General Discussion, Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Stella

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  1. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    April 5, 2016 at 12:02 am

    Unintentional (?) camouflage.

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    April 5, 2016 at 12:05 am

    They estimate that 7,500 people attended Franklin Graham’s Decision America Tour stop in Sacramento (I was there!) Here’s a photo–if you look close, you’ll see the back of my head (LOL):

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  3. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    April 5, 2016 at 12:11 am

    From somewhere in the middle of Montana. Coffee up y’all. 🙂

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  4. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    April 5, 2016 at 12:22 am

    For my friend Miss Wee. Some nuggets from your buddy, Bette Davis. 😆

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/gallery/crushing-bette-davis/ss-BBrlXlf?ocid=mailsignout

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  5. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    April 5, 2016 at 12:52 am

    “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
    –Proverbs 22:6–

    Children’s comic printed by Turkish government encourages boys and girls to seek martyrdom

    https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/childrens-comic-printed-by-turkish-government-encourages-boys-and-girls-to-seek-martyrdom/

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  6. Molly's avatar Margaret-Ann says:
    April 5, 2016 at 1:26 am

    I won’t be up early enough to post this at the appropriate time … so don’t listen until sunrise. Or listen twice. (not being bossy) 😉

    Everyone have a wonderful Wisconsin Primary Tuesday. Waving to you up there, Lovely! 😀

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  7. Molly's avatar Margaret-Ann says:
    April 5, 2016 at 1:30 am

    I forgot to mention Stella, that is a gorgeous header photo you chose. Can’t top that! 🙂

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  8. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    April 5, 2016 at 1:34 am

    “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
    –Proverbs 22:6–

    Colorado Preschool Kicks 4-Year-Old Out When Her Parents Question LGBT Indoctrination

    Colorado preschool kicks 4-year-old out when her parents question LGBT indoctrination

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      April 5, 2016 at 2:58 am

      Then it’s time too kick out or Recall the school board, stop paying your school taxes, call/host a meeting of concerned parents. Get in the face of your local elected officials. Be forewarned, the LGBT does the same thing. This is another form of lawlessness, evil that needs to be defeated.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      April 5, 2016 at 9:27 am

      Everybody’s in a protected class except the Christians. Can’t say Jesus didn’t warn us. Over and over, but we often don’t like that part so we mentally go nananana while that part of his teachings is shared.

      That whole part about taking up his cross has been pushed aside by many people for the name it and claim it bunch. I think of them as air plants. They kinda float around and make themselves noticeable but they have no roots in the soil.

      Now, discipline Menagerie! On to my point. It is in here somewhere. Oh yes. Martyrs. The Church lives, grows, passes on the Truth because of martyrs. Some of them gave their very lives, but most just had to endure a lot of suffering here on Earth. When our time comes to fight that fight, be it with a school board or a voting booth, or with an actual person wielding a weapon, may we pray for the strength to do our part to pass on what we have been handed at great cost.

      Most Christians think of that great cost once a year, on Good Friday or Easter Sunday. They absolutely are ignorant of the facts of their faith, and what it took over the centuries to ensure that it could be handed down to them. That is exceedingly sad, as it cheats people of the knowledge of the vastness that is their heritage. I believe those who do know and embrace that heritage are the ones who are questioning indoctrination, and every other thing that we hear about in the news.

      Generally people of shallow faith and poor understanding don’t fight the fight.

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      • ZurichMike's avatar ZurichMike says:
        April 5, 2016 at 9:33 am

        Love the “air plants” metaphor.

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      • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
        April 5, 2016 at 9:48 am

        Second Timothy chapter 3 (KJV)

        This prophecy is coming to fruition, right now, and fully.

        We absolutely WILL be persecuted.

        All I can say is Rejoice, and know that God’s Word is truth.

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      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
        April 5, 2016 at 6:18 pm

        “They absolutely are ignorant of the facts of their faith, and what it took over the centuries to ensure that it could be handed down to them.”

        I’m not sure that it matters at the moment or to the ignorant, but it has been done on purpose repeatedly to all of us in Western civilization. If we personally get out of this somehow during our lifetimes I want to figure out what needs to be passed on so it doesn’t happen again for a very long time, if ever.

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  9. Molly's avatar Margaret-Ann says:
    April 5, 2016 at 1:41 am

    Is this the place to briefly rant? Not a whole page rant (that’s one of my rants, btw) but just expressing some types of comments that drive me CRAZY. Thinking if I get it off my chest and receive some feedback, I can spend my mental energy on better things. Thanks!

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    • tessa50's avatar tessa50 says:
      April 5, 2016 at 5:42 am

      Hope you are feeling better about whatever made you crazy!

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      • Molly's avatar Margaret-Ann says:
        April 5, 2016 at 6:16 am

        I am MUCH better, thank you! I confided in a friend and he said “just pass up, pass over people” and learn to “let go” of things that drive me crazy. Which was very good advice. He knows next door better than I do.

        With that said, LOL, I do get a lot of info and enjoy seeing tweets now and then. But I go to twitter to read tweets and — there are some people that only do comments via a tweet with no text to them, over and over and over. But that is something I cannot change or control so it’s in the “let it go” column.

        Have a great day, Tessa. My days and nights are mixed up so I am headed to bed. 🙂

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  10. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    April 5, 2016 at 2:26 am

    Blessings to all this new day! Save me some breakfast, please…

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      April 5, 2016 at 3:00 am

      Mary, And to you also.

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    • ZurichMike's avatar ZurichMike says:
      April 5, 2016 at 9:37 am

      Just had a typical yummy “greasy spoon” breakfast at a tiny Greek diner. Eggs, potatoes, toast and BACON!!!! Love getting such breakfasts whenever I am stateside. Love sitting at the counter and watching them make breakfast fresh, with all the hustle and bustle.

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      • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
        April 5, 2016 at 10:01 am

        Re: greasy spoon

        I really miss this place. It was a 24-hour diner.

        If anyone was sitting at that table in the back corner, and the local, elderly, crazy cropduster came in, they got up and moved to another table. That’s his table. When they banned smoking in diners, this place shut down. And not even the nonsmokers minded it. Three times a week I ate breakfast there. Canned Hormel corned beef hash, burned on the flat-top. Strong coffee, and great people, both customers and staff.

        Then:

        Now:

        Democrats. Everything they do results in abandonment and decay.

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        • ZurichMike's avatar ZurichMike says:
          April 5, 2016 at 10:10 am

          I love establishments like the one you described. When my partner and I were touring New England in the fall, we were in New Hampshire in a tiny town and it was early in the morning and he wanted to have breakfast, so I pulled into a gas station and he said “We don’t need gas.” And then I pointed to *inside* the gas station, where there was also a little diner, with rough-hewn wooden tables, mismatched chairs and benches, filled with farmers, locals, truck drivers, and it was perfect: eggs, bacon, potatoes, short stack of pancakes, bisquits/toast, juice, coffee. For the two of us, the total bill was $11.00. Best.Breakfast.Ever.

          But it’s so normal now having non-smoking restaurants and eateries (even in Europe, and especially in noted smoking countries such as Ireland, UK, France, and Spain) that even the smokers prefer the non-smoking enviornment (i.e., they can smell and taste the food, for example!).

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          • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
            April 5, 2016 at 10:27 am

            Good point, ZM, but in this place, we really didn’t want to smell or taste the food, because, although a nourishing breakfast, it wasn’t really haute cuisine.

            It was about more than that. When I first started working at the best breakfast/lunch place in town, 9 years ago, they all asked me, incredulous, “you actually eat there?”

            Yep.

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        • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
          April 5, 2016 at 10:20 am

          Last fall I spent a week in New England with my son. We ate at a restaurant that looked just like that somewhere outside NYC. The bathroom had the original tile, kind of a seafoam green color in the tiny little octagons on the wall, and black and white on the floor. The atmosphere was just like what you describe, and it was obvious most people knew each other. The food was really good, and I am quite the breakfast snob, because I can rarely get food as good as my kitchen. This was that good.

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        • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
          April 5, 2016 at 10:27 am

          A non related story just because this made me think of it. I learned to cook from my mother in law and grandmother in law. The mother in law taught me how to make biscuits and gravy, but I was a slow learner. It took me a long time to get it right, even though I now know biscuits are just about the easiest thing ever to cook. My MIL used to very kindly tell me that my cooking would be just as effortless and good as hers when I had been doing it for so many years.

          When I finally mastered the biscuits, my husband used to tell me that my biscuits were second best in all the world. One day a month or two after my mother in law died, my husband looked at me over a plate of biscuits and gravy, eyes full of held back tears and said “You make the best biscuits in the world.”

          It was a compliment that I understood at that moment I had never wanted.

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          • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
            April 5, 2016 at 10:30 am

            Not. Gonna. Cry.

            …

            Ah, shoot.

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            April 5, 2016 at 3:53 pm

            Czarina swears that what cemented our relatinship was the night, while we were dating, she made dinner. She made gravy and…well, shall we say she was heavily into survival cooking…it didn’t turn out well. Tempting fate I carefully suggested that I might take a try at touching up the product around the edges…she liked the results.
            Since then there have been spots that are more of grave than of gravy….OWOWOWOWOW….OK, I take it back….OWOWOW

            ( BTW, Czarina read and approved)

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            • michellc's avatar michellc says:
              April 5, 2016 at 7:41 pm

              My mother wasn’t big on us doing anything in the kitchen that we might mess up as she didn’t like waste, so she never taught me or allowed me to even attempt at making gravy.

              My first attempt after I got married didn’t turn out so well. I called my mom and asked her how to make it, she said to mix grease, flour and milk together. She left out a step and so did I. I mixed it all together and had a mess. I later told my sister and once she got finished laughing she told me the correct way. It still took me several tries before I got it right, but I experimented while alone so my DH couldn’t laugh until I got it right. One time watching him try to not to laugh was enough for me. It was a few years before he felt safe telling the story of my gravy.

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                April 5, 2016 at 11:21 pm

                I mentioned once before that my introduction to cooking was when I complained about sonething my grandmother had cooked. I was given an apron, a sppon and lessons – not just one lesson but an almost endless string of them. It went well too, after I’d enlisted, as the were a number of times I foubd myself in food-deprived dituations where the choice was eat the C-rations, LRRPS, MREs, Tray-Rats or whatever garbage was being offered up, or do something with it or whatever was available. That led to an appreciation for taste and variety and, as my crowning achievement, living in New Orlens, the undisputed food center for the known universe. I learned to iron and do laundry for exactly the same reason/mistakes.
                Making gravy for the first few tomes ain’t easy, it goes against the known tenets of science, but once you get it down it’s like riding a bike. Once you get into the practice there’s very little that gravy won’t improve, I’ betting that a huge roiling pot of bubbling hot gravy could even help this Administration if correctly applied.

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                • michellc's avatar michellc says:
                  April 5, 2016 at 11:39 pm

                  Somebody gave me two cases of canned beef when my kids were young. We didn’t have much money in those days and although my first thought when opening up one of the cans was to feed it to the dogs, because that’s kind of what it looked like, I decided to see if I could make it edible.
                  I added some onions sauteed in bacon fat, a few spices and a pan of brown gravy and some roasted veggies. Fooled the kiddos and the DH and made them all think I had slow cooked and shredded roast. My DH kept trying to figure out where the roast came from. I did tell him the truth, but didn’t tell the kiddos. Long after that canned meat was gone the kids started asking when we were going to have that chopped meat again.
                  My DH often told his friends I could make dog food taste good and had.

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                  • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                    April 6, 2016 at 12:15 am

                    It is, in all truth, just a matter of technique. I find that many people convince themselves they can’t cook before they even try. I got to be in the kitchen during a major chef’s event each year and you’d be surprised how many of the tastiest dishes are rather easy to prepare. Work hard, eat well.

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                  • michellc's avatar michellc says:
                    April 6, 2016 at 12:25 am

                    My DH is a pretty darn good cook himself, but he was self taught. It was either learn how to cook or starve when he was growing up. When his mother did cook even the dogs wouldn’t eat it and rarely did she cook at all.
                    His problem is he only learned to cook things he liked, so he’s an expert at over easy eggs, oatmeal, potatoes, pasta, pizza and any kind of meat cooked anyway you like.
                    That’s why I love Italian night and grill night because i don’t have to do much.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          April 5, 2016 at 3:43 pm

          There is/was ( it’s been a while) old timey tin trailer diner by the Pentagon up towards the Navy Annex. Great place to stop for Sunday brunch, you could get real greasy quality American food in a DC eatery still owned and run by Americans. Fried eggs, bacon, biscuits with gravy ( or grits, it was on the cusp,of the grits belt), real coffee-coffee…hope it’s still there.

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        • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
          April 5, 2016 at 6:10 pm

          As I said about abandonment and decay, from Doug Ross today:

          http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2016/04/urban-decay-in-chicago-abandoned.html

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  12. ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
    April 5, 2016 at 2:49 am

    Ted married Heidi after DC indiscretion.
    Thus, did not cheat on her, in his miind. 😉

    http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/04/04/ted-cruz-dc-madam-black-book-cheating-wife-prostitute/

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  14. tessa50's avatar tessa50 says:
    April 5, 2016 at 5:44 am

    I hope everyone has a great day!

    Stella, do you know what kind of flower that is? It is pretty.

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  15. ZurichMike's avatar ZurichMike says:
    April 5, 2016 at 6:56 am

    Particularly jaw-dropping lovely photo today!

    So here I am in New York. Got in yeterday afternoon and immediately went to Crate & Barrel on Broadway in SoHo to get those wine glasses mentioned yesterday, then met up with a friend I have known since kindergarden who had lived in New York since high school (she went to New York University) and we went out for Indian food (I had a particular craving for spicy food)! Today is dull: just meetings inside a hotel conference room. But then again, more time for shopping and dinner this evening!

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  16. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    April 5, 2016 at 7:47 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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  17. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    April 5, 2016 at 7:54 am

    Mornin’ y’all!

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  18. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    April 5, 2016 at 8:39 am

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  20. doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:
    April 5, 2016 at 9:47 am

    ‘Our eyes connected and I thought “Wow”‘: Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin gushes about presidential hopeful and describes the moment they first met
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3522657/Our-eyes-connected-thought-Wow-Hillary-Clinton-s-aide-Huma-Abedin-gushes-presidential-hopeful-describes-moment-met.html

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  21. Stella's avatar stella says:
    April 5, 2016 at 9:49 am

    Facebook reminds me this morning that I posted this article two years ago:

    Democrats: The Real Party Of The Rich

    http://www.investors.com/democrat-political-donations-outstrip-republicans/

    By almost every measure, in fact, it’s the Democrats, not the Republicans, who are the party of the rich.

    Start with Congress itself. Who are the wealthiest members? Well, there are 269 millionaires among Congress’ 535 members. And most of them are Democrats.

    And contrary to the hand-wringing on the left about the Supreme Court’s 5-4 McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission ruling Wednesday, Democrats far outspend Republicans on elections. It isn’t even close.

    According to OpenSecrets.org, from 1989 to 2014 rich donors gave Democrats $1.15 billion — $416 million more than the $736 million given to the GOP. Among the top 10 donors to both parties, Democrat supporters outspent Republican supporters 2-to-1.

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      April 5, 2016 at 10:30 am

      Morning Stella!

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
      April 5, 2016 at 10:39 am

      When I was 19 or 20 in Boston, reading five newspapers a day, I realized that Dems were actually the party of the rich when looking at the advertisements in both the Globe (the Lib paper) and the Herald (the Conservative one). The ads in the former were for luxury items, Sotheby’s auctions, diamonds, and everything fancy and exorbitant. The latter had ads for things that people who work might want, and none of the ultra-luxe stuff you would see in the former.

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  22. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
    April 5, 2016 at 10:12 am

    This an idea whose time has come, and hopefully will happen.

    Mexico’s biggest source of revenue is illegals working here, and sending their dollars home.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-would-seek-to-block-money-transfers-to-force-mexico-to-fund-border-wall/2016/04/05/c0196314-fa7c-11e5-80e4-c381214de1a3_story.html

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  23. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    April 5, 2016 at 10:12 am

    Did you know…………… there are actual photographs of 14 gentlemen who served in the Revolutionary War. They lived long enough to be able to have a picture taken of them. 😯

    The Revolutionary War Veterans Who Lived Long Enough to Have Their Pictures Taken

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  25. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
    April 5, 2016 at 12:34 pm

    http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/10228748-74/wtae-bell-post

    A long-time, celebrated news reporter got fired for speaking the truth.

    Read the sidebar on the right for what she said that got her fired.

    How free is speech? Not so much.

    Lefties, you don’t get it, do you? SJWs will come for you. Even you.

    If you deviate from their dogma, their 100-item list of things you must believe, or speak any of the 100 things it considers verboten — even one of those things — they will take you down.

    The SJWs have their own Nicene Creed, and it’s WAY longer, the repercussions of heresy are WAY greater than any religion except Islam.
    —
    Found here (of course):

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

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
      April 5, 2016 at 12:39 pm

      These folks wear brown shirts.

      And they call anyone who disagrees with them “hateful”.

      And then they dehumanize them, which makes any attack at all “fair game”.

      These folks are responsible for “Shoah”, “Holodomor”, “Great Leap Forward”, and “The Killing Fields”.

      They seem poised to do it again.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
      April 5, 2016 at 12:43 pm

      If you game it out, logically:

      They’ll kill all of us first. Those of us who think, and who would defend our own. Then they’ll kill those among their membership who also think. Then they’ll be killed by Muslims, because there’s nobody left to defend them, since they killed us all.

      And then China will mop up the mess.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
      April 5, 2016 at 1:17 pm

      There is a phrase, “SJW convergence”.

      WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh has achieved convergence.

      They’ve been fully taken over by SJWs.

      She’ll probably be replaced by a transsexual.

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      • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
        April 5, 2016 at 6:44 pm

        Wooly, I’m very familiar with this issue. First, let me say this; I’m not a Wendy Bell fan. She is a smug little twit who has done similar opinion articles before. Now this is NOT a First Amendment issue. Wendy posted her opinion article on her employer’s Facebook page. Known or unknown too her employer. Now what she said about this tragic shooting is correct. The male that was wounded, was the target. Due too drugs, gangs, and the lack of involvement of the neighborhood is correct. Now the outrage from the neighborhood is BS, it’s a fringe group of people who do not even live in this particular neighborhood.

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  26. michellc's avatar michellc says:
    April 5, 2016 at 3:05 pm

    I understand that they don’t care if they’re the minority party and they certainly don’t care about what’s best for the country and only care about themselves, but they are going to get their wish if they keep this up. In the end it will bite them just as hard as it bites the rest of us.

    I believe in forgiveness, forgetting not so much.

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/04/rnc-chairman-reince-priebus-party-choosing-nominee-dont-like-party-sit/

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  27. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
    April 5, 2016 at 4:58 pm

    Magic Dirt Theory, and then, Magic H*nkey Theory.

    Two good essays.

    http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=5746

    cades-cove-sunrise-great-smoky-mountains-tennessee

    Magic Dirt Theory says that the West (or, locally, white neighborhoods) have magic dirt — anyone who is moved there magically becomes prosperous and virtuous. Europe believed it had magic dirt — that millions of Muslims would magically become European in Character upon being transplanted into the countries of Europe. They were wrong, of course. Because of course they were. When aren’t progressives wrong?

    Magic H*nkey Theory is the next verse in the same song.

    As is the case with everything the Cult says, it is riddled with contradictions. If Whites are the racists monsters they claim, then why in the world would anyone want to send blacks to live with whites? That’s like sending Jews out to Idaho to live with skinheads. Of course, there’s no explaining how it is the honky got this magic stuff that lets him dominate the non-honky, but also oppress the non-honky. What if the non-honky gets this magic and begins oppressing the honky?

    Of course, we all know the answer to that question and ultimately, that’s the whole point.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
      April 5, 2016 at 5:08 pm

      …they are convinced that if they can situate non-whites within close proximity of whites, the special magic that allows whites to run civilized communities will transmit to the non-Asian minority and transform them into good citizens. In the case of ex-cons, putting them in with the law abiding will magically rehabilitate them.

      This is the Magic Honky Theory. Stand close enough to the white guys and you start to act white.

      [That is, you will magically start valuing the law, work ethic, family, and your Nation. You know… acting white.]

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
      April 5, 2016 at 5:09 pm

      These folks don’t understand that one good apple doesn’t make the whole barrel good again. Quite the reverse, which is why the “one bad apple ruins spoils the whole barrel” rule is a truism in the first place.

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  28. TexasRanger's avatar TexasRanger says:
    April 5, 2016 at 5:48 pm

    Update from Wisconsin District 2 Voting 7 hrs in

    Video Apr-0502016:

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  29. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
    April 5, 2016 at 6:06 pm

    Dennis Prager (love that guy)

    “The problem is not that most leading conservative thinkers are secular; it is that they don’t seem to understand that a godless and Judeo-Christian-free America means the end of America, just as a godless and Judeo-Christian-free Europe has meant the end of Europe.”

    http://rightwingnews.com/column-2/note-conservatives-secular/

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  30. TexasRanger's avatar TexasRanger says:
    April 5, 2016 at 6:10 pm

    Oops! Trump’s supporter accidentally catches him violating Wisconsin election law

    OP front-runner Donald Trump may have violated Wisconsin election law on Tuesday when he visited voters who were waiting to cast ballots, the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reports.

    A supporter caught Trump on cell phone video outside Waukesha Fire Station #5, which is a polling place, just before noon local time, the paper reports.

    In the video, Trump can be seen mingling with people and talking to a woman who says she’s a volunteer for his campaign.

    The Claims Not True…

    Full Story April-05-2016 At 15:30 ET

    http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/gab-looking-into-trumps-visit-to-waukesha-polling-place-b99700797z1-374632501.html

    https://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/oops-trumps-supporter-accidentally-catches-him-violating-wisconsin-election-law/

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  31. TexasRanger's avatar TexasRanger says:
    April 5, 2016 at 6:45 pm

    Wisconsin Exist Polls…..

    LIVE Elections Wisconsin Democratic and Republican Primary Election Coverage Stream Apr-05-2016.

    Who Will Win Wisconsin.?

    Donald Trump 2016….

    CNN Anderson Cooper Video Apr-05-2016:

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  32. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    April 5, 2016 at 8:24 pm

    O.M.G. I had salt for supper. Chicken fried steak, Gravy, French fries, beans. And salt. I do not have a bp problem so am not verboten to have it, but DH is.
    Salt iz awesome.

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  34. michellc's avatar michellc says:
    April 5, 2016 at 8:55 pm

    This is what you don’t do.

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  36. Stella's avatar stella says:
    April 5, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    I am watching (now muted) the Ted Cruz victory speech on CNN. He makes me sick, and I hope it all gets crammed down his throat the next primary (and it will).

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    • shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:
      April 5, 2016 at 10:03 pm

      The bad thing is with this win, it is going to get uglier than any human in America has ever seen before. The GOPe will never let Trump be the nominee. They can’t, he know where all the skeletons are buried all the way back to JFK. The leaders of half the world are shaking in their boots. Time for me to back up a whole bunch of files. Thank you Stella for all you do.

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:
      April 5, 2016 at 10:20 pm

      I saw earlier IOTWR had a NeverCruz/NeverTrump poll and wanted to scream. There is no way Cruz can win enough delegates, this just lets people who can’t do math hang on to their hopes for a few more weeks.
      I am trying to be respectful, but it is driving me insane that people can not use the brain God gave them to see all Cruz is doing is trying to keep Trump away from the number of delegates so the GOP can choose the nominee. If you can’t see Cruz for what he is and what he’s doing at least do the darn math.

      I never thought I would get to the point where I was 100% NeverCruz, but I am now and it’s not just because he has proven over and over during this election cycle that he is scum or because he called me and all of you who support Trump stupid, but because the only way Cruz becomes the nominee at this point is if the GOP actually chooses him at a brokered convention and then I know for 100% fact that we were fooled all along and all along he was their chosen man.

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      • shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:
        April 5, 2016 at 10:31 pm

        Cruz is a Bush operative dating all the way back to his father’s connections. to GHWB. Cruz knows he will not be the man this time, but you can bet they have promised him something big. Probably SCOTUS. The devious NWO goes back a very long way.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:
          April 5, 2016 at 10:34 pm

          Many of us have figured that out, unfortunately many others either have their head buried in the sand or all in for establishment.

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          • shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:
            April 5, 2016 at 10:44 pm

            They have been lied to for so long they believe it. Most of them do not have the time to do the research that a lot of us have done. I have to admit until I retired four years ago, I bought most of it too. The establishment counts on that fact. Both parents work, the kids are in lots of outside interests. They spend more time texting stupid crap, they are on twitter, and FB posting selfies. They believe the garbage they hear on MSM, after all why would they lie to them? They just don’t get it and I am afraid they won’t until it is too late.

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            • Stella's avatar stella says:
              April 5, 2016 at 10:45 pm

              I “got it” during the Clarence Thomas business, but an older friend pointed it out to me most directly. It’s very usual to believe what you see on television.

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              • shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:
                April 5, 2016 at 10:49 pm

                I started freaking out when GHWB said it was time for a NWO. Unfortunately like most of America I was working two jobs trying to survive. I think they counted on that.

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            • michellc's avatar michellc says:
              April 5, 2016 at 10:48 pm

              What about those who read CTH and have had it shown to them again and again? What is their excuse?
              I may not spend as much time there these days because I’m not overly fond of some of the new neighbors, but anyone who has read it can’t deny facts back it up.

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              • shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:
                April 5, 2016 at 10:52 pm

                How many people from Wisconsin do you think read the CTH? There are a few, and they voted for Trump. There are many millions of Americans that don’t even know it exist and probably would not spend their on- line time on a political site. They would rather spend it playing Candy Crush. Most people in America cannot stand politics anymore. That too was part of the plan.

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                • michellc's avatar michellc says:
                  April 5, 2016 at 10:56 pm

                  I’m not talking about just voters in Wisconsin, just long time readers that I know of who post on other blogs about their support for Cruz and no longer go to CTH because SD bashes Cruz.
                  I’m sure I’m not the only one who has seen them on other blogs.

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              • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
                April 5, 2016 at 11:10 pm

                Facts are irrelevant to lots of people. They are determined to hang on to their world view, and they will bypass facts over and over, searching for data to support their beliefs, and when they find that data they sure aren’t going to scrutinize it.

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      • doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:
        April 5, 2016 at 10:32 pm

        Whizconsin voters are not the brightest bulbs in the room.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:
          April 5, 2016 at 10:39 pm

          I have to say many Oklahomans are not very bright either.
          I still haven’t gotten over Cruz winning here.
          I’ve heard a few of them say they regret their vote, but many still keep going with we need a Godly man because many “Christians” aren’t too bright either.

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          • Stella's avatar stella says:
            April 5, 2016 at 10:44 pm

            I’m glad Trump won in Michigan. Probably because we aren’t as Godly as those from Utah, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.

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            • michellc's avatar michellc says:
              April 5, 2016 at 10:52 pm

              Well I know many Okies who aren’t as Godly as they claim, that’s probably why they voted for Cruz because they can relate so well to him.

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            • lovely's avatar lovely says:
              April 5, 2016 at 11:30 pm

              This was a full out display of at least 4 of the deadly sins, Pride in that the GOP is too embarrassed to have a man who tells it like it is in simple terms and is willing to put reality in its starkest terms, Envy because the GOP elites can not stand that there is a man who does not need their money and therefore is beyond their control and Greed because the GOP sees their trough drying up.

              But most of all this was a vote against Trump based on Wrath. I don;t think I can express it well enough how beloved Scott was after Prop 10 and his recall victory. The dyed in the wool GOP will never see Scott as anything other than a conservative hero and they will never see Trump as anything other than a spoiler.

              I talk to a lot of people and of the GOP elites 100% of them blame Trump for Scott not being the nominee.

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  37. shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:
    April 5, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    The fact that Kasich is pulling over 14% shows just how establishment Wisconsin is.

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  38. doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:
    April 5, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    Well, around here we are trying to catch…The Pillowcase Bandit. Hot on his trail.

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  39. michellc's avatar michellc says:
    April 5, 2016 at 11:11 pm

    I hope he has proof of Cruz coordinating with his SuperPacs.

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  40. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    April 6, 2016 at 12:23 am

    Sory Mary/Menage, looks like we’ve used up the reply space (do I hear cheering?) on the pants puns, no more space for cracks, a terrible waist…

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