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What Are You Hiding in Your Genes?

The Issue:
With DNA tests from My23AncestralHeritages becoming increasingly popular across the globe, many Texans have sent their saliva to complete strangers in a lab to find out their genetic ancestry. Yesterday, as part of her longstanding diatribe against Verner Von Richthofen, the Supreme Leader of Blackacre posted on her Twitcher account that your Minister of Justice is related to one of your nation’s most dangerous criminals.

I chose Option #4:
“You know, there is an opportunity here,” points out Shiva Payne. “The amount of genetic data that company has is staggering. Think of what we could do if they partnered with our brilliant scientists. We could take the best genetic samples and secretly engineer vat-grown soldiers, bred for fighting strength and absolute loyalty to you, their supreme leader!”

Result: Begun the Clone Wars have.

The Clone Wars?! Ack! That's unexpected. Nyah ha ha ha! :)

Today is:
National Brownie Day
Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day

Quotes of the Day:
“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;
Who has left the world better than he found it,
Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
Whose life was an inspiration;
Whose memory a benediction.” - Bessie Anderson Stanley

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” - John Lennon

Music of the Day:

Bette Middler - Wind Beneath My Wings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jorJh8DTMVM

On This Day In History:

2002 The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and declare the date to be "CARICOM-Cuba Day" - To celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba.

2004 Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the Union of South American Nations

2008 Kirsty Williams elected as Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. The first female leader of a political party in Wales.

2010 With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.

2012 UN climate conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020

Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day

Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day on December 8th encourages us step from our Tardis or flip open our Omni while wearing clothes from the past. At the same time, we should act appropriately confused by certain technology.

Time travel has captured our imaginations for generations. Science and authors keep coming back to the topic again and again, so it should be no surprise there would be a day to pretend to be a time traveler. The original blog post that got the day rolling can be found here. For more resources on how to be a time travel or at least act like one, we can explore the wide array of television and movies produced over the decades.

For example, Doctor Who is in its 26th season. Some might say that might be plenty of resource material right there. Let’s not stop, though. We’ve made a list and some of them might surprise you.

Television

Doctor Who
Quantum Leap
Outlander
Voyagers!
The Time Tunnel
Tru Calling
Continuum
11.22.63
Fringe

Books

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Magic Treehouse series by Mary Pope Osborne
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

Movies

Groundhog Day
Back to the Future
The Terminator
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Midnight in Paris
Edge of Tomorrow
About Time
Peggy Sue Got Married

HOW TO OBSERVE #PretendToBeATimeTravelerDay
Act like a time traveler. Choose your time period and decide whether you are traveling to the past or the future. Be overly shocked when someone says, “I’d kill for a double mocha latte right now,” or “That car is the bomb.” Misuse technology. When someone offers you earbuds to listen to a new song, sniff them to see if they smell good. Use #PretendToBeATimeTraveler to share on social media.

PRETEND TO BE A TIME TRAVELER DAY HISTORY
This time-traveling observance began in 2007.

https://nationaldaycalendar.com/pretend-to-be-a-time-traveler-day-december-8/

Emoluments: Trump's profits from private businesses to get hard look from federal appeals courts
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/08/emoluments-trumps-businesses-scrutinized-federal-appeals-courts/2619754001/

Winners and losers from Week 15 in college football led by Oklahoma, LSU and Georgia
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2019/12/07/college-football-winners-losers-week-15-lsu-georgia-ohio-state/4365482002/

In the face of an opioid epidemic, make a safer home for your family during the holidays https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/12/08/opioid-epidemic-family-safer-home-holidays-dispose-pills-column/4356855002/

Too Long; Did Not Read? Here’s the Important Part:

Not so long ago, it was common for physicians to write a prescription for a 30-day supply of pain medication. It was also common for pharmacies to fill them even though only a day or two of treatment was needed to address the pain. That practice left a ticking time bomb in many of our medicine cabinets. - Many 30-day supplies go unused.

Removing and properly disposing of dangerous medications makes homes safer for those who live in them and their guests. When we remove these medications, we make it less likely that our loved ones will ingest a mistaken prescription, and we lessen the risk for accidental poisoning and overdose.

Invite your older relatives to go through their cabinets with you to determine which medications are in current use. Remove the unneeded medications, then help them securely store the remainder.

Dispose of the unneeded medications by emptying them into an old milk carton or equivalent. Place kitty litter or coffee grounds in the container. Add soapy water, secure the cap, then give it a quick shake. Place the container in the bottom of your garbage away from small hands.

You can also take unwanted medications to an approved drug take-back location. You can find your nearest one at www.morepowerfulnc.org or https://takebackday.dea.gov/

Talitha macer wrote:

7 cards? Wow thank you Verner but instead of 7 cards I'd like to claim just 1 card that in my opinion is worth 7 cards. I'd like to have your NewTexas card from Elven king thranduil. It'll be the most valuable card in my collection. :D

Nyah ha ha ha! I was wondering whether anyone will claim my NewTexas card as their prize. Fortune favors the bold. Here you go, enjoy your prize and congratulations again Talitha! :)

NewTexas Card gifted to The Armed Republic of Talitha Macer for 1.00.

Thou Art an Eagle

“A farmer took his young son on a hike and they tramped through the meadows and woods. They hiked through the pines and up over the hills.

They climbed the steep mountains and finally, high above the timber line, scaled the crags and peaks they saw a giant eagle soaring overhead. They scanned the cliffs and finally located the eagles nest. The boy climbed up the cliff to where the nest was located. He reached into the nest, which rested on a ledge, and pulled out an egg, which he put inside his shirt. Then he climbed carefully back down the cliff.

He and his father returned home, and the boy put the egg in a nest where a hen was brooding over her eggs. By and by, when the eggs were hatched, each delivered a small chick except the one from which a young eaglet was hatched. Months passed and the eaglet matured.

After the eagle was full grown, a naturalist was driving down the highway out in the country. As he drove by the farmer's yard, he saw the giant eagle. He slammed on his brakes, got out of the car, and went over to the fence. He could hardly believe his eyes. He opened the gate, walked into the yard, and found the farmer. 'Where did you get that eagle?' he asked.

The farmer said, 'It's a chicken.' The man responded: 'I am a naturalist. I know all about these things, and I tell you that is an eagle. Furthermore, I'll prove it.' He picked up the eagle, put it on his arm, and said, 'Thou art an eagle-fly.' The eagle hopped off his arm and began to scratch in the dirt like the chickens. The farmer said, 'I told you it was only a chicken.'

The naturalist asked for a ladder. He leaned it against the barn. Then he carried the eagle up on top of the barn. He stood at the peak of the roof on the barn, placed the eagle on his arm, and said, 'Thou art an eagle-fly.' The eagle swooped down into the yard below and began scratching in the gravel. The farmer hollered up, 'I told you it was a chicken.'

The man climbed down off the barn. He made an agreement with the farmer and the next morning, long before sunrise, he picked up the eagle. He carried it through the woods and over the meadows. He continued up into the hills and the pines, onward, upward, above the timberline to the peaks and crags and pinnacles of the mountains. He arrived at the mountaintop just before dawn.

As the first rays of the sun began to streak across the sky, he put the eagle on his arm. The fresh, cool winds came through the valleys and trees below and swept up to the cliff where the naturalist stood. The eagle breathed deeply. The first streaks of sunlight caught his eye. He stretched his giant wings, almost six feet across. The naturalist said, 'Thou art an eagle-fly.'

The eagle slowly lifted off the naturalist's arm. It ascended into the sky. It soared higher and higher and further and further.

It saw more in an instant than its companions had in an entire lifetime, and from that time forth it was never again content to be a barnyard fowl.”

- Vaughn J. Featherstone

“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;
Who has left the world better than he found it,
Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
Whose life was an inspiration;
Whose memory a benediction.” - Bessie Anderson Stanley

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” - John Lennon

Original Pearl Harbor News Footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2kSnlS4xX8

Sport of Kings - An Award Winning Falconry Video by Project Upland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxrZQIuyo1Q

Hunting Jack-Rabbits with Harris's Hawks in Utah: Falconry with Craig Boren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO-871m_w58