General Discussion, Saturday, April 28, 2018

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Stella

The inventor Thomas Alva Edison (in the USA) experimented with thousands of different filaments to find just the right materials to glow well and be long-lasting. In 1879, Edison discovered that a carbon filament in an oxygen-free bulb glowed but did not burn up for 40 hours. Edison eventually produced a bulb that could glow for over 1500 hours.

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91 Responses to General Discussion, Saturday, April 28, 2018

  1. MaryfromMarin says:
    April 28, 2018 at 12:10 am

    Happy Saturday! And now for something completely gross…..(see below)

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  2. MaryfromMarin says:
    April 28, 2018 at 12:11 am

    Disgusting Orwellian mindset:

    Doctor: Starving Alfie Evans to Death “Is Not the Killing of A Child,” It’s Just “Redirecting Care”

    http://www.lifenews.com/2018/04/27/doctor-starving-alfie-evans-to-death-is-not-the-killing-of-a-child-its-just-redirecting-care/#.WuPofcFdYk0.twitter

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    • sandandsea2015 says:
      April 28, 2018 at 8:57 am

      Thank you, Lucille! I hope you have a wonderful day!

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    • Col.(R) Ken says:
      April 28, 2018 at 11:26 am

      My daffodils are just starting to bloom………

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      • stella says:
        April 28, 2018 at 12:01 pm

        Last year on this date my lilac was in full bloom. Not this year! Tulips are getting ready, but not yet either.

        ADD: Just checked the weather forecast. Supposed to be 80 degrees on Tuesday!

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      • stella says:
        April 28, 2018 at 12:05 pm

        See? One year ago exactly.


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        • Valerie Curren says:
          April 28, 2018 at 4:11 pm

          Dear Stella,
          I absolutely Love lilacs & the smell takes me back. We transplanted some bushes from my grandparents’ & great-grandparents’ places in Northern Michigan some years back here to Metro Detroit & that older hearty stock is thriving here now. Usually we get blooms down here in April/early May. Then for Memorial Day (in Gaylord) I cut bountiful bouquets for our time there & to take home with me at weekend’s end. Occasionally we venture up to the Tip of the Mit (& extremely rarely to Mackinac Island) & can encounter their later blooms in the 4th of July time frame. Mackinac Island even has a lilac festival & you can find lilac themed merchandise there & at tourist trap Mackinaw City (a couple of such cute items were transplanted downstate with us too.)

          Last Summer we transplanted a couple white lilac starts that were from my great-grandparents retirement property in the resort community of Arbutus Beach along Otsego Lake in Gaylord, MI. We really wanted to get some dark lilacs from their historical garden but didn’t find any candidates last year. We found a prolific extremely dark purple bush that extends into an alleyway between a home & a business in town & may see about digging up a couple of the newer shoots from that beauty this upcoming holiday weekend.

          I wrote a bit about our transplanting “adventures” & connectivity to family & lilacs here, fyi

          Rooted

          Is your little cutie in the picture about to nibble the flowers or just addicted to that heavenly smell? They are great pics–thanks for sharing! 🙂 I’ve heard that this is the coldest spring on record for some 120+ years…& you’ve got the photographic proof of Spring’s unseasonable shyness!

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    • lovely says:
      April 28, 2018 at 8:12 pm

      Saturday blessings Lucille 🙂 !

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  5. WeeWeed says:
    April 28, 2018 at 7:48 am

    Mornin’ kids!

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  6. nyetneetot says:
    April 28, 2018 at 8:23 am

    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’ czarina33! (aka 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 Covfefe! (aka “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! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
    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’ rheavolans! (aka “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’ Gary! 🙂 |_| (Yuengling)
    Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
    Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
    Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
    Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂 |_| (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂 |_| (Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
    Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂 |_| (Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
    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! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Doughnuts and coffee!

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  7. Menagerie says:
    April 28, 2018 at 8:44 am

    Good morning y’all. You might be Southern and not even know it! We’ve annexed some places and booted others out apparently.

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    • joshua says:
      April 28, 2018 at 10:53 am

      neither have a CLUE about Southern Culture, etc, IMHO

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    • Valerie Curren says:
      April 28, 2018 at 4:45 pm

      I’m not even close to Southern but after some recent aspects of cultural fascism on display I gladly climb the collateral family trees hoping to unearth Southern relations so that the Confederate Flag may be proudly displayed on one of my family history pages. With limited understanding of that complex era of American history & from this comfortable & Northern distance, I can appreciate the gumption of those that told the Feds/Yanks to take a hike & “leave us the H— alone!”

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  8. facebkwallflower says:
    April 28, 2018 at 8:52 am

    What a breath of fresh air not to have here “Q” in every other post here! A few dedicated loyalist to the “Q” are bombing sites’ comment sections and getting to the point of feeling like there is a brainwashing coup going on. Ugh!

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  9. stella says:
    April 28, 2018 at 10:31 am

    Poor little Alfie Evans has died …

    Alfie Evans, UK toddler at center of legal battle, dies

    http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/04/28/alfie-evans-uk-toddler-at-center-legal-battle-dies.html

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  11. stella says:
    April 28, 2018 at 11:43 am

    Well, nyet. What say you?

    After 14 Years, I’ve had it. I’m leaving Seattle

    https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/after-14-years-ive-had-it-im-leaving-seattle/

    I KNEW Seattle was no longer a place for me when I met with Debora Juarez — the District 5 City Council member I had voted for.

    Last September, at what I thought was going to be a friendly one-on-one meeting between an elected official and her constituent, I expressed some concerns that were on my mind. I fretted over the deterioration of a city with which I had fallen in love — a city that, despite my 21 trips to Europe, I still believe to be the most beautiful in the world.

    I told my council member that Northgate, my home, had seen a noticeable increase in litter and graffiti. To my dismay, she seemed to suggest these issues were someone else’s job, not hers. So, I moved on to a bigger issue: homelessness.

    When I first moved to Seattle 14 years ago, to attend the University of Washington, homelessness essentially didn’t exist at Northgate. Though I have never been a victim of or witness to a crime, some of my neighbors have been, and they believe homeless camps are the reason. Additionally, the conditions in such camps are often atrocious — not only are the homeless more likely to be victims of violent crime, they are susceptible to infectious disease, such as the hepatitis A outbreak in San Diego that sickened nearly 500 people and has killed 20.

    I believe strongly that it is not compassionate to leave people who are unable or unwilling to care for themselves to suffer and die on the street. Because many (but certainly not all) homeless people struggle with mental illness or drug addiction, I suggested that Seattle find a way to make it easier to provide treatment to these troubled souls — involuntarily, if need be. It could literally save their lives.

    Juarez exclaimed, “What is this? Nazi Germany?”

    Appalled — in part because my grandparents survived Nazi Germany — I got up and walked out.

    As a professional science writer, I’ve certainly grown accustomed to the crass insults that have become routine in our toxic political environment. I just didn’t expect it from a person for whom I voted. But perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised.

    Slowly but surely, Seattle has become an angry place. Councilmember Kshama Sawant called a police shooting a “brutal murder.” She also tweeted that it was “terrible” for a feminist organization to wish that Barbara Bush, on her death, rest in peace. As a congressional candidate, Pramila Jayapal supporters implied that her respectable opponent, Brady Walkinshaw, was a misogynist and racist. And former Mayor Ed Murray, whose pattern of alleged sexual behavior finally caught up with him, remained defiant until the bitter end.

    For a city that prides itself on being “anti-Trump,” it is difficult to see how exactly we’re supposed to possess the moral high ground over “The Other Washington.”

    …

    But stubborn facts and a hurting middle class don’t seem to faze the City Council, which seems far more concerned about issues over which it has zero control — such as climate change and foreign policy — than it does about issues over which it has at least a modicum of control, such as the cost of living, homelessness, crime, traffic and potholes. For our City Council, virtue signaling is more important than governing.

    So, my wife and I are heading to the Eastside. We really would prefer to stay in Seattle. But if safe streets, clean sidewalks, an affordable place to live and polite discourse is asking too much, we’ll gladly seek refuge in a city where quality of life and civility still matter.

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    • Lucille says:
      April 28, 2018 at 12:13 pm

      Yet he’ll still vote Democrat. Please do NOT come to Idaho.

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    • joshua says:
      April 28, 2018 at 12:59 pm

      I watched in the 1990s as Gay and Lesbians left San Francisco to move to Seattle, and those in Texas also moved to join the tech companies of software providers that started up there…with liberal CEOs and liberal workplace ideals…..so Seattle is now a city of immigrants…just not all illegal, but all social misfits and anti-American SJW drumbeaters.

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  12. stella says:
    April 28, 2018 at 12:24 pm

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  14. joshua says:
    April 28, 2018 at 12:54 pm

    Friday, substitute teaching high school…was faced with students with mouths taped shut carrying white boards and markers for communication and hand outs explaining their “protest movement”…most of whom were merely the usual crowd of Looky Me rowdy types seeking attention. Turns out to be

    April 27, is the National Day of Silence for students and teachers alike across the United States. The day has been held every April since 1996 and is an effort to spread awareness about the harassment and bullying of LGBTQ students and symbolically represent how they are silenced. Students and teachers who choose to participate take a day-long vow of silence in solidarity with the Lake Forest High School’s LGBTQ community.

    Most teachers wished that ALL students would just take over their mouths, and shut down their cell phones if they were serious, and then the quiet would allow some folks to actually learn something while in school.

    MAGA….get rid of liberal attackers of the publicly funded school systems and get a real education system in place where everyone PAYS for the right to learn

    No more free day care hang out place with free food.

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  15. Lucille says:
    April 28, 2018 at 1:08 pm

    Just because I like it…a blast from the past….

    The Beatles – We Can Work it Out

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  16. Lucille says:
    April 28, 2018 at 3:27 pm

    This thread will surprise you and give you hope…

    Thread by @ThomasWictor: “(1) I’m almost certain that the US, China, and Saudi Arabia carried out commando operations in North Korea to free Kim Jong-un from the ruling elite….

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/990110115092094976.html

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  17. Lucille says:
    April 28, 2018 at 6:47 pm

    OK, just as a time-waster this afternoon, I’ve been looking at fashion. I wanted to find a relatively inexpensive champagne-color silk organza calf-length suit for a bride’s mother to wear to the wedding. I’m finding nothing, of course.

    But I did run across many hilarious outfits that somehow got wedged into the category (is the website trying to confuse or cajole me into a purchase?). Now, of course, everyone has different taste when it comes to clothing, but…

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  18. joshua says:
    April 28, 2018 at 7:21 pm

    clearly women DO NOT dress to impress MEN….they dress to impress other women.

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  19. Lucille says:
    April 28, 2018 at 7:57 pm

    And the last two offerings…LOL!

    This is a Carolina Herrera…
    https://images.prod.meredith.com/product/d3142ec43cbb780daba55edc7b68b430/1521869777177/l/carolina-herrera-gathered-gingham-silk-satin-jacquard-midi-skirt-mint

    $14.90…oh, no, excuse me…decimal in the wrong place…$1,490.00…LOL!…for a fabric swatch folded around and looking just like it’s off the bolt at Woolworth’s. I hope no Herrera fans are insulted at this observation.

    And…
    Individual items=OK. But together, you gotta laugh…Gucci skirt and Walmart?….

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  20. auscitizenmom says:
    April 28, 2018 at 9:01 pm

    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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