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Good morning everyone and good night. I haven’t been getting much sleep lately. We are in full blown fire season here and it was really ugly today. Multiple new large fires in Eastern Washington. My area looks good for now.
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Hope you stay safe.
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Be alert, and safe
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I had to evacuate once. They only gave me 10 minutes. Now, in May, I pack the back of my pick up with all my camping gear, spare clothes, hygiene products, cases of water and all my pet supplies. All important documents are on flash drives along with a picture file of all house and shop inventory. I won’t be caught flat footed again.
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I feel for you, it’s scary when fire is coming after you. We don’t have a fire season, but we went through it once and we were given no warning, as a matter of fact we weren’t told anything and didn’t know anything until our son came in and told us there was smoke and fire.
Then when we tried to leave the firefighters kept telling us we couldn’t go that way or this way. Fire now scares me and it’s not really something you can plan for when you don’t know which way it will spread.
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I actually have four ways out of my driveway that I can take. I have scouted all four in case I need to change my original escape route.
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We got extremely lucky, one of the few for about 20 miles or so and our house was saved. Several lost everything.
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Stay safe Shiloh. Prayers.
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How worrying for you. Let’s pray that your area will escape the fires.
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Thank you. Had a couple less than 30 miles away, but our local firefighters are incredible.
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We’ll be keeping you in our prayers as well.
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Thank you. All quite today. It is going back up to the 90’s starting tomorrow and harvest is in full swing. A lot of the fires happen this time of year. The straw from the wheat is nothing but dry tinder.
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Looks like a lot of the vineyards are under threat.
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Oh, no, this really is serious.
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Sarcasm level–high. Truth level–probably the same:
How to do Dawah – A Guide
https://counterjihadreport.com/2016/08/02/how-to-do-dawah-a-guide/
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My suggestion: grab the Dawahawker and quickly handcuff a Mormon missionary to one wrist, a Jehovah’s Witness to the other and retreat to the nearest Starbucks where you order a free trade coffee…blsck.
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Morning Stella, everyone. Nothing to report from night watch.
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Good morning!
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Good morning Col. Ken 🙂
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🌞 Fun sunflowers, Stella! 🌞
Morning everyone! Happy Hump-day!
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Have a nice day, SaS!
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Thank you, Stella! Hope your day is a good one, too.
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Good morning Sand&Sea 🙂
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Morning lovely!
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Morning everyone. 🙂
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Good morning!
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Good morning aUSmom 🙂
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
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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!
Doughnuts and coffee!
⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol
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Morning Nyet!!! 🙂
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That breakfast looks so much better than my piece of toast with peanut butter on it. Mornin’ Nyet.
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Evening Nye!!! I’ll pass on the eggs, and make a couple of bacon sandwiches for Night watch…….
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Mornin’ y’all!
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LOL!!! Morning Wee!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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If Trump does not start his first term in office next year for any reason. I can easily imagine they’ll start arresting Trump supporters and only release them after they’ve proven they are not a danger to progressive society. 20 years in Siberian style work camps aught to be long enough for a determination.
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Or make us listen to Congress for the next 20 years! I would crack for sure. Siberia would be my first choice. I hear the vodka flows freely.
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Evening Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!! Going out tonight, LP/OP, ambush patrol, hunter killer team. Whatever you call it. Just night sounds last night, quite. The boys and girls enjoyed the feast last night. Tonight same same….. I’ll finish reading today’s comments, then mount up……
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Evenin’ Colonel!
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A disturbing article from Mr. Cashill.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/08/twa_800_calling_agent_bongardt_your_nation_needs_you.html
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Very disturbing. Most of those who don’t know Jack Cashill will want to characterize this as a conspiracy theory, but THIS time he has names, and he’s taking input from the public.
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Agree Stella, it was a SAM missile fired from a boat, not a US Navy ship. Days before a few people had seen a Navy Destroyer within a mile from shore slowing moving along. Slant range of man portable SAM’s 10-12 Kilometers…….flight 800’s altitude when stuck, within range…….
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Ahhhh….one of those small joys of summer, a salad made with fresh, crunchy cucumbers and fat, juicy tomatoes right out of the garden. Next, same salad but with fresh lettuce and chunks of bacon.
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I am having a really great salad right now too although mine did not come from my own garden. It’s still really good though. I have a half dozen or so vegetables in it, along with pumpkins seeds, dried cranberries, and ham. Yum. For dessert a Georgia peach smoothie, then off to work.
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Salads are great, but a Georgia peach smoothie? To die for, even without ice cream! You’ve got me drooling here, Menagerie. Cruel. You should see the pathetic, woody, wrinkled things that pass for peaches in Alaska. No juice and no smell. (I know, I know; I’ve had 18 years to move out of this state, and yet here I am.)
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Tundra, good too see you back, from the back country……any bear sightings?
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No Colonel, no bear sightings. Caught about 60 salmon and picked a lot of tundra blueberries. Had great days out on the river, and visiting with old friends. And drinking lots of Gentleman Jack! Hope y’all managed without me.
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You mean like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf7NDjZ9tGo
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I sure am enjoying them. Normally I throw in 2 or 3 fruits and 2 or more vegetables, hemp seeds, ground flax seeds, ice, and a little honey and apple cider vinegar, along with Greek yogurt if I want creamier so taste. With the peaches I leave out all the other fruits and vegetables and just treat myself to the delicious freshness.
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Ya ain’t really eatin’ peaches until the juice is drippin’ from yer elbows!
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Yeah, that is when I know it is a good peach. Those are found in Georgia.
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Or Michigan.
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Lol! If any of you have been able to actually sustain the daily habit of flossing your teeth, and if this article is true, prepare for shock. On Drudge this morning:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/02/dental-floss-proof-works-guidelines-dropped
From the article:
“One review conducted last year said: ‘The majority of available studies fail to demonstrate that flossing is generally effective in plaque removal.’ ”
There’s more than just this one line though. The article also states the U.S. government has “quietly dropped” its recommendations for flossing. If you are curious about when flossing began, read to the end, since it apparently goes back to the early 1800’s. Who knew that??
I kept trying to make flossing into a habit and never really succeeded. I would do it in phases, usually after my dental cleaning, when the dentist would ask me, then give me the lecture. I do remember that I kept it up for months once, and when I went to the dentist for my cleaning, the dentist told me to not floss so hard because I was scoring lines onto my teeth. That may have been the last time I really worked at it. Haha! Another thing I can stop feeling guilty about not doing.
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Water Pik. Cleans in between the teeth and along the gum line very well.
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I have one of those around…somewhere. 🙂
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I read this yesterday and laughed. If you read the heath books from over 140 years ago, flossing was to remove food from between your teeth to help your breath not be stinky and to be polite to people you were speaking with. The whole plaque removal reason/marketing was invented much later that started with pepsodent.
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What! Pretty soon you are going to tell me that a greeting card company started Sweetest Day!
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A candy company employee.
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Really? I was just guessing that it was Hallmark.
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Herbert Birch Kingston
receives the credit.
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Sweet!
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Ummmmm…..noticing my third article this AM about the possibility of Trump dropping out. Possibility seems to be fueled by Trump’s inability to parse his phrasing so that MSM and their entertainment lackeys can’t use his words against him…at least as effectively… and the RNC pinching off the money hose.
It seems that the RNC has agreed to throw the election, not support the people’s candidate, destroy the party and perhaps the country. I wonder what they were promised for the trade and hope to be there when the Rats stiff them.
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You would have to be a Republican insider to that deal to it be able to see clearly that they are being big blind fools!
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I read a couple articles, one from I think Levine? It’s all doom and gloom, Team Trump is suicidal! Trump changed his mind! Manafort is flying over the Cuckoo’s Nest and it was all a game because Trump really wanted a Hillary presidency so he just ran to annihilate her competition.
And then I saw Trump changed his profile picture.
😀
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Tranquility Base here. #rd day after cutting cable TV. Ahhhhh. Now watching Tarzan meets his mate online.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvg5mg_tarzan-and-his-mate-1934-part-1_shortfilms
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Well just put tarzan and his mate in yer search engine.
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I cut DISH in May. I have been watching episodes of old TV shows from when I was a kid. It is great. Just finished all the episodes of The Adventures of Sir Lancelot. I’m thinking of The Invaders next. They are all on You Tube and I don’t have to spend a dime!
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I’m watching Midsomer Murders now. There are 18 seasons!
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I will check that one out. Thanks!
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I love Midsomer Murders! Woo Hoo! Tom Barnaby is wonderful as is Troy, and Joyce. Great story lines and beautiful curmudgeonry by Tom. The English country side is beautiful.
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I like his daughter too. I heard him describe the show as a comedy/drama.
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Yes Cully is great! I think there is a lot of dry humor in the show.
DCI Tom Barnaby: Joyce, what have you done?
Joyce Barnaby: Since you were never going to look seriously at the brochures, I took the dates, and Cully did it. We’re booked. We’re going to Botswana in April.
[passes him the brochure]
Joyce Barnaby: Here’s to our holiday.
DCI Tom Barnaby: Joyce, looks as if these people are sitting on top of an elephant.
Joyce Barnaby: That’s right. It’s an elephant-back safari. Won’t it be wonderful! Cheers.”
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WOW I will check. You Tube kicks ass for all the oldie goldie films and such. They are so much better to enjoy than the modern PC stuff. I am now looking for oldie Burt Lancaster Westerns. This is FUN for a change. Cut yer cable.
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Try this link Howie. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=burt+lancaster+westerns+full+movies
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Allow me to suggest a test. Turn of the power to your TV for 24 hours. I bet you will be loathe to turn it on again. No CNN, No FOX, No MSNBC, or any other agitprop. If you do it let me know what happen. I am three days away from it and feel better by the minute. I think black screen for two weeks then old not PC movies for fun. JMO. Life is getting better without it.
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No problems for me at all. Love to read.
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Will report.
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What where went mailbox and barn? We are gonna need this info soon.
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You know you’ve reached a certain level of acceptance and understanding with your lifemate when she doesn’t complain about the 150 pounds of corn souring in buckets out by the garage. More things she just doesn’t bother to mention at work…
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❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️She also helps bait and set the pig traps😍😍😍😍😍
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I am thinking us rural folks are going to be happy we are soon. I have trees picked to block the road in….just in case.
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You’re talking abatis, an old combat engineer tactic. Way ahead of ya, had ’em picked and sited for a few years now.
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Already dug my anti tank ditch.
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Great to see all those ‘barrier and denial, classes aren’t forgotten.
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Do you catchem live then feed them corn?
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Iin a word: NO. These guys and gals aren’t cocktail party msterials, they hit those trap walls and try to get st you as son as you drive up. Then again, they’ve been tearing up and eating the 30-plus acres of corn planted for deer browse so, in a way, ee have been feeding them corn. They go right from trap to freezer.
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In my city home, that just means she made dinner…..
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Czarina just comes in a little earlier in the preparation phase.
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Now, I ordered an hand crank meat grinder. I am thinking like burgers,,,,fish, pork chops, chikin’ and such. Has anyone done this? I go to Save a Lot in Fla and the cost is through the floor. Under a buck a pound for good stuff. I also found a giant fresh water mussle bed in a nearby lake and they are so goooood! I want to make Black Bass Burgers! Anybody done it? I can make perfect filets to grind up.
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There is all you want Bass and panfish round here.
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I have two old hand crank grinders. My biggest problem is a counter to attach to. Work just fine!
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You can also take chunked up pieces of ham, beef, pork, or chicken and grind it up. Add mayo, mustard and some minced up onion for one heck of a good sandwich spread. Mom used to do this when tere were not enough leftovers to feed all four of us. Good stuff!
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An old favorite! Another was roast beef hash or, as my dad called it, “clean up the kitchen”. Grind up leftover beef, potatoes, onions, carrots etc., fry patties in an iron skillet, then serve with catsup.
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Ok, now I’m hungry. I hear those two pork steaks thawing in the fridge calling my name.
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That’s ketchup to us rednecks Miss Stella. 😉
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Sometimes I spell it that way too. I never knew which was right.
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I think Old Mr. Heinz must’a been a redneck then. 😉
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Just can’t eat Heinz ketchup, even before I knew who John Kerry was. I’m a Hunt’s girl all the way.
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Old Heinz was a modern day truck farmer who would sell his produce grown outside of Pittsburgh. He perfected the canning process, and ketchup was the leftovers from his canned tomatoes/sauce. Yes Tex he was a redneck, his son’s built the Heinz company.
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I remember my father doing it for some reason when I was about 4 or 5. Ground flower too. After a few weeks, it was all put in the garage, never to be touched again. We had cans of grain for decades.
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I think that’s a different kind of grinder. The kind I have has a hopper in the top, and a screw that feeds the food through a die. It’s rather coarse, rather than the grind you would need for grain or coffee.
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I was lazy again wasn’t I. Yes, there were different grinders.
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Not lazy, no. We weren’t clear before what kind of grinder we were referring to. If you’ve never seen one, you wouldn’t know.
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Yup. He couldn’t get my head to fit in it. Perhaps that’s why it when into the garage.
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We have one that we attached to an old school desk, then you can either put the desk on a table or sometimes I just bend over and grind the meat. It’s not always the easiest thing in the world to do and the electric grinder works much better, especially if you got a lot of grinding to do.
For smaller jobs though the hand crank is just as easy.
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My way out in the country precict voted 75% Trump in the FL primary. I be in the right place.
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Big thing on the political panic agenda is the Zika virus. Panic in the streets, dogs having coffee with cats at Starbucks, martinet pols standing firmly in the doorways between us and the bloodthirsty ( really, huh?) mosquitoes.
News and pols announce, just barely without a trumpet fanfare, they’ve found (after diligent and sweat soaked testing) the mosquito in our area that carries Zita! All good and well except the mosquito they went out and discovered is the same old yellow fever mosquito that was here before people were and is the subject of regular fluff and filler news pieces. What’s next, scientists and pols will launch a study and discover New Orleans is hot and humid in August?
The pols are responding by initiating a sledgehammer program of sggressive ground and air spraying of insecticides. No word on the impact on non-targeted insects such as the few remaining wild bees in the city, migrating butterflies, all of that. No word on any program that would deal with water collected in the stubs of the fronds on the many palm trees in the city. Lotta BS, smoke and mirrors, but then what’s new?
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For.God’s.Sake…………..
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For our sake…God save us.
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Not so sure He wants to at this point. When I had a chat with Him the other night, he led me to believe that it’s a 50/50 shot whether He lets the whole thing slide into the swamp. Some sh*t better get turned around…..quick. 😦
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Look st Moses – had to shrpherd the Israelites in thecesert for 40 years until the generation that gave Him a rash died out. Might be time for a redux.
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Folks referring to the DNC convention as a Tug-a-Thon 😀
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Thug-A-Thon
🙄
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https://twitter.com/PatriotBrother/status/760999029887102976
Seems Jack is fine.
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Good to hear.
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Just cuz I love the headline. And I believe it. 😆
“Secret to a happy marriage? Maybe drinking alcohol, study says” Ya think? 😆 😆
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/08/03/secret-happy-marriage-maybe-drinking-alcohol-study-says/88002166/
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Haven’t read it yet. I wonder if drinking alcohol just makes you not give a dang? 😀
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Their “study” wasn’t much of one, but I’m sure they got some “free money” so what the hey!! 😉
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Nope. Didn’t work for me. 😦
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One of my oldest, dearest, closest friends IRL has lost his feckin’ mind and thinks the beast has hung the moon. It.Is.All.I.Can.Do.NOT.To.Unfriend.His.Ass. (on the stupid FB)
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Like the man said……ya’z cain’t fix stoopid. 🙄
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I’ve unfriended a lot of people during this election. I’m too old for the bs.
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I feel for you Ms.WeeWeed. Its solid Trump country here.
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