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[bk]

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were peaceful, and now it is time for you to post until the quiet cows come home.

[DERBRUCER]

For Dakota:



der Brucer

[bk]

And the word of the day is: PANGRAM!

[DakotaCelt]

Good one DerBrucer!

[DakotaCelt]

AS they say in the library

SHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DakotaCelt]

It will be a challenge for parents to find toys that have not been made in China and do not have lead paint

[DakotaCelt]

If I was a parent, I would be very, very wary of the Children's toy aisle

[DakotaCelt]

China may think it is great to have a booming economy but at what price to the rest of the world due to poor health standards and quality standards.

[DERBRUCER]

An potential project for bk would be penning "Murder at Hollywood Community College". Of course, there is no HCC - how rude! There is however a North Hollywood CC - maybe Adriana has to move.

der Brucer

Note to non-SoCal HHW denezins:

Hollywood is a city in Florida, but merely a neighborhood in the City of Los Angeles in CA. They do have a city of North Hollywood, and one of West Hollywood, however.

[DakotaCelt]

Cool....

[DERBRUCER]

It will be a challenge for parents to find toys that have not been made and China and not have lead paint

A chore made particularly difficult when toys need not be labeled based on the country of origin of individual components (I could manufacture a toy in Nevada containing some parts painted in China and still label the toy as "Made in the U.S.A.")

der Brucer

[DakotaCelt]

Very true...

[DakotaCelt]

Interestingly, ND has a number of towns named after GErman cities

Berlin, Bismarck, New Leipzig (After Leipzig), Bremen, Munich, Osnabruck, Strasburg,

We also have innumerable townships named after German cities and provinces

Minnesota has New Ulm and New Munich

[DakotaCelt]

BTW, those are ones that come to mind at the moment.

[DERBRUCER]

It will be a challenge for parents to find toys that have not been made in China and do not have lead paint

The challenge goes far beyond "toys" - think of all the stuff around the home that kids could stick in their mouths (or chew on) - wooden coasters, jewelery boxes, christmas decorations, holiday napkin rings...(and lets not forget all the wonderful "retro" christmas decorations and kids toys from the 50's - Grandpas sled is probably toxic - not to mention his cute little red wagon!

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

Interestingly, ND has a number of towns named after GErman cities

Berlin, Bismarck, New Leipzig (After Leipzig), Bremen, Munich, Osnabruck, Strasburg,

We also have innumerable townships named after German cities and provinces

Minnesota has New Ulm and New Munich

Maybe UND could change their mascot to "The Angry Huns".

der Brucer

[DakotaCelt]

UND's original nickname was the Flickertails back in the 1920s.

It was NDSU in 1932 that suggested UND should change their name to the Sioux to make it work with the Nickel trophy that the football teams would play for. Bison vs. Sioux.  The trophy was an indian head nickel.

UND now blames NDSU..

[DakotaCelt]

You know, it would have to be Russians. The Germans from Russia are the largest group of Germans in ND and the most conservative.

[DakotaCelt]

amazing the problems with retro, they may have been just as deadly

[DakotaCelt]

Even funnier, UND's official colors are green, white and pink.

[DERBRUCER]

You know, it would have to be Russians. The Germans from Russia are the largest group of Germans in ND and the most conservative.

Aren't Germans from Russia called Poles?

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

amazing the problems with retro, they may have been just as deadly

Do you think there are any buildings on Indian reservations that were built before 1978? They would all surely have lead based paint.

der Brucer

[DakotaCelt]

Aren't Germans from Russia called Poles?

der Brucer

No!  I would not even dare call them that in ND... I do value my life!

These were GErmans invited by Tzarina Katerina the Great  to settle in the Volga River valley and around the Black sea area.

Other German groups include Sudeten Germans, and Germans from Bukovina, BEssarabia, WEst Prussia, and Moldavia.

[DakotaCelt]

and my German ancestors are Reichduetsch... Germans from the homeland. They are namely from Rheinland-Pfalz

[DakotaCelt]

DerBrucer, I would not be surprised at all. Cheap as possible with the poorest supplies as possible.

The government and especially the BIA practiced eugenics on native American women until the 1970s on some reservations.  It is one reason that very few native american women had children in hospitals due to forced sterilization.

[DERBRUCER]

ASSOCIATED PRESS

HUMAN ERROR TO BLAME FOR SAN FRANCISCO BAY OIL SPILL

OAKLAND, Calif. —  A preliminary investigation found human error caused a cargo ship to crash into the Bay Bridge, leading to San Francisco Bay's worst oil spill in nearly two decades, the U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday as rescue teams raced to save hundreds of seabirds.

What nit-wit bureaucrat put that bridge in the ship's way?

der Brucer

[DakotaCelt]

Congress.... CA governor.....

[DakotaCelt]

derBrucer, as much as I am enjoying chatting, I really need to catch some zzzzzz's....

I am starting to fall asleep at the keyboard. Take care and pleasant dreams.

[DakotaCelt]

'night Derbrucer and pleasant dreams!

[DERBRUCER]

The government and especially the BIA practiced eugenics on native American women until the 1970s on some reservations.  It is one reason that very few native american women had children in hospitals due to forced sterilization.

Don't get me going on Indians from the reservation - I hold a very politically incorrect point of view: youth from Indian reservations come from a damaged gene-pool; most native Americans with getup and go got up and went! Generations of selective out-migration (heavily weighted toward the more capable) has further degraded the reservation stock.

In retrospect, the whole Reservation concept was a badly conceived and wretchedly executed new-world effort at peace making. The traditional kill and conquer model works better in the long run. When aboriginal peoples are confronted with overpowering invaders, they are ultimately best served by forced integration.

der Brucer (Great White Hunter)