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The Daily F Bomb, Wednesday 8/7/13

Interrogatories

Do you collect anything? If so, what?

Are you a gossip? Do you talk to any gossips?

Are you at all interested in the private lives of public figures?

Do you know CPR? If so, have you ever had to use it?

What’s your favorite lighthouse?

The Twitter Emitter

Wednesday Watering Hole: Check In & Hangout for the Herd

Good morning, Moosekind. Don’t forget to let your peeps know where to find you.


  PLEASE Do Not Recommend the check-in diary! 

        Recs on the weather jar comment are still welcome.

The common Moose, Alces alces, unlike other members of the deer family, is a solitary animal that doesn’t form herds. Not so its rarer but nearest relative, Alces purplius, the Motley Moose. Though sometimes solitary, the Motley Moose herds in ever shifting groups at the local watering hole to exchange news and just pass the time.

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Butlers, maids, slaves and the White House




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On August 16, Lee Daniel’s The Butler, a star-studded film from The Weinstein Company, who also brought us Fruitvale Station, will hit the nation’s movie screens.  

Based on the real life story of Eugene Allen, a black man born in 1919, who was hired to work in the White House in 1952, rose to the rank of butler and then to the top rank of Maître d’hôtel, served under eight Presidents. Allen, who retired in 1986, lived to see Barack Obama take office, and was a special guest at the inauguration.

Odds & Ends: News/Humor

I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in “Cheers & Jeers”. For example …..

MOTHER-DAUGHTER? – singer and film star Liza Minnelli and filmmaker and TV star Lena Dunham.

   

OK, you’ve been warned – here is this week’s tomfoolery material that I posted.

Move It

Thanks to everybody for their great advice on moving my brother. After talking everything over he has decided not to bring the Pathfinder. He is going to sign it over to the youngest brother so he can donate it to a worthy cause. He has also decided to keep his furniture. He will be doing all his own packing.

What I am looking for now is feedback from people who have made long moves with professional movers. We are going from Concord in the San Francisco Bay Area to Winston Salem in North Carolina.

Any suggestions of movers either to try or to avoid. Any moving disasters that can be averted? Problems? Helpful hints?

Reid is disabled with severe diabetes and the onset of MS so I need this to be as stress free as possible.

Thanks.

The Daily F Bomb, Tuesday 8/6/13

Interrogatories

Do you like tattoos? Have any?

Do you wear campaign buttons? Even when not campaigning?

Do you tip your garbage collector, mail carrier, or other public servant?

Do you fish and/or hunt?

Do you like root beer floats? What’s your favorite brand of root beer?

The Twitter Emitter

Abortion provider admitting privileges requirement: “… a solution in search of a problem”

On Friday, U.S. District Judge William Conley issued a preliminary injunction blocking the new ALEC Wisconsin anti-choice law from going into affect.


A federal judge on Friday blocked until at least November a state law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admitting privileges.

It was the fourth time U.S. District Judge William Conley has temporarily blocked the law from going into effect. His 44-page decision placed the law on hold until the November trial that will determine whether the law is constitutional.

The law requires that doctors to have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of where they perform the procedure. […]

If the law goes into effect, it will close Planned Parenthood’s clinic in Appleton and Affiliated’s clinic in Milwaukee because doctors there do not have admitting privileges at hospitals that are near enough to the clinics. Planned Parenthood’s Milwaukee clinic would operate at half capacity.

The Daily F Bomb, Monday 8/5/13

Interrogatories

When did you last paint a wall? What color?

How many keys are on your keyring? Do you need all of them?

Have you played Bridge? Pinochle? Rummy? Hearts? War? Solitaire? What’s your favorite card game?

How often do you get a haircut?

Where do you get the best oysters?

The Twitter Emitter

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