Big Blue Huddle

I wonder what these hydroxychloroquine supporters would say to their own doctor's if he/she said to NOT use it for COVID-19. 

Quote from: ozzie on July 29, 2020, 08:44:43 AM
HAHA! Now THAT is a great picture! I love it. 

I've had this tag on 6 different vehicles.

We were down in ShoelessJoe's neighborhood and although I'm not a hockey fan, I had to take this pic!

PhotoMonster,

You definitely have a photographer's eye.

Keep 'em coming! 

Quote from: LennG on July 26, 2020, 01:09:14 PM
You guys have created a monster now, but I love showing some of my pix, so get ready

You can change your name to PhotoMonster   

Quote from: MightyGiants on July 24, 2020, 08:46:41 AM
There are some outstanding artists in this group!


I will say, I took about 8 or 9 of my favorites and made them a rotating slide show for my computer wallpaper (sorry Tim, your Jeep didn't make the cut  ) 

All of you, those are great pictures. 



Tim, I love that color on your jeep, I was was really considering something similar when I got my car.  I love that affect they have now.

Frank,

Great shots! I took the liberty of updating your post to add the IMG tag so your pics will show in the post.

I like taking pics of my Jeep

We went up to Vermont a couple of years ago and absolutely loved it. It was late June and the weather was perfect. It had been so long since I was able to breathe real fresh air! Simply amazing!

Len, how do you get such close-up shots of the butterflies without scaring them away? Telescopic zoom?

Quote from: umassgrad on July 22, 2020, 06:28:26 PM
For T200- living overseas: I loved every moment of being a foreigner but I never brought the American "greatest country in the world" attitude with me. I embraced the local culture and the locals embraced me and my family. I vacationed in Morocco as the guests of a Muslim family as they wanted to repay us for hosting their children at our home for Christmas. My children received daycare from a Berber women while in Morocco, a lovely Filippino while in Taipei, and the sweetest Chinese national while in Shanghai. None of them could speak English but they loved our children dearly. The most amazing Taiwanese family were there for the birth of our second child while in Taipei. No one in the hospital could speak English and as I was leaving the hospital to settle the bill the Taiwanese mother looked at me and said everything was all set and I should just go home to be with our baby girl. After 9/11 while our church mourned a group of local Domincans entered our church and surrounded the pews and sang Amazing Grace with us to show their support for us and our country. I will never forget that moment and so much more. I have many more stories of the love me and my family received while living overseas. It's for these reasons I'm bothered by Muslim bans, xxxx hole country comments and the building of walls to keep people out.

That's awesome! I love hearing stories like that. The world has so much offer and I feel tremendously blessed to have experienced some of the different cultures. Glad you have some fond memories to last a lifetime! 

Quote from: umassgrad on July 22, 2020, 05:46:58 PM
T200- me as well, I spent 25 years teaching internationally with stops in Shanghai, Cairo, Delhi, Taipei and Casablanca. I just moved back to the US last year.

That's awesome! I really loved being overseas.

How did you feel being the American foreigner? For me and my family, being a part of the military, we still had some semblance of American society. Although our last stint in Germany, we lived out in town about 30 minutes from the base and soaked up the German culture and they embraced us as their own. But they definitely had lots of questions that left me a little more than embarrassed to realize how we were seen.

Quote from: MightyGiants on July 22, 2020, 07:35:40 AM
Yeah, self-centeredness and a sense of entitlement have plagued man since likely the dawn of time.    In fairness, masks were less effective in 1918 than they are today.   Today, we know it to be a scientific fact that masks save lives, but in 1918 that couldn't be said.

I've had the fortune and blessing to live in both Asia and Europe for a number of years. We don't fully realize how the world sees us until we are on the outside looking in.

https://www.today.com/money/niagara-falls-boats-show-stark-difference-between-social-distancing-us-t187466

Quote from: MightyGiants on July 21, 2020, 08:30:44 AM
and this is why I can't agree with any claims that the President and all the governors are doing the best they can for the American people

I liken it to the battered wife syndrome. The husband abuses the wife, then apologizes and says he loves her and she still stays. He continues to do it and it's a vicious cycle that she can't get herself out of, despite those around her doing their best to help. Very difficult to get someone out of an abusive relationship.

Quote from: MightyGiants on July 20, 2020, 05:00:51 PM
This is a prime example of the sort of mistake I talk about.   This governor's actions are literally costing people their lives

I agree but that's not a mistake. It's deliberate.

So Georgia's Governor Kemp is suing Atlanta's Mayor Lance-Bottoms for issuing a mandatory mask order in Atlanta against the governor's directive. The governor says that people should not be mandated to do the right thing.