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Saturday October 16, 2010 · 11:35 PM PDT

2010/10/16 · 23:35

About seven years ago I bought a cheap TV, the old style, and it had a remote control with batteries included. Since I don't have TV reception here, I only turn it on and off once a day to watch a video, and I adjust the volume sometimes. About 2 years after I bought the TV the remote was dead, and I didn't have batteries on hand. My experience with car batteries taught me that sometimes the battery is fine, but the contacts are corroded and not making contact. The TV is an Apex 18" with "Daily Max" AAA carbon-zinc batteries that cost about a hundred bucks, total.

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Saturday September 04, 2010 · 9:30 PM PDT

2010/09/04 · 21:30

The last few times I've loaded this site, using Windows XP and Firefox I've gotten a screen from Friday, about midday. I have to login (which is also a pain to have to do, daily, or perhaps a few times a day) and then refresh the screen before I get the current postings. This is a real pain in the butt and would limit the number of lurkers who like to read this site, cutting down the number of hits the site gets and therefore your income.

My other problem is with Windows new Ping search engine. Is there anyone who can help me disable the damn thing? I'm on dial-up but I enjoy visiting some of the picture diaries, but they won't load much before Ping takes over my computer and starts to download stuff I don't visit anyway. Help?

learning to read, two bucks a book.

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Saturday July 24, 2010 · 10:39 PM PDT

2010/07/24 · 22:39

I had an interesting conversation with my son this last Father's Day, after he had invited me to his cookout. I'd mentioned how well his 7 year old daughter seemed to be doing, and he told me that to encourage her to learn to read, he offered to pay her two bucks a book, and it was working very well for the child. To a seven year old two bucks once or twice a week just for reading a book would seem like free money. But let me tell you some of the background to this.

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Friday July 09, 2010 · 8:53 PM PDT

2010/07/09 · 20:53

Back in 2000 I entered an Orthodox Christian monastery. At the time I was homeless, jobless, and broke. I wasn't religiously inclined, but I'd had a spiritual experience and I was compelled to explore, so I tried it. I spent almost three years there, and it was quite a learning experience, some good, some not so good. It was a generally peaceful place, which I needed. After about three months, I decided that if I was to expect a decent meal, I'd have to learn to cook it myself, which meant volunteering for kitchen duty. One week on, one week off, and the hours were horrible, but eventually I came to love it. I was a 50 year old male, had no real cooking experience, but they had a nice library of cookbooks, and I love to read and follow instructions. My Dad, bless his soul, used to hand me instructions so they would be done correctly. What I learned from that period about cooking has been invaluable to me, gaining me entrance into other beneficial situations and being the largest cost-saving event I've ever experienced.

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Saturday July 03, 2010 · 9:49 PM PDT

2010/07/03 · 21:49

I just read a diary by drache entitled Reflections on Patience that was quickly attacked by some very negative posters. I value patience, it has been very valuable to me in my 62 years, and I thought drache's thoughts were very good, and quite appropriate. The immediacy of the attack by "negatives" didn't surprise me, I see it in virtually every diary I open here. You would have to read the diary and the responses to get a real feeling for the violence of the attack. Are these "negatives" infiltrators?

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Tuesday June 15, 2010 · 10:38 PM PDT

2010/06/15 · 22:38

As a response to a diary currently on the rec list that says that we are at fault for the catastrophe ongoing in the gulf, Juan Cole at the blog Informed Comment offers a good rebuttal to that argument that is worth your while to read. I'll quote a few of them here, but his major thrust is that, since the Reagan presidency (and even before), corporations and the rich simply have the political and media power to dominate the narrative and thus control our collective thinking. We pissants (my term) are simply facing a unified force that has produced the current problem, and through the years have not responded effectively to prevent such disasters.

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Wednesday April 28, 2010 · 10:35 PM PDT

2010/04/28 · 22:35

This will be just a brief diary, and I won't stay long for comments, but I thought I'd share it. A bit of history; I was using IE8 and Windows OS and a dial-up connection. The site loaded so slowly, switched between screens so slowly, the browser didn't seem to remember what it had seen ten seconds before, and it was a vast waste of time to visit. I didn't dare open the diaries, or view anything that was "photo heavy," even though I enjoy them. Writing a diary was out of the question.

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Republicans must love this site. Thanks, Kos

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Friday November 13, 2009 · 9:21 PM PST

2009/11/13 · 21:21

So lets all boycott Obama, OFA and other democratic leaning groups because Obama hasn't done enough, quickly enough, to please everyone. Lets not send any of those democrats any money, lets not give them our time, lets not try to help other liberal causes that are in the works so we can show our mighty displeasure.

That's just great. Thanks, Kos.

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Sunday October 26, 2008 · 12:09 AM PDT

2008/10/26 · 00:09

From FiveThirtyEight.com and On the Road: Big Stone Gap, Virginia, written by Sean Quinn. The link will take you to the comments page, but the story is just above.

I seldom laugh out loud, but this exchange encouraged a good laugh-out-loud moment.

Last week, Julie Hensley made one of her thousands of phone calls on behalf of Barack Obama. A woman answered. As Hensley ran through her short script, the husband impatiently broke in.

Ma'am, we're voting for the n***er." And hung up

More over the fold...

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Tuesday October 21, 2008 · 10:16 PM PDT

2008/10/21 · 22:16

I'm sure they'd also like us to stay in Afghanistan, too. The communist USSR was essentially dismantled as a result of their extended war in Afghanistan, and they seem to have learned more lessons from it than either of our presidential candidates. From the news agency at ITAR-TASS, Russia is willing to give their blessing to our continued stay in Iraq, and elsewhere I'm sure. The money quote;

Russia will support Iraq’s request to the U.N. Security Council for an extension of the international military presence in that country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.

"There are international troops in Iraq in accordance with a U.N. Security Council mandate," Larvov said.

"If the government of Iraq asks for the mandate of these troops to be extended, Russia will certainly support it," he said.

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Tuesday September 09, 2008 · 9:02 PM PDT

2008/09/09 · 21:02

I found an interesting article today at the website Common Dreams. It was written by Juan Cole, whose website is entitled Informed Comment. The article is entitled, "What's the Difference Between Palin and Muslim Fundamentalists? Lipstick," and the subtitle was, "A theocrat is a theocrat, whether Muslim or Christian." It was originally published by Dr. Cole at Salon.com. I enjoyed reading it because Dr. Cole compares the faith of Sarah Palin to the faith of Muslim fundamentalists, and finds little difference. Dr. Cole is a leading scholar of Middle Eastern affairs.

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Wednesday August 20, 2008 · 9:20 PM PDT

2008/08/20 · 21:20

I'll admit it, I'm really an addict to the game. I've used it to help me deal with depression in a prior life, and now just as an enjoyable game and a way for me to keep up with my mental situation. Both sides of my family suffer from Altzheimers disease, or maybe just old-age dementia, but playing freecell gives me a chance to check on my mental status, since it keeps track of the statistics for me. And since I'm on dial-up for the internet, I have a lot of free time. I'm pretty good at it, but I don't win every time, and I'll offer a few tips below the fold.

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Spin those batteries!

Hey Markos! Also, can someone help me get rid of Ping?

learning to read, two bucks a book.

Vegetarian-Vegan cooking and saving money, and the earth.

So many negative people. Infiltrators?

"No, it's not your fault" - Juan Cole

I was about to give up on dkos, but I found Firefox

Republicans must love this site. Thanks, Kos

Something funny, yet telling.

Russia agrees with Bush and McCain; stay in Iraq.

On faith, fundamentalism, and Palin

Playing Freecell