Well, let's see what this computer can open...Celebrity Gossip, Cyberspace, Family Stuff, Fun Stuff, Music Video, Music Memoir, News of the Weird, Prayer Request, Racism (with rant), Thank a Soldier.
(It opened Google + when I clicked on a link for +Sandy KS . I'd opened five links, commented, and plussed when Grandma Bonnie Peters came in and said, "I'm going home." Her home is the home of the Sickly Snail. We were in Gray, Tennessee. I'd just written an informative pamphlet for the hack writing site, while she'd been cheering up a "poor old lady who's been very ill" who's a little over half her own age. At 2:30 p.m. it was 94 degrees in the shade. GBP, age 80, had been on the road in the sun. I was glowing in the air-conditioned college library. GBP's basement stays close to earth temperature all year. The links here that aren't live are the ones from the Blogspot feed that I wanted to check out but haven't been able to.)
Celebrity Gossip
Taylor
Swift fans may want to check out the discussion of TS's not entirely
random acts of kindness at themillionhair.tumblr.com. Rose McGowan
fans should look for the discussion of why RMcG “got fired,” a
few posts further back.
Cyberspace
How do you keep e-mail from taking over your whole work day?
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/122505793376/how-do-you-avoid-email
Family Stuff
Comment on the Google + page:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/samantha-rodman-phd/how-to-make-your-wife-hap_b_7639582.html
Fun Stuff
I wanted fun stuff, and +Sandy KS provided some on the first screen of Blogspot feed. Nice going. (Fair warning: her explication of the word "queasy" may cause sensitive readers to feel it, themselves.)
http://challengeyourwriting.blogspot.com/2015/06/abc-emotions-challenge-q.html
Music Video
I
can't tell from the blurb on the Blogspot Feed Page whether Madeleine
Morgenstern recorded this herself, but she's been the first to share
it. Regular readers may remember seeing/hearing our President sing
“Sweet Home Chicago,” so, not only do youall know that it's unusual to see a
President singing “Amazing Grace” with a church group after a
Major Tragedy; you know that, though very much an amateur, President Obama
can sing.
Worth checking out if you can open theblaze.com.
Music
Memoir
Retired
U.S. Navy musician Coral Levang's musical memory stories tend to be
worth reading. A recent one is at corallevang.wordpress.com under “M
Is For Music.”
Florida city council...apparently feels the heat. Well, it's not that we've been seeing any new records for how hot summer days can get, only for how hot they get in the month of June. The past week has felt like July. But you'd think people in Florida would be used to their weather by now...
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/06/26/ready-html-florida-city-council-considers-bill-that-would-tell-residents-how-to-park-in-their-own-driveways/?
Prayer
Requests
Regular
readers remember that thesmittenedlife.blogspot.com is an irregular
blog that started out with a little girl having leukemia, and has
gone on, sporadically, from there. It contains just a few too many
nice clear color photos (and videos!) for the Sickly
Snail to
bear, and may contain just a few too many emotional moments for some
readers. Those who can stand it may, however, want to read “Praying
for Bailey” and join them in prayer.
Racism
(rant alert!)
F.t.s.
(which all the Real Aunts out there know means “forget the
stupidity,” just as "p.m.s." means "putting up with men's stupidity"--what were you
thinking?)
about the Confederate flag and its “meaning.”
The
actual, literal, objective meaning of any flag is: a lot of colorful
fabric stuck up on a pole. The emotional, subjective meaning of any
flag is: whatever was going through the head of the person who ran it
up the pole at the time.
Personally,
if I had a flag I'd actually inherited from a Confederate (or
foreign) ancestor I probably would fly it on selected special
occasions, and what it would mean would be “Look at me, my
ancestors preserved this old flag for all these hundreds of years,
aren't we special?” But none of them maintained a museum, and they all died too long ago for that. The
only flag I've inherited from an ancestor is the U.S. flag under
which my grandfather fought in 1918, which also happens to be the one
I consider to be the flag of my country.
Now
and then I see people flying other flags. State flags. Obsolete flags
like the Confederate flag or the Gadsden “Don't tread on me”
flag. Foreign flags, including the flags of countries the United
States has found it necessary to beat in wars. Cutesy little
arts-and-crafts flags celebrating birds and flowers. Kingsport,
Tennessee, and Takoma Park, Maryland, and some other towns where I've
spent time, have their own flags. Used car dealerships hang out
strings of pennants, and if people own forty different flags, want to
fly all of them, and don't mind looking like a used car dealership,
that is no threads
off the end of my
flag.
Maybe some day if I have lots of time to kill I'll ask them to
explain where they got their strings of flags, and why.
Some
people who display Confederate flags, like nobody I've ever met, may be advertising that they are
haters. Some, like the Duke teenagers in the old “Dukes of Hazzard”
show, may be advertising that they are “rebels” during an
historical period when that's what teenagers were expected to be.
Some may be advertising that they had Confederate ancestors. Some may
just think the Confederate flag is a nice symmetrical design, and
some have been known to mix it up with the Union Jack for that
matter. You're saying you have time to care about this?
I
do not anticipate ever having time to care about the surplus flags
people fly, though I will say that I personally know a lot of people
whose displays include Confederate flags, and none of them is a
racist. I don't have a great deal of respect for people who indulge
in that sort of cheap stereotypes.
I
do care about real racism, though. I'm against it. Like a majority of
White people, of all different degrees of sensitivity and
sophistication, I'm disgusted by the sheer stupidity
of
White racism. Also scared by the ill will other kinds of racism
direct toward me.
Real
racism is what I suspect Norb Leahy is trying to document at his
“Conservative Blog,” ntlconsulting.blogspot.com, with a post
titled “HUD Decision Is the Last Straw.” We've been following
this issue, regular readers will remember. There are idiot,
bean-counting, “let's play 'Mother May I' so youall have to ask me
before you do anything”
types at our Department of Housing & Urban Development who've
decided that, in order to preserve their jobs, what these United
States need are race-based quotas for housing projects. Which will
ensure that riots will continue to happen.
I'm
wary of declarations that anything is “The Last Straw,” but in
the week after a Major Tragedy with racial overtones, I will
say
that efforts to perpetuate riots through race-based quotas, in this
century, are about as tacky as it's possible to get.
This web site officially salutes a foreign-born soldier who's fundraising on behalf of a disabled student:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/06/26/the-unique-way-an-army-member-is-helping-a-woman-with-cerebral-palsy-get-a-service-dog/?
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