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Lesotho

:rolleyes: I got the kite back in little bitty pieces. :laugh3: And a shattered awning. That was unusual, getting a call from someone at Harvard for Amnesty International, chatting about amendments. Anyhow, it's a world of unusual coincidences..

Ho Chunk Nation

Si! New York, New York

Incheon, South Korea oops! jumped ahead:laugh3: Lamalele, Papua New Guinea Global Volcanism Program | Iamalele | Summary

Faaite, French Polynesia. :cool:

It takes a little time to perfect anything. Keep working at it - you'll get it!;) One project done, 10 to go.:laugh3: This place is like painting a long bridge span. By the time one end is finished, the other needs repair and re-doing. But it's not so bad, just a little annoying sometimes, like when a tree branch falls and clobbers your roof. The price of shade... is tree branches!:laugh3: Same thing - if I keep working at it, one day, I'll beat that kite-eating tree.:P

Damascus

Cheese cake, mm! Just tired of dealing with someone who plays mind meddler games, it's supposed to be a friendly get-together; I'm not troubles the dog, don't beat me and then pat me on the head. I've figured this one out - and will put an end to the hurtfulness by accentuating the positive, negating the negative, and be tactfully sincere.

Imagine loosing our democracy as we loose the middle class. ^^. I think our founding fathers in the U.S. wisely chose to bolster the growth of the middle class as a way to increase the strength of our democracy, something we don't want to just let slide backwards anymore, instead we ought to be promoting an increase in the number of middle class families, and promote the same upward mobility and wage increases everywhere. On track with our higher values, Occupy Wall Street's activists are sharing a meal this Thanksgiving, something more akin to what togetherness and thankfulness is all about. After Feeding Thousands, OWS Sits Down in Liberty Square Posted 7 hours ago on Nov. 24, 2011, 6:09 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt Today, Occupations across the U.S. have shown that the 99% Movement can do more than protest—we can also take care of one another. Across the world, people still reeling from homelessness, poverty, foreclosures, and economic inequality have a lot less to be thankful for. But today, we reminded ourselves -- and the world -- that we can still be thankful for our mutual solidarity. From D.C. to Oakland and everywhere in between, Occupiers sat down for communal meals. Others marked Thanksgiving by honoring indigenous Native communities and First Nations who continue to fight for their land and sovereignty against colonialism and corporate greed. In New York, Occupy The Hood dropped off hundreds of meals at shelters across Harlem, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. The OWS kitchen cooked enough warm meals for 4000 people and handed them out at Liberty Square. Meals were also delivered to churches that have sheltered displaced residents from Liberty Square and to the Occupations at New School and Rockaway. Following dinner, there was a spontaneous sit-in in solidarity with the many people who lost their place of rest when OWS was raided on November 15th. Occupy Wall Street | NYC Protest for World Revolution And to get things to change, tackling the 800-pound gorilla in the room will be the biggest challenge, but the most crucial thing we must do. :elephant: Campaign Finance Reform, and the amendments being put forth, are critical to setting up and making possible legislation to regulate the money flowing into politics, and prevent a legal challenge from again undermining our rights to fair elections and fair campaigns.

:stunned: I do hope you get some food soon!! Is there a food pantry near you?

:laugh3: Another stuffed human, and they say the Turkey gets the stuffing!:P half-way done with the kolaches - fillings made, things to fill yet-to-make. And I'm responsible for the bread and cranberries. Corn sounds good! Oreo fluff, sounds like something exotic to moi.

Yes, you're allowed one do-over day! :laugh3: Waterfall in a tube, dropping off a lava flow a billion years ago. Scraped by glaciers a mile thick, little pebbles three feet thick.

Welcome Roxanne from Montreal!:)

Olive Oyl in full :rolleyes::laugh3: Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine and Quasimodo

Very beautifully done, very spirited! Welcome.

Happy Thanksgiving Blakexy 1125 and Anna and Nick and Taameen everyone! Face stuffing tomorrow, kolache stuffing today. Bringing some good cheer to the workers working this Thanksgiving, will share the giving of thanks tomorrow with friends. :chef:>>>Making the fillings - cranberry, plum, poppy seed:elf:, and cheese. Aand watching the time better, since last time they were more like biscuits! :laugh3:<<<

Ingrid Bergman

Lots of things! Need to bake for tomorrow, clean house, get organized, listen to John Denver's Calypso, and question my assumptions - to be one's own best critic and improve, a quality I had forgotten and am now relearning. But to accentuate the positive, for in the spirit of happiness and forgiveness comes the warm air to lift many wings.

Port Said, Egypt

We're all kids at heart, truly. :) I feel for you, I'm quite old here as well - I'm 43. But who cares! All time and space is relative and we are all on this giant conveyor in space, the cosmos measures time in billions of years and picoseconds; so human culture places some arbitrary distinctions upon us; so what. :P Even Albert Einstein stuck out his tongue and acted like a kid at times! Glad you could join us disciple, and you're not old, simply more aware of the world around us all.

Apparently helping put up a Christmas tree was the bit I heard, but perhaps some tasks are best left to slower, less risky methods. I know cranes do break and crash as well, but that's infrequent and usually from extreme loads. The problem with any aircraft is it only takes one hard-to-see cable and whamo!

My computer won't quite play this video properly, but from the gist of it, maybe this was a bit too risky from the get-go? I wonder why they decided to try installing a tree with a helicopter and not a crane?

> I think workers in America and Europe won't settle for letting their wages slip further, instead we need to promote better wages globally for all. The mantra of free trade fails to account for the desire to maintain & raise descent standards of living in the northern hemisphere, while raising the standards of living in all parts of the world. > True, but then protecting higher wages is becoming a priority for many today, as allowing wages to decline further endangers our democracies, and the wellness of all citizens. Yes, it is possible to have both rising wages in developed countries, and rising wages in developing countries.

Occupy Seattle Occupies Wal-Mart Posted 7 hours ago on Nov. 23, 2011, 1:46 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt On Friday, November 25th, Occupy Seattle will join Occupy Tacoma, Occupy Bellingham and Occupy Everett in a statewide protest at Wal-Mart in Renton at 2:00pm. With its long history of mistreating workers and suppliers, its recent announcement of significant cutbacks on employee health care, and its obscene profits, Wal-Mart is a prime example of how the 99% are suffering at the hands of the 1%. Occupy Wall Street | NYC Protest for World Revolution