General Discussion, Saturday, February 20, 2016

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Stella

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  1. Monroe's avatar Monroe says:
    February 20, 2016 at 12:20 am

    waiting for you MfM

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    February 20, 2016 at 12:32 am

    “The Steps of Montmartre” (Paris, 1936) photo by Brassaï :

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  3. Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
    February 20, 2016 at 12:33 am

    Morning, Mary, Monroe. Great picture, looks as if some deer already passed by.

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  4. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    February 20, 2016 at 12:45 am

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  5. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    February 20, 2016 at 12:55 am

    This was great:

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  6. TexasRanger's avatar TexasRanger says:
    February 20, 2016 at 2:20 am

    Several Lawsuits Question Cruz’s Eligibility For Presidency

    An Illinois Cook County Judge has the hearing set for March 1st, 2016.

    Help Trump Make America Great Again.!

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    Be Sure To Get Out and Vote In Your States Primary Elections or Attend Your State Caucus.!

    You Can Help Make America Great Again – Vote For Trump In 2016

    Vote Donald Trump For President In 2016 Primary and General Elections.!

    News Video Feb-19-2016:

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  7. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    February 20, 2016 at 4:02 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😀 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_|
    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! 😀 |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ taqiyyologist! 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! ⭐
    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

    Breakfast!

    Cinnamon rolls for coffee!

    ⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol

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  9. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
    February 20, 2016 at 6:40 am

    Good morning. Weekend coffee!

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  10. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    February 20, 2016 at 8:23 am

    Mornin’ y’all!

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  11. Stella's avatar stella says:
    February 20, 2016 at 8:32 am

    Good morning, everyone! It’s a beautiful Caturday here in the North, and I have a warm kitty on my lap, so what could be better?

    Keeping an eye on the SC primary? Me too!

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      February 20, 2016 at 8:45 am

      Stella, I’m excited, will be outside most of the day, I don’t trust the polls, also the crossover appeal might work, might not. This should be very interesting……

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:
      February 20, 2016 at 9:00 am

      Good morning Stella!

      It’s been warm here as well, but the wind has been a killer. Thursday was really bad, wild fires everywhere, power out all over.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:
        February 20, 2016 at 9:20 am

        We had high winds yesterday afternoon (50+ mph), and I saw on the news this morning that we still have 87,000 people without power in this area. Trees down etc.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:
          February 20, 2016 at 10:01 am

          That was the problem here trees and tree limbs and wires being snapped.

          Fires were everywhere, we had a fairly large one about 10 miles or so from us that we kept watching because in that kind of wind they move fast. Thankfully, it only burned pasture, others in the state burned down homes.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      February 20, 2016 at 9:18 am

      Good morning Stella 🙂

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:
      February 20, 2016 at 9:19 am

      Our power was out much of the day Thursday, our internet tower had damage somehow from the wind. So the internet when it worked was slow as molasses. They got it fixed ahead of schedule, which is a first. lol

      Yesterday, my husband and I took my daughter to the doctor. The baby woke up yesterday with a high fever, his doctor is out after having surgery. So he had to see a new doctor who we didn’t like too well and couldn’t figure out what was going on. We discovered Pa Pa isn’t as strong as he once was, he was chosen to hold him down at the hospital while they drew blood and for the first time ever, came out with tears in his eyes.
      I gave him a hard time and he said it’s different with grandbabies. I think between his Mama and Pa Pa they might have had as many tears as him. lol

      We still don’t know what is going on though, they can’t find anything wrong, his white count was just barely elevated. No other symptoms but a fever. I just checked on him and his mom said it was down some this morning, it’s 101* but was 103* overnight.

      Hopefully, if he’s not better by Monday, his doctor will be back.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:
        February 20, 2016 at 9:26 am

        I hope the little guy is feeling better soon. One of the great things is how quickly they usually recover.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:
          February 20, 2016 at 10:05 am

          I hope so too, I hate the not knowing what is causing the fever.
          He just came over to see me and he’s full of beans even with a fever. He wanted a banana and a cracker. NaNa makes sure she always has ritz crackers and bananas on hand because that has become his two favorite snacks.

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
        February 20, 2016 at 9:36 am

        I am sorry the baby is sick. But, l will tell you this. My mother said when I was a tiny baby, I would develop a fever and the doctor would tell them to give me an aspirin and bring me in in the morning. They would take me in, with no fever and perfectly healthy it seemed. This happened over and over. They never knew what it was, but I am 69 now.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:
          February 20, 2016 at 10:11 am

          Yesterday morning when he had almost 104* temp, I told my daughter he probably had an ear infection because they don’t always pull at their ears or he could have Roseola because it usually starts with a high fever. His ears were fine though and I would think he would have broke out by now if it was Roseola.

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
        February 20, 2016 at 1:07 pm

        AwW, hope he feels better soon!

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  12. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    February 20, 2016 at 9:32 am

    Is building a wall christian?

    1 Timothy 5:8

    But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

    Part of providing is protecting people from folks of ill will.

    Psalm 82:4

    Rescue the weak and needy; Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

    A border wall is intended to keep law breakers some of them rapists, drug suppliers and killers out of our home. Our nation, this great country so blessed by God has been made weak and needy by our open border policies, our inability to enforce immigration laws has made us weak, our open borders has made us needy of a wall.

    Ezekiel 33

    “… 6 ‘But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the watchman’s hand.’

    Inviting a destroyer into your home is not christian charity it is a sin.

    The sword is coming, blow the trumpet, build the wall!

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  13. Stella's avatar stella says:
    February 20, 2016 at 10:54 am

    Exclusive: On Eve of South Carolina Vote, Nation’s ICE Officers Detail How Marco Rubio Betrayed Them

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/19/eve-south-carolina-vote-nations-ice-officers-detail-marco-rubio-betrayed/

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  14. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    February 20, 2016 at 11:33 am

    I don’t have my photonbucket on my phone so I can’t post my favorite cake pic, but a big happy 50th birthday shoutout to my baby seester, Little Miss Tex. 🎂🎂🍻🍻

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  15. Patriot1783's avatar ctdar says:
    February 20, 2016 at 11:37 am

    Scalia funeral beautiful, Justice Thomas about to speak

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  16. Stella's avatar stella says:
    February 20, 2016 at 5:08 pm

    This is fun, especially for Anglophiles:

    Dearest creature in creation,
    Study English pronunciation.
    I will teach you in my verse
    Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
    I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
    Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
    Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
    So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
    Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
    Dies and diet, lord and word,
    Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
    (Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
    Now I surely will not plague you
    With such words as plaque and ague.
    But be careful how you speak:
    Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
    Cloven, oven, how and low,
    Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
    Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
    Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
    Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
    Exiles, similes, and reviles;
    Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
    Solar, mica, war and far;
    One, anemone, Balmoral,
    Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
    Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
    Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
    Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
    Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
    Blood and flood are not like food,
    Nor is mould like should and would.
    Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
    Toward, to forward, to reward.
    And your pronunciation’s OK
    When you correctly say croquet,
    Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
    Friend and fiend, alive and live.
    Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
    And enamour rhyme with hammer.
    River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
    Doll and roll and some and home.
    Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
    Neither does devour with clangour.
    Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
    Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
    Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
    And then singer, ginger, linger,
    Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
    Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
    Query does not rhyme with very,
    Nor does fury sound like bury.
    Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
    Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
    Though the differences seem little,
    We say actual but victual.
    Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
    Fe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
    Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
    Dull, bull, and George ate late.
    Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
    Science, conscience, scientific.
    Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
    Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
    We say hallowed, but allowed,
    People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
    Mark the differences, moreover,
    Between mover, cover, clover;
    Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
    Chalice, but police and lice;
    Camel, constable, unstable,
    Principle, disciple, label.
    Petal, panel, and canal,
    Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
    Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
    Senator, spectator, mayor.
    Tour, but our and succour, four.
    Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
    Sea, idea, Korea, area,
    Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
    Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
    Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
    Compare alien with Italian,
    Dandelion and battalion.
    Sally with ally, yea, ye,
    Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
    Say aver, but ever, fever,
    Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
    Heron, granary, canary.
    Crevice and device and aerie.
    Face, but preface, not efface.
    Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
    Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
    Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
    Ear, but earn and wear and tear
    Do not rhyme with here but ere.
    Seven is right, but so is even,
    Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
    Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
    Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
    Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
    Is a paling stout and spikey?
    Won’t it make you lose your wits,
    Writing groats and saying grits?
    It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
    Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
    Islington and Isle of Wight,
    Housewife, verdict and indict.
    Finally, which rhymes with enough,
    Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
    Hiccough has the sound of cup.
    My advice is to give up!!!

    You’ve been reading “The Chaos” by Gerard Nolst Trenité, written nearly 100 years ago in 1922, designed to demonstrate the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation.

    Here’s a video of same:

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
      February 20, 2016 at 8:17 pm

      Absolutely amazing.

      The English language is almost as awful as German.

      https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html

      Not quite as awful, but still quiet horrendous to figure out.

      I’m just glad I started here.

      I like Japanese, transliterated into our letters.

      “Mitsubishi!” “Wazikashi!” “Kamikaze!”

      There is no other way to pronounce those words. None.

      The complete lack of variants for vowel sounds is what I mean.

      In phonetic terms, Japanese (with our letters) is a near perfect language.

      What I didn’t mean, but which is stereotypically funneh, is that the exclamation point is also part of the preferred pronunciation for those words.

      You gotta yell them! While squinting!

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  17. Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
    February 20, 2016 at 7:54 pm

    So I got my new PC, canniballized my old one for the sound card, and it’s nice.

    Windows 10 took some learnin’. About four hours of it.

    Now that I got the desktop, at least, back to looking exactly like my XP box, I’m good.

    The graphix card could use an update, but my graphix, they’re Onboard the Motherboard.

    Parliament and/or Funkadelic might have had a jam about that.

    Stella’s pics, and my background, looked better with the old PC.

    But this thing is faster than anything I’ve ever owned. Every single thing you do — click — BAMdone. Astounding. In going from XP to this, I feel like I just went from TRS-80 Model III to Windows XP. And it’s silent, too. Five fans, all chosen for their quietness.

    I’m tempted to download WinFract, now. Just to see how fast this puppy can zoom into the Mandelbrot set.

    Today I installed my crazy ASUS sound card, tomorrow I’ll install Pianissimo, the best $99 piano you can buy today. (It’s got sympathetic resonance. You hold down the damper pedal, and hit G3, it makes a whole bunch of other strings get all vibratey. Especially all the other G’s. Just like in real life. With this program, you tap the damper pedal, and you can feel the wood.)

    more…

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  18. Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
    February 20, 2016 at 7:59 pm

    I had a dream last night that I got a call on my cell, looked at who was calling, and it said

    “RCC.” In the dream I asked myself, why would the Roman Catholic Church be calling me.

    I don’t remember if, in the dream, I picked up.

    Today, I received a rosary in the mail, made from the flowers at my Nana’s funeral, sent by a younger cousin of mine, out of the blue, whom I haven’t spoken with since I was maybe 19.

    So many weird things, lately. Pay attention to dreams folks. Especially lately. Try and remember them or keep a journal next to the bed.

    They’re actually prophesied to increase toward the eschatological end of this era.

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  19. Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
    February 20, 2016 at 8:06 pm

    I wonder which mail delivery was more important today.

    FedEx, USPS, or “other”?

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  20. Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
    February 20, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    If Nyet can continue to gorge us with those same cinnamon rolls, I can do this again.

    Oh, girl. Just look at you.

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  21. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    February 20, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    Today I went to see She Yun it was really beautiful, very culturally different than any American production that I have ever seen. Between each dance two young people came out and gave a short synopsis of what dance we were going to see, one spoke in English and one in Chinese.

    There were 3 solos sung in Chinese and the words were projected in English on a screen, it was not poetic verse but it was beautiful to see these words, I sing of the truth you have long awaited, the decline in moral values puts humanity at risk, Atheism is Satan’s big lie”

    I don’t know how well Shen Yun is known or if people are interested in them or not but it was really interesting and mesmerizing. They are apparently thoroughly despised by China.

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