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Apparently my insomnia paid off. Win the lottery? Ohhhh nooooo. First on the Saturday thread? Second place medal.
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On the eve of World War II the United States was still mired in the Great Depression and found itself facing war on two fronts with Japan and Germany. However bleak the outlook, it was nothing compared to the outlook today.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/06/09/where-do-matters-stand-paul-craig-roberts/
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Wish I was there.
Caterin’ fo’ two hunnit, on the morrow.
Big-a$$ tent. Lots of balls. That we Duck-Taped™ to said tent ceiling by their differently-lengthed fishing line strings. Four different size balls. I hate Pinterest now. Imagine how much tape. Imagine tying the fishing line to said tape, then reinforcing resultant bowtie to a gorsh-durened TENT CEILING on top of a 13-foot ladder.
I hope it rains tomorrow. I just worked twelve hours for love.
Someone else’s. And also for money.
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Seventy balls, all told.
I hate 13′ fiberglass ladders. My back and neck do, too.
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I also think it’s really cool that we have an economy in which people are willing and able to pay other people to tie up 70 paper-and-wire balls to tent ceilings for low wages.
Except those last three words.
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I love my job.
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Excellent article at Zero Hedge:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-09/predicting-efficacy-coming-revolution
The Ghost of Revolution Future
Many in the US talk of revolution. Most hope for a soft revolution, in which their country would go back to the good old days of traditional values, hard work, the rights of the individual and a productive society.
Not likely to happen, I’m afraid. The first American revolution resulted in that very outcome, but that was (in my opinion) because the colonists had no entitlement society to begin with. They went to America as pioneers and each was his own champion. They therefore accepted hard work, self-reliance and treasured individual rights. After the revolution, the US went into a long, highly productive period, because the great majority of Americans shared this view.
Unfortunately, that’s no longer true in America. “Freedom” is a concept that sounds good to all, but, with it come great responsibilities – responsibilities that a majority of citizens are unlikely to accept after the revolution. Just as in France, they will want to be assured that, although they want their own freedom, they want to limit the freedom of others; so that others be forced to contribute to “the greater good.”
Once the concept that your neighbour is obligated to sacrifice his freedom to satisfy your needs or desires is ingrained in a people, it’s virtually impossible to remove. If we seek true change, we’re only likely to find it in locations that are truly starting over, without the baggage of an entitled population to mire the rebirth of the new regime.
The last paragraph says it all.
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“but that was (in my opinion) because the colonists had no entitlement society to begin with. “
This was not true. Some of the cities in the colonies had been there already for more than 100 years and were quite large. There were plenty of people that were “entitlement society” type at the time.
Keep in mind 50-60% of the population in the colonies did not participate in the revolution. Some actively apposed it. There were also other groups wanting to take control of the revolution and have it more like the French. Their strategy is to see who wins, and attack the weakened victor. The French revolution supporters are the ones that later became named “socialist” and “communist”…
What I’ve read from the time period on this subject is that Christian values and morals (knowing right from wrong) and the continued instruction of them is what kept things from going out of control. The decline of them at the time in France and is what allowed French revolution to happen.
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Rancher Rounds Up Obama Son 🙂
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/10/bike-theft-oregon-walmart-thief-lassoed-cattle-rancher
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I think this cowboy is Nye! Yes, it is Nye!!! Well done, roping and riding two of my favorite sports………..
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I’m sorry sir, but I’ve only been around horses at a state fair when I was a toddler. I don’t think I’d know how to fall off one correctly after beating myself in the head while swinging a rope around.
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You’re never too old to learn.
Which reminds me of another funny recent story at the rodeo. Rodeos bring out all the wanna be cowboys and cowgirls. Someone loans them a horse or heck maybe it’s their horse they only ride when the rodeo comes to town, so they can entertain the audience riding in the entrance. I honestly don’t think that is their goal, but I’m always entertained because there is always that one person.
This person happened to be a rather large woman and you could tell she was scared for her life as she rode around the arena with both hands gripping the reins and the saddle horn with a death grip and her body bouncing every which way. Poor horse was getting all kinds of mixed signals with her jerking the reins at the same time her bouncing body was causing her legs to kick him.
I think it was a relief for not only her, but him when it was time to exit the arena. Once they were out he let her know he had enough and decided to remove her from his back. He was polite and waited until only a few of us could see her hit the ground. She hits the ground and is laying there while her horse decides to run away to find his safe place, bucking the entire way.
Thankfully a cowboy riding by grabs his reins and stops him and the horse had found his safe place and calmed down and was nudging the man thanking him for saving his life. Then the woman comes trying her best to run, the poor horse looks at the man with a look of betrayal when he passes the reins to the woman.
He didn’t want to leave his safe place without a fight though and he rares up and paws the air, it worked for a second she let go of the reins and the cowboy calms him down again and then betrays him again and passes the reins back to the woman, he decides his fate has been sealed and must leave with the woman, but not without showing her she ain’t gettin’ back on him so he bucks all the way until her friend who I think loaned her the horse comes and leads him away.
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“You’re never too old to learn.”
…that horses don’t like fat people on them.
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From what you’re saying you shouldn’t be on that long…
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As long as the horse hasn’t been trained to stomp on anything large and rolling, I should be good.
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Ya don’t gotta train ’em, that’s part of their standard package right after standing on your foot and sneezing horse snot in your face.
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My Daddy taught me at a young age that a horse won’t step on you if it can help it, but he was talking about broke horses. That’s pretty much true with any horse I ever had even the ornery ones who tried to knock me off with tree branches, dump me in the pond or buck me off. When they succeeded they usually just stood and looked at me like they were laughing. The exception was one old clumsy horse I had and she was always stepping on my feet.
In my younger days falling off a horse just hurt my pride, now in my older years it hurts every inch of my body. I don’t ride much anymore because even riding tends to make me hurt. lol
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Only fat people who show them they’re scared of them and don’t know how to ride.
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And are fat…
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Carrying a book of ‘Belgian BBQ Recipes’ right out there where the horse can see it helps too.
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You don’t give yourself enough credit, Nye! 😉
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Yes, I am sure he could fall off a horse. 🙂
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🙂
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Don’t pick on the chef;
unless you really love
some toast and peanut
butter for breakfast. 😉
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But, but, I was trying to be supportive. 😯
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Mornin’ glories!
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That looks about right. We Texas ladies take our 2nd amendment and bathroom rights very seriously!
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The real reason the
socialist are against
the second amendment.
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Exactly:(
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Morning Wee!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!! Passing rain showers, nothing major, pushing 90* today that’s is the big city, should top off here about 87* with humility around 70%. Have some farming things to do……stay cool and dry…..
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Mornin’ Colonel!
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Stay cool and hydrated Col.! We are ousting 90° here today 😕and it is muggy.
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I am glad to see the humility is so high there. 🙂
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(snicker)
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Was just going to say something similar, USmom, but you were more clever.
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Why thank you, thank you very much. 🙂
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Someone is feeling
much better, today. 😉
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🙂
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We’ve got 40 degrees and raining this morning. Yuck. June is usually a cold and soggy month for us. If we’re lucky, and the clouds clear off, we might hit 50 today.
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Mornin’ Wee!
I have to say Okies have a problem with writing signs in the bathroom. At the ballgame the other night a hand written sign in the stall said, ‘Please flash the toyleet!’
I wasn’t real sure what or who I was supposed to be flashing. 🙂
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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LOL
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To be fair the write may have been an OCU English grad practicing his/her eye dialect.
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Well the ball fields are owned by the city and if you ever saw some of the city workers, including those elected like the mayor you would just nod your head. Although calling him a worker is stretching it, but it keeps his family members employed so I guess you could call him an employer.
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Mayors aren’t workers, if they were they wouldn’t be politicians. When you see a pol with calloused hands or dirty fingernails (callouses/dirty nails from raking in cash don’t count), lemme know.
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I’m just repeating how he’s always saying how hard he works for the city. Of course he’s also the one who fought for and received making it a full time position with a full time salary. For years folks were able to hold down a full time job and be mayor and get paid a tenth of what he now receives after his third or maybe even fifth raise now.
That’s what happens when less than 25% of the citizens come out and vote.
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Youbsure that signs restroom related? Sorta looks to me like a sign warning Hillary’s up ahead cleaning up past political problems before the election. Sorta fostering a problem-free election.
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“Fostering”…… good one, Z!! 😀
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Small ‘f’, smalllllll ‘f’.
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Seems my iPad’s on Ebonics autocomplete…’you b sure’.
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Great lighthouse photo, Stella!
Have a great Saturday everyone!
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You also SAS
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Thank you, sir! 🙂
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Happy Saturday Sand&Sea 🙂
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🙂
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels)
( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Blackberry wine)
(Backdraft)
(Jack Daniels)
(B52)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! ⭐ 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra and F.D.R. in Hell!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Pastries for coffee!
⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol
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Thank you, Nyet! Excellent spread!
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Good morning Nyet! Looks delicious as always!
Close your eyes and scroll Mike 😜
Breakfast addition for fruit lovers 🙂
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Ooh, yes, a good addition to bacon and eggs.
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Ahhhh…breakfast flypaper for ZM.
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Yum! Thanks, Nyet. Mornin’ everyone. 🙂
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Mornin’!
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Mornin’ B!
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What is that ‘unprintable phallic symbol’, what did it have to do with bacon and/or pastries and do we really want to know?
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Originally when I started posting the form letter “good morning” I had a star for both michellc and auscitizenmom instead of a smile just for them to be special. They both started asking why they were different and what it meant so I changed them to be like everyone else and added a poke in the eye at the end.
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Whew, thanks for the clearing. Afraid my mind’s still stuck in World Naked Bike Ride mode.
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No, You’re right. It’s just nobody has earned a gold star in a while….
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Makes me wonder if the honor’s winning or not winning…
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😦 I thought you just didn’t like me.
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Don’t be silly. I don’t even know you. ‘She whom shall not be named” on the other hand, I know too well.
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Are you talking about me? Now I’m going to need a safe place and here I was all happy and wide awake. Now I’m going to have to cry myself to sleep. 🙂
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There is no way you are serious.
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🙂
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I hesitated to ask that question. I was afraid he would answer it.
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Sonetimes ya just gotta face the bare…bear.
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Lord, what have we done to so mightily offend Thee? Today is the (retch) annual World Naked Bike Ride in New Orleans. Gaggles (emphasis on the ‘gag’) of Walmartians who’ve already finished their shopping will gather late this afternoon, shed all or still far too much of their clothing and bicycle through a designated part of the city to draw attention to world problems. Imagine a group of middle-aged people well over their max BMIs, buck naked or still too near so, riding their bicycles sloooooowly over bumpy New Orleans streets. Suddenly causes a drastic reorganizing of what constitutes the hierarchy of ‘world problems’, eh?
Not all of the participants can be catagorized as people the UN should internationally ban from apoearing mostly, if not totally, naked in public but the bell curve here’s pretty flat. I never did understand the desire for that group of fluffy, middle-aged, or both exhibitionists to disrobe in public. Come on, for 364 days a year you get arrested for only wearing a smile in public, even Mardi Gras Day has a total nudity ban, but for this one day the sartorially challenged get to ride.
Ah well, at least this is one event we won’t see the mayor, Mitch Landreau, attending – be thankful for small favors.
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We saw that on a trip to Seattle. Well, I saw about 15 seconds of it and said “that’s enough for me.”
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Yeah, they do that up here too, don’t they. sigh
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One of those things you schedule seeing BEFORE lunch, helps if you’re on a diet too.
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That’s just wrong in so many different ways. 😳
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With ‘visually’ right up there at tbe top,of the list.
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Yes, requiring much eye bleach!!!
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And industrial sized barrels of Pepto.
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True that!
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I finally got one of my reps paid callers to talk to me. She actually allowed me to address the points that he’s pro-life and voted to defund PP, pro-border security and against amnesty, spending, Obamacare and pro-small business.
I asked her if she was aware that although he did vote to defund PP, he later voted to fund PP. He voted for the omnibus bill which funded all the spending including Obamacare, Obama’s amnesty and increased work visas among other spending. Then he came back home and lied to us and told us him and his people went through the entire bill and it contained more positives than negatives and it really didn’t fund Obamacare neither did it fund amnesty because until Obama put pen to paper there was no amnesty and you only spend the money to deport them and it costs nothing to keep them here. As for small business it appears he’s pro-small business when it comes to his company that has grown in size and profits after he went to Washington. It expanded faster in 2 years than it had since it’s existence when his Dad started it years ago.
She could tell him that is just a few of the reasons I voted against him 2 years ago and is why I’ll be voting for his opponent this year.
She then told me she wasn’t aware he voted that way, but she would check into it and pass my concerns along to his campaign.
Yeah, yeah I know it went in one ear and out the other and didn’t amount to a hill of beans, but it was the first time anyone from his campaign or his office has ever let me finish a sentence. lol
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Seeing as I have been blocked at the neighbors from commenting due to an run in with Sundance last Sunday, could someone let them know that Romney was not hiding this day 4 years ago, he was holding a fundraiser. One commentor posted a picture of Romney at the beach 4 years ago today and it is not true. I can’t stand Romney, but I also cannot stand lies.
http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2012/06/11/mitt-romney-to-visit-cobb-county-tonight-for-fundraisers
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Please don’t discuss your problems with “the neighbors” on this blog. Some people have the impression that I have a blog only because I am running away from CTH, or that I am in competition.
That isn’t true, and I am still an admin for CTH; therefore, I don’t appreciate discussion about their moderating decisions. You, of course, have a right to your opinions and feelings, but I really don’t want to see it in print here.
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Congratulations Creator! That was a sweet race.
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