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Our Daily Thread 2-20-13

Good Morning!

What’s on your mind?

Quote of the Day

“I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.” 🙂

Robert Benchley

And for music today, since it’s her birthday…..

QoD

What’s your favorite musical movie/play?

47 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 2-20-13”

  2. QoD: Fiddler on the Roof (I don’t really seek out musicals, and this is the one musical that, as my friend put it, doesn’t really seem like a musical)

    As I couldn’t get here yesterday, I’ll answer the QoD here:
    Currently, my music library contains:

    Classical – 223 pieces – Selections from composers from all over Europe and North America, the names that appear most frequently are: George Fredric Handel, Antonin Dvorak, Maurice Ravel, Sergei Prokofiev and Ralph Vaughn Williams.

    Folk – 36 songs – Groups include: The Chieftains, the Baltimore Consort, IZ, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Union Station, and Canada’s very own Stan Rogers.

    I would put up a few selections for your listening pleasure, but Youtube is dead to me while I’m here – the internet connection cannot handle it, not even on the best days.

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  3. Good Morning everyone!

    QOD: Favorite musical play (not to be confused with movie) Mary Poppins and Les Mis.

    But I really enjoy movie musicals, even the lesser known ones.

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  5. Good morning everyone!

    QoD: My favorite musicals are: The Sound of Music, The King and I, and Oliver. I loved Annie as a child. My oldest daughter likes Oklahoma a lot.

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  8. Yesterday at16:26, Random totally missed the point of my post about the woman shooting a 4 year old boy and used it as a segue into something irrelevant
    It had to be obvious that I was talking about how utterly stupid a woman is to assume a four year old has a sexual orientation. He doesn’t even know about girls.
    All he wants to do is have fun. And she killed him.
    It had nothing to do with polygamy.

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  11. Good Morning all. You will be surprised to know I just woke up. Too many late nights. I had to catch up. Let me tell you people in hotels are rude -slamming doors and all.
    I am finally willing to admit that I am too old
    to wear high heels more than three days at what is pretty much a trade show. I used to ne able to do it five days. Oh well.
    Favorite musical? Too many to type out on this phone.

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  12. I think Roscuro hit on a very pertinent point — a good musical doesn’t really “seem” like a musical, the plot & characters carry it on its own, it just flows as a good story.

    I like most of what’s already been mentioned (though I also don’t “like” musicals; wonder why there was such a golden era of them?). One that wasn’t mentioned was Hello Dolly; it didn’t get good reviews, but the film version of that starring Barbra Streisand had some great singing (of course). I actually had the soundtrack and still listen to some of those selections I transferred over to my ipod/phone and put onto a CD of some of my favorite music for the car.

    Let’s face it, Streisand could really belt out a good song. 😉

    I was up part of the night not feeling too well, I’ve either picked up a stomach bug or ate something funky yesterday. Feeling a little better this morning, but still having issues so I’ve called in sick, first time I’ve done that in a long, long time. But I think a day in will do me good (I’ve also been beset by a lot of stress in recent weeks). Prayers for a return of health appreciated!

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  15. Singing in the RAin and Fiddler on the Roof (sometimes I put the DVD on just to hear the opening fantastic violin–I think it was Yitzak Perlman).

    And, really, ANYTHING by Rogers and Hammerstein.

    Oh, what a beautiful morning!

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  18. I have a complicated question. If anyone knows anything about this type of stuff, let me know.

    First the bizarre situation.

    I have a neighbor named Mike. He met a woman a few years back who was pregnant. They got married. The baby’s father was married to someone else and wanted nothing to do with the child. He even denied it was his. A paternity test proved it was. Since she had met and married Mike, the biological father was allowed to terminate his parental rights. After he did, Mike eventually adopted the little girl, and raised him as his own. They had a son as well. Last year she left and filed for divorce. She was given custody, and Mike was ordered to pay child support. Fair enough, and as it should be.

    But now it get’s weird. She has now re-united with the father of the little girl, and is living with him. Mike continues to pay court ordered child support for the daughter, even though she is now living with her biological father. The only way out of continuing to pay support is to sign over parental rights, and in that case he will not be permitted to see the little girl who he raised as his for 5 years. That’s a tough choice, and one he is unwilling to make at this point.

    So my question is how is this permitted? Don’t you have to stay away from the child after terminating rights? And how can the court continue to order another man to pay support for a child that is yours and lives with you? Is there anyway as her legal father that he can stop this?

    Told you it was bizarre.

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  19. The quote of the day is similar to a quote I heard at church on Sunday. Maybe it’s an old one to some, but I’d never heard it before. It’s about the difference between a scientist and a philosopher.

    “A philosopher knows less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything; a scientist knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.”

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  21. Back from Boise. Interesting drive home with lots of snow, but the sketchiest snow driving was in Southern California on Tejon Pass. Go figure 😉

    Les Miz is #1 for me. And like Michelle said, anything by Rodgers and Hammerstein. I LOVE musicals.

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  23. Donna 🙂

    Told it was bizarre. I just always thought you couldn’t go near the kid after signing rights over. It was no longer yours legally, so you had no right to.

    Oh, and I forgot to mention that the childs mother, in her infinite wisdom, decided to tell the girl that this is her real dad, and not Mike. As you can imagine, this has caused problems. As you can also imagine, the little girl has some behavioral issues recently as well. A 5 yr. old is not old enough to have this explained now. But mom was too stupid to think it thru.

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  24. He needs to choose what is most important: the child or his “rights.” If he goes to court to stop child support he divorces himself from the little girl he seems to view as his. Does he really want to do that to a child?

    I’m guessing right now he has joint custody and sees the little girl. What are his feelings about the little girl? Does he want to destroy the relationship she has with the –perhaps–most normal person who has ever claimed her? How will he think about this 20 years from now when she’s grown? Whether he likes it or not, he’s part of her history and will always be an element of her story.

    Does he want to be a good element or a bad element?

    Can he sue for full time custody? That would be a way to turn the tables since under the eyes of the law, he IS her father, no matter what a test says.

    Or, what would Jesus do? 🙂

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  26. In doing my Bible study this morning I had a question come to mind. When Moses went up the mountain and was in the presence of God and came back down, he was glowing from the experience. Why did that not seem to happen when people were in the presence of Jesus in the New Testament? I know the lady who touched his robe was healed so there was supernatural power surrounding him. I was just wondering if I had lived back then and saw him without hearing him speak would I have noticed something different about him that would have made me realize he was God or the Son of God. Just curious if anyone has any thoughts on this. I may ask my pastor about it to hear his thoughts.

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  28. AJ, that is a good situation for Solomon to figure out! My best answer is he needs to look at the long view and possibilities if God is included in the mix. Is he a believer? That goes along with what Michelle said.

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  29. In my experience, relinquishment of rights just means you don’t have a say in the child’s actions or be responsible for their financial care. You can still be around them. A court ordered stay away ordered does not come with it.

    It is more difficult for an adoptive parent to relinquish rights but can be done. That does not sound like it would be in the best interest of this child. If he loves the child and actually has a connection, the child needs that. She will be messed up enough as it is. Ideally, he would win sole parental rights, she would live with him and know she is loved for being her, not as a tool or a weapon to hurt somebody else.

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  30. Sadly, none are believers. Which makes it all the more difficult.

    I can say one thing for Mike, he’ll pay the support and love her as his own. But I see that harming him in the end. That will be, and has been used against him all along. I just can’t see how a judge allows a man who gave up parental rights to raise the child, and spend way more time with her, while another man pays for it. It’s just wrong on so many levels. I avoid his ex like the plague because I fear what I might say to her. I want to ask her how she lives with herself knowing the damage she’s doing to her child. I’d like to know how she sleeps at night knowing what a dirtbag move this is financially for her and her live-in boyfriend. Like I said, I keep my distance. Restraint, valor, and all that. 😦

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  32. Good Afternoon, Y’all!
    Today is the 25th Anniversary of mine and Mrs. Inbutnotof’s wedding. Seems to have passed very quickly. We enjoyed a long weekend visiting San Antonio to celebrate.

    We are both fond of the Sound of Music…

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  33. Has anyone here ever seen a musical called “Assassins”? It is about nine people who either assassinated or tried to assassinate a President of the United States. I have only seen bits and pieces of it on You Tube. It is both fascinating and disturbing. The weird part is that three of the assassins are now partially or totally free.

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  36. As far as musicals, I will have to play favorites on one for family reasons. My Aunt Naomi studied to be a ballet dancer. Her highest achievement? She danced in the chorus line of the road company of Oklahoma. After that she married a California cowboy and taught ballet Fullerton, CA for many years.

    My other favorite music is Kurt Weill’s/Bertolt Brecht’s gloomy existentialist left wing opera, The Threepenny Opera. Most famous song is “Mac the Knife” (check out the Ella Fitzgerald version on YouTube. However, my favorite is Lotte Lenya’s sardonic and nasty “Pirate Jenny.” (She was Brecht’s wife.”

    Brecht, although a Communist was famous for saying of the East German government that if they had lost confidence in the people, they should elect a new people.

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  37. It’s snowing here…and they are telling us to expect 8 inches tonight…we are all just giddy at the prospect!!
    AJ…I would hope Mike would go for full custody of his daughter.
    Musicals….I love love love State Fair…with Jeanne Crain, Dick Haymes….it’s just a feel good musical…and the music is delightful!

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  39. Second complaint voiced tonight at my local Publix about the display of Sports Illustrated. The manager said he could not do anything about it until someone complained about it. So he took off from our conversation to do something about it.
    People have to let management know, which I have done in the past, at this store. Before I was told they would only cover a magazine if it used the S word on the cover and that it did not matter about how scantily dressed the people were on the cover. Even so, they did get those white panels to put over some of the magazine covers back then. Seems it will have to be an annual activity now to remind them if they want to keep my business.

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  41. Oh no, Bill O’Reilly is writing a book about the “execution” of Jesus.

    O’Reilly pontificating on theology. What could go wrong? 😦 😦 Groan.

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  43. Anyone here have experience with possible tailbone injuries? I fell on the ice yesterday morning (walking the dog), and I’m finding it painful to bend over, go up steps, get into my vehicle (an SUV, so I have to climb up into it), etc.

    When I googled it, I found mixed opinions about whether it’s worth seeing a doctor about it, since whether it’s bruised or broken they can’t do much except prescribe painkillers and recommend sitting on a donut cushion.

    I don’t find sitting painful, which is part of what makes me wonder if it is the tailbone, since that’s supposed to make sitting painful. Sitting down hurts, as does standing up, but once I’m sitting I’m find except for a bit of discomfort which is probably overall bruising in that area.

    I was trying to just wait and let it heal, but I can’t get up the step into my house without crying out in pain, which the rest of my family considers a reason for concern because I rarely show pain.

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  44. Let me add my Happy Anniversary to the Inbutnotofs!

    QoD: Fiddler, Sound of Music and West Side Story. Those are about the only ones I can stand because of the story lines. The rest are fluff.

    And I see AJ is already in baseball mode. Go Royals!

    And since it’s almost time for March Madness, I’ll change my gravatar for a while.

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