Are you ready kids?
No, really, it’s true.
MOSCOW, 13 April. /TASS/. Russia introduces mirror sanctions against 398 members of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, congressmen, including the leadership and chairmen of committees, are included in the stop list of the Russian Federation on an ongoing basis. This is stated in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, distributed on Wednesday.
“In response to the next wave of anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the administration of [U.S. President] Joe Biden on March 24 against 328 deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, which, taking into account the previously blacklisted Russian parliamentarians, makes up almost the entire composition of it, mirror sanctions restrictions are being introduced against 398 members of the U.S. House of Representatives,” the text reads.
“These persons, including the leadership and chairmen of the committees of the lower house of the US Congress, are included in the Russian stop list on an ongoing basis. Together with other current lawmakers, who, like Speaker of the [U.S. House of Representatives] Nancy Pelosi, was previously banned from entering the Russian Federation , “listing” on the basis of reciprocity is subject to all US congressmen,” the ministry added.
Smolenskaya Square also indicated that Russia, as a response to US sanctions, will soon announce new measures that involve expanding the number of people on the stop list, as well as other steps. “Given the constantly imposed US sanctions, new announcements of Russian countermeasures are planned in the near future, involving an increase in the number of persons included in the stop list and other retaliatory steps,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
It would be interesting to know who the Russians did not sanction, and if this is a move in the larger plan.
Stay tuned on that one.
The snowflakes at Twitter are experiencing something like the vapors over Elon Musk and his stake in the company.
Twitter ‘a s–t-show’ for employees since Elon Musk took major stake: report
Elon Musk’s looming battle with Twitter’s board is a source of major anxiety for company employees – many of whom are reportedly worried that billionaire’s campaign to force changes is just beginning.
Musk’s surprise rejection of a Twitter board seat emerged ahead of a scheduled “day of rest” for company employees, according to a report.
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal broke the news on his account the previous night, describing Musk’s decision as “for the best” even as he warned workers they would face “distractions ahead,” Bloomberg reported late Monday.
The uncertainty left Twitter workers feeling “super stressed” about the future, with employees reportedly “working together to help each other get through the week.”
The report cited interviews with Twitter employees who asked not to be identified while discussing the company’s inner workings. Several employees told the outlet that Twitter’s internal environment was a “s–t-show” after Musk’s deal with the board fell through.
It really sounds like they need their blankies and binkies.
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23For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 25In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
JOHN 13:1-15
1Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2And during supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, 3Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, 4rose from supper, laid aside his garments, and girded himself with a towel. 5Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded. 6He came to Simon Peter; and Peter said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” 7Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand.” 8Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part in me.” 9Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” 10Jesus said to him, “He who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not every one of you.” 11For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “You are not all clean.” 12When he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? 13You call me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. 14If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
This is not the way I sang it, but years ago, I sang this in a concert in one of the great “rooms” in town. I actually got it to ring. This is also one of the spirituals which appear in Michael Tippett’s “A Child of Our Time,” a piece put together in protest of World War Two.
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^^^^THIS^^^^
We don’t have much in the way of pollen apocalypses, but the stupid liquidambar is chunkin’ out the goo like crazy — and a bit of wind knocked another layer of spiky balls all over the damned lawn.
Cooth, how did I know you’d be the first.
The silence was getting to me. Your posts deserve better.
I need to put the “born an idiot” meme on a plaque so I can hang it over one of the doors in my new house.
New house? DETAILS!!!
Haven’t cleaned or sold the old one yet. Situation changed little. Currently detoured to taxes. Earlier this evening, detoured to helping Fiancee fix the dishwasher she broke.
I keep going “slog, slog, slog” toward getting out of here and keep getting “fire drill, fire drill, fire drill” from the Fiancee. I need to light a BIG fire under this and get MOMENTUM back.
Disappearing to find that new home might “put out the fire drills”. 😉
Just as a side note, the Fiancee actually has a Family Curse regarding real estate. I thought we got it beat with her mom’s estate and her reconnection with her aunt’s family (estranged for >30 years). Now I’m caught up in it.
Real estate curse?
Her mom, dad, and mom’s sister’s family built a beach house in the Hamptons for her maternal grandparents. It was passed on in 1/3 interests….and eventually ripped the family apart where she didn’t see her cousins for about 30 years. The family doesn’t do divided interests in real estate very well.
Sad. Inheritances, money truly entices too many folks to act stoopid, inconsiderate, greedy…
Thankfully when my parents (who were divorced) passed on, the six of us brothers and sisters didn’t sweat much of anything, when liquidating their Estates.
Literally sat around a table. executor read the will, giving everyone a copy. Stuff not addressed in the will largely went to whoever wanted it. Ties went to the one with larger need. Those with less, got more. Not a big deal to any of us.
Fundamentally, we know, that we didn’t do anything to “earn” the inheritance. At least, that is my view.
Our neighbor, who moved in about when we did 2 1/2 decades ago, just sold their house for more than $100G more than I thought it would. Our friends in Dallas sold their house for $20G over asking after 3 days & 50 showings. It can be done!
I had a coothie adventure with a toilet (unfortunately during the last Trump rally 😭 ). 3 issues + 2 Home Depot trips created a 4th issue which I finally resolved with teflon tape and channel locks yesterday. 🤸♀️ 🥓 🤸♀️
Only two Home Depot trips?
^^^ That’s a WIN in my book. 🙂
It was gonna take another if I hadn’t fixed it yesterday. A complete re-plumb was the next step. 😰 Leak stopped, 2nd toilet weekend unnecessary. Moving on to sprinkler. 😎
Oh boy, sprinklers. There’s a potpourri of parts, driving multiple Home Depot visits.
I have more sprinkler parts than my repairman! 😲🤪😎 (I only call him if there’s lots of digging involved.) The Sprinkler Warehouse is just down the street from me, I’m like a kid in a candy store in that place. 😁 I managed 14 zones at the Church and installed drip/spray systems in 12 raised veggie beds. I have 6 zones at home, Wi-Fi controlled. 🤸♀️🤸♀️ Gotta replace my backflow device, the great freeze of 21 cracked it. I need help turning water off at street, it’s a bear even for grown men.
Unbelievable and grateful that God sent enough rain last year that I didn’t have to run system at all. But I can tell this year’s gonna be different. Need MOAR water. SW gives you a free nice T-shirt each visit. I have so many, so does my family, friends, and Church people, LOL.
🙂
We’ve done a lot of drip, which is another set of parts.
Because we had a lot of potted plants that we moved around, I “invented” a portable drip hydrant thingie. We’d take a home depot bucket, set a “U” of pipe into about 1/4 bucket of fence post mix, pull one pipe to just over the rim, do a right angle over the rim, and put a hose connection, put the other side of the U about 8 inches over the rim and put an 8-outlet drip hydrant. When it’s in the middle of 8 pots, you don’t really see it and you can set it up rapidly. You could also do the same sort of thing with a sprayer head and just hide it behind a bush.
I had piped and staked more than 50 drippers in the 12X12 bed and it still wasn’t enough. 😡 (My poor thumbs, and back!) Eff that, I went and bought small adjustable 360 sprayers, I needed the water to go everywhere! The other 8 beds got sprayers right off the bat. I was going to put drippers in the flower pots by all the church doors, but never got brave enough to do it. I would’ve had to tap into the 14 zone system, major pressure. I kept having nightmares of about something going wrong and me flooding the entrances to multiple buildings. Some of those zones ran 40min each. Pots got hand watered. 😉 The garden system was connected to a water hose outlet and in the back of Church with no traffic, when it flooded, it went largely unnoticed.
I have more sprinkler parts than my repairman! 😲🤪😎 (I only call him if there’s lots of digging involved.) The Sprinkler Warehouse is just down the street from me, I’m like a kid in a candy store in that place. 😁 I managed 14 zones at the Church and installed drip/spray systems in 12 raised veggie beds. I have 6 zones at home, Wi-Fi controlled. 🤸♀️🤸♀️ Gotta replace my backflow device, the great freeze of ’21 cracked it. I need help turning water off at street, it’s a bear, even for grown men.
Unbelievable and grateful that God sent enough rain last year that I didn’t have to run system at all. But I can tell this year’s gonna be different. Need MOAR water. SW gives you a free nice T-shirt each visit. I have so many, so does my family, friends, and Church people, LOL.
P.S., my homing pigeon automagically sends me to the sprinkler aisle in HD, which as luck would have it is the same row for toilet parts. 😂🤸♀️🤸♀️
You sound like my husband’s way of thinking. Everything takes at least Twice as long as pre-anticipated & costs at least Twice as much as estimated. There was the time he was going to re-shingle just one section of our roof w/ ice damage for 3 hours one Saturday…& we had the blue tarps going for Three Weeks & he had to rebuild that section of the roof because the ice dams had caused structural rot. Perils of Northern Michigan living…Fun for a dad of 1-3 pre-schoolers, or not…
Never fails.. Stuff always happens, which causes more stuff to happen.
Almost like Murphy’s Law or something…
How does one “break a dishwasher”?
LOL my daughter knows how, she did it 2 weeks after we moved in our house (20 years ago) So she BECAME the “dishwasher…wink.
Ah, the good’ol days.
Our dishwasher. Son 1 washed, son 2 dried, and daughter put away.
Dishes were always done on time, complete with wanking kids. 😂 😅 😂
Washing dishes by hand is one of the main chores that kids got roped into at my parents’ Cottage in Northern Michigan–great fellowship & learned work ethic. Back when the Okies could join us there were 8 adults & 14 kids & I set up chore charts to divide cooking & cleaning in teams. It was quite the production having each couple supervise the kids doing chores during their meal prep time.
The benefit of that chore chart was Fairly dividing the tasks & everyone not on duty being able to enjoy their vacation. Keeping my mom out of the kitchen was harder than doing the actual needed tasks though 🙂
When my kids grew up we did not have a dishwasher . They washed dishes 3 days a week and I did the rest. Soon one of them helped me drying dishes and one liked the soaps he washed the dishes.
My kids remind me always that I got a dishwasher after they were out of the house 🙂
One yanks the lower tray out so fast it knocks the spraybar off the upper tray. Then you only disengage half the upper tray when you try to pull it out and flip it over to rebuild.
^^^ Unique. ^^^
Another indicator it’s time to move? (Rhetorical)
Right now the only plaque we have over a door is “La Reyna No Cocina”.
Seen a doormat you might like- there is no reason for you to be here
True story — one house we lived in, I had the front bedroom next to the front door, and all the other bedrooms were off a hallway in the back. Also, I’ve never been much of a morning person.
So, when the neighbor girl knocked on the door one morning, I unlocked and opened it in my bathrobe, said, “there is nobody awake here”, shut the door in her face, relocked it, and went back to bed.
Trouble was, my parents had made arrangements to babysit and hadn’t even mentioned them to me — much less arranged to have someone up front to meet her.
This was decades before my sleep apnea diagnosis. Evidently I was able to perform quite complicated behaviors without waking up, even back then.
Out in places like the Carolinas, they have more “natural” pollen apocalypses. In California, they’re largely man-made.
Many types of plants have “male flowers” and “female flowers”. Humans have selected one over the other for millennia. Just as a small example, the plant Cannabis sativa (marijuana) can be grown for its flowers. The male flowers are known for their pollen; the female flowers are known for their sticky “sap” coating them to collect pollen; and fertilized female flowers are known for having a plethora of seeds. The finest recreational “bud” for Cannabis fanciers was “sin semilla” — literally “without seeds” in Spanish. Cannabis fanciers learned early on to separate the male and female plants.
As it turns out, there are very many decorative plants that have male and female forms — and, very often, the females produce fruits. These fruits may not be edible or even particularly obvious, but they do tend to form, ripen, and drop.
So if you’re designing an industrial park or a shopping center and throwing in some basic landscaping to interrupt the concrete and asphalt, you are likely to specify plants that do not drop sticky fruit on parked cars or clog drains with fruits and seeds. If you’re in the Streets Department of a city government, the same issues apply. In short, industrial landscaping is overwhelmingly male plants.
And these man-made environments shed a metric-buttload of pollen into the air. If such pollen were to drift through the female flowers of an incompatible species, the sticky “sap” would help clear the pollen from the air, even if producing fruit was impossible. But there’s not even that happening. Plants in California are sourced from all over the world, and male plants are planted in industrial settings.
Fields that raise hops for brewing beer are all female — it’s illegal in many areas to raise male hop plants unless you are creating new hybrids. I was actually informed by someone who might know that you can graft hop plants and marijuana plants to each other, as they are closely related.
Hmmm.. Make a lot of friends (not); plant figs, Eucalyptus, and olives… maybe a flowering Mulberry or ten…
androcentric fascistic industrial overlords! 😉
Ground report on the pet food shortage. I’ve been dealing with this shortage since March 2020, and this is the absolute worst I have ever seen it. Went to the grocery store yesterday and noticed that the pet food aisle was completely bare. It used to be extremely picked over, but now there’s nothing on the shelves at all. Meanwhile, I haven’t been able to find the usual brand I buy in -months- despite checking online every day. I had a sizable stockpile built up, but it’s getting low. Tonight I finally caved and purchased a few different brands in anticipation of switching the food to something else that’s actually available.
If you’re a pet owner, I strongly recommend stockpiling pet food when possible. Maybe occasionally try out different brands so that you have more options available during this shortage.
It’s been the same here, Sadie. When the lockdowns started and all the loons were buying up all the toilet paper and everything else, I had to change brands because there were only 1 or 2 brands available for months. Finally my dog’s brand came back on the shelves, but still runs out frequently. I’ve been stocking up, too. I’ve stocked up for me, so it makes sense to also stock up for her.
Same here. Ever since March 2020, the product is often out-of-stock for 1-2 months at a time. I was able to mitigate it for two years (ugh, has it really been that long?) by making large purchases when it’s in stock and riding out the periods when it’s not available, but not this time.
Tip: I actually found the missing product tonight in a variety pack. It’s only a few cans, but I was planning on trying some of the other stuff in the pack anyway.
mixing some new food in w/ the old in increasing percentages over a few days can ease the digestive upheaval for the pets too.
It should also be noted that the more religiously paleo your diet is, the more you can just share with your canines.
Thanks for the tip. “Digestive upheaval” is the reason why I’ve been hesitant to switch brands until now. It’s why I recommended maybe exploring the (limited) options now in case the shortage gets even worse.
I learned about that the hard way. We gave our exclusively dry food dog a Large can of something without any ease in phase. It came out the other end a soupy mess all over our downstairs bathroom that hubby had to use a spatula & cut in half frisbee to clean up, while I kept the toddlers away. I got to scrub the carpets that were so baptized & of course she chose the only semi-shag area of the house to christen…Live & learn!
Oh, yuck! The joys of having dogs. 😂
Yes, very gross…
I think we shut the dog in that bathroom after the carpet desecration to at least keep the mess localized. It was Really bad for that was like 25 years ago & I can still remember it (when so many other memories have gone by the wayside)…
Cat shit from a sick cat is nothing to scoff at
Nikki throws up .. you never see it before you step in it. I’m the clean up person. Yuk
Chico doesn’t throw up at all he’s just a scaredy-cat lol
Wouldn’t it have been less painful to burn the house down?
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Yikes…sniff testing that carpet was no job for wimps 🙁
By the way after my son’s graduation from Fire Academy a number of us went out to eat. One of his friends told how they were going to have an Aussie friend come visit soon & planned to take him to Outback Steakhouse (Australian themed eatery) so that the wait staff could get pissed off by his accent, thinking that he was mocking them. My son’s friend know how to live on the edge 😉
Rice vegetables and meat settles most pets digestive problems. Also cottage cheese.
I had old dog I cooked for and extended his life 3 more years. The Weimaraner lived to be almost 15.
You are such a good “mom”!!!
Thank you try to be 🙂
Just read internet when problems arise and implement what sounds could salve the problems. Also have some good books that help.
But you also have the heart & the persistence to see these options through!
Yes persistence I have 🙂
<3
It’s probably more like, she knows too well what the consequences of failure are.
Ayn Rand was the same way; she had personal experience with Leninist Russia. When someone tried to tell her she had courage, she said, basically, No, it wasn’t courage it was fear of the consequences of inaction.
Well I don’t want to sell Singing short. Her persistence was likely enhanced by her complex background experiences & an attitude of godly self-sufficiency.
In a way, we’re saying largely the same thing.
She know what will happen if we lose. She KNOWS it, better than we can. She has lived it.
Yes!
You are so correct. The prices have gone up also.
As a backup, know what table scraps are okay for your pet to eat. That’s what people used to feed their animals. Dogs MAY NOT HAVE most nightshades (potatoes, onions), but meat, eggs, and some other veggies are fine. Ying LOVES fish, too.
No grapes or raisins, white rice and grains are not good either…can cause skin issues and cysts. Raw meat is good, frozen first to kill any parasites. Bananas are good, carrots, apple…
My first dog used to sit there drooling out of both sides of her mouth waiting for anyone’s apple core 🙂
Just don’t let them eat the seeds.
Well we missed that rule for sure…
My dog loves baby carrots, apples, and oranges more than any dog treats I could give her.
Mine like carrots, celery and blueberries with a little milk.
If you have chooks DO NOT give them raw potato peelings. There is an enzyme in them they can’t digest which causes bowel obstruction then death. Cook first.
(for those going full survivalist)
Mixing the food slowly seems to help pets changing food. I had some dogs that were sensitive. Woodford is easy his digestion is great. Still I will slowly change over to new brands of food.
UPDATE: The missing product is now back in stock! I guess the trick to making it come back was to order different stuff and complain about it, LOL. Whatever. I am grateful that the stockpile is now replenished.
I am so happy for you 🙂
Strip the shelves. Make sure you’ve got what you need to survive the apocalypse
I don’t know if this will prove to be true, but it’s interesting to think about.
Catturd says: “Elon Musk hasn’t tweeted in a few days …
Something is about to go down.”
Repeated post that’s currently above, but it is a zinger so worthy of repeat. ZeroHedge article says Musk offers $54.20 per share to buy 100 percent of Twitter per a 13D filing (link in article). Never tired of winning. Thanks Elon! https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/best-and-final-offer-elon-musk-offers-buy-twitter-5420-share
That hostile takeover we’ve all been waiting for. Hope it works.
And Ali talweed is outraged!
win – win
and then someone pointed out to him he was a small shareholder (3%) so STFU
Fox headline news for radio just said that the tip that NYPD used to grab the subway shooter came from him! He called the tip line on himself.
So why did he run away from the crime scene? Just to turn himself over a day later? This makes no sense. He had to know that what he intended to do meant he’d spend the rest of his life in prison, likely to never again see daylight or touch grass.
Sounds like he may have been programmed to do it, and then surrender himself except the programming had a break where his natural instinct to try to save himself burst through for a day.
Now whoduhphuk might do that to him?
This is weird stuff. It really does seem to add up as some kind of an “event”.
Well, what did this take out in the news cycle?
The Whitmer defendants were found not guilty. BIG, discredits the FIB.
The Hunter Biden laptop being confirmed as REAL. Discredits the FIB.
Horrible inflation statistics. Outrageous, really. Discredits the faux-admin.
Disney = GROOMER. Ties in all kinds of groups. Outrages virtually everyone. Discredits one of the largest corporations in the world.
Could be any/all of these, or other things. But since the FIB is the most likely trigger-puller (they knew the guy), I’m guessing one of the first two.
Sort of, “which way did he go?”
“Event THATAWAY” or event that away…
Good one!
He wanted to be famous and have cred but also wanted to live to bask in it
via Disclose TV
The fall of Mariupol is coming. The countdown should be done not in days, but already in hours” – British military analyst, Professor Michael Clarke
“The final agony of the battle for Mariupol seems inevitable.” “Dramatic events can happen overnight in Mariupol,” – broadcast of the British TV channel Sky News is full of such gloomy words.
Clark said that the fall of Mariupol is nearing. This should be counted not in days, but already in hours: “I will be surprised if Mariupol is not in the hands of the Russians by this time tomorrow.”
According to the professor, after the capture of Izyum, Russian troops will try to break through for a large association in southern Ukraine. If they win, the Russians can go to the north of the country:
“It will take some time, but if they can defeat the Ukrainians in Mariupol, they can release probably half of their forces there, at least 6,000 or maybe 8,000 soldiers, to start moving north in this big offensive. “.
Clarke said that the Ukrainians were driven into two “boilers” on the coast of the Sea of Azov. Commenting on the words of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation that the port of Mariupol was taken, the analyst noted: this is “completely trustworthy” and “almost certainly” true.
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oops… my bad… that is coming from Intel Slava Z … not Disclose TV
If what they say about the “pit” is true, I’d think they are likely stocked up a bit better than others around Mariupol and when they do have to give it up, it’s likely going up in a big bang. Failing that someone might bring in some fast movers to drop some ordnance on it.
I’ve also read the possibility of pumping in water from the port to flood the works.
Lateral thinking.
flush out the rats
The Sinus Pressure was fun. Damn these trees having sex in the wide open so as to annoy all and sundry… been days when I figured that when I die, my will should stipulate that the municipal water company inherit my nose.
The Holderness Family has many more good ones, I discovered. This one about the perceived incomprensibility of algebra for example.
OK, that was a good one! Excellent song pick for the theme, too. And I am even embarrassed to admit that I like both the original song and the “cover” version! 😅
I’ve always liked the song. I was curious about it and came across this a while ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_(Toto_song)
Music world! SO music world.
The guys from Toto are what made Thriller, they played on every track. Steve Porcaro wrote Human Nature.
Interesting!
I like “Africa.” It is a good song.
It is very sad to see how poorly-taught mathematics has given us a culture of math-challenged citizens.
Yes there is this kind of «mental poison» thing, that algebra (math) is hard and incomprehensible. While if treated as a game with a few simple rules, it isn’t all that much harder to comprehend than some board games. The focus on immediate utility gets in the way, as it is hard to «sell» what the uses of algebra is. Yes, explaining physics and how the world works for those who are sufficiently curious, but what of all the others?
Maybe a return in the direction of the classic concept of the quadrivium and trivium, being something of the basic education for everyone, as part of the process of learning to learn, nevermind any immediate or specific applications, which are inherently limited because they are specific.
Another filk version of Africa, about algebra, but with a positive twist would be useful.
Algebra is actually more about problem solving and thinking ability than math. Same with trig. That was easiest math class I ever took. Geometry, OTOH, lost.
I always loved algebra, & math in general, up until calculus…thinking in equations was helpful in chemistry too, at least at the HS level.
Agree it has to be fun from little on .
I once knew a man who traveled the world over teaching math teachers how to teach math. He tutored my absolutely brilliant son in math. My son struggled with it, like I did.
My friend explained to me that people have different “math brains,” and that math has to be taught in different ways to different people. I can testify this is true in real life, as the DH and I literally CAN NOT work a mathematical problem out together if we are working on a project. We come to the same answer, but if we try to explain to the other how we got there, it’s like speaking a foreign language. We stopped trying to avert the fighting!
I like the two ways or different ways to learn math. My granddaughter learned it two different ways. She developed her own way and then in school they taught another. She comes faster salving math problems her way but to get the grade she does it the way the school wants it. Have to say both her parents are excellent in math. Both grandfathers also, one was math professor at Washington University . My son in law would sat as kid sometimes in University class and kid at times had the math answers before the students.
All my grand kids are very good in math. Wonder if it is hereditary?
Yes, I think it is hereditary. There is an identified “spelling gene,” too. Our brains are hard-wired to be better at some things than others, I think.
True I cannot spell a lick ? 🙂
All my kids and grand kids from different parents have been in top of their classes in math and science.
Two granddaughters are weak in spelling boys not.
It verges on being a stereotype, the STEM teacher (either junior high/high school or college level) who cannot spell to save his (or her) life.
My one granddaughter is brilliant in math science computer is weak in spelling. She blames the school that never taught phonics. She also is a speed reader and her comprihension is of the chard.
And the great speller (me), who can’t do algebra on a bet!
I’m a decent (but not world-class) speller though of late I find myself making typos I don’t see. When I see them later I cringe because then, it’s obvious I goofed.
I do that, too. It’s usually when I am tired and working too fast.
theory of multiple intelligences perhaps
When I was a kid I could think through certain math problems to the right answer but couldn’t always complete the “show your work” part of the thought process…
That is a problem with many people my husband tells me. In his classes in University the kids have to show how they got their answer. One has to be sequential in logical thinking. Is hard for me but I can do it just brings me to another room I seldom use 🙂
Nice! I’m sequential now but perhaps not as much when younger. I don’t often leave Spock’s domain 🙂
🙂
Mathematics begin in the home. My kids were all very good in math. I am not but very creative when I raised them. We counted everything from little on like 2 and before. Make a pie cut it into all the into eights. I had found a Montessori book how to teach it at home. We turned the home into a Montessori home activities and all.
We put to much on the school I believe. If one is a home stay mom one needs to be organized with schedule and interactive with the kids. I am an idiot but have a natural ability with kids and animals. Just comes naturally to get the best out of them.
accidental cultural insult surely/s
All I can think is that poor cat’s self esteem has been totally shattered.
Its miss was surprising. I think that cat is out of shape. And yes, probably humiliated.
The perfect example of a Fat Cat.
That’s my cat Nikki, … she’s older now (12 y/o) .. sometimes her leap to the couch from a foot stool ends with her on the floor. Poor poo bear cat. She has a big body and short legs. When it’s real quiet you can hear her paws … ahhhh the pain, lose some weight why don’t cha 😫
Just found this, kitty cat wellerman sea shanty,
😜
How funny thank you 😂
🤗❤️ … glad you liked it Singing .. 🙂🤚❤️
🙂
Did you say shanty? 😉
Brad kitty liked it and came running for kibble. I also gave him some catnip and played the song again while he ate his kittynip, hehe Thanks wowoh!
My cats are 12 plus and still jump like young cats. They do have a large cat post and that keeps them fit. They are all slim and have food out 24/7. I think it is the type of food because some cats in the past were fatter. These cats never get sick it seems we never had them in for sickness. They are rescue cats. Many of my cats in the past were as old as 18-21.
My daughter had a cat was big bon cat rescue. He was 30 lb when she adopted him at 6 years. He never lost weight even though she tried and the vet said just to leave him he was no loosing. He was lazy sit on other cats to dominate them. Was about 15 when he past.
When one has more than one cat seems they are slimmer. They chase each other up and down stairs. When they fight my dogs break it up. They do not hurt them they run in between and it stops.
Thank you Singing I love your post about your cats, the cat would sit on the other cat lol, and he dogs run between the fighting cats ..
😎👍❤️ ..
Chico is a slim cat, and 10 y/o .. both cats rescued and don’t go outside. We have cat haters for neighbors ..
Chico is the scaredy cat, bolts at the drop of hat .. snicker 🤭
Wonderful to hear your cats are indoor. are Only had two ever in my life that did go out. One spayed and did go out that stopped spaying . The other was stray and did not want to come in except when it got really cold and had a spot in the basement. She just did not wanted to be in and only was nice when I did yard work to help 🙂
One of my two, Ms. Donna is like that. Built stocky and somewhat bow-legged in the front. Her sister is slim, but clumsy. Donna has a really thick undercoat that needs constant brushing, while her sis is fine haired with no undercoat. Both just hit 16 at the beginning of the month. 😸😼
Nikki is stocky too and also has a thick undercoat, like a double coat. I brush her but I have to distract her with treats or lay an extra brush on the floor, lol. She’s squirmy otherwise and try bite me ☹️
Mine gets tired of it too after a bit and wants to bite when she’s done.
And a Cat-astrophy 🙂
(or alternate spellings 🙂 )…
Fat. That cat is fat.
i have a very fluffy cat with a bit of cp in the rear legs. She walks a bit funny but her jumps are truely side splitting. Helps that she has a continuous puzzled, concentrating look on her face.
Self esteem requires sentience. Cats think they are the universe but they have no sense of self awareness.
This is why there are cat fights. Think of them as When Galaxies Collide.
My 15 year old dog could make that jump.
Fauci the RAT is causing trouble again.
https://www.independentsentinel.com/despot-faucis-back-talking-about-lockdowns-and-airline-masks/
That’s quite an admission. I thought lockdowns were to stop the spread of a disease.
Fauci is a loose cannon! Sometimes he hits Democrat defenses!
Wake up!!! You’re dreaming of NeverNeverLand. 😆
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Fauci lies and people died.
Wolf Moon
Well, this “Fauci-Mengle” hint fits right in with the “extension” of the “nationwide state of emergency over COVID-19” that was announced on February 18. The “extension” began on March 1. The official statement by “President Biden” does NOT have an “end date” for the “extension.”
http://www.federalregister.gov/
FR Doc. 2022-03972
published February 22, 2022
Sorry, that’s “Fauci-Mengele.”
I’ve decided this little troll is one of those morons like Joe Biden, who got into his job by some accident, and then continued to rise by some grift or scheme or blackmail. He is just stupid, and shooting his mouth off with whatever comes to mind. I don’t think he has the brains to think through what he is saying before he blurts it out. He’s a bureaucrat. We’ll finally be rid of him when he dies.
We’ll finally be rid of him when he dies.
^^^ Sad truth. ^^^
No one in the Federal bureaucracy has the integrity to deal with this evil asshole.
Seems that way, doesn’t it?
If only a bucket of water would melt the miserable evil twerp
This thing is with these miserable sacks of .. is not that they’re smart, they are CRAFTY LYING POUTY/HUFFY EVILS SHITS who’ve been rejected by decent people (penguin/Batman) so they are totally free from morals and restrictions … and that give them free reign, nobody watches them they do what they want and feel self-righteous when doing their crap
Agreed!
Fauci is evil and has no respect for people. How did that guy become a Dr ? He is a psychopath.
FauXi IS more an educated IDJIT, than doctor.
As time went on, FauXi Mastered in Evil, with a Doctorate in Mass Murder.
I agree fully
Got the license from inside a box of fruit loops .. 😑😖
How true if it was not so sad. Who knows . I assume he was a sleaze all his life
Techno Fog now linking Durham’s stuff to illegal CIA actions!
https://technofog.substack.com/p/the-unstated-scandal-the-cia-collected?s=r
So far, I think that’s a rabbit trail he’s on. Time will tell, I suppose.
ONLY a rabbit hole cuz CIA can’t be penetrated.
Whatever Durham may try to do with CIA will be stopped. National security. Classified. Ongoing investigation. Sources & Methods.
Well, he should just pack it in then. Case closed.
I really, really hope the John Durham is a patriot. Someone who, because he loves his country and values his integrity above all else, will pursue justice to the ends of the Earth.
That’s what we need. I can only pray that’s what we’ve got.
This thought about Durham keeps coming up in me is why is he not silenced by the bad guys? They silence everyone else. How is he still able to operate in the swamp the government is? Unless he goes after some people who have fallen out of the swamp who are seen to eliminate of for a cover up?
Something seems off do not know what .
I don’t know, either. It is possible that he has a mandate that they can’t shut down. Without killing him, of course.
Yes we will find out. Hope he is a good guy.
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/03/the-story-behind-that-jfk-quote-about-destroying-the-cia/
Former President Truman, whose Administration established the CIA in 1947, said in 1963 that by then he saw “something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic positions, and I feel that we need to correct it.”
Sort of like this one from Garrison: 🕵
Yup .. 🤨👍❤️
YUP.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/covids-theft-of-smell-and-taste-may-be-due-to-berserk-inflammation/
Maybe…..
According to Bryan Ardis, Cobra and Krait snake venom also kills taste and smell.
Gateway Pundit…
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Hmmm, tried again just now and it’s available from a european country but still not here.
wonder if it’s a genuine fault or they’re being messed about with.
Biden Calls Russia Military Operation in Ukraine “Genocide”, Commits Additional $800 Million in Weapons Today
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/13/biden-calls-russia-military-operation-in-ukraine-genocide-commits-additional-800-million-in-weapons-today/
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“Marine Le Pen also refused to call the fighting in Ukraine a genocide.
“Genocide is a legally extremely clear definition that does not correspond to the facts now known,” she said.”
https://t.me/intelslava/25192
(with video, but in French)
ZeroHedge article says Musk offers $54.20 per share to buy 100 percent of Twitter per a 13D filing (link in article). Never tired of winning. Thanks Elon! https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/best-and-final-offer-elon-musk-offers-buy-twitter-5420-share
Think a big money leftist will step in to out-bid Musk and save the day for totalitarian censorship?
If so, Musk can unload his previous $2B for $3B, wait a couple of months, and do the same thing again.
Looks like the FBI is the Domestic Terrorist Organization that Wray was talking about.
Bingo
Verse of the Day for Thursday, April 14, 2022
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“How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!”
Psalms 119:103 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.
AMEN.
May many massive lawsuits arise!!!!
910 Athlete Cardiac Arrests, Serious Issues, 595 Dead, After COVID Shot
https://goodsciencing.com/covid/athletes-suffer-cardiac-arrest-die-after-covid-shot/
Former CDC Director says Bird Flu is the real pandemic – Covid 19 was just practice.
https://www.iceagefarmer.com/2022/04/09/fmr-cdc-director-bird-flu-is-the-real-pandemic-c19-was-just-practice/
If this is true – you can bet it will be a chimeric (unnatural, lab-engineered) variant of bird flu, designed to hit a specific demographic and achieve the desired effect and agenda.
What and whose labs developed the virus and on whom did they test it?
Will it be spread to create an outbreak just before the 2022 election or just before the 2024 election?
How do we prepare?
How to prepare?
Be as healthy as you can possibly be. Lose weight, eat healthy, exercise, take your vitamins. Get some blood work done to check all your levels, especially vitamin D.
That’s all we can do personally, I think. Beyond that, God is in control.
Do what can be done to get / remain healthy, get out of debt, “stock up” (and remember that “Loose Lips Sink Ships”), have trusted relationships with family / friends, be in contact with whatever Supreme Being or Supreme Force one ascribes to.
Funny I have been seeing on you tube chicken video and one video the person said “no one tells you about danger of bird flue”.
I knew people in Germany who had chickens never heard of the bird flue.
Now GA/FL that you bring it up from CDC warning I wonder. I did not know people can catch it? Is that a respiratory infection?
Hear we are and there is more on the Internet. Many of us eat eggs and chicken.
Soon there is nothing on protein we can eat?
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/environment/2022/04/13/bird-flu-2022-easter-eggs-prices-up-inflation/7275942001/
This is a former CDC head under Trump talking – we do not know this is bedrock truth.
I said – ‘IF this is true…’
Could just be scare tactics from CDC who knows right ?
Bird flu doesn’t usually affect humans – but a lab-altered or spliced variant could possibly do so.
We see what they did or do. Evil knows no boundaries.
A very interesting serious read and set of conjectures retweeted by SD @TheLastRefuge2
https://twitter.com/peterdukephoto/status/1514451718766940162
https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-butterfly-revolution
I thought that sounded like an interesting idea, and then I started reading it, and I have no idea what it is saying in concrete terms. One excerpt:
I’ll go on record as predicting Trump won’t run – but will back DeSantis and Pompeo for the Presidency and VPresidency.
Then Florida real estate values would crumble. Why? Because the DeSantis magic is not endemic yet and the politicals cannot find a replacement for Ron.
Yep – it would be a loss and we would have to elect another bold lion governor. We sure dodged a bullet not getting Dopey Down Low Gillum.
People are so easy to jump from one person they admirer to the next disregarding the one who came before. Lack of loyalty is epidemic all the way around in all aspects of life. I feel my age and am a disastrous when it comes to loyalty.
Unles Trumpsays he is not running I stick with him. Maybe DeSantis is the right person if Trump does not run.
Pompeo? I’m rapidly thinking he’s not a White Hat… as are others.
Why do you think that?
I have numerous questions … no longer trust him at all.
I can understand the loss of trust.
I have little to no trust left for any of them.
I thought he did an exceptional job as SecState.
We shall see – as time goes on.
Yes…we shall see… I truly would like to be wrong 😉
Amen
Agree fully. No trust in Pompeo.there were people in his Trump’s cabinet who did not respect POTUS . Could count some up always had bad feeling about them.
Wise you are…
CIA says it all 🙁
B I N G O, on Trump not running AND backing DeSantis.
VP, have no inkling, beyond not a pale face dude.
Grenell.
That IS a possibility.
No it has to be a woman dems set the bar.
Grenell can decide to be a woman. Dems set the bar. /s
How funny and to real in 2022
His ideas are insane!
by 2025 America will be destroyed … if POTUS does not come back BEFORE Nov. 22
About here is where I gave up. This just didn’t make any sense to me. Just too weird.
20 Federal ‘Assets’ Embedded at Capitol on Jan. 6, Court Filing Says (theepochtimes.com)
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http://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload/v1632840873/gen-workflow/product-database/Wax_Wit_Bacon_and_Maple_Candle.jpg
Try doing an image search on “bacon bouquet”. I’m dazed and amazed!
The Amazing Versatile B A C O N. 