General Discussion, Friday, November 7, 2025

Posted on November 7, 2025 by Stella

Day TWO HUNDRED NINETY-TWO of Presidential recovery.

 

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69 Responses to General Discussion, Friday, November 7, 2025

  1. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    November 7, 2025 at 12:15 am

    Stellars….

    Black Mesa, Oklahoma…

    Heceta Head Lighthouse, Oregon…

    Letchworth State Park, New York…

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  2. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    November 7, 2025 at 12:18 am

    Guinea pigs vs patch of weeds and grass….

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  3. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    November 7, 2025 at 6:27 am

    Good mornin’, and happy Friday! After this week, I figured we need coffee a bit more than we need a couple eggs, so I went big this morning. Bean-to-brew in whatever flavor you want. Keep your head on a swivel and carpe’ your coffee.

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  4. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    November 7, 2025 at 6:49 am

    Since I’m getting older and grumpier and our local grandkids are out of grade school, I don’t set foot in many of these institutions anymore. I would like to get some feedback from our resident home-school teacher on her thoughts about this article where it appears more of our culture is being attacked and attempts are being made to dismantle one method of teaching that seemed to work.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/11/de_normalizing_montessori_s_normalization.html

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      November 7, 2025 at 11:53 am

      What I think is that she’s, to put it in British slang, well into her cups. I teach Conner reading, grammar, spelling, math, science, history, a little geography, whatever else pops up related and worthy of a side trip for a few minutes.

      My husband has taken him out to the garage to demonstrate that nails and screws are wedges (studying to scientific definition of work last year) and what’s under the “bonnet” of a car, the term from his reading of the novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, also last year. Lots of other stuff, like reading a measuring tape, and functional science.

      Of equal, or perhaps even more importance, we teach him control, self discipline, respect (or I’ll smite you!), manners, and prayer, faith, hope, and I hope we sprinkle in a little fun, joy, happiness, and quite a bit of rewarding and yeah, some spoiling too. We are grandparents, and damned fine teachers.

      Education should be about how to live, function, think, and improve ourselves. Reading, writing, and arithmetic done well are byproducts of real education. Self control is key.

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      November 7, 2025 at 12:20 pm

      I taught in Montessori schools as a temp for a couple of years and I took the training, too. These were true Montessori schools and “normalization” was the goal. The children learned discipline as well as the three “R’s”. I agree with this author that children learn to focus, not be disruptive, and learn. There was none of this new cultural, woke stuff involved at all.

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
        November 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm

        My youngest son, Conner’s father, went to Montessori kindergarten back in the day at our parochial school. It was taught by one of the nuns, assisted by another fine teacher. You betcha there was discipline and respect, but he thrived in the Montessori program. I loved it.

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        • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
          November 7, 2025 at 12:39 pm

          I hated school. I think I would have had a totally different opinion if I had been in a Montessori.

          My son went to preschool and kindergarten at a Montessori. He was researching, writing a simple report, and reading it in front of the class by the second month of the kindergarten school year and he was six.

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  5. czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:
    November 7, 2025 at 8:28 am

    National Retinol Day – makes your skin beautiful.

    National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day – sounds good with coffee

    National Fountain Pen Day

    National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day – lost our dog BD to this a few years ago

    National Jersey Friday – the numbered shirts worn to signify ball players

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  6. Reflection's avatar Reflection says:
    November 7, 2025 at 8:29 am

    Interesting article. Thank you. It explains Montessori very well. Whether or not all Montessori schools are that diligent in its application, I’m not sure.

    Another attempt to divide and conquer from the inside.

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  7. Reflection's avatar Reflection says:
    November 7, 2025 at 8:41 am

    In that same vein of cultural change, John Stossel posits that despite the narrative that American’s younger generations are poorer, they are not.

    https://reason.com/2025/10/01/young-people-are-richer-than-boomers-were/

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    • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
      November 7, 2025 at 12:04 pm

      Mornin’ Reflection!

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      November 7, 2025 at 12:50 pm

      I agree with a lot of that, but not that today’s cars last twice as long. Depends on what model you bought back then. Pintos, Gremlins, AMC mostly anything, they were often duds. My husband has been a Ford lover his whole life but he’s always said Ford absolutely sucked at 4 cylinder engines. He’s driven F150s for decades and hundreds of thousands of miles. I did the same with a Toyota back in the day. We bought an old LTD from our neighbor who’d driven it years.

      And I don’t know many people in my income range who could buy a house today if they haven’t already. We bought this house in 2019 and it would cost us very close to twice as much in payments today. Not really great at our income level, but that twice as much payment would still be cheaper than the rent I’d pay on a house like this by $500-$800 bucks.

      Still, I think there are some prudent, thrifty, and shrewd young people who really go after it and have homes, low debt, and a good lifestyle.

      We did have smaller homes, less money spent on fine furniture and decor, most of us one tv, no phones, computers, gaming set ups, rarely ate out, and would have laughed and laughed at the thought that someday there’d be big bucks in selling coffee to people who could brew a great pot at home.

      I think a lot of the bitchy, whiny young adults who resent boomers have no idea how hard we worked and how little we had. My husband worked 66 hours a week for decades, and often more. We picked up coke bottles at night for deposits. I took my oldest son in car seat to work with me on the farmer’s market. We ate beans for supper at least three or four nights a week, and biscuits and gravy too. You eat beans and home made biscuits and gravy, you can still eat cheap.

      Finally, parents would die over this one today, but I think it was great. My husband’s older sister paid his tuition in parochial school when he was in middle school. Soon, he got a summer job and paid his own, and his brothers’ tuition. They helped out with family emergencies like needing a new freezer. We raised our boys much the same. They worked and paid for their own gas, insurance, and a percentage of their own tuition.

      Now they work hard and don’t cry about it. I think it was what we call a win-win. I worry about my one of my older grandsons. I think his life is too easy, however, at 16, he now has a job and pays some of his own bills, so we’ll see. He lives in what would have been a mansion to me, as a kid, in reality it’s just a very nice home in a very nice, very secluded neighborhood. Goes to private schools, had a used car bought for him. Yeah, he does a few chores and stuff, but he’s never had to remotely imagine how fortunate he is, and where all that comes from.

      My kids ate beans, and they were part of the struggle. They’re very strong, very resilient men, and they don’t even resent what made them that way, nor do they cry about what they don’t have today.

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      • Stella's avatar Stella says:
        November 7, 2025 at 1:10 pm

        One thing is for sure: Life has been pretty soft, sweet and cushy for quite a while for a large segment of the population, and many of them don’t realize how lucky they are. They particularly don’t realize how lucky they are to live in the USA!

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      • Reflection's avatar Reflection says:
        November 7, 2025 at 3:34 pm

        Menagerie,

        Thank you for your thoughtful commentaries. What you are instilling in Connor is remarkable, and well thought out. His traditional education was abdicated by reducing and underestimating his ability to learn, and placing him in an arena of low expectations. You have filled that void admirably.

        This is not to suggest that any of that was easy, it takes love and dedication to do it. But what remarkable results can be achieved when it happens! A life sparkles and shines when it might otherwise have been cast in the dust.

        Luke 12:6-7
        6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
        7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
        KJV

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  8. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    November 7, 2025 at 9:16 am

    Mornin’ y’all!

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  9. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
    November 7, 2025 at 10:22 am

    Be back later for good mornings to all, but I wanted to share this really fast. You know I’m going to tell you what it think. I think a bunch of fugly liberal women run Vogue and magazines like it, as well as the fashion scene (that combined with flamboyantly gay men) and they hate normal, attractive women and healthy relationships. So, they declare them embarrassing. Or something.

    Harpies, life is all about sorting through young men in the dating scene, having fun, learning what you want and need in a long term mate, then building something lasting, joy and tragedy and hardship and happiness filled, and being a productive part of the world.

    You too could join the ranks of the happy people if you’d lose weight, ditch the blue hair dye and nose rings, and halt the tattoo process at whatever crap you currently sport. Get some exercise, sunshine and fresh air. You might decide to accept an invitation from a promising young man. You’ll certainly be happier.

    Ditch the pissy resentment and live.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/11/05/vogue-boyfriends-embarrassing-debate/87104844007/

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  10. Stella's avatar Stella says:
    November 7, 2025 at 11:11 am

    Good morning to everybody! I’m late to the party today. Raining and getting colder. We will have our first real freeze on Sunday, along with some SNOW!

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  11. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    November 7, 2025 at 12:31 pm

    Afternoon All. Cool and expecting rain later today, maybe. Oops, guess we got the rain yesterday. It was early. Right now it is pretty sunny and windy. Guess winter is moving in.

    Enjoy your day.

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  12. Stella's avatar Stella says:
    November 7, 2025 at 12:38 pm

    Last week I watched the Mama Mia! movies, and now the songs keep going through my head. Today it’s “Super Trooper”. Anybody else ever have a similar issue?

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  13. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    November 7, 2025 at 2:01 pm

    WaPo’s Latest ICE Lie Is So Bad the Official DHS X Account Asks ‘How Do You People Sleep at Night,’ Then Tears the School Teacher Story Apart Point by Point

    By Samuel Short, The Western Journal Nov. 7, 2025 8:45 am

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/wapos-latest-ice-lie-bad-official-dhs-x/

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