Here is a comment which Alan, who cannot post, sent to me today at 2:30pm, but I was not home until a short time go.
Wishing Bill and his sweetie warmth and sure footing if they must go outside.
"The weather service reported temperatures in the single- and low double-digits Sunday in northern Illinois, including Chicago, where residents were digging out of more than 11 inches of snow — the highest November total in 120 years in the city.
"More than 130 flights were cancelled Sunday into and out of the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago..."
We saw The Peanuts Movie with VT*Grand tonight. It's fine and she enjoyed it. But they showed a cartoon before hand that was a little too Wylie-Coyote-style violent for my taste. That's not what we paid for. Humph! The best part was that, as we always do, we stayed to watch the credits … reading aloud all the first names as fast as we possibly could as they scrolled by … and noticing that one had a last name exactly like ours! :-D
Back home now, and soon to bed; we must drive to Oakland tomorrow for court, which is rough after a weekend at the hospital. My relief came in two hours early to let me get home and have a bit more sleep. I can sleep in a bit--needn't leave until 9:30.
Thinking of the attacks in Paris, here are some columns related to the similar events of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The roles of the news media and the dangerous reactions of governments sound a strong warning. President McKinley's assassination, the Haymarket Martyrs, Sacco and Vanzetti, and the 1920 Wall Street Bombing should serve as reminders from US history, but Paris has seen it before. Perhaps it isn't exactly apropos, but photographs of the wreckage from destruction of the Paris Commune still shock.
Wow. Yes, and the level to which the average citizen believed officials and the media is jarring from that time. We do know so much more and so much more quickly now that the challenge becomes pausing and reflecting before acting, as much as possible.
It's a new DEAN day!
ReplyDeleteA Dean *pie* day!!
ReplyDeleteOur first snow prediction for December 1. . . .
Officially at O'Hare the snowfall was 11.7", which is the heaviest November snowfall in 120 years. But it was only about 3" here.
ReplyDeleteI remember a Nov 11 snowfall which was substantial, and googled for it. Got a bigger hit, lol! The Armistice Day Blizzard (the year I was born. . . . ) http://www.startribune.com/nov-11-1940-the-armistice-day-blizzard/282293811/
DeleteHere is a comment which Alan, who cannot post, sent to me today at 2:30pm, but I was not home until a short time go.
ReplyDeleteWishing Bill and his sweetie warmth and sure footing if they must go outside.
"The weather service reported temperatures in the single- and low double-digits Sunday in northern Illinois, including Chicago, where residents were digging out of more than 11 inches of snow — the highest November total in 120 years in the city.
"More than 130 flights were cancelled Sunday into and out of the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago..."
We saw The Peanuts Movie with VT*Grand tonight. It's fine and she enjoyed it. But they showed a cartoon before hand that was a little too Wylie-Coyote-style violent for my taste. That's not what we paid for. Humph! The best part was that, as we always do, we stayed to watch the credits … reading aloud all the first names as fast as we possibly could as they scrolled by … and noticing that one had a last name exactly like ours! :-D
ReplyDeleteBack home now, and soon to bed; we must drive to Oakland tomorrow for court, which is rough after a weekend at the hospital. My relief came in two hours early to let me get home and have a bit more sleep. I can sleep in a bit--needn't leave until 9:30.
ReplyDeleteThinking of the attacks in Paris, here are some columns related to the similar events of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The roles of the news media and the dangerous reactions of governments sound a strong warning. President McKinley's assassination, the Haymarket Martyrs, Sacco and Vanzetti, and the 1920 Wall Street Bombing should serve as reminders from US history, but Paris has seen it before. Perhaps it isn't exactly apropos, but photographs of the wreckage from destruction of the Paris Commune still shock.
--Alan
Lessons for the West on Immigrants & Exclusion from the Age of the ‘Bomb-throwing Anarchist’
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In the end, we forget the anarchists, bombers and 'lone wolves'. But the hysteria they provoke stays with us
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Joseph Conrad: "Under Western Eyes" [Click]
Wow. Yes, and the level to which the average citizen believed officials and the media is jarring from that time. We do know so much more and so much more quickly now that the challenge becomes pausing and reflecting before acting, as much as possible.
DeleteAwesome to see snow storms all around me on the radar map.
ReplyDeleteStay snug, puddle!! ♥
ReplyDeleteAlso, I cannot NOT think of President Kennedy on this the 52nd anniversary of his assassination. Such a jarring experience for this then 8 year old.
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