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Vic: Well they were already set to drop the bombs on Japan before he got there....

Yeah, I thought to say, should have said, he didn't stop them from dropping the bombs. So, his main accomplishment was... to not get in the way. :/

That's it for today folks.

And that was a lot, too. Thanks, Vic.

Good morning, Molly, Lizzy, FenelonSpoke, Colin, Laurie David's Cervix, Golfman, The Great White Soctsman, Walter Freeman, Mr Scribbler, Case, Gem, free range jihadist, TrivialPursuer, and anyone after that I missed.

Whew! I don't think I'll try that again...!

RIP Robert Stigwood, Bee Gees manager...

Was it his idea for them to morph from one of the odder folkie vocal groups to disco?

I know they profited, good for them, but... weeeird transformation. I have all their pre-disco LPs. Somewhere in the catacombs.

Vic: The two ranchers in OR involved in the armed standoff... I consider them to be political prisoners...

Aside from the earlier article summarizing the situation, Sundance at Cons. Treehouse has added an article about "The U.S. Attorney At The Heart of The Hammond Family Problem":

The media are focused on the "Bundy Militia" angle to the standoff in Burns Oregon... However, a little research ... into the original legal battle reveals a rather startling update. ...

http://bit.ly/1mylhAO

Vic: I have no idea why so many people think he [Truman] was a good President.

A) Dropped the bombs on Japan.

2) He wasn't FDR?

That's all I've got.

...he was my first President....

Mine, too, for a couple of months. Grew up with Ike, though, of course, which has shaped my life. My kids' equivalent was... BJ Clinton. Sad, that.

Guess I didn't get up at this hour in vain. Thanks, Andy.

Morning, Glories!

Checking back in.
Hope it's all right
To come back in, only
To tell you good night.

♦

This universe
of evolving life
Is perfection's way
to experience strife.

Keep faith as you suffer,
And keep kickin' ass,
Secure in the faith
That all this, too, shall pass.

Pharma Shave

♥

Buenos nachos, nightwalkers.

Jesus is coming back...

NOW!

He's returning...

NOW!

RIGHT NOW!

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Jesus is coming back...

NOW!

Okay, NOW!

Just a minute...

NOW!

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It's time to commute,
shut down the computer,
head back to the roost,
where I will reboot 'er.
-Karma Shave

nerdygirl: Just saw "Galaxy Quest" yesterday. That was good.

That sounds like your first viewing. Was it? Such a great flick on so many levels.

I could watch it again, soon, even though it wasn't that long ago.

Gotta let Santa Clause wear off first, though.

Nineteen and in a bar?

Four and a half decades ago, I was in college in a town that straddled the state line. College side, 18, South side, 21.

Always wondered, if I stood astride the state line, and passed a beer from one hand to another, would I be alternating between legal and illegal.

Gives a certain perspective on the whole arbitrary legal age limit thing.

That woman abusing her husband thing. Has it been around a while? I'm pretty sure I read it before.

Relationships require patience. Some considerable. Some infinite. (See marriage chart.)

Hey, hi there! Is the ONT late or am I hungry? For cookies and hot chocolate!

Milady and I realized, here we are, the 10th day of Christmas, and we hadn't watched a single Christmas movie. So many choices in our library...

So, we just finished watching The Santa Clause; her suggestion. I wouldn't have picked it. But... you know... I got dusty-eyed. It's one of two great movies that Tim Allen really works in. (Great hat-tip scene in Santa's workshop where "Scott Calvin" tries on a toolbelt.) In fact, I don't think I've ever seen him in anything else.

As Santa would say, never give up, never surrender!

Moki: "Sorry about the big brother power. ..."

Asked the guy, can I opt out? He said, sure; call this 800 number to find out what the fine is. !!!

I don't even mind the electric co as much as I think about the hackers. Past time to look into getting a generator...!

FenelonSpoke: ..for making crepes or omelets or what?..

Photo of pan (better than the one I posted) found by artisanal 'ette: http://bit.ly/1PGlbCe

Pancake-type recipe, makes little balls. I've just tried 'em with (separately) feta cheese, cream cheese and orange marmalade, nut butter and chocolate, and lingonberry. Mmmmm. All delicious.

Good news / bad news kind of Monday.

Good news, Milady is trying out the Ebleskiver pan using Moki's recipe from the Sunday food thread, with various fillings. Yummy!

Bad news, the electric company switched out our old electric meters today for the new hackable / Big Brother digital meters.

Willowed last thread...

Anna Puma: "A little SciFi 'cheer' to start the New Year. A quick little story I just posted."

Well! That was... abupt!

Anna Puma: "A little SciFi 'cheer' to start the New Year. A quick little story I just posted."

Well! That was... abupt!

Vic: Even an attempted kiss is being used as sexual assault which the MFM automatically calls rape.

Heh... that reminds me.

When I was in college (1973), I was walking down the hall, and there on the hall phone (funny to think about hardwired house telephones now) was a cute girl I sort-of knew and liked. Impulsively, and quite uncharacteristically, I stopped and kissed her. And she kissed me back! It was sweet. She went back to her conversation, and I went on down the stairs....

Over a year later, she came to visit me in Oklahoma. Been together forty-plus years.

If it happened today... well, what would a couple of sexagenarians like us be doing in college today, anyway?

Marco Rubio and Jeff Flake ... separated at birth?