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PWB Peeps Sundae Evening Diary: Music Doth Soothe...
Hey all! RULES OF ENGAGEMENT — You know how this works, but as always, a gentle reminder: Pooties are cats; Woozles are dogs. Goggies are dogs, too, and moggies are cats. Birds...are ...
Gwennedd 01/26/2020 53
Sekrit Armee Sundai — Stresst Owt?
Here is a gentle reminder of how we do things: Pooties are cats; Woozles are dogs.  Goggies are dogs, too. Birds...are birds!  Peeps are people.  PWB Peeps are Pooties, Woozle, Birds ...
FosterMomInCA 01/26/2020 167
Human Origins: Making spoken language possible
While there are two major ways in which language enables communication among humans, spoken language is the predominate form. In her chapter on the anatomical and physiological basis of language in ...
Ojibwa 01/26/2020 26
PWB Peeps Open Thread: Caturday In The Park
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strawbale 01/25/2020 34
Ancient Egyptian religious icons
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. For many ...
Ojibwa 01/25/2020 10
Caturday Pootie Diary: In Which I am Replaced by Faux Fur
I rushed down the stairs, late like normal. I hadn’t slept well, as more normal sleeping companion had not made an appearance all night. I speed-walked past the couch and into the kitchen where ...
Flowergirl77 01/25/2020 274
Silver Falls State Park: Historic District (photo diary)
Oregon’s Silver Falls State Park was opened to the public in 1933. The Silver Falls State Park infrastructure was built between 1935 and 1942 by the men of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) ...
Ojibwa 01/25/2020 10
PWB Friday Night Open Thread - Participating in Democracy
He’s had a role in this business from the beginning, you know. He was napping outside the room where it happened. And oh yeah — he testified. So it’s only proper that he take part in the Senate trial.
Horsefeathers 01/24/2020 135
Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Resistance FRIDAY!
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… Late Night Snark: The Pettifoggery Stops Here Edition "It is a pivotal day in the history of the republic. Soon we’ll find out if breaking the law is illegal. Gotta say, so far I don’t like the odds." —Stephen Colbert...
Bill in Portland Maine 01/24/2020 111
Cartoon: G.O.P. jury duty
Mitch’s shady late night impeachment shenanigans should clue people in to the G.O.P.’s project to undermine democracy, but if the last twenty years haven’t, I don’t know what will.
BrianMcFadden 01/24/2020 18
PWB: DA FREIDAI GANG GATHERS!
At long last, Da Freidai Gang Gathers!!  Many thanks to all who helped keep things floating along while I was taking care of my wretched ol’ carcass!  My carcass is still wretched, but at least ...
The Marti 01/24/2020 107
WAAAM: Automobiles of the 1940s (photo diary)
The Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum (WAAAM) in Hood River, Oregon, has on display more than 130 antique automobiles. Shown below are some of the automobiles of the 1940s which are on ...
Ojibwa 01/24/2020 18
Cartoon: Join the Trump legal defense team!
x Vimeo Video We have now seen — in ...
Mark Fiore 01/24/2020 7
PWB Peeps Open Thread: Home on the Range
where the family hangs out together you go underground for a little peace and quiet.
strawbale 01/23/2020 82
Chris Matthews belittles Bernie Sanders ascent in polls. Why?
Chris Matthews attempted to belittle Bernie Sanders ascent in the polls with a novel theory used to propel Mike Bloomberg given the expected Biden demise. Even as Bernie Sanders is starting to surge, the New York Times decided to endorse two...
Egberto Willies 01/23/2020 162
RIP Miles, the Fat Orange Cat
Over 17 years ago my wife and I decided 1 cat wasn’t enough. So we went to find another one. We ended up at a foster parent’s home in a room with about a dozen kittens. MY wife sat on the floor and made sure to pick up each one to make sure she found...
Zundar 01/23/2020 66
Fursday Furries and Feathers: Simple Gifts
BoredPanda RULES OF ENGAGEMENT —   You know how this works, but as always, a gentle reminder: Pooties are cats; Woozles are dogs.  Goggies are dogs, too, and moggies are cats. ...
Clio2 01/23/2020 172
Indians 101: Indian treaties 200 years ago, 1820
In accordance with the Constitution, the United States recognized Indian nations as sovereign entities and thus negotiated treaties with them. A treaty is simply an agreement between two or more ...
Ojibwa 01/23/2020 4
Cartoon: The Kiev Conspiracy - How high does this go?
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RubenBolling 01/23/2020 10
Cheers and Jeers: Thursday
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… Voting Day All I can say is, thank god for NASA. While the rest of the government flies off the rails in a Republican-fueled orgy of incompetence and Russia-approved chaos, NASA just keeps expanding our horizons and...
Bill in Portland Maine 01/23/2020 138
Trump to cut Social Security & Medicare in 2nd term.
Donald Trump promised to be an avid fighter for Social Security & Medicare. All told, he was just lying to the vulnerable. He made that clear at Davos. Trump on Social Security & Medicare Common Dreams reported Trump's Davos unmasking on CNBC....
Egberto Willies 01/22/2020 22
Hedging My Pet & Other Doggy Puns: Woozle Wednesday Evening At the PWBPeeps
Welcome to Woozle Wednesday, The Evening Edition! And It’s Punny! Woozle Wednesday is that day of the week when the PWBP pooties get some time off and the woozles take over the major diary duties for the evening. Woozles may take center stage, but...
Dixiecollie 01/22/2020 81
Cartoon: Sexism in the boardroom
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Matt Bors 01/22/2020 14
V Day sale by DK artist
I’ve posted prices (unbelievably great deals) along with pictures of the beautiful jewelry. You can order by contacting the artist, asterkitty paintedjay@gmail.com. Shipping is $5. More ordering details here. These are all one of a kinds, no mass...
ZenTrainer 01/22/2020 60
Wednesday Woozles ~ stories
***Help Wanted*** PWB Peeps needs someone to do the Woozle diaries on a permanent basis. Marti can’t do a peeps diary twice a week, plus, she doesn’t even have woozles. I can’t do it for a couple of reasons, one being that I work on Wednesdays. Please,...
ZenTrainer 01/22/2020 220
Pilgrimage
In many religious traditions there are rituals of pilgrimage in which people may travel to distant places to establish and reinforce ties to the sacred; to obtain physical, emotional, and spiritual healing; and to gain new spiritual knowledge. The...
Ojibwa 01/22/2020 9
Cartoon: Do you mind?
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Nick Anderson 01/22/2020 19
Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE As the Impeachment Trial Rolls Into Day 2 ...a reminder from The Daily Show that the defendant—mercifully starting his fourth and last year in office this week—should’ve been 25th Amendmented a long time ago and then...
Bill in Portland Maine 01/22/2020 75
PWB Peeps: Toosdai Evening: Srs Not-Srs Poetry for Today, January 21, Illustrated!
Welcome to the odd and whimsical poetery of the Peeps related to holidaze! Let’s investigate what today is, because we need all the holidays we can celebrate, right? Today is many holidays! So I will pick out a couple, and you can click the link above...
elenacarlena 01/21/2020 129
Cartoon: Chinese New Year
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keefknight 01/21/2020 10
Art in the aquarium
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. The Oregon ...
Ojibwa 01/21/2020 9
PWB- Toosdai Critters: Year of the Rat
The Chinese Lunar New Year begins Saturday January 25th (in Chinese time zones). Because self-knowledge is important to the critters,
samanthab 01/21/2020 237
Indians 101: American Indians 300 years ago, 1720
By 1720, it was apparent that the European colonies in North America were permanent and that the European Christian kingdoms felt that they had a mandate from their god to rule over all Indian ...
Ojibwa 01/21/2020 4
Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… While We’re Waiting All eyes are on the Senate today...well, assuming the exalted and high holy gatekeeper Mitch McConnell allows our eyes to be on it, that is. To set the mood, here’s the latest from Motor Trend’s...
Bill in Portland Maine 01/21/2020 120
Cartoon: School lunches of the future
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Jen Sorensen 01/21/2020 94
Our economic system, a new antiseptic form of slavery.
We are currently in a period where the masters of our economy are using a different kind of chain to get their will. The chains are virtual, an antiseptic form of slavery. Antiseptic form of slavery While discussing Oxfam's new report and other...
Egberto Willies 01/20/2020 26
I write these words with great sadness and trepidation
I have read about and listened to commentary on McConnell’s proposed rules for the Senate impeachment trial beginning tomorrow. It is for me the final straw. Perhaps I can provide some context with a tweet I posted after reading them. I wrote: simply...
teacherken 01/20/2020 334
PWB Peeps Open Thread: MLK Jr.'s Dream
For full text of speech: archives.gov I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live ou t the true meaning of ...
strawbale 01/20/2020 54
Moondai Furkids: It's Okay
In these uncertain times, we’re all in need of a little reassurance. The Moondai Furkids understand this and are here to help. Teh Roolz: You are welcome to share photos of your own animals, or ones you just like. If you’d like a pic from the comment...
Mopshell 01/20/2020 152
Texas TV station: Trump & GOP liars on Preexisting Conditions. Surprising!
Surprisingly KHOU, a Texas TV station decided to fact check the president and the GOP on the veracity of their preexisting conditions claim. The station called them out in no uncertain terms. Trump and his cabal have been lying to Americans about their...
Egberto Willies 01/20/2020 7
A Meditation on Martin Luther King Day
About sixty years ago, I was a young Air Force officer stationed at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama - a city at the heart of the struggle for black civil rights. One day, my commanding officer assigned me the duty of escort officer for a funeral....
Old Verger 01/20/2020 11
Museums 101: The Fort Vancouver Surgeon's Quarters (photo diary)
The Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) was given a royal charter by the British Crown in 1670 which provided it with a trading monopoly over a vast domain in Canada. By the nineteenth Century, HBC had ...
Ojibwa 01/20/2020 6
Updates: The Pootie Queen's much loved daughter and grand babies need a little help
i wanted to post pictures of our loved Pootie Queen triciawyse’s daughter, Francesca, and Tricia’s two amazing grand babies, Mikayla and TJ. We all know how much joy Tricia would have in her grandchildren and how she’d love sharing stories about them...
Onomastic 01/20/2020 79
Cartoon: The return of the Unbelievable Trump
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Tom Tomorrow 01/20/2020 82
Cheers and Jeers: Monday
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… Well, That's Three Years Down the 15-Flush Terlet Hey, everybody, we did it. Unless Lord Dampnut decides to push the nuclear button before 12 noon today, we survived 75 percent of the Trump administration's “chaos and...
Bill in Portland Maine 01/20/2020 169
RIP Rocky, my beautiful ginger boy.
I never thought Rocky would be the first to go. Of my three cats, he was definitely the most energetic. And rambunctious. And just plain bumptious. In fact, often he was an insufferable narcissist, demanding first crack at the food dish, the attention,...
Lucy Montrose 01/19/2020 93
PWB Peeps Sundae Evening Diary: Under My Spell
For a wide variety of reasons, some people think they don’t like cats...or dogs! But as quite a few have found out, they have fallen under the spell of love cast by the furry friends who somehow ...
Gwennedd 01/19/2020 84
Chuck Todd insults The Intercept & Progressives with backhanded slight.
Chuck Todd in a backhanded fashion, attempted to challenge the credibility of The Intercept by implying they are a stooge to Senator Bernie Sander's campaign and progressives. Chuck Todd slights The Intercept Notice that Chuck Todd refers to The...
Egberto Willies 01/19/2020 40
Chuck Todd to GOP hack: Congress is part of the government too!
Today's segment on Meet The Press illustrates a technique that uses the media to dismiss administration wrongdoing. Chuck Todd called it out however timidly. Chuck Todd called out GOP hack Hugh Hewitt but … Chuck Todd asked if there was anyone left in...
Egberto Willies 01/19/2020 10
Sekrit Armee Sundai — Roolz
Here is a gentle reminder of how we do things: Pooties are cats; Woozles are dogs.  Goggies are dogs, too. Birds...are birds!  Peeps are people.  PWB Peeps are Pooties, Woozle, Birds ...
FosterMomInCA 01/19/2020 161
Human Origins: How children learn language
Since language is found in all normally functioning humans, it is logical to assume that the potential for language,but not the language itself, must somehow have a biological, neurological, or ...
Ojibwa 01/19/2020 9
Water features at the Oregon Garden
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. The Oregon ...
Ojibwa 01/18/2020 4
Oregon Garden: Bosque and trees (photo diary)
The Oregon Garden in Silverton is an 80-acre botanical garden which features more than 20 specialty gardens. The Spanish word bosque means grove or forest. The Bosque in the Oregon Garden is a large ...
Ojibwa 01/18/2020 4
Richard Wolff on Capitalism, Socialism, Slavery, & Corp.
Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst discusses Capitalism, Socialism, Slavery, & the Corporation. Forget about your preconceived notions. Please listen in detail. Please consider...
Egberto Willies 01/17/2020 4
Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Resistance FRIDAY!
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… Late Night Snark: Love, Lev Edition "This is the latest twist in the Ukraine impeachment scandal: Giuliani's former BFF man Lev Parnas says everyone in Trump World was involved: the president, Mike Pence, and even...
Bill in Portland Maine 01/17/2020 172
Medicare For All: It’s about empathy, math, and morality
It is mathematically impossible for private insurance to be less expensive than single-payer Medicare for All. Insurance must pay hundreds of overpaid executives, duplicative services like advertising, rent, computer & database services, and more....
Egberto Willies 01/17/2020 28
Stonehenge Air Museum: Biplanes (photo diary)
The Stonehenge Air Museum is located in a residential area near the golf course in Fortine, Montana. This small museum contains about two dozen vintage aircraft, including some one-of-a-kind planes. ...
Ojibwa 01/17/2020 26
Religious Freedom Day: Jersey's Heresy Case
While the mythology of America proclaims the United States as a land of religious freedom, the actual history of the United States reveals many laws that discriminate against people who do not ...
Ojibwa 01/16/2020 16
Indians 101: American Indian religions 100 years ago, 1920
Since the founding of the United States, there had been an assumption that American Indians should abandon their religions and become Christians. By 1920, Indian religions were still illegal but, in ...
Ojibwa 01/16/2020 4