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General Discussion, Friday, April 7, 2017
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“Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.”
–John Bunyan–
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Thank you Mary
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“When You are our strength it is strength indeed, but when our strength is our own it is only weakness.”
–St. Augustine–
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“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”
— C.S. Lewis —
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‘If a painter wanted to put a horse’s head on a human neck, would you be able to keep your laughter in?’
— The Art of Poetry, Horace c. 19 BC
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“Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone.”
— Bill Withers —
Nope. Watch the whole thing.
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Okay. That’s just weird.
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When my oldest was a little girl I couldn’t listen to Ain’t No Sunshine, Cats in the Cradle, I Want to Live or I Wish it Would Rain or she would just cry because they were so sad. She still can’t listen to I want to Live.
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LOL
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Yep. I said the same thing the first time I watched it. I still cannot keep my laughter in every time I do, no matter how hard I try, because it’s so ridiculous. Even though the scene with the guy with the sweet purple guitar is totally, very, very badly, pantomimed, (probably on purpose, to add to the campiness of the piece) I think it’s an incredible cover of an incredible song.
Zakk was Ozzy’s guitarist in his solo years in the late-80s/90s. He’s no Randy Rhodes, but he’s still good.
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[Horse Head mask, posted by nyet on some Caturday a while back]
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[Horace, laughing]
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One rises or sinks to the provocation offered.
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1957: Horace’s lawyers claim Jack Benny stole that joke.
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“Beer: So much more than just a breakfast drink.”
— Homer Simpson
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Dammit. ctrl+i did not italicize. Somebody throw me a rope!
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Language! By that I also mean HTML.
Preface the preferred phrase with “” without the dashes. Close the quote, as it were, at the end of your phrase with the same thing, only with a “/” in front of the “i”, still inside the greater/less-than brackets.
(It’s hard to describe HTML, because using the symbols makes the blog try and use them.)
https://en.support.wordpress.com/beginning-html/
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Thanks, Wooly! I much appreciate the help. It’s been years and if you don’t use it… you know…
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I know ‘i’talics, ‘b’oldface, and ‘a href=long http link here’ Some Text ‘/a’.
That last one just makes “Some Text” become a link to a long link. Sometimes it’s just better to shorten those really long ones my making them a link
And that’s just about the sum of my knowledge about HTML code.
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Oh, and the http link in my a href example must have double quotes around it, as well as the ending angle bracket.
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I appreciate your help a lot. I’ll have to play with it when I get back into town. I have found WordPress instructions to be clear as mud sometimes, so your suggestion of cheat sheets may be the winner I need. Thanks again!
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One last try. Before the word to be italicized less than sign , after the words you want italicized less than sign no spaces.
Never mind I see Wooly explained it.
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However ineptly.
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Also ‘blockquote’
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Whatever happened to ‘cut, paste, click, done’?
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To italicize on WP it is different at different sites.
For Stellas put with no spaces before what you want italicized and with no spaces where you want the italicization to end.
… with no spaces before what you want italicized and with no spaces where you want the italicization to end.
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Sorry. before after no spaces and no question mark. Hopefully this works.
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Ok off to get some caffeine and stop being useless.
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You mean it’s not like riding a bike?
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Keeping up with tech? For me, it’s more like getting driving over by one!
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See? Didn’t work. Preface the preferred phrase with Shift-Comma, the letter “i”, and Shift-period. (Less than and greater than symbols, like brackets.) the opener is i, the closer is /i.
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It would be neat if WordPress, or anyone else on the entire internet at this late date could make a widget that would let us draw, MS Paint-style, a comment, which WP would then add to your comment, or by itself, so that we could explain HTML without WP trying to interpret our text as HTML.
Progress! Then again, the geniuses still haven’t come up with the idea of bumping your cursor one cursor-height up or down when you click and then start typing in a one-line field. I’ve been wishing for that since… when did mice come out again?
Progress!
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Not a programmer, nor a genius.
But how hard would my first example be to program? If I’m typing in a field, and watching my text as I type, and there is a mouse cursor in my way as I’m typing, it should move out of the way, just a few lines up or down. I bet half the typos on the internet would be eliminated with this one weird trick that nobody in the entire computer UI industry has even conceived of.
I mean really, cursor. Move the heck out of my way! I’m typing here!
These geniuses made Pong, and they can’t make a cursor move out the dang way?
(/rant off) Pet peeve, long time.
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Agreed, that one is a PITA. I worked as Administrative Assistant for most of my working years, sprinkled with being a legal secretary and that cursor drives me nuts when I’m typing too. Just move it out of my way!!!
Pong. I remember that. We were so very popular in our neighborhood of kids; pong was another one of those wonders…
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And I realize, also, that I, being a dumb human, have not managed, since the mouse was invented, to move it out of the way before I start typing.
I can’t lay it all on the geniuses’ feet. Sometimes I end up slapping the mouse. “GET OUTTA MY WAY!!”
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Uh-huh. Slapping the little guy across my desk has gotten a lot simpler since the wireless mice came out.
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They’re all furriously meowrganizing for Caturday.
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I most closely resemble the freneticism of the black cat (while searching for theme associations and cranking out the puns).
stella is like the calm kitten.
The cat with the shirt is so you, Wooly.
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Even more elegant solution.
Two buttons. Post Comment. Post Comment as JPG.
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I wish I knew someone at WP to whom I could pitch this idea.
If you could post a comment as a JPG, you could explain HTML to anyone, because it would appear exactly as you typed it, without WP interpreting your symbols.
I know there are ways to do this by taking screenshots, logging into Photonbucket, uploading it, copying the link location coming here, logging in, posting the copied link to your screenshotted comment…. imagine if WP could do it for you with just a Post as JPG button.
Other commenters wouldn’t even be able to copy text from it. It’s a picture.
Bonus!: NSA would have to take an extra step to read your comments!
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Now, for WP???? hmmmmmmm
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Bravo Amwick! 🙂
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Purrfect. Exactly what I mean. Post Comment. Post as Pic. Two buttons.
Or the Rube Goldberg method.
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What I did once was to explain in a word processor then use the snipping tool to make it a graphic file.
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If WordPress would enable an edit button for you (not just admins), the problem would be solved, because there are buttons for common edit functions like bold, italic, blockquote (select text, then click on button).
You know, Wooly, you can use WordPress ‘Media’ file to import, store, edit, copy etc. graphics, just like PhotoBucket. Good use for your blog.
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You can set a setting to post in a picture format… but it is for the entire blog, not just a comment…
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My picture is what the edit window looks like.
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I am still looking for media file…… 🙂
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Do you have a WP blog? If so, log in to your blog, click on “My Sites” (upper left), then go all the way down to WP Admin, and click on that. Your new menu (dashboard) has an option for ‘Media’ in the left margin. Ask if you don’t understand or have another question.
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somehow it just happened when I signed up for wordpress..
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I understand, although there is a way around that when signing up.
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woot woot,,,, I haz a media file… what fun!!!
dragged and dropped this… TY Bigly!!!
Hillary drawn and quartered!!!!
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I don’t understand your comment.
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It was supposed to be for Mr. Phlox, about posting in a image format so you could explain html text code and it wouldn’t always “translate” it… I saw that you can change post setting to image, and that will happen, but only on your own blog… not for individual comments. At least that is what I think, since I don’t use “my” blog.
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I think what he means is that you can type up the instructions in a word processor, then use a tool like the snipping tool to convert the text to a graphic file, which you can then put in a comment here. Alternatively, I suppose you could use Microsoft Paint (or a similar program) to type into a text box in a graphic, then save and use in a comment box in the same way.
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I did use MS paint… but it should be easier…
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I didn’t need anything special. I went back into Paint and made what I wanted to have, which took about five minutes, and the sent it to Twitter, which is one of my image hosters on the Internet, and that’s that.
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Also an almost elegant solution, if you are a Twitter user!
Very cool.
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WOW!
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Lemme tell you, some poor archivist at the Library of Congress someday is gonna be awfully confused by that out of context, zero-reference tweet.
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😆
#ZRT
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Indent and italic
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I think I got it. I used to write web pages using HTML. Like a hundred years ago, lol! I’ll get out my HTML5 for Dummies and do some perusing for other stuff that I’d like to do. Fear of WordPress’ learning curve is why I haven’t set up my blog! (No matter how easy they say it is!)
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If you go to Bing Images or Google Images, if you prefer, there are a lot of cheat sheets, but there are only certain tags allowed on WordPress, for commenters.
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It’s why I quit trying on mine (for now, anyway).
I prefer to be in the various peanut galleries/think-tanks.
Much respect to those who can actually focus and do it.
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I know. Me too.
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More. More.
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I just keep my blog now because I have that Nigerian pastor from a few weeks ago following it. If I deleted it now, I’d feel bad, like I was some kinda racist or something. He’s my only follower!
And I’ve never made a blog post, besides an intro three years ago.
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Yours is free, too. I think that WordPress now charges for personal blogs. $2.99 a month, charged yearly.
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I have a mini blog? I used it to post longer things at Gab but I have never received a bill. I think I’ve only made 4 or 5 posts and then I link them where I want them. Sometimes the link just shows up at as a link and sometimes it shows in a balloon with a bit of the post?
I really have no idea what I’m doing.
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My blog is blank…. but at least I am my own administrator!!!… bwahahahaha! Oh the power!!!! 🙂 Myrtle the turtle has nothing on me!!
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I wouldn’t have anything either except someone on Gab asked me to write something. I also wouldn’t have a blog at all except it seemed like the only way to sign up for WP.
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That’s pretty much what I thought.. but now I can use it to store media.. which seems really fast.. so that is good. I noticed there is a way to delete.. but, why? It is my own world… and I can make it private. I think. 🙂
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You can. I made mine private a when I was first on it because I didn’t really even understand what it was all about 😜.
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Probably a good idea…hmmmmm.
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I’m not private anymore and I don’t think it really mattered but as Stella said if you want to use it as a place to practice then you could make it private. Or you could start a group “Struggling Word Pressers” 😜 where we all try to figure out the mystery of WP.
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If your blog is ‘private’ you can practice and nobody else will see it.
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LOL Queen of your hill. 🙂
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Wait. You just contradicted yourself.
Is my personal blog free or not?
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They used to be free, and yours is because it already exists. At least for now. WP just started charging for personal blogs not long ago (I don’t know when it started).
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It is easy. They provide tools so you don’t have to use HTML, although it is better if you do know how.
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We got the US firing missiles at Syria, the Senate facing a historic SCOTUS vote and now a terrorist attack in Sweden and where are the column inches going? Maybe Trump should target the next roundbof cruise missiles at the WordPress programming department.
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If only you knew HTML. You could be firing missiles yourself, with WordPress!
😉
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I was once given a choice between learning HTML or having a two-week long high colonic with ice cold Dr Pepper. Guess I’d be having an easier time had I chosen the HTML class.
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Thanks, Stella. I’ll play with it next week when I’m back in town.
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Untranslatable slang or idiom
— MSNBC Nightly Newscast
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I got your untranslatable slang right over heah.
— An Average Boston Denizen
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It’s National Beer Day!!! If you’re not Homer Simpson, for whom every day is beer day, that is!! For a shortcut to more information, cut to 1933 to learn about the enactment of the Cullen-Harrison Act.
This Day in (Mostly) American History: April 7
1712 Slave revolt in New York kills 6 white men, 21 African Americans executed
1776 U.S. Navy captures first British warship On this day in 1776, Navy Captain John Barry, commander of the American warship Lexington, makes the first American naval capture of a British vessel when he takes command of the British warship HMS Edward off the coast of Virginia. The capture of the Edward and its cargo turned Captain Barry into a national hero and boosted the morale of the Continental forces.
1788 First settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
1798 Mississippi Territory organized
1818 General Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks Florida from Seminole Indians
1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches. While the London apothecary was conducting an experiment in his laboratory, he stirred a mixture antimony sulfide, potassium chlorate, gum, and starch with a wooden stick, and subsequently scraped the stick on the stone floor of the lab to remove a glob of the solution that had dried on the end of it. When the stick burst into flames, Walker realized he had created something of interest, and made several of the sticks, which he demonstrated for the amusement of friends and colleagues. For a fascinating tour through the history of matches, see museumofeverydaylife.org: http://tinyurl.com/k9mdua7
1830 Mormon Church established
1862 Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, TN
1863 [Civil War] First Battle of Charleston SC, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter The First Battle of Charleston Harbor was an engagement near Charleston, South Carolina that took place April 7, 1863, during the American Civil War. The striking force was a fleet of nine ironclad warships of the Union Navy, including seven monitors that were improved versions of the original USS Monitor. A Union Army contingent associated with the attack took no active part in the battle. The ships, under command of Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, attacked the Confederate defenses near the entrance to Charleston Harbor. Navy Department officials in Washington hoped for a stunning success that would validate a new form of warfare, with armored warships mounting heavy guns reducing traditional forts. Instead, it was a dismal failure for the Union. Wiki: http://tinyurl.com/ll2ya5j
1891 Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
1922 Warren G. Harding’s Interior Secretary, Albert B. Fall, leases the Teapot Dome oil reserves (Wyoming) to Harry Sinclair, at a low price with no open bidding, setting in motion what comes to be known over the next two years as the Teapot Dome scandals. The Teapot Dome scandal was the largest US federal government scandal until Watergate. Wiki: http://tinyurl.com/puuujn5
1923 First brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
1923 Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes an official communist party
1927 Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington, D.C. to NYC
1933 First 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal & public service
1933 ‘National Beer Day” Cullen-Harrison act comes into effect legalizing sale of low alcohol beer. celebrated in the United States every year on April 7, marking the day that the Cullen–Harrison Act was enacted after having been signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 22, 1933. Upon signing the legislation, Roosevelt made his famous remark, “I think this would be a good time for a beer.” The law went into effect on April 7 of that year, allowing people to buy, sell and drink beer containing up to 3.2% alcohol by weight (or 4.05% by volume) in states that had enacted their own law allowing such sales. People across the country responded by gathering outside breweries, some beginning the night before. On that first day, 1.5 million barrels of beer were consumed, inspiring the future holiday. Wiki: http://tinyurl.com/mgryhvs
1940 First black to appear on US stamp (Booker T. Washington)
1944 General Montgomery speaks to generals about invasion plan
1948 World Health Organization formed by the United Nations
1949 “South Pacific” opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1,928 performances
1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1953 First west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
1954 [Vietnam Related] Eisenhower’s Domino Theory Speech. President Dwight D. Eisenhower coins one of the most famous Cold War phrases when he suggests the fall of French Indochina to the communists could create a “domino” effect in Southeast Asia. The so-called “domino theory” dominated U.S. thinking about Vietnam for the next decade. By early 1954, it was clear to many U.S. policymakers that the French were failing in their attempt to re-establish colonial control in Indochina (Vietnam), which they lost during World War II when the Japanese took control of the area. The Vietnamese nationalists, led by the communist Ho Chi Minh, were on the verge of winning a stunning victory against French forces at the battle of Dien Bien Phu. In just a few weeks, representatives from the world’s powers were scheduled to meet in Geneva to discuss a political settlement of the Vietnamese conflict. U.S. officials were concerned that a victory by Ho’s forces and/or an agreement in Geneva might leave a communist regime in control of all or part of Vietnam. In an attempt to rally congressional and public support for increased U.S. aid to the French, President Eisenhower gave his historic press conference on April 7, 1954. history.com: http://tinyurl.com/6xagkb3
1957 Last of NY’s electric trolleys completes its final run
1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
1959 Radar first bounced off Sun, Stanford California
1961 JFK lobbies Congress to help save historic sites in Egypt On this day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy sends a letter to Congress in which he recommends the U.S. participate in an international campaign to preserve ancient temples and historic monuments in the Nile Valley of Egypt. The campaign, initiated by UNESCO, was designed to save sites threatened by the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
1964 IBM announces the System/360 allowing machines across a product line to work with each other. It marked a turning point in the emerging field of information science and the understanding of complex systems. After the S/360, we no longer talked about automating particular tasks with “computers.” Now, we talked about managing complex processes through “computer systems.” IBM: http://tinyurl.com/m567adg
1963 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey released
1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
1969 The Internet’s symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1. Authored by Steven Crocker from UCLA, RFC 1 is a document describing Host to Host Software functionality for ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) administered by the Department of Defense. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1
1970 42nd Academy Awards: “Midnight Cowboy”, John Wayne & Maggie Smith win
1971 US President Richard Nixon orders Lt. Calley (Mi Lai) free
1972 [Vietnam] U.S. forces respond to North Vietnamese offensive. The Nguyen Hue Offensive (later known as the “Easter Offensive”) was a massive invasion by North Vietnamese forces designed to strike the blow that would win the war for the communists. The attacking force included 14 infantry divisions and 26 separate regiments, with more than 120,000 troops and approximately 1,200 tanks and other armored vehicles. Nixon had ordered the Air Force and Navy to provide all available air support to help the South Vietnamese stabilize the situation. In response, U.S. planes flew 225 missions by April 9, hitting North Vietnamese troop concentrations and missile emplacements above and below the Demilitarized Zone. Two U.S. planes were shot down over North Vietnam by missiles, a new element in North Vietnamese air defenses. Ultimately, the South Vietnamese forces prevailed against the invaders, but only after six months of desperate fighting that raged across South Vietnam. U.S. airpower proved to be the difference between victory and defeat for the South Vietnamese.
1978 Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1983 Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
1983 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson first STS spacewalk
1985 First live telecast of Easter Parade
1988 Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
1990 Farm Aid IV concert
1990 John Poindexter (National Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
1990 Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
1994 Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
1994 Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazis killing Jews) for first time
2001 Mars Odyssey is launched
2003 U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein’s regime falls two days later.
2013 15 people, including 9 children, are killed by an air strike on Aleppo by the Syrian Air Force
2016 Longest-ever captured python found on Penang in Malaysia (26ft/8m)
Stella has suggested Tara Ross’ website for more detailed American History. Ms. Ross is an author and a constitutionalist who publishes, on her website, “This day in American History”. She writes quite well and I’ve also become a fan. While, because of time issues, I cannot incorporate Ms. Ross’ writings here, I do suggest subscribing to her web newsletter for historical information in depth in your morning email. The signup for her newsletter, and her daily post can be found at at http://www.taraross.com/
Text in this post may reproduce fully or in part certain websites, primarily history.com, wikipedia.com and onthisday.com, and is used here under fair use and for educational purposes.
I’ll be out of town for the next couple days – going to visit my niece and help her with her new house. I may not get back home until late Sunday, yet to be decided. Y’all have a great weekend – I’ll catch up on your raucous laughter when I get back!! I’d say don’t have too much fun while I’m gone but… have a blast!
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1830: Mormon Church founded and green jello elevated to cultural icon status. In relation to National Beer Day post, Utah was the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment and end Prohibition.
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And that, dear friends, is why I have so many cigarettes.
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Wooly, Wooly, Wooly…….
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It’s true, though. If I’ve got two left, I’ll give whoever bums a smoke one.
One left? I might share it, depending on the person. Otherwise pass it and say “you wanna finish this? I have to go back to work now”.
When you’re a smoker, you meet a lot of poorer smokers. Somehow.
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 (Tom Collins)
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 (Black & Tan)
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 (Boilermaker)
Mornin’ Czarina! 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 (Irish Car Bomb)
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 (Godfather)
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 (Mortlach)
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 (Roy Rogers)
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂 (Classic Daiquiri)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Gin & Tonic)
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 (Blackberry wine)
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 (Backdraft)
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 🙂 (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 (Stinger)
Mornin’ Les! 🙂 (Rusty Nail)
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 (Jack Daniels)
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 (Whiskey Smash)
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 (B52)
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 (Rum & Coke)
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 (Night Train Express)
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) 🙂 (Albanian Raki Moskat)
Mornin’ Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂 (Hot Buttered Rum)
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂 (RumChata)
Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Smoking Bishop)
Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 (Red Russian)
Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
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!
Pastries for coffee!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Nye!!!!!! Morning Everyone!!!!!! An inch of snow on the ground!!!!! I’ll refill my coffee cup, and slice of bread, with a couple of patties….thank you, thank you….
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yay bacon! Morning Nyet!
My fellow Americans – Stay Deplorable! 😀
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You’re making me want biscuits and gravy again. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 😀
It’s so cold here I am going to have to go change from shorts to long pants and maybe put on a long sleeved shirt. It’s only going to get up to 70 today.
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Good morning Aus! Stay warm 🙂 !
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My mother would say, “If you’re cold, then put on some clothes.” LOL
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Sounds like me, when my DD wanted to turn up the thermostat.
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My sister kept her heat turned very low, the kids always wore bulky sweaters, socks and slippers. They had a mini hamster and found it not moving one day in its cage. Their dad took it out and it seemed stiff so he cupped it in his hands and told the girls it was dead and they could say good bye to him. The girls were crying holding it and hugging it when it woke up and started moving.
It turns out if it gets too cold hamsters go into a type of hibernation.
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That’s a funny story!
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I know we always crack up. My niece now lives in NC and she offers to give my sister $50.00 when she visits if she can turn the heat up.
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I used to always run hot. We owned a store near my grammar school and my my would pay kids a quarter to tell her whether or not I kept my coat on. She would then say to me “You better wear your coat and keep it on.” So I would put it on as I walked out the door in the morning and have it off before I was down the front stairs.
I still rarely wear a winter coat unless it is really really cold.
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My son always ran hot. When I brought him home from the hospital, my mother kept covering him up. It was S.Cal. at the end of May, in other words SUMMER. I uncovered him because his little feet were sweating. I would put him in his carseat in the car and by the time we got where we were going, he would be soaking wet. I tried to always check his arm when I told him to put a coat on because he rarely needed one and alway felt very warm. I would have him take his coat with him just in case he needed it, but I didn’t make him wear it.
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My daughter in Chicago rarely wears a winter coat. My other daughter there wears a winter coat and keeps little warmers in her boots.
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Afternoon Nyet! Thanks for breakfast!
Afternoon all!
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Mornin’ y’all!
https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/850294566125174785
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!!! Toured the theater and house across the street…….. and I would not recommend visiting the place……
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Mornin’ Colonel Sir!
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Snow changing to light rain showers…….
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We have sunshine and it supposed to be 75° on Sunday !! Woo hoo!!
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I loved visiting it. I did have a physical reaction to it, though. It did kinda give me the willies.
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Mornin’ Weed!
Isn’t it interesting that a Republican was murdered by one of the most famous actors of the time? Some things just don’t change, and the famous actors still hate Republicans.
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Mornin’ Wooly!
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Afternoon WeeWeed!
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Hiya S&S!
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Detroit Tigers home opener is today. Too cold for me! It’s 35 degrees right now, high of 50, ovecast. Tomorrow and Sunday will be warm, with sun.
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Has anybody heard of ‘LIFI’? Just saw a blurb about it on OAN (One America Network).
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/LiFi
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Liability, clear line of site when transmitting……give Nye another year to work on this…..
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It would be quick.. but then it is restricted to line of sight… which is good for security, but not so good around the house.
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So this is for Col (R) Ken and/or Czar. Could I get your feedback on the airstrike Syria?
More importantly, can I get your feedback on the reaction of the many people whining about how Trump was somehow influenced by NeoCon War Mongers to do what he did? (What can I say, there’s an interesting group Next Door these days.) This looks like a very surgical strike to me, so I don’t know what they are complaining about
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I agree Rhea. Did you see this?
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I had not seen this yet, but I think Steyn’s analysis is brilliant. O did strip words of meaning, and I’d rather have someone who is honest even if they are blunt then some fool who uses pretty words and strips them of their meaning.
One of the things I could not get over this morning on Twitter was someone saying that if their government was gassing them, they would be praying for anyone to come to their aid. That stuck with me.
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I’m also trying to remember but isn’t Syria a country that O saw become destabilized during his tenure and ignored when he wasn’t busy aiding the wrong side?
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https://twitter.com/weknowwhatsbest/status/850181283229483008
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LOL. WeeWeed, Trump should have made you a media manager for his team.
I imagine you would give the MSM fits.
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😀
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OK, tried to post this over an hour sgo, it’s either in spam or lost in space. Can’t wait as I gotta go to Biloxi so, Stella, if it’s in spam just delete it.
Except for the expense of the missiles I see this as a case of high political drama.Obama laid down the Line in the Sand and Trump had no choice to enfirce it or be seen as weak as Obama. Look how many kids and other noncombatants have been slaughtered by Assad and Russia there and we’ve averted our eyes.
I believe Assad did this without informing the Russians or getting their approval, they’d never have agreed. I also think part of Assad’s motive was to push the Russians to get a sign of their support for him as he may be getting wary of their motives. To do something like this would push the Rusdian to do domething or get off his pot while testing how serious the US really was in overthrowing him – Assad may see Trump and Putin as more buddy-buddy than Obama-Putin were.
Look at the strike itself. Remember that Russia’s had a boots-on-ground presence there for decades, especially st Latakia where it has intel, naval and air force facilities. It has military and civilian aircraft flying and personnel on bases all over Syria engaged in military and petro chemical work. There was no doubt in my mind that the US warned Russia before the attack, none at all. Question is, did Russia warn Syria?
The base chosen to be attacked was a Syrian base, the same one the Syrians launched the attack from. I don’t believe Assad would order a chem weapons attack from a base where there were a Russian presence in case it were inferred the Russians approved so Trump gets to show US resolve by symbolically attacking said base.
Russia gets a warning so that it could get all of its personnel and equipment out of the way and while Syria gets the chance to move some of its stuff this is a symbolic strike, infrastructure was hit and, I’m betting, little vital equipment.
I’m betting no chem weapon storage sites were hit, that would be too dangerous, Nothing the Russians had was hit, thereby avoiding a major problem, and both the US and Russia get to send a message to Assad.
Remember I’d posted a few months back on how I was seeing, in the background of a Syrian port picture, what looked like Russia S-300/400 antiaircraft systems being offloaded? I have no doubt that their acquisition radars would have picked up US cruise missiles incoming, something the Russian saw as a major threat since Reagan deployed them to Britain, and their AA systems have been centered on them for decades. Better the Russians had a heads-up rather than a ‘surprise!’. Their systems probably would have intercepted some incoming but lo, all got thru.
Sidebar: by notifying the Russians the US avoided having to use/giveaway countermeasures the missiles would have had to use to avoid active intercept measures if we had to avoid Russian AA for real. Russia gets to get some live readings on their systems for our cruie missiles so it isn’t a total loss for them…they had a half hour to get radar and sigint readings off of them from launch to impact.
Trump has snotty Chinese top-level team at his personal palace, Chinese no doubt thinking they are dliving the tlain (G-d gonna get mecfor that) and, in the middle of dinner, Trump has the Navy blow the crap out of a Syrian target. With China’s bitch NK playing a ‘Syrian’ game can the message be lost?
Russia standing off to Trump makes me think a deals been struck. Go back a few years to my posts next door when Syria was starting to implode. I posted how Russia has established a huge petrochemical business centered on Syria and were not going to abandon it regardless of what it took. Assad is a useful idiot and, as long as he keeps his puppet role, will reign. His job is to keep Russia’s billions and billions of dollars petro business at home in Syria. I believe the US has come to accept Russia as the puppet ruler and stabilizing force in Syria and Trump’s sttack was perfect political theater: Trump gets to look presidential, our foreign policy gets a boost, Assad gets a message from a combined US-Russian operation, China gets a nudge from the US and Russia and Russia gets assured its Mideast prtro empire’s hub is assured.
Note that a single Russian Black Sea frigate is sailing through tha NATO controlled Bosphorus to the vacinity where the two US ships that launched the missiles are located. More political theater – Russia gets to exert some political theater and save some face by sending a ship out. Probably agreed on too as if the US or NATO had felt any threat they’d have symbolically escorted the ship through. To me this also shows Assasd that Russia is ready to defend its Syrian interests but not necessarily Assad. One of the US ships has gone to rearm telling Assad that it’s ready to fire again if the need be while Russia has one frigate there…what’s that tell ta?
Remember October of last year when Russia was ratcheting up its efforts against anti-Assad forces and it moved a Black Sea flotilla offshore of Syria? Russia was showing NATO hiw serious it was as well as supporting its forces ashore. Now with the US floating offshore and firing missiles at Russian puppet territory they send one frigate? If I were Assad I’d be going to therapy to change my self-destructive lifestyle.
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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/04/russian-warship-enters-eastern-mediterranean-heads-toward-2-u-s-navy-destroyers/
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“Admiral Grigorvich was in motion before this flap started. He resupplied and fluffed and buffed at Novorossisk after spending March in the Med and was on his way back. In fact he should be in the Med by now, he was due to pass out of the straights at roughly 16:00.”
Fox is pushing this that the ship is heading for the US ships. It’s station is off the Syrian coast.
The port of Tartus is a Russian base. Blue water is International. Anyone can use it.
(This may be a non-issue that Fox News is pushing for the McCain types.)
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Political and face-saving. Russia would not have not sent a sword to a gunfight if it were serious and Russia has a great deal of systems already in Syria that could deal with the US ships and I believe they’d have used them if they didn’t want to seriously avoid a confrontation that may go sideways.
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I’m glad we have folks like you and Col. Ken here that understand the cause/effect of these maneuvers. Thank you, czar.
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Czar, is in his element……intelligence and summary of action, reaction, counteraction. Like a chest board, a very deadly chess board. Great Summary Czar!!! Another tell, about this is this; we did inform the Russians, probably told them to sit this one out or follow the script. If we thought, or even suspected the Russians to come unglued, every known aircraft in region, or NATO (maybe), would have been up, last night and armed for Bear. How many carriers are on station? Subs? Or Carrier Battle Groups………one, maybe two….
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I think the Russians are upset with Assad too as I’m betting when Russia promised some time back that they’d make sure all of Assad’s chem weapons were destroyed…Assad held some back. If those aid workers get samples of what hit the civilians and it turns out they have Russian chemical fingerprints, bad day in Damascus. This embarrasses Russia as the paper thin cover that Syrua developed its own chem weapons independently will ve bliwn, as will their heartfelt promise they’d totally clean Assad’s pantry. Ohh ohh.
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We really don’t want our fleet sunk. That would be bad.
Also, thank you, Czar, for the knowledge.
As I’ve said, “I come here for the poetry.” I usually only say that in reply to really informative comments. It’s not snark when I say that. Far from it.
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I’m glad that Trump is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a stupid person.
I’m also glad that neither is Vladdy Poo. The Russians love their children, too.
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Melody based on an old Russian nursery rhyme. Just pray.
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Much as I can’t stand Sting’s ideologies, this one song became an underground hit in the USSR. And probably contributed to the lack of a 1980s nuclear war that everyone feared. Because, the Russians love their children, too.
Islam is another question. Do they? Russians didn’t strap bomb belts on infants.
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Russians paid and equipped others to do their dirty work, history’s rife with examples.
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Thank you for the analysis Czar. That makes a lot of sense to me.
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Thanks for your knowledge Czar.
Political theater. That was my guess, political theater right down to mentioning to Xi Jinping “How is the steak, Oh, and by the way I just launched 60 tomahawks at a Syrian airfield. Is there really nothing you can do about North Korea?”
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I’d have cleaned the Mar-a-Lago toilets to gave seen Xi’s face when Trump asked him how he liked the fish and, oh yeah, by the way……..
This is traditional Asian politics at their finest.
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Me too. Can you imagine? ! I’d love to know what they were talking about before “the bomb was dropped” and after 🙂.
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TY… I feel better.
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Something beautiful.
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❤️ this!
Afternoon lovely!!!!
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Afternoon Sand&Sea 🙂
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New Lunch menu at Gitmo
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Disney’s The Lion King had a very long run in the theaters when we were in our late teens-early 20s. We went to the show every Fridy night (not a typo. Boston.) for eight weeks straight. And we sang every song by the last three times, known by heart, loudly, to the consternation and/or amusement of our fellow theater-attendees.
Heh. “She’s gonna EAT ME!!!!”
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NOLA stores have an amazing array of pickled pig parts in bags for sale, stuff usually packaged as bologna in more squeamish areas. Some years ago, on a lark, when Czarina was headed for a meeting I put an assortment of bagged, pickled pig parts into her sonewhat large purse. Imagine her surprise when, during the merting, she reaches into her purse and starts pulling out the surprise ‘build your own pig’ kit! The swelling started to go down about the third day.
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Is that a combat related injury? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Here is the feed for Masters for those who like it.
http://www.cbssports.com/golf/masters/live/
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What a great tribute to the King, Arnold Palmer.
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I am getting notification for an update for adobe air. Should I do it?
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A notification from whom? When in doubt go to the Abode site and see if they have anything posted or even contact them and ask if this is for real.
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Okay, I have done some checking and what I found out is……I know nothing. I do not understand any of what I came across. 😦
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I would suggest going to the Adobe site and seeing what updates they have offered. When in doubt use the ‘contact’ option on their site and ask them if the update is legit.
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I will have to wait until it pops up again to get any information on it. I tried going into my computer to see if I could figure anything out. Nope. I went on Adobe and don’t really know what to look for.
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When in doubt don’t do it. Adobe has some of the most stacked stuff in the world, in the old days Acrobat used to be referred to as ‘incoming’ at our site. I got a dozen or so phony update notifications a week on my Windows based systems, my Apple OS doesn’t need the help as it’s self destructive.
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Yeah, I kinda thought it was best not to do it. But, it comes up every day when I turn the computer on and today, it also came up on another thing.
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As I generally use my Windows system for retirement-related stuff I really don’t need the extra bells and whistles so I can download updates at leisure. Software companies also generally have addresses you can forward malware emails to, they like to know about them. Apple, in contrast, would like you to cobtact them if you actually find their crap functional and useful.
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If one cares to, disable Adobe’s irritating nonsense.
If in windows, click on start-run-msconfig.
Click on Services tag.
Uncheck Adobe Updater Service.
Restart puter.
Manually check Adobe for updates, if you trust them.
Can also disable in registry (preferred), for not recommended for if not confident in editing registry.
Dunno for Apple (personal prejudice).
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Apple was thrust upon me as a karmic penance for complaining about Windows 10.
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I still fondly recall bending my Ipad Mini over a steel rail.
I was happy. I will never use another apple product, unless it’s using a corer and a salt-shaker cap to turn one into a pipe.
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Col: Ken Wooly, wooly, wooly….
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I’m sure the misspelling was a shear accident.
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Or, as we’d say in the military: “he’s a Colonel…change the spelling of your name”.
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I find it a moderately handy communication device and ongoing act of contrition.
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Saved for when I am feeling confident.
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Ausmom, I’m at the point where I don’t install any updates to a program like that unless I know that it is broken.
I have a GeForce graphics card. Games come out every month or so. My GeForce Experience program, which contains files with optimal settings for all the games that came our this month, wants to update every month. Last time I said “Yes” to this, it pretty much broke my computer. Why would I fix something that isn’t broken? Is it a fetish? I never bought any games these last few months, so why would I apply the update?
Is the program working well?
Then don’t update.
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Thx.
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Welcome to the Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch !!!!
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Excellent!
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Awesome news!!!!! 😊👍🏻
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February, 2016, deep state assassinates SCOTUS justice in anticipation of changing SCOTUS’s composition before planned RAT takeover of White House and Congress. November, 2016, will of the people thwart WH and Congressional takeover and pave the way for continuation of Constitutional law on 7 April 2017. Just floating the possibility of a plot for a Tom Clancy-like novel.
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You should write a novel Czar. You could use the pig parts in a purse routine when the Feebies are trying to measure whether or not someone is a Sharia adherent miscreant.
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I can’t even get my iPad to reliably do simple posts, I believe it’s a pig in a poke. Right now I either have a large post in spam or floating lost in cyber space.
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I don’t think that is just a plot for a novel. 😦
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Probably some in DC who think it a good plot for a government.
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He’s DEAD!!! Remember when he would hang out in bars around Crystal City. Talked to everyone…….
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Ahhhhhh yes, Crystal City, fell thru the Metro doors more than one time after visiting the water holes.
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Welcome, indeed. It’s been 14 months we’ve had only 8 Justices.
Longest time we’ve had a vacancy since the 1800s.
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Wolf checking out partially submerged camera. Photograph by Ian McAllister.
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Very cool! 🙂
Wolves are curious too.
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It is a sweet picture 🙂 .
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Lovely, Is that picture around your AO?
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I don’t know where it was taken. I just saw it and thought it was beautiful.
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What a great photo.
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Looks like ours in the lake’s overflow area except ours wait until the water has more mud in it. A lot more. A lot lot more.
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Wonderful 😄
https://twitter.com/ThePatriot143/status/850370214545981440
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Very funny!
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Bar! Beer!!
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Virgin Peach Bellini, please… thank you! 😊
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I like the Stella Artois (we have it at our restaurant), but I think the Chateau de Natural Ice is more piquant, with hints of elderberries, moonflowers, and an artisinal, organic floor-cleaner finish.
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Once in a while, I like VO….on ice, with a lot of water…
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I have reason to celebrate….Stoli’s neat, if you please bartender and keep ’em comin’ :0)
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Yay! Strawberry daiquiri for me please! And keep them coming! Please and thank you! 😀
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Bar? Already? Whoopee!
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Not really, is the funny thing.
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lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen
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Amen
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen. Somewhat later than usual. Difficult evening yesterday.
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Better now.
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😦
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Another excellent commentary about the Syria strike:
http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2017/04/trumps-end-game-on-syria-is-pretty-good.html?spref=tw
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Seldom do I upvote my own comments.
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She’s so cute!
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One day a man walks into a bar and to his amazement, he finds a tiny person playing a tiny piano.
Stunned the man asked the bartender where he got this amazing person. The bartender replied that inside the closet there is a genie that will grant him a single wish.
The man dashed into the the closet and as the bartender said, there was a genie inside.
Without hesitation the man wished for a million bucks, but instead 1 million ducks instantly appeared.
Infuriated the man stormed to the bartender and screamed “I think your genie is hard of hearing, I asked for a million bucks but instead I got a million ducks.”
The bartender shook his head and replied, “You’re telling me… Do you really think I asked for a 12 inch pianist?”
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I busted out my acoustic steel-sting last night, dusted it off, tuned it, and played it for about three hours. Haven’t done that in a couple of years. Better now than I was then. Still hurts on the left hand, so fingering chords is painful. Dishwashers got no skin on their digit-tips.
That’s the interesting thing about instruments, and improv, though. You take a couple of years off, it’s not just like riding a bike… …you’re actually better than the last time you played, because (I assume) of all the music you’ve absorbed in the interim. I need to get a glass slide.
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