Vintage Photos for fun and enjoyment
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View ArticleThanksgiving thoughts ..
When one gets older and I don’t mean 35, I mean 74 or 75, reminiscing seems like it happens more and more.We need at least one day out of the year not to let Trump and the boot licking republicans live...
View ArticleThe last time you did something do you recall what that something was &...
Thanks to a discussion in an earlier diary tonight Mercy Omont suggested a great question for me to ask. Please check out the whole diary here,by mcGovern78We all have engaged in behaviors in the past...
View ArticleDo you believe in karma? If so 2 questions.
Sorry for the shortness of the diary as I am witing this from my phone in the hospital. Also I admit .y ignorance on the topic and that's why I am writing this...to gain knowledgeIt hit me the other...
View Article4th of July in the movies
I got to thinking about how we tell the story of the U.S. as seen in movies (fiction, not documentaries). For instance, about the founding there’s this from 1776:xxYouTube VideoAnd The Schuyler...
View ArticleWhat was known, and what we've learned
What We KnewI was born in 1964. I am not old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis or the JFK or RFK assassinations. When I came to awareness of such things the largest nuclear weapon that...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 9/11 Edition: Back to the Future!
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”That quote, or something like it has been attributed to the writer George Santayana, and while it remains true as a general principle, it...
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A Day on the Tennis Court That Will Live in Infamy
What a chode! President Trump is having trouble in Michigan. He’s the ‘Al Bundy’ (Ed O’Neill’s role on ‘Married With Children) of politics, in the sense that he insults people and is oblivious as to...
View ArticleThe Question of Reparations
I hesitate to bring up this topic. Not because I am afraid what the response may be, though that is a concern, but rather because I have a feeling people will willingly misconstrue what I am going to...
View ArticleDkos Community Weekly Sangha Thread
Good morning! Welcome to the Dkos Sangha weekly open thread.This is an open thread for members of the Dkos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by...
View ArticleGiven a choice would you like to have lived in the past, live in the present,...
For some the idea of living in the past produces a sense of wonder… getting to see first-hand the advances made in society, perhaps meeting some great leader or person from the past...exploring life as...
View ArticleLet me explain about martinis
Many years ago, when I was but a girl, I learned the word hummus. I learned this word from a fellow student at my college, a young Lebanese woman, in the early days of the Lebanese Civil War. (That’s...
View ArticleGet to know one another: Post 1 silly little known fact about yourself.
Usually I ask a question of the night, I already asked tonight’s question here about drinking bottled water, yay or nay.But I am an insomniac, so I thought I would write a second diary tonight to tend...
View ArticleThe year was 1969...
xYouTube VideoNixon is inaugurated 37th President of the US (Jan. 20).Nixon started "Vietnamization" in Southeast Asia. The United States, USSR, and about 100 other countries sign the nuclear...
View ArticleThe 1950's Reframed
The picket fenced yards with their majestic Elms — no litter in the streets. June, clad in heals and accessorized with a pristine white apron and pearl necklace. Cookies a baking, and of course...
View ArticleThe Hubble Telescope captures the oldest known image yet—13.4 billion years ago
An international team of astronomers have broken a distance record. A cosmic distance record. They were able to use the Hubble Space Telescope to see all the way back, 13.4 billion years ago, and...
View ArticleThe Present Never Looks as Good as it Will in the Future
Friends at the Daily Kos,I tend to become somewhat reflective as the New Year approaches. As such I am reminded of Peter Benchley, who wrote, “The past always seems better when you look back on it than...
View ArticleThe Final Chapters
The final chapters of my life have not been written out. so no one here or anywhere knows how my life will end. Because no one here is God. When I died, I saw what humans call, by so many different...
View ArticleInteresting: Video from the year you were born - 1969 anyone?
I was born in April of 1969.I know it was a time of great news and social upheavel.Of course, being awfully young at the time, I cannot say I remember much of the year, but I found on the youtube a...
View ArticleWhat songs bring back good memories of you when you were a kid?
I need some good memories... it has been a rough couple of weeks,.When I get down, I turn to music, specifically I turn to older tunes that in the past picked me up.Below are some that are associated...
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