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The filter folded over upon itself. Ever have that happen? I now have NO coffee, and a mop in my hand...
Posted by: shredded chi

Your day can only get better, then. I hope.

And thanks, webworker, for leaving me downstairs to talk to myself. /s
Posted by: shredded chi

I meant to go back. I still do! But I made coffee, and thenVic had already posted and he had a grandkid and there was an earthquake, a tornado, an extraterrestrial invasion... it wasn't my faaaaaault! ((whips off shades and bats eyelashes over baby blues))

"Every browser that runs on Windows will give you the option of opening the link in a new tab or new window..."

I've always been frustrated that Opera never ha
d recognition of non-linked urls, mostly on this here 1990s blogware.

But, yes that's the browsers not the OS, Carol.

And in all cases, blame programmers.

Disabled vets will be taking cuts in that Ryan budget sell-out as well.
http://tinyurl.com/ksnrdx5
Posted by: Vic

For all the malfeasance of gubmint, nothing outrages me so viscerally as not respecting, well, our troops generally, but especially vets. That's an abrogation of contract for which a hell would reserve special suites.

today I am a proud great grandpa, yesterday evening; 8 pounds 5 ounces.

Vic, I'm concerned about your severe weight loss... oh, that's the grandkid...

Virtual cigars all around.

Of course, this poor kid's birthday competes with Christmas. I have a BiL born nowabouts. It has... consequences. (Just kidding, Jack!)

didn't get the context until you just noted the magic #...
-shredded chi

Folks just don't make that big a deal about it like in the old days of a few months ago. We're losing our cultural touchstones and traditions!...

Morning, Chi. Howdy Mr. Jarhead. Et al. (Al? Al who?)

The Waiting for Vic Club meets every morning for coffee and doughnuts. Who wants glazed with sprinkles?

"...it'll be a long time before most of these guys and gals pay attention to you past 'hello'..." -s chi

Is that it? I thought I was just being filtered out. hahaha

It's kinda like the country residence thing. The spread south of us is the Lounsbury place, even though Mrs L left about three decades and three owners ago. Someday somebody might stay long enough to become real to the neighbors....

and I read the comment by 'Crowley' but only now realized it was the triple six. *belated golf clap*

cthulhu, wait.. I have more IP6 DNS questions... or might have once I get coffee.... probably not...

Only thing I miss about daylight savings time is all the morons who live by the clock instead of the sun were up an hour earlier. We'd have morning post by now.

G'morning day zombies.

yaaaawn

I have to go look for a morning thread... by time travel.

My time travel machine is stuck on fwd only.

Remember... no matter how much data they gather... they don't know anything.

After the obligatory once-over on Maet's post, I walk into the party and what's the first thing I overhear?

of course a gentleman never lets a lady grease her own skids. - yankeefifth

I know I've found the right place!

When will I learn? Someone else will say what I'm
trying to say, better, and more concisely, before I can finish my
longwinded blather!

Posted by: Nummy Gingerbreadhighrises, the mindful webworker at December 17, 2013 10:05 AM (Bfbpz)
But then we would not have the pleasure of reading your comment, which, btw is a great comment.

Abortion is not the same as the death penalty: that is a false equivalence. : CharlieBrown'sDildo

When will I learn? Someone else will say what I'm trying to say, better, and more concisely, before I can finish my longwinded blather!

"I have come to oppose the death penalty. As a Catholic, I believe in the sanctity of life and would therefore refrain from carrying out a death sentence the same as I would an abortion."

While in some regards, I respect this as an attempt at moral logical consistency, the failure of the parallel is this: no unborn has ever proved to be an irredeemable sociopath too dangerous to be allowed to live, as far as I know.

We need to improve our standards of justice, but I don't think mortal society is wrong to send certain cases to the higher courts where true justice prevails.

But I'm not a Catholic nor a Fundamentalist, and while the climate of the times means I don't talk about it much, I also believe there are instances when the grievous choice of abortion may be the wisest course (and I mean 'dire threat to the mother and liitle chance if mother or baby surviving very earlist stages' type of hard material-life realities, not the wanton, egregious slaughter of healthy babies for 'birth control'), but I add that only to emphasize there are utterly different processes of reasoning involved in these different, unrelated instances of killing.

Would you end the life of your fellow on the battlefield, obviously mortally wounded, screaming in anguish, begging for death? Talk about tough choices!

Would you keep alive great gramma's body when she psychically flatlined long ago and her soul is already up there saying, gross, pull the plug, already? Yeah, I know that's tough, too, because we can only infer from brain activity, but the body is not the person.

Would you respect the 'sanctity' of the life of some armed thug about to maliciously murder you, if you were cornered? Or if you'll turn the other cheek to that, how about if the thug is threatening your family or other innocents? My understanding is if its in your power, you don't shoot to disarm or disable a severe threat; you make sure the thug gets no second chance at you.

These are the toughest choices; there is no one easy doctrine that covers every case. Life is precious, but not divine, or my miscarried grandchild would be school age today. Sometimes dealing with life means dealing death, by God. May mercy always guide us.

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Woo. My tl;dr du jour. New one surely up. Siiigh

Dec 17. Just realized, it's Dad's birthday!

To some in my family he was a horrible husband, a brute, alkie, philanderer, deserving of the harsh divorce. To some folks, he was a great man who helped turn politics around in our then-heavily Democratic state.

He died at age 50, when I was 15. I'm more than a decade older than he ever got to be. Gives me a certain perspective. He was my dad and I've missed him for getting close to half a century.

HBD, JWT.

The last Cat Stevens album I got was Buddha and the Chocolate Box, an interesting endpiece to his heyday. Like poor old John Lennon, Cat was searching, so hard, but not finding truth. John found domestic bliss. Regardless of what we think of Yoko, aspiring to just be a better husband and father was something I was glad for John that he found, after his lost years. And he was right to not record for years.

While disappointed in Cat Stevens' choice, I'd hoped he found peace, and was glad that when he thought he had, he quit music.

Because...

It is seeking and struggle which make for good rock (and other stories); rockers adapt poorly to hymns of joy and salvation. Would that some other 'enlightened' musicians had not tried to share. *cough* Starship *cough*

Back at #42, "earliest evidence of when cats started to be domesticated. http://tinyurl.com/mje65sm"
- Anna Puma

Cats eat rodents and bury their poop. Other than primitive dim-wittedness (nowadays known as 'progressivism') that would eat cats instead of use them, I can see cats domesticating people from the earliest ages.

God gave us cats because someday the Intrewebz would need content.

Country music has already been leaving Nashville and heading to Bransen, MO -Vic

Whenever the New Madrid Fault goes, Bransen will be flattened too. -puddleglum

Just FTR, it's Branson with an o.

-mindful, in the state next door