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is anyone else having trouble logging in
« Reply #600 on: June 11, 2024, 06:20:43 AM »
For some reason I seem to have to put in the password two times before it "takes" and I can login.

Anyone else having this issue?

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Re: Rules of the Road/Fire Hydrant/Self Intro
« Reply #601 on: June 17, 2024, 03:12:15 PM »
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aoJuYZTFE9NBs8Lrx2HSjhSZoIm9-nDi/view?usp=drive_link

I wonder if this link works for others, our secret hideout in the boundary waters.


No, it's not a painting or enhanced or anything else. It's a real place.   )
« Last Edit: June 17, 2024, 03:18:19 PM by DougMacG »

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« Reply #602 on: June 17, 2024, 06:13:44 PM »
How very numinous!

Is it yours?

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« Reply #603 on: June 17, 2024, 07:49:25 PM »
Belongs to a close friend but I helped build it (In 1987) so I seem to keep getting invited back.  )
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« Reply #604 on: June 17, 2024, 09:41:48 PM »
Nice dump! Dig the locale!

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« Reply #605 on: June 18, 2024, 08:55:51 AM »
Tres cool!!!

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« Reply #606 on: August 10, 2024, 04:10:52 PM »
CCP graciously sidebarred asking about my mom.

I am quite glad to report that the procedure went well.   The heart valve (from a pig!) was sent up an artery from an incision in her leg.   FAR less intrustive than the previous way of doing things!   Indeed, she was home the next day!

As for me, due to complications from Tropical Storm Debby I am still in the NY area and will be flying home tomorrow.

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« Reply #607 on: August 10, 2024, 09:04:02 PM »
Good to hear Marc!

I'm on the road dealing with my dad's estate so will likely be posting on a limited basis for a bit.

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« Reply #608 on: August 11, 2024, 03:07:39 AM »
"The wood is consumed, but the fire burns on."

We'll be here for you when you are ready.

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Linking Topics, Fire Hydrant post
« Reply #609 on: August 26, 2024, 02:35:01 PM »
Crafty, you had a really good question about what to call a new topic that was crossing at least two existing topics.  Deep state issues crossing connecting into the Big Tech world to control information and thus control who wins elections, and basically run the country from there (already happening) with actual politicians coming and going but not in control of the agenda (or something like that).

I don't know the answer, just wanted to point out that topics crossing each other happen very often.  Drawing the connections and recognizing the patterns is important, crucial.  Example would be the scientific fiasco of Covid and Covid vaccine and the (political, biased, erroneous) way 'science' has handled climate change.  They are linked.  One wrote the script for the other.  Couldn't have happened without a pattern already set up, IMHO.

Here is another:  "How open borders immigration causes housing prices to rise"
https://winteryknight.com/2024/08/26/how-open-borders-immigration-causes-housing-prices-to-rise/

Could say, causes the entire spectrum price level to rise, and then 3 topics at least are linked.

Yes, we can just post it in both topics, but the link IS the story.

There was a local radio show that did that, basically made a game out of finding and recognizing the links between seemingly unrelated topics.  For example, why are pro-abortion people nearly all in favor of higher taxes, bigger government.  They would seem to be unrelated topics.  If you can find the link, you've found some much deeper insight than the issue itself.

No easy answer for this because no one wants endless, overlapping and more confusing thread choices.

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« Reply #610 on: September 30, 2024, 03:24:02 PM »
Reply 454 just got put to very good use.

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« Reply #611 on: October 28, 2024, 02:28:01 PM »
Looks like I will be on the Sean Hannity radio show tomorrow!

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« Reply #612 on: October 28, 2024, 03:38:50 PM »
Looks like I will be on the Sean Hannity radio show tomorrow!

Please post the approximate time when you know it.
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« Reply #613 on: October 28, 2024, 03:39:50 PM »
Looks like I will be on the Sean Hannity radio show tomorrow!

Wicked cool!

BTW, I've been noticing several of my posts show "Last edited by Crafty Dog," but note no changes. Am I missing something here?

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« Reply #614 on: October 29, 2024, 05:23:37 AM »
I corrected "their" to "they're" and one other of similar sort.  I got your back!

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« Reply #615 on: October 29, 2024, 12:43:44 PM »
I corrected "their" to "they're" and one other of similar sort.  I got your back!

Yeah, homonyms & dyslexia make for an odd pairing.

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« Reply #616 on: October 29, 2024, 04:32:33 PM »
 :-D

Well, I know I am mortified when I make such errors-- my mother the Grammar Nazi lives in my super ego (hope I am using that term correctly!)

No go today on the Hannity show- Sean spent more time with Newt Gingrich, but they asked me to go tomorrow so I will give it a go tomorrow.  I am encouraged by the fact that Asst Producer who called me had clear notes on the talking points I had suggested.

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« Reply #617 on: December 10, 2024, 07:34:01 AM »
Back from four days of teaching in Chicago.  Good times!

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One million views!
« Reply #618 on: December 15, 2024, 08:39:41 AM »
Homeland Security now has over one million views!

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« Reply #619 on: December 15, 2024, 09:02:09 AM »
 :-D  =  1,000,001

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« Reply #620 on: December 31, 2024, 06:20:56 AM »
Woof Gents:

Proud to have all of you here on our shared Adventure!


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Wish I had found this one from five years ago a few weeks ago, but perhaps still of a bit of relevance:
From 2010:

That is the Mystery of It (c) 2010
Punong Guro Marc "Crafty Dog" Denny

I used to look at the holiday season as a collective madness wherein at the same time every year most people went on a frenzy of spending and consuming in which killing lots of pine trees played an important role. Gyms had shortened hours or even were closed on some days. I mean, what if the 25th was squat day?!?

Now, many years later I have come to realize that I was peeing into the wind; that from Thanksgiving to the first week of January is a time for hibernation and recharging-of Mind, Body, and Spirit.

BODY

For me spring throught fall this year involved quite a bit of heavy physical training, teaching and travel-- including some trips with major time zone changes. I pushed hard and progressed well, and now it is time for my training to focus on recharging and laying the foundations for future growth.
After several months away from it, I've returned to the site of my rucking training at Bluff Cove, only now I do it un-weighted for forty minutes for speed in my Vibram five-fingered "barefooting" shoes instead in boots with a fifty pound weight vest for three hours. There's been lots of work re-opening hips and re-establishing alignment and core strength (long, international flights in steerage class don't help!), re-establishing aerobic levels, a squat cycle of one day a week with another day a week of sprints and football/lacrosse type agility, and so forth. Today Cindy and I started a Bikram Yoga class together. (Bikram is done in a room heated to over one hundred degrees-how utterly perfect for a season of hibernation!)

MIND

I usually do my squat routine at a gym on the beach in Hermosa Beach called "The Yard". Last week when I was there we were in the midst of several summer-like days in the mid-eighties. The Hermosa Beach pier is but a block and a half away and so I walked to its end. With the warmth of the sun on my skin, good waves for the surfers, and a school of nervous mackerel made skittish by a couple of dolphins, the feng shui was quite nice.

I sat there a while shirtless in the warm glow of the afternoon sun and entered the altered space. As we get older, we begin to notice how where we are is a result of what we have done with where we have been. So, how on earth did I get to where I am? Tis a mystery to me! As the line in a Grateful Dead song says "What a long strange trip it has been!"

SPIRIT

Often we seek simultaneously to become both more purposeful in how we live and more humble about thinking that we know what we are doing. In my humble opinion, whether we realize it or not, ultimately for all our plotting and planning there comes the time to put our Word to something and, as Juan Matus would say, to "act with abandon"... and turn it all over to our Creator. Vaguely remembering a line from a movie, "Things will work out. We may not know how-that's the mystery of it."

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Re: Rules of the Road/Fire Hydrant/Self Intro
« Reply #621 on: February 09, 2025, 08:27:20 AM »
BTW I just noticed that our Media thread has way over one million views! 

Nice work gents!!!

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« Reply #622 on: February 09, 2025, 08:34:48 PM »
BTW I just noticed that our Media thread has way over one million views! 

Nice work gents!!!

That's a lot of bots.   :wink:

How many reads total?

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« Reply #623 on: February 10, 2025, 06:44:46 AM »

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« Reply #624 on: February 10, 2025, 06:49:05 AM »
Thanks. I meant on the entire forum.

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« Reply #625 on: February 10, 2025, 07:15:58 AM »
Obviously over time the "Reads to Posts Ratio" (RPR) goes up, so it is a very imperfect metric.

That said, as best as I can tell posts with a similar number of Posts have different RPR which is suggestive of our having a worthy number of real people among us  :-D

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Re: Rules of the Road/Fire Hydrant/Self Intro
« Reply #626 on: February 15, 2025, 11:03:08 AM »
I'm looking for a wonderful post about how DOGE is a rename of an entity created by Obama and how that solves subtle but important issues for our side.

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« Reply #627 on: February 15, 2025, 06:07:48 PM »
I'm looking for a wonderful post about how DOGE is a rename of an entity created by Obama and how that solves subtle but important issues for our side.

Not exactly what you’re looking for:

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1890091158107570262


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« Reply #629 on: February 16, 2025, 05:27:36 AM »
Thank you.   That is what I was looking for!