13: O’keedokee
1. It must be my Irish DNA that makes me love tea over coffee and dark beer over wine.
2. My favorite St. Patrick’s Day parade float was the shark mobile, but the one with the bubble machine was a close second. There was even a Ferret club of marchers and the Liam and Bryce (pictured above as shelled creatures) reluctantly patted a furry ferret. – More from Paddy’s Hit Parade HERE.
3. On St. Patrick’s Day, I like to spell Obama’s name like this: O’bama.
4. “I’m the only person in the history of Virginia elected to statewide office with a Union card, two Purple Hearts, and three tattoos.” – Jim Webb, former United States Senator from Virginia
5. I think I’d rather have a heart tattoo that was purple.
6. My Asheville Potter Son who gets a kick out of bricks might like THIS.
7. “China’s Tensions With Dalai Lama Spill Into the Afterlife” (after it was reported that the Dalai Lama might not reincarnate) is not a satirical headline from The Onion, but a serious development. More HERE.
8. You can’t say “climate change” or “global warming” officially in Florida like you can’t question the safety of vaccines in today’s polarized society. But the Artic ice is melting and any medical procedure that requires receiving an information statement by law and has an official system for reporting injury, I want to know more about.
9. After quoting Tom Robbins on Timothy Leary last week (“There are those who have condemned Leary as a liar, a sellout, an opportunist, and most of all, a raging egomaniac; but the truth is, he was simply Irish”), I did some research on Leary. One thing I learned was that John Lennon wrote the song Come Together for Timothy Leary’s gubernatorial run against Ronald Regan, which had a campaign slogan of: Come Together and Join the Party.
10. I also thought it was interesting that Leary said “the PC is the new LSD.”
11. A friend’s recent update on Facebook: There are ants in my woodpile. Oh great, now I have to listen to little ant screams when I put them in the wood stove. I hate winter.
12. It’s almost over.
13. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
____________Thirteen Thursday
March 18th, 2015 7:51 pm
#13) “No weapon that has been made to be used against you will succeed.
You will have an answer for anyone who accuses you.
This is the inheritance of the LORD’s servants.
Their victory comes from me,” declares the LORD!
March 18th, 2015 9:26 pm
O’keedokee, tortise / turtle race ?
Winter over, perhaps, but am thinking it has published a disclaimer somewhere.
March 19th, 2015 12:01 am
Leary, Lennon, Dali Lama.
Bryce and Liam, Dr. King.
This here blog is really whiz-bang;
this here blog is just the thing!
March 19th, 2015 12:19 am
Better ants in the woodpile than in one’s kitchen. I had to get out the ant traps before the temps even got above freezing. Anything that crawls and/or bites is not allowed in this house. My T13
March 19th, 2015 4:17 am
Down this end of the world it’s been flies. I’ll swap the ants for the flies any time!
March 19th, 2015 7:54 am
We have stink bugs. Still. All year long. Apparently nothing kills those things.
I read this morning that someone lost their job for saying “climate change” in Florida. I think it’s ridiculous, what is going on.
March 19th, 2015 8:53 am
#13 I pray
March 19th, 2015 10:04 am
#6. O’MyGoodness, that brick car is neat.
#8. The push to mandate ALL children and ALL adults to be vaccinated amounts to fascist-medicine.
#9 Plain and simple, Timothy Leary was a threat to the powers-that-be, as was and maybe moreso, Terence McKenna.
#11. I feel the same when I put lobsters in a pot of boiling water 🙁
March 19th, 2015 11:02 am
Wait. You mean after China made it illegal for the Dalai Lama to reincarnate outside of China, he threatened to not bother reincarnating? LOL. Kids.
March 19th, 2015 11:38 am
What funny pictures ! We don’t celebrate St. Patrick’s day here in Belgium.
Global warming is banned now because ever since this expression was invented it became very cold everywhere. Now they opted for climate changes, so it can go in all directions !
March 19th, 2015 11:45 am
Huh. I enjoyed reading the article on the Dalai Lama. I wonder about the whole reincarnation thing. 🙂
http://otherworlddiner.blogspot.com/2015/03/brainpower-boosters.html
March 19th, 2015 5:46 pm
In 2004 I worked on John Kerry’s Presidential campaign. Then Sen. Obama was tapped to give the keynote speech at the Democratic convention that year. I actually spoke to a reporter from a small town paper who asked if Obama was spelled with an apostrophe.
March 19th, 2015 6:21 pm
Obama is Irish on his mother’s side: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_No_One_as_Irish_as_Barack_O%27Bama
March 21st, 2015 3:33 am
GREAT T13, my dear Colleen…..That Brick Car is AMAZING!!!! And the screaming Ants really gave me a well needed laugh…! I am not an “ant” lover, but Burning Them On The Stake, so to speak was a hilarious idea for me—Poor Dear Ants!!!! Did you know that Baby Powder is a great way to get rid of Ants? They do not like it at all….! Love O’Bama…..lol!
March 22nd, 2015 7:39 pm
we used to have a big food cover, and my younger siblings used to play like this.