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I was reading that they would have to change Rule 40 in order to do this, but as they all had a big get together along with Tech Giants to stop Trump I’m sure that is in the works.
A list of some of the names who attended:
Apple CEO Tim Cook
Google co-founder Larry Page
Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker
Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
House Speaker Paul Ryan
Senator Tom Cotton(This one surprised me)
Senator Cory Gardner
Senator Tim Scott
Senator Rob Portman
Senator Ben Sasse
Rep Fred Upton
Rep Kevin Brady
Rep Kevin McCarthy
Rep Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Rep Tom Price
Rep Jeb Hensarling
Rep Diane Black
Karl Rove
Billionaire GOP donor Philip Anschutz
Dem Rep John Delaney
The New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger
Bill Kristol
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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/top-tech-giants-gop-elites-mcconnell-paul-ryan-meet-at-secret-meeting-on-how-to-stop-trump/
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Since this is all over the news, it isn’t so SECRET anymore. 🙄
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One good thing about the internet is it makes it harder for them hide anymore.
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Watch, they will tell us that their meeting had absolutely nothing to do with the election. Probably talking floral arrangements.
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grrrrr.
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Get the whip out MAmaTea!!! You and I have some work too do!!
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What kind of eggs are those? I mean, what kind of bird laid them? [DO NOT say “a female bird”, nyet.]
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A barn swallow.
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Thank you, stella.
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I really like the nest picture. Nests with eggs always remind me of hope.
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I wasn’t going to say that at all…
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😀
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platypus…._really?_
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nyet, your reputation precedes you! {he, he!}
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We’re on to him over here.
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This may have been posted already, but bears repeating. Well stated:
An Open Letter to the Conservative Media Explaining Why I Have Left the Movement
https://ricochet.com/an-open-letter-to-the-conservative-media-explaining-why-i-have-left-the-movement/
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Sounds like me too. They are endless losers.
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Best one yet Mary. It’s a very good statement. I admire the few proud people who are still able to use logic in their thinking, and have the communication skills to present the conclusions well.
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Thank you Mary. The same message the 80 year old sent.
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Thank you Mary that was a refreshing read. Spot on!
From the article;
Donald Trump is the only Republican candidate who seems to have any inclination to act strictly in America’s interest.
I am sorry but the “we are just one more Republican victory from small government” card is maxed out.
Those two sentences sum it all up perfectly.
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As I mentioned before, Bernie’s campaign headquarters in Seattle is only a couple of blocks from me. I have to pass by to get to one of the grocery stores. I almost stopped to take a photo of the hobos camping in nearby doorways. The socialists utopia here. Lot of free stuff. Lots of extra voters.
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I remember seeing that in downtown L.A. back in the 1980’s. The almost bloodless face of a derelict sleeping in the gutter (literally) in broad daylight on a busy street. I couldn’t believe it.
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It’s gotten worse here since OWS.
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Nye, call your local ward/council person, tell them too come down here and pick their voters up.
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I saw a funny picture on FB, a Bernie sign ripped in half on the side that had been ripped away was a note that said: “I took half of your sign because you had one and I didn’t. I’m sure you will understand.”
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That is so good. LOL
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Great idea but they should have taken the top half 🙂 .
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Hacker ‘Guccifer,’ who uncovered Clinton’s private emails, to be extradited to US
https://www.rt.com/usa/334846-romanian-hacker-guccifer-extradition/
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Do you really think,,, he’ll make the trip?
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Maybe halfway?
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Good night/good morning to all–with God’s blessings on a new day!
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Mary, ………
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Good morning. Freshly ground, aromatic and delicious. This is the day the Lord has made, and He provides coffee. It’s a good start.
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Excellent!
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Morning Stella.
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Morning menagerie, great coffee. Thank you.
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http://media.y8.com/system/contents/13365/original/Falling_Obama.swf
Have fun with this toy! If he gets stuck, just click on him and move him around. I like banging his head into the “hopey-changey” balls!
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When this first came out I remember playing it for I don’t know how long. I especially liked having him fall and get his head caught. 👿
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Classic Daiquiri)
(Jack Daniels)
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(Roy Rogers)
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Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
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Breakfast!
Cinnamon rolls for coffee!
⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol
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Mornin!
What’s that white goop, whipped cream, sour cream? Could you scrape it off please? lol
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Me too! I can’t eat all of that dairy without dire consequences.
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I can eat dairy, but it doesn’t look very appetizing.
I only like whipped cream on sweet stuff like pies and fruit and sour cream is for baked potatoes and Mexican food. 🙂
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I agree with the whipped cream on pancakes too. Only butter and maple syrup for me.
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Me too.
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I bet that is supposed to be whipped butter.
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Col. says it’s cream cheese.
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We have a winner. 😉
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I had never heard of stretched butter.
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Nye, outstanding, I’ll use the cream cheese, bagels are quick and easy to make……thank you…..
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That is cream cheese?
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Yes. Whipped.
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Morning Nyet,
Yes!!! If any leftovers, I’ll do seconds.
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FB is telling me it’s international women’s day, we have all these days for women, blacks(month), etc., is there a man’s day?
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You do know the whole international women’s day thing was invented by a couple of American school teachers, right?
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I just feel for men who happen to be white, it seems as if the world hates them.
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Good morning! Today is primary day for me, and I’ll run some errands, since I’ll be out already. Wish us luck here in Michigan. One thing is that we have the nicest day of the year so far, so people can’t use the weather as an excuse for not voting.
The dog is happy to go outside and sniff around. She found a rabbit in the backyard the other day, and when we still had snow, I could see that some little critter had taken shelter under my gas grill. The dog, of course, noticed it too. We always have squirrels; when the weather is fine the yard is usually lousy with them. I have also seen raccoons and opossums, but not often. Skunks are evident by the smell now and then, but I don’t think they are close (I hope not).
“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
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I always liked that TR quote. In a nation with a history of some fascinating characters, I’ve always thought he was one of the interesting ones.
Maybe that’s why Trump stands out, for all his supposed crudeness. Picture our past great statesmen, presidents, and patriots. Every one who comes to mind practically jumps out of history with the power of their personality and the force of their accomplishments. Yes, I know, time and legend have made them bigger than life, but to a man, and woman, they were imbued with that undaunted and in your face Americanism that the world hates and considers rude and crude.
There wasn’t a milk toast Harry Reid or John Boehner or Mitch McConnell among them. That’s because the world has a way of things going to hell in a hand basket, and we Americans have taken on the job of rescuing the rest of the world both financially and militarily. And they hate our brashness, our strength, our character, all while yelling for us to do more, get there faster, give more money, whatever.
I think we are exceptional. We are strong, we are principled, we are industrious, smart, curious, and we are survivors. We thrive best when we have a man who marches out in front of the world and declares the fight is on, and we are going to win!
I don’t mean we have to be in a war, I mean we thrive under strong leaders who tell us we have a tough battle ahead, but we are the best, and we’ll make it, and come out better. As a young woman I lived through some of those really tough times, with a young family, a hard working, tough minded, don’t ever quit husband. It sure gave us hope and courage to hear President Reagan tell us it was going to get worse before it got better, but that it would get better, to see him so full of confidence, pride, strength, faith and patriotism.
It is my belief that the Lord sends strong leaders to his people in times of crisis. I pray for such a leader to come. I will NOT pray that they be a specific person, just that they come, and we the people buckle down and get to work.
Those leaders aren’t always politicians, they don’t always hold government office, and sometimes they get killed or rejected for being just and righteous men and women. I guess I am thinking still of Bonhoeffer. Mother Teresa, whose order suffered a grievous loss recently. The men who died at the Alamo. The 21 Christian martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, along with the thousands of their brothers and sisters. Mother Cabrini famous in Chicago, but did good works all over the world. The men who ran that first dogsled race that would become the Iditarod, racing to save the lives of a whole town. Mother Cabrini used up her health in her works, the men in Alaska risked their very lives too. We get good outcomes, and we get not so good, but when a true leader arises, live or die, their life can never be stamped out, their contribution can never be erased.
Yes, I pray for a leader, for many leaders, servants of the people, to be sent, and for people to be ready to fight, because we do have a fight ahead. it will take all of us who are willing and able, because more than ever before, this time we have to fight our own countrymen. The real battle is against pride, sloth, gluttony, greed, lust, envy, wrath, which so many of our leaders embody, and which our society, somewhere along the line, decided to mostly succumb to, rather than fight.
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This is an excellent post, Menagerie. You should use it on Facebook too.
This kind of post is what I think of when I suggest that you should blog.
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I check FB for messages now, but I’m mostly abstaining during Lent. I have been thinking of blogging more, but sorting out where my focus might be. I am involved with the RCIA group at church, and thinking how adrift you are after you convert. I may combine that desire to have further faith and morals conversations with a desire to have a place for all to have some conversations across the lines of religions. Father Z manages to have a blog with a hefty religious bent and toss in his interests such as shooting, food, and travel too.
I’m thinking, wondering, and not wanting to sit and talk to myself. We shall see. Sometimes I think too much.
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Menagerie, I love your posts! And I wish you were involved with my RCIA group. I am finding it a somewhat frustrating experience. Our parish leadership (priests and deacon) are quite liberal. Contraception? No problem, you gotta do what you gotta do. Homosexuals? All are welcome, and we don’t want to make them uncomfortable by any rejection of sexual practices. Abortion? Well, we won’t talk about that. Social justice! Walls and borders are evil. Poor brown people deserve to be given everything, even if it destroys our culture to do so. We won’t talk about what the Church teaches, we’ll just talk about how we FEEL about what the Church teaches. There are no wrong answers, and all opinions are equally valid.
Fortunately my sponsor is a very strong Traditionally Catholic woman who is teaching me a lot. We meet weekly outside of RCIA class, and I am so thankful for her input. The priest banned her from attending RCIA with me because she asked too many pointed questions about why they were not teaching Church doctrine.
Bless you, Menagerie, and thank you for all you do.
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Tundra, my heart goes out to you. I think I might wither a lot if this were the only parish available to me. Faithful people like you can begin change at the basic level of the parish. Nope, I’m not advocating that a new convert go head to head with an established out of control priest, but I am saying stay strong in your practices, and keep the faith as your sponsor is teaching you.
Take heart. As Father Z likes to say, the biological solution will kick in sooner or later. We have a number of aging priests who are Vatican II era holdouts, but ah, the young ones, they are turning out to be a pretty traditional crop, for the most part. Many are coming out of seminaries able to say the Traditional Latin Mass, as well as the Novus Ordo, and they have a respect and reverence for beautiful liturgy and faithful teaching.
Someday you may have to make a small stand, if it is about a crucial matter. Don’t fear, do what you know is right. I once had a priest tell me in confession that I just needed to pick one sin and confess that. Knowing that this was wrong, wrong, wrong, and wanting to complete the Sacrament and make a valid confession, I just kept going in spite of him. After all, I was talking to Jesus, not him. His role was supposed to be to act as a vessel for Jesus, in persona Christi. The fact that he wasn’t very good at it didn’t negate the sacrament, nor did it interfere with the absolution.
I’ll be praying for you, and rejoicing with you as we approach Easter and your entry into the Church.
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What a lovely response. 🙂
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Thank you. I love Father Z’s blog. My sponsor turned me on to it a few weeks ago. And I shared Ann Barnhardt with her.
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Hear, hear! I agree with EVERY word you said.
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Good morning Stella 🙂
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Good afternoon Stella, I have my fingers crossed.
Our cats have been dragging up a lot of baby rabbits and one of our dogs loves to kill squirrels.
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I voted, and got my sticker! There were almost 400 voters by 2:30 pm when I cast my vote. It doesn’t sound like much, but probably five times the normal turnout for a primary.
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You should have seen the restaurant today. We’re right next to city hall, so we were completely full until an hour before close. One cook was sick and had to leave, so the owner was working the line when I came in to tackle the crazy amount of dishes.
And we only had two servers. One of those “fun” days.
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Investigation into LaVoy Finicum death concludes, results to be released Tuesday
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/03/investigation_into_lavoy_finic.html
Officials will announce Tuesday whether state troopers were justified in fatally shooting Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, a leader of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation.
Finicum, 54, was killed as police tried to arrest key figures in the refuge takeover. His death on Jan. 26 spurred claims that police acted without provocation, with some labeling his death a murder. The FBI has said Finicum was shot after he tried to elude police and reached for a gun.
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I’d be shocked if they didn’t rule it justified regardless of what truly happened.
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That is exactly what I expect to happen.
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It seems the Feebies forgot to mention that they shot at LaVoy’s vehicle.
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/03/oregon_standoff_fbi_lie_uncove.html
Bullet hole on LaVoy Finicum’s truck traced to elite FBI team
The fourth round, police concluded, was fired by an FBI agent who subsequently twice denied to investigators ever firing his gun. As the investigation proceeded, detectives determined he also fired a second time, but didn’t hit anything at the scene.
Did they really think they could hide this, cover it up? To what end any shots fired were going to be deemed justifiable.
SMDH
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Lovely, I know and respect your position on this subject and I share your opinion. Now let me tell you about Combat shooting. I could use a personal experience, I won’t due too the tragedy that our unit suffered. After I had recovered from my physical wounds, and returned to my unit, the medic who provided combat first aid to my wounds said: ” you were pulling the trigger on an empty chamber, do you remember that”? Don’t remember a Damm thing about that 3 hour fire fight in broad daylight. Even too this day can’t remember.
My point; sometimes people black out, and my story is not an excuse for this agents conduct.
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I believe that Col. and thank you for your sacrifice I imagine whatever the experience was, was terrible and I know the human brain does gymnastics to protect itself.
I don’t know what happened here as to the agent who said he didn’t shoot but he actually did shoot. It could have been a traumatic experience that he blocked out, it doesn’t read like that to me.
I respect your opinion Col. and I have nothing to personally draw from. This was an elite team not regular agents, they knew LaVoy would likely die in his boots, so I don’t know that I can buy that he didn’t realize that he had fired his gun. that said the agent had to know if he did fire his gun that it would be discovered so it makes no sense to lie.
It is a very frustrating situation.
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Lovely I do share your frustration, the BLM should be eliminated, and the States take the responsibility. More local control is what is needed. Our voices will be heard, under a Trump administration………..
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Amen Col. (R) Ken 🙂
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No, but something to consider.
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Mornin’ kids!
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hiya Wee. I kinda do hope I’m a pain in somebody’s butt if I have to stick around and be really old. :D:
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Dadgummit. Messed up my smiley. Couldn’t choose between wink and grin, got neither. Oh well!
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I was going to point out you’re drooling, but I guess that explains it.
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You are too kind nyet.
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Of course! It’s international women’s day.
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Good afternoon Wee!
I tell my kids all the time they best not stick me in a nursing home, my youngest son says he ain’t wiping my butt and I tell him I wiped his. 🙂
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Afternoon Michelle!
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LOL
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MamaTEA!!! You have stop posting picture(s) of yourself!!!
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Because I love the title of this article. 😀
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/hillary_to_lose_the_fbi_primary.html
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Bingo!! The only remaining question is, who going too share her cell at Leavenworth!!!!!
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Huma
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I posted this on the OT next door, and am posting here too. Apologies to those of you who read both places. I’m desperate.
Need dog advice, if anyone has experience. Last summer we inherited a German Shepherd, supposed to be temporary, but it may be long term. She had a rough year or two, and we love her, and felt sorry for her. And yeah, we are dog people. We have never had this breed before, and are having difficulty. I’m no dog whisperer, just a dog lover.
She barks all night. I prefer to keep the big dogs outside, except in the cold of winter. We live out in the woods, and this is apparently too much stimulation for her. Even when I give in and bring her in, she won’t sleep. She prowls around the house all night. We have tried three different prescriptions from her vet, as well as Benadryl. Nothing works, even at max dosage. Any tips? This dog doesn’t need to go back to her owner yet, they have nowhere for her to run, but we can’t keep living without sleep. Our labs and retrievers have only occasionally wanted to run and chase critters at night, and they respond to being yelled at.
Yona, the shepherd, is not dominant at all, and will come back to the porch and slink into her bed for an hour or two when we call her, but she always goes back to barking. Starts at dusk and continues until dawn.
Any suggestions? How do I get her to sleep, or at least not bark? Like I said, if possible, I’d like to keep her an outside dog most of the year, and she has excellent accommodations outside. But it doesn’t matter, she won’t sleep inside either.
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The only thing I have to add, is that she is probably bothered by sounds she isn’t used to. My dog can be a barker. The apartment next door was empty for several months and then a family with two boys moved in. She was hysterical until she got used to them. She has calmed down now. The bad news is, it might take 2 to 6 months for her to acclimate. 😦 And, maybe she misses her family.
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If you see czar this a.m. – ask him. He’s had them through the years.
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Hi Menagerie, I have a nervous wreck of a dog, a seven pound Italian Greyhound, she is a house dog so I don’t have to deal with the exhilarating outdoors all night but I do have a couple of tips. I use some variation of all of the below.
Have you tried a Thunder Coat? it helps my dog to calm down. I would put this on him at night so the pressure (security) isn’t something he gets used to and then it loses its power.
http://www.thundershirt.com
If she isn’t aggressive with the other dogs over food I would give her a large bone at nighttime just before you go to bed, between the Thunder Coat, the valium and the bone it may be enough to lull her into a restful enough state that she isn’t on high alert all night.
Valium at night. (Maybe you already tried this but possibly it will help with as part of the nighttime routine rather than a stand alone solution.) Dramamine also works well with many dogs.
There is also another step you can take but it would require staying up all night for a night or two and your dog may or may not be responsive. As soon as she barks use something loud, (air horn, aluminum can with rocks in it, or other such thing and startle her. Repeat all night long.
I have a good friend who is a dog trainer so I’ll ask her for some tips.
Sleeplessness is impossible to deal with so I hope you can get her settled. It sounds like she gets plenty of running around time in the daytime so she is most likely guarding and not working off excessive energy. Likely she is from a line of guard/working dogs and is running on instinct, it is impossible to train that out of her but hopefully you can get the night time settled down.
How old is she? Good luck.
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Thanks lovely. She’s six or seven, I can’t remember which, but not a young dog. She looks and acts much younger than she is. I got some good tips today, I’m hoping we can begin to get her on track.
We both need sleep, but my poor husband gets up at 4 in the morning. Not being spring chickens, it’s hard to do if she barks all night. I told someone today we feel like the parents of a colicky baby who haven’t slept I months.
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I think the crating advice is likely your best bet, she may think that her area is “secure” because it is so small and settle in to sleeping at night.
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Once I understood crating, I became a big proponent. I don’t usually crate my dog these days, but I do in the car on long road trips. It’s a secure space.
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I got two 5 wk old lab puppies that had been abandoned in the woods. I crated them together in a very large crate. Years later when we had moved and had no need for the crate for a long time and the dogs were full grown, 85 lbs, I needed to separate one from the other dogs. I got the crate out, wondering how I would get her to go in it. I let the dogs in the house and when she saw the crate, she ran right into it and laid down like she was home again. She loved it. She seemed so pleased.
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It’s also the easiest way to housebreak a puppy. I’ve had a few over the years who would potty in their crate and those ended up outside dogs because there was no breaking them, but 98% of them were pretty much housebroke within a few weeks.
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A friend uses this and says it works really well. It helps because it has the smell or something like that which reminds the dog of their mother, or some such deal. I also have used the thunder shirt when she gets upset when the maintenance guys come in. It seems to really help her.
http://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcostore/dog/dog-health-and-wellness/dog-calming-aids/comfort-zone-diffuser-with-dap-for-dogs
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Thanks, I put that on my wish list in case I do need to try it! Appreciate the tips!
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Our Newfoundland used to bark like that, his problem was because our guardian dogs patrol the property barking and he thought he needed to bark except he did it right outside our room at night. We would bring him inside and then he’d just howl and paw at the door all night.
So we started putting him in an ex-large kennel at night in our utility room and would cover it with a blanket. It took about a week for him to understand why he was being locked up, but now he only barks if there is something to bark at.
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Thanks! I may try this, Michellc.
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Giuliani endorses Trump.
https://twitter.com/RealRudyGiulian/status/707245778612396033
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Yaaaaaaay! Good get!
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Jeb Bush’s brother joins Cruz finance team
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/fundraising/272226-jeb-bushs-brother-joins-cruz-finance-team
Neil Bush, son of former President George H.W. Bush and brother of former President George W. Bush and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, is joining Cruz’s national finance team, the campaign said Tuesday.
Neil Bush and his wife, Maria, were among the 13 new additions to the team the campaign announced in a news release.
SMH
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I wonder how long before he accepts the endorsement of the Bush family?
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just unmasking.
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Did you hear of any shenanigans in your neck of the woods?
I kept hearing about Cruz voters showing up on buses, voting with campaign shirts on and standing outside telling people to vote for Cruz and that Trump was a registered Democrat up until this year or that Trump was for amnesty.
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I was surprised that there was nobody outside the polling place from any party, but maybe they’ll be there for the after work crowd. There were signs designating a line beyond which they may not campaign.
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The good thing about my polling place is they can’t campaign legally because to stay within the law they’d be in the cow pasture across the road. lol
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No. But I vote in and primarily “worked” the 4th Congressional district. That’s is where the majority of Trump’s support was.
I did hear about problems in Texas though.
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Mine is out in the sticks so nothing ever goes on, but I’ve heard the stories about some of the surrounding counties.
I’ve been told it has been reported but I doubt anyone looks into it and even if they did, if it happened, the damage has already been done.
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If it’s reported (with specifics of course) to True the Vote, they are investigating all potential shenanigans. (They now even have an app for the iphone, which I don’t have, to report immediately the situation.) I wonder if that app would work on my kindle.
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I listed it on my True The Vote post the other day.
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I’ll pass that info on.
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September 22, 1990
FTA:
“Federal regulators today sued Neil M. Bush, the President’s son, and other directors, officers and lawyers of a defunct Denver savings and loan association, saying their ”gross negligence” had led to a collapse that could cost taxpayers more than $1 billion.”
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I remember that.
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Uh huh! Pulled from my archives. There’s evil in that fam. dating back before Poppy Bush.
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This was part of the ‘domino effect’ following the crash of Penn Square bank. I remember it well. It caused the failure of a company I was working for at the time.
Seems to me, I vaguely remember reading something about a connection between Silverado people and John Hinkley, the little feller that took a shot a President Reagan.
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😯
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I remember that! You ought too talk too people from behind the former Iron Curtain.
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The unfortunate problem with waking America up.
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Y’all watch the rest of it for me – we’re flooding (rain, bad storms) and the electricity’s in ‘n out, so I’m out for the night. 😀
Send the Bat Signal if needed.
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Stay safe!
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Prayers for your safety WeeWeed! I’ll alert Alfred 🙂
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Stay safe and dry Weed. Take a little flask to bed with ya, you don’t have to get up for anything!
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{snicker}
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Stay safe Wee!
We just have the rain here, lots of it. Those dang rain dancers back during the drought danced too long or somethin’. I’ve had enough flooding.
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{sigh} All we have is sun.
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Yeah, but when you get rain – you get RAIN!
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True………..but we usually still have sun even then.. 🙄
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Hurricanes?
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Well, now, you WOULD bring that up. 🙄
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Just a quick note to say hi, Stella. Haven’t seen you at CTH for awhile and wanted to say hello.
Hope all is well.
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All is fine! Welcome to the party.
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Welcome Nightcrawler 🙂
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