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Happy flibbertigibbet day!
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My dog says: “Allllll Riiiiggghhhtttt!!!”
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Sharing this ‘post’:
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“Boots and Saddles”
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Yeah, I think I dated her once.
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Cool!
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Where’s Clinton? Oh, right, “Post–no Bills”.
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Good post-ure.
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I haven’t seen that word in a long time. Neat.
“Flibbertigibbet is one of many incarnations of the Middle English word flepergebet, meaning “gossip” or “chatterer.” (Others include “flybbergybe,” “flibber de’ Jibb,” and “flipperty-gibbet.”) It is a word of onomatopoeic origin, created from sounds that were intended to represent meaningless chatter. Shakespeare apparently saw a devilish aspect to a gossipy chatterer; he used “flibbertigibbet” in King Lear as the name of a devil. This use never caught on, but the devilish connotation of the word reappeared over 200 years later when Sir Walter Scott used “Flibbertigibbet” as the nickname of an impish urchin in the novel Kenilworth. The impish meaning derived from Scott’s character was short-lived and was laid to rest by the 19th-century’s end, leaving us with only the “silly flighty person” meaning.” (I’m too lazy today to go and change all the inner quotations marks.)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flibbertigibbet
Some of you wits should be able to do something with “flibber de’ Jibb”, maybe?
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Okay Nye!!! Explain this post………HaHaHaHa
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Serious now…this is a very good article:
Countering Jihad /b>
“…Understand what is happening to our country and know that we are at war with an enemy that is ideologically hell bent on destroying our way of life…all Americans need to understand and accept the reality that they are now on the front line of a war with an enemy that cannot be negotiated with or rationally deterred.”
https://politicallyshort.com/2016/06/14/countering-jihad/
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[messed up the commands again…sigh…]
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You’d think people would be moved by the sheer weight of information out there alone, but denial is a powerful drug.
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Muslim women have veil on their faces, liberals have veils on their minds.
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Considering they mostly have their heads firmly planted in a sunless place the veils should help keep their hair clean.
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I’m speechless! 😯
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No yer not
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“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” –Mark Twain
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Years ago I read about some kind of study they did confronting people with the truth when they had really believed something else. I don’t remember any details, such as the types of beliefs or what university, facility, or organization did the study. Anyhow, most people doggedly chose to hold on to their beliefs, even when being presented with proof to the contrary. They would argue against the proofs and try to twist things all around. Anything but change.
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My wife has talked about the disillusionment she went through at the end of the Soviet Union. A lot of people became over-the-top, devout orthodox Christians overnight just following everyone else they knew.
Most people will adapt to change if there is no other choice. But only enough effort to adapt, not change completely.
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Explains a lot about Congress, don’t it?
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“war with an enemy that cannot be negotiated with or rationally deterred.”
Our Country has been partially surrendered over the last 30 years, aggressively the last 7 years. This is our fight, not law enforcement, not the military’s, our fight, our cultures, way of life. Any politician who now calls for gun control, should be immediately dismissed by the voters.
Now before we start, let’s be sure, really sure “we see the whites of their eyes”.
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They want gun control so we’ll be easier targets.
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Back to: an armed person is a citizen, an unarmed person is a subject. Note how the Brits are referred to as ‘subjects’ while Americans are ‘citizens’. A subtle distinction lost on far too many Americans, but then being a subject doesn’t cut into your fun time as much as being a citizen dies.
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So, I conclude that many Americans have behaved as subjects, not citizens. The question would be: how many would rather be subjects?
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The ones too lazy or preocupied to be citizens. Citizens have to be active in their goverment to keep it from turning them into subjects.
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If true, this certainly would have interesting implications–e.g., if the FBI is discredited, what happens to its investigation of Hillary?
Undercover Jihad: Omar Mateen Worked for FBI then Went Rogue
http://truepundit.com/undercover-jihad-omar-mateen-worked-for-fbi-then-went-rogue/
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I suggested this over yonder and I think it is spot on. It is the only thing that makes sense. The repressed psycho homosexual nonsense is a shiny object.
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Well, there is another possibility–that it was not repressed at all (his behavior suggests this) but when he listened to/was convicted by Islamic preaching against gays, he chose this course of action as “atoning” jihad.
From “Understanding Jihad”, by David Cook:
“…Of the three figures mentioned—the True Believer, the Sinning
but Repentant Believer, and the Hypocritical Believer—the second is
clearly the most interesting. This Sinning but Repentant Believer seeks
to expiate his sins on the field of battle. According to the tradition, the
sword, together with the pure intention of the fighter, wipes away the
believer’s sins.Thus, there is a redemptive aspect to jihad that is crucial
to understanding its development…” (p.14)
Very obviously a motivation that is NOT open to negotiation or appeasement of any sort.
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Hi Mary 😊
Some thoughts on the sexuality angle which is being pushed by the Islamist apologists the MSM , their cohorts and their minions.
his behavior suggests this
What behavior suggests that Omar was an practicing homosexual? All we have is innuendo and the media pushing a theory to lead away from Islam.
Remember when Sayeed slaughtered his co workers? All kinds of people were ID’ing him.
If Omar was a regular at Pulse some of the regular patrons who were interviewed immediately after the massacre would have said at the very least, “I don’t know his name but the shooter has been in there before I see him a lot.”
Not one regular patron said this. Now there are several (maybe) who say the recognized him from his previous visits to Pulse, some even claim they saw other men dancing with Omar. If Omar was there so much if he danced with other men surely the selfie generation caught him in at least the peripheral of some pictures.
Omar’s wife drove him to Pulse to do surveillance, that indicates to me that he was likely there scoping the place out, not the men. His perfect timing of the start of the massacre would indicate that he had some familiarity with the routine and he used that familiarity to his advantage.
The Jack’d app, we will have to wait and see if it is anything other than him leading a gay man on. Taqiya. Or he seemed like a real jerk (Homicidal jihadist bit aside) who would have enjoyed leading an “infidel” on.
Then there is the chap from Omar’s former place of employment who said that Omar asked him out on a date but he said no because he himself was not yet out of the closet. So Omar who would have been closeted at the time somehow asked another closeted gay man out on what the second closeted gay man just knows was a quest for a sexual liaison even though Omar would not have known the man he asked out on a “date” was gay 🤔?
So far there has not been a single man to come forward and say that he had a sexual relationship of any sort with Omar. One of my very best friends from about age 18 to 24 was a gay man and there is no way anyone will convince me that at that age a gay man was not hopping about if adventures were to be had and if he was a regular at a renown gay bar opportunities were plenty.
Sorry I just don’t buy it. A latent homosexual, who is a mentally unbalanced angry psycho is as neat of a bow as they can put on a Muslim killing people because they were gay and their very existence offends his god.
I may be wrong but so far all I see is smoke and mirrors and an angry Muslim living out his faith.
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A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.
Sigmund Freud
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What I speculated on above was not merely repressed homosexuality, and I did not include anything about his being mentally unbalanced. The key to what I wrote is his realization (through the preaching in his mosque, whatever) that his gay behavior–closeted or not–was totally unacceptable to his faith. And then taking steps to rectify that. The violence would still have arisen from his faith, not from simple mental illness.
When I said “his behavior suggests this”, that was was based on what I have read so far, from various sources. If that is all smoke and mirrors, with no basis in reality, then that invalidates my speculation.
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Repentant and observant Muslims are the most dangerous category — they desire ti redeem themselves via action.
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Hi Mary I used your post as a jumping point to the larger MSM mantra of Omar being a repressed or closeted homosexual and that aspect of his life being the cause of his anger at gay people and his “unbalanced” nature. My apologies if it came across as personal.
IMO there is no evidence that Omar was in anyway an active gay man it seems to me far more likely that he was a Islamist who enjoyed being amid the enemy because he long had at least the seed of his plan.
Gay dating apps, visits to gay clubs but no one who had a sexual relationship with Omar? Again I will bet the crowd at Pulse is what they consider very liberated in their sexual liaisons. Asking a closeted gay man on a date although Omar himself was either repressed or closeted just isn’t logical IMO.
I did understand the salient point to your post I just don’t agree that we have seen evidence that Omar was gay so I don’t think what he heard preached at mosque would not have been a personal reckoning for him. The violence that rose in him I believe rose because he was fertile ground for the barbaric nature that is Islam. A violent angry young Muslim.
By all accounts Omar was a mean spirited jerk. Islam gave him its blessing to act out his evil nature and told him he would be rewarded for it.
Again I might be wrong, there may be some video of Omar engaged in what the MSM can only imply. I think that no man coming forward to state he had a sexual encounter with Omar, and the guy who chatted with Omar for a year on Jack’d but never had a sexual encounter with him paint a different picture. I think turning Omar into a gay man (repressed or closeted ) who was so shamed by his sexuality is the way Obama and the MSM want this to play out rather than Omar simply being another stage of Islam.
Maybe I am biased and can’t see past my abhorrence and distrust of anything that Obama would push and that colors my looking glass. Could be.
Anyhow it is just my opinion but there are too many kinks in the narrative being pushed for me to believe the “Omar was gay” story at this point has much validity.
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Sorry should have proof read, take away “not” from before “have been a personal reckoning” and make that another “Son of Islam” not stage of Islam.
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Interesting speculation but, as far as the contractor and FBI not coordinating, I can say that it ain’t unusual for information connecting a questionable event/activity not to get to the appropriate persons. I had a serial chickenhawk evade reporting, an intel analyst who made multiple visits to a questionable country and failed to report his travels, an agent married to a woman from a country he was ‘analyzing’ and others, all of whom were known to others working in the division at the time but no one said anything.
Had something have happened and there’d been splashback we’d have taken the heat regardless. It happens.
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What Hillary investigation? It’s been going on for how long and how close are we to an indictment?
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You know what I meant.
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Just like Congress, of course I did. Just wanted to practice my ‘diversion’ techniques – again, just like Congress.
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As close as we ever have been, and probably just as close as we ever will be.
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Menagerie, channelling Bilbo Baggins.
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Right up there with the affordable electric car and a Mickey D burger that doesn’t taste like boiled cardboard
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Good morning! 64 degrees, overcast and a chance of rain today, forecast high of 80.
There’s a Trump rally in Atlanta at noon today; I wonder if any protesters will show? There didn’t seem to be many last night in NC.
The main topic in the news continues to be terrorism. Seems that Obama called French President Francois Hollande to discuss the attacks in Paris and Florida, but he still hasn’t called Florida Governor Rick Scott. What’s up with that?
Report this morning is that 480,000 people overstayed their visas in the U.S. last year, and nobody is trying very hard to find them. This huge government of ours becomes less and less efficient, its (our) employees more and more lazy and complacent. The rot starts at the top and works its way down, it is said, and it sure seems to be the case.
The government of my country snubs honest simplicity, but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.
…no country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.
… The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivalry of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in fine, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise.
Mark Twain
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There honestly is no telling how many illegals we have living in this country. Although I do believe those drawing a government check are incompetent and lazy, I think it goes beyond that and they have a purpose for not looking for them.
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Good morning Stella 🙂
Obama has not called Florida’s governor or the Attorney General 🙄 Obama is such a small disgusting dangerous man.
74° here and headed toward muggy.
Lovely news is hearing Trump continues to chop Obama off at the knees.
“When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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???? I thought that quote came from Montesquieu’s writings.
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You are right, Jefferson was quoting Montesquieu. My error.
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Mark Twain, as always, pretty much got it right. I have said for years that it isn’t “the government” we have to stop, it’s us. We the people, in the collective sense. We have to have enough people outraged and active. The government, as our founders knew, is like a boulder rolling downhill, picking up speed, destroying everything in it’s path. Either it goes until it crashes, or we stop it, either way is not going to be easy or pretty, there has to be a crash to stop it, and it’s gonna hurt.
Apparently few people subscribe to this view. I would say that the rousing success of Trump would indicate an awakening, but personally, I think they are just mad, but not yet, if they ever will, ready to admit they have to do something other than vote. I have this opinion after reading thousands of really shallow comments about what “President Trump” is going to do when he takes office. Like one man can fix in one term by himself what is wrong with this country. Like he can make the jackasses in Congress do their sworn duty. I could go on here, but you get the drift.
Occasionally I even wonder if the secessionists aren’t right, not so much in that we need to secede, but that nothing less will work. If it doesn’t come to that somewhere will there be a way to save the country? I don’t know, and proving that I am about like those I condemn here, I shy away from thinking a lot about that possibility just yet. And a hundred years from now, what would those governments be anyhow? We humans forget so soon the blood cost of liberty. The less we personally sacrifice for it, the less most of us hold it dear. Right now, for some reason I simply cannot fathom, our politicians and much of the public are intent that our sacrifices be made so that angry and dangerous citizens of other countries can come here and collect what we had hoped would be our retirement, or a better way of life for our children, or lower taxes. Not to mention safety within our borders.
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and proving that I am about like those I condemn here, I shy away from thinking a lot about that possibility just yet. And a hundred years from now, what would those governments be anyhow? We humans forget so soon the blood cost of liberty.
The fallout from revolution will fall upon our children and grandchildren. You and I will die in the near term, but they will be around much longer. What to do? As you also say, humans forget too soon the blood cost, and 100 years from now, the USA would probably be back in the same place (or worse).
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“… after reading thousands of really shallow comments about …”
EVERYTHING! ANYTHING! I just want to beat my head into the desk to make it stop.
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Don’t waste your time or damage a good desk blotter, it’s just part of of the ongoing propaganda war.
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Another thing is that we all have our own ideal of what we mean when we talk about restoring our country. The country our founders setup, lasted about 12 years. Then, from the founders point of view, the people elected their version of Obama or Clinton. The country started going down the path of what became socialism at that point.
Most people want to restore some period of time in their own lives when they weren’t worried about things (i.e. young and ignorant), and/or had money. Like many of the Russians that lived through the fall of the Soviet Union, it’s not that they pine to restore the USSR, it’s the stability that they remember of their day to day lives.
Most people don’t know what they are asking for to be restored and follow anyone that is assertive mistaking it for knowledge or wisdom.
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The Founders had no choice but to believe the people going off into the future would be educated, dedicated to their own and children’s freedom, thinking, competent and hard-working. To have believed otherwise would have ended The Great Experiment right there. The subsequent corrosive effects of the ideologies they fought against and introduction of hordes of immigrants who were allowed to feed off of the system without benefitting or becoming part of it just ain’t helping.
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The failed “liberal” revolutions of 1848 brought a wave of immigration during the first five years of the 1850s that reached a level five times greater than a decade earlier.
Crime and welfare costs soared. Cincinnati’s crime rate tripled between 1846 and 1853 and its murder rate increased sevenfold. Boston’s expenditures for poor relief rose threefold during the same period.
Increasing big government VOTERS playbook pg. 756
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That is when my German ancestors came to Cincinnati!
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Both sides of my family have been here since the mid 1700’s. I demand reparations! In chocolate!
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White or dark chocolate? Remember, your answer may Subject to review by the CRS.
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One side of my family was “Native” Injuns. The other side the best we can trace back came in the 1700’s.
I would say I demand reparations but Indians pretty much already get them. Maybe one of these days I’ll say forget it and play by the rules the government has put in place and open a casino and smoke shop and pay no taxes and get all the government grants I can get.
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The rest of my ancestors came to either Canada or the U.S. before the revolution. In fact, I would qualify for DAR on at least one branch. Most of the others fought with the British and were kicked into Canada.
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🙂 I was trying all day to drag you into a silly conversation and now I’m working on stuff.
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The Canadians call them “Loyalists”. Americans call them “losers”.
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We’uns came down from Nova Scotia, and Ireland, mostly.
Not a slaver in the tree. No guilt here. Quite a few slaves in the tree, I’d bet. Don’t know.
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There was one girl on my mother’s mom’s side who came here later as an indentured servant, which many of them were treated worse than slaves.
I have Indian ancestors who owned slaves as well as white ancestors who owned slaves.
I don’t really get why I should have any guilt over that, I didn’t own any slaves. Just like I don’t get why I should hold any animosity towards anyone today over the Trail of Tears. I personally was not on the Trail of Tears and nobody today had anything to do with it.
I had outlaw ancestors as well, I guess in today’s society I should feel guilt over that too. lol
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Your family is much more interesting than mine.
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The outlaws came from the Starrs and we’re sort of related to Belle Starr at least by marriage. She was married to my great grandmother’s uncle I believe it was.
I’d have to look at the family tree again to be sure.
I find it all interesting and have always joked that I got outlaw blood running through my veins and that’s why I’m so ornery. lol
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LOL That means you may be related to a friend I grew up near here in Lakeland. She had a tendancy to big deal things and so sometimes I took her with a grain of salt. But, she said she was related to Belle Starr and I decided it might be true when I saw a picture of Belle. My friend looked a lot like her.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=975&PIpi=128758
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We don’t look like Belle because she wasn’t related by blood, but we were in a museum one time when the kids were little and there was a picture of her husbands’ father. My daughter told me to come look at this picture she saw because it looked like my brother.
It did kind of resemble my brother, but it was a splitting image of my grandfather. That was before anyone in the family had started doing a lot of family tree research and I just had never connected the dots of the fact that my great-grandmother’s maiden name was Starr.
Well, I guess I sort of did because when I was a kid I used to pretend I was Belle Starr the lady outlaw and when kids would ask why I always chose her I’d tell them because my great-granny was a Starr and had convinced myself that she was kinfolk. lol
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Long after the Founders. If the government had a program like some religious organization did, a program to resettle and support immigrants in productive endeavors, their being packed into cities like sardines would have been lessened.
There was a Jewish organization that sponsored Jewish farmers from Europe, helping them buy a farm here and, when the farm started turning a profit, they paid back into the fund. The fund was also funded by Jews in the business classes too, wasn’t totally a farm thing, it was a Jewish thing.
Feds then, just as now, were politicians and not thinkers. They didn’t carry the concept of ‘priming the pump’ over to the productive world. Now they’ve abandoned the pump priming for carrying their water for them.
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You get to the heart of it. One man can’t do it all. And it is about the people. Maybe some of the “conservative leaders” who have reacted so against him are not all hacks, but fear what he might actually do, or try to do, to make things work. Can anyone see through the fog, see any clear way? I surely can’t, and I don’t see any “authorities” making real sense of it. I used to think about secession. How in the heck could that really work? Nyet may be absolutely correct, that we started down some sort of path toward socialism a really long time ago. In that case, would anything done to effectively change what it is now result in a more obviously-altered government instead of what we have now, now being possibly the facade which is symbol, not reality?
People are waking up to something now. Now! Is it only because they finally are so miserable in their personal lives? In many, I see their ignorance of all that has been happening for so long, and their anger anger anger, and fear. They talk about things and you can tell they don’t really know what they’re talking about, so often. I know that I don’t know everything about all of this. What’s that saying, when you know a little bit, you are more dangerous?
I almost think some of them would be prime candidates to slavishly do anything one man told them to do. That IS potentially dangerous. I started paying attention 40 years ago. I fell for propaganda and lies. I’ve learned some of the truth, but it took time, lots of time. We don’t have time now. Maybe we didn’t have time 40 years ago. Sometimes, honestly, I just think “it’s too late now, too late to undo it or change it using any reasonable course.” Some of these folks think they are going to be able to properly vet people to run for office and then replace all the politicians, all the way down to state levels. Really? Who’s going to educate and help focus this awakened majority? Will they stick with anything long enough to see things through? Will they educate themselves or just fall for any propaganda and want someone else to tell them what to do? My view of human nature doesn’t give me feel-good answers to those questions.
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Some of these folks think they are going to be able to properly vet people to run for office and then replace all the politicians, all the way down to state levels. Really? Who’s going to educate and help focus this awakened majority? Will they stick with anything long enough to see things through? Will they educate themselves or just fall for any propaganda and want someone else to tell them what to do? My view of human nature doesn’t give me feel-good answers to those questions.
Indeed. Then there are the hundreds of thousands or ideological progressives entrenched in every single government agency who are all unelected and unaccountable.
Reagan fired a few ATCs. Not everybody in government. And that’s actually what needs to be done. Everyone. Resubmit your resumes and applications, commies.
No man or woman is going to save this nation. I’ll vote for Trump, but I am under absolutely no illusions that he can fix it. I just hate socialism, and vote against it when given the opportunity. And Trump actually wants to win against it, unlike Socialists McCain and Romney, who were only pretending to do so.
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Remember that time when Romney called Obama out for….
Or when McCain called Obama out for…
No, you don’t remember that. Because they didn’t. Ever.
Trump seems to actually want to win. He doesn’t seem to be stumping for the Dems, unlike our Chosen One in 2008 and 2012.
I haven’t seen that behavior since Ronald Reagan.
And I don’t think that even Trump would have called Beiruit an “isolated incident”, were he POTUS then. Then again, he’s not Hollywood ignorant, but real-world smart. He would have understood that the MB existed and plotted since the 19-teens.
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Bernie and Hilary are short of Donald’s IQ by about 40 points each.
All they have is connections and corruption.
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It would be a good start if every person employed by the feds was fired and several abcs were eliminated, but it still wouldn’t fix it. I’m honestly not sure if there is a fix now.
I just have hope that Trump will stop the bleeding when it comes to immigration to give us a life boat.
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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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Nice breakfast, nyet!
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Mornin’!
I’m not going to complain about no gravy this morning, this humidity is getting to me and breakfast this morning consisted of cheerios, toast, bacon and a banana. It’s too muggy to eat a big breakfast.
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I had bacon and toast with peanut butter and jelly.
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We just don’t eat much for breakfast in the summer.
Plus we’ve only had about a week to start adjusting to these temps and humidity. You know how old age is your mind is ready, but it takes your body a little longer to adjust like it did when you were younger. lol
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Ditto, coffe and a trip out to the hog trap to see if there were proto-bacon in it.
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I prefer the home raised bacon.
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What makes this bacon tastier is that it has a shot at eating you.
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I’ve already had my wild hog experience, don’t need that again. lol
We do get those home grown pigs that want to eat us. I will say every time I take meat out of the freezer from one of those pigs I always enjoy it a little more.
I don’t think Impeach appreciates being on top of the food chain, but I do and that meat shows the animal kingdom we win in the end. 🙂
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Monday just before nightfall I went out to check the traps and they were empty. The twenty acre field to the north had been loosely planted with corn and sun flowers and as I drove past it – there was a 50-pounder just rooting aroubd in the green corn about fifteen feet away. I stopped and raised the shotgun but it ran off behind a clump of wax myrtle. As there was still so e light I thought I’d follow and see if junior was hiding in the corn or brush. About the time I rounded the small myrtle clump I hear a lot of grunting and jaw-popping from the brush around an even larger myrtle clump. I executed a tavtical redeployment to my ATV and went home to look at sausage recipes. I didn’t need a hog experience.
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I didn’t want one, but they decided we were welcoming visitors.
We’ve just about got them all to understand we’re not too welcoming.
They’re thick though over in the next county where my SIL deer hunts. He just about had him an experience during deer season. Good thing he can aim and shoot fast. They’re trapping over there now because they’re screwing up their deer hunting.
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“top of the
food chain”
Too funny.
No longer
swim in the
ocean; because
a lot of fish are
bigger than I am
and hungrier.
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Only so you don’t have to put on socks.
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I’m going to put on socks and boots here in a little while to go conquer the animal kingdom and catch me some fish.
I’m going to my secret fishing spot where very few go because you have to go through woods and briars to get there, but the reward is hungry fish. lol
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I caught my supper while wearing my socks. 🙂
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I tried to come up with some response about wearing only socks and going through briars to catch a fish, but I ran out of time and the responses were all weak. So I opted to keep my trap shut.
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Probably a good decision. 😉
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I was expecting something.
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Good morning Nyet 🙂 Does the Mrs. ever help you with all the breakfast treats you are so kind to bless us with 🙂
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No. In fact I am criticized for time spent with my “imaginary friends”. It would seem there is no money in it.
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Imaginary friends? I’m not going to pinch myself to find out if I’m real or not, I fell for that trick once before 😎
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Imaginary friends don’t ask to borrow money and are easier to kill off when they become an irritation. Errr…I mean…uhhh….ignore that last part.
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Just like the imaginary breaks in the cars stella lets soon to be ex-family members drive….
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I guess it’s a De-troit thang
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If you’re all imaginary friends, then this is one delusion I’m going to keep. 🙂
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Oh, goody, breakfast! Thanks Nyet. Mornin’ everybody.
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Mornin’ y’all.
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I’m not understanding you post this morning. Did something happen? Where’s the joke?
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I decided to report REAL news, today. 😀
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
DPRK nails it again.
Can we start a poll as to when Trump gets Obama so tightly bound that he needs to be carried off in a straightjacket?
They’re coming to take me away, Ah-ha!
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Ah x-pex da POtuS to be goin’ off da deep end any time now, doin’ da dozens and trash talkin’ Trumps’s mama.
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Interesting, the iPad spellcheck corected ‘trashtalkin’ to the correct Ebonix eye dialect spelling you see above.
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He already needs to be carried off in a straightjacket, they just won’t do it.
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Is there such a thing as a gayjacket?
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LOL.
But of course.
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Gay pants too.
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Well, I’m going to try and listed to talk radio this morning. Let’s see how long I can make it before shutting it off.
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I don’t try to listen anymore.
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I haven’t either for a long time.
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I was with my husband the other day in his truck and his radio was left on a station that in the morning has tradio on and in the afternoon is talk radio.
He likes to listen to tradio and often just turns it down or off after it goes off.
I turned it up and I’m not even sure who was talking but it was all yelling and screeching and I wondered how I used to listen to it. lol
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I was never able to listen to it.
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I ended up turning it off so I could focus on work. I find myself asking the same question as michellc, “How did I listen to that daily?”
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https://twitter.com/Jesse_sDad/status/743099469110071296
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What was the packaging feedback?
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“My cat (broken) arrived un-padded, just loose in the box. The delivery driver just slinging the box over the fence and through the living-room bay window probably did not help, shifting the contents (cat – broken) irreparably. I give the packaging dept. an “F-minus.”
The Dog
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Officially the worst job in the US today: head of the Orlando Tourist Bureau
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Yeah, three headline events (all bad) in one week.
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And all of international,importance. The Disney thing is going to be a huge mess, that’s a very large lake, extremely difficult to drain, and if you know about gators chances are that they’ll have to drain it to look for the body. I’ll bet tort lawyers are lining up around the block for this one.
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From what I’ve read, that lake connects to other bodies of water, and the gator could be quite far away by now. It’s a big mess. I can’t understand why they had that sandy beach on a lake where swimming isn’t allowed, either.
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We got gator calls in Florida and up here, thry will swim or walk to a new food source. News was saying Disney built this lake so the fact they built it and should have been aware of the possibility that local gators could move in will play against them. We havecreports of kids/ people swimming or water skiing in supposedly safe Florida lakes attacked by gators that wandered in, why didn’t Disney protect against this, especially after they seem to have provided, if not encouraged, customer access?
The gators tend to stash larger prey, frequently in a den they build under the shore so if thecwater’s cloudy it’s going to be hard to see that entrance. They may end up bringing in ground penetrating radar to look for the den if they can’t catch/kill/open up enough gators to find the right one, something the news has already said they’re starting to do.
I know that a trip to Disney’s not on our schedule for this summer.
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I have read that they don’t eat the prey right away – it is killed and stashed for awhile. True?
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Yes, if it’s not too big to swallow whole or they can’t tear/shear it apart. It depends on how big this gator is.
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A friend who has lived here all her life told me earlier that they stash the meal until it rots, then eat it.
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Yes. That is what I’ve heard as well.
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I saw a picture of how they set up chairs for the outside movie on the news and the chairs are just feet away from the water.
For us folks who don’t deal with gators we would not think gators might eat us at a place like that.
Would it be that hard to put up a sign warning about gators?
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I agree, Michelle. If you look at the pictures, there is a pretty sand beach there, too. If I was from the Midwest (and I am) and saw a beach in front of a resort hotel, would my first thought be to worry about alligators? Absolutely not.
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I don’t know. Would it make any difference. I mean, when they put up a no swimming sign and people still go in the water, I wonder. There is a lake just feet from my back patio. They have gator signs around it and no swimming signs, and we have still had kids go in the water (which is reclaimed water and not fit to touch your skin) anyway. And, of course, this little lake is in Florida, so it probably has a gator in it at any point in time.
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It would make a difference with me, I’d like to know gators were around and I wouldn’t be sitting a few feet from the water’s edge.
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They recovered little Lane Graves body. Unimaginable. He was only about 15 yards from where he was snatched.
God’s mercy on all who love him.
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Sll considered at the point were at that is a blessing.
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RIP little Lane
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This just hurts my heart.
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His poor parents and especially his Dad who couldn’t save him. No parent should have to go through that. My heart breaks for them.
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Arab to english of posts by the “moderate” Obama Muzz.
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2016/06/13/so-what-are-moderate-muslims-saying-in-arabic-about-the-orlando-massacre-which-the-media-will-never-show-you/
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Ah yes, but these are just a shot glass half-full of quotes, the conservative press will never show the millions upon millions of messages from Moslems deeply and personally hurt by these murders.
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Seen on FB:
I monitor Trump’s FB followers. Some days he gains just 3-4 thousand. Sunday and Monday he added about 200,000 to his 8 million, or about 2.5%, in about 36 hours. Media, RNC = wannabe manipulators in an epic fail. Aka: Liars
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Wow! That is terrific.
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Reply, also on FB:
I am the moderator on the Trump 4 Arizona site here on FB and on Sunday and Monday I had to approve a record number of new registrations…….. at least 3 – 4 times as many as I’ve received since they asked me to moderate about six months ago…… The signups has been steady all week, but there was a huge spike on Sunday and Monday.
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Milo has been suspended form Twitter.
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Wait I just checked and his account is still there even though Drudge says he is suspended.
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Here is the story. They suspended him and actually bowed to community pressure and put him back on but deleted about half of his followers.
Twitter Suspends, Reinstates Milo Yiannopoulos After Users Revolt — See His Defiant Message to Company’s CEO
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/06/15/twitter-suspends-reinstates-milo-yiannopoulos-after-users-revolt-see-his-defiant-message-to-companys-ceo/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=ShareButtons
https://twitter.com/Nero/status/743111866382200832
And Milo returns and goes right for the jugular 🙂
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😀
https://twitter.com/Nero/status/743116410537267200
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Why?
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https://twitter.com/unspectateur/status/743120538411769856
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Thanks WeeWeed, I was looking for that tweet to post it but it is not showing up on Milo’s time line for me. Hmmm…..
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They might be messin’ with him again….
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The truth hurts.
Progs strike back.
Too funny.
Milos superior.
https://twitter.com/Nero/status/742088956997566464
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Islam and infidels.
The truth hurts. The
Progs are the infidels
and slow learners, too.
Woman stoned for
having cell phone.
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Their is no innocence.
Silence is guilty, too.
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Afternoon all! Wish I had more time to visit, but my grandbaby is keeping me hopping! Anyway, have a good Wednesday and I’ll check back later. 🙂
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Enjoy while able.
They grow to fast.
Out the door and
gone off on their
own and raising
their own family.
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So true! 🙂
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Uhhhhh…some come back…..
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Home is where the heart is.
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Not to mention three hots and a cot
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They do keep you on your toes. Although I’m usually exhausted after watching mine, I enjoy every second. Mine is already growing too fast and rarely do I get snuggle time anymore.
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Yes, it’s a lot of fun, but I’m grateful that I can love on mine all day and that baby will go home for the night. Poor thing wasn’t feeling so great yesterday because of vaccinations. Sure do adore that kiddo! 🙂
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Mine has done pretty well with all of his shots. He’s just about done until he’s 4. His though have been spaced out differently than the recommended schedule because my daughter didn’t want him getting several at a time and there are some she has refused.
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My little grandbaby is 4 months, and they gave him the oral rotavirus/polio vaccine and it didn’t agree with him. I totally support the alternative schedule that spreads them out. I think it’s a lot at one time. Wise decision!
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Mine is 17 months now and other than a few times of running a little fever he’s always handled them well.
The last two he got his leg was really sore and he complained with it. I think that had to do with the people giving them though. The regular nurse was out sick and he never got a sore leg when she gave them.
We are now in the scraped knees, bruised shins, knots on the head stage. His motor rarely stops.
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Poor guy. Shots are tough as it is. 😦
Toddlers are very fun, but it is definitely a time of constant boo boos. Wish we could put them in a protective bubble, but they have to go through it.
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My daughter worries all the time because of how people are today about his bruised legs. He’s like her and bruises easily and is always running into things or falling down.
This past week he got scratched by the cat on the face because he decided he needed to put it in a tree. He of course always does these things before we can stop him. lol
He took off running on concrete and fell scraping his knee the same day he fell off his outside chair putting a goose egg on his head.
I had him at the races with bruises on his shins, scratch on his face, bruise on his forehead and a scratched knee. My daughter said people were going to think we abuse him.
He’s all boy and a daredevil at that. So I told her she has lots of years ahead of her of him looking like he tangled with a wild cat. lol
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When my son was about 13 months old, he slipped in the bathroom and hit his cheek on something. So I tried to put ice on it and he pulled away and hit his head on the hearth making a second big knot on his forehead. The next day when we were going for a walk, he didn’t want to get into his stroller so I moved it away from the door and turned around to get him and he tried to run and fell into the rose bushes (which afterward were moved to the back yard). So, now he had two large black and blue bumps and scratches all over. I was afraid somebody would think he was abused. Gratefully, that was the worst that ever happened. He rarely had any marks even though he was so active.
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That’s so funny. That is probably my future with this little guy. He’s so active and looks like he will crawl very early! I’m gonna be one worn out grandmother!!! But… I love every second of it! 😊
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Probably so because he was always acting like he needed to get up and go even when he was tiny.
He takes after his mommy though and is accident prone, which is not a good combination with his daredevil mindset.
One of my sons was like him always trying to do scary stuff, thankfully he wasn’t accident prone and seldom got hurt.
I don’t think she’s going to be so lucky. You turn your back on him for 2 seconds and he’s trying to climb a tree, climb a fence, climb over the baby gate I have on the stairs.
I had him the other day and he was sitting in the floor looking at a book and I went to the bathroom.
Came out and couldn’t find him. He had pushed his high chair over to the bar and was climbing from it to the bar.
Scared me to death and he just grinned and held out his arms and said, “I did it!”
He dids way too much anymore. 🙂
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Wow!!! Yeah, some kids are super busy and curious about everything! It’s hard to think one step ahead of them when their little minds are just concentrated on what can I get into next!!! 😉
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This year’s crop of baby moose is getting born now, and we’re starting to see them around our place. We have lots of twin births due to excellent nutrition sources for the cows.
http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2016-06-14/lunch-with-mom
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I remember my Dad telling us how, back in the 50s, they’d fly DC bigwigs to US bases in Canada for moose hunts. US personnel and equipment would be used from DC and back, including air/ground resources that woul spot the moose and tranport the pol, then dress it for them.
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Aww. :D. How long have you lived in Alaska? I’d love to visit someday. Not likely to be able to though.
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Almost 20 years. Hard to believe its been that long. Every American should visit Alaska at least once in their life, it truly is one of America’s greatest treasures. All the Stellars have a personal invite from me, but especially you, Menagerie.
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Neat!
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Reports of the remains of the toddler who was killed at Disney being recovered.
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I just saw that.
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I’m also thinkin’ that the family will soon own a goodly chunk of Disneyworld Orlando.
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I’m guessing they don’t care about that.
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From what I’ve read about the father, he’s a hardworking guy who is active in the community. I think that you are right.
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Ahhhhh….nuttin’ like da South in da summer. E-lectronic weather station on the porch and in the sun says it was 99 degrees with 92 percent humidity. A mite sticky. O-fidhul US Weather Service ststion in a ventilated white box at the airport’s bound to come in at less, then agin (as I’ve said before) I don’t live/work in a ventilated box at the airport.
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Heading to Bahamas for the summer before they can start chopping me up like Mike Brown.
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The unkindest cut of all…
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I am not jokin.
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But ta hoomidity only be 497. Gotta haircut today, so the “dandelion effect” is much more in evidence. Liken ta such –
Except I’ma ’bout 2 centuries older’n her.
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I got a haircut too. Must be the day. If I win the lottery there’s going to be a hairstylist on the extensive payroll, to deal with that mop. Every day.
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Well, you two overachievers. I gotta wait til Saturday so’z I kin get my hair did. A 1 on teh side, and a none on teh top. 😆 😆
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I already got mine did last Friday. So, now I am all beautimus.
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When my hat don’t fit I go to my country barber and he cuts it like I want it, something I can comb with a towel. After I retired I went a bit wild with the length, you can actually pinch some with two fingers now…if you work at it.
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You sound like my dad.
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Never did get into that whole ‘hair’ thing. Even as the Army went thru its social drifty period in the 70s and hair lengths bounced around I still keptnit short. I was already married so there was no need to have long and flowing locks to demonstrate my health and attract a breeding mate – or so the professor explained it. My First Sergeant explained it quite differently. Just over all easier to have one less thing to deal with in the morning.
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This, dammit……
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😆 ::lol: 😆
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Wuz you in Jooston today, or sumpin’? 😉
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Dang close, except mine’s Fifty Shades of Gray. And will stand straight up at times, no electricity needed.
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Ah, gray is cool, Menagerie.
My beard is about 40% gray now.
At least I look distinguished and wise.
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Well great. I, on the other hand, look like double, double, toil and trouble and your little dog too should be my lines. 😀
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I dye my hair, but my roots on the top are almost pure white. The back, however, is darker grey. Maybe I should grow it all out.
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I am a natural redhead………..it says so on the box.
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SMH
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AUS!!
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Todays Biblegateway VOTD:
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Proverbs 23:24 KJV
(I’m workin’ on it, Dad.)
Menagerie, et al:
Prov. 16:31 The hoary* head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city
* hoary (adj.)
1510s, “gray or white with age” (of hair); c. 1600 as “venerable, ancient;” from hoar + -y (2). Related: Hoariness, [or, what the Chinese call the Pope — Wooly what Renounces Himself]
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Gray is good. Daddy like! 😉
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THANK you.
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Yeah, my husband loves her hair and her music too! Isn’t she a beauty?
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A potential future ex-wife. 😆 😉
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And a genius.
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That’s one heckuva performance, if you have the two hours to spare.
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Mine, too!!! But I was told today peeps pay for my color of gray. ((rollin’ eyeballs, I think he’s fos)) It’s comin’ out kinda silver/white. Which suits me, ’cause I earned it. But there’s still too much turd-muckeldy-dun brown to mess with it just yet.
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Damn. After all these years. Little Bo Peep, guess what I found?
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I got my short summer cut a few days back. I’m a traitor, but I had to quit my barber shop of 12 years. The guy’s getting up over 90 years old, and a cut takes 45 minutes, if you include phone calls for scheduling and bathroom breaks. Love the man, but I don’t have time for that. My new guy is only about 70 or so, and finishes in fifteen minutes, easy. He doesn’t clip my ear hair by default, but at least he doesn’t need the restroom halfway through the cut. He doesn’t nick my ear with the scissors, either. And it’s a much livelier barber shop. By that I mean there are more than two people in it, and all are engaged in conversation and local “news”.
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After 3 months of needing to get my hair cut and not feeling good enough to go, I went today also. I used to go to the fancy salons: highlighting, color, styling, special cuts. Where I lived it was super-expensive. My hair was always extremely thick, then I lost about half from meds, my body issues, maybe all the coloring, something. One day I had had enough of covering roots and going so often. It took forever to grow out.
Now I’m in this little town. We go to a local shop, one bigger side for stylists, another side for barber shop. I ended up the first time with a lady on the barber shop side because I didn’t know I had to make an appointment for the stylist side. She is a really neat woman. She’s been doing this for 28 years. With less hair, there’s not much need for more than a trim and a little shaping. Today I was her next-to-last customer. I told her to just cut off the witchy long part, but she wanted to leave enough so I could put it in a little pony tail or clip. $18. When I got home, I sat and looked in the mirror, trying to decide what it looked like, since she didn’t blow-dry it or anything. Finally I got it — it looked like a medieval page boy for a knight. I thought it was hilarious. How much it used to matter, and how little I care now. It’s clean and I have hair. It’s a pretty silver color, and that’s good enough.
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LOL
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We have your humidity and my thermometer was reading 98 today. Saw on the local weather this evening that in my neck of the woods it felt like 120. I never pay much attention to that heat index crap, all I have to do is walk outside and know it’s hot.
If I could do the weather that’s what I’d tell people, it’s hot and if you don’t know how to keep yourself from getting too hot by now then you probably deserve a heat stroke. I’m sure I would only get to say that once though. lol
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Shaking my head, but unsurprised. Good grief. I wonder what percentage of our bishops can’t score double digits on an IQ test.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/06/florida-bishop-blames-orlando-jihadist-massacre-on-catholic-contempt-for-homosexuality
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We’re all surrounded by idiots.
Good thing is, the bastiches can’t escape now.
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This is exactly what I am talking about with the whole Omar was gay scenario. The slaughter in Orlando is going to be the fault of christians by the time it is written in their history books.
SMH
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Gee. I wonder where Netanyahu got the idea to make a point of this?
“Netanyahu Blames Orlando Attack on ‘Radical Islamist Terror’
President Obama won’t do this.”
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/netanyahu-blames-orlando-attack-radical-islamist-terror
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Trump added two rallies – Dallas tomorrow night at 7:00 pm CDT, and Houston on Friday night at 7:00 pm CDT.
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hhh dunno.Now. I am considering disconnecting an going black. I wonder if anyone else is, or thinking about it. It is costly to be connected to this stuff. I wonder if it is worth it? Any opinions?
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You mean disconnected from the internet? You could stop paying yourself, and use the library or local coffee shops etc.
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Well, Howie, it would suck for us if you left.
But none of us need the internet, all things considered.
I’m in a nice seasonal city, and I can just find and use any of about thirty WIFI connections at any moment in the summer.
I pay 40 a month for Comcast, to my landlord, but if it ever goes down, I have 29 more options, for free, including the city’s free citywide WIFI. It’s slow as molasses this time of year, but it works.
You can go to your local library, assuming you have a laptop, (or a half-decent phone), and still keep in touch.
Personally, I think we (us thinkers) are going back to C.B. Radio soon, out of necessity.
If not Pony Express and pen-pals.
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If you go black it’s eventually you’ll come back, living without it can be quite a project. Have you thought about what it would be like having your cat videos faxed or (shudder) mailed to you? Think of the inconvenience poor Stella will have moderating our submissions with a red pen!
We have satellite TV and internet, both of which ( thank you Directv and Hughesnet) are expensive and of limited Reliability. Right now, while we await the decision whether to go back to Hughesnet or just tie our email to pigeons, we’re using a Verizon hotspot which has an interesting billing plan sorta like cell phones had in the early 90s. On the upside we can always eat the pigeons.
We’re rural so aside from the almost two billion dollars the USDA and FCC have given the comm companies to get affordable hi-speed to us it manages to stop just down the road everywhere. I suspect they’recwaiting for a new Administration so that thebcomm companies who used the Federal billions to lay fiberoptic can bill us for installing the cable the Feds payed them to install.
You can dump the net but it’s become such a part of life now it’s going to be an irritation living without it. I just cut back on the stuff we figure we really don’t need and got the plan with a set download amount. I don’t really need to binge download movies or any other kinds of videos, Netflix and Redbox work fine. I don’t feel the overwhelming need to shower my acquaintances with endless pictures of me having a nice cup of coffee, brushing my teeth, or any other of a myriad of activities best left to the imaginations of semipro voyeurs.
If you find you can live without it, drop us a line, or check out the limited download plansblike Hugesnet. I understand that you can terminate Hughesnet service in a wireless router now, they aren’t expensive and you can goneireless where in my old Hughesnet I had to be hooked upndirectly to a computer.
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Costly as in monetarily or costly as in we are all likely in one of the first round ups if the puppet masters of Obamanites decide to take off their masks and go for broke?
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Another thought – do you have a neighbor close enough that it would make sense to share their internet? You could pay them a portion of their cost, and they could share their password.
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Now for something nice … Somebody posted this on Facebook, and it is absolutely precious.
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You are right, it is absolutely precious. Very high AWWWW factor. 🙂
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Awesomesauce!! 😀 😀 😀
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Thanks Stella, that is beautiful 🙂
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We’re all screwed.
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Indeed.
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Thank God for his Son.
Most atheist/aspergers/progressives that I know who have a sense of humor — they have a darker sense of humor than anyone here — and they have a lot of hatred in their hearts, which comes out in their “humor”.
Most people that I know with a truly “warped” sense of humor are such: Christ-hating progressives who believe whatever Morning Zoo program they listen to every single day teaches them about reality.
They have some sick, funny jokes, but they hate everything that is good.
They would find no common ground at AoSHQ, at all.
Those morons are good, like garlic and wooden stakes to most South Park devotees.
And their (and our) sickest, most twisted humor is still rooted in goodness, and the acknowledgement of such.`
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If someone posted this yesterday, my apologies. Some limp-wristed reporter went to a gun shop to see one of those evil killing machines, er, AR-15’s. The dude got PTSD and a whole bunch of other stuff after poppin’ a few rounds. P*ssy. Apparently the gun store came out today to try and set the record straight on how their comments were misconstrued. :shocked:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/firing-ar-15-horrifying-dangerous-loud-article-1.2673201
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He got a bruise from shooting an AR-15, that is hilarious. How the heck can you get a bruise from shooting an AR-15?
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Well, you know, like when you shoot off those 40 rounds in 5 seconds out of the clippy thing. I commented on FB that I’ll bet he has someone carry his foo-foo coffee since it probably burns his delicate, soft, little hands. 🙄
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I would like to take him shooting. letting him work his way up to the big boy guns. He’d probably be in a full body cast before we made it halfway through our supply. lol
That European gun shop owner needs go back to Europe.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/06/a_seriously_sissified_shooting_story.html
A good write-up. Comments are phenomenal.
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Well that was quite the chuckle.
What a whinny self important nutter.
And did his leftist pals reward him for carrying their banner? Nope. They chastised him for saying he felt like he had PSTD and he had to apologize for using the term.
His follow-up article is actually more self righteous and funny the his first.
UPDATE: Many people have objected to my use of the term “PTSD” in the above story. The use of this term was in no way meant to conflate my very temporary anxiety with the very real condition experienced by many of our brave men and women in uniform. I regret the inarticulate use of the term to describe my in-the-moment impression of the gun’s firepower, and apologize for it. I have also posted a follow up piece here.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/gun-lovers-opinion-assault-rifles-article-1.2674555
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Maybe it’s because I’m a country girl but I’ve never understood why having to shop in another part of town is such a hardship anyway. Heck, my nearest town is 15 miles away.
Spending $500 million to only discover that people still are going to buy what they buy whether it’s across the street or across town.
http://reason.com/blog/2016/06/13/500-million-later-usda-on-food-deserts
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I always wondered why my Organic Arugula Outlet Store in Benton Harbor, MI failed.
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Given Faecebook’s and Twitter’s recent Stalin-Like Purge, is it likely that we conservatives could pre-emptively sue them for damages before they do the Great Leap Forward HD?
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I mean, they sure will be proven to have been willing accessories to the crime.
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THUNDERSTORM!
Goodnight, Stellars.
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I’ve never in my life seen lightning this frequent, folks.
Ever.
Good grief. Hold on.
I’m taking video.
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Holy goodness, we have hail, now. This is nutz.
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Goodnight Wooly!
I love, thunder, lighting and rain.
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Never seen anything like this.
HAIL LIKE CRAZY
TORNADO???
OMG
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Gonna be a tornado. Absolutely sure. Van Buren cty to my SE. That was harsh.
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I have branches on my back stairs. My clay flowerpot-butt-can is gone. That thing was heavy.
I have never seen a storm like that, since I was a kid. Check the radar, and pray for those in its path.
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php
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Stay safe.
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