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Another lovely winter image, stella.
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That really is my cousin’s new weekend cabin here in Michigan.
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Gosh, I want one!
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He just finished the inside – all done by him, with help from friends and family.
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Wow! It’s beautiful.
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Beautiful!
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Tired and sore from the Walk for Life today. Not as many participants as last year, but still plenty. (Low numbers probably due to the weather forecasters’ “hysteria” about bad weather–which never really materialized.) Here is one article:
Thousands of Anti-Abortion Advocates Flock to San Francisco for Walk for Life March
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Thousands-of-Anti-Abortion-Advocates-Flock-to-San-Francisco-for-Walk-for-Life-March–366316331.html
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Thank you Mary for fighting for those innocent lives who cannot fight for themselves.
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I am honored to be there, among people who do far, far more than I do.
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A pretty good article from SFGate, with some good images. (We walked near the man carrying the silk flower.) Yes, we saw the banner from the church folks who came all the way from Tulsa, OK! One of them made this statement, which I thought was right on target:
“Washington, D.C., is the political side,” she said, referring to the March for Life in the nation’s capital. “But California is the social side. We have already had people come out to oppose us. We love them no matter what they say, and our shouts will be louder.”
Thousands protest abortion at S.F. March for Life
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Thousands-of-anti-abortion-protesters-march-down-6779548.php
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[sorry, forgot the closing italics symbol after the quote]
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Good article from Yahoo. It seems that the media are finally going to admit that this pro-life event in SF actually exists (has existed, for 12 years).
Tens of thousands rally at Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco
http://news.yahoo.com/tens-thousands-rally-walk-life-west-coast-san-014100841.html
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[Okay, almost done!]
Dr. Alveda King gave the invocation and led the assembled tens of thousands in reciting the Lord’s Prayer and singing much of “How Great Thou Art”.
David Daleiden’s message was inspiring; he is very much looking forward to Planned Parenthood’s recent suit against him and the Center for Medical Progress, because now the truth will come out “under oath”.
As soon as Mr. Daleiden first mentioned “Planned Parenthood”, less than two minutes after he started speaking, we heard women’s voices shouting “Liar! Liar! Liar!” from the other side of the Plaza. One person in our group went to see what was happening. Behind the stage, he saw several women who were topless, with the phrase “F*** your morals” written on their torsos. The women had been handcuffed; he saw the police wagon come to take them away. [Considering the many other events which take place in SF involving public nudity, these women would not have been arrested just for their state of undress. They may well have tried to rush the stage.] Until the time they were taken away in the van, many people from the rally were standing around them–praying for them.
Several other groupings of counter-protesters were stationed along the route of the march. This year, they were more numerous and vocal. I expect that can be explained by the impact of the Planned Parenthood videos. The SF police were out in force, keeping the physical peace, if not the vocal peace. But that is the 1st Amendment in action. WE may express our views–and so may they.
Last vignette: as we marched down Market Street, we passed a six-story building being constructed. On the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th floors, many of the workers were watching us pass by (and pass by and pass by and pass by…) One of them had an air horn; every time he blew the horn, the other construction workers cheered, clapped, and gave us thumbs-ups. Every time THAT happened, the marchers below raised their voices in massive, full-throated response.
Pro-life sentiment is everywhere, even in liberal San Francisco.
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Mary, thank you!
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Morning!
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Afternoon, Col! Are you keeping safe and dry there?
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Mornin’ MaryfromMarin!
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Afternoon, nyet! (HIgh five, too!)
Sunday greetings to everyone–may God bless you.
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Good morning 🙂
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Good morning! I haven’t been to sleep yet. It’s early for you too.
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I got back from Chicago and fell asleep before 10 which is early for me and the dogs so the queen dog decided that she had to go out at 3 in the morning because she hadn’t her late night walk 😦 . So here I am. Generally once I’m awake I can’t fall back asleep.What are you doing not sleeping?
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Thinking about stuff. I’ll probably crash after I let the dog out and feed her and the cat.
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Thinking about stuff will do it every time.
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For one thing, I can’t get over Mark Levin’s reaction to SD’s post the other day. (see my latest post)
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I saw it. I clicked on your site and thought for a minute I was at the CTH because of the headline 🙄 so it took me a minute to orient myself. I think if Levine will likely draw a lot of traffic to the CTH with his post.
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*I think Levine will likely draw a lot of traffic to the CTH so he may be defeating his own purpose* is what I meat to type.
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He already did, I think – thus my b!tchiness the other day about the drive-by trolls. Cruz-bots are waaaaaayyyyy worse than Paul-bots, language-wise. 🙄
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I noticed things were rather randy in that thread.
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BTW you and Sharon have inspired me to get back to my writing. I’ll share a bit later today. Thinking a lot about the passing of time and how every day changes us in some way.
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I look forward to it.
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Morning Stella!
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Morning Lovely!
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Good morning Col 🙂
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The Snow totals around my AOR for this two day not stop event , 15-18 inches. Going to the barn later. I have two more driveways to plow, saving the best for last…….can’t wait for the taste of fresh bread, home made blueberry jam, blueberry pies………..everybody just be safe, later
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Mornin’ sir!
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Dang, reckon the Colonel is a warlord? How cool is that?
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Thass what I’m thinkin’…… 😀
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Mornin’ kids!
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Too perfect.
Good morning Weeweed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Ted Cruz waking up among The Blaze and Glen Beck “supporters”….mental comment “oh shit”
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Mornin’ Joshua!
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LOL! Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ B!
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Oh, no! Poor little guy. 😦
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Contrast the wit, wisdom, awareness of the real world and deadly humor of Trump in this one post to the Jeb posting his momma’s picture with a warning toward Trump 🙄
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teh Donald wrote an op-ed
Donald Trump op-ed: My vision for a culture of life
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/donald-trump-op-ed-my-vision-for-a-culture-of-life/article/2581271
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So well stated and well written.
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Thanks so much for this link, lovely. Without it, I would have missed this well written piece by our next President.
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Espresso below!
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SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! Breakfast!
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Yummo!
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Here is fancy coffee this morning in “to-go” cups…
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That’s a good one!
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Garcias, B – I was in dire need! 😀
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Orange coffee?
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Duh, it’s Espresso.
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Kinda reminds me of the pooping unicorn and I don’t mean Obama,
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Morning, everybody! I finally got a few hours sleep, but will need a nap later. Hope that our nearest and dearest (and those not so dear too) survived the snowmageddon!
By the way, put me on the record – naming snowstorms is silly!
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Good morning (again) Stella 🙂 I agree it is a snowstorm.
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Mornin’ lovely!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Mornin’ stella!
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Well so far, they’re not naming earthquakes yet, but that may come. We had a pretty big shaker early this morning–7.1 on the Richter. And then two fairly big aftershocks >4. I counted the main shaker for 48 seconds. A few things fell off the shelves, but no breakage or structural damage. Epicenter was about 60 miles from us, approximately same location as one a few months ago which was not quite as large, about 6.4 or so. Saying a prayer that we are not heading for a third to equal the Good Friday quake of 1964–that one was 9.2 and shook for over 4 minutes.
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😯
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Give me a tornado any day over an earthquake and the two we felt awhile back were weenie ones compared to that.
I know what to do when a tornado is near, it’s automatic. During the earthquake, at first I didn’t even know what the heck it was and once I realized it, I was like a chicken with it’s head cut off, basement, nope not a good idea, downstairs or upstairs? My DH is still laughing at me.
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😯 Glad y’all are OK!
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God protect you, Tundra!
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From the Ulsterman – a comparison of Trump and Reagan’s treatment by “those who must be obeyed.”
http://ulstermanbooks.com/the-great-betrayal-d-w-ulstermans-take-on-national-review-donald-trump/
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Haven’t heard much from Ulsterman in a long time. Good piece. Mornin’ Miss Wee. No offense, but I ain’t huggin’ nobody. 😆
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LOLOL!!!! Mornin’ T!
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Mornin’ texan59!
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Mornin’ Dr. No. Do not come at me with your arms wide open and yer eyeballs all bugged out. 😉
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(drops shovel) No hug?
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Claws first…avoid! avoid! avoid!
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Donald Trump Says Megyn Kelly Should Skip Debate; Fox News Says She’ll Be There
I know everyone here knows this, but this is such a terrific example of media biased I had to share. I didn’t read the article as I’m sure that it is a waste of time but the picture tells a million tales. I wonder what contortions the photographer had to make to get a picture of Trump with not a single audience member in it, maybe it is photoshopped.
😀
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😀
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Wow. It’s true.
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😥
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Our friend Clarice on the kerfuffle of the week. Trump, Cruz, and NRO. Enjoy.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/a_soft_civil_war.html
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She quotes some of my favorite FB peeps.
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It’s a really good piece.
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More views of stella’s “cabin”….
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O, HO, N, and Z-scale modeling is a neat thing.
We had catalogues from German companies as thick as Sears Catalogs.
Nothing but miniature, to scale, cottages and lichen and lampposts and trees, and trains and tracks and cars and trucks, and pretty much everything you would expect to find in the real world.
Trains themselves were pretty much secondary.
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Stella photo almost looks like the models too.
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It does, doesn’t it?
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Reminds me of this… heh.
My cake for Sharon in ’14. Augmented by Weed.
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Augmented by Ad Rem, that is.
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Ah Sundays…
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I left a request on Menagerie’s prayer thread a few minutes ago.
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Hi Taqi,
I feel very limited in anything I can do for you across two screens but I would at least like share with you some truths I have learned over the journey.
Christ died in agony on the cross, he rose to heaven in glory at the ascension, we as christians are called sometimes to the agony of Christ and sometimes to the glory of Christ but by design we are created to live somewhere in the middle, a life of the cross or a life of glory will make the heartiest of souls stark raving mad.
It seems like you are immersed in the agony of life so often, the tragedies and terribleness of our world are always weighing on your soul. We aren’t made to perpetually carry that weight, quite simply we can’t.
It is ok to allow yourself to enjoy the light of the world while acknowledging the darkness in it. That doesn’t mean we have forgotten the evil that dwells here or made less of it it means we choose sanity.
Part of getting sober (as I am sure you have heard many times) is getting right with yourself and God. God doesn’t ask us to heal the world, he asks us only to accept his healing for ourselves, even when we feel unworthy of that love and healing.
There is no reason to carry guilt over from your past …Pfffttt…God’s time is not our time. Who knows what beautiful ministry he holds for you when you win your war. The battle worn vet has more credibility than the stateside warrior who never raised his gun nor ducked a bullet.
Call AA, call a friend, call someone in the community that can come to you and help you find your way. There is light, don’t let the darkness deceive you and convince you that there is only blackness. That is a lie.
Reach out to someone there until you reach the right person.
God didn’t create you to break your heart, he created you as a physical manifestation of his love.
You got this Taqi. One baby step at a time.
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You are lovely.
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Taqiyy, it’s not mine, ad rem always kept them going. Sorry it took effect me so long. Please be know I have answered you and so have many others. You are ours taqiyy, and we love you. Let’s help each other get through this. Many prayers already offered for you.
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For some reason I thought those were your threads.
Just who you are to me, I suppose.
Thanks, all these years of wisdom from you folks.
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Big earthquake in Alaska.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/24/us/alaska-earthquake/index.html
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Thanks, Stella, I should have read through all the comments before posting above about the earthquake. Interesting how the numbers have changed through the day. We were initially told 4.1 and 4.6 for the aftershocks. Those two occurred much more than 30 minutes later. No tsunami from this one. I’ve heard of one road that buckled and cracked, but no one hurt.
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Always welcome on-the-spot reports!
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Old, but good interview:
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2995/the-art-of-fiction-no-79-elie-wiesel
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This has nothing to do with anything, but I know my dear friend Tils would want to be aware that someone is besmirching the honor of her li’l buddy Beiber. 😆
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3414020/Chelsea-Handler-labels-Justin-Bieber-worst-interview-subject-claiming-feel-like-child-molester.html
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Lotsa Beiber talk these days…..
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h/t Ace
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OOhhhhhhhh, Taqi! 😥
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Ace has a wonderful food thread up right now.
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I sent that picture to my son and his response was, “Yummy!” LOL
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As I was scrolling it stopped between the bring them inside and the food pics. My first thought was, “oh no not taqi.” Then I scrolled on down and saw the food and thought, “now that’s taqi.” lol
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It’s funny, though. You look at these majestic creatures when you’re outside, and you never really think, unless you’re a certain sort of American, just how good they would look plated up by a master chef.
Just like most people don’t see a big tree and calculate board-feet of lumber.
But some do.
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I guess maybe I’m a certain sort of American. 🙂
I don’t look at them and wonder what they would look like plated up by a master chef, but I cannot tell a lie, I see them and think, “I haven’t had that dish in awhile, about time to have it again.”
I have a picture hanging in my kitchen with several different animals that says, “I love all God’s creatures right next to the potatoes and gravy.”
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Heh. Tom Brady loses.
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My corazone breaks…… 😀 😀 😀
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He’ll be crying all the way to this. 😯 😆
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Long as he’s crying! 😀
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Yeah, “Tommy”spent his day in Denver on his BACK! And that’s are far as I will go with my comments.
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That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in awhile.
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Dallas ain’t seen it in awhile, neither! 😀
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Looks like Hilda-beest locks up the dem nod with this endorsement. 😆 😆
http://twitchy.com/2016/01/24/desperate-grandma-in-iowa-looks-to-secure-youth-vote-with-pop-star-bowzer-from-sha-na-na-video/
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Gawdawmighty….. I didn’t know he was still alive….. 🙄
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Good grief. She couldn’t even get Snoop Dogg?
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Maybe Trump will have as a guest, Johnny Horton, for good measure.
It would be apropos, too. Just replace “British” with “Muslim”.
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Damn, I love this song.
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Good songs! He’s buried within eyesight of my parents’ graves down here – he used to have a huge ol’ guitar on his grave but they don’t allow that anymore. Now he’s just got a sedate bench….
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You ever hear the Katrina version?
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I know it’s probably wrong, but I laughed my rear off. I can’t stop laughing.
I’ll have to start thinking about those they dumped on us that didn’t go home to stop laughing.
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No kidding. 😀
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I know all the words to this song, and I just sang it to the cat, who liked it fine, and is purring away! One of my favorites too.
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The comments are hilarious….. “Bern has a direct line to Bach..” 😀
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Holy cow. I thought my jaw was stuck open for good.
“Ask your candidate if fascism is right for you.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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What do these little boys and girls think, Fascism light has been going on for the last 30 years!
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2016 minus 1954 equals 62
Six decades.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046600/
(But probably since the age of radio and print snake-oil ads.)
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Some days I loose track of time reading nothing.
Chicago Tribune Dec. 29, 1886
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1886/12/29/page/1
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The President’s rheumatism continues to confine him to his room and most of the time to his bed.
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Put it back on the bottom of the stack, Nyet.
You were in your teens, then. Let it go.
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Goodnight, folks. Thanks again for your prayers. I’ll tell you how it goes in the next few days.
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