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Post by theosgma on Jun 10, 2021 16:56:32 GMT -5
Blown away by all the great responses I'm getting! Love Atop ! Thanks so much!. 💞🥰💖 Haven't posted lately but did want to send you love and light. My dear husband came through his treatments with flying colors and I wish you the same.
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Post by theosgma on Jun 1, 2021 7:18:32 GMT -5
Hi Lady M or anyone else. Do you know who took this picture? I would like to use it in an article I am writing to show the facial structure that supports his extraordinary resonance. So I want to get permission from the photographer. Thank you
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Post by theosgma on Mar 1, 2021 16:55:37 GMT -5
Haven't posted forever but thought this might be helpful for those getting vaccinated.
I had a hard go-round with the first Moderna shot so I wanted to be prepared for the second one. I got a great ice pack on Amazon and read that no matter how it felt, exercising the arm vigorously would be a big help.
I was told to wait a couple of hours for the ice pack but I could exercise it right away and I was swinging that arm constantly. The next morning it was sore after a night of no movement. Even so I made myself swing it around in all directions and iced it several times a day. It made a huge differnece. It took almost a week for swelling and redness to go down after the first shot but after the exercise and ice routine, I was fine in two days with the second one. Only the first night was really rough (chills, nausea) but the arm was much better than after the first shot.
Feeling incredibly grateful as tomorrow will be two weeks for my husband and Wednesday two weeks for me since shot two and hopeflly full immunity. I am celebrating by getting a haircut on my patio. Paying my hair dresser for a home call masked and outside. Still not taking any chances since Florida is a f*****g petri dish courtesy of our governor whose idea of success was keeping bars and restaurants open all the way through and letting the bodies fall where they might.
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Post by theosgma on Nov 3, 2020 15:46:16 GMT -5
I hope you will find this a respectful and reverent post.
The founders were not dewey-eyed about having achieved the goal of a democracy and they signaled that clearly in their words “in order to form a more perfect union”.
In spite of how elusive anything like a perfect union has been throughout the history of this country, nevertheless I awoke this morning with this Longfellow poem ringing in my head. I learned it as a song God only knows how many years ago. I thought it was fitting for this day.
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee. Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee, -are all with thee!
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Post by theosgma on Jul 23, 2020 11:23:13 GMT -5
Flashback 5 years. An exceptional F#5 at the end, that pleases Brian to no end. For butterknife, who loves his ultra high notes. youtu.be/NDJPp-upbZEWell that brought me out of lurk mode! Wow Cassie. I somehow missed this. My fave was always the Tornonto 1 2014 STL but this one is awesome!! That 2014 tour had some of the best renditions. I still love STL in this style and like most of you, KQ on that chaise has never come close to being outdone.
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Post by theosgma on Jul 20, 2020 9:22:35 GMT -5
Not much going on so I thought I would post this as I am not sure if I ever saw this article. It is way more detailed than the title implies. So just in case you missed it: link
there is also an article on what celebs hate Adam. Read it 'cause, you know, can't help reading anything. The usual suspects but it was kind of fun because of Adam's responses. link
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Post by theosgma on Jun 7, 2020 20:50:26 GMT -5
Throwback to this past Friday.....I watched last week's Rackel Maddow shows on demand as promised to theosgma and posted some of my takeaways on Friday's thread. Didn't want today's news thread to be political or non-glittery....lol. bamafan, I also watched Rachel Maddow on Friday. I have watched Rachael along with CNN off and on for the past few years to get the other side of the story. I read your takeaway on Friday's thread and I believe it was an accurate picture of her show. If any of the more left leaning among you would like to hear the other side of the story. Mark Levin, Fox News interviewed two black men, Shelby Steele and Bob Woodson, on his Sunday show today. Both of these men have been through civil rights movements since the fifties and I think the infomation they shared may surprise you. Also, on Monday Shaun Hannity will be inertiewing Alice Marie Johnson. Let's see if we can try to understand where the other person is coming from....that's a start. I had actually thought to do this by messaging rather than on the list so it didn't continue being so political. But I do need to say that as agreed, I watched Tucker Carlson from last Monday evening - already a long time ago in this crazy week. The videos were horrible and these riots have no place in this country. However, the presentation was one sided. He denied the reality of any of the massive peaceful protests. Now I know this was the Monday night after the worst weekend so I do wonder if he turned around during the week and acknowledged the another side. Carlson did lay blame on Republican leaders and Democratic leaders which was fair. But Tucker is focused on equating protestors with opportunistic looters and thugs. From our vantage point today, we know that the peaceful protestors started doing self-policing and helped curbed the thugs and things have mainly calmed down. I think what I took as the most hypocritical segment was his valid critiscm of a police chief talking about "his people". Tucker called him out on that and rightly said that the shefiff was charged with protecting all people and that kind of language was wrong. Well, I don't want to be inflammatory but this is just the kind of language the President uses and has used from the beginning. He has rarely been inclusive and is responsible for exacerbating the polarization. Most people in the country agree with that. So that segment I felt was disingenuious. Tucker is a bright man. I think he has a certain clarity and he should be outraged at the footage he showed. We all are. But I did see more fairness on CNN etc. in terms of covering both sides of the protest. But as I said, maybe it was because it was the Monday after that awful weekend with so many using the situation to their own nefarious advantage. I will be interested to see if the tone changes now that things are calmed down but I suspect he will really go off on the defund theme when again, it is an extreme segment of the left. I think the majority wants to see police reform with respect to some of the practices and I think there is going to be legislation introduced this week. Probably won't go anywhere but it answers Tucker's question about what do the people want? He seemed to think they didn't have an agenda, that they just wanted to riot. But they do. They want less police brutality. ETA Saw the posts above and I agree that we should be watching both sides. Exactly why I started this conversation. There is no hope unless we understand what shapes us and where the meeting ground can be. It is not about winning; it is about a functioning consensus. We will always argue but it needs to be from that place of finding the way through with the hope that all of us want what is fair and we are fair about the process.
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Post by theosgma on Jun 5, 2020 19:49:29 GMT -5
Well I am happy my experiment created some conversation.
I was interested in the suggestion for Bama to listen to Nicole Wallace, MSNBC's Republican anchor and for me to listen to Chris Wallace, a more moderate Fox anchor. That, actually, in a way is the end game - moderating. But I listen to Rachel and Bama to Tucker. If we were to listen to both and really discern if there is something to hear in what is being said by the other side that we might want to consider, it is an important step.
We agree on so much. We all know a heinous crime when we see it. We all recoil from uncessary police tactics, we all want an orderly society and to be safe from criminals, we all want constitutional rights protected for everyone. So what is the problem?
The hardnend partisanship is the problem. Our country was always divided into two parties. That is considered healthy but it functioned better because everyone knew they were going to have to live with situations that don't suit them in order to have other situations that do. Compromise was built into the equation. It has vanished to the point where I feel sick and inflammed listening to Tucker and Bama feels outraged listening to Rachel. But maybe there is something Tucker can say that I can hear and consider and visa versa. I don't expect to change or Bama to change but I am wondering if an open mind might move us to a more graceful middle path. Our worse enemy is a willful ignorance and denial that there is any other point of view. Educating ourselves about all sides of an issue including what other's think is a duty of of a citizen in a functioning democracy.
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Post by theosgma on Jun 5, 2020 14:23:38 GMT -5
Haven't posted for forever and wish this post was specifically about Adam but it is in a way.
In the spirit of openmindedness, I especially want to propose an experiment that could involve buddying up with someone. I want to buddy up with bamafan whom I have loved for over 10 years now. I think we develop more as people when we understand what shapes another person.
I watched some of the Tucker Carlson video and maybe by not watching all of it, I came to a wrong conclusion so please correct me if I am wrong. My impression is that at least 80% of the coverage of the protest movements were focused on the 20% (generous number) who are decidedly troublemakers in every way and on those who were more radically calling for defunding the police. By contrast, if you watch liberal media, you will see the opposite ratio. Yes, the violence of the 20% is covered around 20% (sometines more) of the time and 80% of the time is coverage of the stories of the peaceful protests, their interactions in some positive ways with the police such as the lovely video posted of the cop comforting the frightened child who thought he was going to shoot her. Instead of defunding, most of the time the calls are for policies that curb chokeholds and knees to the neck and insist on body cams so there is accountability. Far cry from "we don't need no cops".
Of course both networks cover other stories as well that create tension between the partisan divide.
So what if someone and their buddy agree for a week to watch Tucker Carlson and Rachel Maddow - both shows. And then talk about it?
Are you game bama?
Hugs and kisses
ETA We could even retro watch the last week in case the emphasis changes but going forward is also good in terms of Covid coverage, policing etc. whatever the buddies agree on and it would be great if several of you paired up
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Post by theosgma on Feb 4, 2020 13:15:39 GMT -5
Consider AirBnB and renting a car. I did that for the last Residencey and saved a bundle. There are tons of AirBnB around 15 or so minutes from the strip.
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