Been a little sick lately, slept a lot, feeling better today, until I went to help carry in some groceries. Here I was, dressed like it was still summer, light pants, tee-shirt, and when I walk outside the temperature is like -30°F with tornatic winds. Okay, it wasn't that cold or windy, but I did get totally chilled. Felt like every bit of heat had been drained from my body. I hate feeling chilled. Ran back inside and pulled blankets over me.
Gonna be a long winter.
Good night, Gracies.
BCochran1981> That's three times now that I've been looking at another tab, come back to the HQ and in the meantime it's automatically been bounced to some other page.
Had that too, 'til I turned off JavaScript.
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I stopped to read the post again. When will I learn to prioritize?
Avast me hearties, Cafeteria worker sees teacher dressed as a pirate on Talk Like a day, mistakes plastic sword for gun! The usual ensues.
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She's moving UP to Oklahoma? Welcome! Beheadings-free for over a week now. Oh, don't mind the armed guards inspecting everyone on the way in from our southern neighbor, and the quarantine is just a few weeks.
Sigh. It's not that funny.
Sounds like you and the dog are working things through. We tried to train ours, and found out how much it's training each other. Give him a pet for me.
Happy travels.
Sorry for the rant. Been off my feed lately, and that quote was percolating in my head since this morning, and I guess it had to bubble out somewhere.
Furthermore.
"… at last week’s Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBC) annual legislative conference, where black activists teamed up with Planned Parenthood to host a panel promoting contraception and increased access to abortion for African American women. …
"But Ryan Bomberger of the pro-life Radiance Foundation slammed the event in an editorial, dismissing it as a cynical attempt to twist the facts and scare black women into supporting Planned Parenthood’s agenda."
Life Site News again, this time via Truth Revolt.
Hey, kids! Friday Funnies! How many goofy gaffes can you find in Uncle Joe's quote?
"On energy, North America is literally — not figuratively — the epicenter of energy in the world today. … North America will account — meaning Mexico, China and Canada— for two-thirds of the growth of global energy supply over the next 20 years."
Joe being Joe. Literally — not figuratively.
White House, c/o CNS News, h/t Moonbattery (which has a graphic, "America from Joke Biden’s perspective")
"A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans overturned a lower court ruling yesterday and allowed the portion of the law requiring abortion offices to meet the same standards as other ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) to take effect. Enforcing the ASC requirements forced abortion offices in Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Austin, McAllen, El Paso, Houston, and Dallas to shut their doors today."
Life Site News c/o Truth Revolt
This morning on the radio news, I heard the complaint that this will lead to "millions of women being forced to drive thousands of miles for their 'reproductive health care,'"
Millions of women! Thousands of miles! For "reproductive health care"? Condoms? The Pill? String to tie her knees together? Those all would seem commonly enough available, even in Backwash, Texas. Perhaps they mean ob/gyn checkups? Pregnancy nutrition advice? Clean, well-equipped birthing rooms? Post-natal health care? Hmm?
One might imagine that Texas had banned "reproductive health care"! (Save us, Wendy Davis, you're our only hope!) Yet, ironically, all they did was insist that "reproductive health care" be (brace yourself) healthy, and meet certain reasonable, non-extraordinary health-care facility standards. Yet, with a stroke, Texas is down from 40 "reproductive health care" clinics to 8, "more than an 80% reduction in clinics statewide in nearly fourteen months, with a 100% reduction in clinics west and south of San Antonio." (I see that's down to most of the Texas-Mexico border. Hmm.)
Extremely rare, extremely early, only in most dire necessity, the tragic necessity of an abortion. A family's heart-wrenching decision with their doctor, a mother's grievous choice. Somehow, that scenario is hard to adjust with millions of women! thousands of miles!
Much less filthy genocidal butcher shops.
Howdy! Jumping in w/o reading comments, so don't know if this has been covered.
Just heard on the radio that de-contam of the Dallas Ebola apartment began today. There were "delays," the only one of which was mentioned was that they needed permission to move medical waste.
Seems t'me such things should've been expedited.
with all of this, my only thought is,
wait, Barney didn't work at the quarry with Fred, did he? And just where did Barney work?
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Vic> Looks like I need to post the links here.
The only sure way to elicit the morning post.
Morning, Glories.
I just want to wish everyone the happiest of Halloweens, Thanksgivings, and Christmases (or your choice of alernative Holiday) for 2014 and New Years 2015!
Enjoy shopping with the masses, traveling with the masses, the exchanges of hugs, greetings, and snot-nosed kids sneezing. Gifts, lovingly wrapped, sealed with a kiss. Isn't it wonderful!
Good night, Gracies!
Oh, yeah, I knew there was something else I wanted to post here. I'll just re-post what I commented on Ace of Spades this morning.
Among the other problems with shacking up… is a confusion of "anniversaries." Milady and I got married, but six years after we got, erm, "engaged."
Forty years ago this morning, I drove from my house in Tulsa to the train station in Ponca City. A woman from Chicago, whom I had come to know at college in Wisconsin, was coming to visit.
I kidnapped herShe decided to stay, and we've been together ever since. The most amazing thing about that was, passenger trains stop in Oklahoma? Who knew? (They don't anymore, I don't think.) We are not today the people we were then (thank God!), yet through all the multiple life disasters and personal changes, here we are. Ready for the next forty.
(Always weird to quote oneself.)
I'll add this story of how Milady first attracted my attention (which is to say, more than the attention I already had for all ladies at college). I don't remember why I turned to her, but I asked if she could sew a button on my shirt (a sign of what a helpless rube my college-educated butt was). Her reply: "I'll show you how to sew one on." I liked that gal right away!
Tom Lehrer: New Math with a nice whiteboard illustration.
(I tried to leave this on the previous common corpse thread, but the browser got closed and I lost the text. Gosh, browsers are stupid.)
I probably heard this in the early 1960s, since I was a big Lehrer fan, but I must've forgotten about it by the late '60s when what I think of as "new math" was introduced.
Lehrer first demonstrates two "old" techniques for subtraction. He mentions an age and institution bias on which you'd learn. The "carry the one" made both me & Milady blink absently. Carry the one, in subtraction? These are what I would consider "tricks" — not that they don't work.
What he calls "New Math" is what I (public schools, Oklahoma) and Milady (Catholic schools, Chicago) learned, which I think is called "grouping." Yes, it is intended to let you understand what you are doing, borrowing from the tens to subtract in the ones column. Is it just that it's what we were taught that this seems like the right approach? Still requires full "flash card" knowledge.
When I was in 9th grade, they introduced "New Math." (Or is it New New Math?) I was an "A" math student, and I got it immediately. At first, I thought this was pre-Algebra or something, but, no, it was just what we'd call "factoring." My thought, in 9th grade was, yeah, I get it, because I have this great grounding in traditional math; kids in the future are going to be totally lost.
Modern common corpse curriculum is like New Math dumbed down and made into awkward, often indecipherable, word-sentences designed to make people feel stupid, as far as I can tell.
