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Beautiful Stella. Close to my neck o’ the woods.
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Closer to mine, derk!
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Ok, you win for now, but originally from Santa Cruz, and spent many summers with my father in Wishon, just south of Yosemite. Similar terrain but not quite as majestic. =D
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Yep, that’s closer.
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Hmm…somethings not right
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I wonder if any of these enterprising (heh) hippies have ever come up with a definitive “DSM”-style list of which classes trump which classes?
Like Hoyle’s list of winning poker hands.
All we can know, definitely, is that white-straight-Christian-CIS-male is on the bottom.
A single, scratched-up, dog-eared 2 of clubs. That’s where we are on their list.
China. They’re allowed the blessing of a cultural identity by these hippies.
But not us. Not France. Not England. Not Australia. Not Norway.
No, these cultures must be erased and replaced. I hate hippies.
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Imagine the pong coming out of those dreads.
:retch:
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{cringe}
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“Something’s not right…”
Yeah, someone photoshopped out the Adam’s apple.
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I think it might be a girl. I’ve often wondered if this person is disturbed by having its picture all over the internet in various unflattering memes?
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I’m still trying to figure out if that is an ugly, effeminate man, an ugly, unwashed woman, or a gender-questioning something-or-other.
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(reprised from late on yesterday’s General Disc. Thread, because it’s worth it)
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That’s some true True,
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Nice phrase. Tom Hanks said it well in his best film.
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I hardly ever recommend films, because I hate Hollywood, but Cloud Atlas is something else.
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And to vulgarians, I highly recommend that film.
Turn subtitles/CC on, when you watch it. It helps.
It’s a film I believe Orwell would dig.
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Reading the book right now, have movie on DVD. We have a cheap theater here that plays second run movies after they’ve been out a bit. Saw this movie 3 times. Agreed, love it. Although the book is REALLY good, may be one of those cases where movie as actually better.
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I’ve only seen it once. I want to watch it a few more times.
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Just the true True.
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Okay, here’s a “general” question: Has it gotten to the point where we should believe virtually NOTHING we read in the MSM? Or even some things found in alternative media, including borderline conservative sites, etc?
Becoming more and more unmoored from reality and the truth is very disconcerting.
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Two questions in one.
Has it gotten to the point where we should believe virtually NOTHING we read in the MSM?
Yes. It got to that point more than ten years ago.
Or even some things found in alternative media, including borderline conservative sites, etc?
Yes, again. It got to that point within the last year, and latched onto it like a magnet. When CJ of LGF infamy lost it, and then Hoft, and then Malkin… And now Rush. I knew this was going to happen. And that was years ago.
We’re living in some strange times. God’s Word is going to be what you want to go to when you don’t know what to believe. And comments sections at very few blogs.
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Has it gotten to the point where we should believe virtually NOTHING we read in the MSM?
Hypothetical: When The A-Team and E.T. and Rubick’s Cube and Cabbage Patch Kids and Ms. Pac Man were all big…. should we have then believed what we heard in the MSM?
We are a media-controlled society. We were in 1984.
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Has it gotten to the point where we should believe virtually NOTHING we read in the MSM?
It was at that point when Green Acres was being aired.
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It was at that point when Walter Duranty was telling us lies about the USSR.
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Here you get people who don’t lie to you.
That’s why I like this place.
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taqi–
I realized long after I posted that the first question was a “duh”. It was really the second that was rattling around in my head. Twitter especially brought it up in my mind. Lies are being propagated at light speed, with a few people aware they are lies, but many people believing everything–lock, stock, and barrel.
It is really weird to be reading the twitter feed–which is primarily conservative in my case–and seeing diametrically opposed things over and over again, from one tweet to another. And the anger and passion in which they are couched is disconcerting.
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Seriously, have you ever been a witness to an event, or know the real details of a story, and then read the newspaper account or watched the television report of that same event or story?
In my experience (which is limited, I admit), there are always details that are completely wrong. Some of them may be unimportant, but others are significant. I’ve always wondered if it is intellectual laziness, if the reporter didn’t listen or didn’t ask the right questions, there was a rush to report the story and nobody checked the facts, or what?
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IMHO, it’s intellectual laziness on the part of the “big time” journo’s. For those in a small town, local weekly paper, it’s prolly half lazy lazy, half ignorance, and half wants to be Woodward or Bernstein. 🙄
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In my experience these days, almost every word is a distortion. It is almost impossible to know where to begin to challenge or debunk what is being stated/implied.
“Fact-checking? We don’t need no stinkin’ fact-checking.”
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What everyone seems to no longer know is that “Journalistic Integrity” is the propaganda. Nothing has changed. Read competing newspapers from 200-300 years ago and you’ll understand they were agenda driven, opinion was presented as news, some stories were embellished, and some just flat-out fabricated. Nothing changed but our perception of the news in the last 100 years.
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Yellow journalism. That’s true, nyet.
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The difference was that 200 years ago, and even in the early part of the last century, newspapers were, as you said, “competing” with each other for eyeballs.
Now they’re not. Now they’re competing with CTH, AoSHQ, Vox, and Stella’s, while circling the wagons around each other and the establishment elites.
The only sense in which I see them “competing” is to see just how much they can hide while pretending to be arbiters of truth. Who Can Hide The Most Truth is the competition, now, and it’s a race to the bottom.
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Many times I notice people playing the telephone game with history rediscovered by someone else (like Glenn Beck for example). Whenever I go look for myself, more often than not it’s missing something, misrepresented, or made up. That can be on the blogs too.
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On a sober note:
Nuns Slaughtered by ISIS at Charity Started by Mother Teresa
http://www.teaparty.org/nuns-slaughtered-isis-charity-started-mother-teresa-147403/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nuns-slaughtered-isis-charity-started-mother-teresa
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I wish the world would wake up and destroy Islam.
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I like the word Axiomatic.
It’s axiomatic that Islam is either going to prevail and conquer, or it is going to “wither on the vine”.
That vineyard needs to be burned. And the ground salted.
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Why can’t the world make Islam like Esperanto?
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And, then pour vinegar on it.
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8 more days to daylight saving!!
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Ok Howie, is this post in excited anticipation or dread?
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Another example of something you don’t worry about when you are retired. Clock time is much less important.
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I am surprised by nationally observed holidays every year. Inevitably, I am setting up an appointment somewhere only to be told they are closed that day.
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Speaking of – it’s Casimir Pulaski Day in Illinois on Monday.
Casimir Pulaski Day is a legal holiday in Illinois so some schools, libraries, banks and courts are closed.
Federal and state offices, as well as many commercial operations, usually remain open. People wishing to travel via public transport in Illinois on Casimir Pulaski Day may need to check with the local public transit authorities on possible timetable changes.
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/casimir-pulaski-day
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Yeah, the sun comes up and then later, the sun goes down.
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Tried saving daylight in a bag.
Looked in the bag that night;
and it was gone. That’s just
plain old mean. Who would
steal someone’s daylight?
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Excellent thread and lots of food for thought therein.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/03/ever-seen-deliverance-mr-beck.html#comment-form
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I had a bit of time to kill yesterday evening so I started yesterdays free podcast. I think I made it 15 minutes before going to scrub bathroom tile. His arguments and “proof” are bizarre.
Basically what Beck did was show (again) that if you don’t meet Beck’s ideals, then you are unworthy for everyone else.
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Someone in the comments over in a CTH thread posted the audio. Beck was being over the top sarcastic (again). It was a joke. Not one I liked, but a joke nevertheless. Beck did not honestly state he would, or call for the attempted assassination of Trump.
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He did what he had to do, and was history’s witness.
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The 2nd-century Church Father Tertullian wrote that “the blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church,”
I know this particular comment is perhaps considered more Catholic in meaning, but it is universally true.
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Tertullian’s quote is most DEFINITELY universally true.
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I wish more people knew who Dietrich Bonhoeffer was. A witness indeed, taqi.
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I don’t know exactly what made me think of him at 5:00 this morning.
It just felt right. I guess, to post his image, and a reminder.
We’re all Bonhoffer, potentially.
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We’re all sitting here, taking in reality, and some of us are bearing witness to what we see, because someone has to.
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Coffee up y’all. I just wish I wasn’t. There could be a nap in my future. 😆 🙄
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C’mon, admit it. It’s Saturday. There could be a nap anyhow. 😀
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You know me, hate to miss any of the excitement around here. 😆
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I do that often – now that I’m retired.
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I’m just tired. Would like to be re-tired. 😉
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I identify. If I were still working, today would be the 45th anniversary of my hire date with my previous employer. I made it to 43. March 5, 1971.
Yesterday, I sent an email to my good friend, who celebrated her 41st anniversary with the same employer. She is one person that I really miss seeing every day.
Our children were little when we first met, and we were young and good looking! Our children are now grown, and we have grandchildren – but we’re still good looking. Well, we still feel young and good looking.
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You shall always be young and good looking in my book, Miss Stella. 😀
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Thank you kindly, sir!
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Day nodda, ma’am. 😉
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I like your new user photo identifier [what’s the special word for that? favicon? avatar?].
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It’s an avatar, but I don’t think Tex’s is new.
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Hmm. Must need new mid-range glasses!
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Morning Tex, great coffee! Yes a nap would be in my immediate future, after some wood chopping…….
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One man’s theory on the pedophile priest origins. I’m not Catholic, but if true, this makes a lot of sense. Not much surprises me anymore.
http://catholicfundamentalism.com/root-cause-of-church-scandals/17387
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Interesting theory. Nothing surprises me either, but basically, wherever the evil that caused this abuse channeled through, it originated in Hell, and found fertile fields in the complicity and heartless, shattering protection by the bishops.
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After her conversion, she testified, under oath, that “The Communist Party hated the Catholic Church because it helped keep the Communists from taking over Spain. To weaken and destabilize The Church, the Party infiltrated over 1,100 men into the Catholic Priesthood.”
This is what they did in the mid 1700’s in Western Europe, but nobody ever seems to make the connection.
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Many never expect large-scale entryism.
And after it happens, many will never admit that it did, because that would be admitting they let it happen. And they did, by pretending it wasn’t. Because “nice”.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=nice
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This may have been posted last night, and if I’m duplicating efforts, a big mea culpa. Further proof that Reince & Co. don’t get it. Don’t want to get it, and never will get it. They call all bite my *ss. If they try to force Romney, Ryan, or some other puissant pol through over either Trump or Cruz, I shall enjoy watching the conflagration of the republican party as we burn it down. 👿
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rank-and-file-republicans-tell-party-elites-we%e2%80%99re-sticking-with-donald-trump/ar-BBqmhUf?li=BBnb7Kz
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A funny thing about this report; I think Steve Forbes actually is NOT against Trump. I believe they either intentionally or mistakenly misinterpreted his comments.
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Goes back to your journo question.
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A good guy, was slandered by the MSM when he ran for President. His Dad, Malcom, was instrumental in bring back Harly Davidson………
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Malcolm even took his boating. 😉
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Andrea Tantaros takes Romney to school:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTSAH-pUo8s#t=43
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Saw that on the FB. 😆
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She has been very logical and outspoken when some of the others around her attack Trump with lies and obfuscations.
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I will make this prediction: Press secretary in Trumps administration……
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I guess the Hilda-beest is concerned enough about The Bern that she agreed to show up to a town hall hosted by our former friends at Fox. Apparently she couldn’t check her calendar since “the computer” is being dismantled by DOJ. 😆
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/clinton-agrees-to-join-sanders-at-fox-news-forum-on-eve-of-michigan-primary/ar-BBqmpiB
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Hilllabeast was actually shaking hands and letting the commoners hug her……..I wouldn’t go neat the Beasts unless I was holding a cross and a stake!
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And, wearing a garlic necklace. 😯
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ROTFLOL
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😯 😯
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Good grief! Gas over $5.00/gal in sunny CA. I know it’s purdy and the home of our dear Puddy, but why would you live there if you had a “regular” job. 😯
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/gas-price-over-dollar5-in-california/ar-BBqkvRj?li=BBnb7Kz
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I was just down there in silicon valley. Very purdy indeed. If they weren’t even more nuts than Seattle, I would have moved down there years ago.
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You can’t hide behind purdy scenery when the wall of over-regulation is closing round you.
Oh, BTW, did you wave to me while you passed through (or over) Marin?
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Should have been “walls…are”. If I could only remember to edit before clicking on “post comment”…
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I waved at you, Ad rem, and anyone else I flew over. 🙂
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Thank you! If I’d known, I’d have waved back at the time.
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Paid 209.99 yesterday here in CA. Last week under 2 dollars. SF is definitely more expensive but 5$ ?
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Even in Marin, it’s only around $2.35 or so.
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If this is true then maybe that’s why fewer kids used to have so many allergies to different kinds of food. Parents once upon a time fed their babies everything before the experts came along and said babies only needed milk for the first 6 months. One of the things I learned with the grandbaby is they said no eggs before a year old, they gave my daughter a list of foods not to give when he turned 6 months old, when he was supposed to just be starting to eat foods. The only problem was he had already been eating solid foods, including eggs. lol
I still don’t get why they aren’t supposed to eat eggs.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/03/04/peanuts-for-babies-studies-back-allergy-preventing-strategy.html
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Me either. We got eggs early, and our kids did too.
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I don’t understand most of this stuff anymore. I guess we didn’t know how to “properly” raise our kids. It’s a miracle they survived. lol
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Mankind should have never made it out of Ancient Greece. SMH
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Doug Ross has a very old (in internet era terms) photo essay about that.
(Aside: Doug, you have the most confusing blog identity, ever. “Doug Ross @ Journal”? With the web addy “http://directorblue.blogspot.com/”? And @ Journal doesn’t make any dang sense at all, no matter how you squint your eyes. You’d be a hit, Doug…
…if only all that discombobulated nonsequitur was amalgamated into a coherent brand.)
How did we survive?
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-did-we-survive.html
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(Aside aside: maybe Doug wants to be obscure. In which case, kudos. I don’t think I would have done anything different if that were my blog’s goal. In fact, I couldn’t have even come up with “@ Journal”. My mind can’t come up with complete nonsense like that. Great blog, too.)
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Doug also has my second-favorite news aggregator, after Drudge, called BadBlue
http://badblue.bitnamiapp.com/trendr8.htm
It’s computer-generated, I think. But that’s Doug’s creation. The Tech page is a nice waste of time. I don’t go to the Prep page. I’m already on enough lists.
And his own site, obscure as he makes it for whatever reason, also has a daily news feed that I peruse daily, that is curated by him. He links CTH on his own site frequently. Because, Good Material, and Fair Use.
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When my daughter was just starting to crawl, my ex didn’t want to let her outside to roll around in the grass. I told her she needed to do that and maybe even eat some dirt to start building up her immune system. I let her, but the beast didn’t. It was one of the few “compromises” we had. 😉
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I’ve never been able to understand women who try to raise their kids in a bubble. My kids were almost raised outside and they got bumps and bruises, but for the most part they were healthy kids, with just minor stuff like colds, a few ear infections and chicken pox.
I can count on one hand for each of my children how many times growing up they had to take antibiotics.
My grandson got his first battle scar from the great outdoors the other day, he scratched his eyelid with a stick. My daughter saw a friend of hers at the store the next day and she was asking my daughter what happened to his eye and after she told her she said that is why she didn’t allow her son to play outside because there were too many things he could get hurt with. He’s 4 months older than my grandson, so at 18 months old he’s never touched grass. She writes on FB all the time how he had to go back to the doctor because he’s sick again. Just from the times I’ve counted on FB he’s been put on antibiotics 6 times. In my way of thinking some grass and dirt might do him some good.
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Sheltering children makes them weak. Physically and mentally.
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…he’s never touched grass.
Good grief.
I was already well-versed in putting car keys in electrical outlets by that age.
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(Hey, I thought I could start up the house. Take it for a spin.)
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Too funny.
Sparky Taqi.
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Oh, I learned about electricity that day.
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It was actually a paper clip. I was only pretending it was a car key.
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We talk about the snowflakes now, this next batch of snowflakes are going to be worse.
They’re going to be helpless unless it’s a phone or tablet, because that’s about all they can do. Those are put in their hands almost at birth.
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I was told not to eat broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, peanuts and some other things if I was going to breastfeed. I ignored it.
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Just not tofu. Or any soy products. Not for boys.
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Bacon, beef blood, coffee and gunpowder.
No tofu, though.
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Gunpowder. Sprinkle it on their oatmeal.
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Make manly men!
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Broccoli stalk is
good for teething.
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Classic Daiquiri)
(Jack Daniels)
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(B52)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😀 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 🙂 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🌯 (It’s a bacon breakfast burrito)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ taqiyyologist! 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
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”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
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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If anybody gripes about that one nyet, we are gonna beat them up. It’s a perfect spread.
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I try to use the breakfast buffet pictures on the weekends, but I do recall someone calling them leftovers once.
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🙄 Those are the ones you throw egg at.
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I ducked.
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OOPS
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Thx. Mornin’ Nyet. 🙂
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I griped (posted below). Fire away! 😉
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Just imagine bacon offstage, ZM. Lots and lots of bacon, waiting for their cue to enter.
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Taq: There’s not enough…
OW! Hey! Wait! OWW! STOP! OWW! MMFFF! OOF! AH!
:runs:
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Mornin’!
I won’t complain about no gravy because I see an omelet back there.
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There is gravy – take another look.
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I found it with a second look, but it’s barely a taste. lol
I’ll stick to the omelet and toast. I had my bacon gravy and biscuits first thing this morning.
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Not enough bacon in the first photo, and far too much alibi fruits and vegetables, and there’s an entire photo dedicated to auscitizenmom who is the Carbo Queen and electronically slapped me about the thread yesterday. ZurichMike is stamping his feet and screaming “Bacon discrimination!” — will you join in the protest? It’s part of the BBM movement: Bacon Breakfasts Matter. Take out your lighters, wave them in the air and sing “All we are SAAAAAAAAAying, is give BACON a chaaaaannnce.”
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G.D. HERE!
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Would have responded sooner but had to get the drool off of my keyboard. YUM! Now THAT’S what I call breakfast. Mmmmmmmmmm. More please! 😉
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LOLOL!!!
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Hey, ZM, I resemble that remark.
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You are not alone. 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK5Gf2CS6u8
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Mornin’ Nyet, Lovely spread there, always enjoy a good buffet.
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Nye! Lunchtime! Then outside. Thank you Nye, Thank you Sir…..
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Good morning Nyet 🙂 Yummo! Looks perfect.
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Breakfast for whiners.
🙂
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😯
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Yikes!!!! 😯
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Mornin’ y’all! Voting day for moi – plus I’ma go find a few tomato and pepper plants! 😀
Tabasco.
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Make sure we win!
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No problemo.
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Mornin’ Wee!
I bet you’re voting for Trump today ’cause you be a white racist. lol
I saw that on FB this morning, someone who said they were putting their neck out even if it meant getting flak, that it’s her conclusion Trump voters are white racists.
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Well, if she’s dressed like these two she’ll get all the flak and attention she deserves. 😀
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{cringe}
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LOL!
I’m discovering many of these “Republican” voters are no different than “Democrat” voters, the only thing they know is “racist.”
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Reality is too harsh for some.
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Weed, I’m not going to warn you again.
🙂
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I’ll ban you.
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And good morning!
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I said mornin’ over at your place, but it musta went to spam as political subterfuge.
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Mornin’ B!
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It probably went to spam because THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH BACON.
Harumph.
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And while you’re out, I’ll just help myself to a couple of few tomato and pepper sandwiches…. with bacon and mayo….
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Coconut cream pie in the fridge! 😀
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Maybe as a side, but with bacon and mayo? Nah.
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Picked all y’all up some ‘maters from the LSU Ag. center whilst I’se out and about. B, here’s yer’s and Natasha’s. Enough for one sammich or one burger each, anyway. 😀
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Hey. I hadda pick ’em myself like some kinda field hand.
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Stoop labor.
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Did you demand that they pay you $15.00 for having to pick them yourself?
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Wouldn’t that be $15 an hour? Did it take an hour to pick them? 😳
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Nah, just a flat $15.00 why should anyone have to work a full hour to get it? That is racist. /sarc
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{snort} I didn’t realize you were a Liberal Democrat. 😯
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I just want the mean tomato growers to be fair. Why should WeeWeed have to do physical labor without getting paid?
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Makes sense; then they can increase their prices to make up for the added cost.
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But……..but………….doesn’t she work for herself?
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Who is “she”? 😜
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WeeWeed?! Is there something I should know?
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Is there something I should know?
Yep I spent about 2 hours with a ACLU attorney this morning so I have a virtual icicle impaled through one ear and out the other. I’ll let you know when it melts.
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😕 LOL
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Boy, those look good!
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I hope they are. 😀
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Right now all of our tomatoes have no flavor and have the texture of wax. I can’t wait for the Farmers Market to start again.
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The only ones I buy are the small cocktail tomatoes on the vine. They actually taste like tomatoes. Brand I usually buy is Campari.
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Those are still tasty here and I use them in pasta salad. I would like some large tomatoes for slicing and putting on sandwiches. It was here that someone mentioned avocado on a grilled cheese sandwich I just bought an avocado to try that, it sounds delicious.
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That will be good, I’m sure. I know the cocktail tomatoes are difficult to use on sandwiches, but they are a big improvement over what used to be available. Remember when the nasty iceberg lettuce was all we could buy in the winter? And the awful hothouse tomatoes?
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That does sound good.
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed and All! Chilly and wet today. Snow and rain mix. Half gallon of milk for the barn cats this AM. Head count, plus 2 or maybe 3 or 4. Hey they all look the same! Wood detail, and general flower bed clean up.
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Mornin’ Colonel!
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Cynicism. It’s what’s for dinner.
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Afternoon WeeWeed and all 🙂
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Afternoon Lovely!
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Well, we have more SNOW this morning. The good thing is that temps are climbing, and it will be no lower than the fifties on Tuesday, with highs in the sixties!
Not much to say today. Trump has three events today – one in Kansas this morning, one this afternoon in Orlando (that one will be much later than the stated time, I predict. The Kansas event was added after he dropped out of CPAC, and there is no way he can speak in Kansas, then make it to Orlando by
1:00noon.) The last event will be at 9:00 PM, when he will be holding a press conference in West Palm Beach (that should be the most interesting event of the day).Have a good day, and look forward to Spring.
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness
has replaced the meadows’ wintry grey.
Little rivulets of water changed
their singing accents. Tendernesses,
hesitantly, reach toward the earth
from space, and country lanes are showing
these unexpected subtle risings
that find expression in the empty trees.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Good morning Stella!
No snow in our neck of the woods, but they’re calling for rain next week, saying we’ll be flooded again.
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We’ll have the rain too next week, along with the warmer temps.
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Mornin’ Stella,
Rain here in the north state. Supposed to be for another week or so. Daughter and beau are up from SF for a visit. After breakfast, thinking we may drive up to Mt. Shasta, Dunsmuir and Weed. Beautiful little mountain towns. Kids come visit as much for my breakfasts as they do for the company. Poached eggs and some baked bacon.
Enjoyed your poem, tranquil. Have a great day.
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You too, derk!
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Morning Stella, snow, no accumulation, turning to drizzle….
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Well, this is crap. Good work Ohio.
Get Ready for Chaos: Ohio Republicans Can Vote Twice for President
https://pjmedia.com/election/2016/03/04/get-ready-for-chaos-ohio-republicans-can-vote-twice-for-president/
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Nice. It guaranties cherry picking votes during recounts.
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Didn’t they have this last time, some counties with more D votes than registered voters?
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I think that was straight up voter fraud. This is more subtle, but allows for creative recounts, as nyet pointed out.
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Hi Stella. From a long time lurker from Ohio. BTW, nice place you got here.
It seems the wheels of the bureaucracy haven’t caught up to changing the ballots since the RNC rules changed Ohio to a winner take all state.
More on the rules change here
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2015/09/ohio_gop_sets_presidential_pri.html
I get to vote for Trump twice but only the delegate at large is the one that counts.
Here’s a similar article to the one you have posted.
http://www.wlwt.com/news/2-votes-apiece-for-gop-voters-in-ohio-primary-only-1-counts/38339054
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Welcome! I’m sorry it took so long to approve your comment.
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Thanks, I kinda figured I was in the spam dungeon.
I’m setting up a wordpress account now. All very new to me.
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You were just in moderation, not spam!
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Welcome. And, with a name like that you are definitely going to fit in here. 🙂
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Welcome Barn Cat 🙂
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Thanks for the warm welcome.
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The more, the merrier!
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DML Issued Subpoena by FBI – Dennis Michael Lynch
http://dennismichaellynch.com/highlight-one/dml-issued-subpoena-by-fbi/
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Crazy, but in a good way.
http://www.boredpanda.com/2000-marble-music-machine-wintergatan-instrument-martin-molin/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=Newsletter
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Wow.
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OMG.
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And the Bride Wore Blue! Jerry Hall and Rupert Murdoch Celebrate Their Wedding at the ‘Journalists’ Church’ in London
http://www.people.com/article/rupert-murdoch-jerry-hall-wedding
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I understand the bride wearing white or red, but blue? Does that mean she married for money?
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She’s not a virgin (white) or a whore (???red), so I guess she made the safe choice for a “mature” bride – a soft pastel.
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So, money it tiz. 😉
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I think green would indicate she married for money. That is why she avoided it.
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Mornin’ Stellars,
Stormy day here. Breakfast, maybe a drive to the high country, and then some golf on the TV. PGA is in Florida play at Trump National golf course. Announcers are actually using his name still, not yet completely blacklisted.
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The Rising Sun…..
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We covered whorehouses in the previous comment, Ken.
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And by “we” I mean Stella and Nyet.
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One ‘a my personal favorites. 😀 Wait, for no particular reason…..
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Look how young The Animals look in the video I posted. Wow.
I feel old just watching it, while at the same time, feeling really young because that song came out a decade or so before I was born.
Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon was released two years after I was born.
And those geniuses were quite young when they produced that.
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Yeah. Well. I lived it! Best music ever, the sixties. (As compared to contemporary crap.)
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Agreed!
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😀
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We’re in a renaissance right now, Weed, comparable to the 60s.
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Good morning dear Friends of Stella! It is 20 and snowing lightly here in south central Alaska, and today’s the BIG day. In less than an hour the 2016 Iditarod begins! Dog mushing fans everywhere are ecstatic. Iditarod is The Last Great Race on Earth and is Alaska’s premier dog mushing event, a thousand miles of wilderness trail, big mountains, wind-swept coastline and a great big river. This year 85 teams will compete for the championship, making it a much bigger race than its sister race, the Yukon Quest.
Today is the Ceremonial Start in Anchorage. This is a media event to showcase the mushers and teams. The teams leave the start one-by-one in 2 minute intervals and run about 10 miles over groomed trails through Anchorage with lots of cameras rolling. Local coverage will be on Channel 2 KTUU and Channel 11 KTVA, both of which should have live-streaming on the internet. The Outdoor Channel also usually carries it. The actual race starts tomorrow in Willow, Alaska.
My good friend Aliy Zirkle and her husband Allen Moore will be running the race for the 15th year. Aliy has finished 2nd twice, but never won. I hope this will be her year! Allen will be running the puppy team, giving them experience but not pushing them to be competitive. Aliy will be going all out.
I’ll also be watching two young mushers who are friends from the Bethel area, Pete Kaiser and Mike Williams, Jr. Pete just won this year’s Kuskokwim 300 sled dog race in Bethel for the second year in a row. I’m hoping for a top-10 finish from Pete and a top-20 finish from Jr.
All the big-name mushers will be on 4th Ave. in Anchorage this morning–Jeff King, Dee Dee Jonrowe, Martin Buser, Mitch Seavey, Dallas Seavey, Paul Gebhardt, Lance Mackey, John Baker, Hugh Neff.
Starting order is drawn from a hat, and most mushers hope for a low number. Each team will start with 16 dogs in harness; that’s 1,360 dogs leaving the start. By the 20th team or so, the snow is chewed up and more like soft sand. It is much easier to be at the front of such a dog crowd while the surface is still packed and easier to run on. Aliy drew Bib #13 and Allen drew Bib #5–both great starting spots.
So if you need an occasional break from politics, check in on Iditarod for the next 9 days. Excitement galore!
iditarod.com has lots of info and free videos
Alaska Dispatch News (liberal rag, but ok on dog mushing) will have articles and links every day. This piece was interesting: http://www.adn.com/article/20160304/here-are-five-iditarod-musher-strategies-watch-early-race
Aliy and Allen’s blog will have multiple daily posts with videos and photos (done by their handlers, they are too busy mushing): http://spkenneldoglog.blogspot.com/ Two years ago Aliy mounted a gopro camera on her sled for the Ceremonial Start for a you-are-there kinda feel.
Between Trump rallies and Iditarod, I may have to give up sleeping!
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Aliy looked great at the start. The announcer said her bib number, #13, is the luckiest in the Iditarod; more winners have worn #13 than any other number. Go Aliy!
And small correction: Aliy has finished 2nd in 3 previous Iditarods, 2012, 2013, and 2014. Last year she finished 5th.
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Best of luck!
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My now-defunct blog, Tundra Medicine Dreams, has lots of dog mushing posts like this:
http://www.tundramedicinedreams.blogspot.com/2009/01/dog-mushing-season-in-full-swing.html
and this:
http://www.tundramedicinedreams.blogspot.com/2006/05/dog-mushing-and-ice-fishing.html
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Online streaming from the main Iditarod channel in Anchorage:
http://www.ktva.com/stream/
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Go Aly, Go Hounds,
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ALIY!!!
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Dear Tundra – thanks for the reminder! I’ll put up my old post about the Iditarod, and you can provide updates, if you don’t mind doing that.
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Idiots on Facebook, including Dave Perkins, are saying that Trump “threatened” voters when he joked around at the rally today, and asked people to take a pledge to vote (even if there is a hurricane) and to vote for Donald J. Trump.
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As a person who has more than once been misunderstood because of my sense of humor, I really wish people could realize his type of humor.
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I pointed out, many times, that it is just a variation of the “get out and vote” closing at every rally, but some people need to make a mountain out of a molehill.
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Yeah, on purpose. 😦
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I went to make a goat check and my daughter was out doing the same. We looked in the chicken barn as we walked by and she started laughing saying our chickens had their own gangs that they peeped up with, most peep up by color. She pointed out the black chickens and I told her they have one white hen who runs with them. She said, “yeah that’s because she’s the Black Lives Matter chick who doesn’t know she’s a cracker.”
I about fell down laughing. Who says you can’t have fun on Saturday night sitting at home. lol
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How are the babies doing?
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We’re up to 7 babies, 2 boys, 5 girls. They’re being annoying this year, usually once they start they all go, but not this year, they’re going 2 a day and then waiting two days. 3 of the does have had twins and one doe had a single.
They were all out playing together today jumping on old tires we have out there for them.
The baby is loving them, they kept coming up to him this afternoon trying to nurse on him. He was in goat baby heaven.
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Sweet! Must be fun to watch.
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Very much so. I think he’s making me younger by making me increase my energy level. lol
I know he’s for sure helping my stress level.
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😀
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From instapundit, and our friend (WeeWeed and Tex) Tom Lipscomb:
BILL MOYERS HAS A SAD: What Happens to Journalists When No One Wants to Print Their Words Anymore? Moyers, of course, was always a political operative, sometimes with a byline. And that gets to this comment from Thomas Lipscomb that I saw on Facebook:
When reporters become “journalists” they ignore the market which sustains their economic model and start worrying about their peers in the business and handing one another awards and citations. And the journalists being hired out of the hothouses of American academia today are so deracinated from the market they need to serve that it became chic to have contempt for it as a great mob of the unwashed clinging to its guns and bibles. No more uncredentialed rough-hewn geniuses need apply these days.
And the vital information the mass market used to expect from its newspapers, like the make up of the rioting teenaged crowd that trashed a shopping center yesterday, was carefully kept out of the paper as being possibly “divisive.” This makes it impossible to calculate degrees of shopping risk, so retail sales and advertising dives and Amazon, which doesn’t advertise, thrives.
In fact a lot of the stuff the mass market wants to see in the paper, as we know from a century’s worth of market research has been pruned by elitists wanting to elevate the tone. This isn’t surprising since more than 90% of people in the business are so far left politically from at least 50% of their market that the notion of balanced press coverage today is a bad joke.
Alas, the only award that counts is circulation. Pulitzer, Hearst, and Edward Bernays all understood this.
So now the “journalists” finally have the papers that cater to THEIR tastes and there just aren’t enough journalists buying newspapers to support the new business model.
Exeunt omnes pursued by a bear market.
Who could have seen this coming?
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