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Wayne Gary

Kurt,

Did the report say what percentage of greenhouse emissions are manmade and from natural causes?

Several years ago when the subject was first being talked I heard that less than 10% of CO2 was from humans.

Hollis Carolyn Heyn

Jim Bedwell

OK, David C, I said I wouldn't, but this IS my first positive one, right?

Dynamo

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Duty

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Of

Heinous

Neofascists

Thoughtful

Rightminded

Unsurrendering

Mega(lomaniacal?) MAGA

Patriot & Pragmatic Problem-solving President

Jim Bedwell

My brother, RHS '71, told me lately that his class didn't have a 5th-year reunion but have had one every 5 years since. He was male senior class favorite (similar to me - hahahahahahaha!!!) and has been to ALL reunions except the 45th. And he said he didn't know for sure, but that he probably wasn't going to go to the 50th. Not sure why.

Jim Bedwell

Heard the statistics the last couple of weeks:

Down to 39 Guantanamo Bay prisoners.

$13+ million per year per prisoner that we're paying for - Khalid Sheik Mohammed should have been executed LONG ago. Whatever military brass have been running that for the last 20 years must think they're part of the California "legal" system - a handful of executions in California since the death penalty was reinstituted out of the HUNDREDS on death row currently there - I hadn't known that Richard Ramirez the "Night Stalker" had died of cancer after 20+ years in that ridiculous miscarriage of justice.

Like Glenn Beck & especially now Tucker Carlson have been saying for YEARS, we are being ruled by truly STUPID people. They may be intelligent idiots like Schumer, Pelosi & HilLIARy, but their ignorance (mixed with depravity) really does render them stupid. And then we have marginally talented people like the Bushes & Romney (yes, I think Pelosi, Schumer & HilLIARy are all smarter than the Bushes & Romney) who are just part of the swamp scenery but don't really accomplish much.

Jim Bedwell

Night before last in Tacoma (probably the last time I ever go north of Vancouver on I-5) I saw ace guitarist Ana Popovic (born 1976 in Serbia) with her band. I RECOMMEND HER VERY HIGHLY.

I've seen her before. Like I said, I consider Jennifer Batten the best female guitarist in the world, but Ana's top 5!! Also I really like Joanna Connor of Chicago and relatively unknown Laurie Morvan of somewhere (Laurie's ex-husband is her bassist a la Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks).

Ana had 2 white guys, a trumpet player & sax man, and 3 black band members, keyboards, drums & 5-string bass. All were excellent. And I'm not even a horns guy - for me they usually louse up the blues songs, but those 2 guys were OUTSTANDING. She really let those 2 cut loose with some great blowing. The excellent keyboardist was having a ball and fun to watch - he kept eyeing the bassist back & forth & they were enjoying each other - in fact, the keyboardist & Ana kept enjoying each other too - he was MR. FUN. The drummer was Chris Coleman and they said he's toured with Prince before.

Here's her Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Popovi%C4%87

Lowell Tuttle

Fox's Lair.   I never called it that.   But, Debbie Dupre, Dianne Zimmerman, Devon Bearden, Marty Matzen, Cindy Spicer...all added to your list.   I am probably leaving out a name or two...Further down, of course, Susan Newsom....

Lowell Tuttle

Jim, I've seen a couple of shows recently about Guantanamo.   Both of them indicated that a big block to going forward with the prosecution and trial was some major secret that could not be disclosed.   I am intrigued, but I don't think it has anything to do with torturing.   What do you speculate it might be?  Apparently, there is a brand new judge involved....

Jim Bedwell

Lowell,

I don't have a clue. I have heard on FNC that there is talk about starting up a trial finally at Gitmo. I don't like hearing in your post about the secrecy/lack of disclosure. That's what we DON'T NEED, if my judgment about the current administration has any bearing in reality. What we DO need in that regard is keeping from the enemy (and the public) any pertinent confidential info that could come up in the proceedings, however that can be accomplished in a common sense approach (I don't have any faith that that will happen however) - I'm not sure how to accomplish that either, but I believe that's what needs to be done.

Just more Bizarro World in my opinion as the Marxists are having the whole world careening out of control now in this ongoing worldwide cabal, of which Afghanistan is just the latest chapter (ongoing - sorry, no page turning there). I also think the major evil players in this cabal, Putin, the mullahs, Kim Evil Jung'Un (he even went on a diet - have you seen the pictures?), and Xi Jinping (in Chinese, the surname is pronounced & listed first, followed by the given name(s) - Jinping from my experience is likely Jin Ping where Jin is the first & Ping is the middle name but it could be all one name too, I guess), anyway I think the major evil ones are kinda surprised about how all this has suddenly come together for them with the arrival of the Biden administration. So I think they're kinda uncertain & hesitant about how to proceed next. I can tell them unreservedly, "Go ahead. No problem. Do what you want. Just like Baldelli - NO RAMIFICATIONS WHATSOEVER FROM OUR DILLARD/DULLARD IN CHIEF".

I'd say Royce is fortunate to have missed this; however, not that I can say for sure of course, but where he may be currently...............

Kurt Fischer

Tommy:

First, I agree with you that there wasn't any pot smoking at or around George's house.  With his saintly mother Selma in command, it would not have happened.

Second, I am in awe of the math courses you took during your junior year.  All of these were considered upper level college courses.  As you helped me to understand many moons earlier, you had a real bent towards Mathematics.  I did well in Mathematics in college, but Texas Tech was a small pond at that point in time.

David Cordell

Watching Mighty Longhorns. Losing to Arkansas.

Bright spot: Commercial for Goodyear features Steppenwolf"s Magic Carpet Ride. See Eagle page below, but ignore the photo of my friend Jimmy Baker, mugging for the camera with Jan Alexander(?) and Sue Reithner in the background. The other photo is a Homecoming photo in which everyone is doing the Broadway Walk to .....  Magic Carpet Ride!

I see Mike Nahkunst, Mark Adkins, Steve Martin, Jim Gleaves. I'm guessing Terry Mitchell, Chris Linn, Pam Naugle, and Patti Johnson.

OK. It wasn't a very interesting post. Never mind.

Jim Bedwell

David C,

Yes, that's Jan Alexander in mid-brush - she's transfixed, looking at that girl & wondering, "What is she doing to the back of unsuspecting Jimmy Baker's head? WTF?". Whenever Bob D and I are in court, we call that "undivided attention".

See, if I hadn't been kicked off the Annual Staff, I could have spotted that! hahahahaha!

And the dancers might as well be on a Portland street, watching for vermin!!! I guess you could photo-shop that?

Jim Bedwell

Kurt,

Glad I never went over to George H's house. Actually my parents didn't allow marijuana or drugs around their house either - a lotta good that did!

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

You mean that none of the Postal Service employees have to get vaccinated if they don't want to, and the illegals waltzing into our country from as many as 148 different nations are exempt as well, and now we hear that the Afghani people being brought here are able to get a pass too?

Yet Biden is making it clear that he "has had it (!)" with the one fourth of American citizens who have chosen, for one reason or another, to wait on getting the shot because of fears they have of efficacy, or because they have underlying health problems, or because some have conflicting religious beliefs.  Well, doddering, squinty-eyed JoeJoe is slamming down his executive order to state to THOSE irritating folks have no more 'grace' period left!  They will have to pay increasingly rising 'fine' amounts imposed upon them, or they may be released from their jobs altogether, if they don't immediately get their vaccinations.

I don't see why these Americans who are paying through-the-nose for the upkeep of the 'other privileged vaxx dodgers,' don't fly to Matamoros, take a bus to the now clearly defined drop-off cow pasture, wade across the Rio Grande, and claim asylum with no identifying ID documents in hand!  They will be treated with 'kid gloves' by Catholic Charities, will be given passage money to wherever they state they wish to go, and they will be given bean and cheese tacos to eat while they wait their departure, with cold bottles of Aquafina water to boot; disposable diapers too, if they wish.  They probably get a nice, new Catholic Charities T-shirt too, before they get on a bus or plane.  Best part is that they can avoid having to get vaccinated!

Matamoros is very nice this time of year, I hear!  Might be a pleasant little weekend excursion for a change of pace.  Cheap cerveza too, not to mention those cute, colorful, comfy, cotton peasant blouses for pennies on the dollar.

Steve Keene

Some Richardson math student appears to have financial insight at an early age.  It looks like he has figured out that a deconstructed $2 necktie costs less than an ascot if you are trying to impersonate Little Lord Fauntleroy.

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Tommy,

I do it for you!

I expect your reactions and treasure them.

Steve Keene

Terry Mitchell Reddy,

I spent the afternoon yesterday returning my costume for your Halloween costume party.  I was informed by my daughters that in light of the big doings lately in Austin, my Grim Reaper costume might be in poor taste.

Steve Keene

David,

I couldn't help but notice that after the other team scored in Austin the Bible verse they held up behind the goalpost was no longer John 3:16.  They replaced it with John 11:35.

Kurt Fischer

Tommy:

I can only admire your ability to understand and have insight into mathematics at such a young age.  While I thoroughly enjoyed my studies, I was clearly one of those who could work hard to derive existing knowledge, but not one of those who would be able to push the boundaries into new knowledge.  While sitting in class one day studying advanced algebra (ie.,ring and  group theory), I observed one student who never opened his text book and never did any homework, but was able to score very high on every exam.  He had something I didn't.

I don't know if you ever read Men of Mathematics by ET Bell (would someone even write a book with this title any more?).  One of the stories which stuck with me was about Gauss.  When he was seven, his teacher gave a "busy work" assignment to the classroom - add up the numbers between one and one hundred.  Gauss looked at it for a few minutes and formulated that the numbers consisted of pairs always totaling 101,  ie 1 + 100, 2 + 99, etc.  The total was 101 x 50 or 5050.  I understood he also derived the overall formula to find the total (x + (x+1))/2.  This struck me as someone so far removed from my abilities that I was not cut out to me a mathematician.  And off to business school I went...

Lowell Tuttle

A discussion on co ordination has arisen in this H Town home and I thought I would relate....

Of course, 69 year olds have an advantage slightly over 70 year olds...so maybe this could be good help.

When dressing and putting legs(following feet)  through shorts, pants, or underwear leg holes, it helps if you line up symmetrically, properly balanced.   Then raise whichever foot you start with, but rather than looking down into the leg hole, you actually address your vision forward...It is surprising how easy it is to light your lead and follow foot throught the correct holes when using this process,

You are welcome.

Jim Bedwell

I must have forgotten that they did this song, but here is Jimmie Rodgers's class "T for Texas, T for Tennessee" at that HUGE Knebworth, England venue - over 200K that day - also Jack Nicholson (39 years old) stopped by backstage for some weed & likely other things (this was the 70's, when cocaine was big, Quaaludes were still being manufactured, and there was no drug testing for criminals) - I think this was their biggest audience ever.

Also in a documentary, Gary Rossington was saying that the headliner Rolling Stones, didn't want ANY opening act going out on their "Tongue", the lower and very front part of the stage. I guess that was reserved for Mick & the Degenerates. So of course Ronnie Van Zant had all the guys go out on the "Tongue" in their (always their last song) encore "Free Bird". Notice that bass player Leon Wilkeson's guitar cord was short & yanked him back.

Finally this is the BEST version of "Free Bird" that I can remember. The song started out, what, 6 minutes on the studio album? And, this was before they were big, but the song kept getting longer & longer, so this 2nd video, also at Knebworth, is 13+ minutes long, with all the flourishes and other variations on the theme that I can remember, especially at the end and especially by the tall Allen Collins in red. So the also excellent version at Oakland Stadium in July, 1977 is almost 2 minutes shorter.

I think both of the these videos really do showcase the 3 EXCELLENT soloists (as producer Al Kooper described them in a documentary) they had as guitarists plus classically-trained piano player Billy Powell with that intro to "Free Bird", the greatest of all the rock-anthem songs in my opinion.

David Cordell

That profile photo that Tommy is using includes Mark Adkins, Tommy, me, Fred Zeiller, and Jimmy Baker. Note that Jimmy is holding a piece of paper. I think that must be the children's placemat and he's showing pride at being able to solve the puzzle.

Sandra Spieker (Ringo)

I am in awe of you guys who are math wizards.  In my dreams, I would be good at math.  Oh, I can balance a check book and prepare documents to hand over to an accountant.  I can also solve simple arthmetic, multiplication and division.  Algebra and beyond is not me at all.

Danny talked me into going to a regular college when we moved in together in 1975.  We both went to UT in Arlington for night classes.  I took a survey math course for business majors right off the bat.  I was barely hanging on to a 70 grade point average and it was slipping rapidly.  I was seriously considering dropping the class before the deadline.  Danny was coaching me in the class, but I was not responding.  Partially nerves, I admit I was panic stricken, and since it was a survey course, it had more than just algebra, way more.  I was struggling with negative and postive numbers.  Yes, I am serious.  Negative times negative is a positive, made no sense to me, until Danny put it in terms of money, then I got it.  (My Dutch heritage) Anyway, the instructor one evening piped up about the deadline to drop while passing, then looked at me directly, called me by name, in front of everyone and suggested I drop while I had a chance. 

Drop the course, I did.  Never took another math course.  I was cured.

I did take biology, and got an A,  English, an A and so forth and so on.  But math.  No way.  My mind is just not built that way. 

Hollis Carolyn Heyn

Jim Bedwell

Hollis,

I've been wanting to ask you for a LONG time. What in the world are you doing on this forum or any other 1969 forum? I mentioned your name to my brother today, he asked me that very question, and I told him that I don't have a clue why you are a semi-regular. I suggested (but of course don't have any understanding as to why) that you were awe-struck with us - obviously that wouldn't apply to me as we all know.