General Discussion, Sunday, April 3, 2016

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Stella
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  1. Jacqueline Taylor Robson's avatar Jacqueline Taylor Robson says:
    April 3, 2016 at 12:08 am

    Good morning everyone! That looks like Holland. I love Tulips. We are supposed to have a frost tonight, wind is howling. I knew not to put my tomatoes out yet! I’m worried about my fig bush though. It’s too big to cover up!

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
      April 3, 2016 at 12:12 am

      I’m starting to rethink my hatred for bee swarms.

      I wish I could txt them the Rose Garden address in D.C.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
      April 3, 2016 at 12:17 am

      Apparently, AZ has that new strain of “Americanized honey bees”.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:
        April 3, 2016 at 12:50 am

        Honey bees don’t attack, especially when they are swarming – which is looking for a new home. They stay together in a clump. My cousins have bees, and rescue swarms, and our neighbor when I was in grade school kept bees. I went with him to rescue a swarm, and I didn’t wear any protection at all.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          April 3, 2016 at 1:34 am

          We’ll ignore the Africanized bees which bee prone to unprovoked violence…
          Generally honey bees won’t gratuitously attack but if you go over and mess with a hive, especially when they’re actively packing in honey, and you’ll bee meeting new friends. We had a ‘hive’ that was built in a broken magnolia at our NOLA property. One of the neighbors saw the bees and thought he could snatch sone free honey. He was warned but pooh-poohed their concerns ( sorry, couldn’t resist) and got stung more times than the Louisiana electorate under Jindal.
          You’re right about a swarm being fairly docile but I wouldn’t trust that it didn’t contain those Africanized American bees.

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          • michellc's avatar michellc says:
            April 3, 2016 at 9:37 am

            A cousin of my husband’s down in Texas almost died from African bees. He thought they were just honey bees until he got stung by hundreds of them. I’ve always heard that you can’t tell the difference with the naked eye, so I just leave them alone except for the times when I step on one barefoot.

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
              April 3, 2016 at 11:58 am

              About the only way you can tell is when hundreds, if not thousands, swarm out to attack you and follow you to the ends of the earth to sting the crap out of you. So fsr we haven’t had any around here but we have a couple of guys who move their hives to fields/farms to commercially pollenate crops. Can’t help but sweat they’ll bring back a gift that will keep on giving.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          April 3, 2016 at 12:13 pm

          Almost forgot, aside from the queen the swarm considts of drones. Drones have no stingers and no pockets to carry pistols, their only job is to try and fertilize the queen. Sorta like closing time at the neighborhood bar…

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        • BigMamaTEA's avatar BigMamaTEA says:
          April 3, 2016 at 12:30 pm

          Is this then “KILLER BEES?!” ha! – Mornin’ stellars!

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      • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
        April 3, 2016 at 9:44 pm

        I know honey bees.

        I was phobic until my dad took it up as a hobby. Just one hive.

        I’ve had too many bad experiences with wasps and yellow-jacket hornets though.

        Esoteric joke, but still just a joke. Americanized ones would do this, though.

        Because they love this country.

        After attacking the mosque, they’d go pollinate tulip fields in Holland, MI.

        It’s just a three-hour beeline (heh) from Dearborn, home of the 100 dB Adhan.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      April 3, 2016 at 12:45 am

      Are they sure that those are bees? Or if they are, perhaps Africanized bees?

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      • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
        April 3, 2016 at 12:59 am

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      • Molly's avatar Margaret-Ann says:
        April 3, 2016 at 2:48 am

        Speaking of bees, I recently read a very interesting but horrendous story. A small hotel in Chicago, near where we usually stay, had some honey bee houses in the back of the hotel. Owned by the hotel chef, he used the honey for cooking famous specialties and they sold a few jars of the honey in the gift shop. I don’t remember how long the houses had been there, many years, but some evil, mean, worthless idiot(s) sprayed them with pesticide one night. 😦

        The good news is they were able to save many queen bees, secure the area in its original place and the honey process is continuing. 🙂

        I’ve learned a lot reading yall’s comments! Thx.

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  3. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    April 3, 2016 at 1:35 am

    BTW, that photo reminds me of the flower fields around Lompoc, near the Mission La Purisma Concepcion:

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  4. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    April 3, 2016 at 1:36 am

    This one’s even better!

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  5. tessa50's avatar tessa50 says:
    April 3, 2016 at 2:32 am

    Some comments next door just curl my toes. I should not have commented, because it was wasted breath. A song for all, have a wonderful Sunday.

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  6. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    April 3, 2016 at 9:02 am

    Mornin’ kids!

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  7. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    April 3, 2016 at 9:34 am

    I heard Reince talking about the convention. I believe at this point they have an emerging strategy.

    My best guess is that they are losing a lot in donations and even the dull Reince realizes although they prefer Clinton to Trump, Clinton is very likely to stab them in the back and twist the knife until the RNC GOP is in almost as a precarious position sit would be with a Trump presidency. She will promise them quid pro quo but once she is in power she will do everything she can to woo the GOP/RNC grey train into her depot.

    If Reince Inc. spits on Trump and Trump supporters he knows that the RNC/GOP is left with a party that has been hit by a nuclear bomb, the restructuring and rebuilding will take generations and where can one find 30 pieces of silver to beg when one has nothing to offer in return?

    Reince mentioned as an aside that not only is the presidential nominee chosen at the convention so is the vice presidential nominee in a separate vote this in my opinion is what the deal is going to be, an attempt to saddle Trump with a bastard VP nominee. Likely that is a lot of what his chat with Trump was about, likely Trump was like I’ll entertain a Ryan or Cruz VP whilst inwardly chuckling at the absurdity of the idea.

    My two cents.

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  8. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    April 3, 2016 at 9:40 am

    Coffee up y’all, on this beautiful Sunday morning. 🙂

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  9. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    April 3, 2016 at 10:03 am

    I saw this on FOX and FRIENDS this morning. It is a small device that has Bible verses on it. The military can carry it into the field with them.
    https://militarybiblestick.com/

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  10. Stella's avatar stella says:
    April 3, 2016 at 10:39 am

    I just heard that Cruz picked up all of the Colorado delegates (big surprise). On the good side, here is Clarice’s weekly offering:

    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/if_this_is_tuesday_it_must_be_wisconsin.html

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  11. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    April 3, 2016 at 10:46 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    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! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    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! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    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’ 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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  13. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    April 3, 2016 at 11:55 am

    This may be part of the answer as to why so many of our “delicate snowflakes” love “The Bern”. 🙄

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/12/american-millennials-least-skilled-study_n_6852650.html

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  14. Stella's avatar stella says:
    April 3, 2016 at 12:14 pm

    Illegal labor: Why Ted Cruz may beat Donald Trump in Wisconsin

    http://www.examiner.com/article/illegal-labor-why-ted-cruz-may-beat-donald-trump-wisconsin

    Illegal labor is the profit lifeline that has Wisconsin dairy farmers alarmed about Donald Trump. They fear Trump will deport and cut off their labor source and the issue may swing the dairy vote to Ted Cruz. Over 85,000 illegals and their families are living and working in Wisconsin, mostly “tending cows.” On Friday, after speaking to Wisconsin farmers at the 56th annual WPS Farm Show, a FOX Business reporter who was discussing their new poll showing Ted Cruz ahead of Donald Trump in Wisconsin, nodded knowingly as he shared the top issue to Wisconsin dairy farmers is “immigrant labor.” Wisconsin is known for dairy products.

    I wonder. They could always vote Democrat, and not have to worry.

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    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
      April 3, 2016 at 12:51 pm

      I’m beginning to suspect many people that say they are Christian “conservative” don’t actually know what that means. When it comes to things that have a direct impact to them, they pick socialist things and claim it’s capitalism.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      April 3, 2016 at 12:53 pm

      WI has about 10,000 dairy farms. I don’t know how many communities are built and subsist on the dairy farm industry but it is a large voting block. It will be interesting to see where they cast their vote. I am hopeful that their patriotism outweighs their pocketbook and that they are capable of a longer vision than next years cost of milking a cow. I was under the impression that most dairy farms use milking machines so I’ll have to do some research.

      I think I will drive by one of the local farms in the are and see if they have any signs up. The only strong opinions I am hearing is that SE WI is tipping toward Cruz everyplace else is strongly Trump. I did drive by a huge dairy farm on the way to Trump’s Janesville rally, (it may have even been in Janesville) and they had no signs up. In fact there are very very few political signs up anywhere in WI.

      The dairy farms seem to be scattered mainly across Eastern WI so half are in Trump friendly WI and half are in Cruz friendly WI.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        April 3, 2016 at 4:29 pm

        Lots more stuff to do than milking s cow, ain’t easy, gets downright dirty and playing caretaker to a dairy don’t pay all that much.
        We have lots of kids leaving ranches and farms for the more fun big city, that leaves agibg ranchers/farmers with a labor shortage.
        We also have a lot of blueberry farms that need labor and the only labor they can reliably get at a realistic price are the professional migrants. They use the same ones year-to-year, many have winter jobs on farms in southern Texas or the Caribbean, it’s a czreer. Guarantee that if it weren’t for them you wouldn’t see blueberrys for sale at less than laughable prices.
        It’s a real problem, profit margins on dairies ain’t all that great and the subsidies keep more than one farmer from going under. One local dairy has gone boutique offering whole and almost-whole milk, real cream and custom cheeses but the threat of USDA bureaucrats making their life untenable is always hanging over them. Many of thes farms are one farmer dying away from becoming housing developments when the NOK sell them off to finance their city lives.

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  15. Stella's avatar stella says:
    April 3, 2016 at 12:18 pm

    Ted Cruz And The Wall Street Connection

    http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/01/ted-cruz-and-the-wall-street-connection/

    It was disturbing enough when Senator Ted Cruz announced that Neil Bush, brother of Jeb and George W., would be a Finance Chairman of his campaign.

    Neil defrauded U.S. taxpayers out of $1.5 billion dollars in a savings and loan scam. Now however, Cruz has announced a key appointment that should disturb voters even more.

    Cruz named Former Texas Senator Phil Gramm as his economic guru. This guy virtually crashed the U.S. economy. Gramm is largely responsible for two bills which led to the speculative bubble which popped in September 2008. First was his Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill that repealed Glass Steagall, which separated investment banking from commercial banking. Its repeal — which was signed into law by President Clinton, with the backing of Robert Rubin and Larry Summers — opened the door for a flood of money, from commercial banks, to flow into mortgage-backed securities and other funny-money schemes, which blew up in 2008. ….

    Phil Gramm is now an official at UBS, the Swiss bank which has been under fire for its protection of tax-cheating U.S. corporations and the upper echelon of financial speculators. Gramm would be the architect of the Cruz economic model, great for Wall Street but no so hot for American taxpayers.

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    • BigMamaTEA's avatar BigMamaTEA says:
      April 3, 2016 at 12:38 pm

      glad to see that someone is finally reporting that.

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    • Molly's avatar Margaret-Ann says:
      April 3, 2016 at 4:32 pm

      I absolutely detest the Gramms and what they have done to Texas. His wife, Wendy, was on the board at Enron. When Enron fiasco happened, my parents, along with many elderly people here in west Texas, completely lost any life-savings investments at Enron. Meanwhile, Phil Gramm quietly slivers away & leaves his seat while this is going on.

      Now what is surprising to me. is to learn (above) that Gramm is with UBS. This is where MY money (not much, HA) is invested. I am closing the account tomorrow.

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    • tessa50's avatar tessa50 says:
      April 3, 2016 at 7:17 pm

      Why isn’t Bush in prison?

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  16. derk's avatar derk says:
    April 3, 2016 at 1:11 pm

    Found this debate from next door, very good. Haven’t finished it as yet. Mark Steyn is one of the two Con panel going against the Pro of refugee immigration.

    http://www.c-span.org/video/?407440-1/munk-debate-global-refugee-crisis

    Very fitting as I am in a prolonged e-mail debate on same subject with a good friend in Vancouver. Good points being made, and really airs out both sides. The Canadians do have a greater level of decorum in this setting than I have seen in any of our GOP debates.

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  18. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    April 3, 2016 at 4:09 pm

    Woo Hoo! 120 feet of tomater row in, tilled, fertilized, planted and ready for drop hose and mulch. Not bad fer an afternoon and I still have to drop the GGS off at his mom’s. Drinks on the porch with Haggard playin’ in the background to look forward to.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      April 3, 2016 at 6:45 pm

      Great read Wooly!

      We live in a fallen world, where hard choices must be made, where people must sometimes be turned away because you cannot help them, or because the risk to your own is too great to bear.

      Amen!

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  21. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
    April 3, 2016 at 6:11 pm

    Another inspiring read found at Doug Ross’ site.

    http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/american_studies/west_exit.php

    I really need to read that site more often.

    It’s like NPR. But with intelligence.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
      April 3, 2016 at 6:45 pm

      Truth, love, and beauty are making a comeback in music right now.

      The grunge, hatred, sickness, and ugliness in music from the late 1980’s to the early 2000’s has been rejected by this new renaissance.

      I could list 30 bands or solo artists right now who are singing about truth, love and beauty, and not all that garbage. It is these artists who (if we survive) will be played a hundred years hence. And nobody then will even know who Soundgarden and Nirvana and Alanis Morrisette were. Beatles wrote love songs. Van Morrison wrote love songs. They still play in mass media. In fifty years, todays mostly alternative underground hits by Mumford and Sons, Lumineers, highasakite, Of Monsters and Men, Sam Smith, (and many, many more artists) will still be played — because they exhibit a love for truth, love, and beauty.

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  22. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    April 3, 2016 at 6:40 pm

    The republicans and democrats like their house just as it is, filthy dirty and rolling in corruption.

    Every time they look at Trump I believe this is what they see;

    No wonder they are acting like hysterical ninnies.

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  23. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    April 3, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    Tennessee Williams Festival in the Quarter Today. Dozens of would-be Brandos standing under the balcony of one of the Pontalba buildings yelling “STELLA!!!!” as a heavily medicated crowd cheered them on.

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  24. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
    April 3, 2016 at 10:15 pm

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  25. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
    April 3, 2016 at 10:23 pm

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  26. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
    April 3, 2016 at 11:34 pm

    The whole kitchen heard this today, with Pandora as the audio source, and Alabama Shakes as the station seed. Everyone in the kitchen thought it was really Michael Jackson.

    It was Cheryl Crow. This video should be presented under “uncanny” in the OED online edition.

    I ran downstairs to look at the Ipad connected to the kitchen’s stereo, ran back up, and nobody believed me when I told them it was this one-sheet-of-teepee-using lefty singer.

    Say what you will about Cheryl, or about our Thug Thizzle Preezy, but this lady absolutely nails it.

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  27. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    April 4, 2016 at 6:55 pm

    Welllll, how ’bout dat? DEA fonally has the Administration permission to announce publicly and with attribution that the fentanyl that’s killing re ord number of abusers is not only coming in to the US from cartel deaers in Mexico but is made in China. Now if the Administration would say that the Chinese governmentbknows damned good and well what’s going on, you just don’t make and ‘lose’ a few million doses of a narcotic that powerful, and that the Chinese are knowingly making money off of the illegal sales………OK, baby steps.

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