Charlie Hebdo
“The cartoonists turn out to be the bravest among us,” Admin says.
“Could it happen here?” says Spence.
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8:36 am on January 8th, 2015
Good morning, everyone! Cartoonists may be brave but semi-anonymous. T&G thanks a lot for last night’s nightmare, er, memory of Willow AK. If Staff and Mr. Fireslippers want to go there this year, we will send mom a doggie downer to get through that lovely tunnel. Lunch at the “hotel”/restaurant was fun. Good friends, good blog family, good food and good sights! A tropical 7*F here, eat your hearts out! WE think DianeC., Wolfie and Nana/BSD/Masquers are the only people in the whole world who aren’t frozen! 2 inches of ice n the sushi pond and wading pool!
Have a tame Thursday.
8:43 am on January 8th, 2015
Good morning all. Two more days of brutal, bone chilling cold here. Schools are closed again and they are saying today may be the coldest so far. Snow arriving after noon. Off to work this morning, but not staying all day. Brrrr.
Yes, the French terrorist attack was horrific. Unfortunately there will be more of these. Scary world, scary times.
8:54 am on January 8th, 2015
Good morning.
Je suis Charlie.
Spence, we don’t call this a Freedom of the Press issue, as a loss of that right has not been limited by France’s government. This is a terrorist act, pure and simple. We love how the people of France are standing up to them, and we love that our government is working with theirs to catch the terrorists.
9:16 am on January 8th, 2015
There is more terrorism now than ever before. Is it the times? We think it is the mass media that spreads news quickly that is partly to blame.
9:42 am on January 8th, 2015
I’d suggest that it has already happened here (Sept. 11). I agree with everything Howlers said. I’m glad we are supporting France.
Wind chill is minus 24 here, with actual temperature minus 2. The dew point is minus 9. Yark!!
Good morning all.
9:55 am on January 8th, 2015
Greetings!
Another cold one here today in our neck of the woods. Tomorrow should be a little better with temps reaching almost freezing.
We here agree with HRH, B and the Howlers about terrorists. We have nothing to fear from attacks coming from foreign countries…the terrorists live right here in our own country.
I have many strong feelings about the things going on in this country, but it is a little to cold to step up on my soapbox at the moment.
Speaking of terrorists, how the heck did the last post from yesterday even get on to this here blog????
10:06 am on January 8th, 2015
I too am wondering about the last post on yesterday’s blog. It was actually posted this morning.
Regarding a discussion from last night: the word used was not “fracking” or “fricking.” The word is “frigging.” It’s still used.
10:07 am on January 8th, 2015
Wose, it was just posted half and hour ago. Since it is in Arabic or another similar language, perhaps our moderator cannot read it.
10:09 am on January 8th, 2015
Je suis Charlie aussi. Apparently I’ve missed some stuff on yesterday’s blog.
EVERYONE:–Keep warm as best you can
HOH–what happens to the fishies when the sushi pond is iced over? Do they hibernate, or…?
10:21 am on January 8th, 2015
DianeC. They seem to S L O W way down. They can’t be fed if the h2o is under 39F. We break a small hole in the ice but who knows if it helps. Sushi aren’t talking.
The wading pool, who cares other than the HOH. When the 3 grands still lived here and it happened to freeze over, we had them put on their rattiest sneakers and did “red neck ice skating”. Hopefully a good memory for them.
10:23 am on January 8th, 2015
B. Stover–Thank you so much! I couldn’t figure out how to see what was included on the CD. your example made me look a bit further and with more patience. Von K is a fairly zippy conductor (which could work well for this piece).
10:24 am on January 8th, 2015
Hi Folks–apparently someone more comfortable in Thai wanted to help with music selection. Here’s the translation:
Similar plans are available in boxes of Sony Beethoven Piano More Information sources are fully authentic piano. Leif Ove unremitting in his side like a screw Grand Orchestra.
10:25 am on January 8th, 2015
Staff, please let us know if that was really Alice’s post last night at 11:06. It could be a new ploy for scammers to post as one of us. Lack of an avatar also, but that happens with us sometimes too.
As Neil Young sang, “Rust Never Sleeps.”
10:40 am on January 8th, 2015
News flash! Right now it is warmer in Anchorage, AK than in Chattanooga, TN.
23*F vs. 10*F What is wrong with this picture?
10:40 am on January 8th, 2015
We’re having a lake-effect storm with huge howling gusts of wind. It’s a white-out right now. Loulou can’t figure out why she can’t see out the window.
10:56 am on January 8th, 2015
Not a great way to start the day.
10:58 am on January 8th, 2015
Greetings everyone. The world outside our door has been postponed due to lack of interest (in going out in bitter cold, windy, below zero conditions)
Terrorists have existed since humans began. Only humans can make the choice to be more tolerant or to see others AS humans. sigh….
11:14 am on January 8th, 2015
Intolerance has always been a big problem for humans.
Those 2 posts are very, very strange!
And do we know if that was really Alice at 11:06?
11:16 am on January 8th, 2015
HOH, I had a fish pond when I had my house – I miss those guys. It is important to have a hole in the ice if the pond is completely frozen over. Even though the fish are hibernating, they emit gases (like pugs?) that will build up and poison them. You probably do not have such a hard freeze where you are.
11:41 am on January 8th, 2015
It is BECAUSE that post was in Arabic that it should have not been posted on the blog….Just my humble opinion.
11:59 am on January 8th, 2015
Rose, it was a little disconcerting. Seems like it was genuine though. Our Diane made sense of it.
12:20 pm on January 8th, 2015
There is not an increase in terrorism, so much as a sophistication of weaponry used.
12:27 pm on January 8th, 2015
Wose–It was in Thai, not Arabic.
12:29 pm on January 8th, 2015
Wose, DianeC. said it was posted in Thai. And that wasn’t Alice last night it was Staff. Alice left her logon and Staff didn’t see it till it was posted. Grump de grump grump
Still cold here but not cold enough to cancel school so those kids get to go back (and the teachers too)
Dad is listening to something on the reader and laughing.
The kittens are in the tub looking to play with the hair strainer. It is one of thier most favorite toys; right behind the thumb cot.
12:30 pm on January 8th, 2015
geeez louise she just won’t leave…t56yyyyyyyyyyq1
And now Henry is helping me post.
12:41 pm on January 8th, 2015
Staff – you are looking GOOD!
12:43 pm on January 8th, 2015
Thai…thank youse for the correction.
Staff: Love the picture of you and my godkitty, Henry. Henry and Keiko are growing in leaps and bounds!
2:06 pm on January 8th, 2015
Staff, you and Henry are gawgeous!
2:11 pm on January 8th, 2015
It looks like we are going to be in the mid-30s for a week or so. Those of you in the cold: dress in layers! I purposefully keep a couple of pair of slacks in larger sizes so that I can wear leggings or something similar underneath. It really helps. I often have 3 layers on top: long t-shirt, knitwear and a pullover. If you are in a windy zone, make sure you wrap a scarf around your face.
I am driving to FBX tomorrow with a kitten going to her new furever home. Hopefully she will not meow for 7 hours and if she does, it will be a tiny kitten meow. I will also see friends and then drive back on Monday.
2:36 pm on January 8th, 2015
Noon in TN and 10 a m in AK and here and Anchorage are the same temperature. Is this warped or what?
2:37 pm on January 8th, 2015
Not noon, 2 pm. GAH! Brain fart.
2:49 pm on January 8th, 2015
Spence asks the question “Could it happen here?” It is hard to say but I think that if cartoonists of a prominent publication frequently mocked and lampooned Jesus, Christian fanatics would respond with protests, maybe death threats, maybe arson and possibly a lone gunman taking matters into his own hands. As I say, it is hard to predict but there is a lot of potential violence that comes with insulting religion. However, this doesn’t mean that this should have a chilling effect on either the press or cartoonists. I believe in the power of speech and freedom of the press.
3:12 pm on January 8th, 2015
CHobbit, YES! Pogo or Peanuts or The Far Side. All said political things in another era!
3:36 pm on January 8th, 2015
pogo
3:37 pm on January 8th, 2015
Oops, looking for something else. Sorry.
4:33 pm on January 8th, 2015
http://chetthedog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/trim.F96C792A-CB20-4311-8408-2995152758F7.MOV
4:34 pm on January 8th, 2015
http://chetthedog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/trim.F96C792A-CB20-4311-8408-2995152758F7.MOV
http://chetthedog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/trim.F96C792A-CB20-4311-8408-2995152758F7.MOV
4:37 pm on January 8th, 2015
First video we ever posted but did it wrong the first time. This is our Messy Maggie. The yellow Naped Amazon!
4:39 pm on January 8th, 2015
We learn more thangs every day!
4:54 pm on January 8th, 2015
Arrived home after a white knuckle drive back from the office. Took 40 min. rather than 20. Jessica is doing a closing 85 miles away. I am worried about her long drive home.
Roads are terrible and there are accidents all over the place.
Diane, do you read Thai? I am impressed with your knowledge.
5:00 pm on January 8th, 2015
Could it happen here? Well, of course it could. It has. Maybe not from a comedian lampooning something that someone else holds sacred, but what do you call church burnings, abortion clinic bombings, and various assassinations.
They are the acts of less than rational people who cannot find a way to express their point of view except through mindless violence.
There, I said it. Now I can climb down off the soapbox, and say a prayer for ALL the innocents who have lost their lives at the hands of fanatics.
5:09 pm on January 8th, 2015
Well said, Tupper’s Mama!
5:37 pm on January 8th, 2015
TG’s Mama: hear hear ! (or is iit here, here ?)
5:38 pm on January 8th, 2015
Back to making tacos for din din.
5:57 pm on January 8th, 2015
Good to know we have so many wise (and sane) friends in this here family.
Deborah Amos posted this piece by Juan Cole, which we think is good and makes much sense. It appears that France and the rest of Europe handle these incidents wisely, probably because they have had so many of these experiences; we here tend to lean toward knee-jerk reactions which just feed into the baddies’ agenda.
http://www.juancole.com/2015/01/sharpening-contradictions-satirists.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
6:08 pm on January 8th, 2015
B M and L– I took some semiotics classes that dealt with writing systems, and many signs in our various ethnic neighborhoods facilitate recognition of various different alphabets, ideographic systems, etc (e.g. I can recognize Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese scripts but not read them). I blush to confess that my first impression was that it was a post in Armenian (հայերէն/հայերեն) rather than Thai (ภาษาไทย).
I got the translation from Google translate–my home away from home, chetthedog and YouTube.
6:09 pm on January 8th, 2015
B M and L (and anyone else with time on her/his hands or snowed in)–For more information than you’d probably ever want,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_writing_system
6:24 pm on January 8th, 2015
DianeC, I am probably the first ijit who would qualify with too much time on da hands. But I want to thank youse for the info on what you showed us. Love learning new shiitake. The thai was curlique so looked middle eastern but thanks to you, we learned sumpin’.
6:29 pm on January 8th, 2015
We have a dear friend who is Soviet Georgian to Israeli and we have learned a whole bunch from her. Holy guacamole Batguy! Whooda thunk!
6:35 pm on January 8th, 2015
O’H–thanks for that most interesting link on “sharpening contradictions”–the argument makes perfect sense; sadly, doesn’t help the victims or their families.
Tupper’s Mama–I say “Amen”.
C. Hobbit–Well said. I’m going to try and attach a column from today’s LA Times that you may find of interest. I note with especial interest: “In the wake of the slaughter at the Charlie Hebdo offices, a number of Americans, commenting online, seemed to think terrorism was the obvious predictable response to the magazine’s decision to feature the author of a book imagining an Islamic-extremist take over of France. “What did they think would happen?” was an alarming refrain.
As if freedom of the press, speech and expression were things that should be curtailed if they might anger murderous, crazy people.
As if the whole point of freedom of the press, speech and expression weren’t to keep murderous crazy, people, including freely elected murderous, crazy people like Adolf Hitler, from controlling the socio-political discourse.
As if the first sign of fascism weren’t the limitation of free speech.”
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-critics-notebook-france-20150108-column.html
6:37 pm on January 8th, 2015
I may have too much time on my hands tomorrow when a major lake-effect storm moves in. I am supposed to be at a dear family friend’s funeral tomorrow morning. Sammie’s Daddy is a pall bearer. Plans were to take Loulou to Sam’s and ride with them. The service is at 9 a.m. Right now 14″ of snow is forecast to fall overnight which would make rush hour traffic impossible.
I’m now thinking I will wait to see what happens in the morning. I could make it to the church before the service is over or I could meet everyone at the breakfast that follows.
6:43 pm on January 8th, 2015
Macy with the tender dainty feet, Brian Williams just said there have been 20 earthquakes in the last two days in Texas. You must be reelin’ and a rockin’.
6:44 pm on January 8th, 2015
Many profound thoughts on the blog today. Thank you Amalia, Howlers, Diane, and anyone else who contributed.
6:46 pm on January 8th, 2015
HOH–Oddly I went to school briefly with a guy who was soviet-Georgian, then moved to Israel, then Minnesota, then to CA to finish school. (That’s three different scripts, plus probably Russian Cyrillic, so four, that your friend had to master. Yikes!)
(If you’re still snowed in, have a look at how written Cherokee was developed…Sequoyah is another personal hero…)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah
6:50 pm on January 8th, 2015
MPM–If you travel, please be careful–I’m not familiar, but I have the sense that cold and snow are closely associated with icy roads…
6:59 pm on January 8th, 2015
Diane, thank you for being a voice of sanity occasionally. You show us the alternate side two things when we haven’t thought of looking for it.
7:07 pm on January 8th, 2015
Diane, my favorite language is computer assembler language. For many years I spoke in hexadecimal (base 16).
7:20 pm on January 8th, 2015
Molly’s Mom, you are such a geek!!! And we mean that in the best way possible. Mom is chuckling over Assembler.
Also, we are very sorry to hear of your family friend’s passing. Be careful in the snow.
7:30 pm on January 8th, 2015
Diane, Thanks for the article from the LA Times. That was a good piece. If you get a chance to catch Jon Stewart’s response on last night’s show, please do. He rightly points out that, while we have virulently opposing viewpoints in this country in these politically divisive times, we are not each other’s enemy, because we are “Team Civilization”. It is those other’s, who don’t believe in discourse, who are our enemies.
7:35 pm on January 8th, 2015
MPM: Meet them at the breakfast that follows seems like a sane alternative. Icy roads here today. People killed on the Interstate yesterday due to icy conditions. Just sayin’.
7:49 pm on January 8th, 2015
DianeC. here in TN we have lots of Cherokee shiitake. Very educational. Vann House location and other things.
7:52 pm on January 8th, 2015
Mom tries to share her native American heritage but, folks laugh when she says “Potawatame”. They think she is joking…not! It is her grandma’s father.
7:54 pm on January 8th, 2015
BBut knowing mom she then say, “more pot than wata me”. So who in their right mind would believe her?
7:59 pm on January 8th, 2015
Je suis Charlie.
I believe in freedom of speech, plain and simple.
Thanks for the interesting links.
Mollypop’s Mom, CHobbit, Rio’s friend and all who have to drive in icy, snowy conditions: Drive carefully!
Sigh. I am taking 2 steps backwards for every step forward today. I’m so far behind I can almost see my tail!
8:03 pm on January 8th, 2015
Sequoia Rocks! Thanks for the shout out, Diane. He is the only human known to have created an entire written language from noting.
Sharon – old Indian joke: My grandparents were Chickasaw, Pottawatomi and Paiute – guess that makes me a Chick-an-Pott-Pie.
8:20 pm on January 8th, 2015
Events!…I simply cannot wrap my flathead around the events that take place on this here earth…sniff!…I will keep my opinions to myself because they involve hoping and praying that those two brothers are strung up by their kabobs once they are captured…grunt!
Idol!…On a lighter note – American Idol auditions are on!….Woooooo!…MollysMaw, are you going to watch this season?
8:27 pm on January 8th, 2015
Rio, thanks for letting me know. I still love American Idol. I will be watching – next week now I guess.
8:28 pm on January 8th, 2015
RIO! You and I share the same opinions, that is why I did not step up on my soapbox today.
Tomorrow the Prof and I will be going down to the Met. Much warmer day to walk in Manhattan—30 degrees will be the high.
8:29 pm on January 8th, 2015
Tupper’s Mama, love the joke. My funny bone is cracking up! Chick-an-pott-pie in a nut shell. My arse!
8:31 pm on January 8th, 2015
Rio, happy happy. I haven’t missed this week’s show. I’m tuned in right now!
8:34 pm on January 8th, 2015
Rio: Just stumbled across a finale of The Biggest Loser and I can’t believe the slimmed-down versions are the same people. Wow!
Must go shovel snow.
8:35 pm on January 8th, 2015
Lordy, 27*F here, 28*F in Anchorage. Heck, South Bend IN is 10*F. Go figure.
8:38 pm on January 8th, 2015
MollysMaw!…We are watching the first part of the 2-part initial auditions at Nashville….snort!…I just love the antics between Harry and Keith…chorkel!
8:43 pm on January 8th, 2015
We are already down to 6 degrees. Horses now have their blankies on. That hardly ever happens. In fact, we can never remember whose is who (did we say that right?)
8:57 pm on January 8th, 2015
We are at a whopping 27*F. Anchorage is 28*F. Go figure!
8:58 pm on January 8th, 2015
Bracing!….For yet another cold front moving on down from Canada….spit!grump!….My friend said the roads had just become drivable today….sniff!
9:08 pm on January 8th, 2015
Dawson! You Canadians need to keep your frigid weather to yourselves! (Or send it to Alaska.)
So there!
9:11 pm on January 8th, 2015
Oh Canada!….snort!…My friend said she was on the phone with someone from Canada yesterday at the busy-place and the gal said it was -40 below with the wind chill….yeeeeeep!…She also said, “Why in the hell do I live in a place like this?”…snort!….My friend told her she needed to go home and have a strengthening cocktail…heh!heh!
9:15 pm on January 8th, 2015
Yuck! Hee, Haa, and chortle! Stilll warmer in Anchorage than here! Who woudda thunk!
9:17 pm on January 8th, 2015
O’Howlers: If it was solely up to me I would surely keep all the cold weather for Canada and Alaska, but every other person in this town is trying to keep that cold weather down south. So sue me!
Oh, and it is -17 Fahrenheit here right now (-21 with wind chill) so it’s not as if it is warm up here. I think perhaps you should be blaming SiberH’s homeland.
9:26 pm on January 8th, 2015
So the infamous “check engine” light has been on most of the last two weeks. Usually it means nothing. This time it meant an emergency $1500 repair. They said I might not have made it to Fairbanks and been on the highway in a dead zone with no cell service. Yeep!
9:28 pm on January 8th, 2015
Dawson, don’t blame Mr. Siber H. He is a fun kinda guy!
9:32 pm on January 8th, 2015
We went through this same stuff last year. So now we are doing it again. I can’t go through another Iditarod with all the stuff that was happening last year. It wasn’t even happening to me but it was just awful!
For the moment a strengthening cocktail will do.
9:32 pm on January 8th, 2015
CHOBBIT!….YIKES!…gasp!….And YEEEEEP!
9:33 pm on January 8th, 2015
CHoobit. have the vehicle checked every 2,000 miles. Elsewise you will look like a dumb gal. Welcome to our world!
9:37 pm on January 8th, 2015
CHobbit, please be careful. That sounded dangerous. Stuck on the side of the road in the wilds of Alaska.
I’m worried right now about the wilds of Buffalo. I think another strengthening cocktail is in order.
9:39 pm on January 8th, 2015
I’fn I don’t do it, do yall thank Mr.Wonderful would?
9:42 pm on January 8th, 2015
MPM. y’all know what we are sayin’
9:48 pm on January 8th, 2015
Hobbit – whew! Sorry it was expensive, but glad you will be safe on the road.
We had plans for dinner that fell through. So we improvised with mac and cheese. Perfect for a cold night.
9:52 pm on January 8th, 2015
Never mind.
9:52 pm on January 8th, 2015
MPM: Don’t panic. The Farewell Burn section of trail that so many mushers had trouble with was re-vamped over the summer. Even with a lack of snow cover it should not be as treacherous as it was last year.
9:53 pm on January 8th, 2015
Strengthening!…Yup! Another one is in order given the weather and the stressful-ness of everything…grunt!gurgle!
9:53 pm on January 8th, 2015
http://www.adn.com/article/20141202/notorious-section-iditarod-trail-gets-facelift
9:55 pm on January 8th, 2015
Dawson and MPM. lordy, it looks like a super highway. 10 feet wide with few stumps.
9:57 pm on January 8th, 2015
In my perfect world, my check engine light could light up, as it often does. My car is 15 years old. But if the problem was serious, an extra light would come on that said, “Really!”
I do get tired of that all purpose light on my dashboard.
Anyway, driving conditions are very different for you, CHobbit. I am glad you will be safe.
Long, long day for me today. Nice to be home and under the blankets. Good night. Good warmth.
10:04 pm on January 8th, 2015
We agree but how will the new muushers know what “hell’ was like?
10:11 pm on January 8th, 2015
What? WE thought it was Check Every 20,000 miles…not the oil… that’s every 2,000. And, Yes Checks are involved!
C.Hobbit: Thank Dog you had Your Car checked! Yeep!
Dawson: So Far Behind you are seeing your tail? We’re past the tail and Going in Circles.
10:21 pm on January 8th, 2015
Dog, but we are worn out from sleeping in the cozy house all day. So g’night, family.
10:39 pm on January 8th, 2015
We love our bloglialy (is that like a family?)
Nighty night.
11:12 pm on January 8th, 2015
Engine!…The ominous “Check Engine” light is always on in my ole Subaru…sniff!…But the guys down where my friend takes the car never mention it and so therefore….
End!…One more horrible weather day to drive to the busy-place on frozen rain with one inch of snow on top tomorrow morning…grump!…I have never seen my friend so discouraged before – although January and February do bring out the worst in her…heh!heh!…I have my own bathroom problems to deal with in this awful, dreadful, miserable and most horribly winter weather…sniff!
11:22 pm on January 8th, 2015
Dog awful weather here. Enjoy!
11:23 pm on January 8th, 2015
Want a slurpy Rio kiss!
12:09 am on January 9th, 2015
Sorry, HOH. I think the new deal is they’re only given out on the dark side.
12:14 am on January 9th, 2015
Staff: Before we sign off, I wanted to tell you how kat-like you look in that photo with Henry. And, coming from a kat, that’s a good thing and a high compliment.
12:18 am on January 9th, 2015
Rio: Yeep! Your life sucks right now. i am worrit about your friend on that icy road with a Subaru that needs an engine check.
4:52 pm on January 9th, 2015
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