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The weather is gorgeous. It's still dry, but temps are almost perfect. Two weeks ago it was chilly, but this past week it turned unseasonably warm, and it's supposed to stay that way until Thursday. The garden is loving it, and so am I. ******* I thought the fall equinox was the 21st, but it was the 22nd this year. It was cloudy on the 22nd, so this is as close as I could get. . The...

If you were in politics, would the public learn something dirty about you or your past? I can most certainly say that I have things in my past that would shock some. While I won't divulge everything, because I have no plans to go into politics, I will say that I smoked a LOT of weed in high school, long before it was legal here. No other drugs, but I associated with people that did a whole...

What are some of the things you loved to do when you were younger that you can't do now... or haven't done in a really long time? Baseball. I always loved playing baseball [not softball] with other kids in the neighborhood. I'd have loved to play baseball in high school, but because there was a girls softball team, they wouldn't let me play baseball with the boys. They are different....

Are we going to start seeing movie theaters fade away like the drive-in theater? While yes, there are drive-in theaters sprinkled throughout the country, they're scarce, far fewer than decades ago. They've made a slight comeback with COVID and sit in movie theaters closing for a while. However, many companies have altered the release platform considerably. I watched a brand new movie on...

If you could and would time travel, what era would you travel to and why? My answer to that would be I’d like to check out the early 1700s through the early 1900s in Southeast Michigan to meet my mom’s side of the family and then the same era but the UP of MI to meet my dad’s side of the family... mainly my dad’s great grandma, Alphonsine LeBeau. I suppose it would be kind of neat to meet my...

For several years, I had an ancestry.com account; well, I suppose I still have the account, but after spending a better part of a decade and paying $150-$200 per year for access to global documentation, I decided to halt my research. I can still contact people and I can still view family trees / make other family trees if I choose. I simply cannot view government documents anymore. I had my...

Do you know which sports stadium is the largest in the United States?  That would be Michigan Stadium, home of the Wolverines.   source The stadium holds 107,000 people.  Now imagine all of those people dead.  Then put another Michigan Stadium next to it and picture all of those people dead.  That would leave a little bit of room for the couple of thousand people who die from the...

You won't find the truth on NBC, CNN or the NYT's. 

The Hateful Self-Righteous Hypocrite Drinking Game And Voter Guide. Take one drink for each time one of the following atrocities happens... 1. A young black or native girl is gang raped.2. A gay man is bashed to death.3. A woman dies from a back-alley abortion.4. A poor child is denied healthcare.5. An unarmed person is shot by police.6. A lesbian loses custody of her child.7. A mosque or...

Share your thoughts live during The First 2020 Presidential Debate on The News Talkers. Everybody can join in but do keep it civil...

We all have some sort of skillset that we were pretty much born with and then there's skills that we've worked on to perfect, or at least get as close to perfection as possible. I think I was born with the skill of research. I also was born with the ability to swim and ice skate; no one taught me either of those, I just did those things as a toddler / small child. Maybe it was as simple as...

What are your favorite Halloween traditions? For those with kids and grandkids, what were the costumes they wore that were your favorite? Do you like "scary" movies? I quote scary because I've never particularly found horror movies scary; not even as a little kid. I was 3 when I would watch Friday the 13th movies with my babysitter. I was 5 when I saw A Nightmare on Elm St. I've always loved...