tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845686174162738952024-02-21T01:19:11.282+00:00missred musesmissredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231036948849802445noreply@blogger.comBlogger897125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184568617416273895.post-43960940735555263462016-04-29T13:24:00.000+00:002016-04-29T13:39:33.933+00:00What I Do or Who Am I?Besides spending half of my day travelling to and from and the time spent at work, I am a member of my local Scottish society. One of our biggest events is the annual Celtic Festival. My responsibility is the care of merchandise and food vendors. I take great pride in making sure that we offer quality merchandise and food. There are a few tinkers I have inherited and hopefully one day, I can weed them out. But this is not the story.<br />
Over the last few years, many Scottish Games and Celtic Festivals have been "going out of business". A variety of reason to include lack of funding and lack of volunteers to keep them going.<br />
We are self funded and I see that a lot of them disappearing have been funded by the local governments - who are running out of money. <br />
On hearing of another Celtic Festival folding this morning I shared these thoughts with our committee.<br />
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I think back to the day when it was announced that we cancelled our festival that bleak year in 2011. I was upset and a wee bit miffed, which is probably what made me start to get involved. Little did I know what was in store! As much as I feel like packing it in on rare occasions, I once again revert to insanity and say to myself, why? I do enjoy what I do and the people I work with, both the committee and our vendors. To see everyone's smiling faces the day of is well worth it. To hear the gratitude of the attendees makes it well worth it. Sometimes, I even get to take a moment to myself and just look around - the music wafting from all stages, the skirl of the pipes, the parade of clans, the clacking of dancers shoes, the laughter of children (and as the day goes on, the tippling laughter of adults), the smell of cooking and burning peat, and I think well done <u>us</u>. Even the rain is authentic of our cultural lands. Of course I would be remiss if I did not mention, you know it is coming, the men in kilts. </div>
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Appreciation only comes from knowing how much time, how hard we have worked. We are indeed fortunate to have a bevy who are dedicated and passionate about not only our heritage, but the love of sharing it through the Society events and the Festival. </div>
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That is just one of my passions.</div>
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missredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231036948849802445noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184568617416273895.post-89327647790296872912016-04-25T17:10:00.000+00:002016-04-25T17:10:18.030+00:00The Liberator Is Never Free<a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/121779/liberator-never-free">the Liberator is Never Free</a><br />
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One of the most enthralling pieces I have read recently. Letters written to his wife from an American soldier (I think he was medical and could have been a doctor) focusing on the letters written from Dachau and about its liberation. <br />
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"The Wilsey cache of letters is invaluable, and perhaps even unprecedented, because of its volume—hundreds of letters, sent over a span of nearly five years—and the bluntness of its depictions of the war. Along with the executions of SS soldiers, the letters described instances of heroism (“trying to save a good-looking German eight-year-old who had stepped on a mine with resultant nine holes in his intestines, half a foot off, and hundreds of minor fragments in his upper legs, arms and face”); withering criticism of Wilsey’s commanding officers (“such incompetent, unqualified, mentally inferior people”); racial bigotry (“the colored boys have been accepted ‘whole-heartedly’ (if not ravenously) by women-across-the-Atlantic”); and widespread looting of Nazi possessions, much of it, in all likelihood, previously looted by the Germans from their <em>Untermensch</em> victims across the continent."<br />
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A captured escapist was tied by the SS naked to a post, and three of these huge Dobermans (after four days of being starved) were turned loose on him while thousands of internees witnessed it all standing at attention. Hans withstood the calves torn off, withstood the thighs torn off, withstood the guts (yes, guts) turned out. But he turned his head and vomited when the Dobermans had torn the lungs and heart out. The first thing the liberated internees did was to shoot the Dobermans and their horrid handler.</blockquote>
One reads stories of veterans who never talk about their war experiences and can only imagine what horror did they see that would prompt such a response. <br />
It also puts our WWII boys in a different light. Some of their behaviour goes against all we have been taught. <br />
And it definitely gives pause to sober thinking. I would like to read them all. <br />
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A Garda stopped at a farm in Co Galway and talked to an old farmer. He told the farmer, "I need to inspect your farm for illegally grown drugs." The farmer said<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show">, "okay, but don't go into that field over there...", as he pointed out the location. The Garda verbally exploded and said, "look mister, I have the authority of the garda Síochána with me!" Reaching into his rear back pocket, the arrogant garda removed his badge and proudly displayed it to the farmer. "See this badge?! This badge means I can go wherever I want... On any land! No questions asked, no answers given! Do you understand old man?!"</span><br />
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missredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231036948849802445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184568617416273895.post-22935471521736611472016-03-30T22:27:00.003+00:002016-03-30T22:27:47.832+00:00Why Would I Need Reason - It Is There Waiting For MeFound this rather amusing little ditty over at <a href="http://pacoenterprises.blogspot.com/">Paco Enterprises</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/erinlarosa/excellent-reasons-to-drink-more-whiskey#.mcp53NVx3G">22 More Reasons to Drink Whiskey</a><br />
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<a href="http://billmoyers.com/story/what-happens-to-journalists-when-no-one-wants-to-print-their-words-anymore/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><strong>What Happens to Journalists When No One<br /> Wants to Print Their Words Anymore?</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 115%;">As newsrooms disappear, veteran older reporters<br /> are being forced from the profession.<br /> That’s bad for journalism — and democracy.</span></strong></a></div>
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missredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231036948849802445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184568617416273895.post-27037506878644087702016-03-15T17:07:00.001+00:002016-03-15T17:07:09.126+00:00Should We Save Endangered Species?Ooops I mean, societies. <br />
Interesting read and not really something I have thought about before. <br />
I can see the pros and cons of either argument. We cannot interfere to "save" them without ruining their society, yet if we let them pass does not a small part of our collective human soul die? <br />
What say you? <br />
<a href="http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2016/03/14/should_we_save_endangered_cultures.html">Should we save endangered cultures?</a><br />
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missredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231036948849802445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184568617416273895.post-10725699291045623252016-03-13T17:11:00.000+00:002016-03-13T17:11:04.856+00:00The Critics of Islam Are Right<a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/the-critics-of-islam-were-right-an-apology-to-ayaan-hirsi-ali-sam-harris-bill-maher-and-other-so-called-islamophobes-137416/">The critics of Islam were right</a><br />
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We who have carelessly thrown around the Islamophobe label including Glen Greenwald, Reza Aslan, and Karen Armstrong should lower our heads in shame and guilt. Few things are as morally depraved as attacking someone who criticizes Islam (Ayaan Hirsi Ali) rather than attacking the Islamic apostasy and blasphemy laws teaching Muslims they should kill her. We must now live with the knowledge that we've abandoned and betrayed our principles. Though we claim the mantle of human rights, free speech and equality, we lack the courage of our convictions when it offends someone. We make the cowardly lion look like Churchill.</blockquote>
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<br />missredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231036948849802445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184568617416273895.post-37073112848207964932016-02-27T19:59:00.002+00:002016-02-27T20:00:48.738+00:00There is Truth in ThisI came across this video in my internet wanderings. I would say there is truth in this.<br />
<a href="http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/5minute_arguments/thoughtcrimes_why_women_d.php">Why Women Destroy Civilizations</a><br />
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from American Digest, a truly wonderful blog<br />
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<br />missredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231036948849802445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184568617416273895.post-63058459069915813772016-01-25T16:54:00.002+00:002016-01-25T16:54:28.374+00:00Presenting Shakespeare<a href="http://duffandnonsense.typepad.com/duff_nonsense/2016/01/i-think-our-will-would-have-liked-these.html">I think our Will would have loved these!</a><br />
Great post from my dear duffers, with a link to the Telegraph article. Might be a book worth pursuing, given my love of art and our Will.<br />
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Yes, my car is under there.<br />
Fortunately my daughter's boyfriend is currently outside digging. We still have another 12 hours of snow to go. <br />
I would send more photos, but I cannot find the cable for my camera at the moment, and my daughter is reluctant to take photos to upload for me.missredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231036948849802445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184568617416273895.post-3976274206597666302015-12-24T17:29:00.001+00:002015-12-24T17:29:41.569+00:00Merry Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Merry Christmas to each and every one of you! May God bless your life and your families as we celebrate the promise God made to Adam and Eve that we would no longer be separated from Him by sin through the ultimate Gift of His Son. missredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231036948849802445noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184568617416273895.post-17211096760066657522015-11-11T13:10:00.002+00:002015-11-11T13:10:25.350+00:00The History of the English Language<strong></strong><br />
<strong>The History of the English Language<br /> </strong>In the beginning there was an island off the coast of Europe. It had no name, for the natives had no language, only a collection of grunts and gestures that roughly translated to "Hey!", "Gimme!", and "Pardon me, but would you happen to have any wood?"<br /> <br />Then the Romans invaded it and called it Britain, because the natives were "blue, nasty, br(u->i)tish and short." This was the start of the importance of u (and its mispronunciation) to the language. After building some roads, killing off some of the nasty little blue people and walling up the rest, the Romans left, taking the language instruction manual with them.<br /> <br />The British were bored so they invited the barbarians to come over (under Hengist) and "Horsa" 'round a bit. The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes brought slightly more refined vocal noises.<br /> <br />All of the vocal sounds of this primitive language were onomatopoetic, being derived from the sounds of battle. Consonants were derived from the sounds of weapons striking a foe. ("Sss" and "th" for example are the sounds of a draw cut, "k" is the sound of a solidly landed axe blow, "b", "d", are the sounds of a head dropping onto rock and sod respectively, and "gl" is the sound of a body splashing into a bog. Vowels (which were either gargles in the back of the throat or sharp exhalations) were derived from the sounds the foe himself made when struck.<br /> <br />The barbarians had so much fun that decided to stay for post-revel. The British, finding that they had lost future use of the site, moved into the hills to the west and called themselves Welsh.<br /> <br />The Irish, having heard about language from Patrick, came over to investigate. When they saw the shiny vowels, they pried them loose and took them home. They then raided Wales and stole both their cattle and their vowels, so the poor Welch had to make do with sheep and consonants. ("Old Ap Ivor hadde a farm, L Y L Y W! And on that farm he hadde somme gees. With a dd dd here and a dd dd there...")<br /> <br />To prevent future raids, the Welsh started calling themselves "Cymry" and gave even longer names to their villages. They figured if no one could pronounce the name of their people or the names of their towns, then no one would visit them. (The success of the tactic is demonstrated still today. How many travel agents have YOU heard suggest a visit to scenic Llyddumlmunnyddthllywddu?)<br /> <br />Meantime, the Irish brought all the shiny new vowels home to Erin. But of course they didn't know that there was once an instruction manual for them, so they scattered the vowels throughout the language purely as ornaments. Most of the new vowels were not pronounced, and those that were they pronounced differently depending on which kind of consonant they were either preceding or following.<br /> <br />The Danes came over and saw the pretty vowels bedecking all the Irish words. "Ooooh!" they said. They raided Ireland and brought the vowels back home with them. But the Vikings couldn't keep track of all the Irish rules so they simply pronounced all the vowels "oouuoo."<br /> <br />In the meantime, the French had invaded Britain, which was populated by descendants of the Germanic Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. After a generation or two, the people were speaking German with a French accent and calling it English. Then the Danes invaded again, crying "Oouuoo! Oouuoo!," burning abbeys, and trading with the townspeople.<br /> <br />The Britons that the Romans hadn't killed intermarried with visiting Irish and became Scots. Against the advice of their travel agents, they decided to visit Wales. (The Scots couldn't read the signposts that said, "This way to LLyddyllwwyddymmllwylldd," but they could smell sheep a league away.) The Scots took the sheep home with them and made some of them into haggis. What they made with the others we won't say, but Scots are known to this day for having hairy legs.<br /> <br />The former Welsh, being totally bereft, moved down out of the hills and into London. Because they were the only people in the Islands who played flutes instead of bagpipes, they were called Tooters. This made them very popular. In short order, Henry Tooter got elected King and begin popularizing ornate, unflattering clothing.<br /> <br />Soon, everybody was wearing ornate, unflattering clothing, playing the flute, speaking German with a French accent, pronouncing all their vowels "oouuoo" (which was fairly easy given the French accent), and making lots of money in the wool trade. Because they were rich, people smiled more (remember, at this time, "Beowulf" and "Canterbury Tales" were the only tabloids, and gave generally favorable reviews even to Danes). And since it is next to impossible to keep your vowels in the back of your throat (even if you do speak German with a French accent) while smiling and saying "oouuoo" (try it, you'll see what I mean), the Great Vowel Shift came about and transformed the English language.<br /> <br />The very richest had their vowels shifted right out in front of their teeth. They settled in Manchester and later in Boston.<br /> <br />There were a few poor souls who, cut off from the economic prosperity of the wool trade, continued to swallow their vowels. They wandered the countryside in misery and despair until they came to the docks of London, where their dialect devolved into the incomprehensible language known as Cockney. Later, it was taken overseas and further brutalized by merging it with Dutch and Italian to create Brooklynese.<br /> <br />That's what happened, you can check for yourself. But I advise you to just take our word for it.<br /> <br />Copyright (c) 1994 Corrie Bergeron and Ben Tucker all rights reserved<br />
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As for me, I will take the Man's Man. 'Tis a pity I have never dated one, but I suppose that explains a lot.<br />
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The New York Times just published a 27-point guide on what it <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/fashion/mens-style/27-ways-to-be-a-modern-man.html?_r=1" style="color: #cc0000;" target="_blank">means to be a “Modern Man.</a>” As someone widely regarded as a “Man’s Man,” I’d love to get your take. (Personally, I’m not sure what a “Man’s Man” is, but my wife assures me that you are one.) </div>
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I don’t know what a “Man’s Man” is either, or if I am one, but I’m not inclined to argue with another man’s wife. However, I did read the Times piece, and I can tell you with some certainty that I do not appear to be a “Modern Man.” My own Guide - as a potential “Man’s Man” - is below.<br />
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New York Times: When the modern man buys shoes for his spouse, he doesn’t have to ask her sister for the size. And he knows which brands run big or small.<br />
Mike Rowe: A Man’s Man would not buy shoes for his spouse, or be familiar with the vagaries of various female footwear brands. He might offer to pay for them, and he would definitely compliment her choice. And if he knows the size of her feet, it’s only because he rubs them from time to time.<br />
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NYT: The modern man never lets other people know when his confidence has sunk. He acts as if everything is going swimmingly until it is.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man feels no shame in admitting uncertainty, because he knows that doing so will make him more certain. He’s transparent about his flaws and shortcomings, and makes no attempt to be more secure or knowledgable or competent than he actually is.<br />
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NYT: The modern man is considerate. At the movie theater, he won’t munch down a mouthful of popcorn during a quiet moment. He waits for some ruckus.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man is also considerate. But he would never consciously time his chewing to coincide with the noisy parts of the film. He does not walk on eggshells.<br />
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NYT: The modern man doesn’t cut the fatty or charred bits off his fillet. Every bite of steak is a privilege, and it all goes down the hatch.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man will clean his plate, assuming of course he’s the one who put the food on it. But he feels no obligation to suck the marrow out of a bone, or eat the bruise on the banana, or consume the cob as well as the corn. He does not equate his manliness with a willingness consume food that’s been poorly prepared.<br />
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NYT: The modern man won’t blow 10 minutes of his life looking for the best parking spot. He finds a reasonable one and puts his car between the lines.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man knows it’s wiser to park closer to the exit than the entrance.<br />
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NYT: Before the modern man heads off to bed, he makes sure his spouse’s phone and his kids’ electronic devices are charging for the night.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man knows that self-reliance is born of experience. He encourages his kids to look after their own stuff, and suffer the consequences when they do not. The wife is another matter.<br />
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NYT: The modern man buys only regular colas, like Coke or Dr Pepper. If you walk into his house looking for a Mountain Dew, he’ll show you the door.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man doesn’t drink children’s beverages. He drinks tap water, wine, coffee, beer, whiskey, or iced tea. He does however, keep soda pop on hand, on the off chance a modern man stops by.<br />
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NYT: The modern man uses the proper names for things. For example, he’ll say “helicopter,” not “chopper” like some gauche simpleton.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man is less worried about using the right word, and more concerned with being understood. But under no circumstance, does he “dumb down” the language.<br />
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NYT: Having a daughter makes the modern man more of a complete person. He learns new stuff every day.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man is already a complete person. His identity does not depend upon sons, daughters, spouses, friends, or pets. He is not a loner, and he cherishes the relationships he has. But he knows that his “completion” is nothing but a reflection of knowing who he is.<br />
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NYT: The modern man makes sure the dishes on the rack have dried completely before putting them away.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man will always volunteer to wash the dishes. He may or may not put them away, but regardless, he understands the phenomenon of evaporation, and doesn’t concern himself with a codified system for drying.<br />
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NYT: The modern man has never “pinned” a tweet, and he never will.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man does not know what that even means. But he rarely says “never.”<br />
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NYT: The modern man checks the status of his Irish Spring bar before jumping in for a wash. Too small, it gets swapped out.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man uses Lava Soap. He uses it until it’s the size of a dime.<br />
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NYT: The modern man listens to Wu-Tang at least once a week.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man watches reruns of Kung-Fu.<br />
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NYT: The modern man still jots down his grocery list on a piece of scratch paper. The market is no place for his face to be buried in the phone.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man does not make lists. He knows what he likes, what he needs, and what he wants. If he has to write it down, he understands it was not worth having in the first place.<br />
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NYT: The modern man has hardwood flooring. His children can detect his mood from the stamp of his Kenneth Cole oxfords.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man is not committed to any particular type of flooring. He doesn’t attempt to communicate with his children through his footsteps, and he doesn’t own oxfords, unless they’re steel-toed.<br />
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NYT: The modern man lies on the side of the bed closer to the door. If an intruder gets in, he will try to fight him off, so that his wife has a chance to get away.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man knows that a struggle closest to the door will effectively block the exit through which his wife might flee. So he secures the house in a way that keeps intruders out, and sleeps wherever he wants.<br />
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NYT: The modern man has a melon baller. How else would the cantaloupe, watermelon and honeydew he serves be so uniformly shaped?<br />
MR: The Man’s Man, if he serves fruit at all, prepares wedges, squares, and rectangles. He accomplishes this with a knife.<br />
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NYT: The modern man has thought seriously about buying a shoehorn.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man doesn’t think “seriously” about any purchase under $5.<br />
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NYT: The modern man buys fresh flowers more to surprise his wife than to say he is sorry.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man picks wildflowers on the side of the road, wraps them with a bootlace, and presents them with an original, hand-written poem.<br />
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NYT: On occasion, the modern man is the “little spoon.” Some nights, when he is feeling down or vulnerable, he needs an emotional and physical shield.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man will do whatever’s necessary to please his bedmate - not himself. But he roundly rejects all metaphors, especially those that involve utensils.<br />
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NYT: The modern man doesn’t scold his daughter when she sneezes while eating an apple doughnut, even if the pieces fly everywhere.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man would laugh and then say “Bless you,” or “gesundheit.” Then, he’d make sure she wipes her nose and cleans up the crumbs.<br />
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NYT: The modern man still ambles half-naked down his driveway each morning to scoop up a crisp newspaper.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man does not amble. Moreover, he would have aleady impressed upon the paper boy the importance of getting the morning paper all the way up on the porch. Where it belongs.<br />
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NYT: The modern man has all of Michael Mann’s films on Blu-ray (or whatever the highest quality thing is at the time.)<br />
MR: A Man’s Man doesn’t own films - he rents them. He also values effectiveness over efficiency, and knows that the “latest technology” will be obsolete in a few months. For this reason, he makes no attempt to own the newest of anything.<br />
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NYT: The modern man doesn’t get hung up on his phone’s battery percentage. If it needs to run flat, so be it.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man prefers his gas tank full, his weapon loaded, his pantry stocked, and his checkbook balanced. He also likes his phone sufficiently charged, and takes the necessary steps to accomplish that.<br />
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NYT: The modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man owns at least one firearm. He knows how to use it, clean it, and store it properly. He understands it’s importance, and sees it for what it is - a tool that can protect him and his family.<br />
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NYT: The modern man cries. He cries often.<br />
MR: A Man’s Man cries if he feels like crying. But he rarely feels like it.<br />
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NYT: People aren’t sure if the modern man is a good dancer or not. That is, until the D.J. plays his jam and he goes out there and puts on a clinic.<br />
MR: People know without question a Man’s Man does not dance. But they also know if called upon, he’ll give it his best shot...</blockquote>
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missredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231036948849802445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184568617416273895.post-14507719784052468922015-10-13T22:20:00.002+00:002015-10-13T22:20:28.744+00:00The White GhettoYes, I am on Facebook and sometimes I wonder why. Most of my family and friends are liberal - most even to the left of that ...<br />
So one of the geniuses posted this:<br />
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and because I won't leave it alone, I answered with this:<br />
<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/367903/white-ghetto-kevin-d-williamson">A White Ghetto</a><br />
Now the difference between her posting a photo that she just "shared" without comment and my response is the article. A well written, sympathetic and compassionate tome about the people who actually live there.<br />
Sympathy and compassion - missing from the left. <br />
<br />missredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231036948849802445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184568617416273895.post-88778376845131396842015-10-01T18:02:00.004+00:002015-10-01T18:02:48.352+00:00Oh No!Oh my, it has been a month since I have posted anything. <br />
Well my back is improving. I had to get the cortisone shots into my spine - isn't that fun - for my lumbar radiculopathy. I love saying that word! <br />
Now I have begun the exercises for the arthritis in my spine. I am walking normally and other than some stiffness in the morning (no jokes please Gents) I am also pain free. For the first time in years. Yippee Kai Yae. <br />
I am now able to concentrate on other matters for my life. Like enriching it and me. <br />
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missredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231036948849802445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184568617416273895.post-30058360145710721502015-08-30T22:02:00.001+00:002015-08-30T22:02:13.154+00:00An Incomplete List<div class="yiv7825609613MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440971494091_3789" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px;">
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However because of new-found sensitivities we have to have separate cars</div>
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<li>One for men</li>
<li>One for women</li>
<li>One for Black</li>
<li>One for White</li>
<li>One each for all the other colours in between</li>
<li>One for gay</li>
<li>One for straight</li>
<li>One for feminists</li>
<li>Oh and one cannot forget the trannies</li>
<li>One for each of the 16 genders (16? Oh for pity’s sake)</li>
<li>One for whatever each religion you fancy – catholics, protestants (and how many of those are there), myriad of non-christian</li>
<li>One for the atheists</li>
<li>One for the agnostics</li>
<li>One for liberal </li>
<li>One for conservative</li>
<li>One for left wing</li>
<li>One for right wing</li>
<li>One for those who believe in the good of our constitution</li>
<li>One for the socialists/Communists</li>
<li>And don’t forget one for each of the other political classifications you want to associate yourself with</li>
<li>One for AGM climate change believers</li>
<li>And one for the sensible people who know that climate change is part of the earth</li>
<li>A small one for those with common sense</li>
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<i>List was inspired by a comment from that Communist Corbyn guy in the UK.</i></div>
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missredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231036948849802445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184568617416273895.post-8184530880872318102015-07-14T22:24:00.002+00:002015-07-14T22:24:42.832+00:00Dear Miss Manners<div style="border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">
<span class="print_trim"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dear Miss Manners</strong> • I am engaged but have been married before. My finance has been married twice.</span></div>
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<span class="print_trim"></span><span class="print_trim">How do we let people know we would appreciate gift cards instead of gifts at our reception? We have three of everything.</span></div>
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<span class="print_trim"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gentle Reader</strong> • If you have three of everything, why aren’t you thinking of sharing with those who don’t have any, instead of plotting to make others help you get even more?</span></div>
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missredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231036948849802445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184568617416273895.post-70029172870112888972015-07-05T16:41:00.001+00:002015-07-05T16:41:14.034+00:00O'bama's New Americans<a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/07/theyre_just_committing_the_crimes_americans_wont_commit.html">They are just committing the crimes americans won't commit</a><br />
One of the best articles I have read in a long time. <br />
A couple of highlights:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Will people ever rise up and make that sickening agenda-facilitating suppression of truth known as political correctness exactly what it should be: a recognized vile heresy, to be stamped out with extreme prejudice? </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Unfortunately and as has been said before, treason today is now the norm. If you don’t drink deeply of the cup of multiculturalism, internationalism, Western demographic genocide and cultural suicide, you’re a “nativist” or, worse still, a “racist,” the latter of which has just come to mean “anything bad” to young skulls full of mush whose now putrefying gray matter endured endless sanitary spin cycles in the propaganda mills masquerading as universities.</span></span></blockquote>
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When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.</div>
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. –Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.</div>
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He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.</div>
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He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.</div>
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He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.</div>
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He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.</div>
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He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.</div>
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He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.</div>
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He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.</div>
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He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.</div>
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He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.</div>
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He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.</div>
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He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.</div>
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He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.</div>
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He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:</div>
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For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:</div>
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For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:</div>
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For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:</div>
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For imposing taxes on us without our consent:</div>
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For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:</div>
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For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:</div>
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For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:</div>
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For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:</div>
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For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.</div>
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He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.</div>
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He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.</div>
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He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.</div>
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He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.</div>
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He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.</div>
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In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.</div>
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Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.</div>
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We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.</div>
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missredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231036948849802445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184568617416273895.post-72127302902122274772015-07-01T23:04:00.000+00:002015-07-01T23:04:02.570+00:00A Little Humour......Not quite sure if it could really be classified as humour. It is just too close to the truth.<br />
Thanks, Dear Duffers for the email.<br />
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<br />missredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231036948849802445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184568617416273895.post-63653943210911580952015-06-24T22:50:00.001+00:002015-06-24T22:50:18.786+00:00Today's Random Thoughts<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
As I read the news today:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>The confederate flag is not my heritage so I am not bothered, however I do believe we set a dangerous precedent. And now they are talking about taking down all the confederate monuments. They will be erasing our history and that is never good. I think of it as taking down all the William Wallace monuments in Scotland.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>I do not care about who is winning in the polls today. My state primary is in April 2016. I will care then</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>Robert Stacy McCain wrote this: in the comments of his post <a href="http://theothermccain.com/2015/06/23/media-synchronicity-and-confederate-thoughts-on-an-era-of-elite-corruption/#disqus_thread">Confederate Thoughts</a></div>
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An alternative theory: We truly are doomed beyond hope of all redemption.</div>
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The Almighty God saw fit that a Christian people should have this nation and, so long as they were faithful to God, they were preserved against all enemies. The nation they founded grew strong, prosperous and free, so that all the world marveled at America. It was foreordained by God's will, in this view, that America would endure great trouble and yet grow ever stronger.</div>
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First, we defeated Britain, overcoming the greatest empire in the world to gain our independence. We conquered the continent from coast to coast, and fought a great war amongst ourselves over the issue of human liberty. Ever stronger America grew, becoming a mighty industrial colossus. We destroyed Spain's empire in this hemisphere, and when the French and English were besieged by the Kaiser's vaunting armies, America lent its strength to defeat the power of Germany and her allies.</div>
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American emerged from the First World War victorious, her world prestige unparalleled. Surviving through a Great Depression, once against America was called to war against enemies of liberty. We crushed Hitler's Thousand Year Reich, and blasted the Japanese empire into smoldering ruins. Yet still was our nation's great mission not fulfilled.</div>
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The world now stood terrorized by the Soviet tyranny, and Communism soon raised its banner over China. A war ensued in Korea, and a great patriot from Wisconsin stood forth to warn that our nation's leadership had been subverted by agents of our worst enemies. Joe McCarthy was destroyed by the slanders of Communist stooges, yet other patriots who saw the menace of subversion realized that a new movement was needed if America was to prevail in the Cold War.</div>
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Bill Buckley, Stan Evans, Phyllis <span class="SpellE">Schlafly</span> -- to cite just three names from a roster of glorious heroes -- rallied the forces of freedom, and chose as their champion Barry Goldwater. He also went down to defeat, but not before America heard from a man destined to be the Great Champion of Freedom.</div>
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This was "A Time of Choosing," Ronald Reagan warned in 1964. It took another 16 years to elect Ronald Reagan president, but from the day he took the oath of office as Commander in Chief, the clock began ticking toward the final destruction of the Soviet Union.</div>
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Here we are then, scarcely a quarter-century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and we find Americans seem to have forgotten everything they ought to have learned from history.</div>
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Most shockingly, America has forgotten God, who delivered us from every evil in the past, and who blessed our nation with wealth and power exceeding everything the world had previously known.</div>
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So ... we are doomed. It has suited God to bring our nation thus far, so that an ungrateful generation might forget all that God has done for us, and thus to invite the wrath of the Almighty to destroy us. If that be God's sovereign will, so be it. Yet those of us who still have faith in God must never cease to speak the truth, nor surrender to the satanic voices that bid us to aid in the works of evil now afoot.</div>
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Fight on. Stay true. And pray. <i>Selah</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>Duff and Nonsense has a good post with comments:</div>
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<a href="http://duffandnonsense.typepad.com/duff_nonsense/2015/06/try-telling-this-one-to-obama.html">Try Telling This One To Obama</a></div>
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