General Discussion, Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Stella

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  1. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    July 13, 2016 at 12:27 am

    G-d sending a warning notice?

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    July 13, 2016 at 12:38 am

    Storms in more or less every direction.

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  3. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    July 13, 2016 at 12:40 am

    Ol’ Remus referenced this in the most recent “Woodpile”–with a recommendation to re-read…

    The Talk: Nonblack Version [John Derbyshire]

    http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/print#axzz4EF7u2nay

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  4. doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:
    July 13, 2016 at 4:08 am

    U.S. Senate Majority leader says chances “pretty slim” for TPP vote this year.
    Would anyone be interested in buying some nice swampland?
    U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that chances for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement to get a vote in Congress this year are “pretty slim”.
    http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-07/13/c_135509522.htm

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      July 13, 2016 at 5:49 am

      The Turtle lies……

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      July 13, 2016 at 10:10 am

      We really ought to do something about the large time gap, from the November election to January 1 (otherwise known as the lame duck period). We no longer need two months for a smooth transition in and out of Congress, considering modern transportation and communication. Why not make it two weeks, while Congress is in recess? I suggest we hold our elections as usual, then have an extended Thanksgiving break, and the new Congress be seated on December 1. The Christmas break will also allow time for the new Congressmen to prepare for the job ahead.

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
        July 13, 2016 at 10:13 am

        Really awesome idea.

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
        July 13, 2016 at 10:23 am

        Excellent suggestion.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        July 13, 2016 at 11:06 am

        The ‘extended’ concept is left over from the old days when new Congresscrooks had to ride great distances on bad to nonexistant rosds to reach DC. A lot’s changed – the ‘roads’ part’s debatable – but now the losers need that time to box-up their lucre while the winners have to audition for the lobbyists. New times, new needs.

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      • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
        July 13, 2016 at 2:23 pm

        I so agree, Stella, and have been saying this for a couple of years. Two months are just not needed anymore. Also, it would eliminate a tiny bit of confusion in a President’s dates if inauguration happened in the same year as the election.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          July 13, 2016 at 2:59 pm

          Congress is sworn in January 1, but the President not until January 21. Strange too. I don’t know about the President’s inauguration needing to be changed, but the lame duck Congress should be somehow prevented from making legislation between the election and the beginning of the new Congressional session.

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          • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
            July 13, 2016 at 3:03 pm

            I think they should all be moved to December 1st.

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            • Stella's avatar stella says:
              July 13, 2016 at 3:07 pm

              I don’t believe there is any rule governing Presidential inauguration, but I found this about Congress:

              The Constitution mandates that Congress convene at noon on January 3, unless the preceding Congress by law designated a different day. P.L. 113-201 set January 6, 2015, as the convening date of the 114th Congress.

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  5. ZurichMike's avatar ZurichMike says:
    July 13, 2016 at 4:42 am

    Today I provide us all with a balanced breakfast: 4 sausage links on one side, 4 strips of bacon on the other side.

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  6. sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
    July 13, 2016 at 6:46 am

    I’ve seen storms like this in Dallas. Cool photo!

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  7. sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
    July 13, 2016 at 6:52 am

    Morning everyone! Happy hump day!

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  8. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    July 13, 2016 at 8:13 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’ Huey! 🙂 |_| (Junior Woodchucks)
    Mornin’ Dewey! 🙂 |_| (Seafarers)
    Mornin’ Louie! 🙂 |_| (Back to School)
    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!

    Doughnuts for coffee!

    ⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol

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  9. sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
    July 13, 2016 at 8:53 am

    Oh happy day! I’ll have bacon with a side of bacon and some of those blueberry covered pancakes! They are gluten free, right??? Oh yeah and low calorie, too! 😊😊😊
    Morning Nyet!

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  11. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    July 13, 2016 at 9:57 am

    Chicago’s Collapse Has Begun
    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/07/chicagos_collapse_has_begun.html
    …
    Love the comments:

    RiddlesMcDeuce • 3 hours ago
    A successful Liberal run state is tougher to find than a living Sasquatch

    UKExpat > RiddlesMcDeuce • 3 hours ago
    Or ROCKING HORSE EXCREMENT.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      July 13, 2016 at 10:47 am

      The city of Detroit, now famous as an economic disaster, began its decline when it lost jobs.

      A decline in lost jobs was not the catalyst for Detroit’s decline. Crime and race riots were. Detroit had a booming economy in the 1950’s and 1960’s (following WWII), but the race riots in 1943 (34 people killed, 433 wounded, and destroyed more than $2 million in property) and 1967 (43 dead, 1,189 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed.) began Detroit’s reverse Great Migration.

      The crime gradually drove out law-abiding citizens of all colors, and the population shifted to the suburbs (my own parents left the city in 1947, and all of my family members had left Detroit by the 1950’s). At it’s peak, population in Detroit was about 1.85 million. It declined 10% in the decade of the 1950’s, another 10% in the 1960’s, 20% in the 1970’s, 15% in the 1980’s, and 8% in the 1990’s. From 2000 to 2010, population declined another 25%.

      The last Republican mayor left office in 1962, and the last white mayor left office in 1974. Black Democrat mayors ruled Detroit from 1974 – 2014. Coleman Young presided over much of the decline – from 1974 to 1994 (his death). He was corrupt, foul mouthed, and a black racist. He told whites to stay out of his city, and Eight Mile Road became the legendary barrier (see movie by the same name). The last best-known of Detroit’s black mayors was Kwame Kilpatrick, who left office in 2008, and is currently spending 28 years in prison. Detroit has a white, Democrat, mayor currently (Mike Duggan) who took office in 2014. He seems to be competent and not corrupt.

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  12. doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:
    July 13, 2016 at 10:09 am

    What if they held a fart-in but nobody noticed because Hillry stinks already?

    UPDATE: Despite endorsement, Sanders delegates vow to hold DNC ‘fart-in’ anyway!
    http://www.theamericanmirror.com/update-sanders-delegates-vow-hold-fart-anyway/

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    • doodahdaze's avatar Howie says:
      July 13, 2016 at 10:20 am

      Organizers have not tested varieties to discern the smelliest option, but Honkala says baked beans likely will be preferred and paired with hot dogs at a feeding location in a “Clintonville” camp in northern Philadelphia.

      A second feeding location is likely to be at the group’s office a few blocks from the convention venue for delegates, journalists and others heading into the speech.

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  13. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    July 13, 2016 at 10:33 am

    Bringing Down the Left
    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/07/bringing_down_the_left.html
    …
    I’m only linking to this because I’m sick of people parroting this argument;
    “Use the left’s tactics against itself”
    This is not a thought through strategy. It is unrealistic in achieving any positive end goal and will never be successful.
    First off while the author identifies that things have been going on longer than our lifetimes, he completely misidentifies what the “left” is and what it’s goal(s) are. The methods of the left are not the goal of the left. The methods are something that evolved over time. The stated goals of the left are some fuzzy thing that changes from one group to the next.

    The real goals of socialism are unchanging. There is no difference in socialism between continents or languages. No difference between Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, Che Guevara, Salvador Allende, Dilma Rousseff, Fidel Castro, Evo Morales, etc.

    The actual goal is the same as it was in the 1770’s; to be in charge, and wealthy without much work. The utopia of mankind where everything is shared is just a method to get peasants to follow the leader.

    You combat fraud with the truth, not by committing more fraud.

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      July 13, 2016 at 1:18 pm

      True dat, bottom line is that people get into,politics to be in charge, only difference is what philosophy they use to convince the folks to put ’em there. I believe that all pols are feral members of the population that need to be constantly supervised by responsible adults, problem is we seem to have more of the former than the latter.

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      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
        July 13, 2016 at 1:40 pm

        “…problem is we seem to have more of the former than the latter.”

        From what I’ve read, it’s always been that way. What seems to have tipped the scales of power towards the unscrupulous opportunist was them was getting the children away from family influence and Christianity through progressive education. Generation after generation have allowed more socialist practices to be enacted since the late 1880’s.

        Another thing to rant about is that people were forced to think for themselves for the most part prior to instant communication. I wasn’t so bad with the telephone, but people started waiting to use their own judgment until they spoke with someone. Now, with the Internet nobody thinks, they Google. They parrot whatever comes up in search results as truth and experience.

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        • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
          July 13, 2016 at 1:41 pm

          Arrgrg! Edit!

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          July 13, 2016 at 2:37 pm

          Agreed, agreed. Someone once told me that st the time of the Revolution only about 30% of the population sctually supported our Brixit and, of the 70ish percent that didn’t, not that many actually did anything to prevent it. Wake riders. I just worry about which group will have a high enough blood sugar level on election day.
          Google’s just amother tool to quickly find porno..or so I’m told…and to allow folks to find things that support their own opinions…of that I’m sure.

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          • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
            July 13, 2016 at 8:25 pm

            In the ballpark Czar, 30% supported, 30% were Tories/non supporters, and 30% did not want to rock the boat, fence sitters. The remaining 10% made money off of US and Britian by selling goods, supplies, and services. Even Washington complained about the high prices charged for supplies to the Army. Horses, livestock, fodder, and clothing were high dollar items.

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
              July 13, 2016 at 8:55 pm

              In my book any outside of the 30% that supported the Revolution were dross. As for George’s complaints, things haven’t changed much. Anyone who’s seen the main road leading up to the main gate of almost any military installation knows the shylocks, price gougers and military-oriented parasites are all alive and well.

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              • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
                July 13, 2016 at 11:14 pm

                True, true, late ’90s the Post Cdr wanted to Fence In Ft.Hood. After a month of studying everything from survey maps, land ownership grants, logical requirements…….would initially cost about 20 M.
                Hey got my favorite western on The Mag Seven, “We deal in Lead, Friend” …..

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  14. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    July 13, 2016 at 10:33 am

    Dennis Michael Lynch uses Diamond “Lavish” Reynolds social media to show the world who she is. Really worth the 12 minutes it takes to watch the video. Hopefully someone who gives a darn will get custody of her poor kids. Diamonds response to he little 4 year old wanting to go outside while Diamond is smoking dope and dance/hump/rocking to some club music is “Don’t have no kids y’all, if y’all don’t have no kids don’t have them, they’re worsen than hell.”

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1221889161183872&id=513600888679373

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  15. The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
    July 13, 2016 at 3:01 pm

    Yesterday there was a link (can’t remember if it was here or next door) about BLM protests called Days of Rage to be held on Friday 7/15 in 37 cities across the US. Haven’t seen anything more, has anyone else? If true, I shudder to think how that will end.

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  16. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    July 13, 2016 at 5:14 pm

    21 officers injured in Baton Rouge by the Usual Suspects who were peacefully protesting police brutality. Irony duly noted.
    New Black Panthers are involved in the Baton Rouge protests, are openly carrying weapons (Louisiana has an ‘open carry’ law) and pushing police as far and as much as they can.

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:
      July 13, 2016 at 11:51 pm

      I caught a clip earlier of the peaceful folks shutting down a highway yelling, “If we can’t work, you can’t work!” Somebody needs to explain to them that if those folks can’t work, they can’t get their welfare and foodstamp card.
      Although my warped sense of humor finds it funny to see black people holding a Black Lives Matter sign while standing in the middle of an Interstate.
      My black life matters so much I’m going to go play in the middle of an interstate. lol

      So I guess their black lives also matter so much they’re going to wave guns at cops.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        July 13, 2016 at 11:58 pm

        In much of Louisiana welfare II considered work, complete with bennies and retirement. I knew families in public housing who’d been there for generations, it was a way of life just as most working folks would get up, have breakfast and go to their jobs. It used to puzzle me as to why soneone getting just about everything for nothing would whine about how unfair the system was treating it until I looked at it as just asking the boss for a raise.

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  17. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    July 13, 2016 at 6:21 pm

    Louisiana governor flew to Washington for meetings with POtuS and ‘community activists’ on how to make police more vulnerable to attacks by animsls in the innercity….oh, wait, my bad, ‘on how to ease the tensions between the police and the community. Hey, I have nor had any issues with the police in New Orleans and not because I was one, more like I didn’t make it a subcultural imperative to break the law.
    I’m sure the guv and the POtuS won’t reach the point of hogtying a police officer and throwing him/her to the salivating hordes as a regular sacrifice, not that the idea hasn’t crossed minds, but I’m sure they’ll reach a progressive consensus that the true problem lies with the law abiding (Christian, in some areas) working population and further measures should be taken to bring them under the heels of the oppresseds’ kicks. Peace out.

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  18. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
    July 13, 2016 at 6:50 pm

    Incredible image, Stella.

    Thanks for the b’fast these last few weeks, Nyet.

    Working a lot, and disinclined to speak, but just to absorb info lately.

    I was going through a text file where I save memorable quotes. It starts today and goes back to 2006 or so with quotes from Lizards (before Chuckie turned back into a Liberal).

    The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things – the beauty, the memory of our own past – are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

    — C.S. Lewis

    I found that quote a couple of weeks ago, just after I found this album, and bought it.

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