BlogNet News WisconsinHey, I’m all over free stuff. So when I saw Cindy Kilkenny’s post, I rushed right over.
Go to Walgreen’s photo site and order an 8 x 10. Enter the code “4mom” at check out and you can pick up a free 8 x 10 the next day.
Sorry, but it’s good today only. Come on! You’ve got a few hours. I’ve already ordered mine.
You would think for a billion bucks, they could build a house that looks nice from the outside.
Via TechRepublic, first, NASA’s top-10 views of Earth, ten amazing views of our planet and also Watching earth, 18 pictures from 1960 to the present time.
The latest edition of MRQ is up at Real Debate Wisconsin: MRQ Cooler near the lake.
The usual suspects gather tonight at Papa’s Social Club. Well, maybe there will be others there as well. Politics, sports or just about anything may be discussed.
Bloggers, blog readers, and other assorted riff raff are welcome. The nice people at the club usually treat us to a pizza or two.
Ok, I tagged elliot before so payback is fair.
1. Write your own six word memoir.
2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you want.
3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to the original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere.
4. Tag at least five more blogs with links.
5. Leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play.
So here we go. Number 3 is above.
I was going to post a picture, but I haven’t been able to do so with WordPress’s new Dashboard, so 1 and 2 will simply be,
Without Christ I would be nothing.
Four and Five I will leave to any readers who wish to join in, as I don’t want to tag anyone.
Which I suppose is opposite to the whole meme thing.
Pacific Magazine: Flu Forces Air Niugini Flight Cancellations
Papua New Guinea airline Air Niugini had to reschedule and cancel flights last weekend after its pilots were struck down by flu.“Over the weekend, the airline had to reschedule and cancel flights to Wewak, Madang and Gurney due to pilots rostered for duty falling sick with the flu currently (being) experienced in Port Moresby,” said the CEO Wasantha Kumarasiri.
Some things I missed by being offline.
Pete Fanning makes us aware of some bloggers who could use prayers.
Two Bloggers need your thoughts, Jay at “folkblum’s rambles and rants”, and Phel over at “The Confidentials”.
Keep them in your thoughts and prayers as they go through some difficult times.
Phel reminds us “In life there is no such thing as a redo.”
He also brings to my attention that Elizabeth Edwards lost her father over the weekend.
We add these to silent e’s Uncle Rick.
Peter’s father could also use our prayers.
I believe God answers prayer. Mine are with these friends.
Telemarketers top state complaint list
Surprised, right?
But here’s something that did surprise me.
Be aware of criminal telemarketers that block your caller ID and substitute what appears to be a local number.
Interesting.
Next President Will Jettison Many Campaign Pledges
Thanks for that!
The Week magazine asked this in the latest issue.
More than 90 percent of the world’s cultures engage in mouth-to-mouth kissing. But if you give it some thought, kissing seems a little silly. The mouth is the organ we use for eating, speaking, and burping, and it’s full of nasty germs and sharp teeth. So why would anyone want to put this icky aperture in contact with anyone else’s?
From the Lakeland (FL) Ledger we find,
“This is a seminal paper,” said Helen Fisher, a Rutgers University anthropologist who studies love.
“Seminal paper.” She really said that.
You can tell a lot of information about a person by being in close proximity - from their breath, the taste of their saliva, things like that.
“If you are accepting a kiss you are putting yourself at risk of contracting an illness. And we suspect it raises levels of a hormone called oxytocin, which is related to interpersonal bonding,” Hughes said.
There you have it. The scientific analysis of romance. Makes you want to go kiss someone, doesn’t it?
As with many things the reasons men do it and the reasons women do it are different. From the Reading (PA) Eagle,
Men: Kissing is a mandatory stop on a fast track to sex. Women: It’s a significant event in beginning or maintaining a long-term romantic relationship.
Shocked? Yeah, I knew you would be.
In Sunday’s Milewaukee Journal Sentinel, in the midst of political news, improperly prescribed medicines, is an article title “Portraits of Love,”
Maddux Achilles Haggard died in February 2005 of a condition that left him unable to breathe, swallow or move on his own.
Before removing Maddux from life support, Cheryl and Michael Haggard arranged for photographer Sandy Puc’ of Littleton, Colo., to take portraits of them with their newborn son.
“We wanted images of him as he was, as we knew him” with the wires and the tubes that connected him to life, Cheryl Haggard said. “But we asked if she would stay until after he’d passed, and she couldn’t say no.”
Cheryl Haggard recalls Maddux’s death as the worst day of her life.
“But when I look at those pictures, I don’t feel that. I feel the love we have for him and the blessing he continues to be in our lives,” she said.
Two months later, Cheryl Haggard and Puc’ founded Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, which connects families with photographers in their communities and educates hospitals and medical professionals about its services.
A visit to the nonprofit’s Web site is a glimpse into the wonder and frailty of life. These aren’t snapshots but luminous portraits of families that capture not just the unfathomable loss, but also the deep love of a parent for a child, no matter how brief his or her life.
Tears stream down my cheeks as I remember our own little stillborn granddaughter RaeLynn Rose. RaeLynn would have been 4 years old at the beginning of February. I never got to meet little RaeLynn. Fortunately my wife arrived in time to hold her before they cremated her little body.
Some may think holding onto pictures or urns are odd, but it’s our one link with a little baby we will never hold or feed or rock to sleep.
Even writing about it is therapeutic.
I’m thankful for our other three grand babies, and perhaps they are the more precious because of the one that is no longer here.
Updating this story, besides, I get to post this pic again.
From Reuters, her lawyer made the following statement,
We have learned today that KYW-TV (Channel 3) has unilaterally terminated Alycia Lane’s employment. The conduct of KYW-TV is contrary to the terms of her Employment Contract which has many additional years remaining. The termination comes at a time when there has been absolutely no determination that Alycia is guilty of any wrongful conduct, and after KYW-TV has aired her categorical denial of the alleged charge that is pending against her.
Alycia Lane’s civil attorney went to court today, saying that he is looking “for the facts and circumstances” surrounding her firing from KYW-TV (CBS3), her former television station.Paul R. Rosen would not say whether the move was a precursor to a lawsuit. “Upon completion of this investigation, Alycia will then determine what course of action is in her best interest,” Rosen said.
Rosen asked Common Pleas Court to issue a writ of summons. He wants to take depositions from CBS3 president Michael Colleran and news director Susan Schiller in connection with Lane’s firing on New Year’s Day, about two weeks after she was arrested in New York and accused of hitting a police officer.
Via Michael Mathias, who links to this article,
Actress Nancy Cartwright, the voice behind cartoon character Bart Simpson, has been awarded Scientology’s Patron Laureate Award after she donated $10 million to the faith in 2007.
Others who got awards for their gifts were Kirstie Alley, John Travolta and Kelly Preston, and Priscilla Presley.
The prizes were handed out at a top-secret ceremony in Florida last summer, according to the publication.
While the ceremony may have been secret, there would be no secret as to where in Florida, as Scientology owns a large chunk of my adopted hometown of Clearwater, FL. The place would have been the old Fort Harrison Hotel, the main building in Scientology’s holdings.
A listing of other celebrity Scientologists is here.
Wow. One hundred and fifth.
How time flies. It seems like just five years ago or so that they had their hundredth anniversary.
Yeah, I know, dumb humor. That’s what you get here. If you want sophisticated, you’ll have to look elsewhere.
Every man knows how complicated women are.
Scientists say they have produced embryo clones of 2 men (Waukesha Freeman).
“Chess,” Bobby Fischer once said, “is life.” It was the chess master’s tragedy that the messy, tawdry details of his life often overshadowed the sublime genius of his game. Fischer, who has died at the age of 64, was a child prodigy, a teenage grandmaster and — before age 30 — a world champion who triumphed in a Cold War showdown with Soviet champion Boris Spassky.
But the last three decades of his life were spent in seclusion, broken periodically by erratic and often anti-Semitic comments and by an absurd legal battle with his homeland, the United States.
Bobby Fischer was my inspiration to play chess, along with thousands of others, and a source of delight to Americans for breaking the stranglehold the Russians had on the chess title in the days when anything US-Russia was seen as an important clash between the superpowers. In defending his title, Fischer made what was to many irrational demands about lighting, compensation, etc., and was stripped of his title.
His erratic behavior in the years following was sad to see.
For noobs, MRQ = Monday Random Quotes, which, funny enough is exactly what they are.
And vote on the polls for MRQ of the year and MRQ of the week. Vote often. This is the only time Fred encourages us to act like Democrats.
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