General Discussion, Sunday, February 14, 2016

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Stella

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  1. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    February 14, 2016 at 12:07 am

    Happy Valentine’s Day to all the dear people here! ❤

    With special thanks to stella, who makes it possible–and decorates it all with gorgeous pictures. ❤

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    February 14, 2016 at 12:09 am

    Now I’ll mar the mood with a couple of sobering posts:

    A SAP Synopsis [SAP=Special Access Program]

    https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2016/02/13/a-sap-synopsis/

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  3. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    February 14, 2016 at 12:12 am

    Would the UN please just GO AWAY???

    UN panel: Racist U.S. must pay reparations, put up monuments to black people

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/02/12/un-panel-racist-u-s-must-pay-reparations-put-up-monuments-to-black-people/

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  4. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    February 14, 2016 at 12:16 am

    And I’m sure half a mil is only the beginning:

    Orban Accuses Germany And Turkey Of Secret Pact To Flood Europe With Another 500,000 Illegals

    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/02/11/orban-accuses-germany-and-turkey-of-secret-pact-to-flood-europe-with-another-500000-illegals/

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      February 14, 2016 at 12:33 am

      Evening/Morning Mary! Thank you for great reads. Especially the “sap synopsis”. This is worst than Gen. P. I have dealt/spent all of my military career handling classified material/documents.
      This puts Obola in a corner and Hilllabeast is going down one way or another.

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  5. Jacqueline Taylor Robson's avatar Jacqueline Taylor Robson says:
    February 14, 2016 at 12:26 am

    Happy Valentines everyone! I got a wee bouquet and a beautiful card from DH! Now I’m ready for bed, knowing “The Donald” is in charge.

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  6. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    February 14, 2016 at 1:37 am

    Just in case anyone ever wonders:
    Stella’s Place does not work in IE6 or Firefox 12, but strangely Netscape 9 it looks perfect.

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  7. TexasRanger's avatar TexasRanger says:
    February 14, 2016 at 7:08 am

    The Real Truth About Global Warming and Changing Weather…

    Valentine’s Day: Dangerous Cold Shatters Records Across Northeastern US

    The coldest air of the winter is gripping much of the eastern United States and will feature single-digit and sub-zero temperatures in the Northeast through the Valentine’s Day weekend.

    http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/temperatures-to-plunge-to-single-digits-subzero-northeast-us-frigid-valentines-day-weekend/55326962

    Snow and Ice Storm to Hit Southern, Northeastern US on Presidents Day

    The dangerous cold gripping the eastern United States will set the stage for a significant snow and ice storm to unfold from Tennessee and Georgia to Maine Presidents Day into Tuesday.

    http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/presidents-day-snow-ice-northe/55404663

    Environment Canada’s extreme cold warning still in effect as Toronto temperature dips to -23 C with wind chill close to -32 C

    SSRC President John L. Casey: “We’re Heading Into a Long Cold Climate Era”

    The author of “Dark Winter” discusses the chances we are heading into a mini ice-age and what that might mean for the claims of global warming.

    Newsmax Prime – John Casey discusses the chances we are heading into a mini ice-age

    Global Warming Scam

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    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
      February 14, 2016 at 10:27 am

      In the early 1970’s, I remember between Saturday morning cartoons and Sid and Marty Krofft shows, a short PSA would run. Sometimes it was about some fantasy “space shuttle” and other times it was acid rain melting people. I even remember one saying we were overdue for another ice-age.

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  8. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
    February 14, 2016 at 7:39 am

    St. Valentine, martyr of the early Church, pray for us.

    Good morning everyone. I hope you are blessed with many expressions of love on this day that we celebrate it. Celebrate it rather poorly and commercially, but we take what we get, right?

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  9. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    February 14, 2016 at 8:19 am

    Mornin’ kids!

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  10. Stella's avatar stella says:
    February 14, 2016 at 9:14 am

    Good morning! I hope you have a wonderful day, and spend it with the ones you love, if possible, or just thinking about them, if you can’t.

    Another cold, sunny, morning here. I think it will be a bit warmer tomorrow (finally!), but the clouds will be back.

    I suggested this poem to my daughter when she was married, and it was read as part of their ceremony:

    [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
    By E. E. Cummings
    i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
    my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
    i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
    by only me is your doing,my darling)
    i fear
    no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
    no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
    and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
    and whatever a sun will always sing is you

    here is the deepest secret nobody knows
    (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
    and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
    higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
    and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

    i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

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  11. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    February 14, 2016 at 9:23 am

    Happy Valentine’s Day all. While not really feeling the love this morning with the passing of a great jurist, I am preparing for a wonderful breakfast from Mrs. T. Here’s our favorite Sunday columnist on the state of the Administrative State, with a footnote nod to Justice Scalia.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/nipping_at_the_heels_of_the_administrative_state.html

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  14. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    February 14, 2016 at 9:58 am

    Mornin’ stella! 😎 :developer: ❤
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! 😛 😀 -I ❤
    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' Ms. Cindy (aka "Ms Cynlynn" aka "ms cynlynn") 🙂 ❤
    Mornin' complainers! 😐 ❤
    Mornin' whiners! 😐 ❤
    Mornin' to people posting that I missed. 😳 ❤
    Mornin' to all you lurkers! 😕 ❤

    Breakfast!

    Cinnamon rolls for coffee!

    ⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol

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  16. BigMamaTEA's avatar BigMamaTEA says:
    February 14, 2016 at 10:09 am

    Happy Valentine’s Day all my friends.

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  17. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    February 14, 2016 at 10:27 am

    Anybody here know anything about cars? Mine started acting up yesterday. The steering wheel vibrates slightly, there is a whirring noise that gets MUCH louder when I turn and is coming from the center of the vehicle. It seems pretty ominous to me. The car has 76,000 miles on it and is in good condition otherwise. I am trying to figure out where to have it towed to. 😦

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    • BigMamaTEA's avatar BigMamaTEA says:
      February 14, 2016 at 12:35 pm

      Yes, sad that WE had to lose him. But, he lived a good life, and will forever be remembered for his stellar loyalty to the Constitution, and the rule of law. He set a standard, by which all Justices should strive.

      And to peacefully go in his sleep (I hope)…..vibrant one day, gone the next. Not all are so fortunate. He WAS 79. Not everybody gets to live til 100.

      God speed Sir. You will be missed.

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  19. The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
    February 14, 2016 at 1:54 pm

    Good morning to all, and happy Valentine’s Day!

    Sled dog update: the news is not as good this morning as I had hoped for. Allen Moore is in 3rd place. Hugh Neff has the lead at mile post 823; Brent Sass is at mile post 806 and Allen is at mile post 804. Still 150+ miles to go; now a lot will depend on how healthy and rested the dogs are, and how well they are eating and drinking. Keeping fingers crossed for the next 24 hours. Go Allen!

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  20. derk's avatar derk says:
    February 14, 2016 at 2:09 pm

    At my Mom’s down here in Santa Cruz county, she actually lives in Freedom CA, a very small city/town? Anyways, talking with my step dad of 30 plus years, who actually declared Martial Law 30 years ago. He had write up in the local paper (which he now says was removed and can’t be found) and a meeting with Leon Panetta, the local congressman at the time.
    Good Valentine’s day convo to be sure.

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  22. BigMamaTEA's avatar BigMamaTEA says:
    February 14, 2016 at 3:18 pm

    20 Words related to stellar http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stellar

    awesome cool amazing rad great sweet beautiful epic hot good excellent gnarly perfect radical sexy sick badass lame wicked dope

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  23. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    February 14, 2016 at 3:46 pm

    Hey!! Guess what I just found out!

    “She whom shall not be named” is allergic to parsnips!

    Guess how we found out!

    It was served at dinner!

    Guess who got two deserts!

    … 😀

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  24. facebkwallflower's avatar facebkwallflower says:
    February 14, 2016 at 6:10 pm

    Feline Groovy and Mark Steyn http://www.steynstore.com/product135.html

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  25. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    February 14, 2016 at 8:07 pm

    Happy Valentine’s Day 🙂

    And a company t-shirt?

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  27. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    February 14, 2016 at 9:31 pm

    Good grief. Looks like Kanye ain’t no Jayzee. He’s 53 large in the hole. Wonder how long it’ll be ‘fore that big-booty wife be dumpin’ him out the door. 😆 😆

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/kanye-west-im-53-million-dollars-in-debt/ar-BBptPZ4?form=PRHPTP

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  28. Tom McMahon's avatar Tom McMahon says:
    February 14, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    Early in his career Fox News Channel President Roger Ailes was a producer for a daytime talk show, The Mike Douglas Show. Here’s excerpt from his book You Are The Message about a time when Jack Benny appeared on the show:

    One of Americas greatest comedians, Jack Benny, taught me about energy. Benny was one of my heroes because he was able to get a laugh just by walking on stage. His timing was perfect. His facial expression was unsurpassed. He was not just a comedian, but also a great comic actor. His strength was not so much in telling jokes as in getting laughs within the parameters of the script, such as a comedy sketch. In over fifty years in show business, he never did anything that was off-color, but he always entertained his audience. Late in his career, when he was quite old, Jack was a guest on The Mike Douglas Show. When my assistant told me he was waiting in my office, I rushed in to meet the great man. I found instead a frail little old man hunched over in a corner of he couch. “How do you do, sir. I’m Roger Ailes. I’m the executive producer.” He looked up weakly, shook my hand, and softly said, “Jack Benny.” He went on, “Tell me ahout your show.” But he was talking in a monotone — very quietly — and I thought, “Oh my God, he’s going to pass away right on the air today.” I explained the show and where his segment would come. He asked, “Do you have a dollar bill?” I said yes. He said, “I’m going to do this thing with Mike using this dollar bill, where I end up getting the dollar.” I said fine. We worked it all out, but I was terrified. I thought, “Maybe I shouldn’t present him because it will be so disillusioning to the American people.” We went down to the studio just before airtime. He was to be on first. We rehearsed his theme song, “Love in Bloom,” with the band, and I showed him where he would enter. All the time he was shuffling along, with the weary steps of an old man. Moments later, it was airtime. Mike Douglas said, “We’ve got a great thrill for you today. Ladies and gentlemen, our special guest, the great Jack Benny.” I held my breath. The band hit “Love In Bloom”. Benny inhaled and energy seemed to enter his body. He looked sideways into the full-length backstage mirror and straightened up. I swear he grew an entire foot. He looked twenty-five years younger. He looked at me, smiled, and winked, and as the doors opened for his entrance, he broke into his famous arm-swinging stride and walked on stage. The real Jack Benny had suddenly appeared right before our eyes. On the show, he was the delightful, brilliant Jack Benny that we knew — age thirty-nine, as he always said — and that we all remember. Benny’s use of energy was a great lesson for me. He had been saving it for the performance, and he knew exactly when to turn it on. And I remember thinking something then that I still teach today. Know when you have to do a good job. Know when you’re on. And anytime you perform, if your energy rises to the occasion, you’ll carry the day.

    (February 14 is Jack Benny’s birthday)

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  29. The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
    February 14, 2016 at 9:59 pm

    Sled dog update. It’s looking like 2016 Yukon Quest will be a close race all the way to the finish. Hugh Neff continues to hold the lead. He arrived at the last checkpoint before the finish about an hour ago. There is a mandatory rest here, about 100 miles from the finish line at White Horse. Brent Sass was about 15 miles behind him, with Allen Moore about 2 miles behind Brent. When they take off fresh, around midnight to 2 am, we’ll see who has the best dogs. Barring unforeseen events–which are all too common in dog mushing–Hugh will likely win. A 15 mile lead is very difficult to make up on a hilly trail. Allen may easily overtake Brent and come in second. {fingers crossed}

    Here is a link to a post on Aliy and Allen’s blog, with a good photo of Allen and the lead dogs.
    http://spkenneldoglog.blogspot.com/2016/02/yq-black-team-in-carmacks.html

    This was from the previous checkpoint earlier today. Allen is totally sleep deprived at this point. Mushers call it “the thousand mile stare”, where you sit and gaze at nothing, just glad to not be moving for a few minutes. For over a week, mushers have been living a schedule of run-4-hours-rest-4-hours, around the clock. And the 4-hour rest is what the dogs get; the musher might get 1 hour. Between cooking food for them, feeding them, rubbing them down to check for injuries, removing booties, putting salve on their pads, replacing booties, the musher has to be completely organized to get it all done, get something to eat himself, and maybe grab an hour’s nap. The physical challenge is huge. The 8-hour rest at Braeburn will help alot. The Iditarod also has an 8-hour rest about 100 miles from the finish line. The dogs arrive to the media blitz at the finish looking a lot peppier. For the Quest, that should be about noon tomorrow, Alaska time.

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  30. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    February 14, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    Does anyone know if the presser is new? I just noticed it earlier today? Any guesses? Maybe Trump is going to file against Cruz to prove that he is a NBC?

    – MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2016 –

    PRESS CONFERENCE
    ​Charleston, SC
    2:30 PM
    :stars:
    MEDIA REQUEST

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  31. michellc's avatar michellc says:
    February 14, 2016 at 11:00 pm

    Stella and Wee, somebody else or the same person under a different name is spreading lies about you all being Hillary supporters again. This time on Gateway Pundit. Comment made by Trump the Insult Dog.

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/trump-blasts-gop-on-ticket-distribution-calls-on-party-to-distribute-debate-tickets-to-general-public/

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