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Children were routinely institutionalized and/or not mainstreamed in schools depending upon the issue during his childhood, and he spent many of his later years under a fog of various substances so someone from a privileged background such as his is not the best informed person on the nature of these diagnoses and how best to treat them.
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Mrs Whiggins replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
Friday update is 646 cases. Lamar County in the northeast had 3 new cases. -
I would say it's an ethos, but really it seems like those feminists that used to say that some men couldn't deal with the fact that women could birth a human. This bothered this type of man so much that they somehow thought that producing a mammoth pile of shit should also be commemorated that it became a 'birthing' warrior story. I can't believe I wrote that but think about it...not for too long though cause it's rather sad.
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Aiyah, you can tell it's getting warmer because gin & tonic was the choice tonight. It's not something we have so much during cooler weather and since we had a couple of limes left in the bag, here we are. Our little lime tree is now five years old and put on quite a few flowers last month and the wee limes have begun to form for what we hope will be a fruitful summer. The difference between the bag of limes from the store and one picked from the tree is noticeable. Hayman's Extra Dry for the gin. Cheers!
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Mrs Whiggins replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
Melamine. It was to boost the protein in the watered down product. Here's some articles on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2008/10/09/the-story-behind-chinas-tainted-milk-scandal -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Mrs Whiggins replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
This is on point. In the pursuit of my education, one of the required courses was a 3 credit hour semester long course wherein the curriculum was devoted to reading research papers across different fields (but mostly in the field of study) and assessing them in different ways (from very basic like origins of citations, i.e. was this a bad study based on a bad origin all the way to methodology, the math, and so on). It helped to form at the very least, a basic rubric for the upperclassperson on ways to overcome bias and mental laziness when faced with a tranche of information that might be misleading or even a massive info dump that makes the eyes swim. -
Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Mrs Whiggins replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
Looks like Blue Bell Creameries can go back to listeria production in their facilities if inspections in the food service industry are becoming nonexistent. For the free market aficionados who think self-regulation will work because killing customers is bad for business, I'm sure the companies can run the numbers on how many ill or dead before it becomes unprofitable. Milk with a side of bacteria, chalk, melamine, and tuberculosis is what America voted for and now we have it. -
RFK Jr.: "AmEricAns NeEd To EaT LeSs PrOcesseD FoOds!" Also RFK Jr after E.coli outbreak: "ShIT HaPpens."
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Mrs Whiggins replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
Measles update for today: 624 cases, an increase of 27 since the last update. The rash sometimes doesn't appear up to 14 days after exposure. If someone doesn't know they've been exposed, etc, then it may not be that unusual for them to think they just have a cold or other similar illness as early symptoms are fever, runny nose, and cough. -
THIS. I grew up in a family where the head of the house cooked the steaks well done. I was not a rebellious teen by any stretch of the imagination but damn if I didn't stage a meat coup over insisting that steak should never be cooked that long.
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Sooo, made a red clam sauce with linguine and a small toasted ciabatta with garlic butter to mop up the sauce. Had some makgeolli while cooking since the bottle was already opened, then spouse pours a red wine for the meal and after a couple of glasses and supper over and that pretty much is our cross cultural potent potable for the evening. Cheers!
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Finally got around to watching My Name Is Loh Kiwan, the Korean film starring Song Joong-ki (Vincenzo, Bogata: City Of The Lost, Space Sweepers) with supporting roles by Choi Sung-Eun (Start-up), Lee Sang-hee (Diary Of A Prosecutor, Love Scout), and Jo Han-chul (Vincenzo, Reborn Rich) among others. Song plays a North Korean defector who lands in Brussels and through a chance encounter, begins to build a new life. It's violent and sometimes the plot seems a little far-fetched with respect to that chance encounter, but not bad. I need to have a word with Netflix, however. Although I do enjoy watching a lot of international films and series, with Korean, Indian, and Chinese origins being my favorites, the algorithm has decided that is ALL I watch and it's getting annoying. I watch many of the other shows that are listed here but don't always comment on them but the recs on the streaming platform seem to ignore the action/adventure movies, foodie shows, and documentaries I also watch.
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Religiously, I am kind of in a rut (am I alone )
Mrs Whiggins replied to Clintonaldo's topic in Cloak Room
Props that 6 year old Fastbreak didn't ask: "Gramps, what is a prostitute?" -
Religiously, I am kind of in a rut (am I alone )
Mrs Whiggins replied to Clintonaldo's topic in Cloak Room
Add my voice to those who have made suggestions to consider checking out a different service and or church. Completely anecdotal but I shared some similar feelings as yours at times--I understood why some congregants preferred the pageantry of a *full-on praise and shout service but the day in day out once a week quiet contemplation was what resonated within my own family. Our children were early risers and in the community in which we lived at the time the church we attended held an **8:00 AM service in the chapel. Compared to the sanctuary with its large organ, two aisles, balcony, etc, the chapel was much more intimate. No stained glass windows, no choir. Just around a dozen or so pews, a piano, and the minister. It helped that the minister was quite focused on serving others and the sermon and scriptures and anecdotes shared were often intended to encourage that type of devotion. Aside from religion, developed over centuries, we forget that the human species would have never survived had we not cared for and served others, most especially 'the least of these'. I miss that church; when we moved away, it was difficult to find another in which we felt that spirituality. Keep searching and questioning. *If you ever watched the scene in the Spielberg directed The Color Purple where Shug Avery leads the juke joint denizens to her preacher daddy's church, you know just how amazing a service can be when it happens with the congregants in tune with the Lord's will and not their own. That was not a performance, that was a soul reaching out for love and forgiveness on Earth and in Heaven. In contrast, some of the services I've attended do have that feeling of 'performance' over substance. **I have so many stories of attending this service as often the only family with small children among a chapel congregation whose average age was probably 75. But this is not the time nor place. -
I get what you're saying with respect to declarations, and your experiences (which mirror my own) etc. My commentary is more along the lines of what the future may bring if the agencies decide to surveil in a more sinister way. Fine line between national security and 'we just don't like your kind.'
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Parenting Woes & Other Stories
Mrs Whiggins replied to Superhero's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
I'm going to tag onto this post as it is constructive and in a positive way. Another couple of things to remember (and this was also mentioned) is that your children are looking to you for social behavior and while you are aware of your flaws (which is good!) as they grow into adolescence (and with a 10 year old that is closer than you think) they are VERY aware of them. Daughters and sons want attention from their fathers and these years right now are IT. Meaning as they hit the teens and begin to bond with peer groups and want more privacy for teenage thoughts and dreams, it gets more difficult to express the emotions bubbling beneath the surface in positive ways. For both of you. While my spouse was an engaged father with our children when they were little--swapping off reading aloud, bath time, etc as they got older, we had a conversation about those nearing teen years and how more than ever, this was a good time for Dad to really step up and be there as a person of character for them. Forget the patriarchal society that we live in (if I hear alpha male one more time, my rolling eyes will fall out of my head) and just going with things like 'how does one resolves disputes, how does one learn about compromising, or forgiveness, or walking away from a bad situation or when to stand one's ground.' None of these things have to be about being male, per se, but how to be a human being. How it's okay to cry, to be weak, to ask for help, to confess to feeling overwhelmed or lost or angry. How some of these can be used against one (revealing too much information to untrustworthy acquaintances) and how to navigate that in relationships--personal, professional, and just out and about in the world. One of our children is pretty introverted. Like the OP, my spouse is quite drained after work but something that helped us was me commandeering the evening meal prep so that the two of them could take a walk. It wasn't a terribly long walk, but five to ten minutes into that walk and the words would just spill out of him. To this day, they still take a walk together whenever this (now adult) returns home and you wouldn't think such a small somewhat uncool thing would matter but it did and it does.- 43 replies
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Same, and we learned about the oil boom and people like the Phillips brothers but not about the allotment theft that @mchookem mentions.
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Anyone care to wonder about what's required for entry that will be normalized? Just like those countries that Dear Leader scorned.
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Mrs Whiggins replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
Have been rather busy these last two weeks, here's Friday's report from Texas: 597 cases, an increase of 36 from the 15th. 62 patients hospitalized since the onset of outbreak. Potter County is a new addition I believe -
I made a jello salad this week with frozen raspberries, raspberry gelatin and cool whip. It's pretty tasty. But olives? I have a much better use for those: Back to the topic....
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Mrs Whiggins replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
*Mumps has entered the chat... *Sterility in males caused by the mumps is actually rather rare but it does happen due to a variety of issues with the areas that mumps affects (not a doctor, just info gathered off of various sites.) -
It's been discussed already so won't go into that but finally drew up the courage to watch All Quiet On The Western Front. I'm not sure 'enjoy' is the correct word for the viewing experience unless I'm solely going off of the cinematography, acting, etc because it is, as many good war movies are, a gut wrenching experience but it needed to be seen.
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Better start wearing the gold lapel pin or get reported for anti-Christian bias....
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I'll take your Commodus and raise you a Harkonnen:
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