Stryder1978
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Well, my excitement didn't last long. Harvard decided to retain Ms. Gay as a faculty member and she gets to keep her $900,000/year salary!
Every person that donates to that school should pull their donations!
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41 minutes ago, redrum said:
They’ll just get book deals and news anchor jobs. 😄
I wonder whose work she'll copy to do that?
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What a great way to start the New Year!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Harvard President Claudine Gay has resigned, the Harvard Crimson student newspaper reported on Tuesday, after she and other presidents of Ivy League schools were widely criticized for their congressional testimony about antisemitism on campus.
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Just finished Season 1, Episode 10 of "Mindhunters" on Netflix. It features "In the Light" which really surprised me!
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Tom Smothers, half of the Smothers Brothers and the co-host of one of the most socially conscious and groundbreaking television shows in the history of the medium, has died at 86.
The National Comedy Center, on behalf of his family, said in a statement Wednesday that Smothers died Tuesday at home in Santa Rosa, California, following a cancer battle.
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SAME! Those are awesome reids...thanks for sharing!
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This was in the news this afternoon:
But the eruption is thought to be more serious than a previous bout of volcanic activity on the peninsula in March 2021.
The activity continued for six months during that year, prompting thousands of Icelanders and tourists to visit the scene and an Icelandic band to perform a live gig with lava in the background.
Hjálmar Hallgrímsson, a police field commander, said, “We ask people to allow us to assess the situation, this is not a tourist attraction. This is many times more powerful.”
This “is not considered tourist-friendly,” said Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson, a professor of geophysics at the University of Iceland.
“It’s quite serious when you have to evacuate 3,700 people and you don’t know when they can return.”
“This is not a tourist attraction and you must watch it from a great distance,” Vidir Reynisson, head of Iceland’s Civil Protection and Emergency Management, told broadcaster RUV.
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They are really cool. When I went to Iceland in May 2021, my flight to N. Iceland was cancelled due to not enough people on the flight (it was during Covid). The travel agency I was working with asked if I'd like to see the volcano instead. At first I didn't want to since I tried that on the Big Island of Hawaii years ago and they stopped you about 2 miles from the volcano, pointed to a little red dot and said "There it is!" However, in Iceland they let you get to within 300 meters of the damn thing and it was spectacular!
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It was luck AND a lot of hard work to score that standing ticket!
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...I know Scarlett was at the O2 gig - she was right in front of me between the barricade and the stage. Those wouldn't be "private" and I'm sure she got lots of great shots that night.
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After a crap week, we had a gorgeous weekend with temps in the mid-50's and clear sunny skies! Next chance for snow is Christmas Eve.
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1 hour ago, custard pie man said:
Had such a fantastic time, six of us so we did full day tours including snowmobile on glaciers, rented a car and saw many majestic waterfalls, another all day tour doing ice caves in a rain/ sleet/ all day storm but guide was so awesome nobody gave 2 shits about weather, so many sights, great food and drink, very friendly people, would love to go back in summer, oh yeah Blue Lagoon still was closed so we went to Sky lagoon for 4 hours, only thing that didn't work out for my family was northern lights was cancelled numerous times. not very good with iphone and posting pics but kids will be here for holidays so hopefully they help me post a few, thanks for everyones tips, much appreciated
Glad you guys had a great time! Loved Iceland and the people were so friendly ( a bonus that everyone speaks English!). Hope to see some pictures posted soon!
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We've only had 4 hours of sunshine since last Thursday. This morning, 31 degrees and pea soup thick fog. At least the snow missed us this week......
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Three cold fronts in a row since last Friday. We've had a whopping 4 hours of sunshine since then. Today, it's colder now at 1300 hours (31 degrees) than it was when I came into work at o500 hours (35 degrees). Tonight the third front comes through and we can expect an inch of snow tomorrow morning.
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On 12/9/2023 at 8:47 PM, redrum said:
Broke my small e string. Got no spares.
Ha....I had SO many packages of strings at home - all missing the high E because that is the one string that breaks so often!
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On 12/8/2023 at 1:55 AM, SteveAJones said:
The commercials are the worst. Every single one has an obligatory black in a starring role.
Funny you should mention that. One weekend I had nothing better to do so I kept track of all the commercials on TV Friday night through Sunday night. I did the math that Monday and found that 87.2% of all the commercials I watched featured a black person (NOT a person of color, i.e., Asian, Hispanic, Native American, etc.) in a major role in each ad. If you were coming from a foreign country to visit here, and judged the US demographic by watching TV in your hotel room, you'd thin the U.S. comprised of 90% blacks, rather than the 14% that actually reside here!
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11 hours ago, Strider said:
Got to hang with him, Carl Reiner and Dick Van Dyke a few times. Good times. Farewell, Norman Lear. Legend.
"Boy, the way Glenn Miller played
Songs that made the hit parade
Guys like me we had it made
Those were the days
Didn't need no welfare state
Ev'rybody pulled his weight
Gee our old LaSalle ran great
Those were the days
And you knew who you were then
Girls were girls and men were men
Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again
People seemed to be content
Fifty dollars paid the rent
Freaks were in a circus tent
Those were the days
Take a little Sunday spin
Go to watch the Dodgers win
Have yourself a dandy day
that cost you under a fin
Hair was short and skirts were long
Kate Smith really sold a song
I don't know just what went wrong
Those were the days"
"Those Were the Days" by Lee Adams & Charles StrouseWOW...that's pretty cool! All of them seemed pretty down-to-earth (at least in interviews).
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Writer-producer-developer Norman Lear, who revolutionized American comedy with such daring, immensely popular early-‘70s sitcoms as “All in the Family” and “Sanford and Son,” died on Tuesday. He was 101.
Lear’s publicist confirmed to Variety that he died at his home in Los Angeles of natural causes. A private service for immediate family will be held in the coming days.
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On 12/4/2023 at 2:31 PM, reids said:
R.I.P.
R😎
DAMN...that hurts. April Wine was an awesome 80's band and Myles kept his voice into his 70's. So sad!
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Hey custard pie man,
I was looking over my journal this past weekend and came across something that might be of interest to you. I stayed at three different hotels during my stay and all of them were beyond HOT! They use geothermal heating and the rooms get super uncomfortable, I sleep in just shorts anyway, but even then, it was too hot in the room to sleep. Turned the thermostat off, opened the window - still too hot! I usually sleep in shorts and a thin bed sheet, but all the beds in the hotels I stayed at only had a super-thick comforter on the bed and no bed sheet. I made a note to myself to bring a bed sheet along on my next trip there. I already put a bed sheet into my luggage for my trip there in May 2024.
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49 minutes ago, Strider said:
I'm through with college sports. ESPN, money, and television have ruined it.
I don't blame you. The transfer portal with no penalty to the players that leap from one school to another whenever it suits them, schools jumping conferences to the point we'll only have 2 conferences eventually, schools and coaches bending to the "woke" culture, etc. I quit watching the pros when the whole "Copperdick" debacle was raging, I'm not long for the college world either....
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5 minutes ago, jabe said:
Can't disagree with your post. Florida State got bf'd. I sure didn't see the Tide getting into the playoffs. (but I'll live with it)
I believe most of this revolves around the $$$. The Crimson Tide "brand" is probably in the top 3 or 4 nationally. The playoff committee has to keep fattening their belly.
Put Georgia in the final four and they win it all again.In my opinion, ALL four teams had a legit reason to feel they deserved to be in it:
1. FSU - Won their conference title, un defeated and will have their second string QB back on the field.
2. Texas - Only loss was to their conference rival, won their conference and beat the SEC Champ early in the season.
3. Alabama - Won the SEC conference title (THE toughest conference in college football), only loss was a regular season game against the Big 12 conference champion, and seemed to have to play a ranked opponent EVERY weekend.
4. Georgia - Only loss in the last two years was a 3 point loss to Alabama. Number one team for two years and should not have dropped so far in the polls.
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Congrats Tide and thanks for revealing the BCS Committee for the frauds that they are! FSU is in my Top 5 schools that I dislike, but they deserved to be in the play-off. Undefeated (barely) and won their conference...they did all they were supposed to do to be in the play-off but were snubbed!
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Sorry if this was already posted, but I just saw this and I'm SOOOO impressed with her talent!
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I work at a University....good luck finding one of those!