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Yet Another Reason You Shouldn't Text While Walking
http://bit.ly/stay-alert

c/o Reaganite Republican
http://bit.ly/1BJ9kbW

Pardon me for not researching it, but I think it was a Powerline article that said, the "story" is that Reid was supposed to deliver on something for the mob, failed to do so, and when they objected, he replied with something he shouldn't have, resulting in his injurious encounter with "exercise equipment."

At the very least, it's Dan Rather true. It's Harry Reid true. It's Brian Williams true, I tells ya.

Good morning, BenK. Thanks.

From the Americas Death Is Greatly Exaggerated link:

"...Are there severe problems with our liberal democracy? Yes. Is it lost or irrevocable? No. While the system has been strained, it is still a vibrant and functioning liberal democracy where power peaceably transitions every four to eight years. While there is clear evidence of decline in key areas, what was once created can be recreated or refashioned in light of new challenges and new times. ..."

This is still my belief. It ain't burnt yet.

Except, for "liberal democracy," I'd prefer "Constitutional Republic."

I still pleg alieguns tooth afflag & tooth areypublic ferwhichistanz.

"Mini usb to usb"

Well, sure, if you want to do it the easy way...

I have software that supposedly lets me look at and copy files from the cell. The paint program tells me the copies aren't really JPGs, though. What th?

Then, this tablet has 2 USB ports, a mini on the screen/tablet where the power plug goes, and a regular on the keyboard/dock where the bug for the wireless mouse goes.

I have a multiplex plug purchased with the tablet. Mini USB to 3 ports: 2 reg & 1 mini. You'd think that would be the key. But, no. the multiplex can go between the power plug and the tablet, but it apparently does not transmit power.

So, sans multiplex for reg usb, I either have to not have power or not have wireless mouse while the cell is connected. That's the only way I've found.

Like I said, the easy way.

"...easing some military enlistment standards as part of a broader set of initiatives to better attract and keep quality service members..."

Maybe, I'm just speculatin' here, but maybe, if the military had righteous, patriotic purposes (like, you know, occasionally being alowed to WIN wars), higher standards, and a CiC who wasn't out to destroy them, d'y think that might encourage quality service members?

Crazy thoughts, I know.

I took a cell cam pic of the sunrise, trying to capture the layers of rising fog, trees on the horizon, layers of red and purple in the sky.

Now I can't figure how to get the pic from the cell to the tablet. I've been working with computers for thirty-some years, and they just seem to get worse. Can't be me....

SMFH: "Lots of things make a whistling sound right before being applied thus to your ass."

Yeah, like the principal of my grade school, wielding The Paddle, as I recall. Seemed to enjoy his work.

"That John Kerry is one tough nut to crack I tell you."

First LOL of the day!

Oops. Link for unbelieving minister:

http://bit.ly/faithlessness

Core values? We don' need no steenking core values!
Candice Lanier, Frontlines

[Oregon-based Presbyterian USA Minister John Shuck:] "We all have been trained to think that Christianity is about believing things," Shuck said in the article. "Its symbols and artifacts (God, Bible, Jesus, Heaven, etc) must be accepted in a certain way.

"And when times change and these beliefs are no longer credible, the choices we are left with are either rejection or fundamentalism."

[Emphasis added. I believe this fellow is sad and confused. But mostly confused.]

Amazing animal tales, Comrade Arthur.

This one isn't quite as amazing, but it's elephants

Very Special Roadside Service
-Red Dawn, Chicks on the Right
http://bit.ly/jumbo-helps

Louisiana ...The vehicle was pulled over on the side of the road. It was tipping over, but a couple of elephants...

Oh no! Is he that drunk again?
Trey Sanchez, Truth Revolt
http://bit.ly/bone-head

[Boener:] ...it isn't all that easy to be in public service and have a name that looks like "boner."

Missed Sefton (Don Adams voice) by that much!

And I thought I'd be late!

Morning, Glories!

Such Glories as are up.

Thought for the day, any day. The Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men.

I rread that somewhere.

Anachronda "I thought the ampersands might prove tricksy."

Oh, well, yeah, that's Pixy's extra layer of protection against the 21st Century. Ampersands available with Premium membership only.

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♥

OM: "Black diamonds? I don't see any black diamonds? Do you?"

On another browser on another computer they show up as little boxes. No less annoying, of course.

"...when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."

Since it's Palm Sunday...

In my 20s, I sat down and read the four Gospels straight through for the first time. Although raised in church, I never "got it" until then.

I had set myself the goal of reading the New Testament, but Acts was profoundly disappointing, because the main actor had gone behind the scenes.

Sort-of maybe like reading about what went on in Middle Earth after Bilbo and Frodo and Gandalf sailed away. Interesting, but not on the same level at all as that which fired my enthusiasm.

Gem: "I copied and pasted from the post and Pixy no like it"

Commenters who don't want 500 errors (and AHEM! post bloggers who don't like black diamonds):

http://bit.ly/pixyize

Converts Unicode characters in a text into HTML code equivalents that Pixy can swallow.

and

Xavier: "Ah, no html-fu on AOS, eh?"

Square brackets instead of angled, and you're limited to i, b, s, and u.

Commenters' inconvenience is all for Ace's protection.

I am not a lawyer or bioethicist nor do I play one on the interwebs, but I am an armchair philosopher.

It has always seemed to me that, even if we presuppose that a woman has the right to abort, even right up until the head crowns as one rabbi ruled, that unborn child is still a protected citizen in every other way. If a woman was attacked and caused to miscarry, even on her way into an abortion clinic, it should still be murder. It isn't the other person's choice.

That this grisly murder in CO isn't called murder is certainly a travesty. Just as was not counting the youngest, unborn victim of the a$$hole at Ft Hood.

My 2¢ worth, less inflation.

AFK for a while.

Oh, Jesus Christ Superstar, huh? #45

I remember just where I was, exercising my 2-S draft dodge deferment, in the frat house hallway, almost to my room, when I hear the radio, from a bro's room behind me, blaring the chorus, "Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, Who are you, what have you sacrificed?" This was before my "rebirth" from reading the Gospels, but I credit it with being one of many factors ultimately pushing me that way.

The JCS* single was released to test the waters for the whole opera (just as the Who had released Pinball Wizard before Tommy). I didn't realize this until...

I was working at the mighty WBCR-FM, 5 watts (on a clear day with a North wind you could catch us in Rockford) when the station manager, my frat dad, brought me the promo copy of JCS*. In later years, after our frat was no longer running the station, kids ripped off all the best of their decades-old, magnificent collection of LPs of all genre, and in retrospect, I kinda wish I'd absconded with that promo box, with all its bg info on the artists & all.

(Some former students had gone on to work in the music industry, so we got advance copies of stuff all the time. I also premiered Joni Mitchell's Blue album in the midwest.)

I liked Deep Purple, and thought casting their lead singer as Jesus was fantastic; what a voice! Regardless of the religious shallowness of the opera, it had its moments, and 'the rocks and stones themselves would start to sing' was one of them.

I've always wondered if Jesus was speaking literally or was merely amusing himself taunting his critics with hyperbole when he said the stones themselves would cry out, but it certainly spoke to the incredible, powerful enthusiasm of the moment. Still does, two millennia later.

FenelonSpeaks, thanks for "Ride on in Majesty." We aren't churched, so this helped me feel like I was there again. With choirs singing beautifully and enthusiastically... but I can't make out what they're saying. (Glad that vid had lyrics.)

Hey, sun's almost up here in the middle of America.