General Discussion, Friday, June 24, 2016

Posted on June 24, 2016 by Stella

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  2. sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
    June 24, 2016 at 12:12 am

    What a great victory!!! I don’t think I’m going to sleep much tonight! I am elated by the Brexit results! Let freedom ring!!!

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  3. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    June 24, 2016 at 12:14 am

    Curses!!! Distracted again as the pretenders sneeeeeeak in.

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  4. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    June 24, 2016 at 12:27 am

    Czarina an I wentdown to one if the casinos on the coast just to see how it had…adapted…to the economic conditions. Ain’t gonna say the casino’s name but how the mighty have fallen. Ahywho, sat down to digest lubch and put my max $20 in the quarter slot to see how long it would take to lose it only to discover the Czarina had maneuvered us into the smoking section. That’s unusual as she’s tonsmoking as Goebbels was to kosher cuisine, but then she has a seasonsl nose problem. Woman nextbto me was chain-smoking and it’s dtill in my sinuses, every few minutes I get the smell of it. I changed my clothes but it’s up in the nose vaults andvit’s gonna stay a while.

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    • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
      June 24, 2016 at 12:30 am

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        June 24, 2016 at 12:40 am

        Much like that, yeah, and I used to smoke like a chimney. I quit in 1980 and until recently it didn’t really bother me but now it’s like a smack upside the head.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          June 24, 2016 at 1:04 am

          I also was a big smoker, and quit in 1989. I can’t stand the smoke either.

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        • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
          June 24, 2016 at 9:24 am

          I stopped this last New Years Eve due to having sucked in a bunch of dust and getting ill. I just haven’t started back up yet. The Mrs. thought I quit and struggled for a month or two to stop. I think I have unopened one pack left and cigars.

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            June 24, 2016 at 10:56 am

            I do not regret having quit, not one bit, I just miss it sometime.

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            • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
              June 24, 2016 at 11:06 am

              It had not been my intent to quit, perhaps that is why it was so easy. My wife was still sneaking cigarettes out of my months old packs until early March. The smell doesn’t bother me, but it seems to upset her greatly. I suspect it’s all in how we each stopped/quit. We stopped drinking around Thanksgiving, and the Mrs. fears she’ll start smoking if we have any wine. While I miss the hours of drunken conversation, I don’t miss the last call arguments and knife fights.

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                June 24, 2016 at 11:10 am

                Yeah, the knife fight thing’s been a PIA since I started getting arthritis in some fingers. As the county’s dry the settings for drunken stabbing’s are diminished but doc tells me he can write me a scrip for a switchblade as assistive equipment when and if.

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              • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                June 24, 2016 at 11:12 am

                My sister and her husband smoke very heavily and have tried to quit a lot of times. They live in BC and the weather there is usually cold and pretty awful so smoking outside is not an option. Their problem is that they can’t seem to quit individually without the other one quitting at the same time. And, when they have tried to quit at the same time they were afraid they would kill each other.

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                • Stella's avatar stella says:
                  June 24, 2016 at 1:56 pm

                  Actually, you can quit in those circumstances. I didn’t live with a smoker when I quit, but I worked in the same room with a chain smoker, and my boss smoked too. I think it has to do with determination. Many people quit when they really (in the back of their minds) readily accept that failure is a strong possibility.

                  I had an audiotape that I would play in the car, and one of the ideas that helped me was the truth that if you have a craving and wait for several minutes, the craving will dissipate. I’m not saying that it was easy (it wasn’t). I think you also have to find a strong reason why you are quitting. In my case, my sister died of emphysema at age 60. It was a horrible death, and long life runs in my family. My mother begged me to quit, and I did – three days after my sister died. I think that if I had waited a week or two, I would probably have failed.

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                  • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                    June 24, 2016 at 3:33 pm

                    Our father died a few years ago, of lung cancer. He hadn’t smoked for 45 years. The doctor said it was definitely the smoking. But, he smoked 4 packs of Camels a day for most of 40 years. He was also exposed to goodness knows what during the war. But, his death should have had an effect, but I doubt it did. Sorry, I consider it her and her husband’s problem. They were so hateful about it back in the 80’s that I just refuse to visit, so it isn’t a problem for me.

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                  • Stella's avatar stella says:
                    June 24, 2016 at 3:39 pm

                    I was part of a NIH study a few years ago regarding lung cancer detection. Part of our group was periodically given chest x-rays, and the rest (including me) were given CT scans. Only smokers and ex-smokers were included in the study. I have detectable permanent lung damage from my 25 years of smoking, so I will always have an elevated risk of lung cancer. My dad was still a smoker when he died – of colon cancer. I believe smoking is also a risk factor for that.

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                  • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                    June 24, 2016 at 3:44 pm

                    My father also had colon cancer, but they operated and got it all. That was 8 or 10 years before he died.

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              • Pam's avatar Pam says:
                June 24, 2016 at 2:38 pm

                🙂 🙂

                I stopped drinking in the 80’s and I went to AA meetings. The smoke was usually like a fog in the rooms. For me, drinking and smoking went together, but it would have been the drinking that would have restarted the smoking. Advice back then was not to try to quit both at the same time because it would just be too hard on most people and they would fail. Some managed to do both. I didn’t try, and kept smoking for about 5 more years. Meanwhile, smoke-free AA meetings began to grow and offices banned smoking. The smoking kept bothering me. I slowly lowered the strength of the cigarettes I smoked until I was down to those things that were basically air. I was one that would smoke everywhere, and that was getting harder. I even smoked in the bathtub, while reading a book.

                I had tried two times to quit, but it was while I was still drinking. When I finally gutted it up for the third try, I took a couple of days off from work, scheduled around a weekend, went home and got in the bed and stayed there. The experts’ advice was to go out and do things, be around people. I knew that wouldn’t work for me. I treated myself like you see in the movies, where they lock the addict in the room until they go through initial withdrawal. I just stayed in the house. Since I had been smoking those air things for so long, a bunch of it was the act of smoking but there was still withdrawal.

                I was a very nasty person for a long time, for months. My husband, who had never smoked, suffered through it all and was wonderful about the whole thing. I couldn’t see how horrible I had really been until things calmed down. After the worst was over, my husband then told me the truth. Embarrassing.

                I know people who smoked for years, then one day just put it down and it was over. My mother did that. Same with drinking, for people who were occasional or even more frequent drinkers. Not me. Whether it would be a cigarette or a glass of wine or beer (I was a scotch and vodka drinker), if I did one, it would only be a matter of time, but I don’t think I could stand inhaling tobacco smoke now. I had “drunk dreams” for years. It’s common to have a drunk dream around your sobriety anniversary. I would wake up thinking it was real and I had lost my sobriety. Cigarette smoke is nasty to me now also. No one can smoke in my house. I have no problem with a non-alcoholic having a drink in my house or being out for dinner where my companions have a drink or two. I think of alcohol now like it’s ebola, for me.

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                • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                  June 24, 2016 at 6:09 pm

                  A good friend of mine gave up smoking cold turkey. After about 3 day he got into a huge fight with his neighbor about his neighbor not having his garbage can parallel with the curb 😄. I think he finally apologized about a year later.

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    • sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
      June 24, 2016 at 12:32 am

      Ugh! Sorry, that’s the worst! 😦

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      June 24, 2016 at 12:34 am

      I can still hear my Dad’s zippo clicking…….

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  5. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    June 24, 2016 at 1:05 am

    Ran out of reply space – suspecting you’re in Kohut with WordPress to Bion top.

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  6. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    June 24, 2016 at 1:06 am

    16,835,512 vote for independence. UK votes to LEAVE the EU. It is official. The point of no return.

    Congratulations Nigel Farage!

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  9. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    June 24, 2016 at 6:57 am

    Mornin’ kids! Rule Brittania, eh what??? 😀

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  10. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
    June 24, 2016 at 7:16 am

    You guys had a busy and fun night! Sorry I missed it. Now I see why some of my Jack was missing from the stash yesterday!. Have fun, off to work.

    Oh, to wish Britain was the beginning of a world wide awakening. Unfortunately, I fear the fickle wind which is the mind of the people might just blow another way in a few months. The hive mind has ADHD.

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    • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
      June 24, 2016 at 11:45 am

      I think Boris gave ya’s extra libations this morning to make up for it…….

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      June 24, 2016 at 11:54 am

      I think the little tickle in the backs of so many Brit, and other EU minds, is that the EU is more the 4th Reich than European. Germany controls the EU, it’s the achthundert pfund Gorilla in the bank, the allies won WWII but Germany won the war. Also, with an anemic growth rate Britain’s helping keep basket case EU members afloat. Then we have that flood of Moslem goat-diddlers flooding in who eat off the Brit table while planning on destroying over a thousand years of civilization as they turn Britain into a clone of the uncivilized and repressive ****holes they crawled out of. ‘Scuse me while I go and take a chill pill.

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    • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
      June 24, 2016 at 11:20 pm

      Some easy listening…

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  12. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    June 24, 2016 at 8:59 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels)
    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! 🙂 |_| ( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Blackberry wine)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 |_| (Backdraft)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ Pam! 🙂
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! ⭐ 😛 (No drink for you!)
    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

    Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra and F.D.R. in Hell! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Pastries for coffee!

    ⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol

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  13. Monroe's avatar Monroe says:
    June 24, 2016 at 9:08 am

    Question for Law Enforcement:

    What are the implications of a police officer working (writing citations &reports) when his LE certification has expired?

    What are the likely punishment for the officer and his commander, who both were aware of the lapse?

    (No, my sister cop is not the guilty party.)

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      June 24, 2016 at 11:27 am

      Depends upon the jurisdiction but soneone without a valid LEA status is just a regular citizen. Some jurisdictions would treat that as a normal citizen making a ‘citizen’s arrest’ type of complaint while others would treat it the same as a Post-It note left on your windshield.

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      • Monroe's avatar Monroe says:
        June 24, 2016 at 12:45 pm

        Wouldn’t it be akin to impersonating a cop?

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          June 24, 2016 at 12:53 pm

          At first look it might but that would be a very gard thing to prove in court. Circumstances would play into the deginition, so would the court’s generally giving cops/excops lighter handling than regular citizens. If it were the guy hosing down a group of nuns with his service pistol as he waved his badge you’d get a better chance at it than his just writing a citation. At best I’d say that the judge would dismiss the citation with a mild verbal warning to the writer, at eorstnyou could have a judge like one of my old ones who’d say: “well you must have done something wrong in the past you escaped bring fined for, consider this karma.”

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  14. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    June 24, 2016 at 9:24 am

    “35 Facts (and Controversies) About Zika”
    These are some of the facts that jumped out at me.
    6. Zika virus has been around in other countries since the 1940’s.
    7. Zika is considered one of the mildest mosquito-borne viruses.
    23. You’re not supposed to spray bug repellent on skin under clothing.
    26. Human travelers from Zika-ridden countries are not being screened for U.S. entry…but primates are. Monkeys and apes imported into the U.S. undergo a mandatory 31-day quarantine period on arrival.
    28. Once antibodies develop, a person or primate can no longer spread Zika. Humans are believed contagious for about a week.
    30. The U.S. has declared an emergency even though no Zika has been transmitted in the continental U.S. That’s in stark contrast to the larger, deadlier EV-D68 and AFM outbreak in 2014 that received little attention.

    https://sharylattkisson.com/3782-2/

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  15. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    June 24, 2016 at 11:14 am

    2016 the year of the power of bad hair?

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  16. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    June 24, 2016 at 12:13 pm

    Particularly enjoying my English Breakfast tea today 🙂

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  17. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    June 24, 2016 at 12:24 pm

    Kanye playing The Beast and Freddie playing The Donald.

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  18. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    June 24, 2016 at 12:28 pm

    Like was for Freddie, not Kanye

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  19. michellc's avatar michellc says:
    June 24, 2016 at 1:22 pm

    Kids are good for the soul. I’m watching my grandson today and he is keeping me laughing. While I was watering my flowers this morning, I hear him behind me say, “I got it NaNa.” I turn around to see and he has his puppy by the tail and carrying it with a grin from ear to ear. He was too proud of himself for me to correct him, so I just saved the puppy. lol

    He unscrewed a knob on the cabinet and says, “I ix it NaNa.”

    While I was fixing his lunch, he disappeared and doesn’t come out when I was yelling for him, I found him under the dining table with a big grin and he says, “wat iz it NaNa?”

    After lunch he puckers up his mouth wanting a kiss and after I kiss him and tell him thank you, he says, “ize ceam.”
    He’s learned NaNa has a hard time resisting his wants when it comes to kisses. 🙂

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      June 24, 2016 at 1:26 pm

      Yeah, our growing old and passing is the price we pay for their being here and growing up…and it’s worth it.

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:
        June 24, 2016 at 5:47 pm

        We took a nap too! He brought me books to read and I read us to sleep.

        So they also keep us young by making sure we get some sleep. 🙂

        He’s not very nice on the waking you up part though, all cuddly before our nap and then I get woke up to being slapped in the face and NaNa being screamed in my ear.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          June 24, 2016 at 5:52 pm

          Mine’s getting to that manipulative stage…he’s not all that good at it but he’s very adaptive.

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            June 24, 2016 at 5:53 pm

            OK, he’s not good but I’m a sucker…

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          • michellc's avatar michellc says:
            June 24, 2016 at 8:08 pm

            They say mine works his NaNa, don’t tell them but NaNa is not a dummy and lets him think so. That’s why I get the hugs and kisses.

            I make him mind when necessary, but sometimes I just want to hand out the cookies and spoil him. He’s still just a baby and I treasure these days when I have him all to myself.

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
              June 24, 2016 at 8:33 pm

              Fuh tru dat, but I know the day’s coming where I’ll take a backseat, a way backseat, as his friends and peers take centerstage.

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              • michellc's avatar michellc says:
                June 24, 2016 at 10:50 pm

                I remember when I got to the age where I thought my parents didn’t know half of what my friends knew. I thankfully grew out of that. lol

                My granny and poppa though I always thought were the smartest people on earth. So you might find yours will surprise you.

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  20. Ad rem's avatar Ad rem says:
    June 24, 2016 at 2:29 pm

    Thought I’d just hop over here and give y’all a little earworm…… 😀

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  21. Stella's avatar stella says:
    June 24, 2016 at 4:37 pm

    More regarding speculation about the Queen’s view on Brexit, but you have to take those British tabloids with a grain of salt …

    ‘Happy And Glorious’: Queen Elizabeth Backs Britain Leaving The European Union

    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/03/08/happy-and-glorious-queen-elizabeth-ii-backs-britain-leaving-the-european-union/

    Her Majesty the Queen is apparently backing the idea of Britain leaving the European Union (EU), according to a source cited by the Sun newspaper on Tuesday evening.

    The Queen, who usually stays out of day-to-day politics in the United Kingdom, is believed to have “let rip” at the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg at a private meeting at Windsor Castle during the last parliament.

    The Sun reports:

    THE Queen has been hailed as a backer of Brexit tonight after details emerged of an extraordinary alleged bust-up between her and Nick Clegg over Europe.

    Her Majesty let rip at the then Deputy PM during a lunch at Windsor Castle, The Sun has been told.

    The 89-year-old monarch firmly told passionate pro-European Mr Clegg that she believed the EU was heading in the wrong direction.

    Her stinging reprimand went on for “quite a while”, leaving other guests around the table stunned…

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  22. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    June 24, 2016 at 5:11 pm

    Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s office hasvreleased new information on the skel who murdered the deputy. After he shot the deputy in the back and the deputy fell go the ground the deputy moved away from the shooter. The shooter grabbed the deputy by his neck and hair, either pulling him back or stopping him from moving away, as he shot him twice more in the back. Messages on the shooter’s phone showed he was planning on robbing/shooting someone for cash.
    One of the bystanders who was there when the shooter was arrested shot a video of the arrest and it appears that an officer or more may have struck the shooter. The video is in the hands of the FBI’s civil rights division who’s checking to see if the officers may have violated the shooter’s civil rights.

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  23. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    June 24, 2016 at 5:38 pm

    After the Supreme Court had a split decision on the POtuS’s illegal alien amnesty program, leaving a lower court decision blocking its implementation, the POtuS confirmed that he will soldier on and refuse to deport the illegals. An arguement can be made that he doesn’t have to, if you contort the decision in ways that a Yoga matter would applaud, but an arguement could also be made that he violated and is still violating Federal law, going from elected official to despot. Can’t we have a Prickex vote on this punchbowl floater?

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  24. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    June 24, 2016 at 5:47 pm

    Wash Post is reporting thst the DoD’s expected to fully admit transgender recruits into the military starting in July. Let me start out by saying: “Thank you, Lord, for letting me retire before the POS completely destroyed the military!.”
    We have to have our collective minds examined. I can understand why that goodly segment of the population that hates the military for a number of self-serving reasons would lke tobsee it ruined, I can see why the sybritics bureaucrats in the General Staff would crawl behind the POtuS, kissing the ground that he walks on, because they don’t Go to war. What bugs me is why there isn’t a general uproar from the public and the rest of the military about our standards being so lowered.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      June 24, 2016 at 9:24 pm

      I have spent all week studying the paperwork and procedures required by the ATF to purchase guns. How long before they eliminate the M/F designation? Which will be the absolute height of hypocrisy because the only thing I have knowledge of that compares to the extent of the paperwork and questions would be the FAFSA when you have a kid in college.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        June 24, 2016 at 10:22 pm

        The regular form to buy a gun at the gun store or the dog’s dinner of forms for an NFA weapon (machine gun, silencer, short-barreled rifle, etc)? I think that ‘how do you self-identfy?’ would be more appropriate. Could say ‘which restroom do you use’ but then someone who self-identifies as a bear and the whole concept goes down the toilet.

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    • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
      June 24, 2016 at 11:42 pm

      Whoopie.

      Live targets.

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  25. Stella's avatar stella says:
    June 24, 2016 at 5:59 pm

    I ordered 10 lbs of ground bison (80/20) from a supplier in North Dakota, and received the shipment today. I started to break it up and freeze it (it came in two 5-lb cryovac packs), I found that they had sent me strip steak instead, at least that’s what it looked like. I cut a steak and cooked it rare to be sure, and it is definitely steak, very lean, and delicious.

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  26. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    June 24, 2016 at 7:05 pm

    Being removed quickly from the net. Police allowing savages to attack people and making excuses for them like they are at a Trump rally in San Jose.

    Pray for Laura Southern’s protection.

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  27. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    June 24, 2016 at 8:30 pm

    The big O is in my town blocking traffic. The Mrs. is not happy trying to walk to the gym and has called me on the phone twice to let me know.

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  29. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    June 24, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    {sigh} I am going to make a (not really) racist remark. I have been watching Say Yes To The Dress. They now have a new consultant wearing an object of submission on her head. 😛 We are supposed to consider this diversifying. I don’t feel like diversifying. NOT.AT.ALL.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      June 24, 2016 at 10:58 pm

      I don’t have TLC any more, so I haven’t seen the program lately. They were getting repetitive anyway.

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
        June 24, 2016 at 11:03 pm

        Well, they hired another consultant, a gay black man and now this towel head. Frankly, I’m losing interest anyway.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:
          June 24, 2016 at 11:30 pm

          We have some OTA channel that is fairly new. I don’t watch a lot of tv so I’m not really sure how long it’s been on, but I discovered it one night while flipping through channels and told my DH we had a new channel. He told me he already knew about it and it was nothing but a black channel, all black movies and black shows that aren’t fit for the dog to watch. He went on to say if he was black he would be offended by the channel because everything he had watched on it portrayed blacks as gang bangers or idiots.

          I told him liberals call that diversity because no white actors are allowed. lol

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      June 24, 2016 at 11:06 pm

      Finally, something I don’t feel quailfied…or inclined…to say anything on at all.

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    • Pam's avatar Pam says:
      June 24, 2016 at 11:40 pm

      I am proud of my English ancestry today. My Scots “ancestry” comes from being adopted into the clan through marriage, even though there were a few Celts and French in the mix somewhere in my family background. I always liked that the Scots took that seriously. If you married in, you were one of them. But I am embarrassed by all I’ve read of their political behavior in the last few years. As tough as they were in their past, I find it hard to take that they’re all just ninnies now. Maybe not all of them. I hope not. I’ve read so much about the cultural behavior of the English, their less flamboyant, outspoken ways compared to Americans. And I got to see it myself, since I was able to visit there, going to different parts of the country. I pray for them that their spines are stiffened up and they really are so tired of all the baloney that they will keep the course for the long haul. I pray the same thing for the people of our country.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:
        June 24, 2016 at 11:44 pm

        I feel the same as you do about my English/Scots background. My ancestors came from Scotland to the Americas in the 1760’s and 1770’s. Just a bit of trivia: Did you know that there are a little more than 5 million people in Scotland? Tiny compared to the U.S. Same is true of Sweden and some of the other smaller European countries.

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        • Pam's avatar Pam says:
          June 25, 2016 at 12:01 pm

          I looked for a few minutes this morning, and what I found is quite interesting. Scotland has a very small percentage of minorities, and apparently has not had a large invasion of Muslims. One article, comparing the attitude of Scots to the English regarding tolerance of immigrants, speculated that previous ideas put forth that Scotland was much more tolerant were basically fluff, and that the best that could be said were that the Scots were just slightly more tolerant, with the article inferring that the reason was they just hadn’t had to deal with it.

          A demographics website listed the following:

          88.09% White Scots
          7.38% White Brits
          2.52% Other whites and white Irish
          0.32% Chinese
          0.10% African
          1.4% Pakistani, Indian, South Asian, Bangladeshi, Black Scottish/other Black/mixed, Caribbean

          In the UK 2011 census, Muslims were 1.4% in Scotland.
          There is a 99% literacy rate in Scotland. Languages listed: English, Scottish, Gaelic.

          I was stunned. No wonder the younger and some of the older people probably have an attitude which would sound strange to us. I compare this to our little paradise county we are in now, with practically no crime and no problems. Our county has less than 4% minorities (black and Hispanic.) There are no mosques or Muslim organized entities within a 50-mile radius of us, maybe more than that. Non-whites in the whole of Scotland = 1.82%.

          http://www.scotland.com/culture/demographics/

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          • Stella's avatar stella says:
            June 25, 2016 at 12:08 pm

            I found similar figures. The U.S. racial makeup is: White 79.96%, black 12.85%, Asian 4.43%, Amerindian and Alaska native 0.97%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.18%, two or more races 1.61%.

            I will in future disregard any comments by Scots about how the U.S. is racist and xenophobic.

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          • Stella's avatar stella says:
            June 25, 2016 at 12:11 pm

            I had a woman from Scotland chastise me on Facebook yesterday, saying that she was proud of their ‘diversity’ and how much their lives were enriched by the mix of cultures. She has no idea.

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            • Pam's avatar Pam says:
              June 25, 2016 at 12:30 pm

              Of course they have no idea. Those total figures add up to basically nothing. There just aren’t enough to cause any identifiable negative impact. The odds are that their most encounters would be with a Chinese person. Oooh, scary. If the literacy rate is 99%, that means all the diverse ones are learning English. They don’t have any of the garbage going on that we and other countries are encountering. Naive and clueless.

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