Vernon RJ Schmid🇨🇦
vernon-esq.bsky.social
Vernon RJ Schmid🇨🇦
@vernon-esq.bsky.social
"Love is when someone else’s needs are more important than your own…."
Alberta, Canada, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
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"In our case, there were huge gaps… there was abuse.
So for our birthday, we wish that Canada
would take better care of their children."
Annette Dionne (the last surviving member of the #DionneQuintuplets)
(1934-2025)
#WardsOfTheCrown #QuintLand #ChildExploitation
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Dionne quintuplets - Wikipedia
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December 27, 2025 at 7:09 AM
King Charles provided an example of what a positive spiritual and government leader contemplates this time of year.
#FortySeven / #DonnyTwoDolls / #OrangeTantrum / #Krasnov… not so much (and as expected)….
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
#TheGoldenRule #Luke6:31 #Matthew7:12 #Leviticus19:34
December 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
[Expletive Deleted.]! Wish List Gifts closed during year.
Her unique (and wry) offerings will be missed.
She had WONDERFUL Christmas items… and was a #SnowBabies enthusiast's enabler....👼
#DarnItDarnItDarnIt
#YouDontKnowWhatYouveGotTillItsGone #ExpletiveDeleted
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December 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
"…it is good to be in shape
in case I…go into hospital again."
"…my golden rule is the music must never suffer."
"It's impossible for a couple to bring up…children
without having lots…of arguments."
Chris Rea
1951-2025
#Songwriter #Singer #DrivingHomeForChristmas #FamilyOverFame
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Chris Rea - Wikipedia
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December 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
December 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Thinking extra of Carol's Quality Sweets... and of the ladies who patiently guided me during the decades -- hence the Christmas letter posted early Christmas Eve.....
#ChristmasLetter #CarolsQualitySweets #SmilesAreHugsOnTheInside
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December 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
#ChristmasCarolsThatMakeYouGoHmmm:
In #TheTwelveDaysOfChristmas, "…maids a-milking…" portion does not clarify whether each has own cow (are there eight cows included in the accumulation of creatures) or
all maids are simultaneously milking one cow…
assuming the milked IS/ARE cattle….🐄
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
#ChristmasParty Appetizer suggestion: Doritos (Nacho Cheese) with baked stuffing/dressing. YUM! (Not just for those who feel #StuffingNeedsCheeseOrCrunch….)
@doritos.com @ryanjespersen.bsky.social #ThingsToHaveWithStuffing #ShouldStuffingIncludeApples #ChristmasHosting #ThingsThatMakeYouGoYUM
December 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
#ChristmasCarolsThatMakeYouGoHmmm:
As example of #TheLittleDrummerBoy 🥁 sounding like the version of #Bolero played by the Bo Derek character in the movie "10",
consider the Avalon Pops Orchestra rendition:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE4h...
#ExistentialEnduranceTestWithPercussion #WhatColourAreMyEyes
Little drummer boy orchestral version
YouTube video by Christmas Channel
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December 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"The arts are central to broadcasting because
they work so well on TV and should be its bread and butter.
There should be more of them and
there need to be programmes dedicated to one specific art form."
Humphrey Burton
(1931-2025)
#BBC #CBE #InMyOwnTime #Emmy #Veteran
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Humphrey Burton - Wikipedia
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December 20, 2025 at 6:49 AM
"I don't think a person should do the same thing in life all the time…."
"[Ronald Reagan] didn't become president just to be
the most powerful man in the world.
…he was able to walk away from it…
and be happy with himself."
Lou Cannon
1933-2025
#Journalist #SantaBarbaraNewsPress
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Lou Cannon - Wikipedia
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December 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
#ChristmasCarolsThatMakeYouGoHmmm:
Ummm... Is the core rhythm in #TheLittleDrummerBoy
the same as Ravel's #Bolero?
(If so, introduces tangents in the lyrics....)
@alyankovic.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
#ChristmasCarolsThatMakeYouGoHmmm:
"I'll Be Home for Christmas" usually sung SO melancholy-sad (like an #SCTV Perry Como).
Need #PathologicalOptimist version: 🎶 🎵 "I WILL be home for Christmas!…" 😊 🎵 🎶
Need #DysfunctionalFamily version: 🎶🎵"I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS!!!"🤬🎵🎶
@alyankovic.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
"The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance…. Clearly,
the American war planners misjudged
the determination of the Iraqi forces."
Peter Arnett
(1934-2025)
#Journalist #Pulitzer #ItBecameNecessaryToDestroyTheTownToSaveIt #VietnamTheTenThousandDayWar
#Māori
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Peter Arnett - Wikipedia
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December 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Thinking extra of the lads from Ohio (the Wright Brothers) and — especially — their mother, who guided them on making their sled more efficient when they were young….
#FearOfFlyingVersusDecember17

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List of people from Ohio - Wikipedia
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December 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Just a little recipe to celebrate J'lyn Nye's HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! 🎉🎂🥳🎈🎊🎁
(Hint: For chocolate filling and chocolate glaze, bump up ingredients measures by 1.5 times….)
#TripleChocolateCake #CanadianLiving #ChocolateBrandyGlaze
www.canadianliving.com/food/baking-...
Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Filling and Chocolate Glaze | Canadian Living
Dark, rich and smooth, this cake is a must for chocolate lovers.
www.canadianliving.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"I'm currently raising a fifteen-year-old son and
an eighteen-year-old daughter, which
a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!"
Gil Gerard
(1943-2025)🎭
#Actor #BuckRogersInThe25thCentury #ActionHeroMakeover #TheDoctors
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Gil Gerard - Wikipedia
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December 17, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Will not purchase current #VanityGlare magazine — regardless of whether
it contains puff piece #USAlbatross and/or #AllTheMoronsMen were expecting,
March Vanity Fair Bellosguardo images more in keeping with art/culture. #BobWoodwardNeededAllTheMore.
#CoverNewsThatMatters
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Bellosguardo Foundation
The Bellosguardo Foundation is a philanthropic organization and private foundation for the arts registered in the State of New York and operating at 1407 East Cabrillo Boulevard in Santa Barbara, Cali...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
"In soaps, people come back from the dead…,
to the point…death is just a bus stop."
"People say 'Why would you learn Dutch?…'
I say because I want to live here, I think
it's only common courtesy that I speak the language."
Anthony Geary
1947-2025🎭
#Actor #Emmy #LukeAndLaura #UHF
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Anthony Geary - Wikipedia
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December 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"People can be ignorant
and still have loving, human qualities."
"Something is wrong here, and
it's more than easy access to guns or
violence on TV. It's about lack of love and
attachment to loving people early in life."
Rob Reiner
(1947-2025)
#Actor #Director
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Rob Reiner - Wikipedia
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December 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It is today in #NewOrleans, so…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DONNA BRAZILE!!!!
(Brilliant in political insights… and…
She is possibly the best flirt EVER!! #GottaBeTheGumbo )
@donnabrazile.bsky.social #HappyBirthdayDonnaB
#DonnaBAndDemocracy #DonnaB #Jazz
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Donna Brazile | Veteran Political Strategist
Donna Brazile is a veteran political strategist, New York Times bestselling author, an Emmy and Peabody-award-winning media contributor — and more.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
"I used to thrive on [that insanity]. I would do whatever…I wanted when I wanted to, and no one could tell me no.
…now I realize…the no's…were for my own good, but I took them as a definite offence to me…"
Peter Greene
1965-2025🎭
#Actor
1996 Warning: tinyurl.com/3t6mev34
Bio: tinyurl.com/5fvtufwr
December 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
#ChristmasCarolsThatMakeYouGoHmmm:
Are the six different birds mentioned in "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
the singer's way of hinting they want a supersized version of a turducken, a rôti sans pareil?
If so, are the birds listed in the correct order of insertion?
🦢🪿🐔🕊️
#OstrichLuckyToBeLeftOut
December 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
#ChristmasCarolsThatMakeYouGoHmmm:
"We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is example
of why Christmas hosts become frazzled due to "requests":
"...bring us some figgy pudding..." several times, with
the "We won't go until we've got some..." being
more demanding than the guy in "Baby It's Cold Outside"….📋
December 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM