STEVE - has been reading Orwell's 1984 and asks this question: "Have any of you seen people blindly swallowing orthodoxy in our society, being told when to cheer or when to boo, or people who accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasp the enormity of what is demanded of them?"
[sounds like some of the Bush rallies I read about where "flacks" in the audience drown out dissent, and where people get arrested for the shirts they wear.]
PAT W:
Yesterday was a fabulous day in Mid Michigan, so a trip on the Rail-Trail was in order.
JIM - at 'planetary gears" is back from vacation in the U.P., his old stomping grounds. There's always something provocative on his blogsite.
FELIX: Sez it's boxes he's interested in, not 'Boxing."
ALICE: From what she reports, the task of being a teacher these days is almost impossible. In her school, the administration has said teachers and students must start wearing pedometers. This is because all other problems in education have apparently been solved, so everyone has time to consider how much they're moving. There is a huge teacher shortage developing in America, and kids, if you follow Bud's recommendations, you won't grow up to be one, either.
BINA - Says that we all need to see NO END IN SIGHT, a documentary which won a Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. It promises to tell the truth about Iraq War involvement by interviewing those in the know. See film preview here: CLICK
MIKE the Irishman - has been working on a big decision. We hear it's been made and will be announced soon.
BILL FROM WNNCO - sent this picture of the launching of a brand new $2.5 million yacht.
It does my heart good to sometimes see the experts screw up even worse than I do.
JIM and MARILYN - Have bought a new camper to see the country in. It's beautiful and so well laid out. They even have secret hiding places for carrying the grandchildren where they won't be able to make trouble.
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Actually, I haven't been to the U.P. in a couple years. My recent vacation was in northern Minnesota. I'm heading to the U.P. this weekend, however, for my grandmother's birthday party (she's 80).
OOPS __
When you said "Grand Marais, I assumed that was in Michigan, and it didn't occur to me that there was also one in Minnesota.
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