{"id":8602,"date":"2017-10-12T21:01:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T04:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8602"},"modified":"2017-10-12T21:06:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T04:06:04","slug":"31-days-of-my-world-as-it-is-sung-autumn-quick-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8602","title":{"rendered":"31 Days of My World As It Is Sung: Autumn Quick Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt1\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 1 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Surprise surprise.<\/strong> This is just proof that&#8230; <strong>CLEVELAND&#8217;S SPORTS TEAMS SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/clevelandsucks.PNG\" alt=\"Suck it, Elena!\" \/><br \/>\n(HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\">Yahoo Sports<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I guess I can go back to fully hating the Yankees now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt2\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 2 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What the eff?!?!?!?<\/strong> An African-American man swings a flashlight at a white supremacist trying to spear him and another man with a Confederate flagpole, gets kicked to the ground, beaten almost to death&#8230; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/a-black-man-charged-in-his-own-beating-and-charlottesvilles-lasting-hatred\/2017\/10\/12\/ba474e5a-af5d-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories-2_dvorak-620pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&#038;utm_term=.d61b9a277e27\">is charged with a felony in his own beating<\/a>. I swear, I am not making this crap up and IT IS PISSING ME OFF!!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt3\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 3 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Definitely autumn.<\/strong> It is seriously too freaking cold in the mornings and I&#8217;m going back to bed and falling back asleep because I&#8217;m trying to get warm. Alas, this is screwing with my productivity. *grumps*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt4\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 4 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some hopeful &#8220;news&#8221;.<\/strong> It turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2017\/10\/12\/yellowstone-supervolcano-could-blow-faster-than-thought-destroy-all-mankind.html\">the supervolcano below Yellowstone National Park could spring to life quickly, erupt, and destroy life as we know it<\/a>. Yeah&#8230; been hearing that on the Discovery Channel for 10 years, Fox News. Oh wait&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2017\/10\/10\/ufo-spotted-over-yellowstone-volcano.html\">a UFO has been spotted above it<\/a>? That&#8217;s actually slightly more believable than the normal crap y&#8217;all report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt5\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 5 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Harvey Weinstein.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/cognoscenti\/2017\/10\/11\/harvey-weinstein-sharissa-jones\">This<\/a> is an excellent piece on why women don&#8217;t fight back or speak up when they&#8217;re harrassed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt6\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 6 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How pro-life of him.<\/strong> 45 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2017\/10\/12\/trump-warns-puerto-rico-we-cannot-keep-fema-the-military-the-first-responders-forever\/?utm_term=.7228fb0f0dfc\">threatening to pull hurricane relief efforts from Puerto Rico<\/a>. Apparently, he doesn&#8217;t like being told that his measly efforts are craptastic, and that throwing a roll of paper towels at people or purposely misprounouncing the island&#8217;s name is immature.. Cry me a freaking river, dude. 80% of the island has no electricity and people are homeless. I know you didn&#8217;t carry the territory in the 2016 election (are they even allowed to vote for the president?), but they deserve the same level of relief that Texas and Florida are getting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt7\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 7 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One more baseball take.<\/strong> I&#8217;m waiting with bated breath to find out who gets to knock the Losers in LA out in the NLCS. C&#8217;mon Cubbies! Mama wants you to go on to #BeatLA!!!<\/p>\n<p>For more Quick Takes, visit Kelly at <a href=\"http:\/\/thisaintthelyceum.org\">This Ain&#8217;t The Lyceum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/write31daysmyworld.jpg\" alt=\"31 Days of My World As It Is Sung\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; 1 &#8212; Surprise surprise. This is just proof that&#8230; CLEVELAND&#8217;S SPORTS TEAMS SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (HT: Yahoo Sports) I guess I can go back to fully hating the Yankees now&#8230; &#8212; 2 &#8212; What the eff?!?!?!? 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