General Discussion, Friday, April 1, 2016

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April 1, 1997

 

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149 Responses to General Discussion, Friday, April 1, 2016

  1. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    [I’d say “April Fool!” but I think the jokes on me….WordPress ate Calvin and Hobbes!]

  2. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    HI! I’m from the government and I’m here to help you! Yeah you rite, April Fool.

  3. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Hi! We’re from the Republican Party and we’re here to save the Constitution, your freedom and the American Dream! See above…

  4. ZurichMike's avatar ZurichMike says:

    Stella — that photo gives me the chills! I’m “over” winter. More sunshine, please! 🙂

  5. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Deneb Print and Lisa Gerrad

    Gorton a Ran (I’m Waiting)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDdPGfvsfyI

    Just because life is so beautiful.

  6. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Well look at what I got in an email

    This email was sent by: Romney for President Inc., 500 Cummings Center, Suite 4400, Beverly, MA 01915.

    This message reflects the opinions and representations of Our Principles PAC, and is not an endorsement by Mitt Romney. You are receiving this email because you signed up as a member of Mitt Romney’s online community on 2014-11-27 11:05

    Look at who the reply email is sent to;

    support@mittromeny.com 

    The email is a hit piece on Trump, full of lies and manipulations.

    Did you know since 1999, Donald Trump has changed his position on abortion FIVE TIMES. Just in the last year, Planned Parenthood has applauded Trump for asserting that he is, “pro-choice in every respect.”
     
    In fact, Trump believes his own sister, who is a Federal Circuit Court Judge, would make a “phenomenal” Supreme Court Judge even after she struck down New Jersey’s ban on partial-birth abortions. 
    Confused by his many stances? You are not alone in wondering where Donald Trump stands on abortion.
     
    Voting on Tuesday? Ask yourself, “how many more times will Donald Trump change his position on abortion to court votes?” 
     
    Sincerely, 
     
    Katie Packer
    Our Principles PAC 

    P.S. To see more revealing videos go to TrumpQuestions.com

    Paid for by Our Principles PAC and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.
    http://www.OurPrinciplesPAC.com

    Click here if you would prefer to not receive future emails from Our Principles PAC.
     
    Click here to contact us with any questions or concerns.

    I forwarded it to Trump. Such despicable people. Feel free to email Romney.

  7. facebkwallflower's avatar facebkwallflower says:

    Been replaced as my DH’s wallpaper on his phone. Yep, and by a man, at that. Moving towards forty years with the man and he bumps me for a man.

    And it is ok by me.

    Cuz it is MY MAN,

    Donald Trump!

  8. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 >-I (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 >-I (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) =^-^= >-I (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 >-I (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 >-I (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 >-I (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| ( and Czarina 🙂 >-I )
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 >-I (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 >-I (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 >-I (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 >-I (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 >-I (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 >-I (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 >-I (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 >-I (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 >-I (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 >-I (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 >-I
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 >-I
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 >-I (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 >-I (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 >-I (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 >-I
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 >-I
    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! :star: 😛 (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!

    http://flapjackspancakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/waffle_mountainWaffleBreakfast-S.png

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    https://provostcookbook.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/extra_thick_bacon_223.jpg

    Pastries for coffee!

    http://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/y9y9Fv7vwxtRvKg4Pvb8Yg/o.jpg

    :star: = Unprintable phallic symbol

  9. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

    Hmmmmm….. April fools day, eh? We should all go next door and post undying support for Ted Cruz in the daily thread. 😉

    • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

      Let’s don’t – ’cause SOME of us’ll have to go remove it…..

    • Stella's avatar stella says:

      There is very little sense of humor to be found there – but all of it would be in the OT.

      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

        I was just musing about the people over there that are desperately trying to find Trump deodorant and underpants to buy in support his campaign, absolutely freaking out if posts supporting Cruz were to appear (even as an April fool’s joke). Probably get labeled as traitors for the rest of time in the minds of some.

  10. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Good morning! I’m not totally awake yet, but working on it. I think I’ll go get some coffee.

    At least it’s Friday – TGIF.

    I’m looking at footage of Norway on my television. Beautiful place, but can you imagine living in a place where it is winter for so long, and dark? It’s bad enough where I live.

    Happy April to all of you. I don’t have any jokes, other than today’s photograph – April 1, 1997, in Boston. It’s overcast here today; we had a lot of rain last night, it will be in the 40’s today, and we will get SNOW tonight! About an inch. And more snow on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, although it will be warm enough to melt off quickly. I tell people that we always get snow the first week of April, and this year it will be more than once.

    I hope the weather is better where you live.

    APRIL SNOW
    Daver Austin

    Will it be the last?
    I’ve wished for it all winter –
    No early spring snow –
    The Gods haven’t heard my plea
    Ground is covered already

    Out with the shovel!
    On with my heavy warm coat
    ‘Whistle while you work’
    The old Disney song comes back
    But I’m out the door cursing!

    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

      Not a surprise. Always disappointing though.

    • michellc's avatar michellc says:

      I have seen with his supporters a Jones Town feel, especially from the Christian sect.

      Which, btw, I haven’t been hearing as much about him being the only Christian lately from the campaign. Could it be that it won’t benefit him as much from here on out?

  11. michellc's avatar michellc says:

    I have no idea who Mark Dice is and I guess too lazy to look him up. Who he is isn’t important for this video but what Michelle Fields wrote after this video shows her pattern.

    • BigMamaTEA's avatar BigMamaTEA says:

      That makes what…4 or 5 different incidences now?

      • michellc's avatar michellc says:

        I believe so.

        • michellc's avatar michellc says:

          She accused Allen West of grabbing her breast.
          She accused the NYPD of knocking her down, I believe that time she said the NYPD were more violent than the protesters.
          She accused this Dice guy.
          Not that I like Charles Johnson but he says she accused him of hacking her website.
          Now the campaign manager.

          I think she should have followed in her father’s footsteps and been a film writer.

      • lovely's avatar lovely says:

        I can find eight roads to glory for Michelle.

        1) Accused Corey Lewendowski of grabbing her with such force she was almost thrown to the ground like a rag doll and left with bruises on her arm. This incident in particular is the worst thing that has ever happened to her in her entire life other than he dad’s death.

        2) Accused Leonardo DiCaprio’s minder of pushing her out of the way.

        3) Accused NY police of knocking her to the ground.

        4) Accused Chuck Johnson of hacking her email.

        5) Accused Mark Dice of harassment.

        6) Accused Allen West of groping her.

        7) Claimed RFK got “handsy” with her.

        8) Claimed Family guy Creator hit on her when she was a teenager.

  12. Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

    Too bad we’re going to be overcast here in MI for the next couple of days.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-01/holes-in-the-sun-are-threatening-to-throw-birds-gps-off-course

    Northern Lights as far south as Maine and Michigan’s LP.

    • Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

      A few years ago, probably about 8 years ago, I watched them, standing in a backyard about 10 miles east of here, until my neck hurt.

      And they don’t make that tinkly sound like in the movies.

    • Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

      Technology is not his friend.

      I found that out when it came to the logistics of the artwork. I drew my part first and then shipped him the strips. I wanted him to fill in the panels I left blank, and simply scan and email me back the finished strips.

      I asked him to do this because I did not want to be responsible for handling his finished artwork. Partly because I knew it would be worth thousands of dollars. Partly because I knew he wanted to auction it off for charity. And partly because my UPS driver has a tendency to leave my packages in the dirt at the end of our driveway. (I could just imagine the email I’d have to write the next day: “Dear Mr. Watterson – The first comic strip you’ve drawn in 20 years was ravaged by a squirrel.”)

      So this left doing it my way. Digitally.

      And this is when I found out that Bill Watterson is not comfortable with scanners or Photoshop or large email attachments. In fact, by the end of the process, I was left with the distinct impression that he works in a log cabin lit by whale oil and hands his finished artwork to a man on a pony.

      So I proposed working out our technological issues over the phone. But he didn’t want to.

      At first I thought it was because he didn’t own one. Or have electricity. But then I remembered we were emailing.

      And so I soon came to the sad realization that he probably just didn’t want me to have his phone number. Which was smart. Because I would have called that man once a week for the rest of his life.

      And so we worked through the technological problems via email.

      And unlike every other technological problem I’ve ever had, it was not frustrating.

      It was the highlight of my career.

    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

      I really like Pastis, his ability to weave long and involved puns that end in a groan is praiseworthy. Wonder if we could get Hillary to get him to run as her VP, it would make her tenure tolerable.

  13. Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

    You won’t believe what THIS country did to Hawaii today!

    If Allen B. West had a blog in December of 1941.

    I respected the man until he got addicted to clickbait headlines that tell you nothing a headline is meant to tell you. Now, I don’t read anything he posts.

    • Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

      I wanted him to be POTUS.

      And now he’s using clickbait headlines.

      I haven’t had this big a case of buyer’s remorse since I voted Perot.

  14. Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

    http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=362529

    White House Censors “Islamist Terrorism” from Hollande’s Speech.

    Matthew 7:16 (KJV)

    Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

    We know you, Obama.

    • Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

      When the president of another nation, an Ally, gives a speech in America, and we censor it…

      …Sum Ting Wong.

      Remember when the Left used to use France as the poster child for everything America should be and isn’t?

      French culture has been erased by the Left.

      French culture = Muslim culture now. Or else you’re a bigot.

  15. shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:

    I just found this uplifting today. Man helps trapped foal.
    http://www.metaspoon.com/baby-horse-rescue/?fb=M1

  16. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Blue Collar Betrayal By BOTH Parties – Here’s Why American Workers Want Trump

    Another horrific statistic that will once again be promptly swept beneath the Mainstream Media rug, came out today.

    Nearly 30,000 manufacturing jobs were lost last month. 30,000 jobs, 30,000 lives altered, 30,000 families whose way of life vanished to some other worker in another country overseas.

    Those jobs were once considered the beating heart of America. If so, that heartbeat is nearly non-existent, and the patient is crashing before our very eyes…WE are crashing.

    • Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

      The comments I won’t vouch for. Many of these are Barnhardt People.

    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

      I got contacted a few weeks ago to go to some other country and teach 100+ people how to do some high tech job that has high pay here in the US, that they could do poorly for coins. I said, ‘No, but thank for calling.’
      These offshore companies are driving wages down in the tech sector in strange directions. Jobs that actually require first hand experience are being driven down, but jobs that don’t require more than a few classes or a certificate of learning are up. It’s almost like business owners are being told what is important and believing the dumbest things….

      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

        Yeah, as I posted before, people sweat BBs over losing their medical records to the Chineeor Russians yet there are companies in I dia and the Windward Islands who do a lot ( with more every day being sent there) of hospital and physician transcription. Then there are those overseas services that do things like read x-rays or provide other realtime services to physicians/hospitals after or even during business hours. The stuff is sent to them over the net and saves the provider having to employ a staffer onsite , much cheaper this way.

  17. Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

    Here, Lovely.

  18. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

    Well, you read about this stuff and then one day it happens in your family. My son is getting married in a few weeks, and we are getting a new grandson, a first grader. The young man is super intelligent, very well read, has a vocabulary many adults should envy, and relentless curiousity.

    He wanted to discuss global warming with my son over a recent meal. His teacher has done an excellent job of brainwashing him. My son explained, using fixed examples of the difference in temperatures during the era of the dinosaurs, and how much colder it was just two hundred years ago, explained that climate always changes, and no one can pretend to have the answers and specifics based on what man does.

    Nope. Not buying it. He is confident that the teacher he admires so much, who teaches him such fascinating things, would never lie to him, so he doesn’t believe his mom and soon to be step father, who he has on a big tall pedestal right now.

    Not surprising at all, his school is the best public school in the city, and full of very wealthy people who like to be just exactly positioned on the oh so important issues.

    I hate the American school system. Why is it that we allow total brainwashing in our schools?

    • Stella's avatar stella says:

      Ask him what he is willing to give up in order to stop global warming. That’s what we did when my younger grandson insisted that oil is evil (learned at school – where else?).

      We suggested that he give up riding in a car, or flying in a plane. No more going up north to the lake or on vacation to Florida.

      He’s not willing to do any of those things.

      • Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

        Every toy he has that is made out of plastic — is made from oil.

        Every non-plastic toy he plays with was manufactured using machines which are lubricated with oil.

        TAKE THEM ALL AWAY.

        See what happens.

    • Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

      I hate the American school system…

      Lately I don’t hate much of anything or anyone.

      Except that.

    • Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

      Possibe answer to your final question:

      Because both Mom and Dad have to work, now, to pay for billions in entitlements, hence we have to warehouse our K-12th-graders.

      People feel they have no other option.

      And the remaining options are social stigma, and make people’s Fecebook friends say “Icky!”. like Homeschooling and private schooling.

      • Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

        Oh, what a wonderful typo.

      • Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

        Ivory™ soap, with it;’s amazing floating capability, was also a complete accident.

        A wonderful one, still.

      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

        We sent our three to parochial schools. It literally almost buried us financially.

        • Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

          What does that matter? Seriously.

          • Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

            Would you rather be buried financially or all your kids be de-educated in the way of The State?

            I know which I’d choose.

            • Stella's avatar stella says:

              Obviously, that’s what she chose. Mine went to parochial from pre-school through 7th grade. Wish I had kept her there.

              • Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

                Most parochials stop at the 8th grade, sadly.

                A great K-8 education, and then toss you into the prison equivalent of General Population, to be attacked from all moral sides and corrupted.

                Why can’t parochial schools go to 12th? I don’t get this.

                • Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

                  Does the FedGov prohibit it, or something?

                  • Stella's avatar stella says:

                    No, there are Catholic high schools. My SIL and his siblings went to Catholic HS in Detroit (they lived on the east side).

                • Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

                  Maybe from 9th grade, on up, your private school gets a 10,000% increase in what they must pay the government in order to continue to exist.

    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

      “Why is it that we allow total brainwashing in our schools?”

      Silly. Because we were brainwashed to allow it.

      • Wooly Phlox's avatar Wooly Phlox says:

        It’s like the chicken or the egg question.

        There better be eggs tomorrow, Nyet!

        😀

        • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

          It was in that book I linked to here, written in 1790. Someone in Prussia tried to make a school that was nondenominational. The results on the children caused it to be shutdown within a few short years. Someone decided to do it again a few years after that with the goal this time being to cause the very same results. That was the beginning of our school system. The result? Children with no moral grounding, unthinking soldiers and factory workers.

    • texan59's avatar texan59 says:

      That last question is rhetorical, right? Mebbe you could home-school the lad, Miss Menage.

    • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

      Wow!! Congratulations, Menage!! I had no idea another of yer kids was getting married! You shall have grandkids out the wazoo!! 😀
      Plus, when the first grader iz taller, we can beat him.

    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

      Thank goodness WeeWeed! I couldn’t find the little bottles of booze in my hotel room at all!

      http://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/SAM_0138.jpg

    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

      Bar! Booze!

    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

      You get to go to a bar, I get to pump out a rain-overloaded septic system, such are the vicissitudes of life.

      • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

        Ha! You din’t level the dirt out, huh?

        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

          It’s an arrobic system with sprinklers. Theres a leak in the final tank somewhere and when the water pressure from a really heavy rain saturates the ground groubdwater will leak into the tank, stir up the crud on the bottom and clog the pump screen. I have to sump-pump it out then pull the built-in pump and clean the screens. Into every life a little effluent must flow – stoll beats those poor souls who get backup from the city system when the city gets a heavy rain.

    • texan59's avatar texan59 says:

      That looks linda ritzy for folks like me, Miss Wee. I’ll do my best to behave. I’m left alone in a big city. 🙄

      • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

        Where you iz, Bubba???

        • texan59's avatar texan59 says:

          In H-town. Leavin’ for MT at 0 dark thirty Monday mornin’. 🙄

          • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

            😯 Take yer coat – I don’t think they’re doin’ azaleas, yet.

            • texan59's avatar texan59 says:

              I’m fixin’ to fire this dum-bass weather man in my fruit phone then. Earlier in the week he said high of 63*. I can work with that. I ain’t got a suitcase big enough for freezin’ weather. 😯

              • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

                Ya’s wear the damJacket on the plane, take it off and put it in the overhead. Jus’ don’t forget to grab it when it’s time to get off.

              • Stella's avatar stella says:

                I just looked up Helena – their weather is supposed to be nicer that it will be here.

                • texan59's avatar texan59 says:

                  The sad part is I’m gonna be in the easternmost part of the state. Nothin’ purdy. Flat lands and oil rigs. Just like bein’ in Houston. Only colder. 🙄

                  • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

                    Well. Oil rigs. There’s that…….

                  • texan59's avatar texan59 says:

                    Don’t know if they’re workin’tho.

                  • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

                    Which brings to my peabrain – are all oil lands flat?? Slowdeatha was a basin (though you couldn’t tell it) – flat does not begin to describe it. The old saying was, “Slowdeatha ain’t hell, but you can see it from there.”

                  • texan59's avatar texan59 says:

                    Actually, the closest I think I’ve ever been to Hades, was in Sanderson, TX in July. Can’t remember ever havin’ to spend time out in yer ol’ stompin’ grounds. Sweet jeebus. 😯 😯

                  • texan59's avatar texan59 says:

                    I wuz here for several of them “weird years”, Miss Wee. 🙄

                • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

                  Yeah, I done heard that about Sanderson, too….. never made it there. Too hot…..

  19. michellc's avatar michellc says:

    Don’t know if this is reliable, but is claiming these are the phone records for DC Madam.

    http://www.therightperspective.org/2016/04/01/has-anonymous-dropped-ted-cruz-dc-madam-phone-dox/

  20. texan59's avatar texan59 says:

    Well, lookie here. A whole passel of Hilda-beest’s lackey’s all have the same attorney. This will be interesting.

    http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/hillary-clinton-fbi-strategy-emails-221435

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