TRAGEDIES REMEMBERED

I remember this date well in 1986, I was in my first Principal job, a special education school for students in grades 4-12 who hadn't made it in regular classes.

I was in a Secondary shop class and the news came over the TV.

Educational hopes of a Nation seemed to crash in that event, at least that's the way it seemed at the time.

Historybook: Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” published (1813); Painter Jackson Pollock born (1912); Modern US Coast Guard is founded (1915); Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates after launch, killing all seven astronauts on board (1986); RIP actress Cicely Tyson (2021).

"I touch the future. I teach."

- Christa McAuliffe, teacher and astronaut killed during Challenger explosion.

YA GOTTA FILTER THE NONSENSE...

Morning Clickers and Slickers,

#pups4peace

Ken-Dogger: Morning Melo
Melo: Dude, click, click, click, click, click…
KD: Huh?
M: It’s all I hear when you first get on the magic screen
KD: Oh that, sheesh, I’m just deleting emails. You buy something, you’re connected for life.
M: You’re what?
KD: I’m filtering the nonsense.
M: Why so many clicks?
KD: It’s a LOT of NONSENSE, Melo…way too much.

All this recent Day-Trading activity is threatening to throw me off my investment goals, but damn it, I'm stickin' to my plan...

I'm holding out for the return of
PEZ STOCK

those candies gotta get on another run...

A friend offered his elderly neighbor $20 to have a go on her stair lift...

To his shock, he thinks she's going to take him up on it.

PLAY WHILE YOU CAN...

#pups4peace

Ken-Dogger: Having a good time fellas?
Scooby: We haven't played much lately...
KD: Why not?
Dooby: Dude, the mood man, the mood's been sullen for weeks...
KD: Should improve now, America's back working again...
S: For 3 weeks at least...
KD: You mean until the next manufactured emergency?
D: Yea, something like that, but we're gonna play while we can...

It's getting to the point where high schools, those bastions of democracy, will have to have a mandatory class called 'FACT OR FICTION'...

Without citizens armed with the ability to discern between the two, democracy will cease to exist.

Kenneth Madden
In retirement, you can be any age you wanna be...Yesterday, according to this Mrs. Madden listed here, I was 5...Today, I may grow up a little and be 7...AGE IS A STATE OF MIND ANYWAY!

Mikki Madden
No, you will pretty much stay 5 indefinitely!

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Morning Peeps,

Successful Marriages have fun with each other, this from an exchange 9 years ago...

Dixie: "like my new coat
Daisee?"

Daisee: "No bi-otch, you need to stop sucking up to daddy..."

Dixie: "...but I am daddy's girl..."

Daisee: "you have a point..."

Mikki Madden
Evidence that I live with a grown 5year old!

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"Politics in America?" The Californian went on. "There aren't any. The whole question of the day is spoils." All that money attracted the worst men to office."No one," he declared, "but a low-down man will run for Congress and the Senate."

An Englishman leaned over to Kipling and whispered in hiscear: "If I weren't among Americans, I should say we are consortium with Russians."

Conversation on board SS City of Peking circa 1885

Excerpt from The Age of Acrimony

This is for January 26...Yesterday

Historybook: Actor Paul Newman born (1925); Ellen DeGeneres born (1958); Football coaching great Paul "Bear" Bryant dies (1983); Condoleezza Rice becomes first Black woman appointed US secretary of state (2005); Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna among nine deaths in California helicopter crash (2020).

"There's a lot of blood, sweat and guts between dreams and success."

- Paul "Bear" Bryant

IN REVERENCE...

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. A recent study found that nearly 80 years later, 245,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors are still alive and residing in more than 90 countries.

S: Morning Brew

The museum’s president, Sean Decatur, told staff the two exhibits, which focus on the Eastern Woodlands and the Great Plains, were “artifacts of an era” when museums did not respect Indigenous peoples’ values and perspectives. He said some objects might go back on display, while others may not.

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S: Morning Brew

PERSPECTIVE

Quote: “Actions that may feel sudden to some may seem long overdue to others.”

New York City’s American Museum of Natural History, which gets 4.5 million visitors annually to see the squid and the whale, closed two galleries as museums around the country work to comply with new federal regulations requiring them to get consent from tribes before displaying Native American objects.

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Morning Brew's take on tomorrow's NFL games

Good morning. Tomorrow, the NFL will play two conference championship games that will determine the Super Bowl matchup.

Don’t have a horse in the race and unsure who to root for? Here’s a cheat sheet.

If you love an underdog story and Eminem: Detroit

If you live in the Bay Area: 49ers

If you’re tired of hearing about Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift: Ravens

If you’re the NFL: Chiefs

S: Morning Brew

Wasn't I just talking about GOP marketing?

#cosomusic

COSO Sat Get Up theme, U2 style

I will follow (a very young U2)

https://youtu.be/-sLzV00gNUo

For all the marketing talent the GOP has and uses in their devilish work, they really have failed to capitalize on naming rights...

They should call themseves the

AZZ-KICKERS PARTY

I DO think it would resonate with the MAGA base.

#cosomusic

COSO Sat Get Up theme, Technotronic style

Pump Up the Jam

https://youtu.be/9EcjWd-O4jI

#cosomusic

COSO Sat Relax theme, Suzanne Vega, DNA style

Tom's Diner

https://youtu.be/j4jtIDaeaWI