The Continental Army under General George Washington attacked the rear of the British Army column commanded by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton as they left Monmouth Court House, New Jersey (modern Freehold Borough) on June 28, 1778.
Molly Pitcher was a nickname given to a woman said to have fought in the American Battle of Monmouth, who is generally believed to have been Mary Ludwig Hays. Since various Molly Pitcher tales grew in the telling, many historians regard Molly Pitcher as folklore rather than history, or suggest that Molly Pitcher may be a composite image inspired by the actions of a number of real women. The name itself may have originated as a nickname given to women who carried water to men on the battlefield during the war. (Wikipedia)
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Why don’t arteeests paint dirty soldiers? How do they expect everyone not only arrives but stays pristine? Just a personal gripe.
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I see what you mean. Even the dead ones are clean.
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Remember the old tv cowboy shows and action or spy movies where people were shot and you didn’t even see any blood?
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Yes, I liked it better that way.
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War is so glorious when you don’t have to actually fight it. Sort of like the first Battle of Bull Run.
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I recently read an account of the Battle of Monmouth (fiction, but realistic). It was far from clean.
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Stella, great intro, I believe Molly Pitcher was a propaganda tale, to instill the fight into the home folks.
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With all the progressive
propaganda, one might
believe Trump will be
similarly described in a
hundred or two years.
Sounds like she may
have lived in an Italian
neighborhood – Molly
Pitcher, Bobby Irish
aka Bobby Milk.
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Just the prep parts, marching miles in heavy uniform and gear, the dust and dirt mixing with the sweat, is bad enough. Then you have the sitting and waiting during eating/ rest breaks where the sweat and dirt settle in – you’d be surprised how much dirt a hundred or more people can stir up just milling around. Then we have the less tasteful,area of attending to bodily issues in an outdoor, primitive area under less than ideal circumstances and going days without even a spit bath. Don’t forget that in many cases you only had one uniform with you.
We’d spend 30 days or more out in the field and it would be a week before the shower unit would come and we’d kiss the ground thry walked on when they arrived. I can only imagine what it must be like to walk for weeks like that. Now add a battle with the air filled with thick smoke from the black powder they used, the increased sweat, dirt and bodily smells then the clean up after the battle.
There’s more, just thought I’d hit the hilites. Multiply this by the thousands of soldiers the ‘old’ wars would bring together and perhaps we have a better idea of why the artists didn’t paint reality.
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No shower units for them – rivers and lakes were the best that they got. People in the 17th century didn’t bathe as much as we do, or have that many changes of clothes, for that matter, so they may not have minded it as much.
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Yeah, but when you consider more soldiers died from disease and infection than directly from punctures of various kinds, and that’s not a kind or quick way to go…
I went to a number of Civil War battlefields and streams or lakes are not readily available at many. When younconsider that even when a water source is availablebit had to serve the drinking and sanitary needs of hundreds, if not thousands, of soldiers and their supporting livestock, not to forget the water in many cases ain’t that fast moving, well…
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Napoleon’s invasion of Russia.
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As Hitler’s….deaths by statvation and freezing.
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I was thinking lice and typhus.
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Excavating in Lithuania workers uncovered the mass graves of Napoleonic troops who’d survived the retreat through freezing Russian winter only to succumb to freezing and starvation in a large city. Napolean invaded Russia with over 680-thousand troops and exited about 5 months later with around 120-thousand.
In WWII the German army lost over two million in Russia, 2/3rds of its entire European casualties/MIA /POWs. They were reduced to eating their draught and cavalry horses during the retreat and thry duplicated Napoleon’s troops experiences in freezing to death.
My grandfather had the pleasure of experiencing the dual joys of a lack of effective resupply and Russian winters in both World Wars and the effects of these events weren’t lost on US planners as resupply abilities under adverse conditions became as important, in our Russia battle planning scenarios, as the offensive actions were – ditto medical.
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Valerie Jarrett’s
hands look clean;
but, are they?
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24737176.html
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From above link:
U.S., Libyan officials
offer vastly different
version of Benghazi
consulate attack that
killed 4
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OK, I was wrong, there are good uses for hijabs
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Go back to Islam for Dummies, it’s OK for the Faithful to lie to the kafirs.
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I watched a movie once about the Civil War, the entire movie was like that, clean uniforms, clean bandages, it was so distracting I couldn’t pay attention to the movie and turned it off about a quarter of the way through.
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I also visited the sites of WWI and WW II battles in Europe and talked with vets of both, conditions in many cases weren’t that much better. In all it’s a sucky occupation when you really get down to it.
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At least by WWII they had more in the medical toolkit with which to battle injury and illness.
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True, and the use of helicopters to get injured quickly to a MASH unit in Korea, vastly improved in Vietnam, was a big factor too. By Iraq and Afghanistan deaths from all causes were greatly reduced.
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The VA’s soldier death rate, however…
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Czar, you hit the high points. Just remember during the wars up thru the Civil War, Cavalrymen had too move their picket line continuously due horses spoiling the ground. And the “Sinks” when dug…well….Ill just let that one go….
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And now, for something completely different….
Seattle PD Blotter
http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2016/06/23/man-arrested-for-self-exposure-at-self-checkout/
Man Arrested For Self-Exposure at Self-Checkout
East Precinct officers arrested a 31-year-old man Wednesday night after he flashed employees and befouled a self-checkout machine at a Capitol Hill grocery store.
Around 5 PM, employees at the store in the 400 block of Broadway E noticed the man standing at a self-checkout machine, laughing to himself as he placed his genitals on top of the scanner of a self-checkout machine. The man fled the store but returned five hours later, and was confronted by employees.
Employees told the man to leave, but he refused and got into a shoving match with store security before leaving the store. Officers later arrested the man at Broadway E and E Harrison Street and booked him into the King County Jail for indecent exposure.
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Lemme guess. He identifies as a pickle.
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ROTFL
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😀
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I was thinking more of a frequent shopper barcode tattoo, but I guess the baby gherkin angle is less complicated.
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Will go with option # one.
Perhaps, IT security guy.
Cannot be more private
than private part of body,
especially for self-serve.
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Only reason I’m out here all by myself is MM’s out on a blind date. No serious competetion…I’m packing it in.
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MM on a blind date??? Thought she was on vacation……
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czar’s auto complete is wonky. It should read as “bland”.
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👍👍👍👍
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You’re gonna get it……..
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Referring to the previous post on her announced departure
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Mornin’ y’all!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!!! Heat wave has broken! Now I have some work to do, and my new AC unit has arrived……
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Mornin’ Colonel!
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Woo hoo! Stay cool Col. I turned the air off, as it is a beautiful 55° this morning with 70° as the predicted high.
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂 Love the description of The Beast!
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels)
( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Blackberry wine)
(Backdraft)
(Jack Daniels)
(B52)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
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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 🙂
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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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Nye!!! It’s the breakfast smile!! Bacon sammitchs to go……thank you…
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Mornin’!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Having a tough day. I’ll need that soon.
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Sorry you’re having a tough day Menagerie.
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Thanks, Nyet. The first breakfast looks really good to me today. I think I could eat the whole thing. Definite improvement for me!
What did Menage do to earn 96 shots of JD??
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“What did Menage do to earn 96 shots of JD??”
She didn’t violate probation by folding, spindle or mutilating anyone she has encountered in one 24-hour period.
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Wow! Imagine what might happen if she went a whole week like that?
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IKR? We’d have to make another trip to Sam’s Club!
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With a semi. 😀
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Pfffft! That’s just for the bottle deposit.
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I am hereby on good behavior.
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Ah, perfect breakfast. Thanks, Nyet. I had it for lunch. Afternoon everyone.
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Morning all! Thanks, Nyet!
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I strongly dislike Judges.
http://iotwreport.com/looking-forward-to-what-judges-will-force-muslims-to-do/
A federal judge on Monday ruled that clerks in Mississippi may not recuse themselves from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples based on religious beliefs, despite a bill passed by the state legislature intended to carve out that exception for them.
U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves said that the recusals on religious grounds granted by the state’s so-called “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act”, or House Bill 1523, violated the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 ruling legalizing gay marriage.
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I can never keep all this legal mumbo-jumbo clear in my mind. It seems as if there’s always another judge or another court to overrule or stop what a previous one decides. Or one judge can overturn how the people of a state vote in a referendum or by state legislation. Aren’t federal courts already messing with the laws Texas passed regarding abortions and abortion clinics? Does anyone believe the Supreme Court deadlock over Obama’s illegal immigrant activities is going to stop the Obama administration from continuing on with their business as usual?
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Pam, the Supreme Court overruled the Texas law yesterday.
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States’ Rights…what a joke. We’ll let you believe you have a Constitution and that states’ rights exist….until you do something we don’t like.
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I still am fuming over them taking away my state’s rights and the vote of the people in regard to gay marriage.
However, if we have judges who believe the Constitution, which they are to be judging laws against is meaningless then why the heck do we allow them to be judges?
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Another Judge to strongly dislike.
http://iotwreport.com/reagan-appointed-judge-says-constitution-has-no-value-antiquated/
A federal judge appointed by President Ronald Reagan argued in a recent post on Slate that less attention should be paid to the U.S. Constitution since much of it is not relevant to the 21st century.
“I see absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, or seconds studying the Constitution, the history of its enactment, its amendments, and its implementation (across the centuries — well, just a little more than two centuries, and of course less for many of the amendments),” writes 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner.
“Eighteenth-century guys, however smart, could not foresee the culture, technology, etc., of the 21st century,” he said. “Which means that the original Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the post-Civil War amendments (including the 14th), do not speak to today.”
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I read about this yesterday while I was traveling between chairs. In many peoples opinion, it’s such a short sighted perspective. He’s not the only one or even the first person to hold that view though. Frederick the Great’s father was like that. He saw no value in learning anything about ancient Greece or Rome.
I thought about writing a lengthy rebuttal, but it’s been argued many times before.
We are currently living in one of those time periods where little importance is placed on history. It seems to go in waves. In a couple of hundred years it will be popular again to learn all you can. Unless it all gets burned and we end up thinking half of written history is myth again.
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To which I say, amend the constitution in the way described in the document itself. The amendment procedure was designed by those “18th century guys”, and has been used many times since the constitution was written.
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It’s been argued that the promotion of the viewpoint of history being worthless is just a method to keep people stupid enough to believe socialism works.
The more newspapers, magazines, and general text that I read from 130+ years ago, the more convinced I am that a peasant class in our society has been created where none existed before. No meaningful planning, or realistic goals in life. No understanding of how to achieve anything. Just drifting along, reacting poorly to each rock bumped into upon the river of life, etc.
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I believe that.
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Me too. I think one of the main motivations of that collective “they” is to end up with a newer, updated global version of serfdom.
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I know people like that, they sit around waiting on their check complaining about their lot in life, which is the fault of others. Their biggest goal is to make it to WalMart.
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It’s the peasants that were used as the foot soldier (and cannon fodder) of the bloody revolutions of 1789, 1848, 1918, 1950-60’s, etc.
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I don’t think your going to get the folks I speak of off the couch and FB long enough to be foot soldiers. lol
They’re a new breed of peasants.
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Just the same as 230+ years ago. Take away what they think of as theirs or owed to them and they’ll be part of the scary, crazy, shouting mob too.
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Trey Gowdy speaking about Benghazi.
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I’m already reading “Crisis of Character.” What.A.B!tch.
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I need to go buy it and a vomit bag.
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Don’t waste your Time and Money on anything about Benghazi. The UniParty has completed its cover up of gun running.
The only document we need to see, is the “Cross Borders Authorization” for our Military Forces that were needed in order to support the rescue of personal in Benghazi. Without that document US military could deploy assets that were needed. This document is signed by the president.
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Correction: “without this document the US Military can not deploy assets….”
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But Trey Gowdy was so distraught he hadn’t even shaved! 🙄
It was pretty much a sh!t show.
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Me too, Wee. I’m on chapter 3. I started it thinking I couldn’t possibly be any more disgusted by her. I was wrong.
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When and Where do I vote…….
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From the Do as I say;
not as I do department:
Some Kauai residents
unhappy about wall being
built by Facebook billionaire.
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How stupid can you get and why is he suspended WITH pay?
http://www.news9.com/story/32320270/officer-accused-of-trying-to-pawn-tpd-issued-gun-suspended-arrested
Tulsa police confirmed an officer is in jail, accused of trying to pawn his TPD-issued gun.
Officer Michael Thompson has been with the department since 2006.
Records show he was arrested around 4:30 Monday afternoon on charges of embezzlement and two counts of false declaration of ownership.
Police say Thompson is currently suspended from TPD with pay.
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Terrorist bombing at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, some 28 dead so far. Waiting for White House to announce that it was probably done by Mormon missionaries.
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It’s those Amish!!!
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The difference between Benghazi and the other dead in Hillary’s wake is the Benghazi Four were inconvenient deaths.
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Howie, great video, I know people who do this full time and do make a paycheck.
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This could signal a death knell to country music as we know it. Not that much of today’s music is worth holdin’ on to anyway. 🙄
http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/the-backstreet-boys-are-back-in-the-studio-and-theyre-making-country-music/ar-AAhJ55f
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Ooooooohhhhh, gawwwwwwwd……
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It’s bad enough when teh Hootie couldn’t find a place to sing his music, but at least he has a talent. Who’s next, Ozzie singin’ some Patsy Cline tunes? 🙄 🙄
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Jay Z rapping Hank Williams, Sr.?
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👿 👿
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Well looky here. Robot lawyer has gotten 160k of 250k parking tickets overturned. I shall not shed a tear should some of these blood-suckin’ cretins are put out’a work. 😆 😆
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/worlds-first-robot-lawyer-overturns-8302040
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As seen on FB (four hours ago):
From daddy (a pilot): However, scrolling through the internet I am led to a US State Department Website titled Alerts and Warnings
If you click on that page and look at the column of “Red” Travel Warnings, you will see that one was issued for Turkey on 27 June 2016. Turkey is a day ahead of us so this is probably 24-36 hours ago.
That being issued just yesterday, and replacing a previous warning dated 29 March, 2016, one might infer that there was possibly some heads-up about increased possibility of an imminent attack, unless of course one is a member of the Media, in which case no mention of this new Warning being issued just hours before this attack will ever be mentioned.
“Allahu Akbar!”, or as John McCain tells us, “God Bless.”
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Well Mullin won his primary and in all likelihood will be returning to D.C., it’s not surprising Okies seem to be brain dead when it comes to incumbents, but it’s still disappointing.
Cole is going back as well. 😦
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This kind of stuff has been going on for years. There have always been different laws for different folks. They’re really lucky she didn’t go on and kill someone.
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2016/06/28/wasted-da-nearly-kills-multiple-motorists-no-arrest-cops-change-her-tire-let-her-drive-away/
Wasted DA Nearly Kills Multiple Motorists – No Arrest, Cops Change Her Tire, Let Her Drive Away!
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