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Whew - without RayRay and Ian around today, it would be slim pickings for reading material!!

Good Evening to Jamie, did I see the otherday that you are back teaching?

Since it is past Thanksgiving figured it is time to up date my U-tube for the Christmas Season - the house is almost decorated (no tree this year - since I'll be in LA.

U-tube: Mannheim Steamroller - More...

mariane:
The formation of limestones is partly explained in the diagram associated with the link I posted.
If you are interested read up about how corals help to make limestone too.

mariane, post 77 about the progression of the last 3 generations from self-sufficient thrift to the world owes me a living was well put, and the way I see it, very accurate. By trying to make our children's lives better than our own, we've unwittingly gotten to a bad place.

I have been wondering about Ians doubt about whether polyicians are human. They look human - morphologically and anatomically, but mentally - well they perhaps can't be described as superhuman - maybe more some kind of subhumanoid form? Having said that - some are OK - but there again others are definitely NOT OK!

Mariane and Keith:
I think you are right about that important point -well put by both.

It may have something to do with big corporations being more successful than smaller self-contained and independent concerns.

I doubt if there has ever been a generation which has not bemoaned the terrible state of the next generation---including our parents and theirs. Somehow, we all muddle along.

Morning everyone.

Was the Wang Christmas gathering this weekend?

If it is, hope all have a great time.

Keith, if you are still about, it is almost like some welfare cycles - someone else will provide, so I don't need to bestir myself, and we are the welfare recipients.
My eldest son, from my first marriage, has done it hard, and I was able to give him very little financial assistnce. He has taken More...

Whoops, meant welfare providers, not recipients!

Ian, I think things have changed a little. I may be a pessimist, but I think our generation may have seen the peak of affluence and what our beautiful earth can provide. Now with our financial markets teetering and the climate in crisis I fear we are slipping into a darker place. Hopefully our More...

5th Dec.
This evening all little Dutch boys and girls will be putting their shoe out, leaving a carrot for the horse, and a glass of milk for Sinter Klaas and sing
♪♪♪ Sinterklaas kapoentje,
Gooi wat in mijn schoentje,
Gooi wat in mijn laarsje,
Dank je Sinterklaasje!
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Yikes, Rol&a! No WONDER little Dutch kids behave themselves!

mariane, Glad you enjoyed the coffee. I've brought in about 360 cu yds of fill in the last 3 days. Tomorrow is a "spread day" (run the "cat")

Mariane, our financial markets have not only teetered before, they have imploded. We got over it.

The peak of affluence is not necessarily the peak of accomplishment, satisfaction, dignity, justice, or anything else.

1% or 2% of our children will make a difference, and that has More...

Perhaps more than that Ian.
In some cases those on benefit, in 'doing their own thing', achieve mre than those who are paid (even large) salaries.

100

You Should Be Dancing, Yeah…

Put On Your “Hi-Heel Sneakers”, ‘cause Were Goin’ out tonight…

Steppin' out...

Mariane,
Since I replied, earlier today, to your question about cement and its dust, I have partly remembered another way in which cement may play a role in the Global Warming scenario.
Someone has claimed that cement dust raised into the atmosphere has come to rest over polar ice to become More...

*[leaves the solar warming theory unchanged]

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However (and as no-one else is posting for some time):
The cement dust in the atmosphere -
(some of which may have landed on the ice to contribute to perhaps result in the 'elevated' C02 values obtained from the ice-cores) -
- would also eventually decompose in 'acid rain' to provide atmospheric C02 (probaby to the same proportion as in the ice).