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On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me….
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Nice, but where’s the booze?
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Sigh….
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MORE Mortlach!
Ask, and ye shall receive…
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Morning Mary, remember now, Nye is on the clock!
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Good afternoon to you, Col. Blessed day, all day.
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An old Colt from the 30s. .38/.45 cal. Too much gun to clear leather, and you might snap your wrist. You need a 9mm double stacked, two extra magazines. Now the golden rule is guns and booze don’t mix! Unless you say the magic words: “whiskey for my men, beer for my horses”!
Morning Nye!
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Mornin’ sir!
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Look at those prices.
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Mornin’ tessa50!
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Evenin’ nyet
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On the 4th Day of Christmas, my true love sent to me…
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I’m watching that red roster, something is going to happen………
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GMTA, nyet!
AND at exactly the same time (check it out!)
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Mornin’ MaryfromMarin!
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Good afternoon, Mr. Twelve Days of Spirits man!
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Good morning. It’s coffee time. Soon to be followed by more coffee time. Soon to be followed by getting out to go do the daily errands and tasks, hoping to beat the rain home. Not likely.
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Mornin’ Menagerie!
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Good morning. Looks like we might have a major ice storm here this afternoon. Glad I’m not going anywhere.
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There must be somewhere in this country that is not flooded, icy, rainy, or under threat of tornadoes.
I hope you stay safe and warm!
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I forgot the blizzard.
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Here….
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One of these days I have a really funny story about that kind of blizzard.
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There must be somewhere in this country that is not flooded, icy, rainy, or under threat of tornadoes.
Yes, and the people here seem to have gone insane due to the lack of regular severe weather.
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I should be okay.
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Good to hear!
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Just got a text from DD. They just left her MIL’s house on the way home – directly through the ice storm (storm moving east; they are moving west).
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I hope they are out of it soon. Nasty, worst weather, the ice.
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Good morning Menagerie 🙂
We need new phones. Our contract is up I have one not so wee one who has bravely gone off onto her own plan because she wants “limitless” data 😎. I was going to go today and see what kind of package I can get but it is snowing and generally gross outside so we are un-decorating instead.
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We did that Saturday and Sunday. I left the Nativity scenes out until Epiphany, but the rest is put up, and I am glad. If my priest finds out, I may get put on probation. The Catholic Church is now all about celebrating the Octave of Christmas, and the Christmas season through Epiphany, or even the Baptism of Our Lord.
I can still celebrate without the decor. I don’t want it all around in January.
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I am Byzantine Catholic although there are no Byzantine churches near me so I attend the Roman Catholic Church. (There is a Melkite Catholic Church about 45 minutes from me but I have not been there).
When I attended the Byzantine Church we did not put our Christmas decorations out until Christmas Eve day. We left them up through the Epiphany. I love the Eastern Rite, the icons, no instruments, standing, the long pryers, the richness of it all. I love the Roman Rite but I am more at home in the Eastern Church.
Anyhow you mentioning your priest made me think of my Byzantine Priest. He told people that if they voted for Bill Clinton that they should not receive communion until they went to confession and made a true confession. He told them that their hands were with every abortionist when they killed babies in the womb.
He was a wonderful priest.
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I would have loved that priest! And I agree. A vote for a Democrat is to pick up a scalpel. Unfortunately, so now are most votes for Republicans, as they fulfill the Obama Wish List.
I would love to attend an Eastern Rite service, but I don’t think I would be able to stand still so long. I have never been to anything other than a Latin Rite.
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The standing is not so bad and there are chairs an/or pews for people. The Byzantine Church I attended we didn’t stand the entire time but we stood *a lot*.
Once a priest was telling me about attending a Byzantine Mass and they were standing praying a long prayer (probably a full page long) he was relieved to be getting near the end when he saw at the end of the prayer, “repeat 3 times” 😀
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Merry Monday folks 🙂
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Mornin’ lovely!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Mornin’ kids! And now, we’re cold like everyone else!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed. Photo bucket is working!!
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Mornin’ Colonel!!
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Good morning WeeWeed and fellow kids 🙂
Looks like your photobucket is no longer belly-up, WeeWeed?
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Mornin’ Lovely! Iz a miracle…… 😀
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Hooray for miracles! Your photos are always the best 👍 😀
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ B!
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Mornin’ Wee!
Did the twisters get near you?
We’re still trying to keep our heads above water. They keep warning folks of the dams that are about to be opened full blast. The Illinois River in Cherokee county is reaching record levels. We’re downstream from one of the dams that is going to cause trouble, but our lake is spreading the joy and opening our dam as well. I continue thanking my lucky stars that we live on a hill, might get stuck at home again, but at least we won’t get flooded.
Here it keeps switching from rain to freezing rain to sleet to snow and back again. I’d prefer it stick to snow at least it’s pretty.:)
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Mornin’ Michelle! Yeah, they did – 2 confirmed real close, and the weather peeps this a.m. said we really dodged a bad bullet. The Red is bad, and rising….. and word is water will be released (3′) in Broken Arrow that’s gonna mess us up down here. Can’t be any worse than it was in late spring, though – just colder…..
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Yep, our area still hasn’t fully recovered from that flood and now it’s flooded again. Other counties that didn’t have it as bad as us the last time, get to experience it this time.
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Mornin’ michellc!
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Good evening.
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I pray that everyone here (and their family members) is safe during this widespread bad weather. Not bad here, just colder than usual for Bay Area.
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My DD and family just arrived home safe. Really bad driving.
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It’s now officially worse here than it was in the spring. We ventured out to see how bad and homes that just had water up to porches in spring now have water running into their homes. Houses that had water inside, now you can only see the roofs.
They’re asking a community about 3 miles from me to evacuate.
They’re debating mandatory evacuations for a few towns within 20 miles of me.
They keep releasing water upstream but it still keeps staying at the top of the dam, so they keep upping our dam release, but it’s not enough to keep up, we were watching the water rise. Our county remains under a flood warning through 6 p.m. tomorrow.
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So sorry to hear that, michellec. I’ve never experienced flooding, so I have no idea…
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I’ve never experienced my home flooded, but I hate trying to go anywhere during floods.
I feel for some of these folks because normally they would be far enough from the lake and river to be affected and yet this time it’s not far enough. Others it’s harder for me to have sympathy for as they know it’s going to happen but they don’t care as long as they live right on the lake. Most of them knew it before they built or bought their homes.
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I guess we could have this. http://mashable.com/2015/12/27/new-mexico-blizzard-texas-snow/#K5bNdDIk4sqr
Water or snow? I’m not sure which I’d prefer.
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Interesting image (unattributed, posted at WRSA):
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Good morning everyone! Breakfast is served!
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Entertaining post – by someone who loves the media as much as we do. 😀
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/12/26/losing-influence-6-great-dc-media-failures-of-2015/
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Anyone who calls the LSM maggots is a friend of mine 😀
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Good morning, everybody! Our final week of 2015 – where did it go? And now, less than 13 months of Obama to endure.
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Good morning Stella 🙂
This year flew by. This morning I started taking ornaments off the tree 😦
Obama has promised to squeeze in every change he can in over the next year.
Never going to happen.
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The last couple of years I have been leaving my tree up as long as it pleases me – sometimes until March. I live alone, so I can! 😉
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We already took ours down, I was tired of watering it. I love a real tree, but I don’t love the part of getting down on my hands and knees giving it water.
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That’s definitely one thing I like about an artificial tree. I have a new one this year – it is very narrow and fits into my small living room quite well.
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Our tree this year was one of the prettiest ones we’ve had in awhile. It’s still sitting in my front yard so I can enjoy it for awhile longer without having to water it.
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We have a real tree and we got it I think the Saturday after Thanksgiving so it is starting to drop needles. So she has to go 😦
I have a friend who let her daughter keep a tabletop tree in her bedroom year round. They had fun decorating it for every holiday imaginable.
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It sure seems each year older I get, the faster time flies by.
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IKR??
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I have had a discussion about this with the GS, who will be 12 in a month or so. Think about it, if you’re 6, it takes one-sixth of your life to get back to Christmas that year. When you’re my age, @*, those twelve months are a much smaller % of your life, so, as we age, we are sucked into an ever-tightening vortex within the time-space continuum which increases in speed each and every day. Just tryin’ to help out here. 😉 😆
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Which I guess means we keep getting closer to kicking the bucket.lol
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhA0tScgqhQ
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I like this guy.
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His YouTube videos, especially the ones explaining the Crusades and Slavery, are great to share especially with younger people as a way of helping them self-educate. It’s laid out in a very matter of fact way and allows them to absorb the information in a non-threatening way. Having your the foundations of your belief systems challenged is very threatening for most people.
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Look, y’all! Yatz got Rookie of the Year! 😀
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2015/12/here-they-are-2015-fabulous-50-blog.html#more
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Congratulations Yatz! Well done 🙂
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Thanks, Wee. At first I was confused, because my first blog post was in June 2008 as a local issues blog, and I’ve won a few awards since then, not exactly “rookie status” but then I realized that the “Rookie” award is for Partyzanski and his crew of pals, who just started blogging a few weeks ago, and I host them at Stopshouting. So, that was nice for them. They’ve had a lot bottled up, and are now getting a chance to use their voice.
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Congratulations to Ytz4mee, on her well-deserved award!
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I still can’t imagine running a blog. I can’t seem to make the time to maintain a static website ….. but I can post booze and breakfast daily…… Hmmmmmm.
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You could write computer words for us idjits. Yer first post could be, “Where’s My Damn Photobucket???”
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You have yet to serve any Grand Marnier so I think the jury is still out on that one 😉
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Thanks, but I the “Rookie” award was for Partyzanski and Team Skiff. I hope that this will encourage them to keep writing and sharing!
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As long as I didn’t mess up anyone’s chances due to posting silly comments, I’m happy for you anyway.
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Huh?
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I thought I made a couple of silly comments on your blog too. Hmmm. If it wasn’t yours, who’s did I post to?
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stopshoutingblog.com is the WP platform we are playing around with but hasn’t been set up yet.
stopshouting.blogspot.com is the “home” or “main” blog platform, that we continue to use until we work out the kinks and get a new skin & template up and running over at stopshoutingblog.com. You can comment at stopshouting.blogspot.com, but all comments are moderated, so you have to be sprung. That’s because after the “Rant” went viral in 2010, the Progtards came out of the woodwork and it was ridiculous. (the anti-military venom) and I ended up having to moderate the blog to keep things sane.
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Ah! Somehow, then I (and others) posted to stopshoutingblog.com.
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Me too.
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Congratulations YTZ4Mee!
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Thanks Nyet! But the award is for Partyzanksi and crew, I was merely the hostess.
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Mornin’ ytz4mee BTW!
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lol
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Congrats to PZ and crew–AND to you, the astute enabler [alternative sobriquet: “the hostess with the mostest”].
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TY. They need a heavy hand with the editing, er…. translation. I’ve been a military wife for 30 years and even I still have to ask, “What is this? What are you trying to tell people?” Converting MilSpeak to what the rest of recognize is an ongoing challenge at times. 😉
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The electric company is out trimming trees and taking down dead trees. Huge amount taken from my neighbor’s huge maple, and another big tree removed across the street. Very little on my property.
This is very good, with an ice storm on the way. Some of those branches would have been brought down with the weight of the ice, and possibly power lines too.
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Diana West: It’s Time to Rally Around Donald Trump
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/26/its-time-to-rally-around-donald-trump/
But good citizens of what — the world?
For many decades, the unspoken answer to this inconceivable question (inconceivable, that is, before Trump) has been yes. “We Are the World” has been the USA’s unofficial anthem, the political muzak of our times that we either hum along to, or accept in teeth-gritted silence for fear of censure (or cancelled party invitations). “Openness,” “multiculturalism,” “globalism” — all have been pounded into us for so long that I think Americans despaired of ever hearing anyone give voice again to a patriotic vision of American interests. Then Trump came along and changed the tune. Americans perked up their ears. Maybe a wall — which is just the beginning of Trump’s detailed immigration policy, which Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) calls “exactly the plan America needs” — would make America possible again. That would be great, indeed.
Does Trump see it all this way, or is he going on “feel”? I don’t claim to know, although by this time in the political season, I think I am beginning to get a sense of Trump. When it comes to what is important, beginning with immigration, Trump’s instincts are as formidable as his courage. Notwithstanding Cruz and his consistent conservatism (in which Bozell places great stock), immigration wouldn’t even be a campaign issue without Donald Trump. In my opinion, the Trump plan is absoutely essential to any possible return, as Bozell puts it, to America’s constitutional foundations and Judeo-Christian principles. I actually think of it as our last shot.
Good read.
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Great read I sent it to a couple of fence sitters 🙂
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Yes, teh Donald has changed the conversation. Those who have gotten comfortable in leading the parade don’t like it one bit…. and that’s a good thing.
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To honor Nyet’s post from yesterday 🙂
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Y’all remember lawn darts? I didn’t have to be told Momma would whip my ass if I nailed my brother in the back or foot with one. Jus’ sayin’……. 🙄
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We had a summer house.
When I was 5 years old a group of us kids would walk to town 2 miles away on the railroad tracks (now it is a federal crime to be on the same tracks). We swam to the island without vests, we hooked each other with fishing hooks, we played with lawn darts, roasted marshmallows on an open fire using sticks we found on the ground and did all kinds of things that would give helicopter moms fainting spells.
We all grew up to be healthy productive citizens 😎
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Whenever I run into a client whose staff is allowed to have in office nerf gun battles, I keep suggesting they switch to lawn darts. Nobody seems to know what I’m talking about.
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I still have a nice scar under my left eyebrow, where my nephew hit me with a rock. We were playing “baseball” with a rock and a stick.
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By the age of 6, I had over 30 stitches on and around my cabeza from swingsets, rock fights and assorted and sundry other intelligent activities. My momma told me it would catch up to me someday……….. she was right. The only cool thing is that every time I needed stitches, I got to ride to the ER with lights and sirens blaring on my Pop’s State Police cruiser. 😀
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That is cool (the Police cruiser). I have a couple of scars on my head too, but they just put me back together with bandages – no stitches.
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I like this.
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That is another thing I did as a child (Well minus the whiskey 🙄 ) We walked across the frozen lake into town went to a restaurant as just a group of kids with no adults and walked back home. If we had behaved poorly all of our parents would have known by the time we made it back across the lake.
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I might know somebody who knows somebody who bought some of that stuff at that big warehouse in New Hampshire where booze was cheap and tax free.
I have since learned that New Hampshire is a beautiful state, with lovely scenery. And tax free warehouses of likker. It meets my high criteria of what I like in a state I might theoretically wish to visit.
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My father’s family moved from SC to NH in the late 40’s or early 50’s. I believe that my Aunts and Uncles have since moved to CT or MN. Other than hearing the strange northern New England accent mixed with Southern phrases on the phone, I haven’t had a lot of exposure to the people or places there.
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More great news. 🙄
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/264297-report-191m-voter-records-exposed-publicly-online
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Must be a lot of dead Chi-town and Duval County voters in that 191M. 😉
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I think many here are already aware of this, but a little reminder about why some people are so stoopid. 🙄
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/why_people_cant_face_the_truth_about_obama_.html
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Got back to H-town last night and had a dead keyboard on the fruit computer. Ordered a new one today so I should be back in high cotton by Monday evening. I’m using my work computer so I have to be a bit judicious with my usage, so my presence will be a bit limited since I’m going home Wed. night and have to use Mrs. T’s Commodore 64 hand-crank model whilst there. In my absence, or intermittent attendance, I would appreciate it if one of you fine folks would continue to assist Dr. No with making coffee until I get this technological sh*t-storm under control. 🙄 🙄
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He might spike it.
Hmmm…
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I got those little sugar packets you like…
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Why is there no Jack? My civil rights! Discrimination!
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Try not to barf if you watch this presentation of a new “Christmas” song. Apparently, according to Truth Revolt, it was showcased on NPR’s “All Things Considered”:
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/npr-pushes-new-christmas-song-pining-free-health-care-gun-control-weed
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Sometime there are no words. Not often am I speechless but this is amazing in its audacity. I turned the sound off and it was still the equivalent to a double dose of Ipecac.
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I’m really disappointed that the Treehouse has decided to rip me off by republishing my original work without my permission and without proper attribution. I expected better.
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I’m sorry to hear that, but I’m not sure I know what you mean.
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What happened?
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I’m not sure what you are referring to but in the “Visible Insurgency” thread there is a link and the link leads to a “Become Part of the “rebel Alliance” thread where it reads Via our Treeper Heroine YTZ4Me ( at StopShouting)
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Okay, I see it now. I couldn’t imagine what exactly happened here.
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