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jar Member (Idle past 384 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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I was sorry to hear he died but never quite understood why he was considered funny. Kinda like Jim Carrey, never understood why folk think he is funny either.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 384 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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A loss and a life that was one of constant struggle. Lots to learn from Ali.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 384 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Yup. She will be missed.
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jar Member (Idle past 384 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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a side often forgotten:
The Stones recent Havana concert pays tribute to this song.
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jar Member (Idle past 384 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
The only Bond movie I have been able to actually watch all the way through is the 1967 Casino Royale. Need to watch that again.
But Roger Moore did suit the character.
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jar Member (Idle past 384 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
RIP Mr. Piccolo.
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jar Member (Idle past 384 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Linda Brown, the child in question in Brown vs Board of Education died. She was only 76.
The most significant thing I remember about the facts surrounding the case was the utter disconnect between reality and the "School Board". At that time the norm in much of the US, both North and South was separate but equal. The reality was Separate but Unequal. Yet in Linda's life it was even worse. She lived and grew up in a mixed race neighborhood where the kids she played with daily, her friends that came for sleep overs and for pajama parties and dinner and birthdays were both white and black. Yet every morning she could not walk to the neighborhood school with her white friends, eat lunch with them, play with them during recess. Instead she had to line up with the other black faces and get on a bus that took her to a different school, away from all her friends. At the time Linda would have been in the third or fourth grade and hated the fact that she could not go to school with her friends. That is the reality of segregation at the time. It involved people, people trying to do normal people things; go to school with your friends and neighbors, have paved streets and city water and sewer, sit anywhere there was an empty seat on the bus, sit at the lunch counter and eat, drink from the fountain when thirsty, get a haircut, go in the front door. Little things but oh so big.
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jar Member (Idle past 384 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Losing them all. The First was Charlie Byrd. Long long ago in a land far far away I used to share a coffee with Mr. Byrd between sets in DC.
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jar Member (Idle past 384 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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RIP Arte Johnson.
I'll have a Walnetto.
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jar Member (Idle past 384 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Humans, particularly Americans, seem to have memories about as long as a May Fly's life.
Mention Bhopal and see what reaction you get. Ask about the Greensboro Massacre and see what reaction you get. Ask what a Lint Head is and see what reaction you get. Ask how many times the Cuyahoga caught fire and see what answers you get. What US city was abandoned because the coal mine beneath it has been burning now for over a half century? We are caught in the moment and folk like the Koch Brothers understood that. We are NOT our brothers keepers and we are NOT planning for the seventh generation. AbE:
Chief Seattle to Franklin Pearce in 1854 writes: "The Great Chief in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. The Great Chief also sends us words of friendship and good will. This is kind of him, since we know he has little need of our friendship in return. But we will consider your offer. How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and sparkle of the water, how can you buy them ? Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing, and every humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The sap which courses through the trees carries the memories of the red man. So, when the Great Chief in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land, he asks much of us..." "This we know: All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. But we will consider your offer to go to the reservation you have for my people. We will live apart, and in peace...." "If we agree, it will be to secure the reservation you have promised. There, perhaps, we may live out our brief days as we wish. When the last red man has vanished from the earth, and his memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie, these shores and forests will still hold the spirits of my people. For they love this earth as the newborn loves its mother's heartbeat. So, if we sell our land, love it as we've loved it. Care for it as we have cared for it. Hold in your mind the memory of the land as it is when you take it. And preserve it for your children..." Edited by jar, : see AbE
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jar Member (Idle past 384 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
A loss that may not get replaced.
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jar Member (Idle past 384 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Ginger Barker. I was listening to African Force just yesterday.
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jar Member (Idle past 384 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Buddy Rich was a pretty fair drummer as well.
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jar Member (Idle past 384 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
And don't forget Art Blakey.
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jar Member (Idle past 384 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Interesting but what is the original series?
Edited by jar, : explain question
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