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“Look down, O LORD, from Your heavenly throne, and illumine this night with Your celestial brightness; that by night as by day Your people may glorify Your holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”
[from the BCP, An Order for Compline]
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That is lovely. Thanks for posting it
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It can’t be Tuesday’s thread, I was just finishing ranting on Monday’s!!!!
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Try for more currant events.
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I’ll try to berry the urge…
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Fruitcake.
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And I’ll be around as long…
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And I just replied to your last Monday rant, I think your last.
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And I think I lasted your last
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You know how funny you are. I know you know. 🙂
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It comes naturally, no charge
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We get what we pay for, I guess.
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You wanna start a collection I’ll give ya my PayPal info…
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Don’t start, you two… 🙂
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Never heard the saying: ‘No money, no Swiss’?
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You’re funny, too. My husband says it’s just a male fun thing. I asked him one day about you guys.
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Unedited version of “gorilla” video. Things apparently weren’t as benign as originally presented:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKVa5iDtrq0
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Wow.. That’s so human like! The ape was obviously intelligent. Taking his time in washing his food to reduce food borne illnesses. I can see why people are upset at ape lives matter.
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He was just protecting the child by dragging him through the water like a rag doll. Plus he’s been elevated to dindu nuffin status and is part of the BLM.
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Uh, oh, conflict of interest? I mean, the kid is black, along with the mother and father. If you think about it, this is like the black on black killings in Chicago, it doesn’t count.
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I think it’s because it was a gorilla they shot it, if it had been a white tiger they would have used a tranquilizer.
I actually saw someone copy and post a tweet on FB that said if it had been a white tiger they wouldn’t have killed it.
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SMH Morons! 😯
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I liked your comment, but I don’t like it…you know what I mean. I just can’t take it anymore! I think I’ve trained my mind to deal with it, but then some little thing like this comes along.. Lord, have mercy on us. That’s a serious prayer. The insanity and evil all around us is making the rest of us insane!!
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This was to Michellc’s comment.
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WTH? Are they claiming kinship?
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The mother of the child is white, I think.
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I think there is some confusion about the race of the mother because some media showed a picture of a white woman along with the gorilla story, but it was actually a picture of a woman who heard the boy tell his mom that he wanted to go in the water.
Mom and dad: Deonne Dickerson and Michelle Gregg are the parents of the four-year-old boy who fell into the gorilla enclosure housing Harambe on Saturday at Cincinnati Zoo
Apparently there is no second barrier. 38 years and people managed to keep their kids from going for a dip with the apes and the barrier kept the gorillas in their structure. 100% the mom’s fault.
I haven’t read anywhere else that the gorilla climbed the ladder with the boy.
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She certainly doesn’t look white to me.
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Maybe the gorilla was making a statement aftet he saw the pictures of native African poachers murdering Dian Fosse by chopping her to bits. They were PO’d that she was interfering with their killing mountain gorillas and selling their parts on the international market. They wouldn’t let the gorilla have matches so it couldn’t burn the US flag but when the unobservant parents offered up one of their extra children….
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😯
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Just in case there were any doubts my sympathies are with the gorilla.
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But they held hands 🙄
And the gorilla has a name.
Just a little water fun, doesn’t everyone grab their kid by the ankle and drag them under water?
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Or pound them on the rocks to soften up before chewing?
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You never tenderized your kids?
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With a belt, not rocks.
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The child has a name, not sure how it is spelled, Isaiah Gregg. Or maybe Isiah. Not sure. I have seen it both ways.
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Twitter says his nickname is Chewy. Not joking.
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HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And Isaiah or Isiah’s life mattered more than figuring out if a gorilla was going to crush his skull. 100% the mother’s fault that the kid got in there and that the gorilla is dead. They interviewed a lady who filmed the water scene and she said the gorilla was even rougher up in the dry habitat, that it was so disturbing that she couldn’t even video tape it.
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Notvsure if the gorilla had instruction in urban childvplsy
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That was wierd, in the middle of a post and iPad justvwent and sent w/o being asked – wonder if NSA holiday weekend sole-monitor had to go to the can and just returned all non-RAT heretics’ computer controls bavk to us?
Any way, S/B: Not sur if the gorilla had instruction in urban child playdare etiquite. Not unusual for non-parental male apes to destroy another male’s offspring when dating their mamas, note how many cases of boyfriends killing their squeeze’s child(ren) by another male you see on the urban news. Cat and dogs do it too.
I believevthat had that gorilla wanted to kill that child he would ans with little effort. I do believe he was confused and the childvdidn’t actbor smell like an adult so he woild notbhave been perceived as a threat or rival. The keepers did have a ‘safe’ signal and two of the gorillas obeyed, I’m betting the male was confused and a bit defensive. I’d like to have seen a bit more time have been spent calming the male down, he did carry the child up to their personal area and his initial reaction may well have been initiated by the frenzied onlookers. Fifteen minutes? That ape could have killed that kid in fifteen seconds if that were his plan.
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I don’t think they killed him because he wanted to kill the child, but rather that what he was doing would kill him.
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What’s done is done, one of the most magnificent creatures alive is dead and everyone will get a ‘bye’ on this one. Too many zoo animals die from ****-poor oversight of treatment and/or bad procedures. We’ve had too many animals pay the price for barriers that were so in name only as we regularly see on the news and animals who’ve been injured by idiots on our side of the cages who mistrest them in various ways.
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Damage already done. Outrage in full swing. Never mind any truth.
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Petition to have parents charged: https://www.change.org/p/cincinnati-zoo-justice-for-harambe
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Signed.
Why?
BLM Lives Do Not Matter;
but Gorilla Lives Do. 😉
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How many gorillas have carjacked anyone in the last year? Hosed down a birthday party with an AK?
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/%E2%80%98zoos-aren%E2%80%99t-your-babysitter%E2%80%99-parenting-critics-flay-mom-after-gorilla-shot-to-protect-her-preschooler/ar-BBtGDxp
I don’t believe they had any choice but to kill the gorilla. I also don’t think the mother should be taking so much heat. It was a 3 foot barrier and just that fast, he was over and crawled through the bushes or walked through them, IDK. It could happen to any mom or dad, but once he fell or jumped into the water, and the gorilla became agitated, simply no choice but to kill him. Amazes me the comments I see on the news sections. It’s like people have no life or something. Yes, I feel sorry that the animal had to die, but between a human and an animal, human wins hands down.
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I crossed the Mississippi on a regular basis on a 40 year old ferry with my GGS from the time he was three thru five. We’d be out on deck as the ferry plowed thru waves and wakes, the only thing between us and the river was a three-pipe railing about three feet high. Never did let go of him and he never once fell in. We also went to the Audobon zoo and I never let him fall into any of the animals’ enclosures. Had he suffered from my inattentiveness in either case you can bet I’d have been charged. Reason for child going to the zoo is to watch the animals, parents reason for being there is to watch the child.
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While I agree, kids can get away in a blink of an eye and by accounts I have read that is what happened. She did chase him and couldn’t catch him and she also tried to jump in after him and was stopped. This wasn’t a mom doing whatever and not paying attention, at least from what I have read. I still say, once the child was in danger no choice but to kill the gorilla.
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Coulda thrown the mom in to distract him…
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She did chase him
Seeing is believing. 😉
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Seconds after the boy pulled away, she was on it. That is from eye witnesses. I guess if you want to make fun of her weight you can get your jolly.
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Reality is what it is.
The child could run
a 500 yard dash.
Mom, perhaps, 5 feet.
Her lack of speed is
why the boy was in
the situation he was.
Her weight funny? No,
tragic, for the gorilla.
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By your logic, handicapped people shouldn’t take their children out in public either, because if their child happened to dart away, no chase could be given. I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t feel bad the gorilla was killed. Changes nothing, the child has to come first, or do you want to punish him for his mother’s weight?
Reality is, you saw a chance to take a potshot at a person’s weight and so you did.
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This is a lovely song. Thank you. I had never heard it. “We must make the run successful, from the cradle to the grave.”
Of course, WE don’t make it successful. He does it in us, and I’ll tell you that I am seeing how difficult it is to hang on and trust when it feels like my train is breaking down and going off the tracks. I can understand how soldiers will talk about being so afraid and just keep going…that that is the essence of bravery.
Where and when did so many people get this idea of sunshine and lollipops, hearts and flowers raining down from heaven, being faith in God? This total avoidance of reality and suffering — just think happy thoughts and God will make you all happy-feeling? It’s not even funny…it’s dangerous for people.
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Noooooooo
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Yesssssssssssss. 😉
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Remember Flower Power? 😉
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Of course I do. I almost choked having to be inundated in it all. Remember the stripey pants and vests? And dirty hair?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIy5H1SUqkQ
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Can’t sleep, watching “Darby Rangers”.
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I’m watching the story of Jeremiah Denton, who spent 8 years as a POW in VN.
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Morning Stella, great picture up front! Looks as if an hour before sunrise, and somewhere in MI, Canada.
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It is near Traverse City, MI, on Lake Michigan.
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Mornin’ kids!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!! Cooler this AM, just a beautiful sunrise, not a cloud in the sky. Tonight is scope night, and time too start the firepit. Is this the second or third week of your additional nursing duties? It’s time to RTD Mr. Weed!
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Week 2!! Mornin’ Colonel!
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Okay, kindness is a virtue……
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Hi, everyone. Wee, you’re getting invisible little gold stars plastered all over your forehead. I had a dream once where an angel came and put a gold star on my forehead. Really cool!
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Wow! I get invisible stars while DH gets invisible bruises on his noggin…. 😀
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Whatever it takes….
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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)
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Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
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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)
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Mornin’ Pam! 🙂
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Mornin’ Les! 🙂
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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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Thanks, Nyet. Good mornin’ Nyet, everyone.
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Nye!!! SOS with over easies, fried potatoes……..And a large serving of Bacon……. Reminds me, good Army Breakfast……well done… And thank you….
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Mornin’! Good breakfast!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Excellent breakfast. The basics on the right, the extra goodness (bisquits and gravy) on the left. Mmmmmm.
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Thanks, Nyet! Excellent selection, especially the bacon plate! 🙂
Morning all! Hope everyone has a good Tuesday!
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Good morning SandandSea 🙂
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I’m off to enjoy my kid paid anniversary trip if that man will ever quit double checking everything before we leave. See all of you tomorrow and I promise to not shoot any gorillas. lol
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Just grit your teeth and ENJOY your trip. 🙂
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The kids are staying at the house and are adults I think they can handle everything for one night and two days. lol
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LOL Yeah, but the real question is, can you handle letting them handle it?
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:rofl:
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We’re back, we both survived and I didn’t kill him, that’s always good! lol
We honestly did enjoy it. It was a nice short get away. I even let him talk me into getting into a hot air balloon, but drew the line at the zip line.
The dinner show was a little cheesy, but the food was good.
The kids made sure to call ahead and let them know it was our anniversary, it was on their sign out front and a wine and cheese basket was in the room. Then at the show they also had to announce it, thanks again to the kids. So a lot of people now know we’re older than dirt.
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Oh, how nice! The kids did a nice thing, and made you both feel special. I’m glad you had a good time.
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My DD even had dinner in the oven when we got home so that I didn’t have to come home and cook.
I’m pretty confident this was all her idea and she’s just letting her brother and husband take some of the credit. lol
If my son had came up with an idea it probably would have been strippers jumping out of a cake or something.
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LOL
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Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
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Check for socks.
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I remembered my socks, but didn’t wear them. Thankfully, it was pretty weather until halfway home and then we spent the rest of the trip driving in a hard rain.
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“I remembered my socks, but didn’t wear them. “
So you were running around naked, again.
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I think that would have gotten me thrown in jail.
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Again.
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Jail is one thing I’ve avoided. lol
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This time….
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Have fun!
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We still have 5 baby swans 🙂 Another month and they all have a really good chance of making it. They are already past their really vulnerable stage.
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Vulnerable to what? Are there predators nearby?
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We usually start with 5 to 7 cygnets. By late Spring we are usually down to 2. I can only clearly remember one year that 5 swans made it to adulthood.
Most people on the lake believe that snapping turtles get them. It is a small lake 330 acre surface and not very populated, only residents can use the lake so I don’t think humans are a problem.
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Foxes? Cats?
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There are coyotes. Cats? I have seen less than a handful of free running cats over the years. I think foxes and cats might be a little tepid in approaching a swan. They are fiercely protective.
Czar or Col. suggested Pike or Garfish. I know we have both but I haven’t seen a Garfish in years.
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We have a lot of baby ducks around here and there are all kinds of predators after them, starting with the another type of male duck and grabs them and holds them under water until they drown. There are white birds that go after the eggs, and 3 other kinds of birds that go after the babies. And, of course, there is our resident hawk. I think that is where a lot of them go.That hawk even hunts on my patio. It flies back and forth a lot.
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Oh, yes, we have big turtles, maybe some fish, and probably an alligator that could eat baby ducks.
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Ducks visit but don’t live on the lake, the same as the geese, the swans are very territorial. I’ve watched poppa swans run off a dozen geese.
We have hawks so they might be a culprit but I’ve gotta think there is easier prey.
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I have fish in my lake that eat duckings and may well have snapping turtles that will eat adult ducks. Large Gar fish will take down geese, as will large snapping turtles. Then we have water moccasins that will kill, if not eat, ducklings or cygnets, if given the chance. It’s a tough life being a tasty water bird.
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BTW, just to keep that ‘Southern Circle of Life’ thing straight, them gar and turtles be good eatin’ too. Hakuna matata and all that.
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My grandfather would fish from sunup until sundown. He caught all kinds of fish, mostly bluegill, perch and sunfish. Garfish he killed on the spot and threw them back in the lake with some kind of curse upon their head and their children’s head.
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They can raise hell with a nice fish you’re reeling in but they do cook up nicely. Their roe is poisonous but I’ve never been a caviar fan.
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I just remember going down to the lake at night with a flashlight and the garfish would be slowly swimming at the very top of the water almost like they were lifeless and then they would dart off, I always thought they were creepy. My grandfather cracking their “beaks” probably did nothing for my general uneasy feeling about them 🙄
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Back in thebold days in Palm Beac County they’d school in the big canals, they seemed to thrive in water other fish avoided. We’d see huge ones in the more remote canals and lakes and there used to be acresturant in NOLA that dated waaaaay back and had taxidermied gar over three feet long. They were a great game fish, gave you a fight. Think I’d previously mentioned that the first week she was here our rescue border collie pulled an 18-incher gar out of the lake and chewed on it for about two weeks, must be sum gooooood eatin’.
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I’m wondering if any of you gardeners or farmers might know what flower this is? This is the first year it has appeared in my mom’s garden and must be a bird deposit. The stem is just like a doll rod about 3 feet tall and then there is the umbrella of flowers. She is trying to find out what it is but none of neighbors know and I am of no use when it comes to identifying plants.
They are really cool IMO.
Thanks !
Sorry this isn’t a very good picture.
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Oh look, Triffids!
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I never saw the movie. If the dog disappears I will give you props 🙂
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The Day of….
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OMG Aren’t those beautiful. Makes me think of a flower in a fairy garden.
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Me too, I can imagine a little fairy world underneath them.
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So can the POtuS
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I can’t see the base of the plant, but could this be some kind of hosta? If those leaves that I can see go to the plant, it might be.
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I didn’t look at the bottom because I didn’t think to do it. I’ll ask my mom.
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Oops, wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Ok she said that the leaves are about two feet long, very slender with a point on the end, similar to Surprise Lilies.
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Do hostas bloom this early?
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They bloomed in April in upstate New York when we lived there.
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There are so many different kinds. I like hostas. The ones I have had seem to bloom in summer, and need to mostly be in some shade.
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I had never noticed hostas if there had been any around, until I went to Upstate New York. I was thrilled with them. We had moved into a small house in the snow in December and I didn’t know there were plants everywhere. We went to Florida to visit for a couple of weeks, and when we came back there was grass growing through the snow and flowers everywhere, especially hostas. I even “found” a stone patio outside the back door that I didn’t realize was under the snow. LOL Bulb plants had always been an annual to me because I lived where it was hot. Somebody told me you have to dig them up and keep them in the fridge for the summer. Riiigt! Like I am going to do that. LOL
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I believe there are some varieties that can take the sun.
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Hm. Now that I think about it, the greenery was there in April, but I guess the flowers came later of course. That was 20 years ago, so I claim old age.
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Beautiful!!
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She said they’ve opened up today and look like bells 🙂
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BERGENIA Pinneberg, perhaps?
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Thanks, I’ll go look it up ! 🙂
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I think the leaves are too wide and the way the flowers are grouped on the top of the stem look different to me.
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It may be a possibility but not if my mom’s description of the leaves is correct. Also the tops are just like a bubble umbrella but that could just be a slight variation in individual plants. Thanks!
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I did a google search for “clustered violet bell flowers” and clicked on images and got pages and pages of photos, but none like this.
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Thanks for trying. If I didn’t have a meeting tomorrow I would drive down there to get better pictures. Maybe I’ll drive down after the meeting.
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I used to use some website to figure out the name of a tree I didn’t recognize. I can’t find a flower website that does the same thing.
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Let’s try to narrow this down – does the plant have a bulb or is it regularly rooted?
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It is in my moms garden and she already went out there once to check on the leaves for me. So the short answer is I don’t know.
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Czarina suggested you take a picture and carry/email it to your local agricultural extension office (that one went right past me). Ag section at state college may help to if you don’t have a helpful local agent. You can find them online and ag sections usually have emails for profs posted.
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Thanks to Czarina 🙂
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I think it may be Allium cernuum (Nodding Wild Onion).
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/nodding-wild-onion
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I was thinking maybe some kind of allium (that thick straight stem, and the flower head), but I don’t know, and it was just a guess.
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I asked my mom if she thinks this is it. The flowers don’t have the longer yellow part, stamen? But maybe that can vary or it isn’t in full blossom yet. Funny thing I thought this would be something other people would know right away.
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And here’s the whole family: http://www.friendsofthewildflowergarden.org/pages/plants/wildonion.html
Seeds at: http://www.everwilde.com/store/Allium-cernuum-WildFlower-Seed.html
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Now that you mention it the plant’s flowers do look a lot like my walking onion.
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A type of nightshade.
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I’ll Google it, thanks for your input.
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I think I’ve got it: Nectaroscordum siculum
http://www.bhg.com/gardening/flowers/bulbs/alliums-for-your-garden/
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She has something very similar to that but it is not the original flower upthread.
Thanks for looking 🙂 I’ll find out if no one I know can figure it out I’ll follow Czarina’s advice but I’ll get some better pictures and more information first 🙂
My mom said that it had blossomed more fully today and the flowers look like bells.
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Go to that page in the link and scroll down to the bottom.
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Yep, thanks, I figured that out after I posted. I think you found it ! 🙂
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I have fallen in love with that plant and now I have to have one. 🙂
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I know it is simply enchanting 🙂
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May we beg for seeds?
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I’ll ask my mom if she can get the seeds from the plants. There are 3 or four there I think?
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Some more pictures. Sicilian Honey Garlic
https://www.gardenia.net/plant/nectaroscordum-siculum-sicilian-honey-garlic
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Woo Hoo! thanks Ausci! I think you found it, the Sicilian Honey Garlic looks just right). Thank you I’ll email it to her. Very cool! 🙂
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Yay Aus!! It has to be that. What a great name.Sicilian Honey Garlic. If you find out more, let us know. Mediterranean-like climate is best? Is your mom in a similar climate? I wonder how it got there?
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My mom is in Northern IL . She has never seen one before, and she has been at this house for over 25 years, my dad has been there all his life and has never seen one. She doesn’t know how they got there, but she is happy to have it 🙂
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I believe it said on one of those sites that it was very easy to raise from seeds. A bird could have dropped it in his poop. It will grow in full sun or part shade. That is ALL I have, just full sun almost all the time and a tiny little bit of shade in one corner, and LOTS of heat.
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Airline tells Seattle whore to, “Put some darn clothes on!”
http://komonews.com/news/local/airline-tells-seattle-woman-to-change-clothes-or-find-a-new-flight
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LOLOL – at least she HAD some shorts on…….
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I guess we can be glad it wasn’t a thong. 😯
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Hey! Is that an autocomplete joke?
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Nope! 🙂
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I watched the video without sound. The whole thing looked like a SNL segment. The woman in the boxing gloves had me in tears.
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She was dressed to entertain.
She is the main character.
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Maybe little miss skimpy pants should have some training on how to dress like a lady. Hm? I have seen a lot worse, but com’on. I am not sure I would have stopped her from flying, though.
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I’m not watching. I would just get all mad and say something nasty, probably. Women wearing clothes and letting everything show or just looking like trash just gets all over me.
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Sad situation.
Was a connecting Jet Blue flight.
Prior staff and TSA did not object.
Will pass on showing a pic; but
obvious many have not been to
a public beach in many years. 😉
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But she wasn’t on a beach or in a strip club.
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It’s not sad, it’s subjective.
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EU LINKS UP WITH TWITTER, TECH FIRMS TO COMBAT HATE SPEECH
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_EUROPE_HATE_SPEECH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-05-31-08-44-12
“The internet is a place for free speech, not hate speech,” said Vera Jourova, the EU commissioner responsible for justice, consumers and gender equality. She added that the code of conduct, which will be regularly reviewed in terms of its scope and its impact, will ensure that public incitement to violence to hatred has “no place online.”
In other words EU Twitter, FB and all the other progressive social media mediums are going to eradicate any post that speaks to the fact that Islam and BLM are barbaric death promoting cultures.
Not a single tweet promoting Islam, BLM or their hatred will be removed.
At least they are admitting it unlike our boot to the neck government.
Over the cliff and into the abyss.
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I admit it. I have tin foil hat thoughts about FB and twitter. I did them both for a while and then tried to get out of both. I don’t think I ever succeeded in actually getting out. But I don’t try to get on. I just don’t like them.
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50% Say Clinton Should Keep Running Even If Indicted
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/may_2016/50_say_clinton_should_keep_running_even_if_indicted
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Unbelievable. SMH
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There’s that pesky 50% again. 50% of us are insane, brain-dead zombies? Is the glass half-full or half-empty? I know…no one has to get all serious about how polls work.
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Beck given the green boot from SIRIUSXM.
SiriusXM Announces Suspension of Glenn Beck over Brad Thor Interview Comments
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/05/31/siriusxm-announces-suspension-glenn-beck-brad-thor-interview-comments/
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Borate is with Thor.
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/737691157392658433
What a time to be alive.
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I don’t know what I typed that made spellcheck change something close to Boortz into Borate 🙄
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Trump is holding a press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnytS5Sp3XM&feature=youtu.be
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Maybe we should say, “Trump is RUNNING a press conference.” LOL
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True. He is such a pleasure to watch.
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Reporter asked Trump why he is antagonistic, Trump replied, “Because I don’t care, why am I antagonistic, because I don’t care.”
The Q & A was about the judge in the Trump University case, honestly in my memory I cannot recall a person ever slapping a judge on such a stage. Trump is quite amazing.
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Yeah, I cringe when he says some things like that, and then I start to worry, and then it all gets out in the open and people who like to do things in the dark have to come out and do the right thing. It is absolutely amazing to me.
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I think 10 billion dollars, decades in the cutthroat NY real estate business and knowing the powerful politicians, judicial parties and all the PTB inside out has filled Trump’s quiver quite well.
I will never forget the look on Rubio’s face when Trump brought up the house and money quid pro quo which Rubio participated in.
Trump has put them all on notice, it started with little things like Lindsey Graham’s phone number, “Lindsey Graham he came begging me for money, gave me his phone number, do I still have it? By George I do, here ya’ go.” 😀
Trump has a vault of information on people I have no doubt and neither do they.
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He does have a vault. I believe it. And if he doesn’t have info on everyone, he’ll get it fast. He’s going to be one busy man. He has to squash and squash…so many people. Then he has to keep them squashed. I guess it will be fear and loathing. They have to be so intimidated and afraid that they back off or change their ways.
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link up
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The Belgian City That Built an Underground Beer Pipeline
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a21078/belgium-bruges-beer-pipeline/?mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&src=nl&date=053116
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I’d take an O’Douls pipeline to my house. I started drinking that stuff after I had already crossed the line from osteopenia to osteoporosis. It had been over 20 years since I’d had a beer, and to me it tasted close enough, though obviously no alcohol bite. A few years later, I didn’t even have osteopenia. My bones were great! My husband did research and came to a conclusion it was something in the hops or whatever. He’d go with me and blurt out his thought to doctors. You can guess how well that went. Then, last year, he discovered a research study coming to the same conclusions about the chemical substance/whatever it is – and beer is full of that thing. Ladies, drink some beer!
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Illegal Aliens Spreading Measles: 14 U.S. LOCATIONS INFECTED
http://dennismichaellynch.com/illegal-aliens-spreadingmeasle-in-the-us/
… What started with one inmate at the detention center in central Arizona has now expanded to 11 confirmed cases of measles – 7 total illegal aliens and 4 people who are workers at the facility. The detention center has stopped accepting new illegal aliens or releasing any currently held there. They are working to isolate patients and vaccinating everyone else in the facility.
Measles is highly contagious. The symptoms include fever, red, watery eyes, cough and runny nose, followed by a rash that is red, raised, and blotchy. The rash begins on the face at the hairline and moves down the body and may last five to six days. Symptoms can take up to 21 days to appear after the first exposure. …
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You have put a lot of info about vaccines up. I wonder, have you ever run across a list of the vaccines that older people would need to renew if they haven’t had since childhood? Aside from tetanus.
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No, I haven’t, but I could look them up.
What worries me about this particular article is that we aren’t screening immigrants and refugees (illegal or legal) for contagious diseases before they are allowed to join the general population.
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I couldn’t read the article, whole page kept taking over saying my adobe crashed or something.
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Maybe since we don’t screen, we should just vaccinate them all. IDK what that would cost though, just that we would pay it.
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Wan’t thinking too clearly obviously. Can’t vaccinate illegals.
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You could if they are in detention centers – and the ones mentioned in this article were in a detention center.
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Here’s my tinfoil hat (one of them, anyway): why would they screen people for what they want them to bring in?
Y’all already know that I put nothing past this administration. Nothing.
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Click to access adult-schedule-easy-read.pdf
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Thank You.
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You’re welcome.
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Continuing a theme:
Syrian Refugees Spreading Flesh-Eating Disease, Polio, Measles, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/05/31/syrian-refugees-spreading-flesh-eating-disease-polio-measles-tuberculosis-hepatitis/
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Well what about the flesh-eating sand-fly plague?
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That’s in the article.
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Oh sorry. I was in a hurry and did not read. I saw it separately on another article. Thanks, Stella.
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No prob!
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“However, leishmaniasis cannot be detected upon physical examination if the patient is asymptomatic, as can be the case for years.”
We haven’t a chance of spotting that before they are here and settled.
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See??!! Here’s Facebook again:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-wants-to-help-sell-every-ad-on-the-web-1464321603
“Facebook has set out to power all advertising across the Internet.”
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Winner, winner, Chicken Dinner!
The big reveal from Bill Kristol is rumored to be David French.
BREAKING: The ‘Never Trump’ Third Party Candidate is…Conservative Writer David French?
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/05/31/breaking-bill-kristols-third-party-candidate-isconservative-writer-david-french-n2171656
INOW if French does this he is in essence campaigning for Hillary Clinton.
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Crazy.
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Are most people going to say, like I did, “who?”
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More and more, every day, this looks like a stage play. It’s what’s behind the curtain that counts (and in this case, it’s the polar opposite of the wimpy Wizard).
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It is an easier game plan for the wretches to rip their garments and proclaim that they must defeat Trump because he is not conservative enough, it is a harder game for them to openly be working to elect Clinton which is the corner that Trump has painted them into.
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Da vid’s beddy-bye
happy time moment. 😉
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French knows he doesn’t have a chance, Kristol knows he doesn’t have a chance. French and Kristol and anyone supporting them is doing so with the sole hope of giving Hillary Clinton the presidency.
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Good grief! One team of attorney’s representing the plaintiffs in the Trump University has paid the Clintons, $450,000 in speaking fees.
http://www.allenbwest.com/michellejesse/as-judge-unseals-trump-university-docs-bombshell-revealed
As judge unseals Trump University docs, BOMBSHELL revealed…
It comes to light from LawNewz that the law firm Robbins Geller appointed by Judge Gonzalo Curiel to represent a plaintiff in the Trump University class action suits has another connection to Hillary Clinton beyond a $2700 campaign contribution from firm chairman Darren Robbins. LawNewz did not mention the firm’s connection to the Trump University case. The information was apparently retrieved from a Washington Post data base with the Clinton financial filings on file. (The Post itself has not reported on this connection.)
It seems that Robbins Geller “paid the Clintons nearly half a million dollars in less than a year.” Why? Speeches of course.
That’s right. One of the law firms picked by the Judge in the Trump University case — the very Judge Donald Trump accuses by name of anti-Trump bias — awarded this firm the case after — say again after — Hillary and Bill Clinton had been paid a cool $450,000 for two speeches by the firm.
Just wow!
Kick their asses from here to the depths of hell Trump.
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{snort} Looks like Trump did it again. LOL
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Someone who knows how to fight back instead of just making spluttering outrage speeches. Finally.
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Holy cow, Donald Trump is speaking in SACRAMENTO–TOMORROW NIGHT!!! A two and a half to three hours’ drive during commute time–and it’s my LONG day at work!!! Arrrggh!!!
I registered for tickets anyway–but because I have the late Cretaceous version of a flip phone, I have NO idea whether my ticket reservation went through.
What to do, what to do…?
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Go. See if you can leave work early. Try everything short of mortal sin.
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I DID manage to figure out how to locate the tickets and print them out!
Now to find someone to go with me… My trying to both drive AND navigate to an unknown and crowded place would be funny–if it was someone else.
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You know if you go alone you will meet great people in line so don’t let not finding someone to go with you a holdback. I went to the Janesville rally alone and met great people, both of the men in line with me came alone and we all just chatted.
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Well, at least it’s late in the day – 7:00 pm, right?
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Doors open at 4. I’d barely be on the road then.
My second ticket has already been turned down by two people (I need to get more friends). I’d really like a navigator. Anyone nearby, in the greater Bay Area?
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You need to get there really early if it is anything like it has been allover the place. I think I got to Janesville at noon, doors opened at 2 or 3 and I was probably one of the last 50 to make it in the palace.
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Call in sick, now.
or
watch it here,
after work. 😉
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Calling in sick is not an option, unfortunately.
Oh, well, I’ll figure something out.
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He’ll be in San Jose,
the next day, @ 7:00. 😉
Thursday, June 02, 2016
San Jose, CA
San Jose Convention Center – South Hall
7:00 PM
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Good night, buddies. I hope I dream of woodlands and Sicilian Honey Garlic tonight. Remember last night when I said “no nightmares?” Well, this morning I was having one when I woke up. I was with my mom and brother, who were never too good in a crisis. I was having an asthma attack and my throat was clogging up and closing. They were fumbling around all over the place trying to get my medicine. Then I woke up. My throat was clogged up, so I had to use my inhaler. My husband said “oh I noticed you were breathing a little funny….” This is how mellow I have become. I said “Well, next time would you please wake me up? It would sort of be important.” I will admit that inside I had to stifle a quick urge to clobber him.
Sweet dreams!
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Well look at what the despicable Rove sent me;
There are only 23 weeks left until Election Day 2016.
This election, Republicans have more at stake than ever.
The White House, our GOP Senate majority, and the U.S. Supreme Court are all on the line.
We have 24 Republican Senate seats up for reelection this year.
But with Democrats spending tens of millions of dollars to unseat our Republican senators in states like Illinois, Ohio, New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, it’s clear this election will be hard and difficult.
Our Republican majority is in jeopardy and with it, the Supreme Court. Are willing to fight for our Republican Senate? Then please pitch in $25 or more immediately >>>
A Republican victory will be impossible if our Senate campaigns are be OUTSPENT by Democrats and DROWNED by their negative ads.
Will you take action?
Pitch in $25, $50, $100 or any amount you can give and generous supporters of our Senate GOP Majority will triple-match every dollar you give.
If committed conservatives do not act NOW, Republicans could face a series of tremendous losses this fall that devastate our conservative movement and damage our country’s future.
We need your help — and fast. The FEC-mandated May reporting deadline is less than 48 hours away. Don’t wait — please take action today.
Thank you,
Karl Rove
Notice what the emphasis is on 🙄
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Yep. It’s on him sidestepping how utterly insignificant he is.
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And the importance of the Senate especially Illinois, Ohio, New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Wah was wah!
The White House is mentioned only once. The deemphasis on Trump is obviously sour grapes.
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