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I’ve been following Smarter Every Day Minute Physics and Veritasium on YouTube for a while now. I suggest everyone give Smarter Every Day a go first because they often use lots of weapons for physics experiments. The Veritasium guy is a liberal, but his science videos are excellent.

I believe it was $250K.

Thanks for the recipes.

After watching the Redskins this year I would have sworn RGIII is the most overpaid.

After yet another night of negatives, and days in single (some negative) digits, it got up to 20ish today, and is still hovering around 20, with a predicted low of 5, and 24 tomorrow. The worst is over, for now; only needed one stove lit tonight. A tadbit of new snow again this evening, but with so much blowing snow, it’s hard to tell how much is really new, and how much just redeposited.

Hope and praying that the extreme & early cold didn’t do in the wheat & rye.

I ‘ve checked in, but not posted for a few days, but have enjoyed Marcella’s posts. Instead, I’ve been frustrating myself trying to get this new Windows-8 machine loaded & working. Can’t find the 20 digit key-code for my camera software, so will have to contact Olympus. Can’t load Photoshop-4 because Win-8 won’t allow old 16-bit software, which means I can’t load the Photoshop-6 Upgrade, either...or a bunch of other old (”legacy”) programs I like. I’ve had the XP computer for 7 years, and would have been happy with it for 7 more. At least the new one recognizes my printer, so I could print Mrs. AR’s Christmas letters: had it written in Wordpad & saved on a portable HD, because Word 2007 went bonkers on me, insisting on writing only in red underlined italics.

Win-8 is an ugly, dysfunctional mess, but I was able to D/L a program to get back a START MENU & old-style Desktop, and ditch those ridiculous AP tiles. Not going to pay for yet another version of Office, either; instead, downloaded Open Office; it works great. Also, got Chrome back & running. Next up is Thunderbird; I understand Win-8 does NOT (tough; I do!) like email pop-accounts, so may have another fight coming. XP to 8.1 is a bit of a leap, and a shock. I wanted WIN-7, but the DOWNGRADE was too expensive! “If you like your XP, you can keep your XP, period!”

We had BBQ brisket slices from the freezer, along with some of our ‘fresh’ carrots that have been stored since harvest. Night before, it was stir-fried venison, which included some of our own “baby” Brussels sprouts from the top part of a stem.

I have since learned that one is supposed to ‘top’ the stems once the sprouts start forming, in order to get uniform sized sprouts. Hope I remember in the future, as we have so many form this year, along with a few from last year, that we won’t grow them again for a while. Or carrots, except a few for fresh eating.

AWESOME!

Would anyone happen to have a good sopapilla recipe? I had one from an aunt from NM years ago and it has been lost. I've tried some of the ones online and they just never puffed up right like the recipe she gave me did.

I loved it

You know, you'd be just as well off by manning up and having the integrity to admit that you don't believe because you don't WANT to believe, than to try to blame shift it off onto questioning the historical records and applying double standards as to what you accept as proof and setting up pretend scenarios that we know still wouldn't convince you.

It'd be better if you'd just admit that you have no use for the god that you have your notions about and that you don't see that He's relevant to your life. At least at that point, you'd be being intellectually honest and we could respect THAT.

The whole Nephilim = angel thing. Some might have a problem with it if they view “angels” as pretty much benevolent.

Aronofsky released a graphic novel that served as the premise for this film, and I both understand and agree with it IF he remains true to that interpretation. There is a huge message in there I think people might knee jerk negatively to, but I hope it helps people turn to Him.

Except when it comes to the value of pi and the inerrancy of Scripture.

Cool stuff!

save to read in the morning.

Good luck!!

Martial Arts, I Has 'Em

- …..maybe a little blow…..

One false move and the entire thing blows.

RIP Aubrey Peters, you did good in your short life.

Who in the world would have thunk that.

“All seem to be related in some way.”

“There is a small, dilapidated memorial containing some bones and ashes (which is regularly vandalised by Poles searching for “Jewish gold”). It is overgrown and unkempt.”

LOL !!!1 What a Holocaust story would be without usual dose of racism and Polonophobia ?

Are these IDIOTS ever ever ever going to learn?

I guess not, that’s why the word idiot was invented in the first place I suppose.

Poor girl saves two lives only to have hers taken by some meathead.

RIP Aubrey

Good morning to Amy's Place!

I am dedicating this to all our deployed military and their families, most of whom, sadly, will not be together for Christmas. I appreciate their service and their family's sacrifice, and I pray for a world at peace, where none of our men and women need serve in war zones.

pingaling

So COOOOOLLLL!!!!!!

That’s an excellent idea. I saw an episode of DD Preppers, where a family raised bees for that very reason.

Joseph Smith didn't die because he refused to recant his faith but because he was trying to get busted out of jail and got caught in the crossfire. Can you see the difference between him and, say, an Apostle who could not deny what he knew to be the truth and was willing to die for his faith? Please tell me you understand this difference?

>>Cowboys are only a game back and are still undefeated in the division.<<

Indeed, they are up there with the best yodelers in Harlem.

Well, I had no idea what that was about from the post, but checked it out anyway. Pretty neat!

>>AFAIK, Tony Romo doesn’t play DEFENSE.<<

Nor does he play OFFENSE.

Not anymore. We used to have plows, salt and sand spreaders and some kind of liquid stuff too. But most of the county and city governments seem to have bought into the "Gore-Bull" warming hype and all of that stuff has disappeared. Durring this whole struggle I've not seen any government plows or spreaders, I did see one contractor plow/spreader that was mounted on what looked like a 1 ton pickup. It was working the "MixMaster" down town and managed to keep it fairly clear through out the mess.

Our prayers are with this family for the horrible tragedy that occurred.

And while I certainly approve of the repeating of the rules of firearms, I will point out something else that could have prevented this from happening: not letting a minor hang out with an adult.

Thank you for the belly laugh...Bernie Kosar mentioned with Staubach and ahead of Aikman...are you Bernie’s financial adviser?

I'd say he's already a narcissist or sociopath, and perhaps did this on purpose and made it look like an accident.

The garment looks like its missing the curtin rod...really. I swear I have never seen a gown with swags before.

bump home security

A bodice is the part of the dress/garment from the waist up. Knowledge is power. :-)

AFAIK, Tony Romo doesn’t play DEFENSE.

I’ve certainly heard of it.
After World War 2, my father and my mother’s surviving cousins were neighbors and friends, having resettled in Stettin from Drohobycz (Galicia near Lvov) and Lublin. But for some initiative and a lot of luck, they would have been buried near each other in Belzec.

A heroic girl like Miss Peters would almost certainly forgive this young fool. Will he ever be able to forgive himself?

I’ve certainly heard of it.
After World War 2, my father and my mother’s surviving cousins were neighbors and friends, having resettled in Stettin from Drohobycz (Galicia near Lvov) and Lublin. But for some initiative and a lot of luck, they would have been buried near each other in Belzec.

Prayers up for everyone involved in this tragedy.

YES, every gun is ALWAYS loaded.

I’m very sorry to hear what happened. For my dad, the surgery is what caused a complication and debilitated him, leaving him too weak to receive chemo. We looked into alternative treatments then, but no place would take him soon enough. The cancer spread everywhere, but, in the end, he did finally receive one light chemo treatment because he wanted so badly to try something. All in all, he lived a mere six months after diagnosis. We were in shock, too.

My first chemo treatment put me in the hospital for a week. Looking forward to the day when researchers come up with a better treatment.

Those sneaky guns. That barrel just loads itself whenever you drop the magazine, don’t it?

Now the immature snot has to live with this for the rest of his life.

Cowboys are only a game back and are still undefeated in the division.

Honey, Sugars of multiple types ..... Werthers butter rum hard candy and hard lemon gum drops are our bulk sweet tooth supplies. Rotate the stock of hard candies each Halloween . Suspect the shelf life of those specific hard candies is about 5 to 10 years but as stated we rotate such each All Hallows’ eve .......

Kayro syrup mixed with some peanut butter makes a good sweet treat on bread also. Both of those products store well long term.....

The 4 Laws

I. All guns are always loaded.

(My version is slightly different: ASSUME all guns are always loaded.)

II. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.

III. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target.

IV. Be sure of your target and what is beyond it.

Oh yeah, and to add one more: JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE DROPPED THE MAG DOES NOT MEAN THERE IS NOT A ROUND IN THE CHAMBER!

I guess you don’t do crossword puzzles! ( It’s the opposite of WSW,) i.e. East Northeast, halfway between East and Northeast.

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