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A week later and the Will Smith shooting’s still tops in the local hews. I contacted two local TV news rooms and asked both if they knew if Smith’s autopsy had included tests for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). After all, Smith and his dhooter were both football players and what if one or the other was spurred on to a fit of irrational violence, triggering the shooting. Dead silence from both news rooms…
I didn’t bother asking the third major station’s news room as the station’s owned by thecsame guy whom owns the Saints soooooooo…
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Czar, do you have a wooden or iron ladle???
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Actually an early 1950s military 1-quart military ladle Inrescued from a mess hall at the Banana Belt inFt Carson. It’s not that good st stirring but serves up lsrge portions.
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I believe there will be good news about Sydney, next door!
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Already there. Did you see that beautiful smile. Praise God, what a beautiful joy to see her little spirit shinning through. Pray without ceasing.
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Saw that, it is good news. Transplants are no easy thing for any of the people involved. As I said, my son’s liver transplant was an emotional roller coaster for all. It was sounds good for her, the body takes a whole to get forced into accepting a new part, prayers and best wishes are still in order.
Just a week after my son’s transplant, when he was still worrying about how he’d do, his social worker brought in a stack of news stories about double lung and heart transplant recipients running half and full marathons. The docs who perform these operations are reasly great at it and they fight to win, I wish them all the success we were granted.
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Monday blessings to all!
“For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.””
—Revelation 7:17—
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Blessing too you, Mary.
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Thank you, Col.
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Blessings for a beautiful day Mary and Col. 🙂
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Thank you, lovely.
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Where is Obama going to find a Black, Muslim, Transexual, female who is a historical figure to replace the hated Andy Jackson on our Double Sawbucks.
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http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/04/17/andrew-jackson-replaced-twenty-dollar-bill-woman-change-treasury-hamilton-ten/
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Bingo! You found her Howie!
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😯
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Thought she was slated for the $3 bill?
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and Obama will be on the fore dollar bill.;)
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Need a more realistic picture.
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Monday brew, extra strong. Coffee should never be weak. If you don’t like strong coffee, you oughta drink tea!
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Too funny. 😉
Coffee was put on Earth
for the wimps who could
not handle strong tea. 😉
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Thank you menagerie, Sun just peaked over the Horizon…… Great coffee…
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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)
(Jack Daniels)
(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’ B! Beautimous…..
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Mornin’!
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Good morning Nyet, that is my favorite breakfast 🙂
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Love this breakfast, Nyet. Good mornin’. Mornin’ all.
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Nye, Lunchtime!! Grabbing a plate, and will make some bacon sammitchs too go! Thank you!!
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Mornin’ kids! Yuuuuuuge thunderstorm, here. 😉
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Mornin’ Wee!
Raining here. Started raining yesterday afternoon, had a break for about an hour around dusk and then rained most of the night. Forecast is showing 60% to 80% rain today through Wednesday, then 20% through Saturday with 40% on Sunday.
I think I may be sick of rain by the end of this week.
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Mornin’ Michelle! I bet we’ve already got 2″ and it’s pouring. Lightning ran me back in the house…..
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Lightning will do that to me as well.
It stormed a little during the night, I was woke up about 2 from a loud boom, sounded like lightning struck pretty close.
For the most part though it’s just rain here. It’s good in one way, we don’t have to water the gardens and flowers, but I think they’re going to have more water than they need before it gets out of here.
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As I decided to take today off and spend a bit more time with Mrs. T, the rain finally decides to hit this morning at Rancho el Gordito. Whilst I have to drive back to the big city later today. Oy vey! 😯 😆
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Oy vey iz right – news said Houston’s flooding bad and school’s closed….. 😦
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Shall be quite an interesting drive back today. 😯
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Take yer Mae West and some oars…..
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Maybe a rubber raft, too.
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Good morning WeeWeed and alL 🙂
Sounds like rough weather your way, be safe. We are having a beautiful day, sunshine and blue skies, I’ll try and send some your way!
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!! Beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky! Doing some exterior maintenance on the house, yard. Power washing, lawn cutting and re seeding, cleaning out the fire pit, grill cleaning. Oh almost forgot……window cleaning….yes I do Windows!!!
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Mornin’ Colonel!
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She would not have the energy to say it that many times without a major coughing attack.
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Ah yes, the sheer irony. She worked on the Nixon impeachment committee and you’d think, being the most smartest liar…lawyer…ever she’d have learned how to be a crook without getting caught. Now, 40 plus years later, she has a whole trail of sprung bear traps behind her and she’s rivaling Nixon for…being a crook.
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Czar, “Crooked Hilllabeast” has surpassed anything Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy (JFK/Bobbie) and Roosevelt, and Joe Kennedy with his taste for Irish Whiskey!!! Now as for Treason: Obola’s first and Clinton is second……
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I’d love to see Shin Bet’s files on her…
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I do believe Trump has!!! When Trump took out his life insurance policy with Shin Bet. Love the clause, “…with extreme prejudice”. Oh hey guys, didn’t know you read here. On one of my partnership tours, spent a month with the Avaition boys/girls. Even was bless with a very small piece of the “Wall”. Yes that Wall! Gave that little chunk of sandstone to my Jewish Chaplin with the Latitude/Longitude. Took him about a month too figure it out where the chip of sandstone came from.
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Yeah, I wanted a piece of that wall to go with my chunk of the Berlin Wall. I have a friend in their service but am loth to ask for a spare chunk for obvious reasons, I get enough grief for my piece of the pyramid. What can I say, it’s the Brit in me.
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Geez, just remembered, I had a friend in the ISI, I could have gotten a goat – hardly used.
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http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/04/argument-preview-a-big-or-not-so-big-ruling-due-on-immigration/
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Sort of a moot court decision, no? The dirty deed’s been done and you can’t unscramble the illegal immigrant egg.
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What really happened in Colorado?
http://aprillajune.com/politics/what-really-happened-to-the-republican-voters-in-colorado/
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Ted Cruz the lawyer.
http://conservatives4palin.com/2016/04/governor-palin-calls-out-ted-cruz-for-amnesty-lies-yes-you-were-dude.html
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SCIENTIFIC REGRESS
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/05/scientific-regress
The problem with science is that so much of it simply isn’t. Last summer, the Open Science Collaboration announced that it had tried to replicate one hundred published psychology experiments sampled from three of the most prestigious journals in the field. Scientific claims rest on the idea that experiments repeated under nearly identical conditions ought to yield approximately the same results, but until very recently, very few had bothered to check in a systematic way whether this was actually the case. The OSC was the biggest attempt yet to check a field’s results, and the most shocking. In many cases, they had used original experimental materials, and sometimes even performed the experiments under the guidance of the original researchers. Of the studies that had originally reported positive results, an astonishing 65 percent failed to show statistical significance on replication, and many of the remainder showed greatly reduced effect sizes.
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Now, that raises the question, “How much of this was incompetence in doing the experiments and how much was cheating to create an outcome?”
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Mom, both! Especially when the Feds a dangling big bucks on the line…..
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May I suggest that the underlying problem is calling psychology a ‘science’? I always felt it belonged in the theater department, at best, as very few ‘experiments’ have results that can be consistently replicated. Then again, if you are in charge of creating and defining the physics, dogma and doctrine for your own field you can pretty much say it’s whatever you want it to be. How about racket science?
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Kabuki science?
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Helluva lot less irritating than karaoke science
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An article from Sharyl Attkisson on suppression of the movie, Vaxxed.
https://sharylattkisson.com/review-of-vaxxed-deleted-from-huffington-post/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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OK, folks, it’s O-ficial, UNESCO has released a slate of decisions that declares the Temple Mount in Jerusalem a Moslem site with no Jewish (read also as Christian) history or claim. The report doesn’t even refer to the Mount except in its Moslem name and only refers to Israel as ‘the occupying power’.
So it looks like the heavily Moslem influenced UN is set to start the official dismantling of the Israeli state, and I’ll bet our Moslem-lite POtuS will be right along side them as long as he can be. Now he has a cloak to hide behind as he helps the Internationalists ramp up Holocaust II.
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SCIENCE PART TWO: How ‘Settled Science’ Helped Create A Massive Public Health Crisis
http://www.investors.com/politics/capital-hill/how-settled-science-caused-a-massive-public-health-crisis/
Anyone who thinks it’s enough to rest an argument on “settled science” or a “scientific consensus” ought to read about John Yudkin.
Yudkin was a British professor of nutrition who, in 1972, sounded the alarm about sugar in diets, saying that if sugar were treated like any other food additive “that material would be promptly banned.” He said sugar, not fat, was the more likely cause of obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
For his efforts, Yudkin was branded a shill for the meat and dairy industries. His work was dismissed as “emotional assertions,” “science fiction” and “a mountain of nonsense.” Journals refused to publish his papers. He was uninvited from nutrition conferences and was ridiculed by the scientific community.
“Prominent nutritionists combined with the food industry to destroy his reputation, and his career never recovered,” writes Ian Leslie in a lengthy piece titled “The Sugar Conspiracy” that was published recently in The Guardian.
Nutritionists, Leslie explains, had decided that dietary fat was the enemy of good health, based in large part on a huge Seven Countries Study, published in 1970, which looked at 12,770 middle-aged men in countries ranging from the U.S. to Yugoslavia.
“The Seven Countries study had become canonical, and the fat hypothesis was enshrined in official advice,” Leslie writes. By 1980, the U.S. government issued its first Dietary Guidelines telling the country to cut back on saturated fats and cholesterol, and Americans dutifully complied.
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The Parent article: The Sugar Conspiracy
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin
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As I told my doc, ‘over my almost 70 years do you know how many ‘newest and greatest medical/scientific discoveries’ I’ve seen?’.
I can remember when doctors not only smoked in their offices but recommended it as scientific evidence showed it was calming and had other health benefits. My ex-FIL had heart problems and was told to eat a lot of beef as the red meat had bern proven to be good for you. Then we have the still ongoing issue of ‘is cholesterol really bad for you?’, closely connected to how scientific evidence proved that statins were harmless to they are connected to severe and possibly fatal muscle injury and brain damage.
We are deluged in ‘scientific proof’, much of it paid for by the folks who need results that go their way. As so many students graduating from high school have the scientific skills of an Erdogan goat (1st Amendment, Recep) it’s no wonder it all just sort of gets consumed by the sheeple.
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And liver was good for you, because it is high in iron (I still like it occasionally, as long as I don’t have to cook it).
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Liver’s great for me, not so great for my gout…it’s all relative
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Bear’s blood was something used in the USSR ‘because it is high in iron’, from what I’ve been told.
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Like blood sausage – although, I think that is a matter of economy. Must use everything! Or head cheese (which I like).
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-FIMvSp01C8
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I personally blame corn syrup. I remember when folks put cane sugar and beet sugar in everything and they weren’t obese, but when they started using corn syrup in everything everyone started becoming obese. Of course people didn’t eat a lot of processed foods and fast food for every meal and they didn’t sit around all day either.
We have true Amish who follow all of the old ways and then we have the new age Amish who only follow some of the old ways and although the old Amish make a lot of jellies, jams, preserves and baked goods with sugar and eat their own homegrown meat and veggies, rarely do you see them being obese. However, the new age Amish who buy processed food from the grocery store they are becoming like everyone else and is common to see them obese. That’s been my own non-scientific observation.
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I agree with you. It has been connected with affecting diabetes and there is some talk that there is reason to think it could cause it. And, it is in everything. I try not to buy items with corn syrup in them.
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The fastest way to put weight on a hog is to feed it whole corn soaked in water, so it’s not really surprising that it does the same thing to people.
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I seem to always offend someone when not even trying. I don’t why some people are so touchy. A distant cousin shared a picture of her nephew and said he had his 6 months checkup and was 23 inches long and weighed 30lbs.
I made an innocent, joking comment and said, “He’s a chunky monkey, he needs to start walking early so he can run off that baby fat or his mama is going to break her back lugging him around.”
She got mad and said it wasn’t funny to make fun of a baby and how would I like it if someone made fun of my grandson.
Good grief, I wasn’t making fun of him, which I told her and I didn’t care when my grandson was a baby if people called him a chunky monkey, just like I wouldn’t care now if people called him a skinny minny because he was a chunk and now he is skinny because he runs all the time and looks like he’s going to take after his mama and be tall and skinny.
So she said she gets tired of people making comments about him being chubby, fat or healthy and thinks it’s rude and hurtful.
These 20-somethings sure do get butt hurt over the silliest things. Since when did it become rude and hurtful to comment on chubby babies? Most babies are chubby.
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LOL! Choke! sputter.. heh heh heh My wife, not being from here originally, doesn’t understand when the whole sensitivity thing is supposed to be used. People were oooing and ahhhing over some baby photo saying it was such a cute baby and how great it was. My wife looked and says aloud, ‘Why is everyone lying? That baby is ugly!’
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I heart Natasha.
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And of course I have to back her up since I live with her, ‘Yes dear, ugly baby. No dear, I don’t know why the room went silent either. Yes dear, all liars.’
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LOLOL!!!!! 😀
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I do hope you said it in Russian. Just so the mad momma of said ugly spawn wouldn’t attack either one of ya’s…..
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I’ve noticed people don’t become assertive unless they are sure they’ve been wronged with that intent. Due to the heavy accent and odd word placment, people don’t know if it was just a translation issue or what, so they just withdraw. Much to my entertainment, It happens a lot.
Trust me, they don’t want the public dressing down about how thoughtless they were for having such an ugly kid. The Mrs. has no issue with using the nuclear option first.
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I have a German friend who is 87, she says whatever she is thinking, but she takes the backside of her right hand and puts it like a vertical salute next to her mouth as if that will stop the person who her disapproval is directed at from hearing her.
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This baby is a cutie, but he’s a roly poly in the pictures as you can imagine at 30lbs.
I thought my daughter was a fat baby and she looks at pictures of herself and tells me she was the world’s fattest baby, but she was nowhere near as fat as him. Plus I was glad she started walking early because she was a chunk to lug around. When people told me she was fat, I laughed, because it was pretty obvious.
She though started walking and ran off the baby fat. When she was pregnant she would see babies and tell me she hoped her baby didn’t come out as ugly as that baby. I’d always tell her to hush before she jinxed herself, although she would still think her baby was beautiful. lol
One of my brothers had an ugly baby, I know it’s horrible to say, but he was an ugly baby. He grew out of it, but that first year of his life he looked like a cross between an alien and a 100 year old man. I never told him or my sister-in-law that, but now that he’s grown with his own kids my brother will tell you that his second son was ugly.
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Years ago, I was waiting in an airport for a flight and I saw a baby who was about a year old sitting on his father’s lap. I couldn’t see his father for a post. I almost gasped because this poor little tyke was so pitiful looking, with big ears that stuck straight out, a sloped forehead, too wide set eyes, a really big mouth, and a strange shaped face, I figured it was a birth defect. But, to my surprise, when the father stood up, I saw that he was the spitting image of his father. No question there of parentage.
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I saw a picture of his mother as a baby and he looked a lot like her when she was a baby. Fortunately for both of them they grew out of it. 🙂
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My sister-in-law was a homely baby. Homely as in her parents felt bad for her. One day my MIL was pushing her in a buggy and an older woman came up and asked if she could see the baby, so my MIL picked her up and she could tell the lady was slightly taken aback.
Unlock all the other well meaning people who said “What a beautiful baby” the older lady put her hand on my MIL’s shoulder and said, “Oh honey, it’s going to be alright, the ugliest babies grow up to be beautiful people, just wait until she is a woman.”
Funny enough my SIL grew up to be a beautiful woman, even winning some beauty pageants and she was the first runner up in a pretty big city in California “Miss” contest.
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A former colleague is a beautiful Italian woman with a handsome husband, and they had the most homely baby. The problem is that he was too little for his prominent features. He also grew into them, and became a most handsome young man.
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I ran wild for 3 months out of the year every summer while school was out. One of my fondest memories is a toy that was possibly my dad and his brothers when they were boys. I suspect that maybe my grandfather made it before he found the bottle more interesting than anything else in is life.
It was an orange metal object, it looked like a squat tire maybe 3 or 4 feet tall and two feet wide. Inside there were two metal seats welded to the sides/back and some type of handles which I can’t really picture and some sort of lap strap. Our cottage was at the top of a hill, there were only 3 houses before the bottom of the hill so it was a small hill.
As very small children, 2 of us would sit on the seats facing each other and someone would give the “tire” a mighty push and we would roll down the hill at top speed until we hit the grass and slowly stopped. It is a terrific memory.
I suspect any parents would be sent to re-education camp if they let their children play in a contraption like that today.
Anyhow I was wondering if it was really homemade toy or if it was mass produced so I tried certain key words to see if I could find it and I couldn’t but I found this really cool picture a panorama taken while rolling down a hill 🙂
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There are so many things we did that our parents would go to jail for today. I remember laying in the back of the station wagon with my feet out the window, for example, and my daughter and her cousin used to ride in the back of my parents’ pickup truck up in the country. My daughter posted these pics of the two of them on Facebook this week. As usual, they were wearing some costume or another. These were taken at the old family farm where they would spend most of the summer with their grandmas while “moms” were working. He’s had a successful career as a professional dancer.
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Very cool, and very neat pictures 🙂 . My aunt and uncle would load 5 of us kids in their station wagon and we crossed the country, seat belt free, windows down, we would wave and stick a large portion of our bodies out of the car at truckers trying to get them to “blow their horn”.
My daughters loved to play dress-up, I made them Mexican ponchos one year out of a thick woven material I found at a thrift store, I thought they would get heat stroke when they wore them in the summer playing Indian (after they grew tired of playing Juan Diego) but they did just fine.
One of my daughters favorite memories is when I would take butcher paper and stretch it 2 high across the outside of one side of the garage and they would paint for hours.
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She and her cousin have such good memories of those summers! My mom and aunt planned so many special activities for those kids. The pic of them in the crowns and robes made by my mom for “king and queen for the day”. They had royal rings too, and special activities that day included going to Lake Huron to go swimming.
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I loved rolling in the tires and it was even more fun when they flipped over on the side and you bounced down the hill. The only time anyone got hurt was when my brother decided to stick his legs out and try to stop it when it was at full speed. He ended up with a cracked bone. lol
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I broke my arm but not in the orange sphere of death. But that was my most serious injury. My worst injury going down the hill happened in a wagon I ended up with scrapes and a rock embedded in the palm of my hand, the sight of which caused me to faint 🙄 which resulted in more scrapes 😀
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I had many scrapes and bruises, I still have many scars that came from bicycle wrecks.
The worst though I was ever hurt was riding my brother’s mini bike that I was told to stay off of. I wrecked it and slid underneath a fence ripping my shoulder open. It probably wouldn’t have been so bad, but I tried to keep it hid from my mother because I would have to explain how I got it. It ended up getting infected, but I still didn’t tell, and it kept getting worse and my brother finally told.
I learned my lesson though.
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Yikes! That sounds painful. My friend jumped off of a fence right onto a board with a nail protruding from it, the nail went straight through her shoe and foot and out the other side. Thank goodness I just heard the story as I would have fainted if I was there when it happened.
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I hate stepping on nails, but I’ve never had one go all the way through.
My DH had a stick once go in one side of his leg and out the other side and I almost threw up when I saw it and he tried to make me pull it out. I refused and made him go to the ER and after they pulled it out he told me I could have saved money if I had just pulled it out or let him pull it out.
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😵 I would have fainted.
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I would have helped him………….and then when it was all over………fainted.
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While doing genealogy, I ran across a death certificate for a great uncle who died in his youth. It was from a stick going into his foot, and he got septicemia. Since it was before antibiotics, he died.
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They put my husband on antibiotics and him being a typical man told them he didn’t need antibiotics. The doctor told him it once was common for people to die from trivial things like sticks, but thanks to the invention of antibiotics they can prevent infections from ever starting.
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Men! You could also have pulled it out and let him bleed to death. I think you did the right thing.
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It really didn’t bleed that much, it was kind of strange. He was using a brush mower and somehow it was slung back and went through his pants, I cut them from it and it had went in at the bottom of his calf and about a 1/2 inch of it was sticking out the other side of his calf.
I guess it was just skin and not meat is why it didn’t really bleed.
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HAHAHAAHAHAHA! “… was even more fun when they flipped over on the side and you bounced down the hill. ” Eyes, ears, nose, there was vomit from EVERYWHERE!!! LOL!!
Sorry, mental imagery.
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No vomit, a big ol’ rubber tire bouncing down the hill is better than an amusement ride.
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And the there are those whose insides seep out of every pore in their body;
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A popular German comedian is facing five years in a German prison for slandering Erdogan on a German TV program inside of Germany. After his hilarious yet very blue on-air performance the Turkish government, who apparently knows German law better than Germany does, demanded that he be arrested and charged under an obscure 19th century law that states anyone who insults an accredited diplomat or foreign head of state can be sentenced to up to three years in prison while a slanderous remark will getcha five. Seems that after WW II they got rid of those troublesome Nuremberg laws but overlooked this one.
Appears the comedian accused Erdogan of having carnal knowledge of a goat and having a small pee pee, among other things. Being unable or unwilling to produce the goat or evidence as to his royal majesty to refute the charges it seems Erdogan has Merkel, who needs Erdogan’s help with the refugee problem, over a barrel. Note to German Embassy: that’s not a slanderous reference.
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More 20-something stupidity, just a different 20-something.
I’m going to have remove some more family members from my friends list.
This one was freaked out because her neighbor had their kids in a large box cut out to look like a car and had attached a rope to it and were pulling them around the yard in it. In her opinion this was dangerous and stupid.
How the heck is it dangerous? Now when I was a kid we did some dangerous things with anything that would slide down a hill fast. The funnest being an old tractor tire that you’d climb in and someone would push you so you could roll down the hill.
My parents would have been locked up I guess because for fun they would allow us to get on an old car hood and chain it to our old pickup and our oldest brother would pull us around the pasture.
My goodness now a cardboard box is dangerous. The parents of these 20-somethings failed, but if I told her mother that it would probably be offensive.
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Perhaps the complainer was, as a child, was pulled around in a cardboard box, fell out and suffered damages to her common sense?
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See, happened to me, suffered damages to my editing areas…hey bubba, watch this…
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I guess I’m old and just don’t know how to live in this knee pad, helmet world where people are afraid of getting hurt so they don’t truly live or let their children be dumb kids who learn what not to do if they don’t want to get hurt.
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Part of that wussyfication/dumbing down of American children. Seems to me this all started about the time the prog internationalists decided that America was too successful as its children were too aggressive physically, intellectually and economically. Competitiveness baaaad, controlled and guided group cooperation goooooood. We must have riles at every age to ensure a tractable and compliant adult population, we know what’s best for you, get used to it.
Now I’m going out and bubba-ride my ATV alllllllllll over my farm. Without a helmet.
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My oldest son was the one that made me cringe when I heard, “watch this or I can do it!”
I honestly do not know how that kid came out of childhood with no broke bones and no stitches.
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But…but…children are not supposed to suffer any pain, embarrassment or inconvenience of any kind during their formative years, they’re entitled. It takes a village tonraise them, just look at the successful results of African village life. OK, we can ignore Rwanda, forget the Congo, look askance at Sierra Leone…let me get back with you on that.
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Iiiiiiiit’s 80s day…..I mercifully posted the short version
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Rumor has it that as children the performers had a tragic incident involving falling from a cardboard box
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Now you’ve done it. This took me to YouTube, into the land of Toto, Beastie Boys, and Twisted Sister:
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Sigh…..memories……I can remember dressing like that. No, wait, that was what I looked like AFTER they pulled me from he wreck.
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Yep, they would rather the children would be sitting at home, in their room, playing video games. Much safer. Of course, they don’t learn anything worthwhile growthwise doing that.
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Neighbors use to call the police on me all the time: my kids were playing on the garage roof or climbing trees too high and too close to road or racing bikes without helmets or climbing out second story windows to see how fast “fire” ladder could get them to ground or climbing down on tied bedding or toddlers with no bottoms on (easiest and fastest way to potty train little boys). One neighbor called authorities because my children were not in the house and in bed at a decent hour. I even had police show up at gracery store; someone called because some children did not have coats on.
Funny thing. For all my neglect they all made it inone piece to adulthood. (Except for the many stitches they aquired from ordinary mundane and safe activities like getting out of a car or playing a sport)
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If it were me today, CPS would be a regular visitor. I was fortunate that my baby hit that “feed MYSELF!!” stage around 8-ish mos. old in the spring/summer of that year…. meals were served outside in the highchair (kid in only a diaper) and clean up was a breeze. Baby and highchair hosed down real nice-like. Apply fresh diaper when done. 😀
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Practical parenthood. LOL
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Hey, I lucked out. The peeps whose babies hit that rough patch in the winter hadda put that highchair on a shower curtain and then hose it off. Jus’ sayin’.
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The dog was always a big help. My DD’s border collie could be counted on to clean up the high chair and everything within the general vicinity.
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😀 I was stupid. I didn’t have a dog, yet – and cats cannot be depended upon for labor.
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Well, yeah. Dogs will eat anything, and cats won’t.
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Yeah, ours will ‘clean up’ anything thst can’t outrun her. When she was younger, and ‘lighter’, she’d eat what she could here then go outside, whack some critter and dine. I don’t know how she did it but we came home and she was eating a two-foot gar fish she’d wrangled. She’s been known to snitch a steak or roast off the counter (Z taught her that) and when my GGS was small and lived with us full-time she split more than one meal with him.
She’s older now but even though she’s slower and her center-of-gravity’s lower she hasn’t lost that old spark: she’s working on how to use the can opener and is working through programming the microwave even though her claws get in the way.
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I remember when I couldn’t go to bed until after I watched Johnny Carson.
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My error, I thought a bunch of vegetables were already voting Democrat…
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I love Baxter Black. I think I appreciate his poetry more than any other. 🙂
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Nobody has ever been equal to Johnny. I watched his show every night.
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241 years ago today ….
On the evening of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere was sent for by Dr. Joseph Warren and instructed to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them. After being rowed across the Charles River to Charlestown by two associates, Paul Revere borrowed a horse from his friend Deacon John Larkin. While in Charlestown, he verified that the local “Sons of Liberty” committee had seen his pre-arranged signals. (Two lanterns had been hung briefly in the bell-tower of Christ Church in Boston, indicating that troops would row “by sea” across the Charles River to Cambridge, rather than marching “by land” out Boston Neck. Revere had arranged for these signals the previous weekend, as he was afraid that he might be prevented from leaving Boston).
On the way to Lexington, Revere “alarmed” the country-side, stopping at each house, and arrived in Lexington about midnight. As he approached the house where Adams and Hancock were staying, a sentry asked that he not make so much noise. “Noise!” cried Revere, “You’ll have noise enough before long. The regulars are coming out!” After delivering his message, Revere was joined by a second rider, William Dawes, who had been sent on the same errand by a different route. Deciding on their own to continue on to Concord, Massachusetts, where weapons and supplies were hidden, Revere and Dawes were joined by a third rider, Dr. Samuel Prescott. Soon after, all three were arrested by a British patrol. Prescott escaped almost immediately, and Dawes soon after. Revere was held for some time and then released. Left without a horse, Revere returned to Lexington in time to witness part of the battle on the Lexington Green.
https://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/real.html
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Suggestion –
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A little satire for ya.
Breaking news.
Seventy-two killed resisting gun confiscation in Boston
Boston – National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed on April 19 by elements of a para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/seventy-two-killed-resisting-gun-confiscation-boston
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Back in the ’80s there was a radio station that would break in with “Breaking News” with the whole story updated with Modern names, people,……. Thanks barncat45!
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😯 Missed the “satire” warning.
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Headline in an email I received on my Washington Post feed: ‘Post Journalist Win (sic) Pulitzer in General Non-fiction Category’. So the Pulitzer folks have a ‘fiction’ category in reporting? Wonder who won if the Post didn’t?
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NY Times’d be my guess.
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It would be close…
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Must really suck to be Erdogan today. First we have a comedian question his manhood and ability to relate to livestock, we already have the Russians supporting the Kurdish rebels in Syria and Iraq and today the US says it will continue to support, if not expand support, to the Peshmerga. Thry really know how to get Erdogan’s goat.
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Groan!!!! Hey. It sucks to be Erdogan EVERY day.
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Can’t disagree with that.
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Jeeeeeez. STILL raining – coming up on 6″ today. I’ll be able to play that Johnny Cash song by in the a.m……
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😦
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Doing my pre flight check as I type Ms.WeeWeed! Remember face East then fire 3 red flares.
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Is there an anti-rain dance. Stay safe and dry WeeWeed the pictures I saw of Texas look really rough. Some dope of course “didn’t think the water was that deep” and got stuck in his car .
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Charge: FEC Dems would ban Drudge, NYT, free media on election eve
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/dems-on-fec-charged-with-trying-to-regulate-press-end-free-election-news/article/2588872
Goodman, who has been warning of efforts by Democrats on the FEC to regulate and even block conservative news sites like the Drudge Report, said that a split vote on the anti-Obama movie proves the motives of the Democrats, Ann M. Ravel, Steven T. Walther, and Ellen L. Weintraub.
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What is sad is how many minions would cheer such a move.
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