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Post by whocanibe on Apr 2, 2013 14:57:11 GMT -7
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Post by whocanibe on Apr 2, 2013 22:10:20 GMT -7
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Post by pegasus on Apr 3, 2013 6:45:24 GMT -7
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Post by whocanibe on Apr 3, 2013 21:09:51 GMT -7
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Post by pegasus on Apr 5, 2013 8:51:33 GMT -7
Go for Broke Day Good afternoon my friends Another cold day with sunshine and blue skies. It's a teaser of a day, promising spring but so far not delivering it. Ugliness rears its head in the Rutgers basketball program and has become a sociala media feeding frenzy. So far it has gotten the coach and athletic director fired and now is working on the university president. I have o quarrel with the firing of the basketball coach. His actions are beyond the pale. But I don't agree with the AD's firing. He took what I think was appropriate and sufficiently punishing action but suspending the coach for three games, a $75,000 fine, anger management training and zero tolerance in the future. There was no real reason to fire the athletic director except to appease social media which now is going after the university president. Social media can be usedfor good many times, but at times it exhibits the mob mentality and this is one of those times. And now we can add Mississippi to our list of law enforcement personnel being gunned down. Detective Eric Smith and the murder subject he was questioning were killed in the Jackson, Miss. police headquarters. Who did the shooting and why are not yet known. One thing I find remarkable is that no one caught the shooter - the incident occurred on the 3rd floor of police headquarters!! And still nothing is done to try and curb such violence and to prevent undesirables from obtaining guns!!
Thought for Today: "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." --Colin Powell (b. 1937) Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93) and US Secretary of State (2001-2004).
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TGIF everyone!!
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Post by whocanibe on Apr 7, 2013 1:00:42 GMT -7
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Post by pegasus on Apr 7, 2013 5:53:06 GMT -7
National Beer Day Good morning everyone The day started windy but with sunny blue skies which have now disappearedto the usual overcast gloom. And I was so hopeful that we were going to have a nice synny spring day!! Syracuse lost!! And next year they will be part of the Atlantic Coast Conference along with all those Carolina schools. Yuck!! So the championship game will be Louisville vs.Michigan. The last appearance of the Big East as we've known it. So NASA plans to move a near-Earth asteroid closer to us, send astronauts out to bring back samples within the next 10 years. And then they will shift the focus to Mars. NASA would launch a robotic probe toward an asteroid in 2017 or so. The probe would capture the space rock in a bag in 2019, and then pull it to a stable orbit in the vicinity of the moon, using a next-generation solar electric propulsion system. That would reduce the travel time for asteroid-bound astronauts from a matter of months to just a few days.Good luck with that scenario getting through Congress. I can hear the screams of the Tea Party already.
Thought for Today: "Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do." --William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) Unitarian clergyman and author
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Have a spunky Sunday
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Post by whocanibe on Apr 7, 2013 21:37:49 GMT -7
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Post by whocanibe on Apr 8, 2013 22:00:19 GMT -7
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Post by pegasus on Apr 9, 2013 7:34:15 GMT -7
Good morning, who
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Post by pegasus on Apr 9, 2013 7:45:18 GMT -7
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day Good morning my friends Another overcast day and the temps for the next three days are dropping back into the 30s and 40s. Louisville won, beating Michigan 82-76 in one of the best finals ever. Now it's time for the Lousiville women to try and beat UConn tonight in New Orleans. It's a shame that the men's team can't go to the game but for some unknown reason it would violate some obscure NCAA rule. Don't ask me which one or why, IDK. And now the hooopla begins for the Masters Tournament at Augusta , Ga. that begins Thursday. Will Tiger win aother green jacket and resume his quest to break Jack Nicklaus's record of 19 major titles? Sunday will tell. Are Republican Senators and Congressmen deaf, dumb and blind? Their latest misreading of the American public is their vow to filibuster any gun control bill that comes to the floor in the US Senate. ANY BILL??? Including background checks??? How dare they!! Somewhere between 88$ and 92% of the American electrate supports background checks. And these idiots are going to try and stop passage of the bill in the US Senate. Words escape me over such stupidity. Thought for Today: "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." --Andre Gide (1869-1951) French 1947 Nobel Prize-winning writer, humanist and moralist
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Have a tranquil Tuesday
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Post by whocanibe on Apr 9, 2013 23:08:28 GMT -7
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Post by whocanibe on Apr 10, 2013 21:38:08 GMT -7
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Post by pegasus on Apr 11, 2013 8:38:49 GMT -7
Barbershop Quartet Day Good afternoon my friends It's been raining off and on most of the morning. Right now it's just the usual gloomy sky. At least it's not sleet, freezing rain or snow!! The Senate gun vote has pssed the first hurdle with a vote 68-11 to begin the debate on expanding background checks for gun sales and strengthen mental health and school safety programs. So now you know why the GOP senators backed away from filibustering - the Democrats had the votes for preventing it. Or am I being too cynical and the GOP really had a change of heart when they heard personally from the NewTown parents?
Well, what do you know? A secret population of 200 rare orangutans has been discovered in Borneo- all subspecies of Bornean orangutans are listed as endangered. Scientists estimate just 3,000 to 4,500 individuals are left in the subspecies known as Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus, making them the most severely threatened. 2,000 of those live in the Malaysian state of Sarawak in Batang Ai National Park and Lanjak-Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary and the new population was found by conservationists near the Batang park, in an area covering about 54 square miles. I wonder if Borneo is crawling with naturalists looking for odds and ends of endangered species. It seems that every so often we get one of these announcements. It makes me wonder about other sparsely populated by human areas, like the Amazon jungle in this hemisphere.
I woke up this a.m. and haven't felt right since. I hope I'm not coming down with something. Thought for Today: "To win without risk is to triumph without glory." --Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684) French poet and dramatist (El Cid), considered the creator of French classical tragedy
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Have a terrific Thursday
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Post by whocanibe on Apr 13, 2013 3:00:53 GMT -7
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