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Just kidding.
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I’ll give it my best shot nyet.
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Nye!!!! Should read; “if the pig sneezes he’s bacon”!!!
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And ready for a fork indeed!
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Por-k you deeed theeees post? Perhaps out first bacon post of the day?
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Really ??
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Just more humor that fell flat.
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😀
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Someone already had the lights on!!!!!!!
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So to speak. Dissing Pooh & Piglet sorta doesn’t deserve light.
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Uhhh…maybe Pooh (aptly named) just wants to have a Charmin little trip into the woods to show Piglet what bears actually doo out there?
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No one deserves a lite bear…
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Very pretty Tessa! thanks for sharing 🙂
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This is worth it just for the cars!
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Boy, do I ever remember 1973. Not a particularly good year for me.
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I remember that year. We had just bought a new house and I was busy having a nervous breakdown over our house payment going up from $160 a month to $260 a month (including taxes and insurance).
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I started high school that year.
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A youngun’!
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How funny! I started school that year as well.
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Kindergarten?
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I didn’t go to kindergarten.
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Then where did you learn to play dodge ball?
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At home, and it was a belt or wooden spoon, not a ball.
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My first year of college, NOT ROTC, on the Army’s dime. It was a great year, a transition year for me………
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Yeah, me either – I got married that year. 🙄
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Great year for me! Graduated from high school and enlisted in the Air Force. Best decision I ever made.
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This was amusing. In a truthful sort of way:
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/758070834258784257
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Quick Mary grab all of the fire hoses you can find!!!!!!!
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Am listening to music, bout all I can do. Things a mess here, but I have faith and it will get better or we will deal with God’s help. Things could always be worse and really? This ain’t nothing, just feels like a big something. Anyway, I keep reading along just haven’t felt much like talking, I hope that’s okay. I will quit with the songs now, hope all have a good night and a great day tomorrow! See ya.
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God bless you, tessa.
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TY Mary, Am complain about something that is truly nothing compared to others. Forgive me for that. Just kinda built up.
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No need to apologize at all, tessa. Will keep you in my prayers.
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Take heart, any morning you wake up to is a good one, some are just better than others.
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Very true, and I always say thank you for today.
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My old motto used to be: “You can shoot me but you can’t eat me.” Then I came see Cajun cooking and that creedo went right out the kitchen window.
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Czar, you have a true gift for lightening things up. 🙂
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Except beer, remember, except beer
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More in point for your neck of the woods, I don’t lighten loafers either.
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Theme–and #DNCinPHL– association:
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Themes like a good idea to me
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Hugs, tessa! Tomorrow will be a better day (I hope).
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Tessa, music is great therapy 🙂
I was called a “Fu***ing insane racist” yesterday because I had the audacity to speak the truth about Hillary.
I find this music turned up to to 20 in the car centering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpe6-oXa0ZQ
And not to sound like a music snob I love Kenny Chesney and all sorts of music “Ol’ Red”
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The word “racist” is so devalued that it no longer means anything. So is the “f” word. I know you aren’t insane (quite the opposite), so I must assume that the person who said that to you is an idiot.
Music is indeed a tonic.
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Agreed that the words are devalued and the person is lost in the MSM hype of reality. Thanks Stella 🙂
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I guess I need that one explained to me, since last time I looked Hillary was white.
I quit paying attention to the word racist a long time ago.
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One of my points I brought up is what Hillary said about black youths “They are super predators without conscience or empathy and need to be brought to heel.” I also mentioned that Hillary was know to use the “N” word and I was mocked.
Whatchagonnado?
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And the Jew word, ask Dick Morris. “Without conscience or empathy”, was she talking about Bill again?????
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I think she was speaking of her own soul.
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Also from twitter–this one more serious:
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Greeks and Roman Empires ……
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Mary, is that a quote from Col Howard? If it is, please respectively withdraw my comments due to my respect for Col. Howard.
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It’s Robert E Howard (Author of Conan) ;
“When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in… Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come? “
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (July 1923)
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Thank you Nye, Col. Howard, a true warrior, Christian gentleman, and soldier from my generation.
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I read what Tessa said above this morning. Yesterday was a bad day for me also. There are days when those feelings of darkness and gloom just about overwhelm my attempts to stay balanced. Nothing unusual is going on in my personal life. I sometimes just feel like it’s the darkness all over the world, affecting me and other people. Yesterday morning, reading comments from a UK article, I think it was about the priest, someone said the simplest thing that just hit me hard. The comment went something like: “I used to wake up every morning feeling happy. Now I wake up already feeling sad.” Very simple, but how much truth in there.
I used to skip all over the internet, looking at news. A few years ago, I stopped that. I look at Drudge and before I even go there, I brace myself. There are days I won’t even look, which is so different from the way I’ve always been, interested in what is going on.
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Pam, I think many people are feeling the same way. Hopefully the adage of its “darkest before the dawn” is true and we will be charting a new course beginning in January. I have to be careful what I read and see these days as it can make me very worried for our future. I do think many people are beginning to awaken to the problems we are facing and want a new direction. It seems there is a real rise in nationalism and a desire to protect sovereignty so we just have to be strong and hang on a bit longer. You aren’t alone. (((Hugs)))
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I actually have more hope in my fellow Americans than ever before, not because Trump was elected the Republican nominee, but because a man who says America first and all that goes with that was elected. I’m not sure 4 years ago or 8 years ago or even 16 years ago a man or woman with that unapologetic message could have been elected.
That tells me people are waking up.
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I feel like it is a really positive sign. America is very resilient and there are many who love this country, it’s a beautiful thing to me to see a resurgence of American pride.
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I agree Michellc. The media say we are “angry” or “throwing a tantrum”. The truth is, we believed the politicians who told us they would do what we wanted done, and then didn’t do it. Only fools would continue to back liars.
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I don’t think it’s asking much to put Americans first and for our leaders to follow and enforce our laws and not pass laws that hurt us.
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Not to us, but apparently a bridge too far to the permanent residents of Washington.
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Thanks, Sandandsea. Hugs back at you. 🙂
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🙂
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels)
( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
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Mornin’ whiners and complainers! ⭐ 😛 (No drink for you!)
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Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Pastries for coffee!
⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol
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Mornin’!
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Bless you Nyet!!! Much appreciated!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Thank you for the delicious breakfast!
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Morning Nye, everybody!!!!!! I’m famished!!! Thank you, Sir, well done…..
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Looks good. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂 Sunny and humid here. Nothing new.
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Today, that first breakfast looks really good to me. I must be hungry! Thanks buddy.
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You might consider reprising the doughnuts soon, nyet. Otherwise I might start eating ZM’s bacon.
Think of all the ruckus THAT would cause.
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Good morning! Another sunny, hot, summer day in my neighborhood. I hope you all have pleasant weather too.
Trump
and Pence havehas three events today – first, a speech in Florida in about 30 minutes or so, a Town Hall in Scranton, PA at 3:00 pm, and a rally in Toledo, OH, at 8:00 pm. Live streaming is available for all three.NOTE: Trump and Pence will appear together in Scranton. Pence will be in Waukesha, WI tonight at 7:00 pm, while Trump is in Toledo. Tomorrow, Trump will be in Iowa (2 events) while Pence will be in Michigan (2 events).
Summer Song
William Carlos Williams, 1883 – 1963
Wanderer moon
smiling a
faintly ironical smile
at this
brilliant, dew-moistened
summer morning,—
a detached
sleepily indifferent
smile, a
wanderer’s smile,—
if I should
buy a shirt
your color and
put on a necktie
sky-blue
where would they carry me?
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
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Pence is going to be here in town today (Waukesha WI) with Walker. I have tickets but I am undecided as to whether I am going or not 1) I do not want to see Scott. I am so pissed I would just glare at him. Scott is going to act like an ass I can guarantee it. 2) That rat Ryan may show up 3) I have a better offer 😀
Reasons for going 1) I want Trump to know WI supports him 2) I’d like to see Pence in person 3) Lots of people I know are going
Opinions? Should I go should ?
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I didn’t know they split up today! I would go. If Scott acts up, you can lead the booos.
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Maybe I’ll see if they have a nice little plastic megaphone at the dollar store 😀
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I am really interested in seeing people’s reaction to Scott if he acts like a jerk. He is deity here. Mark Belling, Vicky McKenna Jay Webber all local conservative talk show hosts are all now on the Trump Train. Vicky was never a Never Trumper and never vicious in her criticism of him.
Belling and Webber were brutal. Belling is now acting all I was never a “Never Trumper” and perhaps he didn’t say the words “Never Trump” but he was a biased party hack who said horrific things about Trump. Belling went so far to shriek on the radio about how if Trump broke campaign boundary laws by getting too close to a polling place he should be arrested.
Anyhow I really have no desire to have to look at Webber or Beliing as I consider both them frauds and suspect they will be there.
I know nothing about Charlie Sykes other than he is a wretched person who was a Never Trumper and may still be.
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I just checked the official schedule – Pence will be here in Michigan tomorrow.
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You should go!!! Stare daggers at Walker for all of us and cheer Trump and Pence! 😀
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That would work. I wonder if they’ll take questions? I could ask Scott, “What do you think of your good friend Paul Ryan’s desire to import supporters of Sharia law into Wisconsin. ? Do you stand with Ryan or America?”
😇
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Oh yeah! I would pay big money to see the look on his face trying to come up with an answer!!!!
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I’m with Stella I would go, and although I doubt Scott is going to act like an ass after witnessing what it did to Cruz, you can do as Stella said if he does.
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Scott is a very adept politician not like the loud mouthed arrogant Cruz. Scott will be underhanded in his insults.
But you’re right an opportunity to boo Scott perhaps should not be passed up.
I wish I had a Paul Nehlen shirt!
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LOL!!! That would be awesome! Oh it would be such a sweet victory if Nehlen beats Ryan!!! The battle of the Pauls. Love it!
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Our local RNC headquarters has nothing with Nehlen’s name on it, now I’m not in the Ryan/Nehlen district but part of my county is and of course the RNC headquarters has tons of Ryan paraphernalia.
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Well, Ryan has the big GOP $$$ behind him. I think if the the underdog Nehlen wins it’s even bigger than what happened to Eric Cantor. Probably have to go to Nehlen’s site to get shirts. Y’all can vote now, right?
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Go, if you can. Don’t miss the experience. 🙂
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I’m leaning toward going 🙂
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I agree. Lots to be seen watching these folks in person. As for the ones who criticized, then got on board, that’s the way of the politicos, those who hold office and media personalities too. Hypocrisy abounds in that world. It seems they can shift positions at the drop of a hat. Lol – they have to be very flexible. One of my pet peeves.
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Good morning!
I can’t complain about the weather because after all the dire heat warnings, it’s turning out to be a cool week for the end of July with temps in the low 90s.
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I think Pence is going to have to hustle to keep up with Trump. I don’t know anyone his (and my) age with that much energy! It’s amazing.
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Morning all! Well yesterday I was hit by what I’m calling the curse of Hillary. My A/C went out, my car broke and needs expensive repairs, and my washing machine flooded the laundry room twice. My poor hubby… I felt awful calling him to come home from work to deal with it. Blah!!! Such is life! 🙂 I asked him if it’s better to have everything hit on one day or it be spread out, he was not amused.
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That’s awful, s&s! I think I would be hiding under the covers.
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Well, it’s not a lot of fun, but I’m trying to hang in there. 🙂
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Remember the good old days;
when the worst event was getting
something caught in the wringer.
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Sometimes I think we were a lot better off in those days.
I can tell you one thing when it comes to older cars you can fix a lot of stuff yourself that you can’t do on newer cars and even when you can’t fix it, it’s cheaper to have it fixed.
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Yes! These high tech washing machines are a royal pain in the rear. So many things that can go wrong.
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Cute photo!
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Or the pencil sharpener
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LOL!
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Or a door jamb
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Ugh. The curse of threes. I hope you are incident free once you get the dust settled.
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Thank you, lovely. Not fun, but it will be okay. 🙂
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I hate days like that and I really hate car problems.
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We are trying to deal with them one at a time. Hubby fixed the plumbing issue. Yay! The A/C guy is coming out to look at it that this evening, but probably won’t get fixed until tomorrow. The toughest thing is my car. I can’t go anywhere to get out of the heat. It’s going to have to go into the dealership as it’s something with the brake system and the A/C went out on it too. Weird how this all happened on the same day.
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Good luck with the dealership. My husband’s truck, which is a newer vehicle started having reduced engine power, he changed out sensors people told him to change out and it didn’t fix it.
He took it to a mechanic and they put a new throttle body on it and it didn’t fix it.
He then took it to the dealership who told him it would be a $80 diagnostic fee as long as it took an hour or less to diagnose it. Ended up costing $120 for the diagnostic fee, then $240 for a new wiring harness, plus $140 labor, so $500 later and within two days, reduced engine power again.
He’s now looking for him an older truck and in the meantime is driving the old farm truck more than he’s driving his.
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Wow! Hubby thinks it’s a wiring harness issue as well. Mucho dinero! $$$ I think all the electronics on cars these days make for so many more things that can go wrong.
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I agree, like my husband’s truck, it has several sensors and electronic devices to go through just for it to know that when you push on the gas pedal you’re calling for gas.
The simple days of cables doing that job are over.
Our old truck needed the transmission rebuilt, it cost us $900. My brother has a 2012 car that the transmission went out on, it cost him $5000 and he had to take it to a dealership because he couldn’t find a mechanic who would tackle it.
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A while back, my speedometer cable corroded. Did you know that the output from the speedometer controls the automatic transmission? I didn’t (I suppose I should have). My transmission stopped shifting correctly, and I thought it was the transmission. Fortunately, it wasn’t. Still expensive, though.
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I wonder if the new vehicles even have speedometer cables? I know my sister-in-law who has a 2014 car, her speedometer quit working and they replaced the entire dash panel. You’d think for a car that new it would still be under warranty, but it cost her quite a bit to get it fixed.
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Definitely hard on the wallet!
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No doubt. I have an ’05 truck I use as my main farm ride and it is lousy with computers, you do virtually nothing when driving anymore, the controls feed into computers that control the action. Steering, gas, braking, shifting…all computer controlled to some degree.
Back in the post-911 days DARPA had a program where they tried to develop ways of hacking into the computers that controlled automobiles. Systems built into your cars like OnStar are continually monitoring your vehicle, reporting things like oil, gas, water levels and your location back to GM and other makers now have like systems installed so DARPA thought they could use the wifi links in the vehicles to get into the vehicle’s main computer and control the vehicle, turning them off, making them brake, steering them off the road, etc. Forbes got wind of the program about three years ago and got a hacker to hack into a Prius, I believe it was, and just a few months back the FBI released a bulletin warning newer car owners that it’s possible for hackers to get into your car’s control system when you have a third party device connected into your car’s wifi system.
So yeah, stuff can go very wrong, from a loose bolt to a computer glitch to some geek living in his folk’s basement taking your car for a remote ride…that old Schwinn’s looking better all the time.
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That is very scary and if we had an EMP attack, I think it would take out the cars, too. We rely far too much on computers.
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In the case of an EMP attack, natural or man-made, everything with solid-state electronics would be fried, period. And yes, governments can initiate EMP events without using a nuke.
I have some tube electronics I’ve saved/preserved and a few things in Faraday boxes just in case, been watching too much cable, but if we get a large enough solar flare (avoiding the paranoid thread) I be prepared.
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I recall arguing with FDR about using a microwave oven as a Faraday cage (which I state, ‘No, that’s an internet myth”) for small electronics.
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Wise to do that. Praying we never find out, but it’s better to be prepared.
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That’s why WeeWeed and I have such a large selection of tin foil hats.
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Mine is growing!
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Ran outta reply space. No reason a microwave wouldn’t work, it contains a much stronger signal than one might expect from an EMP attack but its ground would have to be intact.
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Different/limited frequency range in the microwave oven shielding. EMP is spectrum wide.
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That’s why I’ll never get rid of my old vehicles.
I took a neighbor who is in her 70’s to pick up a refrigerator awhile back in my old truck. She asked me if it scares me driving it without airbags. I looked at her and asked her if she was going senile and forgot how many years she rode in vehicles without airbags.
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Should have reminded her about that airbag recall due to people the airbags have killed.
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Yep that old truck ain’t going to be shootin’ shrapnel at ya. 🙂
They might be draggin’ me kickin’ and screamin’ into this new world, but they ain’t ever gonna get me to totally leave the past. I like my old vehicles, my old vinyl records and my 8-tracks.
I also have my clothesline to hang my clothes to dry, an old wringer washer and an old wood cook stove if everything goes south.
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I remember riding cross country without seatbelts in a Plymouth Belvedere
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We never had a car with seat belts any time in my childhood. When my daughter was new born, I would take her to my mother’s house in the car in a laundry basket, with her diapers etc at the bottom of the basket. She was also one of those kids who rode in the back of a pickup.
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It’s amazing how so many of us are still alive, no airbags, no seatbelts, riding in open pickup beds. lol
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When I was about 2, I was riding standing on the backseat and leaning on the front seat between Mom and Dad. Something happened and Dad had to slam on the brakes. I ended up standing behind his right shoulder and the seat back, instead of going through the windshield, and Mom said they never could figure out how that happened.
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My parents always through the arm out, even if we were in the back when they had to slam on the brakes.
My kids had to be in car seats, but when driving on our dirt road or out in the field they weren’t in seats, not often on the dirt road or in the field I had to slam on the brakes. I still though had that parental arm that still to this days goes out when the brakes are slammed, even if I’m the only one in the car. lol
I will tell you though my belief as to how it happened for you, God was in control. I firmly believe we all have a time to be born and time to die and when our time is up, regardless of age we’ll go whether sitting watching TV or driving down the road.
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I agree with all you said. And, I remember being in the car with older cousins whose arm came out to stop me sometimes. LOL
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My daughter has always gotten annoyed at the arm and I’ve always told her to wait until she was a mother, it just happens.
She said she’d never do it, then she said after she became a mother there would be no reason for her to do it and then one day she came to me and said a car pulled out in front of her and she had to slam on the brakes and out her arm came.
Yep I laughed.
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LOL
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I was at a couple of security conferences a few years ago where they went over what could be done with cars at that time. It’s just become less and less secure since.
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Roger that, and part of the issue is that governments wanted the electronics in vehicles accessible to outside sources so that in ‘criminal’ cases they could be tracked/controlled. Europeans developed a little EMP geneator on wheels that could driven under a vehicle they were chasing and triggered to wipe out the vehicle’s electronics. Much easier now where they just call and someone pushes a button to kill your kar.
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Another is cheap R&D. The electronics isn’t new technology, just how it’s being used. Components with known security issues are used in new designs because that is all that is available to the manufacture to purchase. Nobody designs and builds from scratch anymore.
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We’re definately running out of tin foil hat reply space. Yes, frequencies are an issue in using a microwave but as with any other ‘not made for the job’ product you’re stuck with tinkering with it. Bottom line is you get the appropriate tool for the job. I’m not going to be storing things I’ll need like my rechargable batteries and solar chargers in anything but a box I know will work.
I’d offer that for economic reasons vehicle electronics stay the same as long as the subcontractor can work it. There’s also a fine line between what governments want and how secure the car makers can make the cars. I’m buying not what I want at a dealership, I’m getting what makers and government agencies say I can buy. I know, I’ve been trying to buy a new truck that has no wifi connectivity for two years and, except for some bottom-of-the-barrel fleet vehicles it’s no dice.
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“I’m getting what makers and government agencies say I can buy. “
Bingo. Applies to food and components in food as well as consumer goods.
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Yeah for old farm trucks…I power wash mine once a year whether it needs it or not.
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My brother was telling me the other day about his son buying a 76 Ford and he came over in it and parked behind my brother’s car.
He said during the day he was going to run to the store and forgot about the truck and went to back up and bumped the truck. He said he took it to a body shop and they told him it would cost $3000 to fix it. He then had to fight with his insurance company to pay for it because he did it in his drive.
The old truck didn’t even have a scratch. lol
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I guess the old saying about when it rains it pours is still true. Sunshine will come your way soon!
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Thank you, Menagerie. 🙂
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I’m usually not the superstitious type, but honestly, things breaking down like that have almost always seemed to come in three’s at our house. I’d be prioritizing the A/C if it were me – can’t stand it when it’s so hot. Hope everything’s fixed for you by now.
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Thanks. The A/C guy is coming this evening, but he just determines the problem, hopefully he can send the repairman out tomorrow. Blessedly it’s much cooler today than it has been. Hubby fixed the leak problem. The car is gonna have to wait a bit and I have a feeling it will be in the shop for a while.
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Mornin’ kids!
https://twitter.com/weknowwhatsbest/status/758142178430332928
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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LOL!
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Probably true.
Moring WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Wee!
Poor Bill, doesn’t he know the DNC doesn’t pay their bills.
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You mean our children-grandchildren-great grandchildren got a bill…’scuse me, yet another bill.
That’s why his name’s ‘Bill’.
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Didn’t know Bill’s drug treatments cost that much, he is on co-pay and within the network???
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!!! Cooling off before lunch. Then after lunch, a power nap till 1530 then turning on the water pumps……..
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A creepy man.
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😀
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Great news!!! Justice prevails!
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YAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!
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Let the lawsuits commence!
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Oh yeah, it’s coming!
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I hope so, and I hope it ruins that woman’s career because she surely deserves it.
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In a just world she would hang her head in shame, be disbarred, financially ruined, apologize and end up working at Chuk-E-Cheese as a dancing Pizza for the rest of her pathetic life.
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Absolutely.
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Always there is beauty in the world.
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With a little more facial hair and tatoos, he’d look just like the 20 something unwashed hobo and his dog begging for money outside the grocery store near me.
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So you have sexy hobos around your town 😀
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Hehehe!
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If you aren’t put off by the unwashed-rot smell from the hobo and fleas from both he and the dog, as well as the fact they would rob and kill you if they can get a way with it, I suppose a strange fetish could be called sexy. Sure.
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😱
Ok I’ll stick with the chap in the picture.
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Yeah, I guess I have to stick with a picture, too. {sigh}
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Right?
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So you’re close to the Wells Fargo Center in Philly?
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Branch office over here.
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Awwww….how special
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Is that Alex Pettyfer? He is gorgeous and the dog is cute, too.
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No idea who he is it came up in my Twitter feed 🙂
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He’s a British actor who has done quite a few US movies geared for teens/ young adults. My daughters were big fans.
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I would love to have him as my…..um, er………….{sigh} grandson. 😕
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LOL! 🙂
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This is a stupid argument, there are two Republican Presidents still alive, both Bushes whose son/brother got his rear kicked and are all butt hurt.
Yet, on the rat side there are three(I don’t know if Carter is speaking or not), one who is the husband of the rat nominee, the other the guy who chose her for SOS.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/dem-senator-dnc-employees-should-all-be-fired/article/2597802#.V5gKgrZ5D0o.twitter
McCaskill had been reluctant to address the scandal. She opened the segment by bashing Republicans for not being able to woo former presidents into attending their convention last week, calling it a “real contrast” from the Democratic convention.
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Well, McCaskill is stupid, so that makes sense to her.
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They’re Democrats, they’re not interested in facts, just fluff and free stuff.
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Imagine the line for free fluff.
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And for ‘the party of the poor’ there’s no shortage of fluffy Rats
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What is that saying, “If you make a man a rat?” Something like that anyhow.
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Lemme ask the Czarina ’bout dat…..
But dear…say WHAT?!
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Carter’s a ‘Shoes of the Fisherman’ kind of leftist, I think his dislike of Trump as a guy with cajones vice a groveling turn-the-other-cheekist motivates hom. Carter’s not really a Hillary type, so far faint praise from him for her, I think he’s anti-Trump.
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Oh, he’s anti-Trump for sure, but he’s a lot more leftist than most people believe, I think.
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No doubt, but to me his leftist lean is more religious based than someone like Sanders would be. I feel Carter feels his call’s from God while Sanders hears Marx and Engels whispering in his left ear. Carter also has that irritating ‘welcome danger into your lap and let God protect you’ ethic that I find unnerving.
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Carter has that certainty that he speaks for God that I find unnerving.
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Whenever he annoys me, I just think of the killer rabbit.
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Now that’s funny,
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And true, which is why it’s funny!
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When life hands you killer rabbits make hasenpfeffer.
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Carter and Cruz should have coffee sometime.
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LOL!
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👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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Pope declares we are at war. Pope also stressed that it is not a religious war. Most of civilized world says ‘WTF????’.
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He’s 50% right.
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Ah, I get it, half ex cathedra and half ex posterior.
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Just because… 😉
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My imagination or have y’all noticed a sharp downtick in the MSM and government reporting on how warm and huggy all these illegal ‘Mexican’ and Syrian refugees we’re hosting are and how lucky were are to getting them? Also noticing a slug of black women speaking at the Rat convention but no proportional-to-their-party-numbers Latina women. And where are those representitive Rat Moslem refugee women speakers?
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The convention isn’t over yet. Tonight is “ban guns” night, I think.
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Figures, that’s one of their main issues and has been for decades. What could possibly go wrong in a country where the law aniding citizens are denied weapons while the likes of Hillary, Obama and Rahm control their own thug armies?
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And, while the BLM is protesting in the streets outside the convention. Hahahahahaha What a joke! And, they can’t hide what is happening outside because of the Internet.
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They are doing their best …
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They certainly are.
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I’m truly surprised that both conventions are as calm as they have been. From what was poised to be a 68-revisited pair of conventions they sorta whimped out.
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From a FB friend:
36 DIXIECRAT DELEGATES WALKED OUT OF THE 1948 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
HUGE NATIONAL NEWS COVERAGE
150 BERNIES LAST NIGHT WALKED OUT–HISTORIC
MSM REFUSED TO COVER IT
and we buy newspapers WHY?
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Watching ‘Inside Edition’ (CBS), while bragging they’re broadcasting live from the Convention, did a long warm/fuzzy piece on Hillary while doing a long nasty piece on Trump, including using sketchy info to tie him to Putin and the spilled DNC emails. MSM’s too busy trying to find enough lip balm in Philly to keep their Rat kissing apparatus from chapping to cover anything but their asses.
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Maybe it is because so many of the protestors are smoking marijuana and lost interest.
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Just gettin’ warmed up to smoke it on the roof of the WH with Bill like they did when he was the lecherous kleptocrat in charge.
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Yeah, keep on forgetting that the Rats think it’s bad for children to be murdered unless it’s in a government funded and sanctioned abattoir.
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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/07/breaking-guccifer-2-0-drops-new-cache-democrat-emails/
More Wikileaks!!!
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Wheeee! What fun!
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It’s Christmas in July!!!! 🎁
The gift that keeps on giving! ;D
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Pam just pointed out the dates on both the Hill article, and the tweets. This is the original release, not a new one. I’m sure one will be coming soon, though.
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Ok. Well, hope they get it it there soon. 🙂
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Memo to sell look before you leap (to click the like star).
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Self! Memo to self! Aaarrgghh.
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Well, I didn’t (and I usually do) because I did a post, and had to retract it. It’s confusing, because the GP article has today’s date.
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They did it to mess with our minds, stella!
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Wait! Just dawned on me – if Hillary loses she can partner with Planned Parenthood, Bill and Obama’s new association. They could fund abortion clinics in African nations, sell the harvested products to PP’s old buyer network and split the profits. Bill’s personal cash box banks PP, the POTuS uses his notoriety to market the process, Hillary does the marketing and, viola, any number of personal and progressive goals met.
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On that same theme, let’s see how much PP donates, directly and thru cutouts, to Hillary’s campaign. Their Murder for Profit scheme is too profitable to let slide.
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African nations are proving very stubbornly pro life and pro family, to the everlasting irritation of many political leaders and a bunch of butt hurt German bishops.
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Here’s some fun. Uncensored DNC Hillary Intro
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Fabulous!!!! 😊
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That’s great!
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Love it!
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😀 😀 😀
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Does Trump have to debate Hillary? Can he “just say no”? I mean, there really is nothing to debate. She is a socialist. He is a capitalist. She is a Globalican. He is an American. Socialism is not compatible with The Constitution. End of subject. Nothing to even debate as not coming from the same premise. Can’t Trump just say, No need to debate. Wasted effort. She is not running for president of United States of America, she is running to usurp it. He does not have time. Oh, I don’t really mean this, I suppose; just daydreaming.
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I’m sorry not to see this before now. Somehow, your comments are being sent to spam.
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Think has to do with email. Had to change to get the gravatar. Don’t worry about it. I am not gonna whine and cry and post repeatedly, “Where is my comment” or demand admins release me. I will try to figure out on my end. Tried to go back to old email. No go. Thank you for finding me; now if I could just find myself!
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I’ll keep my eyes open. This comment came through just fine.
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I think he is looking forward to debating her. He has said so.
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😀
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That is so funny! I’m smiling and laughing out loud. You should post it on FB.
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IKR???? I was rollin’, just because they were so hilarious. 😀
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That is hilarious!!!!
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Silk couldn’t even speak. LOL
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That is too funny!
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Rats are having a different minority sing the National Anthem each jight, can’t wait until LGBT nite – is RuPaul free?
I mean ‘available’.
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I wonder what the heck they have planned? I see Bridenstine is on the speaker list. I like him, although I was disappointed in him campaigning in this state for Cruz and for dumping on Trump, which I let him know. To his credit as soon as Cruz suspended he said he was backing Trump.
I guess I’ll call his office tomorrow and let him know attending a gathering with NeverTrumpers is not what most of us who have helped him expect from him. I’ll also go through my list and let others in this state and those in his district know about it.
I might also send him Cruz’ favorability ratings since he acted like an ass at the convention.
http://gathering.redstate.com/rsg16/
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I think they have this Red State gathering every year. Most people will probably ignore it.
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I know they do, but this year that’s a lot of NeverTrumpers and Beck is the keynote speaker.
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I know the media doesn’t usually cover it but I’m afraid it’s going to be a bash Trump festival and that they will cover.
It won’t surprise me if they give speeches in favor of Hillary.
Tweets like this is why I am concerned.
https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/758506972249456640
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