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Kunming Freedom

As the Japanese were bombing Pearl Harbor, in western China some Americans had been fighting to save that country for a couple of years.  Here  is my version of their story:

I had occasion to spend  a month in China about 12 years ago in a cultural exchange program, as I attended universities there and studied the culture.  My favorite city was Kunming, where I…

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Added by Mandy Muffin on December 7, 2012 at 10:30am — No Comments

A Bad Day

I've had a ponytail since my college days, college years actually, 1963 until around 1969. As the years passed I've lost the hair on top of my head and have braided my ponytail. Yesterday I went to a 'hair salon' and was greeted by a young cuttress who escorted me to an empty barber chair. I didnt let her lime green striped hair fill me with trepidation (who am I to be judgemental?). I told her I wanted an inch taken off my ponytail and the rest trimmed. I didn't want the hair on the sides…

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Added by uno,dos,3 on December 6, 2012 at 2:59pm — 6 Comments

Another shameful Republican display

Republicans failed to ratify the United Nations treaty to protect the disabled around the world. A majority of Republican senators voted against Americans and others with disabilities, including US veterans by failing to ratify the measure which was based on US law. Bob Dole, who came to the senate floor after a recent hospital stay, was present in the chamber to watch the majority of his own party fail to ratify a treaty which would support Senator Dole's dignity and that of others with…

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Added by Vernon Windsor on December 5, 2012 at 11:48am — 3 Comments

November - Month to be reminded to be Thankful for .......

To begin this blog,  I'd like to take the time to be Thankful for living.  I'm a believer of God and Heaven as my end home in the future. 

I am blessed with a wonderful,  funny,  loving husband,  whom I have shared the last 34 years getting to know and love more each day.  Marriage come 8 months after we meet,  and the years have flown by.  We are the parents of 2 beatuiful…

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Added by Laura on November 24, 2012 at 9:48pm — No Comments

An open letter to Senator John McCain

Dear Senator McCain,

We need to talk. Why the unwarranted attack on Susan Rice, our UN ambassador? You have served in the US Senate long enough to know how the CIA handles matters of national security. I know, too, that you have been involved with investigations about the FBI. You were even a subject of one, if I recall. Yet, by threatening to block the yet-to-be-made appointment of Rice to be Secretary of State, you embody the very dysfunction and lack of statesmanship that has…

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Added by Vernon Windsor on November 19, 2012 at 2:46pm — 8 Comments

Okay, let me just tell you...

I worked on the Obama campaign. I put myself in a self-imposed media vacuum for the last four days of the election. I just figuratively put myself in the harness, put my head down and pulled. Once the objective had been reached, I crashed like a salmon after spawning. After finally waking up, I decided I needed some light-hearted entertainment—so I turned on Fox News.

Oh my goodness! I must admit it was somewhat satisfying to see the Fox News universe running around, banging into each…

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Added by Vernon Windsor on November 9, 2012 at 12:28pm — 16 Comments

Hold Me Now by Renee Olstead

"Hold Me Now"



How strange it feels to miss you

Standing right before you

Yet good times seem so far and few



I've begun pretending

Not to see an ending

But it's all coming…
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Added by Daddieo on October 22, 2012 at 5:18pm — No Comments

Grasses

“A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; 

How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more 

than he. 



I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green 

stuff woven. 



Or I guess it is the…

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Added by Daddieo on September 23, 2012 at 4:02pm — 3 Comments

Livin' Out Here on "The Leelanau": The End!

Uh, no, its not the end of the "Livin' Out Here on the Leelanau" blogs.....and no, 'The Leelanau' itself is not coming to an end (at least I don't believe it is).  This is a picture blog, taken today out at the northernmost tip of the Leelanau Peninsula.  If…

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Added by Stir Young on September 22, 2012 at 5:00pm — 5 Comments

....it's HERE!!!

But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of…

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Added by Daddieo on September 21, 2012 at 9:42am — 4 Comments

Mitt Romney finds bipartisan consensus

Mitt Romney has found bipartisan consensus alive and well in the condemnation of his premature political criticism of the Barack Obama administration's handling of the crisis in Libya.

Appalled!…

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Added by Vernon Windsor on September 14, 2012 at 10:39am — 6 Comments

NIKKA COSTA...Worth Listening To..."Push and Pull"

Added by Daddieo on September 13, 2012 at 4:25pm — 2 Comments

Livin' Out Here on "The Leelanau": Home, or back home?

It was sticky hot yesterday, when I got home from work.....hot and humid.  

Its been one of those kinds of summers, alright.  The fans in the house were moving hot air around.  Jacques Young the cat and Monae Young, his sister, were listless, and sprawled out on the floor trying to catch some relief.

I went outside about 7:00, clad only in a pair of old cargo shorts, and sat on the front stoop.  I like the term stoop.  It was used more when I was a kid, I think.  I don't really…

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Added by Stir Young on July 31, 2012 at 1:50pm — 6 Comments

Are You an INTP?

As an INTP, your primary mode of living is focused internally, where you deal with things rationally and logically. Your secondary mode is external, where you take things in primarily via your intuition.

INTPs live in the world of theoretical possibilities. They see everything in terms of how it could be improved, or what it could be turned into. They live primarily inside their own minds, having the ability to…

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Added by Gary Freedman on July 24, 2012 at 11:11am — 1 Comment

Who is the Real Gary Freedman?

I took an Internet Personality test. If you would like to see the results, check out the following site:

http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Am-Awesome-Dude/2400910

Added by Gary Freedman on July 8, 2012 at 4:30am — 3 Comments

Woman sets self on fire - and it fucks up Google

YOu may think that sounds kinda funny, like maybe it's my lame attempt at humor - well here's a news flash.

I DON'T HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR.

 

No I don't. Google claims there are seven articles for the above quote: "Woman sets…

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Added by ZenDog on June 28, 2012 at 8:50pm — 1 Comment

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Flight 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 degrees""But center, we are at 35,000 feet, how much noise can we make up here?."Sir, have you ever heard the noise a 747 makes when it hits a 727...                                                                                                                        

Added by darroll on June 24, 2012 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Pops and his politics

George was my dad. He passed in 2002, on May 30, so this will be the tenth Father's Day without him. I must say, the time has flown by.

George usually signed his first name in the abbreviated form, Geo. Thus, he was often refered to as Gee-oh by the family members, and mostly addressed as Pops, the same name he used to address his father. We boys also called him Dad on occasion.......he didn't seem to mind any of those names.

Pops was a pretty mild mannered guy, he mostly took…

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Added by Stir Young on June 16, 2012 at 6:00pm — 4 Comments

An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America -- Daily Kos

Just saw this on a friend's facebook page. It is from the Daily Kos. These are not my words, but they pretty much align with my feelings. Note, there is some strong language. Be advised.



I meet you all the time. You hate Obama. You hate gay people. You hate black people, immigrants, Muslims, labor unions, women who want the right to make choices concerning their bodies, you hate em all. You hate being called racist. You hate being called a bigot.…

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Added by Vernon Windsor on May 16, 2012 at 2:30pm — 14 Comments

Saturday Morning Moving Music...Bruce Hornsby "The Valley Road"

Added by Daddieo on May 12, 2012 at 6:34am — No Comments

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