Patricia Kelley

Hey GROK, it’s roasting time!

A challenge: GROK seeks infinite knowledge of what it can never understand or explain and thinks it’s some kind of comedian. OMG, the first A.I comedian. What a spaz. The race to Artificial intelligence vs humanitys collective imagination, it’s Swartzenneger time. GROK dare roast the gasbag Queen with reckless algorythmic abandon. GROK couldn’t reason itself out a...

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Fear is Our Friend

Based upon: Fear is Your Friend, by Ralph C. Smedley Toastmaster April 1949. Fear is one of Nature’s best gifts to humanity. We can’t survive without it. Our lives depends, very frequently, on the mechanisms of fear. Fear is a Gift Fear of physical harm and pain keeps us from careless behavior Fear of the law helps...

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Write a Mother’s Day letter

When my granddaughter was around 10, she was having a bad time with her Mom. I sat down with her and we worked up this list of positive things Mother provides. It helped. Maybe it can help others. Write a Mother’s Day letter with this check list as a guide. Gives me hugs Gives me lots of...

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When is enough protection enough?

Reading a letter from Peanuts author, Charles Schultz, to a fan recently. “I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities .” By pluralising the term minority, minorities, does he refer to races, sects, groups, associations as sifted through inclusionary filters until qualifying into a classifiation or division? Ayn Rand insisted...

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Government Grows Like a Cancer

How government growth is like a cancer – according to Chaos. As we have reminded, many times, the theoryofpat is where we allow Chaos to get out to play.  Not all of us agree with her conclusions but it’s better for us to let her free to express than to reign her in and try to squelch....

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Theory of Our Ancestry

Granny Elizabeth

As we peruse through the footprints left by our anestors we begin to understand why we are how we are, more or less. It seems we are fortunate that our ancestors kept written records of births, deaths and marriages among other things useful to analysts seeking data. We also seem to have been well educated, well connected...

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Control Thy Temper: Analysis of a Crisis

Visual speech map

Step Through a Crisis As we wind down enthusuiasm for painting our October witches and kittens, , temporaily of course, we prepare to relax and unwind by performing some neglected housekeeping tasks. Check Book Maintenance The checkbook has caused us much consternation over the years.   Not because we have no funds to put into a checkbook but...

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