General Discussion, Thursday, April 7, 2016

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  1. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Arrgh #1

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  2. Stella's avatar stella says:

    I won’t be around much during the day today – I have a funeral to attend.

    Keep an eye on the place for me, will you?

    Liked by 10 people

  3. doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:

    Beware…Planet Nine From Outer Space
    Newly discovered planet could destroy Earth any day now
    http://nypost.com/2016/04/06/newly-discovered-planet-could-destroy-earth-any-day-now/

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  4. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    Drive-by:

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

      Speaking of growing your own food………can’t wait until Czar’s tomatoes come in……

      Liked by 4 people

    • michellc's avatar michellc says:

      I truly worry about the future of our children and grandchildren and not just because our government is turning us into a 3rd world craphole. The majority of our farmers and ranchers are old and their children and grandchildren don’t have the desire or the backbone to carry on the tradition. The few that do the government and special interests make it almost impossible for them. Only a minority of our population truly know how to feed themselves.
      I had to pull over yesterday and shed some tears when I saw them breaking ground for a new housing addition on an old farmer’s land. Years ago he owned an almost 2 mile section, over the years due to hardship he had to slowly sell off his land until he was down to 200 acres, roughly 100 for cattle and 100 for crops. He passed away and his wife was moved into a retirement community and the offspring sold his land to developers.
      A neighbor said to me that people needed a place to live, so more housing was good and it gave people a job. I told her she doesn’t see the big picture, he was a truck farmer and pounds and pounds of vegetables now won’t be in the marketplace, pounds of beef that one less rancher will be providing. People need a place to live, but people need food and where is that food going to come from when all the farm land has houses sitting on it and the government has the rest set aside not being used?

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

        Michellc, that the idea, small farm, farming will be history in the next 50 years. Large commercial farming, cheap labor, mass production of beef. Have you ever been to a “Veal” farm? Once I’m gone, this land can not be sold, held in trust. Here in PA the only true “small farmers” are the Amish………the real Amish.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

        Don’t worry, the Feds have plans to redistribute foods from the ants to the grasshoppers. Judt wait until the full effect of the Chinese ownership of US food production hits the store shelves.

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  5. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Nite all, time for bed and beauty rest. Never really works but nothing better to do.

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  6. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    Thursday blessings to all. Good night/good morning!
    _____________________

    p.s. in honor of breakfast, coming soon:

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  7. ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:

    A good idea to one
    might not be a good
    idea to another. 😉

    Liked by 5 people

  8. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

    Time for coffee. The birds are singing and we made it through the night of storms, which were severe in my neck of the woods. Good morning!

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  9. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

    Something to read with your coffee.

    http://buchanan.org/blog/what-trump-has-wrought-125088

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

      FTA: If, through rules changes, subterfuge and faithless delegates, party elites swindle him out of the nomination, do they think that the millions who came out to vote for Trump will go home and say: We lost it fair and square?

      Do they think they can then go back to open borders, amnesty, a path to citizenship, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and nation building?

      Whatever happens to Trump, the country has spoken. And if the establishment refuses to heed its voice, and returns to the policies the people have repudiated, it should take heed of John F. Kennedy’s warning:

      “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”

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      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

        “Do they think they can then go back to open borders, amnesty, a path to citizenship, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and nation building?”

        Duh. Yes.

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        • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

          That’s what I thought too. And they most probably will, and the sheeple will go back to pasture placidly. But at some point the most placid of sheep is going to get hungry.

          I don’t think it will be until there is no choice though. The vast majority of Americans don’t want to be disturbed from their beer and reality tv life.

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          • michellc's avatar michellc says:

            I guess I’m kind of down in the dumps because I wonder if the people have had any say in the last 100 years or so and if we’ll have any say this year or the next 100 years?

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            • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

              Every few hundred years it seem that ancient history is deemed worthless and is discarded, but the lessons contained within are what all the governments of today are based upon. Hiding history allows people to do with many things they would have been stopped and locked up for otherwise.
              What has happened in the past has been that a few generations after total government corruption has been is in control, the young coming into power don’t know why history was hidden in the first place and restore as much of it as they can find for the sake of popularity.
              It took about 500-700 years for Western civilization to come up with the US constitution from the last big dark ages and it only ran as created for about 12 years. It’s been under constant attack for about 200 years now.

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  10. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

    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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  11. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    Mornin’ y’all!

    Liked by 10 people

    • doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:

      Dump Smelley and replace with Laura Ingram.

      Liked by 4 people

    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

      Sounds to me like it should be the Butthurt Network. And I like it.

      Liked by 5 people

    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

      I think everybody ought to read that. It ties together and explains some things that have been hinted at for a while. And, very entertaining. 🙂

      Liked by 5 people

    • lovely's avatar lovely says:

      At the Fox town hall in Milwaukee before the cameras were rolling Sean spent at least 15 minutes chatting with the audience. At least two different people said not so nice things about Megyn Kelly, both times Sean laughed and said something along the line of “What? I’m having audio problems and can’t hear you.” But he was smiling and laughing and it appears that he is not too fond of her on a personal level.

      That Trump negotiated for Roger Ailes is very interesting.

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:

      Back before we got rid of satellite and I watched the Five, I never really could make myself like Gutfield, he’d crack some funny jokes from time to time but he just always seemed like a little smarta$$ with a spoiled brat streak who would take his ball and go home.
      I always kept my opinion to myself about Dana Perino as well, because most seemed to think she was sweet. I always viewed her like the head cheerleader type who acted sweet to your face while she was sticking a knife in your back and I never liked her weak, whining personality. That was just the vibe I always got from her. Most of the time I liked Bolling, but he at times was very annoying as well. All of them just really seemed out of touch with the rest of the country to me anyway.

      To be perfectly honest Fox had became unwatchable for me long before we got rid of satellite.

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  12. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

    Yes. I was intrigued by that. For him to be brought in to something like that, not even being a lawyer, means he has a lot of trust and respect from these people in high places. I think it also means that they know he will do what he says he will do and that is why they are fighting against him so hard now. Another point, I think it also speaks to his negotiating skills.

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    • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

      And, it tells us he knows where ALL the bodies are buried. Heh…..

      Liked by 6 people

    • lovely's avatar lovely says:

      It means Trump knows some of Ailes skeletons and more importantly Ailes knows that Trump knows, and Trump knows Ailes knows 😜. Remember when Trump was first campaigning how many times he said “Believe me. I know these people.” I said it it a long time ago but Trump is a master with words what he does not say is often as important as what he does say.

      Trump is walking breathing safety deposit box.

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  13. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    So far, so good 😎

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  14. doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:

    I wonder if we could start a Geriatric Killer Gang and get paid more than Social Security to not kill and rob people. Like the Blacks in Richmond. Instead of paying the killers they should start a good gang for them. A chain gang in the swamp.
    Gang members in Richmond are being paid $1,300 a month to stop shooting each other and even get to go on all expenses paid trips to New York (if they travel with a rival)

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3527855/Gang-members-Richmond-paid-1-300-month-stop-shooting-expenses-paid-trips-New-York-travel-rival.html

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  15. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

    Czar, have you been following this? It looks like our guys are sitting ducks. Until recently they didn’t even have much in the way of arms. It looks like our gov doesn’t want to pull them out because it might upset Israel and Egypt. ?????
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/04/07/sitting-ducks-isis-threatens-american-troops-in-egypts-sinai.html?intcmp=ob_article_sidebar_video&intcmp=obinsite

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

      Mom, have been on a few rotations of “Bright Star” light infantry battalion, which means light weapons, no armor, maybe some helicopter support, not heavy attack as in Apachees. I’m sure the Big Brass has increased security around base camp, and outposts.

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

        Hope so. I just don’t trust this administration. 😦

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

        Worst danger on the Bright Stars was the Egyptian drivers. Spent a lot of time at Cairo West on BS deployments, even have a few hundred pounds of Egyptian bedrock, blown out by a B-52 carpet bombing demonstration, in my front yard here. Lotta stories from those yearly BS deployments, our unit did them for years as CENTCOM’s loggie center, great but gritty times.

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

      I’d mentioned the US peacekeeping troops as targets way back when we had the problems with Islamic smuggling rockets through the Sinai, and thst was a while back. Thing is we’ve had troops there with the UN bufer forces for decades and they’ve been an open target for as long. Problem now is that ISIS isn’t like the Palestinians or Hamass, they’ll take the chance of a US retaliation, limited as that chance may be, as the operation’s a UN one and the UN has proven over the decades to be as generous with throwing US lives away as the POtuS is.
      They should have a method of responding to an attack, slow as it msy be, I just remember the Marines in Beirut and how little we did to respond to that Iranian attack.

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  16. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

      Well, they both wear long white dresses. Truth be told, if I had seen the friar walking across campus, I would probably not have thought about the KKK, but that he was going to a costume party. I can’t remember when I have ever seen, other than TV or movies, a religious man in robes outside of the church. 😯

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

        Our priests, although not members of a religious order, almost always wear a cassock. Two of them led a group to Rome this week, and Father has posted pics of them wandering the streets in their cassocks, even on vacation. Of course, that is just fitting in over there.

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

        P.S. The first priest I ever saw was standing with my future mother in law in his cassock. They both had beautiful white hair, and for a moment I wasn’t sure who was who. That holy man later married us and baptized me and all our children. But I had never seen a cassock before, and I didn’t quite know what in the world it was. They fell out of use for a time among most priests. I find it comforting, reassuring to see them about the parish and downtown in their black robes.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

        Sheet woman, them’s ROBES!

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      • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

        Episcopalians ( Whiskeypalians, according to Menage, who knows) wear them as well. Not to navigate in life (as it were) or drive, but for every ceremony.

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  17. BigMamaTEA's avatar BigMamaTEA says:

    What I read yesterday, led me to believe that the loose-tie-type-belt that the Priest had on, had been initially described as a “whip.” WTH?!

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

      Yeah, when I read that, I envisioned him walking with it in his hand cracking it. So stupid.

      Liked by 4 people

    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

      I read it was the rosary. If you look in the picture you see that they have a very long rosary tucked and hanging from the belt, all five decades. Apparently the rosary is a weapon to someone other than Pope Pius IX who said “If I had an army to say the rosary, I could conquer the world.” Not meaning militarily.

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  18. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    First day on the job and I called in sick…oh yeah, I’m a Federal worker…oh yeah

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  19. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Oh lordie lordie, a BIG bloody mary, a sack of fresh-boiled crawfish and an iPad connected to The Place, outide on the patio on a perfecly perfect sundown evening. I’m satisfied.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

      We had a sunny day, a rain storm before sunset, a rainbow, and then the sun came back out right before sunset to creat one of those weird glowy air sunsets. It was pretty awesome here too.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

        I can remember when we lived in the city how we’d have to drive to the top of a bridge over a barge canal to see a sunset…of sorts

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        • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

          My husband calls our woods the rainforest. Right now, before the trees get full, we still get to see it. In summer, not much is visible from our ridge.

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

            The lake rubs in a big ‘L’ shape with longest leg going east to west so when the trees get too big we’ll have to move off the patio and closer to the lake. That’ll make it harder to get a drink but I guess you have to scarifice something…

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  20. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

    This video shows why we need to import more of these “refugees” here. NOT /s
    Watch as Migrant Tries to Throw a Baby at Greek Officers
    “Barbaric.”

    http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/watch-migrant-tries-throw-baby-greek-officers

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  21. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    Here I am, readin’ on one-a-my-men and mindin’ my own bi’ness and y’all goin’ raaaaaycisssss or Dominican. Knock it off.

    http://qpolitical.com/1-george-strait-reveals-the-struggles-that-keep-his-faith-is-jesus-strong/

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  22. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

    “EU Happily Lets In Migrant Hordes But Considering Visa Requirements for American & Canadian Tourists”
    “We’re sure this is logical to the multiculturalists”.
    http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/eu-happily-lets-migrant-hordes-considering-visa-requirements-american-canadian-tourists

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  23. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

    Stella, I am halfway through the second episode of Miss Fisher Mysteries, and hooked. 🙂

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