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Our Daily Thread 2-2-13

Good Morning!

Happy Saturday!!!

I’m gonna go all Hippy on ya’s today. Don’t blame me, blame my 6th grade music teacher. 🙂

Quote of the Day

“I mean, there’s times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.”

Graham Nash

And you Hippies do it well. 🙂

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And since I forgot to mention it earlier,

Happy Groundhog Day!

The worst part is I live in PA., and should never forget ol’ Phil.

But I’ve never really been a fan of his, so I’ll ask,

Anybody ever eat groundhog?

😯

 

54 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 2-2-13”

  2. I was going to R&R to post this, but it isn’t up yet.
    😦 I got so involved in the issues of eating inedible stuff yesterday that I forgot all about the comics till this morning.

    Tammy’s comment about not eating anything that looks back at her reminded me of a lady in our Lions Club. A strict vegetarian. She says it’s because she doesn’t like meat. But she once got something that she discovered was meat and wouldn’t swallow it. She went to the ladies room to dispose of it. So, it isn’t just taste. She has lots of health problems. I once asked how she got her protein. I never got a good answer. I think she doesn’t get the right protein. But it’s her business. Lots of Seventh Day Adventists are vegetarian. But she’s Nazarene. They eat meat.

    I have heard the theory, based on Gen. 1:28 and Gen. 9:3, given the charge to Adam & Noah, that people didn’t eat meat before the flood. That’s the reason they lived so long.
    I doubt it.
    🙂

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  3. It is very hard for vegetarians to get the right protein. Cultures such as Ree’s husband’s have had generations to figure it out. That being said a lot of our commercial meat is loaded with chemical and they feed corn to everything.
    I remember my grandfather once telling me that you didn’t eat carnivores (in the edible animal family) you only ate meats that only at vegetables. I have since learned differently because chickens eat worms. Perhaps he was telling me this in explanation of not eating buzzards or vultures–I don’t know.

    I would like to be more healthy in my food choices but it isn’t easy.

    I have a spreadsheet I used for tallying up my taxes getting them ready. I can’t find it anywhere on my computer. I have it half filled out already for 2012 and just need to drop in the rest of the information, Ughhh!

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  6. Re: Vegetarians and protein- a strict vegetarian can get complimentary proteins by combining grains and beans. Supposedly, this combination has all the proteins we need. Most vegetarians I know eat cheese, even though that is an animal byproduct. As for me, if God said it’s okay to eat it, I’ll do so. And as far as I know, Jesus proclaimed all things clean in Mark when he said, “What goes in to the man does not defile him.” Mark even puts in the comment: “Thus He proclaimed all things clean.” Then Peter had the vision of the sheet coming down from heaven with all sorts of living animals, and was told to kill and eat. So, if you want to exclude meat form your diet for personal reasons, do it. But don’t tell me I cannot eat something because it has to be killed first.

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  8. Yesterday, I heard on the news about some thyroid condition that some 20 million Americans have, and that half of them don’t know it. So, I thought, how do the experts know 10 million people suffer from something but haven’t found out yet? And if the experts know it, shouldn’t they inform the ones who have it? Funny thing, the report mentioned that there are symptoms to watch for, but never mentioned the symptoms. I think it was a new reporter on a local station. I hope the news director points out the error to her so she can become a better reporter.

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  9. Stunning the first time I saw the Southern Cross. Outside of Capetown on a spectacular starry night. I love CSN&Y

    Chas, bacon don’t come from a turkey son 😉

    Kim, it may have been evil, but it was brilliantly so 🙂

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  10. Kim,

    Since I’m in hippie mode today, I’m gonna let that one slide. I’m all about peace and love and other groovy stuff.

    So I’ll chalk it up to a bad trip and pretend it never really happened. It was all just a dream man. 😎

    You know, like Manti Te’o’s girlfriend.

    🙂

    Maybe Mussberger was partially right, QB’s do get the best girlfriends. Don’t be a linebacker kids, they only get imaginary ones.

    😉

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  11. Chas – Adam and Eve didn’t eat meat at least until after the fall. That’s when God Himself shed the first blood by killing the animal that provided skins for them to wear because they were naked in Genesis 3:21. (Hebrews 9:22 – there can be no forgiveness without the shedding of blood. The animal sacrifices in the tabernacle and the temple had to suffice until Jesus shed His blood once for all.)

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  17. Whoa, whoa, whoa….

    Now you southerners are stealing our groundhog thing? 🙄

    Find your own varmits to make holidays around. This ones ours. See this right here is the type of thing that could re-ignite hostilities between the North and South. 😯

    🙂

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  18. AJ, many years ago (when I was a young teenager, so 30 or more years ago), the Phoenix newspaper carried a tongue-in-cheek column about how Arizona used rattlesnakes instead of groundhogs, and how low you had to go to see whether a snake saw his shadow, and how grumpy it made our weathermen to get snapped at by a rattlesnake year after year. It was pretty funny. I saved it, along with the “editorial” column the day we got snow for the first time in twenty years.

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  19. I prefer acoustic, too. 🙂

    I have a number of vegetarian relatives and they’ve done very well for years–including through pregnancies. They also adore Mexican, Italian and Indian food, so it’s always tasty with them.

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  20. AJ,We got a whole dang season dedicated to animals down here. We stagger it out, deer, season, doe season, dove season, turkey season, –That’s in the Fall/Winter.
    Oyster Season is any month with an R in it September through April
    Shrimping season is in the summer

    I haven’t quite caught up with all the fishing season but there is red snapper, ling, grouper,

    Nope, we don’t need another dag-blamed animal down here to have to cow taw too.

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  24. Kim,

    Oooo I like fishin’! Fresh or salt, I’m OK with it. But I don’t hunt, but only because I don’t eat it and I’m not into trophies. Shootin’ ’em is easy, it’s the dressin’ ’em part I don’t care for. I do keep some fish though, but not much because it doesn’t freeze well. The fresher, the better. 😉

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  25. We have both freshwater and salt. If you come down to visit, I will glady go deep sea fishing with you (can probably get us on some good numbers- those are coordinates that the captains like to keep to themselves) but I refuse to go freshwater fishing. I am NOT hanging out in the heat swatting flies and bugs and all such manner of critters when they sell that stuff ever dang day at the seafood market. They will even filet it for you, because THAT is a lot harderin’ it looks.

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  27. All this reminds me of a QoD I meant to ask. Do you think there were vegetables in the Garden of Eden and if so did they taste better then the ones we have now. The Kid thinks there were but they still didn’t taste good.

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  28. KBells,

    I’ve wondered along similar lines. Maybe vegetables did taste good once, and it went bad here. Or maybe we didn’t have to eat them before, but do now.

    Genesis 3 :17-18

    17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

    18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;”

    I could believe that vegetables are part of the curse for them eating the forbidden fruit. Makes sense if you think about it.

    🙂

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  30. Mumsee- I wasn’t referring to eating pig, but to the material used to make an odd shaped, inflated object which flies over or is carried on rectangular fields in the autumn.

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  34. Parents!!! You aren’t doing your children any favors by not teaching them basic manners.
    We always have some sort of brunch like snack after church. This was my Sunday to provide it. I did Sister Shubert rolls with turkey, swiss, and pesto and ham and cheddar with honey dijon mustard. I had grapes and cheese danish. There were also several dozen donuts someone had left. I left church after communion to go set everything out. There are two young sisters who always race to the table and start grabbing food as you put it out. If it is something they like they will keep getting more until there is none left for anyone else.

    I hate to feel this way about children but I cringe everytime I see them coming. My child has a LOT of faults but that isn’t one she was every allowed. There was always PLENTY of food around me growing up but I was taught take a serving and leave it for others to have some as well.

    This is a hospitality thing at church. I am not a complete ogre, there was one child who wanted some grapes so I sent her over to get a styrofoam coffee cup and I put a cup full of grapes in her hands.

    Am I being too too petty about this or does it bother others to see children allowed to act like complete pigs in public?

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  35. Oh, no, Kim, you are absolutely right. In fact, I think you would have been perfectly within your rights to tell the girls that they had an absolute limit of one each until everyone else had been served. (We often limit kids’ amounts at various functions I attend until the line has gone through once.)

    You are also absolutely right that their parents are doing these girls no favors. In fact, for shame on them! I am so unhappy about the terrible lack of manners you see in so many kids now-a-days. Parents treating them as if, by virtue of the fact that they are children, they should be allowed *anything* they want. And, we wonder where the “entitlement” way of thinking comes from, and why so many people don’t like kids anymore!

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  36. My comments would have been something like, “Ladies! Ladies! We don’t behave that way. You may choose one of each item that you want, and then you may not come back for seconds until the line has gone through once.”

    In fact, in some venues, we have actually said straight out that the children could ONLY get food if they were in line at the end or WITH their parents. Adults would be served first! Imagine that! lol

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  37. …And then I would have spoken to the parents about it. I personally have no qualms about asking parents to deal with their misbehaving children, espoecially at church. If they are offended, then they would surely be more offended if I corrected their children for them. (At my house, I usually tell them to deal with their children or I will.)

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  38. Mr. P was with me helping. He told one of the girls to take only one donut–she came back twice for a total of THREE!

    I am hesitant to correct other’s children because I have a tendency to offend people when I don’t intend too. My thoughts are to voluteer to teach a Miss Manners class for the young in the church. I have two friends who would be perfect to help me with this.

    Tammy and now Linda have eaten with Baby Girl. You both know the truth about her from all my lamenting here but she did behave in the restaurant!

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  40. Kim, Tammy is bang on. I also have no tolerance for rude, selfish behaviour in children (and I agree – it is most often the parents fault).

    Although, at my auntie’s funeral lunch, my son took 7!!!! cream puffs because he said they are always the first thing to disappear – and I taught him better than that and he’s 26!!!! I then helped myself to one off of his plate when we sat down at the table.

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  41. Hard to believe there was ever a time when adults ate first and the children at second! My parents might have fed me off of their own plates but I knew to behave and I have tried to instill the same in my daughter.

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  42. I decided to forego the Super Bowl party and took a wonderfully long nap this afternoon after church. I needed it! Now I’m hearing all the shouts and cheers and cries of anguish throughout the neighborhood from homes that (I assume!?) are watching the game.

    Time to walk the dogs I guess. 🙂

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  43. At my church we have a family with far more than today’s average number of children. They have been taught to wait till the end of the line. Necessary, maybe not; but it teaches them good manners, and it ensures there is enough food to go around. And really, I think it’s better for young people to see families of well-behaved children and know that it is possible to expect that. I think too many young women are growing up with only bad pictures of manners among children, and when they think of having children, they say “no thanks.” One of many reasons that well-behaved children are better to have around.

    What’s funny to me is that I’ll often hear people say of large families, “They’re all so well-behaved, and there are six of them (or eight or ten)–how does their mother do it?” I’ll tell them, “When you have one or two children, you have the luxury of focusing on your child and giving him everything he wants. When you have eight children, you can’t deal with nasty behavior, and so you don’t allow it. You just don’t have the luxury of having eight spoiled brats.”

    Obviously I’m not saying that all large families are well behaved (I’ve lived around single moms who have children who roam the neighborhood unsupervised) or that all small families have poorly behaved children (some have good moms like Kim). But very often, a family of eight children will cause a lot less chaos than a family with two.

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  44. We are a church that welcomes young families and being on the vestry we are looking at the 3, 4, and up children and planning for their futures so that we don’t lose them. We are very informal and the parents may linger in the courtyard while the children rush ahead to the administrative building to get the snack of the day, but they need to be taught some restraint. One of my aunts (the 11th of 12 children) scolded me once for taking the last slice of pizza without asking if anyone else wanted it first. It just wasn’t done in our family. (We only ate pizza at home in my house and my mother didn’t eat it so if there was a slice left I knew it was mine. My aunt and I were out with a friend of hers and her children that day)

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  48. Kim- Spot on advice from Tammy. When our children were little, I appreciated when other parents or adults told me when they had been rude or otherwise misbehaved at church. And we always told them only take what you will eat. If they overstocked their plate, we made them sit and eat it all. After once or twice of not getting to go play after the meal, they got the message. (Our church had a meal every Sunday.)

    I have only watched bits and pieces of the Super Bowl, and therefore, only a few of the ads. I just saw the Dodge truck ad with the voice over of a Paul Harvey speech about farmers. Great ad! Much better than the overly sexual GoDaddy ad I saw earlier.

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  51. Wow, looks like SF had a late surge, the margin of victory for Baltimore wasn’t that big (compared to the early score).

    Go Boise. !! woo-hoo. Right mumsee?

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