Mar 16 2011
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Special live blogging of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Play In games Play Ins Day 2.
Mar 16 2011
Regular Daily Features:
Dire Straits in Late Night Karaoke, mishima DJs
Essays Featured Wednesday, March 16th:
Youffraita goes Looney in Wednesday Open Thoughts
TheMomCat most kindly gives us a repeat performance of her Health & Fitness News
originally posted Saturday at The Stars Hollow Gazette
Diane explores & shares in My Man, My Son, My Life
The most recent episode of My Little Town: Elwood Brockman, from Translator
join the conversation! come firefly-dreaming with me….
Mar 16 2011
The Kalasha inhabit a few small villages in three very remote valleys in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan, and likewise across the Durand Line in the Chitral District of Pakistan. Their language and culture are radically different from the surrounding ethnicities, and many of them claim descent from the Greek soldiers whom Alexander of Macedon left behind in Afghanistan. During one of their many, many festivals, in July and August, dancing and singing continue every night for a month.
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Mar 16 2011
The Kalasha inhabit a few small villages in three very remote valleys in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan, and likewise across the Durand Line in the Chitral District of Pakistan. Their language and culture are radically different from the surrounding ethnicities, and many of them claim descent from the Greek soldiers whom Alexander of Macedon left behind in Afghanistan. During one of their festivals dancing and singing continue every night for a month between July and August.
Mar 16 2011
Devastating Earthquakes, Catastrophic Tsunami, potential nuclear holocaust …. and now you can add massive inflation.
Compared to the BOJ , Ben Bernanke is an amateur hack.
Mar 16 2011
The attempt to re-establish the ranch is a dead deal. Horse, snowmobiles, a tractor and all the four wheelers are getting sold. My grandsons are going to be street people in the time it takes to foreclose. Now for the interesting parts.
Did you know the concept of in-law apartments is illegal?
How about banks no longer filing mortgage discharge papers.
The concept of building code “grandfathering” is null, void, a dead and irrelevant concept.
Want a loan? You might get one but you will get inspector detectors that will kill the deal in a heartbeat about trivial things like missing smoke detector batteries or God forbid kitchen countertops not made of granite.
There is no field and there are no dreams.
I am finding out that rural living may not be the answer as rural implies dumber and thus more likely to follow the mandatory compliance issues which roll into every area of life from big corporate oligarchies. Could we have really established a family oriented equine business? Yes, but only in the old school world in which I grew up in and spent my most productive years in. Today the bank won’t lend you money unless you play by their rules. Not really a question about will they get their money back at 800 dollars per stall time ten stalls, it’s about passing shitloads of money around on inspector detector local building code officials for their stamp of approval. Everybody’s ass has to be covered.
Now I won’t mention the amount of fun. The Easter Egg hunts, the Halloween Haunted Hay Rides or the smiling faces of kids NOT ever to be towed behind the snowmobile again. It is just a report from the school worried about my grandson.
Want to know why?
Let me bold that again
Want to know why the school is concerned about my grandson?
He seems to not be intimidated by the teachers.
Not Intimidated
Not intimidated by authority figures.
Grampy done something right.
More, much more on this in the coming days. Unless the radiation takes us out first.
Mar 16 2011
Finally confirming a trend that many have long noted, the Los Angeles Times on Monday concluded that yes, more people now get their news from the internet than from newspapers. To bloggers and purveyors of New Media alike, this should come as no surprise whatsoever. Prior to this announcement, newspapers often closely guarded inside secrets like declining circulation, decreases in advertising revenue, forced buy-outs within individual papers, and an overall drop in quality of reporting. I suppose that now, even mulish, intractable newspapers are having to concede that the handwriting has been on the wall for years.
Mar 16 2011
Welcome to the Health and Fitness weekly diary which is cross-posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette. It is open for discussion about health related issues including diet, exercise, health and health care issues, as well as, tips on what you can do when there is a medical emergency. Also an opportunity to share and exchange your favorite healthy recipes.
Questions are encouraged and I will answer to the best of my ability. If I can’t, I will try to steer you in the right direction. Naturally, I cannot give individual medical advice for personal health issues. I can give you information about medical conditions and the current treatments available.
You can now find past Health and Fitness News diaries here and on the right hand side of the Front Page.
Mar 16 2011
 Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
–Anonymous |
 Stylish 2 |
Mar 16 2011
(h/t TheMomCat)
Update! On-going videos of the rally in Lansing, TODAY!
Late is better than never! PLEASE TAKE NOTICE!
Letter to My
Fellow Michiganders“I’m asking everyone who can to take Wednesday off and head to the State
Capitol in Lansing to protest the cruel and downright frightening legislation
currently being jammed down our throats … Governor Snyder, once elected,
yanked off his nice-guy mask to reveal that he is in fact a multi-millionaire
hell-bent on destroying our state and turning it over to his buddies from
Wall Street … Trust me, you will rue the day you sat home and did
nothing while thieves posing as politicians stole your
Great Lakes State from you.” – Michael Moore . . .
O.K., here are the details:
DO SOMETHING Tomorrow, Wednesday, in Lansing!
Wednesday, March 16th: Stand Up for MichiganJoin the Michigan AFL-CIO affiliate unions and Working
Michigan from noon-5:00 PM for a giant protest to say
NO to GOP attacks on Michigan’s middle classGET ON THE BUS!
Info below for buses going to Lansing tomorrow
from Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, Traverse City
and other Michigan citiesAll are welcome – it’s free but get there early or RSVP
. . . . see more here.
Here’s just one video of a protest against Rick Snyder, Governor of Michigan, demonstrated on Tuesday, March 15th!
This, too, is late, but, there are a lot of people in Michigan, who would, I’m sure, join this effort as well — Michigan State AFL-CIO
