I’m probably making it up in my head, but sometimes I think the old forecasts, before all these dueling computer models, were just as good if not better.
It is, They let me run in and get a cup of coffee and some breakfast on the run . I can’t stay most of the time because I’m on my way to work but I love stopping by here.
Excellent breakfast photo: just the basics, and looks very fresh, and no nasty fruit salad or silly pieces of orange as garnish. Naturally, the second photo is perfection. I leave the third photo to auscitizenmom — all those carbs taking up precious space for more bacon!
Morning Stella, Menagerie, Sha, czar, Zurich Mike, Col. Ken, Mary, impeach em all, auscitizenmom, Tessa, Wee, Howie, Michelle, The Tundra PA and all others who enter here today!
Good morning everybody! Blue skies but with lots of clouds here this morning; temp is 70 already, and we had rain over night. I think summer is beginning.
Summer Song
William Carlos Williams, 1883 – 1963
Wanderer moon
smiling a
faintly ironical smile
at this
brilliant, dew-moistened
summer morning,—
a detached
sleepily indifferent
smile, a
wanderer’s smile,—
if I should
buy a shirt
your color and
put on a necktie
sky-blue
where would they carry me?
There are two Trump events today: a speech in Bismarck, ND at 2:00 pm (EDT), and a rally in Billings, MT at 6:00 pm (EDT).
Good morning! It’s partly cloudy here and I’m hoping the rain and especially storms stay away. I’m trying not to look at the corn and squash, which both took the worst beating during the storm early yesterday morning.
Even after all the tree trimming we did, several limbs and a few trees didn’t survive the winds, one branch hit the top of our van and dented it. I’m still scratching my head how it landed where it did.
Thank you Stella. I usually try to forget birthdays, but for some reason this year I’ve been popular and my phone has been ringing all day, including one of my brothers who never remembers birthdays. I asked him if one of us was dying. lol
In case my internet service is having another down day tomorrow, Happy Early Birthday!
Thank you and I love the cake. I think I’ll have my hubby one made like that on his birthday, not because he likes goats, to hear him tell it he hates their guts, but because he’s the best roper and if we ever need a goat roped we make him do it.
Good morning. I promise I’m not going to talk about my health today. But I looked at my email and had a good laugh. This is the government. There was a message from my PCP’s office back in VA. He is still carrying me until I can find someone. I thought: “now what”
Here’s the first part of message:
“Did you know that you can see your healthcare provider once a year ‘just to chat’? Whether the visit is with your primary care provider or nursing staff, Medicare Part B patients are entitled to a yearly “Annual Wellness Visit””
We didn’t sign up for the Part B until we retired, but started Part A earlier. So we can go see the PCP (or NP more like it) now, and “chat.” No blood work, no physical…just a little chat. However, they will assess you for depression. Now doesn’t that last just say something?!
Yeah, a Fed agency suggested that docs start screening all patients for depression as it’s a national health issue. Well adide from the idea thst the government’s been a prime causation of depresdion for many years now it also sllows them to use the billing and treatment codes to establish a database of members of the populace who have a mental illness. Winnow that against the various Fed databeases from drivers’ licences to firearms purchases and….
I really get POd at NPs thought I’ve run into two ex-Special Forces medics who’ve gone NP, their training as a SF medic exceeded that of an NP so I don’t feel quite as queasy about using them. One doc told me they can’t get enough GPs to fill vacant slots as med school grads are going straight into being specialists as the hours and pay are much better than those of a GP. It’s good for the practice too as NPs don’t get paid what a MD does but the practice bills for a NP what they would for a MD. At those prices if the NP wants a chat s/he’d better be buying me a beer to go with it.
In DC metro area, I was at two different doctor’s offices filling out forms and the question about firearms in the home was right there. Let’s just say..I broke my code re truth-telling. I gambled that they haven’t perfectly coordinated all the databases yet. Anyway, if they wanted to come after some old lady, go for it.
Now we have moved ourselves and our various “possessions” to GA. I haven’t done a thing about some of those items. I’m not sure what to do. Oh, sorry, I forgot?
And yes, my first thought was “YOU are the biggest cause of all the depression everywhere.”
Only had obe doc to ever ask me about the ‘gun’ thing and my answer was : ‘what does that have to do with my treatment’, ditto with the ‘do you feel safe at home’ question. Docs here don’t ask though they see my holster (empty) that’s part of my CCW belt.
We were hearing of plans to co-opt the US medical info system years before I retired, though it seems like the Chinese and Russians beat us to it, probably as they aren’t using 6-inch floppies on a DOS 2 system.
“Let me be clear: If I’m elected President in November, I promise that depression will be a national health issue within 7 years…” — said no candidate in 2009.
Yet half the nation, give or take, given the fact of Democrat election fraud, predicted it.
WE KNEW THAT WOULD HAPPEN.
We also know full well about all the mass graves and cordwood-stacks of bodies.
Because we know what they do. It’s just what they do.
It sounds aluminum-hattish but the waves of government oversight of and intervention in the lives of what we loosely call private citizens was started long before 2009. As I’ve said before I watched the Feds start finding ways to remotely turn on cell phones without the owner knowing. It was to spy on foreign bad guys, to overhear the plans of criminals ready to do firty deeds, anything but spy and gather data on plain old innocent citizens. Then the plans to remotely tap into your computer, smart phone and home entertainment centers’ mics and cameras, remotely and secretly were hatched. Again, it was for making sure the evil machinations of bad guys didn’t interfere with the public’s enjoyment of prime time TV. Ditto the phony cell towers that trapped your cell transmissions, the universal use of a Federally mandated medical database secured by a Federal encryption algorithm, your house/apartment gps’d and in a Fed database courtesy of the 2010 census (no bull, they did it, I worked it and still have the books), your daily buying history stored in businesses’ databases by barcoded item and your credit card number and available to all buyers and interesting stuff with drones that probably ain’t all out yet. We won’t even get into the Carnivore family of programs and the anonimity of metadata BS smoke and mirrors explainations.
I do believe that ‘the greater good’ explaination that, in one form or another, has been used to judtify so much government perfidy could easily be used to justify thevproactivevthinning of certain parts of the population. Perhaps not as rawly as trainloads of selectees being trucked off to some out-of-sight-out-of-mind site, why not just the introduction of some fatal pathogen into the populace. We’ve tested the flow and distribution of biological agents in US cities and their subways for decades and, by george, we just finished another one in NYC a few werks ago, imagine that.
Well, time to go in and with ithe Jiffy Pop hat for the colander, the holes give better ventilation in the humid Southern air, nite y’all.
Seems the VA’s crack (smoking) ‘welfare to work’ employees have screwed up again (I believe it’s psrt of their job description), classifying over 4000 living veterans as dead and cutting off their veteran benefits. Knowing the VA as I do I don’t believe it was a mistake as much as a ‘Things To Do’ list.
Catching a fly provides distraction; otherwise, the cat would be bedeviling the dog. I also just rescued my sheer curtains – the cat was hanging from them by her front claws. That curtain panel already has several repairs in it over to one side (the over curtains hide them), and I really don’t want to have to replace all of them right now.
When my daughter was home she had a cat that clawed door trim, carpet, furniture, curtains, anything it could get it’s claws into. It had several scratching posts, but never used them. I finally told my daughter that either the cat goes or it’s nails go. Some might find it cruel, but I found it cruel when it ripped my almost brand new couch.
This cat was a good cat except for her clawing that we could not break. We had to replace almost all of our door trim because of her. Once her claws were gone, we got along pretty well. 🙂
Dogs regularly spit-slime the inside cats, outside cat gave one of the dogs a ‘come to Jesús’ lesson so none of them bother him any more. Neither inside cat does drapes but aside from their scratching post they do have one seat on a dining room chair they bother. Just one of the things you live with if you’re gonna live with cats.
My two are fed smaller amounts twice a day. More peace for me. They know exactly the time. One of them will take the lead and walk up to me, staring down at my face. The little one will put his little paw on me, patting my arm over and over. Original suggestion of twice/day came from a vet who was a real natural healer. He could look at my dog and tell what was wrong. He saved two of my dogs and my mother’s dog from dying when it was obvious that it shouldn’t have been. I loved that man.
Well, looks like the DoD’s ‘oldie but goodie’ program’s still in effect. It’s just been released that they’re still using 80s-era 8-inch floppy discs and associated soft/hardware to control portions of our nuclear deterrent program. I was using a 8-inch reader system for some work in the late 90s but it had been patched into a more modern system. There were also some 60s era computers managing a program up at Cheyenne Mountain in the mid/late 90s (may still be there) but at that tine they were looking for some way to get rid of the complex so pouring money into updating was not a priority.
That said, one would assume that the bucks-down DoD just might have sunk some more cash into updating our nuke deterrent system….then again in DoD we were always told that ‘assume’ word was a no-no. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/25/us-military-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-to-coordinate-nuclear-force-operations.html
I still have a few, along with their early SS/SD replacements, even have a mid-80s 20-meg Seagate hard drive, all in my junk box. As for ever using them…….
Interesting – seems that State IG report that slammed Hillay on her email was leaked before State was set to release it. State’s stuck trying to spin it and is upset it was released early – probably going to release it on Friday begore the Memorial Day holiday where it would be lost.
Don’t know if y’all are getting this in your local news but a New Orleans investigator is doing a series on how some major medical plans are grossly overcharging plan members for prescriptions. They’ve been doing this for about two weeks now, just had a piece on how a wonan was paying an $1800 copay for a drug she could have bought without her prescription plan for $40, and she ain’t the only one.
Seems prescription plans have their hooks into the docs and the pharmacies, many even have an agreement with the pharmacies that if the pharmacies want to stay with the plan they are forbidden to tell the patients that they could save real money by purchasing the scrip out-of-pocket for less than the copay on-plan. Another pharmacy even sent the investigator a list of drugs that they lose money on, complete with a side listing of how much they lose, when the plan pays not only its negotiated price but claws back a fee from the pharmacy.
If you want yo see the series and determine if uou’re getting shafted here’s a link that will get you to the series. Prepare to be severely pissed.
I know people who have discovered this with their medications.
I get huge pushback for insisting that some of my meds be non-generic. Insurance hates it because they have to pay more, as do I. Generic drugs do not have to 100% meet the efficacy of brand-name drugs (there’s some much lower percentage, but I can’t remember the exact number.) Our federal insurance mail-in program would stall my prescriptions, send them back with some excuse, go back to the doctor even when he wrote “brand name only” and do everything they could. They would say my prescription could not be filled until xxx more days. They just cheated. It is much cheaper to go through the federal Caremark, but I finally just pay hundreds of dollars more to get some of our meds at a local pharmacy in VA which isn’t part of the big-pharmacy groups and I don’t have to deal with nameless, faceless people who deliberately cannot do anything about it. Those Caremark people, when I would finally be so pushy to get to a “specialist”, would flat-out lie to my face.
What is really going on? I guess we just don’t know, and we are seeing a tiny fraction of the whole. Whatever it is, it’s all about control…total control. And greed, I’m sure.
Architects in Dubai have created thecworld’s first 3-D printed real-world office building. The almost 2700 square foot building was created by having a computer controoled machine squirt out layers of concrete at a site that were later moved to the final location and assembled. The building was finished in 17 days.
Yeah, Dubai, that’s all good and fine but OUR students can now pee in any restroom they want to!
Here’s one up in your neck,of the woods, Col K. Med folks have found a bacteria in the urine of a
Pennsylvania patient that is resilient to the strongest antibiotics available. OK, so there’s a downside to the free-for-all restroom saga,
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I find it interesting that the first sightings were in China, home of do many strange and new horror diseases over the ladt dew years. Equally strangevis that China has one of, if not ‘the’ world’s biological…errrr…..ummmmm…..’research’ programs and thstbhere the discovery was released by the DoD instead of the CDC. THat brings in the specter of USAMRID and other military biowar research labs….hmmmmmm.
Sorry about the bugs but my haste made them resilient to prophylactic ( haw haw, he said ‘prophylactic’ ‘ ) editing. Isuue’s particularly scary to me as there is nobresearch in new antibiotics, to spek of, going on in the US. Much of the research on antibiotics is going on in China where they can play with genetically modified organisms at will using preventive research as a cover. Their work on genetically modified food and fodder crops is particilarly interesting and has drawn notable US and European researchers to their labs.
I’ve slways wondered what would happen were some of their bugs, or animals/plants they’re working on, escaped Gotta admit that their drive to be THE scientific power in the world might overshadow their safety measures. Y’all remember that 1979 Sverdlovsk accidental anthrax release that killed at least 68 people?
Czar, thanks for the heads up!!! Was all over local news. This “person” might be in the Philly area. US Sentor Bob Casey (D) PA, is very concerned about this issue. His statement means big paycheck waiting for Big Pharmaceutical whether a cure is found or not.
We need some well publicized deaths here, MSM pushing the reporting envelope, Senators and talking pundit heads screaming the end of the world, and then when the public’s hiding under the table, scared ****less from the endless footage bsgged bodies being carried off by madked workers……..we turn the money hose on and aim it at pharma.
Back to that China thing. Word went out that China just bought another 16 tons of gold, it’s well on its way to having more hold than any other country on eatth. What better way to increase those holdings than to have a disease on one hand and the only cure on the other?
OK, y’all, in case I don’t have time to ask later. Tomorrow it’s wake up about 4 a.m., get myself together, long drive to that doctor’s office, and then the big appointment. Please pray for me that it goes well. I need to be cool, calm and collected. I realized something over the last couple of days. I’m not a total wuss. I’ve faced some hard stuff in my life without going to pieces and being all anxious. I honestly am starting to think that, with all the years of bad experiences, then the scary artery deal and some other events, maybe it’s sort of like some mini-ptsd kind of thing. I would never compare my issue to warriors coming back from battle. No comparison. But something like that, because it’s almost like a switch gets turned inside me. I hope this makes some sense.
I have a friend who I love, but he sure gets on my last nerve at times. I get it that he doesn’t trust anyone running for office and I get it that he didn’t like Trump’s comments on NC transgender bathroom laws. However, like I told him we have to keep on trying and hope that Trump wins and at least gives us a fighting chance to save the country. It doesn’t mean we have to agree with him on everything, heck I don’t agree with anybody on everything, including those closest to me.
He can never give me an answer on how to solve our problems other than to say we need to run them all out of D.C. and hit them in the pocketbook. I agree with that except I haven’t figured out how we can run them all out with tar and feathers when they’ll just mow us down or arrest us and if the majority of the people rise up to refuse to pay taxes, I’ll be at the front of the line, but I ain’t doing it by myself because then they’ll just take everything I got and lock me up and keep on doing what they’re doing.
Stella's Place 
Bwaaahaaahaaa…..or whatever
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Yet another of those fowl nuggets…
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Buck, buck, buck…
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At leadt three nucks, I’d probaby go for five without a designated dtiver. Wonder if they have Fighting Cock?
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That reminds me of a joke.
When I die I want to go peacefully in my sleep just like my grandfather, not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
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At the very least.
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Ohhhhh it is DEFINITELY tome for me to hit the rack …
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So perfect, Howie.
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Works for MSM political projections, too:
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I’m probably making it up in my head, but sometimes I think the old forecasts, before all these dueling computer models, were just as good if not better.
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I’m a big fan of meteorology, not so much climatology.
I prefer to just watch radar loops. Here’s the whole USA one I rely on.
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php
And I’m far more accurate than the TV people, just from watching radars, and living in the same place with my eyes open for so long.
They say 75% chance of T-Storms, I review the data, and the data in my mind, and would win lots of money, were I to bet against them.
This observation applies to more than just weather.
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Good night! Good morning! God bless everyone!
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Oh, forgot this interesting drive-by:
Christians ordered to keep faith quiet… by the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
http://pamelageller.com/2016/05/christians-ordered-to-keep-faith-quiet-by-the-archbishop-of-canterbury.html/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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Unsurprising.
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Unbelievable,……….
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I just want to scream.
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Good Morning Everyone !
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Hey Sha! Is this my Sha??
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Yep It’s me……… 😄
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Oh I’m so glad to see you here. I haven’t been here very long, but it’s great.
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It is, They let me run in and get a cup of coffee and some breakfast on the run . I can’t stay most of the time because I’m on my way to work but I love stopping by here.
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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)
(Backdraft)
(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! 🙂
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
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!
Doughnuts for coffee!
⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol
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Nye!!!!! Wow everyone must still be asleep! I’ll make some BACON sammitchs to go…….thank you …….
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Excellent breakfast photo: just the basics, and looks very fresh, and no nasty fruit salad or silly pieces of orange as garnish. Naturally, the second photo is perfection. I leave the third photo to auscitizenmom — all those carbs taking up precious space for more bacon!
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That AWOL fruit salad does leave some room for that bacon-wrapped squirrel thing, part of that whole ‘bushmeat surprise’ menu.
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Mornin’!
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Morning Stella, Menagerie, Sha, czar, Zurich Mike, Col. Ken, Mary, impeach em all, auscitizenmom, Tessa, Wee, Howie, Michelle, The Tundra PA and all others who enter here today!
Thanks for breakfast Nyet! 🙂
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Good morning Sand&Sea 🙂
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Good morning!
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Mornin’ S&S! And a gorgeous one it is around here today. Rejoice and be glad!
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🙂
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Good afternoon, all! Only 10 more days!
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😊
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Oops, delete and start again…
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Best-case scenario:
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Good morning everybody! Blue skies but with lots of clouds here this morning; temp is 70 already, and we had rain over night. I think summer is beginning.
Summer Song
William Carlos Williams, 1883 – 1963
Wanderer moon
smiling a
faintly ironical smile
at this
brilliant, dew-moistened
summer morning,—
a detached
sleepily indifferent
smile, a
wanderer’s smile,—
if I should
buy a shirt
your color and
put on a necktie
sky-blue
where would they carry me?
There are two Trump events today: a speech in Bismarck, ND at 2:00 pm (EDT), and a rally in Billings, MT at 6:00 pm (EDT).
Have a wonderful day!
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I read on FB
that at
least one of
the Washington
state delegates is
refusing to
vote for Trump.
Possibly more refuse.
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They can’t do that on the first ballot. If they do, I believe the vote will be submitted anyway. I read that somewhere, and will see if I can find it.
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Maybe he’s just going to try to make some “heroic stand” for right and justice and all that…you know.
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See the new post. Trump now has the required delegates, as previously unbound delegates have declared for Trump.
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This is what is in the news, but I don’t think it will gain traction. If it does, the citizens will get out the pitchforks, tar, and feathers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/unconventional-18-inside-book-details-000000315.html
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Good morning! It’s partly cloudy here and I’m hoping the rain and especially storms stay away. I’m trying not to look at the corn and squash, which both took the worst beating during the storm early yesterday morning.
Even after all the tree trimming we did, several limbs and a few trees didn’t survive the winds, one branch hit the top of our van and dented it. I’m still scratching my head how it landed where it did.
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Happy Birthday, Michellc! I almost missed it, but better late than never is what I always say.
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Thank you Stella. I usually try to forget birthdays, but for some reason this year I’ve been popular and my phone has been ringing all day, including one of my brothers who never remembers birthdays. I asked him if one of us was dying. lol
In case my internet service is having another down day tomorrow, Happy Early Birthday!
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Thanks, michellc!
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Happy Birthday michellc!
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Thank you ctdar.
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And I love my present! 🙂
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Happy birthday!
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Thank you and I love the cake. I think I’ll have my hubby one made like that on his birthday, not because he likes goats, to hear him tell it he hates their guts, but because he’s the best roper and if we ever need a goat roped we make him do it.
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Happy happy birthday Michellc!
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Thank you!
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Happy Belated Birthday….Michellec.
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Thank you Puddy, that’s sweet.
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Happy Birthday Michellc!!!
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She’s just hoping that orange is the new ‘black’.
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In her case, orange should be the new orange, the old orange, and the eternal orange.
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Mornin’ all!
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Hah! I loooove whoever comes up with this. Best stuff since Iowahawk.
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Truly. Brilliant, snarky, and totally in character.
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I still suspect it’s Weed.
And that Weed is an operative at People’s Cube.
Spot-on, and never seen outside Stella’s place.
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DPRK News Service is definitely in Iowahawk’s league.
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If David Burge and Ramirez had a baby, it would be DPRK News Service.
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(Laughing) WHAT?!?!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Mornin’ Wee!
How’s your new nursing job going?
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Mornin’ Michelle. I guess ok……. he’s still alive……
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It’s always good when the nurse can report that her patient is still alive…
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😀
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Good morning. I promise I’m not going to talk about my health today. But I looked at my email and had a good laugh. This is the government. There was a message from my PCP’s office back in VA. He is still carrying me until I can find someone. I thought: “now what”
Here’s the first part of message:
“Did you know that you can see your healthcare provider once a year ‘just to chat’? Whether the visit is with your primary care provider or nursing staff, Medicare Part B patients are entitled to a yearly “Annual Wellness Visit””
We didn’t sign up for the Part B until we retired, but started Part A earlier. So we can go see the PCP (or NP more like it) now, and “chat.” No blood work, no physical…just a little chat. However, they will assess you for depression. Now doesn’t that last just say something?!
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Yeah, a Fed agency suggested that docs start screening all patients for depression as it’s a national health issue. Well adide from the idea thst the government’s been a prime causation of depresdion for many years now it also sllows them to use the billing and treatment codes to establish a database of members of the populace who have a mental illness. Winnow that against the various Fed databeases from drivers’ licences to firearms purchases and….
I really get POd at NPs thought I’ve run into two ex-Special Forces medics who’ve gone NP, their training as a SF medic exceeded that of an NP so I don’t feel quite as queasy about using them. One doc told me they can’t get enough GPs to fill vacant slots as med school grads are going straight into being specialists as the hours and pay are much better than those of a GP. It’s good for the practice too as NPs don’t get paid what a MD does but the practice bills for a NP what they would for a MD. At those prices if the NP wants a chat s/he’d better be buying me a beer to go with it.
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In DC metro area, I was at two different doctor’s offices filling out forms and the question about firearms in the home was right there. Let’s just say..I broke my code re truth-telling. I gambled that they haven’t perfectly coordinated all the databases yet. Anyway, if they wanted to come after some old lady, go for it.
Now we have moved ourselves and our various “possessions” to GA. I haven’t done a thing about some of those items. I’m not sure what to do. Oh, sorry, I forgot?
And yes, my first thought was “YOU are the biggest cause of all the depression everywhere.”
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Only had obe doc to ever ask me about the ‘gun’ thing and my answer was : ‘what does that have to do with my treatment’, ditto with the ‘do you feel safe at home’ question. Docs here don’t ask though they see my holster (empty) that’s part of my CCW belt.
We were hearing of plans to co-opt the US medical info system years before I retired, though it seems like the Chinese and Russians beat us to it, probably as they aren’t using 6-inch floppies on a DOS 2 system.
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“Let me be clear: If I’m elected President in November, I promise that depression will be a national health issue within 7 years…” — said no candidate in 2009.
Yet half the nation, give or take, given the fact of Democrat election fraud, predicted it.
WE KNEW THAT WOULD HAPPEN.
We also know full well about all the mass graves and cordwood-stacks of bodies.
Because we know what they do. It’s just what they do.
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It sounds aluminum-hattish but the waves of government oversight of and intervention in the lives of what we loosely call private citizens was started long before 2009. As I’ve said before I watched the Feds start finding ways to remotely turn on cell phones without the owner knowing. It was to spy on foreign bad guys, to overhear the plans of criminals ready to do firty deeds, anything but spy and gather data on plain old innocent citizens. Then the plans to remotely tap into your computer, smart phone and home entertainment centers’ mics and cameras, remotely and secretly were hatched. Again, it was for making sure the evil machinations of bad guys didn’t interfere with the public’s enjoyment of prime time TV. Ditto the phony cell towers that trapped your cell transmissions, the universal use of a Federally mandated medical database secured by a Federal encryption algorithm, your house/apartment gps’d and in a Fed database courtesy of the 2010 census (no bull, they did it, I worked it and still have the books), your daily buying history stored in businesses’ databases by barcoded item and your credit card number and available to all buyers and interesting stuff with drones that probably ain’t all out yet. We won’t even get into the Carnivore family of programs and the anonimity of metadata BS smoke and mirrors explainations.
I do believe that ‘the greater good’ explaination that, in one form or another, has been used to judtify so much government perfidy could easily be used to justify thevproactivevthinning of certain parts of the population. Perhaps not as rawly as trainloads of selectees being trucked off to some out-of-sight-out-of-mind site, why not just the introduction of some fatal pathogen into the populace. We’ve tested the flow and distribution of biological agents in US cities and their subways for decades and, by george, we just finished another one in NYC a few werks ago, imagine that.
Well, time to go in and with ithe Jiffy Pop hat for the colander, the holes give better ventilation in the humid Southern air, nite y’all.
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WeeWeed, how’s it going with the nursing?? Had anything funny happen lately?
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Nuthin’ funny yet, girlfriend, but the day is young! 😉
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Well, I can see I will just have to go have another little chat then.
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Seems the VA’s crack (smoking) ‘welfare to work’ employees have screwed up again (I believe it’s psrt of their job description), classifying over 4000 living veterans as dead and cutting off their veteran benefits. Knowing the VA as I do I don’t believe it was a mistake as much as a ‘Things To Do’ list.
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/veterans/2016/05/25/va-mistake-4200-veterans-listed-dead/84902740/
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That’s just so incredibly awful. No words.
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That’s the VA
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My cat is having a great time trying to catch a fly. I predict a long nap in her future.
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And I’m cleaning dog spit out of my hair…so this is retirement.
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Catching a fly provides distraction; otherwise, the cat would be bedeviling the dog. I also just rescued my sheer curtains – the cat was hanging from them by her front claws. That curtain panel already has several repairs in it over to one side (the over curtains hide them), and I really don’t want to have to replace all of them right now.
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When my daughter was home she had a cat that clawed door trim, carpet, furniture, curtains, anything it could get it’s claws into. It had several scratching posts, but never used them. I finally told my daughter that either the cat goes or it’s nails go. Some might find it cruel, but I found it cruel when it ripped my almost brand new couch.
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My cat uses her scratching devices, but she sometimes uses the curtains as climbing aids or to catch her balance, then gets “stuck”.
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This cat was a good cat except for her clawing that we could not break. We had to replace almost all of our door trim because of her. Once her claws were gone, we got along pretty well. 🙂
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Automated metal window covers? With a remote??
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Dogs regularly spit-slime the inside cats, outside cat gave one of the dogs a ‘come to Jesús’ lesson so none of them bother him any more. Neither inside cat does drapes but aside from their scratching post they do have one seat on a dining room chair they bother. Just one of the things you live with if you’re gonna live with cats.
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My dog is pacing because we are 27 minutes away from dinner time.
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Both my dog and cat are fed at 5:00 pm. They both start staring and pacing about an hour ahead of time.
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Our border collie cuts thru all of that pacong behavior and just sprawls in the kitchen in an area she deems most likely have food fall into it.
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My two are fed smaller amounts twice a day. More peace for me. They know exactly the time. One of them will take the lead and walk up to me, staring down at my face. The little one will put his little paw on me, patting my arm over and over. Original suggestion of twice/day came from a vet who was a real natural healer. He could look at my dog and tell what was wrong. He saved two of my dogs and my mother’s dog from dying when it was obvious that it shouldn’t have been. I loved that man.
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I feed mine twice a day as well – once in the morning (usually about 7:30).
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Mine eat twice a day. About 6 am and about noon. They start the countdown around 11 if I am home.
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Well, looks like the DoD’s ‘oldie but goodie’ program’s still in effect. It’s just been released that they’re still using 80s-era 8-inch floppy discs and associated soft/hardware to control portions of our nuclear deterrent program. I was using a 8-inch reader system for some work in the late 90s but it had been patched into a more modern system. There were also some 60s era computers managing a program up at Cheyenne Mountain in the mid/late 90s (may still be there) but at that tine they were looking for some way to get rid of the complex so pouring money into updating was not a priority.
That said, one would assume that the bucks-down DoD just might have sunk some more cash into updating our nuke deterrent system….then again in DoD we were always told that ‘assume’ word was a no-no.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/25/us-military-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-to-coordinate-nuclear-force-operations.html
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Good grief.
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Just your tax dollars at work…..
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We stopped using 8″ floppies back in 1987.
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I still have a few, along with their early SS/SD replacements, even have a mid-80s 20-meg Seagate hard drive, all in my junk box. As for ever using them…….
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I have a “museum” in my basement.
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Smithsonian and I are talking about my current desktop unit
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I think it was about 1980 was the last time I used one. I’m still using the full range of 3.5″ with my hobby though.
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So am I, SS-DD
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DD/DS, HD/DS, and ED/DS
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SS-DD…. What are you using a DEC Rainbow?
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Breadboard, Z-80 based
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Security through obsolescence.
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If ya can’t dazzle ’em with brilliance baffle ’em with stupidity
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Update: DOD has paid an analyst $10M and now knows how to punch a little cutout on the side of the disc to make it double-sided.
I bet a fiver that analyst was a white guy!
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Mr. Trump was on Jimmy Kimmel last night and gave an outstanding performance.
https://youtu.be/b9PNE4BMluk
(Hoping this works. My first time following Stella’s directions on right-clicking a video and pasting in a comment box. Fingers crossed.)
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Whoa!! It worked!
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👍🏾
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Interesting – seems that State IG report that slammed Hillay on her email was leaked before State was set to release it. State’s stuck trying to spin it and is upset it was released early – probably going to release it on Friday begore the Memorial Day holiday where it would be lost.
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Don’t know if y’all are getting this in your local news but a New Orleans investigator is doing a series on how some major medical plans are grossly overcharging plan members for prescriptions. They’ve been doing this for about two weeks now, just had a piece on how a wonan was paying an $1800 copay for a drug she could have bought without her prescription plan for $40, and she ain’t the only one.
Seems prescription plans have their hooks into the docs and the pharmacies, many even have an agreement with the pharmacies that if the pharmacies want to stay with the plan they are forbidden to tell the patients that they could save real money by purchasing the scrip out-of-pocket for less than the copay on-plan. Another pharmacy even sent the investigator a list of drugs that they lose money on, complete with a side listing of how much they lose, when the plan pays not only its negotiated price but claws back a fee from the pharmacy.
If you want yo see the series and determine if uou’re getting shafted here’s a link that will get you to the series. Prepare to be severely pissed.
http://www.fox8live.com/clip/12464550/zurik-investigator-says-medical-waste-probe-reveals-fraud?autostart=true
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I know people who have discovered this with their medications.
I get huge pushback for insisting that some of my meds be non-generic. Insurance hates it because they have to pay more, as do I. Generic drugs do not have to 100% meet the efficacy of brand-name drugs (there’s some much lower percentage, but I can’t remember the exact number.) Our federal insurance mail-in program would stall my prescriptions, send them back with some excuse, go back to the doctor even when he wrote “brand name only” and do everything they could. They would say my prescription could not be filled until xxx more days. They just cheated. It is much cheaper to go through the federal Caremark, but I finally just pay hundreds of dollars more to get some of our meds at a local pharmacy in VA which isn’t part of the big-pharmacy groups and I don’t have to deal with nameless, faceless people who deliberately cannot do anything about it. Those Caremark people, when I would finally be so pushy to get to a “specialist”, would flat-out lie to my face.
What is really going on? I guess we just don’t know, and we are seeing a tiny fraction of the whole. Whatever it is, it’s all about control…total control. And greed, I’m sure.
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Architects in Dubai have created thecworld’s first 3-D printed real-world office building. The almost 2700 square foot building was created by having a computer controoled machine squirt out layers of concrete at a site that were later moved to the final location and assembled. The building was finished in 17 days.
Yeah, Dubai, that’s all good and fine but OUR students can now pee in any restroom they want to!
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Then we’re obviously winning…
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By every Obama standard we most certainly are
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Here’s one up in your neck,of the woods, Col K. Med folks have found a bacteria in the urine of a
Pennsylvania patient that is resilient to the strongest antibiotics available. OK, so there’s a downside to the free-for-all restroom saga,
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I find it interesting that the first sightings were in China, home of do many strange and new horror diseases over the ladt dew years. Equally strangevis that China has one of, if not ‘the’ world’s biological…errrr…..ummmmm…..’research’ programs and thstbhere the discovery was released by the DoD instead of the CDC. THat brings in the specter of USAMRID and other military biowar research labs….hmmmmmm.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/26/the-superbug-that-doctors-have-been-dreading-just-reached-the-u-s/?wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-exclusive%252Bnational
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Sorry about the bugs but my haste made them resilient to prophylactic ( haw haw, he said ‘prophylactic’ ‘ ) editing. Isuue’s particularly scary to me as there is nobresearch in new antibiotics, to spek of, going on in the US. Much of the research on antibiotics is going on in China where they can play with genetically modified organisms at will using preventive research as a cover. Their work on genetically modified food and fodder crops is particilarly interesting and has drawn notable US and European researchers to their labs.
I’ve slways wondered what would happen were some of their bugs, or animals/plants they’re working on, escaped Gotta admit that their drive to be THE scientific power in the world might overshadow their safety measures. Y’all remember that 1979 Sverdlovsk accidental anthrax release that killed at least 68 people?
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Czar, thanks for the heads up!!! Was all over local news. This “person” might be in the Philly area. US Sentor Bob Casey (D) PA, is very concerned about this issue. His statement means big paycheck waiting for Big Pharmaceutical whether a cure is found or not.
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We need some well publicized deaths here, MSM pushing the reporting envelope, Senators and talking pundit heads screaming the end of the world, and then when the public’s hiding under the table, scared ****less from the endless footage bsgged bodies being carried off by madked workers……..we turn the money hose on and aim it at pharma.
Back to that China thing. Word went out that China just bought another 16 tons of gold, it’s well on its way to having more hold than any other country on eatth. What better way to increase those holdings than to have a disease on one hand and the only cure on the other?
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Switzerland:
Muslim students must
shake teacher’s hand.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36382596
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Good. There is NO excuse for letting them get away with not shaking the teacher’s hand.
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Teacher better count his fingers after…
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OK, y’all, in case I don’t have time to ask later. Tomorrow it’s wake up about 4 a.m., get myself together, long drive to that doctor’s office, and then the big appointment. Please pray for me that it goes well. I need to be cool, calm and collected. I realized something over the last couple of days. I’m not a total wuss. I’ve faced some hard stuff in my life without going to pieces and being all anxious. I honestly am starting to think that, with all the years of bad experiences, then the scary artery deal and some other events, maybe it’s sort of like some mini-ptsd kind of thing. I would never compare my issue to warriors coming back from battle. No comparison. But something like that, because it’s almost like a switch gets turned inside me. I hope this makes some sense.
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Perfect sence. Take your list as ZM had said! You will be fine!!!!
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Yes Sir!! 🙂 Thank you, Col Ken.
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Do you have somebody who can go with you? That would help.
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I’m praying for you, Pam, and I am sure that others are as well. I feel very confident that things will go well for you. You are strong!
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The Nanjing Massacre is known as the forgotten holocaust.
http://remember.org/imagine/china
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNpVQ7TFKNk
POTUS should remind the Japanese prime minister of Nanjing.
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POTUS and history.
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Sorry, the first pic needs
to be clicked to be seen
(at least, on my system).
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Took my Uncle a very long time, a very long time, to suppress his memories. And then I see the NVA flag flying outside of Ford Motors in Detroit……..
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“Proud to Be an American: Legal Immigrant Sheds Tears During West Point Graduation”
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/proud-be-american-legal-immigrant-sheds-tears-during-west-point-graduation
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Yeah, good luck in flight school! Just learn to hover, then everything falls into place.
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I have a friend who I love, but he sure gets on my last nerve at times. I get it that he doesn’t trust anyone running for office and I get it that he didn’t like Trump’s comments on NC transgender bathroom laws. However, like I told him we have to keep on trying and hope that Trump wins and at least gives us a fighting chance to save the country. It doesn’t mean we have to agree with him on everything, heck I don’t agree with anybody on everything, including those closest to me.
He can never give me an answer on how to solve our problems other than to say we need to run them all out of D.C. and hit them in the pocketbook. I agree with that except I haven’t figured out how we can run them all out with tar and feathers when they’ll just mow us down or arrest us and if the majority of the people rise up to refuse to pay taxes, I’ll be at the front of the line, but I ain’t doing it by myself because then they’ll just take everything I got and lock me up and keep on doing what they’re doing.
I’ve finally hit my frustration mark with him.
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