Yes, what’s the thoughts of the Queen? I know the Queen stays out of the day to day political business, She might even enjoy this, more money into her coffers……
Wanting to hear both sides of the issue. Though Norman blood runs threw her veins, She is probably still pissed at the Continent. I believe, Nothing good for England has ever crossed the Channel.
Me too, I’m wide awake. Apparently Farage doesn’t even have a speech ready because the PTB had him convinced that there was no hope. Cameron is supposed to give a speech.
Gisela Stuart MP is addressing the press and the UK and declaring that the UK has voted to leave the EU and the will of the people will be honored.
Stuart “We are a reflection of the people. So Let us start and do what the people told us to do today.”
Wow! Its overwhelming, in a wonderful way! The “winning” is already beginning. It feels like hope, the kind of hope that Reagan inspired for America, and like a Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall, kind of moment. Amazing!!!
I’m thinking that it is looking very likely! I have to work in a few hours, so I should TRY to get some shut eye, probably won’t be able to, though!. \o/
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
😀 I just listened to him rant. He also called about the rain and how it sounded overflowing the gutters and it was quite likely he was going to lose his mind, he ended up getting the ladder out and cleaning out the gutter in the pouring rain 😀
When his brother would come to visit, later that evening outside, the adult refreshments would flow, the war stories, zippos were clicking. This was my “home schooling in the art of manhood”. No questions, as I sat there and listened.
Yeah, hooches and bunkers. Those “heads” would always burn one or two down before we would head back out……sometimes those guys would have some help in burning their rats nest……
We had a lotta jet/av gas leftover and when we found a bunker/tunnel complex we could just punch a hole, pump the fuel in and, just like that Homer Simpson BBQ grill bit, POOF!
Mine used book matches, learned how to strike a book msych without tearing out of the book while using only one hand. Still have callous on my thumb but it came in handy when I started lighting time fuze.
We did some time fuze as we used a radio jeep for transport when we did some controlled demo. Also had an old timey sergeant who made sure we weren’t totally reliant on electrical systems.
Scotland Seeks Independence Again After U.K. ‘Brexit’ Vote
First Minister and Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon said officials would plan for a “highly likely” vote on separation from the rest of the U.K.
It’s been going on for some time, last referendum about two years ago had them staying but the tell is going to be the next referendum. I never felt that the concept of a European nation state could last, Europe’s been the home of nationalism for centuries, thry never wanted to be Barneyland.
But one of the big reasons the Scottish referendum failed was that Scotland wanted tonstaynin the EU. Now with that anchor weighed there’s one less big reason for Scotland to stay. Scotland can continue its exports to the EU as an independent EU member. Note I avoided saying this vote may have kilt Great Britain…
Makes you wonder how much fraud there was to get the “remain” vote that close. Will our presidential election be that close even with the monster vote?
News is saying the Brit news foljs are whining that many of the voters they quizzed about their choices lied to them, they’re totally fluffed about it. Almost as if they’ll try to use the excuse that voters weren’t totally honest to try and negate the referendum.
Imagine the irony of the press complaining that we weren’t totally honest with them.
What I can’t quite understand, probably mostly because I know very little about it, is that betting pool thing. A day before the vote, I saw something on Drudge that the betting pool (it that’s the right name) had huge odds against leave. I think it was 80%+ for remain, and the opinion was those folks were usually correct, because why would they set themselves up to lose money. I think the same thing is going on here, with huge odds against Trump. What is this betting thing and is it all just another propaganda deal?
Ee’re in the same vote there, all I can figure is that either it was part of the agitprop campaign to sway the vote or some betting pool actuary(s) will be found floating in the Thames.
A man was interviewed and he said that he had a ballot where someone had drawn an umm…. part exclusive to the male gender and the arbitrator of intent said since they drew it on the “Stay line” it would be counted as a vote to remain 😐 .
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.
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.
I was just reading the moaning and groaning of “Remainers” on FB (the Outlander crowd). I wonder if they would have been so insistent about how close the vote was if they had won …
One woman was chuckling over the protest of Donald Trump with Mexican flags and a mariachi band. I suggested to her that perhaps Scotland would be willing to take the illegal Mexicans, along with the drug dealers, and then they could all join the EU together.
Did you catch the reply to the Brexit that Sturgeon (really good name for one heck of a cold fish politician) gave late last night? They want another vote independence! England wants a do-over too….maybe time to bring the voting age down to 16 like the Scots?
Nyet — EXCELLENT breakfast photo. Basics done perfectly. This should be your “keeper” photo for breakfast. The second photo, of course, is sheer heaven. You know how I feel about photo 3 — but don’t want to incur the wrath of a certain carbo queen.
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.
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.”
“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.
Plenty of other diseases are spread by mosquitoes. DDT would solve that, just as it did in the U.S. before it was banned (ill-considered, in my opinion).
I’m a strong supporter of bringing back DDT as well as other things that worked. Being a farm gal there is so much stuff they we once had available to us that would actually kill insects that the EPA banned. These days you might as well spray water on them as well as most of this crap works.
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. 🙂
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.
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.
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…
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.
You seethe POtuS sponsering any ‘poleeces lives matter’ initiatives? Shooter’s family says that ‘thry gots da wrong person, he din do nuffin’, of course he confessed, knew details pnly the shooter would lnow, has been ID’d by witnesses and had that evidence on his cell phone…….
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s a definitiobal issue, guess it depends on whom you ask. Beef comes from cattle but if it’s a donesticated bison isvit cattle? Cows ordinaire can breed with bison and there are some who steadfastly say bison are cattle which would make them beef. They both taste good and make great burgers so let’s agree yo call them food.
Yeah, he comes to NOLA and blocks up the already screwed traffic patterns. He could helicopter in – we have Guard and Coast Guard choppers that could ferry his sorry butt but he has to have his personal ride – probably pissed that GSA couldn’t get 24-inch hi-pressure run-flats on it – and stop for all the free food he can stuff in, as did our First Black POtuS every time he visited.
You’d think that a chopper flown by a crew he sent off to die would be good enough to ferry his sorry ass but nooooooooo, gotta have dat pimpmobile and show da pezentz he be able to stop them dead in they tracks. But I digress, some 7 months and he’s back to having to wait at stoplights – I hope Trump’s POTUS and Barry’s stuck in his traffic.
{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.
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
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.
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.
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%.
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.
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.
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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By MaryfromMarin on June 24, 2016 at 12:07 am
(expanded–I never know how things will look…)
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By MaryfromMarin on June 24, 2016 at 12:08 am
This is going to be VERY interesting!!!
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By Col.(R) Ken on June 24, 2016 at 12:21 am
That is an understatement, sir!
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By MaryfromMarin on June 24, 2016 at 12:23 am
Yes, what’s the thoughts of the Queen? I know the Queen stays out of the day to day political business, She might even enjoy this, more money into her coffers……
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By Col.(R) Ken on June 24, 2016 at 12:41 am
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By ImpeachEmAll on June 24, 2016 at 12:47 am
I believe she leaned “Leave”. Will try to find a link to post.
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By MaryfromMarin on June 24, 2016 at 12:51 am
Here’s something”
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/06/queens-brexit-challenge-dinner-guests-give-three-good-reasons-britain-part-europe/
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By MaryfromMarin on June 24, 2016 at 12:55 am
Wanting to hear both sides of the issue. Though Norman blood runs threw her veins, She is probably still pissed at the Continent. I believe, Nothing good for England has ever crossed the Channel.
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By Col.(R) Ken on June 24, 2016 at 1:08 am
I think she supports the Leaves, but she hasn’t said that outright. The money doesn’t come to her, though.
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 1:05 am
She is an outie 🙂
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 1:08 am
The Queen’s thoughts: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=04854XqcfCY
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 1:52 pm
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/682948/Britain-Leaves-EU-referendum-Brexit-Vote-Leave
Nigel Farage celebrates Brexit!
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By sandandsea2015 on June 24, 2016 at 12:58 am
I just liked this image:
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By MaryfromMarin on June 24, 2016 at 1:44 am
Phooey, I wanted it to print out LARGE.
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By MaryfromMarin on June 24, 2016 at 1:45 am
Scroll to the bottom of the thread 🙂
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 1:46 am
Think thumbnail.
Click on the image
for a larger version. 😉
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By ImpeachEmAll on June 24, 2016 at 2:02 pm
An ironic use of the tune, but…..
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 2:18 pm
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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By sandandsea2015 on June 24, 2016 at 12:12 am
This young lady can sing!
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By Col.(R) Ken on June 24, 2016 at 12:27 am
She is amazing! 🙂
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By sandandsea2015 on June 24, 2016 at 12:30 am
Me too, I’m wide awake. Apparently Farage doesn’t even have a speech ready because the PTB had him convinced that there was no hope. Cameron is supposed to give a speech.
Gisela Stuart MP is addressing the press and the UK and declaring that the UK has voted to leave the EU and the will of the people will be honored.
Stuart “We are a reflection of the people. So Let us start and do what the people told us to do today.”
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 12:40 am
Wow! Its overwhelming, in a wonderful way! The “winning” is already beginning. It feels like hope, the kind of hope that Reagan inspired for America, and like a Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall, kind of moment. Amazing!!!
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By sandandsea2015 on June 24, 2016 at 12:46 am
I believe Obama has had a very very bad week.
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 12:50 am
Yes ma’am, I do believe you are right! ;D
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By sandandsea2015 on June 24, 2016 at 12:51 am
May Donald Trump be this happy on November 8th of this year!
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 1:22 am
I’m thinking that it is looking very likely! I have to work in a few hours, so I should TRY to get some shut eye, probably won’t be able to, though!. \o/
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By sandandsea2015 on June 24, 2016 at 1:35 am
Sweet dreams!
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 1:38 am
Yayyyyy! May he have MANY more. 🙂
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By auscitizenmom on June 24, 2016 at 9:34 am
KARMA.
POTUS should
have pardoned
Popcorn Sutton.
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By ImpeachEmAll on June 24, 2016 at 9:57 pm
He couldn’t. Popcorn Sutton was a white man. Probably never sold a thing to a child. Probably never killed anybody.
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By auscitizenmom on June 24, 2016 at 11:02 pm
Curses!!! Distracted again as the pretenders sneeeeeeak in.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 12:14 am
😉 Hi czar!
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By sandandsea2015 on June 24, 2016 at 12:16 am
Just wait…Caturday’s another day.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 12:21 am
…I don’t!
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By MaryfromMarin on June 24, 2016 at 12:25 am
Reminded me of the old comic strip The Little King, I was throne for a loop.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 12:28 am
I’ll need to analyze that one for a while.
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By MaryfromMarin on June 24, 2016 at 12:31 am
I’ll end this here, shrink wrap.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 12:35 am
But the night is Jung!
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By MaryfromMarin on June 24, 2016 at 12:41 am
No fair! I was going to use that but you stopped me Fromm saying it!
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 12:49 am
The Perls of wisdom just keep coming.
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By MaryfromMarin on June 24, 2016 at 12:58 am
Very good!
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 12:50 am
Well at least you realized you were on the Friday thread unlike some people 🙄
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 12:49 am
I checked my calendar.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 12:53 am
In all fairness to myself it isn’t even quite Friday here yet.
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 12:54 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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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 12:27 am
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By MaryfromMarin on June 24, 2016 at 12:30 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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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 12:40 am
I also was a big smoker, and quit in 1989. I can’t stand the smoke either.
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 1:04 am
I still miss it a little…sigh.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 1:06 am
I did for a long time, and even dreamed about it now and then.
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 1:07 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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By nyetneetot on June 24, 2016 at 9:24 am
I do not regret having quit, not one bit, I just miss it sometime.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 10:56 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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By nyetneetot on June 24, 2016 at 11:06 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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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 11:10 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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By auscitizenmom on June 24, 2016 at 11:12 am
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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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 1:56 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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By auscitizenmom on June 24, 2016 at 3:33 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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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 3:39 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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By auscitizenmom on June 24, 2016 at 3:44 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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By Pam on June 24, 2016 at 2:38 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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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 6:09 pm
I can understand that!
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 6:10 pm
😀 I just listened to him rant. He also called about the rain and how it sounded overflowing the gutters and it was quite likely he was going to lose his mind, he ended up getting the ladder out and cleaning out the gutter in the pouring rain 😀
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 6:13 pm
Ugh! Sorry, that’s the worst! 😦
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By sandandsea2015 on June 24, 2016 at 12:32 am
I can still hear my Dad’s zippo clicking…….
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By Col.(R) Ken on June 24, 2016 at 12:34 am
Zippo….clicking. Hooch…burning. Oh wait, that was a liberal dream…
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 12:37 am
I still have my big brass zippo from the ship I was on.
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By nyetneetot on June 24, 2016 at 9:26 am
Me too.
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 12:38 am
You burned hooches too?
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 12:48 am
When his brother would come to visit, later that evening outside, the adult refreshments would flow, the war stories, zippos were clicking. This was my “home schooling in the art of manhood”. No questions, as I sat there and listened.
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By Col.(R) Ken on June 24, 2016 at 12:50 am
Yeah, hooches and bunkers. Those “heads” would always burn one or two down before we would head back out……sometimes those guys would have some help in burning their rats nest……
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By Col.(R) Ken on June 24, 2016 at 12:57 am
We had a lotta jet/av gas leftover and when we found a bunker/tunnel complex we could just punch a hole, pump the fuel in and, just like that Homer Simpson BBQ grill bit, POOF!
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 10:54 am
Those tunnel complexes were all over the place. Just like those ant hills. I still have wake up moments remembering those times…..
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By Col.(R) Ken on June 24, 2016 at 1:55 pm
Still not as dangerous as the old DC underground shooping mall used to be
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 2:22 pm
Some went there to go shopping, we went there to go shooping…
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 2:25 pm
Mine used book matches, learned how to strike a book msych without tearing out of the book while using only one hand. Still have callous on my thumb but it came in handy when I started lighting time fuze.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 12:59 am
I could never master that, lighting book matches from the book. Never lit fuzes, just pulled the pins!! Or squeezed the clacker……
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By Col.(R) Ken on June 24, 2016 at 1:15 am
We did some time fuze as we used a radio jeep for transport when we did some controlled demo. Also had an old timey sergeant who made sure we weren’t totally reliant on electrical systems.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 1:19 am
Ran out of reply space – suspecting you’re in Kohut with WordPress to Bion top.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 1:05 am
Rogers that.
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By MaryfromMarin on June 24, 2016 at 1:14 am
You make me feel like a Rank amateur.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 1:16 am
It’s getting late–I feel my Krafft-Ebing.
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By MaryfromMarin on June 24, 2016 at 1:19 am
You must like backing me into a corner, wallowing in the schadenFreude.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 11:11 am
Why didn;t I think og that one?
What Ablow.
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By MaryfromMarin on June 24, 2016 at 8:05 pm
Out Foxed me on that one.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 8:29 pm
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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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 1:06 am
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 1:42 am
Look for another Scottish referendum on independence too, and the Welsh might decide to go it on their own too.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 10:47 am
Already underway.
Scotland Seeks Independence Again After U.K. ‘Brexit’ Vote
First Minister and Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon said officials would plan for a “highly likely” vote on separation from the rest of the U.K.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/brexit-referendum/scotland-could-seek-independence-again-after-u-k-brexit-vote-n598166
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 10:56 am
It’s been going on for some time, last referendum about two years ago had them staying but the tell is going to be the next referendum. I never felt that the concept of a European nation state could last, Europe’s been the home of nationalism for centuries, thry never wanted to be Barneyland.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 11:06 am
They might, but I’m not convinced that they will, particularly since the last Scottish referendum failed so recently.
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 1:41 pm
But one of the big reasons the Scottish referendum failed was that Scotland wanted tonstaynin the EU. Now with that anchor weighed there’s one less big reason for Scotland to stay. Scotland can continue its exports to the EU as an independent EU member. Note I avoided saying this vote may have kilt Great Britain…
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 1:49 pm
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 1:43 am
NOW it’s big enough!
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By MaryfromMarin on June 24, 2016 at 1:47 am
I didn’t realize it would be that big 😎
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 1:48 am
Mornin’ kids! Rule Brittania, eh what??? 😀
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By WeeWeed on June 24, 2016 at 6:57 am
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By WeeWeed on June 24, 2016 at 7:35 am
Howdy, Wee!
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By sandandsea2015 on June 24, 2016 at 8:17 am
Mornin’ S&S!
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By WeeWeed on June 24, 2016 at 8:26 am
Mornin’ Wee!
Let’s hope our fellow peasants revolt in November.
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By michellc on June 24, 2016 at 8:54 am
Mornin’ Michelle! Indeed!!
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By WeeWeed on June 24, 2016 at 8:56 am
Good morning WeeWeed ! 🙂
The Brits are leaving, the Brits are leaving!
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 10:15 am
Mornin’ Lovely!
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By WeeWeed on June 24, 2016 at 10:19 am
Makes you wonder how much fraud there was to get the “remain” vote that close. Will our presidential election be that close even with the monster vote?
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By nyetneetot on June 24, 2016 at 10:57 am
News is saying the Brit news foljs are whining that many of the voters they quizzed about their choices lied to them, they’re totally fluffed about it. Almost as if they’ll try to use the excuse that voters weren’t totally honest to try and negate the referendum.
Imagine the irony of the press complaining that we weren’t totally honest with them.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 11:18 am
I personally love lying to exit pollers. I consider it a duty.
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By WeeWeed on June 24, 2016 at 11:23 am
A moral obligation, at least.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 11:27 am
2004 was my personal favorite……
” John Kerry’s awesome, isn’t he??? He’s a hero and will be a great president.
Did you know he served in Viet Nam????”……. 😀
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By WeeWeed on June 24, 2016 at 11:39 am
Served on whose side?
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 11:40 am
Mine. 😀
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By WeeWeed on June 24, 2016 at 11:40 am
Ironic for sure! I think there was large “undecided” percentage too (16% towards the end?)
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 1:57 pm
What I can’t quite understand, probably mostly because I know very little about it, is that betting pool thing. A day before the vote, I saw something on Drudge that the betting pool (it that’s the right name) had huge odds against leave. I think it was 80%+ for remain, and the opinion was those folks were usually correct, because why would they set themselves up to lose money. I think the same thing is going on here, with huge odds against Trump. What is this betting thing and is it all just another propaganda deal?
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By Pam on June 24, 2016 at 3:07 pm
The betters are influenced by the warped view of the MSM. That’s my guess.
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 3:13 pm
IMO it’s a rare gambler who can divorce his emotions from his betting.
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By Menagerie on June 24, 2016 at 9:06 pm
Ee’re in the same vote there, all I can figure is that either it was part of the agitprop campaign to sway the vote or some betting pool actuary(s) will be found floating in the Thames.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 4:15 pm
A man was interviewed and he said that he had a ballot where someone had drawn an umm…. part exclusive to the male gender and the arbitrator of intent said since they drew it on the “Stay line” it would be counted as a vote to remain 😐 .
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 6:18 pm
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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By Menagerie on June 24, 2016 at 7:16 am
I think Boris gave ya’s extra libations this morning to make up for it…….
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By WeeWeed on June 24, 2016 at 11:45 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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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 11:54 am
Some easy listening…
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By ImpeachEmAll on June 24, 2016 at 11:20 pm
https://twitter.com/theresamechele/status/746322793386500101
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By sandandsea2015 on June 24, 2016 at 8:53 am
Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels)
( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Blackberry wine)
(Backdraft)
(Jack Daniels)
(B52)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! ⭐ 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra and F.D.R. in Hell!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Pastries for coffee!
⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol
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By nyetneetot on June 24, 2016 at 8:59 am
That breakfast looks great, Nyet. Mornin’ all. 🙂
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By auscitizenmom on June 24, 2016 at 9:43 am
Good morning Nyet! 🙂
I hope Menage has some headache pills after all that Jack 😳
What is your favorite booze Mr. Nyet?
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 10:18 am
Bunnahabhain Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
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By nyetneetot on June 24, 2016 at 10:54 am
Thank God there is something Scotland remains good at. Sticking by the UK no longer is one of them.
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By Ad rem on June 24, 2016 at 2:36 pm
Thank you, Nyet! Looks great!
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By sandandsea2015 on June 24, 2016 at 11:20 am
Thank you kindly for leaving me a little bite. Didn’t get to bed ’til almost 4am…..was enjoying the Brexit pity-party just a little toooooooo much.
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By Ad rem on June 24, 2016 at 2:33 pm
I was just reading the moaning and groaning of “Remainers” on FB (the Outlander crowd). I wonder if they would have been so insistent about how close the vote was if they had won …
One woman was chuckling over the protest of Donald Trump with Mexican flags and a mariachi band. I suggested to her that perhaps Scotland would be willing to take the illegal Mexicans, along with the drug dealers, and then they could all join the EU together.
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 2:36 pm
Did you catch the reply to the Brexit that Sturgeon (really good name for one heck of a cold fish politician) gave late last night? They want another vote independence! England wants a do-over too….maybe time to bring the voting age down to 16 like the Scots?
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By Ad rem on June 24, 2016 at 2:47 pm
I’ll go look for Sturgeon! The do-over crowd are just sour grapes, if you ask me.
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 2:57 pm
WAAAAH! We want a do over…
These Leave voters have changed their minds since voting Brexit – but it’s too late..
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/leave-voters-changed-minds-voting-8275841#rlabs=1%20rt$category%20p$3
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By Ad rem on June 24, 2016 at 3:01 pm
Idiots. I think they allow people 16 years old to vote in Scotland, although these idiots are old enough to know better.
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 3:17 pm
Happy, happy, happy! What an after work treat.
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By Menagerie on June 24, 2016 at 5:08 pm
Nyet — EXCELLENT breakfast photo. Basics done perfectly. This should be your “keeper” photo for breakfast. The second photo, of course, is sheer heaven. You know how I feel about photo 3 — but don’t want to incur the wrath of a certain carbo queen.
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By ZurichMike on June 25, 2016 at 11:01 am
I HEARD THAT, ZM!
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By auscitizenmom on June 25, 2016 at 5:30 pm
🙂
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By ZurichMike on June 25, 2016 at 5:43 pm
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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By Monroe on June 24, 2016 at 9:08 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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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 11:27 am
Wouldn’t it be akin to impersonating a cop?
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By Monroe on June 24, 2016 at 12:45 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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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 12:53 pm
“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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By auscitizenmom on June 24, 2016 at 9:24 am
Plenty of other diseases are spread by mosquitoes. DDT would solve that, just as it did in the U.S. before it was banned (ill-considered, in my opinion).
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 3:36 pm
I’m a strong supporter of bringing back DDT as well as other things that worked. Being a farm gal there is so much stuff they we once had available to us that would actually kill insects that the EPA banned. These days you might as well spray water on them as well as most of this crap works.
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By michellc on June 24, 2016 at 11:11 pm
It’s just another way for Imam to rip off billions of the taxpayer’s money.
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By WeeWeed on June 24, 2016 at 3:53 pm
And for baby butchers to pretend they are doing God’s work.
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 6:24 pm
2016 the year of the power of bad hair?
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 11:14 am
I’m in!! Mine’s bad alla time! 😀
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By WeeWeed on June 24, 2016 at 3:48 pm
That is what buns and pony tails are for 😀
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 5:56 pm
I mastered the French braid for that very reason.
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By Menagerie on June 24, 2016 at 9:11 pm
Me too. Tuck it all away 🙂
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 9:37 pm
Me too.
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 9:54 pm
Particularly enjoying my English Breakfast tea today 🙂
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 12:13 pm
Kanye playing The Beast and Freddie playing The Donald.
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 12:24 pm
Like was for Freddie, not Kanye
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 12:28 pm
Doesn’t seem Kayne can carry a note. He was horrible.
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By Monroe on June 24, 2016 at 12:47 pm
I thought that was his style…
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 12:54 pm
The audience was better than Kanye.
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 10:56 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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By michellc on June 24, 2016 at 1:22 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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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 1:26 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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By michellc on June 24, 2016 at 5:47 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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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 5:52 pm
OK, he’s not good but I’m a sucker…
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 5:53 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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By michellc on June 24, 2016 at 8:08 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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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 8:33 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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By michellc on June 24, 2016 at 10:50 pm
Mine’s a wiseass little **** but I’m betting at some point after I’ve gone to room temperature he’ll think to himself that Grandpa did know some ****.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 11:03 pm
Are you sure it isn’t something passed down to him?
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By auscitizenmom on June 24, 2016 at 11:11 pm
I never even tried to be a wiseass to my grandparents, especially not my granny, I was too scared of switches. She knew how to use a switch. 🙂
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By michellc on June 24, 2016 at 11:14 pm
Thought I’d just hop over here and give y’all a little earworm…… 😀
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By Ad rem on June 24, 2016 at 2:29 pm
Is that an old English D on his hat? Must be a Tiger’s fan.
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 5:11 pm
I was wondering if you caught that….I thought he was a Tiger’s fan too. He’s from Texas… http://www.peopleandsongs.com/micah-tyler-bio/
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By Ad rem on June 24, 2016 at 5:14 pm
Looks like a Duke University hat.
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By The Tundra PA on June 24, 2016 at 10:31 pm
I just took a look (bing images). It’s definitely a Tiger’s old English D.
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 10:40 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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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 4:37 pm
I hope this report was true.
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By Pam on June 24, 2016 at 5:42 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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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 5:11 pm
I wonder if anyone on the case will be worried about the civil rights of the murdered officer.
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 6:34 pm
You seethe POtuS sponsering any ‘poleeces lives matter’ initiatives? Shooter’s family says that ‘thry gots da wrong person, he din do nuffin’, of course he confessed, knew details pnly the shooter would lnow, has been ID’d by witnesses and had that evidence on his cell phone…….
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 6:57 pm
family version = circumstantial…
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By ImpeachEmAll on June 24, 2016 at 11:37 pm
Yeah, at least three of them didn’t see him actually do it
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 11:50 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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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 5:38 pm
PEXIT REFERENDUM
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By ImpeachEmAll on June 24, 2016 at 11:39 pm
Ship his sorry butt out with them, he should meet a lot of those Latino radicals he opined about.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 11:52 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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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 5:47 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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By Menagerie on June 24, 2016 at 9:24 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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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 10:22 pm
…………………………ROTFL LOLOLOL
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By auscitizenmom on June 24, 2016 at 10:43 pm
Whoopie.
Live targets.
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By ImpeachEmAll on June 24, 2016 at 11:42 pm
I can’t get 11-hole jump boots with high heels out of my mind.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 11:53 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-lbcryovac 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.LikeLiked by 3 people
By stella on June 24, 2016 at 5:59 pm
Maybe that’s what happened! The British betting folks confused your bison order with the Britex odds!!
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 7:29 pm
Well, I won today.
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 7:36 pm
I got no beef with that…
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 8:34 pm
Is Bison considered to be beef?
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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 8:36 pm
It’s a definitiobal issue, guess it depends on whom you ask. Beef comes from cattle but if it’s a donesticated bison isvit cattle? Cows ordinaire can breed with bison and there are some who steadfastly say bison are cattle which would make them beef. They both taste good and make great burgers so let’s agree yo call them food.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 8:46 pm
I think in powdered form it’s Ovaltine.
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By nyetneetot on June 24, 2016 at 9:22 pm
No, that’s bull****.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 10:24 pm
True, perhaps; but
it’s simply amazing
how much chocolate
improves the taste. 😉
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By ImpeachEmAll on June 24, 2016 at 11:44 pm
Doesn’t work with Obama…
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 11:46 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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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 7:05 pm
They are doing the exact same thing here.
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By auscitizenmom on June 24, 2016 at 7:23 pm
Bar! Beer!! Here we go, Londonistan!!!
http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/DiamondWW1/media/DiamondWW1001/AAAAAAA/225fdc71-f491-424a-98b6-d9c8ed908a56.jpg.html?state=copy&sp=false
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By WeeWeed on June 24, 2016 at 8:22 pm
Shiite.
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By WeeWeed on June 24, 2016 at 8:23 pm
I think this is the hat that Laura was wearing 😀
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 8:56 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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By nyetneetot on June 24, 2016 at 8:30 pm
Does she think it is your fault?
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By auscitizenmom on June 24, 2016 at 9:06 pm
I’m sure somehow she will use it against me.
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By nyetneetot on June 24, 2016 at 9:10 pm
😀
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By WeeWeed on June 24, 2016 at 9:23 pm
WTH is he trying to talk y’all into doing???? Invading Britain?
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By WeeWeed on June 24, 2016 at 9:24 pm
I read he’s here for fundraising.
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By nyetneetot on June 24, 2016 at 9:26 pm
What is that ol’ sayin’ about a fool and his money soon part?
Ya got some fools in your city?
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By michellc on June 24, 2016 at 11:21 pm
Yup. Lots.
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By nyetneetot on June 24, 2016 at 11:34 pm
Yeah, he comes to NOLA and blocks up the already screwed traffic patterns. He could helicopter in – we have Guard and Coast Guard choppers that could ferry his sorry butt but he has to have his personal ride – probably pissed that GSA couldn’t get 24-inch hi-pressure run-flats on it – and stop for all the free food he can stuff in, as did our First Black POtuS every time he visited.
You’d think that a chopper flown by a crew he sent off to die would be good enough to ferry his sorry ass but nooooooooo, gotta have dat pimpmobile and show da pezentz he be able to stop them dead in they tracks. But I digress, some 7 months and he’s back to having to wait at stoplights – I hope Trump’s POTUS and Barry’s stuck in his traffic.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 10:37 pm
Sorry to hear your wife’s schlepless in Seattle.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 10:55 pm
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By lovely on June 24, 2016 at 9:45 pm
Roger that, and when they tried it again in 1812 they got another reminder that as far as America’s concerned they didn’t know Jack son.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 10:43 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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By auscitizenmom on June 24, 2016 at 10:51 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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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 10:58 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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By auscitizenmom on June 24, 2016 at 11:03 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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By michellc on June 24, 2016 at 11:30 pm
Finally, something I don’t feel quailfied…or inclined…to say anything on at all.
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 11:06 pm
Improvise…
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By ImpeachEmAll on June 24, 2016 at 11:54 pm
Perhaps, this will help.
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By ImpeachEmAll on June 24, 2016 at 11:57 pm
Awwwww…is that his pRahm picture?
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 11:59 pm
YIKES!!!!!!!!……………….{runs away screaming}
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By auscitizenmom on June 25, 2016 at 8:06 am
I thought I did…
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By czarowniczy on June 24, 2016 at 11:57 pm
Ooh, I will have to look up some more.
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By auscitizenmom on June 25, 2016 at 8:09 am
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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By Pam on June 24, 2016 at 11:40 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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By stella on June 24, 2016 at 11:44 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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By Pam on June 25, 2016 at 12:01 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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By stella on June 25, 2016 at 12:08 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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By stella on June 25, 2016 at 12:11 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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By Pam on June 25, 2016 at 12:30 pm