General Discussion, Thursday, August 4, 2016

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  1. Goodnight all!!! Have fun night crew!

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    Would love to have the peace and serenity of that photo right now.

    Just reading about the stabbings in London, in the Russell Square area. I’ve been there many times. Every photo brings back memories of walking through that part of London, day and night, always feeling safe. I am having a hard time imagining walking there and suddenly having someone rush up to me and stab me.

    Things are different now.

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  3. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    Very busy this week, so a drive-by—but I hope there will be comments, or even a discussion, which I can read later/catch up with, as IMO, it is an important issue.

    I am not Catholic, but am close to Catholicism in my theological stance. I’ve held a “wait and see” position on Pope Francis since his becoming Pope, but have been uneasy about some things. This most recent report increases the uneasiness (and it is not an isolated article):

    Pope Francis: A Fool or Liar for Islam?

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263709/pope-francis-fool-or-liar-islam-raymond-ibrahim

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

      My pisition on him is a ‘wait and see how bad he screws up’ one. Popes are not, in my book, infallible as if you look at the train of Popes, even in the Catholic encyclopedia, you’ll see a bunch of….less than holy guys.
      Like US generals in the time of war, God seems to drop the right Pope on us when needed, witness John Paul. Let’s see if Francis isn’t here to set the table for a major clash. Let’s face it, his very unPopeular pronouncements on the nature of Islam seem to have awakened Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

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

      “”of avenging angels while participating in what would be history’s largest cavalry charge all led from the front by a very courageous King.
      “Veni Vidi Deus Vicit!”
      ~Jan Sobieski, Vienna, 1683, in a letter to a Pope with infinitely more wisdom than the current occupant.””
      Mary, it’s getting close to 1683, to me this is and always will be a religious war the west has been fighting off and on for a thousand years. Let me turn the question around to this Pope. What is the difference between Islam then and now?

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

        My man Jan, posted on him before. King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, he led a combined force that crushed the Turks at the Battle of Vienna. Pope Innocent XI called him the ‘Savior of Christendom’ for his actions. Far cry from the POtuS and Francis, eh?

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        • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

          Czar and Col. Ken–King Jan Sobieski and Charles Martel are two of my heroes, for obvious reasons. [BTW, Viktor Orban is moving up in the lists.]

          We need men like them NOW. ASAP. Before it’s too late (“late” in the secular realm, that is. God has already won in the realm of the eternal).

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

        Difference between Islam then and now: we’re arming and assisting it in the destruction of all other religions and civilization in general.

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    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

      Like this is new. How many Popes were there before the “crusades” were put together to respond Islam in the past?

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      • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

        Not new, but things are different now. What is currently happening is occurring in a “full”, communicationally-interconnected, basically borderless world. Before the Crusades, it was far easier to ignore the danger in far off countries, because it didn’t have, couldn’t have, the instant, neighborhood impact that the current terror attacks are having.

        Islamic destruction and depredation prior to the Crusades, although fast and widespread after the rise of Mohammad, was happening largely along the southern and western frontiers of the old Roman Empire–far away, geographically; and the slow nature of communications at that time kept events from being widely known. As the Empire decayed and shrank, Islam flowed in–not peacefully, mind you. (This is terribly condensed, and of course there are exceptions. But you get my drift.)

        Pope Francis is facing a current, physically present, active Islamic threat. He is not acknowledging it correctly. He is not calling it out for what it is. It IS a religious war, always HAS been a religious war. The questions I have, which this article brings up, are: why is he minimizing or even dismissing the religious foundations of this war? Is he stupid? Is he complicit? Is he PC-brainwashed like most of the word leaders of today? Why is he blind to the dangers?

        I know that many Popes in history have been less than the “men of faith” we would imagine them all to have been. I think we have another one of those right now. But I would really like to know his motivations. Forewarned is forearmed.

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        • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

          I think he is less than a clear thinking man who can’t see 2+1.5+.5=4. I also think he wears rose colored glasses. And he is a Jesuit and this once ferocious and loyal arm of the popes has devolved into the Liberal Order of Idiots.

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          • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

            You chose a mix of (a) and (c). I’m still a bit worried about the possibility of (b).

            [Interestingly, this is beginning to sound like the discussions circling around BHO’s motivations. For some ‘unknown’ reason.]

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            • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

              I’m not there yet on B, and hope I never have to be. No way to know for sure though. I have read lots about him. He is either just an idiot, or wanting to look like an idiot, which would then lead us back to B.

              One thing I find worrisome a little, as I’m not really far into this like some really trad Catholics, is the supposed remarks from Sister Lucia, the Fatima seer. If I remember correctly, there were rumors that she spoke of apostasy in the Church reaching the highest levels, and even more rumors that the Vatican has suppressed the truth of her statements.

              I don’t know much about all of that because I have run across some seriously engulfed in rage conspiracy theorists who are so into the Fatima thing that they are borderline nuts. Stuff like that turns me off, so I haven’t perhaps paid attention to something I should have.

              One thing I do give credence to. The late Father Malachi Martin believed the conspiracy angle and indicated he had seen the evidence.

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              • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

                I’ve read many of Malachi Martin’s works, and am generally familiar with the controversies surrounding the Fatima pronouncements. I believe in the reality of Evil, and that there is no arena of our life which is immune to it.

                I know absolutely that God is victorious over evil, but there is much suffering to come. It may come through persons and events which we would never imagine to be involved and/or compromised.

                Matthew 24: 1-14, is appropriate here, especially this:

                “…he who endures to the end will be saved.” (vs. 13)

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              • lovely's avatar lovely says:

                A positive about Pope Francis is that he is not a believer of the “visionaries” of Medjugore.

                So many faithful know so little about the words and behaviors of the children, now adults who claim the apparitions of our Holy Mother.

                One of the children, I can’t remember which one but it was one of the girls asked Mary “Who is the holiest person in the room?”. Now aside from it being a ludicrous question, it is even more ludicrous to believe Mary would even entertain the question.

                According to the questioner Mary identified a Muslim man as the holiest person in the room.

                🙄

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          • lovely's avatar lovely says:

            Well your answer gives me the opportunity to insert a little levity.

            Five priest are sitting around a table when the sole lightbulb illuminating the room goes out.

            The Franciscan says “Let us pray about it”.

            The Claretian says “Let’s ask the Jesuit what to do”.

            The Jesuit says “Let me think about it.”

            The Dominican says “Let’s talk about it.”

            And the Diocesan priest changes the lightbulb.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:

      Pope Francis is dishonoring his vow and spiritual obligation to be the moral leader and safeguard of the Church and his flock. He is doing one thing, he is leading his lambs to slaughter. Whether it is through a lack of informed conscientious discernment or ill will is between Francis and God.

      I am Catholic. An adult convert who was once very active in my church, I joined the Legion of Mary, The Society of St. Vincent, Rosary Groups, almost joined the secular Carmelites, I didn’t shop at stores for 10 year that sold with control pills because of their abortifacient factor. I had no television for 14 years because of the general rot of TV land and liberal message that it pushes.

      I can articulate church doctrine or Dogma on many things. I donate 100’s of hours a year to clothing feeding and helping the poor. I donate money. I am still active in the Catholic community. I say none of this to toot my own horn as honestly I just don’t care what people think about what I do and I rarely talk about it but feel it is necessary to mention it to give my stance against Pope Francis the proper validity.

      As a Catholic I am directed not to speak against the pope in general and specifically not against his ruling when he speaks from the Chair of Peter about dogma or more specifically when he speak on matters of defined resolved Dogma as the Pope is then considered speaking for the Church and the Dogma of which he speaks is considered “infallible”. A pope never decides Dogma on his own.

      No Pope is infallible or is considered “generally” infallible by the Church. More on this later if anyone is interested.

      As for me I will stand with our beautiful and loving Church Father St. Thomas Aquinas on the matter of Islam. Islam was started, founded and is perpetuated by savage carnal men.

      [Muhammad] seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh goads us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected, he was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom.

      Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity. He did not bring forth any signs produced in a supernatural way, which alone fittingly gives witness to divine inspiration; for a visible action that can be only divine reveals an invisibly inspired teacher of truth. On the contrary, Muhammad said that he was sent in the power of his arms — which are signs not lacking even to robbers and tyrants. What is more, no wise men, men trained in things divine and human, believed in him from the beginning, Those who believed in him were brutal men and desert wanderers, utterly ignorant of all divine teaching, through whose numbers Muhammad forced others to become his followers by the violence of his arms. Nor do divine pronouncements on the part of preceding prophets offer him any witness. On the contrary, he perverts almost all the testimonies of the Old and New Testaments by making them into fabrications of his own, as can be seen by anyone who examines his law. It was, therefore, a shrewd decision on his part to forbid his followers to read the Old and New Testaments, lest these books convict him of falsity. It is thus clear that those who place any faith in his words believe foolishly.

      That said I believe that Pope Francis is either evil or delusional. More on that when I have had some tea.

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

        Lovely, let us start at the beginning:

        43. The False Prophet:
        Prophet Mohammed’s confession:
        “I have fabricated things against God and have imputed to Him words which He has not spoken.” 
        — Al-Tabari, The History of Al-Tabari, vol. vi, p. 111 

        ‘Then Gabriel came to the apostle and said , “What have you done, Muhammad? You have read to these people something I did not bring you from God and you have said what He did not say to you.”‘ 
        — Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah, p. 166

        That’s the only proof I need. Unless you want me to look for the tape of LTC(R) Allen West’s answer to a question he was asked about Muslins. His answer is classic, all of the points that I was taught and forgotten…….
        Oh. No need for you to bring your own ammo over when you join me in our foxhole. Just scored a few thousand rounds of 5.56, 7.62, .45, and 9mm. Just bring speed loaders!!!

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        • lovely's avatar lovely says:

          I’ll bring my own ammo also, the more the merrier!

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

            Amazing how the progs in the Church have perverted the ‘turn the other cheek’ idea into something mandating a suicide pact.

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            • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

              Most of them see it as excluding them though.

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

                I see their looking at the Church’s padt behavior as an imperial regency and overreacting in the Church use of force to protectbitself. I see nowhere it said that if we sit on the grass and just watch the approaching hordes of barbarians readying to run us down that God will suddenly appear and solve our problems. Even Armageddon is supposed to be a battle…a final battle but a battle all the same.

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              • lovely's avatar lovely says:

                Do you think this is by design or by the the road to hell being paved with good intentions? I am struggling with this right now. Does Pope Francis think that he can talk to the wolf like his namesake St. Francis of Assisi and befriend and domesticate the wolf, that the wolf just needs a voice and all will be well or is Pope Francis of ill will.

                Sorry Managerie, I know you are a faithful Catholic and I am not trying to put you on the spot, just very interested in what your opinion is on this matter. The Catholics that I know locally sort of fall in line with Pope Francis, my friends are naturally more like minded with myself in that Pope Francis as pope has the grace to know what he is saying is dangerous and untrue.

                Happy to hear any and all opinions on this from you good folks.

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                • lovely's avatar lovely says:

                  “Menagerie” apologies.

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                • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

                  See my reply to Mary above. I am not convinced that he is evil, or complicit, but I am not able to honestly say that I could never believe that, which scares the heck out of me. Right now, I think he thinks he is able to fix things by talking. It appears that he seems to think he can explain how misunderstood those poor angry Islamists are, and fix their boo boo. He seems to think he can get the world to give them everything they want and they will become peaceful and rational. Which is the stupidest concept in the world, but the guy seems to believe it.

                  If it’s more than that time will tell.

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                  • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

                    You know. Now I’m wondering if we really know what was said or by whom. After all the misinformation about Russia and Ukraine, then learning all the misinformation for the last 6 years out of the middle East and Europe, I question if what the Pope is reported as saying is actually what he said.

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                  • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

                    In the early days Francis was very often misquoted, or his quotes were manipulated by being taken out of context.

                    I also think he is a take the easy road, pass the buck kind of guy, for example with the whole women as deacon issue. In my opinion women can never, will never, be priests in the Roman Catholic Church. I had thought JPII laid that to rest definitively.

                    Also with the communion for divorced, and the whole issue. I do not see how the Church can get around this one just because Francis and some of his cardinals want to, but they sure keep trying.

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              • michellc's avatar michellc says:

                A few years back a little Church was struggling, a group of people in the community including two auctioneers decided to raise money so they could keep their doors open. All of these people in the community donated furniture, cars, tractors, knives, guns, appliances, you name they had it. I heard about it and I’m an auction addict and this was going to a good cause.
                The auction was held outside but the Church had an old organ in the Church that was being auctioned and instead of carrying it out they had people who were interested in it to go into the Church and look at it.
                There was a guns are welcome sign hanging beside the door and this man who looked to be in his mid-fifties complained to me about the sign not being appropriate for a Church and God would not approve.
                It rubbed me the wrong way and I popped off and said that my God gave me the brains and the tools to defend myself whether in my house or God’s House.
                He went in on turning the other cheek and I countered back with something. Then later I heard him complaining to one of the auctioneers about the sign and about allowing people to go into the Church to look at something being sold. He ranted and raved the most though about the sign and how it was wrong for people to be carrying guns, much less for a Church to be advertising for every gun nut to come on in fully loaded.

                Guess who was bidding on guns later that afternoon and guess who was still a little ticked at the guy for being an a$$?
                I walked up to him after he won the bid on a gun and said, “so you’re not just a complaining a$$hole, but you’re a hypocritical a$$hole. Guns for you but no guns for anyone else.”
                We later saw his vehicle when we were leaving and it was full of liberal bumper stickers including many related to Gun Control. I figured he thought gun control wouldn’t apply to him.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:

      Ezekiel 33 … 6 ‘But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the watchman’s hand.’

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  4. michellc's avatar michellc says:

    I hate getting woke up this late, when I have to get up in an hour and half.

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  5. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| ( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
    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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  6. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    Mornin’ kids!

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  7. Stella's avatar stella says:

    This is CNN: Trump called ‘loud mouth dick’ live on air

    http://mediaequalizer.com/brian-maloney/2016/08/this-is-cnn-trump-called-loud-mouth-dick-live-on-air

    Loved some of the comments to the potty mouth.

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:

      Are these people ever going to give it a rest? I read this morning that even Newt is getting in on it saying that right now neither Trump or Hillary are acceptable and he needs to turn it around.
      Best I can figure they’re all in an uproar over that stupid Khan and his refusal to endorse Ryan or McCain.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:

      Remember when Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peter called Obama a total pu**y. He was banned from the airwaves for a while and the interviewer said something like “ahh ahh you can’t use language like that on the program.”

      Cooper just sat there with his resting bitch face once the camera showed him and said not one word to the wretched fouled mouth dog. Vile people.

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  8. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Turning My Black Family, Young and Old, from the Dark Side

    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/08/turning_my_black_family_young_and_old_from_the_dark_side.html

    No matter our color, many of us have had this experience.

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  9. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    When I was at the Pence Rally I went against my better judgement and signed up to volunteer. The first message I received on my phone was “Hi Lovely we are getting back to you about volunteering for the Pence (< said firmly) Trump (<said quietly) team, if you are still interested in volunteering please get back to us at 608 *** ****) . BLOCKED.

    Taking a deep breath.

    😡

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  10. michellc's avatar michellc says:

    The establishment crowd on both sides must be in panic mode. I know I’ve been busy this week and have missed a lot but I’m confused about this disastrous 48 hours.
    These people are really pathetic, just think if they had fought against Obama like this.

    If Hillary is elected I’m going to hold McConnell, Ryan, Sasse and the rest of these scumbag politicians personally responsible, along with the likes of Levin, Beck, Erickson, and the rest. They are the enemy.

    http://dcwhispers.com/alert-democrat-republican-leaders-to-declare-donald-trump-mentally-incompetent-updates/#Kpt6zrlOjTpYSmAa.99

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  11. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Someone at lucianne.com just posted this old NR article by Ben Shapiro. I’ve posted it myself before, and I wouldn’t be surprised if lucianne deletes it (for age, if nothing else), but it deserves another read:

    http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2011/04/13/the_magic_of_donald_trump

    As the OP comments, Shapiro could have been Trump’s campaign manager.

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  12. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    One week on, a full deworming, puppy shots and lotsa regular meals and the new puppy (Lucky) is up playing with the other dogs and chewing on EVERYTHING. He’s going to be a small dog but with a large attitude – cats are busy showing him the proper behavior around their majesties.

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  13. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Woof! Busy day at Boko Haram. When tne ISIS subcontractor was unable to come to terms over leadership ISIS named Abu Musab al-Barnawi as head murderer-in-charge. Self-pronounced leader Abubakar Shekau has objected to thevidea of having to go back to his day job and sternly rejects corporate’s reshuffling of the board.
    Abubakar’s threatening a split while Abu Musab says he’s grateful for the trust corporate’s placed in him and, in gratitude, has promised to ramp-up the bombing of Christian churches and the killing of Christians.
    Meanwhile the WH says theyse guys ain’t Moslems as only the POtuS has the power to say who is and who ain’t Moslems while the Pope reaffirms this is a war but not a religious war.

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  14. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Posted by Clarice F on Facebook (original by Miss Marple):

    Miss Marple: Been doing some thinking as I loaded the car with stuff to go to the auction. (Boy is it hot outside!)

    I have seen a lot of this beta-male crap before in elections. First time I remember it was during Reagan’s run, where the Bob Mitchell types were so upset that an actor was running and was too conservative.

    Second time I remember it was when George Bush was running. Bush didn’t do a lot of stuff that wound up successful, but no doubt his first term WAS pretty good. All through the campaign there were cries about him not campaigning hard enough (lies augmented by a media blackout) and criticism from conservative talk radio. Glen Beck hated Bush, as a matter of fact.

    So now comes Trump, and them same stuff only on steroids. What they truly hate about him is the thing that makes him so popular. He’s an alpha, and the betas don’t like being shown out for the wimps they are.

    I am sure this sounds stupid and simplistic, but you can’t tell me that people like Chuck Todd and Bill Kristol and Glenn Beck do not feel like little, unsuccessful worms when they look at Trump.

    I also expect Trump to draw a lot more female votes than Ms. Clinton thinks. When the pack has to choose between the alpha male and a female past her prime, the females will go with the alpha. It is the way of nature, and it has nothing to do with logic or reason. (I would probably be shot at dawn at Vassar for saying this – ha!)

    There is a lot of truth in this old Donna Summer song:

    Where have all the good men gone
    And where are all the gods?
    Where’s the street-wise Hercules
    To fight the rising odds?
    Isn’t there a white knight upon a fiery steed?
    Late at night I toss and I turn and I dream of what I need

    [Chorus:]
    I need a hero
    I’m holding out for a hero ’til the end of the night
    He’s gotta be strong
    And he’s gotta be fast
    And he’s gotta be fresh from the fight
    I need a hero
    I’m holding out for a hero ’til the morning light
    He’s gotta be sure
    And it’s gotta be soon
    And he’s gotta be larger than life….

    Posted by: Miss Marple 2 | August 04, 2016 at 12:15

    Somebody pointed out that it wasn’t Donna Summer, but Bonnie Tyler.

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  15. The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:

    There is something so completely charming about this photo. Just had to share it.

    (Hoping this works. I took out all the stuff after “jpg”.)

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  16. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Martyred Priest’s Last Words to Jihadists: ‘Be Gone, Satan!’

    http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/08/04/martyred-priests-last-words-jihadists-gone-satan/

    Just before having his throat slit by two Islamic terrorists in northern France last week, Father Jacques Hamel told one of his assailants, “Be gone, Satan!”, according to the priest’s bishop.

    In his homily at the martyred priest’s funeral Mass on Tuesday, Rouen’s Archbishop Dominique Lebrun gave details of the last moments of the priest’s life as he was slaughtered for his Christian faith.

    “Evil is a mystery that reaches summits of horror beyond what is human,” the Archbishop said. “Is that not what you meant, Jacques, by your last words? Falling to the ground after the first stab, you try to push away your attacker with your feet saying, ‘Go away Satan!’”

    The archbishop said that the priest then repeated a second time: “Be Gone, Satan!”

    During the same homily, with members of the Muslim community present, Archbishop Lebrun explicitly addressed those who may be tempted by jihad.

    “You who are tormented by diabolical violence, you who are drawn to kill by a demonic, murderous madness, pray to God to free you from the devil’s grip,” he said. “We pray for you, we pray to Jesus who healed all those who were under the power of evil.”

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

      On an uncomfortable but similar note, yesterday Czarina and I received an invitation to join a local Baptist church. The invitation came on a nice printed card that featured a signpost that had directional arrows, each printed with the name of a religion (Islam, Buddhism, Mormonism,,Catholicism, Protestantism, etc) and pointing towards hell. The only sign pointingbtowards salvation had their particular sect on it. At times we worry me.

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

        There are lots of people here in the South who believe that. I get it all the time. Recently I have really let it get to me. I am sick to death of people who expect me to thank them for telling me I am going to hell.

        What this boils down to is that they are saying I am stupid. I am not as qualified to read the Bible, study various denominations, and choose a way to practice and live out my faith as they are. It really rips me.

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:

        I think I’ve told the story of my neighbor in NC who would stick tracts from Chick Cartoon Tracts in my mailbox.

        Every single one told me I was going to hell. One day I mentioned something about the tracts to her and she was uncomfortable because apparently she thought I didn’t know it was her putting them in my mailbox 🤔.

        I told her not to worry that I just used them to point out their biblical inaccuracies to my daughters.

        😎

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

          I would also politely mention to her that one of the few benefits of hell is the unavailability of Chicken Tracts. Or maybe she was just cock-sure she knew God’s will?

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          • lovely's avatar lovely says:

            She was actually really quite sensational in her certainty about everything biblical. They did not believe in graven statues which they believed included manger scenes so they had a plywood cutout lawn manger scene.

            They also had, I believe 2 or 3 coats each, which was not in compliance with having only one cloak and giving the others away to the needy, so to get around it they kept the coats that were not in season in the attic and would have to go up into the attic if there was any unseasonal change in the weather to exchange their downstairs coat for their attic coat. Thereby in their mind they each only had one coat and met the requirements of biblical law.

            I really did try to be kind to them because they were nuts. Not dangerous physically to anyone but really nuts in my opinion. Anyhow one time someone brought their brand-new baby out to meet the neighbors, the Chick Tract Girl said “Oh he’s adorable.” And right there in front of everyone I said absolutely deadpan, “Honor and adore God alone.”

            😀

            Now I will refrain from telling the baby story 🙊

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

              Sorta like how we fared living in a small Utah town and not being Mormons. Prople were sure our drinking coffee, smoking and drinking alcohol, aside from not being LDS, would get us sucked directly into hell without any warning. They made sure their kids weren’t too close to us lest they be sucked down with us in the resulting vacuum.

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              • lovely's avatar lovely says:

                When we first met she told me that my daughters were welcomed in her home, but her daughter would not be a allowed in my home because we had idols. Needless to say none of us ever made it into each other’s homes 😐.

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  17. Stella's avatar stella says:

    The great IGGY:

    The fundamental problem as always is the human brain and the human heart.
    The inability or unwillingness to accept that our domestic adversaries are not simply liberal mirror images of us looking back at us from the opposite page of some genteel, Miss Manners book about politics laying open on the pages of an Architectural Digest cover shoot prevents many from realizing the war we are in, the consequences of losing it and how to fight it.

    Nobody wants to believe our adversaries are really our enemies who with little compunction will turn us into a one party state. It is much easier to ignore who raised Obama, what he has said over the years, the people with whom he associated and the radical underpinnings of everything he believes and he uses that to fool people who want to be fooled by being “clean and articulate”. But the fact is, within his chest beats the heart of an anti American Marxist.
    Bill and Hillary have perfected a shtick of speaking of themselves as centrists and even following centrist doctrines in non essential areas that disguises their default far left instincts. Well Bill has perfected the shtick, Hillary tries and fails at it.

    The mistaken but pro American Democrat Party of our youth and of our fathers is gone and many of us recoil at the thought that these creatures who still wear suits and ties and mouth platitudes like the old guys did have really completed the purge of centrist Democrat philosophy and replaced it with a sick witch’s brew of Frankfurt School nihilistic cultural Marxism with a pinch of good ol American Jerry Rubin/Huey Newton New Left racial liberation Marxism and old fashioned Mussolini corporatism and crony based fascism.

    Even when the guys on the right allow themselves to see what our enemy looks like they can still never quite make the jump that the goals of the people who follow Marx and Marcuse and Mussolini could possibly be remotely like their mentors’ goals.

    The evil is ideological utopianism that leads inevitably to the totalitarian temptation because there are no limits when you seek to drag your ignorant ingrate neighbor kicking and screaming to paradise.
    Behind the Armanis and Versaces and the tooth whitened smiles and the plucked eye brows and after shave lie minds, untempered by hearts, that will be perfectly happy to build a gulag if that is the price others have to pay for their vision of a garden of earthly delights.
    If you think our current political opposition carries any political genes from Harry Truman or JFK you’re wrong. That line has either been extirpated or entered a new gene pool with us.
    All that is left over there are those who hate the America of the founders and of liberty.
    They are the heirs of Robespierre not Madison.

    Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkywatzky |

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  18. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    *Sigh*

    I went to Nehlen’s headquarters in Muskego WI. There was no one there. Signs were available so I just took one. Also available were “Dump Ryan” T -shirts but no one was there to make a donation so I couldn’t get one. If the t-shirts had physically been there I would have left a donation and taken one but there was just a sign advertising their availability.

    Very frustrating and disheartening.

    I then went to the RNC headquarters. One Trump/Pence sign in the window, that was it on Trump signs and zero other Trump paraphernalia that I could see.

    PS I am wearing my large Trump button this entire time.

    Not a single Nehlen anything.

    Still no large Trump sign in the grass along the street which they have put out for every other presidential candidate.

    I ask the greeter if there are any Trump signs. No she says, somehow they were sent to Madison, WI by mistake. But they are “anxiously” awaiting them 😐 Good thing I have naturally low blood pressure. Not to mention there will probably be 17 votes for Trump in all of Madison but I digress.

    I ask if there are any Nehlen signs. “No they will not let us have any.” 🤔

    About 3 or 4 young men scurrying about trying to appear busy start to give me a “look.”

    I turn around to see a life size cut out of Paul Ryan and standing right next to the Rat Ryan is a life size cutout of President Reagan.

    Now I am patient but that was the end of my rope.

    I turn to jolly Mc-jolly-ass greeter who is already muttering to me about my questions and say “Ronald Reagan would be turning over in his grave if he knew that you were drawing a comparison to him and a man who voted for and funded bringing people into our country who hate America and Americans.”

    Dopey busy boys smile nervously at me. Greeter says, “Well at least Ryan wants to build a wall, there is that!”

    I take a couple steps toward her and said something like “No Ryan does not, name one thing that he has stopped Obama from implementing, Ryan voted to fund immigration, he voted for Obama’s Omnibus, Ryan’s words do not meet his actions.”

    No one said a single word and we all just stood there.

    Finally she said “Ryan is against illegal immigration.”

    My response, “You are responsible for educating yourself, you cannot name one opportunity where Ryan stopped Obama’s agenda, Ryan’s wife is a dyed in the wool liberal democrat from old democrat money. A vote for Ryan is no different than a vote for Hillary and you do not get to pretend like it is anything else.”

    The greeter’s mouth hangs open and the young men scurry away to the back room.

    Me, “This is all Bullsh*t” as I leave.

    So that was my morning. I do not often get so angry that I shake but I was shaking.

    Oh and did I mention they still have a boatload of “Historic” Walker for president crap. The morons cap was a solid red baseball cap with a giant W on it. Nothing else. When I first saw it I thought it was some crap left over from a George W. Bush campaign.

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  19. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

    “Coulter: The Wrath of Khan”
    “May we ask how many Muslims Khan’s mystery Constitution requires — or is that out of bounds unless we had a child who died in Iraq?”
    http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/coulter-wrath-khan

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    • Ann is brutally honest like Trump. Truth is what is required.

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

      Just the right amount to destroy that Constitution.

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    • facebkwallflower's avatar facebkwallflower says:

      This is a great article. If have facebook I suggest you copy and paste with Ann’s name at the end. I did this, knowing my “friends” would think for a long while it was me ranting as it does sound like me or any one of here, actually. By the end, I am sure a couple felt betrayed to see it was Coulter, who they would NEVER read, mostly because they found themselves agreeing with the words and had to dump them once saw not from me……but by a hated republican.

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  20. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Been a regular shooting gallery in NOLA over the last week or so, 4 killed and 4 wounded overnight alone. On what may be a connected note, severe storms formed over NOLA out of nowhere, dozens of lightening strikes a minute, severe rain exceeding 6 inches per hour in some places, even funnel clouds over the city proper. Hmmmmmm…

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

      Stay safe, Czar.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

        Thanks but we’re out of it by a long ways, only thing we have left in the city is our rental property. I dread going back in, my block went through a downward stretch just before and after Katrina that it’s mostly recovered from, but it’s still uncomfortable.

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  21. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    Well, the piece of Shiite is on the t.v. badmouthing Trump. Again. Worthless sack of thin skin……

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

      That’s the Rat’s strategy, drag down Trump so thst Damaged Goods Hillary doesn’t look as bad.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:

      Piece of Shite.

      I just listened to 30 seconds of Obama’s retching and he said twice that “Cash was exchanged”

      What?

      Exchanged for what?

      I thought the lie is that it was just a refund of Iran’s money. What a dullard.

      The perverted press is so complicit in enabling the destruction of our country that it is mind boggling that we have made it this far.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:

      “The reason that we had to give them cash is precisely because we are so strict in maintaining sanctions and we do not have a banking relationship with Iran, that we couldn’t send them a check and we could not wire the money,” he said. “And it is not at all clear to me why it is that cash, as opposed to a check or a wire transfer, has made this into a new story. Maybe because it kind of feels like a spy novel … because cash was exchanged.”

      No it is because neither cash, checks or wire transfers should be used to pay ransom to terrorist states you buffoon!

      Good Grief!

      I was under the moronic impression that sanctions included cash not just checks and wire transfers!

      Ever have one of those days when you wish you would wake up in the nutter bin and it would only be you that has gone completely mad rather than 99.5% of the free world?

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  22. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Speaking of the POS-in-charge, let’s go back a day to the arrest of Nicholas Young, the DC Metro officer arrested for attempting to aid ISIS. One outlet was reporting that he first came under FBI scrutiny a few years back for associating with an individual who threatened to bomb Federal buildings in the Capital.
    Now the POtuS had had a derp and long-running relationship with two people who are unapologetic revolutionaries still trying to bring down the government and actually bombed Federal buildings in the Capital. Is he under FBI scrutiny? Oh yeah, that’s right, he appoints their boss.

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  23. shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:

    Well golly, more American weapons made their way to the enemy. I’m shocked I tell you, shocked/s
    https://www.rt.com/news/354653-syria-rebels-weapons-us/

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  24. texan59's avatar texan59 says:

    Ohmuhgerd!!! Teh Donald challenges Teh Won to a golf match. 😆 😆

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/golf/trump-challenges-obama-to-a-round-of-golf/ar-BBvfN3p?li=BBnba9I

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