General Discussion, Sunday, May 15, 2016

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Stella

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  1. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    May 15, 2016 at 12:02 am

    Peopke gonna be gettin’ suspicious and start talking, I was just waitin’ for the cat to come in.

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    May 15, 2016 at 12:05 am

    Re: location of photo above—No!Clue!

    Except that it looks like it could be hanging on the wall at MOMA.

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  3. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    May 15, 2016 at 12:08 am

    Drive-by:

    Insane Muslim Terrorists [Daniel Greenfield]

    “It’s a well known fact that there is no such thing as Islamic terrorism. Instead there are just a lot of people out there, of Muslim origin, suffering from a unique set of psychological problems that cause them to shout Allahu Akbar while trying to kill people who aren’t Muslims…”

    http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2016/05/insane-muslim-terrorists.html

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  4. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    May 15, 2016 at 12:15 am

    Drive-by #2…w/two interestingly ironic moments. First one: “There was no benefit to anyone to spread the knowledge” [although “ironic” might not be the most accurate descriptive for this statement] . See if you can spot the second one (hint: it’s in the embedded Boston Globe article):

    Surprise! After secret talks, tiny Vermont town gets 100 Muslim migrants

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/05/surprise-after-secret-talks-tiny-vermont-town-gets-100-muslim-migrants

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      May 15, 2016 at 12:42 am

      I’m curious as to why the Feds are moving these Moslems into snow country across the northen US? Do they figure the innercity violence and ruined manufacturing complexes will help make them feel at home or is it a hope the cold will slow their possible violent tendencies down?
      The anti-civilization Moslems couldn’t have a better vehicle to propel their quest for the end of Western civilization than the West. The UN has been working on the destruction of thst same Western civilization that’s fed, brought 1st world medicine and a modicum of civilization to its host of s**thole 3rd world members’ countries. Worse yet termites in those same targeted countries are helping. Just who do the Moslems think will feed, clothe, medicate and civilize these people once the West as a meal ticket’s been destroyed? Allah’s going to come down, wave his hand and, as acreward, all of their longstanding problems with self-sufficiency will dissolve? Speak to the meteorite.

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      May 15, 2016 at 9:14 am

      “If the proposal had been floated earlier, the mayor said, the debate would have become “about them” — meaning the Syrians, their culture, and possible links to terrorism” Well, let’s not have an open discussion about what really needs to be openly discussed. We wouldn’t want to talk about the things that will affect the people who already live there. 😡

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  5. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    May 15, 2016 at 12:27 am

    Interesting little segment on the news tonite, as happens almost every weekend in New Orleans there was a second line parade in the city against violence. Aside from the fact that there’s hardly anything the residents won’t parade for or against, especially if alcohol comes with the parade, these anti-violence parades have been going on for decades and have about as much effect as burning incense and sacrificing a goat.
    Mayor was there, as I said I expect to see him run for the upcoming Senate seat, hugging victims forvthe cameras. Wasn’t handing out ‘Sorry for Your Loss, Vote Mitch’ buttons but I see that coming. News even had one of the people who’d been carjacked at gunpoint worrying openly not about his almost getting popped, or having his car stolen, but worried about the fates of the poor, young carjackers when they are finally caught. Probably a new resident, he was jacked in a ‘yuppie’ area that was, until recently, a spot where Fundamentalist terrorists came from the Mideast train. Let’s see how kumbaya he is after he’s robbed at gunpoint a few more times.
    Another soft millennial prog type was describing his being mugged at gunpoint and described the robbers in every way except race, he choked rather than include it in his narrative. Ditto his attitude after a few more encounters.
    Czarina has to go into NOLA tomorrow, for reasons I consider ridiculous BUT she wants to retain this business relationship so I’ll grind my teeth about six hours while she drives through two of the diciest areas in town. Then again, the Usual Suspects will have had a busy Friday and Sayurday nite and most likely will be sleeping it off.

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  6. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    May 15, 2016 at 12:43 am

    Sunday blessings to all. Hope you will enjoy this–“Sancte Deus”, by Thomas Tallis:

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  9. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    May 15, 2016 at 1:15 am

    Since my photobucket has apparently crashed and burned, we must project the coffeepot that my dear friend Menagarie has been posting of late is up and you are viewing it. Enjoy! 🙂

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  10. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    May 15, 2016 at 9:04 am

    “Justice Scalia died of natural causes AT HIS RANCH in Texas.” So says FOX and FRIENDS this morning. NO HE DIN’T. SMH

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  11. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    May 15, 2016 at 9:44 am

    Our favorite Sunday columnist takes on the #NeverTrump elites(effete) , and Barry’s bathhouse rules. Enjoy with your virtual coffee. 😉

    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/never_say_never_and_obamas_waterloo_.html

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  12. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    May 15, 2016 at 10:27 am

    Just in case any of you’ze right-wing radicals want to get a FedGov job, they will check your social media history. The good news is you don’t have to give them your pseudonym. 😆

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/feds-now-review-social-media-120713477.html

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      May 15, 2016 at 10:46 am

      Yep but anything that has ever ben associated with your present or past IP is already in their bucket of tricks.

      I tell my eldest daughter this about employers in general, she does’t believe me and tells me it is against the law for employers to look at your social media. This is a kid with a genius IQ, thankfully she is gainfully employed already.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      May 15, 2016 at 11:26 am

      I think most employers are checking your social media these days. I wouldn’t hire someone who posts pics of themselves smoking a joint, drunken party pictures etc. It demonstrates a lack of judgement.

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      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
        May 15, 2016 at 12:01 pm

        What about pictures at black tie gala/charity auctions?

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        • lovely's avatar lovely says:
          May 15, 2016 at 5:26 pm

          Nope I would seriously not hire them, I would never consider it. Seriously. I have never met in my entire life a more corrupt and self impressed bunch of people than those who run “charities”.

          I know there are some good charities out there. But they are far and few in-between the scoundrels.

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          • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
            May 15, 2016 at 5:28 pm

            I was thinking it is up there with drunken parties and other lack of judgment photos.

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            • lovely's avatar lovely says:
              May 15, 2016 at 5:42 pm

              I’d hire a person who showed lack of judgement by posting a drunken picture or even smoking a joint before I’d hire a paid “charity” buffoon.

              I am involved with charities as an off shoot of certain things I do and people I interact with. The last affair I was at a man was bragging about how he paid for his loafer son and DIL’s honeymoon. Two weeks on a beach. Did I mention that the son didn’t even have a job to come back to. Wait ! What a nice gift for a young couple just starting out in life, and what a scrooge I must be. Did I mention the son is in his mid thirties? 🙄

              Also there is always whining and complaining about how the landlords or other people don’t do more for the poor but never a voice (other than mine) that says “Wait, what about the people showing the landlord some common decency.

              This is a sore spot for me as I hate hypocrites,

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  13. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    May 15, 2016 at 10:48 am

    And thanks to Menagerie for telling me about Zazzle, I am having a t-shirt made using this picture.

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  14. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    May 15, 2016 at 12:03 pm

    Bronco Bama’s bathhouse boyz didn’t just throw down this week with the trans-bi-cis-pan-wtf-bathroom issue. They also want colleges to not ask if you have previously been a “justice-involved person”. As someone noted on teh FB yesterday, you better buckle up cuz we’re fixin’ to see a tsunami of this caca roll out of that swamp they call DC for the next 8 months. Prolly more than we’ve seen in the last 7+ years. 👿

    http://nypost.com/2016/05/14/owellian-administration-brands-criminals-justice-involved-individuals/

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  15. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    May 15, 2016 at 1:05 pm

    Afternoon kids! Been “spotting” DH while he cleans gutters this a.m. Yup.

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  17. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    May 15, 2016 at 1:55 pm

    I think I just went to spam-a-lot! 😆

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  18. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    May 15, 2016 at 2:47 pm

    I came across this calm, straightforward article on the BLM and the consequences of the way they are being treated. It isn’t really new information, just well stated.

    “We have been here before. In the 1960s and early 1970s, black and white radicals directed hatred and occasional violence against the police. The difference today is that anti-cop ideology is embraced at the highest reaches of the establishment: by the President, by his Attorney General, by college presidents, by foundation heads, and by the press. The presidential candidates of one party are competing to see who can out-demagogue President Obama’s persistent race-based calumnies against the criminal justice system, while those of the other party have not emphasized the issue as they might have.”

    “I don’t know what will end the current frenzy against the police. What I do know is that we are playing with fire, and if it keeps spreading, it will be hard to put out.”

    http://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-danger-of-the-black-lives-matter-movement/4/

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  19. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    May 15, 2016 at 3:34 pm

    So….. in between work related stuff I speak to “she whom shall not be named”, and she just happens to be on this healthy diet / exercise fad thing. I don’t recall what she said that caused me to look up eating habits in the US since I generally try not to listen when she speaks, but I did a quick Google search regardless.
    I find it interesting that there are lots of websites of “historians”, that in a very authoritarian way present making food before a 100 years ago, as taking all of women’s time and that fire was used.
    According to current history books, killing indigenous people, beating slaves, and eating fire cooked meat is about all that was done in 2000 years after the fall of Rome.

    I ran across a little gem of a grammar school book, first published in 1900, that completely turns current popular diet and fitness wisdom upside down as well as popular history.

    Graded lessons in physiology and hygiene

    https://archive.org/details/gradedlessonsin03krohgoog

    …
    Adulteration of Foods.
    Many of our foods are sometimes spoiled by persons who manufacture or sell them, putting into them cheaper substances that are dangerous to health. Such persons seem to care little for the purity of foods, but are chiefly interested in making the most money possible out of them. So common has this adulteration become that in most of the states the law-making power has passed pure food bills to prevent the sale of such adulterated articles. These laws are most worthy and should be strictly enforced, for what is money-making by a few individuals compared with the health of the people of an entire city or state, which may be greatly endangered by the use of these impure or adulterated foods. Foods often adulterated are maple sugar, candy, syrup, milky butter, chocolate, coffee, flour, vinegar, jams, bread, and jellies. Sugar, syrup, and candy are sometimes made from com by a peculiar process, by means of which the starch of the com is changed into glucose, and a kind of sugar not so sweet or palatable as sugar made from sugar-cane or sugar beets. Foods are often colored by coal-tar dyes, in order to hide their inferior quality and to make them look better than they really are. Besides, some of these colors are poisonous and produce disturbance of the digestion, or other injurious effects.
    …
    You know how home-made jellies and preserves taste. They are wholesome foods. When made from the pure juices of fruits and pure sugar they are expensive. On this account much jelly sold at a lo^ price is made from glucose, a substance made from com starch, to which acids are added, besides some unhealthful coloring matter to make them look like the pure jellies made at home from currants, strawberries, grapes, and other fruits.

    Perhaps you have heard people speak jokingly of wooden nutmegs, hickory hams, and oats made by whittling shoe-pegs, all said to be the invention of the ingenious Connecticut Yankee of fifty years ago. But these are as nothing compared with the food adulterations of to-day, which are so skillfully carried out that detection of the adulteration is difficult. They grow out of a general demand for cheap things, and when the genuine article cannot be supplied at a profit, we find some skillful adulteration taking its place. In addition to those already noted, please observe the following list. We have artificial white-of-egg, artificial butter and adulterated wheat flour, but we have buckwheat adulterated with wheat midlings, cider vinegar distilled from grains, lemon extracts without lemon oil, and vanilla extracts without a trace of vanilla. We buy “Vermont Maple Syrup” that never was within a thousand miles of Vermont, but was made in a little, dingy city factory. Skim milk is filled with cheap lard, and sold all over the world in ” American Pure Cream Cheese.”

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      May 15, 2016 at 3:58 pm

      My parents lived to be 91. They were raised on farms and ate beans and cornbread most days. My mother said she took a bean sandwich to school every day. Every once in a while the little rich girl she knew would trade her a meat sandwich for her bean sandwich. The less packaged, the better. Interesting that book is what we should go by today.

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      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
        May 15, 2016 at 4:27 pm

        There are so many things of interest to point out in the book that it’s just easier to link to the book.
        There are little phrases that must have been common at the time that have no use now;
        “As hungry as a wood chopper” and a children’s chase game called “Black man” were two that I noticed right away.

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      • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
        May 15, 2016 at 8:16 pm

        Reminds me of a story in my family (genealogy nut, when I’m “on” it) – a great (or great-great) grandmother managed to hoe one toe off while attending “crops”/building the dug-out. Had 2 or more kids already at 20 yrs. of age, and of course, died (circa 1901 or 1906.) Men at that time tended to have 3 or more wives as them pesky “home accidents” tended to take the current wife out pretty regular-like. Them long skirts catchin’ fire whilst cooking/doing laundry didn’t help much, neither.

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  20. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    May 15, 2016 at 6:11 pm

    Hmmm… A good friend of mine is friends with Joel Kelefisch, Rebecca Kleefisch’s husband, Rebecca is Lieutenant governor of WI. And as unlikely as it seems we may see a Trump/Walker ticket.

    Take it for what it is worth. Grapevine musings.

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  21. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    May 15, 2016 at 9:29 pm

    30 inconvenient truths for the Trump is a terrible person crowd.

    1) Trump gave Ryan White, one of the first hemophilic children to be afflicted with Aids, access and use of Trump’s private plane so that Ryan could be seen by the best doctors across the United States.

    2) Trump came to the financial aid of the Clyde Frazier Jr. Harlem Hoops tournament.

    3) Sent $25,000 to Sgt. Tahmooressi to help him rebuild his life after Sgt, Tahmooressi was imprisoned for 214 days in a Mexican prison.

    4) When Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew were murdered, Donald Trump opened up Trump Towers to her for as haven, he didn’t charge her a dime and Trump also set up security for Jennifer and her family members so they didn’t have to deal with the intrusive press and the public in general.

    5) Donald Trump literally saved the farm of Annabell Hill. After Mrs. Hill’s husband committed suicide with the hope that his life insurance would pay the bills, (because it was a suicide the insurance company did not pay) leaving Mrs. Hill with debilitating grief and in a devastating position. Trump paid off her mortgage on the farm.

    6) He donated the use of his personal plane for 3 year old Andrew Ten, so that Ten could receive medical attention, commercial airlines had refused to fly Andrew because of his medical needs.

    7) Bus driver Darnell Barton convinced a woman not to jump from a bridge into traffic and led her safely off the ledge. Trump sent Mr. Barton $10,000 saying, “I thought that was so beautiful to see. I think he is a great guy with an amazing heart and I said that man should be rewarded”

    8) Miss WI 2005, Melissa Consin Young has a condition which will take her life, she has signed a “Do Not Resuscitate” order. Mrs. Young thanked Mr. Trump for his positivity and support. Mr. Trump has insured that her young son will be taken care of including paying his college tuition.

    9) After years of failures and millions of dollars spent by NY to make the Wollman Ice Skating Rink a useable rink, Donald Trump fixed the rink and created a place of joy for many people. In just 4 months and 25% under budget of 3 million dollars, Trump did what 13 million dollars, 6 years and NY’s politicians and Unions miserably failed to do, built a beautiful ice rink.

    10) Trump paid the mortgage off for a married couple who had stopped and rendered him assistance when he had a flat tire.

    11) In 1991 in NYC, a man was being beaten by another man with a baseball bat, Trump intervened and the aggressor left the scene.

    12) While on the campaign trail, Trump stops and visits with disabled veterans.

    13) While on the campaign trail Trump stops and visits with the families of people who have been murdered by illegal aliens.

    14) Trump sent a large check to the family of a young girl named Megan who suffered from a bone disease to help with her medical bills.

    15) Three Maytag dealers were in financial trouble. Trump bought appliances from them for his hotels and helped bring them back to solvency.

    16) The Trump Foundation donated $325,000 to New York Presbyterian Hospital.

    17) A small deed, a Domino’s Pizza was struggling and Trump ordered 50 pizza’s for the crowd at a campaign stop. Word has it he did more to help but I don’t have details.

    18) Dave McNeer received a call from Trump about 5 years ago after McNeer appeared on a segment of 60 Minutes. Trump promised McNeer that “If I ever run for President, I’m going have you print signs for me.”

    True to his word, Trump hired McNeer to make Trump campaign hats, buttons, and shirts.

    19) Trump donated one million dollars to help fund and resurrect the the NYC Veteran Day Parade.

    20) Jerry Falwell Jr. tells the story of informing Trump of a large Christian ministry that was in need of help, within days Trump made a $100,000.00 donation.

    21) Donald Trump donated nearly $500,000 in the immediate wake of the barbaric 9/11 attacks much of it to Red Cross and the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Fund.

    22) Donald Trump recently raised six million dollars for veterans, one million dollars came from Mr. Trump himself.

    23) The Trump Foundation has donated over $800,000 to the Police Athletic League of NYC which is a mentoring program which pairs officers with at risk youths.

    24) The Trump foundation has donated at least $500,000 to the United Way of NY.

    25) Donald Trump often gave matching funds from his own foundation to charities represented on The Apprentice.

    26) Donald Trump and his siblings donated 1 million dollars to the Hospital for Special Surgery which treated their parents Fred and Mary Trump.

    The Mary and Fred Trump Institute for Implant Analysis aims to innovate upon the science of joint reconstruction to improve the quality of life for millions of joint replacement patients around the world.

    27) Melania Trump donates her time and money to the Police Athletic Club, Boys Club of NY, American Red Cross and other causes.

    28) Trump raised his children to follow in his foot steps.

    Eric Trump started the Eric Trump foundation which has pledged and raised 30 million dollars for St. Jude’s Children Hospital.

    Ivan Trump supports Aids Life, Children’s Aid Society and Habitat for Humanity and other charities.

    Donald Trump Jr. is an advocate for Operation Smile an organization which helps treat hundreds of cleft lip and palates patients around the world with life changing surgeries.

    29) A fund raiser for Abilis, an organization which helps the disabled is held at the Trump National Golf Course and hosted by Donald Trump’s nephew Fred Trump who has a son William Trump who has Cerebral Palsy.

    30) A History of Charitable Giving.

    http://www.trumpnationallosangeles.com/Default.aspx%3Fp%3DDynamicModule%26pageid%3D302516%26ssid%3D187919%26vnf%3D1

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  22. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    May 15, 2016 at 10:49 pm

    America welcomes a new sheriff.

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