http://mohawk742.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by Chuck L. en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:48:20 GMT 2010-01-03T09:48:20Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973492   OK, everybody… settle down.  C’mon, let’s get that last coffee refill and take our… Dr. Johnson, could we have one meeting here please?!? Thank you.  Dr. . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:54:47 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973492 Chuck L. 2010-01-03T02:54:47Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973067 I'm not quite sure why, and I'm not sure I can keep up with it, but I have started a blog at blogspot.  The name of the blog is " The Iterant Lib'rul ," and the url is: http://itinerantlibrul.blogspot.com/ . . . Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:27:39 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973067 Chuck L. 2010-01-02T19:27:39Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971761 Looked out my rear window, and I saw snow cleared from the ice for skating, children and parents sliding down snow-ramps onto the ice, children and parents playing hockey ( the dates got screwed up on . . . Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:28:07 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977971761 Chuck L. 2010-01-01T21:28:07Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969084 As my brother and I grew older, we began to be “farmed out” to neighboring farms to assist in haying, milking, clean-out… in essence, whatever a neighbor needed to have done, the Old . . . Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:59:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977969084 Chuck L. 2009-12-30T19:59:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968053 The Luvly Laura got tired of watching a super-bitch insult beauty salon owners and staff.  She switched to PBS, which was running a program entitled "What Darwin Never Knew," an exploration of the . . . Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:21:01 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968053 Chuck L. 2009-12-30T03:21:01Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977967383   The Old Man spent a fair amount of time, off and on, trying to get horses for us. After all, what’s the point of having a big barn if you can’t put a horse or two in it? Oh, there . . . Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:39:47 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977967383 Chuck L. 2009-12-29T17:39:47Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977967151 According to this article, " Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., has held up President Barack Obama's nominee in opposition to the prospect of TSA workers joining a labor union ." Exactly how this idiot believes . . . Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:34:03 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977967151 Chuck L. 2009-12-29T14:34:03Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977966022 ...or not.  Two teenage scientists , participating in a "Genetic Barcoding" experiment, have identified a possible new species of American Cockroach.  It is speculated that this animal, which . . . Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:35:22 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977966022 Chuck L. 2009-12-28T20:35:22Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977963670 It began Christmas Eve.  It was 3:30 in the afternoon, and Luvly Dotter had not yet arrived with her family.  It’s been a tradition for years that she, a devotee' of Wicca, celebrates . . . Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:55:29 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977963670 Chuck L. 2009-12-26T17:55:29Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977961914 "Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it.' Yestcried the Spirit, stretching . . . Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:00:04 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977961914 Chuck L. 2009-12-24T18:00:04Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977961156 READ THE OLD MAN AND ME – Christmas on the Farm – Part 1 here The Old Man had a problem… Christmas was downstairs, much of it was not disguisable, and his children would . . . Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:19:17 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977961156 Chuck L. 2009-12-24T03:19:17Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977960731 And Rob Port agrees with her ... According to Rob, Sarah wrote at the end of a Facebook entry on this issue: " Though Nancy Pelosi and friends have tried to call "death panels" the "lie of the . . . Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:31:31 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977960731 Chuck L. 2009-12-23T19:31:31Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977958595 There are significant differences between the House and Senate versions of Healthcare reform, and Democrats in BOTH houses are threatening to jump ship if they don't get THEIR specific language.  . . . Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:52:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977958595 Chuck L. 2009-12-22T13:52:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977955683 Christmas shopping was organized chaos in our household. The Old Man worked a six-day week at the Standard Slag Sand and Gravel Company. The sand and gravel mine was the next road south, a mile behind . . . Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:55:13 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977955683 Chuck L. 2009-12-20T16:55:13Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977954783 While we were chopping weeds, hauling manure, planting seeds, and generally turning the half-acre of black bottom land assigned to each of us into prize-winning, eatable, can-able and freeze-able vegetables, . . . Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:34:24 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977954783 Chuck L. 2009-12-19T18:34:24Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977954683 I remained in 4-H until I was 18 (once I turned 14 it was mostly about the girls who owned horses… not that they paid me a blind bit of attention). Once the last of the hens had been delivered . . . Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:45:59 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977954683 Chuck L. 2009-12-19T16:45:59Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977953153 The summer I turned eight, we moved. The Old Man and my Mother had decided that their children should know the joys and labors of growing up on a farm. So-o-o-o-o… they bought a farm – . . . Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:38:40 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977953153 Chuck L. 2009-12-18T15:38:40Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977949126   Back in the ‘70s it was announced by a consortium of Climatologists, Atmosphere specialists and the odd meteorologist, that the climatological temperature increases being experienced . . . Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:46:09 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977949126 Chuck L. 2009-12-16T02:46:09Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977948944   The year I turned six was a momentous year. I started school (no Kindergarten for us - bung ‘em straight into a full school day in first grade), and promptly got my hands whacked with . . . Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:53:12 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977948944 Chuck L. 2009-12-15T23:53:12Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977948354   As I told you earlier, from the time I was three until I was almost eight, we lived in a little, red, two-story house by the side of an Ohio country road, named for its most locally known feature, . . . Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:15:21 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977948354 Chuck L. 2009-12-15T17:15:21Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977945286 This post will be a little different from most of the Old Man and Me series.  I want something from you.  I want a copy of a Norman Rockwell painting of The Old Man.  I suspect the original . . . Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:18:11 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977945286 Chuck L. 2009-12-13T21:18:11Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977943967 But-but-but-but, Chuck... does that mean my opinion doesn't matter in the "Climate Change," "Global Warming," "Swifthack" debate? Does it mean my opinion doesn't matter in the "Evolution," "Creationism," . . . Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:54:19 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977943967 Chuck L. 2009-12-12T15:54:19Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977942429 Lloyd C. Proud Democrat shared a post entitled: “ Oh please, dear God, I think I've killed him. Please Father in heaven. Please Father in heaven. Oh my God, ma'am. … I'm so sorry ."” . . . Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:24:09 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977942429 Chuck L. 2009-12-11T13:24:09Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977939807   COPENHAGEN: “ This year is likely to rank as one of the "10 warmest" since 1850, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said Tuesday in a report providing further evidence . . . Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:11:09 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977939807 Chuck L. 2009-12-10T00:11:09Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977936223 About eight years ago, th' Luvly Laura decided that the deaths of Shannon, our house-horse (a half Lab, half Irish Airhead that could get lost at the end of her leash) and Shannon's little buddy Kasha, . . . Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:01:23 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977936223 Chuck L. 2009-12-08T04:01:23Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932767 This site is the damnedest hotbed of conspiracies I've ever seen.  Wish some of 'em would post their best (and weirdest) to a group I created especially for them ( Conspiracies "R" Us ), but... . . . Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:12:43 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977932767 Chuck L. 2009-12-06T03:12:43Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977927807 Little Sister came up to Michigan from Ohio to help me care for th' Luvly Laura, who fell down the stairs and broke things (the stairs are OK... thanx for asking).  Things were so frantic that a . . . Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:00:08 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977927807 Chuck L. 2009-12-02T23:00:08Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977927115 That was me at 0400 yesterday morning.  The kidney stone wouldn't move, I couldn't pee.  My kidney felt as if someone had sunk an axe in it and was yanking it up and down, and I'd've bet significant . . . Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:16:34 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977927115 Chuck L. 2009-12-02T13:16:34Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977922851 In a thread on my earlier post, " I'm an Atheist and you should be too ," I responded to a comment by saying,  " My supervisor asked me once in an interview for a promotion, "What's the worst thing . . . Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:32:32 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977922851 Chuck L. 2009-11-30T00:32:32Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977921601 Why?  Because the "God" in which you believe makes no sense, or-r-r-r-r... he's a malevolent, Universe-grade practical joker who sends people to burn forever in some coal-fired pit for getting fooled . . . Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:35:45 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977921601 Chuck L. 2009-11-28T19:35:45Z