategic competition. A system of problem solving based education could make a significant dent in unleashing the creativity not only in America but around the world.
Suppose we offered this Trivium as a replacement for or supplement to what is now high school. It consists of 3 subjects. Word skills, Tech skills and Life Skills and is structured like a computer game.
The Word Skills Module consists of 100 sessions in an accredited facility over 4 years. The student is admitted to a room with a terminal. He punches play. He must write a 500 word essay on whatever subject question — Sea peoples, zika, the origin of the pyramids — emerges. He will have access to a restricted library of resources, no comms, Skype, email or viber. At the conclusion of the session he gets graded by Watson. Depending on his score he gets points, just like a game.
The Tech skills module is the same thing, but in physics, chemistry, math and science. Here’s a problem. Here are open books. Solve it. Get points in a no comms, but resource rich computer environment.
The Life Skills module is different. You must join a human group, and demonstrate skills at doing something like building a house, scaling a cliff, constructing a fab. Joining an Army training program, or paramedic training course can satisfy the requirement. You must learn how to rise, be punctual, work, sweat and persevere.
As the student gains points in the Trivium he will become eligible to join certain higher level activities. For example, students with enough points will get access to certain virtual rooms which may lead to part time employment. Or projects. Or trips to the pyramids.
There are group games too, like multiplayer games. Write a group essay on the origin of [supply subject]. Solve this physics problem [insert question here]. Build an actual playground on this vacant lot. It will be Avatar to Avatar cooperation. You will only see the Avatar of your partners and their points.
University will go along the same lines, except there will be fewer computer games and more actual projects. University courses will be like: produce a YouTube video [to be judged by Watson] . Build a Tesla gun, etc. The chief difference is that university is more real oriented. Actual outputs are the goals.
At the last you get admitted to a Virtual World in your points panoply. You get to strut around in your game armor, with accessories you have won through points. You can have an aura or special virtual world powers. There you will attempt to get admitted into castles representing real jobs or real projects.
There will be monsters at the door to jobs. Some of them can only be overcome by completing a quest. Etc.
This should supplement traditional education. We should encourage kids to play games, earn points and reach the Boss Level. If they can do high school Trivium in one year, so much the better.
None of this is impossible to do. And there’s lots of scope for involving qualified people. If you do this Trivium, you could expand it to the 3rd World.
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Brilliant idea. Our systems are definitely out of date.
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Too much “the Ender’s Game”
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I agree. Pick out the best textbooks from pre-dept-of-ed schooling, and use them.
Get rid of all sidebar graphics and factoids and even pictures from textbooks.
(Have you read a history textbook for high school seniors lately? Distraction everywhere, on every page of the book.)
Get rid of all the ADHD-inducing stuff like that not only from textbooks, but also from classroom walls, also festooned with attention-grabbing “stuff that WE made YAY!”. Shut up, kid, read what other people made. Your classroom should be blank, landlord-white walls, and a book with words and just words in front of you.
Seriously. Go get a common history textbook for high school. Even a math one.
Math texts in the 1950s were better by far, and didn’t cater to the easily-distracted.
Words, and formulae.
Nowadays you get absurd, brightly-colored, well-designed sidebars on every page, like a Zondervan study bible. Women in Math! LGBTs in Math! Math to fight Global Warming!
Every single page.
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Every single K-12 textbook is now a graphic-and-web designer’s clickbait fantasy, on paper.
Every single classroom wall is “look what WE made”, and not “look what all those people to whom we look up made”.
It’s like Lord of the Flies. Lets learn from US!
If I were put in charge of a classroom, third grade or twelfth, there would be nothing on the walls. And the texts would be text, and not ADHD-inducing intentional distraction.
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Not only high school textbooks (yes, I’ve seen them already 5 – 6 years ago), but also college textbooks. By the time we get through the latest edition of Educational Psychology, most of my students are live illustrations for “Exceptional Student Education” chapter!
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Your classroom should be blank, landlord-white walls, and a book with words and just words in front of you.
Funny thing. I always said even when I was a young child that when I owned my own home all the walls would be white. My parents had wallpaper and it always was too busy for me. Everyone told me that I would change my mind. I never did. I love my white walls.
Once in some spell of madness I painted my bathroom pink. I hated it after about a month. Now everything is white again.
White walls are peaceful they are inspiring.
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No. No. No. Shoehorning the computer into everything in education is the Star Trek fantasy that has gotten us to the point people are accepting of mobile phones in restaurant dinning rooms, taking pictures of their food and not talking to people across the table from them. Form over function.
It’s a glorified calculator. Except for classes pertaining to it’s usage and practical application, personal computers should be removed from the classroom.
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Agreed, but the world has changed, and is changing faster day by day. I am a dinosaur, basically. Only way to rid that of which you speak, is to destroy the grids, webs, power plants,etc. Technology is a good thing, but needs to be channeled.
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I’m sorry if I seem surly, but I don’t agree with what you wrote. The world has not changed at all. Western civilization is being led around by the nose and told it is. Nothing needs to be destroyed or physically changed. People’s perception is the only thing that needs to change. Get the companies that create and sell products to the education system, out of the education system and ban their lobbyists. Go back to teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic. Give people back the ability to identify what is unimportant and the free market will sort out the rest.
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Nope, not surly. Discussing, which is why we are here. Sharing thoughts, ideas, news and topics of interest.
Thanks, Always appreciate your insight and wisdom.
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It seems early to have such profound and complicated discussions. I am baking candied pecans and walnuts..
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My apologies ma’m. Agreed, Have a great day AM
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Just don’t let it happen again… 🙂 BTW The candied nuts turned out great… I am giving out some tonight when we meet our friends for dinner at the pub.
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But are the two opinions mutually exclusive? I don’t think so.
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Think we both agree that the technology available could be put to better use. Which goes hand in hand with your post. At least to me it does.
And while “there is nothing new under the sun”, also true, the speed and access has definitely ramped up.
Different views sure, yet similar. And I don’t have the answer, but good to roll around in my nearly “bug” like brain.
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I was thinking the same thing. Technology is here for better or worse and there is no undoing it, we do have control over how we use it and how the people we choose to associate with use it. No phones at the table is a simple rule.
I like the idea of the tiered human experience part of the suggestion.
We at every turn are dehumanizing society people are becoming attached to two things 1) technology and 2) the identity that their technology tells them that they should be.
People need to wake up and reconnect to their own humanity and exercise their free will.
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Thank you lovely, this is a perfect example;
” We at every turn are dehumanizing society people are becoming attached to two things 1) technology and 2) the identity that their technology tells them that they should be. “
This was said or written by someone else within the last decade or two. It has become de facto truth. This is the same logic as gun violence. It’s marketing and perception. Self-serving individuals have perpetuated this myth for their own enrichment.
People that have been educated in the last 20-30 years, believe this is the truth now. Steve Jobs marketed to the education system because the kids would grow up and be in the position to buy what they were comfortable with and knew how to use.
Not because apple ever had a better product. It just had better marketing.
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It’s marketing and perception.
Bingo. Social engineering under the guise of self expression.
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Derk’s statement is equivalent to throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I disagreed and went further to state the bathwater (and baby) is unrelated to the issue of teaching fundamentals or advanced theory.
“introduction to computers” college courses contain more information about how to shop at the store than how the computer functions. Accounting courses are data entry classes.
Simple addition is no longer possible without an iPhone calculator app.
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I know that very few people can spell these days …
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Lol. I was in a hurry.
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I wasn’t thinking of you, actually. Reading YouTube comments this morning.
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Channeled how, and, most importantly, by whom?
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They are helpful in a programming class. 😉
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You, know, at one
of those camps
awaiting our arrival.
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Computer seems to have aided the ongoing evolution of people into uninteresting lumps. Many people we’ve sat across a table from should have two computers in front of them lest one break and we have to suffer their presence.
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But wait, nyet!
Don’t you remember how wonderful Cable in the Classroom™ worked in the 70’s and 80’s?
(/sarc)
Yep.
If the garden could be closed somewhat for the schools, I’d love the idea of computers (even smartphones) in the class.
But there’s too much distraction on the innertubes. This goes back to what I said above.
Look, the internet has more works than any kid in America has access to in his school or public library. I bet Little Joe Kansan doesn’t have Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery available to him at either library in physical form.
The sad thing about the internet, and the great thing, is that if you’re thirsty, it’s like taking a drink out of a fire hydrant.
I always had access to the physical-book library at my school. And my town. And my mom’s college.
I couldn’t use my TI in math class, though.
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I couldn’t afford a TI for the last college class I took. It was chemistry. I made an A, the highest average in the class. Every morning on the way to school my then high school freshman son would call out formulas and equations that I needed to memorize. The next year he made an A in his class.
I was the only student who didn’t have that calculator, and I think I was probably the one who truly understood the course work best.
Ditto to each and every math class I ever had. When I got to classes that required a programmable calculator I set it aside and learned the danged formulas. And I understood the math. Truly understood it, not just knew how to solve for the answer.
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Different people learn different things in different ways. A new way that works well for some people is a good thing; just don’t try to force everyone to learn the same things the same way.
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Sounds like another example of ‘false news’, NEA studies prove our educational system be just fyne.
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Bill Whittle officially introduced his fiance on his live video program
yesterdayon Nov 17. (The Stratosphere Lounge). She is a Russian photographer, named Natasha Melnikova.He says he was studying the death of Czar Nicholas and his family, and while doing searches on the internet, he ran across beautiful photos that she had taken, and that is how they met.
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See, it is the RUSSIANS!
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I play tennis with a Russian immigrant..She is really very nice, and funny. She is taking care of her disabled brother… So, you see, they aren’t all bad… BTW a very good tennis player.
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People and governments are usually nothing alike.
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True that.
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I would like to ask her where she came from..Russia is a big place.
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RUSSIANS…then you all must be spy’s 👀👀👀👀
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Of course we are all spies, even though some of us are not even technically Russian!
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It could be me. I have real Russian blood flowing through my veins.
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Beware, I’ll set KGB on you!
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They are my blood and apparently Trump and Putin were separated at birth so I am golden any which way the world goes 😜
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You lovely, you are golden, we won the election – what else but a nice drink?
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WINNING!!!!
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🙂
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Jews aren’t Russian, just ask the Russians.
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That theme came up in Downton Abbey. The Russian refugees (aristocrats) made that statement about the Jewish boyfriend of one of the major characters.
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And tonany number of Jews during the endless pogroms. It was so bad during the Cold War Israel targeted, or so the Russians believed, some points within Russia for nuke strikes. Helped the Israelis get concessions from Russia on Russian Jews immigrating to Israel.
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Tell me about it! I still have the original exit visa with the infamous 5th line that says JEWISH and a KGB stamp: “Citizenship withdrawn, leave the USSR within 10 days.” I am not an emigrant, like most; I am an “Enemy of the People.”
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People forget that the holocaust in German-occupied Russian territory couldn’t have been carried out without the complicity…no, downright heavy assistance…of the Russians. The Russians can change governments but they can’t seem to change their nature.
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I was born a few years after the war, but half of my family perished in Baby Yar. It was a Nazi-organized action, but Ukrainians manned the machine guns. Germans were standing there taking pictures. Some of those pictures became part of evidence at Nuremberg.
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Ran out of reply space. My grandfather was from eastern Galicia and his mother’s side of the family can be found in the old list of Jewish shop owners the state used to keep. They can also be found in the Death Books and itemized by the Germans in the Lodz Ghetto rolls. Russian army was in no hurry to reach the camps/ghettos as they advanced, amazing how they arrived just in time for all, if not most, of the inmates were killed.
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What did the Russians care if a few million Jews got killed? I’ve heard so many times,”They didn’t kill enough of you Jews!” BTW, are your family’s names on any Holocaust Memorial Walls?
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Outta space again. I have not visted the memorial. I presume you are talking about the one in Berlin, but the family names are in the Yad Vashim database. Problem is that there are millions of more records yet to have cataloged and not enough resources to do it in a timely manner, can’t be sure there aren’t other family members to go on the memorial.
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I did not mean Berlin, I meant the one in Washington, or the one here in Miami, or any one of several others. I know a few survivors who got their families’ names on the wall here; I can find out how to do it.
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It’s always the Russians, Derk! It’s always their fault!
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Bolshevik!!!! My new curse word.
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Sounds strong! Use it in good health!
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Strange you should mention Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks of 1917 Revolution fame were heavily Jewish, the big names Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev come immediately to mind. Then again politicians have notoriously short memories and the first under the bus are usually those who supported and helped them get to the top.
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🍻🍻
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Well looks as if Natasha made it too the land of the Big PX…… Welcome Natasha……
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Mornin’ y’all!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Morning Stella!!!
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Morning Miss Wee!
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Mornin’ Derk!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!! It’s colder that Hildabeast’s heart, oh, that’s right she doesn’t have one.
This weather will pass, as will the snow, local weather babe says 44* on Saturday, so I’m breaking out the suntan lotion, deck chairs, and firing up the fire pit!!!!!!
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Mornin’ Colonel Sir!
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Morning, Ms Wee!
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Afternoon Miss Dolly!
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Whatever the clock shows, my friend! Just got home from work, taking a short break before immersing myself in the kitchen…
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Big words little lady, had to look it up! Learning, yay!
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Is Huma invited?
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If she’s willing to wait tables.
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Mary, I do have a tip for her…..Run, Run,Run……..
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Ha ha! My cousin told his sister’s suitor I have one word for you “Run!” 😂
They have been married a decade now but it cracks me up every time we sit around and tell the story of their first meeting.
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
(Tom Collins)
(Black & Tan)
(Boilermaker)
(Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
(Irish Car Bomb)
(Godfather)
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Gin & Tonic)
(Blackberry wine)
(Backdraft)
(Flaming Dr. Pepper)
(Stinger)
(Rusty Nail)
(Jack Daniels)
(Whiskey Smash)
(B52)
(Rum & Coke)
(Night Train Express)
(Albanian Raki Moskat)
(Hot Buttered Rum)
(Hot Buttered Rum)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ Czarina! 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂
Mornin’ Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Doughnuts for coffee!
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Our ‘Nyet’?
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I saw this next door yesterday and wanted to ask why I was being addressed twice.
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You’re a hard man to get the attention of?
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Wow! Better than the breakfast above!
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Awesome breakfast, Nyet! Morning!
Morning everybody!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Nye!!!!! Morning Everyone!!!!! Lunch!! This should warm my stomach……thank you kind sir!!!!
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Good afternoon, Nyet, and thank you for a lovely breakfast. I’ll have a couple of pastelitos and a double drink – just came home from work, and feel in serious need of nourishment in a tall glass.
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Good morning Nyet,
I’ve said it before, but this time it is true. Perfect!!!!
Have a great up there!
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Good Morning Stella, and all of you coming by,
Great pic, great ideas put forth, thank you. Hope all is well with you over and up there.
Getting close, wishing you all a continued Merry Christmas.
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BTW, for Wooly, whatcha think about Porky’s rendition? =D
(But any are welcome to enjoy!)
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I’ve been listening to this rendition for many years.
Nobody can hear this and not laugh. Priceless.
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Good morning Derk 🙂
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Morning lovely! Any luck on the shopping?
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Good morning Sand&Sea 🙂 I didn’t go, I forgot that I had 2 meetings to attend 🙄. I might go tomorrow in the day time before the snow flies.
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Afternoon!!! Good luck with the shopping! I hope you find the perfect gift!
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Morning (here it is) Lovely, have a great day!
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On the way to the vet with the ‘puppy’. It’s that time for the surgical procedure that will qualify him to be a Hillary-elector in Colorado.
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What a difference
a letter makes. 😉
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Taking out his spine? Ok, I get it… cute. Hope little guy will be fine. My sweet dog was a bit upset after she was fixed. Dh said it had something to do with hormones??
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Yeah, something like that, I have the ‘Clay Aiken channel’ preprogrammed on the radio for the trip home.
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Yeah, a vet explained it as ‘the jewels come off, the brain comes back’…then again she was a bitter woman…
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Who is a bitter woman, Hilary or the vet? Or both?
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I think Hillary went past ‘bitter’ some time in the early 70s. Not this vet, one I knew who wore stiletto Birkenstocks.
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Good for her!
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Ouch!
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😳
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Different day; same old game.
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Will this be next weeks headline?
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Because they haven’t finished manufacturing it yet. Remember that Gulf of Tonkin evidence, the ‘evidence’ there was a US/Russia nuke/bomber/missile gap, that evidence Colin Powell was given to present to the UN in justification of the Iraq invasion…need I go on?
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That CIA director should be water boarded, on pay for view…..
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Gotta look back at Carter when he apppointed Turner to gut the agency. Turner was there long enough to make a thorough mess out of it and had no viable plan to heal the injuries he’d caused. When RR got in office he had to hit the ground running with a damaged intel structure being led by a damaged agency. Bit tough to heal while you run the marathon.
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Pardon the language …
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Journalism was better before they had to rename Investigative Reporting to allow for the insertion of fiction.
Besides, all the cynical a**holes with drinking problems & functional bulls**t detectors are still here. We’re all still here, David! Hi!
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The News was better when it was reporter-driven, when the Paper asked the gumshoe “What have you heard today? What’s the buzz? What’s new?”, and before The News became top-down, where the Paper said to the former gumshoe writer, “Here’s what you all are going to write today, or you’re fired. Here’s what message you’re all going to send today, or you’re fired.” Way before it got to the point where even the sports reporters and the weather forecasters were also subject to that directive.
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http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h71/Dogsmom357/media-bias_zpsu7ir2ykz.jpg?1481823043937&1481823049781&1481823051022
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Here you go 🙂
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Thanks, Lovely! You’re always so good at pulling me out of trouble. Sometimes I get it right and others, well…
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Thanks, Lovely! This is cool.
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It is really Jaqueline’s picture I just cleaned it up for her 🙂
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I like it just the same!
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“15 people armed with a hammer that was stolen from a Home Depot today murdered a 90-year-old WW2 vet outside that Home Depot. The suspects are described as adults and teens between the heights of 5 and 6 feet, and were wearing clothing.”
Journalism died when it began to dictate to its employees what they could NOT say.
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Did the hammer have an extended magazine and bayonet lug?
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Nope, just a plain old hammer.
But if only we had gun control, people wouldn’t murder other people with hammers!
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It’s the hammer’s fault.
Need to ban hammers.
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Nailed it!
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We can have a research program which will develop a ‘safety hammer’ that will only work when activated by a chip implanted into the registered purchaser’s forearm.
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How have I not seen this?
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I hadn’t seen that clip either. I listened to his interview with Hannity on iHeartRadio a few minutes ago. It was really good and a huge relief to hear his voice. I hope Trump can help him somehow.
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Assange deserves whatever replaces the Nobel Prize.
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Wonderful story. Their names, Jadon and Anias, mean ‘God has heard’, and ‘God answers’.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/13/health/mcdonald-conjoined-twins-to-separate/index.html
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They have now left the hospital, and are starting rehabilitation.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/14/health/conjoined-twins-rehab/index.html
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Amazing world we are blessed with! I hope they go on to lead beautiful lives.
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Muslim hate crime hoaxer’s sister blames the NYPD
http://nypost.com/2016/12/15/muslim-hate-crime-hoaxers-sister-blames-the-nypd/
Predictable the rat Muslim who lied about being attacked by Trump supporters is being portrayed as a victim by her sister. Wait for the Go fund me to be set up. The only question is whether it will be set up by CAIR or by some guilt ridden white SJW.
I wonder if Obama has enough time to invite her to the White House.
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Reminder: Thank You tour today…
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Hershey, PA
Donald J. Trump & Governor Mike Pence
Giant Center
7:00 PM
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Scheduled post three days ago.
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I see President Trump has named LTG. “Keith” Kellogg to the NSA team…… knew him in commanding the ’04 and with Cubic……Now I’m going to sleep more soundly with a real boots on the Ground Warrior……..Airborne……
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And Monica Crowley, step up for her to be sure.
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That’s Dr. Monica Crowley, Ph.D and she can cook!!!!!!
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Yes sir, Colonel sir! I stand corrected! Sir!
=D
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That was just my way of staying she is a babe!!!!!!!!!
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Agreed!
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And one classy lady to boot.
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Watching taped Survivor season finale from last night, and for whatever reason, I LOVE this show! Only show I watch, (since Castle cancelled anyways and Criminal Minds kept changing cast).
First season it came out and was the all the rage, I said “meh’. Watched the finale that season and was hooked, haven’t missed an episode since.
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We have watched 2 seasons of Alone. At first it was done on a remote part of Vancouver Island. This year they are in Patagonia. Last person standing wins.
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Shout-out to NOLA
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Mmm.
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Tell you what. Them some prestidigious digits.
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Sorry. Joshua doesn’t like jam bands.
😀
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{{Joshua}}
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Easy. Tis the season!
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Good stuff right there
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Here you go.
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The ukulele toss!
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Still, Someone Like You cover, love it. This is good as well.
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Note that Assange and Wikileaks have NEVER been proven to have lied.
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