General Discussion, Friday, July 22, 2016

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  1. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    Lights on, but no energy left after those speeches!

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    THIS is rich (piggy-backed from the Cruz speech):

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  3. Stella's avatar stella says:

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  4. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    There’s such polarization, everywhere. I honestly cannot believe there are (self-styled) conservatives who would prefer Hillary to Trump. What in the world can they be thinking?

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:

      I really think some of them have lost their minds. Have at least one in my family (distant).

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:

        They are thinking that they do not want to be revealed and Trump will reveal them. Hillary will just abuse, mock and disembowel them which they prefer to the world seeing what human filth they are beneath their pious words.

        Paul Ryan the Rat is a terrific example. The hypocrite has the audacity to be running ads where he claims that he is keeping Wisconsinites safe from Muslim terrorists.

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      • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

        Or victims of industrial-strength brainwashing.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:

          Mary, the ones I have the most problem with are the ones bolstering their (mistaken) opinions with scripture.

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          • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

            When man feels free to interpret scripture to support his own individual whims he has lost the reason for reading it in the first place, and demoted The Book to “a book of my own opinions about everything.”

            God said what He said. We don’t get to interpret it. It becomes meaningless.

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            • Stella's avatar stella says:

              For example, Menage, she said that if Cruz endorsed Trump, he would be breaking the commandment to “honor your father and your mother”. Her exact words:

              The way I see it, Ted Cruz had a very difficult choice to make in whether or not to endorse Trump. If he fulfilled his pledge to endorse Trump, he would break the 5th commandment “Honor your father and your mother ..and the command of 1Peter 3:7 to give honor to his wife. I rejoice that he was able to make the decision to not support a man who is without honor and who has admitted and gloried in breaking at least Commandments 1-4 and 7-10. Even at great cost to himself and his possible future, Ted Cruz was able to do the right thing..I will continue to proudly support him. You have no idea what you will get with a Trump presidency. Don’t drink the Kool-aid.

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              • lovely's avatar lovely says:

                Aside from the fact that the bible quoter is using a faulty premise for Cruz to honor two verses from the bible, she is also making the fatal (yet convenient to her cause) mistake that each verse in the bible stands alone as if in a vacuum.

                So

                1) The first premise of her argument is of no consequence because Trump did not dishonor Rafael or Heidi and even if he did that does not disqualify him from Ted’s christian forgiveness and discernment Christ requires of all who think they or their loved ones have been wronged.

                2) The second premise of her argument is disqualified because Cruz is called through scripture to not accept the vain glory set upon his head by his father Rafael or the ill gotten money acquired for him through Heidi’s Goldman Sachs connections.

                Matthew 10:34-36New International Version (NIV) 34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn “‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— 36 a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’

                When we twist and bend scripture for our own benefit, when we ignore the body of scripture to change the meaning of certain verses, we are no different than the Pharisees and make the bible a book of convince and a tool of manipulation.

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              • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

                What about the eighth commandment? He broke it when he willingly pledged to support the candidate. He broke it all through the campaign, but especially in what he did to Carson. Apparently in her religion commandments are to be selectively obeyed.

                One thing is clear as a bell to me from this election. Ted Cruz is a lot of bad things, to my book being a liar one of the worst. He exposed himself more clearly than a playboy model. So also have many Christians who twist words, even Biblical passages to support what they want to believe rather than face the truth. I question the foundation their faith rests on and the quality of their own examination of conscience in the matter of pride.

                When you are wrong in an action or belief the only just and dignified course of action is to acknowledge your failure of action or judgement, repent if it resulted in sin, ask forgiveness and make restitution, and amend your life going forward with firm resolve.

                Clearly many of these Christian Cruz supporters got way out of line in defending him. Now their pride won’t let them see clearly.

                Further, any action that action that aids a Hillary victory in my book violates the 5th commandment, Thou shall not kill, for surely she will aid abortion in in way she can while president.

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            • Pam's avatar Pam says:

              There’s enough written in the Bible that you can take out a part and twist and turn it to fit almost anything you want. I was so exposed to this during the years I moved around from one denomination to another, then later got to see the TBN crowd in operation, the self-anointed apostles and prophets, the Word-Faith group. It’s really unbelievable.

              How and why God puts up with us and our ignorant ways and abuse of His Word is beyond my human understanding. I get very uncomfortable when anyone starts claiming God is the One behind their particular political candidate. I don’t care who the candidate is. Politics is a worldly thing, and we should be very careful trying to use God that way. It’s totally disrespectful of our Creator imo. We do not understand His ways, and I cringe for those who show such arrogance and lack of humility. If we’re going to claim God is actually choosing political candidates, then how do we explain Obama? God is allowing us to be chastised? God is allowing our country to go down the drain?

              Just because someone accepts God and is a Christian doesn’t necessarily mean they have let go of all their human ego and self-will. A Christian has to surrender to God and let Him work in their life, changing them to be what He wants them to be. That’s usually a fairly long, humbling process and many Christians don’t even understand this, much less let God have the control to do it. So this is what we get – way too many people who think they speak with the voice of God.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:

          My relative (on Facebook) parrots Red State, National Review etc. Last night she posted the video about Trump breaking the “pledge”, to prove that Cruz was no longer bound. I posted a picture of the pledge, and pointed out that Cruz made it with the RNC, not Trump, so he is still bound by the pledge that he signed – to endorse the RNC nominee, and not to seek write-in, independent, or other party support for President.

          Instead of discussing it, she DELETED my comment! Three times. I asked her what she was afraid of, and she said that if I persisted in posting that comment, she would block me, and that she didn’t have time to deal with it. Then she said that “nobody is afraid of you”.

          My comment was both truthful, and non-confrontational (other than the truth part). She doesn’t want to see the truth, and she doesn’t want any of her other friends to see it either.

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          • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

            Then she said that “nobody is afraid of you”.

            LOL! Which of course means she is.

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            • Stella's avatar stella says:

              It’s particularly funny because my comment was non-confrontational, other than asking her why she is afraid of the truth. In a comment to me, she claimed I was twisting the truth, but she deleted the picture simply because it was proof that I wasn’t.

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              • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

                The Mrs. and I don’t have the bond with family due to various reasons and we’ve both decided years ago not to spend any energy beating a dead horse. I keep forgetting I have relatives until I read your post and catch myself thinking, “Boy, am I glad I don’t have any living rel…..”

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          • Pam's avatar Pam says:

            Well, imo, your last sentence says it all. I’ve found that most people in my family and outside my family are more or less like what you said. At some point I think you have to stop and ask yourself if it’s doing any good. Remember, most people couldn’t accept what Jesus said either and He IS Truth. I’ve gone through this with my own son, daughter and step-daughter. I finally stopped trying to talk to them about these things, and now I just pray for them and others of my family and friends. After experimenting with how to pray for them, I now just ask God, since He knows exactly who they are inside and exactly what they need, to do whatever is necessary to bring them into His Light, His Truth and salvation. I used to spend a lot of time worrying about them and fretting over their situations, especially my own children! I’ve found that this way now is the only thing that can give me peace about them. They’re just not going to listen to me, and I accept that. It wasn’t easy for me to work my way to this point. I didn’t just give up out of indifference or laziness. In the end, it was just the only answer I could find.

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    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

      Sigh. Conservative was a derogatory label invented by the socialists. That is part of the problem. The definition is whatever people interpret it to be. People self-identify as conservatives because their parents were, or a myriad other reasons, without understanding what it is that people want to protect, save, or restore. I think about 60% of the people that identify as conservative grew up as progressives and have never thought about how things were before they were born.

      I don’t think they lost their minds. I believe this situation is just making people think for the first time.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:

        One result of the ignorance of history.

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      • Pam's avatar Pam says:

        I doubt that you could find two people on the planet who, calling themselves conservatives, would be able to agree on the exact definition of what a conservative is. At least the Republican Party is not delusional enough to make that mistake. They say they are a “big tent” or something like that. So we now have the sub-group labels of which kind of conservative one is. It’s just a word and I have grown tired of it, personally, since it can mean so many different things. I don’t exactly feel comfortable calling myself a Nationalist either. I’m giving up on labeling myself politically. I know we’ve got this system and the way it’s theoretically supposed to work. But it doesn’t work very well, actually. It’s mostly a rotten mess.

        Let’s hope a lot of people ditch the brainwashing and actually start really thinking. I won’t hold my breath though.

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:

      From reading comments on right poop it seems they think that is saving conservatism by electing Cruz in 2020. This is an actual comment I read over there:

      Dr.: I am sorry it is cancer
      Conservatism: How bad?
      Dr.: It’s a Trump tumor: full of isolationism, big government, anger, pandering, lack of morality, support and adoration for foreign strongmen, the list goes on and on…
      Conservatism: Options?
      Dr.: Go with it and you will suffer a long slow death.
      Conservatism: Any other options?
      Dr.: Chemotherapy. Four years of Clinton should wipe out the Trump tumor and you will be strong again, ready to come back.
      Conservatism: Let’s do this. Hillary 2016 -> Cruz 2020

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:

        That’s appalling.

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

        They have lost their minds. On the way in to work very early yesterday I listened to Redeye Radio, a show I’ve never heard. Both guys, no idea who they were, were saying that Trump masterfully played Cruz at the convention, knowing that Cruz could not endorse him he let poor Cruz speak and then launched a media attack on him. Good grief.

        I’m only drinking my own damned well water and Jack Daniel lest I catch the mass delusions.

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      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

        There is truth to their perspective, but you have to understand it’s only flawed from our point of view.

        For example; there are a lot of business owners on the West coast that are upset because they believe a Trump presidency will be devastating to their business. They are correct.

        They spent decades surviving ever changing government regulation and using money to invest in the direction everything was going and would continue in if Hillary was elected.

        These historically ignorant, self-identified conservatives actually invested in the progressive socialists business model that will collapse with a Trump administration.

        They don’t want to hear that they have been doing it wrong, they were fine up until Trump won.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:

          I don’t remember where I read it but someone wanted to know what was conservative about punishing businesses for moving their businesses to other countries.

          Don’t get me wrong I understand why they do it, more profit, lower taxes, lower wages and fewer regulations. However, it’s not what’s best for our country and it makes it hard for those of us who try to do the right thing and it puts Americans out of work.

          If you don’t make it less profitable for their companies then it won’t bring them back and he did say he would try to make it better here for businesses with lower taxes and fewer regulations.

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          • Stella's avatar stella says:

            Don’t think of it as punishment – just the cost of doing business. They can go to other countries, and pay a tax in order to do so, or they can run their businesses here in the USA.

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          • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

            A lot of people in business today are not people that would be able to run a business 30 years ago. Here in Seattle people spend more time running around trying to get investors than make money from selling a product or service. People have moved physical production of goods offshore decades ago. Other countries undercut the prices for manufacturing those goods for decades as well. Each time the country could no longer maintain that level of price manipulation, we moved our manufacturing to another country.

            First it was Canada, then Mexico, then our manufacturing has bounced around in Asia. It’s moving again currently, but the market hasn’t settled on a country yet.

            Trump forcing everything back in country will bankrupt everyone overnight that chose the progressive path. Other countries that relied on the stupid American’s money will be devastated by the withdrawal of it’s biggest customer. Cheap products will be a thing of the past. That $700 luxury business button down shirt from Italy will be the average price of a shirt made here for a couple of years until mass production can be restored.

            You want a tip? Start buying warehouse space that you can lease out.

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            • Stella's avatar stella says:

              Good idea! (about the warehouse)

              I’ve privately bemoaned that, while goods are plentiful and cheap, they are no longer fine and beautiful. A closet full of crap is what it is.

              If you want a beautifully tailored suit, or shirt, it costs. As things stand right now, those things are available to the rich and privileged. I can no longer go into a department store and buy the beautifully made blouses I bought in the 1970’s, finished with beautiful buttons and trim, or tailored wool trousers, skirts, and jackets.

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              • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

                People also don’t know that the luxury brands often make two version of their products. One that sells around the world and one that only sells in the US for the same price. The US version is made with cheaper parts or uses cheaper labor to assemble.
                Outlet malls now are filled with substandard products made specifically to be sold at the outlet store. The items that didn’t sell in the regular store get sold at full price on line.

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              • Pam's avatar Pam says:

                But you can still find these things in some thrift stores, if you happen to live in an area where rich people live nearby. Some of these folks wear something one time, then donate it. As far as finding classic, beautiful clothes in a department store, the last time I ventured into some high-end stores, trying to find a simple, well-made classic pair of black pants, they didn’t exist.

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  5. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

    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 🙂 🍸 )
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    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)
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    Mornin’ Pam! 🙂
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    Mornin’ Scrooge! 🙂 |_|
    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!

    Cinnamon rolls for coffee!

    = Unprintable phallic symbol

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  6. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

    Seriously, the Trump worship next door by some guests is jaw dropping. The “Camelot” label can go back where it came from as well. Most people younger than 50 don’t understand it in the first place.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:

      The Jackie Kennedy myth invention.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

      Many of them are as bad or worse than the Cruz and Hillary people. If you say you didn’t like The Donald’s tie today you are guilty of communist activities. The term troll ought to be on our black list but then we would have about ten thousand more people a day caught in the filters.

      It’s hard for me to read over there and be civil.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:

        I often don’t like his ties. Does that make me a bad person?

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:

        I have not been there in a while but IMO there is no difference between blind adulation for Trump and blind adulation for Obama that some “true believers” espouse. If you will pledge your undying support for a man, any man while simultaneously refusing to admit that he is human and imperfect regardless of how much you respect his achievements you are a dangerous zealot not a unyielding patriot.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:

          I agree, lovely. There are things I don’t really like about Trump (ties included), but he is the right man for the moment, I think.

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          • lovely's avatar lovely says:

            I am just happy that Trump has finally stopped saying “The one thing I thought Obama would do is be a uniter.” Every time Trump said that I wanted to scream. I don’t know why Trump would say it, but I hope that it is not because he really believed it.

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          • michellc's avatar michellc says:

            I agree, sometimes his ego still gets to me, it’s that ego that made me never like him. He almost always says at least one thing I don’t agree with or I don’t like.
            I wasn’t overly impressed with Ivanka’s speech last night and honestly did not like pandering to mothers because that goes against my beliefs of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. However, I wouldn’t dare post something like that over there these days, because it seems you must 100% agree and like everything about all of them.

            I didn’t really like Trump going on about Cruz today and think he should have just moved on. Saying that probably would have got me in trouble over there.

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            • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:

              I didn’t like Ivanka’s focus as much either. Debbie Schlussel came down pretty hard on her, and with good reason:
              http://www.debbieschlussel.com/82968/ivanka-trump-speech-touts-hillary-style-left-wing-wage-laws-the-new-gop/
              More on the value of motherhood and less on the lie of 59 cents would have been much better.

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            • Pam's avatar Pam says:

              I agree with you. The first part of his “thank you” talk was ok, then he got on the subject of Cruz. For one thing, he kept throwing up his hands and making that face and saying he had nothing to do with the stuff about Cruz’s father, going on and on about the National Enquirer. Yes, he did have something to do with it. His explanation was lame. All it did was make me think: if you can twist around and try to fake people out with this subject, what else could you use the same tactics on?

              Like

              • michellc's avatar michellc says:

                I don’t think he had anything to do with the National Enquirer story, which was what I took him to mean.

                I just think he should have not even mentioned Cruz and moved on.

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        • Pam's avatar Pam says:

          I totally agree. It’s sort of scary. People like this made me question my initial support of the man. I’m going to vote for him, but I’m serious about the doubts those people have raised in my mind. If the former “silent majority” of Trump supporters are all like these people, I don’t want to be aligned with them, and it gives me a lot of worrying “what if” thoughts.

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          • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

            I think of it this way, those people may be stupid and idolizing Trump, but they are helping me get what I want. So, I am not going to worry about it.

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      • Pam's avatar Pam says:

        I can’t take it anymore, reading those political threads. One of the most obnoxious bots of all of them, a guy who rudely shuts people down for saying the slightest thing, got himself called a troll the other day. He got a taste of his own medicine. They’re going to end up eating each other alive, or losing their brains from all the kool-aid drinking.

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        • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

          I know it’s popular to call it Kool-Aid drinking, but it’s just a label for people not doing any thinking for themselves. Critical or otherwise. Could be just one subject or everything in their life.

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      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

        It’s not even fun to tease any of them.

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      • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

        I confine my participation to the O/T, because of familiar posters.

        I will look at other threads for content, and look for an internal link to share if I think it critically important. But won’t read the comments. I have a life, after all.

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

      Ah yes, Jackie, a pathway to respectability and the social scene for shanty-Irish Joe. Having lost his carefully crafted scion Joe Jr re-manufacture JFK at the last minute. The great play just grew legs with the media and Jackie wore it well. Arguably the first case of modern Hollywood media merchandising of a non-Hollywood image.

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      • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:

        Agree Czar, also don’t forget, the acceptability of American Catholics into the mainstream of American culture. Also Joe Sr. set up a little money fund on the side for her, and parents. Joe also sold his interest in RKO studio, still had the connections. Last but not least PT109. JFK was bed hoping in DC until her was caught, and was sent to the Pacific. He severed honorably. As your Dad did, and my Father.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

          No doubt the family served honorably, except old antisemitic Joe whose bad choices embarrassed the US and Robert, JFK was also responsible for resurrecting the Special Forces period and as an instrument of national policy. Just didn’t care much for entire advertising campaign. Didn’t care much for Joe SR either.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:

      I am reminded of the Wanda Gag children’s book, “Millions of Cats.”

      Life is about choices.

      Simply substitute “Which one of you is the biggest Trump fan?

      “Which one of you is the prettiest?”

      “Iam!” “Iam!” “No. Iam!”

      “No, I am the prettiest!” “I am!”

      “No, I am! I am! I am!” cried the hundreds and thousands
      and millions and billions and trillions of voices, for each cat thought itself the prettiest.

      And they began to quarrel.

      They bit and scratched and clawed each other and
      made such a great noise that the very old man and
      the very old woman ran into the house as fast as
      they could. They did not like such quarreling.
      But after a while the noise stopped and the very old
      man and the very old woman peeped out of the
      window to see what had happened.

      They could not see a single cat!

      “I think they must have eaten each other all up,’
      said the very old woman.

      “It’s too bad!”

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  7. Morning everyone! Happy Friday!

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  8. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Where is Michellc? I posted your comment from yesterday about the Cruz claims about Trump’s attacks on his wife and father (from an anonymous blogger). Clarice Feldman (American Thinker) just shared it on Facebook.

    So did Alicia Colon.

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  9. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Trump is speaking now in Cleveland (watching on OAN).

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  10. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

    WTF?!?!

    Happy Anniversary with WordPress.com!

    You registered on WordPress.com 3 years ago.

    Thanks for flying with us. Keep up the good blogging.”

    Do I get a hog mudpie?

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  11. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Alphabet Soup Corruption
    by Victor Davis Hanson
    Thursday, July 21, 2016

    What do all these scandal and embarrassments have in common? Aside from the fact that many appointees were selected based on their progressive bona fides and that they saw their missions to promote liberal causes, sometimes even at the cost of overriding their own agencies’ mandates, there was a widespread sense that the law simply did not apply to them. The President set the tone with a series of executive orders that overrode federal immigration law. He arbitrarily suspended some elements of the Affordable Care Act for fear that they would prove unpopular in the months before the 2012 election, and has bypassed congressional oversight and jurisdiction, whether by sidestepping the Senate’s ratification of treaties with the Iran deal or allowing the EPA to create new laws regulating coal plants and water standards that were never ratified by Congress.

    The ensuing message was that social awareness, fairness, and egalitarianism trumped the rule of law. And the result was that an IRS director, a Secretary of State, an Attorney General, and a Department of Homeland Security Director were assessed not by whether they executed the law but by whether they promoted a progressive agenda.

    The Obama administration in this regard was largely successful in warning conservatives that the government was not neutral, but now a force for social justice, led by a “pen and phone” president who was quite willing to reward friends and punish enemies, without much worries over the legal niceties involved. Given a largely obsequious media, it will take years to assess the full legacy of the Obama administration. But, eventually, historians will find that it marked one of the more politically driven, corrupt, and unconstitutional eras in the history of American governance.

    http://www.hoover.org/research/alphabet-soup-corruption

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  12. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    off subject but am I the only one who thinks that looks like one of the Angel Moroni behind the elephant’s head?

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  13. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Someone opened up the floodgates on the central Gulf coast, we’re under a flood warning. Rain’s been training since early AM and after what we got yesterday late it’s been wet. Poor folks over in Pascagoula and east are really getting nailed, some 6 inches or better. Then again they’re right on the Gulf, sooooooooo

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  14. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Juicy stuff – what do you think?

    How Trump Won The Nomination–And Why Hillary Needs To Worry

    https://www.facebook.com/notes/ruth-papazian/how-trump-won-the-nomination-and-why-hillary-needs-to-worry/1042165562505339

    If you can’t read it, I’ll transcribe here. Just let me know.

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    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

      Uuhhhh…….. “Not until Trump, whose unorthodox campaign (by Repub standards) followed Alinsky’s manual page for page. ”

      Just wow. I think it reflects how the people trying to explain things view the world or their focus of things. I’m not sure how I would feel having this person do any work for me. I would spend a lot of time wondering if I was going to be cheated since I know that is how she views things.

      Never occurs to them that the truth of Trumps statements is what won the nomination.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:

        I don’t look at it that way. There’s nothing wrong about using effective tactics to achieve victory. Truth in Trump’s case, lies in Hillary’s case.

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        • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

          The problem with her analysis has to do with why Alinsky even wrote “Rules”.
          The rules exist to defeat truth through slight of hand and outright deception. It was developed to deal with (a larger majority than today) of people that knew the truth. It’s manipulation.

          While Trump used skills from sales and customer service, he didn’t defraud. They can paint it anyway they want. It doesn’t make it true.

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

            Yeah, you’d think that my pig traps would stop catching pigs after the first dozen or so, rules or not.

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            • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:

              I’m leaning in using the the Truth. Trump fought what we call full spectrum operations on the battlefield. Trump was using the rules fighting the deep battle, naming his opponents, then the close battle during the debates. His deep battle Intell was spot on, keeping his opponents off balance. Now he did fing some hot button issues; immigration, crime, trade deals….ect, also his proofing of his opponents was excellent. The right words/one liners at the right time. Also when he was taking, it was like listening to the local guys at the restaurant, or water cooler, a very simplified/simplistic message.
              Like loading hogs on the truck, going to the butcher shop, except he closed the gate, lifted the ramp, waved by…….

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  15. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Watch the video at the link. Unbelievable idiot.

    Grinning Obama JOKES during statement on Munich carnage as he shifts gears to say he’ll miss daughter Malia when she leaves the nest for college

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3703975/Grinning-Obama-JOKES-Munich-carnage-press-conference-shifts-gears-talk-daughter-Malia-leaving-nest-college.html

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    • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

      He doesn’t care about what happened. He’d PHONE this stuff in if he could. Or send a substitute.

      The only animation was when he referenced kids leaving home. Everything else, he couldn’t give a s*** about.

      (Asterisks cover a multitude of sins.)

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  16. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    8 confirmed dead in a shooting at a Munich shopping mall. Three suspects with long guns though one person claimed seeing a handgun being used. All suspects are at large, shooting site’s about a few blocks from the Olympic stadium where 1972 Olympic massacre occurred. Reports of an Islamic source taking credit.
    German statement was quick to point out this event occurred on 5th anniversary of a Scandinavian mass murder by a FAR RIGHT WING shooter and while the investigation is moving in many directions there are ‘indications’ it ‘may’ be a terrorist incident.

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  17. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    She picked Kaine?

    Quick, someone, anyone, give me a thumbnail sketch on him.

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    • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

      Here’s an email I just received, from RJC:

      Washington, D.C. (July 22, 2016) — The Republican Jewish Coalition released the following statement in response to Hillary Clinton’s selection of Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia as her vice presidential candidate:

      “After leading President Obama’s disastrous foreign policy in the Middle East, Hillary Clinton’s selection of Senator Kaine as her running mate further proves she cannot be trusted to keep our country safe,” said RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks. “Whether it’s his vote for the Iran deal, which paves the way to a nuclear-armed Iran, or his proud support of the progressive anti-Israel J Street agenda which earned him their enthusiastic endorsement, Senator Kaine has shown how out of touch he is on the dangers facing our country. A Clinton-Kaine White House would continue the same failed policies that have made the U.S. and our allies around the world less safe.”

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

        I’m not impressed with their statements. Jews will vote, most of them, gladly for Hillary. Just wait and see. They always do. I’ve seen a few conservative Jews explain why the American Jews as a group are liberal but it never makes sense to me. Their reasoning escapes me.

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      • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:

        Mary, “RJC”–what, is that about 12 people? The rest of the American Jewish population are inexplicably brain-dead liberals. And a Jewish brain-dead liberal is just as brain-dead as a secular humanist brain-dead liberal. Being smarter than the average secular humanist doesn’t seem to help.

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    • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

      Another email about Kaine:

      Hillary Clinton’s selection of U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) as her running mate is yet another reason why she must be defeated in November.

      Tim Kaine is not a centrist Democrat. He’s a liberal who, like Hillary Clinton, will help destroy this great country.

      As a Virginian, I’ve seen this up close.

      When Tim Kaine campaigned for Governor, he promised not to raise taxes. But then set a new land speed record in promise-breaking by proposing to raise taxes just six days after he was sworn in!

      During his time in the Senate, Tim Kaine has been a liberal’s liberal.

      In fact, he currently has a 0% Liberty Score from Conservative Review. That’s right, ZERO. He has voted wrong on every one of the key votes in the past three and a half years!

      This includes votes to pass amnesty, raise the debt limit, create new gun control laws, and to fund Obamacare and Planned Parenthood.

      We can’t afford to have this man as Vice President. His selection is another reason why I’m going to vote for the Trump-Pence ticket.

      So please don’t let the liberal media fool you when they try to portray Tim Kaine as a centrist Democrat or as someone who is competent. He’s a hard-core liberal who has accomplished very little in his career.

      Sincerely,
      Ken Cuccinelli II
      President, Senate Conservatives Fund

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  18. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Some loveliness still in the world. Our three baby swans are doing well 🙂

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  19. ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:

    Speaking of birds,
    here’s another from
    the Trump hanger.

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  20. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Bravo.

    California governor denies parole for Manson follower

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/22/california-governor-denies-parole-for-manson-follower.html

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. –  California Gov. Jerry Brown denied parole Friday for Leslie Van Houten, the youngest follower of murderous cult leader Charles Manson who is serving a life sentence for killing a wealthy grocer and his wife more than 40 years ago.

    Brown overturned a parole board’s recommendation in April that she be freed, saying Van Houten failed to explain how she transformed from an upstanding teen to a killer.
    “Both her role in these extraordinarily brutal crimes and her inability to explain her willing participation in such horrific violence cannot be overlooked and lead me to believe she remains an unacceptable risk to society of released,” Brown wrote.

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  21. Stella's avatar stella says:

    I think you’ll like this one!

    Donald Trump: A Working Stiff in a Brioni Suit

    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/07/donald_trump_a_working_stiff_in_a_brioni_suit.html

    Granted, no one thought the people’s liberator would show up in a private jet and then switch to his personal limo, but that’s our guy. And if you’d told me any time before June 2015 that I’d support a guy who’s been working the system for most of his career, funding the very leeches who are kneecapping the American people, I’d have called you crazy.

    Yet here I am, all in for the Donald. Not because of his very public confession at the outset of his campaign that he himself is a no-good, corrupt, establishment type – that was not exactly an endearing admission. Nor was it his sincere, heartfelt contrition, because I’m pretty sure that never happened.

    So why? Why, oh why are we letting this political neophyte with no government experience and a shady background hijack the American political process? The answer: he’s one of us, a working stiff living in the real world of everyday.

    Okay, technically, Trump’s not a working stiff. He’s hardly in a dead-end job living paycheck to paycheck. But despite his billions, Trump shows up to work every day and puts in eight to twelve hours. He personally oversees his projects, walks job sites, and sacrifices personal and family time to meet deadlines and make payrolls.

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