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Sunday Open Thread
33 responses to “Sunday Open Thread”
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No chores!
If Walt went on a cruise with his with his wife, she would chores for him to do.””
Come on, she is not THAT much of a slave driver.
It’s a cruise, remember, he would get Sunday off.
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Walt gets Sundays off? He should stop bitching.
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My wife wants to go on a cruise to Alaska. I reminder her I am not 65 or Jewish.
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I did that like 15 years ago. But don’t go cheapest, pick a decent ship. Like Holland America or Norwegian.
The scenery was great, somewhat marred by the fact I was irritated my kids would rather stay in the cabin or lounge playing video games than watching it.
I recommend the shore trip where you take a train up into the Yukon to the top of the pass.
I couldn’t afford the helicopter trip to a glacier at $2500 for the family even in those days, but people who took it enjoyed it. But we did a raft trip (not rapids, just views/wildlife)well worth it.
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I am sure we will go. I don’t want to go on a helicopter. They are safe until they aren’t. Plus, they drop like a stone.
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I also went about 15 years ago. Last real trip I took with my wife. We did take the train excursion. It was interesting. I can’t remember the cruise line we took. Food was good. I just remember I got a little bored at night. They didn’t really have any entertainment on board which I thought was kind of unusual.
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There seems like there are a lot of accidents with sightseeing aircraft in Alaska. Same with the Grand Canyon.
But maybe its just that there are a lot of flights. But something about a lot of aircraft buzzing around the same tourist location does make me less inclined to take those tours.
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Plus, they drop like a stone.”
Actually, they are supposed to be able to “feather” down.
The problem is that is only if like if the engine quits. If there is a catastrophic event like a tail rotor falling off or a collision, yeah, it goes down like a stone.
They also don’t float.
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They didn’t really have any entertainment on board which I thought was kind of unusual.”
I can entertain myself at the bar and the casino.
Unfortunately I did get dragged to a couple shows with some dancers and acrobats ….zzzzz..
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Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine (D) just said on
@FoxNewsSunday, when asked about the gerrymandering ballot measure: “90% of Virginians are not Democrats”
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So why should they get all but one of the seats?
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Former Obama WH advisor
“The black community felt represented by O.J. Simpson because he k*IIed white people”
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Argumentatively the most exciting time period in pro sports this and every year…MLB season is about 20 games in…NBA playoffs have just started…ditto for the NHL. The NFL draft is Thursday. And the Kentucky Derby is less than two weeks away.
Also, the 130th Boston Marathon is tomorrow.
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“Eight children were shot and killed across three homes in Louisiana early Sunday. Their ages ranged from 1 to 14 years old. Authorities are calling this a ‘domestic disturbance’.”
Disturbance? OMG. It’s a slaughter, a massacre.
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”It’s a cruise, remember, he would get Sunday off.”
In the Navy, Sunday was a holiday routine day unless we had something going on or one had to stand a watch; you got to sleep in, have a late breakfast (extended mess line hours), until noon, when the regular workday schedule would commence. I imagine Mrs. Walt could follow a similar protocol.
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Anyone have a sure thing for the Derby I am all ears.
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There is a horse named Emerging Market, that is a winner’s name.
A grey named Great White.
Napoleon Solo
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Damm, Scottie chased Fitzpatrick down and got himself in.a playoff
Was 4 shots down with 6 holes to go.
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Then throws it all away with horrible shot on 1st playoff hole
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The shooter was the father of “some” of the victims. Pure evil.
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I had no chores today. After church, son joined yo for brunch at a restaurant. The. Hope ti finish working of a future presentation I am planning to make for a Hedgesville Town council meeting.
My idea is foe then to secure a spot (maybe a room in the local branch of the county library system or so.ewhere in town hall building to provide a spot for people to donate items relates to the town history and culture. Our little town has had a fairly stable population of about 300 people over the last 70 or 80 years.
We have had plenty of doctors, dentists, town /county (county commissioners, sheriff, assessor, county magistrate long tim county Parks and Rec director) / state elected leaders (including WV Senate president), about 40 teachers, several preachers, many athletes that have gone on to excel at the college level including Gale Catlett who aged and later coached basketball at WVU for 19 years and a Shepherd University baseball coach who woached there for 20-30 some years.
we have had philanthropic Town residents and town businessmen and women and other civic minded folks who have done a lot to help the community.
We have had over 40 public school teachers and college professors (and a bunch of principals as well) who have contributed to our community. This from a 7-12 JR/SR high-school that had a total of about 320-350 students enrolled each year from town and surrounding area.
We have had about 8 people who have written and published books (poetry, civil war history, award winning books about what it was like growing up in Hegesville) made video films of note and one who produced a TV documentary about the Kurds in Turkey (I had her as a student years ago).
I fear much of the Town cultural history may be lost unless the Town helps create a central repository of Hedgesville memorabilia that will consolidate there photos, films, VCRs interviews of former Town residents.
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I have trunks and boxes full of Hedgeville related material– including 16 MM films my dad shot (he had a photography business as well as selling advertising business, as well as working 60+ hours a week at the groc./gen. merchandise store he eventually became a partner in) in the 1950s of our town May Day parardes, etc., photos, newspaper stories, VCR interviews, and other stuff I need to get out of my house and hopefully to somewhere in Hedgesville. Lots of other people who grew up in the Town or their ancesots did have similar things scattered across the region.
I am certain that in the last 30 years or so that 6 to 8 people from Hedgesville have together given well in excess of a million (or two) dollars to bequeathed and provided the Town, community, school and annual scholarships for high school graduates that t will go on in perpetuity.
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Sounds like you have more than a room, you might have enough for a museum
I bet you could get the land and most of the materials to build it free from local businesses.
Or if you have a local library, you could have an annex with these materials.
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I am having a cataract removed from my right eye this morning. If I don’t make it, GFYs.
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I had the same surgery performed on my left eye a few years ago. GFYs
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It’s important for A-holes to see well.
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WTF Communist parades in Walt’s hometown in the 1950s?!?”
West Virginia was very Dem in the past
Clinton won it by 15 pts in 1996.
30 years later, Trump won it by 42.
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I fear much of the Town cultural history may be lost unless the Town helps create a central repository of Hedgesville memorabilia that will consolidate there photos, films, VCRs interviews of former Town residents.”
Walt, why don’t you found the Hedgeville Historical Society. Form a committee in charge of seeking donations for a building. Try to find a volunteer curator to help organize the material, like a retired librarian or history professor. Find a volunteer treasurer like a retired accountant to manage a building fund and keep track of pledges for materials. Use your connections to see if there is some state fund for historical preservation you can tap into. Get the local rep to earmark something for it.
There is an added bonus. The President of the Hedgeville Historical Society is way too important to do chores, sorry.
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7.4 earthquake near the coast in northern Japan, not too far from the damaged nuclear reactor.
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