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Some type of liquor advent calendar, day number 16!
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Thank Goodness ITs Nye!!! Pouring my 2 fingers UP, as I type…………
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Mary!!!
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Mornin’ MaryfromMarin!
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Bottom of the evening to you, nyet (too late to qualify for “over-the-top-of-the-morning”).
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Because somebody has to ….. 😉
http://imgur.com/ZNkPl8G
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Trump Day?
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(Well, it rhymes, and it’s topically appropriate.)
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As I pour another glass, while sitting on my ………..
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(Well, it rhymes, and it’s topically appropriate.)
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Mornin’ ytz4mee!
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Poll – Newsmax: Trump Big Debate Winner>
Donald Trump overwhelmingly won the fifth main Republican debate Tuesday in Las Vegas, triumphing over closest rival Ted Cruz by a huge margin, a new Newsmax poll says.
Here are the results of the call-in survey:
Trump: 79 percent.
Cruz: 12 percent.
Marco Rubio: 2 percent.
Ben Carson: 2 percent
Rand Paul: 2 percent.
Jeb Bush: 1 percent.
Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina and John Kasich: Less than 1 percent each.
Newsmax readers have long given Trump winning scores during the debates.
Full Story Dec-16-2015:
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/trump-triumphs-newsmax-poll-gop-debate/2015/12/15/id/705961/
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Early breakfast! (I just got home and am going to bed)
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Morning lovely.
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Good morning Col. 🙂
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Mornin’ lovely!
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Night, night. Sleep tight. Don’t let the bedbugs bite.
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Morning Stella.
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Morning Colonel. 😀
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Good morning Stella 🙂
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Good morning, lovely.
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Mornin’ stella!
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Morning Nye, it’s a start, Like,Like,Like!!!!
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Mornin’ sir!
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Mornin’ Boris!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed.
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Mornin’ Colonel!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Good morning, hopefully you don’t get woke up to a knock upside your head.
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Mornin’ michellc! Nope, Just three different waste disposal and recycling trucks beating the crap out of the same dumpster emptied hours before of the hundreds beer, wine and liquor bottles. A knock upside my head would have been a refreshing change from the daily noises of city life.
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I don’t hear much city life, my mornings are filled with crowing, baaing, mooing, oinking and barking. lol
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Poll – Who Won the Las Vegas GOP Debate?
Of all the online polls going on right now The Blaze poll is the tightest, it has Trump at 38% and Cruz at 37%.
To cast your vote click this link and go to The Blaze poll Dec-16-2015:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/12/15/blaze-poll-who-won-the-las-vegas-gop-debate/
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We know what day it is. Coffee’s up. Enjoy. 😆
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Good morning Texan 🙂
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Mornin’ Tex!
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Mornin’ T!
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Morning Tex. Need massive amounts of coffee this morning, thank you Sir, great coffee!
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Mornin’ Col.
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Afternoon michellc. In for some lunch, then back to fence repair.
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Mornin’ Tex!
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Mornin’ texan59!
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Highlights from the CNN GOP Debate: Donald Trump vs. Jeb Bush
The News Dec-16-2015:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78KnZwCiXq8
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Mornin’ kids!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Mornin’ Wee!
This year with the baby I’m excited about Christmas. Usually, I’m just ready for it to be over with, this year I can’t wait for it to get here.
The kids took us out to dinner last night and we drove around and looked at Christmas lights on the way home. Little man got to break the law so he could see the lights. Little man loves to break the law. Anytime you let him out of the car seat and tell him he’s breaking the law and is gonna go to jail, he laughs. 🙂
I can’t blame him, I’d hate sitting in that thing all strapped down facing backwards and now due to new Oklahoma laws he’ll be stuck that way until he’s 2.
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My granddaughter is almost four this year, and the next one two and a half. They are so much fun I just want to spend every minute with them. It will always be fun sharing Christmas with children, but my gut tells me the pure innocent joy that my granddaughter is able to express this year will never be matched. Baby Conner is just honoring the season being cute in Christmas onesies.
The wonder in her, the awe, the gratitude and joy at the simplest displays to the most majestic light displays, her trying to wrap her mind around this being Jesus’s birthday, Jesus being a baby when she had just begun to picture Jesus as a man, it’s all stop your heart wonderful. The two year old is just throwing himself into the fun of it, but my little Sadie is savoring and treasuring every moment.
Thank God for children. They truly light the way.
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Good morning Menagerie we have a 3 year old and 9 month old in our family. They are both pure joy. This summer we went to a petting farm, it was in the high 90’s and we had been there for hours, we were all hot and sweaty so we took a break and had our picnic lunch in the shade where it was still roasting.
We were all ready to go home as we were packing up the three year old is hopping up and down yelling “Let’s go to the kitty barn !!!!!!”
She was not dissuaded 🙂
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And I’m sure you all enjoy the memory. 😀
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Mornin’ Menagerie!
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Good afternoon.
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Mine ripped a package by accident and now he wants to complete the job on all the presents. I found it funny, just like I find it funny when you ask him which presents are his and he starts touching each one he can get to and says, “my, my, my.” Everything the past week or so is “my.”
Now I know when it comes time to open presents he’ll be finished after one because the paper and box will be more fun than what’s inside.
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Good morning Michelle 🙂
I was just shopping for a 9 month old and I saw all the contraptions available so that parents don’t have to hold their infants. I always wonder about babies in a carseats who are carried in that contraption into the store and plucked in the cart still strapped in a carseat and then back out to the car. I wonder how much snuggling they get?
I think carseats are great and life savers but I also think many babies aren’t getting the essential physical contact that is so crucial to becoming an emotionally well person.
While at the store I saw a baby swing that did everything but feed and diaper the baby.
When my girls were little I often carried one in a snuggly in the front and one in a back carrier. What I would give to have those snuggly days back.
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I’m not against car seats, but he’s at the age where he wants to see what’s going on around him and having to face backwards is not a lot of fun for him or any of us who are driving.
When he was tiny my daughter took him out of the car in the seat because it was difficult getting him out of the seat in the car. He usually ended up being carried around the store though.
I spent a lot of time cuddling him because I knew how quick he was going to be on the go and not want to be cuddled. He’s gotten to that age now where he only wants to be cuddled when he’s sleepy or hurts himself.
They certainly have more things than we had when ours were babies. I don’t think all of them are for the best either. I’m just not to fond of all the computer toys and the toys that do everything for them where they don’t have to have an imagination.
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“…… I’m just not to fond of all the computer toys and the toys that do everything for them where they don’t have to have an imagination. “
As a small child, I always found matches kind of magical for the imagination.
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If you lit one match on fire and touched it to the head of another match you could lie them across the rim of a shot glass – touch another 2 match heads to the first two and it was like a mini campfire right on the kitchen table 🙂 Adding matches after the basic 4 were flaming was easy.
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It sound’s like we’re in agreement then, grandchildren should play with matches and bar glassware.
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When I was a kid I was burning the trash at 6. My brother who was 10 still couldn’t be trusted with matches. He’d start catching things on fire he wasn’t supposed to.
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BTW Michelle my husband had a car with a sunroof and one of our girls fondest early memories is standing on the front seat arms in the sky like they are on a roller coaster wind in their faces, driving down the road. There were already carseat and seatbelt laws then and I can’t imagine what grief he would have caught if the police ever caught him.
They didn’t do it often and never on well travelled roads but to hear them talk of it, it was like “flying”! 🙂
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My kids grew up under those laws as well, but they often rode in the back of the truck on dirt roads.
They also started driving on our laps and then as soon as they could see over the wheel and be able to reach the pedals they drove with us beside them on the dirt roads. All of our kids could drive by the time they were 12.
Right or wrong we tried to give them as much as possible the same kind of childhood we had.
Our daughter was tall for her age so she was driving the hay truck in the fields by the time she was 9.
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Mornin’ michellc!
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Good evening Stella, I was running and doing all day. I’ve just now got a chance to sit down.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/carolyn-walker-diallo-muslim-judge-sworn-koran-article-1.2467218
Carolyn Walker-Diallo, Muslim judge, sworn in on Koran in Brooklyn
Where are you my America?
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Izzat a cat wrapped around her head?
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Probably a spotted dog since the fatwa was called against doggies 😦
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LOL!
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Swearing an oath on a book that tells you to lie. Priceless.
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Peppermint Bark Christmas Cake
http://www.harryanddavid.com/h/bakery/cakes/29575
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How pretty!
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Looks good! I have made these cookies, which are also delicious:
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/chocolate-candy-cane-cookies/
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OMG I AM GOING TO ORDER THIS.
SERIOUSLY.
I have a Pavlovian response during the Christmas season to anything “Peppermint Bark”.
Thanks Nyet. ‘coz I don’t have *enough* addictions to feed. If only ETOH were involved, this would check ALL the boxes: chocolate, sugar, carbs-carbs-carbs, unhealthy fats, shopping…. 😉
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I’ve ordered from them since back when you had to get a catalog in the mail.
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Our youngest used to have an unnatural fascination with raccoons when she was wee, so we would always order this Yule Log that was decorated with raccoons for her via mail order from “Santa”. We got away with it for years. Sadly, I don’t think they’re in business anymore. But I do like Harry & David stuff.
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So perfect. All of them.
Christie the Hutt. LMAO.
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Good evening, folks.
Stella, kudos on the blog. You’re off to a great start.
I don’t know what you peruse for news, but if I may recommend a couple of sources?
BadBlue news, created by Doug Ross.
Gates of Vienna has a news feed every day which contains lots of news that covers a lot of bases.
I’m sure you know American Thinker, Gateway Pundit, and, of course, Drudge.
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oops.
http://gatesofvienna.net/
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I should add that what I report won’t always be what is reported at the Tree, or anywhere else, I guess. I’ll post what interests me and I confess that crime stories don’t grab me at all. Not saying they aren’t important, just that I’m not the person to do them justice.
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When I said Kudos, that’s why. You’re covering stuff I like to see covered, too, and SD can’t do 30 posts a day.
And poetry threads? Wonderful.
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I had a correspondence going with Dymphna over at Gates of Vienna for a while – nice person (the Baron’s wife). I should look in on BadBlue more often. The truth is that this week I’ve been involved with Christmas preparations, so I haven’t been paying as much attention. This blog is a one-woman operation, and traffic is still pretty slow. 🙂
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I only just recently re-discovered GoV.
The daily news feed is really good.
BadBlue has a lot of fluff — it’s computer-generated — and contains a few links to sites I find to be “click-bait”, but is still good if you use discernment.
Quite a few links that say “Watch what happens when THIS happens to THIS famous person!” and “You won’t believe what happens when THIS famous person does THIS!”
Basically, if a link-headline contains the word “THIS”, I don’t give it traffic.
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Enough of those on Facebook (click bait).
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She’s in email at the tree, btw.
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I’ll have to look.
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Shades of the Clintoons……
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/12/secret-service-officer-assigned-to-white-house-fatally-shot-in-southwest-d-c/
I’ma thinkin’, drug deal.
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I just saw that too. I wonder.
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For some odd reason, this administration likes to blame the “firing” (especially of military bigwigs) of whomever on sexual misconduct, domestic problems, “conduct unbecoming,” yada so often that it’s become a joke. Well, at least to me. This last 7 years has yielded more “corrupt” military than I’ve seen in my whole life. Suspicious, I am. Sounds to me like he didn’t follow Imam Won’s orders, or worse luck, went to pick up Won’s blow when the last lot hadn’t been paid for (ala Hila Monster and her lack-of-paying-bills habit.)
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Comment posted by a FB friend:
“Elizabeth Power in the current Commentary has coined a phrase I’ve been trying to come up with myself–lifestyle liberalism, politics as lifestyle and self-expression. Or as she says, “I feel, therefore I believe I think.””
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What?? I guess I woke up stupid, again….
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Because she feels something, like being cold in the winter, she fancies herself as an intellectual. Or apparently she may have been constipated one day and came up with “leading from behind”, since she was bloated. I dunno for sure. 😆 🙄
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LOL!!
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I think it is a reference to how liberals always let their emotions inform their intellect and form their decisions.
Example; It think Darren Wilson shot Mike Brown for fun because all white cops are racist murdering scum and Frowny Brown was an innocent child, just a baby therefore Darren Wilson shot Mike Brown for fun.
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That’s an excellent summation.
Progs.
SMH.
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