GrannieMo: Sorry it took so long to get back to your question. I tackled Billy's posting and looked at the clock and it was time to make haste to the coffee shop for the morning gathering.
An old chestnut goes, 'To the victors go the spoils'. Along with that goes the right(?) to write the More...

Rosemary: Hot Dang! The beast is growng wings! Already to page two.

We all have the ability to make a difference it is how we choose to do it. Do we sit from an armchair as we watch horrors unfolding, read from the media of the never-ending atrocities committed by ruthless dictators as they continue to persecute the innocent victims, their own people.. or do we More...

Andre(With the little dammit over the e. And by the way, how do you do that?):
The following is a Teaching of the Hopi people.
'One day, Coyote goes to visit his friend Porcupine at his lodge. Porcupine builds a fire, pokes his nose with a yucca thorn and collects the blood onto a piece of More...

Jeb
this dang beast has more than wings, it has voices.

pleased to see those interested sharing in open discussion.

Jeb
to do that little dammit over the e for andré, I hold down alt key and using my numberpad to the right, I type 130 and bingo there it is andré.

é kewel! So now it is andré as it should be. Thank you rosemary. I'll have to find out how many more little secrets dwell in the heart of my number pad.

I just wanted to add a comment about the political correctness that was spoken about the other day.

I was shocked when I had my friends daughter over one day as I was singing little songs with my kids. One of the songs I sang was 'Baa Baa Black Sheep', for which she quickly corrected me More...

Mickey
Don't you just wonder where the rationally minded people disappear to when chuckle headed ideas like that come up? POUNCE Lets do away with the word black. Its a bad word. Three people in East LA have voiced their opposition to the word black. Therefore, let it be resolved that the More...

...and then there was the bubonic plague: the rainbow death

Point of order and a by your leave to our moderator: Although the postings are date and time stamped, I can see no delineation marking the end of one topic and the beginning of another. If someone wishes to make a point about a past thread, such as Mickey did, have a go at it. On the other hand, More...

I quite liked that 'little dammit over the e' expression..

The Great Global Warming Swindle - Who do we believe? Watch this video! (It is over an hour long mind so make a large coffee and maybe a sandwich..
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-45206654748994588 31

Don't forget to take out any spaces. Hope no-one minds if I have changed the thread.

André « There that little dammit is!
I've got the audio of the 'Swindle' playing in the background at the moment. I spent a few minutes reading some of the comments posted below the video. What I saw there is a few people trying to express themselves and failing miserably. Does that failure More...

Well, OK, I have to revise some of my thinking after hearing the entire essay. My statement about conspiricy is right out. That's what I get for making an anwarranted assumption isn't it? I should have reserved comment until I heard the whole thing. By the way, the website can be opened on a More...

Oh jeb what have I started?? Have been reading through the counter arguments regarding the duping of Carl Wunsch although he hasn't altered his comments.. more later there is alot to go through..

You have fallen into the rabbit hole, andré, and possibly taken to us tea with the mad hatter. See rabett.blogspot.com, ref. Carl Wunsch. I am more attuned to the PGA and LPGA on a daily basis. The same thing is happening there. The tour pros are becomming harder and harder to interview for the More...

I am a little on the fence on global warming. I can see both sides of the discussion.
The world weather and the environment are always in a cycle, floods, droughts, higher temps, ice age, volcanoes erupting, earthquakes moving the whole crust about.
But we are pouring more and more More...

How do we know what is the ususal cycle of weather on our planet. Our records in Australia only go back 100 years or there abouts (mostly in Qld only about since the early 1900s). Brisbane was inundated in 1974 by floodwater. Most of the city was under meters of water as were many of the More...

'Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it.' when Mark Twain said that,perhaps he was ref to the Global warming! instead of analyzing the cause and source that has brought the present condition,we shall move ahead with simple solutions to,if not stop the More...

and regarding the 'pc'..i was given a lot of advice abt the usage of the term'black'b4 leaving for US for the first time...when asked how shall i mention a black coffee,was told,coffee w/o cream or whitener,must be used instead of 'black coffee'!(bloody i got an irish coffee in the confusion,thats a different story!)

Just met up with friends that have returned from NZ - visited a glacier, I asked how degraded it had become and they said it was advancing! So who knows what the hell is happening...

jeb think it may have been a 'rainbow' hole, as for the pot of gold.. h'mm. Having read various articles and listened objectively to some of the arguments my whole way of thinking is that 'a conclusion is simply the place where you get tired of thinking.' However it does bring the matter to the More...

ap:
I wonder what you would have gotten had you asked for your coffee 'rainbow'? Wait staff always ask how you want you coffee and at least around here, it is either black, w/cream, w/sugar or w/cream and sugar. And then the whole thing starts all over agian when you have to decide on regular More...

André
ap mentions more efficient automobiles. My youngest son has owned a Honda hybrid now for around three years. He gets between 50 and 60 MPG and it has never needed extraordinary service. Why haven't the big three in the US jumped on the bandwagon with this? The technology is here, the More...

Sounds like shipboard coffee, none better. But don't forget to drop a few fresh egg shells into the pot...not enough room in the galley to swing the pot around your head. The egg shells add something vague (but good), and they trap the grounds so the last cup isn't mud.

Ian:
That navy coffee was good. When in a shipyard and we needed something done that wasn't necessarily on the work order, the mess cooks whould hand over a paper sack with about two pounds of coffee. We'd take that along to whatever shop we need help from and those yard birds would bend over More...

My knowledge of hybrid cars is not too good but here in the UK the budget which was set yesterday has included reductions for car taxes on 'greener' cars. We have a banding system for cars (we pay road tax on an annual basis per car, do you do something similiar?). Band A is the greenest where More...

I like my coffee black, my small expresso pot (I have a slightly larger one for one cup won't do moments) sits on the cooker constantly boiling.. Illy coffee wonderful, it keeps me ticking. Here we have black, white, with cream, skimmed, semi etc etc but there is no problem with any particular word More...

andré:
Hiway taxes are included in the price per gallon. i.e $2.559 here in Ks. The extra 9/10th of a cent goes into a fund to maintain the infrastructure, theoretically. Federal tax allows a one time deduction for the purchase of a new hybrid. I'm not sure exactly how much but its either More...

André:
The egg shells absorb the acids out of the coffee, and help settle the grounds.

On a 17-man North Atlantic trawler, at sea for weeks, I certainly hope it was not an aphrodisiac.

Jeb: Never knew about the acids; but the shells (the insides) did a great job of collecting the grounds.

oh my, jeb,i will rethink abt having a cuppa....
here in india coffee means only one variety..thats filter coffee..we south indians make it in a typical way..well the variety of coffee seeds used may be different according to ones taste,but method of making coffee by and large is the same ..

jeb, as I mentioned on these pages a long time ago, I asked for white coffee from an African American in the dining car of an Amtrak train in the US, and he accused me of being racist. I thought he was going to choke me! He was furious (and very big and muscular). I soon learned to ask for coffee with milk.

Susan:
It sounds like you ran into one of those irrational militants who carry that racist crap on their sleeve. Sad to say, they are out there along with the 'white supremicist' and their own agenda. There's something for everyone. There is probably nothing you culd have said to him on any More...

ap:
When hiking in the high country, one has to learn to get along with only what can be carried on one's back for 8 or 10 days. Coffee filters are not one of those things. The neat thing about a billy pot is that it takes up no room in the pack if you stuff it full of little things you have More...

Susan:
...insecurities and hatred. Read that as ignorance.

jeb, how did you do that? I can smell that woodsmoke and coffee from here!

Billy:
Then you must be a member of that small society who can disappear into the woods and see, hear and smell what is actually there as opposed to what popular culture thinks is there. Those aromas, sights and sounds are always around us but most of the time they are hidden or distorted by 'civilization'. It takes experienced senses to pick them out from all the chaos surrounding them.