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I am impressed.

Have a wonderful birthday; but if I were you, I would stay away from the cheesecake. hugs

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Really cool! Sound too - I think what I heard croaking were frogs and they were really persistent and very loud. Thanks GreasyTech!

Hey Lifted - happy b'day! Hope it's great.

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Have a sweet day, fair lady.

Happy Birthday White Dove! If'n you want help with the piggy's mess I'll be right there.

There's been plenty of interest in alternative fuels lately. Coal is probably the best alternative in many cases once the science and technology have figured out the clean way to burn it (and other uses too). Every barrel of oil burned is one less that could be used for other things that we can't make any other way. In case you're unsure about this - - Google "petrochemicals" and see how many things you would miss once the last barrel of oil is gone.

That's a tad below talking on the phone on the freeway and several tad's below talking on the phone and trying to negotiate city traffic! IMHO - throw the book at him.

Hooray! I am a Medicare Part D (Drugs) participant and today I made it through the donut hole! I had 6 Rx's refilled today, and I paid full price for one of them, 2 of them are not covered by the plan, and the others were $2.00 and $3.15. For the first time in my life a "special" Government program for a group of people included your's truly. I am impressed! I'm also thankful. Although - - I would be a whole lot happier if this was NOT so important to me - meaning - I was a whole lot healthier without the drugs. But as it is now....I'd doing well - - and I can take my meds and eat well too. And of my whole list...3 are generic! On my plan, I now pay $2 per generic and 5% of everything else until the end of this calendar year. Then I go back to square one. I have no problem with Generic medications, they work just as well for me as the name brand. Maybe, if somebody wants to discuss Generic Drugs and not "A Certain Company" this would be a good place to do it.

Keeping the subject on the topic of generic drugs.....these are the same generic drugs everybody else has. They are probably using their purchasing leverage to get extra low prices.Not every drug cames in a Generic form. Once it's patent has expired, then a Generic form comes out. Thee are hundreds of Generic drugs, and one or more will treat most conditions, but not everything has a Generic counterpart. Jim: If you pay $10 for every Rx, you may be paying $6 more on a generic drug, but you are paying $90 or more less on a good number of your other drugs. You come out way ahead with your HMO. The way it works is, your HMO charges you $10 for everything and you get generic and non generic for the same money. What they lose in some cases they can make up in others and still make money. But Wilmar is only offering Generic drugs. They have probably negotiated with the suppliers and gotten really cheap prices because they intend to buy so much. This has nothing to do with jeans being made in Mexico or anything else. A generic drug is as good in almost every case as the brand name. Generics have the same ingredients and must be approved by the FDA. You're not going to get an inferior product so I don't see an integrity issue.

This could turn out to be a great thread! Thanks for the idea. I was always a good kid. I usually towed the line and then some, but when I screwed up it was always big time. Then she would say to me "I love you krys - but what the hell were you thinking!" Until I was a little over 16 I wasn't allowed to date one boy alone - none of my crowd was more or less - so if we were going out for fun, we'd come around and collect each other and then go where we were going. You all remember the lecture...mind your manners, keep your voices down...yadda yadda.... I got that lecture a bit on the stern side but well before my buddies came for me. When we left my house my mom would tell us "have a good time" as she waved us off. Everybody thought I had the coolest mom 'cause everybody heard everybody else's lecture....'cept at my house. I was a good student so I never had to ask before hand if I could bring somebody home from school to study with. She always had to watch the budget, but she always managed to have some nibbles and something "special" to drink while we did so. I need to add that mine was a stay-at-home mom and when we got to my house she handed each one the phone and made them call home to check in (even if they said their mom knew where they were) She's gone 17 years now after a pretty good long life and I miss her just as much now as I did earlier. She wasn't highly educated but she knew everything. She was always there if I really needed her and she was a spectacular grandma for our kids - - even if she did cheat with them at go fish and checkers -- not so they'd win - - but so she would!

Texas isn't the only place. There are probably others (Ihope). Some areas of the country still hold tightly to being part of a strong neigborhood. Those are the places parents live and kids hate. I somebody caught you cussin' you mother knew about it before you got home! It wasn't tatteling.....it was expected!

That is terrible. I'm so sorry David. What does one say with such an outrage? God bless you, Dave

I agree cool! I use my special Holiday manners if I'm all dressed to the nines especially if I'm going somewhere where I don't know most of the people. Last week I was doing some serious cleaning (polishing some silver) and I was wearing grubbies. I went to wash my hands and there weren't any towels around so I wiped them on my thighs - - no worries. But I would never do that if I was wearing normal dress....I'd walk across the kitchen for the paper ones if I had to!

More power to him! I'll bet that took guts and plenty of practice to teach himself how to do that! If he hadn't been caught speeding, he'd probably still be doing it! Of course having a specially outfitted car may be better, and he shouldn't have been speeding, but let's give credit where credit is due.

I graduated HS in 1960; went to college and then got married in 1964.I Started teaching Chemistry and General Science in September of 1964. I guess most of the decade went by me. I worked almost a 40 hour week to put myself through school with some student aid loans....and I worked my fanny off the first 2 years of teaching. I was so busy in College that the most insane thing I ever did was stand in front of one of the TV's about 5 or 6 deep at 4:30 watching Huckleberry Hound - or 3-day Hearts marathons. I do remember HS girls came to school in skirts, always. No jeans were ever allowed so most of the guys wore chinos or something like that (don't remember if there was a special brand then). They had to wear a shirt with a banded collar and never a hat inside the building. The guys only needed ties for announced assemblies. Belts for gents were preferred but not required. Shirts were tucked in. Never a complaint from the kids about a dress code. In the summer it was blazing hot for everybody and so the students were allowed Bermuda shorts and guys could wear polo shirts with a collar. Socks were necessary unless you wore sandals (but no thongs...genuine shoe-type things here). Teachers were not so fortunate. Women teachers were expected to wear stockings (pantyhose was just coming out) and Male staff were supposed to keep their jackets on in the classroom with their ties tied. However, the Principal relieved the men of the jacket requirement reasonably often. Women wore mostly suits or dresses and 2" heels all day (it was expected) and never permitted slacks or trousers. At this time the mini-skirt was "in" so in the fall of 1966 the "ladies" petitioned for permission for pants suits. The only ones allowed were science teachers (on lab days only) and the lady art teacher who was trying to teach students how to use a pottery wheel....and it wasn't working. As a staff we were respected by the student body and our supervisors and there was very little friction in that school at almost any level. (that started about 5 years later) I also remember folk music and my feeble attempts to learn the guitar. Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins together with PP&M were among my favorites. Judy Collins moved me to tears with a rendition of "My Father " at the piano in Carnage Hall. I also became amazed and enthralled with Simon and Garfunkel. Sometimes I even thought some of their blood ran through my veins. It was still OK to take a student home in your car if you had permission from the parent and Principal. Gifts from students were never expected but were graciously presented for an appropriate reason, and the gift was also appropriate. In June 1969 I "retired" as our application for adoption had been accepted and at that time, that meant that I must stay at home. I was the Senior Class Adviser and just before the left the cafeteria for the Graduation Field they presented me with a gold locket that was beautifully engraved will heavy scroll work on the front and "with thanks, class of '69" on the back. That was the most expensive gift ever given....but then, I was the only adviser who had stayed with a class during all 4 years. When I think about it tonight -- it almost seems to me that I live in a foreign country now. I guess I rambled.....................

I am so glad! Now you get to plant the seeds of your heart's desire and that's a wonderful thing.

I remember a much better book regarding environmental matters that was written around that time. It was called Trashing the Planet, but I don't know if it's still around and most of the particulars have left me now.

Personally, I think you're giving Rachael Carlson too much credit. Yes she wrote the book, but there were other factors operating as well. Controlling pockets of exposed stagnant water is generally more effective at stopping mosquitoes than DDT. Additionally, it was beginning to reach a point of diminishing returns as "bugs" gained Resistance to it. Maybe after 40 - 50 years it would be good to bring it out and use it again....especially in those areas of the world where it hasn't been previously used. But DDT like all pesticides that do not biodegrade - accumulate up the food chain toward top predators. That was the reason we stopped using it, eagle's (I believe) were breaking the eggs of their young by sitting on them when incubating. The WHO claims DDT is the least expensive and most effective pesticide. If the UN funds this it will cost them very little money as opposed to teaching them to remove stagnant water and developing decent drinking water systems. Developing countries need a chemical assault on their land that works it's way into it's food supply like they need a new disease.

Sprry guys! I don't think a colon cleanse, as much good as it may do, will reach the parts that really need to be cleaned out. Those parts are a lot higher up in the anatomy.