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Another beautiful arch photo, stella.
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A lot like what Arches National Park would look like if it had water. Bring your water, ZM.
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If this was from The Onion, it would be a good laugh. However…
We Must Change Park Ranger Uniforms to Make Illegal Aliens Feel Better
http://freedomoutpost.com/we-must-change-park-ranger-uniforms-to-make-illegal-aliens-feel-better/
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Aside from the obvious solution: ”Don’t like the uniform? Stay the #%*€ outta the park!’, I might suggest that the uniforms aren’t so offensive that their illegal entries through the parks don’t seem to be ofdensive. They’ve been illegally slithering in through US military installations on the southern border too, should we have our troops stop causing them anguish by swapping their aggressive uniforms for, let’s say, big Barney costumes? Te amo, me amas, somos una familia feliz…can you do that in a bugle call?
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“…don’T seem to be effected.” Sure sign it’s time for bed.
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(seen on twitter)
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Bingo…bingo…bingo…bingo…bingo…bingo…whew, no more Obama press conferences for me.
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I liked this comment because I Absolutely 100% Love This Comment is not an option.
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Hang in there.
Around 8:36 ’tis.
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She gives a lovely tour. She and her companion are very charming, too.
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Hey, Nyet. I want to go to Capri for breakfast next Sunday. 🙂
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Beautiful. That will do nicely.
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Major Ted Cruz donor is taking back $9 million
http://www.aol.com/article/2016/05/05/major-ted-cruz-donor-is-taking-back-9-million/21370989/
Toby Neugebauer, a wealthy Texas energy investor, was once one of Ted Cruz’s largest backers. The son of retiring Rep. Randy Neugebauer ran Keep the Promise II, a pro-Cruz super PAC, and donated $10 million to the cause.
But now that Cruz has left the race, he’s taking $9 million of that donation back — and he’s going to use it to support the man who forced Cruz out.
Neugebauer told USA TODAY, “Today, I am a Trump supporter. I am excited about the voters he turned up.”
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Time for a cool change.
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Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.
https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/
What Amber explained was exactly what I’d feared: through the Apple Music subscription, which I had, Apple now deletes files from its users’ computers. When I signed up for Apple Music, iTunes evaluated my massive collection of Mp3s and WAV files, scanned Apple’s database for what it considered matches, then removed the original files from my internal hard drive. REMOVED them. Deleted. If Apple Music saw a file it didn’t recognize—which came up often, since I’m a freelance composer and have many music files that I created myself—it would then download it to Apple’s database, delete it from my hard drive, and serve it back to me when I wanted to listen, just like it would with my other music files it had deleted.
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Snopes says this is “mostly false”, but their explanation doesn’t make me feel warm and fuzzy.
http://www.snopes.com/apple-music-deleting-files/
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🌷🌹Happy Mother’s Day ladies!🌷💓🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
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Happy Mothers Day, too All Mothers, especially my Mother, Happy Mothers Day
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So did Apple agree not to delete Snopes’ files if Snopes eased our paranoia? I have nowhere near the troubles and strange occurances with my Windows laptop as I do my iPad. Still trying to figure out why replies from here randomly/arbitrarily appear, out of order, in my ‘in’ box.
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Hmm.. I don’t really understand what Apple would delete but I have CD’s that I put on my computer and iPhone and they are still there. I would assume that Apple wouldn’t recognize those files?
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The Scotichronicon – 1454
http://digital.nls.uk/scotlandspages/timeline/1454.html
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels)
( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Blackberry wine)
(Jack Daniels)
(B52)
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Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
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Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
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Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra and F.D.R. in Hell!
Happy Mother’s Day!
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Good morning Nyet !
Love the Mum’s day picture 😀 She probably made him crappy breakfasts.
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I see Kascich went home for Mother’s Day.
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You are so sentimental. Don’t gummy up the threads with too much sweet stuff.
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Mornin’ kids!
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I feel like that every once in a while……….er, sometimes…………..um, occasionally……….okay, often, nowadays.
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Good evening WeeWeed 🙂
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Evenin’ Lovely!
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Thank you, Mom. 😉
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I have been reading stories about the suicides of farmers in India for years.
“Doctors link mass suicides, schizophrenic episodes among farmers to pesticide exposure”
http://www.naturalnews.com/053938_GMO_farmers_suicides_chemical_pesticides.html
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Let’s take another look st this from another angle: the persons doing the mixing and application do not read and follow the label directions. Same problem occurred with a lot of Latino farm workers who were poisoned by pesticides, just to make sure they had enough they over mixed and over applied pesticides and many just didn’t wear protective clothing. They either knowingly overapplied thinking ( or not) that is a quart an scre was good then rwo per acre would be twice as good or ignored the wind and nozzle settings.
Every couple of years I have to gonthrough a program to renew my restricted pesticide licence even though I rarely use them, and it’s not an easy class. I can only imagine some 3rd world farmer with unfettered access to pesticides, desperately trying to save his crops and his family.
I’m not tofally sgainst GMO products, just on how the modifications are done. Same with pesticides, it’s all in how thryvare used. Unless we start imposing government-controlled birth control we must be more betterer and more smarterer in providing food.
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I totally understand what you are saying. I remember the story of a farmer in the U.S., many many years ago, who was getting ready to spray his crops with his plane. He dropped the nozzle to the container of poison into the tank, reached in and grabbed it and dropped dead on the spot. Yep, people need to know what they are dealing with. Obviously these farmers should never have had access to these deadly chemicals if they weren’t trained and smart enough to know what they had.
As far as GMO’s go, that is a big racket. Who knows what they are mixing in, who will be allergic to it, and can it be reproduced without having to buy new seed from Monsanto. It is all about money.
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Don’t believe everything negative you read about GMO’s. It is the progressives’ boogeyman of the year.
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You do have to agree that creating a seed that can’t reproduce is not good.
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No, I don’t. Most seeds planted for the past fifty years or more have been hybrids. That includes the vegetables and fruits in your home garden.
For that matter, mules are the fruit of “seeds” that cannot reproduce, and are eminently useful and good.
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Well, I will admit you do know more about growing than I do.
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Adding that most hybrid seeds CAN reproduce, just not to type.
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I let the seeds from hybrids I don’t harvest reproduce until the cold kills the plants and then just plow ’em under, great free green manure. Also buy bulk mustard seeds, hand broadcadt and do the same, ‘cept it’s best to mow them regularly unless you want to deal with thick stems cone spring.
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True dat, I look at the half-lives of what little stuff I do use and what the byproducts of that breakdown are. I also look at when I’m spraying and what the weather conditions are so that I can judge how fast they’ll break down. I also call the manufacturers and bump my questions directly off of them abd spray when the wind’s down and bees ain’t out. How many 2nd and 3rd world farmers do that? What we need isfor the USDA and American universities to develop VIABLE programs to help these farmers efficiently produce food with minimsl impact AND hire fewer BA and MA ‘history of dance in xxx’ grads and more real biology grads to man these programs.
My longleaf pibes are GMO as are sone of my vegetables BUT they have been e the first Roundselectively bred and cross-fertilized, not some Dr Frankenfurter in a lab swapping genes with a laser and set of tweezers. I have heirloom tomatoes that regularly fall prey to the various ills that tonatoes fall prey to but thru selective breeding we now have varietals that better withstand the onslaught. Think tomatoes are hi-priced now? Imagine the price if some 40% fewer hit the store shelves.
We know that DNA can vicariouly swap between table fare and eater and one day I imagine the first Roundup Ready baby will be born, killing grass with every step, so I’ll continue to use hybrid seeds but just the ones hybridized by natural means.
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Speaking of Roundup …. The average half-life of glyphosate in soil is 45 days or less, and after six months, typically about 90 percent of the compound has been degraded into its natural components.
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Just waiting for the wind to drop so I can spray some myself
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I just wish that Roundup would do a better job of annihilating the Canadian thistle infestation in my front yard.
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Thistle’s a pain to kill. I use a broad spectrum herbicide mixed a bit stronger with a spreader-sticker added and spray the thistle from right on top using and old Windex bottle. Another thing is that Roundup, glyphosate, is sensitive to the amount of calcium in water you mix it with. You got hard water and the effectiveness of the resultant spray drops, ain’t no friend of chlorine either.
As my neighbors are too far away to matter I just mow over the thistle and it’s mistly gone. They are common in the pastures atound me and the critters and with will repopulate our yard almost daily and I’m too lazy to spray that often. I just don’t look at the thistle stumps and in a week or so, poof, they’re gone.
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My problem is the thistle growing among plants I don’t want to kill. Spot spraying is my only choice. It helps to bruise the plant before spraying (stepping on them and squishing).
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I also keep an old meat knife, thick and short blade, that I use for weeding. It’s a pain as you have to sharpen it while you work but you can stick that puppy in the ground and shear the weeds at root level with minimal disruption to surrounding plants. Most important thing is to use a blade that will not bend – ask me how I know. Easier to deal with than a hoe ( this space reserved for the expected jokish comments:……………….) with less plant and soil disruption. Did I mention it was a pain?
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Problem with thistle is that when you cut part of the plant (that grows mostly underground) it stimulates new growth. I have tried cutting part of the plant and then spraying.
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Again, outta reply space so I jumped back. Looks like you’re down tomthat New Orleans/Cajun way of dealing with noxious pests: http://www.countrylovers.co.uk/wildfoodjj/thisprep.pdf
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So they are useless as well as annoying.
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Outta reply spacecagain…
Useless and annoying? How about as garni for a really big and stiff drink?
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Speaking of food…
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Something for the coffee…
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/545f7d08e4b00e059c1a9aec/t/54d3a9a1e4b073b7ec810120/1423157675568/desserts3.jpg?format=1500w
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Speaking of which…
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A little in honor of Mom…
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Now I’m stuffed.
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Ahhhhh yessssssssssss
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I know this isn’t Caturday, but this is worth posting today anyway. Students give their grieving teacher kittens, flowers, etc.
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Tom Lipscomb, on Facebook, just described Paul Ryan as “pubic bearded”. It’s a bit disgusting, but undeniably correct.
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I agree.
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Now for some nice news:
Dolly Parton, husband Carl Dean plan to ‘get married again’ for 50th anniversary
http://www.today.com/popculture/dolly-parton-husband-carl-dean-plan-get-married-again-50th-t91286?cid=par-sy-wowwaynet
“We’re going to get married again!” Parton told People magazine in an article published online Tuesday. “I’ll have a beautiful wedding dress, ’cause I didn’t have a big, long wedding dress when we got married and we’ve got a suit for him, so we’re going to dress up and take a bunch of pictures.”
And leave it to Parton, who’s famous for being a sweetheart, to raise the sweetness stakes. The eight-time Grammy Award winner intends to sell photos from the event to fundraise for her Imagination Library literacy charity, according to People.
Parton, who turned 70 in January, and Dean, 73, don’t often appear in public together, and the singer says that’s because he prefers to shy away from the spotlight. Still, “he’s always been supportive,” Parton told the magazine. “He’s like a brother and a father and a friend and a husband and a lover — all of those things to me. I think he’s kind of proud that we’ve been in it this long!”
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Ah yes, Dolly and Carl, that’s quite a pair.
Porter Waggoner and Dolly, one of the best duets ever. One of the main benefits of being stationed right outside of Nashville was being able to go into Nashville and see the Opry and entertainers playing the local venues in the days before C&W became a packaged product. Dolly always gave a great show and still has a great voice. She’s survived over 50 years in the business without falling prey to the marriage and substance abuse issues that seem to run rampant through the business.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_utP1mGoutQ
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We lived in Nashville about 4 – 5 years, Z! At the Opry alla time (weekly during the summer when family was in town) – became friends with Brother Oswald and got together with him and Charlie years later when they came to play in West TX.
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Think I mentioned this before but waaaaay back when we rode shotgun in VN on a USO Opry tour. Elmer Fudpucker (old enuff to remember him?) was in tne tour and he told us how and where to meet up after the Friday Night Opry. Also helped as my boss’s brother had dedicated Oprey seats his company bought and we could use them if they weren’t otherwise encumbered. Twas a great time, especially as a lot of the CW stars I’d grown up with were there, and it was still at the old Ryman building.
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They got married in my current hometown.
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Leader opposition party in Venezuela assassinated
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2016/05/06/leader-opposition-party-in-venezuela-assassinated/
Venezuelan politician German Mavare, leader of the opposition UNT party, died Friday after being shot in the head, an assassination that occurred in the western state of Lara, his organization said.
“The board of the UNT expresses its deepest sorrow for the slaying of colleague German Mavare. We demand justice and an end to violence,” was the message posted on the Twitter account of the UNT party, headed by jailed ex-presidential candidate and former governor of Zulia state, Manuel Rosales.
The mayor of Iribarren in Lara state, Alfredo Ramos, said on his Twitter account minutes after the incident occurred before dawn Friday: “German Mavare, of the popular urbanization of Carucieña, a tireless fighter for social causes, has just been hit by a bullet in the head.”
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What those Venezuelans need is gun control, seems some of those lefties have forgotten that Socialists are supposed to be social.
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Look what I found. This was in 2012. Well, it bans the sale. Maybe they didn’t confiscate.
“Venezuela bans private gun ownership”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-18288430
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Of course, it’s how you cement a dicktatorship.
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Invade Venezuela and Cuba. Take out the communists. No mercy.
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The Men Who Would Be King
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2016/05/06/the-men-who-would-be-king/?singlepage=true
The fundamental mistake of the policy establishment (which Ben Rhodes derisively calls “the blob”) was to take the Obama administration seriously, to think that terms like “grand bargain” and regional realignments were serious concepts and to spend hours pondering their meaning. Instead we now know they were just phrases that Obama and his inner circle made up as they went along. Thus a White House that should have been instantly destroyed by contempt was instead preserved by the wariness of those who thought they were facing a Professor Moriarty rather Bluto from Animal House.
Perhaps the only person who guessed the truth — besides Clint Eastwood — was Vladimir Putin. Some instinct told the Russian that inside the suit there was nothing. He’s treated Obama accordingly and that’s been the secret to his success ever since. Malice or incompetence? Moriarty or Bonhoeffer’s empty stupid? The reason the Washington policy establishment likes to believe Obama is some cunning schemer is that otherwise they’ll never live it down.
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“Thus a White House that should have been instantly destroyed by contempt was instead preserved by the wariness of those who thought they were facing a Professor Moriarty rather Bluto from Animal House.”
LOL
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COL too.
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Yep, they are twins
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