Happy New Year
To all who come through the doorway of our Virtual Ballroom:May peace, happiness, prosperity, and all good things sprinkle your lives every day, every hour, every minute. Here's to 2009!Jeanie
Community Comment archive for Dec. 2008
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31, 2008
Upon understanding a cow's point of view...
Good morning, everyone... Let's see a show of hands. How many of you have milked a milk cow by hand? Although it probably puts me in the category of being older than dirt, I lost track of the number of dairy cattle I milked by…
Quote of the Day -- December 31, 2008
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us. W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) The Razor's Edge, 1943
How they remove snow elsewhere...
Good morning, Netizens...Here is a nifty way to quickly avoid those pesky snow berms. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMF16c8M14Dave
Horsey on WAMU
Good morning, Netizens...It's cold outside and snowing again but the incredible fiasco surrounding Washington Mutual still has not died down. Perhaps today's cartoon from David Horsey may help everyone understand why and how this came to happen. Dave
TUESDAY, DEC. 30, 2008
Cars of the future you may not see...
Good morning, Netizens... Meanwhile on the lighter side of life, a little satire... According to the AP news wire, you can sit back, relax and let your car parallel park itself -- without a single scratch or ding to your bumper. That's what Ford Motor…
Relief ship rammed by Israelis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (In strictest-keeping with my desire to show the latest and most-accurate depictions of the ongoing conflict in Gaza, I am including this press release which tells of Israeli gunships firing upon an unarmed ship purportedly in international waters on a mission of…
The lighter side of yesterday...
Good morning, Netizens... After well over two weeks of near-desperation caused by record-breaking snowfalls mixed with equal amounts of administrative ineptitude in City Hall, I feel obligated to find at least a tiny spot of levity in this entire situation. I admit when I look…
Quote of the Day -- December 30, 2008
Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King Jr.(1929 - 1968)
MONDAY, DEC. 29, 2008
Aww CRAP!
Good morning, Netizens...This radar image doesn't really do the job of describing 2 inches an hour of snow falling justice, does it? This morning's commute will be a nightmare again. Those who are still waiting on the snow plows to arrive will wait longer; those…
The Kings of the Earth Rise Up...
Good morning, Netizens... "The Kings of the Earth rise up, and the rulers take council together..." Handel's Messiah The news from the Gaza Strip, like nearly every war that is actively being fought around the world, keeps getting worse and worse. According to AP, at…
Quote of the Day -- December 29, 2008
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Ecce Homo, Foreword
SUNDAY, DEC. 28, 2008
If it weren't messy enough...
Good morning, Netizens...If it weren't truly mad enough with over 40 inches of snow on the flat, snow berms the sizes of Volkswagen beetles on every street corner and ridiculous emergency declarations that the City, County and State have issued that really do nothing to…
SATURDAY, DEC. 27, 2008
Resolutions
I have such good intentionsMaking New Year’s ResolutionsWhy is it that my ambitionsFall short of absolution
The reason's I hate 2008 a Little
The reason(s) I am really looking forward to a New Year and all these reasons happened on Fifteen Days before 2009:Wednesday - Fifteen days before New Year’s it snowed two feet; an hour and a half to get home Thursday - Snowed another foot; first…
War breaks out between Israel and Gaza
Good morning, Netizens...Reuters reports that more than 155 people have been killed in the Gaza Strait this morning as Israel, responding to rocket attacks on Israeli soil, began bombing the Hamas-controlled region south of Israel. Israeli warplanes and combat helicopters began the attacks on what…
Feast or Famine...
Good morning, Netizens... It is either feast or famine in the City of Spokane snow removal operation, if experiences this morning are to be given any credibility. After the first body-slam of snow one week ago last Thursday, it took four days before we saw…
FRIDAY, DEC. 26, 2008
Christmas Day Reverie...
Good morning, Netizens... A Reverie on Christmas Day... I had no great aspirations as I floundered through the snow on Christmas Day, save to buy some cigarettes at my neighborhood Mini-Mart and to give the employees there a brief Christmas hug, for they are as…
Quote of the Day -- December 26, 2008
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. Dave Barry (1947 - )"The Taming of the Screw"
THURSDAY, DEC. 25, 2008
Hope Springs Eternal on Christmas Day...
Good morning, Netizens... It is nearly 6:30 AM on Christmas Day, and despite the fact that few, if any, people will be dropping by the Virtual Ballroom this morning for their daily regimen of a cup of Virtual Espresso, after the events of the previous…
The Christmas Story
Good morning, everyone! In keeping with a tradition that is more than a decade old, an old friend, Connie Estell sent me a copy of the King James Version of the Birth of Jesus. She and I have been doing this, posting the Christmas Story…
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 24, 2008
Tradition of Christmas
Good evening, Netizens... We have mentioned promise and hope as parts of Christmas which have great meaning in all our lives. Materialism is perhaps one of the other aspects of Christmas that gets often mistaken for traditions, but in our household, we have a unique…
Hope
I am thinking of many things this Christmas 2008. I have many losses this year and it is more poignant at Christmas – missing my parents, missing the childhood days of traditions at Christmas and the total unbelievable excitement that permeated the air and made…
Power out in downtown...
Good evening, Netizens...A short time ago I received an automated e-mail announcement that a client located in downtown Spokane had lost regular electrical service and was going on battery backup. Now I know why. Upon further investigation I discovered that an underground power vault located…
Significance of Poinsettas...
While a good many of our customs originated in Europe, the poinsettia is a western Christmas tradition. The poinsettia was named after Joel Poinsett, first U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, who imported it from Mexico in 1828. Mr Poinsett loved scientific discoveries and later co founded…
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