Monthly Archives: August 2024

Last Night, Buddy’s Cousin Came to Play

Posted on August 16, 2024 by cdsmiller17
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Reading the Tea Leaves

Posted on August 15, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Tasseography It’s amazing when I think about being introduced to a fortune-telling tool when I was just a young lad. In the 1950’s reading tea leaves was all the rage. It went out of fashion (especially in Canada) when coffee … Continue reading →

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Trump Did Not Invent the Republican Agenda

Posted on August 14, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Shameless (2024) {Newt} Gingrich gained power and held sway in the House while behaving just as he had encouraged young Republicans to act before he had even been elected to Congress. He’d advised them to “learn to ‘raise hell,’ to … Continue reading →

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The Chinese Showed Us “The Way” 600 Years BCE

Posted on August 12, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Tao I don’t claim to know everything (or anything) about Taoism, but Wikipedia has a long passage about it. Tao (or Dao) can mean way, road, channel, path, doctrine, or line. The Tao is a natural order that enables all things to exist … Continue reading →

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Is This Just Another Way to Hijack Wealth?

Posted on August 11, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Cryptocurrency I’ve written about this previously, in a post about the Number of the Beast (in April 2018): at the time, I was still hooked on the idea that we would need a computer chip in or on our body … Continue reading →

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In the Last Few Days, this Adage has been Proven True:

Posted on August 10, 2024 by cdsmiller17

“All’s Fair in Love and War and Politics”

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This Photoshoot Took the Beatles’ Final Album Cover

Posted on August 8, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Abbey Road (August 8, 1969) It has been noted before that Paul is barefoot here and out of step with the other members, which shouldn’t really be a surprise because Paul is left-handed. But the timing of the photoshoot gave … Continue reading →

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There’s a Light, a Certain Kind of Light…*

Posted on August 8, 2024 by cdsmiller17
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Who are You Calling an “Unfaithful Lover”?

Posted on August 7, 2024 by cdsmiller17

J.D. Vance (August 2, 1984) I guess it’s time to look at the ‘other’ Presidential ticket. Trump chose J.D. Vance on a whim, it seems. At the time, it appeared to be a doubling down on the MAGA side of … Continue reading →

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Buddy had a Visit from His Cousins, Scarlet and Sparkles

Posted on August 7, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Buddy hasn’t seen his cousins for almost three weeks. He lived with them for six weeks before he came to live with us. He remembers them well. We’re hoping they will come often to visit him. He loves to play … Continue reading →

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