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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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Feel-good story of the day.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/20-stung-swarm-bees-arizona-mosque/story?id=38104500
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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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LOL 😀
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Apparently, AZ has that new strain of “Americanized honey bees”.
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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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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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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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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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There are many around here these days who keep hives. I’m always hoping they don’t attract evil guests. lol
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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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Is this then “KILLER BEES?!” ha! – Mornin’ stellars!
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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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Are they sure that those are bees? Or if they are, perhaps Africanized bees?
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I hope everyone has a bee-utiful Sunday.
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“You want me to do WHAT? You don’t pay me enough to do that, go make your own @&#%* honey! The S O Bee.
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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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BTW, that photo reminds me of the flower fields around Lompoc, near the Mission La Purisma Concepcion:
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This one’s even better!
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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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I comment when I shouldn’t also, tessa. I make mistakes and I mentally beat myself up when I do… all the time. It’s OK. It is what it is. I read where you said you aren’t a big Trump supporter. It’s ALL Trump right now, unless you can stick only on the daily Open thread. I understand, I took a long break from next door a while back for other reasons, mainly because of some members.
What saves me from this “personal trauma/drama” HA, is knowing the comments will roll down the page and be forgotten soon.
Thanks for the video. 🙂
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“I understand, I took a long break from next door a while back for other reasons, mainly because of some members.”
What did I write this time?!?
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HA! You were one of the first, nicest ppl when I first landed there — you are the least of my problems, mister. 🙂 I think we were mistaken as “flirting” once, and a member intervened and informed you she was going to tell your wife. I quickly backed off (as I am happily married) and kept my distance … but continued to laugh at your hilarious comments. 😀
Then .. as the story goes, I found you here! The rest is history.
And it’s a shemale over there and that’s ALL I am saying. 🙄
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There are lots of them over there Margaret-Ann. Especially on certain threads. YIKES!
ps: I flirt with nyet constantly, and then read them to my hubby! ha! (guess we’ve been married a loooong time!)
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Yikes is right! Thanks for confirming. I needed that.
Oh I read “flirtation stuff” to my husband also. I even ask for his advice/suggestions every now and then. 😛
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HELP !
help me !
I’m in SPAM next door and the floor’s sticky !
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Oh, dear. I have been known to do that from time to time as a joke. I hope I didn’t dissuade you. I apologize if I did. 😦 😳
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Heaven’s no. You were one of the 1st friendlies too, as I recall. In fact, I felt like I kinda knew you b/c of some old posts of yours I have seen at Rumpole’s. 😉
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It’s me isn’t Margaret ? I’ve been Shemale-ing you all over the place 😀
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ROTFLMBO! 😛
OMGosh, I am laughing out loud, endorphin’s screaming as I type.
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But, I have on more than one occasion said that I was going to tell Nyet’s wife something, teasing him. And, I do forget that facial expressions, etc. don’t show on the Internet. And, not everyone knows my weird sense of humor. 😳
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If it was you, I thought nothing of it and obviously it didn’t stick with me as you being a threat. I was more skeered of Nyet’s wife. 😳
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You mean, “She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named”?
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Yes, THAT was what it said! haha too funny
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Well, I have now been told I am suffering from pathological altruism. Note to self, do not reply, do not reply. This wasn’t about Trump by the way, but about abortion. Sigh, do not reply. Hope you and all are having a good day.
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Didn’t stop me from replying. What kind of people are we attracting these days?
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Your reply’s are much better than mine. I worry about saying the wrong thing, or it getting into an argument as I don’t control myself as well as others. So for me, better to just let it be sometimes. IDK who these peeps are, but doesn’t she have such a sweet and light name? Shocked me, I tell ya, what came outa that mouth.
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I think it’s actually a “he”. Click through to the person’s blog.
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OH. Will check that when I go there.
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They are nasty. I’ve seen conversations with this person before, and he or she is not very respectful.
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I have someone in mind I avoid. Is it three words and starts with an F?
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Curiosity got you, too? 😉
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Menagerie, please disregard my Q. I should have looked first. 😉
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I’ve been busy with work stuff, but I keep coming back to this and deleting comment after comment once I read them back to myself. I haven’t read anything next door in a few days. I think from the big word usage was made to ultimately discredit any further responses and gain followers.
Kinda like, “Hey look, so-n-so wrote big words n’ stuff and made tessa50 cry! That’s so cool. Let’s write supporting comments and make more people cry (until the mods ban us, but who cares right?)!”
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It isn’t the “meanness” of the new type of visitor, but their political and social views. The first two who were put on the black list today were in favor of abortion for the blacks, as a means of decreasing the population – otherwise known as eugenics. The third one posted an antisemitic YouTube video. One of the “eugenics” proponents told me that the social views of conservatives are what turns off so many people. No thanks.
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Ah. I always wonder if those people really believe what their saying. I saw a lot of families this weekend of various skin colors. No one of them acted like they were from Ferguson.
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Okay, this puzzle is driving me crazy. Who said what and did what? 😦
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Start reading here, and down past tessa’s comments until you reach Menagerie’s comment.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/04/01/friday-april-1st-open-discussion/comment-page-1/#comment-2347103
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Holy cow. No kidding.
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😯 Holy Cow! {cringe} No wonder it caused so much discussion here.
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Lovely, Tessa, Menagerie, and Stella, you all rocked right there.
And I mean, more than usual.
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And that’s saying something.
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They rocked, but I was happy reading what they wrote!
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Don’t ever delete your comments because of me Nyet. I can take it. I was more shocked by what they believe than anything. Worried that my reply really wouldn’t be nice, so I stopped commenting.
Your humor does us all a world of good!
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Tessa, I didn’t intend to minimize your situation, if it appeared that way. Sorry, he’s a big jerk. How are you doing tonight? 🙂
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Margaret-Ann, I just saw this comment. No, your comment didn’t bother me at all. You are always kind to all. I was doing fine last night! LOL Hope your day is going well.
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Beautiful! Perfect for this beautiful Lord’s day!
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Mornin’ kids!
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Bravo! Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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A-to-the-men!!. Good mornin’ Miss Wee. The troof. 😯
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Mornin’ T!
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Good morning, Wee … and ~All! 🙂
Counting my blessings!
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Mornin’ Margaret-Ann!
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Heh! This is why the cover themselves in honey! So they don’t get stung by the drones….
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That and the fact that drones don’t have stingers. Don’t hang around bees, Rats or millennials much, does ya?
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Only when forced.
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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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Great info, Lovely. Very interesting on your take about the vice presidential nominee talk. Love the last line .. made me chuckle. 🙂
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Good morning Miss Margaret 🙂
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Good afternoon, ((((Lovely))))!
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lovely, do you think Rinse cares? He is leaving his position for 2017. (wonder where he’s going next?! {sarc}
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Bet Reince will be askin’ the attending big wigs if the have any openings for a sorta washed-up exec type…
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Coffee up y’all, on this beautiful Sunday morning. 🙂
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Garcias!
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Day nodder, ma’am. 😉
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Good morning and thank you, Tex. 🙂
It is certainly a beautiful morning in west Texas. I have birds outside my window, having a party.
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Thanks, Texan59!!! Bless you for that!
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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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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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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels)
( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(B52)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
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! 🙂 🍸 (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! 🙂
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!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Pastries for coffee!
⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Garcias B!
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Seems like someone is skimpin’ on breakfast around here. Do you know anything about this Dr. No? 😉
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Looks good. Mornin’ Nyet and everyone.
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Good morning Auscitizenmom 🙂
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Thanks Nye! 🙂
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This still looks delicious to me. Haven’t had breakfast yet. 🙂 Thx Nyet!
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The breakfast photo (first one) is probably a classic you should keep on hand. The bisquit/roll, eggs, and bacon — I can see a very nice breakfast sandwich being made out of those three items. Mmmmmm. Perfection!
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Interesting article about Ivana Trump.
http://nypost.com/2016/04/03/ivana-trump-opens-up-about-how-she-advises-donald-his-hands/
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A really good read. Ivana is an interesting person, herself.
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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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I just watched a college degree holding casher give me the wrong change 3 times this morning.
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And I bet the register told her what your change was. They can’t even make correct change when given the answer.
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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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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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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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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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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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glad to see that someone is finally reporting that.
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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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Why isn’t Bush in prison?
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Because, Papa Bush fixed it for him. (Helps when your dad is vp or POTUS!)
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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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Debate actually starts at the 6:30 mark, helpful
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That is some true right there, good post
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Well put point.
Not even their chosen front-runners “attacked” or criticized Obama in either ’07/08 or ’11/12. Let alone their punditry and their spokespeople. It was kid gloves the whole time. Silk gloves, even.
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It’s almost like it didn’t really matter to them who won so long as their place at the trough remained accessible to them.
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It doesn’t matter. The trough position is exactly correct.
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You had me till Cruz. LOL
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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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Couldn’t resist, was seven plants short of a full row so on the way back from dropping the GGS off I bought them and put ’em in soon as I got back. Also set fire to a large brush pile as the winds die down at sunset. The outside volunteer cat once agiain saw a fire starting, ran out and jumped on the tractor fender, about fifteen feet away, to meatloaf down and watch the fire. Don’t know what it is about farm pets and fires but ours are about one box of matches and and an opposable thumb away from being pyromaniacs.
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To “meatloaf down”.
A way with words, you have.
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(My mom calls that “cameling”, when cats do that meatloaf imitation.)
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Yeah, we do ‘breadloaf’ too but his guy looks like a meatloaf
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Was Willie there, too? 😉
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Sorry, I freed Willie…couldn’t keep off the grass
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Willie Nelson is going to be at SummerFest in Milwaukee. He gave up smoking and drinking for a brief period in his life it was just before he recorded his Mendocino County Line CD and he lost a lot of the gravel in his voice. I loved his smoother voice, but apparently a lot of people did not.
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I have a lot of his albums and his voice, to me, matches the song to the time. I psrticilarly like hom paired with Haggard.
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I still find it hard to believe that my father loved Willie Nelson’s singing. He didn’t like his scruffy appearance, though.
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“I spent time with an Angel who was just passin’ through.”
What a great line. I could say that about a whole lotta people I’ve known.
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Still too cold here for planting. 😦 Maybe end of April.
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Already touching 80 here, mid-50s at night, so the tomatoes and peppers can get their feet in before the real heat sets in. Just great to be done with winter and see things growing again.
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Our tulips and daffodils will bloom in a week if we’re lucky.
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Sorry, close as I could get to a Swiss gardening song. BTW, I had a roommate in the military who was obsessed with this song as played/sang it endlessly. One of the reasons I volunteered for Vietnam.
Our daffodils are come and gone but we have various irises that are just warming up in the bullpen.
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If I were within striking range, I would have already smacked you upside the head for even thinking this is “Swiss”. It’s Austrian, seen through the eys of Hollywood. Grrrrrrr…. 🙂
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How about this?
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Excellent. I used to play trumpet in high school. A few years ago, as part of a company event, we had and Alp horn group entertain for a bit. They brough extra mouthpieces for guests to try. I was the last one. I practically shattered windows in a 10 miles radius. The leader of the Alp horn group is still houding me to join them! (no time, no place to practice)
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First time I ever heard those. The sound is very nice.
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Oh come on, don’t get your lederhosen in a knot, the edelweiss is the Swiss unofficial national flower. Be nderstanding, it’s the reich thing to do.
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See, there can be no understanding without ‘U’.
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Ahhhh zo, kumplete zilenze, he fell into my Trapp…
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Grrrrr. Swiss do not wear lederhosen. Germans and Austrians do. The edelweiss is the unofficial flower, but it’s not the imported kitsch version from Hollywood/Vienna.
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Hit a nerve, did we? Over around Graubunden and St Gallen soneone’s probably got a pair of those pinishment panrs in their regional costume drawer, the Austro-Hungarians were so keen on sharing. Lemme look, I may have a version of Edelweiss done by David Bowie with an oompah accompaniment.
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Mom! Czar is picking on me!!! Make him stop or we will close the border!
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Another country where I’ll never be a zoll survivor
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Sounds like here. It snowed yesterday.
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Excellent open letter to progressives.
http://thedeclination.com/not-all-muslims-individuals-vs-generalization/
Hat tip: Doug Ross @ Journal
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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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Good news!
Father Tom Uzhunnalil kidnapped in Yemen ‘could be freed soon’
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/father-tom-uzhunnalil-kidnapped-in-yemen-could-be-freed-soon/1/634069.html
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Pray God for his freedom.
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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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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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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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They aren’t just acting.
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That is true Menagerie 🙂
No wonder they are hysterical ninnies.
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This is Geisel:
http://library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dswenttowar/index.html
He was amazing, beyond belief.
I bet Ramirez, B. Breathed, and Branco all have his prints on their walls.
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(Before he became Dr. Seuss, he was our nation’s best editorial cartoonist.)
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Dr. Seuss was quite influential in getting the U.S. involved in WW2.
Thank God.
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Great Britain ought to have a national Dr. Seuss Holiday, or a month dedicated to him, even. He was for them, like I’m for Israel.
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Thanks very cool Wooly!
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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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Thought you’d like that
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1979. Her second record.
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I hope you have good audio.
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But even if you’re completely deaf, this video is good.
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LOL! 🙂
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Well, shoot! Wasn’t making light of anyone with hearing disability. I read that sentence completely wrong! Laughed and clicked post too soon. 😉 smh
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I’ve done that quite a few times. 😦
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Me, on the other hand?
I’ve never done that, ever.
😉
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LOL
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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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Don’t ever pretend talent and knowledge are related.
Tell the lefties that are talented to shut up and sing.
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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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