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. @MJGlass2 @inky_mark @emilydee53_dee Jesus, TV said it was terrorism. Weren't you watching??? #Cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/0rxKzOuU9h
— Political Porn (@Political_Porn) October 28, 2014
Here's to the kind of heart
As Time Goes By
Thanks, Gary!
Never let the facts get in the way of a good Cronkite moment
One man with one gun.
Apparently, that's all it took for this country - dutifully abetted by much of the nation's media - to lose its mind last week.
History. Context. Perspective. Understanding. Skepticism. Thoughtfulness. Canada's so-called media and political "elites" abandoned them all. In their stead, we got a week-long diet of chest-thumping patriotic clichés, cheap, meaningless hyperbole and tropes that, taken together, have already manufactured widespread consent for what will surely be another assault on our rights and freedoms engineered by a cynical Conservative government.
Continue reading here.
How to fold a fitted sheet
News you can use!
Tweet Of The Day
?@Canada__Proud: We will not be intimidated. #cdnpoli #canpoli pic.twitter.com/cdw559xqJI? Best.
— naomi (@kwetoday) October 25, 2014
Yeah, I know. Mean spirited.
Still.
Welcome to the weekend, kiddies
It's Friday night, kiddies. Kick it. Deep Blue Sea.
Teddy the porcupine
Another Year Older
For Ray
Nature Is Speaking
My Best Fred's Wedding
Welcome to the weekend, kiddies
The Stones, man. Keef, in open E tuning.
Tuck Me In
Winner - best filminute 2014.
Rick and Jann on tour
Mrs E's War
h/t Lorri
Dog Photobomb of the Day
Do you understand now?
@evansolomoncbc Here's a UK letter to the editor that sums things up regarding ISIS. #cdnpoli #pnpcbc pic.twitter.com/AfTRU4CPGZ
— jimbobbysez (@jimbobbysez) October 7, 2014
Words of wisdom. pic.twitter.com/8DqtXXhBPT
— MJGlass (@MJGlass2) October 14, 2014
Trust
Jack and Brian
Unscheduled Musical Interlude
h/t gary
Paper is not dead
Welcome to the weekend, kiddies!
It's the thanksgiving weekend, and I'm jonesing for some Heathens ...
PICKMASTER
Thanks, Trudy and Tim!!!
Rick's Rant
Unscheduled Musical Interlude
"There is a race of men - all federal and state and bank employees, and most dentists - who are born to retire. They aspire to retirement from the moment they are born. Youth, sex, work, are only the necessary intermediary states: the subject progresses from larva to pupa to nymph until, at last, the miracle of metamorphosis is complete and gives the world the retired butterfly. Golf clubs, funny shoes, and designer sunglasses for the dentist, campers and gas-fired barbecue sets for the employees at the low end of the pay scale!"
- Louis Begley, "About Schmidt"
Sam Cooke: A Change Is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke And The Song That 'Almost Scared Him'
"When he first played it for Bobby Womack, who was his protege, he said, 'What's it sound like?' And Bobby said, 'It sounds like death.' Sam said, 'Man, that's kind of how it sounds like to me. That's why I'm never going to play it in public.' And Bobby sort of rethought it and said, 'Well, it's not like death, but it sounds kind of spooky.'"
It was more than spooky. Just before the song was to be released as a single in December of 1964, Sam Cooke would be shot to death at a motel in Los Angeles."
Here it is again, covered by The Band:
"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
- Marcus Aurelius
(Belated) Welcome To The Weekend Kiddies
Saturday night. Shake it, baby.
Unscheduled Musical Interlude
Pilot's Tip of the Week
Question: "As a VFR-only pilot, one of my biggest fears is accidently flying into a cloud at night. Are there any clues that you may be getting close to clouds?" - Armand C.
The answer HERE.
We must both have been hungry because we constantly led the conversation round to food.
"What is your favorite dish, grandad?"
"All of them, my son. It's a great sin to say this is good and that is bad."
"Why? Can't we make a choice?"
"No, of course we can't."
"Why not?"
"Because there are people who are hungry." I was silent, ashamed. My heart had never been able to reach that height of nobility and compassion.
- Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
Walken reads Sendak