I got 1.4 inch of rain last night. Just the right amount.
It’s supposed to get cool this weekend.
🙂 Lions cleared around $5500 on the breakfast and parking.
🙂 I have nothing on my schedule today, until around 7:30 tonight.
I have several books I need to read.
She’s hollering for me to come to breakfast, so I’m going to do the smart thing.
See you later. 🙂
🙂 Another busy week at work, more to come with Trump visit to the Iowa on Tuesday. Should be crazy. Requests for media credentials have come in from everywhere, according to organizers, global & national. They’ve assured us we can fit in, but they’re going to have to cap media at about 150.
🙂 Heat wave is taking its leave (slowly and gradually, but temperatures at least are going downward, in the right direction). September is a really hot month for us, typically, though. We may get a little rain in the next couple days, Mexico hurricane-related I believe. It’s cloudy today.
😦 My weekend story contribution got nixed at the last minute. After another story fell through, I put something together on a public meeting coming up next week to discuss fixing the road that was destroyed by that 2011 landslide. But right before leaving on Friday, the consultant called to say the guy who was going to do the presentation was mysteriously no longer with the company and it all would have to be indefinitely postponed. So I had to pull the story back.
Which left my editor near tears — along with some landslide file art, it was our A3 for Monday.
😦 California Assembly passed the right-to-die measure, it now awaits Gov. Brown’s signature. As a Catholic but also politically liberal, he may be conflicted on this one.
🙂 I asked Emily to polish my toenails, as my eyesight is pretty bad. She decided, on the spur of the moment, to give me a pedicure.
She has a little electric file thingie that she used on the rough spots of my feet to make them smoother. Then she soaked my feet in a footbath containing epsom salts & baby oil, scrubbed them with a skin scrub she’d made herself (containing sugar & I forget what else), & applied a cocoa butter moisturizer after drying them. She finished off by applying two coats of the new pink nail polish I bought the other day.
As a bonus, she did my fingernails for me, too. What a nice treat. 🙂
😦 I hate other people’s feet so what she did is huge to me 🙂
😦 Second weekend of disappointment. Last weekend I did not get to go on our getaway and today our guide had come down with tonsillitis and so we could not go on our horseback trip.
🙂 But I did get to spend the day with my daughter, husband and dad and stepmom!
It’s 50 degrees in Hendersonville.
Coldest it has been in months.
If I were a bird, I’d be heading down the mountain as soon as the sun came up.
And some of my neighbors are headed to Florida about now.
Donna – It’s disturbing how some people get so blinded by their hatred (or uncritical love) for a person or party or whatnot. I’m sure your report was fair, but wasn’t uncritically supportive enough for that person. For others, it probably wasn’t critical enough. In that vein…
Yesterday I tried to gently warn YF against possibly bearing false witness because something she shared on Facebook turned out to be more of a possible horrible rumor than something known as fact. (Although it is possible the rumor is true, the facts have not been uncovered.)
Supposedly, Mike Huckabee’s son & another young man tortured a dog to death years ago at a Boy Scout camp (as counselors), & the thing she shared was specific about how they supposedly did it. Snopes says they did in fact kill a dog, but why or how is unknown.
YF hates Huckabee, first of all because he is a Republican, & also because he is a conservative Christian who supports Kim Davis.
In sharing the Snopes article with her, I said that one of the possibilities mentioned in the article was that someone else was harming the dog, & they put it out of its misery. YF was furious that I would try to defend him at all. (I pointed out that I wasn’t necessarily defending him, but pointing out that the facts were unknown, & may not have been as horrible as she thinks.)
She then said that I was bearing false witness for saying there might have been a less horrible reason for them killing the dog. Huh? Giving someone the benefit of the doubt is “bearing false witness” but repeating a rumor without proof is not?
Has anyone else heard anything about Huckabee’s son & the dog’s death?
Sometimes I’ll respond, depends … This guy obviously wanted to vent (it went on a while) and it was one of several emails I received so in this case I will probably let it go, there’s no discussing it with some folks. He seems like one of them. 🙂
I did get a well written letter from a reader (who also thought the paper, as proven by the Trump coverage, though not that alone, had gone leftward) but she also included our managing editor in recipients so I felt like I should defer to him, let him handle it if he wanted to respond.
But seriously, my stories (I did 2) were both so straight-forwardly written that it highlights the fact that sometimes, media “bias” really is in the eye of the reader.
And Trump and the election in general, of course, are very hot topics right now so people are maybe more prone to read into things.
Karen, I told my friend Tony, concerning those guys in the Curmudgeon Group, to ignore them.
Leave it alone.
You will get no where arguing with them.
You will waste your time.
You will get agitated and your health will suffer.
You will get angry and your personal relationships will sufrfer.
And whatever you say will be used against you in some format, whether fair or not.
Following is an example of the approach one of the guys took concerning Tony’s attempt to show that the Koran supports, Nay! Encourages jihad.‘
I went to the “prophetrejectors” site listed by Phil. I read the interpretations of the nasty-sounding verses from the Koran. They ended up a lot less nasty-sounding. There was a link to a series of OT passages. I clicked and found verse after verse regarding the slaughters carried out by Jewish tribes at the urging of their God. I also noted that in some instances the Lord set conditions, limits and even prohibitions concerning these battles. I then read the interpretations of these verses. They reminded me of Tony’s horror at what he had found in the Koran. I must say that the OT excerpts sounded even nastier as a result.
It would not take much effort to put together a “terrorist” Koran from all its nasty-sounding verses and a “slaughter” OT from all its nasty sounding verses. With a little effort and reasonable interpretations it wouldn’t be difficult to produce a “mercy” Koran and a “ten commandment” OT.
But we don’t get to write our own scriptures. We have to wrestle (fight, struggle)
with the ones handed down to us.
Bottom line: You can pick and choose out of the Koran, but we are just as bad as they are.
Maybe worse.
This guy is nor the retired Rabbi I was talking about. Phil is.
Chas – I really thought she would see, from the Snopes article I shared with her, that the thing she posted was not accurate, since it wasn’t merely a matter of my opinion. I was surprised (although I guess I really shouldn’t have been) that her hatred for Huckabee would cause her to react that way.
Karen, there is enough “information” out there that people will come to whatever conclusion they have already decided upon. We are no longer a nation of people who can think things through. We believe what we are told and we surround ourselves with those who say what we believe.
Karen, why this once would you convince her? In all the reports you have given of attempting to convince her of something, I don’t think you have ever done so. If you can’t deal with her telling falsehoods without attempting to answer her, why not just go off Facebook?
It also prepare some of us in our relationships, revealing what and how some of our relatives, coworkers and neighbors think. It keeps us wise as serpents yet gentle as doves?
Donna, that was kind of my thought with the atheists on the World blog. But I never let them get my blood pressure up; I knew I wouldn’t be likely to convince them. I answered them because their arguments had answers, but I didn’t expect them to understand those answers, or accept them.
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I got 1.4 inch of rain last night. Just the right amount.
It’s supposed to get cool this weekend.
🙂 Lions cleared around $5500 on the breakfast and parking.
🙂 I have nothing on my schedule today, until around 7:30 tonight.
I have several books I need to read.
She’s hollering for me to come to breakfast, so I’m going to do the smart thing.
See you later. 🙂
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Chas–what is the smart thing? Pretending you didn’t hear her?
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The smart thing, Cheryl, was Waffles and syrup, beacon, V-8 juice and coffee.
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🙂 Chas gets good breakfasts on Saturdays
🙂 Another busy week at work, more to come with Trump visit to the Iowa on Tuesday. Should be crazy. Requests for media credentials have come in from everywhere, according to organizers, global & national. They’ve assured us we can fit in, but they’re going to have to cap media at about 150.
🙂 Heat wave is taking its leave (slowly and gradually, but temperatures at least are going downward, in the right direction). September is a really hot month for us, typically, though. We may get a little rain in the next couple days, Mexico hurricane-related I believe. It’s cloudy today.
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😦 My weekend story contribution got nixed at the last minute. After another story fell through, I put something together on a public meeting coming up next week to discuss fixing the road that was destroyed by that 2011 landslide. But right before leaving on Friday, the consultant called to say the guy who was going to do the presentation was mysteriously no longer with the company and it all would have to be indefinitely postponed. So I had to pull the story back.
Which left my editor near tears — along with some landslide file art, it was our A3 for Monday.
Such a small staff, so frustrating. 😦
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😦 California Assembly passed the right-to-die measure, it now awaits Gov. Brown’s signature. As a Catholic but also politically liberal, he may be conflicted on this one.
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🙂 I asked Emily to polish my toenails, as my eyesight is pretty bad. She decided, on the spur of the moment, to give me a pedicure.
She has a little electric file thingie that she used on the rough spots of my feet to make them smoother. Then she soaked my feet in a footbath containing epsom salts & baby oil, scrubbed them with a skin scrub she’d made herself (containing sugar & I forget what else), & applied a cocoa butter moisturizer after drying them. She finished off by applying two coats of the new pink nail polish I bought the other day.
As a bonus, she did my fingernails for me, too. What a nice treat. 🙂
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🙂 Emily
😦 I hate other people’s feet so what she did is huge to me 🙂
😦 Second weekend of disappointment. Last weekend I did not get to go on our getaway and today our guide had come down with tonsillitis and so we could not go on our horseback trip.
🙂 But I did get to spend the day with my daughter, husband and dad and stepmom!
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It’s 50 degrees in Hendersonville.
Coldest it has been in months.
If I were a bird, I’d be heading down the mountain as soon as the sun came up.
And some of my neighbors are headed to Florida about now.
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OK, stop, just stop with the “Coldest it’s been in months” talk.
Pushing 80 at 8:30 a.m. already out here. 😦 😦
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🙂 😦 Still getting more fallout from the Trump stories. The latest email from a reader called me a “Typical Left wing sensationalist trouble maker!”
So there. I love that. 🙂
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Donna – Do you reply to those comments or emails?
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Donna – It’s disturbing how some people get so blinded by their hatred (or uncritical love) for a person or party or whatnot. I’m sure your report was fair, but wasn’t uncritically supportive enough for that person. For others, it probably wasn’t critical enough. In that vein…
Yesterday I tried to gently warn YF against possibly bearing false witness because something she shared on Facebook turned out to be more of a possible horrible rumor than something known as fact. (Although it is possible the rumor is true, the facts have not been uncovered.)
Supposedly, Mike Huckabee’s son & another young man tortured a dog to death years ago at a Boy Scout camp (as counselors), & the thing she shared was specific about how they supposedly did it. Snopes says they did in fact kill a dog, but why or how is unknown.
YF hates Huckabee, first of all because he is a Republican, & also because he is a conservative Christian who supports Kim Davis.
In sharing the Snopes article with her, I said that one of the possibilities mentioned in the article was that someone else was harming the dog, & they put it out of its misery. YF was furious that I would try to defend him at all. (I pointed out that I wasn’t necessarily defending him, but pointing out that the facts were unknown, & may not have been as horrible as she thinks.)
She then said that I was bearing false witness for saying there might have been a less horrible reason for them killing the dog. Huh? Giving someone the benefit of the doubt is “bearing false witness” but repeating a rumor without proof is not?
Has anyone else heard anything about Huckabee’s son & the dog’s death?
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Mumsee has a birthday!
🙂
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Sometimes I’ll respond, depends … This guy obviously wanted to vent (it went on a while) and it was one of several emails I received so in this case I will probably let it go, there’s no discussing it with some folks. He seems like one of them. 🙂
I did get a well written letter from a reader (who also thought the paper, as proven by the Trump coverage, though not that alone, had gone leftward) but she also included our managing editor in recipients so I felt like I should defer to him, let him handle it if he wanted to respond.
But seriously, my stories (I did 2) were both so straight-forwardly written that it highlights the fact that sometimes, media “bias” really is in the eye of the reader.
And Trump and the election in general, of course, are very hot topics right now so people are maybe more prone to read into things.
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Karen, I told my friend Tony, concerning those guys in the Curmudgeon Group, to ignore them.
Leave it alone.
You will get no where arguing with them.
You will waste your time.
You will get agitated and your health will suffer.
You will get angry and your personal relationships will sufrfer.
And whatever you say will be used against you in some format, whether fair or not.
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Happy Birthday Mumsee!
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Following is an example of the approach one of the guys took concerning Tony’s attempt to show that the Koran supports, Nay! Encourages jihad.‘
I went to the “prophetrejectors” site listed by Phil. I read the interpretations of the nasty-sounding verses from the Koran. They ended up a lot less nasty-sounding. There was a link to a series of OT passages. I clicked and found verse after verse regarding the slaughters carried out by Jewish tribes at the urging of their God. I also noted that in some instances the Lord set conditions, limits and even prohibitions concerning these battles. I then read the interpretations of these verses. They reminded me of Tony’s horror at what he had found in the Koran. I must say that the OT excerpts sounded even nastier as a result.
It would not take much effort to put together a “terrorist” Koran from all its nasty-sounding verses and a “slaughter” OT from all its nasty sounding verses. With a little effort and reasonable interpretations it wouldn’t be difficult to produce a “mercy” Koran and a “ten commandment” OT.
But we don’t get to write our own scriptures. We have to wrestle (fight, struggle)
with the ones handed down to us.
Bottom line: You can pick and choose out of the Koran, but we are just as bad as they are.
Maybe worse.
This guy is nor the retired Rabbi I was talking about. Phil is.
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Chas – I really thought she would see, from the Snopes article I shared with her, that the thing she posted was not accurate, since it wasn’t merely a matter of my opinion. I was surprised (although I guess I really shouldn’t have been) that her hatred for Huckabee would cause her to react that way.
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Karen, there is enough “information” out there that people will come to whatever conclusion they have already decided upon. We are no longer a nation of people who can think things through. We believe what we are told and we surround ourselves with those who say what we believe.
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Very true, Mumsee. It is disturbing, especially when people who are normally quite intelligent believe things they want to believe, uncritically.
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Karen, why this once would you convince her? In all the reports you have given of attempting to convince her of something, I don’t think you have ever done so. If you can’t deal with her telling falsehoods without attempting to answer her, why not just go off Facebook?
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I’d just say that FB is a mission field of sorts, and potentially seen by many who are not par of the open conversation
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It also prepare some of us in our relationships, revealing what and how some of our relatives, coworkers and neighbors think. It keeps us wise as serpents yet gentle as doves?
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Donna, that was kind of my thought with the atheists on the World blog. But I never let them get my blood pressure up; I knew I wouldn’t be likely to convince them. I answered them because their arguments had answers, but I didn’t expect them to understand those answers, or accept them.
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