Katie Couric commented on this problem of editing a classic at Twitter through CBSNews the other day, and I was shocked to think that anything so stupid as editing Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn because of a descriptive noun would be considered. Has this country gone mad? Is this a symptom of electing the first black man to office to be suddenly politically correct, and altering history and literature? If so, then America is no longer America as a free nation with free speech and a bill of rights. I am highly disgusted and distressed to think that even a video with a reporter asking this question is on youtube.
But here it is, and I intend for it to stay here so that it is a reminder of these "signs of the times".
Yours Truly
Janet Fauble at home
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
instagr.am
instagr.am This is my nephew Bryce William's work with his Iphone. Cool look of photography with crazy balls.
These photos were taken on the same day, one in the early morning. The feathery quality of the clouds made me run back into the apartment to get my camera to capture these beautiful strokes in the air; later that afternoon, the same exact location the skies had changed so much that I had to show what could happen in the same location within a few hours time.
Monday, January 3, 2011
January 03, 2011
I am not going to expound on any of previous posts topics now. It is a bit difficult for me to believe that we are already 11 years into the 2000 year span as it makes me one very old lady indeed.
People do not understand age at all until they live it out...as the mind is not really impacted by age except by the bodies ability to maintain itself over this many years. If we were tires that put on tread we would understand how worn and thin we probably are, for the joints,the ears, eyes, and teeth already tell us that we are aging faster and faster all the time, but the mind does not seem to realize that kind of aging process.
So 2011 is a bit frightening to me. I think that I have to be considering the year that I will check out and I wish that we could know that in advance somehow, but there seems to be a veil over our vision that clouds that for us. It seems odd to me that we can know when we will be born due to the constant rhythm of the life plan but that we are not allowed to know our last day and year dates which seems a bit unfair. If we could know it, we could schedule for it, plan our days around it, and do the things that we believe important to do as in that thing called bucket list.
On to another note which always makes me not worry about death but to at least have all my belongings noted for those who might want them. I don't have much but the little that I do can be shared amongst a few people who have truly cared about me.
I reread part of my Nanowrimo Alexander novel last night and realize that it has a lot of work to be done on it yet. I had not read it aloud while writing it so that last night made me realize some things about it. It is historically good and the parts that are so called imagination are good but it has a lot of really serious work ahead to finish before I can even get the free amazon book.
Oh boy! What times we have in learning these publications games.
People do not understand age at all until they live it out...as the mind is not really impacted by age except by the bodies ability to maintain itself over this many years. If we were tires that put on tread we would understand how worn and thin we probably are, for the joints,the ears, eyes, and teeth already tell us that we are aging faster and faster all the time, but the mind does not seem to realize that kind of aging process.
So 2011 is a bit frightening to me. I think that I have to be considering the year that I will check out and I wish that we could know that in advance somehow, but there seems to be a veil over our vision that clouds that for us. It seems odd to me that we can know when we will be born due to the constant rhythm of the life plan but that we are not allowed to know our last day and year dates which seems a bit unfair. If we could know it, we could schedule for it, plan our days around it, and do the things that we believe important to do as in that thing called bucket list.
On to another note which always makes me not worry about death but to at least have all my belongings noted for those who might want them. I don't have much but the little that I do can be shared amongst a few people who have truly cared about me.
I reread part of my Nanowrimo Alexander novel last night and realize that it has a lot of work to be done on it yet. I had not read it aloud while writing it so that last night made me realize some things about it. It is historically good and the parts that are so called imagination are good but it has a lot of really serious work ahead to finish before I can even get the free amazon book.
Oh boy! What times we have in learning these publications games.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Day two of 2011
Today has been a rough day. Had to do extensive cat training exercise. Also took two shots of sky at two different times of day. Have been on computer for so long I am writing tickertype so as to develop later. Must close down now. Joined cracked.com for first time due to special story there that caught my attention. About time travel which I will naturally make suitable response to here probably...all is going strangely imho. but we go forward despite ourselves...will probably revise this totally as I am doing this post as an experiment to see what it will look like when published. It worked just fine...that is Alexis in the sink. She does this to herself but I just bet if I wanted her to sit there she wouldn't want to do it...such is the way of a kitten at only 3 months come Jan.7.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Happy New Year 2011
Last night while spending New Years Eve with Janice and Lynn, something unique happened on ABC Live. Dick Clark showed up to speak to his audience and to talk to Ryan Seacrest. He really looked teriffic for his age, showing that he is getting the greatest care in the world. For a man who has owned most of commercial television for so long, he can surely afford the care. His speech problem is still there but has improved so much since I last saw him that it looks as though he made a remarkable recovery.
I had a lot of revelations while spending New Years Eve with Lynn and Janice. These neighborhood involvements become very tricky after awhile as we learn more and more all the time about why and how people feel the way they do about each other.
I met Tina another lady who lives here at the apartments and who is into cats. She is a chiropractor who lives in one of the two bedroom casitas two doors or so away from Lynn and Janice.
Through neighborhood gossip and as I am leary of the internet for repeating stories, I had an impression about Lynn and Janice that had been due to another person's observations. I finally understood why that person had made some of her statements and could agree with her feelings in some ways. So life goes on...in the end, when one sees a tree and describes it as a tree, we all can agree that we are seeing the tree in the same way.
So it is with human beings. Without realizing it, people betray themselves always to each other in much the same ways so that we all come to the same conclusions.
I have to take a break for now...Will return to finish this later.
I had a lot of revelations while spending New Years Eve with Lynn and Janice. These neighborhood involvements become very tricky after awhile as we learn more and more all the time about why and how people feel the way they do about each other.
I met Tina another lady who lives here at the apartments and who is into cats. She is a chiropractor who lives in one of the two bedroom casitas two doors or so away from Lynn and Janice.
Through neighborhood gossip and as I am leary of the internet for repeating stories, I had an impression about Lynn and Janice that had been due to another person's observations. I finally understood why that person had made some of her statements and could agree with her feelings in some ways. So life goes on...in the end, when one sees a tree and describes it as a tree, we all can agree that we are seeing the tree in the same way.
So it is with human beings. Without realizing it, people betray themselves always to each other in much the same ways so that we all come to the same conclusions.
I have to take a break for now...Will return to finish this later.
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