JUST SAYIN'
This is copied and pasted with permission from facebook poster Janice Page, Aug 1 2026. I don't think it could be said any better than this:
I woke up and as I had my morning coffee, I realized that everything is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, something evil has invaded our nation, and our lives are never going to be the same.
I have been confused by the hostility of family and friends. I look at people I have known all my life--so hate-filled that they agree with opinions they would never express as their own. I think that I may well have entered the Twilight Zone.
You can't justify this insanity. We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind!
• If a man pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.
• Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America.
• Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections are good.
• It was cool for Joe Biden to "blackmail" the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it.
• People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.
• People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees.
• Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.
• Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate to the US must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcome.
• $5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not.
• If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.
• People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President.
• We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us.
• Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.
• Criminals are caught-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it's a violation of THEIR rights.
• And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us "racists"?!
Nothing makes sense anymore, no values, no morals, no civility and people are dying of a Chinese virus, but it racist to refer to it as Chinese even though it began in China.
We are clearly living in an upside down world where right is wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and immoral is moral, where good is evil and evil is good, where killing murderers is wrong, but killing innocent babies is right.
Wake up America, the great unsinkable ship Titanic America has hit an iceberg, is taking on water, and is sinking fast. The choice is yours to make. What will it be? Time is short, make your choice wisely!
Feel free to copy and paste. I did.
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A lil-bit-o-fun with music & a story that reminded me of a story I taught years ago to my Level 3 readers & a song to go with it
And from FB: 80s Music Fan
There was an art to making a mixtape off the radio.
You heard the first few notes of the song you wanted and immediately lunged for RECORD.
Perfect timing.
No static.
Nobody walked into the room talking.
You were actually going to get the whole song this time.
Then the DJ decided he had something important to say.
"And coming up later tonight..."
GET OFF THE SONG.
There was no downloading a clean copy five seconds later. If you wanted that song on your tape, you waited until the station played it again and hoped the DJ showed a little restraint next time.
Eventually you had a cassette full of your favorite songs, complete with missing intros, chopped-off endings and the occasional DJ voice permanently baked into the recording.
It wasn't exactly studio quality.
But that tape went everywhere with you.
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4 moon-related things AND a J-Pop song
From: Unsolved Mysteries & Paranormal Activities
In the autumn of 1609, Galileo Galilei turned one of the first telescopes toward the Moon and forever changed our understanding of the night sky.
What he saw was revolutionary.
Rather than a perfectly smooth celestial sphere—as many believed at the time—Galileo observed mountains, valleys, and craters, carefully capturing them in a series of remarkably detailed drawings. By studying the patterns of light and shadow along the Moon's terminator (the boundary between day and night), he concluded that the lunar surface was rugged and uneven.
These observations were published in Sidereus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger) in 1610 and became some of the most influential scientific illustrations in history. They challenged centuries of accepted belief and helped lay the foundation for modern astronomy.
Although the English astronomer Thomas Harriot made the first known telescopic drawings of the Moon a few months earlier in July 1609, Galileo's observations were the first to correctly ...
