“When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
Quoted from here. It’s one of my favorites, especially on a modern-day rarity when family and friends get together to share their blessings and to reminisce about what was and what could have been, and then, to discuss what might be, on The Overnight Open Thread.
Stuffed n’ stoned.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
@ Bumr50:
Now, why would you stuff a stone for Thanksgiving dinner?
Turkeys are better equiped to be stuffed full of stuffing.
Calo wrote:
To get to the other side?
@ Bumr50:
Yes, that’s it! Like chickens we are tonight.
I was afraid you were going to tell me to go smoke a duck instead.
One of the best presents I ever got was the complete collection of Calvin and Hobbes.
It never fades, never gets ‘old’
Mayor Bloomberg?
@ EBL:
Love the vintage Mickey float, but Ronald McDonald?
Not so much.
I’m watching The Kennedys on Reelz (Katie Holmes seems to nail Jackie Kennedy’s personna, btw). Anyway if JFK was as drugged as this piece says, it’s a wonder we aren’t all dead. No idea how he kept it together.
@ eaglesoars:
IIRC, he was hooked on pain killers.
Narcotics can act as a stimulant on certain brains. Much like cocaine or any other upper.
Calo wrote:
Assuming the list of drugs he was taking as noted in the movie is accurate(and I have no way to evaluate that) -- please forgive me -- Oswald’s bullets were a blessing.
I think there were about 12. And that was BEFORE ‘Dr Feelgood’ came into the picture. Apparently what he was dispensing was some sort of meth/stimulent. Which, if memory serves, has a lousy downside.
@ eaglesoars:
Yes, if it wasn’t for Oswald, Camelot might have had an unhappy ending.
@ Calo:
*a different unhappy ending*
Calo wrote:
Whatever unhappy ending, it has seemed to be unwinding all over our cultural landscape for a long time now. 50 years or so. One of the last families on the planet I would want to be born into
A great Thanksgiving (part 1) here today. Ham glazed with honey, brown sugar & maraschino cherry juice, mashed potatoes & rolls.
Tomorrow- part 2 up in Topeka with Ms MF’s nurse friend. The one that saw I needed to see a doctor last Christmas. Fried turkey w/ all the sides.
Red faces at the BBC after reporter tweets ‘heartbreaking photo of child hurt by Israeli rocket’ which is actually a girl in Syria
eaglesoars wrote:
Many people have said that. JFK was also hooked on meth amphetamines given to him by a a fellow who was quite famous at the time who was essentially the quack to the stars. RFK discovered what the”medicine” was when he stole some from JFK’s portable pharmacy and sent it to the FBI lab for analysis. JFK was beginning to spin out of control and his second term would have been a disaster.
High tech meets the stone age
And he does it again (via JWF) -- scroll down to:
Smiles: Obama, fourth from left, is in Cambodia for the ASEAN-U.S. leaders’ meeting at the Peace Palace
Good Lord.
Ya know, a women’s rights movement in the Middle East has the potential to bring down the whole sick culture.
@ MacDuff:
When we lived in Qatar (88-93), my wife and/or daughters need my written permission to leave the country unless I was with them. There had to be an official document, or they weren’t going anywhere.
waldensianspirit wrote:
The comment above references this. I’m still under the influence of extreme feasting.
@ Mike C.:
Er, “needed”, that is.
The Mrs. and I are going to see “Jersey Boys” this afternoon….front row, center at an exceptional venue.
We’ve been looking forward to this for some time, it’s been getting consistently stellar reviews.
This link is for Dorian and others who were discussing ancient civilizations last night. It’s called Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings -- Piri Reis wasn’t the only one. I own this book -- it’s a very interesting study of a number of ancient maps. It’s absolutely fascinating showing that humans had knowledge of the planet long before modern times -- such as that the earth was a sphere and the ice-free coast of Antarctica. As you all likely know by now, I’m a Bible-believing Christian. Nothing theorized in Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings contradicts these beliefs -- unlike ancient aliens (I suggest investigating the credibility of those delivering that message and attempting to independently verify anything they say -- as I would of anything).
http://www.amazon.com/Maps-Ancient-Sea-Kings-Civilization/dp/0932813429
@ Kirly:
From one of the reviews…
Shoot me now…
Kirly wrote:
The greeks knew this and most ancients and medieval people knew this as well. The concept of past man thinking the world was flat is a myth created by 19th century pseudo intellectuals that were trying to make their civilization seem more advanced then the past ages.
@ Mike C.:
i never read the reviews. but, i do own the book and it’s a scientific study of all known map fragments they could get their hands on. it’s very interesting.
@ PaladinPhil:
i know. amazing, isn’t it? how much knowledge ancient humans actually had.
@ Mike C.:
….and some of these people call us “anti-science”.
Ancient Roman Industrial Watermills
(now, tell me somethings about Muslim who invented watermills in Spain///)
@ Kirly:
Mankind seems to have had Great leaps forward only to lose it all several times in our history. It makes one wonder what we would be like had we experienced constant progress. Of course, our technological progress and our civilizational progress seem to have travelled very different paths.
“Thanksgiving” at PJM.
Comments invited.
Kirly wrote:
Thank you!
@ eaglesoars:
you’re very welcome. i can’t emphasize enough just how interesting that book is.