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General Discussion, Monday, July 25, 2016
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Lovely picture, stella. And the balloons are eye-catching, too.
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Thank you.
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I see the words, “Lake Superior Photo”–really? Where on the lake was it taken? I would have guessed the Inner Hebrides, or somewhere tropical.
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I think it is at Pictured Rocks on Lake Superior (upper peninsula of Michigan). And that is probably sunset, not sunrise.
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Check out Lake Superior Photo’s catalog:
http://galleries.lakesuperiorphoto.com
They have a Facebook page too.
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Found the actual location:
apostle island lakeshore, end of the ice caves on lake superior! It is north of Christmas- 5 Mile Point- a guide is prob necessary the first time out, drop us a message if interested in guide services.
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Probably the first time I’ve seen the words ‘Lake Superior’ and ‘tropical’ in the
the same sentence without the word ‘not’ also included.
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Only looks tropical in photos – and that is actually a sandstone/ice cave.
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Same paragraph–not same sentence.
And no, I won’t report your error to Wikileaks.
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That was for effect, but to be technical I could have been referring to my sentence. Punt…
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Which one?
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I got here late today, and the first thing I see is those black balloons! Quite a statement there, Stella. 🙂
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In a rush today: coffee and bacon to go:

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Decaf?
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Looks like ice cream.
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With a raw handle?
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Or a Guinness?
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For a stout appetite.
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It gets rasher and rasher.
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I see were back to this streak of bacon, guess some people never loin.
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Now we are talking!! Guinness in the morning……Bacon looks good…..
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Now that’s a mass of bacon………
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Pun would have worked better if I’d have had an eszett…
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Always wise to be prepared:
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Mary!!! Thats good!!!! The methane in air around Philly will increase ten fold this week!!!
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I really enjoyed reading this article. Nothing at all about politics!
Treason of the Librarians
http://www.geist.com/fact/columns/treason-of-the-librarians/
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Mary, great article, did I miss the point? Libraries will be/are disappearing due to digitalization?
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Close, Col. BOOKS are disappearing, due to digitalization.
I’ll let go of my REAL books when they pry them out of my cold, dead hands.
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I still buy real books occasionally – just got two used books (Isaac Asimov) and a cookbook. The rest of the time, I buy Kindle. I have LOTS of real books in a small house. When I had my sewage backup flood in my basement two years ago, I lost quite a few, and there were very few that I really felt bad about losing, to tell the truth.
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I’m old school and like to feel the book in my hands. E-books are okay for books you can’t find but I will always prefer the real book.
My daughter was having a discussion with a friend who wanted to buy my grandson a kid’s digital book. My daughter told her she wouldn’t let him use it because she wants him to be able to turn the pages of a book and that she doesn’t allow him to play on phones, tablets, etc. because she doesn’t believe it’s good for him. She tried to tell her everyone was doing it and my daughter told her, “like my mom always told us if everyone is jumping off a bridge are you going to do that too?”
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I love books, and agree especially about books and kids. One thing – I find that as I get older, and my eyes aren’t what they once were, it is much easier to read an ebook than a regular book.
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It is getting harder for me to read books so I keep buying $1 glasses from Dollar Tree. lol
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Bingo! My eye doc calls them ‘cheaters’ and keeps suggesting I should buy the rediculously expensive prescription ones he sells. I tell him that since he tells me that my problem’s presbyopia with minimal astigmatism that only effects my vision at distance, why but $100 reading glasses to sit on when for that price I can buy a case and sit on a pair a day? Usual answer is ‘ I’m looking at buying a new boat’.
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I went to the eye doctor when I first started having trouble reading and he told me it was an age factor and I needed reading glasses. His cheapest were $80 and I asked what the difference was and he confessed not much except these had the correct magnifying strength. So I asked, “but can’t I just get the cheap reading glasses and figure out which strength allows me to see to read?”
He admitted, “yes and that’s what I recommend most do unless they want designer frames.”
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Yup, and I can cheaply have lots of different strengths around for different tasks.
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I lose them all the time as well, because I only need them to read.
That’s probably another factor of how we were brung up. No need to spend the money on a cadillac when the beat up old pickup truck gets you where you’re going and you can haul anything you need to on your way. lol
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I keep cheap reading glasses all over the place. Work. Car. Several rooms. Lose one, break one, whatever, I have at least six more.
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Zactly, I must have twenty pairs around in different places, don’t hsve to hunt them up.
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I did that for years (bought the cheaters) but my reading vision finally got so bad that I would get really blurry eyed after only a short time (measured by my past reading habits) because I do have an astigmatism and, of course, both eyes aren’t the same. Now I use bifocals (reading and computers) most of the time, and distance glasses for driving and watching movies/television.
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My prescription’s so weak that I don’t really need my glasses for distance but for that up-close stuff they’re vital. Tried bifocals but that was a definate no-go. My doc made me a set of glasses just for shooting but I put a holographic sight on my primary rifles and that seems to have cut the need for glasses.
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One advantage is that you don’t need the glasses if you can enlarge the page on thectablet. Disadvantage, if you’re reading a technical book, is moving back and forth from the index. Tablets can also adjust the screen brightness and you can set a drink on them without creating a mess.
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I love the ability to adjust the type size.
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I agree with you about liking to have a book in my hands. I resisted the Kindle until I realized how much easier it was to hold in a hand that has a little arthritis in the joints. Also, there are times that I need to increase the size of the words.
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I have one and do like to take it with me when I go out of town or am somewhere that I have to wait, but at night when I want to read myself to sleep I grab a book.
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I can’t read when I go to bed. If it is a good book, I can’t put it down even when my eyes start to smart. I used to read until 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning.
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I’m not with you on this one. I love my Kindle and I also have a mini iPad I use to read colorful things like magazine and cookbooks on. Some books I still buy hard copies, mostly to share favorite authors with my son, but I love taking hundreds of books wherever I go if I have a device, even a phone, and I especially like not storing them.
Too many books that I love I want to keep and I have plastic totes full of hundreds of them stored. Now I let Amazon do the storage. If the book is something I feel I want or must have if we ever have a no power emergency or even a SHTF situation, such as prepped books, things like that, I order a hard copy.
Also, I almost never use the laptop now that I have the iPad. Only if I’m writing a post on the Treehouse or something.
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I love my books and I have lots of book shelves plus lots of books in the attic.
Different strokes for different folks, lots of my generation disagree with me. lol
The only place where I hate seeing someone with a kindle or ipad is when it comes to kids, I’ve seen too many toddlers who have been developmentally stunted due to electronic devices.
My grandson’s doctor blames these devices as well for the number of kids now who need glasses. He’s been a pediatrician for over 30 years and says 30 years ago, maybe 2% of kids between 3 and 6 needed glasses, now it’s more like 40% of his patients need glasses and the only thing that has changed is these kids come in looking at computer screens whether on phones, I-pads, etc.
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Like Menagerie, I still have lots of paper books, and still buy some too, but for reading extended periods of time, the Kindle is much easier on the eyes.
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Maybe I have weird eyes, but it hurts my eyes to read it very long.
I do have trouble with night vision, have had all my life so that may be why.
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Something else about books that sadden me about future generations is the memories they hold that e-books will never have.
Whether it’s a special book you’ve read multiple times with all the wrinkled pages or the book your mother or grandmother passed down to you, sometimes with little notes they wrote on the pages in pencil. I’m sure they meant to later erase, but forgot. lol
Maybe I’m a nerd, but I love books. lol
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I think both have a place. My grand kids have plenty of books, but electronic media too. It helps that both parents are book junkies, with large bookcases in almost every room, in bathrooms, on every table etc.
My daughter has many of her childhood books too.
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I never really gave it that much thought until I started going to the doctor with my daughter when she was pregnant and started paying attention to all these toddler to preschool age kids.
It was pretty clear to see how so many had missed milestones in their development.
Then I started researching it and finding many doctors who were warning of the dangers.
Once kids are older I think they are fine within reason but I’m also very glad that we passed on our love of books to our kids and happy to see my daughter doing the same with her son.
I do believe though the reason she is such anti-electronic when it comes to him is because she saw all those same kids and told me more than once that would not be her son.
He does grab phones from time to time and he learned by himself to swipe them and unlock them and he likes to get his daddy’s phone and talk to Siri, but they never let him have it more than a minute or two.
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I have read also that too much electronics time (including tv) is bad for young brains. I think Bill Whittle did a video about it a couple of years ago too.
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I would believe it. If you read these milestones they give these days it makes old folks like us shake our heads.
Everything from crawling to walking to climbing stairs, feeding themselves, has been pushed to later ages.
My daughter is always saying either her son is advanced for his age or kids are very slow today. I tell her it’s because she allows him to be a kid and do things on his own and she doesn’t sit him in front of a screen, so he learns at a normal level.
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I found the Whittle video (Five Alarm Fire). I’ll post it at the bottom.
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My son and his wife have bookshelves of real books and also use their Kindles, or whatever, to read. They are avid readers. My DIL is carrying around a large book, many inches thick, of all of Jane Austin’s works and has her nose in it every chance she gets.
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I was a reading junkie from a young age. I was the reading nerd, really. One of my favorite things to do was going to the big, old historical building which housed the main library in Savannah. The smell of the books when I walked in was something I just loved. In the summer especially, I’d go and load up on books every week, and read, read, read. If I still had every book I’ve ever bought, there’s no way I could have a house big enough to store them all. I’ve had to purge over the years, because it ended up with renting storage units that were mostly full of cartons of books. I’ve also had homes where every room had bookshelves loaded with books. I still have tons of books packed into cartons. When it comes time to unpack them, I’m already preparing that I won’t be able to keep them all.
I use my iPad for Kindle reading every night. It’s the last thing I do as part of my going-to-sleep routine. I don’t have to have lights on to disturb my husband, and I’m used to it now. When I was reading books at night and using one of those book lights, I was constantly having to mess with the light. It was an adjustment, and I still like holding a book in my hands, but for me Kindle is a real convenience.
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Guess it’s how we were done brung up. I can imagine people arguing, at some point in the past, the benefits of clay tablets over that thar new fangled papyrus stuff.
Czarina and Imlove the feel of a book, we have a room in the house that’s a library..it smells of books.
For decades I carried a copy of the basic Army Combat Engineer bible in my fatigue/BDU pants pocket whenever I was in the field. In days of yore the working field manuals were ‘ruggedized’ and sized to fit into a cargo pocket, available when you needed them. As I came closer to official obsolescence the new troops were carrying electronic tablets with the information on them. Now fewer and fewer troops are using paper and there are fewer of us geezers who aren’t with the times.
I used to wonder what they’d do when their batteries ran out or there wasn’t a charging port available but then there was always the question of what would happen if I ran out of ink. Let ’em have their e-libraries, I still like my paper and I’d like to see ’em whack a bug with a Kindle.
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I have a book shelf in almost every room. In my bedroom there are built in shelves and they are full of books.
I love the smell of my books when I go to sleep at night.
As for the ink problem, I’ve always kept many pencils in stock. One of the greatest inventions imho, you can sharpen them with just about anything and always have something to write with. lol
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Sounds like you trained your daughter well. Good for her.
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My husband and I are both love to read, so we passed that on to her. She’s far from perfect, but God made a pretty good young lady and I’m proud of her.
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I can not believe I missed out on this thread of posts. Stupid work stuff.
I had a book once… Words in it and everything….. sigh.
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Do you remember what it was about?
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One or two fish, and various colors.
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I have that one!
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Mornin’ kids!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!!! Great picture!!! I guess my homemade super glue does work! It’s 85* humidity 74%. All boys and girls accounted for after last nights rain/storms. I’m having another cup of coffee on the porch, in the shade……. Tractor maintenance today, oil/ hydro fluids and blade sharping, And my never ending task of greasing……..
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Mornin’ Colonel!
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Did you see where Brazile said the e-mails were tampered with? lol
The truth is at the Democratic Party we have a very open process… On behalf of the party I want to apologize for the salacious and sensitive, very mean-spirited emails that were referenced to in Wikileaks. Now look, we all know the party’s emails were hacked. We know that they are being selectively leaked. We also know that they have been tampered with. And, so I do believe that as a party we have to make sure that the material information that gets out is not harmful to the party.
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She would like us to believe that.
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It cracked me up.
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I hate the word semantics because I knew a man who called bold ass lies semantics. He tried to bully me in to lying with him using that argument. But it’s a good example here because that’s what they are doing too basically.
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LOL
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HUBRIS!!
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If only.
Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
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( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )

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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!
Cinnamon rolls for coffee!
⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol
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Yummmmm! Thanks, Nyet!
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Mmm mmm on the bagel and fruit. The good thing is it seems there are not too many people here I have to fight for my portion of the meal 🙂
Thanks again and good morning Nyet!
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Nye!!!! Morning and that’s my breakfast!!!! Another helping of BACON please!!!!!
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Mornin’!
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Looks good. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Still no doughnuts.
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Good morning folks! Hope everyone had a relaxing weekend!
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good morning Sand&Sea 🙂 How are the grand-babies?
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Hi lovely! Morning! Doing great! My little buddy will be 6 months in a few days. I love that I get to take care of him while my daughter is at work, he is a real blessing in my life. How are you?
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One little guy? For some reason I thought you had two . What fun. I have a great niece and nephew but no grand babies 😞.
The day is going well, sun is shining and I’m getting ready to go visit a client pretty soon. Training a couple of new people who seem to be catching on quickly.
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Glad it’s a good day for you! I have two step-grandkids but they don’t live nearby. I have a daycare in my house, so I have other littles I care for. It’s very fun, been doing it for years and I love it. 🙂
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Aww, that’s one of the cutest ages. My granddaughter is going to preschool in less than a month. I feel blessed to have been a big part of her life, and pray for more time to enjoy her, encourage and teach and help her, but I sure hate that it’s going so fast.
I was one of those rare terrible mothers who never cried when my boys went off to school. Well unexpectedly when my oldest went off to a technical school in Nashville after high school, but that’s another story. Anyhow, I was not sad to put them in the classroom, but yes, I think I need the day off when she goes to school because I’m gonna cry and I know it.
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It’s an exciting and scary time sending them off to school. Very bittersweet as they need it but it signifies the end of babyhood.
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My daughter takes pics of the boys every first day of school, and posts them. That first day of that first child is poignant.
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Good morning!
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Morning Michelle! How are you?
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I’m good, just sitting here watching it rain.
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We are supposed to get some this week and I’m ready, the heat has been unrelenting.
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It’s been hot but I’ve seen it much hotter in July. Every year the “sky is falling” local news folks get worse, I wonder what they’d do if we had a July like we’ve had in the past with every day of the month with 105+ degree temps. 🙂
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I hear ya! They can be overly dramatic.
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Good morning! Well, there will be another exciting (?) week of convention activities. Is anyone interested in live feed? I think it begins at 8:00 pm, in Philly, of course.
There are two Trump/Pence events today; a Town Hall in Virginia at 3:00 pm, and a rally in North Carolina at 8:00 pm. I will provide live feed for those.
Weather-wise, another hot, dry week. I think we will have thunderstorms later in the week, but not much rain (which we could use). Some of the large street trees here have been cut down, so my front yard is not getting as much afternoon shade as it once did, and the grass is more or less dormant (I don’t water). The grass in my back yard is lush and green (as it usually is); I don’t know why, although there is a bit more shade back there. It’s so nice to see the fireflies!
Back Yard
by Carl Sandburg (1916)
Shine on, O moon of summer.
Shine to the leaves of grass, catalpa and oak,
All silver under your rain tonight.
An Italian boy is sending songs to you tonight from an accordion.
A Polish boy is out with his best girl; they marry next month;
tonight they are throwing you kisses.
An old man next door is dreaming over a sheen that sits in a
cherry tree in his back yard.
The clocks say I must go—I stay here sitting on the back porch drinking
white thoughts you rain down.
Shine on, O moon,
Shake out more and more silver changes.
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Good morning Stella.
It’s almost August in Oklahoma and the grass is still growing. I don’t think we’re going to get to stop mowing until winter this year. lol
I guess it’s going to remain hot here all week, I heard them talking about excessive heat advisories. I don’t know how we survived back in the days with no heat warnings. 🙂
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One thing I remember from my early childhood:
Putting my head under the downspout during a rain storm. Sounds nice right now.
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I was out in the front yard talking to my daughter and watching my grandson run around and smell the flowers when it started raining.
I stood there for a few minutes and enjoyed the nice summer rain. My grandson thought it was a lot of fun and he didn’t want to get out of it.
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I like to let my grandkids play in it too.
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This kid loves water; rain, bathtub, water hose, pool, lake, river, mud puddles and even the water troughs we have a time keeping him out of. 🙂
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That one is a keeper. It’s almost as f he spoke thoughts I’ve had while dreaming under the moon.
We have a new porch swing. I haven’t spent enough time on it. And I forgot until just now that I was supposed to go buy some poly for it and give it a couple of coats. 😀
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From FB, and an intelligent thought about WikiLeaks, and the charges that the releases are to assist Trump. It’s meant to destroy Hillary, not to help him.
Let’s say you are in national intelligence–an entire operation or even some sources or agents’ lives were lost because of her careless handling of national security matters and you see her getting away with it. It’s easy enough to hack this gibroney system–PAYBACK. Pryam Farli’s been assuring us for months if she wasn’t indicted there’d be leaks like crazy from insider the US intel network–
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Also,
Anyway, what does it profit the Clintons to claim this was a Russian operation? Surely the next thing that should come to any sentient mind is if they could hack the unsecured DNC email system, surely they could have hacked her even less secure SoS emails chock full of national security matters.
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Quite possible, but then might the unnamed national intelligence agency be worried that a reinterest in the alleged connections between Gov Clinton, an un named intelligence agency and an unnamed Arkansas airport might surface? Wouldn’t it just be easier to render her (in the Gitmo sense) and stuff her into one of those UFO garages in Area 51?
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After reading further, I have concluded that Assange just hates Hillary, and is trying to bring her down. He doesn’t like or dislike Trump, but really despises her.
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Works for me, I don’t care if the attack has cloven hoof prints on it, whoever, whatever. Local TV’s trying to move the focus from the emails content to the theft itself, as if the theft Trumps the crooked content.
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Politico says the FBI is investigating …
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Uhhhh, yeah, their crack D B Cooper team should be available.
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Sue, that’s reassurance. After the last investigation’s outcome why not just skip to the no recommendation part straightaway?
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Local Fox station’s giving out a laundry list of reasons why Russia would do this to help Trump, including Rat propaganda leaders’ views on wht the entire thing is a Trump dirty trick with the help of his Russian friends.
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B.S., but I see that is what they are pushing. The Hill has a piece about it.
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Reading Iowahawk’s twitter feed is really fun this morning:
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I found this hilarious, Little Debbie is getting booed with Bernie and E-mail signs being held up and then we’re told it’s unity tonight, this won’t be like the RNC, Cruz and Trump. lol
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Wow…feels really strange to say that I appreciate Socialists, Communist-lites.
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I think we can all agree that we don’t like rigged elections. Would I vote for Bernie? No way in hell!
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In casectgere’s any doubt Inwas referring to my appreciation for the actions of his supporters in disrupting their convention.
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No doubt, at all.
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In case there’s any doubt, I couldn’t find one of those many pair of cheater glasses we were discussing earlier this AM.
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I think I am going to have to hire an interpreter for your comments, Czar.
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Earlier today we were having a bit of a back-and-forth about ‘cheater’ reading glasses and this was a reference to that as a cover for bad editing in the post immediately ahead of it.
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I was referring to your auto-corrects. Sometimes it takes me a while to figure them out. 😯
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Ran outta reply space. I’m back on the iPad so the autocomplete rules unless I go back over and edit in detail. The iPad’s a diferent thong entirely from the Windows laptop.
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Sometimes it is like doing a crossword puzzle. And, “thong” cracks me up every time I read it. LOL
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They just found out Hilllabeast is not picking up the Tab!!!!
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Good morning, Colonel!
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Evening Stella……..
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Hello again!
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And very little PO’s a Rat like having to pay for their own eats.
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She ain’t never picked up the tab, in more ways than one.
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The Cali breakfast? Is that where her/Bill’s Mex cartel connections came to honor her candidacy?
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Local news is all aghast over a Ft Myers, Florida shooting at a night club. Two dead and a dozen wounded…yet another case of gun violence.
Unstated in the broadcast, I had to look it up, was that this was an event for teens up to 17, the club said, and attendees as young as twelve were there. The attendees were black and the shooting occurred after midnight. Now tell me why parents are letting their kids as young as 12 out at a night club, after midnight, mixed with older teens? What could possibly go wrong? How late were these responsible parents going to allow their 12 to 16 year olds to stay out? Guess then can be sleeping in on Monday, give ’em a start for adult life.
Is it a culchul thang? We just don’t understand the modern AA subculture that needs to enculturate the next generation in the club scene so that their transition to adult life is smoothed? Maybe, like that book versus Kindle thing, we’re just too old and we should let the new wave wash clean our old fogeyness.
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I don’t know if this party has any connection to this mess, but I have to wonder. Remember the “dime girls” and “make it clap parties”? And, we wonder why there are so many young female blacks getting pregnant.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/06/11/shocker-dallas-reporter-investigating-the-dime-girls-and-twinzz-promotions-and-make-it-clap-parties/
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Justbtalking yo an old cop friens who’s still on the job. He said that this isn’t unusual, years before Katrina they’s stake out the night clubs in New Orleans offering teeny-bopper nites ( as in ’till dawn’). The thugs attending couldn’t take guns in as the bouncers wanded, they’d leave them in/around their cars where they could be easily grabbed. Aside from being pissed over the clubs holding chicken hawk nites and parents hoing along wit it, they’d grab the thugs, guns and cars. Never was a shooting at these pedophilia bazaars, district commander’s proactive initiatives prevented that.
You might remember I’d mentioned earlier how this commander’s work on cleaning up around hi-crime points in his district brought the crime rate down but caused, among others, a number of black ‘ministers’ to complain his works were targeting young black men? This was one or the targetings that raised their ire. Makes you wonder who was putting what in their collection plates.
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“Makes you wonder who was putting what in their collection plates.” Yeah, really.
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a href=”http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fort-myers-nightclub-shooting-1-dead-14-others-reportedly-wounded-n615961″>”They said Monday that the violence was not an act of terror.”
Read that sentence again and again until you see what ABC News is actually trying to say here. Not Islamic, they mean, now, when they say this.
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HTML fail. 😦
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Some commentator on FOX said ISIS is trying to connect with gangs to help spread the terrorism. So, there is that possibility.
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Now they’re saying it was gang related. OK, gang shooting are not terrorism…got it.
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And, gang shootings don’t count against black male deaths for the BLM.
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They’re all the fault of white, conservative perfidy…oh yeah, and Korean store owners.
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I’ll never understand this sort of horrible parenting.
I took an elderly lady a few years back to a city council meeting and laughed at an elderly gentleman who stood up to speak about a curfew ordinance. “When my children were young we didn’t need the city to set curfews, that was the parents job. Under a certain age, you better be home when the porch light comes on, over a certain age they were told nothing good ever happens after midnight.”
A younger woman stands up and says, “well that was in a different time, today parents need to be able to tell our children there is a curfew.”
The man, “I guess maybe you’re right, parents today aren’t smart enough to set curfews they need government to set them.”
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Some years before Katrina we had a helluva problem with school-aged kids being out walking the streets well after midnight. We had an equal problem with kid-related crime. The city created a curfew and we all enforced it. If we found a kid out on the street after 10 PM and s/he couldn’t prove to be over 17 the perpette was hauled off to a detention center where s/he’d be detained until the parent(s) picked it up. Program died a quiet death when parents just left many of them there and city ended up feeding and housing them until they were just let loose again. Easier to just let things take their natural course than admit the parents were less than civilized and were raising what was then today’s current crop of criminals.
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Detroit started doing this during the so-called “Devil’s Night” and for events such as the 4th Fireworks. Works great.
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So…in Detroit the parents show up to retrieve the little miscreants?
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Apparently.
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I think Hillary shares some of the blame for it takes a village(of idiots) to raise a child. Too many of those without brain cells heard it and decided the village idiots could raise their child.
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Yeah, dhe may have actually written some of that book herself…
Always wondered what she meant by ‘village’? Did that include mud huts and spear racks by the door?
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That is PRECISELY what she is referring to.
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And to Trump’s benefit he didn’t find it necessary to have someone ghost-write an ‘I Love Me’ book before his candidacy was announced, a rarity nowadays.
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No twelve year old of mine is going near a club scene, underage or not. Heck, my boys were outraged at me that I refused to let them go hang out at malls all day with their friends when they were that age.
Even then, back in the late 80’s and early 90’s I found that most parents did not want to bother supervising, let alone caring for their kids. I imagine it’s much worse now, and it seems a too high percentage of black parents do not truly raise their kids, just let them grow up.
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It’s wun doz kulchul thangses we don unnserstan. Hey, 12, 13 and 14-year olds hangin’ with older teens and chicken hawks, in scdark night club with insdaquate oversight…what could go wrong? Shooting was probably just advanced indoctrination to the black urban club scene. Matches our past experiences in our area.
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Hillary was saddened that RNC was chanting “Lock Her Up,” I wonder if she’s sad or mad at Bernie supporters? They better watch it their bus or plane may accidentally crash on the way home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzZ4vIMySbw
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I just posted the video of the Bernie folks chanting “Hell no DNC, we won’t vote for Hillary” over on the new DWS thread.
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There’s an option that wouldn’t make too many people in either Party mad or sad.
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Not acproblem – GGC doesn’t have an iPad (OK, a laptop) but does have a 55-gallon drum of Legos. I have permanant Lego scars on the bottoms of my feet to prove it.
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I know what you mean. Both my GS’s are really too old to play with them now, but the younger one still likes them, and I have a plastic bin full of them.
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One wonders, when looking at some of the NASAesque projects built with them, if anyone’s ever too old to mess with them. I have dreams of filling a certain plastic bin full of them…
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Suicide bombing in Germany, Syrian asylum- seeker blew himself up in a bar after being refused entrance to a music festival. BBC’s reporting it as ‘Syrian Immigrant Dies in German Blast’: https://mobile.twitter.com/TarekFatah/status/757442737037770752?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
He is said to have pledged his allegience to ISIS though German authorities are supposed to be leaning towards his being an angry music aficionado upset at not being able to get into the music fest. As for the ISIS thing he was just pledging his troth to the Boston post-metal band of the same name. MACH WEITER! Or something like that.
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Czar and Mary, I think I may have inadvertently adopted one of your children. I was in a Wisconsin Cheese store and I texted my daughter asking her if she wanted any WI cheese since I am visiting her tomorrow.
Her response, “Thanks but I am gouda.”
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Nurture that ability, it’s valued above many other more mundane abilities…at least in this house.
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Love the header! Classy. Been away for a while so do not ;know how long it has been there.
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Just since yesterday. For the RNC Convention, we used pretty red, white and blue balloons.
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The children of this generation are going to be really messed up raised by these insane people.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/25/many-stores-honoring-parents-requests-for-gender-neutral-kids-clothing.html
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So what in the world is with the comments next door in ctdar’s thread re-posted by Menagerie?
I saw they were not getting the point of the post and started going berserk over the how a poem in a story written in another language and time period was wrong. If I had a desk handy I would have beat my head upon it.
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What. Don’t you have an e-desk to e-beat your e-head on?
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I would do it even harder now that I notice I wrote ctdar rather then Cetera
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I wondered …
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I was thinking of ctdar for no reason and just read it that way…… all week….
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