Alarms. Here at the Village, we have a number of pull-cords to activate for help, if needed. Seven of these needed service today.
Here's some more rambling:
Iowa Primary Contenders on Religion:
Trump: New Yorker: "Trump sometimes stumbles through the subject of religion... he uses a family Bible too obviously as a prop and recently discussed a passage from 'Two Corinthians'."
Cruz: New Yorker: "Cruz speaks the language of evangelicals....He vows that on the first day in office, in addition to rescinding Obama's 'illegal and unconstitutional' executive orders and ripping up the Iranian Nuclear Deal, he will investigate and prosecute Planned Parenthood, tell the IRS that the 'persecution of religious liberty' is over, and begin the process of moving the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem."
Oh no! Don't Go!
Diane Rheem is retiring from her wonderful show on WMAR (DC). I have been listening to her show since the 1970's. She always addresses issues of great interest and has guests who cover all sides of a topic. I understand that she will now be advocating for "right to die" legislation.. apparently, this is related to the death of her husband a short time ago.
One of her producers, Denise Couture, should be in line to take over. She is the daughter of a high-school friend of mine, Donald Couture. In fact, Don and I were in the Air Force at the same time and were in Basic Training at Sampson Air Force Base in frigid upstate New York. One morning, as I was marching in my group, I spotted Don marching by. I smiled at him and waved. This did not go unnoticed..... For punishment, I spent 16 hours in the kitchen hand peeling potatoes
Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers
Have you ever wondered what these guys' first names are? Today, they called each other by: Frank and Charlie. But they probably were just kidding... remember, their shows are edited versions of prior broadcasts... because one of the brothers died recently.. unfortunately, probably from suicide. However, the shows are nicely edited to make them sound like they are completely contemporary.
Puzzler
Click and Clack had this question for this week's puzzler:
What is the same for all of these words?
assess
banana
bozo
dresser
grammar
potato
revive
uneven
voodoo
Answer: If you take the first letter and put it at the end, you can spell the same word backwards.
Iced!
NPR News: A Danish thief could not get the stolen safe open, so, in frustration, he threw it into a lake. Unfortunately for him, it was Winter, and the lake was frozen over.\
Science News
NPR News: Rapper Bob has now declared that the world is flat, and is in "rap battle" with people who do not agree with him.
UBER News
NPR News: When a rider in an uber cab told the driver that he was going to throw up, the driver pulled a gun and kicked the rider out. He did not want his cab messed up.
When I drove a cab in New Bedford, I experienced:
A drunken relative who messed up my cab whenever I carried him home.
A very smelly cab whenever I would drive Fish Mary home from her "lumper" job on the Pier.
Pugnacious Norwegian fishermen who spilled beer and threw up in my cab, and punched me when they didn't like me asking them for the fare.
Remember... there was no Fabreeze back in the 1950's. Cabs had to be scrubbed out by hand, and while you were so busily engaged, other cabbies took your jobs and made your tips.
The Sarah
The Week: This is too good not to quote... from 2011 archives:
"Sarah Palin, after a former aide wrote a book that contains hundreds of her e-mails, including one in which she says, as governor of Alaska, 'I hate this damn job.' Palin, it was also reveled this week, maintains a Facebook page under an assumed name, 'Lou Sarah', in which she praises and 'likes' whatever Sarah Palin says."
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