Prominent civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump endorsed Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton, BuzzFeed reported on Friday.
Crump gained national attention for representing the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, two black teenagers who were both killed while unarmed in separate incidents.
The attorney has become a national figure in the Black Lives Matter movement, and joins a growing group of black activists who have endorsed Clinton, including Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton as well as Eric Garner’s mother Gwen Carr.
BTW–O/T–remember my comment yesterday about not getting up at 4:30 am unless I have a nightmare? Well, I was woken up at 5:30 this morning by a horrible one. It may have been a prophetic dream…if so, not good.
So sorry, Mary! I had a dream that I was late for work and was rushing around to get ready – then I woke up and remembered that I’m retired and don’t have to get up. Made me smile.
My nightmare woke me up at 1:30 this morning but it was that a mountain lion had killed my dogs and was starting on my goats. I jumped up and was trying to open the safe(have to keep all the guns up now that a toddler who loves guns is around a lot) and then realized it was just a dream.
The dogs were barking, which is probably what started my dream, but whatever it was they chased off.
How rude π I didn’t say thank you Mary, I had not heard of Grimshaw before you posted the pictures of his work. I was just so in awe I just that I was sharing my enthusiasm for them.
They DO NOT belong in western cultures.
‘βBecause everyone knows: Different cultures also mean different scale latrines. For Muslims, it is important that when using a toilet, oneβs back does not face Mecca. In addition, latrines for men and women have to separate from each other, and the floor cannot be green in colour, because that is the colour of Islamβ, reads their report.’
The Subcommittee has jurisdiction over the budgets of the Departments of Commerce and Justice and several independent agencies, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Thanks Wee. That one has the same ingredients as one I found but gives better details, like bathe the immediately. Yeah right, happened at 4 this morning, and I can’t do it alone, so it’s going to have to wait until I get some help around here.
If it were warmer, I could chain them up and bathe outside. But no, the two morons go out and chase skunks when it’s in the twenties. This is just going to be such a fun day.
I have tried everything under the sun and nothing works very well. Last year I bought Skunk Off and it worked better than anything I’ve ever tried but still didn’t remove all the smell.
I always though do get them a rabies booster, the majority of the time they don’t bite them when they’ve been sprayed, but I don’t like to take any chances with rabies. Had a dog get rabies years ago and never want to repeat that experience.
I think Macyβs still carries them as a seasonal item
There are places where that would be considered promoting Macy’s, promoting Macy’s would make you a Trump hater, being aTrump hater would make you a Cruz Bot
My father in law once traded a case of his home made beer for dynamite. I don’t know why, that beer used to blow up and spray all over the basement, so he could have used that to clear the rocks when he was building his house. Did it right inside the city, back in the mid to late 80’s I think it was. No one ever came, he just blew boulders up and that was it.
I’m not exactly sure when they quit allowing you to buy it.
It chaps my hide that when I go buy lime these days I have to sign a piece of paper stating I’m using it for agricultural purposes and if I didn’t live on a farm they would limit me to one bag. We don’t even use it for fertilizer, we use it in the barn every year because it’s good to keep coccidia away and then we use it on the ground if we have ever have a sick animal. We also still make a white wash out of it to paint inside the barns. But the darn government needs a record of it.
I don’t know but I’m paying attention because we had a skunk that just showed up last Autumn, he was 6 feet from my backdoor, thankfully I looked out before I let dog out. Anyhow I talked to my neighbor and he said 2 dogs in the neighborhood have already been sprayed, no one is sure when the skunk lives.
There was one day in late Autumn when the smell of skunk was so strong that it made my eyes water I was hoping the littler critter had been made into road pizza but I didn’t see his stinking corpse anywhere so I suspect he sprayed something and ran off.
If you ever shoot one, make sure you do it far, far away.
They often though just wander through, but will den under sheds and buildings. There is a fix for that as well, with the way the laws are these days it might no longer be legal, but you can take an egg, poke a small hole in it and put some mole poison in it. The mama skunk takes it back and her and the baby skunks eat it and no more skunk den.
I really hate skunks, not only do they stink and carry rabies, but they eat chicken eggs and they bite the heads off chickens.
Best advice from my vet when I lived in Spokane, Washington, in a skunk-filled neighborhood near the Little Spokane River: tomato juice only works if you mix it with ammonia. But better than that is to wash the dog with Joy dishwashing detergent and then apply Massengil douche like a cream rinse. May need to repeat, depending on how badly the dog got skunked. It really works, and smells so much better than skunk + tomato juice.
Cruz reminds me a fellow who took me out on a date, I was about 20 and the night was uneventful but he just gave me a bad feeling, fast forward to going home. He asks to walk me to the door, “No, really I’m fine” he gets out of the car anyhow and walks me to the door.
He asks me for a goodnight kiss, I tell him “No, thank you, I need to get inside” . He smiles a slimy little smile, and says “Your words say no, but your mouth says yes.” π
I roll my eyes and tell him to stay away from me and get off my porch. He smirked and told me I didn’t know what I was missing.
Good Morning Nyetneetot ! Good Morning Everyone ! I still have those Honey buns stuck on my behind from yesterday…… I’m weak, weak I tell ya ! Thank You for breakfast . π
Reading that list brought a thought to me. You all over at TCTH, everyone is known as a “treeper”, right? Was thinking with a lineup such as this, you all should be known as
“Stellars”.
But truthfully, that list, plus a few more, are what made the Treehouse “stellar” when I first listened in. Don’t see so much, since now you’s all are here. But, yes, my nose may be a shade darker.
Good day, everyone! I hate Winter. Got snow last night (not much), and it’s cold again. I guess I shouldn’t complain (but I will anyway), because it has been fairly mild so far.
The Sky Is Low, The Clouds Are Mean, – Poem by Emily Dickinson
The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A travelling flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.
A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.
The pictures sure are pretty but I do think every time, “boy that looks cold”. But I think it is good to appreciate the beauty of winter from my snug and warm home. The pictures make me want to go on a road trip around the Great Lakes, but in the summer π
Here are a couple of pictures on Washington Island, WI, from 2 summers past, it is beautiful, so dark at night you literally can’t see your hand in front of your face.
I don’t know anything about black flies so I would guess that me don’t have them. In Northern IL where I spend most of my lake time we get horse flies but not many and mosquitos.
Washington Island’s main beach doesn’t have sand it is a rock beach (Schoolhouse Beach) and it has smooth stones that are tossed across the Bay and deposited on the shore. I have only been there once.
I thought it was stunning. No bugs while I was there in August. I plan to go back this summer for a few days π
I was whining yesterday morning and my DH told me it could be much colder with snow on the ground instead of frost. I told him that I would be whining then too, but that these warm days are making the cold days even worse, so I think I’d prefer it just to stay cold until winter is over.
Turned on Glenn Beck’s second hour. Made it 12 minutes before turning it off. Topic was Sarah Palin’s confusing support of Trump. He was going on about the terms/labels of “liberal” vs. “conservative”. He again repeats that progressives hijacked the term “liberal” over 100 years ago. This is one of the things that bother me about him. He just stopped learning and reading history around 1890. And nobody listening to him can go read for themselves either.
The term “liberal” as it is used now has always meant what it does. It was never hijacked. It came out of the period of enlightenment 1685-1815 that culminated French Revolution (which was repeated with the Maidan in Ukraine, and Egypt, and… you get the idea).
The enlightenment was that there is no God and therefore no Kings and all Western society laws are false and to be destroyed or discarded. New laws will be made by the group (hand twinkles).
Yup. Another failed attempt to have the French Revolution happen here. Now those people are just homeless bums or on welfare in their adopted cities, waiting to vote for whom or what they are told to vote for.
You know for all her wealth and power, all her homes, her travels, her political wins, her chauffeurs, maids, meals on demand, snap of the finger minions and the accolades of the insalubrious < π lice infested vermin under her thumb, I don't think the Beast has experienced a single day of joy in her adult life.
Everything is experienced through her coldly calculating the political and monetary benefits that her action will reap. Everything and everybody.
But there is a big difference between being happy that you got away with something, being happy that you screwed people out of money, being happy that you have fooled and continued to fool people and being joyful.
Hillary lives looking over her shoulder, she lives knowing that she is a fraud and may be exposed at any time, Hillary is beholden to those who have dirt on, she is in a constant game of chicken with corrupt people and it shows on her face, in her eyes and even in her voice.
She is a nervous shrill wreck IMO. You can see the relief on her face when she once again thinks that her answer is sufficient to hold off the dogs.
You are right about the joyful part. We get the difference, but I really don’t think she does and I don’t think she looks over her shoulder. I really believe she thinks she is untouchable and doesn’t worry about a thing. She may be right, they haven’t touched her yet. Never understand it.
Itβs news that seems ripped from the pages of The Onion. Or perhaps Atlas Shrugged.
But incredibly enough itβs actually true: earlier this week, Congress proposed a new law authorizing the US Postal Service to provide banking and financial services.
Itβs called the βProviding Opportunities for Savings, Transactions, and Lendingβ Act, abbreviated asβ¦ wait for itβ¦ the POSTAL Act.
And it provides explicit authorization for them to provide banking services including checking and savings accounts, money transfers, and βother basic financial services as the Postal Service deems appropriate in the public interest.β
Bank of the Post Office. Itβs incredible when you think about it.
The US Postal Service hasnβt turned a profit in a decade.
As a matter of fact, its total accumulated losses now exceed $51 billion, easily ranking it among the least successful companies in history.
In an increasing anti-Christian era where a president openly declared βGod Blessβ on Planned Parenthood, Catholic nuns have jumped into the fray to elect his successor, abortion advocate Hillary Clinton.
With songs and slogans, 13 congregations of Catholic Sisters of the Upper Mississippi River Valley hit the campaign trail in Iowa earlier this week.
In an all-out effort βto call for an end to environmentally destructive policies and practicesβ, the environmental activist nuns placed more than 20 billboards in strategic locations throughout state, southwest Wisconsin and western Illinois in time for the Feb. 1st Iowa caucuses.
Hm. Catholic nuns for abortion. π― I used to have a friend who was excommunicated from the church because he got a vasectomy after his two children were born.
The “pundits” – Red State and CNN for two – are making a big deal out of the cancellation. Like, he doesn’t care about NH, he’ll lose just like in Iowa etc, he’s too snooty to spend the night in NH.
I understood the airports were closed – but then they can’t be bothered with minor details like that. It just burns their butts up that he flies wherever he wants, WHENever he wants.
CNN said that the airports were open. Earlier I checked the Manchester airport. It was open, but delays due to weather from LaGuardia and Newark were up to 2 hours.
Would he have flown into Manchester? My brother never leaves from there – always flies out of Logan. I always assumed Manchester was puddle jumpers like MAF in TX. Service wasn’t warranted for the bigger aircraft.
Remember, he tweeted yesterday morning that he was taking his helicopter to NH? The CNN piece said his plane returned from NH at about 1:00 am this morning(?). I wonder if the plane still had a problem this morning, or required additional maintenance.
So, (Trump voice, here) the tee vee had an ancient rerun of “The Last Picture Show.” That is exactly what the oilfield looks like and if you’ll notice, ever ‘now ‘n then there’ll be a truck that says “Odessa, tx” on it.
Yeah.
Well my family decided it was family night and we were all going out to eat. They were all in on it.
I live in the sticks and they took me to some other sticks, I was beginning to think they all were planning on dumping me off. lol
We finally get there to what once was an Indian town they told me, established in 1879. The building out in the middle of nowhere looked like it might have been built in 1879. We walk in and it looks like a store and then they ask if we were there to eat and told us to walk on through towards the back.
In the back were 8 foot folding tables put together and all kinds of mismatched chairs, from folding chairs, kitchen chairs to office chairs. There was also a bar that didn’t look it was in service anymore, an old band stand that didn’t look it had anyone play on it for quite some time, pool tables where folks were shooting pool, drinking beer and smoking cigarettes and an old jukebox.
It was like a step back in time. Then the waitress, one of the owners, I come to find out, comes over and sits down and asks what we want. My DH tells her we’ve never been there before, they just learned about it, so she tells him they have fried chicken, bbq ribs and bbq brisket, sides are baked beans, coleslaw and potato salad. We can each get a plate of each or a combination and two sides or we can get a family serving with everything, which is what we got. All of the meat came out on one platter, sides in mixing bowls, several slices of wonder bread on a plate and then a bottle of chicken sauce and a bottle of meat sauce, the sauces tasted good but you better like hot. Paper plates, plastic silverware, paper towels for napkins and bottles of soda because your choices were bottles of soda or bottles of beer.
Although I was very skeptical I must say I have never eaten fried chicken that good and the ribs and brisket were pretty darn good as well. The sides were all good as well. Everything homemade and although they didn’t say it I’m pretty darn sure that chicken didn’t come from a store.
Before we left we learned from some people sitting at the same table as us that they have been eating here for 30 years and that it’s always been the same food and once the bar was fully stocked and they had a live band. Dinner always started being served somewhere around 5 or 5:30 depending on when it was ready every Friday and Saturday night and they keep serving until all the food is gone. That back in the day they stayed open until the band got tired or all the people got tired and went home, whichever came first. They’ve never advertised and it’s always been just word of mouth.
So it was a good evening, I didn’t get dumped off and received a history lesson, learned something new, met new people and ate good food that I didn’t have to cook and the price wasn’t bad for these days. $80 for 6 of us and we couldn’t finish all the food.
That’s kind of how it was, with the exception of the beer and pool tables that is. lol
There were teens, young families, young couples and old couples. Men and women with cow poop on their boots and men and women all dressed up on a Friday night.
Across the road was even an old wood pavilion with handmade wood pews. You could almost hear the old time revival in the wind.
Oh, dear. I just read Sundance’s new thread, Fearlessly Confronting the Furnace of Hate. Big mistake. Should have saved it until morning. π¦ I’m going to have a glass of wine and go to bed. Nite.
In the replies. Sundance may need to take refuge at Stella’s if the ruffians over there have their way. I see a whole lotta depends moments going on π
Yea. Hell no. I am staying away from whatever is going on, I predicted things would head this way, sadly CTH is becoming unrecognizable to me. (Nothing to do with Hebegj, who I like very much,) just the tone that has permeated the CTH is IMO simply sad and disappointing. Ganging up, calling people Cruz Bots because they have a valid criticism against Trump but still support him. Bragging about trolling at other sites. This is nothing I didn’t say at TCTH.
But, no thank you.
People are going to turn on SD because he allowed them to view him as all seeing and all knowing, he didn’t come out and say, hey I jumped the gun and I was wrong here about anything when he was wrong (at least not that I know of). IMO things are going to get vey ugly there and it really makes me sad.
Stella if you’d rather I shut my mouth just say the word or delete my post, I’m really not sure what is acceptable etiquette when it come to this matter.
I won’t delete your post, but please don’t make this a “them versus us” kind of thing. Don’t forget that I – and others who post here – are part of the CTH admin team, and that SD has been our partner for years. I know you have your opinion, but trashing SD on my pages isn’t appropriate.
It is definitely different there now. I made a comment in the thread where was saying Trump making mistake not having more events and was asked who I supported. I think I will just not say. I should have never commented.
There are discussions, an exchanging of ideas where people learn things, and there is “right fighting” I choose the former. I think people have invited hebjg over here, I don’t think he and I have ever exchanged a post so it would be weird for me to give him an invite but I do feel sorry for him.
I had read what was posted to him after it was written and was puzzled. I had hoped he just wouldn’t see it. Yeah, this inviting thing, sometimes I want to do it also but most there don’t know me as I didn’t comment a lot. So an invite from me maybe not the best for Stella? IDK I did do it twice I think, but feels weird to leave a link on someone else’s blog, even though it is Stella’s too. I did ask her beforehand though and she said was okay. Yeah, I feel for him also.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think it is a good thing to call out individual persons at the head of the Open Thread with such vitriol. Answer comments as they are made, and let it be. I haven’t seen the comments that hebejg is answering, but his/her comment is out of place on the OT. Read Menagerie’s response.
ADD: I went to the Friday thread to read the exchange of comments that apparently spurred this outburst. In my opinion, hebejg is out of line in his post on the Saturday OT.
My apologies Stella. I posted my opinion at the CTH about the direction that I think it is taking a while back. I didn’t mean to trash SD, I was offering my opinion as to why I think the TCTH is going off track, you and the other moderators and SD have worked for years to make the TCTH something other than just another cage fight on the internet.
I have no desire to make this a we against them as it is a foolish exercise in futility that leads to nonsense and personal pithy fights. The last thing I want to do is put your site in the middle of a internet argument.
I thought my observation about Sundance was self evident, I understand that you are a moderator there as are some of your posters here, the last thing I want is to do is turn this into we against them. That simply wasn’t my intention.
I am going to take a break from both sites as I think my unease with what is going on over at TCTH has colored my take on things.
I do agree that hebejg’s post was inappropriate and he alone is responsible for his post but the climate of TCTH is certainly more conducive than it ever has been in my time there to posts like hebejgs being part of the norm.
This is what Sundance wrote. I highly overreacted. Obviously I should quit reading at 10:00 at night. π
sundance says:
February 5, 2016 at 10:18 pm
Iβm putting this here for later reference.
This is why Donald Trump will place no better than THIRD on Tuesday.
TWO EVENTS in New Hampshire in the last four days. (Friday 0, Saturday 0, Sunday 1, Monday 1) of the primary is not the schedule of a person who wants to win.
Sorry, the truth has no agenda and facts are facts.
Third place, maybe Fourth β and the narrative is the campaign collapsed.
The son of Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), Rory Reid, is the primary representative for ENN Energy Group, a Chinese energy company seeking to build a $5 billion solar panel plant on a 9,000-acre Clark County desert plot in Laughlin, Nevada.
ENN scored big when Clark County commissioners unanimously voted to sell the Chinese company the public land for just $4.5 million, despite the fact that it was appraised at $38.6 million.
Sen. Reid has been one of ENNβs biggest supporters, having recruited the company during a 2011 trip to China. According to Reuters, last month Sen. Reid tried to βpressure Nevadaβs largest power company, NV Energy, to sign up as ENNβs first customer.β
Trump is used to winning by offering the best package, he now has to adjust his business acumen, to a political acumen. He has to turn his base into paying customers under conditions which Trump has not yet attuned his negotiating skills.
Trump has to offer more than the best package he has to offer the best package in a way that is palatable to those who go to the voting booth. He has to do a better job of explaining why his presidency is essential rather than telling voters why it is essential.
Again I think Trump’s biggest mistake is underestimating the dumb out there. An example of Trump not understanding the prevalence of dumb is that Trump thinks because it is self evident that what Cruz did in Iowa was a terrible thing to do that once people were made aware of what Cruz did people will realize that Cruz is a charlatan. If Trump sees it, he thinks everyone sees it.
That IMO is Trumps frustration.
Short story about Trump;
When Ivanka was about 6 she received girl toys for Christmas while the boys received Legos. Ivanka was jealous as she loved to build. So she took Legos and locked herself in a room.
She built a replica of Trump Tower.
“My father, in scolding me, was never so proud,” she recounted years later.
Then her dad came to her a couple of days later and Ivanka could tell that her dad was upset. Remember she is 6. And her father told her, with a pained look on his face, “You know Ivanka, the Trump Tower has 4 insets (sorry I can’t remember the correct architectural word) and you put 5 on your Lego Tower. It is a fond memory for Ivanka and she used it as an example of what defines her father.
America is not so ready to make the cognitive leap as did a 6 year old.
Genius has its downfalls. Trump has to teach rather than preach. I have no doubt that Ivanka and the boys are imbuing that lesson in their father as I type.
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This has the first portion of the Lego story the second part is in an interview which I can’t find at the moment.
I started picking up on his sense of humor right at the beginning. Just the fact that the more they made fun of his hair, the more he put it out there to be made fun of.
I think at this point, too, Trump has to start telling people what he stands for and what his plans are to change things. I think what he has laid out on his website is great, but he can’t assume that all people are going to bother to go there to read it. In fact, he can’t assume that most people are going to bother to go there. He needs to give at least some tidbits to make them interested enough to read on their own.
Mary’s Swedish Fish bowl…
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 12:02 am
I wondered what happened to this post.
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 11:19 pm
I wondered how I could have missed it.
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 11:20 pm
It was stuck in the spam – and I forgot to check. I’m sorry. π¦
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 11:22 pm
It all worked out.
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 11:23 pm
Happy birthday to my grown up baby.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 12:03 am
Happy birthday to your daughter.
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 12:04 am
And many, many more!
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 6:59 am
Happy Birthday to Stella’s baby ! They are always our babies aren’t they. π
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By Sha on February 5, 2016 at 8:52 am
Ewwwww. I just read that it was also Trayvon Martin’s birthday.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 9:33 am
Again? I though we were past that.
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 9:48 am
Guess they’ll pass around the Birthday trash-can.
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 9:56 am
Oh Weed you iz bad!
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By waltzingmtilda on February 5, 2016 at 2:05 pm
They are!! Saw tweets to send money to the #trashcanfoundation.
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 2:06 pm
Speaking of:
Report: Lawyer for Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown families backs Clinton
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/268411-lawyer-for-families-of-trayvon-martin-michael-brown-endorses-clinton
Prominent civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump endorsed Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton, BuzzFeed reported on Friday.
Crump gained national attention for representing the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, two black teenagers who were both killed while unarmed in separate incidents.
The attorney has become a national figure in the Black Lives Matter movement, and joins a growing group of black activists who have endorsed Clinton, including Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton as well as Eric Garner’s mother Gwen Carr.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 2:32 pm
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By Howie on February 5, 2016 at 4:00 pm
The Cockatoo did it.
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By Howie on February 5, 2016 at 4:04 pm
Happy Birthday to her!!! Hope she’s having a great one!
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By waltzingmtilda on February 5, 2016 at 7:35 pm
P.S. – meant to post this much earlier, WP been giving me fits!
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By waltzingmtilda on February 5, 2016 at 7:36 pm
I swiped this from commenter Teddi at GP.
http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/3163/7523/original.jpg?w=600&h
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 12:04 am
I don’t know why it didn’t show up, usually that works.
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 12:05 am
It didn’t work for me either.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 12:08 am
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 12:15 am
Good boy, I’ll ship you your bacon ration in the morning.
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 12:17 am
You needed to delete the ?w=600&h after jpg
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 12:16 am
I just copied image location. I wonder why it works most of the time?
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 12:18 am
I don’t catch it sometimes until 1 second after clicking “post comment”
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 12:21 am
BTW–O/T–remember my comment yesterday about not getting up at 4:30 am unless I have a nightmare? Well, I was woken up at 5:30 this morning by a horrible one. It may have been a prophetic dream…if so, not good.
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By MaryfromMarin on February 5, 2016 at 3:11 am
So sorry, Mary! I had a dream that I was late for work and was rushing around to get ready – then I woke up and remembered that I’m retired and don’t have to get up. Made me smile.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 10:25 am
My nightmare woke me up at 1:30 this morning but it was that a mountain lion had killed my dogs and was starting on my goats. I jumped up and was trying to open the safe(have to keep all the guns up now that a toddler who loves guns is around a lot) and then realized it was just a dream.
The dogs were barking, which is probably what started my dream, but whatever it was they chased off.
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 12:39 pm
LOL
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By auscitizenmom on February 5, 2016 at 9:01 am
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 12:14 am
Another gorgeous photo, stella. This one reminds of one of my newer favorite painters, John Atkinson Grimshaw. Here’s an example:
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By MaryfromMarin on February 5, 2016 at 12:21 am
Here’s another:
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By MaryfromMarin on February 5, 2016 at 12:25 am
Love Grimshaw’s work, he captures the warmth and life of trees and it reminds me of home.
My folks house
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 10:19 am
Beautiful!
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 12:27 am
Look up “John Atkinson Grimshaw images” and prepare to be overwhelmed.
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By MaryfromMarin on February 5, 2016 at 12:31 am
BTW, who took the photo above? It’s gorgeous.
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By MaryfromMarin on February 5, 2016 at 12:33 am
I don’t know. It was posted by a friend on FB, shared by a group called Country, Coffee and Sunshine.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 1:01 am
I agree ! It is beautiful.
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By Sha on February 5, 2016 at 8:54 am
Thanks for sharing those Mary. I love them.
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By Menagerie on February 5, 2016 at 5:17 am
You are very welcome, Menagerie.
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By MaryfromMarin on February 5, 2016 at 7:24 pm
How rude π I didn’t say thank you Mary, I had not heard of Grimshaw before you posted the pictures of his work. I was just so in awe I just that I was sharing my enthusiasm for them.
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 7:35 pm
Please, no need to apologize, lovely. I loved the painting and photo you posted.
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By MaryfromMarin on February 5, 2016 at 9:21 pm
From the sublime to the ridiculous:
βMulticultural Toiletsβ For βGlobal Defecationβ Seek To Stop Migrants Pooping On The Floor /b>
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/02/04/germany-develops-multicultural-toilets-to-stop-migrants-defecating-on-floor/
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By MaryfromMarin on February 5, 2016 at 12:30 am
(Just plumbing the depths here.)
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By MaryfromMarin on February 5, 2016 at 1:52 am
They DO NOT belong in western cultures.
‘βBecause everyone knows: Different cultures also mean different scale latrines. For Muslims, it is important that when using a toilet, oneβs back does not face Mecca. In addition, latrines for men and women have to separate from each other, and the floor cannot be green in colour, because that is the colour of Islamβ, reads their report.’
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By auscitizenmom on February 5, 2016 at 9:09 am
Thinking about getting a green bathmat π
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 10:21 am
Why stop there? Paint the whole room green. Then it can double as a safe room in case of emergencies.
Not entirely sarc.
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By MaryfromMarin on February 5, 2016 at 7:28 pm
The power of the purse. It resides in the House Appropriations Committee. Nothing gets done without their stamp of approval.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Appropriations
They can cut Obama off at the knees anytime they want. So why don’t they?
http://thehill.com/regulation/264714-house-republican-defund-doj-over-gun-executive-orders
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By Howie on February 5, 2016 at 2:30 am
The Subcommittee has jurisdiction over the budgets of the Departments of Commerce and Justice and several independent agencies, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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By Howie on February 5, 2016 at 2:34 am
Because they don’t want to. I knew when it passed tat they never would do anything to stop it.
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By Menagerie on February 5, 2016 at 5:18 am
Hence the cold anger.
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By varsityward on February 5, 2016 at 7:33 am
A blessed Friday to all!
“For Thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for Thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.”
[Psalm 31:3]
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By MaryfromMarin on February 5, 2016 at 2:59 am
Native American – Amazing Grace (in Cherokee)
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By ImpeachEmAll on February 5, 2016 at 3:55 am
Amazing Grace (Lyrics in the Navajo Language)
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By ImpeachEmAll on February 5, 2016 at 4:10 am
Okay, what’s your favorite remedy for a skunk sprayed dog?
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By Menagerie on February 5, 2016 at 5:23 am
I found this article that uses household ingredients –
http://dogs.about.com/od/caringfordogsandpuppies/ht/deskunking.htm
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 6:22 am
I wonder if this would work for politicians and pundits?
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By Howie on February 5, 2016 at 8:12 am
Nah. Ya have to peel them.
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 8:20 am
I’m okay with that.
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By Menagerie on February 5, 2016 at 8:36 am
Thanks Wee. That one has the same ingredients as one I found but gives better details, like bathe the immediately. Yeah right, happened at 4 this morning, and I can’t do it alone, so it’s going to have to wait until I get some help around here.
If it were warmer, I could chain them up and bathe outside. But no, the two morons go out and chase skunks when it’s in the twenties. This is just going to be such a fun day.
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By Menagerie on February 5, 2016 at 8:36 am
Massengel & Tomato juice
Oh and a closepin for my nose!
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By ctdar on February 5, 2016 at 8:08 am
Same remedy as a child. It just requires a shovel, and if anyone asks you can say that they ran away from home.
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 8:11 am
Yeah, I might have resorted to that for one of the boys, but my dogs are keepers. π
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By Menagerie on February 5, 2016 at 8:37 am
π―
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By auscitizenmom on February 5, 2016 at 9:13 am
Words to live by; shoot, shovel, shut up.
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 9:33 am
Save a bullet, swing a shovel.
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 9:41 am
Ban shovels!!!
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By auscitizenmom on February 5, 2016 at 9:44 am
That takes too much energy, easier to just use a bullet.
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 9:51 am
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 10:24 am
Need some banjo music
https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=Uzae_SqbmDE
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By ctdar on February 5, 2016 at 12:03 pm
I loved that moment in the movie…
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By MaryfromMarin on February 5, 2016 at 9:24 pm
“Hit it with a shovel!” π
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 9:28 pm
Shovels don’t kill people…
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By varsityward on February 5, 2016 at 10:51 am
IKR? It’s the blunt force trauma.
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 10:57 am
I need to borrow that shovel of yours. Not dogs. Husband.
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By Menagerie on February 5, 2016 at 9:34 pm
Check for bites. Skunks can get rabies.
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By Howie on February 5, 2016 at 8:14 am
I have tried everything under the sun and nothing works very well. Last year I bought Skunk Off and it worked better than anything I’ve ever tried but still didn’t remove all the smell.
I always though do get them a rabies booster, the majority of the time they don’t bite them when they’ve been sprayed, but I don’t like to take any chances with rabies. Had a dog get rabies years ago and never want to repeat that experience.
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 9:13 am
Have you tried ethanol? It burns cleaner, but I really haven’t been able to smell anything anyway since the hole was about eight feet deep.
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 9:45 am
I can’t get a hole that deep here, too many rocks and the b-holes won’t sell me dynamite anymore.
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 9:48 am
That’s unfortunate. Dynamite is great for removing stubborn bathtub stains too.
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 9:52 am
IKR? Remember the days when you could just go to the general store and buy it by the stick or case?
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 9:54 am
I think Macy’s still carries them as a seasonal item.
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 9:58 am
It was that family of dum basses that used ’em as candles on a birthday cake that put an end to that…..
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 10:01 am
Always making the rest of us pay for dum basses, instead of letting the natural order of things work.
If they didn’t take ban everything and put warning labels on everything, half the dum basses would no longer be a problem. lol
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 10:06 am
Darwin ….
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 10:12 am
Exactly.
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By auscitizenmom on February 5, 2016 at 10:25 am
Speaking of Darwin – I particularly enjoyed that “suicide bomber” that managed to blow his own dum bass outta the jetliner.
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 10:19 am
Careful Nyet π±
I think Macyβs still carries them as a seasonal item
There are places where that would be considered promoting Macy’s, promoting Macy’s would make you a Trump hater, being aTrump hater would make you a Cruz Bot
And we all know how that will end π
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 10:59 am
The dope blowing himself out of the sky kind of made my day.
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 10:29 am
My father in law once traded a case of his home made beer for dynamite. I don’t know why, that beer used to blow up and spray all over the basement, so he could have used that to clear the rocks when he was building his house. Did it right inside the city, back in the mid to late 80’s I think it was. No one ever came, he just blew boulders up and that was it.
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By Menagerie on February 5, 2016 at 10:58 am
I’m not exactly sure when they quit allowing you to buy it.
It chaps my hide that when I go buy lime these days I have to sign a piece of paper stating I’m using it for agricultural purposes and if I didn’t live on a farm they would limit me to one bag. We don’t even use it for fertilizer, we use it in the barn every year because it’s good to keep coccidia away and then we use it on the ground if we have ever have a sick animal. We also still make a white wash out of it to paint inside the barns. But the darn government needs a record of it.
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 11:32 am
I don’t know but I’m paying attention because we had a skunk that just showed up last Autumn, he was 6 feet from my backdoor, thankfully I looked out before I let dog out. Anyhow I talked to my neighbor and he said 2 dogs in the neighborhood have already been sprayed, no one is sure when the skunk lives.
As far as I know we have had no winter sitings.
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 9:17 am
They’ll be everywhere pretty quick (mating season.)
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 10:00 am
π¦ Noooooo…………………
There was one day in late Autumn when the smell of skunk was so strong that it made my eyes water I was hoping the littler critter had been made into road pizza but I didn’t see his stinking corpse anywhere so I suspect he sprayed something and ran off.
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 10:07 am
If you ever shoot one, make sure you do it far, far away.
They often though just wander through, but will den under sheds and buildings. There is a fix for that as well, with the way the laws are these days it might no longer be legal, but you can take an egg, poke a small hole in it and put some mole poison in it. The mama skunk takes it back and her and the baby skunks eat it and no more skunk den.
I really hate skunks, not only do they stink and carry rabies, but they eat chicken eggs and they bite the heads off chickens.
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 10:15 am
Just like the dims. They both show up for the same thing. Do their business and try to tell ya’z it’s raining. ππ
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By texan59 on February 5, 2016 at 10:07 am
And eat for free. π Mornin’ T.
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 10:13 am
Best advice from my vet when I lived in Spokane, Washington, in a skunk-filled neighborhood near the Little Spokane River: tomato juice only works if you mix it with ammonia. But better than that is to wash the dog with Joy dishwashing detergent and then apply Massengil douche like a cream rinse. May need to repeat, depending on how badly the dog got skunked. It really works, and smells so much better than skunk + tomato juice.
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By The Tundra PA on February 5, 2016 at 12:47 pm
Mornin’ kids!
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 6:19 am
Β‘pΗΗMΗΗM uα΄ΙΖΙ ,uα΄uΙΉoW
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 9:10 am
No! I get vertigo.
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 9:16 am
I luv this.
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By Menagerie on February 5, 2016 at 9:39 pm
I don’t. I keep unplugging my computer when I turn it upside down to read it. π‘
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By auscitizenmom on February 5, 2016 at 9:55 pm
Good morning WeeWeed and all π
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 9:13 am
Mornin’ Lovely!
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 9:16 am
Mornin’ Wee!
Cruz has certainly showed his slimy side.
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 9:14 am
Mornin’ Michelle!
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 9:17 am
Cruz reminds me a fellow who took me out on a date, I was about 20 and the night was uneventful but he just gave me a bad feeling, fast forward to going home. He asks to walk me to the door, “No, really I’m fine” he gets out of the car anyhow and walks me to the door.
He asks me for a goodnight kiss, I tell him “No, thank you, I need to get inside” . He smiles a slimy little smile, and says “Your words say no, but your mouth says yes.” π
I roll my eyes and tell him to stay away from me and get off my porch. He smirked and told me I didn’t know what I was missing.
Yep and I can live with that.
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 9:27 am
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 7:23 am
I hope all these DPRK pronouncements are collected together somewhere.
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By MaryfromMarin on February 5, 2016 at 9:27 pm
Well – it’s the RULES. I’m sure they keep up. π
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 9:30 pm
Morninβ stella! π
Morninβ WeeWeed! π
Morninβ Menagerie! π
Mornin’ Ad rem! π
Mornin’ ytz4mee! π
Mornin’ partyzantski! π
Mornin’ texan59! π―
Mornin’ ZurichMike! π
Morninβ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) π
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014 π
Mornin’ lctdar π
Mornin’ ltessa50 π
Mornin’ varsityward π
Morninβ MaryfromMarin! π
Mornin’ taqiyyologist! π
Morninβ Howie! π
Morninβ Sha π
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! π
Morninβ The Tundra PA! π
Morninβ lovely! π
Morninβ michellc! π
Morninβ auscitizenmom! π
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! π
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll π
Mornin’ TexasRanger! π
Mornin’ Ziiggii! π
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! π
Mornin’ complainers! πΏ
Mornin’ whiners! πΏ
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. π³
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! π
Also just in case, mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, czarowniczy and F.D.R. in Hell!
Breakfast!
Cinnamon rolls for coffee!
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 8:02 am
Yoomie, and Mornin’ Boris!
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 8:04 am
Boy that looks great. Wonderful. Luscious. Thank you, oh great Breakfast King.
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By Menagerie on February 5, 2016 at 8:40 am
Delicious! And I’m very hungry.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 8:49 am
Good Morning Nyetneetot ! Good Morning Everyone ! I still have those Honey buns stuck on my behind from yesterday…… I’m weak, weak I tell ya ! Thank You for breakfast . π
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By Sha on February 5, 2016 at 9:01 am
Good morning!
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 9:16 am
I think you got everything covered, Nyet. π
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By auscitizenmom on February 5, 2016 at 9:18 am
Yummo! You have outdone yourself Nyet ! I even see watermelon π
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 9:31 am
Good morning/afternoon Nyet! Greetings to all! I’m late to breakfast, so I’ll call it brunch. You know what brunch needs…
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By varsityward on February 5, 2016 at 11:52 am
Good Morning Nye.!
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By TexasRanger on February 5, 2016 at 1:16 pm
Man, I hope you’re cuttin’ and pastin’ that list.
If not, it explains why you get up at 4:30 am every day.
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By MaryfromMarin on February 5, 2016 at 9:37 pm
Reading that list brought a thought to me. You all over at TCTH, everyone is known as a “treeper”, right? Was thinking with a lineup such as this, you all should be known as
“Stellars”.
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By derk on February 5, 2016 at 10:44 pm
That’s nice, derk!
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 10:44 pm
Ooh, I like that, Stellars. π
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By auscitizenmom on February 5, 2016 at 10:53 pm
Pfffft! Suck up.
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 10:56 pm
Umm, yes.
But truthfully, that list, plus a few more, are what made the Treehouse “stellar” when I first listened in. Don’t see so much, since now you’s all are here. But, yes, my nose may be a shade darker.
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By derk on February 5, 2016 at 11:15 pm
Sigh. It’s just that now they’ll make bowling shirts for everyone to wear at the FEMA camp.
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 11:17 pm
Gosh, you all make me laugh, thanks.
And since I am being truthful, I thought I had a brief moment of brilliance myself.
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By derk on February 5, 2016 at 11:20 pm
Oh you did. I just don’t want to wear a bowling shirt.
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 11:21 pm
We get to bowl!!? Oh, oh. I love to golf, hopefully there”ll be a good links course too! Seaside of course.
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By derk on February 5, 2016 at 11:27 pm
LOL
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By tessa50 on February 6, 2016 at 12:13 am
Coffee is brewing!
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 8:05 am
Q: Maryβs father has 5 daughters β Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughters name?
A: If you answered Nunu, you are wrong. Itβs Mary!.
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 8:38 am
LOL
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By auscitizenmom on February 5, 2016 at 9:25 am
Q: Maryβs father has 5 daughters β Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughters name?
Β‘ΚΙΉΙW sβΚI ΛΖuoΙΉΚ ΗΙΉΙ noΚ ‘nunN pΗΙΉΗΚsuΙ noΚ ΙI :β
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 8:44 am
HA! I figured out what Amwick did!
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 8:45 am
LOL!
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 8:50 am
Good day, everyone! I hate Winter. Got snow last night (not much), and it’s cold again. I guess I shouldn’t complain (but I will anyway), because it has been fairly mild so far.
The Sky Is Low, The Clouds Are Mean, – Poem by Emily Dickinson
The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A travelling flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.
A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 9:24 am
Good morning Stella, love the picture of the creek and the Dickinson poem π
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 9:35 am
Thanks! I’m trying to love winter, but I’m not sure it’s working. At least I don’t have to get up early any more.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 9:36 am
The pictures sure are pretty but I do think every time, “boy that looks cold”. But I think it is good to appreciate the beauty of winter from my snug and warm home. The pictures make me want to go on a road trip around the Great Lakes, but in the summer π
Here are a couple of pictures on Washington Island, WI, from 2 summers past, it is beautiful, so dark at night you literally can’t see your hand in front of your face.
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 10:03 am
Beautiful! Reminds me of “up north” in Michigan. Do you have black flies, too?
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 10:11 am
I was just starting to forget about the creepy black flies. π
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 10:18 am
I don’t know anything about black flies so I would guess that me don’t have them. In Northern IL where I spend most of my lake time we get horse flies but not many and mosquitos.
Washington Island’s main beach doesn’t have sand it is a rock beach (Schoolhouse Beach) and it has smooth stones that are tossed across the Bay and deposited on the shore. I have only been there once.
I thought it was stunning. No bugs while I was there in August. I plan to go back this summer for a few days π
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60360-d3203681-Reviews-Schoolhouse_Beach-Washington_Island_Wisconsin.html
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 10:44 am
That shot reminds me of Grant Park in Milwaukee County.
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By varsityward on February 5, 2016 at 11:54 am
I don’t know if I’ve been to Grant Park in Milwaukee. I’ll have to check it out.
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 12:01 pm
Good morning Stella!
I was whining yesterday morning and my DH told me it could be much colder with snow on the ground instead of frost. I told him that I would be whining then too, but that these warm days are making the cold days even worse, so I think I’d prefer it just to stay cold until winter is over.
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 9:42 am
Turned on Glenn Beck’s second hour. Made it 12 minutes before turning it off. Topic was Sarah Palin’s confusing support of Trump. He was going on about the terms/labels of “liberal” vs. “conservative”. He again repeats that progressives hijacked the term “liberal” over 100 years ago. This is one of the things that bother me about him. He just stopped learning and reading history around 1890. And nobody listening to him can go read for themselves either.
The term “liberal” as it is used now has always meant what it does. It was never hijacked. It came out of the period of enlightenment 1685-1815 that culminated French Revolution (which was repeated with the Maidan in Ukraine, and Egypt, and… you get the idea).
The enlightenment was that there is no God and therefore no Kings and all Western society laws are false and to be destroyed or discarded. New laws will be made by the group (hand twinkles).
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 10:34 am
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 10:45 am
Yup. Another failed attempt to have the French Revolution happen here. Now those people are just homeless bums or on welfare in their adopted cities, waiting to vote for whom or what they are told to vote for.
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 10:54 am
I have a hunch the American Spirit is moving across the land. Just a hunch. But the tense felling in my gut is telling me something…..
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By Howie on February 5, 2016 at 2:10 pm
I got Trump playing this, but it’s funny that Cruz came in exactly the same..
http://votesmart.org/
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 1:05 pm
I don’t about y’all but I sure am happy it’s Friday!
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By waltzingmtilda on February 5, 2016 at 2:03 pm
She strikes again!
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 2:10 pm
Kickin’ it old school!
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By waltzingmtilda on February 5, 2016 at 7:34 pm
Yer buddy T will be so thrilled! π
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 2:14 pm
Hee hee…I know how much he loves this one!
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By waltzingmtilda on February 5, 2016 at 7:34 pm
Somehow, some way, when you least expect it, in America, ……………………………………….
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By Howie on February 5, 2016 at 2:09 pm
Just seen on the internet (actually, Twitter):
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 2:29 pm
Still got the moves, don’t she???
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 2:53 pm
Gross!
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 3:09 pm
AAARRRRRGAGAAAGAGAAAAA!!!!
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 7:59 pm
Can I count that as a “gotcha?” π Hey! Trump’s done, I gotta go open up the bar…..
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 8:09 pm
You know for all her wealth and power, all her homes, her travels, her political wins, her chauffeurs, maids, meals on demand, snap of the finger minions and the accolades of the insalubrious < π lice infested vermin under her thumb, I don't think the Beast has experienced a single day of joy in her adult life.
Everything is experienced through her coldly calculating the political and monetary benefits that her action will reap. Everything and everybody.
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 9:12 pm
“Everything is experienced through her coldly calculating the political and monetary benefits that her action will reap. Everything and everybody.”
I think that does make her happy; either that or she really is drunk all the time. Or likes to dance or somethin’…
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By tessa50 on February 6, 2016 at 12:19 am
But there is a big difference between being happy that you got away with something, being happy that you screwed people out of money, being happy that you have fooled and continued to fool people and being joyful.
Hillary lives looking over her shoulder, she lives knowing that she is a fraud and may be exposed at any time, Hillary is beholden to those who have dirt on, she is in a constant game of chicken with corrupt people and it shows on her face, in her eyes and even in her voice.
She is a nervous shrill wreck IMO. You can see the relief on her face when she once again thinks that her answer is sufficient to hold off the dogs.
A woman without joy.
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By lovely on February 6, 2016 at 12:26 am
You are right about the joyful part. We get the difference, but I really don’t think she does and I don’t think she looks over her shoulder. I really believe she thinks she is untouchable and doesn’t worry about a thing. She may be right, they haven’t touched her yet. Never understand it.
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By tessa50 on February 6, 2016 at 12:33 am
I’ve never tried posting a gif before. If this doesn’t work, someone help me out, please–it’s definitely worth it:
[video src="https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/Cae51A5VAAARakI.mp4" /]
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By MaryfromMarin on February 5, 2016 at 9:51 pm
Apparently I need FDR to instruct me in gifs.
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By MaryfromMarin on February 5, 2016 at 9:52 pm
Let’s try this:
https://twitter.com/krispythehuman/status/695729088107950081
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By MaryfromMarin on February 5, 2016 at 9:53 pm
H/T “annie oakley” at the Tree:
Congress Wants To Turn The US Postal Service⦠Into A Bank
http://www.valuewalk.com/2016/02/congress-wants-to-turn-the-us-postal-service-into-a-bank/
Itβs news that seems ripped from the pages of The Onion. Or perhaps Atlas Shrugged.
But incredibly enough itβs actually true: earlier this week, Congress proposed a new law authorizing the US Postal Service to provide banking and financial services.
Itβs called the βProviding Opportunities for Savings, Transactions, and Lendingβ Act, abbreviated asβ¦ wait for itβ¦ the POSTAL Act.
And it provides explicit authorization for them to provide banking services including checking and savings accounts, money transfers, and βother basic financial services as the Postal Service deems appropriate in the public interest.β
Bank of the Post Office. Itβs incredible when you think about it.
The US Postal Service hasnβt turned a profit in a decade.
As a matter of fact, its total accumulated losses now exceed $51 billion, easily ranking it among the least successful companies in history.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 2:49 pm
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 3:09 pm
Moonwalk!! lol
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By tessa50 on February 5, 2016 at 5:26 pm
Hillary has problem. She can’t make love just like a woman. But, she will break, just like a little girl. If anybody knows, what I mean.
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By Howie on February 5, 2016 at 3:11 pm
Not a clue in hell Howie.
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By Menagerie on February 5, 2016 at 9:46 pm
LOL
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By tessa50 on February 6, 2016 at 12:21 am
Things that make you go hmmmmm ….
http://canadafreepress.com/article/rome-enters-the-presidential-election
In an increasing anti-Christian era where a president openly declared βGod Blessβ on Planned Parenthood, Catholic nuns have jumped into the fray to elect his successor, abortion advocate Hillary Clinton.
With songs and slogans, 13 congregations of Catholic Sisters of the Upper Mississippi River Valley hit the campaign trail in Iowa earlier this week.
In an all-out effort βto call for an end to environmentally destructive policies and practicesβ, the environmental activist nuns placed more than 20 billboards in strategic locations throughout state, southwest Wisconsin and western Illinois in time for the Feb. 1st Iowa caucuses.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 3:37 pm
There are a lot of unchristian christians these days, and they aren’t only Roman Catholics.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 3:38 pm
Hm. Catholic nuns for abortion. π― I used to have a friend who was excommunicated from the church because he got a vasectomy after his two children were born.
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By auscitizenmom on February 5, 2016 at 4:06 pm
More like, Catholic nuns ignoring that their candidate supports abortion. They seem to be all for the “climate change” agenda.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 5:33 pm
These may be part of the infamous nuns on the bus crowd. They have nun sense at all.
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By Menagerie on February 5, 2016 at 9:47 pm
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 4:30 pm
7:00 EST tonight.
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 5:26 pm
Yup!
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 5:31 pm
Yup! Got the feed.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 5:31 pm
The “pundits” – Red State and CNN for two – are making a big deal out of the cancellation. Like, he doesn’t care about NH, he’ll lose just like in Iowa etc, he’s too snooty to spend the night in NH.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 5:35 pm
I understood the airports were closed – but then they can’t be bothered with minor details like that. It just burns their butts up that he flies wherever he wants, WHENever he wants.
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 5:40 pm
CNN said that the airports were open. Earlier I checked the Manchester airport. It was open, but delays due to weather from LaGuardia and Newark were up to 2 hours.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 5:42 pm
Would he have flown into Manchester? My brother never leaves from there – always flies out of Logan. I always assumed Manchester was puddle jumpers like MAF in TX. Service wasn’t warranted for the bigger aircraft.
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 5:53 pm
Good question. I don’t know.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 5:58 pm
Yes, puddle jumpers, for some.
For the rest of us:
http://www.rwy24r.com/video/72/Amazing-Delta-McDonnel-Douglas-MD-80-take-off-from-Manchester-Boston-Regional-Airport
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By ImpeachEmAll on February 5, 2016 at 9:27 pm
That’s the thing, Peach – Bro always flies Delta. I dunno.
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 9:30 pm
Here’s a puddle jumper,
for slightly larger puddles.
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By ImpeachEmAll on February 5, 2016 at 9:36 pm
Remember, he tweeted yesterday morning that he was taking his helicopter to NH? The CNN piece said his plane returned from NH at about 1:00 am this morning(?). I wonder if the plane still had a problem this morning, or required additional maintenance.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 5:45 pm
Here’s the CNN article. They mention the FBO in Manchester, so I assume that’s the target airport.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/politics/donald-trump-snow-new-hampshire-town-hall/index.html
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 6:02 pm
Remember whiner pants Cruz, I’ll never have a plane with my name on it π¦
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 7:54 pm
Sure he will. The title will just say “Goldman Sachs.” Or whatever.
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 8:17 pm
Bar! Beer!! π
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 8:18 pm
Nice! Just got off the phone with my offspring. She made another birthday, and is starting to think about how getting old comes to an end some day.
Actually, she’s doing fine, just working too much. And my grandson is learning to drive. How can that be?
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 8:26 pm
Driving??? Blasphemy.
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 8:41 pm
The weird thing is – he’s learning to drive in the vehicle where he rode in his car seat as a small toddler. They keep their vehicle as long as I do.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 9:57 pm
As did we!! π Good. The older ones have more steel in them, just like people.
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 9:58 pm
After the day I’ve had, I need a quart of Jack with a moonshine chaser, no ice. Thank you very much.
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By Menagerie on February 5, 2016 at 9:51 pm
I’m hesitant to ask – how are the dogs?
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 9:57 pm
Maybe you should ask about the husband. π
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By auscitizenmom on February 5, 2016 at 10:31 pm
π
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 10:32 pm
Alive. Less pungent than this morning. Snoring. And I’m exhausted.
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By Menagerie on February 5, 2016 at 10:34 pm
Say went!
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 11:09 pm
jus’ keep goin’….
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By tessa50 on February 6, 2016 at 12:24 am
Went!
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By auscitizenmom on February 6, 2016 at 10:04 am
Apparently Michael Moore is in ICU (somewhere) with pneumonia.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/nation-now/2016/02/04/michael-moore-pneumonia/79847534/
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 8:28 pm
I tried to work up some concern…………….didn’t manage to. π
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By auscitizenmom on February 5, 2016 at 8:39 pm
Mmmmmmm…. I’m workin’ on it, too………
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 8:44 pm
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By auscitizenmom on February 5, 2016 at 8:52 pm
LOL, aus. I was just thinking about posting that video.
I decided against. Now I know why.
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By taqiyyologist on February 5, 2016 at 9:03 pm
Too cold? Too uncaring? Too insensitive? π
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By auscitizenmom on February 5, 2016 at 9:48 pm
His corazone bleeds. Bleeds, I tell ya……
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 9:56 pm
I love this.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 9:58 pm
(Oh, good, I was afraid I might have to go sit in the corner. π )
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By auscitizenmom on February 5, 2016 at 10:07 pm
No way! It’s perfect.
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 10:27 pm
Hopefully in one of those fine Cuban hospitals that he loves so dearly.
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By taqiyyologist on February 5, 2016 at 9:02 pm
Si, Esse!
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 9:33 pm
So, (Trump voice, here) the tee vee had an ancient rerun of “The Last Picture Show.” That is exactly what the oilfield looks like and if you’ll notice, ever ‘now ‘n then there’ll be a truck that says “Odessa, tx” on it.
Yeah.
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By WeeWeed on February 5, 2016 at 8:52 pm
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By lovely on February 5, 2016 at 9:26 pm
Well my family decided it was family night and we were all going out to eat. They were all in on it.
I live in the sticks and they took me to some other sticks, I was beginning to think they all were planning on dumping me off. lol
We finally get there to what once was an Indian town they told me, established in 1879. The building out in the middle of nowhere looked like it might have been built in 1879. We walk in and it looks like a store and then they ask if we were there to eat and told us to walk on through towards the back.
In the back were 8 foot folding tables put together and all kinds of mismatched chairs, from folding chairs, kitchen chairs to office chairs. There was also a bar that didn’t look it was in service anymore, an old band stand that didn’t look it had anyone play on it for quite some time, pool tables where folks were shooting pool, drinking beer and smoking cigarettes and an old jukebox.
It was like a step back in time. Then the waitress, one of the owners, I come to find out, comes over and sits down and asks what we want. My DH tells her we’ve never been there before, they just learned about it, so she tells him they have fried chicken, bbq ribs and bbq brisket, sides are baked beans, coleslaw and potato salad. We can each get a plate of each or a combination and two sides or we can get a family serving with everything, which is what we got. All of the meat came out on one platter, sides in mixing bowls, several slices of wonder bread on a plate and then a bottle of chicken sauce and a bottle of meat sauce, the sauces tasted good but you better like hot. Paper plates, plastic silverware, paper towels for napkins and bottles of soda because your choices were bottles of soda or bottles of beer.
Although I was very skeptical I must say I have never eaten fried chicken that good and the ribs and brisket were pretty darn good as well. The sides were all good as well. Everything homemade and although they didn’t say it I’m pretty darn sure that chicken didn’t come from a store.
Before we left we learned from some people sitting at the same table as us that they have been eating here for 30 years and that it’s always been the same food and once the bar was fully stocked and they had a live band. Dinner always started being served somewhere around 5 or 5:30 depending on when it was ready every Friday and Saturday night and they keep serving until all the food is gone. That back in the day they stayed open until the band got tired or all the people got tired and went home, whichever came first. They’ve never advertised and it’s always been just word of mouth.
So it was a good evening, I didn’t get dumped off and received a history lesson, learned something new, met new people and ate good food that I didn’t have to cook and the price wasn’t bad for these days. $80 for 6 of us and we couldn’t finish all the food.
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 10:12 pm
Sounds like a really interesting place to eat. π
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By auscitizenmom on February 5, 2016 at 10:25 pm
Sounds really good!
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 10:26 pm
Sigh. I feel like I was enjoying the meal there too. Thank you.
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 11:07 pm
I sort of was too, but I’m still full from dinner (late).
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 11:08 pm
I’m not the biggest fan of eating out, but I think I will probably be going back to this little place many times.
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 11:32 pm
Sounds like it’s more like a church social (without the church, of course) than a restaurant. Fried chicken, ribs and brisket sound awfully good!
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 11:34 pm
That’s kind of how it was, with the exception of the beer and pool tables that is. lol
There were teens, young families, young couples and old couples. Men and women with cow poop on their boots and men and women all dressed up on a Friday night.
Across the road was even an old wood pavilion with handmade wood pews. You could almost hear the old time revival in the wind.
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By michellc on February 5, 2016 at 11:42 pm
Oh, dear. I just read Sundance’s new thread, Fearlessly Confronting the Furnace of Hate. Big mistake. Should have saved it until morning. π¦ I’m going to have a glass of wine and go to bed. Nite.
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By auscitizenmom on February 5, 2016 at 11:09 pm
I saw the thread but don’t see where he wrote anything???
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By tessa50 on February 6, 2016 at 12:49 am
In the replies. Sundance may need to take refuge at Stella’s if the ruffians over there have their way. I see a whole lotta depends moments going on π
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By lovely on February 6, 2016 at 12:55 am
Oh, haven’t read the replies. Will do so and see what the ruckus is all about.
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By tessa50 on February 6, 2016 at 12:58 am
hebejg isn’t happy on the Saturday open thread there either. Is it a full moon?
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By tessa50 on February 6, 2016 at 12:59 am
I’ll have a peek. About where is the comment? I really can’t stand reading a lot of the smarminess, snakiness or the idol worship.
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By lovely on February 6, 2016 at 1:01 am
Sorry lovely, just saw this. Very first comment.
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By tessa50 on February 6, 2016 at 1:16 am
Just got to the open thread and started to read it.
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By lovely on February 6, 2016 at 1:17 am
Yea. Hell no. I am staying away from whatever is going on, I predicted things would head this way, sadly CTH is becoming unrecognizable to me. (Nothing to do with Hebegj, who I like very much,) just the tone that has permeated the CTH is IMO simply sad and disappointing. Ganging up, calling people Cruz Bots because they have a valid criticism against Trump but still support him. Bragging about trolling at other sites. This is nothing I didn’t say at TCTH.
But, no thank you.
People are going to turn on SD because he allowed them to view him as all seeing and all knowing, he didn’t come out and say, hey I jumped the gun and I was wrong here about anything when he was wrong (at least not that I know of). IMO things are going to get vey ugly there and it really makes me sad.
Stella if you’d rather I shut my mouth just say the word or delete my post, I’m really not sure what is acceptable etiquette when it come to this matter.
I won’t delete your post, but please don’t make this a “them versus us” kind of thing. Don’t forget that I – and others who post here – are part of the CTH admin team, and that SD has been our partner for years. I know you have your opinion, but trashing SD on my pages isn’t appropriate.
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By lovely on February 6, 2016 at 1:29 am
It is definitely different there now. I made a comment in the thread where was saying Trump making mistake not having more events and was asked who I supported. I think I will just not say. I should have never commented.
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By tessa50 on February 6, 2016 at 1:39 am
There are discussions, an exchanging of ideas where people learn things, and there is “right fighting” I choose the former. I think people have invited hebjg over here, I don’t think he and I have ever exchanged a post so it would be weird for me to give him an invite but I do feel sorry for him.
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By lovely on February 6, 2016 at 1:45 am
I had read what was posted to him after it was written and was puzzled. I had hoped he just wouldn’t see it. Yeah, this inviting thing, sometimes I want to do it also but most there don’t know me as I didn’t comment a lot. So an invite from me maybe not the best for Stella? IDK I did do it twice I think, but feels weird to leave a link on someone else’s blog, even though it is Stella’s too. I did ask her beforehand though and she said was okay. Yeah, I feel for him also.
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By tessa50 on February 6, 2016 at 1:52 am
It’s okay. If somebody isn’t a fit, they usually just go away.
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By stella on February 6, 2016 at 8:54 am
Do a CTRL F, and search by name.
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By stella on February 6, 2016 at 8:50 am
For what it’s worth, I don’t think it is a good thing to call out individual persons at the head of the Open Thread with such vitriol. Answer comments as they are made, and let it be. I haven’t seen the comments that hebejg is answering, but his/her comment is out of place on the OT. Read Menagerie’s response.
ADD: I went to the Friday thread to read the exchange of comments that apparently spurred this outburst. In my opinion, hebejg is out of line in his post on the Saturday OT.
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By stella on February 6, 2016 at 9:03 am
My apologies Stella. I posted my opinion at the CTH about the direction that I think it is taking a while back. I didn’t mean to trash SD, I was offering my opinion as to why I think the TCTH is going off track, you and the other moderators and SD have worked for years to make the TCTH something other than just another cage fight on the internet.
I have no desire to make this a we against them as it is a foolish exercise in futility that leads to nonsense and personal pithy fights. The last thing I want to do is put your site in the middle of a internet argument.
I thought my observation about Sundance was self evident, I understand that you are a moderator there as are some of your posters here, the last thing I want is to do is turn this into we against them. That simply wasn’t my intention.
I am going to take a break from both sites as I think my unease with what is going on over at TCTH has colored my take on things.
I do agree that hebejg’s post was inappropriate and he alone is responsible for his post but the climate of TCTH is certainly more conducive than it ever has been in my time there to posts like hebejgs being part of the norm.
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By lovely on February 6, 2016 at 10:02 am
I hope it’s a short break.
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By tessa50 on February 6, 2016 at 5:18 pm
In hindsight, I should have kept my big mouth shut because that is what started this conversation. Sorry Lovely about that. Sorry to you too Stella.
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By tessa50 on February 6, 2016 at 5:31 pm
It’s okay tessa.
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By stella on February 6, 2016 at 5:42 pm
This is what Sundance wrote. I highly overreacted. Obviously I should quit reading at 10:00 at night. π
sundance says:
February 5, 2016 at 10:18 pm
Iβm putting this here for later reference.
This is why Donald Trump will place no better than THIRD on Tuesday.
TWO EVENTS in New Hampshire in the last four days. (Friday 0, Saturday 0, Sunday 1, Monday 1) of the primary is not the schedule of a person who wants to win.
Sorry, the truth has no agenda and facts are facts.
Third place, maybe Fourth β and the narrative is the campaign collapsed.
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By auscitizenmom on February 6, 2016 at 1:20 pm
Clark County, Nevada. What a surprise.
Harry Reid’s Son Representing Chinese Solar Panel Plant in $5 Billion Nevada Deal
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2012/09/04/harry-reid-s-son-representing-chinese-solar-panel-plant-in-5-billion-nevada-deal/
The son of Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), Rory Reid, is the primary representative for ENN Energy Group, a Chinese energy company seeking to build a $5 billion solar panel plant on a 9,000-acre Clark County desert plot in Laughlin, Nevada.
ENN scored big when Clark County commissioners unanimously voted to sell the Chinese company the public land for just $4.5 million, despite the fact that it was appraised at $38.6 million.
Sen. Reid has been one of ENNβs biggest supporters, having recruited the company during a 2011 trip to China. According to Reuters, last month Sen. Reid tried to βpressure Nevadaβs largest power company, NV Energy, to sign up as ENNβs first customer.β
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 11:20 pm
DC Whispers re Trump’s cancellation in NH today:
http://dcwhispers.com/trump-doing-something-for-first-time-preparing-for-a-gop-debate/
What do you think?
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By stella on February 5, 2016 at 11:32 pm
With a captive audience for the super bowl halftime. Team Trump could probably made a 5 minute infomercial using the money not spent all last year.
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By nyetneetot on February 5, 2016 at 11:47 pm
I think it is likely somewhat accurate.
Trump is used to winning by offering the best package, he now has to adjust his business acumen, to a political acumen. He has to turn his base into paying customers under conditions which Trump has not yet attuned his negotiating skills.
Trump has to offer more than the best package he has to offer the best package in a way that is palatable to those who go to the voting booth. He has to do a better job of explaining why his presidency is essential rather than telling voters why it is essential.
Again I think Trump’s biggest mistake is underestimating the dumb out there. An example of Trump not understanding the prevalence of dumb is that Trump thinks because it is self evident that what Cruz did in Iowa was a terrible thing to do that once people were made aware of what Cruz did people will realize that Cruz is a charlatan. If Trump sees it, he thinks everyone sees it.
That IMO is Trumps frustration.
Short story about Trump;
When Ivanka was about 6 she received girl toys for Christmas while the boys received Legos. Ivanka was jealous as she loved to build. So she took Legos and locked herself in a room.
She built a replica of Trump Tower.
“My father, in scolding me, was never so proud,” she recounted years later.
Then her dad came to her a couple of days later and Ivanka could tell that her dad was upset. Remember she is 6. And her father told her, with a pained look on his face, “You know Ivanka, the Trump Tower has 4 insets (sorry I can’t remember the correct architectural word) and you put 5 on your Lego Tower. It is a fond memory for Ivanka and she used it as an example of what defines her father.
America is not so ready to make the cognitive leap as did a 6 year old.
Genius has its downfalls. Trump has to teach rather than preach. I have no doubt that Ivanka and the boys are imbuing that lesson in their father as I type.
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This has the first portion of the Lego story the second part is in an interview which I can’t find at the moment.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/0b29948a1aed465eb9c1c49c37ffe165/all-about-ivanka-trumps-daughter-muse-and-deal-maker
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By lovely on February 6, 2016 at 12:13 am
I also think that people don’t “get” his sense of humor, either. Or some choose not to.
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By stella on February 6, 2016 at 12:18 am
I started picking up on his sense of humor right at the beginning. Just the fact that the more they made fun of his hair, the more he put it out there to be made fun of.
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By auscitizenmom on February 6, 2016 at 10:16 am
I think at this point, too, Trump has to start telling people what he stands for and what his plans are to change things. I think what he has laid out on his website is great, but he can’t assume that all people are going to bother to go there to read it. In fact, he can’t assume that most people are going to bother to go there. He needs to give at least some tidbits to make them interested enough to read on their own.
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By auscitizenmom on February 6, 2016 at 10:14 am
READ is a four letter word. π
LISTEN, is much easier for me.
Well, at least for my tired eyes.
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By ImpeachEmAll on February 6, 2016 at 2:36 pm