Sea Fever
By John Masefield
I must go down to the seas again
to the lonely sea and sky
And all I ask is a tall ship
and a star to steer her by
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song
and the white sail’s shaking
And a gray mist on the sea’s face,
and a gray dawn breaking.
I must go down to the seas again
for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call
That may not be denied
And all I ask is a windy day
with the white clouds flying
And the flung spray and the blown spume
and the sea-gulls crying.
I must go down to the seas again
to the vagrant gypsy life
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way
where the wind’s like a whetted knife
And all I ask is a merry yarn
from a laughing fellow-rover
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream
when the long trick’s over.
Stella's Place 
And all I ask is a windy day
with the white clouds flying
And the flung spray and the blown spume
and the sea-gulls crying.
In my experience, very few (but memorable) days are like this …
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Something like this?
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More like this:
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Oh yeah, and that Edmund Fitzgerald thing up in your neck of the woods…why I prefer to fly over the oceans rather than float on them.
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That was November in Lake Superior.
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It was more water than my bathtub
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That was near here:
http://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/
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Oh yummy, a plsce where I can go to contemplate the last few horror-filled moments of ships’ crews as they futilely fight to save themselves from drowning in a cold, dark and storm-wracked sea. AND they have snacks!
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There’s this one too – Federal Government this time – Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. There are LOTS of shipwrecks, many quite old, at the bottom of Thunder Bay.
http://thunderbay.noaa.gov/maritime/glmhc.html
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I love museums. I miss taking my son through them. One of my favorites is the one at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Because my father was in the Navy, I was always interested in Naval history. So, to see so many of the artifacts that I had seen in pictures as a child was just thrilling. I would love to go back there one day.
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Nice. I would like to visit that museum.
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There are several maritime museums in the Great Lakes. Another in Michigan is the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle in Detroit. I believe there is a new museum in Toledo – the National Museum of the Great Lakes.
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Bring the kids too! A non-stop parade of vacay attractions featuring a ‘fun boating’ theme. Sounds like a great concept-commercial for vacay timeshares in Arizona.
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If I recall, it was the hatches, not secured correctly.
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Morning Col. 🙂
The faulty hatch theory is one of the theories that has been disproven.
30 foot waves and wind at 45 knots, the Fitz met its demise in a storm that was big even by Great Lakes standards.
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Thanks, I will have to update my memory bank. The storm is exceptional for the Great Lakes….
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It is always a risk for the big ships to cross Superior in November. The relatively warm weather, cool air coming down from Canada …http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/apx/presentations/Great_Storms_woNotes.pdf
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That is part of the theory, but it is not known for sure.
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Morning Stella, thank you….
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Pretty much just another day if Florida.
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I can’t speak for Florida, but the conditions on land are not always the same as the conditions on the water (or good conditions for sailing, for that matter).
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True.
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Or 28 August, 2005 when the Gulf roared into St Bernard Parish and on into eastern New Orleans. Or on the same day when it picked up the floating multistory casinos in Gulfport/Biloxi, lifted them clear off of their mounting posts, carrying them up and over US Hiway 90 and dumping them on the north side of the road before washing miles inland and crashing over the I-10. Yup, those were memorable days…
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Did you save the poker chips?
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They’re all tagged to a single casino, you can’t use ’em at any other casino nor can you turn them in to the owners of the relocated casino. Main souvenier I have is the unforgettable varieties of stench the city had in its various stages of drying out and composting. I swear I still have some of that ubiquitous dark gray dust in my sinuses.
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I still recall the various stenchs’ that I have been exposed to……..never really goes away.
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I know exactly of which you speak
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My brother was living in Hattiesburg, MS…all that way up. They even got it. I remember the pics of the casinos.
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Just north of us on 59. They strongest gust recorded in Katrina wasn’t in New Orleand or on the coast, it was at Poplarville, Mississippi, just about 45 miles south of Hattiesburg and about 75 miles north of New Orleans. A forecaster in NOLA told me that the highest wind recorded in the city was about 114 mph at a bouy in Lake Pontchartrain. I think he was trying to preserve the mantra that NOLA was hurt the worst by K as he said that he’s sure the windspeed measurement would have been higher but the bouy broke. BS.
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San Jose, sanctuary cities, and the strangling of free speech:
The Perversion of the Law
“What Americans need to realize is that these ‘protester’ are not protesters at all, they’re domestic terrorists who will not be placated except for silencing those with whom they disagree. Their presence is a threat to ordered liberty in the United States and the more they’re allowed to assault Americans, the more embolden they will grow in intimidating Americans from taking part in the political process…”
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Agree with this, it’s pass time to stop this. Now it’s rent a mob, third world mobs, all brought too you by The U- Party, and 50 years of tearing down the Values………….
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Its all part and parcel of their plan to end the Republic. Here is another part of their plan.
http://forum.maxvelocitytactical.com/forums/topic/why-the-fed-cant-raise-interest-rates/
We live in interesting times.
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It’s not necessarily about ending the Republic for many of the groups and persons. It’s more about personal power and wealth. Destruction is just a means to attain or keep it. For the most part it’s all individual efforts towards the personal end goal and they unintentionally interfere with each others method.
Laws have been passed since the beginning of the country trying to stop these people, but they keep trying about every so many years. 1790s, 1840s, 1880’s, 1910s, 1960’s and then Clinton got in.
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I have come to see it much more from this point of view. As you infer, the individuals do form groups, and different groups morph in and out, making coalitions with other groups when it is expedient. I get a feeling that most of them don’t necessarily hate the U.S., a republic or the idea of freedom. They just don’t care about the ideology of it. It’s all checkers on the board to them. If our ideas are getting in their way, though, then it’s problematic. Some of them — if they could just turn most people into some form of robot serfs to get the various forms of work done…I think they wouldn’t mind at all.
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It’s actually the same type of people that had no problem selling and trading another human being as a slave. They’ll say and use anything and anyone to get rich and keep their “earnings”. They condemn slavery at the same time they are creating slaves.
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After more than 46 years, United Methodist Church reverses anti-Life position on abortion.
http://privatehealthcarereports.com/after-more-than-46-years-united-methodist-church-reverses-anti-life-position-on-abortion/
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2016/05/27/united-methodist-church-backs-off-abortion-n2169836
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Amen and hallelujah!
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My question is why now? Almost 50 years. Damage has already been done. Are the PR optics just too bad? Just cutting off from one group isn’t enough. I know, some will say it’s better than nothing.
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Better late than never, I say. There are still a few church organizations that support abortion on demand. One fewer church is good.
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P.S.: I think that ultrasound, and the earlier and earlier viability of infants, has something to do with it.
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I’m sure those two things have had a lot to do with people changing their minds about abortion.
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I agree, Stella. And until we can eliminate abortion-on-demand, I totally support a requirement that any woman demanding abortion must view the ultrasound of the child she desires to murder. Denial is more than a river in Egypt.
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I think it reallys ays something that the pro-abortionists are adamantly opposed to women having to see the ultrasounds.
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Absolutely.
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I believe they should have to view the ultrasound and have to watch an abortion video.
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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)
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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! 🙂
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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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Yummo! Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Breakfast! Thanks, Nyet. Mornin’ Nyet, everybody.
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Good morning Ausc 🙂
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Thank you, Nyet! Sure beats the slim fast I had this morning! 🙂
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Thank you Nye!!! Mid morning snack!!!!!!
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That first platter is a ZurichMike breakfast for sure. Although I suspect he will fling the toast frisbee-style at punning patrons.
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Excellent breakfast, replete with toast so that the Colonel can make bacon sammiches to go.
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Scroll…scroll….scroll….. FINALLY!!! BREAKFAST!!! 😀 😀 😀
I can’t concentrate on blogging ’til I’ve had me some vittles. Thank you Nyet.
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Always welcome, Queen Puddy!
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It’s wonderful to have one’s regality confirmed! 😀
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LOL
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https://twitter.com/Conservative_VW/status/739791325365739520
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Maybe Kristol will pack it in and go home, but probably not. His kind will continue to try to tell us little folks how it’s gonna be.
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Again and again these losers show that they have no shame. Kristol is dangerously out of his mind, no different than Beck. Beck and Kristol should start their own party “The Loon Party”.
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Well, “The Loon Party” is very apropos for them!!! 🙂
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It’s his career. As long as he’s making money, maybe. What is hard for me to understand is why so many of these types and politicians CAN retire and relax and do other things, but they just want to hang in and hang in forever. Ego and power just don’t make enough sense to me, when you’re getting much older and have to be getting a little tired and slowing down. For example, Rush Limbaugh doesn’t make sense to me. Tying himself down to that 3-hour gig? I absolutely do not believe he only does it out of some idea of “helping” the people or the country.
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I found the BB video of Pat Buchanan that was in Lovely’s post above. It was the McLaughlin Group I think. I haven’t watched any of these news programs in years. I was totally shocked. Except for that one young man, the rest of them look horrible! Pat stood out because he looked fabulous compared to that woman and McLaughlin. I couldn’t even take one minute of watching them all yapping. For crying out loud — go find something nice to do with the rest of your life!
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Lots of men are like that. A couple of guys I used to work with are still working in their early 70’s because they like it, not because they needs the money.
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You do know retirement is a relatively new thing in human history? Maybe about 120 years old. It’s a socialist thing. As a business owner, I intend to work until I drop thank you very much.
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Then slow down, I don’t want you dropping too soon……
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My hubby says he will work until he can no longer work because working makes him happy and young. He can still work circles around many men half his age. I’ve never been able to keep up with him.
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My husband was a workaholic and felt like some of you here. He said he was going to keep on working well into his 70’s, or until he dropped. He’s a very strong, hard-working man, no matter what he’s doing. He changed his mind at some point. He did not run his own business, and maybe that had something to do with it. It could have been those last years of working for the feds. Now he is into so many different things. He is very much appreciating our new environment, our woods and watching the clouds gathered BELOW us on our hilltop, going out and messing in the yard, building stuff, researching solar and construction projects and other, more weird ideas. Right now he’s putting down laminate flooring, and refused to even think of having a professional team come in and just get it over with.
Lol, he once dug out and fixed a sump pump in the basement of one of our single woman friends. Her brother was there, working with him. The brother was 20 years younger. He went to his sister and said “I am in good shape (he has his own working tree farm) and I cannot keep up with this guy.”
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Good for him. He will live a longer and happier life if he keeps that up. My father stayed very active lived to be 91 and he would still be alive if he had not developed lung cancer from smoking heavily for 40+ years.
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I guess some retired people quit working and go downhill or lose interest in life. I never thought that kind of thing would happen to us. We have always been too interested in too many things. It is not happening to my husband. He’s got more ideas spinning in his head than he can possibly do. It used to almost drive me crazy when my health began limiting my activities. I am enormously happy for him that he can now go and do what he wants to, as long as he isn’t going into orbit with too much far-out stuff, which happens occasionally. 🙂
Years ago, we had The Plague of the Red Mist, which happened one day when he decided to spray-paint our front door red by opening it into the front hall against the inside brick will and began spraying away, no plastic, no drop cloths, no nothing. Instant impulse resulting in instant action. Lol! That was a day when I didn’t talk…I screamed.
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OMG I know exactly what happened. How long did it take to clean that up? 😯
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I’ve talked to my husband about at some point letting the kids take over the business or selling it because he’s going to get too old to keep doing the manual labor. He always looks at me like I’ve grown two heads and says, “I’ll let you know when I got one foot in the grave.”
We really have two businesses when you consider the farm, so his day doesn’t begin or end with the business that pays the bills. It’s what makes him who he is. He’s worked for others since he was twelve until we started our own business several years ago.
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I’m sure there is much ego involved in their sticking around, but also enjoying the power it gives them to influence others. Trump has greatly diminished their influence, in my opinion. He has shown us that many of the talk radio/Fox news commentators/”Conservative” websites/authors, all have agendas in place to appear that they are conservative, but they’re not.
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Mornin’ kids!
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Well, now you done drug that one in, what’s next?
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“With a “snort-snort” here……and a “gobble-gobble” there……
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“Here a pig…there a pig…everywhere a politician…”
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… at the trough. 😉
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“…on a spit.”
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… and there
they be. 😉
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Mornin’ WeeWeed! Good one – and it should particularly appeal to czar and ZM.
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Mornin’ Stella!
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“And look, each one’s showing me its Democrat!”
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!! I see your hat has changed, Patient has returned to Duty! Good, now make sure all HIPP forms are correct, submitted. Well done!!!!!
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Mornin’ Colonel! Meh – he can shower by himself – I said, “good enough”…… 😀
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Good afternoon WeeWeed 🙂
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Afternoon Lovely!
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Mornin’ Wee! Your nurse hat’s gone, did hubby survive your tender ministrations?
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He can shower on his own, now. My work is done. 😀
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On the run here but I thought you would find this interesting.
http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/28166
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It rained gloriously here last night. I have tinnitus and the ringing in my head is so strong I can’t hear many things. But when I can hear the rain, it means it’s raining hard, and I go to the door in my bedroom that opens onto a little porch and open the door so I can hear it better. This morning, my husband opened that door and said “oh listen to the birds!” I said what birds? I went to the porch and could hear them. It was wonderful. I saw a bright red bird sitting in the trees, very close. At first I thought it was a cardinal. I put my glasses on to see if I could tell. I am very familiar with cardinals, and I think it was not. Isn’t there some very red, smaller bird with black markings? That’s what I think I saw.
My husband wants to put those little microphones outside and run them in through the TV sound system. He can do it, but it would have to be way down on the priority list. He’s got all those speakers. When they’re set up, I am in the middle of a huge sound experience.
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Check with an audiologist not connected with a hearing aid sales outlet. There are some blocking devices that use white noise which may help. I have it from too much exposure to loud noises including gunfire. It’s generally permanant, results from damage to the inner ear but you can mask it. I also find that listening to classical music through good quality padded headsets helps mask it and, at least in my case, helps deminish my perception of it for a while after I stop listening.
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Yes, hearing specialist is on my list. I’ve had it over 30 years. I have learned to mostly ignore it, except when it will start screaming sometimes. I have been thinking they should have developed some sort of help for it maybe.
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Yeah, I married one but it didn’t help, matter of fact she’s probably responsible for part of the noise damage I have now. OWOWOWOWOWOW…..
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While She’s applying mercurochrome to the contusions, I still suggest an audiologist in an ENT’s medical office as opposed to one in a hearing aid sales center.
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Czar, I forgot to tell you: “INCOMING”……..
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ONGOING!
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Lol. I know enough not to go to a hearing aid sales center. They’re always sending me mail.
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Some of them are sneaky, just sayin’. Some places advertise ‘audiologist’ outside lika a piece of tasty cheese on a trap. I have a audiogram done by a trusted soecialist, who’s also skilled in applying mercurochrome, that I take with me for comparison. I sorta feel like I do when I take the truck to that tranny store (no, not Victor’s Secret) and tell ’em ‘ I got a small noise in the back’.
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I went with a friend to one of those places. Her audio test showed she was very hearing impaired and I expected the same. But, my test came out perfect hearing. She did get hearing aids and they helped her. I did remark to the tester that my friend rarely said “huh” to me when I was talking even though other people complained. The tester said it was because I have a very loud voice. So, she didn’t need to use them when it was just the two of us.
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Therefare many reputable (disclaimer) hearing aid sales places there are a few ‘transmission repair’ ones too. I’ve been told by more than one that they could ‘cure’ my tinnitus or who gave me ‘less than accurate’ hearing test. Those hearing aids can be expensive and it ain’t unusual to get oversold, I know I’ve been pressed.
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That is why I was surprised after my friend was diagnosed with her hearing problem to be told my hearing was perfect, even with the tinnitus. She actually wore the hearing aids for several weeks before I realized she had them in. And, if there was ever a problem with them, she went back to the same place and they fixed them. They also provided all the batteries.
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I will not be fooled. 🙂
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I hear ya…
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There was a discussion here a little while back about the birds singing. We have some where I am. Our birds are mostly black birds, a hawk, ducks, mocking birds, sea gulls, cranes, pelicans, and some small white birds. Very few songbirds, though. But one night right after that discussion I kept hearing these noisy songbirds and they just went on and on and I thought “how nice” but when I finally woke up in the morning I realized the power had gone off and back on, and it had reset my “white noise” machine to spring sounds. Ha, ha.
I have tinnitus, too. I finally realized that is why I keep the TV on all the time. I can ignore the ringing if there is something else to distract me from it.
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That’s funny. I like my air purifier running, fans running and I used to listen to ocean sounds at night to go to sleep. The bird sounds mixed in end up irritating me though.
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I set mine at spring rains, so it is just a continuous rain sound. I also have an overhead fan running, too. I had a neighbor who was noisy at night for a while. The neighbor on the other side said she just put in ear plugs. That won’t work for me because all I hear then is the ringing in my ears.
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Ear plugs don’t work as the damage isvinternal, matter of fact for some plugs amplify the noise. I have a set of noise-cancelling hearing protectors I wear at the shooting range, they immediately closevoff when the outside sound reaches 85db. You can set the amplification at a safe level somyounwon’t miss normal outside sounds and at a certain level there’s enough of an amplification of wind, rustling leaves, et al. that itcactscascwhite noise and helps cancel out the tinnitus. Great when sitting outside with a drink and a book.
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I manage just fine right now, but it is getting louder and I probably need to check into those noise-cancelling hearing protectors.
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My wife seems to have a problem with her hearing as well. I might be in the middle of saying something and my wife will interrupt and start talking about something else altogether.
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My ex-husband did that all the time. He would actually interrupt me in the middle of a sentence and start talking about something totally unrelated. Another thing he did was to start telling me something and turn and walk away while he was talking and I couldn’t tell what he was saying. He used to say I had a hearing problem.
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Yeah, but I can’t use the cast-iron skillet cure like you.
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LOL
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Lol…my husband will do this. It’s his ADD though. He is not a rude person. He tried to explain it to me, what’s going on in his brain. It races and does other things, like a hurricane of thoughts all happening at once. It is quite a burden and very difficult for him. He knows he goofs up all the time and his brain doesn’t work quite right in some areas. He is super-intelligent and can grasp extremely complex issues. Electronics, math, systems, computer programming that most people don’t even know about, theology, etc. But his everyday life, interacting with people, is fraught with land mines. Before he found out about his ADD, he would blame me and say I didn’t say something I just said to him. Thank goodness that stopped, because of course it would get me very angry.
If we have a serious conversation, where he HAS to only concentrate on one subject, it actually wears him out, mind and body. If it’s a long talk about something unhappy, like one of our kids ruining their life, he will eventually say “I can’t do this anymore right now”, and he has to have a little nap even sometimes. I have seen it so many times. I finally figured it out, because even knowing he has ADD didn’t get into the nitty-gritty of these types of things. I used to ascribe bad motives to him. I will be in the middle of saying something to him, and he will just walk out the door of the room. I had to learn he is not being a jerk. If it’s really important, I just shock him out of it by saying something. Otherwise, it’s not worth it so I wait until he comes back.
Just writing this down made me realize how many times I was actually tormenting him, because I’m like a dog with a bone when something serious is happening. I want to talk and talk until something is resolved or made clear. That’s the general advice – talk it out, but not yelling and screaming. He literally could not deal with it after a certain point, but I didn’t know that and thought he was just running from it.
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My husband was passive-aggressive. We went to 5 different counselors who all said this. And, they all told me he would not EVER change. They were all right.
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Passive-aggressive is a more usual reason for these kinds of things. It’s almost impossible for me to deal with passive-aggressive people anymore. I really, really dislike that behavior.
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I’ve found that can also be the result of something totally not related to a hearing problem…
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Search ‘electronic hearing protection’ at Amazon. They have some good adjustable volume sets to try at good prices. I have some from there I use outside with the machinery or while quietly sitting on the lake shooting beavers and nutria. Price is such that I don’t sweat using them in dicey work.
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Thanks, I will go look right now before I forget.
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I avoid the “summer storm” setting. It is too riddled with crashing thunder. Not good to sleep by.
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Send it to Stella, she can play it come sleepy-time at the Edmund Fitzgerald Motel.
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I have one of those machines, and I love the summer storm sounds, thunder and all!
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I do too, but not to play all night because the thunder will wake me up. 😦
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Don’t need one, Czarina snores…..OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW
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Is there a tavern men’s restroom or cow/rock setting?
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Why, no, I don’t believe there is.
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Men’s room at the old ASA building st Ft Meade had a tin trough as does the truck stop out of Louisiana I use for lottery and super smoked pork sandwiches.
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Flat rock, convex rock, concave rock….just a timbre of the question thing.
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Absolutely wonderful photo, Stella!
I get Mondays off, now. A day to regrow the skin on my fingertips.
Pam, the microphones outside idea is a neat idea. I’ve got birds living on the entire outside wall of my building, which is old and has lots of missing bricks for nests. Morning is a symphony, starting quietly at about 4 A.M., building to a crescendo by 6, and bursting into cacophony by 7.
I would consider doing that, were it not for the many dumpsters and frequent car alarms.
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In NOLA we had a starling that lived around our house (had one that lived inside too but that’s for another time) who’d learned not only his species song but other local ‘sounds’ too. He had a neighbor’s car alarm down pat, ditto our squeaky gate hinge and a few other audio fixture sounds. Poor thing probably couldn’t call up a gal and that’s why left, though there were rumors he left as he got a gig at a local club.
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In Boston, on the commons, they had the cellphone-ring down pat, same with the babeep of Motorola’s ubiquitous push-to-talk sound.
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I never knew how great a mimic starlings were until we had one living inside. It had my wife’s little allergy-related dry cough down to a ‘T’.
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My cousin had a house wrein build a nest just inside their garage door. After the eggs hatched, they had to wait at night until they were certain she was back in before they could close the door for the night. LOL
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A yearly occurrance here. We leave one door on the triple bay open all day unles we leave or it’s raining. We have nests in all nanner of boxes and things inside the garage. When we leave the blackdoor to the garage we have martins that fly through the garage nailing wasps and deer flies that congregate by the front doors. We have a stack of three-foot sections of 4-inch PVC wevusevforvspecislmplanting stacked in ricks out back. All summer long various birds nest in them, we had them stacked by the clothesline but had to move them a we’d get attacked while we hung clothes.
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“…we use for special planting…” I have not idea where the (bleep) that came from.
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I’m just appalled that you have a blackdoor.
What, the main door ain’t good enough for “them people”?
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That was the ‘diversity autocomplete’ that comes with my iPad. Note that the blackdoor is 43-inches white.
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LOL
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Where you been Wooly??? I’ve had this little number sitting in the cellar for four days now. You can run….but you can’t hide! 😀
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That’s beautious, Puddy! And a belated Happy Birthday to Wooly!
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Happy Birthday to Wooly!
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Happy Birthday Wooly!
May all your birthday wishes come true 🙂
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Happy Birthday, Wooly!!!!
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Awwwwww…..ain’t my species cute! 😀
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Best could do on short notice,
Happy Birthday, Wooly. 😉
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A little background music. 😉
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LOL Impeach, thanks. I think.
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LOL thank you, Puddy!
That’s a wonderful cake! I’m not going to ask how you did that.
I wouldn’t ask Copperfield how he made that Statue disappear, either.
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Thanks, all. That was only somewhat unexpected.
As of the 2nd, I’m halfway to 90.
I’m thankful that I made it this far, and kinda surprised.
{{Stellars/Treepers}} <– big hugs.
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Happy Belated Birthday, Wooly. 🙂
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Happy Birthday!
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Thoughts? I kind of agree:
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/145456082991/my-endorsement-for-president-of-the-united-states
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It’s a beautiful bit of sarcasm, well written.
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It’s masterful play, on a lot of levels, by Adams.
Of course, I believe that if Democrat Nominee is elected, many millions of us will be seen as worthy of extermination here, by supporters of Democrats — with nobody in government to stop it.
If Republican Nominee is elected, many millions of us will be seen as worthy of extermination here, also by supporters of Democrats — with the off chance that Republican President will have the option to stop it.
Rock and WE a hard place.
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Whatta ya mean ‘if a Republican nominee is elected…’? We’ve been seen as not only worthy of extermination but downright in need of such for a long time. When the forces of darkness had their asses handed to them by eight years of Reagan they regrouped, started importing hoades of welfare-dependent mercenaries and began the process of eroding our culture in ernest. A number of anti-culture groups like La Raza and CAIR have been calling for the cultural and physical destruction of our European selves for decades now, a movement that picked up speed under Clinton and went into warped drive under Obama.
History’s rife with examples of quislings who’ve opened the gates for the barbarians, hoping that they will be saved when the vandals trash civilization, only to end up in the soup themselves when the invaders run out of bouillon. Problem is that instead of taking the uncomfortable lessons of history to heart the RATS feel easier just rewriting it into something more palatable. See you on the ramparts.
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I don’t know anything about Adams. The rest of what you said, I agree. I can’t see a way that this election will not end up producing some big reaction. The pot is boiling over.
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Cartoonist. Did/does “Dilbert”.
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That’s all I knew about him. I’ve never read his articles.
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He writes articles?
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Yes.
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Not to get caught up in a double sarcasm trap, but I was attempting sarcasm.
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Dilbert.
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If someone has the time, I would appreciate being given an explanation of how this sort of thing Adams did is a “masterful play.” I am not being sarcastic. I don’t think I understand this very well at all. How do these various pieces of sarcasm work? What is the purpose? Is it intellectual game-play? I would assume it’s more than that.
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I think part of it is the fact that Adams has a large audience. You or I could have written and tweeted the same things and almost no one would have responded (outside of being un-followed).
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Adams was being facetious. He has been pro-Trump for a long time.
Here he is simply illustrating the absurd by being absurd.
“I endorse Hillary Clinton so I don’t get beaten up or set on fire” is not a very ringing endorsement.
One of Adams’ recent tweets
Adams’ is doing his best to persuade people to vote for Trump who are not being reached through other avenues of argument. Adams whole deal is the art of persuasion.
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Exactly. Since, for many Americans, dialectic simply doesn’t work, he uses rhetoric instead. Satire is one element of rhetoric.
People’s Cube is full of wonderful examples.
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OK, I like People’s Cube. I get most heavy sarcasm. I get satire to some level, apparently. I appreciate it. This may sound dumb, but I don’t care. So when Adams says he is 100% serious, he’s not? He is or is not going to vote for Clinton? This is where I’m stumbling.
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If you read him regularly, you would get it immediately. Read one or two of his other articles about Trump.
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Wooooo Hooooo! Under a proposed rule change the VA is looking to start offering gender reassignment surgery to vets! No word whether this is due to a new and improved touchy-feely era there or just a way to cover their butts in cases of urinary tract surgery gone bad, but in an agency with a better vet death rate than Khe Sahn I think they might improving lower on the scale before expanding the menu.
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It will be interesting to track the wait times for gender reassignment surgery, etc., for the VA.
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They will “fast-track” those over all others.
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That’s exactly what I would expect………since it is sooooooooo important.
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It just makes me want to throw up.
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“No no no, sergeant, I asked for a combat-ready KLINGON!”
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Is it Sergeant or Sargent? I always thought it was Sergeant, but I’ve seen Sargent around. Is it both? British/American?
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Sergeant is correct, Sargent is a city in Nebraska
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Watchin’ “Pirate Radio” this a.m. Awesome sound track……. 😀
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See you guys later. Soon, I’ll be trekking off to the new doctor. What kind of doctor will he be? Not all nervous this time..just tired and wish I didn’t have to go. But I have some good questions for him and maybe it will go well.
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Said a little prayer that the doctor will listen closely to you and help you. 🙂
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What kind of doctor will he be?
Doctor of Philosophy in English (Literature) perhaps?
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Or Doctor of Philosophy in History American History……..
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Very funny. Where’s that iron skillet??
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The Liberal human/potato conundrum.
Humans are all just a jumble of interchangeable parts but veggies are supposed to stay the way Mother Earth made them.
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I don’t knoooooowwwwwww. My squash are sneaking over towards my walking onions….may have a Monsanto Moment any moment now. “Look doctor, it lives AND self-flavors!”
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Squashing onions in the making.
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Or squash so tasty they make you cry.
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Yellow squash sliced up, chopped onions, cook in skillet until tender, salt and pepper. Good!
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Just recently I was at my cousin’s, and she said she was going to cook squash and onions. I made a face and she said to try it. Well, she breaded it and fried it and it nearly made me sick………………because I couldn’t quit eating it until it was all gone. It is one of my favorite treats to fix. LOL
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I watched “Lydia” B (on PBS) fix zucchini yesterday. She sliced it very thin lengthwise into planks, dipped them in egg and then in flour, then fried them. After draining, she rolled them up with a bit of capers. They looked delicious.
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http://lidiasitaly.com/recipes/egg-battered-zucchini-roll-ups/
AND
http://lidiasitaly.com/recipes/squash-ricotta-tart/
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Roger that, will do. It’s just that I went crazy in the squash-seed isles. I got a real yen for squash soup using different types of squash, baked squash, zucchini/peppers/tomatoes/onions out of the garden. Then we start over with the aforementioned with various sausages. I’m trying not to think about the work involved…
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I love the zucchini/peppers/tomatoes/onions thing, and add in some eggplant too!!
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I sorta went crazy with the squash this year, over 180 feet of it. No Idea why I did that but it must have seemed like a good idea at the time.
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Two recipes posted (above). When the time comes, we can have a recipe thread – let me know!
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Speaking of mutations,
here’s a hearty sample.
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Love it 🙂
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TAKE THAT, Atkins…
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Wash Post’s that Hillary’s got the nomination sewed up, let’s see if she goes for Comrade Bernieski as a running mate, troika for the price of won.
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Gingrich certainly has taken an interesting step in chastising Trump about his remarks about Curiel.
Honestly IMO there is no reason for Gingrich to say anything about Trump’s remarks other than, “Look everyone knows that Trump is speaking about Curiel in particular, because of Curiel’s behavior and affiliations, not Mexicans in general and that is all I have to say on the subject.”
Or Newt could remind the bastage talking heads that it is Obama who made looking at the ethnicity of judges vogue.
Obama on Sotomayor;
“She’s been on people’s lips even before the election because she’s generally well regarded and you can’t ignore the fact that she’s a woman and a Hispanic”
I suspect that even Newt for all his political acumen, all of his leadership skills and intelligence doesn’t get Trump nor can he pivot to Trump’s world because he can’t accept that the old rules do not apply because Trump is not afraid of the press or of his political foes. Can Newt possibly think that the press is going to get the best of Trump? Nope. Newt is too smart to believe that so Newt is reacting as if Trump is pedestrian rather than well….Trump.
Newt was on a show a few days ago and said something along the line “If you want me to part of the landing I need to be part of take off, part of the process. about Trump. It immediately raised my eyebrow for two reasons 1) Newt sounded petulant 2) Petulant or not I think it is a legitimate quirk that Trump faces.
550 businesses and Trump is the sole owner or controlling partner? I think that is unheard of. Even Trump’s children say in a joking way that their dad has to have the last word. And look at those kids and the marvelous empire that Trump has built by using that personality and having to have the last word to his advantage.
Newt did say that Trump is aware that his personality is big and that he needs to have his walls penetrated to hear others views if they are in opposition to Trump’s own thoughts. Newt also said that he has given Trump advice that Trump has taken, and advice that Trump has not taken.
Hateful psychopaths and ignorant ideologies aside I think “Team player Trump” may be his biggest hurdle to election day.
Back to the Mexican judge, one thing that is absolute known at this point is that there is no way in the world that Trump mentioned Curiel by name without knowing he was publicly going to war against a federal judge.
I’ve yet to see Trump lose a battle let alone a war.
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Newt who? Anyway, it’s interesting that Trump took this course. It’s all too convenient that his Universitybgets hitvwith acsuit right now and that it gets a Hispanic judge, who makes even the liberals smile, for different reasons. . Let’s see how the Feds use this all- too-convenient suit to smear Trump and, more importantly, keep him off the campaign trail and potentially gag his speaking on the trail. I’m curious as tonwhy itvtakes murderers many months to get a date in Federal court while Trump gets red carpet treatment. Then again, could this be a cover to,lrtnHillary slide on her treason-lite charges?
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The Class Action Suit was filed on October 18th 2013, as far as I know Judge Curiel has been the presiding judge the whole time. For many, most, the vast majority of cases the case would have been dismissed when Plaintiff Zero was forced to withdraw from the case given her statements recorded both on video and on paper.
That, other than Curiel’s activist affiliations and association with the Clintons, is what Trump first complained about. Summary judgment out the door for the case and the Clinton attorneys can refile with their new team of rag tag plaintiffs on a sunny day.
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Ummmmmm…if it were anyone else than a lawyer looking to be POtuS, a RAT one at that, in a largely RAT system I might, juuuuust might, call it coincidence. There are no coincidences in major league politics in my book, and when this mess comes to court just in time to screw with Trump at the convention and in the post-convention campaign……
Now all we need now is some redneck, American Nazi Party Christian Identity guy with a ‘Death to Zog and the Mud People’ bumper sticker on his smokey old pickup truck to take a shot at Trump with his semiautomatic assailt rifle he illegally bought at an NRA gunshow. THAT would be a coincidence, especially if he were immediately shot by an NoI member who just happened to be standing in the right place.
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The case is in hiatus until after the election. Nothing is happening right now other than Trump sticking his finger in the eye of the Mexican judge. The case was already before the court and Curiel put the trial off until after the election but before inauguration 🙄
Politics? You betcha.
Just unfortunately for Judge Curiel Trump is going to slap him about until one after another people start saying ¡Ay, caramba! Trump got Curiel off the case. What is this sorcery?
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If I have this correct, Hillery started in on the University thing, and I think Trump decided he needed to dispense with it. Evidently he felt that it could do real damage to his campaign. I don’t know if the judge released those papers before or after Trump made the charges about him being an activist, but he must have felt it was going to be held over his head.
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Curiel released the documents after Trump lambasted him by name. I’m not sure that Trump thinks the case can hurt him but lies about the case and an activist judge can hurt or distract him which is why Trump came out swinging.
I still can not believe Curiel hasn’t issued a gag order in the case.
Lindsey Grahm has un-endorsed Trump 😀 I think he thinks it is like Facebook and Lindsey is like a teenage girl friending and un-friending folks in accordance with the phases of the moon.
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A case like this is like a grenade with thevpin removed and the dude holding it saying: “It’s OK, I got my hand on the handle.” To emerge so prominently at just the right time for Clinton is not coincidental.
As I’ve raged on about before, the Feds visciously and aggressively attacked a group of NOPD officers about two separate shooting incidents during Katrina multiple times over about a fivevyearbperiof AFTER they been cleared a couple of times in state court. It was admittedly a purely political thing, a group local media heads unsatisfied with the state’s verdicts banded together and stood on the DoJ’s doorstep demanding the state jurys’ verdicts be nullified by the Feds bringing them up on civil rights charges. The state jurys find them not guilty but the Feds say that even though the People say nothing happened the State says something did. A dozen or so cops’ lives were ruined career, family and financially even though they were – again – aquitted and the Feds were found guilty of illegal conduct in the persecution of a Federal witch hunt.
The law in the Feds’ hands has gone from being a tool of justice to a weapon to attack Enemies of the State. Corrupt pols and bureaucrats (the growing ‘norm’) can bring suits/charges against anyone, ruin them personally and financially even if they are found innocent, using the threat of personal ruin as a tool of social control and confirmity. I know Trimp knows what’s going on and, on reflection, I’m wondering if his lawyers might have suggested he create a dustup so that if El Abogado de la Clinton didn’t voluntarily recuse himself they’d have a reason to move that he be forced to. Sorta like Trump building a wall between himself and the Clintonistas.
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All I can say is the second Trump called Curiel out by name my draw dropped. Trump knows exactly what he is doing.
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I have no doubt he and his legal team know what they’re doing, I’m just curious as to why he’s kicking the hornet’s nest.
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Me too.
My best guess is that Trump knows exactly what Hillary has in her quiver and he is taking the arrows out one by one lighting them on fire and watching things burn. Imagine a debate when Hillary or her minion moderator brings up Trump University and all Trump has to do is say “You mean the case that your friend Judge Gonzalo is presiding over, the same judge whose affiliates gave you hundreds of thousands of dollars, the same judge who fights for illegals to take American’s spots in universities at a real cost to American tax payers, that case? Yeah it is bogus but let’s talk about your affiliations with for profit universities.”
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“My best guess is that Trump knows exactly what Hillary has in her quiver and he is taking the arrows out one by one lighting them on fire and watching things burn.” LOL I think that is true. That is exactly what it looks like he might be doing. He also may have peeled off the Faux-Reps that were saying they supported him but were trying to push their agenda on him.
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The bed wetters have no idea what is going on other than that they have no control and they have no carrots to dangle in front of Trump. It really is new and terrifying territory for the Karl Rove Crew.
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I’m looking at this as Germany in 1932 except our fuhrer-in-waiting wears support hose and Kevlar foundation garments.
She and her browns are using every trick in the book to win as the stakes are either the democracy tottering along or her and her despots turning the country into a version of Czechoslovakia with better food. She’ll manage to keep the disparate racial groups at odds and fighting each other as she and her co-infection loot what they can. At the end of her reign she can retire to her personal Bathory estate while what she’s left behind devolves into new Liberia.
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:hands czar 2,000 gold for Cynicism training:
…
Sweet, I gained a level! A few years ago, I thought the level-cap was 10.
I’m at 16 now, wondering if there actually IS a level cap for the Cynic class.
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No room to reply Wooly (if I may be so bold as to use your first pseudonym). As for more levels to go, ask me on November 9th.
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Ace at AoSHQ has been on a roll the last couple of days, with many lengthy (and smart) rants about the double standard when it comes to discussing race and bias in America.
The Libs called Clarence Thomas a “race traitor” for NOT being sufficiently biased toward “his people”. They did the same with Condoleeza Rice, quite viciously.
The Left have no shame when it comes to their racism, nor their projection.
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It’s about solidarity. All solidarity is good except for white solidarity, that’s called ‘racism’. Thomas is an oreo that just needs intensive racial reassignment treatment from the BGI so that he can realize his true mission in life.
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Apparently the bed wetters at National Review believe that Trump did something akin to putting a horse head in David French’s bed.
Inside the #NeverTrump Candidacy that Almost Was
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436273/david-french-2016-never-trump-candidacy-inside-story
😎
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Speaking of dogs:
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🙂 Very funny.
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You know your phone is listening to you, right? Even when you’re not actually using it?
If I go to Amazon or YouTube, the first, sponsored results are ads for camera tripods.
I talk to my cat a lot. (His name is Tripod.) I have never endeavored to search for a camera tripod or any other sort online. And yet, there it is, unbidden, un-asked-for.
A couple of days ago at work, a buddy was joking with another buddy about a particular sex-toy which I will not mention here (shop-talk gets bawdy, breaking news), and an hour later, went outside and opened the browser on his phone, and immediately saw ads for that particular sex-toy.
In East Germany and Soviet Russia, people were paranoid about microphones and cameras in their homes.
Now we just don’t care, to the point where we purchase them ourselves, and keep them close by.
We BUY Big Brother. Strange days indeed.
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Most peculiar, mama.
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They aren’t hearing much here. The only one I talk to is my dog, and the occasional phone conversation with my daughter or a friend. I don’t have a smart tv with a camera (Roku and Sony BlueRay are “smart”), and the camera on my laptop is covered.
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P.S.: Don’t you use ad blockers?
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Not on my phone.
I talk about stuff in its vicinity, I get ads for it even on my PC and XBOX.
And the XBOX 360 is my YouTube machine. Youtube has top results above what you actually searched for, usually 2 or three, and this is unaffected by NoScript.
I should start talking out loud about door knobs or something for a while, just to test my wackadoodle theory.
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And XBOX doesn’t have ad-blocker capability anyway.
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I was going to mention that you write about your cat here by name, too.
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Indeed.
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I don’t have a smart phone so I guess I won’t have a problem. But, it made me think. I have the TV on all the time and so I would get ads for whatever they advertise on TV. You think?
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Wow, that should make the Amazon folks crazy if they could get the Xbox data. I can just imagine their ‘you might also like’ ad teasers: “You might also like a W84 nuclear warhead and .50 caliber zombie gun…”.
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I do believe I’ve mentioned this a few times, recently even. Government managed to turn on selected cells without user’s knowledge over twenty years ago, next were mics and cameras in computers, laptops, tablets and home entertainment systems and now they can hsvkminto your car’s computer and take control.
Hey, how about those folks who install cameras and mics in their homes for security, who’s listening and looking? Those bored guys monitoring the systems late at night peeking? Your neighbor’s geek kid living in their basement leering as he’s peering?
All those browsers saving your cruisin’ for sales to marketing folks? Use Google for anything and y’all be BFFs, especially if you use gmail. US Post Office is keeping a record of who sends mail to whom now so not even snail mail’s unmonitored.
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If the neighbor’s geek kid checked in on my computer, he probably put a sticker over his own receiver.
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Not so much what you have in your computer as it is being able to turn on the camera and microphone many computers have on board. That would allow the hacker to see and hear what’s going on within the coverage of the hackee’s mic and camera.
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Actually, that is what I was trying to say. If he checks in and sees me sitting there, I think that would stop his snooping.
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Discretion being the better part of valor I’ll just quietly slip out…stage right.
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LOL
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I heard that
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I’ve purchased musical equipment via Amazon, and then gotten ads for months for similar equipment on many sites.
Which I always thought was a stupid idea, since I already bought one.
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Say I buy a grand piano online.
I’ll get ads for grand pianos for months.
You idiots. I already have a grand piano.
It’s like what Menard’s used to do in there stores’ speaker systems. advertising Menard’s, complete with theme song.
Hey guess what, Menard’s! I’m already IN YOUR FLIPPIN STORE!
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Well there are folks who say you can never have too many grand pianos and if you have just one it may get depressed without a friend. You could get a mated pair and maybe have spinets….got all that from the Amazon ‘you may also be interested in…’ Ad.
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James Comey has the camera on his computer covered 😎
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Wonder if Molly Cyrus does…not that it matters.
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I laughed so loud I scared my poor dogs.
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Show ’em Molly and see what they do.
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Yeah. No, they are small but tough, plus someone might call the Animal Police on me for abuse.
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Yeahhh, right. Might wanna show ’em Lady Gaga, thst meat suit she wore should go over big.
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That they would like. Right now one is begging me to share a peppermint lifesaver I am eating.
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Crap..or words to that effect. After spending a good part of today sitting on and baiting an area for those problem hogs that have moved in, even seeing them prance in and out of the brush – I was set. I’d put some nice piggy chow out, the sun was down below the trees so the temp had dropped to about 82, I had some apple juice concentrate out … All was going well.
Thevset was on a site by the road up about 1/4 mile up our property line. I parked the ATV in thevdriveway and quietly walked upmtomthe hide….here come headlights down the road, stop right next to my set and the occupants watch my potential locker stuffers trot off into the brush. It was my neighbor, one of three, and it was just my (bad) luck they chose that minute to drive home.
Tomorrow’s another day…
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