I have 30 Apple trees, 7-10 cherry trees, peach, nectarines, etc. That means I've read through dozens of gardening books trying to learn how to keep them alive and bearing.

My loquacious lexicon, while not always perspicacitious or erudite, is invariably sesquipedalian if not also outright eldritch. Thank my mom, a top notch professional editor, head of Stanford's publishing wing for decades....also, I like to be weird, especially considering what "normal" is today.

Edit:I also enjoy my "lost word of the day" calendars that offer a word or phrase of the day that's been lost to common English.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Very creative! Here's what you need to know about BHO.
He's a child of privilege posing as a downtrodden victim who somehow climbed out of America's drowning pool of "racism".
Every president ever has existed under an altered image. George Washington didn't really cut down a cherry tree.
He isn't terribly bright but he knows what he's doing. He was nominated to assuage idiots' "White Guilt." He is an affirmative-action president with no real political credentials.
Right, people who aren't very bright become professors of constitutional law at Harvard all the time.
He's got a grudge against America, American Exceptionalism and free market capitalism. What the "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright believes, BARACK believes.
I have a grudge against Exceptionalism and free market capitalism, but still love America with all my heart. Do you still beat your wife?
He's likely a closet atheist, but for now obviously can't admit it.
There he goes proving his intelligence again. Bush wasn't a Texan either.
He has had no achievements to speak of since taking office, unless--UNLESS--you understand what his true motives are: turn America into just another forgettable Euro-dump with no identity. Suddenly it makes sense!
Does getting Osama count? Before you say that it's the Seals that got him, remember that Obama came under heavy fire for thinking we should reach into Pakistan.
"BULLPLOP QM! Barack wants JOBS for Americans!" As long as he embraces Keynesian rubbish, it won't happen. And he can't turn back now.
You don't know that his strategy won't work, this problem was a long time in the making. And it will be a long time getting out. (I've seen Morganthau quote)
The libmedia works for BHO as if they were being paid directly from the White House. They hide his gaffes, downplay his goof-ups and hide the results of his schemes.
I can't argue with this one. I stopped watching the news a long, long time ago.
America is worse off now than when this jug-eared socialist was elected.
Again, no one... no one... could have stopped the giant snowball yet.
I'm not a liberal (anymore) so I can't match wits wit the brilliant geniuses here, but the results of the BHO Fraudsidency speak for themselves. Every day.
I don't know why I feel the need to defend this president. Especially considering that I think all politicians are completely full of shit. I guess I was just way more comfortable with him than any of our other options. Do we really believe that he's anything but a powerless figurehead anyway?

Also, as far as the video is concerned, the problems we face are way more complicated than "working harder" and "getting more". A complex system composed of billions of individuals cannot be boiled down to a few simple rules. And the rules we have will constantly have to change as people adapt to the new system anyway. All kindergartners are taught that one plus one equals two. It takes a lifetime to even visualize what it truly takes to have a functioning society.

Tags for this video have been changed from '2004, loop, KT, Tunstall, Black Horse, Cherry Tree, solo, music' to '2004, loop, KT, Tunstall, Jools Holland, Black Horse, Cherry Tree, solo, music' - edited by alien_concept

Thanks for reminding me of how amazing it is to be amongst blossoming cherry trees.

"SilentPoet:

the christian mythology states the following:

god knows everything
god created everything
god created humans
god placed a condition on humans (don't eat the fruit)
god knew that humans could not meet that condition

Thus, god created humans knowing that they would fail.

god punishes humans for doing exactly what he created them to do."
Wrong. That is like saying a father who raises his son and knows that he will eventually do something wrong, be it chop down a cherry tree or steal from the cookie jar, raised his son to do so. It doesn't work like that.

"god then hides, whispers secrets into the ears of various nomadic folks over several hundred years, sends his son who is himself to die, and continues whispering secrets to a select few.

god then states that he will forgive us for doing what we were designed to do, only if we believe in him based on the writings of men who hear voices in their heads."
We were not designed to sin, God simply knew we would and allowed us to. Saying that God meant for us to sin is like saying any inventor who knows that his invention cannot last forever explicitly meant for it to break.


"in the old testament, god repeatedly shows great joy at making people suffer who are not His Chosen People."
I disagree. God did many harsh things in the Old Testament, but it was to protect His people, be it from physical harm or falling into sin. It seems harsh, but His people had a really hard time following Him. Unfortunately, force was the only thing that got their attention sometimes.