General Discussion, Thursday, May 5, 2016

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Stella

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  1. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
    May 5, 2016 at 12:03 am

    Good morning!

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    May 5, 2016 at 12:08 am

    Not quite morning here yet…

    Interesting drive-by:

    The Warning Shot

    Amish PAC Needs Volunteer Drivers

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      May 5, 2016 at 12:15 am

      Good quote FTA.

      I’m fond of pointing out that all you have to do is spend a little time with grad students at an elite university to understand why Mao sent these people off the rice paddies. They manage to combine wrongheadedness with smug condescension to the point where you want to smash them in the face. I suspect a corollary here is that you can understand the French Revolution by spending a few minutes following American politics. A normal man wants “to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        May 5, 2016 at 12:31 am

        Ooooooo, haven’t heard ‘FTA’ in a long time, took me back to Ft Lewis in the 70s…
        Those of you old enough to have been in the Army in the pre-Reagan days know what I mean.

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        • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
          May 5, 2016 at 1:33 am

          Czar, FTA! Fun, Travel, Adventure…….or the other saying the “Heads” would scribe on the walls of the latrine……

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            May 5, 2016 at 11:16 am

            It was so bad ar Lewis and Carson that you’d be sitting in the chowhall and about every five minutes some troop would come in and yell “FTA” and the mess would erupt with replies. I knew more than one first sergeant who had a .45 tucked under his shirt, those were bad times.

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    • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
      May 5, 2016 at 12:22 am

      I almost committed the nearly-unpardonable sin of posting this next door, on the Open Thread. Oh, well, their loss–I only “do” the O/T.

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      May 5, 2016 at 12:24 am

      Hey! We gots us denteests out heuh now!

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        May 5, 2016 at 12:27 am

        Oh, wait…those be hillbilly folk you talkin’ ’bout, not rednecks. Nope, not sure hillbillies gots gud dentile kare yit. Go Trump!

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  4. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
    May 5, 2016 at 12:41 am

    You are not allowed to be black and conservative, at least not publicly.

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/3/jason-riley-black-conservative-disinvited-virginia/

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  5. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    May 5, 2016 at 12:51 am

    Another interesting drive-by–I took particular note of the comments, which indicate that the hatred/vitriol has not even started to consider even contemplating the incipient possibility of deliberating on maybe beginning to initiate rudimentary thinking about fading:

    Quit whining about Trump

    http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/278620-quit-whining-about-trump

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      May 5, 2016 at 1:44 am

      Yeah, those pajama boys just found out, their way of life will be ending when Trump says the Words, January 2017. Hey, that might be a lot on Trumps plate, Mr. President I’ll clean up the DOD for you, just need two weeks…….This is the only question I’ll ask; “How do you/department contribute too Putting Steel ON Target”?

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      • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
        May 5, 2016 at 1:54 am

        Forgot too mention the P38 and Hot sauce. I still have my orginal issued P38. Always carried it. As Czar mention about the old C rats, my favorite was ham and eggs or just the ham slices with the entire bottle used. Always traded my free smokes or my PSG would confiscate from us “girls”. “It’s not Lady like too smoke” as he would say……..

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  6. Stella's avatar stella says:
    May 5, 2016 at 1:47 am

    This is interesting, and I really believe it is true:

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      May 5, 2016 at 2:00 am

      Morning Stella, Never needed a scientific experiment too confirm the statement. It’s true, has been and always will be.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      May 5, 2016 at 7:04 am

      Good morning 🙂

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        May 5, 2016 at 11:28 am

        Looks exactly like our ‘BD’ dog, the one who has those personsl issues with the wildlife on the farm.

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        • lovely's avatar lovely says:
          May 5, 2016 at 12:29 pm

          She’s my dog and she has issues with just about everything. She is a rescue and she is terrified of many things, her biggest fear is probably fire. She is not too fond of men, dogs, small animals, water, the vacuum, knocks at the door and on and on 😦

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            May 5, 2016 at 2:03 pm

            Absolute twin of ours, right down to the darker-than-head ears and white eyebrows. This is the one that was so starved she was within a few hours of starving to death, all she could do is raise her had as I drove by. I thought she wa dead until I caught her desperate raised head in my rearview. Picked her up, you could clearly see all her bones, put her in the truck and brought her home. We hand-fed her, she was too weak to stand, and used the stock of D5W to rehydrate her. Since then she’s been as loyal and protective of the house and property as she could be, down yo that feral pig, two moccasins and that skunk thing we’re still going through.

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            • shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:
              May 5, 2016 at 2:21 pm

              I love my cat and my dog. That said, I was not overly thrilled with them this morning. At 3:30AM a mouse wandered into one of the traps I have set. He got caught by the back legs and was scrambling around the house. The dog went nuts, the cat started bellowing. I had to wedge myself (which is a whole lot of self) between the wall and a very heavy piece of furniture. I managed to pull the tiny rodent out and the dog did his very protective act of killing the filthy invader. While I was cleaning up after him, I turned to se both the dog and the cat had gone back to bed. Me, not so much, been up ever since.

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                May 5, 2016 at 2:41 pm

                Ahhhh..reading glasses on, world and eye-floaters much more betterer.
                Yup, here it’s all three dogs, acappella, at o-dark-30, in full bay and banging against the glass on the French doors as a trio of raccoons does a little Rockettes line-dance on the patio. Mice are cowering in the garage as the outside and inside-outside cats play Rollerball with them.

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                • shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:
                  May 5, 2016 at 3:50 pm

                  It was not as bad as the night the cat brought in a live rabbit and turned it loose in the living room. The dog went bananas, chairs tipped over, furniture moved, coffee table cleared off. The cat found a high perch to watch the show and then looked at me as if to say, “dang that was fun wasn’t it?” To which I replied ***hole.

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                  • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                    May 5, 2016 at 4:01 pm

                    Many years aho, when I lived in Utah, we had an old farmhouse that had a raised, attached kitchen. The windows were ceiling-high so that you could let the top down and vent the cooking heat. That put the sills about six feet off the gound. At night we’d leave a few open for the cross ventilation and so the huge female cat we had could come and go.
                    Very early one morning we heard some loud chortling coming from our boy’s room and went in to see the cat in the crib with our middle son, then just 18 months old, with a nice fresh gopher she’d killed, brought in thru the kitchen window, and decided to share. Then-wife was less than happy but our son didn’t seem too upset.

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                  • shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:
                    May 5, 2016 at 4:03 pm

                    I’m just glad the weasel that the cat dragged in was DOA. That would have been a really bad night.

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                  • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                    May 5, 2016 at 4:06 pm

                    LOL

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              • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                May 5, 2016 at 3:14 pm

                Ain’t that the way it goes Shiloh? Mine is always up very early 4:30 am-ish and has to go outside, then she is curled up and sleeping by the time I make it back to bed 🙄

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            • lovely's avatar lovely says:
              May 5, 2016 at 3:12 pm

              Thanks Czar for rescuing the little near death dog. Mine is supposed to be a Beagle, Shiba Inu, mix, at least that is what they told me at the shelter. She is like velcro with me and it breaks her heart every time I walk out the door. Apparently when I go away for the night she paces most of the night away.

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              • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                May 5, 2016 at 3:28 pm

                My doggie makes a big show of being dejected when I leave. She hangs her head, looks sad, acts like she won’t survive until I get back. I, however, have no doubt that she simply sleeps the whole time I am gone. She is beside herself with glee when I finally appear again.

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                • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                  May 5, 2016 at 8:09 pm

                  My mom’s dog used to climb the stairs slowly lay down at the top of the staircase, sigh, and then let her head hang off the side of the staircase as if she didn’t have the energy to even hold her head up anymore.

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                  • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                    May 5, 2016 at 8:13 pm

                    That is just about what she does. She goes and lays in her bed with her head hanging over the side and she won’t look at me. She’s too sad.

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                May 5, 2016 at 3:53 pm

                Our BD just sorta sleeps when we’re away – she’s either secure in the thought we’re coming back or she has money stashed. Interesting thing is that when the GGS comes to spend the weekend they go ape when he enters the hours and it’s play, play, play all weekend.
                It’s not so much that they miss us when we go out the door, they wanna GOFORARIDE, GOFORARIDE, GOFORARIDE!

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                • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                  May 5, 2016 at 8:14 pm

                  My poor dog gets nervous in the car and carsick. I give her Dramamine if I really have to go any distance with her.

                  When we first had her I brought her to a dog halloween party where all the “rescues” were invited. One of the games the dogs could play was grab a small bit of hotdog out of a very shallow bowl of water. All the other dogs did it. My dog refused. Then they could dig through hay to find a treat, again all the other dogs were having a great time digging in the hay and getting their treats, my dog walked up to the hay sniffed, looked around and peed right on the hay pile 🙄

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                  • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                    May 5, 2016 at 8:38 pm

                    Sounds a little like mine. She’s not much into play. I take her to a dog park and she walks around a little and finds pee spots and rolls in them. Then she goes somewhere and poops and comes back and sits by me. Definitely no reason to go.

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                  • Stella's avatar stella says:
                    May 5, 2016 at 8:43 pm

                    We took my old dog (beagle/? mix) along with my daughter’s dog (border collie) to the dog beach when we were in Chicago. Their dog loved to swim, and would fetch a tennis ball or a frisbee for hours. My dog rolled on a dead fish.

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                  • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                    May 5, 2016 at 8:49 pm

                    Sure it’s a dog and not a cat in a costume? That said, my twin of yours gets carsick too, I have to put a cover over the entire back seat in the truck or get the steam cleaner out. She isn’t too keen on getting in the car but if told to she’ll enter like she’s at gunpoint.

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                  • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                    May 5, 2016 at 8:57 pm

                    She could be a cat in a dog suit, she isn’t very friendly and only likes to cuddle with me, my daughter, my mom and one friend, otherwise she will be aloof and simply ignore you. Poor girl just has “issues” 🙄 If I take her for a walk and a man walks by she will stop walking and lean as far away from the man as possible, stiff as an old rag. *shrugs*

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                  • Stella's avatar stella says:
                    May 5, 2016 at 9:04 pm

                    My old dog was very smart, but weird. She understood English very well, and quite vocal (beagle) with me. She mostly ignored other dogs, and most people. The first time she saw my SIL (before they were married), she rolled over on her back and exposed her belly. My SIL swears he is part dog, and he may be.

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      May 5, 2016 at 6:06 pm

      Smack in the middle of working my posthole digger’s handle broke half in two, sooooooo off to the feed store. I said it as quietly as I could but our border collie heard me and threw herself at the door. She’s at that age where she understands full sentences even without key words.
      The feed store doesn’t have snacks or drinks though they do have dog treats and I cautiously selected the treats closest resembling people food. I got onto the car, offered her a ‘treat’ and she cautiously sniffed it. It looked like a Lance, maybe even like a Famous Amos but it smelled like….dog biscuit. She took it but held it in her mouth for a good five minutes before she spit it out on the floor. Dog sulk is still going on – other two ate the biscuits and went back to sleep – so we’ll wait a bit, put some gravy or peanut butter on it, she’ll eat it and we each will think we won. Yeah, minds meld after a few years.

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
        May 5, 2016 at 6:48 pm

        LOL

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:
        May 5, 2016 at 9:17 pm

        B.C.’s are special dogs – but you know that!

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          May 5, 2016 at 10:17 pm

          They’re not dogs, they’re little con artists in furry suits.

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          • Stella's avatar stella says:
            May 5, 2016 at 10:26 pm

            Definitely. Their BC would steal my dog’s toys and hide them in her crate. She could also reach surprising far onto the kitchen counter for a dog of her apparent height. Another thing she would do (at my house) was to sneak up next to me on the sofa to tick off my dogs (both the old one and the new one).

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
              May 5, 2016 at 10:38 pm

              Just today, we’d set out a sandwich on the long counter for lunch, and when we came back itvwas gone. She’d moved a chair about two feet and used it to get up high enough to grab the sandwich. She doesn’t swipe food regularly, quite rarely in fact, just when she feels she really deserves it. When she does she’s so ingenious about it that you can’t stay mad – and she knows that too.

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              • Stella's avatar stella says:
                May 5, 2016 at 10:43 pm

                Watch this. Taken with security camera.

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                • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                  May 5, 2016 at 10:54 pm

                  Wow! That was great!

                  And my dog jumps just like that first jump, kind of a hop straight in the air on all four legs, instead of the front legs followed by the back.

                  That dog is a little genius.

                  I can’t leave food on the counter or table. I have to remember to close the pantry door or she’ll eat what ever she can get open. Once she ate a whole bag of Hershey’s Kisses, opened the foil on everyone and just ate the chocolate (sick as a dog afterward), my house looked like a tinfoil confetti factory exploded inside of it.

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                  • Stella's avatar stella says:
                    May 5, 2016 at 10:57 pm

                    And that dog was pulling chicken nuggets out of a hot toaster oven. Probably why it took one at a time. My dog (the beagle mix) also ate a whole dish of Hersey’s kisses once, but she ate the foil too. It’s a good thing it wasn’t dark chocolate.

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                • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
                  May 5, 2016 at 11:06 pm

                  Holy crap! And that is why some cultures eat dog, right there.

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                  • Stella's avatar stella says:
                    May 5, 2016 at 11:07 pm

                    I love beagles, but they can be hard to control. They’re escape artists too, which is why I didn’t get one the last time around – got my less smart, but sweet, Brittany (who is beautiful too).

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                  • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
                    May 5, 2016 at 11:12 pm

                    The Mrs. oldest got a Jack Russell. Sadly, it was treated like a modern child. It ran into traffic. The End.

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                  • Stella's avatar stella says:
                    May 5, 2016 at 11:14 pm

                    They are very smart and hyper too. My friend at work had one, and it accidentally bit through an electrical cord. Fortunately, she recovered, but it was pretty exciting at their house for a while. My friend jumped out of the bathtub and was chasing the dog through the house dressed only in a towel.

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                  • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
                    May 5, 2016 at 11:15 pm

                    But how was the dog holding only the towel?

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                • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                  May 5, 2016 at 11:58 pm

                  And, there was a time when they said only humans could use tools. Chair = tool.

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  7. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    May 5, 2016 at 7:58 am

    Happy Cinco de Mayo, kids!

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  8. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    May 5, 2016 at 8:30 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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  9. sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
    May 5, 2016 at 8:32 am

    Morning all!!! Hope everyone has a great day! The weather in Texas is beautiful right now. Looking forward to spending time with my grandbaby enjoying the blue sky and cool breeze. 😀

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  10. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    May 5, 2016 at 8:40 am

    Todays picture that stella selected reminds me of the new push in urban planning. Small, densely packed, uniform height, and no cars.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      May 5, 2016 at 9:22 am

      They’ll have to catch me to get me in that cage.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      May 5, 2016 at 9:56 am

      But they are painted so cheerily 🙄

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
        May 5, 2016 at 3:52 pm

        So is every non log wall in my cabin. I can have my favorite colors here in the woods. Which is good, because green and blue are both favorites, and I’m surrounded by both.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      May 5, 2016 at 11:13 am

      Sorta reminds me of the 18th century.

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      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
        May 5, 2016 at 12:17 pm

        Without all the poop EVERYWHERE.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          May 5, 2016 at 12:38 pm

          That thought immediately came to mind to me too!

          Have been reading (again) bits and pieces of the Outlander series book, “Dragonfly In Amber” (basis for season 2 on Starz). The author describes in detail the sewage running down the gutters of the High Street in Edinburgh, and the chamber pots being emptied out the windows.

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          • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
            May 5, 2016 at 1:12 pm

            The writers of the Outlander video adaption are lazy. I watched up to the current season on Amazon, but I had to go find where my eyes had rolled to after about the second heavy panting episode. The Mrs. would never have sat through the first gratuitous scene. We would be watching something else, never knowing what happened in the story afterwards.

            There is a Russian Sci-Fi movie about scientist from earth going to another planet that is in what looks like the medieval times of European history. The storyline is that the scientists have placed themselves in positions of Gods and now rule the various kingdoms. We never finished the film. The director or writer focused on accuracy of the time period. It was so dirty with animals and people crapping everywhere, the peasants were so stupid and cruelty to everyone and everything for entertainment. The never ending visuals in the background were such that we couldn’t pay attention to the story.

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            • Stella's avatar stella says:
              May 5, 2016 at 1:21 pm

              The sex scenes are in the books, and they are mostly between married people, although I’ll admit that seeing it on screen isn’t the same as reading it. I would prefer that the scenes be dialed back, for sure.

              The new season follows the story (sort of), although scenes are added, compressed, and the order of events is changed to adapt to the needs of television. I particularly like their set and costume designs.

              I agree that too much realism can ruin a story line, especially on film.

              I have read a lot of books, and one particular thing stands out for me above everything else – a vivid description of what Vlad the Impaler did to his victims. Yuck.

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            • Stella's avatar stella says:
              May 5, 2016 at 1:22 pm

              P.S.: I always warn people that there is graphic sex and violence in the Outlander series.

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            • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
              May 5, 2016 at 3:06 pm

              I wasted part of my life trying to watch “American Gigolo” last night. Gag. I don’t know what was worse – the lousy plot or the lousy acting.

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              • michellc's avatar michellc says:
                May 5, 2016 at 11:54 pm

                That is a horrible movie.

                I’ve been on a new kick and off my movie kick and have been watching renovation shows. Hubby doesn’t like my new kick because it’s been inspiring me to want new looks. So, I decided I needed an accent wall and decided upon the half wall separating my kitchen and dining room, that meant painting and making him help with putting up new trim. Now I want to redo my bedroom and bathroom and brighten them up, he’s really not happy. All I keep hearing is 4 years ago you made me hang wallpaper in the kitchen, dining room and bathroom and now you removed all that hard work in the kitchen and dining room(not true, just one wall and a half wall at that) and now you’re going to do it in the bathroom too and what is wrong with the bedroom walls?

                Wait until he finds out I want to redo the kitchen cabinets. 🙂

                I’d really like to paint the outside of the house as well, but I don’t think I’m going to be able to convince him on that, so I’ll save it until next spring and just work on the inside this year.

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    • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
      May 5, 2016 at 8:03 pm

      That’s a Disney fakestreet. Like Mickey’s Toon Town. Any moment now, Goofy will appear (unless he’s overseas on DOS business).

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  11. michellc's avatar michellc says:
    May 5, 2016 at 9:24 am

    I always liked LI and it was on my list of daily reads before this election, but Professor Jacobson went so Anti-Trump, I took it off my list, only now and again checking to see if sanity had returned. I had hoped after a day of dealing with his loss that he would return to sanity, so I looked through the page and nope he’s still leading the charge, although at least he’s not actively promoting Hillary. The good thing is at least some of his authors have some sense.

    http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/05/trump-is-the-nominee-what-now-legal-insurrection-authors-debate//#more

    William Jacobson

    My overwhelming feeling at the nomination of Trump is one of loss.

    Loss of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity truly to change the trajectory of government and entrenched political power. Loss of conservative and conservative media self-respect. Possible loss of years of hard work by thousands of conservative activists who have changed the nation, even if they did not change D.C. Loss of friendships with people I used to respect, but no longer do because they helped perpetrate and project false information and conspiracy theories for Trump.

    As for where this goes, I’m not sure where I will go and where I fit in. I’m not as reactive as you might think.

    We are faced with a truly horrible choice. I abhor both Donald and Hillary. You’ve read my views for months in the case of Donald, and years in the case of Hillary. They are flip sides of the same coin. The question is which one is more dangerous and will do more damage to the nation and our individual liberties, and advance the march of government power over our lives.

    Under no circumstances would I actively support Hillary. The question is whether I actively support Trump, or sit it out and just observe.

    I don’t know what I will do, or what we will do as a website. That will change, but right now, I’m still thinking things through.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      May 5, 2016 at 10:04 am

      Loss of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity truly to change the trajectory of government and entrenched political power.

      Every time I read this or hear this I want to lock the speaker/writer in a cage with ravenous chimps.

      No more lies.

      How many times have we given them a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity truly to change the trajectory of government and entrenched political power. only to be kicked in the teeth for our efforts.

      They can all go to hell.

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
        May 5, 2016 at 10:12 am

        Yes, THIS!

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:
        May 5, 2016 at 10:36 am

        I don’t understand why they can’t comprehend that much of their once-in-a-lifetime opportunities are not opportunities Cruz was going to give them.
        My only issue has been and still is immigration, if we don’t fix that by enforcing laws currently on the books, then we have no country. So for me we have one last chance to save the country. We’re in a life boat trying to catch a rope at this point.

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        • lovely's avatar lovely says:
          May 5, 2016 at 10:47 am

          Self delusion is a difficult bin to see out of. The people who think folks like Cruz and Ryan will put the best interests of the USA ahead of their own greed and ambitions still believe that their words mean something other than they want to remain in power and enjoy the perks of that power. The cost to liberty, to America, to our sovereignty is irrelevant to the GOP.

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      May 5, 2016 at 10:09 am

      This man is TOTALLY delusional. “Possible loss of years of hard work by thousands of conservative activists who have changed the nation” Indeed!!! Nothing about the way it has been changed is conservative. {spit}

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:
        May 5, 2016 at 10:39 pm

        Maybe it is conservative and we are the ones who don’t understand conservatism. Our words are always getting new definitions and I think they changed the definition.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          May 5, 2016 at 10:45 pm

          They’ve been using it as a buzz word (he’s not conservative!) to stir up trouble. And some people are buying what they are selling.

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          • michellc's avatar michellc says:
            May 5, 2016 at 11:01 pm

            My DH doesn’t talk politics very often and he doesn’t argue very often, but he was telling me tonight about an argument he got into.
            This person brought the election up and went on a rant about how Trump isn’t conservative. My DH asked him what exactly wasn’t conservative about stopping illegal immigration and enforcing our immigration laws and stopping Muslims from coming in who want to kill us and putting Americans first by having trade deals that benefit us and keep jobs in this country?
            The guy’s reply was it isn’t conservative to hurt business and businesses will be hurt by not having cheap labor.
            My DH told him that was bs and if that is conservative then conservatives are traitors and can kiss his a$$.

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    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
      May 5, 2016 at 10:09 am

      I think more and more people will express disillusionment regarding “conservative” hero viewpoints. Since the definition of the made up word “conservative” can differ between people, the accusations of heresy are bound to become more frequent.
      It’s too bad people seem unable to look at things from the aspect of what steps are necessary to realistically achieve a specific outcome. The ability to reason in that way is exactly what the progressive/socialist/left has worked to destroy for the last 250+ years.

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:
        May 5, 2016 at 10:37 pm

        You know before this election cycle I thought I knew what conservative meant, I no longer think I know what it means. From what I have seen from those who claim to be the most conservative, I don’t think I want to be a conservative.
        I’ve always had strong opinions and felt strongly about certain things, but today a lot of those things don’t really matter in the greater scheme of things. I do not want my grandson growing up in a third world country, so that’s honestly the only thing I care about now. If that gets stopped, then I can go back to worrying about all the other problems that need to be solved and that I have strong opinions about.

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        • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
          May 5, 2016 at 10:53 pm

          Hopefully without reveling too much identifying information, ‘she whom shall not be named’ came to America under refugee status from the USSR, hoping honestly give her child a better life.
          I can not express with any brevity, what a struggle it was for her to just survive here in the US.

          In short; disregard the title “conservative”. What does the bible say.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      May 5, 2016 at 11:18 am

      I think he’s going through the stages of grief. The Professor isn’t a politician, so he can’t flip flop at will, and go with the winner, at least not quickly. I’m glad he has decided not to back Hillary, like some of the other crazy pundits are doing, nor has he talked about (at least not here) about a third party effort.

      It’s never easy to lose, and when you are all in for a candidate (or in this case, against a candidate), backtracking on what you have truly believed isn’t easy, or maybe not possible at all.

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
        May 5, 2016 at 4:08 pm

        Some of these pundits better be sure their bed in the Hillary dog trot is comfortable because they are not going to take their audience with them, other than a few blubbering loons. They won’t have much to come back to.

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:
        May 5, 2016 at 6:48 pm

        That is a plus that he’s not backing Hillary, but my goodness to say there is no difference between Hillary and Trump is idiotic at best.

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      • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
        May 6, 2016 at 12:05 am

        I had just read a few pages of Lame Cherry’s thoughts of why Cruzer pulled out of the race. Incredible, too say the least, billionaire’ going to jail, assignations on day 3 of the convention, Cruzer was promised New York through voter fraud……… Is this person real???? Here’s the best one; a CIA operative advising a billionaire donor on how too clean up this mess…..

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  12. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    May 5, 2016 at 9:29 am

    Kentucky Derby 2016

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  14. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    May 5, 2016 at 10:52 am

    Siblings of Victoria Sharp (18 year old young woman who was in the car with LaVoy Finicum and Ammon Bundy) have been removed from their mother’s custody after fleeing to a sheriffs station with allegations of abuse.

    No comment from me as there is not enough information to know what is really going on.

    Children fled with Kansas mom’s guns while she showered, testimony says
    
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article75711232.html#storylink=cpy

    Last Friday, as soon as their mother climbed in the shower, five Sharp children bolted down the driveway of their Auburn, Kan., home.

    As they left, according to testimony in a Wednesday hearing, they took the guns out of a cubbyhole in the house and stashed them at the end of the drive. Then they got a ride from a neighbor to the Shawnee County sheriff’s office in Topeka.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      May 5, 2016 at 11:07 am

      You never know. Since it was five children together, it sounds to me like there might be some substance there.

      I have a friend whose parents would lock her and her three older siblings in the attic when they went to work on days when school wasn’t in session. No bathroom facilities, water, or food. She was five years old when their brother broke through the dry wall, and they escaped. They hid out in a local movie theater until discovered, after the papers picked up the story that they were missing. Her father went to prison, but the kids were returned to their parents a couple of years later.

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:
        May 5, 2016 at 12:37 pm

        From the article it sounds like there could be some substance to the allegations but this whole thing has been so shady and influenced by the PTB that I’m hesitant to have an opinion just yet. The mom does not give me a good feeling but that is purely an emotional reaction to her based on nothing other than my perception.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          May 5, 2016 at 12:47 pm

          When kids are desperate enough to actually try to escape, there is plenty of reason to investigate, in my opinion, especially since it isn’t just one of them. There is plenty of heavy-handed interference in families these days by government busy bodies – no doubt about that.

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          • lovely's avatar lovely says:
            May 5, 2016 at 12:51 pm

            I agree. There is likely something there, if indeed everything happened as it is being reported. Children being so fearful of their mom the they remove her access to guns are children who live a life on eggshells.

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  15. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    May 5, 2016 at 12:21 pm

    Lead story on noon news is another case of ‘GUUUNNNNNNN VIOLEEEENNNNCCCCEEEEE”. Seems a black thug, booking pic shows lots of dreads, shot and killed a nice, clean cut black high school student. Not a case of poorly civilized member of what seems to be a violence prone group, but another case of a gun shooting yet another victim while in the hand of a young, black male.
    Second story was a 17 year old black male who was shot by an unknown assailant while he was standing on a canal bank at 3 AM. No questions about what this 17 year old was doing out at 3 AM on a school night, just wringing of hands and tearing of clothes over GUUNNNNNN VIOLLLLEEENNNNCCCCEEEEEEDE.

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  16. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    May 5, 2016 at 12:57 pm

    Trump believes the RNC is on his side as much as Jerry believes Tom is on his side 😉

    
https://o.twimg.com/2/proxy.jpg

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  17. Stella's avatar stella says:
    May 5, 2016 at 1:58 pm

    Our friend, Jack Cashill.

    Of course I’ll vote for Trump

    http://mobile.wnd.com/2016/05/of-course-ill-vote-for-trump/

    Hell, in 2008 I voted for John McCain, and just four years earlier he had flirted openly with running for vice-president on John Kerry’s ticket.

    In 2012, I voted for Mitt Romney. He not only killed dogs, but he also spawned the embryonic Obamacare.

    In 1996, I voted for Bob Dole, and neither he nor I had the slightest clue as to why he was running for president.

    So I will vote for Donald Trump for president. I will not do so enthusiastically, but the last time I voted enthusiastically for president was 1984.

    I vote for Republicans not because they are wonderful people with great ideas but because they stand – sometimes firmly, sometimes not – in the way of the progressive tide. How firmly Trump stands remains to be seen, but at least he will muddy the water….

    There will be no “Sister Souljah” moment on Hillary’s campaign trail this year. The BLM movement and its deranged allies own the party.

    Those allies come wholesale, each cluster with its own acronym and agenda. They include the BDS gang, the LGBT crowd, the OWS crazies, the closet jihadists of CAIR, the bought and paid for NEA, and old reliables like the NAACP, NARAL and the AFL-CIO….

    This past weekend, I served as a delegate to the convention for the 5th District, Missouri. I knew many of the Cruz delegates, perhaps most.

    I knew none of the Trump people. For all the Donald’s imperfections – I don’t need to be reminded – he has brought people to the Republican Party who have never voted before, let alone voted Republican.

    The Republican turnout in Missouri was 50 percent higher on primary day than was the Democratic turnout, and Missouri has historically been a swing state.

    On June 10 of last year, a week before Trump declared, I opened a WND column with the sentence, “The Republican nominee for president will be that candidate who best learns there is no future in apologizing.”

    I suspect I was right. Voters were looking for a candidate with cojones. Trump is not the candidate we purists were hoping would emerge, but he is one who did.

    He will not kill the Republican Party. Only we can.

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  18. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    May 5, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    Does anybody know who has actually received more votes, Hillery or Trump? I thought I had heard the Trump has, but I have heard Hillery supporters constantly saying she has. I tried researching this and didn’t really find an answer.

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  19. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    May 5, 2016 at 4:01 pm

    Okay. This is the number of total votes Trump got – 10,644,396. This is the number of total votes Clinton got – 12,432,259. So, of course, the Dems can say she got more. They are just ignoring all the variables, especially the fact that there were so many candidates on the Rep side.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      May 5, 2016 at 4:19 pm

      You can compare apples and rotten tomatoes all day. And at the end of the day you have wasted your time. One thing I learned about statistics in the math classes in college. The variables matter. The wording matters. Statistics are someone working backwards from the answer to get the desired value for X most of the time.

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

        True. I was just trying to find out if there was any basis at all for what they were saying. It is hard to argue against it when you don’t even know what it is.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      May 5, 2016 at 5:20 pm

      That’s obvious. The big fact is that Republicans got more votes than Democrats.

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  20. shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:
    May 5, 2016 at 4:09 pm

    This video is an hour long, but one of the best Stefan has done. He destroys the MSM, GOPe and Ted Cruz.

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  21. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    May 5, 2016 at 4:47 pm

    This may have happened in 15 different stores. Been sick lately in these areas?
    “FBI Arrests Man for Spraying Rat Poison on Whole Foods Salad Bar”
    http://www.eater.com/2016/5/5/11595868/whole-foods-salad-bar-poison-michigan

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  22. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    May 5, 2016 at 9:15 pm

    That little b*tch Paul Ryan is refusing to endorse Trump because he wants to be sure that Trump is the proper “face” of the republican party. Good grief. What dirty fraud the entire republican apparatus is. I may drive past his house and give him the single finger salute when he is in town.

    I really hope Paul Nehlen wipes the floor with him.

    Furious that Ryan is a turncoat rat.

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      May 6, 2016 at 12:12 am

      Trump had a great come back, can’t support the speakers agenda….maybe in the future… Piss on that little b$$ch…..

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:
        May 6, 2016 at 12:16 am

        I saw that 🙂 Now Ryan is saying there will be no compromise on allowing more Muslims into America. I hope he gets trounced in the election. What a vile human being he turned out to be.

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  23. doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:
    May 5, 2016 at 9:15 pm

    Next time a cop pulls you over for speeding use the Hillary Clinton excuse…

    But occifer I did not willfully go too fast. It was an accident. The devil made me do it.

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  24. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    May 5, 2016 at 11:59 pm

    https://twitter.com/trump2016fan/status/728424717271629824

    That’s the ticket Paul run on a platform of demanding more Muslims be welcomed into and supported by the United States. Perfect.

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      May 6, 2016 at 12:19 am

      Under a Trump Presidency, Trump controls the Check book, and the Executive Branch. Which means Ryan and the rest of those traitors can say anything, It’s the Executive Branch that does the lifting.
      In a nutshell, Trump will be the CEO of the executive branch, Trump is the Chief diplomat, and Trump is Commander in Chief. Those are the job duties of the President…..

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:
        May 6, 2016 at 12:24 am

        Ryan is just being a petulant bitch, he is trying to make himself relevant by standing with the Muslims (hmmm…who else said they would do that? ) .

        Anyhow that moron Ryan thinks that he holds some bargaining chips because he is the RNC’s cot sleeping, boy’s room bathing darling. So I believe Ryan is trying to swap his endorsement for Trump capitulating on his stance on Muslims.

        Ryan is about to realize that there is a new sheriff in town who doesn’t give a rat’s ass about Ryan’s “specialness”

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      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
        May 6, 2016 at 12:30 am

        Sir, I’m waiting to see what Trump needs from me to achieve whatever. If I’m needed to stand here, I will. If I’m needed there, I will. Vote this, vote that.
        HOWEVER I am not a drone. I must know and believe the answer to follow.
        How does this make me any different from a voter 100 years ago?

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