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Something wrong with my connection. I can't see a morning thread.

Hello.

Exhausted as I am, this is too good not to take the time to share.

Diving home, tuning the dial, some NPR station, I think.

Host says he had two guests for his show tonight.

First, he announces, is marine biologist Helen (?) Scales.

While the voice says some other things, I say to the Mrs., "a marine biologist named 'Scales'?? Really?"

Then he announces, his other guest...

Don Jolly (sp?)...

a comedian....

I am not making this up.

Turned the radio off. Figured, not going to top that.

Well, aside from that long stinker dropped back there at #229 by someone who was obviously out there on something, I've enjoyed lurking on subsequent messages this evening, after watching some teevee with the missus. Exciting, eh?

Lurking, increasingly sleepily, though, so I think the last 20 or so sort-of ran together. Something about Ponzi and the FBI eating Spam in the barrel?

Just wanted to check back in to say I'm checking out.

Not-really-obligatory departing words of bumper-sticker wisdom:

:: There's no such thing as anti-matter.

:: There's matters.

:: Then there's doesn't matter.

God bless the denizens of this den and thanks for all the fish.

Good night, Gracies.

I'm sittin' here

I say, I'm sittin' here on a Saturday Night

I say, I'm sittin' here on a Saturday Night and I tune in to the Oh En Tea at Aye oh Ess Acsh Cue

I tune in, and with what, I enquire Socratically, or at least Philosophicatically, what do I discover for my efforts?

Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers theme song?

Cool!

Really, I think I watched every Rescue Rangers episode. It was better than those Chipmunks v Donald cartoons of my youth. ... There was a fly character, right? That was a little disturbing.

If you had kids of a certain age, and you monitored their Video Intake, you know all about the Ninja Turtles and Rescue Rangers and, oh, let's see, yeah, Duck Tales! The first seasons, largely based on the Carl Barks comic book stories, that was excellent stuff.

Bakshi's Mighty Mouse, shallow and frenetic, was still one of his best efforts. Destroyed by insane hallucinating religious moralizers.

Then there was the smarminess of Pee Wee's Playhouse. I enjoy watching them now, with my kids all grown up. (Whoa, Miss Yvonne!!!!!!111!!!!! Yow, Pool Guy!!!!) But it was still a great, endearing, hilarious, manic series. The King of Cartoooons! The closing music can still get me misty-eyed for days shared watching with my kids. As long as I don't think about reuben it in adult movie theaters. (Yes, YSWIDT.)

I'm an old comics & animation & kids show fan from when I was the age my kids were then. I was awfully glad that their era was filled with some good Saturday Morning fare, because, after all, I had to watch it. There were things we didn't see because Dad.

We vidtaped to a) watch shows that were broadcast at the same time and even better b) as I taught the kids, by FF'ing through the repeats of commercials (you gotta watch 'em the first time, at least, y'know, especially 'round Christmas), they could almost watch three half-hour cartoon shows in the time of two. Also, on our own time. Ah, the pre-Net tape-delay struggles.

Am I rambling? It's because of the (checks label) year.

Good evening, folks. It's a great big universe, and we're all really groovy. We're like flashes on the screen just like a 3-D color movie. We're here with smiling faces. Saturday at Ace's. It's a big Universe and it's GOD'S.

Glad he Shares.

» Even the goals that haven't been met, like "dismantle the FBI...." — rickl

ahem (embarrassing to keep being self-linking, but):

http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical/director-of-the-us-fbi-knows-nothing

"...Oh, you don't like Hillary? Have some Jeb." etc
—torquewrench

Why choose when you can have both?
http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical/hillary-jeb-2016

» From the vantage point of 2014, that reads like a progress report.

rickl, I should stop and read the list again, I suppose. I didn't yet. It's like watching Wonderful Life — I think I've long since got the whole thing memorized, and b) plenty of reminders in the headlines every day.

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I think I've just had an apostophe:

In the "war in Heaven," our world is still a hot battlefield.

Like some island where they didn't yet get the memo that the war is over; or where despite the larger victory, we're obliged to settle matters locally, Prime Directively as it were.

The rebel Prince of this world was dethroned, but not perp-marched - yet - because we haven't chosen as a world between the clearly opposite positions.The Devil continues to put forth his nefarious, blasphemous sophistries. Christ lets his life and true followers testify for Our Father, Art, in Heaven. Our world is like Americans before WW2, some supporting Germany, many undecided, much ill-informed, muddy, vacuous thinking; then came a time of choosing, clarity, requiring a choice of personal alignment.

Times of choosing happen suddenly. Best choose sides early. The reckoning will come you know not when, like the thief in the night.

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Have a day, folx.

I read your posts, MWW. I thank you for them.

BTW, the saint I mentioned who did biolcation (although there are a number of them) was St (Padre) Pio.

Dead thread
Go away
No one will read
What you have to say.
—Karma Shave

» Even a minor cut or scrape could become life-threatening if the wound got infected.

When my uncle Howard was a teen, he dove into a pond, poked out his eye with a sick, and died from infection, to my mother's everlasting horror.

My oldest brother had polio. My appendix burst. We were utterly cured. Talk about miracles! In just one generation, practically, whole categories of common death were eliminated.

Then came Obamacare....

"Seeing mothers lose at least 2 children as a rule...."

In the old Cherokee graveyard here on our place, there are two graves over 100 years old, one little 5yo girl, one infant girl, died in winter just weeks apart. I cannot visit them without imagining the scene, the wagons rolled up near the road we still use, the bitter winter wind, much like the January when they buried my father nearby. All the tall trees would not even have been there. The shocked mother....

Life is still hard. Just not that hard. Usually. Around here, anymore, anyway.

I'm caught up? Really?

Do I have to go face alleged Real Life now?

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How about a story, appropo of nothing whatsoever? From the bio-memory stores:

FenelonSpoke recently mentioned some saint who exhibited the apparent ability to transcend space - co-location or something. I didn't even know such a miraculous power was a thing in the West, much less that it has a name.

In Miracle of Love, ed. Richard Alpert a/k/a Baba Ram Dass (Be Here Now), there is a story of the Guru Neem Karoli Baba exhibiting that power.

There was a barber who served saints and holy men for free. (Try THAT in the USA!) The Guru went to him for a shave. The barber begins telling the Guru about his estranged son, living in a distant city. Half-way through the shave, the Guru excuses himself to go pee. He comes back, the barber finishes the shave.

A few days later the barber's son shows up. Seems that a couple of days earlier, he had been accosted by some crazy fellow who was half-shaved who told him to go see his father.

I always thought the half-shaved part was a hilarious touch. If I could do miracles, it'd be with a touch of humor whenever possible, because, well, life's funny.

» Better KU butt picture reminds me of an old saying...
» Miles and miles of broken glass etc....
» http://tinyurl.com/ksuyl9l
Posted by: Vic

I wasn't even gong to post a link, but that felt wrong, so I lazily just grabbed the top search link, which just happened to be about her butt. Glad you dug deeper.

» Remember the famous Pippa pic in the wedding?

No. I have know idea what this is about. Had tho click the article... oh, something about British royalty. Zzz.

But while I will continue to dutifully study that picture, in order to assist with crowd-sourced analysis, I only see natural padding. Can we compare with Kate Upton?

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/kate-upton-butt-doesn-at...

Did that pass Pixy?

Without following up on recently posted links, I'm wondering why in Heaven that Santa statue is in the news again? It's the publicity stunt from Hell, never gonna happen, & it's more "olds" than "news."

Praise Santa! -that little girl in Boondocks.

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Morning, Glories. What's left of it. Got off to a late start today. Seemed to really confuse my furry friends. Late breakfasts and all.

grammie, atc, any I missed, thank you! Means a lot.

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20 years and 1 month ago, late at night, we pulled into town ahead of the moving van. Went to our new business location. Place had been abandoned for many months. Before my key hit the lock, local cops pulled up.

I introduced myself as the new owner, and praised their alertness, noting it to our trio of youngsters. Good way to start our new life, I thought. Even in Chicago, I had told the kids, turn to a cop if there's trouble.

Later, a bully cop was in our place, and slapped cuffs on my 10yo son as a 'joke.' Cop was armed, I was not, and I tried to be all haha polite, but it was the one time I ever wanted to punch a cop. Jerk got in trouble later. Wasn't even a modern steroid thug type cop, just an old-fashioned swaggering bully.

But at least it happened when my kids were about the right age to start moderating the idea that Mr Policeman is Your Friend. (Our business for a while served a lot of young folk, and we had a lot of cooperation from very good cops.)

That was before Officer "what's that smell?" Green frisked me & searched my car. (Long-winded story linked in nic.)

My last significant cop encounter (just a turn signal burned out, no ticket) was with a steroidal, hyper-grim, grilling-me highway patrolman. No problems, really, I marveled about all the cop computer stuff filling the front seat, but his manner made my skin crawl; he was not the Smokey of my youth; different breed, and not better.

I will keep you and your family in prayer.,Mindful Webworker.

And, yes, I did sneak three prayer requests into one there. Think Heaven will object on technical grounds?

Back to reading....
Posted by: mindful webworker — not a lost soul, just a faulty GPS at May 02, 2014 09:04 AM (6B4ha)

Prayers sent.

Posted by: mindful webworker — not a lost soul, just a faulty GPS at May 02, 2014 09:04 AM (6B4ha)

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I can do a three-for-one. Consider yourself all prayed up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK3FRZkuwv0

» And where the freakin' hell does Gabe get this shit "music"?
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry

Oh, phew, thanks for the review. I was about to click on it, figuring it must be important if Gabe put it in the "Top Headline Comments" post!

Morning, Glories.

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I am a grumpy webworker.

I don't complain much if I can help it, but, my life, my family, is in many aspects a four-way train wreck. When I read the news, it actually makes me feel better, because it takes my mind off my my own miseries for a few moments, gives a coldly comforting perspective, y'know?

Sometimes the solipsism kicks in and I think the world's troubles and mine are hard-wired together, like, if I could just balance and set in order affairs in my own sphere, the nation will follow. I'm trying, really, but I make no progress day-to-day. Sorry.

If anyone should happen to have a spare prayer lying around not currently being used, though, please nudge the almighty supreme source and center of all creation, parent of every personality, to spare some strengthening of Family, glorious enhancement of Truth, and healing for the good souls long suffering from unearned mortal ailments. Those categories address my list of troubles, generally speaking.

And, yes, I did sneak three prayer requests into one there. Think Heaven will object on technical grounds?

Back to reading....

Oklahoma — where capital punishment has an actual effective deterrence effect! You do not want to commit a capital crime in this state.

In fact, you don't want to commit any crime because, bubba, what the capital criminals go through that makes the news? Just tip of the iceberg.

I suggest committing your crimes someplace that really likes to coddle criminals. Texas for example. :O

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I I'm thinking of changing my handle tho "Tip, of the Iceberg." Whattaya think?

Wow, I'm sleepy... was gonna read mor... can't find... post... button...

Good night, Gracies.