Saturday Open Thread - 10/19/24: Odds and Ends
Well, this hectic week flew by, and once again I am pondering both odds and ends.
I will start with an end, a description of a martyr, provided by Scott Ritter. It is about Sinwar's death and its' significance.
Never give up. Never.
As for odd, I am not responsible for where my ancestors were born. My preference is not to be judged by that, although I am in no position to argue with some religious document or doctrine from long ago, since I never read it. My skin color also resulted from those ancestors. I respect all mutually respectful beliefs. Nobody is better than anyone else in my eyes, heart, and soul. They are the product of ancestors as well.
I like helping neighbors, preserving natural resources and the environment, and all animals contained therein. I despise and do not support any killing beyond self-defense. Aren't those human characteristics?
I only spent one semester at Baylor Baptist University, had to get back home due to illness. I felt well enough one day to sneak off to Sam Houston University and enrolled myself, told my parents that night. I was 16. I was suddenly in the land of hippies. On days when I was too ill do drive, Mom got me to class, as it was only a 30 minute drive. And this song hit the radio when I was 17. I never forgot it, and what it meant my my friends at university, including vets home from Nam. And my parents.
We were too tired to make some Friday Special Dinner, and we happened to have some smoked barbecue beef sandwiches given to us by a friend and neighbor who has a food cart, and is locally renowned.
I actually feel some inner guilt about this, given TPTB are enabling a populations to die of starvation.
Anyways, it is what it is. We can't fix greed, lust for power...yet.
We just need to figure out a plan to achieve the true equality humanity will eventually deserve.
I was front row center for a concert in Houston. He ripped off his 9 high "C's" for me in 1982. This was his launch at the Metropolitan Opera. Interesting commentary and the 4 minute video of the 4 minutes when he became a historical figure.
They didn’t call him the King of the High Cs for nothing…
Well, this is an Open Thread. Drop a comment about anything on your mind, friends. We all look forward to your input.
Let 'er rip!
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Good morning, good people!
I have been asked to give a lesson on law to a small group of kids at a private school. Should be tons of fun, as I can break down a legal theory to a 12 year old easily, a 6 year old with a bit of forethought.
It will happen in a couple of weeks, and maybe Dear One will assist with some video odds and ends for the kids.
Meanwhile, as it always happens, my request for your thoughts and concerns is what kicks off the comment thread.
Sincerely, have a great weekend and let your thoughts and concerns be heard while that is permitted by TPTB, good friends!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Hey, good morning
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happened to meet JT's brother while exploring Martha's Vineyard mid 70's.
He owned a small grocery store there. Was whistling melodically. Guess it
runs in the family.
Enjoy your weekend, thanks for the OT and speaking freely.
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
Good morning!
I have a friend who took her Mom on a cruise from Galveston to London. It was more or less a 2 week trip.
The specific trip was booked because JT was the entertainer aboard. They got to meet him and get an autograph.
They were thrilled!
I would have been thrilled, too!
Enjoy your weekend, dear friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning...
A chilly 43F this AM for Trade Day, but I enjoyed the stroll and visits. Bought two heavy duty buckets for $5. Gas is up a good bit from last week - $2.80/gal. I guess the SW Asia mischief/tension is the cause?
Had a carpenter help me yesterday with some projects I just couldn't handle by myself. Got 'em done, but I was a whooped puppy afterwards.
Still dry here. We got a 0.2" rain so far this Oct. with no more predicted. Hopefully Nov. will turn wet as it usually does. We're watering the garden. We still have sweet potatoes to dig in a couple of weeks.
Well, that's the news from the holler...nothing exciting, but that is probably for the best. Y'all take care and have a great weekend! Thanks for the OT.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I’ve been wondering when we’d see this side of the Kam
There have been numerous stories about Kam's temper and her yelling at her staff during her veep tenure and I wondered when tails of her flipping her lid would come out.
A few weeks ago a story came out about Doug hitting his girlfriend and knocking his nanny up. Gotta wonder if abusers change when they get married? The story died fast. But maybe the duo deserve themselves….
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
It is "Openly Secular Day"! W00T! It is good
to know that there is such a thing, even if nearly nobody knows it exists or celebrates it. I mean, we have a national prayer day, assorted official prayer breakfasts and a vast number of official government meetings that open with a prayer. Really, how oxymoronic is "Dear god, help us to govern rationally"?
Your title, "odds and ends", as usual, sparked an oddball train of thought here. Specifically, can there be odd ends, as in an odd number of ends of linear things. It seems that such a situation would violate topological precepts, but I dunno if there is a theorem or proof as to that. Seemingly, if something linear has but one end, the other must, perforce, go to infinity, but infinity isn't a one way street, so both ends would would go to infinity and it would, ergo, lack any ends
It is farmers' market today and we are, thanks to our recent road trip, out of veggies that aren't frozen or canned except for a small handful of Romas from the garden and a bit of chard from the same source. Accordingly, we must out and about soonly, even though it is only about 52 degrees out, which is on the verge of jacket and long pants weather.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Halloween is not quite here but this is indicative of what AI
might bring us leading up to the election. It should prove to be interesting to say the least.
Give them a taste of their medicine
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) filled with explosives hit the vacation home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the seaside town of Caesarea on Saturday, Israeli media have reported, citing his office. The drone was reportedly launched by the Lebanon-based Hezbollah movement, in the first attack of the conflict aimed at such a high-ranking Israeli target.
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
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