A Great NYE Post From The Bee

I think the song is perfect! It’s always been one of my strength songs. 🍾 🌟

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New Year’s Twilight Zone Marathons (we’ve got 3 separate ones here, on lifeline cable, even! -A.)

The weather outside is frightful, but The Twilight Zone is… also frightful.

By Josh Weiss Dec 27, 2024, 1:24 PM ET

The weather outside is frightful, but The Twilight Zone is… well, also pretty frightful on occasion. But we can’t think of a better way to ring in 2025 than with SYFY‘s annual New Year’s marathon featuring three uninterrupted days of back-to-back episodes from Rod Serling‘s classic and groundbreaking anthology series between December 31 and January 2.

“It’s interesting, because The Twilight Zone has never been off [the air]. It’s always been there. It’s never died,” Rod’s elder daughter, Jodi Serling, told SYFY WIRE while speaking about her father’s lasting impact. “It’s because the message that he’s sending is so apparent today. Everything that he predictively wrote about is coming back to us. It’s just an honor to know that his legacy will continue to live on forever. He was such a humble kind of guy, I don’t think he realized what an impact that he was going to make on our society.”

“When the original Star Trek debuted, when I was 10, I recorded it on reel-to-reel audio tape in case it never aired again. You couldn’t watch a show whenever you wanted to. There was no way to revisit the shows you loved unless they were in syndication and then they’d be cut up,” adds Marc Scott Zicree, author of The Twilight Zone Companion, during a separate conversation. “We live in a blessed age where you can watch anything you want, anytime you want. I really love these marathons, because I’ve heard from so many people that they just leave the TV on and glance over. It’s like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s the one with Talky Tina! That’s The Howling Man!’ The great thing about Twilight Zone, is that it’s also a family show. You can literally sit down with your kids, and it may scare them, but you know that they’re not going to see something inappropriate. They know what they’re signing up for. I really love the fact that there are Twilight Zone marathons. I think it’s terrific.”

For More on The Twilight Zone (snip)

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/syfy-the-twilight-zone-new-years-marathon-2024-25-how-to-watch

BEST OF 2024: Dr. Peter J. Hotez – MR Live | 12/31/24

This is a must watch video.  It totally destroys the anti-vaccine groups and the Idea that vaccines cause autism.   This is a medial Scientist researcher with the greatest knowledge in the field of study and he has an autistic daughter.   He knocks down and shows proof of the lies of the anti-vaccine people.  He explains how it all became a political issue and power, and how it is killing people.   Hugs

The 10 Weirdest Ways Animals Have Sex

Before I post the video, let me tell you all what is going on.  My health first.  I am very tired only wanting to lay in bed, sleeping or just laying there.  At first I thought it was a depression thing, but when my blood work showed I was again anemic that may explain some.  All I want to do when up is watch videos and I struggle to read news or do other tasks, feeling like every movement is too much and just wanting to sit here un moving.  The second issue I have is I recently expanded the memory of my oldest computer, a built I like better because it is expandable.  Pride go before the fall.   I felt I understood the motherboard well enough and the system architecture to simple look for and buy the cheapest priced ram the system could handle.   

I am humbled to admit I got my butt handed to me as after installing the cheapest four sticks equaling 64 GB of ram which is the max the system can handle I dumped and started the computer.  Yes it seems all four sticks and ran at the higher speed.  Grand.  But then as I loaded Windows and other programs … problems happened.  I got almost everything done and then had sudden BOD … the blue screen of death that I have not seen in my own systems ever.  I diligently tracked every error, researched every error code and security event.  What I got made me realize I had not done enough work understanding my system and the unbuffered ram.  

I could make this a post on the system and what I learned.  Going cheapest for me is going to cost me.  I need to go back to a two stick mode with buffered memory.  The reason is that the CPU can see the dual channel two stick configuration as one big stick.  With four it has to run through the memory controller system to read each stick as a separate entity and compare try to manage the flow and errors of each.  When the errors become too great or do an act that the system deems threatening, it shuts everything down.  So I am going to spend more money on a new set of buffered 2 stick memory which should solve this issue and I can get back to being online with everyone and not spending weeks of every online time searching for and reading tech pages and specs reports.   Now to the video.   Love and hugs to all.  Hugs

Some Comics on New Year’s Eve Day

Free Range by Bill Whitehead for December 31, 2024

Free Range Comic Strip for December 31, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/freerange/2024/12/31

The Lockhorns by Bunny Hoest and John Reiner for December 31, 2024

The Lockhorns Comic Strip for December 31, 2024

So do I.

https://www.gocomics.com/lockhorns/2024/12/31

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 31, 2024

Pearls Before Swine Comic Strip for December 31, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/12/31

Scary Gary by Mark Buford for December 31, 2024

Scary Gary Comic Strip for December 31, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/scarygary/2024/12/31
Ten Cats by Graham Harrop for December 31, 2024

Ten Cats Comic Strip for December 31, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/ten-cats/2024/12/31

Truth Facts by Wulff & Morgenthaler for December 31, 2024

Truth Facts Comic Strip for December 31, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/truth-facts/2024/12/31

Wannabe by Luca Debus for December 31, 2024

Wannabe Comic Strip for December 31, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/wannabe/2024/12/31

Good News for People

Peace & Justice History for 12/31

December 31, 1915
The U.S. branch of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) was founded.
FOR’s Mission StatementThe Fellowship of Reconciliation seeks to replace violence, war, racism and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace and justice. We are an interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical change. We educate, train, build coalitions, and engage in nonviolent and compassionate actions locally, nationally, and globally.
FOR’s website 
December 31, 1970
The U.S. Congress repealed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which in 1964 authorized an increase in U.S. military involvement in Vietnam as a response to a reported attack on U.S. naval forces patrolling close to the North Vietnamese border. The reports of the attacks were later revealed to be fictitious. The resolution was used as the basis for the entire war which lasted until 1974 and took the lives of millions of Vietnamese and over 58,000 Americans.
What really happened in the Gulf of Tonkin 

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorydecember.htm#december31

Poetry for An Election

You know what to do to find out more.

Morning After The Election by Regie Cabico

I can’t control
the vanishing
       of bees

       but I can control
the honey I swallow
to soothe
       the vocal cords

I can’t control boys
       bully-tumbling
another boy

in the classroom
       like they’re
in a mosh pit

but I can remember
       rolling on hills
with boys being the bully

I can’t change my major
from drama to global peace

but I can write
similes of serenity

& poetic sermons
in temples
of matrimonial fanfare

I know the bombs, the explosives,
and Molotovs are overhead

and I can’t control 
       the lottery, the multiverses,
and tomorrow’s astrology

but whatever tarot card I pick
       or whatever
   gets thrown
       at my face: 

Hangman
       or Fallen Towers

I can express
my weathering emotions

to sing while hoarse
to control air placement
to find the chakra

the right amount of air
to pass through my throat

oh sing with me
the octave between

blade & nectar
rubble & clouds 
ash & mountain

Copyright © 2024 by Regie Cabico. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on December 30, 2024, by the Academy of American Poets.

THE GUARDIAN: Gaza hospital director being held at notorious Israeli prison, say family

Gaza hospital director being held at notorious Israeli prison, say family
Hussam Abu Safiya feared injured as Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza shut down after 11 weeks under siege

Read in The Guardian: https://apple.news/A9UlWeIb0T3Kfv-aEcCyZ8g

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Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie