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Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
Thoughts for
the day
The day started with fog/mist covering our town. Now it is just light
rain and cloudy.
I’ve been getting scripts at Walgreens for over a decade. Before that I
went to CVS, but the Flag pharmacy had terrible customer service back then.
Over the past couple of months, Walgreens has not been a great pharmacy. Renewing
a script online became a real hassle. I asked the local pharmacist as was told
to use the app rather than calling on the phone. That helped a little. Then all
my scripts were being filled by the computer in Phoenix and even the tiniest
pills came in a huge plastic bottle. When I asked, they said they knew it was a
problem and just ask for a smaller pill bottle when I picked it up. That adds
about 15 minutes to each visit, so I live with the large bottles. The 2 local pharmacists
and the 5 or 6 regular techs are great, so I just live with the inconvenience.
Today I saw an article explaining the Walgreens changes. They were bought out
by another company and are now in some turmoil. They now must work on holidays
that previously were paid no work holidays. Now the new company is messing with
their work hours and for also their retirement packages. It is so sad. The new
owners don’t realize that it is the workers that make their stores successful.
With all the talk about affordability, I checked a inflation calculator
and discovered that in 1965 gas was about 25¢/gallon. In today’s money it
becomes $$2.58/gallon. It is really about $3.06/gallon. Hmmm
I am taping Ken Burn’s American Revolution on PBS. Episode 1 was excellent,
and I look forward the rest of the series. I suggest everyone check it out and
help PBS.
History that is not true…
Marie Antoinette said "let
them eat cake”
Poor
Marie Antoinette. As if being publicly beheaded wasn’t bad enough, she’s now
gone down in history as a byword for greed, callousness, and excess, thanks
mostly to a line of dialogue that is, at best, a mistranslation. The notorious
phrase reads "Qu’ils mangent de la brioche", and while brioche bread
was considered a luxury in 18th-century France, it’s hardly the Victoria sponge
so often imagined by modern minds.
More
importantly – she never said it. The phrase is drawn from Confessions,
a work by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau which was written 24 years
before the French Revolution when Antoinette was 11 years old.
Antoinette
was viscerally hated in her era, but modern historians take a kindlier tone.
She was a convenient lightning rod for French frustration – foreign, female,
royal – even though her unhappy marriage left her with minimal
power. Salacious pamphlets libeled her with cruel innuendo and depicted
her as a scheming behind-the-scenes manipulator.
But, with
references to baked goods aside, her reputation for extravagance was
well-earned. She once had an entire farm built in the grounds of
Versailles so that she and her attendants could play at being milkmaids.
Myths people still believe about
Native Americans…
Native Americans all live on reservations
The U.S. Census indicates that
approximately 78
percent of Native Americans reside off the
reservations. Large Native American populations are found in cities such
as Los Angeles, New York, and Phoenix.
Reservations vary widely. The Navajo Nation,
which spans 27,000 square miles — larger than West Virginia — compares to
California rancherias, which are typically less than an acre in size. Some
reservations are economically successful, while others are basic, lacking
quality internet coverage or medical facilities.
A high number of Native people travel through
reservations and urban living, preserving tribal relations even when they seek
education or jobs in the cities.
Random Thoughts…
You only
have one birthday; the rest are congratulations for surviving each year.
Some
stranger remembers you for being kind to them when no one else was.
Most
people aren’t scared of being alone in the dark—they’re scared of not being
alone in the dark.
How do
nudists clean their glasses?
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