You're sure it's not just a really early version of Linux?
Posted on 09/05/2013 10:24:15 AM PDT by Victoria Bingham
Open Office works okay, some differences, it does suffer some bloat.
Unngh.
Looks like something really goofy is going on there if you’re getting that instead of a regular question mark.
Check your region and language settings in control panel, that could do it.
Or, it is something I’m not thinking of offhand!
(Been one of those days here)
I need my hair cut immediately on Saturday.
If you can get a grip until you arrive here, I’ll try to schedule Jamie. I’m expecting her 12:00-12:30 tomorrow, if nothing goes wrong on either end.
I think I said, "A little off the top ..." a few too many times to my barber.
You needed a more competent stylist, is all.
I don’t think even a very competent stylist could do much for the Mayor of Whoville, (after the Grinch touch, that is).
Well, after the fact, you can’t blame the hairdresser.
A hat, perhaps? The Salvation Army was selling ball caps for .25 today. They had a USS Eisenhower cap, my dad’s old boat. No cool fedoras or driving caps, though.
A hat is a good suggestion.
I was going to suggest it myself.
Also, you could sacrifice a pig to Dagon. Zot knows what would happen.
I had hot dogs a few days ago. No change except for needing a couple of Tums.
We rarely get a chance to see another country’s editorial about the USA.
Read this excerpt from a Romanian Newspaper. The article was written by Mr. Cornel Nistorescu and published under the title ‘C’ntarea Americii, meaning ‘Ode To America ‘ in the Romanian newspaper Evenimentulzilei ‘The Daily Event’ or ‘News of the Day’.
~An Ode to America ~
Why are Americans so united? They would not resemble one another even if you painted them all one color! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations and religious beliefs.
On 9/ll, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the Army, or the Secret Service that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed out onto the streets nearby to gape about.
Instead the Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand.
After the first moments of panic, they raised their flag over the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a government official or the president was passing.
On every occasion, they started singing: ‘God Bless America!’
I watched the live broadcast and rerun after rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who gave his life fighting with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that could have killed other hundreds or thousands of people.
How on earth were they able to respond united as one human being? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put into collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit, which no money can buy. What on earth unites the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their history? Their economic Power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases with the risk of sounding commonplace, I thought things over, I reached but only one conclusion...Only freedom can work such miracles.
Cornel Nistorescu
This deserves to be passed around the Internet forever. It took a person on the outside - looking in - to see what we take for granted!
GOD BLESS AMERICA ! !
One doesn’t realize, until reading something like this, how deep into murderous envy many other countries are. Maybe it’s because they don’t understand that you can give to others, and still survive. They’ve never had that kind of abundance, because they’ve always had crapulous economic systems.
America is the biggest and best example of “the island of misfit toys”.
We collected here because we were driven from every other place, by politics, population pressure, religious concerns, and by a need to look for better opportunities.
Opportunities to grow, and to grow our families. To sow our dreams and reap our fortunes.
America is a people united by ideas. Not skin color or language, but hope and determination. We are a brotherhood of rough hands and hearts that beat as one.
You're sure it's not just a really early version of Linux?
Talk about crashing the gates
Wie Geht’s?
No, the big ones.
It’s the “awww” and misery of the outer limits.
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