General Discussion, Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Stella

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  1. sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
    May 4, 2016 at 12:04 am

    Is this Ireland? It’s so lush and green. Gorgeous! Happy hump day all!!!!

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  2. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    May 4, 2016 at 12:09 am

    And it’s my bed time, soon as the cat comes in. In keeping with the bugle call motif we seemed to gave cone intontoday, the next to the last bugle call a soldier will hear at days end, tattoo.

    Nite all.

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  4. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    May 4, 2016 at 12:11 am

    Heard on the interwebs by a friend of a friend: It took her 6 years to ruin HP; only 6 days to crush Cruz. She’s getting better!

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  5. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    May 4, 2016 at 12:20 am

    Just because this is such a purely beautiful picture 🙂

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      May 4, 2016 at 12:28 am

      That Milo is a good looking guy, isn’t he?

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:
        May 4, 2016 at 12:40 am

        I was cracking up through the whole thing 🙂

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          May 4, 2016 at 12:55 am

          I’m disappointed in Ben Shapiro. I thought he was a lot smarter than he turned out to be. I mean, the Trump thing is bad enough, but then defending Michelle Fields ….

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          • lovely's avatar lovely says:
            May 4, 2016 at 1:04 am

            The unmasking of folks like Levin, Shapiro and Krauthammer has been a great service to America. IMO Shapiro supporting Fields in defiance of facts and reason is not explainable other than two possibilities 1) he is being blackmailed 2) he is blinded by his new found hate for Trump. Remember Shapiro was a Trump supporter not that long ago, Trump didn’t change, Shapiro did, things like that always make me raise an eyebrow.

            So from what well does Shapiro’s hatred of Trump spring 😏?

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        • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
          May 4, 2016 at 8:07 am

          As Trump was almost done last, just before his comments about Cruzer, Trump mention the name calling, “now everybody wants on the Trump train”, and Trump said “I don’t think so” this is Trump shutting down the Political Class.

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          • lovely's avatar lovely says:
            May 4, 2016 at 10:04 am

            Morning Col. 🙂 Yep, Trump has already said that he doesn’t care about the republican party, he said people are supporting him not the party, he said they can come back and vote republican in 8 years after his second term if they don’t like him 😀 . Bravo Trump!

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
        May 4, 2016 at 8:58 am

        Yep. 😦

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  7. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
    May 4, 2016 at 12:40 am

    This coffee has a kick to it for all those still celebrating.

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  8. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    May 4, 2016 at 12:55 am

    There’s a political connection here. Trust me:

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    • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
      May 4, 2016 at 12:56 am

      Or maybe a cultural connection.

      Or both.

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      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
        May 4, 2016 at 8:09 am

        And breakfast is supposed to follow that?

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      • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
        May 4, 2016 at 8:15 am

        Mary, thank you for reminding me, Many times during my military career, I had too eat some cr&&ola. I could not, at times believe, or understand the incompetence, motives, (I have run out of adjectives) of some individuals. Many lesson learned the hard way.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:
          May 4, 2016 at 8:47 am

          I’ve met very few military folks who don’t either pour on the hot sauce, salt and/or pepper. They always say the same thing, “it was the only way to give taste to my food in the military, so it became a staple.”

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            May 4, 2016 at 12:17 pm

            Think I mentioned this once before, long ago and on the other site. I didcovered the benefits of hot sauce in Vietnam, covers a multitude of gastronomical sons, even that nasty bleach-tasting milk from the mechanical cow. Back in the mid-80s I found out that the McIlhennt folks of Tabasco fame had a web carrier they’d made which fit our military web gear and carried a bottle of Tabasco securely. When I contacted the company to find out what it would cost to outfit our team the company, after Inexplained we were deploying to a desert base where we would be in desperate need of Tabasco, sent us the holders for free. Seems a past McIlhenny president was a reyired general officer.
            You can imagine the stares when our people, bottles of Tabasco securely attached to our web gear, went into the mess hall.

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            • michellc's avatar michellc says:
              May 4, 2016 at 3:00 pm

              I’m not so sure you guys didn’t damage your taste buds. lol

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                May 4, 2016 at 3:56 pm

                Liking hot sauce and foods was once a prerequisite for a Louisiana drivers licence

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                • michellc's avatar michellc says:
                  May 4, 2016 at 4:39 pm

                  It isn’t liking hot sauce, it’s not being able to eat anything, even desert without hot sauce or a ton of salt.

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                  • Stella's avatar stella says:
                    May 4, 2016 at 4:42 pm

                    At work, we once had a group in from Mexico for training. They put hot sauce on EVERYTHING.

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                  • michellc's avatar michellc says:
                    May 4, 2016 at 4:47 pm

                    I know former military guys who are like that. It’s kind of gross and they don’t even taste anything first, just pour it on.

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                  • Stella's avatar stella says:
                    May 4, 2016 at 4:48 pm

                    I think it’s an addiction.

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                  • michellc's avatar michellc says:
                    May 4, 2016 at 7:07 pm

                    They always tell me that you didn’t dare eat anything in the military without first masking it. You only wanted to taste the hot sauce, not the stuff it was covering, you just needed it to fill your stomach and give you energy.
                    So after awhile, you just get where you can’t eat without it.

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                  • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                    May 4, 2016 at 5:23 pm

                    Ahhhhh, roger that. I have about seven different hot sauces for different eats and my Indonesian sambal badjak and Vietnamese Tuong Ot Toi for my more gooey needs. Scovills rule!

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                  • Stella's avatar stella says:
                    May 4, 2016 at 5:31 pm

                    What hot sauce do you use for pizza? Just asking, cuz our Mex visitors put lots of very hot sauce on pizza.

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                  • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                    May 4, 2016 at 5:53 pm

                    Stella: ran out of reply space so I’ll steal some here. Depends what’s on the pizza. Regilar pepperoni I use Tabasco regular. On thosevrare instances where I get desperate and buy one of those nasty commercial puzza pretenders (y’all know who you are) I’ll use Crystal as it has a nice vinegary quality thst covers the cheap mechanical pizza taste. On my Hawaiian pizza I like the sambal badjak. In a pinch my old Tabasco regular is my ‘go to’, I’ve used it around the world and it’s never failed me, can’t go wrong presenting it.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          May 4, 2016 at 12:06 pm

          When we had ‘joint’ operations I’d wrangle Air Firce meal card andceat in their ness halls ibstead of ours. We’d be eating yummy crap that came in a huge aluminum pan while they had real food flown in. On obe particularly icky deployment our 1-star general caight on tobwhat I was doing and from then on he had at least one meal a day at the AF mess. The general was a mustang so he made sure that what the troops suffered he did to but no one begrudged hom one good meal a day.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          May 4, 2016 at 12:20 pm

          Yummmmmmm, the Korean War vintage C-rations we had in VN followed by those ‘light but binding’ LRRP bag lunches……how I do miss them…..not. Do miss the little box of four cigarettes they had in the individual boxes.

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          • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
            May 4, 2016 at 12:48 pm

            That’s what I remember! The cigarettes, and a few matches!! 😉

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
              May 4, 2016 at 12:51 pm

              Yup, matches in a little green book. You learned not to be fussy over what you smoked too. If you couldn’t trade for what you smoked….learned to appreciate Camels and Lucky Strikes.

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          • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
            May 4, 2016 at 2:22 pm

            Canned peaches = yum. 😉

            Also, ham and beans had
            liquid and salt = bonus. 😉

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
              May 4, 2016 at 2:38 pm

              LIMA beans and ham, known far and wide in the C-rat appreciation circles by its here-unprintable pseudonym. Don’t forget the John Wayne chocolate (melts in a furnace, not in your mouth) and that progenitor of the Rubik’s Cube, bread in a can. BTW! I still have some 60s era P-38s that I regularly use.

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              • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
                May 4, 2016 at 2:56 pm

                eBayers desire openers. 😉

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              • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
                May 4, 2016 at 8:20 pm

                I had a P-38 in the Navy, but lost it since then. I found the civilian version not to work as well.

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                • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                  May 4, 2016 at 8:46 pm

                  I sharpened part of one side ( not an easy thing), used it as a screwdriver, small pry tool, even bridged a fuse slot in a truck with it. Oh yeah, opened cans too. Worth its weight in gold during Katrina, you’d never think how many 1st responders forgot to include a can opener in their “Oh S**T!” Bag. It lived on my key chain right next to my handcuff key.

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                  • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
                    May 4, 2016 at 8:52 pm

                    Heh heh heh, the most popular key chain hardware was a brass flag clip. I forgot about that always hanging off everyone’s belt loops.

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  9. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    May 4, 2016 at 8:10 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! 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Blackberry wine)
    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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  10. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    May 4, 2016 at 8:51 am

    Mornin’ kids! 😀

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  11. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    May 4, 2016 at 10:10 am

    Now for something important :).

    Ok. I have tried all kinds of different type of plastic food storage bins. I always lose the tops, send some home with this or that person, and I am once again in the market to buy some. Any suggestions ? I need them that seal well as my daughters often take them in their bag on the train ride home. I would like something that stores well and easily (small home). I don’t like those little ones that are on a spinning rack.

    I just bought a few sistema and they have terrible reviews 🙄

    Thanks for any suggestions.

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  13. shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:
    May 4, 2016 at 11:53 am

    Just how I feel this morning. Let’s Dance!

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  14. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    May 4, 2016 at 12:41 pm

    Seems that the FBI, who’s got the ultimate responsibility for not only vetting the ‘Syrian’ refugees but investigating the results of any ‘mistakes’, is all up in a fluff as the POtuS is demanding they drop the refugee vetting process from 18/24 mobths to no more than 3 months.
    The section doing the vetting’s understaffed, overworked and working with a desert of available information. 24 months in most cases is not enough so to drop it to 3 months means you might as well just drop the whole process and let ’em just flood in. Seems someone’s desperate to get that first hundred-thousand pitential terrorist into the US before someone’s reign ends.

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    • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
      May 4, 2016 at 10:15 pm

      “…drop it to 3 months means you might as well just drop the whole process and let ’em just flood in.”

      That’s the whole point, isn’t it?

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        May 4, 2016 at 10:31 pm

        Roger that, has been since Day One. Still can’t believe I stumbled over the UN High Commissioner’s call for the US to be allotted 65 to 85k of the Syrian refugees and knew the POtuS was going to bite that hook. No wonder the UN wants to disarm US citizens.

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  15. barncat45's avatar barncat45 says:
    May 4, 2016 at 1:13 pm

    For a little fun.
    How about a little lead with your bacon.

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      May 4, 2016 at 10:04 pm

      I’ll try it!! Maybe ZM knows about cooking baco this way!!!

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      May 4, 2016 at 10:28 pm

      Of all the possible bacon condiments CLP, RBC and powder residue just don’t fit in my pantry. As an engineer I learned how to cook a meal on the duece’s/5-ton’s exhaust manifold and it took long enough to get to appreciate a roast redolent with the floral overtones of diesel.

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  16. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    May 4, 2016 at 1:20 pm

    All right, the reports are ‘open source’ now so the idea that ISIS has access to and has used chemical weapons in it’s little mobile holocaust is a fair coffee klatch topic.
    Private source is reporting what government players have known for some time, that ISIS has and has used chemical weapons in over 160 attacks. The chem weapons are rather pedestrian, chlorine/mustard/sarin, but are still banned weapons and still quite effective. There are also valid reports that ISIS is making its own chemical weapons, so much for that ‘barbarians living in skin huts’ concept the government feeds us.
    One ISIS tool has already been captured prior to carrying out a chemical attack in a North African city – one wonders when they’ll step up to an attack in a major European city and, eventually, here.
    If they have chemists with the requisite training, manufacturing chem weapons in a civilized environment isn’t all that hard, especially if you’ve been doing it in the middle of a desert battlefield.
    I’m sure that none of the 85k, or more, of Syrian refugees the POtuS wants to flood the country with are fundamentalist WMD engineers who mean us ill; after all, they’re all going to be vetted by the FBI.

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  17. shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:
    May 4, 2016 at 1:38 pm

    Thank you for all the nice Birthday wishes. I do not let too many people know about my birthday. I am reminded how old I am every morning when I get up and have to “take the kinks out”

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      May 4, 2016 at 1:42 pm

      You don’t have problems until you stop getting old…in the meatime, enjoy.

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:
      May 4, 2016 at 3:12 pm

      I’ve been telling my husband I’m going to blow up a picture of myself when I was young and cover the bathroom mirror with it, so I’ll quit seeing that old woman every morning and instead see the young girl I still feel as I am on the inside. lol

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        May 4, 2016 at 5:18 pm

        Yeah, gotta pic of Czarina and myself taken back about 1980, keep on wondering who they are and what are they doing up on my wall.

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      May 4, 2016 at 7:32 pm

      My dad always said, “Beats the alternative.”

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      • shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:
        May 4, 2016 at 7:53 pm

        I should have listened to my elders when I was in my 40’s. They said I should not beat the you know what out of my body doing all the physical work I was doing. they said I would regret it someday. Hello someday. It did not help that I fell off the garage I was building 20 years ago. Never been the same since. Landed on the only pile of rocks in the yard.

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        • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
          May 4, 2016 at 7:58 pm

          Yikes! Bet that hurt.

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          • shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:
            May 4, 2016 at 8:03 pm

            Landed on my right side. It kind of pushed everything to the left. Broke a bone in my shoulder, but did not go to the doctor. The bone I broke was not really fixable. I am sitting here now with a neck massager on. Really damp here the last few days and that makes it worse. I am not complaining. For my age of 61, I am really very healthy. Not sure why, because it can’t be clean living. Snort chuckle.

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  18. BigMamaTEA's avatar BigMamaTEA says:
    May 4, 2016 at 3:04 pm

    Thanks, I needed that. Got caught-up next door in one of the political threads.

    Afternoon stellars.

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    • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
      May 4, 2016 at 10:18 pm

      Now you can relax, BMT.

      Just scroll up to stella’s daily picture and daydream for a while.

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      May 4, 2016 at 10:35 pm

      MamaTEA this post of Stella’s says it all, especially the LAST two paragraphs, use this as your reply;

      Posted on FB by Clarice Feldman. The “Great Iggy” is a commenter on another blog, JustOneMinute, who signs as Ignatz Ratzkywatzky:

      The great Iggy:

      The dumb bastards who pleaded with us to vote for the clown who gave us the prototype for Obamacare now can’t abide a guy whose health insurance plan is a lot more market oriented than Mittens’ idiot plan.
      It assumes they know he can’t win. It then somewhat incongruously says he’ll be a liberal as president. Virtually every position he has staked out has been well within the realm of Romney, GHWB, Dole and McCain. And yet he’s a liberal enemy while they were delightful guys who all the brainiacs said could win. They all lost so why should I listen to the same dumb bastards tell me Trump will lose?

      That they cannot recognize that Hillary’s place of birth was Village of the Damned and the nation may very well suffer irreparable damage at her hands is so astounding it discredits anything else they say.
      These kind of morons would have balked at aligning with the satanic Stalin to win and would have felt great about themselves, as Europe fell to an actual 1000 year Reich.

      Possible survival vs certain death.
      It is not that hard an equation….unless you’re an internet egghead blogger who is willing to fight to the last non internet non egghead non blogger, i.e., all the rest of us. We can go hang in Hillary’s post constitutional America so long as these clowns can say they didn’t allow their brand to be besmirched by a gauche clown who, lets face it, probably does have a small penis and doesn’t know who Russell Kirk was and almost certainly doesn’t even belong to the NRO wine club.

      Never Trump = Always Hillary.
      Anyone who doesn’t work to keep her from the levers of power is, it’s hard to think of a more appropriate word, a traitor. She is anathema to liberty and self government, the principal ideals upon which our republic was founded. To refuse to work to defeat her is to deny the American project, no matter how creepy Trump might be.
      These asinine Mussolini and tyrant accusations are especially disgusting when the execrable Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan have made it quite plain a majority of their ilk will bring down an iron curtain on our freedoms. Hillary is explicitly running on the repeal of Heller, the one freedom above all others which secures self governance.
      If that goal isn’t enough to cause these fools to try to stop her then their supposed concern for conservative causes is just window dressing for childish dilettantes who think this is all just a parlor game and “it” can’t happen here. It can and it will if they get their way.
      Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkywatzky | May 04, 2016

      Thank you Stella, this has become my reply too those people……..

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  19. Stella's avatar stella says:
    May 4, 2016 at 6:24 pm

    This is the kind of thing we are dealing with now among the Cruz-bots, who think we are all leftists – certainly not conservatives, and it is our fault that Hillary will now be elected President. I don’t even know where to start with this.

    Trump Just Burned Down Conservatism. The Time To Rebuild Begins Now.

    http://www.dailywire.com/news/5430/trump-just-burned-down-conservatism-time-rebuild-ben-shapiro?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=121115-news&utm_campaign=benshapiro

    First of all, Shapiro is trying to characterize this a white supremacist movement.

    It turns out that a huge bulk of Trump supporters don’t care that he’s a leftist. They think he’s a tough guy who will fight for them; they think he’ll fulfill the promise emblazoned on his ridiculous red “Make America Great Again” hats. They buy his two-bit promises, his stripper glitter showmanship, his foghorn bravado. And they do so because they don’t give two good damns about conservatism.

    The alt-right, for those who missed it, is a group of white supremacists uniting under the banner of resistance to both Constitutionalism and the cultural left. These are the people Yiannopoulos cheerily touts as the future: an ugly agglomeration of intelligent skinheads, white supremacists, morons who conflate everything vile with political incorrectness, and the odd Hitler fan or two.

    Yiannopoulos is right about one thing: the Trump movement rejects conservatism. They don’t care about the Constitution – it’s a passé document that must be discarded in favor of a Dear Leader who can lead America back to Greatness. They don’t care about the Declaration of Independence – they are an interest group, and they want their payoff. They don’t care about traditional concepts of negative rights, or economic freedom, or foreign policy strength.

    They don’t care about conservatives.

    I want to take Ben Shapiro by the shoulders and shake him – and his readers (read comments).

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      May 4, 2016 at 7:38 pm

      I’d like to punch him in the mouth.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      May 4, 2016 at 10:35 pm

      When a well educated thirty something throws a I Didn’t Get What I Wanted hissy fit it is still just as ugly as a toddler doing it. More actually. The toddler usually isn’t fully responsible for their actions yet, they are still learning self control, hopefully. Or they might grow up to be Shapiro.

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      May 4, 2016 at 10:57 pm

      There’s a whole cadre of liveral/progressive Jews who think it’s ‘in’ to support liberal/progressive people and causes that very well may come back to bite them in the tokhes. In an earlier life I could see them holdibg Friar’s Club roasts for Eichmann. They heavily supported the POtuS in ’08 and ’12, he came back and pulled the rug out from under Israel while inflaming his bros with antisemetic rhetoric. Let ’em go on and keep one toe in the conservative safety zone while they pet the tiger, about the time their idol’s immigrant and native sons start cleaning out the camps and testing the furnaces they’ll be back.

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  20. Stella's avatar stella says:
    May 4, 2016 at 6:42 pm

    Did you know that Ben Shapiro endorsed a Donald Trump campaign back in 2011?
    Honest.

    The Magic of Donald Trump

    http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/ben-shapiro/magic-donald-trump

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  21. mickie's avatar mickie says:
    May 4, 2016 at 8:10 pm

    Hi Stella, just wanted to pop in from next door and say to you and my fellow Trump lovers, YAAAA!!

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