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Bill and Hillary ~ Circa 1970













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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

John Keats, poet (1795-1821)

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Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. (sort of like booze does!)

Suzanne Necker, author (1739-1794)

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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)

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Some people are like Slinkies.

Not really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

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I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison, inventor (1847-1931)

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A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat and writer (1884-1962)

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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Walter Lippman, journalist (1889-1974)

my blog will be blasted into space. Really.

I am not sure how they do it, but scroll down through my sidebar till you see the green button that says Transmitting.

Click on it, and it will tell you how to cast your blog into space too.

And a cup!

My mom saved this case and used it to store her name labels for her sewing projects. That's a good re-purposing, isn't it? I think the box was one I had in the mid-fifties. I had forgotten about it until I needed to sew a button this week, and found it in my old sewing box.

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What the heck?
all you Bloggers, that is.
So be careful.....lol.
Uh, oh. She means business!
This makes me sad.

Go here

http://www.thewvsr.com/childrensbooks.htm


to see the covers of the LEAST popular children's books of all time. They were posted by Jeff Kay at the West Virginia Surf Report.

You get wonderful bookmarks made for you on Grandparent's Day! 

This was made by my beautiful 10 year old granddaughter. I will treasure it forever. 

 

I was thinking about how a status symbol of today is those cell phones that everyone has clipped onto their belt or purse. I can't afford one, so, I'm wearing my garage door opener.

You know, I spent a fortune on deodorant before I realized that people who avoided me just didn't like me.

I was thinking about old age and decided that old age is 'when you still have something on the ball, but you are just too tired to bounce it.

I thought about making a fitness movie, for folks my age, and call it "Pumping Rust."

I have gotten that dreaded furniture disease: That's when your chest is falling into your drawers!

I've come to realize that the secret to a happy life is not looking like Barbie or Ken and suffering through tofu and rice cakes to stay that way! It's eating chocolate, staying chunky and explain that you're really a perfect size 6, but you keep it covered with fat so it doesn't get scratched!


I know, when people see a cat's litter box, they always say, "Oh, have you got a cat?" Just once I want to say, "No, it's for company!"

Employment application blanks always ask 'who is to be notified in case of an emergency' I think you should write, "A Good Doctor!"


Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do -- write to these men? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen could look for them while they deliver the mail? Or better yet, arrest them while they are taking their pictures!


Just once, when someone says "How are you" (without really wanting to know), I'd like to say " my hair is falling out, I cannot see where the heck I'm going most of the time, my back hurts and I pass gas every time I sneeze (and feel like sneezing right now)! I'll bet that'd cure 'em from asking again!

Received in email!

A word to the wise. I got this in an email, and I thank whomever wrote it!

Email petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other municipality. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full address. Almost all email that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wants to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was (and all this type of email is) is to get names and "cookie" tracking info for tele-marketers and spammers to validate active email accounts for their own purposes.

Any time you see an email that says forward this on to "10" of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get good luck or whatever, has either an email tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and emails of those folks you forward to or the host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of "active" emails to use in spam emails or sell to others that do.


If you want to forward stuff like this because it's interesting, take off all the "front" info and all the forwards and DON'T add your name to them.


Tell others and you will be providing a good service to your friends and will be rewarded by not getting 30000 spam emails in the future. I always doubted if these email petitions ever accomplished anything. Now I am going to delete all petitions no matter what they promote. If anyone can show me where a petition has ever had any results I will reconsider.


Give everybody a break by not forwarding all those petitions.
Click below to check it out with Truth or Fiction.


http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/p/petitions.htm

 

I got this list in email, and some of them are really lame, while others are funny. I thought about removing the bad ones, but I am too lazy to re-number the list - so you get them all.

1. A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.

2. A will is a dead giveaway.

3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

4. A backward poet writes inverse.

5. In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.

6. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.

7. If you don't pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.

8. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.

9. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat miner.

10. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

11. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.

12. A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France and resulted in linoleum blownapart.

13. You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.

14. Local Area Network in Australia: The LAN down under.

15. He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.

16. A calendar's days are numbered.

17. A lot of money is tainted: 'Taint yours, and 'taint mine.

18. A boiled egg is hard to beat.

19. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

20. A plateau is a high form of flattery.

21. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

22 Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

23. When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.

24. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.

25. When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.

26. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.

27. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.

28. Acupuncture: a jab well done.

29. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.

Note: No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

This headline topped an article in our morning paper, from the Los Angeles Times.

"One-third of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder cases are linked to prenatal exposures to cigarette smoke or childhood exposures to lead, researchers reported Monday.

The study, lead by researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, was the first to estimate the number of ADHD cases tied to environmental toxins.

The report 'provides further evidence that we need to find ways to dramatically reduce prenatal tobacco smoke exposures and childhood lead exposures,' said lead author Dr. Bruce Lamphear".

At AAA, we discover they don't carry the extension handles, but it is suggested that we go to one of the two travel stores in the nearest mall. I avoid that mall like the plague, but in the interest of the search we went there (only the second time this year for me). We checked the first store, which had one that I thought was sort of pricey plus a saleswoman who was so bored and uninterested she could hardly bring herself to talk to us. So we went to the second store, where we found the same handle at the same price, but a salesman who was genuinely helpful. We bought it.

As we pulled into the driveway at home, Mr. kenju took the suitcase from the car, extended the handle and proceeded to drag it into the garage, where he stops and says....

"You know, I don't think I really need an extension after all."

Guess who had to go back to the store for a refund?

(not me........LOL)

No time to post - enjoy the cartoons!
 

Light travels faster than sound . This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.


He who laughs last, thinks slowest.


Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.


Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.


Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.


The 50-50-90 rule:Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.


If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them, five or six at a time, on a hill, in the fog.


If the shoe fits, get another one just like it for the other foot.

The things that come to those who wait, will be the things left by those who got there first.


Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries.


The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.


A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.


When you go into court, you are putting yourself
in the hands of 12 people who are not smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Edit: My boss wanted me to thank all of you who have left/are leaving comments about the table(s). It is very gratifying to know that your work is appreciated and he is very pleased with what all of you had to say.
1 and 2. Mel Day's "Wizard of Oz".
3. "Asian Serenity"

4. "Going Platinum"

5. "Family Reunion" (a Halloweenish theme, with a
casket and other eerie theme elements.


6. "Picture That", in the wedding category.
 

Since then, the whole adoptive family has been to those islands several times to visit, and they were treated like kings and queens themselves. The last I heard, the birth mother was still alive and she had created a warm link to her child, and he to her. There is a downside, though. His sister had learned of her birth mother several years before all this happened. She was met with indifference and was not able to learn about her birth family. I know she is happy for her brother, but it is so sad that they both could not share in the joy of forging a link to the past.

go and read this one about an adoptive child finding her birth father and learning what she believes to be her purpose in life.

http://www.dailymail.com/story/News/+/2006091544/W.Va.+native+a+real-life+princess

If you didn't see the original post about this - go back to 9-14-06.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th US president (1908-1973)

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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)

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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Peter. B. Medawar, scientist, Nobel laureate(1915-1987)

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Great Bumper Stickers:


IF YOU CAN'T FEED EM, DON'T BREED EM!

Constipated People Don't Give A Crap.

If You Can Read This, I've Lost My Trailer.

Horn Broken... Watch For Finger.

The Earth Is Full - Go Home.

I Have The Body Of A God - Buddha.

Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult.

If We Quit Voting, Will They All Go Away?

Illiterate? Write For Help.

Honk If Anything Falls Off.

Cover Me, I'm Changing Lanes.

He Who Hesitates Not Only Is Lost, But is Miles From The Next Exit.

I Refuse To Have A Battle Of Wits With An Unarmed Person.

(Seen Upside Down On A Jeep): If You Can Read This, Please Flip Me Back Over...

Body By Nautilus; Brain By Mattel.

How Many Roads Must A Man Travel Down Before He Admits He is Lost?

and my favorite:

"POLITICIANS & DIAPERS BOTH NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN, AND FOR THE SAME REASON"

Now, go forth, my children, and reformat all over the land. Selah.

The three judges were well known in their respective fields:

1. Bill Hamilton, the National Sales Director for a table linen and chair cover company in Detroit. 2. Chantelle Stallings, South Florida, part owner and head designer of a business providing custom designed gourmet cakes and desserts. 3. Steve Kemble, whom some of you may know from "Whose Wedding is it Anyway?", the CBS Early Show and ABC's Extreme Makeover, Wedding Edition. Steve's reputation for flamboyance preceded him; we expected a wild personality and we were not disappointed. He arrived late (due to a flight cancellation); wearing a tan beaded jacket, a black lace top with huge ruffled cuffs peeking out of the jacket sleeves, brown silk brocade pegged pants and black leather, pointy toe cowboy boots. As a wedding designer and florist in Dallas, steve is well-known for distinctive work, but also for coordinating his clothing on the day of the wedding to the main colors for that wedding. I once saw him in the Style Network show in an electric blue brocade suit. He is best known for the phrase - uttered with suitable passion at every opportunity - FABULOUS, JUST FABULOUS!! You may be interested to know that he looked a lot thinner than he does on TV. I don't know if that is because he actually has lost weight since those shows were taped - or if TV really does add 10+ pounds to your frame.

This year's event was a stand-up buffet, whereas the last one was a seated meal. You may remember I wrote about it before, but I can't seem to find it in the archives.

There were stations all over the large room; Asian, with sashimi, rice, sauteed vegetables with teriyaki sauces, a Mexican station with shrimp and veggie quesadillas, and tortilla chips with a wonderful warm, cheesy drizzle over them, and hearts of palm, a station with gazpacho shots, penne pasta done Spanish style, and dessert crepes, as well as a chocolate station with items too numerous to mention and of which I wouldn't know the names anyway (but I ate one of each!). One of the best items was a green bean fritter, which was passed on trays by waitstaff. They also served champagne which was packaged in a small soda-type can with a pop-top and straw. I had never seen that before.

None of the design entries had anything indicating the name of the designer or group who presented it. The judges moved through the room, marking their likes and dislikes, and the winners were announced at the end of the evening.

My boss (sadly) didn't win for his entry in the "children's" category. It was a wonderful interpretation of "The Wizard of Oz", complete with a quaint, little green house and a tornado. The chairs were also decorated with various elements from the movie, such as the ruby slippers, lunch basket, Toto, witch's hat, magic wand, tin man's hat, etc. The table was covered in sparkly emerald green linen and the flowers were all green (not dyed ones (God forbid) - real green flowers).

I hope you have enjoyed reading about the evening. Pictures would have capped it off well - but it was not to be. I'll try to do better next time!

Here are some suggestions, which are hobby or career oriented..........enjoy! 

Go here to read a most astute and well-written essay on handling grief and the pain of loss:

http://thoughtcrimes.org/s9/index.php?/archives/996-Reflections-on-loss,-this-11th-day-of-September.html

Toronto (click to enlarge)

Tokyo

Sydney

Singapore

Shenzhen (China)

Shanghai

If you want to see the first post in this series, see 9-9-06.

Look at a one dollar bill. The bill you're looking at first came off the presses in 1957 in its present design.

This so-called paper money is in fact a cotton and linen blend, with red and blue minute silk fibers running through it. It is actually material. We've all washed it without it falling apart.

A special blend of ink is used, the contents we will never know. It is overprinted with symbols and then it is starched to make it water resistant and pressed to give it that nice crisp look.

If you look on the front of the bill, you will see the United States Treasury Seal. On the top you will see the scales for a balanced budget. In the center you have a carpenter's square, a tool used for an even cut. Underneath is the Key to the United States Treasury.

That's all pretty easy to figure out, but what is on the back of that dollar bill is something we should all know. If you turn the bill over, you will see two circles. Both circles, together, comprise the Great Seal of the United States. The First Continental Congress requested that Benjamin Franklin and a group of men come up with a Seal. It took them four years to accomplish this task and another two years to get it approved.

If you look at the left-hand circle, you will see a Pyramid. Notice the face is lighted, and the western side is dark. This country was just beginning. We had not begun to explore the West or decided what we could do for Western Civilization. The Pyramid is un-capped, again signifying that we were not even close to being finished. Inside the capstone you have the all-seeing eye, an ancient symbol for divinity. It was Franklin's belief that one man couldn't do it alone, but a group of men, with the help of God, could do anything.

"IN GOD WE TRUST" is on this currency. The Latin above the pyramid, ANNUIT COEPTIS, means, "God has favored our undertaking." The Latin below the pyramid, NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM, means, "a new world order". At the base of the pyramid is the Roman Numeral for 1776. If you look at the right-hand circle, and check it carefully, you will learn that it is on every National Cemetery in the United States It is also on the Parade of Flags Walkway at the Bushnell, Florida National Cemetery, and is the centerpiece of most hero's monuments. Slightly modified, it is the seal of the President of the United States, and it is always visible whenever he speaks, yet very few people know what the symbols mean.

The Bald Eagle was selected as a symbol for victory for two reasons: First, he is not afraid of a storm; he is strong, and he is smart enough to soar above it. Secondly, he wears no material crown. We had just broken from the King of England. Also, notice the shield is unsupported. This country can now stand on its own. At the top of that shield you have a white bar signifying congress, a unifying factor. We were coming together as one nation.

In the Eagle's beak you will read, "E PLURIBUS UNUM", meaning, "one nation from many people". Above the Eagle, you have thirteen stars, representing the thirteen original colonies, and any clouds of misunderstanding rolling away. Again, we were coming together as one.. Notice what the Eagle holds in his talons. He holds an olive branch and arrows. This country wants peace, but we will never be afraid to fight to preserve peace. The Eagle always wants to face the olive branch, but in time of war, his gaze turns toward the arrows.

They say that the number 13 is an unlucky number. This is almost a worldwide belief. You will usually never see a room numbered 13, or any hotels or motels with a 13th floor. But think about this: 13 original colonies, 13 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 13 stripes on our flag, 13 steps on the Pyramid, 13 letters in the Latin above, 13 letters in "E Pluribus Unum", 13 stars above the Eagle, 13 bars on that shield, 13 leaves on the olive branch, 13 fruits, and if you look closely, 13 arrows. And, for minorities: the 13th Amendment.

Too many people don't know this. Too many veterans have given up too much to ever let the meaning fade. Many veterans remember coming home to an America that didn't care. Too many veterans never came home at all. Share this page with everyone, so they can learn what is on the UNITED STATES ONE DOLLAR BILL and the meaning behind it.

I didn't write this - I received it in email. I tried so many times to post a scanned photo of a dollar bill and I finally gave up. Blogger - can you please get it together?!

 

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Want to sign a petition or share your two cents worth concerning Pluto? Go here; there is a link on the page to the petition:

http://www.earthsky.org/


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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910)

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Guess What? Today is Poopie's birthday. I'd be ever so pleased if you'd go and tell her to have a happy one!

http://keeepinthefaith.blogspot.com/

and scroll down to another post!

This has been floating around in email for a few days. In order: New York City - Sao Paulo, Brazil - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, - Hong Kong - Guangzhos, China - Frankfurt, Germany - Dubai, Arab Emirates - Chicago

More to come.

Please scroll down - there is another post below.

Go here to read travel blogs:

http://www.travelblog.org/latest.html

 

 

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Traditional Buddhist Blessing and Healing Chant, stolen from Chancy:

http://driftwoodinspiration.blogspot.com/

"Just as the soft rains fill the streams,pour into the rivers, and join together in the oceans, so may the power of every moment of your goodness flow forth to awaken and heal all beings--those here now, those gone before, those yet to come.

By the power of every moment of your goodness, may your heart's wishes be soon fulfilled as completely shining as the bright full moon, as magically as by a wish-fulfilling gem.

By the power of every moment of your goodness, may all dangers be averted and all disease be gone. May no obstacle come across your way. May you enjoy fulfillment and long life.For all in whose heart dwells respect, who follow the wisdom and compassion, of the Way, may your life prosper in the four blessings of old age, beauty, happiness and strength."

Source: Holistic Living

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Check this out!!

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

Thomas Paine, philosopher and writer (1737-1809)

(it's almost as if he could see into the future, huh?)