Posted: 7:56:16 AM  

"A long table was set with antique-looking linens, enormous stuffed animals in chairs, and tiered serving plates with treats like bone-shaped meringue cookies", writes Jodi Kantor, a New York Times reporter, in The Obamas, which was released today.

This has to do with Looking Glass or Hour Glass

Posted: 7:54:21 AM  

People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality.
I learnt never to underestimate someone's capacity for growth.
Some changes were phenomenal.

Each experienced a variety of emotions, as expected, denial, fear, anger, remorse, more denial and eventually acceptance.

Every single patient found their peace before they departed though, every one of them.

Posted: 7:44:33 AM  

Paul rejected the US media hype that "the Iranians are going to attack us by closing down the Strait of Hormuz," noting that "the reports sometimes aren't accurate."

He then referred to dubious claims in the early 2000s that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, saying, "You got no accurate information about how they generated this need to go to war in Iraq. The only reason we were given to go into Iraq did not exist."

Posted: 7:37:38 AM  

'They weren't sure about independence until our MPs suggested everyone should have two alcohol-free days a week'

Mac on... Cameron's bid to force Scotland into independence referendum

Posted: 7:34:30 AM  

The astrological alignments and numerological formulae cannot be wrong: on December 21 this year, the apocalypse foretold 5,125 years ago by the ancient Mayans will come to pass and the world will end.

There are DOOMSAYERS, CONSPIRACYTHEORISTS, BELIEVERS, NOT-KNOWERS, etc....

In what category are you ?

;-)

Posted: 7:25:50 AM