General Discussion, Sunday, July 31, 2016

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Stella

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  1. SwissMike (formerly ZurichMike)'s avatar ZurichMike says:
    July 31, 2016 at 12:20 am

    This is a rather eerie bacon image, but am throwing it in the mix:

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  2. Ad rem's avatar Ad rem says:
    July 31, 2016 at 12:57 am

    Wishing you the best of birthdays Nyet! And today of all days, ignore all the warning signals….it is impossible to have too much fun. 😀

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  3. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    July 31, 2016 at 2:29 am

    A blessed Sunday to all!

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  4. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    July 31, 2016 at 7:23 am

    Mornin’ kids!

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  5. Stella's avatar stella says:
    July 31, 2016 at 8:58 am

    Good morning! First of all, Happy Birthday to nyetneetot!

    Beautiful July transitioning into August; a little bit of rain, and cooler temps (80 high), but the sun will be back tomorrow.

    Enjoy your Sunday – If you must, check out the Sunday morning talk shows for appearances by our political candidates. If there’s something really good, I’ll look for a video and post it later today or tomorrow morning.

    Speaking of, Donald Trump has two appearances scheduled tomorrow – the first is a Town Hall in Columbus OH at 3:00 pm, and the second is a rally at 7:00 pm in Harrisburg PA. Mike Pence also has two events tomorrow; the first is a Town Hall in Carson City NV at 3:00 pm PT (6:00 pm ET), and the second is a rally in Reno NV at 7:00 pm PT. Live Stream video will be available for all but the last event (so far.)

    SUMMER “Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of color before me, who could ask for more?” – Bev Adams, Mountain Gardening

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  6. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    July 31, 2016 at 9:40 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| ( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Blackberry wine)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 |_| (Backdraft)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ Pam! 🙂
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ Huey! 🙂 |_| (Junior Woodchucks)
    Mornin’ Dewey! 🙂 |_| (Seafarers)
    Mornin’ Louie! 🙂 |_| (Back to School)
    Mornin’ Donald! 🙂 |_|
    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, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Doughnuts and coffee!

    ⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol

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  7. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    July 31, 2016 at 9:48 am

    Early AM news is all agog over a rash of overnight NOLA shootings by ‘you know who’ in the ‘you know where’ sections of town. Considering the numbers of daily shootings it must take a great deal of theatrical skills for the Talking Heads to daily express shock and awe at the routine…or they’re clueless. Oh lordie, where did we go wrong or fail them, if it weren’t for our culturally ingrained racism and perfidy they’d be rocket scientists and engineers (roger that, Nyet?) instead of street corner shooters.

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    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
      July 31, 2016 at 11:28 am

      We just had a shooting yesterday up here, but it may not get any national play due to the regular reasons (unless they turn out to be a family of Russian immigrants – then they’ll be vilified). I really think at least 60% of it is environment/association. They’re going to act the same as what they are surrounded by or chose to associate with.

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  8. Stella's avatar stella says:
    July 31, 2016 at 10:00 am

    NY Post has naked pics of Melania – some never-before published, and others rarely seen (their description), shot in 1995. I wonder where the nudies of Bill are? There must be some somewhere.

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      July 31, 2016 at 10:03 am

      Maybe buried with the bodies of the dead photographers. ?

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      July 31, 2016 at 10:03 am

      P.S.: My opinion is that, while the photos show her in the nude, they aren’t disgusting. They appeared in a French men’s magazine called “Max”.

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    • facebkwallflower's avatar facebkwallflower says:
      July 31, 2016 at 3:14 pm

      Great! More money for Melania. Let them release the pictures and then sue for the profits they made off of them. Win win for everyone. I am sure they are beautiful. She is a walking art masterpiece; nudes are not always “bad” and the release will only give Trump another bump.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      July 31, 2016 at 5:49 pm

      I’m not sure that the new nudes of Melnia are going to hurt Trump with anyone.

      Melania met Donald Trump in 1998. The pictures are from 1995.

      Sure the usual suspects will need their fainting couches such as the self-righteous “Neve-Trump” conservatives, I even saw on Twitter some moron saying that it is obvious that Melania is a “w**re” bride and worse yet a “foreign w**re bride”. Nothing can be done about people like him who cloak themselves in the false piety of the Pharisees. They know that their malicious attacks on Trump empower a woman whose husband is a serial cheater, a serial abuser of women, a woman who will fill our nation with the savages of Islam, make the blood from abortion clinics flood our streets, and on and on.

      I believe most right ordered people will not judge Melania who has spent the last 19 years become nothing other than a devoted mother and loving wife.

      The femi-nazis are in Hillary’s broom closet no matter what happens or what Melania does. If Melania was a liberal the feminist would call her empowered and be talking about the beauty of the female form, because Melania is married to Trump they are calling her a sl*t. No way to change people like that minus a miracle or a lobotomy.

      Fence sitters? I just don’t see this pushing them one way or the other. I have two family members who are fence sitters, they are either voting for Trump or not voting at all, they do not care about the new Melania nudes.

      I haven’t seen a Trump response yet but I imagine either there will be none or Trump will say something like, “It’s regrettable that Melania’s youthful indiscretions are being brought into the campaign, Melania was 25 when she posed for the pictures, only 3 years older than Monica Lewinsky was when Monica performed oral sex on President Bill Clinton in the Oval Office, I’m sure if both women could go back in time they would make more respectable and self-honoring choices.”

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  9. sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
    July 31, 2016 at 10:36 am

    Morning everyone! Have a blessed day! 😊

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  10. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    July 31, 2016 at 11:22 am

    I don’ know if any of you follow Jack Barker @PatriotBrother on Twitter but he passed away. It seems that it was very sudden, within the last 12 hours or so. Please pray for his family and friends.

    He was a solid patriot.

    https://twitter.com/2ALAW/status/759655064571027456

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  11. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    July 31, 2016 at 11:36 am

    New Orleans Peacekeepers seem to be part of the Rat antigun campaign. They’ve been targeting hi-murder rate areas of NOLA handing out cards with a toll free number one can call to help prevent petty beefs from escalating into full blown murders. They say they’ve even stopped a few….an accomplishment that can easily be wiped out in one normal NOLA Friday night.
    The’re vocally against ‘gun violence’, which leads me to believe they’re getting Rat-related funding as they don’t seem to be that against razor, knife or baseball bat related violence. That, along with the local TV coverage of Gun Violence shootings across the US immediately before and/or after the Peacekeepers story (and this is Fox!), makes me suspicious.
    After all, folks, it ain’t their fault, it’s that magnetic draw of violent and corrosive one-off European culture and inanimate options. If those evil guns didn’t reach out and grab them young black men by the temporal lobes they’d be out getting MBAs and supporting those children. So y’all be turnin’ those guns in and within a few weeks we’ll all be linking arms and singin’ kumbaya in the streets.

    https://www.facebook.com/504peacekeepers/

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    • Pam's avatar Pam says:
      July 31, 2016 at 2:11 pm

      They’re everywhere. I wonder how many of these groups, each like a little puzzle piece of the big picture, there are out there today, versus about 30 years ago? They’re not going to stop pushing their goals. They think we are the unenlightened, brainwashed, stupid ones, clinging to our guns and that moldy old Constitution. They are the modern-day equivalent of the “Age of Aquarius” people. I have little doubt they are, in one way or another, linked to the anti-gun movement, with its end goals being pushed on us.

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  12. Jacqueline Taylor Robson's avatar Jacqueline Taylor Robson says:
    July 31, 2016 at 4:42 pm

    Thanks for the meal, Nyet! Happy Birthday, and I hope you have many more!

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  14. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    July 31, 2016 at 4:59 pm

    How the afternoon goes…
    Finished turning the garden-destroying pig into freezer fodder only to find out that the newbpup, as they are wont to do, has hookworms. I call my vet at home (yeah, we can do that out here) and he tells me what to get and where. I go straight from the field to Tractor Supply, our weekend ‘go to’ store, and run into the Suburban Farmers.
    The Tractor Supply is to suburbanite housing development ‘ranchers’ and ‘farmers’ what Home Depot is to the same crowd. They have their pressed and starched western shirts, khaki pants or dry cleaned Levis and drive cleaned and waxed hi-end pickup trucks. We few field-types that wander in for linchpins, various dewormers, hydraulic fluid in 5-gallon cans and other mud-on-your-boots types of things, dressed as we came out of the foeld get the same looks that we used to get in the Army when we came directly from two weeks in the field into an Air Force mess hall…excuse me, ‘dining facility’.
    After Katrina the smallish town got a slug of ex-pats who decided that they wanted to pee on the fence posts and make it theirs. The town market now sells okra, field peas and escargot. Upside is we are no longer dry and we have a great beer selection. OK, upside also is a few of us have a whole new selection of folks to irritate, but I don’t like to gloat.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
      July 31, 2016 at 7:26 pm

      It’s almost as if you live in South Haven, only different.

      We get the same looks. We band together, though. Eat Kaboom! for breakfast, if we have time, and any milk in the fridge. Then it’s off to another joyous day in a hot kitchen that we have to make look new at the finish. Then we eat Kaboom! for dinner, at around midnight.

      Chef doesn’t eat. His clientele do. Chef tastes.

      That applies to every good restaurant-worker.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        July 31, 2016 at 8:36 pm

        When the Helmsleys first bought the Towers in Palm Beach I managed their night security. The main kitchen Chef was a nasty Italian creep who stole the kitchen blind. He was supposed to feed the staff and the Helmsleys left instructions we were to be fed the staff what the kitchen was making for dinner for the guests. Instead he was feeding the staff freezer-burned leftovers from buffets and banquests. Meanwhile he was wrapping up choice meat cuts in tin foil and stealing them buy putting them in the trash and carrying them out.
        One of my night guys and I waited in the hedge outside the kitchen doors one night and when he came out at the end of his shift to retrieve the meat we just stepped out and took flash pictures of him. Never did anything with them, just told him that if he didn’t start serving the food he was supposed to the pix would go to the Helmsley’s New York office and he could deal with the fall out. He wasn’t the only one robbing the Helmsleys blind but then it’s hard to get good staff and I guess they just put up with some of it.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          July 31, 2016 at 8:55 pm

          BTWb, not knocking chefs, some of my favorite people, and I had the privilege of working events with a lot of well-known NOLA chefs over the years. Just disliked this one crooked SOB at the hotel.

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      July 31, 2016 at 9:37 pm

      Tractor Supply!!! An occasional sale on Hyro fluid, Lube tubes, or screw/bolt, farm vehicle “license plate” and work boots/Wrangler Jeans! Love the Ladies who work there!

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  15. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    July 31, 2016 at 5:17 pm

    https://twitter.com/immigrant4trump/status/759197007500107776

    I’d love to see a commercial with Charles Ever’s endorsing Trump in his own words on national television. Of course I bet 95% of the BLM spawn have no idea who Medgar Evers was.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      July 31, 2016 at 5:17 pm

      Charles Evers 🙄

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      • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
        July 31, 2016 at 5:21 pm

        Charles and Medgar Evers, both important names in civil rights history. You are probably right, lovely–few BLM people will know who they are. Sad.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          July 31, 2016 at 9:12 pm

          The BLM are professional black political contortionists, I can envision their answers to their malcontent followers on the Evers endorsement without breaking a sweat. I can remember the young black woman our agency hired on a ‘hire the disadvantaged college student’ program. She was using my office computer to write an essay on MLK’s assassination. She was sitting there typing and asked me if MLK was assassinated in 1971 or 1972. Aside from the fact that she was sitting at my computer and could have Googled it, you’d think that someone writing an essay on MLK’s assassination would already have a working knowledge of the date. Hello BLM followers…

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  16. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
    July 31, 2016 at 6:55 pm

    Busy summer, and my happiest here so far. Nine years. Good grief.

    Life is full of wonder.

    Speaking of which, if I may DJ for a moment.

    The last album was Aurora, I believe, which I linked here. Here’s the second:

    OH WONDER

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
      July 31, 2016 at 6:56 pm

      This couple made a full CD in 15 months, completely recording a song in their home studio, once a month, releasing them on the innertubes as they were made. And it’s amazing.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
      July 31, 2016 at 7:17 pm

      They sing almost the whole album in octave unison, with control you can only imagine.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      July 31, 2016 at 8:41 pm

      So nice to hear that you are having a happy Summer Wooly. Me too, I don’t know if you are around to see the swan pictures I post but we have a little swan family and it looks like three cygnets are going to make it to adulthood 🙂

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        July 31, 2016 at 9:13 pm

        Will thry overwinter or will the migrate?

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        • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
          July 31, 2016 at 9:51 pm

          Not sure, migrate is my bet. Hey maybe you could invite them down to your farm!! I have about 25-30 Canadian geese, I’ll will thin the flock in September. The cows do chase them when the geese interfere with grazing……
          You’ll laugh at this; seen an article which stated cows stand while grazing facing directly north or south. Mine stand north, south, east and west or sometimes sse to nnw, ese to wnw or anyway they can grab that orchard grass……..

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            July 31, 2016 at 10:09 pm

            They’re more than welcome, screen door’s open. They can always fly over a few miles to Gautier and have coffee with the Sandhill cranes.
            I heard that BS story another way, that the cows lay themselves down north-south oriented. Anyone who’s ever driven by a pasture with ruminating cows knows that’s BS as they park in any old direction unless the sun or wind’s a problem .sounds like one of those jokes made up by people trying tp get a rise out of the gullible; you know, like Hillary’s campaign.

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        • lovely's avatar lovely says:
          July 31, 2016 at 11:49 pm

          They get the heck out of Dodge :). The lake is a natural spring lake and freezes over so they would have no open water to swim in, land on or take off from. Next year the adult pair will come back to the lake. The parents are relatively young, maybe 2 or 3 years old?

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            July 31, 2016 at 11:59 pm

            Wasn’t sure, it’s surprising that the have a memory to return to the same lake. Our geese just stick around and the osprey may or may not be the same ones each winter. Continuity is good.

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            • Stella's avatar stella says:
              August 1, 2016 at 12:06 am

              Nature’s GPS.

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            • lovely's avatar lovely says:
              August 1, 2016 at 12:12 am

              I think it is just a homing instinct? Maybe once or twice during the Spring another swan couple will try and make the lake their own and the original pair will fight them off.

              There are retention ponds in the area that have large fountains so that the water never freezes as people are too stupid to believe that they should not walk on retention ponds with pipes underneath because they always have weak points and end up breaking through the ice and drowning.

              Warning! Danger! Thin Ice! Keep off the ice! signs are all too complicated to follow so the little communities that have the retention ponds (read rich people who work in Chicago but don’t want to live there) have to make it so the ponds don’t get a sheen of ice so idiots don’t drown.

              🙄

              Anyhow rumor has it that a pair of swans stay on one of the retention ponds year round, but it could also be a couple of seagulls which flew in and some folks wouldn’t know the difference.

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                August 1, 2016 at 12:21 am

                Thin ice helps Mendel and Darwin stay on course and you can help the idiots differentiate between gulls and swans by having them practice throwing french fries into the air and seeing which one responds. Swans have self respect.

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                • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                  August 1, 2016 at 12:29 am

                  True story.

                  Before my parents lived on the lake we had a summer house on the same lake. One summer when my sister was about 17 her and her friend were driving up to the cottage for a weekend stay, there is a place called Lamb’s Farm along the highway it has a mascot that is a giant fiberglass cow it is probably 20 feet tall. My sister’s friend who had never been out of Chicago said, “Wow! I didn’t know that cows were that big!!!”

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                  • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                    August 1, 2016 at 12:30 am

                    Bring her by here, she can pet the 1200-pound bull…

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                  • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                    August 1, 2016 at 12:34 am

                    She would probably ask if she could hop the fence and give it sugar cubes.

                    Did you see that an elephant threw a rock and it hit a little girl at a zoo and killed her? Some folks are cheering the elephant for getting revenge for Hambre.

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      • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Phlox says:
        August 1, 2016 at 12:09 am

        That’s awesome, Lovely. My mom’s been updating me, with photos, regarding the new sandhill crane babies on her little lake. That’s a great photo!

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  17. michellc's avatar michellc says:
    July 31, 2016 at 10:58 pm

    People have been posting school supply lists on FB and kids today sure do need lots of stuff and teachers sure are demanding.

    I’ve been seeing baby wipes, Lysol or Clorox wipes, Windex, bottles of hand soap, bottles of hand sanitizer, paper towels (as many as 6 rolls), Puffs Plus, copy paper, certain color of folders, plus all the usual stuff.
    What the heck are they doing making kids clean these days?

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    • Ad rem's avatar Ad rem says:
      July 31, 2016 at 11:04 pm

      Really….come September, all I hoped for was a new lunch box, and maybe a new pair of saddle shoes.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      July 31, 2016 at 11:11 pm

      Once at Staples a mother came in with a laser jet ink cartridge on her child’s extensive list. It was over $90. I don’t think she bought it and I don’t blame her. I know teachers can’t afford all the supplies the schools don’t pay for, but good gosh. They have everything on those lists but a car to drive to school.

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      • Ad rem's avatar Ad rem says:
        July 31, 2016 at 11:27 pm

        As far as supplies go, it all depended on the school district you worked at. When I did my student teaching for L.A. City Schools, their supply room was overflowing with every color of poster board, chalk , and poster paints…..not to mention all kinds of stationary supplies. It was always help yourself…no need to ask. We were told if we didn’t use up all our supplies, they would cut back supplies for the following year. Needless to say, I took home tons of stuff.
        When I got my first job in a smaller school district, we had to purchase most of our own supplies. If you needed anything other than cheap lined paper for the kids, you needed to fill our a requisition form and submit it to the school secretary.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:
          July 31, 2016 at 11:51 pm

          They have all these programs for poor kids and then you have all these different businesses that will donate school supplies, yet they still say parents need to provide several boxes of kleenex, well I guess now it’s Puffs Plus and other stuff for those kids who can’t afford it.

          One lady was also complaining about that, because her son needed 3 boxes of crayons, 3 bottles of glue, etc. and when she asked she was told the extra gets put in the supply closet for kids who don’t have something or when someone runs out during the year. She called it a bunch of socialist bull s..t. lol

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          • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
            August 1, 2016 at 12:24 am

            “She called it a bunch of socialist bull s..t.”
            Exactly.

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          • Ad rem's avatar Ad rem says:
            August 1, 2016 at 12:25 am

            Argh…way to go socialist school district! Humiliate the little kiddies in front of their schoolmates if they don’t pony up the supplies.

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
              August 1, 2016 at 1:54 am

              Yesssssssss…glad I’m not the only one. Just last week I bought the GGS’s 4th grade supplies – just over $100. Junior hi is where they start asking you cough up for scientific calculators – I’m still trying yo figure out why they want 4th graders to have 3″, 3-ring binders.
              Years ago in NOLA the school dystem was for **** and students had to bring hand paprt towels and toilet paper, we also had aluminum drives so that schools could buy window a/c units. Thanks to Katrina the US tax payers coughed up the millions to renovate nearly every school in the city and so many tax dollars flowed in that the city and school district couldn’t steal them all. Students don’t havevto bring TP and hand towels any more but they still get nailed for the treasure chest of supplies.
              My favorite was the ‘student dictionary’ that was on the school list but nowhere to be found. I finally just bought one on Amazon and had it mailed to my GGS’s house. Sheesh…

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              • Ad rem's avatar Ad rem says:
                August 1, 2016 at 2:24 am

                Wow…just wow. $100 seems way high for jr. high accoutrements. Twenty years ago, I used to take the daughter down to to the neighborhood “Pick ‘n Save”, or “Dollar Store”, and we found everything she needed for a twenty. Brave new world……..

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                • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
                  August 1, 2016 at 7:18 am

                  Twenty years ago I had to spend plenty on my three. I cussed every year. Then school started and we hit my pet peeve which still boils my temper. Projects. Every kid has to have numerous projects in every class and they cost money and you gotta go to Antartica to get some of the stuff they need. Ask the kids, and they have “project time” in class.

                  What’s wrong with just old fashioned teaching. After three kids, I can absolutely say that they never learned one danged thing from those high dollar projects.

                  Kids used to learn more in one room schoolhouses where lessons were written on a chalkboard. A lot more.

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                  • michellc's avatar michellc says:
                    August 1, 2016 at 8:47 am

                    Kids learned more and weren’t such wilting flowers. These days they’ll cancel school if more than two rooms air conditioning goes out. We learned without air conditioning and kept our coats on in class in the winter because it was so cold.
                    The poor little tots today though must have 72 degree classrooms year round.

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                • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                  August 1, 2016 at 8:44 am

                  That was before giants like Walmart got involved. I find it curious that suddenly at the beginning of the school year we have a display full of preprinted lists of required supplies for each school posted at the beginning of a multi-aisle display of all of the supplies on every school’s list. All arranged for your shopping convenience in prepared displays. Hmmmmmm.

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                  • michellc's avatar michellc says:
                    August 1, 2016 at 8:53 am

                    I see those, our WalMart will have every school and every grade in the county. I always wonder who prints all those copies out.

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                  • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                    August 1, 2016 at 9:27 am

                    I was told by a Walmart employee that the individual schools bring them by that is why some schools have their supply list their before other schools. don’t know if it is true or not but it makes sense.

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                  • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                    August 1, 2016 at 9:28 am

                    There not their . Good grief. Lobotomize me now.

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                  • Ad rem's avatar Ad rem says:
                    August 1, 2016 at 6:20 pm

                    I’m generally not prone to conspiracy theories, however, this one makes complete sense. Walmart chooses to make a large donation to said school district…. in return for information on school’s enrollment and classroom needs. They’re mining us for data from cradle to grave. 😦

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                • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                  August 1, 2016 at 9:08 am

                  That was the ‘walk out the door’ price. Didn’t count the handwipes ( like 4th grade boys will be using them) or the dictionary I had to get from Amazon. Despite spending a bucket of cash on school supplies were still 29th, internationally, in math and 22nd in science.

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                  • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                    August 1, 2016 at 9:45 am

                    Ran outta reply space – extra space wasn’t on the list.
                    Yeah, thatbsorta makes sense but still,leaves me wondering how those huge displays of ‘just the right supplies’ end up wandering through their massive logistics systems to Walmarts around the country when my store has difficulties keeping staple items on the shelf.

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            • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
              August 1, 2016 at 7:55 pm

              Oh! I forgot the comfort kit! Not only did we have to get the regular school supplies you have to stock blankets, coats and 3-7 days of dry supplies in case your children and socialist children get trapped due to volcano or earthquake.

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            August 1, 2016 at 2:00 am

            Roger that, heard my GGS’s school does that too. I do believe I’ve posted before that it wasn’t unusual for our Federal agency printing plant to use our time and paper to print truckloads of materials for the city schools. It was an open secret -you don’t use a pallet of paper and run up a gazillion copies on the leased Xerox systems’ counters without someone knowing. Just part of that ‘it takes a village’ stuff.

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:
        July 31, 2016 at 11:32 pm

        I read someone ask one of them if she had figured out what they do with baby wipes and she said that she asked her daughter if she ever saw them again last year and she told her no.
        They were kind of half joking about the teacher having a baby right before school started last year and she just wanted them to buy her baby wipes and they also had to be a certain kind, Pampers Sensitive.

        Another person told them to wait until they got into junior high because she had to buy her son a particular brand of scientific calculator that cost $130 plus all the other crazy stuff.

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      July 31, 2016 at 11:17 pm

      Makes you wonder what they are doing with all the tax money we give them for school supplies.

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      • Ad rem's avatar Ad rem says:
        July 31, 2016 at 11:33 pm

        I remember at the last school I worked at, they used a huge chunk of the money to buy calculators for each student in the Mentally Gifted Minor program. This was back when calculators used to be a pricey as cellphones are now.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:
          August 1, 2016 at 8:31 am

          A few years back one of the area schools got a bond issue passed, it was supposed to be for buying new books and sprucing up the school with new paint, new floors, upgrading the heat and air, etc. The school decided to take some of that money and spend it on some new baloney that was supposed to make students learn better. They found one teacher who was all for it. They removed all the desks and brought in comfy mats, floor pillows, body pillows, etc. They spent thousands of dollars for all this stuff that was supposed to make the kids more relaxed and relaxed kids who were comfortable and not stuck in a desk would be able to concentrate more and be more willing to learn.
          It didn’t last even 9 weeks because teenagers will be teenagers and big pillows meant pillow fights or naps. So thousands of property taxes wasted on something that most anyone who ever raised a teenager could have told them would be an expensive mistake.

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:
        July 31, 2016 at 11:39 pm

        I’m trying to figure out how baby wipes, lysol and windex are school supplies.

        One of the lists asked for $30 donation for those who could afford it for supplies later in the year. One mother was really ticked about that she said it cost her almost $200 for everything on the list and she wasn’t about to give more, that crap better last all year. lol

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        • Ad rem's avatar Ad rem says:
          August 1, 2016 at 12:33 am

          Sounds like the teachers figured out they could start some kind of bidding war between the parents for bragging rights. I remember when parents used to send little gifts to the teachers in hopes that they’d get picked to be room mother, but this is going too far.

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      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
        August 1, 2016 at 12:20 am

        I recall my parents handing me two No. 2 pencils to take to school and later that peechee folder with the 1950’s school sport graphics. No calculators allowed at school.
        Dick and Jane were still being used when I was in first grade.

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  18. tessa50's avatar tessa50 says:
    August 1, 2016 at 12:16 am

    Happy Birthday Nyet!! I had a pretty picture but forgot how to load it to photobucket. My, I hope future daughter in law, showed me today but it won’t work now, so I am doing something wrong. But hope you had a great day!! You give us so many laughs, I hope you had a bunch!

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  19. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    August 1, 2016 at 1:19 am

    And the tonite news is still blathering about the guuuuuun violennnnnnce. One station tonite had a blsvk expert on who assured us that it was the excessive and easy acess to guns that causes this innercity violence. This easy access to guns is what causes young black men to escalate otherwise minimal issues like bein’ dissed or road rage into shooting incident.
    OOOOOOOOkay, so knife, straight razor or baseball bat violence is acceptable?
    Anyway, not a word about the pervasive and corrosive thug subculture that infects the ‘innercity’ areas. Not one word about how long this unacceptable uncivilized behavior’s been accepted by the innercity community, normalized and commercialized. Not one word, nada.
    Left hanging was the understanding that his mess was, is and always will be ‘someone else’s’ fault, and I’m pretty sure we all know who that someone else is…..eh?

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    • tessa50's avatar tessa50 says:
      August 1, 2016 at 1:20 am

      Ain’t me!

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      August 1, 2016 at 7:28 am

      One thing is ninety percent responsible for thug culture. No parental responsibility. No fathers, I’m not talking sperm donors from the Crips, and the whole family just rolled over and died on raising the kids, accountability, nurturing, working, teaching faith, everything.

      Here in the south we used to have some awesome, formidable grandmothers in the black community and they were rocks. Granite. Every kid knew that you never crossed them and lived, you saw them in church on Sunday and working hard as hell the rest of the week. They held families and communities together. Even back then though it was almost always lone women. The men were gone or drunk.

      Those families were rock solid good people. Friends when you needed them, outstanding members of your community. Where have they gone?

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  20. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    August 1, 2016 at 8:55 pm

    I was thinking that when our current POtuS unasses, in all senses of the phrase, the WH what industrial strength sanitizer will they use to remove all traces of the progressive, pan-African, liberal, Moslem-lite filth and stench that will pervade the WH down to the foundation itself? Then again, if Hillary wins it will just provide her and Bill a good starting point.

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  21. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    August 1, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    Just after midnight last night two young black men, brothers, were found shot dead in a car in a New Orleans area in which such events are not unknown. Both were quite young, at least one was tatted up and police are not releasing any information about the case but beer bets abound.
    Only thing that made this stand out from the other shootings in the city over the weekend is that the brothers were the brothers of one of the ‘stars’ on the ‘reality, program ‘Marriage Bootcamp: Reality Stars’ who’s also the ex-wife of a well known rapper.
    Any guesses?

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