The Coffee House

[jcdeboever]

Anyone recognize this place?

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Gary's favorite winery?

 

[snowbear118 49]

Anyone recognize this place?

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Gary's favorite winery?

Not even close. Wrong side of the country, anyway.

 

[snowbear118 49]

 

[jcdeboever]

Anyone recognize this place?

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Gary's favorite winery?

Not even close. Wrong side of the country, anyway.

No distance too far for a Gary winery.

 

[terri37 8]

Anyone recognize this place?

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Not I. Given your last location, I'm guessing you think we *should* know it... A scary government building, perhaps?

 

[snowbear118 49]

It could be, though I'd be more afraid of Fort Meade where NSA is located. Funny, there is a Snowden Road in that area.

 

[terri37 8]

Oh!! Now I'm seeing the other shot up there - FBI, maybe? That's scary.

 

[snowbear118 49]

Well, it's time to disappear for a bit. As in one of my favorite lines in The Russians are Coming! the Russians are Coming!
"Nohman! They've opened up the bah"

 

[JonA_CT]

Today's haul.

I picked all of the cukes that were ready 3 days ago. I'm running out of places to stick pickles.

 

[Frank F.]

Gary likes cable news channels, CNN, MSNBC and Fox.

The problem I have with all the cable news channels is the commentary. In my previous ,news days we were very careful to report the news, and not become a part of the news, unlike today's "Jerry Springerish" fare. I haven't looked at the stats lately but back in 2012 Pew did a study and found that 85% of MSNBC's programming was commentary, Fox was 56%, and CNN was 46%. I would suspect that it's only gotten worse. The other issue is that to many otherwise intelligent people in this country form opinions based on the comments provided by the "so called" experts, who spout their opinions as the gospel, never stopping to think who might be actually paying for the "opinions", nor doing their own research. If ever we needed a reincarnation of Walter Kronkite, it's now.

In Gary's opinion cable "news" is closer to 100% commentary. For real news Gary looks to mainstream newspapers, LA Times (of course), NY Times, Washington Post, and AP. In the evenings, after a cycle of cable news, Gary and Mary Lou will watch the local Tv channels ... more news and less commentary. Gary is highly suspect of news sources of which he didn't grow up with or know them in his previous life. Things like BuzzFeed, Huffington, Mother Jones, Breitbart, Infowars, Politico, et al, Gary is very very leery. Because Gary grew up in a political family and later became a journalist, he devours news, especially world event and political.

Unfortunately and in general, because the stakes are so high in politics for special interests, there is a lot of money to be made generating and planting fabricated, made up, stories on web sites that look legitimate but were actually created to host "fake" news. Real news isn't cheap. Real news requires resources and money and staff to research and interview. Investigative reporting is terribly expensive, all the hours, weeks even months of research and following leads and not generating anything printable/airable is very very expensive. Few news organizations have the resources for investigative reporting. News organizations have staff who get paid week-in and week-out cross checking stories for accuracy prior to publication, staffers who check grammar and word usage.

You are right smoke, to beware of cable news. As it is far more commentary than news.

You are right, research is expensive and still sometimes leads to the conclusion that the smoke was no smoke and there was no fire. So no article, no broadcast, only expenses. That can happen. It is in fact the same in science. But for me this is glorious, that people bear the effort even if it might lead to nothing. Real heroes.

I cannot bear all the news these days, not because the world is in a bad state, but because many people look at the world at an angle that makes the world look bad.

Today so many people live on this planet, roughly three times the amount who lived when I was born. They live longer, are better educated, less are hungry, more live in democratic states and in relative security. The world has gotten significantly better in the last 50 years and is continuing to become better.

The principle that "only bad news is news at all" leads to a completely wrong state of alarm in many people, of whom many are then discouraged to change the things the can influence to the better. But look at people like Elon Musk or Bill & Melinda Gates: The see the opportunities to make our lifes better, them an many Millions more.

So sleeves up and work for a brighter future, however you may define it. Even work in a direction one might considers wrong is better than sit and stare at the wall or the TV depressed and discouraged.

My opionion is that the world is much better than it was 50 years ago and in 50 years we will look back and say: "WOW, the world has still become a much better place, more peaceful, more educated and finally humanity has learned to live in harmony with their natural environment!"

 

[tirediron]

... I'm running out of places to stick pickles.

40 minutes and no one has bit on this yet? Yeesh!

 

[snowbear118 49]

... I'm running out of places to stick pickles.

40 minutes and no one has bit on this yet? Yeesh!

We've been warned once, so I guess nobody want's to piss mom off. But, yeah, you can try to stuff 'em in the tripod socket.

 

[snowbear118 49]

Dinner was here:


When you see this outside and only one guy goes in, you can sure it's good.


No photos of food because I was too busy stuffing it in.

 

[limr32 1]

... I'm running out of places to stick pickles.

40 minutes and no one has bit on this yet? Yeesh!

I believe we've got some triple innuendos going on here.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary just finished a quick three miles on the treadmill and is now recovering in the patio in the patio drinking iced water and eating refrigerated Chardonnay and Merlot grapes.

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