SoCalDem
SoCalDem's JournalName the new baby..name generator..link added
Obviously this is tongue-in-cheek ...but based on some of the "newer" names..maybe not so much
my "new baby" would have been
Huntlee Gray "last name"
oops..brb..forgot the damned link
Oh my, GS Warriors skip WH..visit Obama
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/01/25/warriors-skip-white-house-meet-with-former-president-barack-obama-instead/?fbclid=IwAR2vG2-zdCSEM2a5b4GAU-18bWb5ZQeJ3qpXC7DewT8so-E_WVBBYZ5yN4I&utm_term=.2f3023fc320aWarriors skip the White House, meet with former president Barack Obama instead
By Matt Bonesteel January 25 at 4:40 PM
The Golden State Warriors knew they would not be visiting the White House to celebrate their 2018 NBA title on their annual trip to Washington this week. They hadnt done so last year in recognition of their 2017 championship, with Stephen Curry saying he wouldnt have met with President Trump even if invited and Trump then withdrawing any invitation that may or may not have existed.
Instead, the Warriors this week met with the White Houses previous resident, on Thursday paying a visit to former president Barack Obama at his Washington office ahead of their game that night against the Wizards.
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Is there a special prison for Zippy/Roger?
https://me.me/i/ever-notice-these-two-have-never-been-seen-together-zippy-b896ffb840d54c358719f4e1b6fa01a4Have you seen the new and improved MAGA hat?
Trump break.. Found this on my computer
I was desperately looking for something and started opening old files I had saved.. This is an interesting one about how strangers can easily fall in love.. It's based on a university study. I have no idea why I saved it or how I found it,,but having just re-read it, I thought I would share it..
The questions are great for just getting to know someone..love or not as the goal.. Many people these days do not converse,...they tweet, blog or selfie and move on..
I am still looking for my lost file
There are also other series of questions at the bottom of the essay.. involving seniors ,,,and another set about divorce..
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/modern-love-to-fall-in-love-with-anyone-do-this.html
To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This
By Mandy Len Catron
Jan. 9, 2015
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More than 20 years ago, the psychologist Arthur Aron succeeded in making two strangers fall in love in his laboratory. Last summer, I applied his technique in my own life, which is how I found myself standing on a bridge at midnight, staring into a mans eyes for exactly four minutes.
Let me explain. Earlier in the evening, that man had said: I suspect, given a few commonalities, you could fall in love with anyone. If so, how do you choose someone?
He was a university acquaintance I occasionally ran into at the climbing gym and had thought, What if? I had gotten a glimpse into his days on Instagram. But this was the first time we had hung out one-on-one.
Actually, psychologists have tried making people fall in love, I said, remembering Dr. Arons study. Its fascinating. Ive always wanted to try it.
I first read about the study when I was in the midst of a breakup. Each time I thought of leaving, my heart overruled my brain. I felt stuck. So, like a good academic, I turned to science, hoping there was a way to love smarter.
I explained the study to my university acquaintance. A heterosexual man and woman enter the lab through separate doors. They sit face to face and answer a series of increasingly personal questions. Then they stare silently into each others eyes for four minutes. The most tantalizing detail: Six months later, two participants were married. They invited the entire lab to the ceremony.
Lets try it, he said.
Let me acknowledge the ways our experiment already fails to line up with the study. First, we were in a bar, not a lab. Second, we werent strangers. Not only that, but I see now that one neither suggests nor agrees to try an experiment designed to create romantic love if one isnt open to this happening.
I Googled Dr. Arons questions;there are 36. We spent the next two hours passing my iPhone across the table, alternately posing each question.
No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/hagfish-slime/581002/It expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second, its 100,000 times softer than Jell-O, and it fends off sharks and Priuses alike.
ED YONG
11:46 AM
At first glance, the hagfisha sinuous, tubular animal with pink-grey skin and a paddle-shaped taillooks very much like an eel. Naturalists can tell the two apart because hagfish, unlike other fish, lack backbones (and, also, jaws). For everyone else, theres an even easier method. Look at the hand holding the fish, the marine biologist Andrew Thaler once noted. Is it completely covered in slime? Then, its a hagfish.
Hagfish produce slime the way humans produce opinionsreadily, swiftly, defensively, and prodigiously. They slime when attacked or simply when stressed. On July 14, 2017, a truck full of hagfish overturned on an Oregon highway. The animals were destined for South Korea, where they are eaten as a delicacy, but instead, they were strewn across a stretch of Highway 101, covering the road (and at least one unfortunate car) in slime
Typically, a hagfish will release less than a teaspoon of gunk from the 100 or so slime glands that line its flanks. And in less than half a second, that little amount will expand by 10,000 timesenough to fill a sizable bucket. Reach in, and every move of your hand will drag the water with it. It doesnt feel like much at first, as if a spider has built a web underwater, says Douglas Fudge of Chapman University. But try to lift your hand out, and its as if the buckets contents are now attached to you.
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survey says.....
First job - worked at my Aunt's dress shop ( age 12)
▪️Dream job - interpreter
▪️Favorite foot attire- sandals
▪️Favorite ice cream - rocky road
▪️Where are you right now- Home
▪️Favorite pizza - sausage/onion
▪️Favorite movie - The 25th Hour ( the Anthony Quinn one from the 60's)
▪️Favorite TV show- Sneaky Pete
▪️Favorite day of the week - any day
▪️Favorite flower -dahlia
▪️Tattoos 0
▪️Piercings ears only
▪️Like to cook -YES
▪️Favorite color - navy blue
▪️Gold or silver -rose gold
▪️Do you like vegetables? yes
▪️Do you wear glasses? yes
▪️Favorite season- spring
▪️Dream travel destination - nowhere now
▪️Surgeries: 5
▪️Ever hit a deer: No
▪️Ridden in an ambulance: yes
▪️Sang karaoke: no
▪️Ice skated: yes
▪️Ridden a motorcycle: Yes
▪️Skipped school: yes
▪️Last text from: mike
▪️Watched someone die: Yes
▪️Favorite beverage: iced tea w/lemon
▪️Broken bones: Yes
▪️Received a ticket: Yes
▪️Sunset or sunrise: Sunset
Hold your finger down and select copy.
Then go into your own status, paste &
Change to your answers.
The only sure way to end the shutdown, is this,,,
Air Traffic controllers walk off their jobs or call in sick at O'Hare...Atlanta...NYC... LAX..Denver..Seattle...Dallas...
The tables need to be flipped to end the shutdown..
No pay no work..
And congress needs to eliminate the whole shutdown thing too. Make it mandatory to KEEP the level of funding on auto-pilot for ALL agencies...and only vote when there's an increase above an agreed upon routine increase..
Hostage-taking and budgeting is never a good idea..
OMG.. I just figured out how "the wall" could be made..and for cheap too..
Trump got ...XXXXXXX of voters from his peeps.. They love the man.. so they could volunteer
They could be issued vuvuzelas (noise to scare the intruders).. they could yell hateful things at intruders (that's a given).. only rule..no weapons
It's been done before sorta
and there's even a theme song already sing it
do I really need this?------->
There are just no words for this... teacher found not guilty
The kids in this jerk's class will carry this memory for their whole lives
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-crosland-idaho-teacher-accused-of-feeding-sick-puppy-to-turtle-found-not-guilty/
Idaho teacher accused of feeding sick puppy to turtle found not guilty
UPDATED ON: JANUARY 4, 2019 / 11:23 PM / CBS NEWS
An Idaho jury found the teacher accused of feeding a sick puppy to a snapping turtle in front of his students not guilty of animal cruelty, CBS Idaho Falls affiliate KIDK reports. In a recording of an interview with investigator that was presented at the trial, Robert Crosland said "I honestly thought I was doing the right thing by putting it out of its misery."
The six-person jury found Crosland not guilty after the two-day trial at Franklin County Courthouse in Preston, a rural community of about 5,300 people. According to the Idaho Statesman, the courtroom was packed with friends, family, students and teachers who came to support Crosland.
Prosecutors argued the puppy may not have been sick and may have been able to survive. On Friday morning, the students who witnessed the puppy being fed to the turtle testified. One student testifed that when the puppy was put in the water with the turtle, it paddled a few times before the turtle grabbed it and pulled it under the water. Defense attorneys asked the case be dismissed, saying the puppy didn't suffer. The judge ruled that that question was best left the jury.
Crosland's son, Mario, testified he gave his father the puppy. Mario Crosland said the puppy had been given to him from by a farmer who said it was sick and dying. Mario Crosland tearfully described his father as "a guy who will do anything he can to save an animal. His whole life has been for animals, and seeing people try to destroy him when he's has devoted his life to them. He has done all he can to help animals."
The turtle was eventually euthanized. State officials said it was a non-native species that requires a permit.
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