Collecting My Thoughts
Wednesday, July 03, 2019
You don’t have to fund a bad college education
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Imagine a country with free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly without being attacked--unknown through out most of history, an...
Americans use too much plastic
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My kids wore cloth diapers! And a year ago I stopped chewing gum—it’s plastic. Only for a picnic would I use a plastic water bottle. https...
Why Andrea walked away from the Democrats
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Andrea voted for Obama twice, but didn't like Trump and didn't vote in 2016: “Meanwhile, I watched the left ... just ... lose it. ...
Whiney rich people
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"There are 585 billionaires in the US. The press is making a huge deal out of Soros saying billionaires are willing to pay more taxes. ...
Tuesday, July 02, 2019
The church has always been out of step with the culture
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The earliest church was seen as too exclusive and a threat to the social order because it would not honor all deities ; today Christians are...
Monday, July 01, 2019
Democrat debate debacle
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"I am on page 520 of the Gorbachev biography, and learning how he tried to change the Soviet Union by undoing the exact policies that I...
I’m exhausted just reading about this trip
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“President Donald Trump arrived back at the White House yesterday evening following his trip to Osaka, Japan, for the G20 Summit as well as ...
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Why are Democrats so inconsistent—power. Michael Smith, guest blogger
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How can one justify a city-wide ban on E-cigarettes and fund "safe injection sites" for drugs? How is it even remotely logical t...
Michael Stanley at Lakeside
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Last night the program at Hoover was Michael Stanley and friends. ?? No, we'd never heard of him, but he was big in the late 70s and 80s...
Tulsi Gabbard—is she too conservative for Democrats?
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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii seems to me to be the only Democrat candidate with brains, biology and charisma. Noticed her on TV interview wi...
Saturday, June 29, 2019
The Democrat platform
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Poverty, then and now
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"The problem of the poor is not the availability of jobs, for the economy has generated so many new jobs during the past decade that an...
Lakeside 2019, Week 3
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I loved our cute hydrangeas that Loretta planted for us last summer, but they didn't make it through the winter. She said she had somet...
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
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This title is on the review list for the Lakeside Women’s Club this summer, so I decided to check it out. I’ve been reading it on the porch...
Friday, June 28, 2019
What to do with stuff
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We had an interesting program at Lakeside this morning on "Organizing 101: Simplify our Stuff" by Chris Perrow. One member of the ...
Wired for wealth
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I'm getting ridiculously low offers for subscriptions to Vanity Fair ($8) and Wired ($5). (Both owned by Conde Nast). Magazines are vehi...
My bursitis has flared
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So I whined on Facebook. Dianne Orr McDermott (from Mt. Morris, now in NOLA area) replied: “I'll call your bursitis and raise you a to...
Japan. Brazil. Germany. India
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I was reading over the President's schedule for the G20 meeting, amazed that anyone can keep a schedule like this (the time change alon...
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Elizabeth Warren thinks the economy needs to be fixed.
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True, librarians are a poorly paid group, but I'm earning more now than I did when I was employed, and many retirees say the same thing....
The debates—the American people lost
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I didn't watch the so-called debates (I watched a dog act at the auditorium), but I did see snippets on CNN and Spectrum 1 at the wellne...
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