General Discussion, Friday, March 25, 2016

Crosses

 

 

 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

John 3:16-17

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352 Responses to General Discussion, Friday, March 25, 2016

  1. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Anti Muslim protesters in Slovenia chant “Donald Trump, Donald Trump!”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ncjbR872jo

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

      Sort of apropos, A UN tribunal convicted Radovan Karadik of murdering 8000 Moslems outside of Srebrenica during the Serbian conflict. Appears the penalt for murdering 8000 Moslems is a 40-year sentence it still beats the UN’s sentence for Moslems murdering others…but I digress.
      Problem is this helps move forward the UN’s stated agenda of being able to independently bring US military personnel and politicians to trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The POtuS has already given Interpol an office in DC and diplomatic status so can the UN issuing an international warrant on a US soldier/pol and Interpol independently serving it be far behind?

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    Good Friday: The Crucifixion [fresco by Giotto, in the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy, ca 1305]:

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  3. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Hmm… someone on Twitter brought up a salient point. With the recent Gawker verdict and damages awarded, how likely is it that the Enquirer would totally fabricate a story about a presidential candidate with zero substantiation?

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    • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:

      Have you purchased
      your “Space Brothers”
      medallion, yet? 😉

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    • tessa50's avatar tessa50 says:

      The story I read, and it may not be the right one, said it was a rumor. I think at this point that is how they would be legally covered. But I am not a lawyer, so IDK.

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:

        I didn’t read the Enquirer article but if it is solely drawn from the creative and malicious mind of its author the headline alone is actionable. No doubt, million dollar slam dunk libel suit. Also I haven’t had time yet but I heard it is the same writer who who first outed John Edwards and Tiger Wood.

        I’ll see what I can find out about the author and I’ll read the article.

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  4. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Check this out. That was fast.

    On March 24, 2016, the National Enquirer hinted that Amanda Carpenter had a sexual affair with Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Carpenter

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    • Molly's avatar Margaret-Ann says:

      My goodness, that IS fast and all the info must have taken hours to research. Doesn’t look like an update, seems to be a new page.

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

      From what I’ve seen of him so far this could well be a ‘plus’ for him

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

      Wikipedia has a far greater number of regulars than most sites, Stella.

      And the whole cadre is infested with SJWs.

      Vox Day is fixing to “fork” Wikipedia. That is to say, make a new one, using it as a foundation for code and content, but without SJWs and their reality-erasing tendencies.

      Open Source Software is cool like that. You can take it and “fork” it, by making it your own, and take it in a new direction. Toward truth, in this case, instead of toward Orwell’s Memory Hole. It’s going to be yooge.

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  5. Molly's avatar Margaret-Ann says:

    The header photo is gorgeous. I need to meditate tonight and stopping by here is a good start. Stella’s Place is so peaceful!

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  6. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    TGIGF

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  7. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    Menagerie–

    Thank you for the “Holy Thursday” post at CTH. It elicited many powerful and beautiful comments.

    http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/03/24/holy-thursday/

    (linking here for the benefit of SP readers who might not be familiar with CTH–strange though that sounds…)

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

      No wonder Heidi seems to have emotional problems.

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:

        I’m seeing a lot of rumors that Ted isn’t the only one with a wandering eye.

        I feel sorry for the little girls, I’ve read a lot that neither of them are around much and the girls are raised by the nanny and now to have all this stuff out there.

        If any or all of this true, they both should be ashamed to put themselves in this position to allow the kids to be hurt.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:

      From the article;

      Why would Cruz donate money to another candidate? One of Cruz’s alleged mistresses is Sarah Isgur Flores. She was a manager of Fiorina’s campaign!

      SMH.

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:

      Doesn’t he have more than one FEC investigations and/or violations?

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:

      I’ve done a quick drive by of some conservative blogs, like Ace, Weasel Zippers, Legal Insurrection, Hot Air, IOTWR and not one has touched this.

      It’s all over FB and Twitter, it’s in comments everywhere, so I find it more than a little strange that blogs are ignoring it.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:

        It’s the National Inquirer stigma.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:

          Strike IOTWR off the list, BFH now has a post up.

          Do you remember the in-law I wrote about who said Trump wasn’t Christian because he had been married 3 times, although she herself had been married 3 times?

          My daughter said she was having this shared on her timeline and she is hopping mad blaming Trump for smearing this Christian man. Lashing out at everyone who is sharing it with her. Someone reminded her of John Edwards and told her she shouldn’t be so quick to deny it. She said if it was true it didn’t change the fact he was a Christian man and we needed him to bring God back into this country. That we shouldn’t hold the past against Christian men and got mad when she was told he’s only been a Senator for 3 years, so it can’t be too far in the past. She said God would forgive him and was asked if God wouldn’t forgive Trump. She said she then made a post that she was not logging on to FB for awhile because she was really hurt with all the attacks by people she thought cared about her.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:

          Strike Ace off the list as well, but he’s attacking Rubio and supporters and Trump and supporters.

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          • michellc's avatar michellc says:

            LI has also picked it up and although Jacobson is trying to stay in the middle on truth or lie and printed statements by Cruz and Trump he’s still trying to pin it on Trump.

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          • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

            Ace has been on the anti-Trump train for a while, now. His commenters are both for and against, more for than against, and the threads are still quite civil. Civil for AoSHQ, that is. Hobos’ mileage may vary.

            Vox Day is still banging the drum, though.

            Basically, all the intelligent conservatives are for the Donald.

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            • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

              IOW he hasn’t started the whole Chuck “I Want to Ride my Bicycle” Johnson banning spree yet = still civil.

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            • michellc's avatar michellc says:

              I honestly stopped reading Ace a long time ago, long before Trump came on the scene. I’ve never been the fan of his like some, same with Red State, I grew a dislike for them and EE long ago.

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  8. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (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’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| ( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    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! 🙂 |_|
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    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
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    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
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    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸
    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 and F.D.R. in Hell! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Pastries for coffee!

    = Unprintable phallic symbol

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  9. Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:

    just checking in, minimal storm damage, trees no structural, and all animals accounted for.

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  10. smiley's avatar smiley says:

    Happy Easter from the Spam Lounge.
    while enjoying the thick spammish coffee here, I saw this guy…

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  11. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Please pray for Father Uzhunnalil who has been kidnapped by ISIS. Rumors are that he will be crucified today. The nuns who Fr. Uzhunnalil is associated with said that they have no credible information that a crucifixion is eminent.

    I would like to add that there are many people being held by Islam’s devils that the world is not talking about because people involved with them, family, friends, organizations are told that the more well known a hostage is, the more likely the devil’s of Islam will exploit that fame and the more likely your loved one or associate is to be publicly beheaded.

    Currently there are Vincentians being held by the devil’s of Islam, I know this for a fact, the rest is sketchy but they took entire families.

    Please pray for Fr. Uzhunnalil, the Vincentians and all of the people captured and imprisoned by the savages.

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  12. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Just heard that Alexander and Sacha Pinczowski were slaughtered in Brussels. They are the siblings who were talking to their mum on the phone, the phone went silent and they have been “missing” ever since that moment.

    So many who are uniting not their willing burden or sacrifices with Christ on this Good Friday but rather the suffering forced on them by the Devil’s children.

    God of mercy grant us peace and smite the enemies of peace with the sword of your justice.

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  13. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    Mornin’ kids!

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  14. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    From the FB –

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  15. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Another depiction of The Last Supper – Dali’s Sacrament Of The Last Supper (1955). I saw this at the National Gallery in 1960. It is very compelling.

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  16. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    LOL!! 😀

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  17. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Good morning! It’s a chilly Friday, and the rain is gone (at least until Sunday, when it will be a warm day). A day like today makes me feel as if Spring will never get here, even though I know that’s not true.

    I hope you all have a Happy Easter, celebrated as is your custom, with family and/or friends. There is always something to appreciate and savor in the world around us, in our memories, in our thoughts.

    Just last night I was reminded that life rolls on. The widow of a cousin just remarried, a month before her 73rd birthday! She looks lovely and very happy in her wedding photo, surrounded by their children and grandchildren. Bless her and her new husband! May they enjoy many years together with their blended family.

    Spring! Tight buds unfolding from winter’s frosty hand
    Turning to the sun’s warm glowing,
    Touched by its magic wand.

    The hope of buds and leaves tightly wrapped
    With promise of trailing green,
    Bright pink and white and yellow light
    All waiting there, serene.

    Spring, resurrection time again!
    My heart was like that bud,
    When God drew me with warming glow
    To turn to Him.

    He bid me open up my heart,
    And hope was born within.
    See how the promise of His love
    Is bringing forth, through Him!

    Jessie Z.

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:

      Good morning Stella!
      It’s supposed to be pretty today and tomorrow and cold and rain on Easter here. I’m seeing the signs of spring here, grass is turning green, all the trees have budded, the pear tree has already bloomed and the dogwoods and redbuds are in full bloom. My lilacs have bloomed and even had a tulip bloom.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

        I see your spring bloomery and raise you……LEAVES! We have deep green fuzz on the cypress, leaves on the cherry and plum trees and grass – nice green grass!!!
        What does winter look like again, having trouble recalling it.
        PS: to those still slogging through slush and salting walkways this is not an invite to flame mecwith cold, dark winter pix.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:

          The only leaves we have are on the trees I named.
          My yard is green though, even had to mow it. The pasture is close to being all green, with just a few ugly brown spots.

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          • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

            Cow pies?

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

            Pastures here have been that vibrant sring-feed green for a few weeks. That rye and legime feed responded well to thecrains and warm temps. Red maples are pat the red budding and are in that pre-green patchwork phase and more stone fruit trees are blossoming. We’re hoping for a nice long spring before we start complaining about that long hot summer.

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          • Stella's avatar stella says:

            We won’t be mowing for another month or so. Heck, we frequently get snow the first week in April!

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            • michellc's avatar michellc says:

              We had some bare spots in the yard last year due to some moles and shady areas we planted grass seed that the local place said would stay green longer. It turned green first and grew fast. I like the green part but I think we’re going to be regretting the fast growing.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:

        Funny the sequence of things in different parts of the country. Our grass is pretty green now, but no trees have budded. We get the forsythia first, then bulb plants, then the flowering trees, then the trees leaf out, and then the lilac (May) and lily of the valley, and finally the peonies at the beginning of June, along with the climbing roses.

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  18. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

    Late, but here it is.

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  19. derk's avatar derk says:

    http://newenglishliterature.blogspot.com/2012/02/william-golding.html

    Good Friday to you Stellar people, and it truly is. Thank you all for helping to keep me sane in this crazy world. Humor definitely helps.

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  20. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

    Somali families began resettling here in large numbers at the turn of the century, and their children have become fixtures in St. Cloud’s schools. About 1,625 of the district’s English-learners are Somali. And as educators in the St. Cloud district have found, language is often just the first hurdle they encounter when new immigrant communities arrive.

    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/how-one-minnesota-school-district-handles-a-rising-immigrant-population/

    Oh, journalists. Leaving aside your usual fawning groveling for Muslim rapefugees, that’s going to be your favorite phrase now, isn’t it? Wow, you people sure did learn a lot from George Orwell’s instruction manuals.

    Muslims have been settling (*bad if Jew or European, but good if otherwise, because Leftist double standards) in Minnesota since “the turn of the century”, which means “a long, long time ago, basically forever” in the American mind. Invokes images of stagecoaches and telegraph.

    Journalists, I’ll never call you unintelligent. Y’all are devious, indeed. Your audience is mostly stupid, though, and props to you for both exploiting that flaw and for doing your part to maintain it.

    Mornin’ Stellars! My happy, feel-good thought for the day!

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  21. doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:

    History repeats itself. Thinking about it on Good Friday.

    Introduction to the Dark Ages
    The Dark Ages is a term often used synonymously with the Middle Ages. It refers to the period of time between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Italian Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. Many textbooks list the Dark Ages as extending from 500-1500 CE, although it should be noted these are approximations.
    Is this the start of The New Dark Ages?

    http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-dark-ages-definition-history-timeline.html

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

      I believe the Dark Ages ended as the Bible started being translated into layman’s languages, and people could read it for themselves.

      This revolutionary act caused the Enlightenment, and the flourishing of science.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

      Thanks for the link, Howie.

      I note that the narrator of the video still uses the passive voice when describing the end of the Roman Empire. It just fell. Like a souffle. Or a cake.

      No, it was Muslims, coupled with internal corruption on a grand scale. It didn’t just accidentally fall down in the bathtub.

      I note that narrators and video producers and writers have always used the same exact passive voice when describing how 10 million Jews just “up and died” during the Holocaust. No, you journalist devils, they were murdered by German citizens in thrall to a charismatic dictator. Stop lying. Stop sugar-coating with passive voice.

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

        Serious subject……….but, you have such a way with words. I can’t help LOL

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        • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

          My mom says that, too. Says I should write.

          That takes discipline. I was AWOL when God handed out Discipline.

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        • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:

          The Moooslums were a part of the collapse in the Mediterranean, until “Chuck the Hammer” beat them back for a few decades. Mostly cities became uninhabited due too filth, disease and the constant raiding by roving bands. Then Charlemagne started to rebuild The Holy Romman Empire. Brought law and order too the Empire. Mostly Security when traveling throughout the Empire. Then the Northmen started raiding and people fled in too the country side for security. The Viking rain of terror lasted till 1066, when defeated at Samford Bridge, by the last English King, Harold Goodwinson, who was killed within a few weeks at the Battle of Hasting. Then the Enlightenment started…….

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  22. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

      Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (J.W.’s) moved a single comma in their bible, changing theology with a simple comma.

      “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise”
      vs.
      “Truly I tell you today, you will be with Me in Paradise”

      People wonder why I’m so obsessive about accuracy in translation.

      Because it’s pretty important.

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:

        Justice Jeff Brown is posting the last words of Christ every hour on the hour so I grabbed it from him.

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

        Really good point. 🙂

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        • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

          Dr. Phlox, when I saw the picture, I questioned the statement and you explained why.

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          • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

            “Dr.” Phlox (still getting used to this nic…)

            No, no, no. Unless Dr. is abbreviated Dishwasher.

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            • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

              I thought you had a new job?

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            • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

              Not yet. The boss lady talked to the bossman, and he’s not sure. Neither am I.

              I’m not sure if I can go from the chaos that I know and work in, to a whole different chaos.

              So I’m still working for current bossman. Next week it’s a concrete saw and jackhammer, to build a drainage system in a basement whose only drainage is at street level. Fun! You can’t have a basement prep-and-catering kitchen with no drains.

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              • Stella's avatar stella says:

                I thought work like that had to be done by a licensed plumber.

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                • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

                  We can carve the floor, dig the trenches in it. We can plumb, build the PVC drainage. The relevant agencies then inspect.

                  This ain’t Illinois. Then again, Stella, you’re over by Detroit, so it may vary by county.

                  In Chicago, three different unions have to be called to replace an electric water pump.

                  Only one if you want to unplug an extension cord.

                  Here, we build our own stuff, no matter electrical or plumbing or structural, the State (or County or Municipality) inspects, and makes judgement on our work, which we change accordingly. How it should be.

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                  • Stella's avatar stella says:

                    I think it varies by city over here, probably in line with some county bureaucracy. You’re right, of course, as long as it’s inspected. I think they are more worried about the permit fees than the safety, anyway. When I moved into my house, I called the city inspector because I didn’t have a chimney liner, and I thought I was supposed to have one with my particular furnace. Well. It seems the previous homeowner’s “contractor” installed the furnace without a permit. It was probably the homeowner himself, with help from his brother-in-law. The inspector was not happy. And, yes, I was supposed to have a chimney liner, which I finally had installed a couple of years ago, along with a chimney cap. Then when I had the new furnace installed the following year (after the great sewer backup), I upgraded, and my furnace no longer exhausts through the chimney, but through the wall of my house. My water heater still does, though.

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          • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

            When we die, as Christians, we will be with Christ today.

            JWs say, when we die, we will be with Christ some day. But only 12,000 of us. The ones who converted the most people to JW.

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            • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

              Actually, it’s 144,000 go to heaven, everybody else lives forever on Earth (or Mars, or wherever).

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              • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

                Memory is a strange, and fickle thing.

                You’re right. And I studied these folks’ work for five or so years.

                I had a buddy I hung out with for about two months.

                I met him in a mental hospital, where he had been placed by JW for the purpose of recruiting people with Severe Depression, like me. Like fish in a barrel, right? SO I played chess with him after my two-week stint there, listening to Classical music, and he kept bringing over his Watchtower-printed books, and I kept talking with him, and asking him all the wrong questions. (The right questions. I was Saved years prior.)

                His elders forbade him from speaking with me after two months, and he wouldn’t answer his door or his phone. This was before cell phones, in the time of Beepers.

                So I amassed this collection of Watchtower books that would stand 5 feet tall,

                So I studied ’em. Like I would study McCaffrey’s Pern or Tolkein’s Lord of the RIngs. It’s good to study bulls**t, as well as truth.

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                • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

                  “His elders forbade him from speaking with me after two months,….”

                  As I stated in the other comment, they say their structure is modeled after the early Christian church. Therefore, no priests or pastors. Just old people selected to lead and make decisions for the collective group or congregation.

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                • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

                  They stopped visiting me too. I thought things were going great too.

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                  • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

                    LOL You mean you were converting them?

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                  • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

                    HA! Found you!

                    I wasn’t exactly raised. I was fed and released at set times to attend public school as required by law. I was taken to church because it was expected by other people.
                    My mother’s childhood acquaintance was out knocking on doors offering the Watchtower magazine. I guess you could call it a conversion. I’ve never understood it, even as an adult. Of course I’m leaving out a lot.

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          • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

            All it took was one comma.

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          • lovely's avatar lovely says:

            It looked odd to me too and I should have paid better attention.

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            • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

              Still a good picture……..just needed a comma. 🙂

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              • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

                NO.

                Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.

                Not some indeterminate day in the future.

                Your picture relays the accurate translation.

                I was just on a tangent, because I studied Christian-based cults for a decade.

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                • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

                  But, we’re not in Heaven with him now. O_o

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                  • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

                    He was speaking to a guy on a cross next to him that backed him up, conversationally.

                    A guy that was, like Him, about to die too.

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                  • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

                    Oh, right.

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                  • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

                    Because He knew that they all were going to die, he told the cool dude on the cross next to him that today, literally today, they would shake hands and do a bro-hug in Heaven, and live Happily Ever After.

                    JW’s say otherwise.

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                • michellc's avatar michellc says:

                  A friend of my mom’s became a JW and she turned very strange, she started telling her that all of her loved ones who had passed would never see heaven, their grave was their hell. My mom told her they had been friends for years, so it would be better if they just didn’t discuss religion.
                  She started to quit talking to old friends and family and eventually shut everyone out except her children and grandchildren. I always wondered why, so maybe she was told to?
                  I’ve always thought it for JW it would be extremely sad when they lose their loved ones.

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                  • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

                    My mother ran into a grammar school friend that had become one. So when I was about 4 or 5 all holidays and birthdays just stopped. While in public school I had to go to the library whenever there was a class party. No sports, no friends. Wake up, go to school, come home, straight to isolation. I was not allowed to interact with other children.
                    Four hours of Church on Sunday, Two hours on Thursday and a hour+ long guided group bible study on Tuesdays. Public speaking and lecturer giving are expected by 5 or 7 years old. Door to door missionary work for 6 hours on Saturday. I think I was just used as bait for the dogs not on a chain.
                    By 12 I was working under the table at night, and at 16 I was out of the house with my own apartment. Personally I’m a little standoffish about attending church.

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                  • michellc's avatar michellc says:

                    That is a horrible story. I’m sorry you had to go through that.

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                  • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

                    Well, it doesn’t matter anymore. So there is nothing really to be sorry about. I eventually learned on my own to stop zapping myself on the electric fence.

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                  • michellc's avatar michellc says:

                    My DH didn’t have the best childhood, his mother was not a nice person. She only had two children and he for whatever reason one was treated like crap while the other was treated like royalty. She even told me one time she never had the same feelings for him as she did the other one and even as a baby she couldn’t make herself love him.
                    I feel sorry for the life of that boy as well, but he’s the better man of the two.
                    He says much the same as you that it doesn’t matter anymore, that he learned at an early age he couldn’t earn her love, so he never knew how to miss what he never knew. He says plus he learned how to do a lot of things by having to work all of his life and he learned how to pay his own way and make it on his own.

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                  • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

                    … maybe she was told to?

                    Yep.

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                  • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

                    Nyet, I think we’re twins.

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                  • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

                    I got lost nyet. Were you raised Jehovah’s Witness? And how does your mother’s childhood friend fit in? Your mother converted after meeting her again?

                    My mother was not too nice most of the time. We lived in an area that seemed to have a church for every ten houses, and they all came door knocking on Saturdays. She used to just tell them very forcefully we weren’t interested. The JW she told to get the h@ll off her porch and never, ever come back.

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                  • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

                    My ex met them with a gun in his hand. He didn’t point it at them, but they decided we didn’t need saving, I guess.

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                • lovely's avatar lovely says:

                  I understood Wooly 🙂 (Still love the new name) and I understand the placement of the comma, I just think it would have been better with the whole verse and not all the other verses behind it. I was going to post all seven “last words” but ended up going and spending sometime in the silence with God.

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            • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

              No, Lovely. Your pix is absolutely correct. See my comment below.

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      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

        The whole premise (whether factual or not is not being argued in my post) behind the Jehovah’s Witnesses was the same as the reformation. The Catholic church was run by greedy men, and the reformations didn’t go far enough. Jehovah’s Witnesses sent their own trusted people to retranslate and correct mistakes from as many original sources as possible. So unless a person can read ancient Greek themselves (and even then, there are arguments of interpretation) it’s difficult to know which is accurate.

        Jehovah’s Witnesses are another attempt to model after the early Christian church prior to Rome’s influence. There have been quite a few over time. Even during the reformation.

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  23. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Katrina the first one in the Enquire article to address the accusations suggests that in her case the affair rumors are not true.

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  24. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

    A tabloid has one fold, like a book, and takes up little space. A broadsheet has two, and makes you inconvenience your fellow passengers on the subway when you open it, because it’s 3 square feet, but screw those plebes. Your elbows in front of their chests are just part of your entitled liberal privilege.

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  25. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Not a good Friday for Haji Imam, he’s down and o-u-t. We’re being treated to a propaganda campaign, having the SecDef himself cone out and hoohaa his demise.
    I’m not saying Haji’s passing is of no merit but I do believe the media parade about his death is largely an Administration campaign to ease the publics’ fears after the Belgium attacks. I see Ashton Carter giving the conference instead of Obama to, IMHO, put more emphasis on the message than the messenger. It ain’t like the POtuS to pass up a shot at self aggrandizement, claiming personal credit for the work and risks of others.
    I find it interesting that the raid was a deep one, well behind enemy lines, instead of a precision drone strike. No doubt the possibility of gathering intel from the #2’s treasure trove in what was thought to be a secure area heavily figured in as did snatching a prisoner or two, but this smacks to me of Spetznas technique, operations to disrupt (assassinate) top political figures deep behind enemy lines in ‘safe’ areas. Also makes me wonder if we managed to sneak past Russian defenses or did they assist us in some way. Lotta stuff to consider there.
    I don’t see Haji’s death as a huge body blow to ISIS, they know that their leadership is prone to a drone at anytime, happens regularly, so they don’t put all of their yeggs in one basket. Also, we look at ISIS through a personal prism, in our worlds we live in a hierarchal structure, the office boss goes toes up and there’s confusion until someone restores order. ISIS is united through doctrine and I’d argue that makes them less susceptible to problems through individual losses of leadership than a Western field army would be. I’m sure that an ISIS true believer will quickly slide into the ‘two’ slot just as someone will the ‘three’ slot the new ‘two’ will vacate, all the way down the line.
    Only way to put them down is boots on the ground occupying dirt, their dirt. They have no ground to base on they can’t maneuver, they cease to exist as a cohesive field fighting force. This has been the basis of war since day one and, despite the flailings of new doctrinaires, will remain so for the foreseeable future. Boots on ground killing or capturing ISIS fighters, equipment and occupying their bases and denying them the ability to act as a fighting force.
    One down, a whole shiiteload to go.

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  26. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    John 19:26-27 English Standard Version (ESV)

    26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

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  27. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

    I don’t know how long you’ve had it stella, but I just noticed the favorites icon changed. What is it?

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:

      What icon are you referring to?

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      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

        Favicon.ico or whatever it gets called now. The tiny logo next to the URL in the bowser or saved bookmark

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:

          I changed it a few weeks ago, at least. I didn’t notice what was on the URL bar, to be honest. The old one was a cardinal in a tree, I think, but it was the Christmas theme, and it looked horrible in the Facebook posts (what WP or FB uses if you don’t have a leading image in a post).

          Do you have a suggestion for a better one? I could use sweet Stella’s face.

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          • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

            It may just be the cache in my browser cleared and it updated with the new one this morning. I was just wondering what it was since it’s tiny. I have no idea what to suggest. I had a shrunk down logo until 10 years ago, but then changed the logo and all company graphics. Now it’s just a corner of the current logo and coloring.

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  28. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    A large Way of the Cross group is marching through New Orleans stopping at various spots to pray for social justice, more healthcare, racial healing, all of those those things that, to me at least, one should work for rather than hope God will just magically deliver like a pizza.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

      If God would just get with the plan, it would all be cool for the socialists. No need to fight with human governments when you can just present your latest demands to God.

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  29. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Seen on Twitter:

    Seen on Facebook:

    Looking for confirmation on GQ story. Anybody seen anything reliable?

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  30. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Those crawfish in southern Louisiana who’ve survived Lent are offering up prayers of thanks about now. Next hurdle, Memorial Day. Strange Place, eh?

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  31. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Well look at that the PAC smearing Melania has the same mailing address as Mrs. Fiorina.

    What are the chances.

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  32. Stella's avatar stella says:

    From Facebook, Trump National Enquirer Statement:

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  33. Stella's avatar stella says:

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  34. Stella's avatar stella says:

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  35. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

    Some bright one at CTH: These super pacs can spend millions a month, and they can’t spend the ten dollars a month for their own unique PO Box.

    GOP Delenda Est.

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  36. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

    Should every Progressive household be forced to house refugees?

    http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-fruit-of-compassion.html#comment-form

    I think that might be an idea whose time has come.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

      They can sleep in your little daughter’s room. Just make up a pallet on the floor.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

      Saul Alinsky’s Rule #4. “Make them live up to their own book of rules.”

      Take them into your houses, Libs.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:

      Should every Progressive household be forced to house refugees?

      No not in the Western Hemisphere if they are so vested, so loving, so sure that it is their call in life to help refugees, then let them sell all of their belongings, get together with other likeminded suicidal SJW’s and go over there and build a whole darn village. Problem solved.

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      • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

        Don’t hold back, now.

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        • lovely's avatar lovely says:

          Just a small suggestion to help them fulfill what they see as their life mission :).

          I am probably testy about this because I just attended a meeting on Wednesday with a charity that I have sporadically helped. They wanted to take money, some of it mine, and send it to people in Brussels who were working toward understanding rather than ostracizing the devils of Islam. They were just besides themselves with how loving the people of Brussels were being toward those who massacred and maimed their loved ones.

          Needless to say, after some heated words, I walked out and withdrew my support.

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

        I think that is a great suggestion. I will make our lives here easier, too.

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  37. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Look who is copied on this tweet (this is an image):

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  38. michellc's avatar michellc says:

    Trump cracks me up.

    snivelingcoward.com takes you to his twitter account.

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  39. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Ted Cruz ‘Affair’ Rumors Peddled by Marco Rubio’s Allies

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/25/ted-cruz-affair-rumors-peddled-by-marco-rubio-s-allies.html

    The truth behind the rumor-mongering, however, is a little more complex. A half-dozen GOP operatives and media figures tell The Daily Beast that Cruz’s opponents have been pushing charges of adultery for at least six months now—and that allies of former GOP presidential hopeful Marco Rubio were involved in spreading the smears.

    For months and months, anti-Cruz operatives have pitched a variety of #CruzSexScandal stories to a host of prominent national publications, according to Republican operatives and media figures. The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg News, Politico, and ABC News—reporters at all those outlets heard some version of the Cruz-is-cheating story. None of them decided to run with rumors. Those publications’ representatives all declined to provide on-the-record comments when The Daily Beast reached out for this article.

    Breitbart News, the notoriously Trump-friendly conservative outlet, was also pitched the story of Cruz’s extramarital affairs, according to a source close to the publication. That source said an operative allied with Marco Rubio—but not associated with his official campaign—showed the publication a compilation video of Cruz and a woman other than his wife coming out of the Capitol Grille restaurant and a hotel on Tuesdays and Thursdays. But the outlet opted not to report on the video, which demonstrated no direct evidence of an affair.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:

      Where’s the video, I wonder?

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:

        Good question.

        I either missed this during the Ashley Madison name release or blew it off and forgot about it because at that time I thought Cruz was a different man than the man Cruz has shown during this campaign.

        In light of this story though and the rumors going around about prostitutes including a porn star/prostitute, it’s kind of interesting now.

        Besides Duggar, reports show that emails linked to congressional offices, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz’s office, White House officials and the armed forces were also used to sign up for accounts.

        http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/08/19/josh-duggar-allegedly-paid-nearly-1000-for-ashley-madison-accounts/

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:

          I found that by accident when looking up the rat phrase and found a forum that linked to the blaze article.
          A comment I found on that forum that is dead on:
          It’s so funny how Trump is responsible for the actions of all the people that follow him.
          –Bernie supporters throwing rocks at Trump supporters
          –BLM causing riots
          –The Brussels terror attack
          –The KKK
          BUT…nobody else is responsible for anything. The KKK endorses Clinton…she doesn’t even have to respond
          Those emails could have come from anybody
          Bernie is not responsible for his supporters doing anything
          Nobody is responsible for anything Beck says…nor does Cruz disavow his endorsement. Cruz doesn’t have to answer for anything…he is anointed by GOD…Cruz is always the victim of somebody else. That’s some great presidential material right there….NOT

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:

      I’m still stuck on the rat statement.

      He’s a man for whom a term was coined for copulating with a rodent,” Cruz said. “Well let me be clear, Mr. Trump may be a rat but I have no desire to copulate with him.

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  40. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    Bar! Beer!! What.A.Day……

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  41. Stella's avatar stella says:

    I love the term “Cuban Mistress Crisis”. Probably sophomoric, but funny!

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  42. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

    OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! I know what the secret was about the woman that Trump pulled up to the front at his press conference at the Post Office. She is on, or was on, Say Yes to the Dress. I had recorded the series and was watching it tonight, and it is her. This is the episode.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP9sbdMO-y4

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  43. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

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