General Discussion, Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Stella

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  1. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    June 1, 2016 at 12:07 am

    Nice pic of my garden in August…

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    • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
      June 1, 2016 at 12:19 am

      Well, I was going to ask if it was one of the Great Lakes, but you should know.

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    • SwissMike (formerly ZurichMike)'s avatar ZurichMike says:
      June 1, 2016 at 1:31 am

      And representative of your wit: barren, desolate, lifeless.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      June 1, 2016 at 7:28 am

      Have to ask – what’s this about?

      Termite swarm large enough to show up on weather radar hits New Orleans

      http://www.aol.com/article/2016/05/31/termite-swarm-large-enough-to-show-up-on-weather-radar-hits-new/21387091/

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
        June 1, 2016 at 8:09 am

        😯

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        June 1, 2016 at 10:32 am

        NOLA’s a major termite city, the environment couldn’t be better. The soil’s heavily layered with organic materials, it’s always wet, warm and very inviting. This is the termite swarming season where the .millions upon millions of queens and consorts fly out of nests, met up for a connection and then try to make new colonies. Most of them just end up dead but a few get lucky and start a new nest.
        It’s been a particularly good tear for them, gazillions are out there. They are drawn to light and the city provides that in excess, the swarms from all around head to the city due to bsckground light and individual sources from streetlights to houselights attract huge swarms. In the wild where you don’t have attractive lights the swarms are less dense but the city attactscthem like a magnet.
        This year the swarms were so thick that the doppler radar that tracks rain storms picked up a number of swarms that had congregsted over city areas. The doppler radar uses a microwave beam to track rain so I’m notvamazed it found the termites, especially as their wings probably increased their signature, but the numbers that had accreted into clouds of bugs was surprising. News was showing pix of places where thevresidents were sweeping their bug corpses up into heaps. The night-feeding birds, bats and every bug eating reptile and amphibian are having a field day and will gorge until the swarming season’s over. They’re better scattered outbhere…very few outside lights.

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    June 1, 2016 at 12:48 am

    Apologies if this has already been posted elsewhere:

    Tech Giants Vow to Tackle Online Hate Speech Within 24 Hours

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-31/tech-giants-vow-to-tackle-online-hate-speech-within-24-hours

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  4. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    June 1, 2016 at 1:30 am

    Another good one:

    For Fleeing Germans, Hungary is the “Last Bastion of the Christian West”

    https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/gov-for-fleeing-germans-hungary-is-the-last-bastion-of-the-christian-west/

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  5. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    June 1, 2016 at 8:03 am

    A beautiful morning to everyone 🙂

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  6. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    June 1, 2016 at 8:14 am

    Drudge’s cover photo, you may have to enlarge it to see the reflection in his sunglasses.

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    • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
      June 1, 2016 at 2:47 pm

      Just read the article, which is moderately snarky. Frequent references to how much Trump loves himself, loves to talk about himself. There’s a backhanded feel to any halfway positive thing the writer says.

      If onstage he calls people names, more privately he has only good, embracing things to say about almost everybody. (For most public people I know, it is the opposite.) He loves everybody. Genuinely seems to love everybody — at least everybody who’s rich and successful (he doesn’t really talk about anyone who isn’t). Expressing love for everybody, for most of us, would clearly seem to be an act. But with Trump, it’s the name-calling and bluster that might be the act.

      A bit long, but worth reading.

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  7. sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
    June 1, 2016 at 8:27 am

    Morning all! Happy Wednesday! 😊

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  8. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    June 1, 2016 at 8:34 am

    Mornin’ kids!

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  9. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    June 1, 2016 at 9:59 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels)
    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! 🙂 |_| ( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Blackberry wine)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 |_| (Backdraft)
    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! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    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! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Pastries for coffee!

    ⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol

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  10. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    June 1, 2016 at 10:17 am

    I just love how the press is lying to their minions and telling them to remember that it was only after pressure from altruistic press that Trump turned the 5.6 million dollars over to the veterans (since when did the press give a darn about veterans)?

    Anyhow how stupid is the press? Do they not know how much a billion dollars is? Do they think bi is a prefix for two in this case?

    Good grief.

    Billion = 1000 million dollars.

    Let’s ignore the fact that 1 million of the 5.6 million was Trump’s own money and just use the 5.6 million figure.

    5,600,000 million is 0.055999% of 10,000,000,000.

    So the press would have people capable of free and rational thought believe that Donald Trump would stiff veterans, steal from friends, give the media red meat, toss his honor aside and tank his campaign by profiting 0.0559999% of his wealth.

    Think about what fools they think we are. Think about 0.0559999% of your wealth is.

    I know, I know I am preaching to the choir.

    SMH

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
        June 1, 2016 at 11:01 am

        8% have an IQ lower than a rock.

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        • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
          June 1, 2016 at 11:15 am

          Indeed!

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        • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
          June 1, 2016 at 12:19 pm

          I think a part of the 92% just follows without understanding.

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          • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
            June 1, 2016 at 12:42 pm

            Yes. But at least they have the teeny bit of sense to pick maybe the right side sometimes. If reluctantly or in ignorance.

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            • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
              June 1, 2016 at 1:00 pm

              Next door has been a great example of “in ignorance” the last few months. Sometimes you can read it in the comments parroting the main topic of the post, and others just posting “Trump saves a bus load of nuns from gout” in a thread with no connection to the main post except for Trump.

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              • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                June 1, 2016 at 1:10 pm

                Speaking for the “Ignorant”, sometimes it is hard to decide where to put something. Like does “Trump saves a bus load of nuns from gout” go in the Presidential Election thread or the Open Topic thread?

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              • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                June 1, 2016 at 1:35 pm

                I am not sure that some of them realize that Cheryl Mills is testifying in a civil case
                and that she would not be revealing anything that she isn’t 100% positive that the Feds already have. She is a Clinton born and bred attorney, she walked in with 7 – SEVEN – high paid consultant attorneys.

                A high ranking Hillary attorney making a rookie mistake in civil case where anything she says is fair game for the Feds? I don’t believe it.

                Mills has been on team Hillary since the 90’s.

                How Hillary-esque is Cheryl Mills? She is willing to publicly blame Hillary’s problems on the inconvenient timing of the death of Ambassador Stevens because if he didn’t get slaughtered by Hillary enabled barbarians thereby putting such an unprecedented crisis on Hillary’s table, Hillary and her team would have had time to do the everything the right way.

                Oh and also because Hillary is a wretched sickly old bat.

                “The secretary was not only transitioning, there had been a — we had lost our first ambassador in quite some time, and we were stepping through the sets of issues associated with that. And she, too, had fallen ill, and there — and there had been a period of time where we were obviously navigating a whole set of issues in that space,” Ms. Mills said. “So I don’t know that this was something that I focused on, and certainly I wish I had.”

                May God place a holy curse on Hillary and everyone who defends and empowers her.

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                June 1, 2016 at 1:44 pm

                I would thank them for their interests in the nun’s diet but outside of that their interests don’t parallel mine. Last few years were interesting but it’s a new guard there now and I wish them well.

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              • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
                June 1, 2016 at 1:47 pm

                What bothers me most is the intolerance for anything outside the “Yay Trump” line of thought, even if it is mostly what I consider logical thought in line with, for lack of a better term, conservative principles. They attempt to stomp out any original thought. The presidential and political threads all over the internet are an online forum for those who didn’t make the cheering squad in high school, for the most part, divided only by which person they are cheering for. Our “side” is no more intellectual and logical in their conversation than the other, less so in many cases.

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                • Pam's avatar Pam says:
                  June 1, 2016 at 6:12 pm

                  Your comment and Czar’s are right on. I was away for a while and when I got back, there they were. I couldn’t figure out what had happened – well, I sort of figured it out but the question was “why was it allowed/encouraged to happen?” That’s where I got mixed up, because I didn’t want to believe the conclusions I came to. Early on, I made a comment and one of them said something like “well, we’re here now and this is the way it is.” I guess they were right. There is mostly no conversation, just bots vying to be the coolest kids, slobbering all over The Man. Honestly, it started turning me off about him, if that’s his foundation of followers. I wonder how aware he is of this? Maybe it doesn’t matter, but the potential of people like that, all whipped up, concerns me. I was just about to give it up, except maybe the prayer thread, when the line was dropped and I grabbed it.

                  No offense to some of the old-timers who still comment on those political threads. I don’t mean you.

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                  • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
                    June 1, 2016 at 6:19 pm

                    “That’s where I got mixed up, because I didn’t want to believe the conclusions I came to. “

                    No. You’re right. It’s drugs and alcohol related.

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          • Pam's avatar Pam says:
            June 1, 2016 at 12:47 pm

            You think?? I think so, too.

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      June 1, 2016 at 11:42 am

      Lovely using your wealth formula, my wealth is $2.50. Hey I’m wealthy, I’m standing!!!

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      June 1, 2016 at 11:43 am

      Back in March when the issue surfaced on CNN the network was apoplectic because, by their own statement, half of the money had been distributed. Jump to April and Time is saying that only 2.4 million, far from half, of the money’s been distributed. On an aside, how much money have CNN and Time raised for the veterans they make a lot of their money feeding off of?
      Anywho, I don’t see Trump stealing what would be a minuscule portion of his personal wealth and risking a campaign he’s spent so much money promoting. The MSMs’ morals are questionable as they’d even invent such a canard to feed to the gullible public. To the minimum wage non-achiever who might be inclined to vote for Hillary or Bernie, yes, they can’t visualize having a buck-two-ninety-eight never mind a million dollars, so a billionaire stealing less than 1% of his net worth and jeopardizing his business and public standing’s probably within their belief system.
      We have too many in the last two or three generations who were never taught values or work ethics. To them wealth flows through the hands of a confiscatory government that takes the money from people who unfairly earn too much. Why should that person who spent nearly ten years in post high school education earn more than a high school dropout who flips burgers!?! Let’s see how this smoking pile of BS sells to the voting public.

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      • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
        June 1, 2016 at 12:08 pm

        Hillary and Bernie raised ???? for
        the Vets, according to the media?

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        • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
          June 1, 2016 at 12:09 pm

          How about frenchie David?
          How much did the Indy raise?

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        • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
          June 1, 2016 at 12:12 pm

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          June 1, 2016 at 12:16 pm

          They woudn’t stoop so low as to use vets for furthering their campaigns. They prefer thanking the vets for their service and sacrifice and then go kiss a Syrian regugee butt.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          June 1, 2016 at 12:22 pm

          Trimp’s the ONLY candidate who’s come right out and told the VA that he’s ready to ream ’em a new one. The possibilities are strained as they’d snare him in as much bureaucratic BS as they could but the others have played the usual ‘you help us get elected and you can go back to screwing/killing vets when we’re in office’ ticket. Note that both Hillary and Bernie had their chances to be proactive in veterans’ issues while Senators yet allowed the travesty that was/is the VA to flourish.

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          • Pam's avatar Pam says:
            June 1, 2016 at 1:07 pm

            What the VA bureaucracy would try to do is the same thing the others will be doing. Since my husband was near the upper levels in one of the departments in DC, but no management responsibilities (thank the Lord), we tried to figure out what it would take to get, not only political department heads, but others, into the agencies at lower management levels, to start digging down. We even speculated that there could be many whistle-blowers who have kept their heads down because they knew what would happen to them.

            It was a long and complicated discussion, and we eventually got lost in the maze.

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            • Pam's avatar Pam says:
              June 1, 2016 at 1:17 pm

              My husband got totally sidelined because he found a problem and told the truth in a series of their interminable “meetings.” It was not an issue which created a moral problem for him, i.e. that he should have “blown the whistle.” It was just stupidity. They whipped him right off the big project and shoved him into the broom closet, so to speak. He was right, it proved out. But they didn’t care..they just moved the garbage around and kept going.

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
              June 1, 2016 at 1:18 pm

              We had supervisors who couldn’t find their butts with both hands tied behind their backs. We had that downloaded kiddievporn on government computers on government time and was protected by his bosses until the FBI caught him. We lost a multibillion dollar contract on a program our agency created as we couldn’t maintain it to DC standards. We ignored people with under and grad degrees for PC ones with lesser skills as they made our diversity numbers look good as the obes passed over had the skills and would be told their job was to make the supers promoted look competent. Oh yeah, I know where you’re coming from.

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      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
        June 1, 2016 at 12:14 pm

        “We have too many in the last two or three generations who were never taught values or work ethics.

        They were taught everything you mention in the rest of your paragraph and more.

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
        June 1, 2016 at 1:52 pm

        Each side, candidate, and media, heretofore has had a well scripted role to play. Trump burned the script in the faces of those who wrote it and remain convinced it is Holy Writ. This enrages them because it exposes them. I don’t think they even realize that yet though. At this point, I think they are instinctively mad because their brain is unable to remain in stupor, and some animal instinct is telling them that there is a great big predator in the room.

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        • lovely's avatar lovely says:
          June 1, 2016 at 1:56 pm

          Trump moved the goal posts, took the balls, replaced their Gatorade with septic water, even removed the field underneath their very hooves and they still don’t realize that the game has changed.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          June 1, 2016 at 1:57 pm

          Bernie and Hillary are nothing more than products being packaged and sold by handlers. Trump is a businessman that knows how to sell. The RATS are handled, Trump’s a professional handler.

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          • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
            June 1, 2016 at 2:01 pm

            Excellent summation. And they just don’t know what to do about this alternate reality. However it ends, it’s going to continue to be one helluva show. Maybe the modern day equivalent of the Coliseum sports.

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        • Pam's avatar Pam says:
          June 1, 2016 at 2:29 pm

          Yes, well said imo. I think they are exposed and enraged. I still am, I guess, the lone voice saying that I believe some of them do realize and know, maybe not many.

          Speaking in terms of the animal instinct, the gut realization of danger, there are two reactions: flight or fight.

          The general reaction, especially next door, seems to be huge happy delight. I understand the delight. But it’s as if there is some feeling that just the humiliation and exposing is going to do the trick. I don’t think so. It may knock some down, but everyone?? It feels good and it is part of what needs to be done. Everyone isn’t going to crumble and dissolve into a puddle of tears and defeat. For those who decide to fight, will it not ratchet up the level of danger all around? I guess it is inevitable. Maybe I’m missing something.

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  11. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    June 1, 2016 at 11:19 am

    Ahhhh….the world’s changed in so many wondrous ways. Twenty years ago I’d have had to jump through a number of hoops to find the seeds of those Nodding Onion and the Sicilian Honey Garlic plants. Sitting in my recliner, sipping a cup of coffee, with a few key clicks I find and order both. If we could only dispose of irritating pols as easily…..

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    • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
      June 1, 2016 at 12:25 pm

      Just sitting here stinking and thinking
      about the Lady Slippers some animal
      deposited, passing through the yard. 😉

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        June 1, 2016 at 1:02 pm

        Yeah, here it’s possums depositing persimmon seeds all over the place. I mow over hundreds of ’em, including the ones in my Asian persimmon trees I gotta fight ’em for.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          June 1, 2016 at 2:42 pm

          Here it’s mulberry trees.

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            June 1, 2016 at 2:47 pm

            I have some of them too, just not old enough to be putting out large quantities of fruit yet. I bought a pressure washer that should help me with removing them from my vehicles when the time and birds come.

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            • Stella's avatar stella says:
              June 1, 2016 at 2:56 pm

              The dogs walk in the berries and track them into the house. That time is coming soon. My dog thinks heaven has deposited manna in the yard. One of the big trees that used to hang over my yard from the neighbor was cut down last fall by the power company (yeah!!!). Now there is only one that hangs over the garage on the other side.

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    • Pam's avatar Pam says:
      June 1, 2016 at 2:43 pm

      Sorry, but I’m not boycotting Amazon. Prime is my friend and has been for years.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        June 1, 2016 at 2:45 pm

        I use it too, except for those strange items like wild onion and garlic that I find here…

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      • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
        June 1, 2016 at 9:47 pm

        Double check the prices.

        Some items are less, elsewhere.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          June 1, 2016 at 9:48 pm

          That’s true, so I always do.

          ADD: Even so, when you include the price of shipping, it can go either way. I just ordered something from Walmart that was cheaper even though I paid the shipping. The shipping was much slower, however, but it didn’t matter in this case.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          June 1, 2016 at 9:51 pm

          The other thing: the return policy and easy methods figure in too. If the item is cheap, they will often not require you to return it, but will just replace the item.

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          • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
            June 1, 2016 at 10:46 pm

            Purchased an electric blanket from Amazon. The control for one side does not work. Have to pay S&H for refund. S&H was free when purchased item.

            Walmart allows bringing the item to the story for refund; even though it was purchased online.

            Excluding Prime, both have free shipping if $50.00 or more.

            An interesting read:

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            • Stella's avatar stella says:
              June 2, 2016 at 7:15 am

              I have never had to pay to return anything to Amazon. The last thing I ordered from Walmart was less than $50, so I had to pay shipping (about $5.00). So, it seems that there are different circumstances. Many times I order less than $50 from Amazon, and don’t have to pay shipping, so things even out. I am very happy with the customer service I have received from Amazon. Just this week I sent a gift card to a friend, and it didn’t work. They immediately sent another one at no charge, via overnight shipping.

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            • Stella's avatar stella says:
              June 2, 2016 at 7:24 am

              I have placed 75 orders with Amazon in the past six months, and rarely have a problem. The problem is always resolved to my satisfaction. I think I have a pretty big base of experience with them, including the Amazon partners (shippers other than Amazon).

              The strangest experience was when they said I had received something, but I had not. I got a credit, then received an item – but the wrong one – because it had been delivered to the wrong house (same address, different street), and the person who received it brought it to my house. I asked if they wanted it returned, and they said “No, you can keep it or throw it away”. It was a $20 item.

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              • Pam's avatar Pam says:
                June 2, 2016 at 7:40 pm

                My one caveat is be careful of the third-party sellers, not coming directly from Amazon. I had a huge problem with one doing false advertising. I finally got Amazon Customer Service. They dug right into it and got my money refunded.

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            • Stella's avatar stella says:
              June 2, 2016 at 7:41 am

              I read what you linked. I think some of these people caused their own problems, frankly. The one where the shipping company sent a damaged item back to the company, happened to me recently with UPS. I contacted the shipper directly (an Amazon partner), and they sent a replacement immediately. Didn’t cost me anything. IF the person said they were returning something (that was already returned) and ordered a replacement, that caused the problem. You have to use the system the way it is designed, or work with customer service to resolve it.

              As for number of days to ship, it is BUSINESS days (doesn’t include weekends, with UPS). I often receive items earlier than promised. Some items with 3rd-party shippers don’t include 2-day shipping, but do include FREE shipping, also.

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        • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
          June 2, 2016 at 11:10 am

          I use it mostly for unusual items I can’t find locally and for things I will have to ship.

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  12. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    June 1, 2016 at 2:04 pm

    Shots fired at UCLA early reports are that there are 2 dead and it is an active shooter scene.

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  13. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
    June 1, 2016 at 2:17 pm

    Random observation here. Facebook is the answer to people who never had a forum to grandstand over minute daily trials and tribulations, and present themselves as heroes in the never ending battle against common place and mundane. And may there be a special lake in Purgatory for the Vaguebookers who post what they think to be titillating snippets in absolutely naked attempts to have some dumbazz beg for details.

    I wonder if I could start a platform called GWOWTSPOTKSTHOTSEE. Grandparents who only want to see pictures of the kids, stay the hell off this site everybody else. Then I could block everybody else on FB and just enjoy my peeps who post the excellent political stuff and cat memes.

    Boy that HOTSEE kinda jumps out at ya, huh? Maybe I could shorten the name. 😀

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    • Pam's avatar Pam says:
      June 1, 2016 at 2:33 pm

      Yes, I know some grandmas who only want to see what you’re talking about. As far as people posting to get other to beg for details, my observations is mostly no one has to beg for details, since the egos just tell every little detail from the start. TMI!!

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      June 1, 2016 at 3:37 pm

      I was just sent a pic of a horse’s ass, unfriended, and blocked because I corrected someone (politely). It wasn’t even about politics. The person’s name is Lynda Whiting. She had posted that zoos are cruel. Some other woman said that zoos and circuses should be banned. Some guy said that banning wasn’t good (or something like that), and the original poster said that he was putting words in her mouth. I simply pointed out that the other woman had advocated banning, and the original poster told me to mind my own business, then performed the above-described actions. I had already unfollowed her at that point. What a sensitive idiot.

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      • Pam's avatar Pam says:
        June 1, 2016 at 7:12 pm

        People just seem to be getting nastier and nastier. It’s a plague!

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        June 2, 2016 at 10:40 am

        Probabbly one of those anti-zooers who believe that all of the animals should be returned to their Disneyesque jungle environments where native poachers can kill them and harvest their bits for the Asian homeopathic market. Oh wait, sorry, ‘naturopathic’, that’s the green version.
        Zoos like the Audobon complex in NOLA are the only hope for many animals. Audobon has a facility that preserves eggs and sperm from endangered species for future management. They’ve already taken frozen stock, fertilized it and used host ‘mothers’ of other like animals (Oh crap, Joan, I knew I got drunk at tne party but not that drunk….) to foster the births bringing some endangered animal back. Then again saving them isn’t as important as giving one of the Truly Enlightened the chance to mince about with one of those lovingly-made hand-glittered signs.

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  16. doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:
    June 1, 2016 at 7:45 pm

    I have switched from A/c back to fans. It feels so much better So much better. Also cut off the boob tube. Much better. These fans are kickin’ Ass.

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  17. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    June 1, 2016 at 8:44 pm

    I have read Brad Thor’s books in the past and liked his page of FB a while back. I thought I’d take a look to see if there were any comments regarding Beck/Trump since I’m still perplexed that people “in the know” are so anti-Trump that they start talking about Hitler.
    Reading through the screaming comments on his post didn’t help clear anything up at all.
    The media is for Trump?
    Was Hitler a successful business man with an real-estate empire that he gave up to get elected? No? Then how is Trump like Hitler?

    It makes a person question how “in the know” the really expert is.

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    • Pam's avatar Pam says:
      June 1, 2016 at 8:53 pm

      I can’t understand Brad Thor. I had respect for him. Now Neil Boortz is jumping in on the act about the SiriusXM GB suspension? I don’t know so much about Boortz. I have a really close friend who is smart and keeps up. Her daughter is big in the Brad fan club, so my friend has met him and had dinner with him, etc. She’s a “conservative” and we’ve always agreed. Apparently not now. We had a back-and-forth about Thor last night. She sent me his Facebook explanation. I asked her since he is smart, why couldn’t he see how his remarks would be taken? I said if that is his explanation, why didn’t he just say it that way to begin with? There was no real answer to that. She is still listening to Beck apparently. I was shocked. I had to drop it, because I didn’t want to mess with a 25-year friendship.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      June 1, 2016 at 11:05 pm

      I am not very familiar with Brad Thor but I’m very familiar with Neal Boortz, Kraut, Ryan, and so on. I think that they have expressed views that mirror so many of my own that I have a hard time wrapping my head around their shrill hatred of Trump.

      Here is one of Boortz’s latest tweets.

      https://twitter.com/Talkmaster/status/737722848677113858

      I mean, what’s not to like?

      Boortz is on the same train as Thor in that he would rather see a Hillary presidency than a Trump presidency and his thinking is rabidly distorted when it comes to Trump. In all honesty I understand some of their fear about a Trump presidency. Trump makes me uncomfortable in the way he presents his apparent belief that government can fix so many things.

      That said I don’t think Trump believes in magical thinking but has proven he believes that hard work is really what will fix some things, but when Trump stands there and says, “We are going to fix everything under the sun” it reminds me of the platitudes that the Left has fallen for from the democrats for generations. So I get some of the fear.

      While I approached Trump’s candidacy with trepidation (14% Wealth Tax 😞) << that is a mindset which is very uncomfortable for me and the only thing I have heard Trump ever say about his 14% "plan" is that it is a moot point as 14% would no longer be enough to fix the "problem." I am now and have been for a long time on the "Only Trump Train" for all the reasons that you already know.

      With Trump America has a fighting chance, IMO voting for any other candidate is signing a death warrant for America. He is willing to fight and call a spade a spade, honestly during his presser about the funds he raised for veterans I was cheering. I think in the same way Trump fights for his own honor he will fight for America's revival and honor.

      I think those who are still so stridently, hatefully and aggressively opposed to Trump fall into 3 categories 1) corrupt politicians who see their gravy train drying up and possible exposure of their corruptness coming to light 2) idelogues who are so ignorant as to believe that the conservative politicians really are fighting for a noble cause and that Trump is a Trojan Horse 3) Media wh*res who have promoted and protected faux conservative politicians and benefitted greatly financially for doing so and for espousing their opinions, it is almost like they don't want the world righted as they will have nothing to write or talk about anymore. The Right has its own grievance committee.

      Anyone other than Trump, anyone else is only looking for personal advantage, America be d*mned. < This is what I believe the ideologue holdouts do not accept or believe.

      Anyhow it is something I have been thinking a lot about since I saw Boortz standing with Thor's remarks about Trump. That to me is insanity.

      On a positive note #NeverTrump talk radio hosts Mark Belling and Jay Weber, (both very influential here) both very hateful toward Trump, are now not stridently against Trump and I expect them to at the very least be lukewarm Trump supporters.

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      • Pam's avatar Pam says:
        June 2, 2016 at 8:45 am

        I agree with your thinking, in that I also have some sort of apprehension, hard to pin down. It has surprised me, some of the people I respected, coming out so strongly. It’s easy to explain some of them, but not all. I haven’t followed what these people have been saying. I was very surprised about Thor. He goes around and talks at Tea Party rallies. He knows a lot of people in the conservative movement, not just Beck.

        The best I can come up with is that maybe they think Trump will do whatever Trump thinks he needs to do, regardless. They seem to fear he might override Congress and the Constitutional framework in some way. Is it correct that history says republics will eventually fall into some sort of dictatorship?

        Before Trump even came along, I had pretty much come to believe that our form of government, if not completely gone, was almost gone…that it was very much a facade anyway.

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  18. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    June 1, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    On Hannity, Gingrich just said, “Hillery is Obama plus corruption.”

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  19. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    June 1, 2016 at 11:29 pm

    10 PM weatherguessers have discovered a rainstoem off the Yucatan that has a low (<20%) chance of developing into a BIGGER rainstorm and MAY movevyowards Florida…..maybe. It has a zero chance of moving towards the Gulf coast, developing into a Catagory 10 hurricane and setting the entire coast up to St Louis back to the Bronze Age! But they'll keep watch while we sleep and bevtherevto warn us. And it might be best if you download their weather app on your smartphone as it will warn you of dangerous weather conditions… If you can wade through the endless ads.

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