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Hey, czar! Did you set the alarm yet?
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Right alarm, wrong time zone
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Good evening.good morning! A blessed Tuesday to all.
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Thank you Mary, and to you.
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Fell asleep.
Belated vid.
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Tighten jib sheet, main sail, stand to it……..great video Impeach……
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Exciting sail, but not the kind you can enjoy in a bathing suit with your feet trailing in the water over the side. This kind is exciting, because you can become airborne as you attempt to walk across the galley.
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One more time…..with feeling. 😀
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If I had a nickel every time the ex……….
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Now start throwing things at the back seat.
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😯 😯 😯
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Have a beautiful day folks 🙂
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BuzzFeed turned down $1.3 million in ad spending from the Republican Party
http://qz.com/700870/buzzfeed-turned-down-1-3-million-in-ad-spending-from-the-republican-party/
Online media outlet BuzzFeed has said “No thank you” to the Republican party’s ad money.
In an email sent to employees on Monday, founder Jonah Peretti explained that the website won’t accept money from the Republican National Committee for advertisements in its articles and videos because of presidential candidate Donald Trump’s offensive comments towards women, Muslims, and immigrants.
“The Trump campaign is directly opposed to the freedoms of our employees in the United States and around the world and in some cases, such as his proposed ban on international travel for Muslims, would make it impossible for our employees to do their jobs,” wrote Peretti.
Amazing how ignorant people can be and still have the wherewithal to feed themselves.
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Amazingly – even purposefully – ignorant. I am sure that Jonah Peretti is completely aware that the “ban on international travel for Muslims” only applies to non-citizens, and not to citizens or permanent residents of the United States, or those who are traveling here on a legal visa. As for “offensive comments”, none are directed towards Muslims who are legally in our country or those who legally go about their business, or towards legal immigrants, but to illegal aliens. The part about women is just ridiculous.
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“The part about women is just ridiculous.”
Rosie” O’Donnell isn’t even a woman.
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At times I ponder about her species.
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Didn’t Rosie star in Alien 3 ?
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They twist the world to fit their hate and then proclaim themselves moral fighters.
What a world.
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I used to get really, really depressed about it all. The absurdity, the evil, and the escalation of both. And the logarithmic, steeply increasing curve of it all.
Now it’s just interesting to watch, and to process…. and find the humor, and the hope, and the joy. And to spread that.
I used to do the opposite. Then God took my voice away for three months.
Now I sing at work.
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When I get discouraged I imagine the world the apostles and disciples faced, and the times of the early Church Christians. I don’t just mean the persecution alone, but also the boiling, simmering stew of the political climates.
We like to think times have never been worse, but I dare say one could probably not find a single century without horrid times. Earth has never been a Utopia, and it never will be. We screw it up over and over. Which leads me to one more complaint. I’m sick of the millenials, or whatever generation it it is, bitching about how the baby boomers ruined the world for them. Most of them haven’t even moved out of mommy’s house yet. Get real jobs, build lives, build society, build a family, feed the hungry, build hospitals, do anything. Get a life, then you can compare your generation to mine. Right now your lily soft butts are sitting down on the start line not even lining up for the race. You are in your safe places, condemning those who weren’t afraid to start the race.
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I’m sick of the millenials, or whatever generation it it is, bitching about how the baby boomers ruined the world for them.
I was surprised to learn the same things were said by Paris university students in the 1200’s. The difference between now and then is we allowed people to starve if they wouldn’t work.
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i’m good with that.
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Mornin’ kids!
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Good thing I hate turnips! Good morning, WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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At the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indy had to find the Holy Grail, and was faced with a table filled with 20 or 30 “Grails”. The real one was the mcguffin, the rest were poison. Most were quite opulent. The real one was the least-expensive looking wooden cup.
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US support for Sanders and the Gold-plated Dumpster Fire called Trump also prove the same wisdom.
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“Gold-plated Dumpster Fire called Trump”?
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to vote for the man.
He’s no Reagan.
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This isn’t the Reagan era. Trump may, or may not be, just the man for our times. At any rate, it’s him or nothing and it has been this whole election cycle.
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We’re down to Trump or the Wicked Witch of the Worst, it ain’t voting for the best leader but for the one we hope won’t turn what’s left of the country into a polyglot 3rd world wasteland. .
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Exacto mundo, Mr. czar!
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Afternoon Ms.WeeWeed, passing thundershowers, and I’m down to my last roll of fencing wire. An EQ ( early quit ) will not be in my future.
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Evenin’ Colonel!
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Good morning. Here’s a good read to start your day.
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/cgress/the-warrior-king-who-saved-europe-from-islam
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I asked a buddy of mine yesterday whose side he was rooting for when he watched Braveheart, the Mel Gibson film about the invasion of Scotland by England.
He said “Wallace and Scotland, of course.”
I told him that was a microcosm of the Crusades.
Less than a hundred years of English rape and pillage… versus seven hundred years of Muslim rape and pillage.
The USA wouldn’t exist had the Crusades not defeated Islam. And, in 1492, when Columbus sailed the ocean blue, Ferdinand and Isabella also threw the last Moor out of spain. I’m sure it’s a just a meaningless coincidence. 🙂
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Excellent article, Menagerie.
The long-neglected Western value of reasoning (almost destroyed by leftist cultural hegemony) urges us to criticize and understand that Islam – an increasingly organized and powerful civilization – shows little or no tolerance toward the Western society and the values for which we have fought for centuries.
Islam as a 7th century political and religious ideology is a threat to humanity as a whole but the novelty about it is that it is no longer limited to one geographical territory. It no longer respects borders. And the greatest difficulty is that it doesn’t only come from outside, it is already here – in the heart of the West.
It is, however, never too late to wake up from this sleep and to act like Sobieski by showing our enemies that the free world will not give in to violence and oppression.
Our very survival depends on it.
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Menageri or anyone else, my Godfather used to talk about believing that 666 of Revelation is an approximation and that Islam was actually the “Beast” and it would surge within sixes 7th century, 13th and 14th century, and now the 21st century will be the last surge. Biblical time of course lasts centuries between reigns and happenings.
Pope John Paul the Second said that this will be the century of religion or it will not be.
My research has gone no further than some surface Googling but I’m wondering if anyone else has heard or has any insight into this theory.
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Morning all! Have a good Tuesday!
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Medical Expert Confirms Unborn Children Feel Excruciating Pain During Abortions
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/05/18/medical-expert-confirms-unborn-children-feel-excruciating-pain-during-abortions/
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I don’t know how anyone could think they don’t feel pain and for those who don’t maybe they need to have their limbs ripped off and see if it hurts.
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Even better proof, from a few of weeks ago is this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/04/26/bright-flash-of-light-marks-incredible-moment-life-begins-when-s/
Watch the video. Nobody can explain it.
They’re undoubtedly working on just how to bulls**t us about it though…
That is, if simply burying this discovery doesn’t work.
Also here are more videos:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=flash+of+light+sperm
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Wooly, I can explain that flash of light, it’s your soul as my Lord touches each and everyone of us.
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels)
( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Blackberry wine)
(Backdraft)
(Jack Daniels)
(B52)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
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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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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Oh, thank you Nyet. Good morning everyone.
I am in Central Fla. and it is raining off and on. I was not prepared for a storm and I have a bad knee since last week and can hardly walk so I can’t drive to the store. The real problem is I ONLY HAVE ONE SLICE OF BACON LEFT. Yikes! This is an emergency. I have to get better prepared.
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Mail order?
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Ooh, I hadn’t thought of that. If I can’t get out tomorrow (and I probably will be able to) I might just do that. Glad you mentioned it.
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It’s usually more expensive (because of the shipping costs), but also usually better!
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I’m just used to doing everything myself and can usually do that. But, bad knee+ rain + wind was not a good combination.
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I know – me too. We have to use whatever means work for us.
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I always hate in between hogs and we run out of bacon, which is always the first thing we run out of, and I have to buy store bacon. I have a local butcher who sells meat but he has weird hours and it never fails his hours and my need for bacon are never at the same time.
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LOL
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Some Publix stores deliver now. Just a thought.
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I wish there was delivery service from the supermarket in this area. I would LOVE that!
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Yes, if I get in trouble again, I will try to remember that. I think I will be able to go out tomorrow. Hopefully there will be a wheelchair for me to use at Publix.
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They also have those electric IDK what you call them, but you can sit in them and it has a place to put your groceries.
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Yes, that was what I meant, I couildn’t remember what they were called. They have lots of them in the stores here. Problem is, there are lots of people who need to use them.
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I just found out that there IS a delivery service for groceries here, and they use my favorite market!
Cost is $10 per grocery order – they shop, and deliver it to your kitchen. Pretty good deal, I think.
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If you could manage to just place one or two orders a month, it would be all right. Either that, or eat less to absorb the cost.
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Yes, it is. I am glad you found it!
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Me too. I wouldn’t use it all of the time, but it’s good to know that it’s available.
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Yes. We never know when life would make this very useful.
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I live alone, and my child lives in another state. My neighbors would help in an emergency, but I like to be as independent as possible.
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That is a good way to be, whenever possible.
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My situation is the same. My best friend who lived near me died last summer. I didn’t realize how much I counted on her to be there is I needed help. And, of course, I was there for her. I live in an apartment and have made a few friends, but they tend to come and go. So, this was a big wakeup call to me. I guess I need to think about what I would do if I did have problems getting out.
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Your town probably has services available; I’m assuming here that you are a “senior”. You might want to give them a call.
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Yes, I am a Senior. I will be 70 in a few months. And, I do need to see what is available here. I can ask my retired social worker friend. She can steer me in the right direction.
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I’m not sure of the best place to put this for people to see it but if you live around a Catholic Church most of them have St. Vincent outreach programs and even if you do not meet their income requirement (it is different everywhere) they will or should still help you find resources in the community, every St. Vincent that I have worked with has a list of local resources/agencies that serve the community and St. Vincent people tend to know about what is available.
Note: St. Vincent DePaul Society is independent of their St. Vincent stores they are only very, very, loosely associated and generally the Society has the resources and the store sends you to the Society. Oh and you do not have to be Catholic to get information from them.
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I donated to them in honor of two of my cousins upon their death, as it was their wish. I remember asking Menagerie about it at the time, and she highly recommended them.
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Some things of interest, perhaps.
http://www.safeandmobileseniors.org/FindaRide.htm
http://elderaffairs.state.fl.us/doea/nutrition.php
http://elderaffairs.state.fl.us/doea/programs.php
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also,
http://seniors.lovetoknow.com/Senior_Citizen_Assistance_Florida
https://www.google.com/#q=central+florida+grocery+stores+that+deliver
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Thank you. I bookmarked them. Who knows when they will come in handy.
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Afternoon Nye, could you put a plate on the warmer? Late night, ……..Thanks Nye!!!
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I know I’m late to breakfast…as always….but I thank you for keeping the chafing dishes warm. 😀
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Your table is ready….
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….oh, and the flowers are fresh! 😀
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Nyet, thanks for breakfast! 🙂
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😦
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/surviving-9-11-search-dog-bretagne-dies-age-16-article-1.2663692
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RIP Bretagne
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This is why some cultures are actually better than others.
Our culture honors even our animal friends.
Our culture reveres them as Angels.
I think they are, and that they just go home again, having served.
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I feel the same way.
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I sure hope they are something like that. I’m always asking God to let my doggies be there, if I get to heaven. They have given me unconditional love. When I am sicker than usual, they know and will get close to me and stay right beside me for hours.
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Look how sad he looks.
I actually believe some animals are actual, for-real angels, on duty on this plane.
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In an aside news piece on the search for survivors at the WTC they showed a tent where volunteers would hide under articles just to letbthe S&R dogs find them. Seems that with the massive death smells and no survivors/few bodies being found the dogs actually were getting depressed. Part of their therapy to keep them sctive and working was to stage an event where they actually could ‘find’ soneone.
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I saw the video. What a hero. Labs and Goldens have always been my favorite friends. Dogs never give less than 100% at everything they do.
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“Rainbow Bridge”
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Good afternoon, Stella’s Motley Crew. Stella, if you’re all into sailing, you should give us a name. Are you prepared for all this?
The doctor yesterday remains unlabeled for now. He’s the ? Doctor. He is young and good-looking. Not an issue for me, but I can just imagine some of the complications in his life. He did his residency at Emory…potentially a good sign.
He seemed somewhat abrupt at first, but there wasn’t that sense of total indifference or superior snottiness. It’s possible that, when he found out his cohort had paid no attention to my strong concerns about the skin problem, it ticked him off. I didn’t blast it out. He asked questions, and I answered. He was confused…I could see that. I explained the sequence of events clearly, but something wasn’t clicking right as he processed it. Then he left and was gone a long time. When he got back, he said “C*** isn’t in the office this week.” He sounded irritated. He didn’t even use “Dr.” but I don’t know him well enough to say what that meant.
I’m going to try him for my GP. All he wanted to do yesterday was check out the skin infection and see that it was responding to the medicine, as it is. Good news on that front! He said later we could do other tests if I liked. Dermatology and sports medicine are some of his interests also. If he knows sports medicine, he should know about trigger points, which is one of my worst issues. So….maybe.
Then the staff pushed me to going ahead and getting the 1 1/2 pages of blood work done while I was there. Never have I had so many vials drawn. I don’t faint or get wussy, but I don’t sit there and watch it all either. I heard her putting all the vials on the metal tray. A rain of clinking sounds. I think she ended up with 8 or 9. It went on forever. I looked at the end but couldn’t count them all.
The long ride there and back was what ultimately did me in. I was at Level 10 pain when we got home. I tried my best to not let my husband see it, but he saw a little of it. Will power is a great force, but sometimes it cannot do it all.
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Gee whiz. They drew that much blood. Gracious!
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Pam, your report of the new doctor sounds promising, and I am so glad the skin problem is improving. Hopefully you are tolerating the meds ok. Fingers crossed for you, my dear, and prayers said.
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Thank you. I think I’m doing ok with the med. People often look at me highly skeptically when I try to explain how I can sense things going on in my body. For years I even thought maybe I was just hypochondriac and had too much imagination. But I know better now. If I hadn’t acted on my sensing and gone to my PCP insisting there was something terribly wrong, I probably wouldn’t be here. I didn’t read the side effects list so I wouldn’t “imagine.” It made me fuzzy-headed for a couple of days, and it’s affecting my tummy a little, but I was so queasy before I started it, that it’s actually in better shape now. The area is shrinking like magic. Strong stuff.
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It’s an antifungal medication, I believe.
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Yes, it is.
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Wow, I am so glad to hear that it is acting so fast. I, too, am sensitive about changes in my body. I don’t share it too much, because, people sometimes figure you are nuts or a hypochondriac. Also, I discovered many years ago that pharmaceuticals are often too strong for me. I even found out that taking an extra strength aspirin makes my ears ring.
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An unfortunately common side effect of aspirin for many people.
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Tundra, do you work with homeopathy at all?
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No, mom, I don’t.
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That’s right, aus. I don’t go around talking about it, except very close friends, but sometimes I need to tell doctors something. They usually just give me the look. This stuff is getting clobbered…very satisfying feeling. Take that!!
Every time I have to start a new drug, I have about an hour of high anxiety. When I went to the ER, I took my list of allergic/intolerant to drugs. One nurse had to read off the list to the other newbie on the computer, who searched in the database. It took them a long time. Once I went to the ER and they gave me Tessalon Perles for cough/congestion. Two hours later, my husband had to grab me and hold me back, as I was screaming and getting ready to run out the door of the house. I went nuts.
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I was fully clothed.
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😯 I wasn’t asking.
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“The Look”. Yes, “The look,” I know it well.
My last doctor told me that I didn’t have a thyroid problem and that I had never had a thyroid problem because my tests come out normal. I was tested many times about 20 years ago and I went on Thytrophin by Standard Process, a natural substance. I have never had a problem with it and my tests have been all normal. BUT, he didn’t believe it. 😡 I have a new doctor.
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I just got a copy of “The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook” (2nd edition 1912). It’s doesn’t have the “What to cook for the sick” that the 1896 version has, but it’s still great.
Here’s an electronic copy of the first one.
https://archive.org/details/bostoncookingsc00collgoog
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Do you cook? Are you one of those guys who whip up great food in the kitchen? I couldn’t get the pages big enough to read. What do they say to cook for the sick?
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{snicker} Chicken broth, rice broth, oatmeal mush, hominy mush, beef balls, raw beef sandwiches. Yikes!
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Thank you.
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Chicken soup..I was wondering. Raw beef sandwiches? I think there was this idea of the red meat building up the blood, or something like that.
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There were some weird things in that list.
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I’m not really allowed to cook, since I cook American unhealthy things….. like breakfasts.
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Just the same, you put
out a great spread, daily.
Thank you. It’s appreciated.
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Could this be ZM,
seeking a bacon fix?
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The hair’s not right.
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Oh, that is neat. I will be reading some of that tomorrow!
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Well goooollllyyyyyy gee, you’d think that the government organization responsible for protecting us from terrorists would have viable guidelines for the conduct of their employees? Must have just slipped someone’s mind….
http://www.federaltimes.com/story/government/management/oversight/2016/06/06/oig-dhs-needs-policies-off-duty-drugs-drunkeness-and-prostitutes/85500984/
If they’ve protected us from hundreds of terrorist attacks while doing drugs, getting drunk and psrtying with hookers imagine what they could accomplish clean, dry and morally celibate. .
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Do you think there’s a big enough pool to pick from of “clean, dry, and morally celibate?” Not saying there isn’t…I don’t know.
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No, but they could stop winnowing in the stagnant end
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Czar, we need to take over this department.
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As I already said, after 911 I was tasked to work with them and ‘help’ in certain areas they said they were deficient in. After I left I applied for an ‘entry’ level position with them just to see where I’d end up on their lsdder only to be told that after nearly twenty years of intel experience, most of it at the EAC and national level, and 12 months of working with them and explaining equipment and processes, I ‘lacked the skills and experience necessary to get an entry level position.
Don’t understand that as I’d been partying hearty for many years before I applied, one would think my experience in drink, wenching and whatever would qual me there alone. DISCLAIMER: those years of wanton debauchery were long LONG before I met the dear love-of-my-life and grounding-factor Czarina. Ow….ok, only a small one…
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I’m assuming that you hadn’t spent enough time out in the sun to bake your skin darker, or else, were not speaking with a foreign accent.
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One of the big issues, as a friendly supervisor explained to me, is that certain areas like intel were reserved for ‘family’. Those already in the agency who’d reached the top of their particular field and were deemed worthy of a promotion, or someone who was just flat out deemed worthy/ready would be moved over to intel as it provided more room for promotion.
The agency felt that all they had to do was send whomever to Glynco for a few weeks of training and out would come a fully formed and polished James Bond. The Feds train an analyst, thry push said analyst out the nether end of the academy with a piece of paper saying the bearer is a fully functional analyst and that’s that. The motto: “close enough for government work” lives on.
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Not to different in the corporate world. In my experience many managers wouldn’t aren’t capable and wouldn’t be capable at lesser jobs. Some politic well, some get there because it was just “their turn”, some meet a demographic profile, some are the family deal you spoke of, and some were in the right place.
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Yet somehow we still bumble along. Amazing.
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Sometimes I used to wonder how much money a company could make if they actually had good management, given that a lot of them make money hand over fist with dumb ones.
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I’d just daydream about what it would be like to work in a place where the supervisory staff could tell its ass from a dinner roll…two out of three times.
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I’ve had that experience, but it never lasted long.
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I see it at almost every client with the new and improved HB1 visa worker aspect increasing everywhere.
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I’d like to see you and Col. Ken get in there somewhere and start whipping some you-know-what. As far as Czarina, can you please give the poor woman a break and stop provoking her?? Hmmmm? Tell her she has my sympathy.
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I don’t think that between us we could round up enough bureaucrat bleach to sanitize the system, whatvwe got’s what we got. Saving grace is that have enough competent people in the right places to guard the gates most of the time. .As for the Czarina – if if I didn’t provoke her she’d think I didn’t care.
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Lol! Whatever works is good. I haven’t seen someone write out “mercurochrome” in a long time.
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Yeah, US and a very few other countries banned it in late 90s as dangerous, if you drank 10 gallons of it you were in danger of mercury poisoning. Rest of developing world still uses it as its very very effective and unbelievably cheap to make.
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Whew. Burning the deadfall all day. Lucky no big limbs just branches. That was a good un last night. Water up to the ankles but I am up on block and it did not get in. All gone now. Hope everyone made it through the storm OK.
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We got at least 5 inches here by the time I got up this AM. I say at least because that is all my rain guage will hold and I don’t know when it became totally full.
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I got it all cleaned up and had a big fire going all afternoon.
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A fire? A fire? It was so hot here and muggy, it was hard to breathe outside.
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Glad you and Aus did. I have family in SE FL. Haven’t heard anything so I guess they’re fine. Howie, did you ever say what happened with the mysterious bird?
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It rained like the dickens here and the wind blew. (Actually I thought that was all pretty cool). I watched the old Humphrey Bogart Key Largo while the storm was going on outside my sliding glass doors and the bushes were being flipped back and forth. It was pretty cool.
I think the damage was mostly on the west coast around Clearwater, St. Pete, and Tampa. I could be wrong, but that is mainly what I have seen.
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I lived in Jacksonville area 6 years, and in WPB area another 6. I loved storms like that. I like being inside when they rage along, even lightning if it’s not too close. We went through one hurricane in one of those older FL houses with the window awning things that close down and bolt. There was a canal behind the house. It almost got in. It got pretty dark inside. The worst part was the noise and not being able to see anything.
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This wasn’t up to hurricane standards, but the plants and trees outside my 8′ sliding glass doors were whipping back and forth pretty good. But, I am in Central Florida, so it isn’t as scary here as closer to the coasts. I love those stormy days, too.
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He never came back. He was only here for one time up in the bi wateroak tree. But he sounded like an old time telephone. So, Ahhh dunno. There is a big bird that flys around over the trees with a swallow tail in the evening. As big as one of the Buzzards and black. But I do not think that was him.
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Let’s do a little trolling here…..
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LOL
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You got no bites?
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We’re gonna need a bigger boat….
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Memphis PD Officer Verdell Smith posted this picture online.
Three days later Officer Verde Smith was run over by a black male, Justin Welch, who was fleeing a triple shooting in a stolen car.
Officer Verdell passed away due to his injuries caused by the wretched thug.
Memphis Police Association President Mike Williams told WMC that Verdell Smith “sacrificed himself” to save others when the car came up on the sidewalk.
“He was trying to get individuals out of the way, because the car was moving very fast,” Williams said, adding: “It’s not going to be the same without him.”
It has been all over the news because of course Black Lives Matter.
Not.
RIP Officer Verdell Smith. Rest in peace we are going to take our country back.
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So sad.
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Really it is heartbreaking.
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Horrible!
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Yes it is. Sick upside down world.
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We had an NOPD officer die today, she was hit by a DUI as she was at the scene of another accident.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/06/nopd_officer_natasha_hunter_di.html
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So sad.
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This is about the third one hit in a year and most involve DUI drivers. Old guesstimate used to be that about 20% of the drivers on the road in NOLA after about 5 PM were legally drink. One of the problems in a city where its major industry and ethos is parrrtttaaayyyyyyy.
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Speaking of drunk drivers killing officers,
R.I.P. Officer Natasha Hunter
Police Officer Natasha Hunter succumbed to injuries sustained two days earlier when her cruiser was struck from behind by a drunk driver on I-10, near the Esplanade Avenue exit.
Officer Hunter was blocking traffic for another officer who was conducting an accident investigation when the drunk driver drove through cones and struck her cruiser. She was transported to a local hospital where she remained in grave condition until succumbing to her injuries.
The driver of the vehicle that struck her was taken into custody and charged with first-degree vehicular negligent injuring and reckless operation.
Officer Hunter had served with the New Orleans Police Department for 11 years. She is survived by her 5-year-old daughter.
I wonder when BLM will storm the streets.
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That’s the officer of whom I spoke. She’s joining a list of officers who’ve been have been hit while servicing accidents, too much of a booze emphasis here. BLM folks generally avoid cities like NOLA as the root cause of black deaths here is an embarrassment to them. Their emphasis is the few blacks killed by police or armed citizens responding to a crime and not the majority murdered by each other.
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Remember the terrorist attack in Paris at the concert. The lead singer said it was an inside job. That the terrorists were already in the building before the concert started.
“French Security Now Spooked by Very Religious Muslim Airport Staff
They keep Qurans in their lockers. Doesn’t everybody?”
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/french-security-now-spooked-very-religious-muslim-airport-staff
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Yeah, and they cancelled a few of the band’s gigs after that to punish his anti-Moslem remarks.
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Scary, huh?!
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While I know that DT “endorsed” her, I’m glad she got her *ss handed to her. Can you say buh-bye, Ms Ellmers. 👿
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/holding-wins-incumbent-house-clash-in-north-carolina-primary/ar-BBtZnNM?li=BBnbfcQ
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Yep, I don’t think he did his research on this one.
Politicians and their paid callers crack me up. This afternoon I got a call telling me all about our Rep like I don’t know how he has voted on certain bills and at the end I was asked for his support later this month. I said, “sorry he doesn’t have my support, I’m voting for his opponent. If he really put his votes where his mouth is and has been that would be great, but his votes haven’t shown he’s pro-much of anything you’ve listed. You can also ask him if that slop at the trough is what is making him reevaluate his promise to only serve 3 terms.”
She said, “thank you,” and hung up. lol
They, including him seem to never want to talk to me.
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Gee, I can’t imagine why.
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I have a voting list too and I never can get to it. I’ve even tried to be nice and quiet when he makes his town hall phone calls but as soon as I mention one darn vote mysteriously I get cut off.
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LOL
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Well, you don’t beat around the bush – and that suits me just fine!
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I’m getting too old to beat around the bush. lol
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I know what you mean.
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Refreshing, isn’t it? Maybe the Lord actually has modified my irritability factor. Or maybe I just don’t have enough energy to be irritable all the time at stupidity. Either way, I definitely notice that I have changed in my reactions. People and things at which I used to rant and rave, so worked up, I now note and just mostly move on. If it’s important enough to me, I will say what I think without dancing around. I’m just not so mad when I say it. When you’ve lived long enough to see the same things being said and done, over and over, just different faces….”there’s nothing new under the sun.”
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This was the woman every pro life group in America went all out against because of betraying them on the 20 week abortion ban. I know some of the organizations put money into defeating her, and the pro life crowd all around the country know this woman’s name.
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Does anyone recall using pine sap ointment called pinoline or pinorum?
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No. What is it for?
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It used to come in little brown glass bottles and it was used on cuts and cold sores.
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Ahhhh…….
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I think the last time I saw it in the store was in the mid 80’s
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Will pine sap do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjiT23eCu9Y
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I was trying to see if was still a product in the store in some other part of the country. I’m not laying in the woods or anything suffering from falling on a running chainsaw.
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I saw a blog reference to it, and they said it was sold in the south, but not recently.
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I found a box of cough drops from the 1890’s
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Antique-1890s-Dr-Halls-Pinoline-Throat-Pastilles-Paper-Label-Tin-Can-/152109825946?
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http://anyportinastorm.proboards.com/thread/4118
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That was great! I forgot about getting a q-tip swab full put on every mosquito bite. Smelled like a fresh Christmas tree.
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Found something….
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pineoline-Ointment-For-What-Ails-You-/112012199520?hash=item1a14728660:m:m_VyJYo3JV20v_1eNOFjDZQ
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Is that like black salve?
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I don’t recall hearing that name.
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Here’s a link to a site that says how to make it and what it is for. We used to buy it in tubes at the drugstore. I don’t know if it is still available, but it works great. Kind of messy, though.
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Oops! Forgot the link –
http://wellnessmama.com/8364/black-drawing-salve-recipe/
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This is what we used to buy. Probably still can:
http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/ichthammol-ointment-8239.html
ADD: I found it at Amazon. Rite-Aid sells it too, as does Watkins.
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Is it like this?
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Nah. It was pine sap that was distilled down to pinoline. I can’t even find a reference to it on the internet.
Since I remember seeing it in the 80’s I would of at least found a reference as to why it was discontinued. Like sassafras root was.
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Found it! Thank you stella.
http://www.pineolene.com/index.htm
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I’m looking at it’s list of uses, and one of ’em says “fish fins”. What the heck is that?
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It’s to rub on your fins so you can breathe water better.
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Getting cut by a fish fin. Especially catfish.
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Thank you, I was trying to figure it out also. I was picturing someone massaging it onto their ailing fish 😀
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Ditto….LOL
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From the website:
“The old time remedy will be remembered by many of the old timers of the South as Pineolene & Pineoleum. It was sold all over the South during the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, and through the 70’s – 80’s. Old records show that thousands of bottles were sold in the old country stores, drug stores, feed and seed stores. Also old records show that the United States Government purchased thousands of cases for Camp Shelby during World War II. I purchased the company from the previous owner in 1989. We are continuing the production of this wonderful product to this day. It is made the same ole way, one bottle of Pineolene at a time. It’s good stuff.”
This guy found the original man who made it in Hattiesburg, MS. He bought his company, which was not producing anymore. In the “Uses” section, it says “spoils infection”..lol. Several testimonials say “At’s good stuff.” (not it’s) I bet that’s how they used to advertise it.
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I wonder if it is similar to Tea Tree Oil?
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http://www.pineolene.com/history.htm
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I should have asked you first. The website is dated 2009. Do you know if they still sell it?
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No, I haven’t seen it in a while, might want to check with the company on the site. It most likely evolved from folks putting raw pine pitch on cuts or scrapes, something a few folks put here still do. Then again, harvesting pine’s still a big business hereabouts.
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The page lists a phone number and email address (order page).
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I sent E-Mail, but haven’t received anything back (yet). I may call later today.
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Let us know. I might order some and put it on myself and see what happens.
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I wonder how many thousands of dollars they spent to save a frog? I would laugh my rear off if they released it and had to watch a snake snatch it up. lol
http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2016/06/tree-frog-recovering-after-being-air.html
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Or a bird…..or a cat……
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Can you imagine what one of them would do if they saw my boys out frog gigging? lol
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😉
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😀
I thought Hillary supporters were going to be chasing the poor gazelle.
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Easiest dinner those lions will ever get. lol
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There was a spider somewhere in CA which stopped the construction of a highway.
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That probably had to do with the EPA. For over 20 years a town near my brother has been trying to build a new lake because they need a new drinking supply and the EPA kept stopping progress over frogs, insects, etc.
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All I remember is that construction had started a worker found a very special spider and the construction was shut down 🙄
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Wonder if anyone explained to the EPA folks that when the water starts to rise, being smarter than Beltway bureaucrats, critters get the &#*# out of the way?
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It sucks when they discover some toad, frog, lizard, etc. that someone never knew or cared about. Suddenly the grass or trees can’t be disturbed or you’ll destroy their habitat.
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I had a MBA class in businees law, many years ago, that was taught by one of the lawyers who was involved in the old Tellico Dam suit over the snail darter fish. The dam was almost complete when the Feds stopped construction because the fish’s migration might be impaired. After a few years of expensive court battles, where it was shown the fish existed elsewhere in the river system, they just picked up the ones upstream of the dam and moved them downstream where they’re doing quite nicely, thank you very much.
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I was talking to a distant neighbor the other day about our lake that was made back in the 50’s. They moved the town and flooded the old town. No environmental or biology studies were done, some of the townsfolk might have complained but it was done in short order. If any habitats were destroyed nobody knew about it and frankly the only concern anyone had was people for people who didn’t want to move a few miles away.
You couldn’t do that today and most likely today it would not have been done because you’d have every federal and state department trying to stop it and you’d have all the lawyers suing.
I spend a lot of peaceful hours out on the lake so I’m sure glad it was made before the country went totally nuts.
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Of course we don’t know how many of whatever go extinct every day through nayural means. Then again, something should fill the niche they abdicate.
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Reminds me of the seal they released, and it was immediately eaten by a killer whale.
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Or the killer whale that was set free and it just did tricks for the fishermen.
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I think somewhere along the way they quit teaching about the food chain.
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Out here we render lots of the food chain into links.
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If we taught the snowflakes to do that then we’d have fewer people wanting to move us to the bottom of the food chain.
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Gotta check my sites, may have some snowflake recipies.
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They have “frog hospitals” in Australia???
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It’s nuts. However, we have our own nuts even near me. I learned of it about a year ago on FB. On a classified group a lady asked if there was anyone who rescued tadpoles and went on to tell how her boys had went with friends to a creek and the friends’ parents allowed them to catch and bring home tadpoles. She was really upset.
I guess I’m a SA because I commented and said if she didn’t want her boys to watch them turn into frogs then take them back to the creek and let them go. She didn’t appreciate my comment.
Someone told her though about a wildlife refuge that rescues all wildlife including tadpoles. She was all excited after she called them and they said they’d take the tadpoles and nurse them back to health and then release them.
I still don’t know how they needed nursing they were in water and had only been out of the creek for a few hours.
Anyway I did a little checking and discovered the wildlife refuge was run by a husband and wife, the husband is a veterinarian and received not only thousands of dollars in donations but thousands of dollars in federal and state grants.
I guess rescuing tadpoles is more profitable then just telling people to release them in the creek.
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I got some egrets out here who’ll gladly recycle…errr…rescue those tadpoles.
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When I was a kid I always caught bullfrog tadpoles and brought them home and put them in something that would hold water and kept them until they turned into bullfrogs.
I never considered it rescuing them nor did my parents ever get upset over a darn tadpole.
Just think though if I had been born later I could have claimed I had a refuge and the government would have given me money.
I kind of did have my own little refuge, I brought home any creature I could capture or found injured and I “nursed” them back to health until my parents discovered them. For some reason they never cared for baby coons, coyote pups and bob kitties living on the place and they always were yelling that I was going to get myself killed.
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We have wild animals rescuing other wild animals around here all of the time. Fish in my lake rescue literally thousands of tadpoles a year.
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Good grief…..she’s ready and set for her move straight to the coast of California. 😀
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I would bet she frowns upon frog races. lol
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😀
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Oui!
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And I thought our turning on the porch lights so that we could watch the tree frogs perch on the picture window and eat bugs was a bit excessive.
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Anyone else getting emails from both Trump and the RNC? Trumps emails are fine and 100% Trump.
The RNC is trying to appear to be Trump and they sound like loons, really trying to phrase their begging letters as if Trump wrote them.
🙄
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I’m not sure. I delete spam without reading it.
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I’m getting all kinds of emails. I’ll pay more attention. So far, I’ve been deleting.
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Well it looks like I’m the only one who reads them. I get them less than once a day, maybe 5 a week?
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