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10/07/17 10:41 PM #2024    

 

Janie Albright (Blank)

I’m a little late weighing in on the place of birth, but just to add another to the mix I was born at St Ann’s. And when I was 5 I had my tonsils removed at Mt. Carmel. I remember both the ether mask and the subsequent ice cream. I had both my daughters at Mt. Carmel and they both still have their tonsils. Lol. 


10/07/17 10:53 PM #2025    

 

James Hamilton, M. D.

Tim,

My comment on the "leadership of the House and Senate" was directed at the Republican leadership as they, especially the Senate, have failed to help POTUS get some key agenda passed. I would expect resistance from the other side of the isle but not the GOP.

Janie,

After the ether I was too nauseous to eat all that ice cream they promised!

Jim


10/08/17 12:30 AM #2026    

 

Robert Berkemer

Hello Tim, I must say that I really enjoy your humorus, diverse and insightful posts. You have always had the ability to gently push out against boundries through quick wit and levity. Humor greases the wheels of creativity and eases the flow of discourse between opposing parties. You, are gifted in this way. I on the other hand require considerable forethought and careful consideration in order to address energized controversial issues. The last decade has been rife with conflict, tragedy and national social/political turmoil. I like many feel the overload associated with constant media bombardment of the latest so-called national disasters such as the kneeling NFL atheletes.  I try to keep aware of national and international events through select print sources but more and more I spend my time with my camera in the north woods of Minnesota and Wisconsin where as Wendell Berry says "I come into the peace of wild things"... 

I'd love to have casual yet serious face to face chats with my old friends but too much is lost between key boards. I may again post from time to time when the topics are about where the best donuts were in Columbus (which was the I.C. cafeteria after morning mass), or who made the best pizza but other than that I'll hold off serious conversation till we meet again. Hope that leg of yours is about healed... Peace!


10/08/17 12:14 PM #2027    

 

Frank Ganley

I just could not help but respond to Joe's assessment of our president. Let us all agree for the sake of discussion President Trump is an asshole. And some say other things as Dr Jim so eloquently pointed out he is not qualified to discuss his , by those on the left his sanity or his outlooks on how to handle the world.
Please the discussion is "What are your ideas as to help our nation be one again. If you have nothing to add other than as I stated before his murder,his impeachment, you are continuing this its going nowhere fast . I for one want striker immigration into our country. We need a wall. Maybe mark swho has just returned from a sojourn to England Scotland and points beyond, how stringent it was to cross boarders how easy was it moving from country to country. We need people to move to our country to become citizens and blend in and mix and contribute by having higher paying jobs. We do not need any more farm workers. A farmer wants to pick his fields pay a decent wage and you'd be surprised what would happen. The same goes for resturant workers. To have rely on the generosity of people is archaic. Pay the man. More people working more people paying taxes everybody happy. God bless us alk and God bless the United States of America.

10/08/17 12:51 PM #2028    

 

Mark Schweickart

Bob,

I am looking at your profile picture on your post 2029, and have to ask: Is that you snoozin' on the dock of the bay, wa-a-a-a-sting ti-i-i-i-me? Or is that, as you suggested, you "coming into the peace of wild things"... or was that maybe just too much Thunderbird for breakfast that day. Or maybe that isn't even you, but some poor soul you came upon during one of your Thoreau-ian rambles who was about to roll off into the water just before you leapt to his rescue (after first pausing to take his picture, of course). Because if it is you, and you were ever-so solitarily engaged with Mother Nature, as you definitely appear to be, all I can say is: that's one helluva selfie-stick you were using. In other words, I am completely jealous of your good fortune to explore the wilds of Minnesota and Wisconsin, and am therefore reduced to making these snide comments instead of going out to find my own dock to stretch out on. (Although unlike you, I think I will skip the morning Thunderbird.) Then maybe if I am lucky, I will also be able to hear Otis plaintively echoing from the past "watching the tide roll in, and then I'll watch it roll away again."

 


10/08/17 02:46 PM #2029    

 

Michael McLeod

I'll make a gun control suggestion, thought it is, at present, an utterly useless one, being inspired by the past and rooted in the future.

You've all seen the western where a couple of unwashed varmints ride into town and the marshall tells them it's a peaceful place and they'll have to leave their six shooters with him afore they go off and get likkered up at miss kitty's place.

That may be a system our culture turns to in the future.

If you do any reading about  limited resources and population  expansion one thing that is already happening and is fixing to get a lot worse is that since, ecologically, humans beingd as the apex predator and massive resource consumers that they are, the best thing for the earth - and eventually the only way for so many of us to survive - will be to have us accumulate in population centers instead of spreading out all over the place. It's a trend that is already underway.

I can see excuding weapons from those public places - and when I say public places, I mean entire, densely populated communities. I can see cities with security and screening on their parameters as tight as our airports. 

You can live there. Or you can take your chances outside the walls.

It will not happen in our lifetimes but if the current trend continues I can see people finally having had enough of the carnage. And some people will have their guns, and the gun manufacturers will have their money. And there will still be schoolchildren and gay people and country music lovers, too. But crazy people with weapons of war will no longer have such convenient opportunities to murder them en masse. 

 


10/08/17 02:49 PM #2030    

 

Janie Albright (Blank)

Saw this on fb today discussing laws in place and not in place regarding sale of firearms.  It’s a couple of years old so not specifically in response to the Las Vegas shootings but thought it made a lot of sense. As I’ve said before I’m not a gun owner but would like your thoughts. 

https://www.facebook.com/MarkLCarman/videos/10206718620758282/


10/08/17 03:10 PM #2031    

 

David Mitchell

Janie,

Bingo!  You go girl!

I just watched the video.  I don't think I have have heard that aspect of the arguement put so eloquently, so logically, and with such credibility.

 

Bob and Mark, welcome back. Thought we might'a lost yuz guyz.

 

Trying to stay off the Forum for the weekend but my Broncos have a buy week and I am bored to tears. 

(that's low country spelling for "BYE") 


10/08/17 03:12 PM #2032    

 

David Mitchell

Couldn't we get back to the ferol hogs?  Or stamp collecting?  Or the casting ponds at Whetsone park?


10/08/17 03:35 PM #2033    

 

Jeanine Eilers (Decker)

Janie--Just posted the article to FB.  Great find.  Thanks so much for the even-handed approach.


10/08/17 03:49 PM #2034    

 

James Hamilton, M. D.

Bob B.,

Would like to see you post some of your lake and woods pictures from MN & WI on the Forum. I am sure they would be gorgeous, especially in the fall.

To all;

Don't forget to get your flu shots!

Jim

10/08/17 04:45 PM #2035    

Timothy Lavelle

Bob...nice trick....really...compliment my writing, then write so beautifully that I am embarrassed to even appear here today. I can understand you wanting to spend time in nature instead of writing but "not writing well" is not an excuse you can really use Bob. Thank you for coming out to play and hope you come out often.

Walked half a mile with one crutch today. Winner, winner, chicken dinner!

FRANK GANLEY FOR PRESIDENT!!!!

He runs against Trumpy in the 2020 "New Republican Party" primary. We start with the slogan "What the Frank" to get him recognized. It catches on with millions holding WTF parties. 

Then for a campaign slogan exrtaordinaire, we hit the 'Murican public with a truth that almost everyone has to agree with. From Frank's own mouth..."Trump is an Asshole". Frank wins in a landslide and feral pigs everywhere go into immediate decline.

Mike McLeod for Secretary of the Future: Distopian Division. Mike you really need to go see Blade Runner. It's only the longest 2.5 hours you will ever spend and it supplies such close up views of our dark and frightening future. Your description of gun control was properly frightening.

Stamps and stamp collecting, still mine!

Go Seahawks!


10/08/17 05:50 PM #2036    

 

Mary Ann Nolan (Thomas)

David Brooks with the New York Times had an interesting article in today’s paper. 

 

 


10/08/17 06:41 PM #2037    

 

Janie Albright (Blank)

Mary Ann, is this the article you are referencing? https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/guns-soul-of-america.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fdavid-brooks&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection&referer=https://www.nytimes.com/column/david-brooks


10/08/17 09:25 PM #2038    

 

John Maxwell

Why does the right to own guns become so passionate for some people? It really is the lazy person's way to kill. There are literally hundreds of ways to kill. If guns magically disappeared, no problem, we'll still find ways to kill ourselves. And God will be watching. I wonder, and always have, for whom does God pray? Does God pray? To whom?
See, more important things to think about. I pick the Dodgers and Cleveland in tbe series. I know certain Yankee fans who would not agree, but it'll be a miracle. I wonder who God is rooting for? Either way enjoy the playoffs, It'll be a while before we get to enjoy THE game again. Cheers!

10/09/17 02:07 AM #2039    

 

James Hamilton, M. D.

Bob,

Beautiful Aurora! I also like the mist in the background and the reflecion on the stream.

This is a good example of why landscape photographers lose a lot of sleep! :)

Jim

10/09/17 07:13 AM #2040    

 

Mary Ann Nolan (Thomas)

Janie yes that is the article. Did you read it and if so what are your thoughts ?  Postindustrial / populism society.


10/09/17 10:50 AM #2041    

 

Mary Margaret Clark (Schultheis)


10/09/17 10:51 AM #2042    

 

Mary Margaret Clark (Schultheis)

And on that note................................

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2017/what-happened-in-vegas


10/09/17 12:28 PM #2043    

 

Michael McLeod

Hey Tim. Big Blade Runner fan here. Surprised the movie isn't doing better at the box office.

And I must have missed my mark with that little essay. I was trying to find a middle ground and a solution, and I just don't see that possibility in the near future.

More and more I'm concerned less about where we are now and more about future generations. 

And more about seeking middle ground than the polarities we're experiencing at the moment.

 


10/09/17 02:49 PM #2044    

 

Joseph D. McCarthy

Dear Mr. Lavelle,

When In  asked you about future, read NEXT week, conditions around Portland, OR I did not mean to imply that you should send devastion (wildfire) to the vineyards, homes, and businesses in Napa and Sonoma counties of California.  So far a total of over 50,000 acres (approimately 25 square miles) has burned in both counties.  It started late last night and is still no under control.  They have placed a Mandatory evacuattion on two sections of the town I live in, just North and East of mine; and we are miles from the fires.  They did evacuate two of the main hospitals in Santa Rosa, CA.  

 


10/09/17 04:27 PM #2045    

 

Janie Albright (Blank)

Some of you have asked how to post a clickable link into the message forum. 

Make sure cursor is where you want link to appear. Then go up to icons above second row far right section. Click on the piece of chain link. A new box will appear. Paste your link into the line that says url. Then hit ok. It should now appear in the body of your message as a clickable link. 

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/guns-soul-of-america.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fdavid-brooks&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection&referer=https://www.nytimes.com/column/david-brooks


10/09/17 04:30 PM #2046    

 

Janie Albright (Blank)


10/09/17 06:32 PM #2047    

 

David Mitchell

Jees, hold on you guys!  I'm still trying to figure out what distopian means.  


10/09/17 06:55 PM #2048    

Timothy Lavelle

Bob....your photo is remarkable.

Maggie...I read part of the write up on Vegas that your link lead to. For the Catholic Church to be asking/saying, in effect, "How can you be sad over Las Vegas when abortion is legal" seems like a fundamental error in just dealing with the evil of today...the Vegas massacre. It feels like the author is saying "I don't care what you think about guns and innocent people being attacked, I want to take this opportunity to dump as much guilt on you as I can. And on the Democrats and Nancy Pelosi in particular." I am just saying that is how it read...and yes, I only read part of it...to me. I have to tell you that I have hated the guilt the church lays out from the time I was a child. It has always seemed like social or religious blackmail to me...."You humans are so guilty and doomed to hell that it is only with th miraculous help of the church that you can overcome your nastiness". I thiink that "all or none" view is why a lot of people leave the church.

Joe: I used to live in Pleasanton and we would go to Napa pretty easily. The whole area is beautiful and while I admit I love a good fire, please trust that I didn't send the god of fire your way. Hope you and your home come through OK.

Dave: Distopian is the place you and others who do not know what distopian means will live....soon. Be afraid. Be very afraid. There are no helicopters, which by the way, I have dibs on. And stamps. and.....


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