I also wonder if the bomb droppers were actually fully prepared for the destruction that actually occurred. I have seen articles that said that both sides were actually astounded at the devastation.

I am sure the scientist and a few of the crew members on the planes had a pretty good idea what the bombs would do however most were not aware because information was limited and the politicians often don't have a clue even when they have all the information.

As to TV remotes it just amazes me! Look, we all know that they, cordless phones, spectacle cases, keys etc all go missing with regular monotony. But there are ways around it. My cordless phone's base unit has a button that when pressed, rings all the handsets. You can buy keyrings that when you whistle they respond back etc. So why don't the TV makers do something like that i.e. a simple button on the set that rings the remote?

Dish network now has a box with a finder button for the remote if two things are true. First you need a good battery in the remote and second, I hope they didn't put one of those high pitched sound generators in it that's well above my hearing range.

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LSM and I saw a moose grazing in a slough
along the side of the road today. The female
looked like about three years old, and very
healthy.



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Don't any one dare say it....

Here we have mooses in the towns.
Last year one walked on the parking lot close to me.
clicky ti clock clicky ti clock:)

As to TV remotes it just amazes me! Look, we all know that they, cordless phones, spectacle cases, keys etc all go missing with regular monotony. But there are ways around it. My cordless phone's base unit has a button that when pressed, rings all the handsets. You can buy keyrings that when you whistle they respond back etc. So why don't the TV makers do something like that i.e. a simple button on the set that rings the remote?

A sign of the times in the US. I saw a news story about a new baby car seat that has a 'dongle' you plug into the diagnostic plug on your car that causes the horn to blow and the lights to flash if the seat detects the weight of the child after the car doors are locked and the ignition turned off.

I have no children but cannot imagine anyone so self absorbed they would leave their precious child in a hot car for even ONE minute!

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

I have no children but cannot imagine anyone so self absorbed they would leave their precious child in a hot car for even ONE minute!

One incident here.
A man leaves his child in his car on a parking lot outside a mall.
When he is coming back he cannot remember where he parked his car!
He called the police to helping him in the search that took hours...

I have no children but cannot imagine anyone so self absorbed they would leave their precious child in a hot car for even ONE minute!

I don't have any children (that I know of) either, but I remember how frazzled my Mother would get with 4 of us, and Dad away on a business trip.

The stories I see are of three types:
1) Parent so distracted (not necessarily self-absorbed) they forget the child is in the car.
2) Parents with several small children, who are only going into the store for "just a minute" and think it will take more time to move the baby seat or small children into the cart and back into the car after, than the actual shopping and check-out will take. Usually they are wrong, and with tragic consequences - either a dead child, or a damaged car and a cop waiting for them when they come out of the store.
3) Drunks and druggies who are more concerned about getting to the party than the kid in the car outside. Hard to have sympathy for them, sometimes, but I do.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

I have no children but cannot imagine anyone so self absorbed they would leave their precious child in a hot car for even ONE minute!

I don't have any children (that I know of) either, but I remember how frazzled my Mother would get with 4 of us, and Dad away on a business trip.

The stories I see are of three types:
1) Parent so distracted (not necessarily self-absorbed) they forget the child is in the car.
2) Parents with several small children, who are only going into the store for "just a minute" and think it will take more time to move the baby seat or small children into the cart and back into the car after, than the actual shopping and check-out will take. Usually they are wrong, and with tragic consequences - either a dead child, or a damaged car and a cop waiting for them when they come out of the store.
3) Drunks and druggies who are more concerned about getting to the party than the kid in the car outside. Hard to have sympathy for them, sometimes, but I do.

Actually, I have heard that the main reason children are forgotten is changes in routines, like dad is supposed to bring the kid to daycare that day instead of mom who usually does it. Sleep-deprived dad loads the kid into the car and then goes on auto-pilot to his office. He then gets out of the car and goes to work without noticing/remembering that his sleeping child is still in the car seat in the back seat of the car. It is not until daycare calls mom to say "Where is Johnny today?" that everybody realizes what has just so tragically happened.

Every one of us has done something on auto-pilot, usually to hilarious effect rather than tragic.

In the early 90's Eric and I were living in a condo with an underground parking complex. We had decided to carpool to work, which wasn't typical for us at that time. We went out the door of our condo together and down the elevator together. I went through the condo front doors and stood on the sidewalk in front of the building. Eric took another exit through the parking garage, backed the car out, went through the parking garage gate and left me standing on the sidewalk while he took the nearest exit to work. He got part way down the freeway before he realized that I was still standing on the sidewalk!!! Eric was mortified and I was highly amused.

That was about the time that I started insisting that if we ever had children, Eric was not going to be the stay-at-home parent because clearly he would leave our baby on top of some dusty old computer in his den and promptly forget about the child for the rest of the day.

Goes for babies, too.

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~Sue~

Please don't forget this. Please share on Facebook
and Twitter, etc.

http://www.gofundme.com/DogPlayArea

Thank you!

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~Sue~

Some people shouldn't be allowed to breed, and some should be banned from being pet owners.

I'd venture that if one belongs in one of those groups, they automatically belong in the other.

"You can't fix stupid" - Ron White, 2006

Today's clicks have funded the value of 75,872.4 bowls of food.* Thank you!
http://theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/ars/thank-you
Not only food but also help to animals to survive...

Some people shouldn't be allowed to breed, and some should be banned from being pet owners.

Oh, and the Appeal has broken the $300 level :-))

I saw that! Thanks, Chris!!!

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~Sue~

Today's clicks have funded the value of 75,872.4 bowls of food.* Thank you!
http://theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/ars/thank-you
Not only food but also help to animals to survive...

I click on all of their charities almost every day.

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~Sue~

This is weird. These raccoons really love milk.

https://youtu.be/9IxRqpCZt8E

(I saw this on Facebook but it's easier to link to youtube.)

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~Sue~

This is weird. These raccoons really love milk.
https://youtu.be/9IxRqpCZt8E
(I saw this on Facebook but it's easier to link to youtube.)

Этот енот просто обожает молоко.

The raccoons starts to love Europe as well

One of the few racoons in Sweden:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBCZgrDWPec

Some people shouldn't be allowed to breed, and some should be banned from being pet owners.

Oh, and the Appeal has broken the $300 level :-))

I saw that! Thanks, Chris!!!

It's now shared on My FB page Suzie-Q.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I have the old Mitsubishi WD-57731 57" tv up for sale for a minimal amount and I finally got the 57" tv off the stand, I cleaned the stand afterwards, a lot of dust there, so that when I get the last bits of the stand and screws in for the Samsung 55" tv, I'll be able to put the 55" TV up on the stand and reclaim My sofa.

I had a friend here help put the 57" tv on a big Igloo ice chest that I inherited years ago, it fits, now for someone, anyone really, to come out here and take the old TV away.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I also wonder if the bomb droppers were actually fully prepared for the destruction that actually occurred. I have seen articles that said that both sides were actually astounded at the devastation.

I am sure the scientist and a few of the crew members on the planes had a pretty good idea what the bombs would do however most were not aware because information was limited and the politicians often don't have a clue even when they have all the information.

Sorry for the delay.

Well, just went to the source: "Atomic Energy for Military Purposes: The Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945" by Henry DeWolf Smyth, Chairman, Department of Physics, Princeton University, Consultant, Manhattan District, U.S. Engineers, Written at the request of Maj. Gen, L. R. Groves, U.S.A.

In the book there is considerable knowledge of the effects of radiation mentioned. This however is all in relation to the physicists who were working with the materials and their health effects. Scant mention is made of the possible effects on a population that is targeted with such a weapon, except in relation to a dirty conventional weapon. It may be possible that in 1945 it was assumed that the blast would be of such a nature as to have killed anyone close enough to suffer from the radiation. Today of course we know that to be false but in 1945 there was no data. Only lizards and such were near the only test of such a weapon and no studies of them were undertaken. No one thought to place animals near the test to study the effects on living flesh. The test was to determine if the fat man design operated, not study the blast effects. Perhaps if they had there might not have been a cold war.

Even well after reports became available at Hiroshima and Nagasaki top US military brass simply did not understand radiation effects. That this is true, one need only look at Operation Crossroads. The Abel test was an air burst and the Navy brass were convinced by the small amount of damage that the navy could function after an atomic blast. Baker was an underwater test. Physicists begged and pleaded not to do the test. They know the witches brew of contamination that would be released. Navy brass, being brass went ahead with the test. After the test the Navy went out to triumphantly sail their test fleet away, but found they had a problem. Every ship was so contaminated they could barely set foot on them. Of course they tried the obvious, hose them off, except they were using radioactive sea water! It was at this point that the brass finally realized that atomic bombs were not just big conventional bombs.

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Most of the scientist working within the project "Manhattan" didn't know that their work would be used as a weapon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=486MZC8596g

I made a dent in My front rooms clutter, the 55" TV base is on the stand, the 57" TV is off to one side and I put away 3 boxes, then I sat down since My lower back could not take anymore pain.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Some people shouldn't be allowed to breed, and some should be banned from being pet owners.

Oh, and the Appeal has broken the $300 level :-))

I saw that! Thanks, Chris!!!

It's now shared on My FB page Suzie-Q.

Thank you!

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~Sue~