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Palindromedary ~ Wow! So far I've missed a lot on this blog this weekend. I've been sidetracked by some beautiful music I found. Time to play catch up. Shocked I missed that post till just now. Kudos my friend. I think you found the only logical explanation for that tragedy. Thanks for the insight!
By the way, you are so right! Just who gave that order? Or, perhaps, who remotely steered that airliner off course; and, why didn't the radar tower report that? I smell yet another conspiracy!
Yes, Elio, and yes. As to the first of those two inquiries, it helps to disengage the TV, or give it the ole heave-ho. Speaking for myself, sister, I don't want those airbrushed little fascists on FOX, or any other mainstream "news" outlet, contaminating my space with their toxic drivel. It truly is amazing how many other, nicer, more contructive kinds of things could be filling that space instead.
People like saying health is wealth. Silence is golden too. - Aliceinwonderland
Or fart.
I influence people every time I drive my car :)
OU812: You are still a teacher, even at 69? Really? I thought most teachers would be retired by now. Guess there is no reason to retire if you still love teaching....or, if because of Reaganomics...you could never save up enough for retirement. ;-}
I had a physics teacher once that was older than God. We could barely hear him and he shook a lot. He was a nice old guy though. I liked him. But when one of the class members, one day, flicked a switch-blade at him from behind the table...I thought he was going to shit his britches or have a heart attack. He just left the room...probably called the cops. It really wasn't a rough school...never any other incidents than that...that I can remember.
Ou812 ~ You "get to" influence hundreds of students? Spoken like a true scholar. I think that's a sure sign of the Apocolypse if I ever heard one.
Beam me up oh great spaghetti monster!
Aliceinwonderland ~ I know! It's so cool. It looks like it's trying to say, "Stay the hell away from me or I'll slice your head off!" I love it!
OU812: "King of Conspiracies"! Why thank you, and I'm very proud of that too! Because there really are conspiracies but many people are either just too dumb to realize it or they have been propagandized into not believing that conspiracies exist. It is the conspirators who don't want people to know that they exist and use whatever means they have to dispel real conspiracies with their manipulative propaganda. And when they own most of the major news media in this country the gullible will always be taken in by it and will march, lock-step, to the beats of their drummers. Herd mentality. Moooo!
Question authority!
DAnneMarc ( you won't mind if I call you Denmark), please reread my post, it clearly states I Earned my BS and MA from the University of Maryland. I guess reading was not a focus in your education?. Didn't you write an article about you adventures of time travel with Obama:)) I guess humor is permitted for you, but not me. One more point, I am a teacher and I get to influence hundreds of students. Who do you influence but a bunch of washed up lefties:))
Palin, at the risk of being redundant, I love your new avatar!! Really suits your aura, dahling.
Thank you, DAnneMarc! Whoa! almost did it again! My how little coincidental things amaze me! ;-} And no, I haven't been eating any brownies, lately.
So entertaining! Keep 'em rolling "OU". The "best you have" is such a joke, it really livens things up around here. Hey Marc, pass the popcorn. - AIW
DAnneMarc: Whoa! we both submitted our entries at the same time...well, I guess you were a few seconds ahead of me.
Anyway, I believe OU812 had said he went to the University of Maryland. He must have had Mr. Valentine (remember him?) as a teacher. On second thought, I don't think Mr. Valentine was teaching that far back...assuming OU812 got his degrees at the normal young age that most people do.
Palindromedary ~ As usual your math is impeccable.
PS I love the new avatar! It's precious! You little devil you!
nothing gets by the king of conspiracies does it....yup 69 and proud of it.:))
Ou812 ~ Really? Coming from the same person who a short while ago claimed they knew former president Reagan was still alive and well and still in secret control of the government. Didn't earning that "Masters" degree in "whatever" give you enough sense to realize that spouting that type of nonsense blows all you credibility out the door?
Personally I think you just pulled that little statistic out of your mouth on a stick. You right wingers tend to stick together when it comes to your loose facts. I, however, know of some REAL kids who have done just that. It was far from as easy as you might like us to believe. It was an uphill climb that was only made possible because they pooled their resources, worked together, and got real lucky. Yet that means absolutely nothing. It was, indeed, an exception to the rule as I'm sure your questionable examples--if true--are too. Besides, since you really can't share any personal information on this blog that remark really doesn't carry any weight does it? All that really matters in education is what is available to the majority of people and how they fare--not what a few examples accomplish on their own without it.
Speaking about education, I hope you wouldn't mind sharing just what University you earned your BS and MS from? I need to warn my nephews about it. I certainly wouldn't want them to end up going their; and, I have a letter that I am dying to right there staff members in there English department.
OU812: An ipad self corrected "their" to "there"? That's a new one!
AIW: We probably should give him some slack since he is nearly 70. ;-} (he said in #21 that he was 12 in 1957 that would make him about 69 now). By the way, thanks!
https://www.drupal.org/node/2041933
click on smiley-7.x-1.0.zip (assuming you have Windows)
Once it downloads, find the zip file and then right click on it.
then click on Extract all...
then find the extracted file with the same name (without .zip)
smiley-7.x-1.0/smiley/packs/kolobok
This should show all of the .gifs
Then you just use the above path when you create your new avatar on the thom hartmann "Edit your account"
Alice I'm not going to apologize for the self correct on my IPad. Attack me all you want, if that's the best you have.
Elioflght, Thanks, I'm honored to be included in your 'intelluctual' endeavor. By the way, I don't put labels on my self, except to say I'm not a victim.
Palin, where did you get that great avatar?! It's the cutest l'il devil I ever saw. Please keep this one, if you can. - AIW
Palindromedary - EXCELLENT. Take a bow! You really outdid yourself with this one.
AIW: I can't get it to work either. I think that this Drupal site probably has not allowed smileys or they haven't set it up to work.
Ou812, didn't you tell us you're a schoolteacher? If you don't know the difference between "there" (as in location or proximity) and "their" (as in ownership), you're in the wrong profession.
You can keep right on cranking out those smug, sanctimonious posts, dearie, because I love reading the responses from folks like Marc and Elioflight! Very entertaining. - Aliceinwonderland
Elioflight: I missed that one but I did catch Chuck Lewis, founder of The Center for Public Integrity and several other nonprofit organizations and former investigative producer on CBS news show 60 minutes, on Bill Moyers. The show was dated June 27, 2014 called "The Lies That Lead to War"
Lewis’ latest book is "935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity".
In watching this show, I couldn't help but think about the lies that the US is currently telling about Russia and the MH17 crash. They've always lied to us so why believe them now? *
Funny thing is that the war hysteria often bridges both Republicans and Democrats. It is especially noticeable in the liberal press how they have all been zombies to the war mongering propagandists in falling for the their evil Russian empire propaganda especially since the 7/17 downing of MH17.
The real evil empire (the US) was instrumental in overthrowing a legitimate Ukraine government that was taken over by the Fatherland Party (largely NAZIs). The US, using methods that they had used in overthrowing other countries, recently, created the instability which led to war between the Ukraine NAZIs and Eastern Ukraine.
And I wouldn't be surprised if they were instrumental in assisting the Ukraine military in supplying satellite data and other intelligence in their murderous missile strikes that kill thousands of East Ukrainian civilians. Remember when the US supplied satellite data to Iraq against the Iranians during the Iraq-Iran war?
I believe that: the Ukraine government was having problems getting their war planes into the East Ukraine (several were shot down) so they decided to sneak their war planes in to the war zone in the shadow of passenger airliners that had recently (since July 14th) been diverted from their normal flight path over the middle of the Sea of Azov to over the war zone (~150 miles away). Several other airliners (Thai airlines, et al) did the same thing but others avoided the war area. I believe that they purposely used passenger airliners for cover..or as a shield..to sneak their war planes into the conflict zone. I believe that those passenger airliners were purposely diverted over the war zone specifically to act as shields for the Ukraine war planes. So, the question is who determined, or ordered, the new flight paths over the conflict area?
After all of the lies our politicians (Republican and Democrat and the Pentagon) told us about WMDs and mushroom clouds, and all of the bad things they have done to the 99% of the Americans (deregulating banksters and wall street, bankster bailouts, the criminal housing crisis...people losing their homes, etc) a large part of the 99% now believes the propaganda lies they are being told about Russia and the shoot down of MH17. Why?
Because they are still the same zombies they were when the US told lies about the Soviet Union...the evil empire of the Pre-Reagan years. Fear of Russia has not left people's minds...they are still victims of the 50s and 60s propaganda era. Despite the fact that the Soviet Union tore down the wall and became more democratic and more capitalist even (which ticked off our military industrial complex because then they lost their ability to suckle off the tax teats) the MIC needed to find a way to turn on the cash spigot once more. They tried the war on drugs and terrorist bogey men; but, you can't really justify spending $trillions to build more expensive nukes to "defend" against "underwear bombers" or pot smokers. So, they have been chipping away at their old arch enemy to put new life into a new cold war. And the people buy this hook, line and sinker?
Another reason, I think, why the US is being so belligerent, around the world, is because not only are they trying to snatch control of all of the oil and other resources but the rest of the world is starting to move away from the $US as the world standard. The BRIC countries are even starting to compete with the IMF and World Bank. **
Makes me kind of wonder just how complicit in undermining and manipulating the 99% are the supposed "liberal" media when they jump on the "hate evil Russia" bandwagon. When one comes to realize that the Democrat Party is not really who they pretend to be, and when liberal sounding names like "Freedom House" and "International Center on Nonviolent Conflict", and many more, tend to fool many people, it makes the overt attackers of liberty, like the Republicans, obsolete. Except, they are necessary to hold up as the wacko crazy bogeymen that will drive us to supporting and voting for the covert operatives, the Democrats and organizations with liberal sounding names, who undermine us just as well as the Republicans.
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* http://billmoyers.com/episode/the-truth-vs-dcs-propaganda-machine/
** http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-16/brics-to-form-50-billion-lender...