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Yes, I could live there. Until I missed my Georgia ridges, mountains, and valleys.
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We were really looking at DeKalb county in Alabama as a place to retire, most likely up on Sand Mountain, until a huge tornado went thru and they had one of those cold winters – didn’t sit too well with Czarina after that. Would have been just a hop/skip to Atlanta.
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I live about an hour from Sand Mtn. and have spent a lot of time there. Have one or two relatives who live there too. It’s a rugged and beautiful place with some real characters. Some quite dangerous, or they used to be. Up until about thirty years ago it was known all over the south that it was not safe for black people to even cross the mountain and none ever lived there. I have no idea if they live there now, but I’m pretty sure a lot of those people have not changed their outlook. Also, they have some really out there “holiness” churches up there. Once upon a time even the snake handling.
As for tornadoes, a big portion of my little town got flattened like a pancake in 2011, and five people died, four of them were one street over from us, maybe a half mile as the crow flies. We were very fortunate. That ridge is devoid of trees, covered by broken trunks, and everyone’s beautiful property was transformed into a wasteland, not to mention the homes lost. To me, it looked like a battlefield. They set up this giant chipper operation in the fields over there, and for months brought truck loads of trees in to chip up. There were small mountains of it.
We live with the threat or tornadoes for sure. It’s always something. I guess you guys are occasionally in the path or hurricanes. Here we occasionally get the aftermath of them, with days of pounding rain and some very high winds. We had a tree come down on the house after one of those storms once.
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Back in the late 60s a freibd born and raised across the valley from Sand Mountain used to bootleg the National Guard armory and barn dances from Mentone over to Lafayette, Georgia when the area was dry. We’d buy ‘Ten High’ up in Chatanooga and sell it $5 pint or 50 cents a shot out the back of a huge Dodge sedan with a hemi engine. Them was the days.
Yeah, there are some folks up on the mountain you could describe as crotchety and set in their ways but I wouldn’t zactly be drivin’ thru the NOLA projects and expect a warm welcome either. Lotsa independent businessmen said to be practicing up there andvthe next ridge over but tain’t my place to askin’, might not be taken that all that good. Still a nice place to live if yer amindin’ yer own business.
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We will probably sell the cabin within five years or so and move, if we can bear to do it. We can’t think of moving back to town, and we have driven around a little up on Sand Mountain, just riding right now, but to my way of thinking, it would be a good place to live if and when TSHTF. Those people are well armed, and will band together to protect their homes and families. They are self sufficient, and could develop a good barter system for what each family lacks, although there are many farms up there and people who also raise a few cattle and pigs. I believe if society really ever goes nuts few people would be able to rob and steal on that mountain. It would take a large concentration of smart and armed people to do much harm. Those mountaineers have been fighters for generations, and they are almost all good hunters, and they have their share of veterans too. They are a people who do not give a damn about what is cool, they can’t be shamed or intimidated. A proud, strong, and strange bunch they are.
My husband works on Nickajack Lake, just at the foot of the mountain. Almost all the people up there used to work in Chattanooga, or some Scottsboro and Ft. Payne. Many of the jobs they held when I was a young woman are long gone now. Chattanooga used to have many great manufacturing jobs. Now it markets itself as a tourist town, although it has become something of a technology hub too, and the nickname Gig City is deserved. I seem to be in the minority in thinking they are making jobs for the few and not the many. Not everyone is a computer geek, and tourism pays minimum wage.
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Done sum goooood fishin’ at that lake, around Ft Payne and up on top of the mountain out of Mentone too. Some spot lighting deer but statute of limitations is over on that one.
Many of those people have ben largely self-sufficient for generations nd a number still largely are, just something they prefer to do rather than live in the city.
I have a friend who worked for Alabama in Ft Payne for years, thta brought in a regular check and benefits that kept things together. They’d worked in Atlanta, had great jobs too, but it kust wasn’t tneir cup of tea and they went back to the mountain.
In the 90s the folks from Chatanooga discovered the Ft Payne area, just a hop/skip down 59, and started moving in, driving property prices through the roof. When we re looking we were being quoted $2000 or better per acre for land that sold for about $ 200 ten years before. My friend’s wife still lives on top of the mountain, has no intention of leaving, and all but one of their children live there too. It’s all about where you really want to be.
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I would think your awful puns wouldn’t sit well with the Czarina, too. 😉
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Quite the contrary, she’s an English minor (at least up until the age of 18) and really enjoys a good pun. She thinks it quite the noble white thing to do…( wait…wait…).
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My ex would answer “you’re welcome” whenever I used the word “tongs”. He was full of them.
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I’ve had a few kitchen implements thrown at me when the Czarina pans my puns
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Lots of mountains in Greece. Not the same, but beautiful (and loaded with history too). This is Parnassus, home of Delphi.
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Greece must be lovely. I would like to have seen so many things there. I used to love Greek mythology and passed that on to all three of my sons, in varying degrees.
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Me too, Menagerie!
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And thousands of Mideast ‘refugees’ seem to think so too.
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My favorite book to check out of the library in elementary schools was an enormous tome of Greek myths. Apollo and Artemis were my favorites.
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I remember Artemus Gordon and a bar tender in Key West named Apollo but that was a loooong time ago….
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Mom! He’s at it again. I’d smack him upside the head myself but I can’t stoop to such a low level of humor.
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That’s how go-rilla warfare be, putting the ‘ass’ in asymmetrical warfare
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Aiyeeeeeeee! I an going to drink gin now.
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Yes, it’s to be enjoyed and sipped sloely
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You guys are crackin’ me up–again. The czar and ZM road show.
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We’re here all night. Try the veal!
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Head start on Friday.
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Morning menagerie, better keep the pot on all day,
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Good Morning Everyone ! Thank You 🙂
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In general I find there’s no bad coffee, some’s jes more better than others. Think I’ve mentioned before our old mess sergeant whom, when we were out in the field, knew just how much grounds went into a wool GI sock to properly make a 20 gallon pot of coffee on an open burner. You spend 30 days out in the field at Grafenwohr in January and that floaty-sock pot of joe looks really great around 0530.
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Graf!!!! The old days! Always had a good time at Mickie’s when on the advance party. Miss the tents, coal stoves, and the emersion burners’ stove pipes wake up call.
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The cook’s burners were the ones from inside the old field ranges that could be pulled and used outside of the range, gave a darn good ompression of a Mexican volcano. Then we had the Herman-Nelson wheeled heaters, kept you too warm and would awaken a deaf enemy three states away. There was the potbelly heater that burned anything, including the users and that wunnerful immersion heater which gave everything you ate that wobderful hydrocarbon undertone. Only thing I missed about the AF was having my war catered…
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He sounds like a man with talent. Its really amazing what a person can come up with in a time of need.
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It was a different time when each company had its own assigned and dedicated cooks. The cooks even had a large canvas roll with everything needed to prepare a whole unbutchered side of beef, from a meat saw through huge scimitar steak knives to boning down to paring knives. You got your bulk groceries a day at a time from a rations breakdown point and fixed a fresh hot meal for approximately 125 soldiers three times a day.
Now it all comes in neat prepared heat and eat boxes, individual or group. That home-cooked factor’s generally a thing of the past and instead of a homey unit kitchen we now have ‘more efficient’ mass mess staffed by whichever 2nd or 3rd world staff the contractors can get for the least pay.
Oh well, new times breed new practices.
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Newer doesn’t always mean better these days.
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No ******* ****. That was old military spoken in new military style.
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Hi, Stellars. Condolences, Stella.
Really good article at, of all places Salon.
http://www.salon.com/2016/04/06/the_talk_radio_godfather_of_trumpamania_what_michael_savage_can_tell_us_about_americas_white_working_class/
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Midnight snack.
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Need some biscuits
for your great gravy?
Here they be. 😉
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No sugar!
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Ack! Absolutely no sugar. I don’t use baking soda, only baking powder, and my biscuits rise just fine and are yummy. The only things I bake regularly are biscuits and cornbread.
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Ha! A southern cook in the wilds of Alaska. 😀
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Lawsamercy, yes. My mom’s side was eastern Tennessee hillbilly. My dad’s side was blue collar city folk (Birmingham). However, I don’t keep a 5-gallon bucket of lard under the counter as my grandma did.
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I keep the 5-gallon lard pail in the pantry. Getting harder to find it, I get mine special ordered at the local grocery if the (go figure) small local Mexican grocer’s out. French fries fried in lard, chicken fried in lard, anything fried on lard…
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Alaska was a place I really REALLY wanted to retire. I’d about convinced rhe Czarina that all of the bad PR was due to dissembling from the Florida tourist bureau until she found my Ft Richardson scrapbok…the pix of me filleting and grilling mosquitoes was bad but when she saw me proudly holding up that block of solidified diesel everything, including our retirement, went south.
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Mosquitoes ARE the state bird of Alaska…
I read once that if you could compress the biomass of Alaska’s summer mosquito population into a solid block, it would be one cubic mile.
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And the bigger ones are tender and go well with a béchamel sauce
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czar, mosquitoes can kill a caribou. The wee devils are not to be underestimated!
(you may not see this, since I can’t reply to your comment.)
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Thx. I will see if it helps me. I saw several points , like chilling the butter and milk that might help. And, I OBVIOUSLY over knead mine.
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Over kneading develops the gluten in the flour – makes tough biscuits. Work the butter into the flour thoroughly before adding the milk, then only handle as much as absolutely necessary.
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My Granny always rolled them out and had tender, flaky biscuits, mine never turned out like hers. Then my aunt taught me her secret using the same recipe, once mixed she pulled out chunks of dough shaped them gently using her hands. I never have perfectly round or uniform in size biscuits that way, but I also always have tender, flaky biscuits.
My aunt always melted lard in the pan and turned the biscuits in it before baking. I still make the lard biscuits but instead of melting just lard in the pan, I do a 50/50 split of lard and butter.
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I can certainly see where my over kneaded biscuits became ceramic biscuits. LOL
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Biscuits take a tender touch. lol
Bake bread, I love to make bread when I have built up frustrations. 🙂
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My aunt ran a diner for a long time, and she made the best biscuits. If you watched her, she had the lightest touch – very gently handling the dough. My mother was the bread baker. LOL!
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My DH always asks who made me mad when I’m making bread. lol
I’m not always mad when I decide to make bread, but I get much more enjoyment out of it when I’m mad.
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Making bread is a favorite thing for me too. I love to make all kinds of bread, but especially sourdough.
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Sometimes if I’m lazy I just make one big biscuit. It is always better, always. Rises higher, more flaky and tasty.
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Or drop by your local Popeyes…
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Chester’s ain’ bad, neither…..
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We have lots of transplanted hill billies in my area, and some good diners with breakfast (round the clock). The next town over is called Hazel Park, but lots of people call it Hazeltucky.
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Good lord no.
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After reading all of the comments on making biscuits and bread, I’m planning a long eating (biscuits, bread) road trip……. I’ll even pay for the cost of supplies used.
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You have a place at my table anytime Colonel. We’ll start with lots of bacon, eggs, biscuits and gravy for breakfast, your choice of hash browns or grits, a gallon of coffee. Lunch could be anything, and by supper I’ll have that bread ready. Have to make at least six loaves or the natives resort to fisticuffs. Your choice on meats. Got a freezer full of beef, salmon, or wild fowl.
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Beautiful photo, stella. Even though I should stay away from the computer tonight (too much work to do) I had to check in to see what lovely photo graced the new General Discussion Thread!
Good night/good morning/blessed Friday to everyone!
Back to work…
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And too you Mary!
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And, it appears Bill Clinton has become a conservative.
https://news.vice.com/article/bill-clinton-yells-at-black-lives-matter-protesters-defends-violent-crime-bill
WOW.
This is mind-bendingly awesome, what he says. He better take cover.
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He’s from Arkansas, and his idol was Senator Fulbright. It explains a lot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._William_Fulbright
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I bet he needs to wear a helmet at home. 😯
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Imagine being met by the shrieking beast at your front door 😱
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😯
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First thing that came to mind was coming home to Hillary during ‘the change’.
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If it were not for Bill’s obvious mental decline the more cynical part of me would believe that Bill floated a balloon for the Beast. The Beast cannot be happy about the Socialist stomping her in the most recent state primaries and she is looking for a way to con voters into voting for her. Beast would sacrifice anything and anyone on a spit if it meant she could be President Beast.
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I’m seeing her struggling with the Rats usual sheep. She’s used to a quiescent Rat following that has become used to being farmed by the Rats while the POtuS has rekindled that 60s violent, if not pointless, black nationalism. Obama may not be running for term two but he’s still a player, her balloons aside. Run, Hillary, run, but don’t let the pursuing pack of Rats catch up.
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The world she is facing is not the red carpet she thought would be at her feet.
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Add: I have always thought surely the only reason she could possibly have for staying married to Bill was her ambition. I know most people, even many of her supporters think that. What else could it be? She seems a woman almost incapable of love or loyalty to me, but that is a pretty unfair statement on my part, as I have absolutely no real knowledge of her at all, just media crap. Still, I’ve never seen a hint of a soft side.
Yesterday a young man I know, very politically savvy and involved in local politics said on FB: “If you believe a full term baby has no Constitutional rights, then you are a psychopath.”
I could not agree more.
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They were perfect for each other, both desiring power and wealth through means othervqthan hard work, and together they had a sum capability that was greater than their seperate selves. I don’t see loce, other than of wealth and power, just the symbiotics that keep them together and plowing their joint way to position, prestiege and wealth.
You need to look no further than the trail of dead and broken people who litter their political past and the scandals thatbtaint their reps. ProPublica has an excellent condensation of the scandals that still plsgue Hillary, neutral and concise but still you end reading it with a sticky feeling.
Considering the Rats rae trying to negate the dEmocratic rights of everyone negating newborn and fetal rights just cements their plans for the country as a whole. Abortiobs of adults seems to have. been on the Clinton agenda for a long time.
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Happy Friday all!
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Happy Friday ctdar
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TGIF kids!!
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It has to be done!
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And no one’s gonna do the ‘what does Harper Lee drink’ joke?
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You do it! 😀
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Anticlimactic at this point, but: tequila mockingbird
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😀
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Mornin’ Wee!
I watched Urban Cowboy on Netflix last night, I’ve seen it a hundred times, but not in awhile and had forgotten about the worm scene.
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LOL Well maybe after a few.
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Good morning, everybody. It’s Friday! And it is cold, with a light dusting of snow here. Also home opening day for the Detroit Tigers; the fans will be dressed in their winter coats and mittens, I’m afraid, or maybe raincoats, because it’s supposed to rain later. This is why I never attend an opening day game.
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Good morning Stella. It’s a little chilly here this morning, in the low 40’s but it’s supposed to be in the 70’s today.
We have lettuce, green beans and peas breaking ground, so hopefully the freezing weather stays away.
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29 here this am.
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68* here. And, sunny……..just like yesterday……..and the day before. We just never have any weather. Oh, except for the tornadoes that came through. I was asleep, so I missed it.
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I really hope those temps are behind us, but I know not to count my chickens before they hatch. I’ve seen it snow in May more than once.
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Me too!
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Arggh! It’s been getting into the forties at night here, and windy as the plains for a week or better. Seems like the wind has howled for days on end, and that’s kind of rare here, that extended time. We get spring wind, but usually it lets up. Sooner or later.
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Just read that it’s going to be 34 tomorrow night. I’m cold already.
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It’s chilly here as well. I had a jacket on earlier and was still cold when we were out watering the plants.
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Good morning Stella 🙂
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The Red wings are a disappointment this season so I’m really happy for Tiger’s baseball to start! It was nice to see Chelios in the video. Whenever we’re in MI to visit we try to go to a game and eat at Cheli’s Chili beforehand.
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Welcome to Stella’s Place, Dee! The more the merrier.
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Thanks! I’ve been reading here but haven’t commented before now. I read here to soothe my nerves when comments at CTH get to be a bit much. It’s a bit calmer here 🙂
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Then there is the volcanic eruption, just 50 miles from Mexico City:
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Is this a Ryan 2016 campaign video?
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It ought to be one that says Trump 2016 because those things he says are part of what I hope Trump can work on when the smoke clears.
But yes, I think you are right. The Republicans have never seen a defeat as bad as the one they are about to get if Trump is not the nominee. It will make the libs cackle with glee over their brew for years to come.
What do you think Stella? Do you think they can possible not know that? Are they really in this to see to it that Trump doesn’t get the presidency no matter the cost? And do they not see that it will cost them votes at every election, local, state, and the presidency and really (I truly believe) destroy the party? Are they possibly deluded enough that they think they can do this and the voters will support them?
How can they misread the mood in this country so badly? My only explanation is that because of me they believe this. I held my nose one too danged many times for them. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
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They know how we feel, Menage – they don’t care because it’s self-preservation for them. They DON’T care if it’s Hillary or Bernie as long as their place at the trough remains intact.
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That trough is not going to be as full for them when they lose many voters. The dems will get a lot of benefit from enraged voters and I can’t see how that benefits the establishment. But I am nowhere near their level of deception, so I’m missing all kinds of plots.
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I agree WeeWeed but I also am amazed that the RNC/GOP is so deluded that they do not realize that the trough does not magically refill itself, that it is working Americans who keep the trough full.
I was talking with my friend who is a licensed therapist about this and I said why wouldn’t the PTB want to get Trump in, have him right the ship, make our economy lush again and then they can return to the trough in 4 or 8 years and reap the benefits? They all have enough money and power to continue to grow their wealth until they can dive in full monty again into the tax payers pocket.
Two answers 1) they simply do not want to chance not being allowed back in because they are greedy, power hungry sonsofbitches 2) they truly are pathological in their belief that they deserve their place at the trough and have connived for so long to remain there that they have developed “magical thinking” in that they do not believe the trough can never run dry.
We came up with our our saying for current DC mentality “The Trough is Too Big to Fail.” This appears to be the mantra of the RNC.
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*The trough can ever run dry, not, never run dry 🙄. Man I seem to be making typos as fast as DC spends our money.
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One young man I know, intelligent, thoughtful, wise for his age, and very well read and educated, someone whose opinion I respect a lot, thinks I am an alarmist and basically, borderline paranoid about the state of the economy and what might happen down the road, and the repercussions to society if it does.
I think that he does not yet want to face the fact that the perfect life he has mapped carefully out for himself might be unobtainable. However, I have noticed that he does quite a bit of what I might call prepping. And if things got tough in an instant, his perception would immediately change and he would not deceive himself.
Anyhow, my point is, sometimes even the smart and practical people self deceive. We all want to believe what we want to believe.
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I’m old, and I still hate to think about it.
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The desperation to stay in the game blinds them to the fact that when next go around comes for them they will lose their own seat.
Eric Cantor.
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Yup!
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Are they possibly deluded enough that they think they can do this and the voters will support them?
Yes they are that deluded. It seems that WI may be ground zero for the “anti-Trump at any cost movement.” One of our Dear Leaders recently said that whenever someone comes to him and says “I can’t vote for Ted Cruz” he answers “I am not asking you to vote for Ted Cruz, I am asking you to vote against Donald Trump.”
On that note I did not vote for John McCain or for Mitt Romney I voted against Obama. 🙄 They fooled me a lot more than twice.
The establishment is banking on this old tried and true remedy for them to retain some of their power rather than losing all of their power. The RNC is certain that it once again does not matter what candidate they offer, what promises they have broken, what monstrosities they have voted for, because we “republicans” will find the opponent so unpalatable we will once again vote against the democrat.
What the RNC does not realize is that many of us “republicans” are wise to their game and we will not vote against someone, we will vote for someone or we will not vote.
Business as usual in DC is going to be shut down.
Personally I see three options available 1) vote for Trump and a country on life support may recover 2) vote for Hillary/Bernie/Biden and the country is taken off life support, thrown to the wolves and becomes so painfully unviable that there is nothing left to do but say your prayers, get right with God and stay locked and loaded 3) vote for the RNC Anointed candidate and option 2 takes a little while longer to come to fruition.
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Some of them believe we will still fall in line.
I won’t reveal the person’s name because he is running for a state office and I don’t want to put a target on his back, but he was out going door to door and I asked him who he was supporting for President among other things, he’s supporting Trump. I told him if they steal it then it’s going to hurt them all and I for one certainly wouldn’t be voting. He told me that has been discussed and he sat in on one of those meetings where candidates down the ticket expressed their concerns. He didn’t name who said it but that one big honcho told them that Republican voters are just acting like children right now with false threats but come November it will all be forgotten and they’ll show up and vote. Then he made the argument to them they were in more danger if Trump was the nominee and that is where they’d lose votes.
So if he was telling the truth it sounds to me like they do believe we’ll be good little soldiers.
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When hell freezes over will I vote Republican again. I think I have two more votes that will be R. One, I hope, for Trump and one for our local sheriff. He was elected last time in a hotly fought battle, the underdog. I went to a debate thinking I supported possibly two other candidates and came out really impressed with him. Everyone said the same stuff but him. Anyhow, everybody in this county who runs for sheriff runs as Republican, even when they have been a registered Democrat for years. Right.
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I have the opposite problem here, everyone who runs for county office runs as a democrat.
We have closed primaries so either you switch to democrat or you get no vote.
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You may be right……. and riddle me this: Whatthehell is he doing over there???
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/04/07/Saudi-King-receives-US-speaker-of-the-house-Paul-Ryan.html
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Gettin’ his accounts set up for direct deposit.
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Thread winner!!
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No kidding, gets my vote for sure.
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Good question.
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I bet he bowed too.
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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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Mornin’!
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Breakfast! Thx. Nyet. Good mornin’. Good mornin’ everybody.
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Top photo shows good portion control: a nice, fat omelette, a serious portion of hashbrowns, and some toast that looks like it’s slathered in butter. The second photo notwithstanding, the first photo need . . . . BACON!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Evening Nye! I’ll have breakfast for supper!!! Thank you Sir,,,
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My friend and I went to a funeral together yesterday for an old friend.
One thing she told me: Her husband is a Ford retiree, and a proud UAW member. The UAW is apparently supporting the Democrat candidate this year (no big surprise). Not a lot of support for Donald Trump.
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Yet their jobs are going to Mexico. I guess the unions can set up shop in Mexico.
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This was funny – and good!
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I loved that. I smiled so big it brought tears to my eyes.
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😀 Ya know, there’s no talent like those guys anymore.
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BAR!!! Beer!………………oh, wait, too early? 😳
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Why ma’am, it’s only a few hours to afternoon. I say we start with mimosas or bloody marys and progress as the day wanes.
At the rate I hold my likker Wee will be sweeping me out the door before the crowd gets here. Being long past the idiocy of youth, that’s why I drink slow. 😀
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I will be honest. If I drink anything before 4:00, it is followed by a NAP.
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😉 Me too. I don’t like bloody Marys and I’ve never had a mimosa. I don’t think I’ve ever had a drink very early in the day, but I probably have beat 4!
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I really like champagne for breakfast. The first time I had it was back in the early 70’s when a flight from Hawaii was delayed overnight. They served one of the best breakfasts I have ever had, along with free champagne. And, I do like mimosas. Followed by a nap. {snort}
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I have probably had a mimosa for breakfast maybe 4 times since then.
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Not now!!! 😀
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I’m ready Ms.WeeWeed!!! Saddle Up!
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This is the Czarina- you really need to have a New Orleans breakfast more often. We have drinks JUST created for breakfast, including brandy milk punch, in case you don’t like the lovely mimosa or bloody mary/caesar. Then you have a seven course breakfast. With more drinks. (And of course bacon for ZM).
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Sounds awesome!! 😀
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And, then, a nap.
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Another lurker slowly being coaxed from the shadows…
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YAYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!! BOOZE! ………er, I mean I would like a glass of wine, please. 🙂
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I’m drink to that! And almost anything else.
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Something to do with old campaign signs, especially if the socialists win. We all might eventually need one of these (pretty cool, anyway):
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This was really neat! The guy sure is creative.
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Yeah…ummm…if your scenario pans out we may want to trade some of that insulation for kevlar
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OMG Tissues. Extremely high AWWW factor.
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/health/people-are-shock-after-witnessing-what-mom-puts-her-babys-face-video-and-now-its-quickly
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Definitely makes you feel great. 😀
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Whereupon Rinse Pubis is gobsmacked by Bill Hemmer asking if the RNC Rules Committee meetings re convention will be telecasted to the unwashed masses…..
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Referring to and paraphrasing what I believe was a post a while back, Reince (an acquired skill is now know and knowing how to spell his name) looks for all the world as if he’s trying to suppress a fart while he’s being interviewed. A few seconds towards the end of the interview he looks as if he were unsuccessful and is trying yo blame it on the dog.
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Just unloaded a truck of baled hay and the cats are going CRAZY. You’d think I’d unloaded a truck of Acapulco Gold catnip. They’re running over, around, into and through the bales, tails fluffed and claws out. So much for expensive cat toys, just need a truck full of multipurpose hay.
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Maybe they’s some mousies in them bales…..
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I thought that was where you were heading, another person with a long Kliban memory
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I have an even longer Larson memory…… 😀
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Ah yes, my to favorites: “Bummer of a birthmark, Hal.” and “The real reason dinosaurs became extinct.”
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😀 😀 😀 The Jessica McClure cartoons were hilarious, too (but not to Midland/Odessa, TX, which promptly cancelled him out of our paper there.)
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Yeah, local paper we had in NOLA tended to cancel things that made people think. ‘Ow ow ow, thinking makes my head hurt, if I wanted to think I wouldn’t have bought this paper!’ Then again with a 30-plus percent functional illiteracy rate, who needs a paper that makes people think.
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I owned this. It was a big “coffee-table book”. Larson was a Genius.
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So was Kilban!
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One of my favorites:
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I had forgotten about Kilban, and how much he made me guffaw.
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It’s always good to laugh
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That’s what I thought. Or there were some mousies in those bales.
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Watched a few off-grid and tiny house videos. Thought you might enjoy this one.
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Wow, there’s your exercise!
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That’s what I thought. Two activities in one.
These people live with three kids in a yurt in the Idaho woods.
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If I lived in rural Idaho, in a yurt and with three kids I’d want the bike to have both wheels on and pointed on another direction.
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I feel the same way. I love people – as long as I don’t have to spend 24 hrs a day with them. That applies to anyone, including my child and grandchildren.
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Best thing about grandchildren is…when you’re tired of ’em you can send ’em home. You can also wind ’em up like a cheap clock with soda and cookies before you send ’em back to mom and dad…karma’s a beeatch.
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All in all, grandparenhood beats the heck out of parenthood. In every possible way. Just about no downside to it.
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With the exception of that period before they’re housebroken and standard equipment includes a steamer trunk of diapers and a gas mask, yes
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The government is trying to make it illegal to live in tiny houses and RV’s.
http://www.silverdoctors.com/headlines/world-news/hud-wants-to-make-living-in-a-tiny-house-or-rv-illegal/
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It’s all part of an agenda. Ahem21cough.
For instance, in today’s news.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/27/world/science-health-world/u-n-host-talks-bid-safeguard-worlds-oceans/
They don’t want anyone living independently.
They want everyone dependent on the State. That’s the goal.
That, or liquidated. As always.
It’s all laid out on the U.N.’s own website. And, of course, in history.
China has all these “ghost cities”. Metropolis-sized cities. They won’t be empty for too much longer, if they get their way. Agenda 21’s goal is to get everyone into the cities, and dependent upon the State.
Most folks don’t want to even attempt to wrap their minds around this, because — to them — it’s too horrific to consider. Nobody would murder 45 million incorrect thinkers in only 4 years, right?
[Tripod just answered me: he said “Mao?”]
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And he keeps repeating it, as if he’s trying to say something.
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Tripod is, as always, correct.
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I know all about their plan and they are almost there. That is why we need Trump.
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Either we think alike or you’ve been reading some of my older posts. I’ll say again how Katrina showed the dependence of the urban dwellers on the government. The state refused to pass a law that would allow the city to force citizens to abandon their properties to the looting animals if the city called a mandatory evac. Closest the city could come is calling a curfew between certain hours and cutting off utilities, but they wanted to be able to arrest anyone who refused to unass the city and allow the usual suspects who stayed behind to rob, loot, plunder at will. No, not the politicians, the other usual suspects.
It’s shaping up to become a Singapore-like system here, democracy be damned, it doesn’t work when global clinate change, population explosion, uncontrolled housing growth, people daring to think for themselves, all of those things that so irritate professional polotical parasites/vultures trying to compensate from not being invited to the prom.
Imagine thousands of federal, state and city employees, all chosen for their unquestionable devotion to inclusion and diversity, deviding the fates of you and yours. Ahhhh, if just soneone had asked them to the prom forbone dance we wouldn’t be facing the dilemmas we are.
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Apparently all of our Katrina refugees work for the city.
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2016/04/07/can-you-drink-job-bossier-city-employees-can/82704412/
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Work for or employed by…
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The day has started off and has maintained the same level of strangeness all day long.
All I can honestly say is, “@#&$*%&#@!!!!!!”
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Well, then – just for you, I’ll open the bar early!! Wish I could share my day’s wonderfulness with you. DH took off for Vegas this a.m. for 4 glorious days!!! I can watch WHATEVER I WANT with NO BITCHING!! I can eat CRAP!! I can drink all damday if I want to!!! I can clean house or SIT ON MY ASS and read!!!
It’s good to be QUEEN. 😀
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That’s my day every day. Most of the time, it’s a good thing.
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😀
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ROTFLMAO!!!
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😀
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Oh Ms.WeeWeed!!!! 👍
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Yep, I relate. When the man leaves town it’s my time to not do whatever the hell I don’t wanna do. And in my case, that means the TV will not come on unless it’s Tuesday. Otherwise I hate the thing.
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I’m not much of a tv watcher, but when I do I can’t stand watching tv with DH. So he has his tv downstairs and I have mine upstairs in my room, he thinks it’s “our” room, but it’s really mine, I just let him sleep in it. lol
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Anyone else having trouble with word press? Like button does not work.
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Mine isn’t either. It was working earlier.
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Oh, my innertubes has been acting crazy all day.
I should have taken pictures of what this site looked like.
Someone posted a smiley up there, and it was (on my 37″ screen) about 4″x4″, under the comment.
The stars in front of the like buttons were just 1993-hyperlinks that said “Like”, followed by the redundant text “Like”.
For a while there, every site on the internet had a “Waiting for…” at the bottom of my browser.
Always was peeved at Anthony when he sang “By The Way” for Red Hot Chili Peppers, because he ended the bridge with “Waiting for…” without finishing the danged sentence.
Now I understand.
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My innertube’s actin’ up too – just had to run malwarebytes (worthlessbastages want me to download windows 10 or some damthing and I’m not gonna and/or javascript.) No real problemos but the poor laptop is getting old and is noticeably slower…..
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Sigh. A few weeks ago you were less than enthusiastic about U2, now you have complaints about my other guys. I dunno. We may have to re-think this internet pals deal. How do you feel about Marty Robbins, Roger Miller, Wagner operas, and Gregorian chant, with periodic Zeppelin thrown in? Along with some Howlin’ Wolf and Stevie Ray?
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Hey – we haven’t had any Stevie Ray for a while –
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Looks like I missed fun last night. I had no internet service for several hours. Good way to start my day though. Thanks Stella.
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That sounds like my kind of playlist, actually!
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It works from the notification window, but not directly in the comments section. Strange.
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Mine was broken but now it’s working again.
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Seems like a whole flock of Magpie’s over in the neighbors tree.
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Crap. Where?? I’ll go start shootin’ ’em……
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They seem to be multiplying on the Presidential branch. I do like how beautifully colored they are, but they can sometimes be a real pain in the you know what.
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Two Trump rallies have been announced:
Sunday, April 10: Rochester, NY, 3:00 pm
Monday, April 11: Albany, NY, 7:00 pm
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Very cool thing that happened today:
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I have a question. One of my daughters old pals called and asked for one of my ice cream cakes. So I said sure, we started talking and as it turns out he wanted just ice-cream in the shape of a cake (I’ve only made ice cream roll cakes before).
So I look up ice cream cake and find out all you really do is mix ice cream until it is soft and put it in a springform pan at different intervals to give it a layered look. Easy enough.
But if I pop it out tomorrow and put it on a glass plate to decorate do you think the freezer will crack the plate?
Thoughts?
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No. Unless it’s thin china. This new crap you can’t even shotgun some of it.
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No just a sturdy glass plate from a rummage sale but it will have to go back in the freezer after I decorate it.
Thanks WeeWeed 🙂
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And, after Stella’s suggestion, even cushion both sides with paper plates when you’re ready to dump it on the plate.
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You could also put the plate in the freezer for a while before unmolding the cake. If they are at the same temp, you shouldn’t have to worry about cracking.
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Thanks I’ll do that. Now if I can find my cake decorating tips all is well.
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So is Levin going to vote for Hillary?
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/04/mark-levin-goes-nevertrump-bashing-nevertrump-buffoons-two-days-ago/
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Mark Levin has officially come out of the closet and publicly joined the #NeverTrump miscreants.
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I just saw that on Facebook.
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Did you know that Alan Rickman (Severus Snape) died in January of pancreatic cancer? I just found out.
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I didn’t know. He played Dr. Lazarus in Galaxy Quest, sad to hear of his passing.
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I looked his name up on IMBD, because I was watching Sense & Sensibility on PBS and couldn’t remember his name. It was in his bio.
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He also played Hans Gruber in Die Hard. He was a really fine actor.
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For both pun and coffee lovers.
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LOL
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Greeting from NY Ted Cruz 😀
A couple of signs which were outside of a Cruz event in Scotia, NY
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