Sea-mucus Blobs; Ice Hotel; Life; Republican or Democrat; Churchhill; Courage; God; Valentines

As I may have mentioned, I am trying to post to this blog on a daily basis.  Last week, I missed one day, so this is a make-up entry.

For this one, I need to reach into Prepop's magic "Blog Box" ...

Blobs (not Blogs)

Marine scientists have discovered "sea-mucus blobs" which consist of living and dead organic matter.  This "stuff" which is described by words that the Wizard of Oz might be comfortable with, as "mucilaginous masses," is expanding because of Global Warming.. and some such blobs can stretch for 100 miles or more.   Perhaps it has become a sentient creature and will vie with parasites to take over homo sapiens.  Watch out for it when you jump into the ocean.. it might slide you right into it's maul.

 Hotel de Glace

You'd better hurry if you want to stay at Quebec's Hotel de Glace, which is the only ice hotel in North America.  It is only open from the first week of January through the last week of March.  Daniel Bortz sez that it was built with 15,000 tons of snow and 500 tons of ice.   A quaint feature is the café that boasts "ice chairs cushioned with fur."  Don't go if  you have hemorrhoids.

Jewish Wisdom

Hilary Cooper sez:  "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

GOP?

Last year, I had a subscription to the National Review.  I wanted to make sure that my views of Conservatism were not wrong.  I found the magazine to be a wonderful soporific agent.  The writing seemed to be an incarnation of the writing of William Buckley... snobbish and snide... in my Democratic-leaning opinion.

Anyway, now I am on a Republican list.  Every other day, I receive requests for donations... just like I get from the Democrats.  I changed my affiliation to "Unaffiliated" this year, and now I cannot vote in either the Democrat or Republican primary.  I can't decide if I want to change back as a Democrat.. because, if I do, I don't get to vote for local candidates.. because they are all Republicans, or Democrats who have changed to Republican to get  elected in this County.  If I change to Republican, I could get a chance to vote for locals and even to vote against Mr. Trump.  Hmmmm.














Winnie sez:

One of my all-time heroes is Winston Churchill.  Even though he made some bad mistakes in his early life, he redeemed himself in World War II, and became a respected author and painter.

Mr. Churchill was quoted by the Times-Picayune:

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.  Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

Toastmasters members.. please study that statement.


God

The Atlantic Monthly published a letter by John Burgeson, in which he said this:

"...my anthropology professor at the University of Colorado offered me this explanation (for the development of belief in God)...  At some point some of our predecessors began to buy their dead to prepare them for what they may have believed was an afterlife.  The clans that followed this practice had higher survival rates, owing to improved sanitation, than the clans that left their dead where they fell.  This, in  turn, served to pass along the genes that promote the notion of a supernatural god, and superstitions as well.  Those genes are still with us today"

What do you think?

For Lovers to Know

Jim Hightower sez that the word "Valentine" is also the name of:

o  A 3rd Century  saint who literally lost his head

o  A 9th Century pope whose reign lasted only 40 days

o  Three Roman emperors

o   A silent movie heart throb  (Rudolph)

o   A peppy Mexican hot sauce

o   The first woman in space

o   A town in Texas


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Bye for now!

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