i am a little church(no great cathedral)
far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities
-i do not worry if briefer days grow briefest,
i am not sorry when sun and rain make april
my life is the life of the reaper and the sower;
my prayers are prayers of earth’s own clumsily striving
(finding and losing and laughing and crying)children
whose any sadness or joy is my grief or my gladness
around me surges a miracle of unceasing
birth and glory and death and resurrection:
over my sleeping self float flaming symbols
of hope,and i wake to a perfect patience of mountains
i am a little church(far from the frantic
world with its rapture and anguish)at peace with nature
-i do not worry if longer nights grow longest;
i am not sorry when silence becomes singing
winter by spring,i lift my diminutive spire to
merciful Him Whose only now is forever:
standing erect in the deathless truth of His presence
(welcoming humbly His light and proudly His darkness)
e.e. cummings
Stella's Place 
Y’all asleep?
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No, I have the early morning pun watch. Be careful.
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Using Bacon’s methodology? Going to bed, been a long day and I’m fried.
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“I will…watch to see what He will say to me, and what I will answer when I am corrected.”
–Habakkuk 2:1b–
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Oh, please. Don’t give czar delusions of grandeur. 😉
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Who says I was referring to czar?
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Zing! LOL!
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She got a Locke on that, uh huh, uh huh
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Your silly puns have reached a Plato. Yawn.
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Avicenna better replies but not many
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Appears we’ve been Marynated
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You, perhaps; what you need is a good grilling.
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Eventually, eventually
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“Marynated”. Ooh, that’s a nice one. I am Thoreau-ly honored.
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my only regret is that I didn’t think of it sooner
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“Miss!”
— Battleship 9:b
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Yes
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Watching a piece on CBS tonite about the CIA. Thing that came to mind as they talked modern terrorism (codeword for Islamic terrorism) was the length an breadth of it. The special sort of started by talking about it with the first WTC bombings (I remember mentioning the first WTC bombing over at the CTH and someone flaming me back telling me I was crazy, 911 was the first) but if you want to look at it as such they started with us in the Phillipines before WWI, and poked us at various levels right up to 911.
Anywho, I immediately thought of the apologists who endlessly tell us it’s not Islamic terrorism, it’s terrorism by thugs who’ve hijacked the good name of Islam as a cover. Yaaaawwwwwnnnnnnn.
OK, hmmmmmm…..does that mean the US PC folks are wrong in condemning Nazism as a world view? Were the people who indiscriminately murdered millions of Jews, Gypsies, gays, Slavs and others just thugs hijacking the good name of the Nazi party? We were told that Nazis ran rampant through Europe murdering left and right just like we see Islamic forces doing now but … wait…the former were all Nazis while the latter are pretenders? I’m confused here.
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I’m confused here.
That’s their goal.
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Feds are busy working up excuses for the next terr attack and finding unique ways of blaming the victims for their own demises.
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Don’t be confused. All those people we “goobers” (see Washington Post article on local “patriot militias” today) believe are evil, heartless spawn of Satan? Nah, no way. Let’s be consistent. Hitler was maybe just a thug. Poor guy, there had to be a reason. Stalin and all the rest? Let’s just don’t get too excited here, goobers.
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Goobers….goobers…..ah yes, consulted my MSM Cultural Epithets for Dummies guide….see under Bubba.
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Two circles that never have a chance of becoming a Venn diagram.
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And those circles are waaaaay too close together.
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It’s like showing a true scale of the universe, some things are just too big for a computer screen 😏
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And The Truth Circle needs to be a billion times bigger than the Hillary Clinton black little speck. No disrespect to your presentation, Lovely. 🙂
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The Beast on a black little speck shouting “I’m here, I’m here!” like Satan meets Dr. Seuss.
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Yes, the problem is these little mini whatever-you-want-to-call-thems are running around our world leaving chaos and destruction in their wake. Personally I call them tools of Satan, but not everyone would. It makes it very difficult to discuss these things because people just don’t view the world from the same perspective. If one believes in a Creator, especially the Christian God, the perspective and potential understanding (although we cannot ultimately understand it all) is completely different than the views another might have. From a Christian perspective, God told us this would go on in the world until some time when it wouldn’t anymore. To others, that is nonsense, even though they see the wrongs and evils. That almost has us living in different universes, in a sense.
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Ya nailed that one afore I did, then agin it was obvious as the lies on her face
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Interesting:
Stop Being So Nice –The Enemy is Not
http://comeandmakeit.blogspot.com/2016/05/stop-being-so-nice-enemy-is-not.html
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PC-based revisionist history–of children’ literature. Expect more to come:
Sweden’s Holy War on Children’s Books
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8086/sweden-childrens-books
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OK, he rewrites and Omar becomes an ISIS commander rampaging through western Syria chopping the heads off of Christians and burning captives alive. Abdullah becomes a Moslem intermediary whose sells stolen crude oil to ‘I zee nothink’ dealers and uses the profits to buy weapons on the black market that will arms ISIS. He can redo the story of a black jazz musician who passes out after a drug fix and sleeps it off wearing his sunglasses. Problems solved.
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Breakfast
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I count only five pieces (speaking generously). Not even enough to fill one jar of Bacon Bits.
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Cutting back: need to get back my six-pack abs (currently a pony keg).
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Dieses Speck muss weg! Gotta find that card. It was given to me many years ago and shows a rather fluffy Bavarian type, shirtless, bent over his wife’s knees while she tries to flatten out his girth with a rolling pin.
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LOL! But Speck is soooooooooo darn tasty.
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Progress. I didn’t want to shut my eyes when I saw this one today.
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Coffee
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Bourbon
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Something for everyone:
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This is so wrong and yet so funny on so many levels. I am still laughing!
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Do you know there is such a lovely creation as …………
Glazed Bacon Recipe – Maple Bourbon
http://wonkywonderful.com/glazed-bacon-recipe-maple-bourbon/
1/2 lb Bacon
2 Tb Brown Sugar
2 Tb Maple Syrup
2 tsp Bourbon Whiskey
Preheat oven to 350°
Cut bacon strips in half. (optional) Mix together the brown sugar, maple syrup and whiskey.
Transfer bacon strips to the glaze bowl and toss until evenly coated with bacon.
Line a baking sheet with foil and place a rack on top.
Lay bacon on the rack in a flat even layer.
Bake for 25-30 minutes or until crispy. Watch closely the last 5 minutes because the bacon will burn quickly.
Cool for 5 minutes before serving.
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🙂
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Mmmmmmm. MMMMMMMM. Will be trying this out very, very soon. Thanks for posting!
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I guess they just assume the part where you fill a cup with bourbon? Drink while cooking? Without the enticement of liquor I might never have become the one star chef I am today.
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The first big meal I ever cooked started out as a dinner party for four and ended up Thanksgiving dinner for 25! I was nineteen at the time and had never done solo Thanksgiving before. The moron who conned me into the deal called me at work at 10PM the night before and asked if it matter that the 32LB turkey was frozen! I left work, banged on my buddies dorm room door and we headed out.
We had a couple of bottles of Rose’ wine that I was going to marinate the fruit in. After spending two hours in cold water thawing the turkey, there was not much wine left for the fruit. I pulled it off, I think, but I sure don’t remember a lot of it.
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Menagerie, you absolutely crack me up!
And I have a question I’ve been meaning to ask you (since you attend the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul): did Peter and Paul know each other? Did they preach together in Rome? I would think that Paul, as a post-Resurrection apostle, would have sought out any of the original apostles who knew Jesus, to hear the stories first hand.
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I’m no expert, but according to Wikipedia they both died in Rome about the same time. Makes sense that they knew one another.
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Tundra, yes, they did meet. The most memorable account, at least in my way of thinking, is when the passionate and intense Paul confronted Peter over the matter of circumcision. Here’s a link for you, but read it in Galatians too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident_at_Antioch
We Catholics see this as, of course, one more Biblical evidence for the recognized leadership of Peter in the infancy of the Church. St. Paul, an apostle chosen directly by our Lord, surely as we see in his writings a man to be reckoned with, one who establishes many churches in far flung locations, a man never afraid of controversy, never unable to make a decision, takes this matter to Peter and the other leaders of the Church. The matter was resolved by Peter’s speech.
Three years after Paul’s conversion he had spent time with Peter and James.
While Peter and Paul both died in Rome, I do not know of them preaching there together.
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More info for you here.
http://www.marypages.com/PeterandPaul.htm
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Here’s what ya needs in there: Old Rip Van Winkle ‘Pappy Van Winkle’s Family Reserve’ 23 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. I ever win the lottery and I’ll buy a bottle.
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I had never heard of Pappy’s until I started reading Longmire books.
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All considered I’m betting certain authors get a free bottle for mentioning it
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You are a true hero, never to be forgotten in my prayers. Thanks ZM. I’m about to go back to my smoothie diet, and they need a secret ingredient.
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Bacon, coffee, bourbon: ZurichMike’s Sunday Brunch
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Morning all! Hope you all have a blessed Sunday!
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Good morning SandandSea 🙂
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Hi lovely!
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Love the e e cummings, Stella. Beautiful.
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Mornin’ kids!
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Yes, but regular Fed employees haven’t had raises for years. Maybe 1%. For 3 years in recent past, nothing. Needless to say, non-Fed people didn’t feel very sorry for them. I felt sorry for my husband, though. He worked his b**t off and we were in the inflated cost of living DC area.
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And I’ll bet he had supervisors that couldn’t find their butts with both hands tied behind their backs. I do believe I’ve posted my sagas elsewhere on CTH over the years. If AQ or ISIS wants to destroy the US they should just stay out of the way and let the Federal civil service march on. Hey, they could always just get ‘Federally Protected Status and get vital jobs just handed to them.
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Well, Czar, it’s much more horrifying than that. His boss was someone he knew from college, and his boss was in the next level up from GS. And his boss “died.”
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I could go on about a lot of things, and I have on CTH in the past, but they make my stomach and my head hurt.
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Moving right along…the lower-level supervisors were as you said, although they all worked hard. They were mind-melded to the system, whereas he came from the private sector after 30+ years. What a total shock that was. My husband could never do the social interaction, political office stuff. He was the brainy researcher type. So he would go and tell them “you guys are missing something here.” Or he would say “the Chinese are going to outdo us on this” and they were working on some pretty big stuff, but not weapons or military type things. He was the “inconvenient” irritant, so they just squashed him down and sort of sidelined him. He got to do the research he wanted to do anyway, but they never listened to anything he said.
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Good morning Nurse WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Years ago, I was very fortunate to be able to travel through Germany. Out in the country, there is a church: Pilgrimage Church of the Scourged Savior. I had never seen anything like this in my life.
http://www.bavaria.by/pilgrimage-church-of-wies-at-pfaffenwinkel-unesco-bavaria
The tourist ads call it The Wies Church (I don’t think they want to say the “Scourged Savior” part.)
I’m frustrated because I wanted to show some pics. I never learned to do it from the web and don’t feel like the learning curve right now. But if it interests, look for images with the church name.
The ceiling is flat, painted with the technique that you are standing under a huge dome. The whole church is in the Bavarian rococo style. Stunning! I arrived during a Mass. Poor Mass attendees — there are tourists milling around in their background. My mouth literally hung open as I wandered through that place after Mass. I didn’t even know the ceiling was flat until we left the building and I was reading material I had bought.
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/KgvocXz0Dy5IkQi789ZvePuT-RJYQrbDTjtt-fcYVSzvaXbgZX0_gyWD-hKevyTjy-qZ=s140
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Pam, it is easy when the pic (like this one) is on the internet already. Hover your mouse over the picture, then right click and select “copy image location”. Come back here to a comment box, then right click in the box and select “paste”. Try it out!
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OK! Thanks Stella. I did what you said before, but I don’t think I selected “copy image LOCATION”, but “copy..” (something else). When I tried to do the paste, it didn’t give the “paste” option.
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https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.M2908cbd7a863bd14f22f783075f8874eo0%26pid%3D15.1&f=1
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Oops…must have done it wrong
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https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi1.wp.com%2Fwww.italianbellavita.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F01%2FIMG_1347-1.jpg%3Fresize%3D1024%252C683&f=1
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Pam, click on the link in your original comment. Hover your mouse over the image (don’t click on it!). While hovering, click the RIGHT mouse button and select “Copy Image Location”. Come back here and click the RIGHT mouse button, then select “paste”.
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Thanks for being patient. I’ll try it in a bit.
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https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.M2908cbd7a863bd14f22f783075f8874eo0%26pid%3D15.1&f=1
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Lol! I won’t give up but it may take me some work. I did what you said, as far as I know. I don’t want to take up your time. Let me work on it and maybe my husband can help. He should be able to since he’s a computer scientist, but the man doesn’t know how to actually use our Roku remote! 🙂
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Pam are you using a Mac or a PC? If you are using a Mac, go to the image click with both fingers, the grey option box pops up and choose “Copy Image Address,” then single finger click on “Copy Image Address,” come back here and two finger click in the reply box. Single click on paste.
The image address has to be independent of any other writing and end in jpeg, png, jpg or gif
I’ve found Twitter great for grabbing photos because they are always in the proper format.
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PC and don’t do twitter. I know I need to get this down. Thanks. I’ll work on it.
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OK, i went to one of them and the address ends in jpg? then something about resize=
It says blahblah .jpg?resize=blahblah
Does the ? mean it will mess up?
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Delete anything after the jpg
If it reads kliomsnjpg=rthlarge change it to kliomsnijpg and follow Stella’s instructions. Do you have a photo bucket?
You can tell if the photo will work after you remove the stuff after the jpg if you copy and paste it into the search bar and the photo still comes up in the window.
I should say I only know the very basics and if anything goes askew I am lost.
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Same here.
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Pam, are you using Chrome as your browser? I am trying to reproduce what you did, and it looks like you right clicked, then selected search for image (or something like that), then copied the search results. Is DuckDuckGo your default search engine?
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That is amazingly beautiful and breathtaking. It is hard to believe that the ceiling is flat. 😯
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Like I said, I didn’t know until we left. All I wanted to do was go back there and spend maybe a week looking. But we couldn’t, of course. Everywhere you looked was incredible beauty, carvings on the columns, angels and stonework and painting, just couldn’t absorb it all.
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So beautiful.
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Really beautiful. Reminds me somewhat of those tromp l’oeil sidewalk paintings.
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Will a video do?
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Thanks!!!! Heart you
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Just breathtaking. 😯
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Another reason to give your money to someone other than Target.
This Man Saved A Girl From Being Stabbed To Death And Now Target is Suing Him For It
http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/19/this-man-saved-a-girl-from-being-stabbed-to-death-and-now-target-is-suing-him-for-it/
Bottom line is the stabbing started outside but in the process of rescuing the girl and 2 other family members the altercation moved inside so Target is suing the hero for endangering other Target customers.
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I am so disgusted with Target.
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I was at the mall yesterday and two young men probably both in their late teens were daring each other to use the women’s bathroom. They were for all appearances on the surface just being goofy teenagers who thought it would be funny.
I said “Guys, come on what would you do if your mom or girlfriend was in there and some 6 foot guy walked in? What if they texted you and said that there was a guy in the bathroom? Don’t create problems for yourselves.”
They chuckled, said they were sorry and that they were just joking and went in the men’s bathroom. And that is going to be one of the problems, not only perverts using bathrooms as stalking grounds, but good kids just being silly and it ending badly when something goes awry.
Bravo, brave new world, bravo 😐
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Makes me think of that post of Reagan with his face in his hands saying “no nobody even knows what bathroom to use.” Like there is really a choice. Which there shouldn’t be. 😦
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“now nobody even knows”
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There you go.
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How about a good old bush out in the parking lot?
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Um, no thank you. 😯
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I’m just a good old country girl, sorry. We used a coffee can when we were out on the boat. I do have a porta potty in the shop now, only because I live where the bushes are not quite tall enough and I am 61 years old. Don’t squat as good as I used to.
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We used to travel from Florida to TN several times a year. Back then there were no rest stops. We used to pull off the road and go into the bushes. I had penis envy really bad at those times.
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Try it in Michigan in the winter when we were out snow mobeling !!!! One piece suits, yikes!!
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YIKES! We used to go camping in the high desert in California/Arizona. Sometimes when it actually snowed. But, it might have been 32* at night, but went up to 40* or better during the day. So, that is the closest I ever got to your situation. 😯
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You learned to “go” really fast.
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I bet.
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Makes me wonder if Wile E. Coyote isn’t Target’s CEO…..Oh s***, Target’s lawyers send me an email…..
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Wile E Coyote or Target, who will history record as going out more spectacularly. That page is not yet written.
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Wile;s more funnier and more culturally relevant, it’s almost as if Target’s competing with Walmart for the left side end of the bell curve.
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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)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
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! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
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’ Pam! 🙂
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
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!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Pastries for coffee!
⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. Great breakfast.
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Wow!
Just Wow!
Thank you. 😉
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What are the little square pics next to the faces, and why does Menage get five of them?
I know the answer is going to be trouble.
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highball/tumbler vs martini glassware
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Still patiently waiting for Tom & Jerry to be replaced with Grand Marnier and Drambuie 😇
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Let me see if I can find a better word than “lush” for the other half of your query…..
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See?! 🙂 🙂 Well, it did cross my mind, but I wanted to verify. But I refuse to believe it. Yes, maybe she uses it to fertilize her plants?
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Plants around here fend for themselves. Every holiday season I make sure I have a quart of Devil’s Cut bourbon for my ham recipe. I ain’t using my Jack for even my holiday cooking. Jack Daniels is sacred stuff.
And I ALWYS count to be sure somebody ain’t messed with my five glasses. True.
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I always check mine, too, because I’m not sharing my Kiss on the lips.
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One of the best tours I ever went on was the Jack Daniels distillery. What awesome people and what a beautiful location.
http://www.jackdaniels.com/visit
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One of the best distillery tours I ever had was the Dickel plant in Tullahoma, TN – not all that far from Lynchburg. Accidentally dropped in while trying to land at the Arnold Engineering Center some 50 years ago. Shifting winds do strange things.
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The people at Jack Daniels were really great. When we checked in the lady asked if we were traveling with a dog. We were, so we said yes. She handed us a lock and a key and directed us to the dog runs. They were in a beautiful shaded grove, with food and water bowls. Our dog loved it. She got to stretch her legs and was nice and cool on a hot day. They also told us to pick out and address as many post cards as we would like and they would stamp and mail them for us.
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Considering the amount of Dickel I’ve ‘drunk’ they should buy me a dog next time I ‘drop’ in
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I have to wonder if the postcards were so your friends and family would know where to look for you after you sampled the wares and weren’t able to return home.
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They also have an on line store with lots of cool stuff.
https://jackdaniels.summitmg.com/jdr/default.asp
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Connoisseur. Your welcome.
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Ah thank you!
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You’re welcome. I gitted it right this time.
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😀 You asked for it. 😯
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I think he is referring to the “lush” green woods that surround Menagerie’s home 🙂
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Yeah………..yeah, okay.
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Definitely. 😉
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Our favorite Sunday columnist takes on the “Constitutional Law Professor” this weekend. It should leave a mark. But when you don’t have a conscience I doubt it does much good. :evil
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/a_parttime_law_lecturer_vs_the_constitution.html#.V0GqSofI_nc.facebook
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I think it is pretty clear this “Constitutional Law Professor” isn’t what he was touted to be and he doesn’t care about the Constitution at all.
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I’ve noticed a shift in focus at the local level in the last 10 years or so. It seems to be more about winning than seeking “justice” for the prosecution.
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We can all sing this now.
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Yes
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I don’t know if they has been posted before. I think it is pretty good.
Fox News Reporting – Donald Trump – The Disrupter | Special Report | Bret Baier (4-9-16)
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This is the church just South of me here in Eastern Washington. Rocklyn Church.
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Beautiful !
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Oops, forgot the credit to the source. John Clement Photography.
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All white and pure and quiet and light everywhere. Perfect.
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Krauthammer declares the #NeverTrump movement to be the “loser of the week”
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To Krauthammer, 😛
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The pouting Kraut eating crumbled pie from his pocket of contempt for Teh Donald 🙂
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But there are sometimes obstacles.
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And unreasonably high expectations
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Stolen from Twitter.
Why are there no knock knock jokes about America?
Freedom rings 😀
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I just heard on FOX that our Faux-Pres landed in Vietnam and WAS NOT greeted by high level Vietnamese officials. 😐
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A firing squad would have been more appropriate.
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Ooh, I like that idea.
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Was it this greeting?
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How did you get video so fast?
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Would seem one was left behind. 😉
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That’s disgusting. And enough butt jokes from everybody.
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Oops. I had to go back and look at the picture. I don’t see well enough to see what they were actually doing. (sorry)
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self removed content
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How about asses.
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At least the pig’s edible , even if they’re all puppets
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Good thinking.
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I heart that greeting…… ‘specially since my dna proves Scotland. 😀 Barbarians, we were….
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Ditto!
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Oh yeah? Looks more like his prospective interns auditioning.
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Y’all sure this ain’t a mix-up and this is a video of Him alandin’ in Saudi and bein’ welcomed by the Moon Goddess worshipers?
Thought I’d get one more in while Stella was busy with the Monday general thread.
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Is Jane with him?
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Jane?
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I think he means Jane Fonda.
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Good ole Hanoi Jane. Bout near two peas in a pod, as far as treasonous stupid azz kissers, you ask me. Nyet, he couldn’t take the competition.
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I’ma outlive that b!tch and pee on her grave. Don’ care if it takes me ’til I’m 80. And if she’s in a mausoleum, I’ll pee in a cup and toss it.
I can do that.
Commie b!tch.
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You’re younger than she is, so you have a good chance.
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How well I know, and I relish the chance……
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Butt I’ll bet McCain wasn’t (thought I’d sneak that one past Stella)
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As long as I don’t have to look at McCain’s butt, it’s fine.
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That’s a wrinkle I didn’t think of…
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I knew you’d never pass it, er, I mean get that one past her.
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She was a bit lax
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Democratic vs. Republican occupations.
http://verdantlabs.com/politics_of_professions/
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well, ain’t that somethin’. I got my like button back. Whitelisted the site and the hingus, or dingus, or whatever y’az all call it magically reappeared. heh! 😯
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It’s a “hootus.” Plural are “hootii.” 😀
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’tis not a hooter? 😯 😉
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I have relatives (who shall remain nameless) who voted at this convention, and supported Cruz. I pointed out the futility of this position to them, but they cling to some hope that their Christian standard bearer can still prevail.
http://truthfeed.com/?p=3600
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/washington-state-republicans-snub-donald-trump-in-delegate-elections/
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This is not a big surprise. I get E-Mail and snail mail from the WA GOP and they have been very clear that they will not support Trump. I’ve met some of these people in the past. Even before my current level of political understanding, I could tell they are not people I would want to know on a personal level. Smarmy.
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Yup, I am here in Eastrn Washington and it kind of scares me the number of Cruzbots in this small town. Nice to know who they are in case the SH** hits the fan. I need to know who I can count on and who I have to worry about.
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I was talking to my wife about moving away from the city at one time. She pointed out a bit of history that may not be well known in the West. The people first to be drug into the streets during the revolutions were in the villages. The cities were the last places. As far as who you need to worry about, that would be everyone.
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I am with you there. I am about nine miles from the nearest small town, with a really good view 360 degrees around the seven acres. The people in the cities will be waiting for the government to help them. They are easy to control. The villages and rural areas were the free thinkers and independent people. The city dwellers were more likely to disagree with the revolutionaries. The same holds true today.
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Ah, your standards are just higher because of your internet associations. We prolly drink better booze, eat more bacon, and absolutely have more fun.
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My cousin and her husband are nice people who live north of Vancouver. They are very religious, and have ten children. My
niececousin has become very confrontational about this subject. Her husband is more reasonable, and has stated on Facebook that he will vote for Trump if he is the nominee. The husband is a bright guy who works IT for a bank; he once wrote a book about database design.LikeLiked by 2 people
It’s the water down there.
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I have nothing against Christians, I’m sure you know that, but I won’t get into arguments about politics in which the discussion is about which man is the more authentic Christian.
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Like I have said since the beginning. We are not elected a Pastor in Chief. The last thing I want is a strange religious zealot as President. The President needs to serve all Americans.
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Unless they are throwing their guy up against Jesus there’s no real fun in it. 😀
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LOLOL!!!! (and slapping myownself…….. – Jesus knows, he’s a funny guy, too……) 😀
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I’ve only done that when they start in on how many times Trump has been married and kindly point out how Cruz’ parents both had been divorced and are divorced now and they can’t call them great Christians and what a great Christian upbringing Cruz had while saying Trump can’t be a Christian. If they push the issue then I bring up lying, which in their mind is crazy talk, because Cruz has never lied.
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Good points!
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Obama weighs selling U.S. arms to Hanoi in bitter irony for Vietnam veterans
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/22/obama-weighs-selling-us-arms-to-hanoi-in-bitter-ir/
In a move that is raising concerns among some Vietnam War veterans, President Obama will discuss selling more U.S. arms to Hanoi during his visit to Vietnam that began Sunday night.
Top White House advisers said Mr. Obama hasn’t made a decision whether to lift the partial U.S. embargo on sending military equipment to Vietnam, where more than 58,200 U.S. soldiers were killed before the fall of Saigon in 1975. But the administration sees advantages in easing the embargo, both as a warning to expansionist China and as leverage to compel the communist regime in Hanoi to improve its record on human rights.
“We are thinking through how our evolving security cooperation [is] going to look moving forward,” said White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes. “They regularly raise this issue with us. We are looking at, of course, how our broader relationship is evolving, including our continued commitment to support human rights in Vietnam.” ….
Well, Ben Rhodes is right on it, so we have nothing to worry about. /s
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How any rational being can believe that Obama wants to do anything other than destroy America is beyond me. People are delusional.
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