Well, on Wednesday Night….

MY QUESTIONS RECENTLY WERE: Fill in the blanks: 1.  Halleluia I’m a ________ 2.  Jump back turn around ________ 3.  My ______ lies over the ocean  4.  _______  Happy little wash day song  5,  Don’t step on my ___________  6.  Mama Mia, Papa Pia,_________  7.  and on that tree I see, ” __________   8.I’ve got a hot rod Ford and a _________   9.  It gives me a thrill to wake up in the morning on ____________ 10. On the baby’s bottom or the baby’s knee, _________ ?11. Aint gonna study ______ no more. 12.You put your ______ foot in, you put your _____ 13. Who was combing his auburn hair by the light of the silvery moon ?__________  14.__________, where the deer and the antelope play  15. Put your shoes on, Lucy!, don’t you know you’re_________?

THE ANSWERS:  My answers:  1. bum    2.pick a bale of cotton   3.Bonnie  4. Rinso white, Rinso bright!….  5. my blue suede shoes!  6. Baby’s got the diarrhea!   7. “I’ll love you til I die” [There’s a Tree in the Meadow]   8. Two dollar bill… 9. Mockingbird Hill  10. where will the baby’s dimple be?  11. war  12. left foot; right is ok  [and you shake it all about]  13. The old baboon [I Went to the Animal Fair…]    14. …where the buffalo roam [Home on the Range]  15. in the city?

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WHAT WOULD A BETTER GENETIC BUILDING STONE BE?    Not that we can influence it, but at least it’s a positive way of looking at the future…sort of.  Since our primary genetic motivation seems to be survival of the fittest and kinship selection, what else might work?  Survival of the kindest and comfort selection?  Survival of the honest and peace-loving selection?  Your ideas:

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NO ADDITIONS TO LIFE Part One? Don’t be shy…

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WHO SAID THIS?  Bernie Sanders? …

Socialism is what they called farm price supports. Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.  No, Harry Truman

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JUST BE AWARE THAT…There’s lots more going on than I can cover.  Just topics to be aware of, if interested:

I’m going to ask how much my major stores charge when I use a debit card. Apparently it can be a problem, since New York has a new law that the amount must be posted.

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In my town, efforts to raise goods for Ukraine met opposition with local food pantries’ requests instead. .  My thoughts:

• “Which also has bombs dropping on their heads?”  Just my thoughts, of course. Besides, it shouldn’t be “either…or…”

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OUCH!  What a life…  In Gaza, assistance includes emergency self-delivery items for pregnant women.  Yikes.  Post partum depression?  Difficult to think about it, much less be there now.

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SOCIAL MEDIA TO THE RESCUE:

• In Pakistan,  social media reportedly was used by the party of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan to win the most seats in their Parliament.  AI also was used to simulate his voice.

In the USA, President Biden’s campaign has reportedly used Tik Tok to reach out.  (“lol hey guys”)

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WHEN I FIRST STARTED writing about the NRA I was unable to discover how many members it had–at least easily, that is.  Now that it’s in trouble I see that it has lost more than a million members since an earlier peak of 6 million in 2018.  Gun Owners of America is one outfit that considers the NRA “too liberal.”

TODAY  I see there was a 20+ shooting after a Super Bowl party, with several cxhildren being shot.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: