General Discussion, Tuesday, May 17, 2016

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  1. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    May 17, 2016 at 12:04 am

    No clue, but I want to go there! (I know there are geological formations like this in Ireland, and on Staffa and another Hebridean Island.)

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    May 17, 2016 at 12:11 am

    Bogus reason #936:

    “Expert”: Muslims “radicalize” because they find it hard to criticize government

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/05/expert-muslims-radicalize-because-they-find-it-hard-to-criticize-government

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      May 17, 2016 at 10:10 am

      They don’t go out and “radicalize” at some point, as you know. They start that way when taught the precepts of their loosely described religion, if you are not too particular about what you call a religion.

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      • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
        May 17, 2016 at 1:06 pm

        Exactly. DH is fond of saying that the most “moderate” moslem (a mythical creature) is only a hair’s breadth away from jihad. None can be trusted.

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  3. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    May 17, 2016 at 12:31 am

    Curses, foiled again. There I was, beguiled by pickled jalapeño recipies and I was bested. I will skulk away, defeated…..skulking…..skulking…..skulking

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  4. Plain Jane's avatar Plain Jane says:
    May 17, 2016 at 1:33 am

    Hello, I see some have been here already. Is anyone home now? May I come in?

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  5. ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
    May 17, 2016 at 2:55 am

    Some are fixated on Trump’s taxes.

    The Treehouse next door
    asked an interesting question,
    “Where’s the money?”

    Seven years x $900 billion
    per year = $6.3 Trillion, or
    sixty three thousand billion.

    “Where is it?”

    “What did we get for it?”

    “What are we currently
    getting while continuing
    to spend it?”

    “Remember, this is IN
    ADDITION TO the original
    funding of government. This
    is ADDITIONAL SPENDING.”

    “So, where is it?”

    Cruz is a senator. crickets.
    Rubio is a senator. crickets.
    Sanders is a senator. crickets.

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/05/17/the-sixty-three-thousand-billion-dollar-question/

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      May 17, 2016 at 5:43 am

      Wow, must be all of the gold we bought to restock Ft. Knox.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        May 17, 2016 at 9:32 am

        Or that bill my great-great-great grandkids will get in the mail

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        • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
          May 17, 2016 at 1:26 pm

          Czar, you may have seen the news about Russians buzzing our Navy.
          “{Modern aircraft record signals like this and the information is used to develop tactics and electronic countermeasures for future engagements.
          Likewise, the USS Donald Cook was seeking to learn more about the Russian electronic countermeasures that “blue screened” the Aegis’ tracking system.
          In response, Russia sent an unarmed bomber Su- 24 to fly around the U.S. destroyer. However, experts say that this plane was equipped with the latest Russian electronic warfare complex. According to this version, “Aegis” spotted from afar the approaching aircraft, and sounded alarm. Everything went normally, American radars calculated the speed of the approaching target. And suddenly all the screens went blank. “Aegis” was not working any more, and the rockets could not get target information. Meanwhile, Su-24 flew over the deck of the destroyer, did battle turn and simulated missile attack on the target. Then it turned and repeated the maneuver. And did so 12 times. ”
          http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/11/13/aegis-fail-in-black-sea-ruskies-burn-down-uss-donald-duck/

          Did you read about the USS Cook’s targeting systems failure?

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            May 17, 2016 at 3:39 pm

            I posted on this a while back, there was also another like incident in the Black Sea. This isn’t anything new, the US and Russia have long been probing each other’s ships and shore radar installations. Curtis LeMay used to run those B-47s and B-52s right up against the Rooskies ‘DEW’ lines and we lost more than a few crews that were shot down along Russia’s Pavific coast doing electronic recon flights. Russians also made some really hairy runs at our Alaskan sites, among others, it’s what we do. Oh, remember when they’d make goes at our flerts in the North Atlantic/Baltic with the ASM-armed Badgers?
            The Cook was in the Baltic and the Russians consider that their pond. It was also too close to Kaliningrad for comfort and Russia still occipies and won’t give that port up. During the Cold War, no definitive word on right now, it was a nuke storage facility for them and their holding on to it as tightly as they do makes me thonk it still is. It’s tomthem in the Baltic what Sevastopol is to them in the Black Sea.
            I’m betting they not only wanted to do some recon on the Cook but also answer the US’s trespassing on their lawn, a power projection play by us and ‘Oh Yeah!’ from them. I’d be more comfortable though if the POtuS were putting that money into modernizing our military, as thr Russiabs are theirs, instead of supporting hoardes of illegal and potentially dangerous immigrants.

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  6. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    May 17, 2016 at 6:10 am

    Mornin’ y’all!

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  7. Stella's avatar stella says:
    May 17, 2016 at 9:06 am

    Good morning! The weather is dry, but cloudy, this morning, but we have a full week of nice weather ahead – warmer and dry. My lawn was cut yesterday afternoon. It rained last night, and you can almost see the grass grow this time of the year, I swear it.

    Springtime On The Prairies (Emile Pinet)

    Mother Nature gaily poses,
    dressed in spring’s majestic splendor.
    For Her flowered gown’s dappled with
    purple pigments and puce pastels.

    Tepid Chinooks melt virgin snows,
    that fill meandering rivers.
    And form long, lazy loops that snake
    across emerald green prairie.

    A golden sun imbues its light,
    with a sense of hope and magic.
    And gilding the edge of darkness,
    dawn heralds its resurrection.

    A watermelon horizon,
    marks the birth place of a new day.
    And pink cotton candy clouds float
    above ribbons of vermilion.

    Reminiscent of paradise,
    the wildflowers are all in bloom.
    And atop gently swaying stalks,
    gaze up at indigo skies.

    Today is the primary elections in Oregon. Actually, since Oregon has been voting already for a while, it is actually the last day to cast a vote in Oregon for this election. All voting is done via mail or ballot drop-off boxes. Since voting closes at 8 pm PDT, we won’t see any results in the east until almost midnight. Sanders and Trump are the expected winners, although Oregon’s closed primary system may work against them. Unless the newly-registered voters (almost 70,000) have declared a party, they cannot vote.

    Have a good day!

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      May 17, 2016 at 10:26 am

      Good morning Stella. Some writers just make you look out your window to compare your view, see if you spot any of that beauty don’t they?

      Springtime In My Georgia Hills

      Green.
      10,000 shades of green
      Blended into a quilt of monochromatic contrast.

      From moss to towering oak,
      Light dances, shadow fades back into the deepest woods where the fairies peek out.

      See why I don’t make a living as a poet? 😀

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      • Plain Jane's avatar Plain Jane says:
        May 17, 2016 at 1:21 pm

        That’s a goody. Unfortunately if my “poetry” starts with “Roses are Red….,’ and that’s usually as far as I get in my writings. I’m not bad at Haiku, but it’s never intended. 🙂

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      • amwick's avatar amwick says:
        May 17, 2016 at 10:01 pm

        This is my first Spring in Georgia, breathtaking…. the mountains are all green, except where the fog twists around them….

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

          I hope you love and enjoy it as much as I do. Unending beauty surrounds us.

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          • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
            May 17, 2016 at 10:22 pm

            Unending beauty? I’m not understanding how you’re spelling “BUGS”.

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            • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
              May 17, 2016 at 10:27 pm

              That’s why you spray yourself down with bug spray, and if going into a chigger infested area, everybody knows you tie kerosene soaked rags around your ankles. Ain’t no reason to let a few creepy crawlers make you stay in the house.

              Even though I admit that I downright hate ticks. Hate, loathe, detest, and did I say hate? Give me spiders and snakes any day. Even those stupid ugly little scorpions. No ticks.

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              • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
                May 17, 2016 at 10:32 pm

                LOL! I was thinking more of the summer nights, listening to cicadas and katydids, but wearing flammable, blister causing rags is very romantic…. I suppose….

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      May 17, 2016 at 10:59 am

      Good morning Stella 🙂

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  8. sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
    May 17, 2016 at 9:11 am

    Morning all! Hope everyone has a great Tuesday!

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  9. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    May 17, 2016 at 9:39 am

    There was a question next door from yesterday that I saw this morning. I’ll repost here since I’ve seen the question a few times.

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/05/16/venezuela-will-end-with-civil-war-and-the-media-will-never-show-it/
    “Why nations’ continue to try socialism truly is one of the more remarkable puzzles in history. Everywhere socialistic economics have been tried, it failed. Yet within every generation there arises a new call to try again only to repeat the failure.”

    …
    Their first and immediate aim is to get the possession of riches, power, and influence, without industry; and, to accomplish this, they want to abolish Christianity; and then dissolute manners and universal profligacy will procure them the adherence of all the wicked, and enable them to overturn all the civil governments of Europe; after which they will think of farther conquests, and extend their operations to the other quarters of the globe, till they have reduced mankind to the state of one undistinguishable chaotic mass.

    But this is too chimerical to be thought their real aim. Their Founder, I dare say, never entertained such hopes, nor troubled himself with the fate of distant lands. But it comes in his way when he puts on the mask of humanity and benevolence: it must embrace all mankind, only because it must be stronger than patriotism and loyalty, which stand in his way.

    — PROOFS OF A CONSPIRACY AGAINST ALL THE RELIGIONS AND GOVERNMENTS OF EUROPE- John Robison 4th Ed (1798)

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  12. Stella's avatar stella says:
    May 17, 2016 at 11:51 am

    What Lies Beneath?

    The long climb to scientific supremacy begun by Aristotle in his invention of symbolic logic has in the end taken us to the summit of what turns out to be a very small hill, as we crane our necks upward at a looming, unseeable, unending mountain range.

    Worse, the mountains we cannot see or understand will nevertheless affect us in ways we can’t imagine. It is positively Lovecraftian….

    How is it possible, they will ask, that so much of reality remains closed to us even after two thousand years of following the Theseus-like string left by our great scientists? It’s as if we emerge from the labyrinth, having followed the string — not into the bright light of day — but into a deeper and blacker chamber….

    It’s all so disturbing to scientists because they thought they knew the human story already. And they make their living telling that story, their entire lives are based upon the fact that they are experts in that story. How profoundly unsettling it must be to realize perhaps you understand the smallest sliver of a story that was more vast and complicated than you could have ever imagined.

    And so it is with physicists confronting dark matter and energy.

    In the end, Western scientists may be forced, when asked to explain what the vast majority of existence rests upon, to answer:

    “Something, we know not what.”

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

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  14. ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
    May 17, 2016 at 4:53 pm

    You cannot make this stuff up. 😉

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  15. Stella's avatar stella says:
    May 17, 2016 at 5:45 pm

    THIS is what has become of the church I attended as a child, where I was baptized, where I sang in the choir, where I was confirmed. Sad and sick.

    http://www.ucc.org/news_president_obama_appoints_ucc_transgender_leader_to_presidential_council_05132016

    A member of the United Church of Christ’s former Executive Council and a transgender leader within the denomination has been appointed to serve on President Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-based Neighborhood Partnerships. Barbara Satin is the first transgender woman to serve on the advisory council.

    “Given the current political climate, I believe it’s important that a voice of faith representing the transgender and gender non-conforming community—as well as a person of my years, nearly 82—be present and heard in these vital conversations,” said Satin, who was involved in the church’s 2003 decision to affirm the inclusion of transgender people in the full life and ministry of the UCC.

    Satin recently worked on the development of Spirit on Lake, a LGBTQ senior housing project in Minneapolis that opened in 2013. She also sits on the boards of a number of non-profits that serve LGBTQ people in the areas of philanthropy, training of senior care providers and HIV-AIDS services. Satin is a veteran of the United States Air Force.

    The White House announced the appointment of Satin, along with 10 other individuals, to the advisory council on Thursday, May 12. The presidential council, made up of about 15 individuals from across the faith community and charitable organizations, brings together leaders and experts in fields related to the work of faith-based and neighborhood organizations. Its role is to make recommendations to the administration on how to improve the partnerships it forms to serve people in need.

    “These fine public servants bring a depth of experience and tremendous dedication to their important roles. I look forward to working with them,” the president said in a statement.

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  16. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    May 17, 2016 at 6:53 pm

    Louisiana’s considering making Naloxone available anyone, any time without a prescription and strip any civil and criminal liability from a Good Sam administering it. Now speaking from my admittedly biased stance, why?
    We’re hearing about studies that show the high opiod recidivism rates can be lowered through treatment, but in most cases this treatment is substituting a drug like methadone, another opiod. This treatment doesn’t cure the addiction, nor does it guarantee the addict won’t go back and use drugs with or onstead of the treatment. It’s also not a cure, it’s maintaining the addiction on a legal drug while therapists attempt to get the user to cure his addiction and change his habits abd get off the illegal and legal drugs – back to that recidivism rate again.
    With some two million illegal opiate users (I think the guestimste’s too low) in the US and lots of junkies keeling over from ODs I sorta see their earned demises as foreseeable resilts of illegal acts they’ve been thoroughly warned about. Then agaon, I’m a mean old guy.
    We have lots of kids who do not get adaquate housing, medical care, schooling or food (more than a few of whom are so due to opiods) yet we spend limited and valuable resources coddling illegal aliens and illegal drug users. Call me reactionary and out-of-step but I believe our priorities are skewed. You take illegal drugs, you suffer the consequences regardless of how hard they are.

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  17. ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
    May 17, 2016 at 7:14 pm

    Remembering Paul Harvey…

    However, not all those who have struggled with gender identity believe that it is right to support and affirm a person’s desire to live as those of the opposite sex.

    As previously reported, Walt Heyer, a 75-year-old man who obtained a sex change operation in the 1980’s to live as a woman for eight years before reverting back to his biological gender, now leads a ministry in which he shares his story with the world of how Christ redeemed his life and gave him hope.

    “Nobody’s ever born a transgender,” he told the Daily Mail last January. “They’re manufactured as a result of something, a developmental childhood issue that has yet to be determined for many people.”

    “All of them have some level of depression, and we’re not treating them,” Heyer lamented. “We’re just cutting off body parts and giving them a new name and a new gender.”

    “God designed man; He designed women,” he also said in a video recorded last year. “God will redeem the lives of people who struggle with gender identity issues just like I did. He redeemed my life, and I’ve been free from it as a result of that.”

    http://christiannews.net/2016/05/17/obama-appoints-man-who-identifies-as-woman-to-faith-based-neighborhood-partnerships-council/

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  18. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    May 17, 2016 at 7:29 pm

    Do we feel the Bern????? 😀

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  19. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    May 17, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    I just finished watching Trump on the Kelly special. The thing that struck me about it was how VERY charming Trump can be. O_o

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  20. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    May 17, 2016 at 10:44 pm

    Here’s how stupid this Country has become. The gubmint has to tell people to make a ***-dam grocery list. I guess all those education reforms over the last 40 years are starting to stick. 🙄 🙄

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/make-a-grocery-list-feds-teach-people-how-to-shop-for-food/article/2591583

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  21. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    May 17, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    RIP Guy Clark. A classic. And so is this song. 😦

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  22. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    May 17, 2016 at 11:29 pm

    Ex-New Orleans mayor Marc Morial, who’s now the president/CEO of the National Urban League and part of the POtuS’s adminstration, is calling for an extra billion or two to be invested in black America over the next few years as black Americans are moving backwards in all positive areas (jobs, education, all that stuff) in comparison with white America.
    Geez, 50-odd years of government money and entitlement programs being heaved onto the nlavk community and, in general, it’s moving backwards? What could possibly be wrong???
    Or is it the BGI positioning itself st the public trough as the Latino and Mideast entitlement groups start to flood in? It’s seen that the feed in the trough is finite, if not limited, and pickins’ get leaner as the feeders get more numerous. There have already been loud voices crying that the Free Money programs were designed for black recipients in areas with a heavy Latino population, now that we’re targeted for a huge Moslem influx the voices will only grow.
    Hillary’s going to have to mobilize the various Protected Group wranglers to get that vote out and that means she’s going to have to make ‘gimme’ promises. The coffers are sorta dry now and increasing the outflow with fewer contributing to the inflow just ain’t gonna work too much longer, at some point the Feds are going to have to put an even bigger squeeze on those who have their own money. We’re gonna be sliced thinner than a beef roast at a bording house dinner.

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