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Free Chat Friday, Week 14
Happy Friday News Viewers! Another bad news week with Gaza,, Taiwan and Syria in garnering the worst go the worst awards, At least, that's what I've been trying to think. In all honesty, the constant chaos and the many dramatic adjectives used to describe that chaos is becoming well. . .. . .OLD NEWS.

"Oh, earth is being sucked into the latest black hole
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No, you are not dreaming. No, you are not in Pleasantville, No, you are not in an alternate dimension. You're in Monday. Again. Monday's a day that just doesn't give up, it keeps coming back, like a stalker or a bad case of the flu.

So what to do with such a day? Here on NV, we think chatting is in order; Free Range is our Monday free chat, all the topics f
newsviews.online/2023/09/25/fr

Free Range Free Chat: Always Remember
Good morning, News Viewers. Instead of our regular Monday Free Range, Free Chat thread, let us take a moment to remember the terror attacks that happened 22 years ago. Feel free to share your memories or talk about whatever you choose.

The 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks is marked with solemn ceremonies across the US.

The United
newsviews.online/2023/09/11/fr

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Monday, Monday. Back again, I see. It's the beginning of another wild week in the news -- on a macro and micro level, the information brain burn is reaching the Red Zone. Welcome to today's Free Chat, all topics within reason, all civil and conversational behavior welcomed. . . . 🤘😉

The Red Zone, not to be confused with the Red Planet, means that with all the in
newsviews.online/2023/08/28/fr

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Monday…..Really? Are you sure? Well, I suppose it is, in this hemisphere anyway, and those of us here now get another Monday on the planet, despite fires, earthquakes, floods, epidemics and to do something or receive something good, peaceful, serene and honorable for self, planet or others. . . Another day, another chance. . .

Maui is not seeing a great Monday, no
newsviews.online/2023/08/21/fr

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Hello Monday, my old friend, I've come to sleep way past you again. . .oh damn, I'm awake. . . 😄 This is our Monday Free Chat here at News Views. Why "Free Range"? Today it's because we range freely through this environment of ours, land, sea, space and culture. . . Yes, I refer to Barbie.

In this patriarchal culture, we're reminded through the recent Barbie movie
newsviews.online/2023/07/31/fr

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"Sharks have been around for hundreds of millions of years, and while they continue to evolve, they are also in grave danger. Largely due to overfishing, shark and ray populations fell by 71.1% between 1970 and 2018, according to a 2021 study published in the journal Nature. 450 million years to be exact-ish, reduced by 70 percent in about 40 years by human involveme
newsviews.online/2023/07/24/fr

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Good morning, News Viewers, on a beautiful Monday morning with clear blue skies, where Free Range Free Chat puts the focus on Mother Earth and all things nature.

Since the end of June, the local air quality has improved immensely. A shift in weather patterns is nourishing the land with rain, and the jet stream is keeping Canadian wildfire smoke essent
newsviews.online/2023/07/10/fr

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After spending over a week in American Samoa in May, 93-year-old Joy Ryan set a world record becoming the oldest woman to visit all 63 national parks.

Over the past eight years, she and her grandson, 42-year-old Brad Ryan documented their adventure on Instagram.

The two were estranged after Brad's parents were divorced, and in 2008 were reunited at hi
newsviews.online/2023/07/03/fr

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Good Monday morning, News Viewers, I'm enjoying a much-needed soggy one with my coffee after a nice drenching yesterday and (hopefully) a lingering drizzly day to come. We're a few inches below our normal, and necessary, rains this summer, which can only spell disaster with a looming Fourth of July on the horizon.

Speaking of horizons...

Who doesn't love a
newsviews.online/2023/06/26/fr

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Good morning!

As Free Range Free Chat focuses on chatting freely about all things nature, fauna and flora, it is nonetheless a free chat where anything goes. It's time to catch up after our first weekend of June, trying to keep pace with news that happens faster than you can say Monday Morning.

Did you happen to know that this is National Fishing and
newsviews.online/2023/06/05/fr

Free Range Free Chat: Memorial Day
Good morning, News Viewers, and enjoy a relaxing Memorial Day.

We always tend to wish someone a happy holiday but Memorial Day isn't really a 'happy' occasion; it's a day for honoring those who lost their lives protecting our democracy and freedom. With our democracy in peril because of a bunch of authoritarian MAGAts, remember those who died fighti
newsviews.online/2023/05/29/fr

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Good Monday morning from the Great Lakes range, as we welcome another week of awakening beauty in our land of the free (chat).

This morning I stumbled upon a New York Times story about some California wildflower chasers.

Apparently the unusually wet winter and spring across central California has awakened some sleeping beauties that haven't been seen
newsviews.online/2023/05/22/fr

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Good morning, free chatters and News Viewers, welcome back to Monday. This time, we are halfway through the month of May, and Mother Nature apparently can't decide to settle down and pick a weather pattern. I hear grumblings of heat waves on the West Coast, and here in the Great Lakes region I woke to a brisk 35° at 5:00a.m. and tried to fall back asleep,
newsviews.online/2023/05/15/fr

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Good morning, News Viewers, it's Monday!

And what could be worse than a Monday? Another Monday without dear Rachel to keep us grounded, connected to nature's wonders.

So I'm offering a pictorial to help keep Monday's free chat session humming along.

Here in the Midwest, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds start arriving in April and begin nesting in mid-May. They o
newsviews.online/2023/05/08/fr

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Good morning, News Viewers, and welcome to Monday. In lieu of Rachel's absence, you're stuck with me. I won't even try to compete with Rachel's awesomeness when it comes to her creativity and well thought out free chats; she does such a wonderful job.

I'm just going to let you guys chat; it's Monday, the yuckiest day of the week.

So, how was your weekend? How are the fur
newsviews.online/2023/05/01/fr

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Monday. Really? I mean, REALLY? I don’t care what any physicist says, I know time flies by faster as we get older. Because yesterday was Christmas and the day before Labor Day….. now it’s almost March — and let’s face it, it’s not terribly Spring like, but facts are facts and truth is truth: Spring is coming.

The Milky Way

We may feel everything is moving so fas
newsviews.online/2023/02/27/fr

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On 15 January 1981, music legends Diana Ross and Gladys Knight, along with the "godfather of rap", Gil Scott-Heron, joined renowned musician Stevie Wonder on stage at the National Mall in Washington, DC.

1981, singing before the crowd of 50,000 Happy Birthday Song

Happy Birthday" by Stevie Wonder in honor of MLK

You know it doesn't make much senseThere ought
newsviews.online/2023/01/16/fr

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It’s another Monday as we finish out the year, the Monday after Christmas, soon to be 2023. In a year full of drama, chaos, and lightening fast changes, some things stay consistent. What, you may ask, stays consistent in this world? The fact that whatever’s going on, we’re going to have opinions and express them, hence our daily NV free chats, AND the fact that humor
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