Our elected leaders who engaged in colonialism certainly bear some responsibility, but not even that is sufficient justification for the horrific actions of these perpetrators. I will never use the term "Islamic State" for them because they have nothing to do with Islam. They are even more disgusting than the KKK. ISIS and ISIL are still terms they like for themselves. Some leaders, such as John Kerry, have begun to use the English spelling of the word: Daesch.
"DAIISH is the straight Arabic shorthand for the group known as: al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi Iraq wa al-Sham, commonly used in the Arab world and among many Arab media outlets and politicians.
"When people in the Arab world use the term DAIISH, it's derogatory, according to Columbia's Khalidi.
"Those who disagree with them, call them DAIISH," Khalidi said, adding that the jihadists have objected to the name.
Depending on how it is conjugated in Arabic, the word can mean "to trample down and crush." But it can also mean "a bigot." ISIS has reportedly threatened to cut out the tongues of anyone it hears using the term.
"It's a derogatory term and not someting people should use even if you dislike them," said Evan Kohlmann, a national security analyst at Flashpoint and a contributor to NBC News. "It would be like referring to Germans as 'Huns.'"
I am reminded that in the book Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery, the beloved family cook, Susan Baker, uses the term "Huns" for the Germans in WWI.
Works for me! ;-)
Now we need a term for our leaders who engaged in regime change!
Dawn sky, an abstract painting of pinks, purples, and blue. Today is supposed to be less windy.
Dear Listener, I agree that nothing justifies such hatred and violence. But, we also have to take responsibility for actions that have brought destructive consequences, eg., President Eisenhower's authorization of the CIA to overthrow the elected leader of Iran because he nationalized the oil industry; our attack of Iraq; our war in Afghanistan legitimizing the Taliban, and our militarism. With the instability, ongoing destruction, and human suffering, maybe we can revise our policies not to continue what hasn't worked, what hasn't brought peace and cooperation. I hope so.
And by way of apology for those who are Catholic. I loved my 12 years of Catholic education, especially my mentor, teacher, angel nun who has influenced me all my life. There was so much good that my criticism of the dogmatic pronouncements is really minor. I have just been aware that where there is great power, there's also the ability to punish, to isolate, to oppress. I'm not a Catholic now, will probably never be part of an organized religion again, but spirituality remains an ongoing deep need. If I have offended, I apologize.
And so another day. I'm glad we are all here, find solace, entertainment, information, and friendship daily.
Interesting discussion, ladies...I know a woman in our building who calls herself a ' Cradle Catholic.' I had not heard the term...she explained it as one born into a Catholic family but who has left the church. It came up because we were discussing how much we admired Pope Francis.
There are some very interesting people here...wish I had been here when Puddle and her honey were here!
Visit to the surgeon went well..extending the time between visits to 4-5 months. Some of our foliage is still glorious!!!
Shirley, heart glad the tongue is working out, and the arc with the doc is in your favor!
Always like the Quaker phrase "birthright Quaker"--but that implies simply born into as apposed to "convinced Quaker". . . . The Mormon phrase for those who've left is Jack Mormon.
I've thought for long that the Universe is very interested in the spiritual, and very little interested in religion. I think religion is almost entirely mankind's idea. And NOT spiritual mankind at that. The banker's mankind. The kind of mind that can only see a group of like minded people, and see a way to profit. I think it's no small thing that the Quakers named themselves The Society of Friends, and NOT the Church of Friends. Their meeting houses are called meeting houses and not churches. . . . And what they provide is a nest, an incubator, and space and place for the spirit to find, and talk with, Godde. Relishing worldly goods--money, houses, power, guns is seen as a failing, not as success. . . .
Both the Quakers and the Moravians have had a large influence in making this county a more civilized and pleasant place to live. Both groups came in the early 19th century. Such a different feeling than the Methodists and United Brethren dominating rural mid-Michigan or the Baptist and Catholic domination and rivalry of the mid Texas Gulf coast. Anyway. I intend to stay!
Yes, a relief always to know that now this poor abused tongue has a good caretaker! Thank you all for caring.
I was baptized Roman Catholic before I was a month old, only it was done secretly so my Dad wouldn't know (as he would have objected…but not for any reason except to be ornery towards my grandmother, so I don't count that honourable). I was not brought up Catholic (or anything else). But I found my way to various churches over the years and married a dear man who was brought up in a big Catholic family (alter boy, etc.). We both love liturgy (poetry and choreography as well as spirituality and participation). We ended up, as you know, Episcopalians and raised our children that way. But once I knew enough about how the hierarchy worked, we ended up stepping to the periphery and then a bit further. Mind you, I love so much of what the Church (all of it ~ most denominations) does, and I love the good people in the Church who work for good and seek to strengthen spirituality. But I also know the pitfalls. Pat, I would only have been offended if you had gone back to that congregation. ♥
I would love to find a Quaker group in which I could simply sit and be in silence, be myself and not feel I had to join up with the various causes members are into. As far as I can tell, though, the local groups are more about social activism than silence.
This week, while sorting through boxes, I came across the VT Times-Argus newspaper from 19 January 2003. There is my name on the front page, above the fold, and my words in the article. I had forgotten just what I'd said. It was the rally in Vermont's capitol when GWB was fixed on going to war with Iraq. I'm pretty sure it was the placard I was carrying that made the reporter ask if I minded making a statement. It is NOT my forte to think on my feet, so there must have been a Higher Power in my thought process that day. I remember pausing in silence for maybe a half minute before speaking.
THOUSANDS MARCH FOR PEACE Rally called one of the largest in Vermont history
MONTPELIER -- June Schulte has't been to many political demonstrations in her life. In face, she said Saturday's peaceful march against military action in Iraq was her first. But the 47-year-old from Jericho said she feels the United States is close to doing something catastrophic, and she wanted to take part in opposing it. "I feel aghast at what our country is doing," said Schulte, holding a sign that read "Educated, aware, and opposed to war with Iraq." "This is more huge than people realize." she said. "We're talking about destabilizing a significant portion of the world. We're talking about human suffering on a gigantic scale. How does this exemplify the American way of being?" Schulte was among a crowd of marchers that police estimated at 3,000. Carrying signs that included "80 percent approval by fear and cheap gas" and "Regime change at home," they headed through downtown to the snow-covered Statehouse lawn. The demonstration in Montpelier, where the temperature was to reach only 12 degrees, was one of the numerous protests around the country as part of a weekend of dissent. …
There's more to the article, saying that 5 busloads of Vermonters had gone to DC for the protests there, and that all our legislators from Vermont were opposed to the war.
Despite the sunshine it was bitter bitter cold, and by the time we were ready to leave the Statehouse, our feet were numb!
If I could articulate at that time that we would be destabilizing a significant portion of the world, sensed that the human suffering would be on a gigantic scale, would be catastrophic, and that it does not exemplify the American way of being, how come Hillary Clinton and so many others didn't see it? Howard Dean did. Vermonters of all stripes got it. Heck, we had Republicans at that rally walking with us!
So, puddle, I definitely do NOT equate our Republicans with the sort of extremists who blew themselves up in France. The Republicans who are troublesome are greedy rich sissies, not angry desperate bastards.
I've enjoyed the posts with thoughts about religion and spirituality and the protest against the Iraq War. I remember that there were a million people who protested that and the media treated it much the way they are treating Bernie Sanders, with little mention or recognition.
We've been protesters against wars since Eugene McCarthy protested against Lyndon Johnson's escalation of the war in Vietnam. In fact, our two year old son shook Eugene McCarthy's hand when we met him at the airport in Lansing, Michigan.
We've protested in Chicago and Colorado as well. What will it take to change the mentality of war?
We have four deer grazing in our meadow right now. Soon, we'll go into Loveland to pick up our organic turkey to cook for our son and daughter-in-Law's Thanksgiving celebration.
With 24/7 news from around the globe, what a change from the 50's and 60's, even 70s. If we are to have a representative democracy, we have to participate, and this blog is one way of doing that, along with other activities.
I think I get confused sometimes about responses to terroristic acts. I don't deny that krezzies do pretty awful things. But. . . . we ignore the thousands who die in car accidents, bad medicine, angry spouses/boyfriends. Deaths our government mandates or facilitates (war, starvation, bad medicine)thousands, tens of thousands, and get absolutely hysterical about a couple of hundred taken out by peeps who by any civilized standard are simply certifiably bat shit krezzy. We GIVE them street creds. Why?
Iraq Death Toll Reaches 500,000 Since Start Of U.S.-Led ... www.huffingtonpost.com/.../iraq-death-toll_n_4102... The Huffington Post Oct 15, 2013 - Nearly half a million people have died from war-related causes in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, according to an academic study published in the United States on Tuesday. ... "Living in Iraq today is no longer about how many have died, but how future deaths should be ...
Today was one of those days when little went right, at least until around 4pm. I did major battle with the printer, which was being finicky about printing straight then stalled at one point: wouldn't cancel the print job, wouldn't shut down, made no movement or sound even when opened or closed, though the lights were on, so it definitely had power. I began to unearth the other printer to move to that possibility (all the while under a looming deadline for the cards I was attempting to create), when the first printer finally came back to life. =Whew!= The owner of the shop I was making Gift Certificates for was due any moment to come to the house and pick them up, too. I made it with literally 15 seconds to spare!!
In the midst of the print job, I was thinking about and praying for my dearest friend's good friend who was having surgery. She is the young mom of three young kids. While she had breast cancer a year ago (bilateral mastectomy), her husband left her. She had just gotten to the point of having two whole months with no doctor appointments, when she noticed a lymph node issue and was diagnosed last month with colon cancer metastasized to the liver, apparently unrelated to the breast cancer. I have never met her, though we have communicated. When I got the news that her surgeries today were quite successful, I burst into tears of relief and joy! I was so surprised by the tears. May she heal well and swiftly!!
Yea, verily, puddle. Death is death and 500,000 from the war Cheney and Rumsfeld waged is NOT okay. That will not change until politicians who perpetrate are brought up on war crimes!
At the same time, I have a great lot of hope for the world. We have more means of knowing, moment by moment what is taking place in the world, realtime. When it's happening right now it jars us like old news cannot. That means both that we have little time to pause and ponder and consider and discern *and* that we can connect with one another immediately and find out for ourselves what is happening from average people who are present to it, not only as interpreted by the media. Bright minds, coming together, despite what foolish things our governments may be doing, will change the world. While that is true of bright minds bent on destruction as well as bright creative minds, I believe there are more people working for the good of humanity than not. It is because I believe that there is more creativity in the world than destructiveness that I have hope and optimism.
I remember, teaching journalism in the early 1980s at Nederland High School, we were aware of terrorism, talked about it in class and wondered if it would continue and get worse. It has.
I wonder if all the classes and books on meditation, yoga, mindfulness will resonate in this coming election. We have always had violence and probably will, but support for wars, militarism, incarceration may be reduced. I hope so. I would think that humanity would be able to solve some of the problems we create, and find a way to cooperation and peace. It's interesting how long prejudice, racism, and hatred of the other have lasted. But, like you, Listener, I am hopeful, feel that yes, we can change, yes, we can find a way to peace.
Cold, but sunny. Snow last night and wind, and single digits on the thermometer.
On the verge here, Puddle.. NOT looking forward to it!!! I am in heaven, however, because Brenda found some sturdy small boxes just the right size for about 10 CDs each. Now, I have my night time entertainment center complete and fairly easy to move for laundry day. Now have on my bed current Netflix discs, Irish music, old folkies-- Doc Watson, Jean Ritchie etc,--young folkies Rhiannon Giddens, Lauralynn Dossett, current or continuing audiobooks plus DVD player and radio.
Crazy? I guess...but better than lying there tossing and turning! Happy Sunday all. Stay warm, well, happy!
Oops. had forgotten to mention that 7 groups in our county are joining together to accept Syrian refugees. Love this place on earth for many reasons....but especially the compassion and co-operation!
That does sound like heaven, Shirlee! How very thoughtful of Brenda! You raised a good one, that's for sure! ♥
We saw The Peanuts Movie with our 8 year old granddaughter tonight. It's fine and she enjoyed it. But they showed a cartoon beforehand that was a little too Wylie-Coyote-style violent for my taste. That's not what we paid for. Humph! The best part was that, as we always do, we stayed to watch the credits … reading aloud all the first names as fast as we possibly could as they scrolled by … and noticing that one had a last name exactly like ours! :-D
I was 21 when President Kennedy was shot. People came together to walk, to talk, and then the additional cataclysm of Lee Harvey Oswald being shot. The campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan was transformed into people coming together to grieve, to talk, to comfort each other.
My freshman year, JFK came to the campus to initiate the Peace Corps. His speech was broadcast, and I heard him from my dorm room. He was such a light of change, youth, intelligence, and it ended in 1963.
Today somewhat cloudy, waking at 2 AM. What is with this sleep pattern in getting older??!! But, life is good, what we make of it with our efforts, despite being human and apt to make mistakes, engaged in understanding who we are and those we care about. And even those we don't care about. I think Donald Trump is a demagogue in the classic sense of the word. He is dangerous.
I was 29 and Brenda was just a newborn. We had just returned from a doctor check and I had a call from an acquaintance who was passing on the news...one of those people who glory. In disasters. Cruel and heartless.
Shirlee, I've known those people. They always seemed to me to be the ones who can't see their own lives as interesting. Don't know if it's lack of imagination or lack of IQ. Or maybe it's an acquired adrenaline addiction.
It only got to 31F here today, which is the first day all season that it stayed below 40F. As we usually get to this point by early November, we are having a very warm season indeed.
We visited loved ones over the weekend, down near Boston. It was about 10F warmer down there, so we were walking around with our coats open, while our loved ones were all bundled up, including ear muffs, to go from the car to the restaurant! I still giggle every time I think about it. :-D
Nate Silver reassures us that Trump can’t become POTUS.
Right now, he has 25 to 30 percent of the vote in polls among the roughly 25 percent of Americans who identify as Republican. (That’s something like 6 to 8 percent of the electorate overall, or about the same share of people who think the Apollo moon landings were faked.) As the rest of the field consolidates around him, Trump will need to gain additional support to win the nomination. That might not be easy, since some Trump actions that appeal to a faction of the Republican electorate may alienate the rest of it. Trump’s favorability ratings are middling among Republicans (and awful among the broader electorate).
Thanks for this information on DT. , Puddle It is hard to believe this evil man is running for he Presidency of the United States. Totally scary.
Yes, the woman who called me gloried in this kind of tragedy-- I only knew and put up with her because her husband was a fishing buddy of my then husband.
Beautiful blue skies here today ...and I have a dental appointment :)!
I know that "day" you're speaking of. It was mere chance that 11 something on the 23rd, I decided to check and see how complicated it would be. . . . And saw that they were charging on the last day of the month trial rather than the first day of the next month. . . . I imagine they catch lotsa peeps that way. I lucked out.
And the good news is that FedEx is actually going to deliver to my porch. (Got a phone call from the delivery dood this a.m.) We've exceptionally unlucky in our FedEx drivers. One was chucking packages in an abandoned house, for a very long time. The next just dropping them at the post office. UPS has always been wonderful, but with Amazon's "hybrid" system, UPS mostly drops stuff at the post office, too. Which sorta negates the two-day delivery thingy.
*This* time, UPS actually DID show up on my porch yesterday (yay!). And now FedEx is planning to, too. . . . I feel blessed.
WHOO HOO!!! I am ready to do handsprings I am so excited that you're getting porch deliveries!!!!!! WOW!! What is the reason it's the fad now? Hmmm, best not rock that boat. ;-) Counting blessings for sure!!
Now, what is it that is to be delivered to your porch? I hope it's either something large or toothsome. ;-)
Lol! That was the reason for trying Prime--2 day delivery used to ALWAYS be FedEx or UPS--both of whom normally do deliver to your door. But Prime uses a mixed system, that leaves stuff at the post office. I paid extra for one day delivery on stuff which seemed to get me UPS completely, and FedEx for the rest. Lotsa little stuff--batteries, BP monitor, almond flour, choc chips, reading glasses, dog tie out (winter's hard on old tie outs), Alpha Lipoic Acid, Chromium Picolinate, milkhouse heater, Christmas tree spray. NOT ONE SINGLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT, LOL!
While waiting for my sugar free choc chips to arrive, made some brownie chip cookies. Same same, but cut up six brownies and mixed in like chips. Pretty good, grin.
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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!! Good one, Puddle! Love it.
LOL! Howard Dean would approve. Happy late Birthday Howard!!
Yes, great cartoon. Well done.
Yes, Howard Dean will always be a hero in my mind.
Our elected leaders who engaged in colonialism certainly bear some responsibility, but not even that is sufficient justification for the horrific actions of these perpetrators. I will never use the term "Islamic State" for them because they have nothing to do with Islam. They are even more disgusting than the KKK. ISIS and ISIL are still terms they like for themselves. Some leaders, such as John Kerry, have begun to use the English spelling of the word: Daesch.
"DAIISH is the straight Arabic shorthand for the group known as: al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi Iraq wa al-Sham, commonly used in the Arab world and among many Arab media outlets and politicians.
"When people in the Arab world use the term DAIISH, it's derogatory, according to Columbia's Khalidi.
"Those who disagree with them, call them DAIISH," Khalidi said, adding that the jihadists have objected to the name.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/09/world/meast/isis-isil-islamic-state/
CNBC reports:
Depending on how it is conjugated in Arabic, the word can mean "to trample down and crush." But it can also mean "a bigot." ISIS has reportedly threatened to cut out the tongues of anyone it hears using the term.
"It's a derogatory term and not someting people should use even if you dislike them," said Evan Kohlmann, a national security analyst at Flashpoint and a contributor to NBC News. "It would be like referring to Germans as 'Huns.'"
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/paris-attacks-what-does-daesh-mean-why-does-isis-hate-n463551
I am reminded that in the book Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery, the beloved family cook, Susan Baker, uses the term "Huns" for the Germans in WWI.
Works for me! ;-)
Now we need a term for our leaders who engaged in regime change!
I believe the term is rePublicans, listener. . . .
Good Morning,
Dawn sky, an abstract painting of pinks, purples, and blue. Today is supposed to be less windy.
Dear Listener, I agree that nothing justifies such hatred and violence. But, we also have to take responsibility for actions that have brought destructive consequences, eg., President Eisenhower's authorization of the CIA to overthrow the elected leader of Iran because he nationalized the oil industry; our attack of Iraq; our war in Afghanistan legitimizing the Taliban, and our militarism. With the instability, ongoing destruction, and human suffering, maybe we can revise our policies not to continue what hasn't worked, what hasn't brought peace and cooperation. I hope so.
And by way of apology for those who are Catholic. I loved my 12 years of Catholic education, especially my mentor, teacher, angel nun who has influenced me all my life. There was so much good that my criticism of the dogmatic pronouncements is really minor. I have just been aware that where there is great power, there's also the ability to punish, to isolate, to oppress. I'm not a Catholic now, will probably never be part of an organized religion again, but spirituality remains an ongoing deep need. If I have offended, I apologize.
And so another day. I'm glad we are all here, find solace, entertainment, information, and friendship daily.
Interesting discussion, ladies...I know a woman in our building who
calls herself a ' Cradle Catholic.' I had not heard the term...she explained
it as one born into a Catholic family but who has left the church. It came
up because we were discussing how much we admired Pope Francis.
There are some very interesting people here...wish I had been here when
Puddle and her honey were here!
Visit to the surgeon went well..extending the time between visits to 4-5 months.
Some of our foliage is still glorious!!!
Love to all...stay well, happy etc.
Shirley, heart glad the tongue is working out, and the arc with the doc is in your favor!
Always like the Quaker phrase "birthright Quaker"--but that implies simply born into as apposed to "convinced Quaker". . . . The Mormon phrase for those who've left is Jack Mormon.
I've thought for long that the Universe is very interested in the spiritual, and very little interested in religion. I think religion is almost entirely mankind's idea. And NOT spiritual mankind at that. The banker's mankind. The kind of mind that can only see a group of like minded people, and see a way to profit. I think it's no small thing that the Quakers named themselves The Society of Friends, and NOT the Church of Friends. Their meeting houses are called meeting houses and not churches. . . . And what they provide is a nest, an incubator, and space and place for the spirit to find, and talk with, Godde. Relishing worldly goods--money, houses, power, guns is seen as a failing, not as success. . . .
Both the Quakers and the Moravians have had a large influence in
making this county a more civilized and pleasant place to live.
Both groups came in the early 19th century. Such a different
feeling than the Methodists and United Brethren dominating
rural mid-Michigan or the Baptist and Catholic domination and
rivalry of the mid Texas Gulf coast. Anyway. I intend to stay!
Yes, a relief always to know that now this poor abused tongue
has a good caretaker! Thank you all for caring.
I was baptized Roman Catholic before I was a month old, only it was done secretly so my Dad wouldn't know (as he would have objected…but not for any reason except to be ornery towards my grandmother, so I don't count that honourable). I was not brought up Catholic (or anything else). But I found my way to various churches over the years and married a dear man who was brought up in a big Catholic family (alter boy, etc.). We both love liturgy (poetry and choreography as well as spirituality and participation). We ended up, as you know, Episcopalians and raised our children that way. But once I knew enough about how the hierarchy worked, we ended up stepping to the periphery and then a bit further. Mind you, I love so much of what the Church (all of it ~ most denominations) does, and I love the good people in the Church who work for good and seek to strengthen spirituality. But I also know the pitfalls. Pat, I would only have been offended if you had gone back to that congregation. ♥
I would love to find a Quaker group in which I could simply sit and be in silence, be myself and not feel I had to join up with the various causes members are into. As far as I can tell, though, the local groups are more about social activism than silence.
This week, while sorting through boxes, I came across the VT Times-Argus newspaper from 19 January 2003. There is my name on the front page, above the fold, and my words in the article. I had forgotten just what I'd said. It was the rally in Vermont's capitol when GWB was fixed on going to war with Iraq. I'm pretty sure it was the placard I was carrying that made the reporter ask if I minded making a statement. It is NOT my forte to think on my feet, so there must have been a Higher Power in my thought process that day. I remember pausing in silence for maybe a half minute before speaking.
THOUSANDS MARCH FOR PEACE
Rally called one of the largest in Vermont history
MONTPELIER -- June Schulte has't been to many political demonstrations in her life. In face, she said Saturday's peaceful march against military action in Iraq was her first.
But the 47-year-old from Jericho said she feels the United States is close to doing something catastrophic, and she wanted to take part in opposing it.
"I feel aghast at what our country is doing," said Schulte, holding a sign that read "Educated, aware, and opposed to war with Iraq."
"This is more huge than people realize." she said. "We're talking about destabilizing a significant portion of the world. We're talking about human suffering on a gigantic scale. How does this exemplify the American way of being?"
Schulte was among a crowd of marchers that police estimated at 3,000. Carrying signs that included "80 percent approval by fear and cheap gas" and "Regime change at home," they headed through downtown to the snow-covered Statehouse lawn.
The demonstration in Montpelier, where the temperature was to reach only 12 degrees, was one of the numerous protests around the country as part of a weekend of dissent. …
There's more to the article, saying that 5 busloads of Vermonters had gone to DC for the protests there, and that all our legislators from Vermont were opposed to the war.
Despite the sunshine it was bitter bitter cold, and by the time we were ready to leave the Statehouse, our feet were numb!
If I could articulate at that time that we would be destabilizing a significant portion of the world, sensed that the human suffering would be on a gigantic scale, would be catastrophic, and that it does not exemplify the American way of being, how come Hillary Clinton and so many others didn't see it? Howard Dean did. Vermonters of all stripes got it. Heck, we had Republicans at that rally walking with us!
So, puddle, I definitely do NOT equate our Republicans with the sort of extremists who blew themselves up in France. The Republicans who are troublesome are greedy rich sissies, not angry desperate bastards.
Typo: That should read "In fact…" not in face! LOL!
Hi Friends,
I've enjoyed the posts with thoughts about religion and spirituality and the protest against the Iraq War. I remember that there were a million people who protested that and the media treated it much the way they are treating Bernie Sanders, with little mention or recognition.
We've been protesters against wars since Eugene McCarthy protested against Lyndon Johnson's escalation of the war in Vietnam. In fact, our two year old son shook Eugene McCarthy's hand when we met him at the airport in Lansing, Michigan.
We've protested in Chicago and Colorado as well. What will it take to change the mentality of war?
We have four deer grazing in our meadow right now. Soon, we'll go into Loveland to pick up our organic turkey to cook for our son and daughter-in-Law's Thanksgiving celebration.
With 24/7 news from around the globe, what a change from the 50's and 60's, even 70s. If we are to have a representative democracy, we have to participate, and this blog is one way of doing that, along with other activities.
Be well. Enjoy the day.
I think I get confused sometimes about responses to terroristic acts. I don't deny that krezzies do pretty awful things. But. . . . we ignore the thousands who die in car accidents, bad medicine, angry spouses/boyfriends. Deaths our government mandates or facilitates (war, starvation, bad medicine)thousands, tens of thousands, and get absolutely hysterical about a couple of hundred taken out by peeps who by any civilized standard are simply certifiably bat shit krezzy. We GIVE them street creds. Why?
Iraq Death Toll Reaches 500,000 Since Start Of U.S.-Led ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../iraq-death-toll_n_4102...
The Huffington Post
Oct 15, 2013 - Nearly half a million people have died from war-related causes in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, according to an academic study published in the United States on Tuesday. ... "Living in Iraq today is no longer about how many have died, but how future deaths should be ...
Today was one of those days when little went right, at least until around 4pm. I did major battle with the printer, which was being finicky about printing straight then stalled at one point: wouldn't cancel the print job, wouldn't shut down, made no movement or sound even when opened or closed, though the lights were on, so it definitely had power. I began to unearth the other printer to move to that possibility (all the while under a looming deadline for the cards I was attempting to create), when the first printer finally came back to life. =Whew!= The owner of the shop I was making Gift Certificates for was due any moment to come to the house and pick them up, too. I made it with literally 15 seconds to spare!!
In the midst of the print job, I was thinking about and praying for my dearest friend's good friend who was having surgery. She is the young mom of three young kids. While she had breast cancer a year ago (bilateral mastectomy), her husband left her. She had just gotten to the point of having two whole months with no doctor appointments, when she noticed a lymph node issue and was diagnosed last month with colon cancer metastasized to the liver, apparently unrelated to the breast cancer. I have never met her, though we have communicated. When I got the news that her surgeries today were quite successful, I burst into tears of relief and joy! I was so surprised by the tears. May she heal well and swiftly!!
Yea, verily, puddle. Death is death and 500,000 from the war Cheney and Rumsfeld waged is NOT okay. That will not change until politicians who perpetrate are brought up on war crimes!
At the same time, I have a great lot of hope for the world. We have more means of knowing, moment by moment what is taking place in the world, realtime. When it's happening right now it jars us like old news cannot. That means both that we have little time to pause and ponder and consider and discern *and* that we can connect with one another immediately and find out for ourselves what is happening from average people who are present to it, not only as interpreted by the media. Bright minds, coming together, despite what foolish things our governments may be doing, will change the world. While that is true of bright minds bent on destruction as well as bright creative minds, I believe there are more people working for the good of humanity than not. It is because I believe that there is more creativity in the world than destructiveness that I have hope and optimism.
Thank you for this post, Puddle. One to ponder and remember.
Lovely, lovely sunny day here. Love to all..stay well.
Good early afternoon,
I remember, teaching journalism in the early 1980s at Nederland High School, we were aware of terrorism, talked about it in class and wondered if it would continue and get worse. It has.
I wonder if all the classes and books on meditation, yoga, mindfulness will resonate in this coming election. We have always had violence and probably will, but support for wars, militarism, incarceration may be reduced. I hope so. I would think that humanity would be able to solve some of the problems we create, and find a way to cooperation and peace. It's interesting how long prejudice, racism, and hatred of the other have lasted. But, like you, Listener, I am hopeful, feel that yes, we can change, yes, we can find a way to peace.
Cold, but sunny. Snow last night and wind, and single digits on the thermometer.
Bright, sunny, and cold. Deep in winter for the next few days.
On the verge here, Puddle.. NOT looking forward to it!!!
I am in heaven, however, because Brenda found some sturdy
small boxes just the right size for about 10 CDs each.
Now, I have my night time entertainment center complete
and fairly easy to move for laundry day. Now have on my bed
current Netflix discs, Irish music, old folkies-- Doc Watson, Jean
Ritchie etc,--young folkies Rhiannon Giddens, Lauralynn Dossett,
current or continuing audiobooks plus DVD player and radio.
Crazy? I guess...but better than lying there tossing and turning!
Happy Sunday all. Stay warm, well, happy!
Oops. had forgotten to mention that 7 groups in our county are
joining together to accept Syrian refugees. Love this place on earth
for many reasons....but especially the compassion and co-operation!
My dad and his brothers "fostered" several European refugees after WWII.
I 'spect (from my past history) that the Syrians will actually have more trouble for being "black" than being Muslim.
That does sound like heaven, Shirlee! How very thoughtful of Brenda! You raised a good one, that's for sure! ♥
We saw The Peanuts Movie with our 8 year old granddaughter tonight. It's fine and she enjoyed it. But they showed a cartoon beforehand that was a little too Wylie-Coyote-style violent for my taste. That's not what we paid for. Humph! The best part was that, as we always do, we stayed to watch the credits … reading aloud all the first names as fast as we possibly could as they scrolled by … and noticing that one had a last name exactly like ours! :-D
52 years ago we were reeling from the assassination of President Kennedy. I was 8 years old and in Boston. And I remember it like it was yesterday.
I was in college, 22 days pregnant with my first, and came home early to get a nap. My hubby called me when the lines cleared.
Good Morning Friends,
I was 21 when President Kennedy was shot. People came together to walk, to talk, and then the additional cataclysm of Lee Harvey Oswald being shot. The campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan was transformed into people coming together to grieve, to talk, to comfort each other.
My freshman year, JFK came to the campus to initiate the Peace Corps. His speech was broadcast, and I heard him from my dorm room. He was such a light of change, youth, intelligence, and it ended in 1963.
Today somewhat cloudy, waking at 2 AM. What is with this sleep pattern in getting older??!! But, life is good, what we make of it with our efforts, despite being human and apt to make mistakes, engaged in understanding who we are and those we care about. And even those we don't care about. I think Donald Trump is a demagogue in the classic sense of the word. He is dangerous.
Well, I hope your day is good.
I was 29 and Brenda was just a newborn. We had just returned from
a doctor check and I had a call from an acquaintance who was
passing on the news...one of those people who glory. In disasters.
Cruel and heartless.
Shirlee, I've known those people. They always seemed to me to be the ones who can't see their own lives as interesting. Don't know if it's lack of imagination or lack of IQ. Or maybe it's an acquired adrenaline addiction.
It only got to 31F here today, which is the first day all season that it stayed below 40F. As we usually get to this point by early November, we are having a very warm season indeed.
We visited loved ones over the weekend, down near Boston. It was about 10F warmer down there, so we were walking around with our coats open, while our loved ones were all bundled up, including ear muffs, to go from the car to the restaurant! I still giggle every time I think about it. :-D
Nate Silver reassures us that Trump can’t become POTUS.
Right now, he has 25 to 30 percent of the vote in polls among the roughly 25 percent of Americans who identify as Republican. (That’s something like 6 to 8 percent of the electorate overall, or about the same share of people who think the Apollo moon landings were faked.) As the rest of the field consolidates around him, Trump will need to gain additional support to win the nomination. That might not be easy, since some Trump actions that appeal to a faction of the Republican electorate may alienate the rest of it. Trump’s favorability ratings are middling among Republicans (and awful among the broader electorate).
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dear-media-stop-freaking-out-about-donald-trumps-polls/
Thanks for this information on DT. , Puddle
It is hard to believe this
evil man is running for he Presidency of the United States.
Totally scary.
Yes, the woman who called me gloried in this kind of tragedy--
I only knew and put up with her because her husband was a
fishing buddy of my then husband.
Beautiful blue skies here today ...and I have a dental appointment :)!
Take care, stay well, love to all.
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I DIDN'T FORGET!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS, puddle! Ya done good, there!
I managed to miss the date by one day last April. Must keep one's wits about one. ;-)
Well, how about that. There were large pigs loose on the interstate in Vermont (I-91 near Barton).
http://www.wcax.com/story/30598644/pigs-on-the-loose-on-interstate-91
Two days in a row!
I know that "day" you're speaking of. It was mere chance that 11 something on the 23rd, I decided to check and see how complicated it would be. . . . And saw that they were charging on the last day of the month trial rather than the first day of the next month. . . . I imagine they catch lotsa peeps that way. I lucked out.
And the good news is that FedEx is actually going to deliver to my porch. (Got a phone call from the delivery dood this a.m.) We've exceptionally unlucky in our FedEx drivers. One was chucking packages in an abandoned house, for a very long time. The next just dropping them at the post office. UPS has always been wonderful, but with Amazon's "hybrid" system, UPS mostly drops stuff at the post office, too. Which sorta negates the two-day delivery thingy.
*This* time, UPS actually DID show up on my porch yesterday (yay!). And now FedEx is planning to, too. . . . I feel blessed.
WHOO HOO!!! I am ready to do handsprings I am so excited that you're getting porch deliveries!!!!!! WOW!! What is the reason it's the fad now? Hmmm, best not rock that boat. ;-) Counting blessings for sure!!
Now, what is it that is to be delivered to your porch? I hope it's either something large or toothsome. ;-)
Lol! That was the reason for trying Prime--2 day delivery used to ALWAYS be FedEx or UPS--both of whom normally do deliver to your door. But Prime uses a mixed system, that leaves stuff at the post office. I paid extra for one day delivery on stuff which seemed to get me UPS completely, and FedEx for the rest. Lotsa little stuff--batteries, BP monitor, almond flour, choc chips, reading glasses, dog tie out (winter's hard on old tie outs), Alpha Lipoic Acid, Chromium Picolinate, milkhouse heater, Christmas tree spray. NOT ONE SINGLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT, LOL!
While waiting for my sugar free choc chips to arrive, made some brownie chip cookies. Same same, but cut up six brownies and mixed in like chips. Pretty good, grin.
New Thanksgiving thread!
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