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SÃ¸ren · Post by **SÃ¸ren** » Sun Oct 25, 2015 2:49 pm

Went to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra this past week. As a person who does not usually go to hear symphony orchestras, I was amazed how much music I got for the money! I lost count of how many highly qualified musicians played that night and we even got a lecture before hand introducing the music that was going to be played.

(NOT intending to ignite any discussion about funding and symphony orchestras)

bort · Post by **bort** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 6:16 pm

I have to admit -- I find baseball VERY boring.

I'm excited that the Mets are in the World Series, and I really want to know what happens. But I'm just as happy to wake up and find out the result than to sit through the whole game. Honestly, it's been what, 4 or 5 days since the last game? I'm kind of over it, I forgot all about it until a few minutes ago.

The only downside is that my wife loves baseball -- she wants to watch every minute of it. She'll see that I get bored of the game and want to turn the channel or do something else, and she asks "Is it *really* a problem to watch a baseball game with your wife?" She's got a point...

bort · Post by **bort** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:34 am

Today is my birthday!

scottw · Post by **scottw** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 11:11 am

bort wrote:Today is my birthday!

Well then, make it a happy one! You are now old enough to be POTUS!

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 11:14 am

bort wrote:I have to admit -- I find baseball VERY boring....

I have some very well traveled German friends who know much more about the US than I do. However... they had never been to an American baseball game. They were here about five years ago and I took them to a game of the local minor league team. They were appalled! They pretty much understood what the game was about but they thought it was totally disrespectful to the players that the spectators were milling around and drinking beer instead of paying strict attention to the game. That plus the fact that the game moved so slowly. We left after two innings!

alfredr · Post by **alfredr** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 10:55 am

It is Halloween tonight and Daylight Saving Time ends also. Who knows what can happen in that extra hour on such a night?

I will go try to scare Bloke now.

bort · Post by **bort** » Fri Nov 13, 2015 3:00 pm

Intentional or not, it was offensive.

Reminds me of this:
http://tinyurl.com/offensiveESPNheadline

Three Valves · Post by **Three Valves** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 8:12 am

I sure hope we catch whoever made the movie that inspired Friday's attacks in France.

That kind of hateful Free Speech cannot be tolerated!!

Three Valves · Post by **Three Valves** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 12:08 pm

So, you think it was the cartoons??

bisontuba · Post by **bisontuba** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 1:09 pm

From Facebook:

Quick: what do Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the UAE have in common?

If you said they are not accepting refugees from Syria you'd be right.

Three Valves · Post by **Three Valves** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 1:27 pm

I wasn't aware refugees were even going there.

After all, they can't escape the Global Warming, which obviously, in addition to poorly produced movies and bad cartoons, inspires terrorism, leading to migration and human tragedy.

bort · Post by **bort** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 2:08 pm

bisontuba wrote:From Facebook:

Quick: what do Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the UAE have in common?

...never been in my kitchen?

Donn · Post by **Donn** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 3:16 pm

Angela Merkel wrote: we live from compassion, love of one's neighbors, and joy in community. We believe in everyone's individual right to seek happiness… in respect for others and in tolerance.
...
answer the terrorists by living our values confidently, and strengthening them in the whole of Europe - now more than ever.

Recent quote from the German Chancellor - Germany maybe the only country left who will take them. I guess she didn't arrive at those values by consulting with the rulers of Saudia Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain etc. I'm not sure which way I'd go if it were my call, but I don't think it's necessarily idiotic to take risks for the sake of humanity.

bort · Post by **bort** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 3:23 pm

Three Valves · Post by **Three Valves** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 4:05 pm

Donn wrote:...I don't think it's necessarily idiotic to take risks for the sake of humanity.

Humanity is helping people fight inhumanity where they live, making their home nicer to stay, so they don't drown trying to escape on a raft.

alfredr · Post by **alfredr** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 6:41 am

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

Three Valves · Post by **Three Valves** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 7:31 am

alfredr wrote:“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

Legal, regulated immigration of those yearning to breathe free and willing to assimilate with our culture are welcome as always.

bort · Post by **bort** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:52 am

They can come, but they have to buy tickets to orchestra concerts.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:01 pm

bloke wrote: bloke "...I'm covering his tuition to pursue a degree in women's studies at the local university. "

Why? Don't their studies have enough books in them now that they don't call them "libraries" nowadays?

Three Valves · Post by **Three Valves** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 1:06 pm

bort wrote:They can come, but they have to buy tickets to orchestra concerts.

"Buy??"

You heartless SOB!!

Tickets should be PROVIDED.

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