Thursday, December 4, 2014

Manipulation

     


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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
--Buddha



After giving it much thought, I have decided to limit my viewing of TV News shows. And I aim to severely limit my blog commentary regarding all these stupid racial events. They are presented by the networks in inflammatory film clips which are repeated over and over until they eventually become nearly meaningless.

I watch and I grow angry.



There is one thing I can do to avoid being invaded by all this media manufactured anger.

Stop participating.

Stop watching. Fox News. Stop listening to Bill O'Reilly. No more Tavis Smiley --  Etc.

If I cannot find anything but controversial and rage-inducing subjects to write about in my blog, then I am not looking hard enough.

There is way too much anger this world now. I do not want to add to it.



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Did You Know . . .?

Coffee beans are not beans. They are actually the seeds of berries, which are often called “coffee cherries.”

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HISTORICAL EVENT

On this day in 1872 the Dei Gratia, a small British brig under Captain David Morehouse, spotted the Mary Celeste, an American vessel, sailing erratically but at full sail near the Azores Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship was seaworthy, its stores and supplies were untouched, but not a soul was onboard. The last entry in the captain's log shows that the Mary Celeste had been nine days and 500 miles away from where the ship was found by the Dei Gratia.

Apparently, the Mary Celeste had been drifting toward Genoa on her intended course for 11 days with no one at the wheel to guide her. Captain Briggs, his family, and the crew of the vessel were never found, and the reason for the abandonment of the Mary Celeste has never been determined.

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WORD FOR TODAY

glower
verb
to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
noun
a look of sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.

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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS


(born December 4, 1949)
Jeff Bridges is an American actor. He comes from a well-known acting family and began his televised acting in 1958 as a child with his father, Lloyd Bridges, and brother, Beau, on television's Sea Hunt. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis "Bad" Blake in the 2009 film Crazy Heart and earned Academy Award nominations for his roles in The Last Picture Show, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Starman, The Contender, and True Grit. Among his other best-known major motion films are: The Big Lebowski, Fearless, Iron Man, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Jagged Edge, Against All Odds, The Fisher King, Tucker, Seabiscuit, Arlington Road, Tron, Tron: Legacy and The Giver.



(born December 4, 1964)
Marisa Tomei is an American actress. She is regarded as one of the greatest actresses of her generation. In a career spanning three decades, she has received critical acclaim and various awards and accolades for her performances. Tomei came to prominence as a cast member on The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World in 1987. After she had appeared in a few films, making her debut in 1984 with The Flamingo Kid, she came to international attention in 1992 with the comedy My Cousin Vinny, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.



(born December 4, 1970)
Kevin Sussman is an American actor of television and film perhaps best known for his recurring roles as Stuart Bloom on The Big Bang Theory and as Walter on the comedy-drama Ugly Betty. Starting with season 6 of The Big Bang Theory, he was promoted to series regular



(born December 4, 1937)
Max Baer, Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He is best known for playing Jethro Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies.

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
--Mark Twain

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