And he is honest! I truly believe he means what he says and there IS hope.
Once he is elected and in office as President, it is not going to be easy and I do think it will take time to change or undo the past, but who is better? NO ONE.
Oops, I just rec’d my Stella Digest via email and see there is a caption “What’s so funny?” I’m having major browser probs. Hovering over photo doesn’t show anything. Love the photo. 😉
I chose all the photos for this week last Sunday. I probably should have chosen a Spring themed photo or, better, one for Palm Sunday, but for some reason I chose him/her. I’m glad you like it.
When you place your mouse
thingie (cursor) over the picture
and press the right button, you
should see a pop-up box. At
the bottom of the list is the
word Properties. Click on it
and you will see another
pop-up and at the top of the
listed info is the name of the
picture (whatssofunny.jpg?).
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem!
See, your king comes to you; righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
–Zechariah 9:9–
Oh, I know. I just can’t stand his style. The “Oh look at me, I’m the only one who brings this marvelous news to you.” gets old. The first few minutes of this video are all about him. Over it.
Takes 4 biscuits to get through breakfast: one with sausage gravy, one with red eye gravy, one with butter and homemade blackberry jam, one with butter and honey mixed together. Yeah, ’bout a thousand calories, then don’t move for an hour. But so good…what my granny called “country cookin’.”
I already ticked someone off this morning. He was fretting over the fighting at Trump rallies and how uncomfortable it makes him. I told him about the older man who had a Mexican flag put over his head by a younger guy and asked him if he thought people should just take that crap without fighting back?
He said that since people knew they were going to be there, it would be better if they just didn’t go to Trump rallies, all of this violence wasn’t good and makes him uncomfortable.
I told him so people should cower down to thugs and let them win? This coming from a man who talks big and tough about always having his gun and won’t take no s..t? It sounds like more than just liberal men have been neutered and asked him if he was going to force us women to do the dirty work?
That may not have been nice, but I’m getting pretty sick and tired of people whining about the violence when there has been less than a handful of Trump supporters who have committed any kind of violence against the thousands of thugs who are following Trump rallies. Have we become a country of pansies?
I think it was very telling that a black man decked that idiot yesterday. Probably was ticked off by the Trump image covered by the Confederate flag, and the KKK hood.
I’m just flabbergasted with all the people who has wanted a candidate who will fight are crying in a corner when they get one.
Men who always talk tough but now think people should cower in a corner and not upset the thugs.
I bet that hood covered idiot probably said something racist as well to the man. White liberals are the biggest racists there are, next to black thugs that is.
It’s the result of mimic behavior. People copy behavior of others without thinking about it. That includes the “talk tough”. When things actually happen, the real reaction comes out.
People are not taught to think. It’s why all television advertising focuses on emotional imagery.
I guess I’m the product of a different era or at least a different mindset. If I say I’m sick of wuss politicians I mean it and don’t look for a closet to hide in when one comes along.
I’ve been saying about the BLM for a long time people need to run their butts over when they block their way, so if people start doing it I’m not going to feel “uncomfortable.”
I’m old school, sometimes people get what they deserve and learn tough lessons and some people just need a good butt whipping to set them on the right path.
Maybe that’s why I hate commercials and rarely feel the urge to go buy what they’re selling?
“I’m old school, sometimes people get what they deserve and learn tough lessons and some people just need a good butt whipping to set them on the right path.”
The old SLMPD had a unique nightstick back in olden times. It was usually hickory, about 22 inches long, tapered with a thin iron band at one end. The sergeant’s stick was the same only it was about 30 inches long. (So he wouldn’t have to lean over. More below.)
I remember when I was a police cadet and assigned to the television unit as a cameraman. We where filming a training video with a visiting instructor from the LAPD, John Koga was his name if I recall correctly. Koga was showing new baton techniques and thought it appropriate to use one of the SLMPD sticks in the video. When one of the Academy instructors handed him one of our sticks, Koga took it, looked at for a few minutes with a puzzled look on his face and then said, This looks like a table leg.”
Koga asked why there was a metal band on the end and he was told to keep the stick from splitting. Koga just smiled, apparently assumed the wrong reason for the band. The nightstick goes back to the days when all officers walked a foot beat and the street curbs had metal caps. The supervisor would go to the officer’s beat and strike the metal curb a couple of times and await a reply from the beat officer. If the beat officer did not strike the curb in reply, the sergeant would go looking for him in the local saloons. Our old uniforms had white piping down the pants leg to help the sergeant spot his officers inside said saloon. 🙂
I couldn’t locate any photos of our old nightsticks, however the below photo is of a Mullamphy Street custom made stick, which is a fair representation. These were our of exotic woods and were usually given as retirement presents. However, the one in the photo was apparently carried on duty as evidenced by the rubber stop and leather thong.
For those interested, here is the link to the SLPVA page that has an excellent collections of photos of the PD and other interesting facts.
Morning Ms.WeeWeed! Chilly 41* with wind at 7 SSE, heavy overcast at 5k, scattered snow showers NO accumulation. Interesting tid bit of information, first day of winter local temperature was 62*, first day of spring local temperature is 40*. Attending feeder auctions yesterday. Working on selection later today.
Good morning! Today has significance for two main reasons – it is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Easter week, and it is the first day of Spring, sort of. Actually, the vernal equinox was late on March 19 in some of the world, but not until early today in the eastern time zone, and officially was 4:30 GMT on March 20, so let’s say that today is the first full day of Spring! It is celebrated throughout the world as a day of rebirth.
Easter, too, is a time of rebirth, so it is perhaps fitting that the first day of Spring and the first day of Easter week fall on the same day. It is the most important time in the Christian calendar, culminating in the celebration of Christ’s Resurrection.
On Palm Sunday, Jesus entered Jerusalem in a triumphal manner, as the Messiah, Christ the King, and was recognized by the people, who greeted him by waving palm branches and putting them in his path and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.”
Hark! how the children shrill and high
Hosanna cry,
Their joys provoke the distant sky,
Where thrones and sersaphims reply,
And their own angels shine and sing
In a bright ring:
Such young, sweet mirth
Makes heaven and earth
Join in a joyful symphony.
The delicate flowers are all up in arms once again in CA. A showing of the 1974 classic “Blazing Saddles” has their knickers all in a twist. Safe space, safe space, safe space. 😆 😆
Why don’t they all just rent a storage unit and huddle together in safety? I’d be happy.
If any of my sons ever asked for a “safe” place, think my husband would have probably shown them how dangerous the world can be, seeing as we worked hard to prepare them to be strong and face the world, and all it throws at you. All joking aside, a young man or woman like that would be a real disappointment in our family. Right up there with telling us they were atheist or Buddhist or Democrat.
I would look forward to their entry in the job market, and the real world, but something tells me they won’t be pulling their weight. Maybe they can all work for Google.
I once had a young man working for me who actually got mad as heck at me because, although I had told him he could take short smoke breaks, was upset at my definition of short. That and the fact that I wanted him at work on time, and would not allow him to work one handed while talking on his cell phone, caused a confrontation outside that the other workers on the job site quite enjoyed.
This was maybe seven years ago, I was paying him ten bucks an hour, though he was unskilled, teaching him my trade, and giving him a paid lunch break. A guy like this is usually destined for minimum wage.
Having been in management for some years, I can tell you I’d rather hire a 60 year old by far than a 20 year old. I really don’t think that companies who won’t hire seniors, or those approaching their fifties even, are making the best choice. There are good hard working young people out there, but your odds are higher with older people.
Also, Younger people, even college grads, show up in shorts, tees, jeans, and sometimes too revealing clothes on the girls. I consider that not only offensive, but bad judgement. I see no reason to hire people with bad judgement.
While I realize this might not go over well, my favorite part was when the guy was yellin’ “the sheriffs a n——“. Not because of the word or because I’m racist, it was just that you knew how they were going to react to that info when they got it and when they saw him and it just made it hilarious. Well, to me anyway.
I’ve been working closely on jobs with a person that is very intelligent, probably a Red Diaper, and we both know that I’m quite far to the right, and that red is his favorite color for a reason.
He has TDS, naturally. I told him I won’t argue with you, even though we dabble around the edges of political, religious, and societal discussion, because I know my arguments aren’t going to change your mind, and neither are yours going to change mine. I know this fact from years of experience. I told him a debate requires an audience, because of this fact. How many Lib-Con or Atheist-Christian debates have you ever watched where one debater changed the other debater’s mind, and he broke down crying, and said “OMG, I’ve been wrong all my life!”
Leftists believe that “Speech” is equal to “any action that is intended to convey a message from one to another”.
I told this guy today that speech is words either spoken or written, braille, or in rare cases American Sign Language, Semaphore, or that 80’s thing Stephen Hawking uses.
I said, “Blocking a highway isn’t speech, it’s preventing speech from being heard. Throwing a brick through a bank window isn’t speech. It’s Malicious Destruction of Property. Punching a rally-attendee in the melon isn’t speech, it’s Assault and Battery.”
As soon as I mentioned the bank window, he went on a crazy tangent about corporations being people or something.
I am not intelligent enough to convince him with dialectic. So I just drop seeds.
Life experience has to do it. Some have enough intelligence that real life knocks sense in them. Those who remain sheltered, for example in the hallowed halls of academia, are not going to be exposed to rationality much.
“This is completely inappropriate especially on the heels of St. Patrick’s Day this week,” shouted Nevada City community and chemtrail activist Sairhra Ramun out in front of the Del Oro Theater on Mill Street in Grass Valley. “It is simply not funny to make fun of people based on their heritage, skin color or their faith. This has no place in Nevada County. I have spoken with many of my Irish friends, and they do not find this funny in the least.”
First, what the heck is a “chemtrail activist”?
Second, I can’t imagine any Irish person being up in arms about Blazing Saddles.
I believe “chemtrail activist” are the ones that believe aircraft should be banned. I don’t know if it’s just jet aircraft or all, but supposedly it’s messing up the weather.
Nye, it’s that bad government putting a seed chemical in jet fuel, that is released during flight. And I always thought it was friction, air, speed, cooler temperatures at higher altitudes………. I was napping that day at fligh school…..hangover…..
The attempted stabbing is just a reminder. It’s a reminder that I don’t want to mess with the envelope arrangement, as well as not to leave the seat up in the bathroom.
What a great witness to what really happened. I am, however, dismayed that an obviously intelligent young man had the idea that he did about the people at Trump’s rallies before he actually went to one.
Or what their friends share with them. So many of the younger crowd don’t watch the news, don’t read the news and don’t search for news. All they know is what a friend shares on FB or Twitter or tells them they heard.
It was the 30 and under crowd, now I’m starting to see that being the case in many age groups.
Member of Soros Funded Group Culprit in Shutting Down AZ Highway
Jacinta Gonzalez is originally from Mexico. She is currently living and working in New Orleans. But she traveled to Arizona to protest the Trump rally. The 26-year-old is one of three protesters arrested yesterday for shutting down a highway in Arizona for two hours. Her actions blocked cars from getting to the Trump event in Fountain Hills.
Jacinta chained her neck to a van parked in the middle of the highway.
She is a lead organizer for a group called Congress of Day Laborers, and she is a Soros Justice Fellow. Her accomplishments in helping illegal alien day laborers is highlighted on the Soros funded, Open Society Foundation. Her legal status is unknown.
Washington Post: Growing Concern About FBI Sniper Actions In Oregon Standoff
The FBI team has been accused of firing at Finicum’s truck, failing to report their shots as required, and actually taking steps to cover their tracks by collecting their spent shell casings:
Last week, Deschutes County Sheriff Shane Nelson, who is overseeing the investigation, said he had concluded that “FBI HRT operators fired two shots as Mr. Finicum exited the truck, and one shot hit the truck.” Nelson accused the agents of failing to “disclose their shots to our investigators.”
The five FBI agents have denied firing assault rifles during the incident. But in a recently released interview, an Oregon State Police officer told investigators that he spotted two copper-colored rifle casings near the spot where the FBI agents were standing. The Hostage Rescue Team has used copper- colored casings, former agents said; the Oregon state police use only silver-colored casings. The copper casings were never recovered.
Meanwhile, the Portland Oregonian reported Tuesday that FBI surveillance video taken after the shooting shows the agents searching the area with flashlights and huddling. One of them then bends over twice and appears to be picking up something.
On Wednesday, a law enforcement official confirmed the video account. If allegations of a coverup are determined to be true, the incident would be hugely embarrassing to the FBI and deal a devastating blow to the FBI team’s reputation.
I think they meant to kill him all along. He made a lot of sense and actually had more people paying attention to him through the videos he was making than the Bundys. I’m not sure they meant for any of them to come out of that truck alive.
The sad thing is nothing will ever happen to them and it’s doubtful the Bundys and others will get a fair trial.
Yeah, I noticed the shift to TheOnecTrue Candidates, I posted two what I thought were sure to provoke comments Turkey pieces and …crickets chirping Trump Trump Trump
My vote would be “for” a Caturday this week, Holy Saturday notwithstanding. God created cats and humor; even in the midst of Holy Week, we can paws to remember all our many blessings.
But you’s the boss, stella. We can CATch up the next week.
Oh you guys are killing me, we ran out of ‘reply’ space. I was going to suggest that if we had any questions about the appropriateness of Caturday Saturday coming we change it to catechism…?
It was actually a cinnamon roll trail, as ZM was objecting to that so strongly. (A bacon trail would have worked better, but that would have caused an insurrection.)
It was rather mixed, actually, coming off my reading a reminder of how CA has been letting everyone who applies for a driver’s license fill out voter registration cards–which INCLUDES illegals. So countless CA illegals may be “eligible” to vote!!!
No doubt here heart, we watchin’ it and commenting on where the various scenes are being done. Czarina was in the city today checkng on the house but didn’t feel comfortable going without me and I didn’t feel comfortable going with the GGS.
Great grandson. This production may be considered a ‘parade’ for the sake of carryibg a concealed weapon and you can’t carry at or near a parade, We’d have to park/walk through a dicey area or two and I don’t feel comfortable doing that. Also don’t think he’d be able to hold up for the amount of time required.
I am about to give up on it altogether. Not my kind of thing. I had to turn the sound off on Judas, can’t stand the screaming and all the noise. Too modern for me.
I’ve always been a fan of how to present the message to a new generation in a context relevant to them. I remember when Superstar first came out, same message but different medium. I watched it as many times as I could, captivated, then – pow – twobyears later Godspell.
I don’t really get into the religious discussions as they are firlds of landmines but I believe that if the message were to be sent forward in the exact same form it originated we’d all be reading and speaking in Aramaic or Hebraic. Whatever it tales.
I think you are right. I just have a hard time transitioning, I think. I don’t like a lot of that music, either. I was horrified at the scenes where the police in riot gear took him away. Now all those criminals will have that vision to connect with, imagining themselves like Jesus or something ridiculous.
It looks like there are two main Presidential events tomorrow, both in the evening.
The Republican candidates will speak at AIPAC beginning at 5:00 pm. Those speaking are Cruz, Kasich, Trump, and Ryan(?????). If you are interested, Hillary Clinton is speaking tomorrow morning; the morning program begins at 8:00 am. Here’s the link for AIPAC: http://www.policyconference.org/
Starting at 8:00 pm, the Presidential candidates from both parties will participate in a CNN event, called the “CNN Presidential Forum”. It runs for three hours, from 8 to 11 pm, hosted by Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer.
OCD kicking in a bit here; just had to wrap up the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race for whoever’s interested. The last musher arrived in Nome just before midnight to claim her Red Lantern. She finished almost exactly 5 days after the winner. Here’s a brief piece about her: http://iditarod.com/eye-on-the-trail-helwig-earns-red-lantern/
The purse for this race is quite substantial. As the winner, Dallas Seavey will get $50,000 and a brand new Dodge Ram pick up truck. In 3rd place, Aliy Zirkle will get $45,000. In 5th place, Pete Kaiser will get $40,000. The payout goes all the way down to 30th place, who gets $2,000.
71 teams completed this year’s Iditarod, and 14 scratched or were withdrawn by the judges.
Congratulations to all the dogs and mushers out there for an outstanding effort. See you next year!
You can’t help but wonder if Aily would have won if that attack hadn’t happened. That had to have affected her at least a little. But, I am glad she came in at least third.
I wonder that too, USmom, and we’ll never know. Dallas beat her 3 other times when there was no attack. But I know that the Aliy I saw in short video clips after the attack was not the hard-fighting, highly competitive Aliy that I know. Something in her spirit was broken by that experience. Not permanently I think (hope), but it will take her some time and processing to get over what she went through. She truly and literally thought the man was trying to kill her and her dogs. There is a profound and devastating sense of personal violation in that. She is in my prayers going forward.
I certainly hope she gets over it, too. I can understand it affecting her deeply, though. To have an attack like that happen in the dark would be so terrifying.
I know this is nothing compared to the attack on Aliy but when I was in the 8th grade I was winning a race and the best friend of the girl in third place jumped out in front of me and immediately got back in line. It shocked me and made me hesitant for the rest of the race because I thought someone else was going to jump out in front of me. I lost the race.
Aliy experienced something truly heart stopping and dangerous and I think that makes you more hesitant for a while, not trusting what is around the corner. I will keep her in my prayers 3rd place. $45,000.00 is something to be proud of. Congratulations Aliy!
Tundra, I’ll be thinking of you this week, and praying for you. Many blessings to you this most special Holy Week. I’m sure you must be looking forward to Saturday.
Menagerie, thank you so much! I can’t tell you how much that means to me. I wish it were going to be this week, but alas it is not. There is a “third party issue” which must be cleared first, IYKWIMAITTYD. Hoping for April. It feels like an extra month of Lent.
Tundra I’m an adult convert to Catholicism, I can never be grateful enough for my RCIA instructor a practicing, faithful priest who was freshly ordained. He and I became very good friends and he became my sponsor and godfather. Coming from a lack of any Christian faith into the Church was a beautiful journey.
I had a problem with Mary due to my ignorance about church teachings. . I told my godfather that I didn’t understand why Catholics used Mary as an intercessory and he gave me a simple beautiful answer. Prayer and my godfather helped me to understand the beautiful path that Mary offers to all of us.
It is not necessary for us to seek God through Mary, just as it was not necessary for Christ to become incarnate through Mary, but if Jesus chose Mary’s flesh to take as his own, if Christ chose Mary as the vessel to come to us, one should hardly be dissuaded from using Mary in approaching Christ. I have always loved this answer.
And we don’t always pray through Mary, but some things you just want your Mother in on! I really love to pray the rosary for my family and my grandchildren. Other reasons too, but when my concerns for my family are pressing, I find great comfort in Mary.
lovely and Menagerie, thank you both for your comments. I, too, love your godfather’s explanation. The love and reverence that Catholics hold for Mary is something new to me as someone raised Protestant. It is wonderful. I love the feeling I have in saying the Hail Mary. It’s different from the Our Father, which I also love. Praying the rosary is a challenge for me just yet; I have the bones of it, but not the soul. Through Mary I feel more connected to my own dearly beloved mother who passed away about a year ago.
Tundra, try a rosary on YouTube. There are a gazillion, and you can find one that has the images that help you meditate. I like the Passion of the Christ one for the sorrowful mysteries. Also I often start the last decade, the crucifixion, by thing of the wounds on his head, hands, and feet for the first three, and repeating the seven last words for the last seven. Also, audible has a great recording that I use in the car.
Hope that helps.
I think I’m going to start a blog soon, a post RCIA and just general faith, religion, and whatever we feel like kind of place. Stella has been suggesting I should start a blog, and I’m feeling pretty excited about it.
Tundra, I will tell you what my godfather told me. Make your rosary intention that you develop a passionate love for the rosary.
I have a lovely rosary story.
John Vianney was known for his piousness and his generosity to both “saint” and “sinner. A woman who decided that she was counted as a saint came to him to recite the sins of some of the townswomen. She no sooner told him about a terrible deed that another woman committed than John Vianney said “That is terrible, let us pray for her and walk.”
He prayed the full 15 decade rosary and would not allow the woman to interrupt as he knew she was as concerned as he was for the soul of the woman of whom she spoke, and he did not want her to sin against charity.
They finished the decade and the saintly woman, none the wiser, recounted the sin of another woman, Vianney repeated the process 🙂 .
The woman never told him the sins of others again.
Amazing, less than two hours here and I get a whole basket of replies while nada on the Turkey posts at The Other Site all day. My head’s gonna swell so much that Trump hat will finally fit.
I was here early on for a few days and was so addicted to CTH that it was hard to break away, the limited actual and download time I had just helped glue me in place. I started noticing a slow change in the site’s tenor over time so when someone on the Treehouse mentioned SP1 I just thought I’d drop by and see what was on the stove.
Trump’s Secret – Why Trump Keeps Wining and Wining.!
What Makes America Great.!
Being Politically Incorrect
One World Government – New World Order NWO.
A New Real and Present Danger – Sharia Law.!
The Trump Train Is Moving and Building Up Power.
Still Report #713 – The Secret of Trump – Agility
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By TexasRanger on March 20, 2016 at 12:30 am
And he is honest! I truly believe he means what he says and there IS hope.
Once he is elected and in office as President, it is not going to be easy and I do think it will take time to change or undo the past, but who is better? NO ONE.
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By Margaret-Ann on March 20, 2016 at 12:46 am
Stella, very cute photo … but we need a caption from you why selected. Looks like the little guy is snickering. 🙂 Love it!
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By Margaret-Ann on March 20, 2016 at 12:52 am
Oops, I just rec’d my Stella Digest via email and see there is a caption “What’s so funny?” I’m having major browser probs. Hovering over photo doesn’t show anything. Love the photo. 😉
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By Margaret-Ann on March 20, 2016 at 2:45 am
I chose all the photos for this week last Sunday. I probably should have chosen a Spring themed photo or, better, one for Palm Sunday, but for some reason I chose him/her. I’m glad you like it.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 8:20 am
There’s no caption under mine. 😕
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 10:43 am
But, I do like it.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 10:44 am
Right click mouse
when over picture
for Properties and
you will see at top:
whatssofunny.jpg?
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By ImpeachEmAll on March 20, 2016 at 3:22 pm
I don’t get a properties, but no big deal. Now I know what the caption was.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 3:59 pm
When you place your mouse
thingie (cursor) over the picture
and press the right button, you
should see a pop-up box. At
the bottom of the list is the
word Properties. Click on it
and you will see another
pop-up and at the top of the
listed info is the name of the
picture (whatssofunny.jpg?).
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By ImpeachEmAll on March 20, 2016 at 6:22 pm
Not necessarily. This is what I see when I right click on that photo:
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 6:28 pm
Yep, that’s what I see.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 7:46 pm
In this case, I would select “view image info”.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 6:29 pm
Okay, see that.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 7:48 pm
Nope, not there.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 7:44 pm
What browser are you using?
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 8:02 pm
Never mind.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 8:06 pm
Firefox.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 8:11 pm
I figured it was either that, or Pale Moon (what I usually use).
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 8:13 pm
Palm Sunday: The Entry into Jerusalem [fresco by Giotto, in the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy, ca 1305]:
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 1:14 am
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem!
See, your king comes to you; righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
–Zechariah 9:9–
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 1:29 am
Hosanna! “Blessed is He who cometh in the Name of the LORD.”
–Psalm 118:26a–
Palm Sunday blessings to all.
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 1:54 am
Thank you Mary….
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 20, 2016 at 10:41 am
Breaking: New Trump Scandal, Devastating Info Released
This Is The Real Donald Trump.!
Does Donald Trump Really Want To Save America.?
Trump’s Friends Tell All – About Wreaking America….!
All The Threats and Plans Are Real and Trump’s Right Up Front.!
Can Donald Trump Save The United States and Make America Great Again.?
Infowars Video Mar-18-2016:
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By TexasRanger on March 20, 2016 at 1:17 am
I watched this the other day when it was released. I’m sorry – Alex Jones annoys me.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 8:22 am
I can’t listen to him either, but I do read some of his stuff and although some it is out there, he does get some right.
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 9:18 am
Oh, I know. I just can’t stand his style. The “Oh look at me, I’m the only one who brings this marvelous news to you.” gets old. The first few minutes of this video are all about him. Over it.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:42 am
That’s why I can’t listen to him, in addition I find his voice like nails on a chalkboard.
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 9:44 am
He makes me think he is yelling at me. 😦
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 10:46 am
I liked Levin before he went nuts, but I often found myself thinking the same about him.
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 11:40 am
He sounds like
he swallowed
more than one frog. 😉
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By ImpeachEmAll on March 20, 2016 at 3:26 pm
I wouldn’t kermit to that deduction
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 8:16 pm
Hey! HI!
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By nyetneetot on March 20, 2016 at 8:19 pm
I did think it was interesting to hear the opinions of people who have known him for so long.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 11:37 am
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 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’ Monroe! 🙂
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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By nyetneetot on March 20, 2016 at 7:50 am
Good morning Nyet! The breakfast spread looks wonderful 🙂
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By lovely on March 20, 2016 at 8:25 am
‘Morning, Lovely! 😉
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By Margaret-Ann on March 20, 2016 at 10:38 am
Afternoon Ms. Margaret-Ann 🙂
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By lovely on March 20, 2016 at 2:48 pm
Mornin’!
I’ll just take that biscuit with gravy and an extra bowl of gravy this morning to warm me up, it’s mid 20’s here this morning.
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 9:20 am
Good morning, Michelle! 🙂
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By Margaret-Ann on March 20, 2016 at 10:38 am
Good morning!
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 11:38 am
Ummm, gravy! In the South, gravy is a beverage. And I’m one of the GRITS: Girls Raised In The South, so I love me some gravy…and biscuits…and sausage…
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By The Tundra PA on March 20, 2016 at 8:10 pm
We woke up to a winter wonderland this morning, had 5″ of snow overnight. Fortunately the thermometer still reads +20.
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By The Tundra PA on March 20, 2016 at 8:13 pm
Breakfast just ain’t breakfast for me without gravy. I’ve never understood the purpose of making biscuits if you have no gravy to pour over them. lol
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 8:50 pm
Takes 4 biscuits to get through breakfast: one with sausage gravy, one with red eye gravy, one with butter and homemade blackberry jam, one with butter and honey mixed together. Yeah, ’bout a thousand calories, then don’t move for an hour. But so good…what my granny called “country cookin’.”
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By The Tundra PA on March 21, 2016 at 12:17 am
Nye, breakfast!!! I’m starving! I’ll grab a plate. Thank you Sir, thank you.
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 20, 2016 at 9:41 am
Good morning to you, Colonel! 😀
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By Margaret-Ann on March 20, 2016 at 10:40 am
⭐ Good Sunday morning, Nyet! ⭐
Your posting of breakfast (with listing) each day is so appreciated. Thank you. ♥
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By Margaret-Ann on March 20, 2016 at 10:17 am
Mornin’ Nyet. 🙂
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 10:47 am
Mornin’ y’all!
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By WeeWeed on March 20, 2016 at 8:36 am
Mornin’ Wee!
I already ticked someone off this morning. He was fretting over the fighting at Trump rallies and how uncomfortable it makes him. I told him about the older man who had a Mexican flag put over his head by a younger guy and asked him if he thought people should just take that crap without fighting back?
He said that since people knew they were going to be there, it would be better if they just didn’t go to Trump rallies, all of this violence wasn’t good and makes him uncomfortable.
I told him so people should cower down to thugs and let them win? This coming from a man who talks big and tough about always having his gun and won’t take no s..t? It sounds like more than just liberal men have been neutered and asked him if he was going to force us women to do the dirty work?
That may not have been nice, but I’m getting pretty sick and tired of people whining about the violence when there has been less than a handful of Trump supporters who have committed any kind of violence against the thousands of thugs who are following Trump rallies. Have we become a country of pansies?
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 9:35 am
Mornin’ Michelle!
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By WeeWeed on March 20, 2016 at 9:40 am
I think it was very telling that a black man decked that idiot yesterday. Probably was ticked off by the Trump image covered by the Confederate flag, and the KKK hood.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:45 am
I’m just flabbergasted with all the people who has wanted a candidate who will fight are crying in a corner when they get one.
Men who always talk tough but now think people should cower in a corner and not upset the thugs.
I bet that hood covered idiot probably said something racist as well to the man. White liberals are the biggest racists there are, next to black thugs that is.
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 9:50 am
It’s the result of mimic behavior. People copy behavior of others without thinking about it. That includes the “talk tough”. When things actually happen, the real reaction comes out.
People are not taught to think. It’s why all television advertising focuses on emotional imagery.
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By nyetneetot on March 20, 2016 at 10:08 am
I guess I’m the product of a different era or at least a different mindset. If I say I’m sick of wuss politicians I mean it and don’t look for a closet to hide in when one comes along.
I’ve been saying about the BLM for a long time people need to run their butts over when they block their way, so if people start doing it I’m not going to feel “uncomfortable.”
I’m old school, sometimes people get what they deserve and learn tough lessons and some people just need a good butt whipping to set them on the right path.
Maybe that’s why I hate commercials and rarely feel the urge to go buy what they’re selling?
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 10:26 am
“I’m old school, sometimes people get what they deserve and learn tough lessons and some people just need a good butt whipping to set them on the right path.”
I can testify to that. 😉
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By nyetneetot on March 20, 2016 at 10:38 am
I’m sure you can. 🙄
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 10:53 am
There was an old expression in the PD from the by gone days . “When the nightstick drops, the B___ S___ stops!”
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By oldiadguy on March 20, 2016 at 11:43 am
My DH says the billy club needs to be brought back and used.
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 11:45 am
The old SLMPD had a unique nightstick back in olden times. It was usually hickory, about 22 inches long, tapered with a thin iron band at one end. The sergeant’s stick was the same only it was about 30 inches long. (So he wouldn’t have to lean over. More below.)
I remember when I was a police cadet and assigned to the television unit as a cameraman. We where filming a training video with a visiting instructor from the LAPD, John Koga was his name if I recall correctly. Koga was showing new baton techniques and thought it appropriate to use one of the SLMPD sticks in the video. When one of the Academy instructors handed him one of our sticks, Koga took it, looked at for a few minutes with a puzzled look on his face and then said, This looks like a table leg.”
Koga asked why there was a metal band on the end and he was told to keep the stick from splitting. Koga just smiled, apparently assumed the wrong reason for the band. The nightstick goes back to the days when all officers walked a foot beat and the street curbs had metal caps. The supervisor would go to the officer’s beat and strike the metal curb a couple of times and await a reply from the beat officer. If the beat officer did not strike the curb in reply, the sergeant would go looking for him in the local saloons. Our old uniforms had white piping down the pants leg to help the sergeant spot his officers inside said saloon. 🙂
I couldn’t locate any photos of our old nightsticks, however the below photo is of a Mullamphy Street custom made stick, which is a fair representation. These were our of exotic woods and were usually given as retirement presents. However, the one in the photo was apparently carried on duty as evidenced by the rubber stop and leather thong.
For those interested, here is the link to the SLPVA page that has an excellent collections of photos of the PD and other interesting facts.
Take Care
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By oldiadguy on March 20, 2016 at 12:32 pm
Morning Ms.WeeWeed! Chilly 41* with wind at 7 SSE, heavy overcast at 5k, scattered snow showers NO accumulation. Interesting tid bit of information, first day of winter local temperature was 62*, first day of spring local temperature is 40*. Attending feeder auctions yesterday. Working on selection later today.
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 20, 2016 at 9:55 am
Mornin’ Colonel!
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By WeeWeed on March 20, 2016 at 10:00 am
Good morning, Wee! 🙂
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By Margaret-Ann on March 20, 2016 at 10:19 am
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann!
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By WeeWeed on March 20, 2016 at 10:31 am
Good morning. Palm Sunday, starting our Holy Week. Coffee for your Sunday morning.
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By Menagerie on March 20, 2016 at 8:49 am
Great minds think alike my friend. 😉
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By texan59 on March 20, 2016 at 9:11 am
Never too much coffee Tex!
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By Menagerie on March 20, 2016 at 9:14 am
Morning Menagerie, good coffee, thank you.
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 20, 2016 at 9:56 am
Good morning, Menagerie! Thank you. 🙂
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By Margaret-Ann on March 20, 2016 at 10:21 am
Mornin’ all on this brisk Palm Sunday. Coffee up y’all. Gonna need it til the sun rises up above the hill. 😯
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By texan59 on March 20, 2016 at 8:51 am
Morning Tex, good too see you back in the “Hill Country”. I do have fond memories of my time at Ft. Hood.
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 20, 2016 at 9:59 am
Good morning, Tex! Mucho gracias 🙂
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By Margaret-Ann on March 20, 2016 at 10:23 am
Good morning! Today has significance for two main reasons – it is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Easter week, and it is the first day of Spring, sort of. Actually, the vernal equinox was late on March 19 in some of the world, but not until early today in the eastern time zone, and officially was 4:30 GMT on March 20, so let’s say that today is the first full day of Spring! It is celebrated throughout the world as a day of rebirth.
Easter, too, is a time of rebirth, so it is perhaps fitting that the first day of Spring and the first day of Easter week fall on the same day. It is the most important time in the Christian calendar, culminating in the celebration of Christ’s Resurrection.
On Palm Sunday, Jesus entered Jerusalem in a triumphal manner, as the Messiah, Christ the King, and was recognized by the people, who greeted him by waving palm branches and putting them in his path and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.”
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 8:59 am
Palm Sunday
Hark! how the children shrill and high
Hosanna cry,
Their joys provoke the distant sky,
Where thrones and sersaphims reply,
And their own angels shine and sing
In a bright ring:
Such young, sweet mirth
Makes heaven and earth
Join in a joyful symphony.
Henry Vaughan 1622-1695
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:04 am
Good morning, Stella!
Blessings this Easter week and Happy Spring to ~All. 🙂
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By Margaret-Ann on March 20, 2016 at 10:26 am
Good morning Stella!
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 9:39 am
Morning Stella!
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 20, 2016 at 10:00 am
Seen on Facebook:
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:10 am
Best example I have seen.
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By Menagerie on March 20, 2016 at 9:16 am
I love roadrunner cartoons!
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By tessa50 on March 20, 2016 at 7:41 pm
The delicate flowers are all up in arms once again in CA. A showing of the 1974 classic “Blazing Saddles” has their knickers all in a twist. Safe space, safe space, safe space. 😆 😆
https://www.ncscooper.com/protests-break-out-over-proposed-blazing-saddles-showing/
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By texan59 on March 20, 2016 at 9:13 am
Why don’t they all just rent a storage unit and huddle together in safety? I’d be happy.
If any of my sons ever asked for a “safe” place, think my husband would have probably shown them how dangerous the world can be, seeing as we worked hard to prepare them to be strong and face the world, and all it throws at you. All joking aside, a young man or woman like that would be a real disappointment in our family. Right up there with telling us they were atheist or Buddhist or Democrat.
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By Menagerie on March 20, 2016 at 9:22 am
You know there’s not a space big enough for all these b*tt-hurt chirren’s. 😆 😉
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By texan59 on March 20, 2016 at 9:25 am
I would look forward to their entry in the job market, and the real world, but something tells me they won’t be pulling their weight. Maybe they can all work for Google.
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By Menagerie on March 20, 2016 at 9:29 am
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By WeeWeed on March 20, 2016 at 9:39 am
😯 😆 😆 😆
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By texan59 on March 20, 2016 at 9:44 am
And if that doesn’t work, I got some Horse liniment for those losers!
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 20, 2016 at 10:07 am
I once had a young man working for me who actually got mad as heck at me because, although I had told him he could take short smoke breaks, was upset at my definition of short. That and the fact that I wanted him at work on time, and would not allow him to work one handed while talking on his cell phone, caused a confrontation outside that the other workers on the job site quite enjoyed.
This was maybe seven years ago, I was paying him ten bucks an hour, though he was unskilled, teaching him my trade, and giving him a paid lunch break. A guy like this is usually destined for minimum wage.
Having been in management for some years, I can tell you I’d rather hire a 60 year old by far than a 20 year old. I really don’t think that companies who won’t hire seniors, or those approaching their fifties even, are making the best choice. There are good hard working young people out there, but your odds are higher with older people.
Also, Younger people, even college grads, show up in shorts, tees, jeans, and sometimes too revealing clothes on the girls. I consider that not only offensive, but bad judgement. I see no reason to hire people with bad judgement.
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By Menagerie on March 20, 2016 at 9:39 am
Hire a Veteran…..
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 20, 2016 at 10:09 am
I have, whenever possible, and so far never had a bad experience.
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By Menagerie on March 20, 2016 at 11:54 am
This topic is a blog by itself.
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By nyetneetot on March 20, 2016 at 10:16 am
Menagerie once wrote an excellent blog post on this subject for CTH.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 10:22 am
I think I remember that one,
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By nyetneetot on March 20, 2016 at 10:40 am
I ordered a copy of Blazing Saddles on Blu-Ray, so that I have a copy when it is finally banned.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:41 am
This is why I love to hang out with really smart people. 😉
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By texan59 on March 20, 2016 at 9:42 am
One of Mel Brooks funniest……….eating beans around the camp fire……
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 20, 2016 at 10:10 am
My husband and son both loved that scene best.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 11:02 am
While I realize this might not go over well, my favorite part was when the guy was yellin’ “the sheriffs a n——“. Not because of the word or because I’m racist, it was just that you knew how they were going to react to that info when they got it and when they saw him and it just made it hilarious. Well, to me anyway.
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By tessa50 on March 20, 2016 at 7:48 pm
That is mine, too. LOL It is especially funny because of the way he says it. With a question mark at the end.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 7:56 pm
I bought one years ago to make sure I had a copy that wasn’t bleeped.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 11:01 am
I watched it with my folks when I visited over Christmas.
One of Mel Brooks’ best movies? Inaccurate.
One of THE best movies.
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By taqiyyologist on March 20, 2016 at 2:10 pm
I say we all chip in and buy a deserted Island somewhere and send all those who need a safe place there to live.
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 9:41 am
Why not The South Pole? That I would chip in for, and generously.
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By Menagerie on March 20, 2016 at 9:55 am
That should suit them all just fine. After all, Antarctica is an international zone.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:57 am
With their level of reason, and intelligence, they would probably think they were going off to a South Pacific paradise.
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By Menagerie on March 20, 2016 at 9:59 am
Zing!
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By taqiyyologist on March 20, 2016 at 3:25 pm
How about a free one way trip to Mars……..
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 20, 2016 at 10:11 am
They say the same of us..
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By nyetneetot on March 20, 2016 at 10:19 am
I’m though perfectly content to live out here in the sticks and not be bothered and not bother anyone.
They want to bother everyone. They don’t want to live and let live, they want us to live their way.
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 10:29 am
The acronym that describes them most succinctly is SJW.
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By taqiyyologist on March 20, 2016 at 4:01 pm
Some do.
I’ve been working closely on jobs with a person that is very intelligent, probably a Red Diaper, and we both know that I’m quite far to the right, and that red is his favorite color for a reason.
He has TDS, naturally. I told him I won’t argue with you, even though we dabble around the edges of political, religious, and societal discussion, because I know my arguments aren’t going to change your mind, and neither are yours going to change mine. I know this fact from years of experience. I told him a debate requires an audience, because of this fact. How many Lib-Con or Atheist-Christian debates have you ever watched where one debater changed the other debater’s mind, and he broke down crying, and said “OMG, I’ve been wrong all my life!”
None.
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By taqiyyologist on March 20, 2016 at 3:33 pm
Leftists believe that “Speech” is equal to “any action that is intended to convey a message from one to another”.
I told this guy today that speech is words either spoken or written, braille, or in rare cases American Sign Language, Semaphore, or that 80’s thing Stephen Hawking uses.
I said, “Blocking a highway isn’t speech, it’s preventing speech from being heard. Throwing a brick through a bank window isn’t speech. It’s Malicious Destruction of Property. Punching a rally-attendee in the melon isn’t speech, it’s Assault and Battery.”
As soon as I mentioned the bank window, he went on a crazy tangent about corporations being people or something.
I am not intelligent enough to convince him with dialectic. So I just drop seeds.
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By taqiyyologist on March 20, 2016 at 3:41 pm
You know who also equates action (if intended to convey a message to someone) as speech?
Mass murderers and mass shooters.
They’re just trying to “send a message”, right?
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By taqiyyologist on March 20, 2016 at 3:59 pm
Life experience has to do it. Some have enough intelligence that real life knocks sense in them. Those who remain sheltered, for example in the hallowed halls of academia, are not going to be exposed to rationality much.
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By Menagerie on March 20, 2016 at 3:42 pm
“This is completely inappropriate especially on the heels of St. Patrick’s Day this week,” shouted Nevada City community and chemtrail activist Sairhra Ramun out in front of the Del Oro Theater on Mill Street in Grass Valley. “It is simply not funny to make fun of people based on their heritage, skin color or their faith. This has no place in Nevada County. I have spoken with many of my Irish friends, and they do not find this funny in the least.”
First, what the heck is a “chemtrail activist”?
Second, I can’t imagine any Irish person being up in arms about Blazing Saddles.
Third, Saint Patrick wasn’t Irish.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:53 am
ADD: I hope she holds her breath.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:55 am
I believe “chemtrail activist” are the ones that believe aircraft should be banned. I don’t know if it’s just jet aircraft or all, but supposedly it’s messing up the weather.
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By nyetneetot on March 20, 2016 at 10:22 am
Nye, it’s that bad government putting a seed chemical in jet fuel, that is released during flight. And I always thought it was friction, air, speed, cooler temperatures at higher altitudes………. I was napping that day at fligh school…..hangover…..
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 20, 2016 at 10:30 am
I love that movie. 😀
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 10:58 am
Inside “the Mind of a Leftist” from an insider. I think it captures is perfectly.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262160/mind-left-insider-michael-faraday
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By texan59 on March 20, 2016 at 9:35 am
It does explain why the useful idiots are always killed first in a leftist takeover…..
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By WeeWeed on March 20, 2016 at 9:48 am
Ya mean like the dude co worker in the first Diehard movie?
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By ctdar on March 20, 2016 at 10:54 pm
I traveled the world and did not find any form of communism that did not depend on capitalism to save it from collapse.
This one did open his eyes. Good read.
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By Menagerie on March 20, 2016 at 9:57 am
“I married a refugee and she tried to stab me.”
Pfffft! Welcome to the club. It’s like a daily thing, Suck it up.
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By nyetneetot on March 20, 2016 at 10:32 am
“Cupcake.” 😉
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By WeeWeed on March 20, 2016 at 11:07 am
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 2:52 pm
If the envelope that week was too thin, you mighta had it comin’.
Look, I know that when I walk too close to a wasp nest, and I get stung, that’s the case.
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By taqiyyologist on March 20, 2016 at 2:36 pm
The attempted stabbing is just a reminder. It’s a reminder that I don’t want to mess with the envelope arrangement, as well as not to leave the seat up in the bathroom.
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By nyetneetot on March 20, 2016 at 2:43 pm
😯 You have left the seat up! I am amazed you survived. 😡
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 3:02 pm
No. I’ve never left it up. I just get reminders to keep things the way they are…..
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By nyetneetot on March 20, 2016 at 3:12 pm
Oh.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 3:53 pm
I wish I could send that to everyone I know, but these folks wouldn’t read anything from THAT source. They’re immunized.
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By taqiyyologist on March 20, 2016 at 2:34 pm
Our favorite Sunday columnist takes on the “He-Man Trump Haters Club”. 🙂
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/3_19_2016_16_50.html
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By texan59 on March 20, 2016 at 9:41 am
Newt is like our Nye, “He Nails It”!!!!!
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 20, 2016 at 10:25 am
Well………….lookie here. A company in Canadia takes on the tree-huggers from Greenpeace. 😆
http://www.wsj.com/articles/pushing-back-against-progressive-bullies-1458342391
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By texan59 on March 20, 2016 at 10:25 am
😀 “Booger Lives Matter…….”
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/booger-lives-matter-protests.html
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By WeeWeed on March 20, 2016 at 11:08 am
Apropos of nothing, here’s Willie Booger. Epic blues jam.
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By taqiyyologist on March 20, 2016 at 2:45 pm
Willy, that is.
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By taqiyyologist on March 20, 2016 at 2:47 pm
Envy, get thee behind me!
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By taqiyyologist on March 20, 2016 at 4:27 pm
In memory of Joey Feek (posted by “Jill” on the CTH OT):
https://vimeo.com/158772658
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 11:15 am
African American Police Officer Talks About His Experience At Donald Trump’s Rally In Tucson, Arizona
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 12:32 pm
If anybody questions this video, here is another of him being interviewed by local television in Tucson. He used to play for the Arizona Wildcats!
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 12:39 pm
What a great witness to what really happened. I am, however, dismayed that an obviously intelligent young man had the idea that he did about the people at Trump’s rallies before he actually went to one.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 1:04 pm
For a lot of people, what they hear and see on “the news” is the truth.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 1:17 pm
Yes. 😦
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 1:54 pm
Or what their friends share with them. So many of the younger crowd don’t watch the news, don’t read the news and don’t search for news. All they know is what a friend shares on FB or Twitter or tells them they heard.
It was the 30 and under crowd, now I’m starting to see that being the case in many age groups.
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 9:44 pm
Good point.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:53 pm
Member of Soros Funded Group Culprit in Shutting Down AZ Highway
Jacinta Gonzalez is originally from Mexico. She is currently living and working in New Orleans. But she traveled to Arizona to protest the Trump rally. The 26-year-old is one of three protesters arrested yesterday for shutting down a highway in Arizona for two hours. Her actions blocked cars from getting to the Trump event in Fountain Hills.
Jacinta chained her neck to a van parked in the middle of the highway.
She is a lead organizer for a group called Congress of Day Laborers, and she is a Soros Justice Fellow. Her accomplishments in helping illegal alien day laborers is highlighted on the Soros funded, Open Society Foundation. Her legal status is unknown.
http://dennismichaellynch.com/member-of-soros-funded-group-culprit-in-shutting-down-az-highway/
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 4:33 pm
Wouldn’t doubt a connection with the GOPe. And I bet there are many.
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By taqiyyologist on March 20, 2016 at 4:42 pm
Probably here illegally and probably got a free ride to college.
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 9:49 pm
Latest on the LaVoy Finicum shooting:
Washington Post: Growing Concern About FBI Sniper Actions In Oregon Standoff
The FBI team has been accused of firing at Finicum’s truck, failing to report their shots as required, and actually taking steps to cover their tracks by collecting their spent shell casings:
Last week, Deschutes County Sheriff Shane Nelson, who is overseeing the investigation, said he had concluded that “FBI HRT operators fired two shots as Mr. Finicum exited the truck, and one shot hit the truck.” Nelson accused the agents of failing to “disclose their shots to our investigators.”
The five FBI agents have denied firing assault rifles during the incident. But in a recently released interview, an Oregon State Police officer told investigators that he spotted two copper-colored rifle casings near the spot where the FBI agents were standing. The Hostage Rescue Team has used copper- colored casings, former agents said; the Oregon state police use only silver-colored casings. The copper casings were never recovered.
Meanwhile, the Portland Oregonian reported Tuesday that FBI surveillance video taken after the shooting shows the agents searching the area with flashlights and huddling. One of them then bends over twice and appears to be picking up something.
On Wednesday, a law enforcement official confirmed the video account. If allegations of a coverup are determined to be true, the incident would be hugely embarrassing to the FBI and deal a devastating blow to the FBI team’s reputation.
There’s more ….
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/17/fbi-sniper-actions-in-oregon-standoff-questioned/
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 6:08 pm
I think they meant to kill him all along. He made a lot of sense and actually had more people paying attention to him through the videos he was making than the Bundys. I’m not sure they meant for any of them to come out of that truck alive.
The sad thing is nothing will ever happen to them and it’s doubtful the Bundys and others will get a fair trial.
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 9:58 pm
Wondered where everyboby was hangin’ out
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 7:19 pm
Hi, there!
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 7:20 pm
Would have posted sooner but scrolllllled thru slowly looking for he ‘Don’t you DARE post no political &@#* here’ warning.
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 7:24 pm
LOL
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By tessa50 on March 20, 2016 at 7:38 pm
Czar, I’m glad your here!!!
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 20, 2016 at 7:39 pm
Ninja pundit….I’m everywheeeeeeeere
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 8:18 pm
We don’t do that here – we’re still a small operation, so our General Discussion thread is simply that.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 7:41 pm
Ahhhhhh…so that’s in the future
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 8:19 pm
Ya never know when the living room might be overrun by barbarians.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 8:41 pm
Around here that’s called ‘Friday night’.
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 8:43 pm
The hangover part 12?
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By ctdar on March 20, 2016 at 11:00 pm
In our condition it’s fruitless trying to number them
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 11:02 pm
You vill like it, unt you vill obey!….. Hiya, Z! This is our “safe space.” (((sob….))) From all them eeeeevil Cruzbots……
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By WeeWeed on March 20, 2016 at 8:42 pm
Yeah, I noticed the shift to TheOnecTrue Candidates, I posted two what I thought were sure to provoke comments Turkey pieces and …crickets chirping Trump Trump Trump
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 8:46 pm
😀 😀 😀 I gotta hat.
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By WeeWeed on March 20, 2016 at 8:49 pm
So do I but I don’t live in it
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 8:53 pm
Hey. Even Rumpole and Puddy gotta hat. 😉
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By WeeWeed on March 20, 2016 at 9:10 pm
Also, I put more topics in the General Discussion thread, rather than doing a separate post.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 8:47 pm
Like quality fruitcake, eh?
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 8:54 pm
I guess …. more like smorgasbord, or potluck.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:10 pm
Or something the cat drag….speaking of that, you got Caturdays or is that ,copyrighted?
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 9:21 pm
We do have Caturdays – although I might skip it this week, it being Holy Week and all.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:26 pm
My vote would be “for” a Caturday this week, Holy Saturday notwithstanding. God created cats and humor; even in the midst of Holy Week, we can paws to remember all our many blessings.
But you’s the boss, stella. We can CATch up the next week.
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 9:33 pm
I’m just as happy to have it as not. I just wasn’t sure if it was appropriate.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:34 pm
Forgot to compliment you on your very punny comment!
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:35 pm
Oh you guys are killing me, we ran out of ‘reply’ space. I was going to suggest that if we had any questions about the appropriateness of Caturday Saturday coming we change it to catechism…?
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 9:52 pm
Waiting for a “What fresh hell?” thread.
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By lovely on March 20, 2016 at 11:32 pm
Good idea, actually!
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 11:35 pm
We don’t have that here. We also have water that wasn’t brought in by a bucket and rope.
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By nyetneetot on March 20, 2016 at 8:21 pm
Neither do I, we have a pump now
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 8:55 pm
Nyet! REALLY looking forward to seeing what icons you give czar on tomorrow’s breakfast manifesto.
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 9:41 pm
Welcome Czar 🙂
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By lovely on March 20, 2016 at 7:41 pm
I was here a few times early on then got lost when I got the iPad. I blame everything on it now.
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 8:56 pm
You can nickname it the iBad.
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 9:34 pm
Whattup, czar!
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By taqiyyologist on March 20, 2016 at 8:26 pm
I believe the legal charge on that ls .ebonicing while white’?
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 8:59 pm
I grew up in Covert, MI. I’m allowed.
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By taqiyyologist on March 21, 2016 at 7:17 am
You been talkin’ to Dolezal, eh?
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By czarowniczy on March 21, 2016 at 9:55 am
“I was raised a poor black child…”
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By taqiyyologist on March 21, 2016 at 7:18 am
Should have been raised white, there are no poor white children
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By czarowniczy on March 21, 2016 at 9:53 am
Good to see you, czar! We’ve been leaving a breadcrumb trail for you over next door, hoping you’d show up. Welcome to the Oldtimers’ quarters.
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By The Tundra PA on March 20, 2016 at 8:52 pm
I’m sonewhat nearsighted, better if you leave whole loaves
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 9:00 pm
LOL
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 9:10 pm
That’s as smooth a line as I’ve ever seen. Welcome czar, and I promise we won’t gripe about politics!
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By Menagerie on March 20, 2016 at 9:40 pm
The smoothness comes from good breading
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 9:43 pm
We may gripe, but we won’t snipe.
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 9:43 pm
It was actually a cinnamon roll trail, as ZM was objecting to that so strongly. (A bacon trail would have worked better, but that would have caused an insurrection.)
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 9:36 pm
I wondered if you were ever going to find the place. It’s more like I our old place was before the company took over the house and the porch.
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 10:04 pm
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By lovely on March 20, 2016 at 7:44 pm
LOL
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 7:54 pm
Howdy, czar! You can come here and post any kind of political stuff you like, any time. Visual, verbal, or just floating there in the ether.
Anyway, glad to see you–I need more practice with puns.
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 7:50 pm
Yeah, and I need more practice creating expletives using the symbols on this &@$€%# iPad
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 8:23 pm
Nothing would be symbol for me on an iPad.
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 9:29 pm
[Apologies if this has been already posted…]
More in the “what fresh hell is this?” category:
Ted Cruz’s New Spokesman Busted Hiring Illegal Immigrants
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/ted-cruzs-new-spokesman-busted-hiring-illegal-immigrants/
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 7:55 pm
That one is kinda funny, I think.
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By Menagerie on March 20, 2016 at 9:41 pm
It was rather mixed, actually, coming off my reading a reminder of how CA has been letting everyone who applies for a driver’s license fill out voter registration cards–which INCLUDES illegals. So countless CA illegals may be “eligible” to vote!!!
http://eaglerising.com/31596/california-allows-non-citizens-to-vote-which-is-illegal-so-every-california-vote-should-be-disqualified/
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 9:48 pm
I can’t believe Beck allowed that to be written.
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By michellc on March 20, 2016 at 10:11 pm
That surprised me, too.
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 10:13 pm
Is anybody else watching The Passion that is being done live in New Orleans? I know a lot of you don’t have cable.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 8:16 pm
No doubt here heart, we watchin’ it and commenting on where the various scenes are being done. Czarina was in the city today checkng on the house but didn’t feel comfortable going without me and I didn’t feel comfortable going with the GGS.
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 8:25 pm
GGS ??
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 8:28 pm
Great grandson. This production may be considered a ‘parade’ for the sake of carryibg a concealed weapon and you can’t carry at or near a parade, We’d have to park/walk through a dicey area or two and I don’t feel comfortable doing that. Also don’t think he’d be able to hold up for the amount of time required.
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 8:37 pm
I am about to give up on it altogether. Not my kind of thing. I had to turn the sound off on Judas, can’t stand the screaming and all the noise. Too modern for me.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 8:46 pm
I’ve always been a fan of how to present the message to a new generation in a context relevant to them. I remember when Superstar first came out, same message but different medium. I watched it as many times as I could, captivated, then – pow – twobyears later Godspell.
I don’t really get into the religious discussions as they are firlds of landmines but I believe that if the message were to be sent forward in the exact same form it originated we’d all be reading and speaking in Aramaic or Hebraic. Whatever it tales.
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 9:19 pm
I think you are right. I just have a hard time transitioning, I think. I don’t like a lot of that music, either. I was horrified at the scenes where the police in riot gear took him away. Now all those criminals will have that vision to connect with, imagining themselves like Jesus or something ridiculous.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 9:25 pm
Not to mention that the police have now been compared to the Romans.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:28 pm
At least Ponius Pilot is black. Of course, that would make him an Uncle Tom. 🙄
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 9:31 pm
I remember watching the Easter story as told by Veggie Tales with my 3-yr old grandson. Yes, indeed, whatever it takes.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:25 pm
Some of the Veggie Tales are genius.
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 9:28 pm
They do a really good job teaching the stories.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 9:32 pm
I still haven’t found my hairbrush. And yeah, I ate the bunny.
😉
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By taqiyyologist on March 21, 2016 at 7:06 am
Yeah, I gotta admit, I had a little trouble with that one, too. But, my son loved it.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 9:29 pm
God’s message through the listener’s medium
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 10:05 pm
I have to admit I am very resistent to change. I am still having trouble managing my “new” phone. I only got it two years ago. 🙄
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 10:12 pm
It looks like there are two main Presidential events tomorrow, both in the evening.
The Republican candidates will speak at AIPAC beginning at 5:00 pm. Those speaking are Cruz, Kasich, Trump, and Ryan(?????). If you are interested, Hillary Clinton is speaking tomorrow morning; the morning program begins at 8:00 am. Here’s the link for AIPAC: http://www.policyconference.org/
Starting at 8:00 pm, the Presidential candidates from both parties will participate in a CNN event, called the “CNN Presidential Forum”. It runs for three hours, from 8 to 11 pm, hosted by Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:08 pm
Forgot to mention – Hannity will feature the Trump interview he did in Phoenix on his show tomorrow night.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:24 pm
Also, Trump event.
Monday, March 21, 2016
Washington DC
The Old Post Office
2:15 PM
Press Availability and tour of the Old Post Office,
soon to be Trump International Hotel, Washington, D.C.
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By ImpeachEmAll on March 20, 2016 at 10:43 pm
Ryan? Perhaps he is going to be protesting Trump on Soro’s nickel.
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By lovely on March 20, 2016 at 11:26 pm
OCD kicking in a bit here; just had to wrap up the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race for whoever’s interested. The last musher arrived in Nome just before midnight to claim her Red Lantern. She finished almost exactly 5 days after the winner. Here’s a brief piece about her:
http://iditarod.com/eye-on-the-trail-helwig-earns-red-lantern/
The purse for this race is quite substantial. As the winner, Dallas Seavey will get $50,000 and a brand new Dodge Ram pick up truck. In 3rd place, Aliy Zirkle will get $45,000. In 5th place, Pete Kaiser will get $40,000. The payout goes all the way down to 30th place, who gets $2,000.
71 teams completed this year’s Iditarod, and 14 scratched or were withdrawn by the judges.
Congratulations to all the dogs and mushers out there for an outstanding effort. See you next year!
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By The Tundra PA on March 20, 2016 at 9:11 pm
I don’t know how they do it – but it’s exciting!
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 9:12 pm
It truly is. Especially for us old ex-mushers…
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By The Tundra PA on March 20, 2016 at 9:57 pm
You can’t help but wonder if Aily would have won if that attack hadn’t happened. That had to have affected her at least a little. But, I am glad she came in at least third.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 9:21 pm
I wonder that too, USmom, and we’ll never know. Dallas beat her 3 other times when there was no attack. But I know that the Aliy I saw in short video clips after the attack was not the hard-fighting, highly competitive Aliy that I know. Something in her spirit was broken by that experience. Not permanently I think (hope), but it will take her some time and processing to get over what she went through. She truly and literally thought the man was trying to kill her and her dogs. There is a profound and devastating sense of personal violation in that. She is in my prayers going forward.
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By The Tundra PA on March 20, 2016 at 10:04 pm
I certainly hope she gets over it, too. I can understand it affecting her deeply, though. To have an attack like that happen in the dark would be so terrifying.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 10:09 pm
I know this is nothing compared to the attack on Aliy but when I was in the 8th grade I was winning a race and the best friend of the girl in third place jumped out in front of me and immediately got back in line. It shocked me and made me hesitant for the rest of the race because I thought someone else was going to jump out in front of me. I lost the race.
Aliy experienced something truly heart stopping and dangerous and I think that makes you more hesitant for a while, not trusting what is around the corner. I will keep her in my prayers 3rd place. $45,000.00 is something to be proud of. Congratulations Aliy!
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By lovely on March 20, 2016 at 11:22 pm
What you experienced is exactly what I expected her to feel. I am so sorry, but she is human and that is a human reaction. 😦
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 11:30 pm
Being alone on the trail with a drunk madman would be terrifying.
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By lovely on March 20, 2016 at 11:34 pm
It certainly would be for me.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 11:37 pm
Tundra, I’ll be thinking of you this week, and praying for you. Many blessings to you this most special Holy Week. I’m sure you must be looking forward to Saturday.
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By Menagerie on March 20, 2016 at 9:46 pm
Menagerie, thank you so much! I can’t tell you how much that means to me. I wish it were going to be this week, but alas it is not. There is a “third party issue” which must be cleared first, IYKWIMAITTYD. Hoping for April. It feels like an extra month of Lent.
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By The Tundra PA on March 20, 2016 at 10:09 pm
I’m not sure what is being referred to, here, TPA–and don’t need to know–but if it needs prayers, you got ’em.
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 10:35 pm
Thank you Mary. Prayers would be great–focused on the Archbishop of Anchorage for speedy processing and desired outcome. Bless you, dear friend.
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By The Tundra PA on March 20, 2016 at 10:41 pm
You got mine, too.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 10:46 pm
Me too!
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 10:47 pm
Prayers from WI 🙂
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By lovely on March 20, 2016 at 11:23 pm
Prayers
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By nyetneetot on March 20, 2016 at 11:45 pm
Thanks to all of you! Now I know it will happen quickly.
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By The Tundra PA on March 21, 2016 at 12:28 am
Still keeping you in my prayers. Be excited! BTW, I was asked to join the RCIA team at my parish. I’m excited to be a part of that.
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By Menagerie on March 21, 2016 at 4:23 am
I’m excited for you. Your parish is lucky to have you! Wish I could attend your classes.
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By The Tundra PA on March 21, 2016 at 1:52 pm
Tundra I’m an adult convert to Catholicism, I can never be grateful enough for my RCIA instructor a practicing, faithful priest who was freshly ordained. He and I became very good friends and he became my sponsor and godfather. Coming from a lack of any Christian faith into the Church was a beautiful journey.
I had a problem with Mary due to my ignorance about church teachings. . I told my godfather that I didn’t understand why Catholics used Mary as an intercessory and he gave me a simple beautiful answer. Prayer and my godfather helped me to understand the beautiful path that Mary offers to all of us.
It is not necessary for us to seek God through Mary, just as it was not necessary for Christ to become incarnate through Mary, but if Jesus chose Mary’s flesh to take as his own, if Christ chose Mary as the vessel to come to us, one should hardly be dissuaded from using Mary in approaching Christ. I have always loved this answer.
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By lovely on March 21, 2016 at 2:09 pm
And we don’t always pray through Mary, but some things you just want your Mother in on! I really love to pray the rosary for my family and my grandchildren. Other reasons too, but when my concerns for my family are pressing, I find great comfort in Mary.
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By Menagerie on March 21, 2016 at 3:36 pm
lovely and Menagerie, thank you both for your comments. I, too, love your godfather’s explanation. The love and reverence that Catholics hold for Mary is something new to me as someone raised Protestant. It is wonderful. I love the feeling I have in saying the Hail Mary. It’s different from the Our Father, which I also love. Praying the rosary is a challenge for me just yet; I have the bones of it, but not the soul. Through Mary I feel more connected to my own dearly beloved mother who passed away about a year ago.
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By The Tundra PA on March 21, 2016 at 4:10 pm
Tundra, try a rosary on YouTube. There are a gazillion, and you can find one that has the images that help you meditate. I like the Passion of the Christ one for the sorrowful mysteries. Also I often start the last decade, the crucifixion, by thing of the wounds on his head, hands, and feet for the first three, and repeating the seven last words for the last seven. Also, audible has a great recording that I use in the car.
Hope that helps.
I think I’m going to start a blog soon, a post RCIA and just general faith, religion, and whatever we feel like kind of place. Stella has been suggesting I should start a blog, and I’m feeling pretty excited about it.
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By Menagerie on March 21, 2016 at 4:18 pm
Tundra, I will tell you what my godfather told me. Make your rosary intention that you develop a passionate love for the rosary.
I have a lovely rosary story.
John Vianney was known for his piousness and his generosity to both “saint” and “sinner. A woman who decided that she was counted as a saint came to him to recite the sins of some of the townswomen. She no sooner told him about a terrible deed that another woman committed than John Vianney said “That is terrible, let us pray for her and walk.”
He prayed the full 15 decade rosary and would not allow the woman to interrupt as he knew she was as concerned as he was for the soul of the woman of whom she spoke, and he did not want her to sin against charity.
They finished the decade and the saintly woman, none the wiser, recounted the sin of another woman, Vianney repeated the process 🙂 .
The woman never told him the sins of others again.
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By lovely on March 21, 2016 at 5:57 pm
Amazing, less than two hours here and I get a whole basket of replies while nada on the Turkey posts at The Other Site all day. My head’s gonna swell so much that Trump hat will finally fit.
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 9:29 pm
Of course you are getting a basket of replies–it IS almost Easter, after all.
Turkey is for Thanksgiving.
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 9:39 pm
I totally aGreece with you
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 9:45 pm
What were the Turkey posts, BTW? I only keep up with the Open Thread, and that only at the beginning (when I’m awake to do so).
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 9:55 pm
At least one’s on The Thread, should be around or a bit after noon. Look for dust bunnies…
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 10:01 pm
Dust bunnies? You want me to scroll through hundreds of “content removed” posts looking for dust bunnies?
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 10:12 pm
I’ll screw up the courage and see if I can use the Windows laptop to hunt/cut/paste tomorrow.
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 10:18 pm
Only if it’s worth taking your time! I was just rambling on, enjoying the conversation.
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 10:23 pm
No problem, I have to be up early in the AM to spread fertilizer on about two acres of yard so it won’t be any bother to spread some here
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 10:26 pm
I don’t think there are any content removed posts today, Mary – amazing, I know. I think they are learning.
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By stella on March 20, 2016 at 10:49 pm
Czar, all your peeps are here. 🙂
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 9:54 pm
In the basket of replies.
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 9:55 pm
Soooooo you’re suggesting we’re all basket cases?
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 10:26 pm
Of course.
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 10:32 pm
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 10:40 pm
LOL
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 10:43 pm
I’m diabetic, can only have sugar free peeps
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 10:19 pm
Well, of course we have those, too. 🙂
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By auscitizenmom on March 20, 2016 at 10:30 pm
What ‘s up my friend? 🙂
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By texan59 on March 20, 2016 at 10:33 pm
SSDD – super site, dazzling dialogue
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 10:36 pm
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 10:49 pm
Oops! Intended this one:
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 10:52 pm
Posting the wrong cartoons means it’s time for a break! (And late dinner.)
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By MaryfromMarin on March 20, 2016 at 10:54 pm
Yo, WeeWeed, ran out of reply space again so: “I tought I taw. Puddy hat”. Speech pathologist Czarina gives that one. 7.5
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 10:10 pm
A 4.5 on editing but, as I was saying, it’s the message and not the medium
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 10:16 pm
Dang,czar, it’s good to have you over here! What took ya so long?
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By The Tundra PA on March 20, 2016 at 10:36 pm
I was here early on for a few days and was so addicted to CTH that it was hard to break away, the limited actual and download time I had just helped glue me in place. I started noticing a slow change in the site’s tenor over time so when someone on the Treehouse mentioned SP1 I just thought I’d drop by and see what was on the stove.
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By czarowniczy on March 20, 2016 at 10:45 pm
You did! You DID taw a Puddy Hat!!! 😀
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By WeeWeed on March 21, 2016 at 4:47 pm
Ah yes, the original tweetee
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By czarowniczy on March 21, 2016 at 4:56 pm
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By Ad rem on March 21, 2016 at 6:15 pm
Thanks, really like this one, all got a good laugh and some ‘awwwwws’.
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By czarowniczy on March 22, 2016 at 11:33 am
Z haz a Hat!! 😀
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By WeeWeed on March 22, 2016 at 8:10 am
And, were he still with us, you can bet he’d be wearing into town and pushng it in the faces of the progressive poodles.
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By czarowniczy on March 22, 2016 at 11:36 am
😀
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By WeeWeed on March 22, 2016 at 11:38 am