tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89681864007539038012024-03-05T02:27:41.110-07:00Jots & TittlesGenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15477478722994821078noreply@blogger.comBlogger1624125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968186400753903801.post-3093341539696789972016-02-11T21:09:00.002-07:002016-02-11T21:09:55.126-07:00Debate<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, I did watch tonight's debate on PBS. Mainly to see which of the two old-timers would be first to grab their chest and fall to the floor.<br />
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<br />Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15477478722994821078noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968186400753903801.post-70933731444369246812016-01-29T23:38:00.002-07:002016-01-29T23:38:31.078-07:00SNARK<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>snark</b><br />
<i>noun </i><br />
Combination of "snide" and "remark". Sarcastic comment(s).<br />
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<br />Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15477478722994821078noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968186400753903801.post-7307987371708126652016-01-28T14:42:00.002-07:002016-01-28T14:42:51.966-07:00Day of Remembrance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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NASA's <b><i><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/DOR2016/index.html">Day of Remembrance</a></i></b> honors members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery.<br />
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<br />Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15477478722994821078noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968186400753903801.post-18028173052289829002016-01-19T15:04:00.000-07:002016-01-19T15:04:21.567-07:00Profound Thoughts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yes, I watched the Democratic Party debate on TV.<br />
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<i>Bland.</i><br />
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<br />Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15477478722994821078noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968186400753903801.post-91067365973529540002016-01-13T15:12:00.000-07:002016-01-13T15:13:42.162-07:00State Of The Union<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yes, I watched<i> (on CNN television)</i> President Obama deliver his last State of the Union address to congress.<br />
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<b>1.</b> exclamation<br />
<b>2.</b> used to substitute for actual words in contexts where they are felt to be too tedious or lengthy to give in full.<br />
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<br />Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15477478722994821078noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968186400753903801.post-2043163782346152832016-01-01T15:01:00.003-07:002016-01-01T15:01:55.256-07:00New Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15477478722994821078noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968186400753903801.post-61211275759695730682015-12-25T14:52:00.002-07:002015-12-25T14:52:17.482-07:00Christmas 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15477478722994821078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968186400753903801.post-24199049542563296632015-12-24T16:48:00.002-07:002015-12-24T16:48:49.986-07:00The Night Before Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I plan to spend the evening in bed, reading once again my tattered paperback edition of the novel<b> </b><i><b>Breakfast Of Champion</b>s,</i> written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.<br />
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I wonder how many Christians living in the United States know (without Googling it) where on the planet the city of Mecca is located.<br />
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<b>Mecca is</b> a city in western Saudi Arabia, an oasis town in the Red Sea region of Hejaz, east of Jiddah, considered by Muslims to be the holiest city of Islam. It was the birthplace in ad 570 of the prophet Muhammad, and was the scene of his early teachings before his emigration to Medina in 622 (the Hegira).<br />
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Every day I read the offerings of <i>The Writer's Almanac.</i> I do not always care much for the day's poem, but when I do find one that touches me in some way, I mention it here in my blog. The poem displayed Sunday, December 6, 2015 by Margaret Atwood is titled<i> The Small Cabin</i> and seems to echo so many of my own recollections of persons, palaces, and things residing only in my personal past.<br />
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"People like to ask me if writing can be taught, and I say yes. I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to write dialogue, maybe even how to construct a plot. But I can't teach you how to have something to say."<br />
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Today is MJ's birthday. I sent her a greeting using Facebook... which I hardly ever do. She has the most beautiful smile.<br />
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<br />Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15477478722994821078noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968186400753903801.post-21824134383718135572015-11-19T22:08:00.000-07:002015-11-19T22:14:19.623-07:00Avoiding Green Stuff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>The Department of Housing and Urban Development</i> <a href="http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=smoke-freepublichousing.pdf">proposed a rule</a> Thursday that would require the more than <b>3,100</b> public housing agencies across the country to make their properties smoke-free.<br />
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I was recently asked (often) if I include <b>kale</b> in my diet. I said that I do not, and in fact I have never tasted the stuff. I was then told that I should make it a large part of my weekly intake of food.<br />
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Of course, this meant that I should immediately look up the subject on the Internet.<br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Kale is a member of the cruciferous </span><span style="color: #274e13;">vegetable family. Cruciferous vegetables include mustard greens, turnip greens, cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, and broccoli.</span><br />
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I am not fond of ay of the cruciferous foods listed above, and I an especially repelled by the horrid taste of Brussels sprouts, <i>(no matter how they are cooked.)</i> I also found these next two somewhat interesting paragraphs:<br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Kale is among a small number of foods that contain measurable amounts of oxalates, naturally occurring substances found in plants, animals, and human beings. When oxalates become too concentrated in body fluids, they can crystallize and cause health problems. For this reason, individuals with already existing and untreated kidney or gallbladder problems may want to avoid eating kale. Laboratory studies have shown that oxalates may also interfere with absorption of calcium from the body. </span><br />
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I caught a short interview with a fascinating woman on <i>CNN,</i> and I recognized her, from her intriguing comments, as being a person of superior intelligence.<br />
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<b>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</b></div>
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I intend to learn more about this most enthralling lady.<br />
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<br />Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15477478722994821078noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968186400753903801.post-37901632405596210402015-11-03T16:09:00.001-07:002015-11-03T16:09:18.227-07:00Election Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15477478722994821078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968186400753903801.post-82740155192320975702015-11-02T16:25:00.001-07:002015-11-02T16:25:41.885-07:00PANTS ON FIRE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #660000;">Question:</span><br />
Why do the American people vote for and elect LIARS?<br />
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The American people are presented with two <b>(2)</b> politicians and they must select one <b>(1)</b> of the two <b>(2)</b> to be their next president -- and the <i>(mature)</i> American voter firmly believes that the definition of selected 'politician' is most effective 'liar.'<br />
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Jeb Bush said that Donald Trump is appealing to people's angst and their anger.<br />
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<b>"angst angst angst angst angst"</b></div>
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<b>angst</b><br />
<i>noun</i><br />
a feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition or the state of the world in general.<br />
<i>informal:</i> a feeling of persistent worry about something trivial.<br />
synonyms: anxiety, fear, apprehension, worry, foreboding<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">From the Urban Dictionary:</span><br />
Angst, often confused with anxiety, is a transcendent emotion in that it combines the unbearable anguish of life with the hopes of overcoming this seemingly impossible situation ... Angst denotes the constant struggle one has with the burdens of life that weighs on the dispossessed and not knowing when the salvation will appear.<br />
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<br />Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15477478722994821078noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968186400753903801.post-57683043964355864562015-11-01T09:59:00.000-07:002015-11-01T09:59:56.344-07:00Is Fantasy Fact or Fiction?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I was a sub-teen dreamer I was an avid peruser of comic books. Those colorful stimulators of imagination were just that, <i>stimulators.</i><br />
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Later in life I turned to words as they seemed even more stimulating in their depth of detail. But now at an extremely advanced age I find myself falling back to the habits of my juvenile years. Once again I find that certain pictures are much more conducive than mere words to the effective stimulation of fantasies.<br />
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<b>fantasy</b><br />
<i>noun</i><br />
the faculty or activity of imagining things, especially things that are impossible or improbable.<br />
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the Grand Canyon can hold around <b>900 trillion</b> footballs.<br />
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Halloween is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It begins the three-day observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed believers.<br />
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<i><b>There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.</b></i><br />
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<i> "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide."</i><br />
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<br />Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15477478722994821078noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968186400753903801.post-16484615075369643962015-10-22T18:55:00.000-07:002015-10-22T19:02:34.457-07:00The 2012 Benghazi Attack<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I just wasted a whole day watching a bunch of <b style="background-color: white; color: #878787; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">politicians</b> participating in a hearing on the 2012 Benghazi attack. It turned out to be nothing more than a Republican vs. Democrat debate.<br />
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<br />Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15477478722994821078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968186400753903801.post-6530143726576074412015-10-14T15:13:00.000-07:002015-10-15T08:31:34.186-07:00First 2015 Democrat Presidential Debate<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last night I sat and suffered through a cacophony of ludicrous rhetoric. The entire program can be summed up as:<br />
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<b>cacophony</b><br />
<i>noun</i><br />
a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.<br />
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<b>ludicrous</b><br />
<i>adjective</i><br />
so foolish, unreasonable, or out of place as to be amusing; ridiculous.<br />
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<b>rhetoric</b><br />
<i>noun</i><br />
<b>1.</b> the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.<br />
<b>2.</b> language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content.<br />
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The viewers of last night's introduction to the Socialist Agenda would be well advised to read <b><span style="color: #990000;">1984</span></b>.<br />
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Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as<b> 1984</b>, is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949. The novel is set in <b><i>Airstrip One</i></b> (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate <b><i>Oceania </i></b>in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation, dictated by a political system euphemistically named <b>English Socialism </b>(or <i>Ingsoc </i>in the government's invented language, <i>Newspeak)</i> under the control of a privileged <i>Inner Party</i> elite, that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as <i>"thoughtcrime",</i> also a Newspeak word.<br />
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Acceptance of socialism (or Bernie Sanders' Democratic Socialism) in the United States is a step closer to the reality of the hopeless horror depicted in <span style="color: #990000;"><b>1984</b>.</span><br />
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In November 2011, the United States government argued before the US Supreme Court that it wants to continue utilizing GPS tracking of individuals without first seeking a warrant. In response, Justice Stephen Breyer questioned what this means for a democratic society by referencing Nineteen Eighty-Four. Justice Breyer asked, "If you win this case, then there is nothing to prevent the police or the government from monitoring 24 hours a day the public movement of every citizen of the United States.<br />
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Former students who read <b><span style="color: #990000;">1984 </span></b>in school may want to reread the book after having experienced a few years of reality.<br />
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