I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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When children learn that giving is more rewarding than taking; when they learn that they can't control everything, but they are masters of their own souls; when they learn to accept people whose difference they fear, and that pleasure is found in the power in helping others; when they learn that the value of one's life is best measured not by possession acquired, but by wisdom shared, hope inspired, tears wiped, and hearts touched; when they learn that happiness and lasting contentment are not to be found in what a person has, but in what he or she is; when they learn to withhold judgment of people, knowing that everyone is blessed with good and bad qualities; when they learn that every person has been given the gift of a unique self and the purpose of life is to share the very best of that gift with the world. . . . When children learn these ideals, they will no longer be children--they will be blessings to those who know them, and worthy models for all the world's children. -David L. Weatherford
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Sorry everyone -- I wanted to stay at the meeting but the microphone issue is not working out - never mind the camera which likely all would be okay to do w/o for anyone who couldn't get theirs's working. Then -- the last thing I typed wouldn't go thru.
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Ruth---Couldn't get my audio to work. I am sorry, I thought I used my phone last week. I was using it, however nothing was working. But it is nice to see animated avatars.
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Drat -- just as the meeting ended I was able to find where to go into my Bluetooth setting and turn on the word enable for speakers. So, maybe next time I will be able to at least talk -- even if I can't be seen. I suspect I may need to get some sort of separate camera ( not sure ), but if I cannot at least verbally join in I will be happy. At least KtoK is around so I can feel some needed sorts and I need them now.
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Just for overall view, when we turned on the news this morning the discussion was that the Reps. party is so far out now that it was more or less a feeling that there is a strong chance that it won't survive. I took it to mean that while we are hearing a lot from the kind of Reps. that go to CPAC and many in the GOP who are working or not working, as the case may be , with Pres. Biden, there are so many more Reps. out there who are not okay with Trump at all.
The party will survive -- but there are not enough of the extremists, nor the more moderate/conservative ones for any of them going forward. No way to really win elections. Starting to wonder what we are going to see -- splinter parties from the two parts of the Reps. parties. Sounds very un-wieldy.
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Jackie---
sending you all kinds of HUGS and SORTS!!!! Maybe if Ruth is willing to run with it again, we both will be able to join in. I have been to three meetings. 1st one I could see everyone. I don't remember if they could see me , couldn't talk to them. Last I was on my phone, I could see and hear and be seen and heard by Ruth and Sandy. This I could see, but not hear. So we will see how next week goes. kad2kar0 -
I have never really heard of a person that likes this man. He is not as soulless as a lot of people in the Reps. party but only owing to the fact that he did stand up to Trump a few times. Overall though, he does seem for the most part hopeless.
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K2K - Computers are strange to me and most of the time it seems the thing has a mind of its own. I did not have a computer until a couple of weeks before we moved back home here to Illinois. That was in '97. For the first couple of yrs. I couldn't deal with it much as we/I was busy with getting us moved in and the house set up. My mom got sick then and for most of another yr. I dealt with that -- so I've only been on the computer roughly since about 2000. I taught myself painstakingly slowly -- so anything I learn on here is absolutely the hard way. To my credit -- I am not nearly as terrified as I once was.
Thanks for the hugs and sorts. I will keep working with it and hope I have no major issues between now and the next Zoom. If so, the settings I have tried to get in here might stay.
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I have many questions about this. I watched former Trump attorney M. Cohen talking about Trumps taxes now with New York. He has helped N. York as has Mary Trump and I think both of them had paperwork to contribute as well. Cohen also thinks that Trump is deeply worried. As Cohen said -- despite the fact that Trump is crazy, he can still recognize his huge problems. He may not have a conscience ( for sure not as we know it ) but he does know that he has spent his whole life ignoring the law and getting away with it. He knows he has things ( he may not know the particulars of each one ) that are going to come up -- and he will if forced into depositions lie his head loose because that is what he does.
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Jackie, imagine how Cruz's wife and kids, plus poor little Snowflake, feel about that sorry SOB.
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I wonder if she'd like some cheese with that whine?
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I am absolutely astounded. Oh no - $174K. How can she even post that when many people can't even get $15 minimum wage? Or have been laid off or furloughed. OMG. And BTW - is that just Ted's salary? Or does that include her salary at Goldman Sachs?
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just Googled Ted Cruz's salary. It's $174,000. His net worth is $4 million. Here's an article that gives her salary and the quote in the meme. Shaking my head at her complaining. https://qz.com/1428802/goldman-sachs-heidi-cruz-is-the-family-breadwinner/
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Well should anyone have any doubt that she is as gross and despicable as he is, this should successfully remove that doubt. They deserve each other.
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I'm beginning to think trump was being kind about dear Heidi. I wish I could rescue Snowflake from that family but it's possible the dog is just like the rest of them.
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Thoughts from fellow Republicans and college classmates about Ted Cruz (from The Rolling Stone):
As Cruz's former college roommate, Craig Mazin, once put it, "One thing Ted Cruz is really good at: uniting people who otherwise disagree about everything else in a total hatred of Ted Cruz."
To wit, a treasury of people who really, really hate Ted Cruz:
George W. Bush:
"I just don't like the guy."
Bob Dole:
"I don't know how he's going to deal with Congress. Nobody likes him."
John Boehner:
"I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life."
Lindsey Graham:
"If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you."
Peter King:
"I hate Ted Cruz, and I think I'll take cyanide if he ever got the nomination."
Donald Trump:
"He's a nasty guy. Nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him. Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him."
Marco Rubio:
"Ted has had a tough week because what's happening now is people are learning more about him."
Rand Paul:
"He is pretty much done for and stifled, and it's really because of personal relationships, or lack of personal relationships, and it is a problem."
Chris Christie:
"For him to somehow be implying that certain values are more appropriate, more American, depending upon what region of the country you're from, is to me just asinine."
Carly Fiorina (aka, Cruz's hypothetical running mate, as of this week):
"Ted Cruz is just like any other politician. … He says whatever he needs to say to get elected, and then he's going to do as he pleases."
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer:
"Everybody who knows him in the Senate hates him. And I think hate is not an exaggeration."
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter:
"Cruz is a sleazy, Rovian liar."
Former Republican staffer John Feehery:
"Cruz is an army of one, alienating anybody who is in his path. He advocates losing strategies purely to further his own career at the expense of the party."
Princeton classmate Mikaela Beardsley:
"There are not that many people in my life who I can think of who I didn't actually have extensive interactions with who bring up such bad feelings."
Another Princeton dormmate:
"He was just sort of an odious figure lurking around."
Princeton roommate Craig Mazin:
"Ted Cruz is a nightmare of a human being. I have plenty of problems with his politics, but truthfully his personality is so awful that 99 percent of why I hate him is just his personality. If he agreed with me on every issue, I would hate him only one percent less."
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Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as it unfolds minute by precious minute, you are better able to savor each experience. Also, being closely attentive gives you the opportunity to change unwise or painful feelings and responses quickly. In fact, being truly present in a mindful way is an excellent stress reducer and, because of that, can be seen as consciousness conditioning, a strengthening workout for body, mind, heart, and spirit. Sue Patton Thoel
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Not political, but a blast from the past!
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Wow Ruth...that brings back a whole lot of memories!
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And in addition to the wall phone there were party lines and live operators.
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nor do they understand the phrase “hang up the phone”.
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I don't remember party lines but do remember live operators. Dear God I just feel old.
Also, I sent that picture to my 16 year old who couldn't stop laughing.
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Even when I finally got a cordless phone, I would sit in one spot, never moving until the phone call was over no matter how long I talked. It took months, if not years, to break the lifelong ingrained behavior of being tethered to a stationary spot while talking on the phone. And back in the day, I never dreamed we'd actually ever be able to talk on the phone to someone and see them at the same time. It was a Dick Tracy sci-fi concept that would never come about in my lifetime, right? And now we have Zoom! Technology zips us along almost faster than the speed of light!
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Manufacturing CEO: Before Biden, it felt like we were fighting the pandemic alone
(CNN Business). A former Republican operative who now leads one of the nation's most powerful business groups is praising President Joe Biden's efforts to defeat the coronavirus pandemic.
"It is fantastic to have a partner in the White House," Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, told CNN Business. "We felt like we were fighting this fight, frankly, all alone for the last year."
NAM, which represents more than 130,000 manufacturers, announced Friday it is planning to partner with the Biden administration to help fight the pandemic.
Timmons, who said his father died from Covid, criticized the Trump administration's track record on the health crisis. "It seemed like so often over the course of the last year, the pandemic was weaponized and it became a political tool," he said, adding that he was dismayed dismay over disinformation that confused the public. "500,000 Americans have already died because we as a society didn't take the pandemic seriously enough. My father was one of those. The horrible, lonesome, gruesome death that he went through, I want no other family to have to go through that."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/27/business/manufactur...
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Here are some pretty impressive percentages showing how nursing home deaths from Covid19 have decreased since residents there started getting the vaccine. It's so wonderful to feel the hopefulness when I read this:
***'Safest place in the city': COVID cases in nursing homes drop 89% as residents get vaccinatedUSA TODAY
New federal data offers a glimmer of hope in what has been the darkest and deadliest corner of the pandemic.
The number of COVID-19 cases and deaths at America's nursing homes have dropped significantly since December as millions of vaccine doses have been shot into the arms of residents and staff.
The weekly rate of COVID-19 cases at nursing homes plummeted 89% from early December through the second week of February. By comparison, the nationwide case rate dropped 58% and remains higher than figures reported before late October.
Nursing home cases are at the lowest level since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in May began requiring the nation's more than 15,500 facilities to report cases each week. In fact, the 3,505 new cases reported the second week of February is nearly half as many recorded the week before and just one-tenth as many counted in one December week, the highest of the pandemic.
A USA TODAY analysis of federal data shows new cases are decreasing within homes at a much faster pace than communities where the homes are located.
Even as the virus slows nationwide, nursing home cases have dropped at a faster pace than COVID-19 infections overall in about 1,700 of the roughly 2,100 counties with available data.
In 36 counties with more than 150,000 residents, an even more dramatic trend was seen: Nursing home cases plummeted even as infection rates increased in the broader community. In Harris County, Texas, COVID-19 cases were 38% higher in the last three weeks than during three weeks of the December peak. Nursing home cases, meanwhile, fell by 31%.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/02...
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Divine, I too am amazed at those nursing home numbers. I would presume then as well that herd immunity could easily take place for the most part if people would just be willing to get the vaccine and abide by the rules/guidelines that have been laid out on proper protocols. I was not sure how I felt about vaccine and taking it while Trump was in the WH. My trust level for anything that has his blessing was usually at a minus points -- but I never batted an eye when Biden took over and gave the vaccines the green light.
Your words Divine " It's so wonderful to feel the hopefulness when I read this:", and it really is. Our normal will never be quite the same after that awful 4 yr. Trump period, but there are some things that can get sooo very close. I long for the day we don't have to go around all the time with masks on our faces. Now the hand washing is fine -- and even perhaps smaller groups, but I really don't like the masks. I have little issue at all though until we get to the herd immunity time.
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Ruth, I loved what people had to say about Ted Cruz. As to college, wow !! His dormmates, roommates and classmates were TRULY underwhelmed by him. I do rather think as to Heidi Cruz -- people who have some similar qualities often seem to gravitate to each other. I mean, I came to see Melania Trump every bit as disgusting and un-redeemable as Trump was and reading about Heidi Cruz puts the two of them ( Ted ) in the same category. Thankfully, a great many of the people I know ( non-politicians mainly ) who 'gravitated' together seem to have done so on the basis of much more positive qualities.
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