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To all you dads and furbaby dads!
milk and Girl Scout cookies ;-)
Save your breath-You may need it to blow up your date.
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milk and Girl Scout cookies ;-)
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The most recent mass murder in the South Carolina church is receiving some comments that just are weird. The fundamental truth is that one person used apparently legal weapons to shoot and kill 9 defenseless humans.
That they were black humans is critical to an understanding of where this event fits into the American gestalt. it is tragic that he, from his own words, chose the victims based upon their race. The tragedy is that the color of one's skin or the location in which they were born is still so important to so many people.
The genesis of this traces to the fact that most of us barely recognize the humanity of other humans. Killing is at the extreme edge of this, but the day to day way in which we treat each other as objects and labels is a tragedy that transcends and causes tragedies such as this shooting.
I grew up in an unusual family. My mother's father was "black", the rest of my grandparents "white". It just did not occur to me that they were anything but my grandparents, with all the ups and downs and eccentricities that humans carry around.
I hope that religious leaders of all stripes and faiths begin to get serious about bringing us all together, bringing out the humanity in each of us, and bonding us together to help one another in every way.
It might be time for everyone to turn off your television, listen to your heart and not your head, find the connections among us and especially give up the right to hate anyone.
We are one living inside the illusion of being separate. 
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Did anyone actually watch the US Open? I know that golf is not the most "exciting" sport, but that finish was about as exciting as it can get.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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I did. And I loved it! What a finish. Dustin Johnson might have another take. Living in the NW the tournament felt special to me. We had lived in Seattle for most of the 1980’s and I remember when that land in Tacoma that the course was built on was a working sand and gravel pit. The reclamation from it to golf course is an amazing story.
I am a slightly above hacker golfer— just as I am a surfer of the caliber shown in that big wave clip I posted. :roll eyes: Aside from it being a thrilling golf tournament there was this take away for me:
The brain trust for modern golf (USGA) and Chambers Bay in particular, are trying to get away from “old school” country club golf. Everything from reduced water usage to vastly reduced uses of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Not to mention artificial dyes. And I think that is a very good thing. In light of drought and the fact that many courses are chemical toxic waste dumps the reduction of all of that is a path that needs to be taken.
They probably could have made the greens very green (they weren’t) and perfect—with no poa annua—but that would have taken them back to heavy chemical, water, and fertilizer usage. If golf is to continue on into the future and be a viable enterprise that is the direction that needs to be taken. And not that of Augusta (Masters-1st of the four Majors)) and all the artificial nonsense that goes along with it. I remember a golfer—forget who-who would always “lick his balls” (sorry) after putting. The ball was covered with granular fertilizer and pesticides. I wonder what sort of cancers he eventually came down with?
I would even go back to no power carts. I’ve always hated using one and only have do so very rarely. When walking not only do you enjoy the scenery but you actually get some exercise and can think. And you can go directly to your ball.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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Great link logy. Makes sense to me. Seriously.
But I do think that Warren Druggs was one hell of a lead guitar player.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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milk and Girl Scout cookies ;-)
Save your breath-You may need it to blow up your date.
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1. She was in the bathroom, putting on her makeup, under the watchful eyes of
Her young granddaughter, as she'd done many times before.
After she applied her lipstick and started to leave, the little one said,
"But Grandma, you forgot to kiss the toilet paper good-bye!"
I will probably never put lipstick on again without thinking about
kissing the toilet paper good-bye.
2. My young grandson called the other day to wish me Happy Birthday.
He asked me how old I was, and I told him, "80".
My grandson was quiet for a moment, and then he asked, "Did you start at 1?"
3. After putting her grandchildren to bed, a grandmother changed into old slacks and a droopy blouse
And proceeded to wash her hair. As she heard the children getting more and more rambunctious,
her patience grew thin. Finally, she threw a towel around her head and stormed into their room,
putting them back to bed with stern warnings. As she left the room, she heard the three-year-old
say with a trembling voice, "Who was THAT?"
4. A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like.
"We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a swing made from a tire;
It hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods."
The little girl was wide-eyed, taking all this in. At last she said,
"I sure wish I'd gotten to know you sooner!"
5. My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, "Grandma, do you know how you and God are alike?"
I mentally polished my halo and replied, "No, how are we alike?'' "You're both old," he replied.
6. A little girl was diligently pounding away on her grandfather's word processor.
She told him she was writing a story.
"What's it about?", he asked.
"I don't know", she replied. "I can't read."
7. I didn't know if my granddaughter had learned her colors yet, so I decided to test her.
I would point out something and ask what color it was. She would tell me and was always correct.
It was fun for me, so I continued. At last, she headed for the door, saying,
"Grandma, I think you should try to figure out some of these colors yourself!"
8. When my grandson Billy and I entered our vacation cabin, we kept the lights off
until we were inside to avoid attracting pesky insects. Still, a few fireflies followed us in.
Noticing them before I did, Billy whispered,
"It's no use Grandpa. Now the mosquitoes are coming after us with flashlights."
9. When my grandson asked me how old I was, I teasingly replied, "I'm not sure."
"Look in your underwear, Grandpa", he advised ... .. . "Mine says I'm 4 to 6."
10. A second grader came home from school and said to her grandmother,
"Grandma, guess what? We learned how to make babies today."
The grandmother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool.
"That's interesting." she said . . . "How do you make babies?"
"It's simple", replied the girl. "You just change 'y' to 'i' and add 'es'."
11. Children's Logic: "Give me a sentence about a public servant", said a teacher.
The small boy wrote: "The fireman came down the ladder, pregnant."
The teacher took the lad aside to correct him.
"Don't you know what pregnant means?", she asked.
"Sure", replied the young boy confidently. 'It means carrying a child."
12. A grandfather was delivering his grandchildren to their home one day when a fire truck zoomed past.
Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog.
The children started discussing the dog's duties.
"They use him to keep crowds back", said one child.
"No", said another. "He's just for good luck."
A third child brought the argument to a close. "You're both wrong . . .
They use the dogs", she said firmly,
"to find the fire hydrants."
13. A 6-year-old was asked where his grandma lived.
"Oh," he said, "she lives at the airport, and when we want her, we just go get her.
Then, when we're done having her visit, we take her back to the airport."
14. Grandpa is the smartest man on earth! He teaches me good things,
but I don't get to see him enough to get as smart as him!
15. My Grandparents are funny.
When they bend over, you hear gas leaks and they blame their dog.
milk and Girl Scout cookies ;-)
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A RIDE IN THE TAXI
A woman and her twelve-year-old son were riding in a taxi in Detroit. It was raining and all the prostitutes were standing under awnings.
"Mom," said the boy, "what are all those women doing?"
"They're waiting for their husbands to get off work," she replied.
The taxi driver turns around and says, "Geez lady, why don't you tell him the Truth? They're hookers, boy!
They have sex with men for money."
The little boy's eyes get wide and he says, "Is that true Mom?"
His mother, glaring hard at the driver, answers in the affirmative.
After a few minutes, the kid asks, "Mom, if those women have babies, what happens to them?"
"Most of them become taxi drivers," she said.
milk and Girl Scout cookies ;-)
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