General Discussion, Friday, February 12, 2016

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  1. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    Would love that image on a Christmas card. Or just a blank card, to be used for many purposes.

    Thanks again, stella.

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    A couple of heavy–but good–articles, this Thursday evening/Friday morning:

    How Iran Took Obama Hostage

    http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2016/02/how-iran-took-obama-hostage.html

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    • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

      The second one is hiiiding…

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:

      Mary, good read on your first article. We have had enablers, traitors within our government since 1775. Now, these traitors are operating in the open.

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    • derk's avatar derk says:

      Good morning Mary, your verse goes with what I was thinking yesterday evening as I was going to sleep. In the past year or so, I have been introduced to so many “watchers on the wall” here and at the Treehouse, and to other places through all of you.. Wonderful, compassionate, passionate, diligent. caring, and funny, Americans.
      Steadfast in integrity, truth and in shining light on any and all approaching enemies. I slept well, knowing you all are out there, a peaceful rest. Thank you

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      • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

        Derk, the Ezekiel passages about being a watchman–in chapters 3 and 33–have always convicted me. My presence on the internet and twitter are a direct result of that conviction.

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  3. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    God’s blessings on everyone this night/day.

    “Guide us waking, O LORD, and guard us sleeping, that awake we may watch with Christ and asleep we may rest in peace.”
    [from the Book of Common Prayer]

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  4. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

    Coffee!

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  5. Good morning everyone! After Trump’s speech last night I slept better than I have in a long time. I felt at peace just knowing, with God’s help, He will make America great again!

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  6. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    Mornin’ kids!

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  7. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Good morning, everybody! I hope that our northerners are keeping warm! It’s 17* this morning, and we’ll be lucky if we get that warm tomorrow. I am thankful for my warm and dry little house, good food to eat, and my fuzzy-faced companions.

    Anticipating the first signs of Spring (let’s face it – those are still several weeks away), I am trying to remember that without winter, spring and summer would not be as sweet. It’s a time of dormancy for plants and some animals too, and perhaps a time for reflection and renewal of spirits.

    In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. – Albert Camus

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:

      Good morning Stella!
      It’s not quite that cold here, but cold enough. It was 25* when we headed outside this morning, frost on everything and had to break ice for the livestock. It’s warmed up now to 28*.
      I’m so ready for spring.
      The goat kids will start arriving next month and I’m really hoping it will have warmed up by then.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:

        I think the sight of goat kids would convince me that spring is arriving, regardless of the weather! Of course, I’ll hope with you that the weather has warmed up by then, for your sake and the sake of those little babies.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:

          It’s always a guessing game. We can breed them for February babies and it will be bitterly cold, so then the next year we breed for March babies and it’s warmer in February than March. Same thing when we’ve tried for April babies, April will be cold and if they had been born in March it would have been warmer.
          So we’ll just have to wait and see if we guessed right this year.

          It always lifts my spirits though to watch all the babies running around playing.
          Calves are fun to, but not anything like baby goats, they imo are the cutest animal babies, especially the fainting babies because they can’t control their falling over like adults can.
          We’re all excited to watch the human baby with them this year now that he can chase them.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:

      Good morning Stella 🙂

      Spring is in the air.

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

        That picture reminds me of one of the things I found so amazing when I lived in Upstate NY for a couple of years. I could not imagine grass and flowers growing up through the snow. So, I was shocked when we came back from a trip in April to find flowers popping up everywhere around the little house we had rented and moved into while there was 3 feet of snow on the ground.

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:

        We don’t have any breakthroughs yet but it is usually the daffodils in the grassy medians on the busier streets. It always makes me smile to see them poking up.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

      Good morning Stella. That quote reminds me of something that kind of dropped into my spiritual ponderings lately. I believe we should thank God not only for what we consider our blessings, answered prayers, the so called good things in our lives, but even the trials and tribulations. Not just because those trials may later bear fruit we cannot see, but just because they are a part of our path in life, a part of what we ultimately become, what we do, what we offer back to God.

      I have never read stories of any great saints who lived charmed lives. Most became saints whose lives are gifts, blessings to the world through great toils, some even martyrdom.

      Right now I am trying hard to practice that theory with good heart in very difficult times.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:

        Reminds me of something said by Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey. It was along the lines of:

        Life is a series of difficulties that we must overcome until, at last, we die.

        A bit depressing but, really, not too far from the truth. After all, that is how we learn. I hope that your difficult times will soon pass, Menagerie!

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  8. Well, I just plopped down 650 bucks for a new PC. It was time.

    Windows XP and a Pentium 4 just doesn’t cut it any more.

    I went with a company called Magic Micro, started with a bare-bones tower, and added what I needed. Now I get to wait a week.

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  9. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Chelsea Clinton on why she left the Baptist church at the wise old age of 6.

    http://www.lifenews.com/2016/02/11/chelsea-clinton-i-left-the-church-when-i-was-6-because-it-opposed-abortion/

    “I find it quite insulting sometimes when people say to my mom, my dad or me . . . that they question our faith,’ said Chelsea. “I was raised in a Methodist church and I left the Baptist church before my dad did, because I didn’t know why they were talking to me about abortion when I was 6 in Sunday school — that’s a true story.”

    “My mother is very deeply a person of faith,” Chelsea said. “It is deeply authentic and real for my mother, and it guides so much of her moral compass, but also her life’s work.”

    “Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.”

    ― Aristotle

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:

      “I left an organization because I didn’t know why they were talking to me about something.”

      What a strong, independent woman. “I don’t know. So I have to leave.”

      Hey, Chels. You could have asked. The answer has to do with the concept of evil.

      That’s why she left, and she knows it. They oppose evil that Mommy supports, and in whose founder’s name Mommy receives awards and accolades.

      Then again, I think most Dems who leave the church do it because the church opposes evil.

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      • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:

        Sin, Chelsea. It’s really a thing. Your family loves it. Sin is just a way of life for the Clinton family. Kill, steal and destroy. and then breakfast, and then plot more of that before brunch.

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      • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:

        And at brunch, there will be, I’m told, a piquant, yet rustic, baby liver pate, locally sourced and obtained at great cost.

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        • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:

          (Spiced with rare herbs picked by impoverished child slaves, Chelsea. You can’t pass this up.)

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        • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

          TAQI!!! {cringe}

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          • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:

            Don’t cringe.

            This is who these people are.

            Face it like Bonhoffer, Swift, Orwell, Twain, and Kafka.

            And then describe it to others. That’s what a witness is, which we’re called to be.

            Not just someone who sees. Someone who sees and then describes what they see.

            Even if such a description would make people shudder.

            Like Bonhoffer’s pictures of Jew-stacks, lovingly made by Leftists in Germany.

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            • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:

              Yes Taqi, Over my years of service too this great Nation, I have seen many faces of Evil. This following passage is my rock, my center, my moral compass, my peace: The Armor of God
              10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

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              • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

                Next verse, clearly a call to arms Colonel. And a battle plan.

                18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:

        I meant to bold the Aristotle quote to differentiate from the article :sigh:

        Anyhow it is easy to see how malformed Chelsea’s conscience is.

        If the story is even true, any which way Chelsea sees it as a positive and believes that her mother is living her life in accordance with a deeply held faith.

        I wonder what that faith is?

        A faith that promotes baby butchering. A faith that promotes lies, destroying people lives, a faith of unmitigated greed, a faith that promotes winning at any cost, a faith that promotes a sham marriage where your husband relationship with you is more like a naughty boy and his mother, a faith were you malign women that your husband has abused in one way or the other, and I could go on.

        What a curious “life defining” faith.

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

      SMH To Chelsea: 😛 Her mother has taught her well. 🙄

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  10. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

    Mornin’ stella! 😎 :developer:
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! 😛 😀
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 🍸
    Mornin’ Ad rem! 🐱
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 🙂
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
    Mornin’ texan59! O_o |_|
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 😐 🌯 (It’s a bacon breakfast burrito)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014 🙂
    Mornin’ ctdar 🙂
    Mornin’ tessa50 🙂
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda 🙂
    Mornin’ varsityward 🙂
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 🐻
    Mornin’ taqiyyologist! 🙂
    Mornin’ Howie! 🙂
    Mornin’ Sha 🙂
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
    Mornin’ michellc! ⭐
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! ⭐
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂
    Mornin’ Les 🙂
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
    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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  11. Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:

    Linkies. Bacon. Egg over easy. Haven potatoes. B&G with restaurant-grind pepper. Coffee.

    And the ubiquitous sugar-carb rush.

    I’d ask for toast, but no need. It’s all in there. (Except the OJ).

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  12. The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:

    Good morning, all! Great breakfast, nyet, but since it’s Friday in Lent, I’ll have to leave off the bacon and sausage. Gonna be a long 40 days with no bacon.

    Love today’s photo, Stella. It could be any of dozens of Yup’ik Eskimo villages in southwest Alaska.

    My dear husband (who is known to my internet friends as Dutch) had an interesting comment last night. Something was mentioned about Hilary, and he said “you know, they could hold a contest for worst Secretary of State ever, and it would be 3-way tie between Clinton, Madeline Albright, and John Kerry.” And now Albright is out there telling young women that if they don’t support Hilary, they are traitors to their gender. The sad thing is that way too many will buy into that krap.

    Wasn’t Trump’s rally last night a barn burner? Those Cajuns were rockin’ the place! Taught the Iowans a thing or two about energy and enthusiasm. Can’t wait for Tampa tonight. I’m hooked on Trump rallies! Can’t really imagine what it must be like to actually attend one. I so hope he comes to Alaska before November, but know that’s a long shot.

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  13. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Anybody ever watch Property Brothers on HGTV? It seems they are launching a country music career:

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  14. michellc's avatar michellc says:

    A note I saw on FB, we Okies are a different breed. lol
    I’m just typing it out as I couldn’t get the picture of the note to save.

    2-10-16
    Lincoln was helping his Grandpa pull a calf to save it’s life, so he didn’t get his homework done. He is a rancher, not a town kid. He helps me all the time. Please excuse his cowboy behavior.
    Thanks,
    Grandpa
    Brett _ _ _ _

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  15. Stella's avatar stella says:

    The incomparable Mark Steyn.

    Notes After New Hampshire

    I live in northern New Hampshire, where every town that isn’t a ski resort is dead. They were pleasant, sleepy places in genteel decline 20 years ago. Now they’re hollowed out by heroin and meth, and offering no economic opportunity beyond casual shifts at the KwikkiKrap. And when you listen to the Dems they’re worried about micro-aggressions and transphobia and when you listen to Congressional Republicans they’re talking about the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The two-party one-party state has nothing to say to tens of millions of Americans.

    Trump won because he put real-world issues on the table. Nobody needs to be told that he “isn’t a real Republican”. That’s the point of Trump. The Republican base loathes the Republican leadership far more than they love the vessel they’ve chosen to express their loathing.

    http://www.steynonline.com/7457/notes-after-new-hampshire

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

      My personal tin foil hat theory is that they want places like that dead, and that map you posted the other day about federal land ownership just further convinced me. They want to starve us off the land, out of the little sleepy hamlets, out of the peaceful soccer mom burbs and into cities, dependent on mass transit, a few supply lines of food, and have as close to everyone centrally under their thumb as possible.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:

        I think that’s true. That’s why they hate the automobile. Too much freedom.

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:

        I’ve said that for years. It’s why I scream so loud at people who say the Bundys shouldn’t have done it the way they did it that they need to get out of the bushes and pay attention to the message not the deliverance of the message and now look at the lengths they will go to stop the message.
        There is only one way they can fully control us and that is to put us in concrete cages as I’ve always called it and be totally dependent on the government for food.

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      • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:

        Menagerie, that’s Agenda 21 in a nutshell.

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  16. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

    Here’s a very short reflections that delivers a timely message during this beginning of the Lenten season. It really hit home with me, so I thought I would share.

    http://dynamiccatholic.com/bestlentever/lent-2016/an-invitation/?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRolu6nMdu%2FhmjTEU5z16egtW6e3g4kz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMSsFjNq%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7LMJc1o0toQWBbl#teamvideo

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  17. Stella's avatar stella says:

    I was called a c**t on Twitter by a Cruz supporter, simply because I posted about the birther suit against Cruz last month. I have reported and blocked the sob. THAT’S the kind of people who support Cruz? Nice. Very Christian.

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:

      IMO they are a reflection of their candidate. They, like him yell the loudest that they are a Christian, almost to the point of they and him sounding like a cult. With him we have his king stuff, awaken the Body of Christ, his wife saying he’s showing the face of God, all over the top imo and just a little creepy to me and I have heard and saw a lot in my lifetime and that kind of talk always came from Churches that made me uncomfortable and that something wasn’t right.
      With his supporters we have them saying he’s the only man of God running, which again for me I cannot judge who is a true man of God, only God can do that, all I can judge is their fruit.
      Which brings me to the fruit part of him and many of his supporters, he lies, he cheats, he acted one way in Iowa and another in NH and now another way in SC, he does many questionable things imo such as who he chose to run his campaign, willing to invade the privacy of unsuspecting people. His supporters who also scream their Christian and can only vote for a Christian call anyone and everyone who doesn’t worship him rude and vulgar names.
      His and their fruit is just a little rotten.

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      • facebkwallflower's avatar facebkwallflower says:

        Has anyone ever seen the face of God? seems blasphemous she say this. Most would say other see the Jesus love in others or jesus loves through others or we see the heart or live of Jesus in someome. But see His face? Are worthy enough to see Jesus’s face? What does Bible say about this? (Excluding when Jesus was here as man as that was His human face but not God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost). Very strange phrasing, to me at least.

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    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

      Coat?

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:

      Is it the same one who isn’t so fancy on me? I just came back and saw he went a little mad because I said Cruz wasn’t a gentleman.

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  18. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Just seen on FB (Dan Schwartz):

    Liberals minds are so open… Their brains fall out!

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  19. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    I didn’t read this article and my best guess it is not worth the time but I laughed out loud at the correction that heads the piece.

    This story has been corrected to clarify the 10th and 11th paragraphs. An earlier version incorrectly implied that President Obama was not a “change-maker.”

    😀

    http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/government/bill-clinton-makes-memphis-stop-for-wifes-campaign-2b822367-7dc6-3729-e053-0100007f0adf-368546981.html

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  20. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Because I think it’s funny. Photo of my DD’s friend’s husband and son, in a paczki eating contest at a local bakery. Photo by the Chicago Tribune:

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

      Can’t remember if I told you that I actually had those in Dearborn one year on Fat Tuesday, and yes they were delicious.

      I have developed an interest in European baked goods, breads etc., recipes in the last two or three years. And I can eat none of that most of the time.

      I browbeat a kid who used to work for me into getting his Czech grandmother’s bread recipe that she served with a Christmas Eve dinner every year. It has become my family’s favorite. And as you know, I went nuts over aebleskivers a few months ago. I love thos ethnic treats and breads!

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  21. Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:

    Just took Tripod outside for 30 seconds, just to show him why he has to be inside kitteh now.

    It’s quite blizzardy out there.

    Here’s a novel for reading in winter:

    It’s good, and based on a true story.

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  22. michellc's avatar michellc says:

    Ya think parents will start realizing anytime soon that their kids are going to commie schools?

    They do crack me up though with their excuse at the end; Ankeny schools’ chief operations officer Matt Adams, meanwhile, insists the district’s food rules are designed to promote equality.

    “It is important to us that students with dietary and/or financial restrictions not be excluded from school parties, and have an equitable experience to that of their peers,” he said.

    I don’t know how the commie schools do it these days but when I was baking cookies and cupcakes for school parties I baked enough for the entire class, it wasn’t a bring your own cookie and cupcake party, neither did I tell the teacher to not give the poor kid in the back a cookie. Now if a child has a dietary issue then can’t their parent send them with dietary treats for themselves and other kids if they choose?
    My goodness the poor kids can’t play ball, tag, pretend shootouts or even run at recess anymore and they have to eat lunches that a dog wouldn’t eat and be fed commie bs all day, can’t they a few times a year get to have a little fun and eat an evil cookie?

    http://eagnews.org/school-district-bans-unhealthy-valentines-treats/

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  23. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Yes, it was a company tied to Ted Cruz who placed the robo calls in SC. He lied.

    Barrett said she found the call — which continued to say negative things about Rubio before taking shots at Donald Trump for being a supporter of eminent domain — to be “negative” and “unfair,” but she couldn’t figure out right away who it was from. The voice said the poll was conducted by some place called Remington Research.

    She told her Rubio-supporting friend about the call; her friend told the campaign. They said they knew exactly what Remington Research was: a consulting firm started by Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe.

    “These tactics are becoming all too common in this race and indicative of our opponents’ campaigns that are willing to say or do anything to win an election,” Rich Beeson, Rubio’s deputy campaign manager, said. “This is nothing more than a deliberate effort to peddle false information in the hopes of deceiving voters.”

    Of course, Cruz campaign denies that it is them.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/you-didnt-hear-this-from-me-but-why-south-carolina-primary-politics-are-so-dirty/2016/02/11/09fa4a28-d0c7-11e5-b2bc-988409ee911b_story.html

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