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* wanders back in from the book thread *

Thanks, chi. Guess I've just been missing her comments.

Mindful,
Carol said Hi yesterday or Friday. She's around. Or at least alive and well.

Now that I'm caught up, has everyone put on pants and moved on to the book thread?

Anybody seen Carol lately?

Morning, Glories!

We got the last of the heavy furniture out of my late cousin's apartment, yesterday (a day late, but it's a weekend so we had slack). She had about three generations of stuff crammed in her little place.

We were working 'til Midnight with a couple of muscular yout' and me. When I say heavy furniture, I mean "should have arranged for professional movers" heavy. Big electric recliner, electric hospital bed, appliances that we had to wreck things (a tiny bit) to get out of there.

Today, I am sore as I haven't been in a long while, certainly since my weeks-long illness last fall. Used muscles I haven't used in a while. Like this one.. ow! and this one.. ow!

Feels kind-of good actually. To know I can still do such things and not be totally hospitalized in the morning.

Plus, I don't think I considered politics or the world's situation the whole time. Which is good, because I couldn't drink 'til we were done. Hahaha. Urk.

My sad tale is done, I'll go see what alla y'all been saying this a.m.

Well, this is moving too fast for me and the wine I finally got to enjoy, at the end of the day, is gone. So, I'll bow out.

Remember, your angels have to watch you. So quit that.

Good night, Gracies.

Well, backed up enough to read about Crank's niece (deja vu about the nieces we temporarily accepted) and WeirdDave & Gingy going on welfare (tragic, that).

Howdy to alla y'all.

Just passing through after a hard day's doin's.

Five hundred comments I won't be going through'n's.

Any can't-miss anything in the news or among you'n's?

Sanders is Jewish? Huh. Never thought about it. :D

Heh. Although this one is much simpler, it reminds me of XKCD's classic flow chart, "Tech Support Cheat Sheet."

Hiya, Soops.

My only grandchild (so far) only made it three months in the womb. Buried at our farm as if it had been born. Would be in grade school today. No grieving? A$$hole.

The "Young Turks" crack me up. I watched one of their videos by mistake once and now I get their vids in my YouTube "recommended" list. This one showed up most recently (no, I didn't watch it):

DEBUNKED: Planned Parenthood Undercover Videos Are Bogus
by The Young Turks 1 week ago •82,372 views
…
The New York Times has investigated the two videos released by The Center for Medical Progress that are attempting to smear Planned Parenthood, and have come to the…

Hahahaha. The NYTimes investigated. That's almost as good as Josh Earnest getting the facts from Planned Parenthood.

** Attaches fresh meat to jeep, drives past the preserve where Vic lives to try to lure him out... **

Sometimes I'm surprised that folks are surprised, much less shocked.

From the moment we heard that one or more of the Chattanooga troops was armed and fired back, we talked about how charges were probably coming. Surprised?

Kind of like electing a bunch of folks you hope will be conservative ("but, but, she said she'd make the pigs squeal!") and being surprised that one election and a few extra quasi-conservatives didn't halt seventy years of Communist momentum.

If soldiers actually violated policy, there should be a trial. Then the policy should be found guilty and they should give him a medal.

Morning, Glories!

Because it's Saturday,
http://www.engrish.com/2015/07/try-a-pair/

Vox actually published a scathing 1,500-page review of the TRAILER.

Well, 1500 words anyway. Close enough for digital. :D

Always hit the coffee first, mindful webworker. Always.

Posted by: no good deed at July 30, 2015 09:09 AM (GgxVX)

Personally I recommend drinking the coffee. But if hitting it is you thing, I guess there's nothing wrong with that.

Always hit the coffee first, mindful webworker. Always.

I used to arise with or often before the sun, enthusiastic for the morning, happy to feed my pets, catch up on the blog, enjoy the coolest part of the day, get some work done.

Now, I find I lie in bed with no will to get up until the sun is high, pets seem rude and demanding, even the prospect of Vic's news and morning moron chatter don't inspire me to arise. I seem bereft of physical energy and spiritual motivation.

So, do you think I should go back to making coffee first thing in the day?

Morning, Glories!

I remember buying that Sgt. Fury. And that FF. Silver Surfer. Heh.

It was reading Sgt Fury that I was impressed that WW2 was really not that long ago. (My parents’ generation didn’t talk about it, of course.) At the time, we were closer to the end of WW2 than we are today to the GHW Bush years. If that makes any sense. And they were still picking up the pieces in Europe back then.

When my comics collection got ripped off, it included a friend’s complete Sgt Fury collection which had been entrusted to me. Almost worse than losing my own collection. Almost.

One of those "where did I read it?" quotes. Oh, wait! Found it.

siiiigh

To start with, Milady sends her appreciation of your research, chrissy. ♥ As ever.

And I say, those grapes in the picture look delicious (although at first I thought they were blueberries - mmm I'm not a fruity wine drinker, but I do wonder what blueberry wine might be like).

Sorry. Meandering mind. Back to my intended comment.

cth: Jesus drank grape juice, not wine…

As Doc Brown might say, these people just aren't thinking fourth-dimensionally. You nailed it, of course, chrissy, but I'll add my 2&cents; anyway.

[Idiot dusts off soapbox, climbs up, clears throat pretentiously as if he knew beans from butter]

'Twas a different age.

First of all, "don't drink the water" was the rule. Unsafe at any source. So, people drank fermented beverages. Potable, portable. Alcoholic content surely varied, but it didn't have to be 100-proof to just be safe, right?

To my reading, Jesus was (at least) twice offered "vinegar" on the cross. The gospel accounts of these instances are scant and perhaps a bit confusing - um - anyway, to a poor student of scripture like m'self. Today, if someone said "Got anything to drink?" and you gave them what we call vinegar, you'd think it was a cruel joke. That's what Luke 23:36 reads like. But folks - especially Roman soldiers - drank a common sour wine - sometimes called vinegar. They may have been mocking him (part of the job requirement for Roman executioners), but what the soldiers offered when Jesus needed to un-parch to say his final words (e.g.. Matt 27:48, John 19:29) was presumably genuine thirst-relief, not a mean trick.

Which should not be confused with that sop Jesus refused because it was poisoned (Matt 27:34). Some folks took it upon themselves to sneak poison to the condemned to dull their pain or even hasten their death. I'm sure many a suffering crucifixee was glad for the mercy-relief of suicide, but Jesus, of course, refused the narcotic.

Huh. I thought I was just making all this stuff up, but then I read about Gall in the Christian Answers dictionary. (Heh.)

And I've never thought it trivial that when Jesus, at his mommy's urging, let slip a bit of divine authority at the Cana shindig, he didn't just make "vinegar." The Best Man, host of the feast, had no clue that the wine was of miraculous origin. We have the eternal testimony of his mistakenly saluting the Father of the Bride on saving the best stuff for last! That weren't no grape juice! That was six (wasn't it? pardon me not running to BibleGateway again) big water-jugs of the finest wine.

Of course, they didn't have water for the purification ceremonies, but nobody noticed because then the party really got into full swing, and late the next day, everyone was amazed they had no hangovers. Um… that part may be apocryphal.

Be of good cheer!