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Just curious, is there unrest in the penthouse at CTH?
YTZ, comment about “clickbait” just made my eyebrows go up a little.
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I have no idea what you’re talking about and I’m being forced to scroll through threads…..
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Oh that. I’ve never really gone into many of the investigative threads to contribute since I often don’t have much to share that would move anything forward in a meaningful way. Maybe a particular technology thing once or twice, but it doesn’t seem to come up often.
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Morning Ziiggii, clickbait, don’t understand, now if you mean chickbait,I understand that term!
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Morning Sir, my comment is related to a discussion last night.
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Okay, reviewed thread: PZ is correct, little events in your AO, and in the bigger AO are happening. We are being baited, and “they” are looking at our response. What is our response; more maneuver forces committed to the AO, more SIGNET, cyber security, more patrols. Now consider local or national social events, overblown media coverage, economic value targets thrown into the mix. We are focused out, our focus should be inward (area of influence) and outward focus is area of interest.
Yes PZ it’s on the reading rack. I just have to get out of the weeds of operational art of war and re learn some new/old tenets of warfare.
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Col. Ken
What is old is new again. Warfare never goes out of style. 4th Gen is like fur loin cloths and shilleighlies in a world of powder blue ruffle front tuxes, patent white shoes and pink champagne.
All the technology in the world will not help us when they walk up to one’s billet in base housing and take care of what they came for while morning eggs and coffee are consumed.
Real world example of this concept in action:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/38423/FBI-PROBES-IRANIAN-GROUP-IN-VAN-BOMBING-INCIDENT.html?pg=all
This happened. What is past, unfortunately is probably prologue. Stay sharp. This sort of stuff intrudes on my sleep from time to time.
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Happy good morning to you, partyzantski!
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Nyet, Thank you. Mornings here at the world HQ are pretty quiet, save for the labored rattling of pairs of lungs and the slow drip of coffee. I might get some bacon out for tomorrow, no way to start a day like being a Kaffir unbeliever, snacking on tasty bacon!
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Col Hammes talks about a “small community” of writers exploring 4GW; other than Lind who else is writing on this topic?
I found my old copy of the Colonel’s book “The Sling and the Stone” last night in an attempt to dive back into the theory. I was introduced to the theory back in the late 90’s while at Norwich, but haven’t stayed up with it since. And honestly, it was one of those things at the time, I didn’t think I’d ever encounter; so down the memory hole of ‘null’. Like you said, “What is past, unfortunately is probably prologue.” It’s biting me in the butt now.
Are there any current periodicals writing on this topic other than say YTZ at his blog? I found one of Hammes articles from the Military Review – 2007, where he proposes 4GW was possibly evolving into a 5GW.
Click to access hammes-4gw_and-5th.pdf
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You three (PZ, Zig, and the Col.) probably know about Castalia House, the relatively new book publisher. If not, it’s up your alley, in it’s nonfiction offerings. Lots of stuff on 4GW.
Vox Day’s blog (Vox Popoli), and the commentariat, would probably fire your neurons up, too, on subjects related to this. (He has Science Fiction/Fantasy as a major topic too, along with game design and even occasionally, Futbol and martial arts.)
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Ziiggi,
I know how you feel.
By the by, YTZ is a gal.
The domestic authors I’s steer you to would be John Poole, and John Poole. You can find references of some of his works at: http://www.stopshouting.blogspot.com
The Hammes article is excellent. I do caution that the view of we can’t kill our way out of a war is misguided. Like Communism, it just has not been properly tried yet.
My views on the use of “soft power” as espoused by many wanna be T.E. Lawrences is that it makes the practitioner feel better, and is a form of virtue signalling.
In my experience, it does not help. They still want to kill you… that is, if you are EFFECTIVE. They will humor and fan the vanities of many dolts with brass on the collar. While the American feels validated, they always somehow end up fleecing you.
Maybe that is something I did not understand, that money as a weapons system thing. I never saw anything tangible for it. The place remained a hole after I left, it is still a hole, and I suspect it will be 1,000 years hence.
Don’t get me wrong, I do have much compassion for some of the people caught up in it. I stayed in touch with 2 interpreters who served us there. I wrote resumes for one of them.
Anyhow… I am scheduled to write a number of articles on 4GW over at http://www.stopshouting.blogspot.com The management there humors me, and the benefits package is 1st rate.
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Some type of liquor advent calendar, day number 18!
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Wow, you’re just gonna drag us all to acting all proper like this Christmas, huh? The chateau even has a “recommended tulip glass”. As someone who had to acclimate to drinking carmeniere out of a plastic tumbler cup after waving goodbye to my HHG, (and not really knowing if I’d ever see them again ….) that may be too much too fast for me.
http://imgur.com/x3EAqGV
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Drag kicking an screaming. I’ll do my best. 🙂 We actually had that a couple of years ago for a birthday. Had a neat licorice quality to it.
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Nye, okay I’ll just take a sip! Morning!
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When, nyet?
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Didja see I twitted ya?
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Yep. Flattering, it is [wording in honor of Star Wars, Episode 749 ].
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A hanging bracket! ^^^ (It’s late)
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Morning Mary.
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“Good eve-a-ning”, Col. [Said in my best Alfred Hitchcock voice. Which isn’t really good at all.]
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Morning ytz4mee.
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Good Morning to you!
Looks like another unseasonably warm day here in our corner of the universe!
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Mornin’ ytz4mee!
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Morning again, Dr. No!
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soon?
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Oh NO!!!!! Star Wars weekend……. Back in the old Army, when you graduated from the SAMS course, you were given the term “Jedi”. No light saber. No princess to rescue, Empire to defeat (not then) no cream assignments, just hard work and everyone dumping their ruck on you!!
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These days it seems as if I’m the only person alive who has never cared for Star Wars, tried to watch the first one years ago and haven’t attempted to watch any since then. So I have no idea why folks are so enamored with this latest one.
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Me either, michellc. My SIL and grandsons are crazy about it. SIL collects action figures, etc.
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My sons and my SIL don’t collect figurines, but they talk about the stupid movie constantly.
They all have this big plan on my SIL’s birthday in January everyone is going to watch the movie as the lines will be small then. They keep including me and my DH in this plan and I keep telling them that I refuse to sit through it.
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I had pull string talking dolls when I was little, an original slinky and a can of hand me down tinker toys from the 1920’s (still do, somewhere).
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I remember getting an original Slinky when I was six. I loved it.
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I still have tinker toys around here somewhere as well.
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Today they make a slinky out of plastic. I wish I still had my old metal slinky. Because the kid is still inside me I bought a plastic slinky and tried to make it go down the stairs, it bent all up and came apart.
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The original ones were made out of steel and made a completely different sound then the galvanized ones.
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You could abuse them as well. We tried more than once to send them down the barn loft ladder.lol
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Plastic slinkys are made in CHINA! Do you know how stupid we are??? We let CHINA get away with 500 billion a year! That’s BILLION, with a “B”!!! Our leaders are stupid…..
So, is Trump on tonight??? 😀
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My favorite ever toy from childhood was called a Secret Sam. It was a spy set in a briefcase. Guns, periscope, message missile. Way cool. I still have it. Almost all the dumb dolls my mama hoped I’d play with are long gone.
See, I was a prepped and conspiracy theorist from childhood.
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My older sister and I had raggedy ann and andy dolls when we were very little. Those things are long gone.
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Donald Trump loves the original Slinky more than anyone else on earth, he is the yugest lover of Slinky in the universe, and if Trump is elected president he will make steel Slinky’s again and, Believe Me, they will be the most beautiful Slinky’s the world has ever seen 😉
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And they won’t be made in CHINA!!! Do you know how CHINA rips us off…….
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And your kids will not be eating Oreos while they are playing with their made in America Slinky. Never will your kids be eating Oreos.
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Good morning, everyone! [From the night before…isn’t existentialism fun?]
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🙂
Morning, MfM! Yes, it’s officially morning here on the East coast.
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So it’s simultaneously today and tomorrow. Cool.
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Or yesterday and today, from your POV.
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I always like the long flights, where you land earlier than when you took off.
It’s like a free groundhog day!
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Good morning Mary 🙂
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And good evening to you, too, lovely. Mornings are otherwise full…
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Christmas greetings from your friendly neighborhood grammar nazi:
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Mary!!!
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But it’s clean, Col! You could tell that joke to ANYONE!
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Mornin’ MaryfromMarin
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Good evening, nyet. Catching up on the hellos, as I only recently got home.
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Mary, my grammar’s in heaven, but she was an English teacher.
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Oh look… 24 hrs later, Saudi coalition already has defectors.
Hmmmm…. who could have seen that coming? Let me think for a spell.
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Junk mail==”chainsaw letters”.
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Missing headers.
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And footers.
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Oh, very nice. Kudos.
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Not quite so lighthearted:
Minnesota: Parents question public high school’s choice to sing “Allahu akbar” at holiday concert
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/12/minnesota-parents-question-public-high-schools-choice-to-sing-allahu-akbar-at-holiday-concert
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Say it ain’t so! Religious songs on government property………….
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I guess it depends on which “religion” it is.
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Some “religions” are more equal than others.
[h/t, a 20th century prophet]
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Singing A***h A***r is like having the kids sing the “Horst Wessel” song at Chanukah.
Cultural sensitivity is a one way street with the Progressives. They seek to progressively murder Western Civilization.
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This, on the heels of the recent news of students in Virginia practicing their calligraphy by writing the shahada in Arabic…
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/18/virginia-school-district-closes-controversial-assignment-forces-students-write-muslim-oath/
Conversion, the painless and brain-dead way. Expanding the ummah one clueless student at a time.
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Good morning. Now I’m going back to bed. It’s 35 degrees here, which feels like sub zero blizzard weather after having temps in the sixties and seventies almost all winter. Supposed to be below thirty tonight. I was all set for a global warming winter.
To quote a little three year old “I not like it.”
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Me, either, Menage!! Brrrr!!!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed.
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Afternoon Colonel!
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It’s been cold here the past few days after warm weather. I about froze my tush off yesterday with a high of 35. I was toasty this morning in our 27 degree weather because I had on my long johns, insulated pants, plus my carharts and my robbers’ mask as my kids used to call ski masks.lol
At least the snow didn’t accumulate and we just got a dusting.
I’m with the 3 year old, “I not like winter.”:)
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Morning michellc.
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Good morning, well afternoon now.lol
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I hear that we will get another warmup in a couple of day. No snow (except maybe a little today) for the rest of the year.
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Morning Stella.
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Morning Colonel!
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We aren’t getting a white Christmas either Stella, 😦
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Morning Menagerie.
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Morning sir!
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Good morning Menage 🙂
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Morning lovely
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Good morning Col. 🙂
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Mornin’ Menagerie!
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Mornin’ kids!
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Mornin’ Wee!
I never thought there would come a day where I thought about wasting bacon, but that day has come. I think about throwing bacon in their path all the time.lol
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Mornin’ michellc!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Mornin’ michellc!
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Mornin’, city living interrupt your sleep again?
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Nope. Spouse.
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Bacon bits will go further and accomplish the same thing.
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Raw bacon though will have them running for the hills.
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I imagine that raising pigs protects your entire family.
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I had five children, and I can tell you it was a lot like raising pigs…
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Pigs are actually pretty smart.
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Before or after beatings? I’ve had mixed results….
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They get a little hot under the collar when they call about goats and you tell them you raise pigs.
They also from time to time send us messages through our website that aren’t too friendly.
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Mornin’ stella!
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Mornin’ nyet!
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Good morning, WeeWeed, Stella, Michelle and all 🙂
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Mornin’ lovely!
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Goos afternoon Nyet 🙂
Cheers!
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Good afternoon also
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Good morning, lovely.
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Afternoon Lovely!
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Good afternoon lovely.
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Afternoon Boris!
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Snort!
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Old Dixie changed to President Barack Obama Highway in Riviera Beach
http://cbs12.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_32218.shtml?wap=0
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🙄
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In my neck of fly over country, we call those type of road signs, “quick fire targets”.
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Breakfast!
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Nye!!! Excellent!!! Like!Like!Like!!!
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Excuse me while I go cook brunch. That looks delicious.
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That’s what I’m talkin’ about.
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This makes me literally sick. I can’t write about it; I don’t want to think about it. How did our elected “representatives” become so corrupt?
Paul Ryan Negotiated Exporting Oil In Exchange For Importing Syrians
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/18/paul-ryan-negotiated-exporting-oil-exchange-importing-syrians/
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Naked pictures of choirboys, if I were guessin’. 👿
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Ryan is man who sees nothing odd about sleeping in his office on a cot so that he can get up every morning and go to the gym and remain buff
What is odd about that?
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Speaking of paying attention to the larger picture ;
In his meeting with the columnists, Mr. Obama indicated that he did not see enough cable television to fully appreciate the anxiety after the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, and made clear that he plans to step up his public arguments.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/18/the-new-york-times-just-memory-holed-this-devastating-obama-admission/
Obama has decided to fundamentally transform America. Obama has fundamentally transformed America. So much so that Obama doe not even hide the fact that he does not give a damn that Paris and America were attacked by Muslims. It is for all intensive purposes unimportant to him.
Transforming America into a third world country is the goal.
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Finally found a picture of Stella’s Place…..
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So when is the marshmallow roasting party?
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Pffft! Were did you think your heated Grand Marnier came from?
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No need to hit the bars tonight – we’ll get hammered right here! 😀
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Every night is hammer night….
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😀
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Ah, what I want for Christmas is an edit button.
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I know, right?
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Found your drink….
http://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/1155946/size/tl-horizontal_main/there-s-a-new-archer-season-coming-so-we-made-sterling-approved-cocktails
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It looks like the place where I was once a volunteer docent, Meadowbrook Hall in Rochester, MI.
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Perfect! An excellent representation of Stella’s personality – Elegant and Classical. Lots of room for everyone, PLUS, Look! – all our reference material is close at hand! 😉
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Fireplace an’ a beer shall be my reference material tonight! 😀
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I am his ting the aged (months!) apple shine. I shall heat it up too.
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Looks like I’ve already been hitting it, huh?
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Oh yeah! 🙄
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Hey, you said it ….. 😉
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Good afternoon, my distinguished and beloved elders.
I’ll be flying to just south of the Ocala Nat’l Forest tomorrow, to spend two weeks with my dear folks. It’ll be our first Christmas together in more than 20 years.
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I thought you went to see them last year? Have a wonderful trip and a Merry Christmas taqiyy.
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You too, Menagerie.
That was just after Christmas. 😦
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Okra National Forest?
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Yeah. Okra’s got ‘er dammagazines all over the place out there.
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Have a wonderful time, taqi!
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There will be beer and fireplaces, and lots of books.
My parents would have that room, upthread, if just for the library space.
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Safe journey and a beautiful Christmas taqiyyplogist. Don’t slap the TSA 🙂
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Pop Tart Cottage
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It’s beautimous! I’ll save mine for coffee – those suck with beer. 😉
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Half eaten, year old, Italian breadstick house
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😯
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Lazy…..
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Don’t even get me started on the dark chocolate WH gingerbread house this year 👿
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amb Tenderloin Grand Marnier
Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 40 mins
Ingredients
Servings: 4
2 lbs lamb tenderloin
1 egg, beaten
2 tablespoons sour cream
italian breadcrumbs
2 cups mushrooms, sliced
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 small onion, finely chopped
1/2 cup grand marnier
1/2 cup dry wine
1 pint heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup sliced shallot
salt
pepper
Recipe
cut tenderloin into slices about 2″ thick and pound to flatten into cutlets (or save yourself the work and have your butcher do this for you).
mix the beaten egg and sour cream.
dip cutlets in the egg mixture and then the seasoned bread crumbs.
fry in hot oil/butter just a few minutes per side.
lay in bottom of casserole dish and cover with mushrooms.
blend the sauce ingredients and simmer for about 25 minutes.
pour over lamb and mushrooms.
bake 40 minutes at 400 degrees.
cleanse palate between bites with remaining bottle of grand marnier.
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Oooooooooooo,,,,,,,,, drool…. Pretty! 😉
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As an aside, don’t ever go lookin’ up what happened to Mason Reese. Jus’ sayin’.
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LOL! Post Raisin Bran stickers! I forgot all about those!
I stopped there. I don’t want to know.
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Yikes! I didn’t know who he was by his name but I recognized his picture.
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He has a deformed head.
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Visual of Jeb surging 😀
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