This week’s theme is U.S. vacation destinations, western states division.
Today’s state is South Dakota. The two primary spots to visit are the Badlands and Mount Rushmore, though not the only ones! This year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is August 3-12, so there’s time yet to plan a visit!
Heavy Metal Sue
Other SD roadside attractions are Wall Drug and the World’s Only Corn Palace. Don’t miss them!
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Biblical illiteracy appears to be spreading in the Senate (see also Cory Booker):
Pro-Abortion Sen. Elizabeth Warren Quotes Bible to Slam Brett Kavanaugh: “We’re on the Moral Side”
http://www.lifenews.com/2018/07/24/pro-abortion-sen-elizabeth-warren-quotes-bible-to-slam-brett-kavanaugh-were-on-the-moral-side/
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Like most folks, the Bible is only useful to her when she thinks it says what she wants to hear.
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As you might imagine from my unrepentant Catholicism, I have a real problem with those who believe the Bible can be interpreted any damned way you please. And I know I am not alone in that belief, excluding politicians of course. I doubt seriously you can find a politician who believes the inspired Word of God is not fungible.
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My mother was born in Nisland, South Dakota. Failing to find any photos of the town, I opted for a short description…”Nisland is located 16 miles east of Belle Fourche with a population of about 204. The community is in the Mountain Standard time zone. There is a fire and rescue department with several active members.”
“History: The community was named for Nis Sorensen. On October 29, 1910, the citizens voted to incorporate their town. The vote was thirty-seven for incorporation with no votes against it. Nisland blossomed into a busy community. Nisland was the hub of the only irrigated county in South Dakota at the time.”
My grandfather worked for Mr. Sorenson and Mom’s family lived in one of the ranch’s residences where in 1915 she came into the world. She often spoke of her early remembrances playing on the ranch with her sister plus going to the “big town” of Belle Fourche (she pronounced it Belle Foosh).
Belle Fourche Reservoir, photo by Jon Larsen.
Redwater River, just south of Belle Fourche. Photo by Jon Larsen.
http://www.blackhillstravelblog.com/travel-blog/2016-10-06/taste-fall-flavors-belle-fourche
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It’s a beautiful place! Morning Lucille!
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Good morning, sand!
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When I lived inn Utah some of the older folks in the town used to talk about going into Salt Lake on a horse or horse drawn wagon. In many casses it would take the better part of a day to get in and get back. They might stay over or, if it were safe and necessary, come back in the dark. There was a man who could remember coming into the area through the pass from Evanston, Wyoming on a coal burning train. He can also remeber the men and some of the women waliking/riding arounf armed as the last major indian war was going on in Utah.
Nows the city’s all full of newbies, some 5 times more than when we lived there in the early 70s. The big farms and ranches around town are now all housing, mostly. The house across the street from my inlaws was one of the last ‘farms’ that the town then hadn’t absorbed. Two very elderly lasdies, Nellie and Ada, lived on it. It was down to about a acre but they held on and wouldn’t sell as it held their equally elderly fruit trees and garden. Despite their ages they’d be up in those trees picking fruit and in that garden harvesting veggies, canning an preserving and baking pies for their neighbors. Each halloween they bake goodies, big uns, for the kids and parents who’d eagerly stop by – and something hot to drink too.
All gone now, both of threm died close in time, the land was sold, trees chopped down and there are four houses on the land now. Much more modern people concerned with much more modern things.
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My father and grandfather were born on a farm in Kansas. As a child and a young woman, I thought Kansas quite plain, and lacking. When I was in my forties we started going back for the family named Fall Walk, the walk from the old farmhouse to the one room school house.
First, it was one heck of a walk. We crossed the creek, which had very steep banks, at least three times to get there. Took us two or three arduous hours. But my uncles said that was because they were sight seeing a little, and also because after about 70 years they had forgotten the most direct route they took as kids. But it was about an hour trip as children.
Anyhow, those walks across the Kansas plains taught me to look a little deeper. I was able to see beauty I have missed before.
Still, I must live in the shadow of my Smoky Mountains. Without sight of the mountains all around, and the many river valleys to cut through them, I can’t settle.
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Amen to that! Have a beautiful day, Lucille!
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Yes, AMEN! Thanks, sand!
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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)
(Mudslide)
(RumChata)
(Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
(Smoking Bishop)
(Red Russian)
(Yuengling)
(Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
(Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
(Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
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’ czarina33! (aka 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 Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
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”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
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’ rheavolans! (aka “Rhea Salacia Volans”) 🙂
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂
Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂
Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂
Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂
Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
Mornin’ Gary! 🙂
Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂
Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂
Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂
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!
Blueberry Scones
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Mornin’!
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Morning Michelle!
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Good morning!
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Morning Nyet!!!! That top pic is breakfast perfection! Thank you. 👍🏻
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Bacon, eggs, and toast for me. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Good morning, Nyet! I’ll take a bite of everything today…plus my Peach Schnapps. Hopefully nothing will bite back.
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Mornin’ kids! Isn’t that a pretty porch area?
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Morning WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed! Beautiful!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Oh yeah, that’s a little slice of envy right there..:0) Morning Wee.
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Mornin’ ‘Maus!
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OK, you got me, where’s the bitter, biting satire?
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https://twitter.com/DepressedDarth/status/1023874617822404608
Mornin’ Z’s!
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Morning, WeeWeed! Wonder if Charlie tends the pretty garden himself. He’s only 81.
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Afternoon Lucy! I doubt it – he tours constantly…
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I saw this on my newsfeed and several Oklahoma teachers were commenting on it that it was a good thing because school nurses and teachers have to buy them out of their pocket to make available to girls who are caught off guard, but those of us who are cruel would obviously rather a girl have to bleed all over herself.
I commented, “No, for many years certain teachers had a drawer for them. However, those teachers weren’t whine bags who cried about buying them and wanted the taxpayers to pay for them, they did it out of kindness. Hell, you’d think with your raise you could afford to buy a bag of pads out of the goodness of your heart or at least add it to your long list of non-essential items to the school lists for the parents to buy. Obviously, with the number of teachers that went on strike and how many are either liking or commenting favorably on this post, the majority of teachers are socialists who want to take us farther down the socialist rabbit hole. You’d think educators would educate themselves on socialism, but that’s probably too much to expect since our kids graduate without knowing basic math or how to read.”
https://www.khou.com/article/news/nation-now/menstrual-equality-house-passes-measure-allowing-women-to-buy-tampons-pads-with-health-spending-accounts/465-cbd3f7ff-88dc-44c9-b636-945b6f6469a6
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Part of a group of teachers who want statues raised in their personal honor, they need publicaccolades. I can remember teachers who, in Florida and Oklahoma, bought thi gs like sc hoolsupplies and lunches/breakfasts for students from the very low income families. I can remember a few even buying shoes.
Yes tey deserve credit but I find that kind of self-promotion off-putting. If you don’t find the warm-fuzzy feeling you get from doin g it and need public stroking tere’s something missing in your upbringing.
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Teachers today supply very little for kids but act like they spend their entire salary on kids.
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Tell me about it. I’m going to buy my GGS’s school supplies today – a yearly ritual – and much of it’s for the class’s ‘communal’ supply locker.
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Well they have to teach socialism when they’re young enough to brainwash.
I learned during the bs here that teachers have an online page to donate them money and other things they think they need. It makes a person wonder, between all the government steals from us to give to them combined with how much stuff teachers require parents to buy plus all these donations and don’t forget there are groups all over that have backpack drives, just how the heck could a teacher ever need to buy any supplies. Around here it’s not just back to school either when all of it is required they also send home another list for Christmas break for them to bring back to school in January. Oh, I almost forgot the teachers who go stand on the street corners with signs begging for money for their classroom. They had one teacher on the news who they followed one day, she brought in over $6000 in 3 hours.
There’s a new group on FB that is tracking teachers’ vacation pics, to be living in poverty like they claim they sure do take some nice vacations. I doubt many of those kids they claimed to be fighting for are on cruises or sitting on the beaches in Hawaii or visiting Paris and Rome.
I don’t really condone what the group is doing, but teachers have only themselves to blame for not only how they acted and the lies they told, but for being stupid enough to post their vacation pics publicly on FB.
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In the 80s the New Orleans school system was even more of a joke than it is now. Our kids had to bring tissues, toilet paper, some cleaning supplies – all stuff that you’d expect to be there.
We had aluminum can drives to buy window ACs for the classrooms and parents painting school classrooms and other rooms that hadn’t been done for decades. Then there were the broken bathrooms, some being out for a whole year or more.
There was plenty of money and some were arrested for fraud/theft but along came Katrina and all was washed away/forgiven.
The cleaning supplies, handwipes, packls of paper, pencils – just about all of what we send – end up in the communal closet. My GGS isn’t learning to see it as ‘from those that can to those that need’ but more from those who have to to those whose caregivers make bad choices. Later he’ll learn the ‘from those who trade their lives for money to those who feed off of them’.
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I always look at those lists and wonder how much stuff is for the teacher’s house. 6 boxes of Kleenex(well they usually are specific and want Puffs with lotion, I’d be an a$$ and buy the generic brand), 8 rolls of paper towels(Bounty only please and no Bounty basic, again I’d be an a$$), Windex, Lysol or Clorox Wipes, ziploc bags, aluminum foil, wax paper, staples, rolls of scotch tape for tape dispensers, dry erase markers. Why exactly are elementary kids needing all of this stuff? Last year I saw a bunch of parents posting pics of the lists along with pics of their sales receipt, one lady last year spent almost $200 just on supplies, not including back pack.
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When I worked at Staples one mother brought in the usual extensive list which also had a cartridge for a laser printer. Can’t remember how much it was now, but I think in the 80-90 buck range, which is cheap, some of them are over 150.
She was very distraught at how much it was adding up to, you know everyone does not have that kind of money. I told her not to buy it and just not to mention it. I am betting the school and teacher wouldn’t say anything.
If I had it to do over, I would not have bought half of the stuff those teachers demanded.
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I wouldn’t buy all this crap they ask for now. I never minded the few boxes of kleenex, but the demands they make now I wouldn’t even buy them. I’d send my kid to school with a travel size package that they could carry in their pocket. If they were going to do a project that required any of the other stuff I’d ask when they were doing it and would send them with just enough to do the project.
Parents today are a bunch of wusses imho, they wouldn’t have made demands on me like they do with demanding certain brands. I’d also tell them I wasn’t sending my kid to school to wash windows and mirrors. lol
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Yup…I am waiting as at some point I have to buy him a calculator, and not just any calculator, a specified scientific calculator.
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My youngest they wanted me to buy a scientific calculator, even back then the one they wanted me to buy was $150. I found a different brand for a 1/4 of that, then you know how many times they used it? Twice. After saying they would end up failing the class if they didn’t have one, because 75% of the work had to be done on it.
Then they sent home a note the last 9 weeks asking us to donate them. I didn’t do that either.
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Cojones, no?
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These schools and teachers would hate me as a parent. Heck, they hate me as a taxpayer showing up for their school board meetings.
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I don’t get Christmas cards from the district administration or the principals either but hey, I heard that “I’m a taxpayer and you work forb me” for years so now it’s time I return a few.
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They get a little bent out of shape when you show them your property tax statement and tell them as long as you keep taking that, I have a dog in the fight.
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They tend to think your interests and responsi bilitis in the taxing process end when you fork them over.
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Yep, they want more and more money, but they don’t want anyone questioning or criticizing them.
The two largest school districts in the state have decided they are creating a new holiday, election holiday so it will be easier for their teachers to vote. You know they’re so much more special than the rest of us working stiffs who vote around our schedules. I guess they’re also too busy the Saturday before when they can go to their local county courthouse and vote early.
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So, do your teachers work until 8:00 at night when the polls are closed? I thought they got off about 3:00 in the afternoon. Do they have better things to do after school? 🙄
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They’re special, they need all day to vote. It’s a bunch of bs and if we had government officials who did their job this crap wouldn’t be allowed.
Let’s interrupt kids and parents’ schedule though to get out of school on a Tuesday.
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I ran into a teacher from the ‘sister’ school my GGS will be attending – she was shopping for schppl supplies in Walmart for her kids.
I asked her who made up these lists and she said administrators and above with zero input from the teachers. She said i her class the hardly used half of what the list says the students ‘need’.
Once again I’m asked to buy a ‘student dictionary’, sdame as I have been for the last 3 years. The dictionary is hardly, if ever, used and disappears by year’s end. If you can imagine all 30 or so kids in a class all buying dictionaries there’s a helluva pile of dictionaries somewhere. Gonna make some calls tomorrow.
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It’s not that way around here, for elementary each grade has two homerooms and the two teachers for each grade make up their list.
Once they get into upper elementary and go room to room, all of the teachers add what they want for their class.
A teacher that retired this year because she was so sick of the liberal bs and corruption that goes on in our schools told me at the end of the 1st semester anything left in the closets the teachers are free to do whatever with, take home, give away or throw away. Usually what they don’t want they just give to the school and it goes into their stash. They want empty rooms to thoroughly clean during break. She said one teacher told her that she has enough windex at home to last her the rest of her life. I asked her why they keep putting it on the list and she said because they just use the same list every year with a few additions, but they never take anything off the list.
BTW, really the Windex is for their dry erase boards(I just like to joke about mirrors and windows), it’s what they clean them with. Chalkboards are too old fashioned and too messy so they have dry erase boards now that are replaced at least every 2 years. You know it’s not their money, so no reason to save taxpayers’ money. The school though only supplies them with one box of dry erase markers, that’s why they add them to supply lists.
She though wasn’t allowed to make a shorter list because they only do lists for each grade and the other teacher wanted all that stuff. She said what she has always done is either send back home with the kids what was not needed for the kids or if she knew who was going to be in her class she contacted their parents with a much shorter list.
She made a lot of enemies because she’s been revealing all of their dirty secrets for a few years. Then when they started this threat of striking(they called it a walkout because it’s illegal in this state for teachers to strike) she really ticked them off when she proved how they were lying about their salaries by not including their retirement and other benefits by showing her check stubs. Then she showed all of the non-teachers who were on the payroll as teachers and shared e-mails from the superintendent that were sent out to all the staff.
She took a lot of bullets for taxpayers, unfortunately it didn’t stop our Republican legislatures from voting to tax us and give them more money, but she became my hero.
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Parents are desperate to have their kids educated and will generally crawl on broken glass to meet teachers’ imperial demasnds. I spent ~$100 today and I can imagine what it’s like for low-income parents with two or more kids.
The cleaning supplies and sanitizing items aren’t on the list this year – someone either blewv it or too many parents said ‘screw it’ but the 16-gig thumb drive WILL come home at the end of the year. I don’t really need it, I have a lot of them, but they ain’t getting it.
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My daughter told me tonight after seeing teachers begging for school supplies right after another report of another teacher arrested for having sex with their students, that if anything ever happened to her for me to do whatever possible to keep her kids out of public schools. She said she did not want her kids taught to be whining adults with their hands out or being taught all the gay, lesbian, transgender, pedophilia crap.
I promised as long as I was alive her kids would never go to public school.
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I get my GGS regularly and long enough to moderate the crap they’re fed in school. He’s open enough to discuss it and he’s had me as his primary male model that he’s absorbed and will continue to absorb those qualities from me that make Whole Foods clerks run screaming in terror on those ratre occasions I enter their storers. Here’s hoping…
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I can’t tell you how happy I am that my daughter isn’t sending my grandbabies to public school. My grandson would probably be suspended the first day anyway because he’s all boy, he’s either shooting you with toy guns or his finger when he’s not roughhousing or making race tracks in the dirt or gravel. Little Gracie likes the toy guns as well.
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Yeah, I have to have the ‘school versus gun’ discussion with the GGS. Irony is the demographics of the school lean towards many of the students being more likely to be packing a gun than lunch.
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I don’t live in Washington, but if I did I would have no plans to waste my HSA on something I can buy over the counter. That’s beyond ridiculous.
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Morning everyone!
Today’s painting of a mermaid & sea dragon is by Willy Pogany:
Here is a Blaschka Glaucus atlanticus or Blue Dragon
Here is a Stiliger ornatus or Ornate Stiliger (big surprise there)
This guy looks a lot friendlier than the last
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Since this is green I wanted to include it here. Perhaps the mermaid can wear it as a hat! One similar Blaschka creature in blue was labeled Zanclea implexa
This glass sculpture by K. William LeQuier matches the wave in the picture as well as being lovely
Have a great day everyone! 🙂
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Good Morning OGC. The LeQuier piece is stunning..
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Everything is lovely. I’d definitely take the wave…in the display case it would go. Leaving it sitting on a table would mean I’d need a mini hair dryer to dust it…and also prayers would be ongoing that the cats wouldn’t knock it off.
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The mermaid painting is beautiful. I’m with Lucille on the wave. The sea slugs are very ornate and colorful.
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Oh and…. sea slugs and the like have always made me think that the good Lord has a sense of humor! 😉
Have a great afternoon, G & C.
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The first time I saw a platypus, I was certain that God had a sense of humor.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/p/platypus/
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LOL!
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I felt the same way about Hillary…more of a warped sense of humor at times.
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Stillllllll waiting for thne A/C repair person (see, said it correctly). The home repair service that’s supposed to do our repairs just ain’t set up for the country. The only A/C repair they have is about 70 miles north of us and can’t tell us if they’ll be here today or not – gotta have some coffee and go thru their weekend emails and orders…they’ll get back to us.
Called a local guy and he’s on his way over, we will have to pay but it’s probably less or equal to the ‘service fee’ we have to pay the home repair service. Cou ntry beats city annnnnnny time.
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Long day – A/C guy came within an hour and a half of my calling, got the problem solved and only charged me only $20 more than the home repair service’s fee. Main difference is the local guy came while the home repair service’s guy was hemming and hawing about when they might come.
Ahhhhh….cool, dry air wafting gently thru my sweaty crewcut.
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Awwwww riiiiight…last night the reward for info regarding the shooters in last night’s mass shooting on South Claiborne was $5000…no one saw ’nuffin. Today it’s up to $25,000 so we’re getting closer to an amount that will make someone say s/he saw ‘sumpin.
Press is finally starting to say what those of us who worked the area knew all along – it’s a shooting zone. Press is only talking about the shootings since 2008, won’t even use post-Katrina to keep the body count down.
Meanwhile overnight the PD found two dead and burned bodies over by our old house. Again, no one saw/heard ’nuffin.
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In case you were wondering…it’s a word used instead of saying “fooled you!” after a prank. It first appeared in the series “The Big Bang Theory” and is used by the character named Sheldon. It comes from the word “zing” which means to fool or ridicule someone. And just for a cool slang, they added the “ba” to it.
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And speaking of slang…
1920s
1930s
WWII
https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/blow-it-out-your-barracks-bag-wwii-slang-from-the-front
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When I was three years old my family lived in Torrance, CA, not far from Long Beach. My Mom told me one time about a neighbor who was very fond of saying “Blow it out your barracks bag” to any and all who made him mad. LOL! The article link is the first time I’ve ever seen that phrase in print.
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Oh yeah, lotta those I heard growing up and many were still current when I was first in. I don’t see “As F***ed up as Hogan’d goat”, S-O-S, FUB, FUBU, FUBAR, SUSFU, Repo Depot…bringing back memories, Col?
Thought I’d throw in a WWII ditty saved by my fav WWII songster, Oscar Brand:
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Heard from my great niece who lives in the Redding CA area (near Carr fire) in response to a question about their safety:
From the carr fire yes but we have a fire 12 miles away at 4 corners. Its only 35 acres and 25% contained . I think it will be fine.
So far, so good.
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At least some good news for your family, but the concern is obviously ever-present.
All that devastation…loss of life, homes, businesses, jobs, domesticated animals, trees, flora and fauna…the magnitude of it.
No notation that I could find of whether the Carr fire was arson. The fires in southern California were set deliberately, though, by some bub named Brandon N. McGlover. Hopefully he’ll be removed from society forever.
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Only thing i saw is a mechanical failure possibly related to a trailer. Nothing else. This glossing over of origins of fires is increasing. No one expands or asks questions unless its super easy to report and its infuriating.
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I wonder how our friend derk is doing. He lives in Redding, if I remember correctly.
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I live pretty close to this great battlefield. Growing up, we all loved the many ghost stories attributed to Chickamauga Battlefield. You could never find a single soul who hadn’t shivered to tales of Green Eyes. Also there was the Bride who wandered the fields looking for her fallen love.
This is an interested article. Especially of note is this part:
Tinney said that out of the 34,000 casualties (killed or wounded) at Chickamauga, only 4,000 are believed to have perished during the battle, but the historian estimates close to 70 percent, or 23,800 soldiers perished from their wounds when the fighting ended. Out of the thousands who passed on, many may still be buried on the battlegrounds but the exact number is unclear, he said.
But the Civil War is not the only source of death that may have imprisoned lost spirits at the battlefield. The hill behind Wilder Tower saw the deaths of many soldiers, mainly from typhoid fever, during their training and encampment on the battlefield in preparation for the Spanish-American War, he said.
http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/legend-of-green-eyes-a-local-ghost-stor-loca/article_b2f67e4a-f911-5afc-b375-414141310ef3.html
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Short items about animals not included in caturday or dogittyday:
A British animal welfare charity has treated dozens of “disoriented” seagulls that may have been scavenging alcohol from a brewery.
In 2004, a black bear passed out at a Washington state campground after breaking into coolers & drinking 36 cans of beer. Park agents chased him up a tree, where he slept off his hangover.
A German motorist reported a dead badger to police in 2009, only to realize the animal was in a stupor after eating overripe cherries from a nearby tree. Officers chased it away with a broom.
Two hedgehogs were rescued by police in June after sipping from a broken bottle of the Dutch drink Advocaat left in a German playground. They were taken to a zoo to recover from their night out.
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LOL
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An important find here.
https://www.southernthing.com/an-arkansas-company-makes-caskets-that-are-shaped-like-fishing-boats-2591252503.html
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Perhaps those are basically for travel on the River Stix except you gotta remember to put gold coins on the eyes. ‘Sides, I ain’t going that direction.
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Badlands Moonrise |
Naturescape Photography
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That hair. Wow. And the eyelashes on that ice cream truck. Wow.
I really don’t have anything bad to say about Florida right now.
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🦄😀🍦(emojis seem appropriate commentary)
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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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Today is the 5th anniversary of my son Josiah’s Liver Transplant & we are so thankful that he is doing well overall! God Bless You ALL!!!
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Wonderful!
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!!! 🙂
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Wonderful!!!! 😊
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Yes we are very thankful for how far he’s come!
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