General Discussion, Thursday, June 2, 2016

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Stella

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  1. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    June 2, 2016 at 12:13 am

    Oh what? Surprise, moi?

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  2. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    June 2, 2016 at 12:15 am

    That pic’s what a lotta SE Florida looked like before the state sold or ‘long term leased’ it to developers.

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  3. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    June 2, 2016 at 12:20 am

    Would love to be sitting or walking on that beach right now.

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  4. SwissMike (formerly ZurichMike)'s avatar ZurichMike says:
    June 2, 2016 at 5:26 am

    Breakfast — these look yummy!

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  5. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    June 2, 2016 at 7:43 am

    Mornin’ kids!

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  6. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    June 2, 2016 at 8:04 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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  7. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    June 2, 2016 at 8:10 am

    [Combo of insomnia and nightmares got me up, temporarily…]

    Very good article, by Lt. Col. James G. Zumwalt, USMC (Ret):

    Islam: The Golden Rule Debate We Neglect at Our Own Peril [topic of debate at Oxford Union this year]

    http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/islam-the-golden-rule-debate-we-neglect-at-our-own-peril?f=must_reads

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      June 2, 2016 at 11:23 am

      LTC Zumwalt is not a coy writer when it comes to Islam. Despite being a son of Admiral Zumwalt he’d be ‘retired’ under Obama for his Truth in Islam writings.

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  8. sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
    June 2, 2016 at 8:27 am

    Lovely photo, Stella! My kind of place. ❤️

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  9. sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
    June 2, 2016 at 8:28 am

    Happy Thursday everyone. 😊

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  10. Pam's avatar Pam says:
    June 2, 2016 at 9:27 am

    Ooooohhh, I’m getting so mad. I have to either see the one dermatologist we have today or go to ER, and I don’t want to go to ER. HIs office is supposed to open at 8:30. They still have voicemail saying go to ER, or the phone rings endlessly with no answer.

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

      I hope you can get hold of them. It is so frustrating when you need help. I got an infection around a tooth and needed a periodontist. I called my insurance company because I couldn’t find anybody in their network local. It took all day of calling (while I was crying from the pain) and I couldn’t even find out how much they would cover. Every name they gave me was no longer with that company. Finally they found one in Tampa and said it was only 20 min from me. I checked, it was 45 min through some very nasty traffic. I finally gave up and went to a local guy and two weeks later I got a letter the insurance company that they would pay $25 of the $500 IF I had gone to somebody in their network. I was glad I didn’t use them because I had to go back 5 times and this guy was local. I would only have saved $25 which probably wouldn’t have covered the gas back then.

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      • Pam's avatar Pam says:
        June 2, 2016 at 10:27 am

        I know. Some horrid thing is on my skin and it keeps growing. I tried every OTC I could think of. It may be something very common, but I’ve never seen anything like it. Maybe some fungus, but it could be immune-system related so I can’t take my RA shot in case it is. I guess it’s the ER for me. At least my insurance should cover it. Ugghh, it’s so nasty.

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        • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
          June 2, 2016 at 11:02 am

          Have you tried looking it up on the Internet? I am not suggesting instead of the doctor, but I like to go in having some idea what it might be. Sometimes it gives you more fuel for questions to ask the doctor.

          And, sometimes it can help you keep the doc on track. I took my little doggie in to the vet when she got stung on her leg by a bee. It swelled really fast and she was hurting. He told me she was limping because of arthritis (which she probably has) and that the swelling was from arthritis. He wanted her to take some arthritis medication, etc. He did give her a shot of cortizone………….to help the arthritis. He just wouldn’t listen. She doesn’t normally limp, and after the swelling went down she didn’t limp anymore. I now ask for the female vet when I go in. SMH

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          • Pam's avatar Pam says:
            June 2, 2016 at 11:19 am

            Yeah, we looked and looked. That’s what gave us the 3 separate ideas of what it might be, then trying the suggested ointments, etc. I barraged it with different stuff. I don’t want to intrude on the thread talking about my health again. What is freaking me out is where it is and that my son was here for a couple of months. I was doing his laundry, then found out he has STD’s and I don’t know that I even know all of them (except it’s not HIV). My mind keeps wanting to go there….so I just have to go and hope they know what it is. Gross out!

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            • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
              June 2, 2016 at 11:46 am

              Oh, my. I hope you find out for sure and it can be treated easily. 😦 My mom developed what I have to call a type of rash (even though it didn’t look like one) on her bottom. The doctors couldn’t figure it out and sent her to an anal surgeon to get a biopsy done since it looked like cancer. That is a whole nother long terrible story. FINALLY we took her to a dermatologist and he took one look at it and told us what it was and gave us the cream to treat it with. The cream did the trick and it did finally get better, but she had suffered for months before we got to him. She was about 90.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        June 2, 2016 at 10:53 am

        A rather good analgesic for a bad tooth is oil of clove, usually can find it at a good pharmacy. Some smart-cookie dentist set up an emergency clinic locally, you go in, he hems, haws, gives you a big bill and a return visit with the promise of an even bigger bill. Luckily, if it’s a problem, my dentist can just about always find a way to fit a patient in. We ain’t totally gone ‘big city’ yet.

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      • SwissMike (formerly ZurichMike)'s avatar ZurichMike says:
        June 2, 2016 at 3:14 pm

        I understand that periodontal maladies often have as a cause the intake of gooey cinnabuns. I’m not a dentist — just sayin’. 😉

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  11. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    June 2, 2016 at 10:16 am

    Beautiful morning Stellars 🙂

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    • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
      June 2, 2016 at 1:43 pm

      Pam, I just read that article from the link on Drudge (otherwise would never go to Salon!) and wondered the same thing.

      BTW, I am a family practice physician assistant who does a lot of dermatology. If you want to email me a photo of your skin problem, I may be able to give you an idea of what you are dealing with. Most derm issues do not need to be in the ER. My email is thetundrapa at yahoo dot com.

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      • Pam's avatar Pam says:
        June 2, 2016 at 4:25 pm

        Thank you so much, Tundra. I went to the ER. They say, due to my puny, suppressed immune system I have a massive case of candida, which I could not fight off. I kept trying to tell them I had other increases of my whacky symptoms, queasy stomach and digestive problems, more headaches, worse fatigue than usual (which is hard to do) and that I was on Enbrel. They kept brushing me off, until the doctor came in and took a look. Then it all changed around a little. It would make sense, taking into account my body issues. Now I just have to face taking a new med, fluconazole. I have a whole page of meds I can’t tolerate and I never know when I start something new what will happen. I imagine this might be strong. But, if they’re right, then I can do the things I need to do, and it could have been a lot worse. I sent you an email, no pic yet. Maybe you want to ask the mods to remove your address? I don’t know how you feel about putting your email out in public, and I surely appreciate your kindness.

        Lol – the doctor took one look, just from one side, and backed up 3 feet!

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        • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
          June 2, 2016 at 5:44 pm

          Oh, no. That’s a terrible sign. 😯 Or, a scary one for you, at least. 😦

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          • Pam's avatar Pam says:
            June 2, 2016 at 7:02 pm

            Nah, he was just a chubby young guy. I don’t let them get to me for doing stuff like that. I was just sitting there, saying to myself “I knew all this other stuff going on had something to do with the skin thing.” And it did. So now hopefully I can knock it out. Meds, yogurt and probiotic time! I may get sick when it all starts dying. Yuck.

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            • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
              June 2, 2016 at 7:45 pm

              OMG You poor thing. I really feel for you. 😦

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            • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
              June 2, 2016 at 10:57 pm

              Pam, systemic yeast is an ugly thing, but the good news is that fluconazole is usually well tolerated by most people. I hope that goes for you too. Eat lots of plain yogurt! And keep us posted on how you’re doing. (I’d still like to see a photo)

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              • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
                June 2, 2016 at 11:05 pm

                Anything that makes an ER doc back up has to be interesting. (And generally, “interesting” is something you’d rather not be in medicine.)

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
        June 2, 2016 at 10:34 pm

        Hey Tundra would you mind if I sent you a pic of mine? I am about to give up on my regular doc, an all around excellent guy. But I have something on my leg that will not go away, and I’m about to try to go to a dermatologist I guess. It’s driving me crazy and I literally keep it bleeding a lot.

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  13. doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:
    June 2, 2016 at 1:45 pm

    The old Bat is about ti give a …screech… on FP.

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  14. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    June 2, 2016 at 3:46 pm

    Shepherd Smith just said that a jet that did a flyover at the Air Force Commencement crashed. Obama was giving the commencement speech. (He just can’t do anything right)

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      June 2, 2016 at 4:26 pm

      Plane was a F-16, part of the AF Thunderbirds demonstration team. Pilot’s OK and no ground casualties being reported.

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      • Pam's avatar Pam says:
        June 2, 2016 at 4:29 pm

        I’m glad to hear that.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          June 2, 2016 at 4:36 pm

          So am I. As my Dad was AF I’ve watched them since they flew the old F-84s. I was at Hill AFB when obe of their F-16s lost power and crashed. Pilot could have ejected but the plane might have crashed into a nearby town so he rode it down to ensure it went down in a vacant field – pilot died but no one on the ground was hurt. Was worried that might hsve happened here too.

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          • Pam's avatar Pam says:
            June 2, 2016 at 4:39 pm

            I remember seeing them at the old Hunter AFB in Savannah, where my dad was stationed. They are fantastic. I was privileged to be able to see the AF Memorial in Washington, DC.

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            • Pam's avatar Pam says:
              June 2, 2016 at 4:40 pm

              My dad was flight navigator in the bombers that flew from England over Germany, WWII.

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                June 2, 2016 at 5:43 pm

                Mine was a waist gunner on 17s. I never appreciated what the crews went thru until late 1990 when I went up to Andrews on an invite and a civilian groupnwas restoring a 17 as a display. It was amazing, the plane was ribs with a thin skin. Whole inside was open to the atmosphere, I always wondered why my Dad had saved those sheepskin gloves, coat and pants they wore – temps at 30-thousand feet, even simmer, won’t great.
                Put a crewmember’s chances of living through the pre-1944 25-mission limit as one-in-four (number of missions was increased to 30 in ’44) and you can appreciate why so many 8th AF were heavy drinkers. They had the highest mortality rate of any unit in WWII.
                Inside of B-17 was small and most folks don’t think that all of those bonbs you see fallingnout the bomb bay doors are stacked in racks inside the plane, from floor to ceiling, not a lot of room to move around. Add all of the other stuff that had to be carried in the fuselage, well-padded crew members..damn tight and uncomfortable for an eight hoyr flight.
                Noisy too, those turbocharged engines were powerful, very noisy and just a few feet from that crew cabin with precious little more than that thin skin berween thr exhaust pipes and the crew. Let’s not forget the noise from the multiple .50 caliber machine guns firing too, I can clearly hear my neighbor fire his .50 rifle over a thousand feet away, imagibe 11 or more each firing at about 500 rounds a minute all around you, just feet away. Oh yeah, air temp in the plane’s probably around 20-below zero,or better.
                Hats off to all of those bonber crews.

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                • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                  June 2, 2016 at 5:51 pm

                  Apologies for editing but iPad was going ape, dropping in and out of wifi, so it was a choice to get this out before it crashed and I lost it all.

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                  • Pam's avatar Pam says:
                    June 2, 2016 at 6:56 pm

                    That’s so interesting. Thank you. I didn’t get to hear my dad’s stories. It turned out that he didn’t spend much time living with us, really just a few years when we were little kids. Parents had problems. I wish I could have known more about that part of his life. He even got deployed to Libya after the war. I have a picture of him standing along a sea wall.

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                  • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                    June 2, 2016 at 7:29 pm

                    No reply space, Pam, had to move up here. He probably was at Wheelus AFB in Tropoli, Libya

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                • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                  June 2, 2016 at 7:56 pm

                  Songs the airmen sung in WWII. Oscar’s got others but the wording may not be acceptable to all, here are two less ribald:

                  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Eg_sc5DXc

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                  • Pam's avatar Pam says:
                    June 2, 2016 at 9:46 pm

                    So cool! How bad are the others? I don’t faint unless it’s really awful. I think my dad flew on B-24’s. Would that have made him 8th AF? He did have a booze problem. I didn’t know because I didn’t really see him, but much later in life he visited me once and told me. He was so stubborn that he went to AA apparently, but argued with everything they said and apparently tried to do it by himself. I found his AA book with pages he had written on, arguing with the book. I had my own by then, and didn’t argue with them. I’ve always loved the movies and books with the American soldiers in England during the war.

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                  • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                    June 2, 2016 at 10:30 pm

                    Geez, outta reply soace again, Pam. Yup, if your Dad flew in northern Europe he was most likely in 8th AF, thry also had a number of B-24 bomb groups as well as the B-17 groups. BTW, if you want to get ahold of his military records you can get copies from the National Personnel Records Center. Every surviving 8th AF crew member I knew was a heavy drinker, damn hard goingbthru sonething like they did, knowing you had almost a 75% of bring dhot down and killed, maimed or become a POW, and not do sone drinking.

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    • Pam's avatar Pam says:
      June 2, 2016 at 4:27 pm

      The Curse.

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    • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
      June 2, 2016 at 5:24 pm

      Thunderbirds fighter jet crashes in Colorado Springs after flyover at Air Force Academy graduation

      Article mentioned that the Blue Angels dropped one today, too – no reports on that pilot’s condition.

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  15. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    June 2, 2016 at 6:20 pm

    Uh, oh, Obama wants to expand and increase SS. He must be planning to give it to more illegals.

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  16. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    June 2, 2016 at 6:31 pm

    Not sure how Vine works here.

    😎

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    • Pam's avatar Pam says:
      June 2, 2016 at 7:04 pm

      That’s David French??

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        • Pam's avatar Pam says:
          June 2, 2016 at 9:58 pm

          I don’t even think I’ve ever heard of him, maybe the name somewhere. Are these people cuckoo? He is the third-party rumor? It makes no sense at all.

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      • Ad rem's avatar Ad rem says:
        June 2, 2016 at 7:39 pm

        I thought he looked a tad like a ferret….until i googled ferrets, and found them to be kinda cute.

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        • shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:
          June 2, 2016 at 9:09 pm

          Cute, but very mean. I had one hanging out at my place a couple of years ago. I heard a rabbit scream and ran outside to see what had happened. The weasel was standing over the rabbits body. I rushed over in typical summer wear; shorts and flip flops. I thought maybe I could save the rabbit, but alas, he was dead. the weasel ran off a short ways and stared at me. He then waltzed right up to my feet, grabbed the rabbit and walked off. I realized I was not properly dressed for this encounter.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          June 2, 2016 at 9:21 pm

          And thry both stink…

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    • Ad rem's avatar Ad rem says:
      June 2, 2016 at 7:38 pm

      Yep….clearly it’s all the fault of white people who have an inability to make responsible decisions.

      “The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible. Forget all your cheap theatrical Bruce Springsteen crap. Forget your sanctimony about struggling Rust Belt factory towns and your conspiracy theories about the wily Orientals stealing our jobs. Forget your goddamned gypsum, and, if he has a problem with that, forget Ed Burke, too. The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin. What they need isn’t analgesics, literal or political. They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul.”

      https://ctn-politics.com/2016/06/02/what-bill-kristol-doesnt-want-you-to-know/

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  17. doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:
    June 2, 2016 at 7:22 pm

    I am not kidding. There is some bird outside in the trees calling. He sounds just like an old telephone ringing. This is not one of my jokes. I wonder what it is? He is way up in the tops.

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  18. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    June 2, 2016 at 7:53 pm

    What a slimy, self-righteous, whiny “I’ll vote for Trump” piece of self-aggrandizement that wretched globalist Paul Ryan wrote.

    Paul Ryan: Donald Trump can help make reality of bold House policy agenda

    http://www.gazettextra.com/20160602/paul_ryan_donald_trump_can_help_make_reality_of_bold_house_policy_agenda

    Go to hell Paul Ryan go to hell.

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  19. Ad rem's avatar Ad rem says:
    June 2, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    Wonderful news! The missing Japanese boy has been found. 😀
    http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/02/world/japan-search-for-missing-boy-downsized/

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  20. michellc's avatar michellc says:
    June 2, 2016 at 9:30 pm

    Nothing like your first mess of green beans for supper. Me and my daughter picked 3 – 5 gallon buckets today. So several hours of picking, snapping and putting up beans in the freezer today.

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    • Pam's avatar Pam says:
      June 2, 2016 at 9:55 pm

      What a great way to spend the day with your daughter. I love home-cooked, fresh green beans.

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:
        June 3, 2016 at 12:14 am

        Cooked with lots of bacon grease and salt pork. Can’t have them too healthy. lol
        Although supper was probably one of the most healthy meals we have around here. Grilled chicken, green beans and salad, strawberry shortcake for dessert.

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      June 3, 2016 at 11:36 am

      Oh yeah, nothing like fresh green and yellow beans, I even eat some coming right off the bush. Mine aren’t in the ground yet, decided to ‘stage’ planting so that everything doesn’t come in at the same time but I’m particularly looking forward to fresh, hot cucumbers and poblano peppers right off the vine.
      Going out to till around and fertilize fruit trees, another thing to look forward to is fresh tree-ripened fruit.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:
        June 3, 2016 at 12:24 pm

        When I was a kid, we grew so many green and yellow beans that we ate them every day and then from the freezer all winter. And I had to pick.

        I really did and do appreciate fresh from the garden fruit and veggies. I was spoiled as a kid, and didn’t know it. We had apples, plums, pears, grapes, raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, peaches, apricots, gooseberries, cherries (and more than one variety of most fruit – 3 kinds of grapes, several apples, cherries, plums). Some we grew, and we had a neighbor who had bees and grew fruit as a hobby – and he shared the bounty!

        Then, there was a big vegetable garden.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          June 3, 2016 at 12:41 pm

          The big lie is that you can schieve a healthy diet by eating the veggies sold in grocery stores and restaurants. Many are grown in soil that’s lost a lot of the micronutrients nature putbthere and are needed for a healthy end product. Commercial fertilizers are heavily applied but whole they support growth they don’t necessarily suport a healthy product. Also, many produce products are picked unripe and allowed to ripen on the way to market or held in an unripened state and artificially ripened at a later date. Not good for taste or health, this goes a long way towards that difference in taste between individual items from the same bin.
          Our Ag folks do our soil tests for a pittance and we can get micronutrient tests too, our soil’s been amended with kelp and is a buffet for thebplants. We’ll be out there, salt shaker inhand, picking our garden in a few months. Right now the squash are the big things, they’re filling their rows and headin’ for the onions, they’re happy campers.
          Forgot how much I mised real vegetables until we moved back out to the country where we can grow them.

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:
        June 4, 2016 at 9:50 am

        My grandson was grabbing beans out of the buckets and eating them. He also pulled a carrot and ate it, dirt and all. They aren’t quite big enough to be pulling yet, but he doesn’t care about that. lol

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  21. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    June 2, 2016 at 9:34 pm

    Obama explains working white voters to wealthy California RATS, everything old be new agin’..

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/21/obama-dusts-off-his-cling-to-guns-or-religion-idea-for-donald-trump/

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  22. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    June 2, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    Bad day for US military precision flight teams, Blue Angels F-18 crashed and the pilot was killed. Pilot was practicing for an airshow to be held at the Smyrna, TN airport and was killed when the plane went down on takeoff. Smyrna airport was previously known as Sewart AFB, my last AF active duty assignment.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/06/02/us-navy-blue-angels-jet-crashes-in-tennessee.html

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    • Pam's avatar Pam says:
      June 2, 2016 at 9:54 pm

      Oh, sad. This was AF day here. I wish it didn’t end like this.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        June 2, 2016 at 10:31 pm

        Both services losing aircraft at bases I was stationed at and on my birthday is too freaky.

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        • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
          June 2, 2016 at 11:03 pm

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        • Pam's avatar Pam says:
          June 2, 2016 at 11:16 pm

          It’s your birthday??!! Did we miss it here? Happy Birthday!

          I’m not going back up to that margin comment, but thanks for the tip on getting my dad’s records. I think I may do that. He was a stranger just about, to me. As an adult, I could see he had some issues but it was all fogged up because of my mom’s enmity. She was a not-well person. At the end, when he was dying, my husband and I were able to go to Baton Rouge, where he had lived for many years. His house was in horrible shape, bugs and trash everywhere. White walls were mustard yellow because he had smoked so much. We took care of him and got him to the hospital. He had heart failure and was on oxygen. He almost died in the car while we were driving him. I didn’t know how bad it was. I was so glad I was able to go, and bring our adopted baby girl, his only grandchild. He got to hold her and it looked like it meant something to him. AA had taught me I had to let go of resentment, and I actually discovered I had, by the grace of God. So it was good that we were there, although we had to leave before he actually passed. We thought he would go to a retirement home, but he didn’t leave the hospital. So we went back.

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          • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
            June 3, 2016 at 12:01 am

            {{{{hugs}}}} This made me cry because I loved my father so much. I am glad you were able to forgive.

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            • Pam's avatar Pam says:
              June 3, 2016 at 11:13 am

              Thank you, aus. Honestly, I don’t think I had it in just my own self to forgive. I had turned my life over to God and prayed for years, because that’s what God says to do – forgive. But it wasn’t like I had this love for a person feeling flood into me. So, until I went, I didn’t really know. What happened was that I was able to just be good and do what I needed to, and I saw I had no more hate or great pain. It was a more detached sort of compassion, which is what it needed to be, because love is in the relationship and we never had one. I know what not having a good father figure can do in a girl’s life. I did not grieve, as you obviously would have. But there was peace. The most important thing to me was that my brother’s “wife” was able to get a priest in to talk to him. The last thing I said to him was that the angels in heaven were watching over him.

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            June 3, 2016 at 1:51 am

            We all start out thinking our lives and our families lives will be sort of TVish and too often we look back and there’s a wake of debis behind us. Vety few families are Ozzie abd Harriet, trust me. At least your Dad got to go out with a sense of family, many don’t, and that last few hours or even minutes can go a long way to paving over some of the the ruts in the road for all concerned. And at least you all had the chance.
            Google NPRC, I do believe they have an online application form you can fill out and I believe they’re still in St Louis though I’d heard they were planning on moving. Be patient, they have to dig through a lot of stuff, but they should eventually get you what they have,
            You can also buy a membership to Genealogy.com, they have an amazing number of personnel records. Once you find his WWII unit(s) you can Google them to see if they have any unit organizations and if/where they hold reunions. Might want to write to them or even go to a meeting to get information.

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        • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
          June 2, 2016 at 11:18 pm

          Well, happy dang birthday, czar! How come you waited all day to tell us??

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          • Ad rem's avatar Ad rem says:
            June 2, 2016 at 11:37 pm

            (Obviously…I took the cake outta da oven before it was ready.)

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            • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
              June 3, 2016 at 12:07 am

              I made a cake once. Iced it before it cooled. When I came back in the room the first layer on on the plate and the second layer was on the table. Pretty funny.

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              • Pam's avatar Pam says:
                June 3, 2016 at 11:18 am

                I made a cake from scratch once. I was excited. It was going to be great. I was never much of a baker. I don’t know what I did wrong. I followed all the directions, I thought. The cake came out flat as a pancake. And it was a birthday cake for someone. I just had to turn the embarrassment into a big joke.

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        • lovely's avatar lovely says:
          June 2, 2016 at 11:41 pm

          Happy happy Birthday Czar !

          I hope you had a pun day 😀

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            June 3, 2016 at 1:59 am

            Ah yes, Czarina went to our most favoritest custom meat shop and bought a couple of fantastic dry-aged steaks, finely marbled with birthday suet.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          June 3, 2016 at 12:11 am

          Happy belated birthday, czar!

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        • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
          June 3, 2016 at 1:03 am

          Happy birthday!!!

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    • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
      June 2, 2016 at 10:40 pm

      A little stroll
      down memory lane.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        June 2, 2016 at 10:45 pm

        Five months after the date of this film Inwas at Sewart where we were develoing the LAPES/PLADS cargo drop systems for the C-130 and transitioning pilots from the C-7A aircraft to the C-130. Oh yeah, memory lane.

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      June 3, 2016 at 12:04 am

      Happy Birthday, Czar. 😀

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  23. Pam's avatar Pam says:
    June 2, 2016 at 11:28 pm

    OK, Birthday Fairy, my birthday is August 29. And I have never had a surprise birthday party. So this is a subtle hint…..

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