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Post by pegasus on Apr 13, 2013 8:58:30 GMT -7
Thomas Jefferson Day Good afternoon my friends Another overcast day threatening rain. And the forecast for tonight is possible SNOW! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! We had some unexpected drama to yesterday's Masters. Tiger Woods was assessed a 2-drop penalty at the end of play over the drop ball he took on the 15th hole. Under the Rules of Golf, a player must drop nearest to the spot of the original shot in that situation and the television replay of the drop shows Woods playing his fifth shot a few feet behind that location. This decision left him with a triple-bogey 8 on the 15th hole, dropping him to 1 under par and five strokes off the lead. For some unknown reason, except maybe arrogance, he thought he could place his ball in a more favorable position. My faith in the gods of golf has been restored!!
I have the most grand DIL. She will be going to China for three weeks each of the next three summers as part of a group who will be helping set up special education classes for the Chinese. She is the only non-PhD in the group but the only one with practical experinece with special ed in elementary, junior high and high school for approx. 15 years. I'm so proud of her!! Thought for Today: "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." --Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher and writer. One of the greatest of all French authors,
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Have a salty Saturday
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Post by whocanibe on Apr 13, 2013 22:05:17 GMT -7
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Post by pegasus on Apr 15, 2013 7:12:55 GMT -7
National Income Tax Day Good morning my friends Another overcast day. I'm really getting tired of this. It's now the middle of April and it looks like it's still winter. Last year the trees budded early and they're making up THAT by being late this year!! The Masters is over and once again proved that it's the best tournament in all respects. Who could have asked for a more exciting ending than the duel between the former Masters chamion Angel Cabrera, a 43-old grandfather from Argentina and Adam Scott, the 32-year-old Aussie. First Scott makes a birdie on the final hole and thinks that he's probably won his green jacket and first major tournament. Then Cabrera matches him and they have a 2-hole playoff with Adam Scott winning with another birdie to become the first Australian to win the Masters. It was great!!
"A slick mess': Slimy, giant snails invaded South Florida. YUCK! There ARE advantages to living in the northeast. We don't get problems like this. Our snails stay small and at a distance!!
The Supreme Court will decide if human genes can be patented. The decision by the court could help determine the future of life-saving genetic medicine. The case involves a test that can determine whether the composition of a woman's genes makes them more likely to get breast or ovarian cancer. A Utah company, Myriad Genetics, owns patents on two parts of human genes known as BRCA 1 and BRCA 2, named for the first two letters of the words breast and cancer. Women with mutations in those genes face up to an 85% risk of getting breast cancer and up to a 50% risk of ovarian cancer. Because of the patents, Myriad has a monopoly on performing all diagnostic tests related to BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 genes. I hope that they say a resounding "NO". Otherwise, it would be like saying that eyes could be patented? Now that is nonsense, and so is patenting a gene. Something that makes up a human body cannot be patented like a machine or some invention, like the light bulb,etc. Thought for Today: "Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some." --Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) English film director and producer
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Have a munificent Monday
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Post by pegasus on Apr 15, 2013 10:14:22 GMT -7
I've been watching Bob Costas interview Harrison Ford (Branch Rickey), Chadwick Boseman (Jackie Robinson) and Don Newcombe who was a black pitcher with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson. 42 is a very interesting and well-done movie and one that today's generations should see.
But I couldn't hellp wondering why no one has ever done a similar thing about Larry Doby who was only a couple of months behind Jackie Robinson in integrating the American League with the Cleveland Indians? He must have had a similar story and yet somewhat different. Were the American League teams more accepting? Were the American League cities more accepting? Was it because Jackie Robinson integrated a New York team in the media and financial capital of the world, instead of a more obscure city like Cleveland?
Why does Jackie Robinson get all the credit and Larry Doby is almost a forgotten footnote?
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Post by whocanibe on Apr 15, 2013 21:09:41 GMT -7
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Post by whocanibe on Apr 16, 2013 21:54:06 GMT -7
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Post by pegasus on Apr 17, 2013 8:39:23 GMT -7
Ellis Island Family History Day Gppd afternoon my friends I can see blue skies all aaound with the sun shining brigtly. It really does raise my spirits. I hope it lasts at least for the rest of the day. A suspicious package has been found near a senator's office in Washington, DC and three letters, one to Sen. Shelby, one to Sen. Roger Wicker and one to Pres. Obama, have raised suspicions of containing ricin poison as a white powder. All the whackos are coming out of the shadows with the bombiing of the Boston marathon. All letters to the president and to Congress are first screened at an off-site screening facility, as are letters to many other government offices. So these letters never reached their destinations. I don't believe it!! The background check bill is expected to fall short of the necessary votes in the Senate. The Republicans are going to filibuster it from even being brought to the floor of the Senate for a vote. And this is a bipartisan effort, and it still can't be passed .AAARRRRGGGGHHHH.
Thought for Today: "To love beauty is to see light." --Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French romantic poet, novelist and dramatist,
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Have a whistling Wednesday
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Post by whocanibe on Apr 17, 2013 15:34:22 GMT -7
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Post by whocanibe on Apr 17, 2013 22:29:47 GMT -7
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Post by whocanibe on Apr 18, 2013 23:53:29 GMT -7
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Post by pegasus on Apr 19, 2013 8:45:29 GMT -7
National Garlic Day Good afternoon my friends Another overcast day, gloomy with the threat of rain. I guess I should be happy that there's no chance of snow. But that doesn't really brighten my day!! The Boston marathon story keeps getting more and more odder. Two brothers, ages 26 & 19, are the "terrorists" who are from a Chechen family who left there because of the war with Russia seeking independence. Remember the Chechen jihadist terrorists who captured a Russian theater taking 800 hostages? Then the two went to MIT, hijacked a Mercedes SUV and used its owner's credit card to rob an ATM machine to get money for their activities. This led to their killing of a police officer and a manhunt that resulted in the older brother's death. Hopefully, now they've got the younger brother holed up somewhere in the area and are trying to negotite his surrender. And the police always have to keep in mind, the two brothers use of explosives. Because of these two killers, the whole Boston area is in lockdown, with all businesses closed, no means of public transportation (bus, taxi, subway, and Logan Airport) and no one, except the police, on the streets. I hate to think it, but is there someone out there watching all of this and thinking "Boy, they are sure getting their names inthe paper and famous. I wonder if I could too?"
Thought for Today: "The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it." --Dudley Moore (1935-2002) English actor (10, Arthur) ,
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TGIF
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Post by whocanibe on Apr 21, 2013 4:11:42 GMT -7
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Post by pegasus on Apr 21, 2013 7:18:57 GMT -7
National Volunteer Week Good morning my friends It's a fair day with sun and large patches of blue sky. Not very warm, though. Only in the 40s today but the weatherman is promising warmer weather for the week. It's about 10 degrees lower than what is normal for April, but if this is a harbinger of things to come, I won't mind. It would make for a very pleasant summer!! I do wish the TV news would stop their continuous rehashing of the Boston marathon bombings until there's some actual new information. Not speculation but hard news. Even sports programs are obsessed with it. Almost lost in the saturation is the horrific tragedy of West, Tex. and the fertilizer plant explosion and the arrest of the husband and wife who are accused of murdering the Kaufman County District Attorney and his wife. Not to mention the 5 lives lost in a Colorado avalanche, bringing to 24 the number of lives lost to avalanches this year. Thought for Today: "A goal without a plan is just a wish." --Larry Elder (b.1952) aka "the sage from South Central," American radio speaker
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Have a super Sunday
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Post by whocanibe on Apr 21, 2013 15:08:32 GMT -7
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