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Cravendale - Milk Me Brian Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Who first thought to milk a cow?
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"God is kneading the fresh dough of his Kingdom into the world through the broken but beautiful church."
~Dan White Jr.

“The goal of prayer is not to get good at praying. The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.”
~John Ortberg

"But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.”
~Kathleen Norris

"It’s hard for people really to believe we want them in heaven if we don’t want them in our living room."
~Ralph Neighbor

Henri Nouwen’s Story about the Flyer and the Catcher

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AOL's dial-up internet still exists, but not for much longer AOL will shut down its dial-up Internet on September 30, putting an end to the nostalgic service that gained popularity in the '90s.

It still exists, but not for much longer www.engadget.com/computing/ao...

Alberta government changes expense disclosure policy, removes eight years of records | CBC News Key changes to Alberta’s expense disclosure policy mean that the receipts of senior government officials, including the premier, will no longer be public.

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Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have WASHINGTON—Describing the shift as a troubling indicator for the health of the nation’s system of governance, watchdog group Freedom House published a report Wednesday downgrading the United States fr...

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From Thomas More's "Utopia."
“You must not abandon the ship just because you cannot control the winds”

YouTube video by Carrie Newcomer I Heard An Owl

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"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use."
~Wendell Johnson

Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2025 The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) is the reference document for a comprehensive analysis of global, regional and country-level acute food insecurity. The result of a collaborative effort among 1...

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Jim Lovell, Legendary Commander Of Apollo 13, Dead At 97 - Jalopnik As one of America's Space Age space men, Lovell forged a legacy by setting a number of remarkable firsts.

www.jalopnik.com/1935072/jim-...

Ranked: The World’s Most Spoken Languages in 2025 See the most 25 spoken languages in 2025 and the marked difference between English and Mandarin's popularity.

www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-w...

YouTube video by Alexander Shekhtman Tom Lehrer: Who's Next? (concert live) (1965)

The brilliant Tom Lehrer
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Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like in 2014 Image by Rochester Institute of Technology, via Wikimedia Commons When New York City hosted The World's Fair in 1964, Isaac Asimov, the prolific sci-fi author and professor of biochemistry at Boston U...

www.openculture.com/2025/07/isaa...

Sean Duffy's NASA Order To Put A Nuclear Reactor On The Moon Is A Lunar Land Grab - Jalopnik Duffy's directive orders NASA to prepare a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor for launch by 2030.

www.jalopnik.com/1931620/nasa...

Israel’s move to take over Gaza looks likely to be open-ended occupation Decision will place huge financial burden on Israel and could lead to massive increase in Palestinian civilian deaths

This will not go well
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

YouTube video by Dan French Bruce Springsteen - 2013-07-20 Belfast - This Little Light Of Mine (show start)

Only Bruce Springsteen could use "ass-kicking" to introduce "This Little Light of Mine"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW8y...

Sigh. NPR just quoted Trump saying tariffs mean “billions of dollars will be flowing into the U.S.” without any indication that this is a lie. Zero dollars “flow into the U.S.” because of tariffs.

"You cannot make yourself feel what you do not feel, but you can make yourself do what is right in spite of your feelings"
~Pearl Buck

Your annual reminder that next Thursday (14 August) is guilt-free DQ Blizzard day

YouTube video by BBC Global Inside the world of weaverbirds' stunning nest creation | BBC Global

The weaver bird is fascinating www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVdq...

Hiroshima A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died.

An important read on the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima (Aug 6) & Nagasaki (Aug 9) horrific moments in history (1945). Atomic bombs were dropped killing over 150,000 people. The US still has a stockpile of weapons equivalent to over 100,000 Hiroshima bombs. www.newyorker.com/magazine/194...

YouTube video by The Allan Sherman Show Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (Camp Granada Song) with Lyrics Sing-Along, Allan Sherman, 1963, updated

for everyone with kids at camp
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yFT...

"History never looks like history when you are living through it." ~John W. Gardener

YouTube video by NPR Music Billy Bragg & Joe Henry: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

some train songs: Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
from NPR - funding for which trump is cutting
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