Some alterations to the Saturday OPEN thread
Shot by Joe in Texas
“Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.”
Faith Baldwin
December 15, 2012 - 9:00 AM
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
THE ROANOKE TIMES
It seems the teachers in that school did an amazing job of keeping their kids safe and calm, to the point that a lot of them had no idea anything was amiss. Impressive.
Has anyone else seen the new Hobbit movie? I was sorely disappointed…
If anyone would like to send a card or letter of condolence, here is the address of the CT school.
Sandy Hook Elementary School
12 Dickinson Drive
Sandy Hook, CT 06482
I enjoyed it, Shrillary (I’m a fan of Richard Armitage, so he alone made it worth the price of admission for me), but it was overlong, and wild horses couldn’t drag me to see it in 3D or 48fps, which is what Peter Jackson wants us to do.
It is impressive, Kristen. That and the fact that someone in the office turned on the intercom to alert the teachers to what was happening.
My heart aches for all of those who lost family members, especially those who lost their babies, although as a mother my adult daughter is still my baby no matter how old she may be. All I could think when reading about it yesterday afternoon, was those could have been my grandchildren. I can only imagine the pain the families are going through.
Laura @4 – Richard Armitage was outstanding in his role – and he is easy on the eyes. He’s kind of a tall dwarf, no?I found the overdone scenes of running hither and yon boring, and more video game like than the previous LOTR movies.
I could be wrong, but I seem to remember something about someone on here that really likes the Golden Corral.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Golden-Corral-Restaurant-Closes-Following-167-Reported-Cases-of-Food-Poisoning-315029.shtml
I bet it’s that Chocolate Fountain. It’s e.coli for your soft ice cream.
I could be wrong, but I seem to remember something about someone on here that really likes the Golden Corral.
I certainly hope all the victims weren’t the “poor and hungry” putting the meal on their SNAP cards.
I wonder if Mike Scott checked out the GC last night to observe the concentration of minorities like we talked about.
“I wonder if Mike Scott checked out the GC last night to observe the concentration of minorities like we talked about.”
And the racial makeup at the GC matters why?
suzie, always bringing up race for no reason at all.
Seems like thge bloom is off the GC for Suzie now. Too many of those “other” people eat there now.
You’re not always getting what you think you are when dining out.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/us/mislabeled-foods-find-their-way-to-diners-tables.html?src=me&ref=general
My heart aches for these parents too. Take the time to read this article.
“I am sharing this story because I am Adam Lanza’s mother. I am Dylan Klebold’s and Eric Harris’s mother. I am Jason Holmes’s mother. I am Jared Loughner’s mother. I am Seung-Hui Cho’s mother. And these boys-and their mothers-need help. In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness.”
http://gawker.com/5968818/i-am-adam-lanzas-mother
Christmas just came early for Dan. The mom was a Prepper.
Re: Debbie @ 1:44 pm
Heart wrenching!
Yes it certainly is, Dave Hicks @1:55 pm.
really Debbie, your heart aches for these parents..what about the children that are aborted every day, feel sorry for them as well do you? death is death.
Debbie – thanks for the link. I hope everyone clicks on it and reads it in its entirety. The social worker in the article unfortunately was correct. As a social worker, many many mentally ill children wind up in the “system” – usually in a juvenile facility woefully understaffed and ill prepared for these children. Without proper treatment, without an assigned psychologist or psychiatrist, without medication specific to their mental illness, these juveniles will eventually enter the adult system. Once they are adults (18+) they would need to specifically seek out help – which they rarely do – and as a result, they are left untreated and eventually incarcerated.
Early intervention is the key – funding and providing access to community based mental health clinics would at least begin to address the problems brought out in the link you posted.
Such a sad story, Debbie.
I think the only thing worse than being the parent of one of the victims of these tragedies is being the parent of the perpetrator. Parents who have children suffering severe mental illness have nothing but my sympathy. There are so few answers.
I’ve seen the show “Preppers” and commented to a friend that Nat Geo was basically taking advantage of mental illness and turning it into entertainment, along the lines of “Hoarders” or one of the other modern-day electronic freak shows we’re offered on television. Who knows how extreme Lanza’s mother was, but most of the households on that show have children among them, and those children are being brought up in an atmosphere of instability and heavy-duty paranoia. I find parents that make their small children spend their days preparing to be overrun by ravaging marauders to be abusive.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/16/von-meyer-indiana-school-guns_n_2311717.html
So, does this guy get to keep his guns?
“A northern Indiana man who allegedly threatened to “kill as many people as he could” at an elementary school near his home was arrested by officers who later found 47 guns and ammunition hidden throughout his home.”
Dave @ 11:43
Which is weird because about two years ago she accused me of being racist after I mocked the GC’s clientele.
Consistently inconsistent if nothing else, I tell you. She can’t even keep her own story straight anymore.
@9
Nope,did not. Had a good meal at Wonju Korean restaurant and the night before we hit the 1906 Ale house and had nice evening with friends. I never did question your assertion that you saw a bunch of minorities at GC. I did ask you provide evidence SNAP benefits could be used in VA to purchase meals there. I can’t find evidence that Va. allows benefits to be used in that way. That being the case, the part of your narrative that links black people or minorities, SNAP benefits, and the GC is likely just a devise to stir the blog plot. You are welcome to provide evidence now. If you do, I’d be more likely to see the invisible dots you seek to connect.
Not that I haven’t eaten more than a few meals at the GC. I once lived in Hartsville, South Carolina, for several months in the early 1980′s and it was the least suckiest option of anything else to eat. That and Yogi Bear’s Honey Dipped Fried Chicken. There were also a bunch of minorities who ate there, presumably because it was also the least suckiets option they had as well.
Hillary and Kristen, I agree with your comments. I posted the link on Facebook and a friend who has two brothers suffering from mental illness wrote about how hard it was to be a sibling growing up. She said it was, “frightening, embarrassing, stressful and that there are no easy answers.” She said people really don’t have a clue what it’s like.
Unfortunately while we understandably have great sympathy for the families of the victims as we should, most people don’t think about the perpetrators family being victims also. Sometimes being a good parent isn’t enough, especially when it’s hard to get the help that’s needed.
Just for grins, I sent an email to Golden Corral, asking about its policy regarding SNAP. If they respond, I’ll post it on that day’s open thread.
Now for a little good news on the most current open thread:
http://tinyurl.com/clw9g9x
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Boehner offers to take debt limit off the table
By Lori Montgomeryand Paul Kane, Sunday, December 16, 7:19 PM
House Speaker John A. Boehner has offered to push any fight over the federal debt limit off for a year, a major concession that would deprive Republicans of leverage in the budget battle but is breathing new life into stalled talks over the year-end “fiscal cliff.”
The offer came Friday, according to people in both parties familiar with the talks, as part of the latest effort by Boehner (R-Ohio) to strike a deal with President Obama to replace more than $500 billion in painful deficit-reduction measures set to take effect in January.
SNIP
Many Republicans had argued that party leaders should use the threat of default to demand additional spending cuts from Obama. But Boehner’s offer would head off that potentially nasty fight — at least until the end of next year.
SNIP
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Here’s an interesting Christmas fact. The live Christmas tree you may have in your home has basically the same genome as pine and spruce trees that were around when dinosaurs roamed!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121213132542.htm
@23…devise = device
Shrill…
you might want to go to a place where u can dig through
some coal heaps…when I was a kid Id go through ours at home..
I used to find a lot of plant and tree fossils..WVA coal is loaded with them
240-570 million years old..
http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2059
Joe – thanks for the link.
We at one time owned a 60 ac farm in upstate NY and in every stream their were rocks bearing the imprint of all sorts of plants – as a child I was impressed, but because there were so many never collected any. Of course now I wish I had…
“Which is weird because about two years ago she accused me of being racist after I mocked the GC’s clientele.”
Same with me. But you know suzie has admitted in the past that she often trolls several sites at a time, so it’s no wonder she can’t keep things straight. What a sad existence.
Seems like thge bloom is off the GC for Suzie now. Too many of those “other” people eat there now.
It’s you libs who trash every place black people frequent; Walmart, Golden Corral, La Cove. You people talk a great game, but you won’t go around those “other people’.
“La Cove.”
Trashing a place that no longer exists? suzie’s going back to 3-year-old trolling topics now. What desperation.
I don’t frequent Golden Corral because of the food not the company. I dont’ frequent Walmart because of the company not the people. Never been to La Cove.
Ron, you can’t go to La Cove because it’s been closed for years now. But suzie didn’t realize it was no longer open when she started talking three years ago about how she went there often and that proved she isn’t racist.
+1 Ron’s comment @ 9:33 am.
There are no “other” people, there are only human beings. This valley is full of small independently owned restaurants that I have never been to. You can’t go everywhere. My neighborhood is downtown, I support my restaurant owning neighbors.