This is not the nastiest thing in your house.
This is!
Then you are putting cooking and eating utensils in a sink that has a strainer full of bacteria.
I know we are talking about rot and slime; but we need a break away from Trump.
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The movie Oppenheimer opened yesterday at the local movie theater. I would like the see the movie, but three hours is a long time to sit and focus attention on what I am sure will be a traumatic theme. I have ordered the book American Prometheus, the basis of the movie. The title reminds me of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein - The Modern Prometheus. The movie would have been more properly subtitled Vishnu the Destroyer of Worlds.
We commemorate
September 11 and the destruction of the World Trade Center and the loss of
three thousand lives as a crime against humanity. But
history is perspective - written by the winners.
On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan instantly killing 140,000 men, women, children, and old people – dogs, cats… and no birds sang.
Then five days later the good Christian people of America celebrated a second bomb killing 70,000 human beings in Nagasaki.
210,000 civilians - non-combatants
- died instantly; thousands more died from radiation, and for decades children
were born with deformities. This is
never mentioned in our classroom history books.
The movie Oppenheimer
should make us all pause and think.
There are
12,705 nuclear weapons possessed by nine countries, thousands of nuclear
powerplants each capable of catastrophic meltdowns, and the real possibility of
weaponizing the new cold-fusion science
How can a
violent species such as ours be trusted with weapons of mass destruction?
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"Elvis may be the king of rock and roll but I am the Queen."
1932 - 2020
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I am not a
zombie prepper, and I don’t believe I need to prepare for the apocalypse; but I
am witnessing unprecedented climate events and even more severe events
projected for the future.
I think it
is reasonable to expect severe weather conditions at some point to disrupt the
food/necessities supply chains as happened during the pandemic.
It seems
reasonable if everyone, who can afford to, consider keeping a three-month supply
of basic food/necessities above their normal daily/weekly needs.
This said, most
people purchase fresh meat as needed.
For several years, my wife and I have been vacuum-sealing our meats using a Food Saver vacuum sealer.
We quick-freeze our
meats for a few hours or a day and then vacuum-seal the frozen meats. Our meats last easily up to three months
without frost burn or loss of flavor. We
buy salmon, pork, chicken, and beef when it is on sale in quantities suitable
for us. We freeze fruits and berries in season for vacuum sealing.
You can also
vacuum pack beans, coffee, popcorn, – almost any dry food, extending the use
time almost indefinitely.
I don’t
advertise for any company, but the Food Saver we bought through Walmart online,
and rolls of vacuum sealing material we buy on eBay have worked flawlessly for
us.
It might be
useful if each of us through our blogs posts tips that might be useful during these unprecedented
times and the uncertain future.
We were
warned by scientists about climate change, but people chose not to listen. It turns out that science is real whether or
not you believe in it.
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Youth is
wasted on the young,
Experience
is wasted on the old,
If I could
go back knowing what I know now,
As a young
man, I would have gotten laid much more often
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Rights
are nice ideas, a comforting window with which to view the world. But once the glass is broken, you realize
they were never really there.
Rain Falls
Michael
Marshall Smith
First
abortion rights
Then Affirmative
Action
Next Gay
marriage?
Draconian drug laws,
A dress code
for women?
There is an army of the night, now marching in plain daylight, with their bibles held high, convinced beyond doubt of both their righteousness and their rightness, set on making the United States a Christian nation.
Marching backwards into time.
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Aware,
conscious, cognizant, mindful, alive, apprehensive, regretful – acquiring knowledge
and understanding through experiences and senses.
We are sentient
beings on sparse occasions; mostly we go through our daily routine as androids unaware
of the world around us.
We place
high importance on our cognition, preferring to think of ourselves above and separate
from all other animal species on earth.
We invent gods in our likeness, and refuse to accept the finality of death.
We declare ourselves intelligent and separate above all living things;
when actually, we share 98% of our DNA with our cognizant cousins, chimpanzees.
We are not
special creatures. We are on this earth
through an uncontrolled application of chaos.
If we were to back up evolution to an earlier state there is no reason
to believe that the outcome would follow the same process.
We are each here as a matter of chance. One particular egg of the three hundred that our mother produced happened to drop at a time that she was sexually receptive, in a place and time that allowed for intercourse, with a random male who inseminated her with tens-of-thousands of sperm, and one particular of those tens-of-thousand happened to penetrate the egg fertilizing it with your particular DNA traits, producing an individual you. Total happenstance.
But we are here - sentient - and with the ability to enjoy our brief time.
Unfortunately, we produce chaos in our own life and waste our precious time by not being mindful of the moment.
If you
cannot remember what you ate for breakfast this morning or how it tasted, then you
were not alive in that moment; a waste of the precious time we have on
this chaotic earth.
Our time is relatively short. Like
all other animal species, we will pass and be no more.
Our life is
a gift. We are here as a result of chance. Like the Buddha, we must savor the
stimulations of our senses, bask in the beauty around us, and pause to enjoy
the pleasures of living in the moment, or this gift of life will have been for
naught.
In the legend, the Buddha, near death, became awakened when a beautiful young girl gave him a nourishing bowl of rice and a drink of cool refreshing water.
Wake Up!
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Rights
are nice ideas, a comforting window with which to view the world. But once the glass is broken, you realize
they were never really there.
Rain Falls
Michael Marshall Smith
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