General Discussion, Sunday, April 24, 2016

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Stella

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  1. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    April 24, 2016 at 12:17 am

    It’s true, it works! Just finished watching a piece on the Science Channel about how Japanese have proved that people who watch cat videos on the net are 44% more efficient at work!

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    April 24, 2016 at 12:23 am

    If this is allowed, Europeans will be paying for their own replacement. Someone, somewhere, is LOLing uncontrollably about this:

    Austria: Merkel Muslims on welfare with 9 children demand free IVF treatment

    https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/austria-merkel-muslims-on-welfare-with-9-children-demand-free-ivf-treatment/

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  3. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    April 24, 2016 at 1:37 am

    Very interesting. Could qualify for “pay-per-view”:

    Sicilian MAFIA Cosa Nostra ‘declare war’ on refugees in Palermo

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3546081/Mafia-declares-WAR-migrants-Sicilian-gangster-shoots-innocent-Gambian-head-amid-soaring-levels-migration-Italy-mayor-saying-Sicily-s-capital-no-longer-European.html

    [h/t nimrodman, next door]

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      April 24, 2016 at 10:11 am

      Yeah not like the old days, first hit was on film, and the bullet went through the head of the intended victim, then exited the skull without damaging the brain. And the shooter was caught. Maybe the “new generation of made” men/women need to review the historical archives. Or just watch the Godfather parts 1,2, and 3.

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      April 24, 2016 at 11:40 am

      I know a number of older Italians who still do not accept Sicily as part of Italy, they have some not exactly kind things to say about previous North African immigration to Sicily too.
      With the damage the Italian government’s done to the Mafia it’s going to be interesting watching the turf fight play out. The Mafia was sort of formed to protect the Sicilians from foreign exploitation but then the UN made nationalism a crime and foreign domination an ideal. Commercial over.
      Let’s see the EU portray the immigrant gangs as merely a protective reaction to racist and revanchist xenophobic oppression of nationalist criminals against Keane-eyed immigrants just trying to breathe free…you know the drill.
      Geez, wonder when the Chinese will start opening their doors to the millions of immigrants they could use to fill those ghost cities?

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  4. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    April 24, 2016 at 1:50 am

    Rack time, got about 100 feet of squash to ready tomorrow and as much as I’d love to spend more irreplaceable lifetime discussing cats….well, you understand.

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  5. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    April 24, 2016 at 2:58 am

    Heh! I’ve been way behind so here is the coffee. 😉

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  6. doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:
    April 24, 2016 at 5:21 am

    The annual outlay that illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers is an average amount per native-headed household of $1,117. The fiscal impact per household varies considerably because the greatest share of the burden falls on state and local taxpayers whose burden depends on the size of the illegal alien population in that locality.

    Oh Well time to head for…

    Five o’clock everywhere all the time

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  8. doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:
    April 24, 2016 at 5:40 am

    According to this Bozo Crooked Hillary is honest. She just seems dishonest. Good Grief!

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  9. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    April 24, 2016 at 8:09 am

    Mornin’ kids! Up and at ’em!!

    More painting today – czar, save me some squash!

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  10. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    April 24, 2016 at 9:00 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| ( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! ⭐ 😛 (No drink for you!)
    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

    Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra and F.D.R. in Hell! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Pastries for coffee!

    ⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol

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  11. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    April 24, 2016 at 3:05 pm

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  12. Molly's avatar Margaret-Ann says:
    April 24, 2016 at 3:22 pm

    Gorgeous header photo, Stella! Made me smile .. for the first time today. I always remember what makes me first smile and laugh in the day, and it leads off journaling my blessings at night. 😀

    Wishing everyone a fantastic last week in April ….

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  13. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    April 24, 2016 at 3:39 pm

    Another drive-by–includes useful historical information:

    Castrated [Saudi Arabia and the US]

    Castrated, by Robert Gore

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  14. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    April 24, 2016 at 5:59 pm

    We had a punk kid bring his gun to prom in Antigo, WI he wounded two fellow students and an officer shot him dead on the spot. Class as usual tomorrow. Antigo voted for Trump. Maybe I will move.

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  15. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
    April 24, 2016 at 7:40 pm

    All my favorite musicians are joining the Great Choir.

    I cried when Prince died.

    Then listened to some Morris Day and the Time and felt better.

    I hate to think about the inevitable, but Bobby McFerrin will also die, in this realm. He’s a Christian too. If he ever does, before my time, his funeral will be a global explosion of fearless, undaunted singing, like the Earth has never seen. Mark my words.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
      April 24, 2016 at 7:45 pm

      Prince’s death made me think of Bobby, because they (were) both in my Top 5 Living Musicians , as far as modern musicianship goes. Sergei Rachmaninoff is in another category altogether.

      And then there were four.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
      April 24, 2016 at 8:09 pm

      By the way, Prince (his real birth certificate first name) didn’t do that symbol thing out of pretentiousness, although he was (considerably), but because his publisher forbade him from publishing any albums under his own name.

      So he hacked them, essentially, with a made up symbol…

      …which could be called a middle finger.

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
        April 24, 2016 at 9:20 pm

        I saw somebody discussing Prince using the symbol as his name last week. He said it was a genius move on Prince’s part. After everything was settled, he went back to using his name.

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        • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
          April 24, 2016 at 10:23 pm

          That’s the long and short of it. It was a genius move.

          They said, due to a contract dispute, “You can’t use the name you were given.”

          He said “Ok, no problem. Heard!”

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  16. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    April 24, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    Remember the two boys who were lost at sea last Summer? They found their boat and one of their iPhones.

    Boat and iPhone of teens lost at sea discovered months later

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/04/23/boat-and-iphone-teens-lost-at-sea-discovered-months-later.html

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  17. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
    April 24, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    He Ran To The Train

    Live

    Studio

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  18. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
    April 24, 2016 at 8:29 pm

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  19. michellc's avatar michellc says:
    April 24, 2016 at 9:27 pm

    Our local weather guys are really putting their reputations on the line these days. I was watching the news earlier today and he did a really great job of narrowing down what area had the best chance of having a tornado Tuesday afternoon, his map covered about 3/4 of Oklahoma.
    He gave me a chuckle.

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  20. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
    April 24, 2016 at 9:32 pm

    Last spin tonight:

    “Anyone that needs what they want, and doesn’t want what they need, I want nothing to do with.”

    Best Cee-Lo Green lyric ever,

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  21. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    April 24, 2016 at 11:34 pm

    B-52s made their first anti-ISIS missions today (Monday there), replacing B-1s that need routine maintenance and upgrades. Just as thought, reports are the were using terminal guided/GPS munitions, no mass carpet bombings of extant and perspective Moslem terrs.
    Interesting change is that missions that might involve civilian casualties no longer have to be approved by a 4-star, they can be approved at a more local field commander level depending upon the expected numbers of civvies that might be vaporized. Looks like DOD CYA as the blame’s dispersed now, a lower ranking general officer gets to put his/her career on the line. Rule is that It’s OK for them to mass murder Non-Moslems but we have to cherry pick our kills to prevent causibg terrs and their supporters any inconveniences. Seems the only acceptable civilian casualties are Christians, Jews and US citizens.

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    • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
      April 25, 2016 at 12:23 am

      And to think there are people who still believe BHO is trying to fight [aka, “degrade and destroy”] terrorists. Evidence means nothing to them.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        April 25, 2016 at 12:33 am

        Just about everything he and his little band of trolls does is half-assed. This is what happens when you take entitlement kids who’ve grown up on ‘you can do anything you want to do, all you have to do is do it’ without telling them that first you have to know WHAT you’re doing.

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