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A sober post, after that lovely photo…
In the days before Lent [2015] 21 Christian Egyptians were martyred for their confession of faith. 21 People of the Cross.
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“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.”
—Tertullian, ca. 197 AD–
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Sigh. OK. I’ll post after that.
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No worries, nyet. Life consists of a wide range of things…
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Very true, the roller coaster ride of life.
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Thanks Mary,
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“In the midst of life we are in death…”
— [Episcopal Book of Common Prayer] —
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Appropriate this big butt? Blooming butt? I must be dense tonight. Yeah, I know, tonight? lol
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Tessa you would have too ask Nye. These cartoons are funny.
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I thought it was a large pumpkin at first. 🙄
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Always stand too the side when you lift the tail!
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The hoar frost at sunrise photo took my breath away. Beautiful, Stella.
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Great photos Stella, makes winter, the cold, snow, more tolerable. Hey Tundra, good seeing you here!
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They always brighten my day too. I look forward to them each day.
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Put it as my phone wallpaper.
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Thanks for the appreciation – everybody. These photos are as much for me as anyone else. I really dislike winter, and they remind me that there is beauty in our world, no matter the season. I will say that it is more difficult to see in the city than in the country.
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Mornin’ kids!
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Good morning. You just gave me a heart attack. I posted the coffee below, and the screen flashed and HE popped up. I thought “WTH have I done” and then I saw George.
That’s my exercise for the morning. My heart rate is up!
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Mornin’ Dawg!
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed, Everyone! Waiting for the big snow storm today. Have the tractor warming up, spreading salt, on drive way, lane. Well that can wait for now, I see coffee is brewing, and Nye is frying the bacon………
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Mornin’ Colonel!
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Good morning y’all. Snow’s coming they say, so I’m starting my coffee now.
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Mmmmmm…. I love the smell of coffee brewing…..
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Good Morning Everyone ! Thank you very much for the coffee……… 🙂
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Mornin’ Sha!
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Thank you Menagerie!
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Thank goodness we have no snow in the forecast, it’s not supposed to be too bad this week, 40’s and 50’s.
My old neighbor’s theory on snow isn’t going to come true unless things change, but like I told my daughter that is very possible, the largest snowfall I remember came in March and I’ve seen it snowing all the way into May.
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Usually our last snow is in the first week of April – almost always.
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We’ve been known to have t-shirt weather in February and March and come April freeze our rears off.
You just never know.
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Mornin’ folks. Here’s some happy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12143243/Brain-damaged-violinist-plays-for-first-time-in-16-years-using-mind-reading-technology.html
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Mornin’ Taqiy!
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This is great news!!
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I’m not really awake yet, but good morning, everybody! It’s a gray day here, and pretty ugly with no snow to cover all of the dead or dormant grass and trees. But I know that spring will come again; it’s one of those things that is promised to us!
Song of Solomon 2:11-13King James Version (KJV)
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
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KJV is so beautiful.
Why did Zondervan, Thomas Nelson Publishers, and The Lockman Foundation feel the need to change it? Just for a copyright and for money? It’s shameful.
Who could read that passage and say, “That language is too old and unreadable today.”?
Because I can read it just fine. It’s English, fercryinoutloud. Two hundred and more years newer English than Shakespeare.
I think Dante would have put the editorial boards of the aforementioned companies in a special circle, way down.
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They play “the telephone game” with the Word of God.
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I think they tried to make it more understandable for the most people. With some passages, that’s true. Others – like this one – I like better the way I first learned it, in the KJV version. With the computer, I usually will read a verse in more than one version.
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I used to collect bibles. At one point, I had at least 20 different versions, in print. I had NIV, KJV, NKJV, NASB, NRSV, LB, NLT, CEV, Darby, Young’s Literal, The Message, and even more variants.
There’s a game for computers called Angband. It’s been developed and played and its code maintained for decades now. It’s a text-graphics dungeon crawler with lots of randomness. There are Variants of it. Chengband, Hengband, Animeband, Steamband, T.O.M.E., Gumband(! — which features Gumby.!)
There’s only one Angband, though.
It’s a poor analogy, because even the original, non-forked Angband is still being updated and made better (more or less).
Our language hasn’t changed so much that we need to rewrite the Bible.
Let alone absolutely butcher it with paraphrases like The Message and the Living Bible, and still have the guts to call it “The Bible”.
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If we can, then I guess I should start drawing twenty-dollar bills on construction paper with crayons. They’ll be close enough.
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urouge, nethack…..
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nethack, ADOM, and rogue were way too difficult for my feeble mind.
The ‘band variants were only chess x 1,000.
Those were chess x 10,000 or more. My cognition was not up to it.
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taqi, the books of the Bible were not written in English, so every version is a translation. The KJV translation is the one I was raised on, so I feel very comfortable with it. I still will read another version if the language in KJV isn’t clear to me.
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I think logically. Sometimes, to a fault.
There is a better and worse translation of the Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, and Greek texts that currently exist.
That is to say, there are “more accurate translations” and “less accurate translations” of these original texts.
You can compare them all at BibleGateway dot com, even pulling up a full-screen interlinear composed of five translations (or paraphrases). You can get into Strongs Concordance, where every word you read is a link to the actual Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, or Latin word that is being translated.
I prefer the KJV, after many, many years of comparison reading.
I like Youngs Literal sometimes for clarity, Darby, and lately, Douay, the Papist Bible.
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That is what I am talking about, taqi. I prefer KJV most of the time, too, but if another translation helps me – or someone else – more fully understand a passage, I’m all for it.
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taqi–
The KJV is a good translation, a very good one, and the language is without peer. The concern with it, from a historical/theological point of view, is that [without going into technically detailed discussions] several extremely ancient OT and NT Biblical manuscripts were discovered after the KJV was translated [one well-known example: the Dead Sea Scrolls]. These manuscripts indicated more original–i.e. “correct”–wording than was available when the KJV was produced. QED, no matter how beautiful the language of the KJV is, it does contain some mistranslations–problems which were corrected in subsequent translations.
All this I learned while in seminary, where we learned enough Hebrew and Greek to do some preliminary evaluating of the texts ourselves, and also learned about the history of the transmission of the texts. That text transmission history is fascinating.
As stella said, it is very helpful to use more than one translation when studying a Biblical text. I use the RSV, the ESV, and the KJV primarily–with individual reasons for each–but will also consult other versions.
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Dante was mocking the church with his poem anyway.
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“Through me the way is to the city dolent;
Through me the way is to eternal dole;
Through me the way among the people lost.
Justice incited my sublime Creator;
Created me divine Omnipotence,
The highest Wisdom and the primal Love.
Before me there were no created things,
Only eterne, and I eternal last.
All hope abandon, ye who enter in!” —Canto III
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BTW, it’s important to look at any “new” translations of the Bible to see where “pc” has crept in, especially in the treatment of “man”, and how one refers to God. IMO–based on education and study–the NRSV, for example, is to be avoided. I appreciate and rely heavily upon the RSV, but wouldn’t take the NRSV if it was given to me as a gift.
Have somewhat similar feelings toward the NKJV.
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Isn’t that a beautiful book? I love to read it, and usually get so fascinated with the story and words I read the whole book. Thanks!
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An amazing, necessary book. It is an anomalous book. Like Job, like Ecclesiates. It doesn’t seem to fit, to those with little knowledge of the Bible. Those people don’t understand that the Bible is a collection of books, all describing and completing the others.
And, shame on me, I’ve never even read the “extra” books in Douay. I know nothing whatsoever about Tobit. Or Wisdom. I really should get on that.
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I always liked the book of Samuel when I was little…..
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Mornin’ stella! 😎
Mornin’ WeeWeed! 😛
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! 😎
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 🙂
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 😯
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 😀
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
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Mornin’ tessa50 🙂
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Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😐
Mornin’ taqiyyologist! 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha 🙂
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 😐
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂
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Mornin’ Les 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
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Mornin’ derk (“Stellars”) 🙂
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
Mornin’ complainers! 👿
Mornin’ whiners! 👿
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 🙄
Breakfast!
Cinnamon rolls for coffee!
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Q: How do you make an apple turnover?
A: Push him down the stairs.
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If everyone on Nyet’s list were in a room together, there would be a lot of smiles.
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Mornin’ Nyet, Stallars,
Leftover buns for breakfast? Not a complaint, just will have to pass on the bacon today and go for the sugar.
We are supposed to hit 78 today, last week freezing. Crazy!
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There’s never leftovers! Fresh buns every morning!
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Ok, wasn’t sure, Just thought since a normal helping of bacon, could leave for others (ZM), and I have yet to slide into my diabeticacy. Thanks Nyet.
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Didn’t you know, e-breakfasts don’t have calories or affect diabetes?
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🙂
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Mornin’ Taqi. 🙂
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Mornin’ Nyet. 🙂
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Why do I have a different smiley now, nyet? I’m not even happy any more!!
The ONLY consolation is that auscitizenmom has the same one. The UNsmiling one.
Why are we not smiling any more? Have we been bad?
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BTW, high five at nearly six, nyet. (And I’m SMILING while typing that.)
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Maybe he thinks I am no fun. 😦
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Mom, You’re FUN!
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I missed breakfast, so good evening/night.
I had my grandson most of the day and let me tell you trying to talk to customers on the phone, plus my regular daily activities, which today included baking a creamsicle cake I promised for a friend and keeping up with a 13 month old who has learned how to run and climb and always thinks he needs to do that in the room you are not in, made for a very tiring and busy day.
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From a grandmother of a faraway grandchild, lucky you. 🙂
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I wouldn’t trade you places in a million years, but it still doesn’t make it any less tiring. lol
Either my kids were slower than he is or I was faster than I am now. Plus, I seemed to be able to multitask better back in the day.
I did enjoy my tiring day though. I see him every day, but it’s not often I get him all to myself, especially all day.
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Yeah, I wouldn’t mind being tired myself. 🙄
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I don’t know how Puddy does it every day.
As much as I love him and as much as I enjoyed our day, I was glad to see mommy.
I would be lost though if I didn’t see him every day.
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My friend had two grandchildren under 4. She adored them, but when they came and stayed with her, it took a couple of days to rest up afterward. 😀
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LOL
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There is a lady in town that my son-in-law grew up knowing. All of her kids live all over the country so she rarely gets to see her grandkids and now great grandkids, I think her youngest grandson is 16 now. She’s kind of adopted my grandson.
My daughter takes him to visit her a few times a month.
She found out he loves anything cherry, so now she makes him fried cherry pies. She found out he loves chocolate so she sends them home loaded down with homemade chocolate bars and chocolate Little Debbie snacks.
He loves to go visit her and she loves him.
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I hope though you will get a tiring day soon.
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Mine live far from me, as well. The first time I took care of the first one when he was a toddler, I had him one entire night and the first half of the following day. I didn’t get up early enough so I didn’t shower and change out of my p.j.’s until his parents got home.
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They are a joy but we need some kind of energy pill when we have them.
I was a stay at home mom with my three and I don’t ever remember being as tired as I was today.
The longest he was still all day was when he emptied out all the pots and pans and the plastic bowls from the cabinets and played with them. That was how I got the cake baked. lol
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This is good!
Is Trump a True Conservative?
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/is_trump_a_true_conservative.html
So is Trump a true conservative? He would transfer power back from the federal government to the states. He would cut the federal government’s budget. He would enforce immigration laws. He would combat lawlessness due to immigration. And he would balance trade. His proposals indicate that he is indeed a true political conservative.
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Who is a true conservative? Not most of the Republicans serving in Washington and even the states. Also, what results have they produced?
I don’t want a test, theory, rhetoric or endorsements. I want results. The rest they can debate over on national tv. Makes no difference to me.
Really good article, but I still think people can be stupid. You know my religious views, but I don’t care a lot about the religion angle either. So many Christians are all about Cruz. The guy who is the “best” Christian might be the worst president. I might well vote for an atheist. Never thought much about it. All I can say for certain without more thought is that I won’t ever knowingly vote for a Muslim.
My Catholicism permeates who I am, how I think. It’s not something I take up and put down. But I would never have voted for JFK, Pelosi, Biden. Right now I can’t quickly name any Catholic I’d vote for. Maybe there are some, but I’m drawing a blank.
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Rick Santorum?
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Paul Ryan?? (no!)
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The RINOS are in for it in November. They shall be punished.
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Indeed. We’re not electing a national pastor.
I still like the Donald. Wherever God is taking that guy.
He might be closer to God’s will on the Bible-meter than me. I don’t know.
And he might not know, either. I do like him, though.
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Remember: God used Saul of Tarsus.
He used Ronald Reagan — that Hollywood liberal.
I don’t know what to think about Trump, but I know God’s using him.
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There are literally thousands of saints whose stories you can read who illustrate this point over and over. St. Bernadette, St. Faustina, yes, Saul of Tarsus, Peter, the thief who stole heaven, St. Mary of Egypt (patron of the penitent with a fascinating story), the martyrs of Uganda. St. Thomas, called the Dumb Ox, arguably one of the greatest philosophers and theologians ever.
Apparently God doesn’t require perfection, or even orthodoxy.
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Does not sound like a neo conservative to me. Maybe just a regular kine.
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Article from four years ago, focusing on Voter I.D. law and voter fraud:
Politics
NH Senate passes voter ID bill after O’Keefe video
http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/08/nh-senate-passes-voter-id-bill-after-o%E2%80%99keefe-video/
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Oh look what they do.
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Email joke of the day……..
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An old priest lay dying in a hospital. He had served the people of the nation’s Capital for many years. He motioned for the nurse to come near.
“Yes father?” said the nurse.
“I would really like to see Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama before I die” whispered the priest.
“I will see what I can do” said the nurse.
The nurse sent the request to Washington and waited for a response.
Soon an answer came back; Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama would be delighted to visit the priest.
As they were driven to the hospital Hillary commented to Obama “I don’t know why this old priest wants to see us, but it certainly will help our images and may even help my election prospects”.
Obama agreed it was a good thing.
When the arrived at the priest’s room the priest took Hillary’s hand in his right hand and Obama’s hand in his left hand.
There was silence and a look of serenity on the old priest’s face.
Finally Obama spoke “Father of all people you could have chosen, why did you chose us to be with you at this time when your end is so near?”
The old priest slowly replied “I have always tried to pattern my life and behavior after our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
“Amen” said Hillary.
“Amen” said Obama.
The old priest continued “Jesus Christ our Savior died between two lying thieving bastards and I would like to do the same”—
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Really good one!
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😆 😆
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OMG {choke} {snort} LOL
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That’s good.
That’s Jewish Humor good.
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I read this when I was 12:
Then, it was called, if I remember correctly, “Leo Rosten’s Big Book of Jewish Humor”.
Then, after you research the Shoah, and Bonhoffer… you begin to see.
After all that, every Mel Brooks movie makes sense.
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Basically, Mel Brooks said, “We’re going to make you laugh, even on our death bed!”
Contrast this quintessential Jew to Islam.
Such a difference.
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The other night I pianoed this piece to death. It was scary what I did to it.
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http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/maze/joyandpain.html
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OUTSTANDING!!!!!
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NH Primary and New England weather.
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According to Drudge, Yeb Bush has moved into second place in polling. That’s very interesting……….
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Gee, I wonder how that happened? 🙄
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Good gawd! The libtards had a meltdown yesterday over some Stupor Bowl commercials. 🙄
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430993/super-bowl-commercials-doritos-prius-snickers-twitter?6qeThA57u5WQ0QLz.01
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They took offense at humanizing a human baby.
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In this commercial, a woman is within days of delivering a baby. However, this leading pro-choice group is angered because it is considered “human.” That they would say this is really scary.
‘A leading pro-choice group is up in arms over a Doritos ad aired during Sunday’s Super Bowl, accusing it of using a tactic of anti-abortionists by “humanizing” a fetus.’
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/doritos-super-bowl-ad-fetus/2016/02/08/id/713276/
The video in the article doesn’t work, so I put the link to the youtube video here.
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I like some old movies – tonight I watched “Baby Doll.” Weirdest thing I ever saw (translate: another total waste of time AND Caroll Baker’s talents.)
🙄
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I watched it years ago, and have the same criticism.
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Thanks – laws, I thought it was just me. A vomitous production produced in the dark (which REALLY peeves me off) with a cast of street creatures.
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But not to be compared to lousy movies produced in this day and time, of which there are many. Number 1 example: “Melancholia” 2011
I’m sure that was a remake of some other excrable previous production but so far my karma hasn’t thrown the original in my face. Thank God for small favors.
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A special NOT favorite of mine was Black Swan. It was so raved about and I felt like I lost some brain cells for having sat through it.
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I was fortunate in that my giveadamn was busted for that one, and every other remake that’s come down the pike since the release of “The Sixth Sense.”
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It was a remake? 😯
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…. Why, yes. 1936 I think. The boy was played by Freddie Bartholomew….. or maybe that was something else.
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There was one with John Wayne in it, or maybe that was another one. 🙄
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Hm. The first The Black Swan was a swashbuckler with Maureen O’hara. I would probably like that one.
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Carlito’s Way (1993) is a good family film.
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Caroll Baker, she was a local girl, Johnstown, PA. A Hotty!!!
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She’s still with us! 84 and counting.
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