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Thanks, Impeach. I wouldn’t have known about this otherwise. 🙂
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Beautiful ship, stella.
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‘The highest badge of honor a person can wesr is honesty. Bectruthfulnat sll times.’ Hopalong Cassidy
“WTF?” Hillary.
G’nite, buckaroos
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I try to live by what Hopalong Cassidy said. If my source is correct, George Washington said this in his Farewell Address:
“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.”
Like most people who value honesty, I check myself if it would mean being gratuitously hurtful to another person unless my conscience tells me I should carefully tell the truth, such as talking to a relative or friend who has a drug problem, for instance.
In these days, more than ever, saying what I just said sounds old-fashioned and stuffy. I used to tell my children that if they lied to me, the consequences would be twice as bad than if they told the truth. I don’t even know if it made much of a dent. We seem to live in such a world of liars that almost everyone thinks everyone is lying, and it doesn’t even matter.
When I look back to my younger days, I can’t figure out if people truly valued honesty more. Maybe. I think people get very uncomfortable when someone honestly expresses themselves, even if the honest person is only talking about things relating to his/her own life or ideas. Honesty about more superficial, surface things is one thing, but go a little deeper than that, and it changes. And now, we even have to be careful about telling the truth because we don’t know what another person with bad motives might do. It’s like outside pressures are forcing us to be secretive and not speak freely.
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We taught my son that the lie would make the punishment worse, too. But, it was very difficult because he would do something he knew was wrong, and then come and tell me about it. So, I had to acknowledge that he told the truth, but punish him, too. He turned out ok, though.
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Well, you must have done great! He would come and tell you he did something wrong. That didn’t often happen in my house. However, both my kids asked me when they were grown how I always seemed to know when they were getting into trouble. They never could figure it out. There is something to mom’s intuition. So, my guess is you probably didn’t make the punishment too, too hard??
Lol…there were times that the consequences for whatever would be they would lose their good stuff. Several times my son just about had his whole room emptied out. To be fair, he did apparently have some brain damage from things his birth mother did, and we did not know until he was an adult. However, he does know right from wrong and he could learn, so it’s hard to know exactly what was affected.
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My son is very smart. I always had the feeling that he took into account the punishment he was going to get for whatever the offense was, and then decided whether it was worth it or not. LOL I did try to make it unpleasant for him, no being sent to his room where his games were. And, work was never a punishment because he loved to work. To be honest, my real problem was keeping him from seeing me laughing. I would be very stern and then go into my bedroom and close the door and try to make sure he didn’t hear me.
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A rare commodity these days….extinct in politics.
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Nailed it Pam. If I were younger in this present time, I think my proclivity toward too blunt honesty might get me labeled with some fancy psychological syndrome or something, and they would say I lack social skills, which is sometimes true.
Even as a young woman I lacked the desire, not the ability, to maneuver through the false world that is most of society. I find most people have constructed a dream world, and they now think that either it is real, or anyone who shatters the image is a cruel hater. Not only do people lie all the time, but there is a fakeness about life these days that makes it hard for me to navigate. It’s like I am in constantly changing computer games going a hundred miles an hour, and each person has a slightly different game. Suddenly I’m there in the middle of someone else’s reality.
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Ok. That’s enough JD for you this hour.
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Hey, I’m not having any JD, and I like what she’s saying!! 🙂
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I liked it too. We can laugh at her together then! 😉
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Cheers!
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It’s now 2:00 pm, and I shall start on this hour’s allotment. Ha!
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Yup!
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I do not comprehend this allotment idea. Does not compute. Would never compute, not when it comes to alcohol. 🙂
A few years ago, my husband and I went to lunch with my brother, his female partner, B, and a friend of hers whom we had helped move back down near where they lived. The friend, M, was, sadly, disabled from having been in a horrific auto accident, and was also an alcoholic. My brother’s partner, B, and I had known each other for years. Everyone ordered a drink. My husband and I had tea. B had a Margarita. She toyed with it, sipped on it, basically ignored it. The alcoholic friend, M, got her first drink down really quickly. I knew exactly what was going on in her mind, God bless her. She could not pay for her own lunch and drinks. After a while, she suggested everyone get another round. B said she was fine. So, the second round went by and we finished lunch. There sat B’s Margarita, just sitting there. I knew M could hardly stand it. Right at the moment we were getting up to leave, M finally broke and said to B “if you don’t want the rest of that, I’ll take it. No use in letting it just go to waste.”
It was excruciatingly awful to me, since I could just feel M’s desperation. B never had the slightest clue that underneath our lunch chatter, all this was going on. B always worried so much about her friend’s drinking. When I explained to her what had happened, she just sat there in shock. M died about a year later. She was one of those who didn’t keep up with eating. She kept declining until she got some massive physical illness, went in the hospital, and never came out. But it was the alcoholism that really killed her.
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😦 Very sad. My sister’s husband had two brothers and both were alcoholics. They tried to quit many times, but never managed to get away from it.
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You nailed it, too. I remember being in high school and writing poetry. I had one male English teacher I really liked. He was nothing to look at, but I had a sort of crush on him because he was very smart, and real..not the showy, charismatic type of teacher. We had a poetry assignment. I wish I had kept the poem. It had something in it about walking down the street and seeing poodles with painted toenails, sort of a commentary on society as I observed it. He called me to his desk, and asked me where I got the ideas in the poem.
I was always that way, as far back as I can remember…just like you said, I did not have the desire to maneuver through it or be like it. I lost my way, for a time, with the drinking. But the other never changed, to this day. I felt totally out of place in the world, in my family. Then, later, I understood it better and stopped worrying about being different. At the same time, I have always been very interested in what makes people tick. I learned to do the social thing, but I don’t seek out large groups and never cared much for parties or doing team things. Almost all the interactions I see going on are pretty much fake, even church group events, clubs, etc. Most people seem happy and content to live their whole lives the way you describe. They do not like being disturbed in their carefully-constructed worlds. I know what I just said probably sounds judgmental, and I don’t mean to come across that way. I’m not saying I’m better…just different, I guess.
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I can relate completely to that.
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You are blunt. You are direct. And, I see that as a strong positive about you.
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HI HO Silver!!! Away…….
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Close, but no silver bullet
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Hopalong’s horse
was named Topper. 😉
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… and not
to be confused
with this Topper. 😉
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I was waxing nostalgic about my long gone, early 50s Skippy peanut butter Hopalong milk glass. It was opaque white glass and you could see Hoppy in the bottom when you’d finished your milk. Now where are those car keys?
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Did you have a Hopalong lunch box too?
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No.
Had the bedspread.
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Rats, missed that one.
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And the hat and the double gun belt, oh yeah
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Is this it? From your description, maybe not:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/274009272/vintage-hopalong-cassidy-milk-glass
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Here’s a set:
http://www.antiquesnavigator.com/d-193837/hopalong-cassidy-plate-cup-bowl-set–milk-glass-mug.html
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No, this one’s closer:
http://www.terapeak.com/worth/vintage-1950-s-hazel-atlas-hopalong-cassidy-hoppy-lunch-milk-glass-cup-mint/151845787627/
It was a tall mug.
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Drive-by:
An Inquiry Into Islam
“…the central Islamic goal is, of course, to bring non-Muslims under the rule of Islamic law. That goal is laid out clearly and unmistakably in standard Islamic doctrine. But why does ISIS think that randomly blowing up and shooting infidels will achieve this?…”
http://www.inquiryintoislam.com/2016/06/what-does-isis-hope-to-achieve-with.html
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Mary, I printed “Islam and Women’s Rights”.
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Conversion thru fear. Even if they convert only because they fear death thry at least are not resisting the imposition of Sharia and resources that were previously dedicated to subjugating the nonbelievers can be dedicated to control and indoctrination. Worked for the Romans and for Hitler until the targeted joined hands and fought back.
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Conversion through fear,
here’s another example.
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One of the comments: “Brad Pitts @illneverusethis Jun 16
@GlobeOpinion Just ban murder. Then people will stop murdering. PROBLEM SOLVED!”
Hey, what a great idea!
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The muslims speak
of doing the gays a
favor by killing them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTqWZnR7lko
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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)
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Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
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Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
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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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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Thank you, Nyet! All will go great with my chocolate milk! 🙂
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I can’t wait for Sunday! KMB dry county, I gotz connections. Thanks nyet, you da best. And I’m off today. As it happens, I have some freshly ground and aromatic beans I just brewed that could only be enhanced with the application of a judicious amount of Jack to bring out the flavor.
I have several recipes that call for Jack. I almost never can follow through and pour it in a mixing bowl. Except for the cake recipe. I can do chocolate and Jack.
Good morning!
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Good morning, Menagerie, and all. Enjoy your day off.
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I can’t wait for Sunday! KMB dry county, I gotz connections.
Am I the only one who doesn’t know what this means? Maybe its just gonna be one of those days I feel old and out of it.
Have a great day off, Menagerie. Coffee-and-Jack sounds lovely. With chocolate on the side and bacon for desert. All 4 food groups!
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Don’t feel alone. 😕
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Well, I got very enthusiastic that nyet increased my booze allotment. So I said kiss my …dry county. No liquor sales in my county. Deep in the Bible Belt the folks with a straight family tree vote out liquor sales while a portion of their families own crack houses. So I drive across the state line a few miles away when I want to buy liquor. It’s really dumb. Believe it or not, I rarely drink, but I do keep liquor and wine on hand. Even as a casual drinker, I’ll get it when I want it, and for those who drink heavier than me, they sure aren’t going to miss a drink just because they might have to drive a few more minutes. Also, most places around here don’t sell beer until after 12 on Sunday and no booze at all on Sunday. The bible thumpers think this gets people into church, having never had any evidence whatsoever to support this theory.
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Oh yeah, Sunday is my next off day. Since nyet is giving me more little shots of Jack every day, I figure by Sunday I’ll be waaaay up there in little glasses. 😀
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OK, now I get it, thanks. I’m a little slow on the acronyms. I went to college in a dry county–Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, home of Mississippi State University. Every highway, road, and deer path out of the county had a liquor store about 50 feet on the other side of the county line, frequented by MSU students.
I remember Sunday blue laws. No stores at all open on Sunday, and it was not legal to write a check on Sunday, had to be post-dated for Monday to be legal.
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Believe it or not, I rarely drink, (LOL!) but I do keep liquor and wine on hand. (And how! Like Costco or Sam’s Club.) Even as a casual drinker, (1 bottle per hour) I’ll get it when I want it, and for those who drink heavier than me, (are all dead.) they sure aren’t going to miss a drink just because they might have to drive a few more minutes. nobody is breathing if they drink heavier than you!)
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Ha! In my family I am the stodgy old teetotaler. My friends and acquaintances consider me a rookie drinker. And just think, I might have many more years to pickle my liver.
I still resent the fact that my husband would not let me get that still a family member was getting rid of. Why do I live on a Georgia ridge deep in the woods if I can’t brew whiskey? Also, the man is a devoted fan of a sport that got its start a few miles from here with moonshiners and revenuers. I might have found my true calling at last. Yes, this last paragraph is a true story.
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Speaking of stills; I saw a cute little stove top still online. If it matched the other kitchen appliances, I could have passed it off as a coffee maker to the Mrs.
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My cousin had a beautiful copper still that he kept beside his fireplace. He and his brother had a state license to produce ethanol back in the 1970’s.
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Whoa, nyet! Projection much?? Better watch out, Menagerie and She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named are in cahoots and She-Who is gonna drag yur sorry a** out to the woodshed for a come-to-Jesus experience. Don’t be dissin’ our Menage that way bud! Even if it was funny…
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It would have been funnier if I had proofread it.
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Na na, na boo boo!
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When I first moved into TN, I went into a store at a gas pump. I got a 6 pack of beer and went up to the counter and asked where the wine was. He said they didn’t sell it because it is a dry county. I looked down at the 6 pack in my hand and asked what he called that. He said that was a malt beverage. I just stared at him.
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OK, so I drink an occasional fake beer, O’Douls. It has been researched and has about as much alcohol as a glass of prune juice. It would take like 50 of them to get the slightest buzz, but you would have to keep the 50 inside you to accumulate, so that’s not gonna happen. But they sell it in the beer aisle. So, you have to produce ID and they won’t sell it on Sundays here. Sometimes I tell the clerk all that info, and suggest they put it next to the prune juice. I know…but I like to see the looks I get.
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LOL
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We smoke gallons of syrup in the Alto-Sham with JD, for our chicken and waffles.
It’s a hit, for sure, with our unbelievable sausage gravy.
Then I found this, while looking for an image:
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I really like chicken and waffles. But I do not like people putting sausage in my gravy.
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Mornin’!
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Looks good. Morning, Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Nye!!! Excellent, a short stack, thank you…
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It seems that Disney didn’t want to perturb its $2000.00 a night bungalow guests who like to feed the gators.
Disney ignored gator problem to keep high-end guests happy: report
http://nypost.com/2016/06/17/disney-ignored-gator-problem-to-keep-high-end-guests-happy-report/
And then there was the boy who was attacked 30 years ago.
I was attacked by an alligator at Disney World
http://nypost.com/2016/06/16/i-was-attacked-by-an-alligator-at-disney-world/
And videos of gators at Disney and even one of Disney Guests feeding an alligator at a Disney restaurant.
Disney World is crawling with alligators – see for yourself
http://nypost.com/2016/06/16/disney-world-is-crawling-with-alliggators-see-for-yourself/
If you feed them, they will come.
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Yes, and there’s an even earlier video taken by one CPT(retired) James Hook:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OjlSAEgeTo4
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Bravo Czar!
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Thank you, but ALL the credit belongs to Disney.
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Think it’s time for Florida’s governor to have a monthly hunt. About a 1000 p/month for five years……….
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Mornin’ y’all!
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Exactly!!! 🙂
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Mornin’ Wee!
Someone yesterday told me we shouldn’t put all Muslim immigrants in the same category and how they had Muslim immigrant neighbors who were nice people who kept to themselves and never bothered anyone. I told them you’ll think that until they blow you up or cut your head off.
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I warn people dinner parties about my wife using the same examples. “You think she’s caring and thoughtful until she starts screaming about the toilet seat and cut’s your head off.”
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She wouldn’t have to scream about the toilet seat if you put it down.
Leaving the toilet seat up is grounds to have your head cut off. 🙂
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Yeah. 😦
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What type of unwashed heathen do you take me for? The seat is always down! That’s why it’s wet!
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That’s almost as bad!
Growing up with 4 older brothers, I had many middle of the night bathroom trips that I fell into the toilet water, which is not an enjoyable experience. When I’d scream at my brothers they always used the excuse that they didn’t pee on the seat.
How about lifting the seat, doing your business and putting the seat down?
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It’s pretty nasty to grope into the bathroom in the middle of the night and sit down, then realize you’re not sitting on the seat! Yuck yuck yuck!!
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Yep, I had that experience many times growing up with older brothers.
My sister once told them that the next time she sat down in toilet water, she was going to pour toilet water over them. She did it in the middle of the night and they screamed like little girls. Then tattled when the parents woke up. 🙂
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Sounds like your talker lived next door to those quiet San Bernardino Moslems.
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In Tulsa and the spouse is a city cop. I didn’t ask, but I would guess when his fellow officers were balking at being told they must attend CAIR outreach bs in their free time, he was gladly signing up.
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I’d sign up just to get access to the enemy’s propaganda campaign. The free hummus would be a bonus.
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They don’t let you see that though, they let you see what they want you to see and pretend how peaceful their mosque is without allowing you access to those side rooms.
That’s why so many cops were balking it they didn’t want to be part of their fake promotions.
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But that’s what you want, you want to hear their pitch as you know what BS lines they’re going to use and how they’re goingbto,present. They’re going to use some of their best matetials to get immediate feedback from one of the most important groups they need to sway. You can’t deal with the enemy without being familiar with it.
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I think anyone without their head buried in sand already know all that though.
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The propaganda and methodolgy evolve, best to keep on top of it and stay abreast of what they’re doing and how they do it.
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Ya got me there. Man I love good fresh homemade hummus. I keep fresh vegetables to indulge with my love of hummus.
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Roger that, dirt easy to make and great with a nice toadter pita chip. I’m waiting for the replacement food processor to arrive to make another batch of roasted red peoper hummus.
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I like mine with raw vegetables. I tell myself that makes the hummus calories not count. 😉
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What calories?
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peoper – is that people or pepper? 😯
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Depends upon which cookbook you’re using
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‘How to Serve Mankind’, chapter on Indian cooking….
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😯
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Thought Czar
meant pooper.
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I can’t find one that I can get past my nose. I just can’t make myself put in in my mouth. I actually would love to like it.
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Gah, forgot the link:
http://ohmyveggies.com/recipe-better-than-trader-joes-edamame-hummus/
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Thanks!
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Saved it.
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We used to do a long, triple dip appetizer plate, and one was an edamame hummus.
Best I’ve ever had. Made from scratch, of course.
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30 GOTO 10
RUN
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I’ve made it at home (hummus, that is). Is the edamame mixed with chick peas, or a substitute for them?
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Well, I guess we don’t have to worry about ZM, do we. 😯
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😀 😀 😀
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Unless those Moslem door-to-door missionaries start baiting conversion traps with bacon…
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Yeah, poor ZM wouldn’t be able to resist the bacon. 😯 OR….maybe he would go into a phone booth and change into Super ZM and levitate the bacon out.
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Yes, ‘Speck Mann’……
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If the pic doesn’t come thru at least the link will..
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He’s a bacon of light.
Oops, left out the “e”.
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Uniform to fight the muzz.
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Who is that mosqued man….?
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Our Lady of Pancetta would never allow ZM to be taken in by the infidels.
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Notbto mention St Prosciutto who hears prayers for miraculous cures.
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Didn’t Phil Collins write a song about Prosciuttio in the 80’s?
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Or about the ladies welcoming the fleet in Naples, ain’t quite sure
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Oh, good.
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!! Cleaning up some storm damage, nothing major, just trees. More fire wood for winter.
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Mornin’ Colonel!
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I would give this place my money. That’s wonderful to see!
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https://twitter.com/dartlucy/status/743537202391584773
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😀 !!!!!
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…oh and shake this woman’s hand, too, with a polite nod of respect.
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I don’t get it. 😕
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Have a beautiful day Stellars 🙂
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A Life of Violent Threats Paved Way for Orlando Attack
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-life-of-violent-threats-paved-way-for-orlando-attack-1466127324
Every person who Omar slaughtered and every person who Omar wounded was sacrificed at the altar of political correctness.
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From the Czarina: the GGS & I are making blueberry buttermilk muffins for b’fast this morning with blueberries from the backyard & buttermilk from the local dairy…….(recipe on food.com). Great-great-grandma said she doesn’t like blueberries because her father (old line German) made her go pick them for his breakfast. Go figure.
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I’m really gonna get her her own accout, really. GGG also hsd to milk the cows, feed the stock and invade a small neighboring country before breakfast which is why she’s still not a big fan of farm life or manifest destiny.
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Almost nothing is better than blueberry muffins made right. With lots of fresh cream butter. I like mine with Scottish oatmeal.
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Czar, I’m on my way, see you at sunup! I’m in for blueberry muffins, with buttermilk……reminds me of my mother and aunts………..
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Won’t find these in a ‘bread in a can’ C-rat box
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Editorial by a FB friend, Thomas Lipscomb. This is the same Thomas Lipscomb who was banned by Facebook for months before reinstating him.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/06/is_it_worth_reading_a_newspaper_anymore.html
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For those who stopped
visiting the neighbor
tree, a nice little read.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
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I think most of the admins in the lounge area may peek over the fence from time to time…
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You’re over there, too….saying “good morning” all the time…but you’re not leaving breakfast anymore. I used to wonder why you stopped.
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Other people are posting breakfast pictures there from time to time, and I don’t know half the names there anymore. I say mornin’ to the admins when I see em over there (usually just WeeWeed). FDR, Elvis, and so on. I’ve only seen SD comment in the daily thread a couple of times in as many years.
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I was just joking…
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I just did, and was shocked to read a very judgmental comment, copying something from Ann Barnhardt. I understand why Ann said what she did about homosexuality, but it is more than presumptuous of her to think that she knows what is in the hearts, minds, and behaviors of every person who was killed in Orlando. Reminds me of Westboro Baptist Church, and I said so.
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I saw all that exchange. I have respect for Ann Barnhardt, but I have to take her writing in small doses. She is a very passionate believer. It’s difficult to try to put myself in her place, since she acted so strongly on her principled beliefs, and now her life is pretty bad as a result of her principles. She’s human, and I think sometimes she gets a little too carried away. She maybe forgets to balance some of her thought with the mercy and autonomy of God. God can do what He wants to do. The Church stops short, very strongly, at saying it knows who will or won’t go to hell, at the last moments of someone’s life. There is a good reason for that. There is plenty of doctrine based on Scripture and the words of Jesus, which I think give us all cause to take our eternal fate extremely seriously, if we choose to believe Scripture. I am not one who believes God is all Mercy and no Justice. The Bible doesn’t support that idea. It is both/and. But we are not the final judge, not we humans. We do not know the Mind of God. We are the creatures. He is the Creator. He gives us a path to follow Him but that doesn’t mean we know and understand all.
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The Guardian’s reporting that the Southern Poverty Law Center, an accepted source of anti-Conservative propaganda by the DoJ, has conveniently provided a receipt showing that the Brit who shot Jo Cox bought books on building a homemade gun, making explosives and Nazi propaganda from a US neo-Nazi book shop.
Now I’m not questioning the pure honesty and integrity of the SPLC, Oh nononono, they are as pure as the driven snow, butcwith their Death to Conservative Ameica agenda one wonders how they got this receipt before the FBI did. Or did the FBI get it through less than judicial means and launder it thru the SPLC? Anyway…..
This plays right into the hands of the EU and Obama by showing how that pesky 1st Amendment allows the masses to get information they are not entitled to. That entire Bill of Rights thing is outdated in the light of the New Reality and really needs to be udated. Much of the world’s political structure that’s ‘adopted’ the US Constitution has done so while eliminating or severely restricting the application. Like the US progs are trying to do the EU oligarchs are trying to limit acess to and conveyance of any information they don’t deem appropriate for the mouthbreathing public.
This SPLC release adds fuelmtonthe EU’s desire to limit US control,of the internet and the information it holds. China’s done that by establishing a paralell internet and virtually eliminating public access to the outside one. Many other countries are using blocking systems to limit their subject’s access to certain areas/sites on the net due to the US’s 1st Amendment allowing inconvenient (to them) information to be posted.
We have the calculating SPLC conveniently furthering its agenda while providing Britain and the EU with ammunition to continue theirs. Ignoring the irony that it was British policies concerning limiting free speech that inspired our 1st Amendment and now an American group is providing the Brits with help in quashing it, the death of the 1st and 2nd Amendments with one fell swoop would be quite an Obama accomplishment.
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http://dennismichaellynch.com/black-lives-matter-claims-to-e-working-with-loretta-lynch-will-attempt-to-shut-down-trumps-nomination/
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I believe Kasich is allowing them to protest inside the convention center.
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He can make that decision?
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This is what I read. Is it true? I didn’t verify it.
http://prntly.com/2016/06/17/kasich-permits-blacklivesmatter-and-la-raza-to-protest-inside-cleveland-convention/
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I realize parts of the country don’t have chiggers so when people come to Oklahoma and manage to get the little critters they wouldn’t know what they are. However, you’d think a doctor practicing in Oklahoma would know chigger bites when they see them.
A former co-worker of my daughter’s moved her about 4 years ago and managed to get her first chiggers this year. She posted about it on FB that she had all these strange bumps that itch really bad and mainly concentrated in her waistband, under her arms and under her breasts.
I didn’t need to read anymore to know she had chiggers. lol
She continues that she got to looking at the bumps and they have little orange dots.
She went to the doctor and the doctor told her they were some type of insect bites but he wasn’t sure what so he wrote her out a prescription for prescription strength benadryl cream.
She wanted to know if anyone had any idea what could have bit her.
All of her Okie friends I think commented at the same time: Chiggers! lol
They all gave her the good news, they’ll go away in a few weeks in the meantime mouthwash on a cotton ball rubbed on them will give you about 4 to 6 hours relief in the meantime. Next time if you suspect you might have been somewhere with chiggers take a bleach bath when you get home and you won’t suffer. Rarely does insect repellant actually repel those little evil creatures.
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If someone hereabouts comes in with chigger bites the docs know they aren’t natives and will take their insurance for a ride.
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michellc, I’ve never heard of the mouthwash treatment, thanks! Not that I’ll need it in Alaska, but my Alabama cousins might, and they call me for medical advice frequently. I don’t know of any such thing as “prescription strength Benedryl cream”. Wondering if it is Benedryl (diphenhydramine) mixed with a high potency steroid cream like triamcinolone.
I grew up spending summers with my grandparents on the Warrior River in Alabama, and chiggers were the main misery of summer. Grandma kept a palm-sized cloth bag full of what she called sulpher powder that she would pat us down with before going outside to keep the chiggers off. We still got some, but not a lot. When we got sunburned she’d wipe us down with vinegar, which burned like all getout but it took the heat out and we didn’t peel.
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Around here the old timers wrapped rags soaked in kerosene around wrists and ankles before going berry picking. My husband swears they never got chiggers when his grandma wrapped them up. Unknown how many family members were lost to combustion. She would marshall all the grandkids and their buckets to pick a hillside clean of blackberries. I am told that the rewards were worth the hard day of labor. 😀
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We have our own berty bushes but tbe problem’s less of chiggers than snakes. The beries on and shade under the bushes draws mice which draw snakes. Again, worth the effort.
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I have no idea what prescription benedryl cream is.
Sulphur repels lots of insects, if you don’t mind smelling like sewer. lol
I hate the smell of sulphur.
I always use DEET when out in the woods or out fishing, but I’ve never had it work against chiggers.
I don’t know why mouthwash works but it does. I can’t remember now when I first heard of it, but it was probably some crazy Okie who was trying everything in their medicine cabinet to stop itching. lol
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They don’t even know what spider bites are on the West side of the Cascade Mountains.
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I thought there was something about fingernail polish? Or maybe it was polish remover. I had them in GA and FL, but I never heard about the mouthwash remedy.
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I wonder if it’s the alcohol in the mouthwash. I mention it, because I use a mouthwash that doesn’t contain alcohol.
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I think you have to order Botot from France to get a mouthwash with alcohol anymore.
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Doesn’t Listerine still contain alcohol?
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Listerine and most of the others are made in Malaysia now. Who knows what’s in it and the 25-50% “alcohol” that was made from who knows what.
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Botot is about 190 proof anyway.
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Rum smells and tastes better than listerine.
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I actually knew someone who drank mouthwash to get some alcohol. I had thought it was more joke than fact.
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I believe First Lady Betty Ford said that was something she did when she was trying to quit. I can’t remember if it was mouthwash or something like after shave.
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I’ve heard of polish for all kinds of insect bites, but I’ve never tried it.
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We used fingernail polish. Usually bright pink or red. So, we would have these red dots all over. LOL
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I seem to remember now that it was about sealing over the bite, so the thing would die, or something like that.
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Yes, and I imagine the fumes from the polish, whatever it is, didn’t make them any healthier.
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The Russian Olympic track and field team, the entire team, has been banned from the Rio Olympics. The IAAF originally banned thevteam in November after it accused it of widespread illegal doping. The IAAF was considering a partial ban, just banning those member with a history of doping (a history?) but finally decided to give the bootski to the entire team. You’d think they’d have learned after their USSR days…
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The Year of the Triffid Squash. Squash are taking over the garden, they’re into and over the onions and headed for town. Global Warming tastes good.
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Surely down there you’re growing okra too? My favorite summer meal. Pinto beans, fried okra, fried squash, corn, mashed taters, sliced maters and onions, squash relish served with buttermilk cornbread. Now that is eatin’. No meat needed or wanted except the side meat in the beans. Amen.
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Gosh, that sounds so good.
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mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm! Ain’t nothin’ like a Southern veggie dinner. I gotta have some turnip greens to go with the cornbread.
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I was/am looking for something next door in an early post of mine that I don’t remember when it was. Anyway I ran across a 2013 WeeWeed post that made me spit coffee.
http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/DiamondWW1/media/pbhillary.jpg.html
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Classic and terrific.
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nyet, I think one of the Admin super powers is being able to pull up every comment you’ve ever posted over there. Stella, Menagerie, Wee, is that true? I’ve often wondered when my first comment went up; I think I lurked a long time before girding my loins to jump in.
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I didn’t lurk so much as only post when I had something intelligent to write.
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A guideline I often wish others would follow…
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Now I just post whenever. Intelligent or not.
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Mostly not.
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Lol…then we’d all have to know whether or not we were intelligent enough to know if what we would say would be intelligent. Somewhat o/t from the original thought – one of my fave irritations is 50 people rushing to a thread to post the exact same breaking tidbit of news or gossip, sometimes within a minute of the 49th person before them just posting the same thing.
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It does seem like a popularity contest at times, doesn’t it? Even if it’s just to the person doing the posting.
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5/14/2011 at 7:58 PM.
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When was mine?
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2013/08/01 at 7:09 pm
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Without looking, that must have been the history of Islam post that had been linked on the blaze.
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2013/08/01/%d0%be%d0%bd-%d1%81%d0%b5%d0%b9%d1%87%d0%b0%d1%81-%d0%bc%d0%be%d0%b3%d1%83%d1%82-%d1%81%d0%b2%d0%be%d0%b1%d0%be%d0%b4%d0%bd%d0%be-%d0%bf%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%bc%d0%b5%d1%89%d0%b0%d1%82%d1%8c%d1%81/
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I used the calendar once you gave me the date. And Be_Ge was who responded. SMH.
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No way! My first post was a Snowden post?!?
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Ooooh oooh…if you have time, when was mine? I don’t know if I’ll even go look ’cause I might be embarrassed. I can’t remember and I can’t remember how long I may have lurked.
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2013/07/10 at 1:12 pm
This thread:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2013/07/10/thread-2-day-22-week-5-zimmerman-trial-witness-discussion-thread/
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Fantastic. You guys are good. Thank you very much.
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Thank you Menagerie. Super powers are awesome.
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Yes, it’s true. Your first comment was May 14, 2011.
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yeah, I had to go look too. Somehow appropriate that it was a book recommendation. Can’t help noticing what paltry comment numbers there were back then; 3, 12, … 35 on a big post. Wow.
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That was pretty early on. CTH was founded Feb 1, 2011.
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Pfffft. That creature ALWAYS makes me spit. Whateves.
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Do you have a problem with dry mouth syndrome? 🙂
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Only when I see too much of the beest…
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The House of Representatives defeated an effort to ban illegal aliens from serving in the U.S. military Thursday, when over 30 Republicans joined the Democrats to vote down two amendments which would have prohibited federal money from being used to enlist illegal immigrants who have work permits under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA).
http://dennismichaellynch.com/highlight-one/house-allows-illegals-to-join-military-by-1-vote/
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Looking forward to seeing the list of perpetual turncoats.
It seems that those in power do not believe that history will repeat itself.
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Awwwwwww- howcsweet, tonite’s MSM broadcasts are all about the human interest side of the Orlando massacre. Warm fuzzy bunny stuff, the wounded hugging their copnrescuers, the lieutenant governor ( conspicuously mentioned as the CONSERVATIVE lt gov) apologizing for how he treated gays in his youth, people wrapping themselves in the rainbow flag, all that warm apple piecstuff. Nothong, nada, about the hordes of moon goddess-crazed, pork averse murderers slithering amongst us. It all about the gay murdered and zero about the murderers. You can bet your hijab that had the shooter been a Christian Identity adherent the MSM would be all over Christians 24/7.
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Hey, y’all, if anyone’s lookin’ for a ‘One Ummah’ ‘T’ for Ramadan, they’re 50% off with free shipping!
http://m.eastessence.com/Clothing/Tees-Hoodies-Mobile/
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My son flew home from Austin in the wee hours of the morning. According to him, the two pilots got into a fight, had to leave the plane and other pilots be brought in. Also, REO Speedwagon was on the flight too. They play at Riverbend tonight I think.
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Well, that’s exciting!
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Bet it woke him up!
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Yikes! 😯
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Glad the fight didn’t start at 30,000 ft.
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I know right? (Since you said you had trouble with acronyms, which I also do – IKR.)
You know how they’re always supposed to sound so calm when they make an announcement. “This is your captain speaking. Don’t worry, folks. I engaged the autopilot before my co-pilot and I start duking it out. We should have a smooth landing in 30 minutes, if one of us survives.”
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We still have 3 baby swans 🙂
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Awwwww……. I lost my baby cardinal today. Dawgs next door, not my herd.
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I know it is always sad to see them disappear, but, if all three make it this would be a good year. Normally it is only one or two who survive to adulthood.
Poor little cardinal 😦
Lots of turtles sunning themselves today but they are too shy for photos.
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Seven year old girl owns Gersh Kuntzman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc-hqiAlfQM&feature=youtu.be
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Reminds me when I took the boys to the range for the first time……
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My first gun lesson was with a 22. My dad’s friend showed gave me gun safety lessons and shooting lessons.
The first lesson was he loaded the gun, then took all the bullets out of the gun, showed me how to clear the chamber, then he put the empty clip in and asked me if the gun was loaded.
Me “No.”
Him, clucking disapproval, “Every gun is always loaded. Always. If you pick up a gun, it is loaded, if you point a gun it is loaded. There are no unloaded guns.”
Me, 😳
But the lesson was learned.
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Never cab be too careful. After carrying one for over twenty years I still ended up shooting a hole through one wall, a vacuum cleaner and my briefcase on an accidental discharge. In my favor, the vacuum shooting was self-defense.
At least I didn’t do what one of the officers did. While answering the call of nature he hung his pistol on the stall door by putting the coat hook thru the trigger guard. Problem was that the hook rested on the trigger and…boom. He didn’t stay long, bowels and bladder emptied in record time. No injuries though, if you don’t countnhis pride.
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I have a friend who always carried a loaded revolve in his belt holster. One day when he got home it was cocked. He has absolutely no idea how it got cocked so now he carries a pistol and replaced his wife’s traditional revolver with one of the hammerless revolvers.
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Almost forgot, also shot a hole in one of our car doors with a 1911 Colt .45 after carrying one for 30 years. I still don’t know how it happened but I switched to a Glock two days later and haven’t had a problem since.
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Driving 75 miles one way to take GGS to the gun show in Kenner, LA tomorrow. He’s wrapped tight to go to the shooting range and doesn’t know he’s getting his own rifle for his b’day. It’s a hard way to teach him what a Democrat is but when he sees them take away what he treasures most at this moment, welllll he’ll learn to despise them at an early age.
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Have fun Czar! I’m sure he will always remember the day 🙂
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I gave him the choice of going to the Stennis Space Center Museum and taking the bus tour of the launch test pads or going to the gun show. He chose the gun show. I’ll stop by the Michaud center in NOLA East where they have a Saturn 5 first stage on display so he’ll get to see that too. Then we’ll go to Stennis next week.
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That sounds fun also!
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Forvtrue is, you can spend more than a day there, the site’s a couple of acres. On Saturday you tour the complex where they test rocket engines, the reserve’s southern border on I-10 is 14 miles long. You see the test pads and dome of the other outside stuff, they only run these tours on Saturday as the normal work’s on hiatus.
They built the Saturn 5 lower at the Michaud facility, later they built all of the space shuttle’s center tanks there, now they’re designing a new series of rocket motors there, thry have that Saturn 5 lower outside so you can get an idea of how immense it all was. Then we can stop at one of my favorite poboy spots for lunch.
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You sound like a really great grandpa. Your great-grandson is a fortunate young man. How few young boys today would have the sort of experiences that you are giving him? I can’t recall if you have said how old he is, but obviously he’s old enough so that he will remember well, since you are giving him that special birthday present. You don’t have to say anything sentimental-sounding, but I get the feeling you are treasuring this time with him. It makes me feel good to hear your stories about you and him. Thank you for sharing them. Many grandchildren, much less great’s, don’t have the opportunity to know their grandfathers. Your grandchildren and great-grandchildren are blessed. I hope you both enjoy every single second together, including the po’boys!
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You do what you can and hope that at some point in the future, long after you’re gone, they’ll remember some moment you shared, feel good and remember you.
Pointnin case, and I’ve mentioned this on the other blog some years back: my father was stationed in Canada when Canada and the US were building anti-missile radar systems and arctic basing. At that time the Seagrams company was reasly tightbfisted with the Crown Royal, you judt didn’t walk into the corner gas station and buy it. As a treat they gave the airmen at his base complimentary bottles, case, velvet bag and all.
Thinking he’d honor my grandfather, old world original Slav, with some my father brought the bottle home and opened it atbthectable. We watched while he prepared the glasses, broke the seal on the bottle and carefully poured his father and himself each two fingers. My father sipped his and my grandfather just chugged his down in one gulp. My father, eyes the size of saucers, asked him, after explaining that was a rare sipping whiskey, how he liked it. He looked at the glass, shrugged, and said, “It’s OK.”
My father was aghast, “What’s wrong with it?” he asked.
My grandfsther just shrugged agsin and said: “It doesn’t burn going down.”
Thst’s bevome a staple family line.
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And for you doomsday theorist, the full moon befor the summer solstice, good article at Sky and Telescope
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/june-solstice-means-late-nights-bright-lights/
Enjoy!
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Indications are that the LGBT community in Louisiana may start lobbying firbgun control in the state. Wonder if, when Moslem semi-moderatws start duct taping them to chairs and tossing them off buildings, thry’ll lobby for greater control of office furniture? Hey! Maybe they can get the Moslems to join with them in lobbying forvgreater gun control, it would be win-win, just not in the same universes.
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