hey, anybody else check this out yet?
i was just watching the colbert report and heard about wiki scanner--you can now scan to see which organizations have been editing at wikipedia.
i tried it and there were 18 results containing the word watchtower.
Ah, ok, I must have missed that when my internet service was down.
Shazard, it looks like you have to click on Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, then checkmark the same on new page, click on Wikipedia Edits Ahoy button, then one of the titles listed. It will take you to the old Wiki page before any change was made so you can compare it with the page as it now exists after editing...I think.
~Merry
hey, anybody else check this out yet?
i was just watching the colbert report and heard about wiki scanner--you can now scan to see which organizations have been editing at wikipedia.
i tried it and there were 18 results containing the word watchtower.
Hey, anybody else check this out yet?
I was just watching the Colbert Report and heard about Wiki Scanner--you can now scan to see which organizations have been editing at Wikipedia. So. I tried it and there were 18 results containing the word Watchtower. Haven't taken a look beyond that yet. If anyone else wants to (especially someone who knows what they are looking for) here is the site: http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
And here is the results page I got: http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/name2ip.php?orgname=Watchtower&location=
~Merry
so what is it?
i say mine is english with an admixture of german (before the nazis ever existed, no need to go on about that) northern french and italian from venice.
i look northern european and feel close to that part of the world with family tradition being roman catholic.
My maternal grandmother's great grandfathers both moved from Connecticut to Kansas with the Beecher Bible and Rifle Colony.
The Beecher Bible and Rifle Colony consisted of a group of Connecticut citizens who gathered together to emigrate to the Kansas Territory to support the free soil/anti-slavery movement there. Officially known as the Connecticut Kansas Colony, it became popularly known as the Beecher Bible and Rifle Colony after Rev. Henry Ward Beecher raised money to purchase 25 rifles for the colony members and one of his parishioners donated 25 Bibles.
Most of her emigrant ancestors came to North America in the 1600s-- from England (John Alden is among these, supposedly), from Wales, and from Ireland.
My maternal grandfather's emigrant ancestors came here from Ireland in the 1800s (family story is that my grandfather's grandfather knocked his landlord over a fence in an argument and then had to run for his life).
My paternal grandfather's emigrant ancestors came over from England and Ireland in the 1600s also. I have traced my paternal lineage back to the 1330s in England, but not with any great certainty. My grandfather's great great grandfather was killed by Sac and Potawotamie Indians in 1810. His wife had an MKT railway engine named in honor of her (#311), as she is considered "the Mother of Cooper County" in Missouri. Here is a pic of their youngest son, my grandfather's great grandfather, Samuel:
Amateur genealogy enlivens my interest in history.
~Merry
tonight and into tomarrow morning is the annual perseids meteor shower.
this year will be great viewing since the moon will not be up to drown out the meteors.
the activity should start peeking around midnight and you want to be looking northeast.. early next month a very rare shower (the aurigids) that astronomers know very little about.. read more here:.
Just wanted to say thanks, Brent !
Had a great time by the river, laying on the sand, watching the meteor show...with my daughter running about laughing madly...the dog barking at intruders...the neighbor's dog chasing my daughter and kicking sand in my face... and my ex-husband there too, claiming that the other lights passing overhead were alien spacecraft.
A good (albeit somewhat strange) time was had by all.
~Merry
click: prescient warning on iraq, given in 1994
Interesting! Thanks for the link....Obviously, Cheney didn't know what he was saying, because, according to John Burns of the New York Times, nobody could have known this would happen.
"John, was it possible for our policy-makers to truly understand the way Iraqis would have reacted?..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10ysMsrCV2Q
"My guess is that history will say that the forces that we liberated by invading Iraq were so powerful and so uncontrollable that virtually nothing the United States might have done, except to impose its own repressive state, with half a million troops, which might have had to last 10 years or more, nothing we could have done would have prevented this disintegration that has now occurred."
(in italics, the opening and closing lines of this Tim Russert clip)
~Merry
claire posted the news earlier this week that ian has received the stem cell transplant.
once again, here's the link for sending ian an e-greeting at the christie hospital.. .
http://www.christie.nhs.uk/egreeting/default.aspx.
Back to the top page wiv ya ~
~Merry
the peaceful ghost dance started by by desparate indians hoping for freedom, from the the greedy white man and his government caught on and was adopted by many tribes which frightened the us government that an uprising was in the making which was brought to an abrut end in the slaughter at wounded knee i have collected several renditions:.
i did not know then how much was ended.
when i look back now from this high hill of my old age, i can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered along the crooked gulch as plain as when i saw them with eyes still young.
A recent favorite of mine-- John Trudell: Look at Us
...an artist Kris Kristofferson once called "a crazy lone wolf, poet, prophet, preacher, warrior full of pain and fun and laughter and love...He's a reality check. Justice is a fire that burns inside him. His spirit cries out for it. It makes him dangerous."
The dangerous poetry and visionary music of John Trudell was forged by an extraordinary life, lived out in heart of the land and its people. Born of mixed tribal blood, John grew up in and around the Santee Sioux reservation near his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. The struggle against economic and cultural deprivation would, in time, become the raw material for his uncompromising artistic vision.
Trudell, a Vietnam Veteran, served in the U.S. Navy from 1963-1967, attended college for a while and then dropped out. In 1969, Trudell participated in the occupation of Alcatraz Island by Indians of All Tribes, becoming a spokesman for Indians of All Tribes. After the Indians of All Tribes occupation ended in 1971, Trudell worked with the American Indian Movement, becoming national Chairman of AIM in 1973. Trudell was chairman of AIM from 1973 until 1979. In February of 1979, Trudell's mother-in-law, wife and three children were killed in a fire of unknown origin.It was through this horrific tragedy, that Trudell began to find his voice as an artist and poet, writing, in his words, "to stay connected to this reality." "The lines were my bombs," he continues, "my explosions, my tears."
--http://www.johntrudell.com/bio.html
What happened with the US versus the Native Americans reminds me of what is happening with Israel versus the Palestinians. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhfEWqBvav0
The desire for justice should make us all more dangerous.
~Merry
yesterday, when i was driving to work i heard on the radio that ingmar bergman had died.
i was a big, big fan of his.
he really was a master filmmaker, he truly knew more about us than anyone else; what its like to grieve, to see the world through the eyes of a child, to know the pain of love, and loss.
~Merry
claire posted the news earlier this week that ian has received the stem cell transplant.
once again, here's the link for sending ian an e-greeting at the christie hospital.. .
http://www.christie.nhs.uk/egreeting/default.aspx.
Sent!
Thanks so much for the link
~Merry
ahh i suppose after posting a bit its time to say hello.
hello people, all of you :).
who am i, well i'm the middle child of my parents, who are ex jw's, so i'm not sure if that makes me one since they stopped attending jw occasions when i was 11, but having experienced being part of it, and having not enjoyed it i can say i class myself as an ex-jw.
You don't have to be any particular kind or calibre of ex-jw to be considered "family" here...you don't even have to be an ex-jw at all. So welcome, and thanks for the introduction. I think it will be nice knowing you
~Merry
