General Discussion, Sunday, June 26, 2016

Posted on June 26, 2016 by Stella

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  1. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
    June 26, 2016 at 12:03 am

    Foist! My foist foist.

    General Discussion, Saturday, June 25, 2016

    Drive-by:

    Herewith, a simple way to understand the destructive failure of most reading instruction in the United States.”

    Herewith.

    I tend to read texts I like out loud, since I live alone, and why not?

    I bet the vast majoity of actors, voice-actors, newsreaders, radio DJs, and politicians didn’t learn with the “whole-word” method, but instead with phonics.

    I can read Mychal Massie essays and pronounce every word perfectly. Even the few in each that I’ve never seen, and either figure out because of known etymology, or context.

    This article is amazing. Each written word is an individual phonetic circuit, telling our mouth-parts, vocal cords, (chords? I wish), and lungs what to do, left-to right.

    “Written words are to the human voice as sheet music is to a pianist.” — Wooly Phlox

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  2. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
    June 26, 2016 at 12:07 am

    “Toydie doytee boids, sittin’ on a coyb… choypin’ and boypin’ and eatin’ doytee oit-woyms… along comes Hoyb, from toydee toid and toid — SEES the Toydie doytee boids, sittin’ on a coyb… choypin’ and boypin’ and eatin’ doytee oit-woyms…

    Boy.

    Was he distoybed.” — Anthony Keidas

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  3. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    June 26, 2016 at 12:40 am

    Subtitle: “What Keeps America from Protecting Itself Against Radical Islam?”

    Defenseless in the Face of Our Enemies [Andrew McCarthy]

    https://counterjihadreport.com/2016/06/25/defenseless-in-the-face-of-our-enemies/

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  4. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    June 26, 2016 at 12:55 am

    “awash with rumors”–Ayatollah Khamenei dead?

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/06/breaking-reports-ayatollah-khamenei-dead/

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  5. tessa50's avatar tessa50 says:
    June 26, 2016 at 1:09 am

    Have a great day all!

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  6. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    June 26, 2016 at 1:43 am

    For Sunday…”Salvator mundi” by Thomas Tallis:

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  7. ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
    June 26, 2016 at 2:19 am

    SCOTT BROTHERS DUO (PIANO & ORGAN)

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  8. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    June 26, 2016 at 8:14 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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  9. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    June 26, 2016 at 8:58 am

    Mornin’ kids!

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  10. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    June 26, 2016 at 9:37 am

    A busy weekend. But first, a birthday shoutout to two of my besties. First, Tex, Sr. turns 81 today, and tomorrow, Mrs. T turns 35. 😉 Enjoy with your coffee, which is coming right up, and that breakfast up top.

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  11. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    June 26, 2016 at 9:41 am

    Coffee up y’all. 🙂

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  12. Stella's avatar stella says:
    June 26, 2016 at 11:27 am

    Found this excellent speech from last month by Boris Johnson, regarding Brexit.

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  14. doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:
    June 26, 2016 at 1:12 pm

    Ryno and McConnell are running for Minority Leader status. Their natural habitat.
    Disgusting. Mitch McConnell Refuses to Answer if Donald Trump is Qualified to be President (VIDEO)
    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/06/disgusting-mitch-mcconnell-refuses-answer-donald-trump-qualified-president-video/

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  15. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    June 26, 2016 at 1:42 pm

    We still have 3 cygnets :). I think all three may make it.

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    • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
      June 26, 2016 at 2:45 pm

      Why are 2 gray? “Baby” feathers?

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:
        June 26, 2016 at 2:58 pm

        It has something to do with when the English tried to cross breed mute swans with another type of swan. I don’t remember the specifics. But all the swans will eventually lose the down and become as white as the parents. Normally they will be almost solid white before they fly off for the winter even though, sometimes are still a very pale grey around then but usually not.

        One of the little guys was flapping its tiny wings yesterday it was too cute. I didn’t catch it on camera. When they are very small they ride on the mom or dads back if they get tired.

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        • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
          June 26, 2016 at 3:02 pm

          SO cute – I’d kiss ’em’s head except the parental units would beat/flap/bite me to death. 😀

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          • lovely's avatar lovely says:
            June 26, 2016 at 3:33 pm

            Yeah, they are very friendly with a few families but not with strangers, they will hiss at them. Still I have no illusion that the parents wouldn’t rip my arm off if I tried to touch one.

            Sometimes people will say, how much harm can it do? Well they have sharp nails on their cute webbed feet, needle teeth in their cute orange bills, and they are strong enough to propel their cute 20 – 25 pound bodies out of the water and into the air. How interested are you in finding out how much harm they can do ? 😀

            I love the babies and they will take food right out of our hands probably in another 2 months. The U.S. Wildlife Service has designated the Mute swans an invasive species and can come in and cull them. Rumor has it one year they came in and took the babies, people make up all kinds of things so I don’t know it it happened or not, but I know that there was a scuffle with one of the “Lake People” and we haven’t seen any government folks since then.

            I asked the person who allegedly had the scuffle and all he said is that @%$&*! should never mistake crazy people for low hanging fruit 😎. Said character is a Vietnam Vet who walked out of his church when the priest introduced a family from Vietnam that the church was sponsoring. Not that long before announcing that the church was going to be helping the Vietnamese family the veteran went to the church for help given he was having problems readjusting to civilian life and he had a young baby and wife, they told him there was no money.

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            • Stella's avatar stella says:
              June 26, 2016 at 3:49 pm

              Figures. No help for citizens.

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
              June 26, 2016 at 4:28 pm

              See if you can get enough folks to petition your county/city to pass a local law to protect them, some places have and it causes the Feds headaches when they try to mess with them.

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              • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                June 26, 2016 at 6:45 pm

                I don’t think it is a problem. I don’t think they would attempt to actually do much on our lake. All of the access land is privately owned. The only access they could gain is through the privately owned town beach and even for that they would have to get permission. They don’t even send out wardens to check for fishing licenses or life vests on boats anymore because access is such a hassle for them and then everyone knows they are coming.

                Plus the warden that was on the lake grew up with some of the people and as far as I know never enforced license/lifesaver ordinances.

                I think fighting it might just attract attention and they’d be like, “What?” “We don’t bother you at all.”

                I am not convinced that US WS ever took any cygnets whereas others are convinced. I do believe they were out on the lake what their intention was I don’t know.

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                • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                  June 26, 2016 at 7:29 pm

                  Our lake’s totally privately owned and where the state may have a de facto interest as it has a dam and regulated birds feed/nest/swim in or on it the only time we see anyone is when we ask. We accept no state anything, all the fish stocked we did privately, so they have no call as to what/where/when/how much we fish.
                  Game warden’s a local, even have his cell number, so he’s more interested in poachers and helping us with predators and nuisance animals. Feds don’t come out much at all, only time I’ve seen them is when I called them on hog problems. In all we are on our own and that’s just how we like it.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          June 26, 2016 at 4:22 pm

          Yeah, our purple martins have all fledged and are flying about with the adults, fattening up, learning to be a flock and getting ready for migration. The group from our houses is doing late afternoon rendezvous with other groups, getting familiar with each other and one morning without so much as a warning they’ll all be gone as one large group. Back to measuring the year by the wildlife.

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          • lovely's avatar lovely says:
            June 26, 2016 at 6:50 pm

            My parents put up a Purple Martin house and Sparrows moved in. They tried two Springs and it wasn’t successful so they took it down 😦

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
              June 26, 2016 at 7:45 pm

              Sparrows can be a problem so we regularly haul the houses down for a lookie-see and sometimes a clean out. Martins can be labor intensive, we start getting the houses cleaned in January as they can start arriving in February. Nearly anything can find a way in, last year we had a Great Crested Flycatcher nest in right with the Martins and neither minded the other; we draw the line with sparrows, they are out.
              We enjoy their morning singing, their various songs during the day and watching them dart through our trees at top speed. Also gun watching them drink by skimming the lake at high speed with beaks open.

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  16. Pam's avatar Pam says:
    June 26, 2016 at 4:16 pm

    http://nypost.com/2016/06/24/brexit-strengthens-global-effort-to-unseat-unresponsive-elites/

    This is a pretty decent article, but I really liked the Drudge headline title: “Open revolt against encrusted establishment.”

    The EEU?!

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  17. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    June 26, 2016 at 7:11 pm

    It will be interesting to see what happened here. It looks like savages attacked neo-nazis. If it was the Neo’s who attacked the protesters this would br breaking news on every MSM source.

    So Obama’s America is now sanctioning violent attacks to shut down people who you disagree with. Why isn’t this wretched savage who has admitted coming to the rally to instigate violence in a cinder block cell?

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  18. michellc's avatar michellc says:
    June 26, 2016 at 11:20 pm

    I never ever read Right Scoop but this came across FB from someone who couldn’t believe they were upset over someone saying America.
    The comments are as bad, but I found some funny ones in there. I guess IOTWR has a post up about it and they aren’t happy about it. lol

    Comments:
    AmericanOutlaw • 9 hours ago

    Sooper and Right Scoop are getting attacked on the ‘No Comment’ thread at IOTWreport.com for this post. Get over there and support them.

    Classy Collie AmericanOutlaw • 8 hours ago

    On my way!!

    Classy Collie Classy Collie • 8 hours ago

    Okay, I don’t understand the site. Is there no way to reply to specific comments made? I was unable to up vote and down vote comments, if I chose to do so. I really hate FB comment based sites, but I can do that if need be, but before I get involved, I want to know if you can respond directly to a specific comment!!!

    True Story Classy Collie • 7 hours ago

    Don’t bother. It’s really archaic system they have there. Also, all they are doing is laughing with each other. Not sure why they believe this site is pro hillary. Anyway, I wouldn’t worry about small minded people infesting an unknown site.
    _________________________________________
    If you want to read it and watch the video that has Sooper Mexican’s undies in a twist, here’s the link.

    Trump supporter Jan Brewer starts SCREECHING ‘America!!’ on CNN as a rebuttal

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