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Love that bird’s color!
Aside: Trumpeter swans would have been an equally good choice for tonight’s picture.
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Yellow warbler.
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And a victory pose, too! Kudos for the find, stella.
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Beautiful 🙂
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Ok MaryfromMarin, here is your tea….
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And a pot full of more tea in the background!
TY, nyet… 😸
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That is SUPPOSED to be a grinning cat. Never mind…
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How about this instead:
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Is that carrot cake??
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Has a banana slice on top – maybe banana/pumpkin (which is delicious too).
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Looks like banana nut bread cooked in a round,
cake container; rather than a bread container.
Looks like a piece of walnut on top with the slice
of banana; not to be confused with something on
Ted Cruz’s lip during debate. Then, again, perhaps
this slice is reserved for Cruz, in a signature way. 😉
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Glad little ADHD pill popping Robo is out….. Thought Robo has dietetics. Unconfirmed diagnosis……
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No bacon?
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I ate it already.
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Is your keyboard all greasy now?
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Of course not. Bacon is finger-licking good.
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Grrrrrr….. 🙂
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But nyet said that tea-included meal was for me, ZM. Yours is below, as always–a plateful of bacon!
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Yes, saw that after my original reply. 😉
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‘Night Nyet. Had to.
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O/T–just liked it:
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LOL
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😀
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Blessings on everyone, this new day!
Coffee, tea, bacon, cinnamon rolls, and ALL THE REST, all around!
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Coffee gif
It’s a good morning!
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Ahhhh…. The smell of freshly ground gif first thing in the morning…..
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What are you doing up in the middle of the night? Envelopes don’t just stuff themselves!
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Lecture in England… yawn.
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I’d rather smell cordite,
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Morning Menagerie, need a few cups to keep going till noon. Thank you….
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Thank You, you make the best coffee . Good morning Everyone !
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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’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🌯 (It’s a bacon, not a burrito)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ taqiyyologist! 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka Cetera) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸
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! ⭐ (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, czarowniczy and F.D.R. in Hell!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Pastries for coffee!
⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol
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nyetneetot You have me so spoiled with these awesome breakfast. BACON !!!!!! 😀
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I’ll take the cheese danish!
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Me too.
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Mornin’!
I’ll just grab a muffin.
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Good morning Nyet 🙂 I had Lap Sang tea at the Russian Tea House in Chicago on Monday. Potato pancakes and homemade eclairs for desert, it almost held a candle to your breakfasts :). The host is a lovely man with a strong Russia accent, he asked me if I had Lap Sang before because it is “Very smokey.” 🙄
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So you stabbed him 37 times in the chest?!?! Oh! Oh, you said Monday! Never mind then.
Was it smokey?
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Smokey and very good, too rich for an very day tea but I drink it about once a week.
Did someone get stabbed 37 times in Chi town. Again!
Actually we went to the Hawks massacre ( 5 – 0 ), we always walk to get a taxi because there are just too many people around the stadium. We were about a block from the stadium when all hell broke loose, I still don’t know what happened but there must have been 10 police vehicles that descended on the area and that in and of it self may not be exceptional for a Monday night stroll in Chi Town, but the extraordinary thing was that the crowd was still very large and the PD vehicles came through with sirens wailing and didn’t slow down. It was the fastest I’ve ever seen them move in such a thick crowd.
Also Monday night 3 officers were shot in Chicago by a long rap sheet thug. Thankfully the officers are fine and the thug was DRT (Dead Right There).
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“Did someone get stabbed 37 times in Chi town. Again!”
Can’t take a little competition?
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So, everything worked out real well then.
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There’s nothing like the smell of victory, early spring, and your breakfast, Nyet! This feels like a good day, and I have needed one for a long time!
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Thank you for the BACON! Nice, thick slab — a slow frying till crispy and mmmmm . . . . .
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Bacon rampant in the top photo! (Good enough to be heraldry.)
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They are having community social meetings here in Seattle. And I quote, “Honestly, I get it. Change can be scary. Presidential elections are timely opportunities to drastically change the direction of our country – we’ve seen that the potential change in our president’s ideology, which could drive our country backward under the leadership of someone like Trump, is scary.”
A) I really need to move before they start dragging people out of their homes.
B) They can not be reasoned with because they think Trump” supporters are scary insane.
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Nye, thank you for breakfast! I would choose A. Move across the sound towards Canada or Alaska. Move now before these loyal subjects go full compliance and allegiance too their King……..
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Morning Nyet. Thanks for breakfast, love it.
Only scary if by you are against going back towards: rule of law, borders, common sense, sovereignity, voice of the people, reason, national interest, fair trade, not being “bought”, giving back to your country, protection, budgets, impartial media, truth….
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Mornin’ kids!
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed, good night!! Just in case our neighbor did not update the Helfires missile story, those missiles were inert. No live warhead, maybe limited tracking guidance capabilities……on another note, a nap is in my future, after I take delivery of fence posts/wire from Tractor Supply…….
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Afternoon Colonel!
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I’ve been reading election stories this morning and just shaking my head. Several are saying Trump voters and GOP voters are supporting his most “controversial policies.” Building a wall, deporting illegals and halting Muslim immigrants are considered “controversial.”
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Most I have seen this morning are the conspiracy theory type. “Trump is paving the way for Hillary” (why go to all that trouble and expense for something she could do on her own with the usual Republican candidates). “Trump is a friend and ally of George Soros”, etc etc.
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If he wanted Hillary as POTUS he could spend less money by just donating to her and save himself the trouble of putting his life in danger.
Hillary would have beat their chosen man Jeb as they knew very well. Cruz would have already been out of the race by now along with Kasich.
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Morning Stella!
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Overheard in Chi Town about Trump supporters while waiting for seating. “They were born without the compassion gene.” 🙄 so we started talking about the ills of Sharia Law and how people who supported unimpeded immigration of Muslims must not care about women, children or homosexuals.
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I have a lot of compassion for those who have lost their loved ones at the hands of Muslims and illegals.
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Same here, and for those young men/women who did 2-4 tours of duty in those hellholes.
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My nephew has never said a whole lot to me about his time over there, he’s talked to his Dad some about what he went through and his personal opinions.
The one thing he does say is that for him personally he views it as his country betraying him and those who willingly fought for their country when his country dumps the enemy at his door.
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There is no difference in what people believe and practice in the last 300+ years, it’s just the amount of people in one group or another that seems to have changed.
Since socialist have targeted getting into positions of influence for the last hundred years, commonsense is controversial. It’s just jaw dropping at times when you see everyone else in the room smile and nod in agreement. The only questions that are asked are within the confines of the premise.
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They’ve knocked common sense right out of kids in public school, that is how they’ve corrupted so many people.
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From what I read, the Prussians discovered by accident what happened when they tried to move teaching from the home to a nondenominational central location back in the 1700’s. It only lasted a few years originally before all the children were pulled out (the Catholics never agreed to let their children participate).
I don’t recall how much time passed before someone brought it back knowing exactly what it would do. But we modeled our public school system on it in the late 1870’s.
Common sense removal is one of the things public school was designed to do from the beginning.
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Please see my comment below. Thought I was replying to this one.
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That’s how people in herds behave.
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Gold star! Yes, they want us to be nothing but a herd.
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Trump confirms he is not doing the Fox News debate.
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Trump is speaking at Friends of Israel gathering…… Good for Trump……
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Fox News cancels GOP debate
after Donald Trump pulls out.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/16/media/donald-trump-republican-debate-fox/
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I posted it down below.
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LOL
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Actually, the interesting thing is that they didn’t actually cancel until after Kasich pulled out. Just think – Ted could have given a speech for two hours.
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I would like to know when this was actually put on the schedule. Trump said he hadn’t even been told about it at first.
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A couple of weeks ago (maybe only a week ago or so) I was looking for a schedule for the debates, to see if there were more. The only things I found were a Fox article from January, with a location but no details, and an article from Utah, where the governor said he thought the debate might be cancelled.
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The three in March (Detroit, Miami, and Salt Lake City) were added after the Trump Train picked up steam. Debates were supposed to be over by end of February — with Jeb’s coronation or something. The panic in the GOPe forced them to try three more “gotcha!| debates. I am glad Kasich all cancelled — can’t say it was just Trump!
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He could have read “Winners aren’t Losers” a dozen times.
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Your last sentence. Yes. That is driving me crazy. We let them redefine logic even. No one, except Trump and a few bloggers, interrupts and says the truth, the reality, is not contained in your statement. Few people will actually ever tell someone they are not telling the truth.
Three of the spiritual works of mercy:
To instruct the ignorant.
To counsel the doubtful.
To admonish sinners.
As I get older, I perceive that these are truly hard to do, and I wonder, is it harder now, in our society, or was it always so?
Now people feel entitled to be told that what bad things they want to do are good, and it seems that government is hell bent to make everything legal. God forbid that someone be offended by instruction, admonishment, counsel.
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Well heck nyet, this is, illogically, in the wrong place. It should be in response to your comment, dagnabbit.
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“As I get older, I perceive that these are truly hard to do, and I wonder, is it harder now, in our society, or was it always so? “
I think it’s always been this way. You can point to the bible, when Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt and they worshipped the Golden Calf.
If you’ve read the Annals by Tacitus, the mutiny on the frontiers after Augustus died started with the same styled arguments used by BGI, labor unions and the all the other groups today. “It doesn’t matter that I agreed to the length of service/wage/contract/student loan. Give me stuff or I’ll protest and revolt.”
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And the Romans suppressed those revolts.
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Yup. And Washington put down the attempts to have the French Revolution here. But we’ve progressed as humans beyond such methods now. Trump wants to take us back to the ancient and savage 1980’s.
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Which GOP Candidate is Anti-Gun, Pro-Amnesty and Pro-Common Core?
http://eaglerising.com/31486/which-gop-candidate-is-anti-gun-pro-amnesty-and-pro-common-core/
This is what I’d like to call a Public Service Announcement to Republicans in the primary states still waiting to vote. Of the four candidates left in the GOP field, which one is the only candidate who can say that they are: anti-gun, pro-amnesty and pro-Common Core?
If you answered Ohio Governor John Kasich (R-OH), you are correct!
The very funny and well-informed Tim Young recently released the personal, heartfelt note that President Bill Clinton once sent over to (then) Rep. John Kasich (R-OH). In the note he thanked Kasich for his support of the anti-liberty “Assault Weapons Ban” and acknowledged how Kasich’s willingness to join the Democrats was greatly appreciated. ….
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Fantastic!!! Kasich is campaigning for the GOPe watch who joins, or donates in the next couple of days…….
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Lest we forget.
The Clinton Body Count
Do a search on the page for the word “train”, and read each reference.
If only one tenth of what’s on the page is true, this couple is still murderous, and always has been.
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And, their closest friends are not exempt of the carnage.
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Certainly not.
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It is nothing short of bizarre that Hillary is even able to run for office.
Kafka bizarre.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., March 16, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – President Barack Obama plans to nominate Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, multiple sources have confirmed.
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He appeared on my television, and I first muted the sound, then changed the channel.
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Garland is anti-Heller, pro-gun control. McConnell has just said that they will not consider his nomination.
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I hope they stick with that decision.
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But, noooooooooooooooooooo……………
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/273250-gop-senators-break-with-party-on-scotus
The bastages are already lining up with their hands in the air. “Pick me! Pick me!!”
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😡 The infuriating dangerous hypocrites of the faux right.
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Watch the video at the link.
We choose the nominee, not the voters: Senior GOP official
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/16/we-choose-the-nominee-not-the-voters-senior-gop-official.html
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March 11, 2014
A Brokered GOP Convention in 2016?
There’s an overlooked RNC rule that could wreak havoc on the 2016 primary.
But not Curly Haugland, the 14-year committeeman from North Dakota. A staunch traditional conservative, Haugland knows the rule book better than many of his colleagues and is poised to use it to his advantage to empower delegates over primary voters in the next nominating process.
“Every primary, every caucus, will essentially be a beauty contest,” Haugland says of 2016. “Now, those results will be persuasive to delegates that go to the convention. But the delegates to the Republican convention are going to choose the next presidential nominee. Nobody will have the majority of delegates from eight states before the convention.”
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/03/11/a-brokered-gop-convention-in-2016
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Like I said, and many others too, this can only mean they throw their support to Hillary, because there is no way that a R candidate wins under these circumstances.
Further, unless my granddaughter ever runs for office as a Republican, I will never, as a matter of principle, cast a vote for one of them ever again, not even for damned dog catcher or Chief of Sanitation. I reserve the right to decide whether I’d support my little granddaughter. I might be so mad she’d still need to run Independent to get my vote, and that’ll theoretically be 20+ years from now.
I almost never even walk through a J.C. Penneys, due to them making me mad in the early 1980’s. I might hold a long grudge, but politically, the Republicans are on their last nine life with voters. They are not going to do this and bounce back.
I get the whole Uniparty idea, but don’t the Republicans need some kind of base to bring to the table? What am I missing?
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Not missing anything Menagerie, republican politicians stand to lose more f Trump is elected than they do of Hilary is elected. They will go all in for Hillary if Trump is not thwarted, some of them covertly and some of them overtly.
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I shared this on FB. Got a comment and a share in short order, and it was my cousin who shared it. She never ever posts political stuff. I hope it gets a lot of attention though lots of people sharing it. I also tweeted it.
This seems to be hitting a nerve with people who don’t normally pursue politics.
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A FB friend wrote this on FB in regards to this.
For 40+ years I have been a loyal Republican voter, over those years I have served as a delegate and I have served as a county and state GOP leader. I always believed I was voting for the party who put God first, then family and country, party was not on the list.
I need to take this time to apologize to some democrat family and friends who I have said many times over the years either had their heads buried in the sand or were asleep. I do not say that because I believe there is anything good that the democrat party stands for. I say that because although I’ve always been wide awake when it comes to seeing our country be destroyed, I had my eyes closed and couldn’t see my party was helping to destroy it.
I have my eyes wide open now. Hearing my party say that they choose our nominee not the party members, not Americans gave me the cold splash of water in my face to wake me up.
I am done with the Grand Old Party. I want nothing more to do with you and with what time I have left on this earth I will spend my money, my time, my blood, sweat and tears to destroy you. I’m starting now and I ask all of my family members, friends and acquaintances to leave this party. Please though wait to do so if you have not voted in your state’s primary yet and/or if your state is a closed primary. We need to do that to make them deny us our votes. When you have voted switch to independent, constitutional or whatever your state allows. We must send the message now that we are divorcing them, we no longer will be the battered and abused spouse.”
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Did you read SD’s post today about insurgency? Meaning, stay in the party and destroy it from within. I truly understand your friend’s point of view, though.
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I haven’t read it yet, but I believe this is going to run many people off.
This particular man isn’t lying when he says how involved with the party he has been. He’s actually being modest on his work for and in the party.
He’s not one who will even say who he supports in primary races. I’ve asked before and have always been told that the people will decide and the fight starts against the democrat.
I’ve only seen him post positive things about all the candidates except Jeb, but I’m not sure there was anything positive about Jeb. lol
That’s why I see this running a lot of people off, if you can turn him against the party, those who aren’t dyed in the wool GOP are going to leave a lot quicker.
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So today I’m taking a day off, to fix a friend’s malware-laden PC.
I’ve never, in my life, seen a PC this infected. This thing may belong in the Guiness Book of World Records. It’s a challenge. This is what happens when you give your 11-year old kid unfettered access to your computer for just two years.
Before I could start running scans, I had to stop about 100 malicious processes running in the background. This thing is a digital version of Crighton’s The Hot Zone. It’s got everything. Oy vey. It’s like a hooker, at whom you won’t even glance, lest you get something. Definitely not connecting this thing to my WIFI. Keyloggers, trojans, virii, adware, spyware, rootkits, and more.
Oh, my. MBAM has, so far, found over 4,000 bad things. And that’s climbing fast.
This thing is like a case study. A poster boy for what happens when you want free stuff, and you have little to no knowledge of what’s real and true on the web. Hint: System Healer isn’t a real program. Speed Booster isn’t a real program. Quit clicking “Yes, I wanna install your stuff for free!”
Nothing is free.
/rant off
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Sometimes it’s better to salvage what data you can, then reformat the hard drive and start from scratch. We often did that with employee infected laptops.
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I’m tempted to wipe and reinstall, after backing up.
If I only knew Win8, and if I only knew where all their photos are stored.
I used MBAM, and it found more than 5,700 pieces of malware, after a 2-hour scan. I clicked “delete all results”, it returned: “0 results deleted”. Malware has the ability to keep anti-malware programs from working. It has the ability to keep the user of the PC from even visiting anti-malware sites.
Then I used SpyBot Search&Destroy, and it deleted a lot of stuff.
So then I ran CCleaner’s registry (arcane stuff, right there) cleaner, and now I’m running CCleaner’s main program.
When it’s done, I’m going to run MBAM again. Then I have a few other tricks.
Reinstall is the “nukular” option, as Bush would say.
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See, I was present when this kid was brought home from the hospital, just born.
Now he’s an 11-y.o. nerd, with no knowledge of what he’s messing with.
Clicking “OK” on everything that says “FREE!”. Not good.
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Been there.
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Hm. Maybe his dad didn’t say “don’t do that” and mean it. SMH
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Are you running your anti-malware software from an independent platform – such as a memory stick?
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Like I said, this PC is NOT connected to the internet, and never will be, as long as it is in my care. (As far as I know. Crap, I should disable the network card. Malware gonna malware. I already covered the camera. Disabling wifi now.)
All on a thumb-drive, yes. A whole suite of programs that usually work, but not so much this week.
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Good afternoon! Well, it was a pretty good day yesterday. We may still see a recount in Missouri, although I don’t see the sense in it myself. Now we must concentrate on the run-up to the convention, and shining as much sunlight as possible on the crooks in the Republican Party who will attempt to appoint our next Presidential candidate. Yes, they may be following Party rules, but they change those rules to suit whatever scenario they like at any particular time (the voters be damned!), so none of them are to be trusted.
“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”
― John Adams, The Works Of John Adams, Second President Of The United States
“All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.”
― George Washington, First President Of The United States
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Excellent comments, both. As George said, we align ourselves with parties, but we really are just buying into what a few elite and powerful people are wanting us to believe in order that we cede our vote, our say, to them.
Being lazy, I believe most American voters want it that way. Otherwise it would be more work, more thinking, more responsibility. Most, I believe, don’t do too danged good with what little they already have. They don’t actually want more. They just want the government to give them more stuff.
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Some may be lazy, but it’s become habit to accept what you’ve been told by experts without question. A lot of it could just be unthinking trained action.
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I think it’s common to let down your usual wall of skepticism once you have come to trust an “expert”. Then it takes a large blooper or lie to get your attention.
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Well, I guess the Fox debate is cancelled, since Trump has said he will not be there ….
http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/16/media/donald-trump-republican-debate-fox/index.html
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They report that Kasich announced he wouldn’t be at the debate unless Trump was there.
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Because it isn’t about winning the nomination, for Kasich.
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Nassim Taleb: The Global Rebellion Against “No-Skin-in-the-Game” Insiders
What we are seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think…and 5) who to vote for.
http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/15/nassim-taleb-the-global-rebellion-agains
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This was written at the end of February, but is still very interesting, because it illustrates just who Ted Cruz really is:
Why I’m Not Voting for Ted Cruz
http://therealeducatedvoter.blogspot.com/2016/02/why-im-not-voting-for-ted-cruz.html?view=classic
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I cannot believe I was so fooled by this man.
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😦 Same here.
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You are in good company.
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I’ve been fooled a few times in my life, to my embarrassment, but never by Cruz. Or by Romney. Or by McCain. I learned that lesson, at least.
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The last time I was fooled in an election was when I voted Perot.
I thought he could speak dialectic to people who only understood rhetoric.
Whoops. Put away the charts, graphs, and logic and reason, and be like Trump.
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I didn’t vote for Perot, but he had some good points. Did you ever read the book, “On Wings of Eagles”? It was written by Ken Follett, but was about Perot’s men going into Iran to get their people out after the Shah has fallen.
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He had excellent points. I agree. He would have been a much bettter POTUS than Bush, because he was not GOPe, mostly.
What I didn’t understand at the time is that he couldn’t possibly WIN, because he didn’t speak the language the people understand: rhetoric.
He spoke dialectic, solely.
That would be like a Chinaman trying to explain himself to me, in Chinese.
Trump knows rhetoric, and dialectic, and when to use each.
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Taqi, you are so smart. 🙂
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As a doorman at a very pricey condo in Boston, on payday, I was approached by a couple of “youths”, as the MSM would put it, offering to sell me a stolen Handycam (VHS!), built-in screen and everything. They had it in a plastic store bag. “Lemme see it,” I say. They open the bag. I give them 80 dollars. I put it back in the employee locker room, and continue my shift.
Halfway through my shift, I begin questioning my decision.
Almost at the end of my shift, I was muttering curse words at myself.
At the end of the shift, I went and opened the box. It was a box wrapped in a newspaper ad for a Handycam, and it contained two red bricks.
I kept them for years. They were $80 bookends.
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I would cue up Won’t Get Fooled Again, but I’m not a big fan of The Who.
And I probably will, knowing me.
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I wasn’t really fooled by Romney, I just didn’t want Obama reelected so I tried to convince myself and others he might actually be a Conservative President.
So out of those three Cruz is the one who had me fooled.
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Frank Sinatra Jr. just died.
http://www.tmz.com/2016/03/16/frank-sinatra-jr-dies-death-heart-attack/
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That’s sad. And he was in the hospital when he had the heart attack.
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Very sad. I always think of him young since I haven’t seen any recent pictures.
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A similar bono vox, a chip off the old block.
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Via AoSHQ, those crazy cats, some Happy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCQ24gXfRrc
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I think I’ve heard it all now, kids in the hood gotta rob and steal so they can buy clothes for school, so don’t be shootin’ them, they have a bright future. SMH
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2016/03/11/teen-burglary-suspect-killed-homeowner/
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Yeah,………………………….I am NOT impressed. {spit}
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Turkey’s Erdogan Goes Full-Dictator: Designates Journalists And Teachers As “Terrorists”; Arrests Lawyers
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-16/turkeys-erdogan-goes-full-dictator-designates-journalists-and-teachers-terrorists-ar
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Oh dear.
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