General Discussion, Tuesday, August 9, 2016

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  1. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:

    “Good e-vening.” (said in my best Alfred Hitchcock voice).

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  2. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Closing in on my Piedmont region, home of Barolo and Barbaresco wines.

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    • SwissMike (formerly ZurichMike)'s avatar ZurichMike says:

      I lost it when she reached out to touch his chest and feel his heartbeat.

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:

        Me too, such a beautiful story.

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

        I saw it on the news and I lost it as soon as they said the man got her father’s heart when they set up the video. 😥 What a wonderful, touching story from both sides.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

        Trust me, when you’ ve had a family member brought back from the brink of death by an organ transplant you’re endlesly grateful for the sacrifice someone else made.

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        • SwissMike (formerly ZurichMike)'s avatar ZurichMike says:

          It was so moving and I wept for several minutes. Can’t imagine (1) losing a parent so young and (2) being in a situation where I am waiting for a “donor” to pass away so I could get a chance at a longer life.

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

            I can tell you firsthand what it feels like to watch your child at death’s door, knowing that the only way out is for someone else’s child to die. That nagging piece of guilt from involuntarily wishing for someone to die never quite goes away, nor does the gratitude that someone signed the donor card. And let’s not forget the skill of the surgeons and staff involved, it’s the second most important aspect and too often overlooked.

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            • lovely's avatar lovely says:

              I am so pleased that your child was the beneficiary of life Czar, their life is a thank you to the donor.

              My friend had a heart transplant. He writes a letter once year to the family of the young man who died, the family has chosen not to respond, which of course my friend understands but he has those same feelings of gratitude and guilt.

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

                Yeah, all considered the donor in this case had to be a large and athletic person as our recipient was a very tall and athletic recipient, too large for a donation from a living donation and too large for an full organ from a smallish donor. God’s gift was a perfect organ, just the right size, at the last possible minute.

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                • lovely's avatar lovely says:

                  The blessing of life, I am sure since your donor signed a card to be a donor that there is some peace for his family because they could honor that wish for him and that he did give life in his death. Draw some peace from that.

                  I once read a true story about a mother watching her son’s gift of life being lifted off in a helicopter to save another small child. The sound of the helicopter was life giving to her and she remembered it years later as if it was right above her.

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                  • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

                    The other option is that the donor didn’t sign a card but the NOK volunteered the organs. We regularly have stories aboutbparents donating the organs of a deceased child so that other parents do not have to go through the agonies they have.

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            • michellc's avatar michellc says:

              My cousin had a lung transplant, I’ve often heard him say he feels guilty because someone died to give him life.
              He has never known who donated his lungs, but he’s always wished he could thank the family.

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              • lovely's avatar lovely says:

                The doctor is not supposed to tell the recipient anything at all about the donor unless the family gives permission. The family has not given permission but my friend knows that the young man was 27 years old because one of his doctors said “Not bad for a 27 year old.”

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                • michellc's avatar michellc says:

                  They didn’t tell him or the family anything and when he asked when he was well enough they said they weren’t allowed.
                  He did ask them if they knew the family if he could tell them how sorry he was for their loss, but also grateful for the blessing they gave him so he could watch his only son grow up.

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                  • lovely's avatar lovely says:

                    My friend had to wait a year and then he could write a letter to the family and the letter goes to a part of the transplant team who are intercessors between the donors family and the recipient. The intercessors can not even tell him if the family accepted any of his letters.

                    I hope one day they do read the letters because their beloveds heart went to such a good man. He has two children, one heading off to college this September, one who will be a senior in HS next year. Their generosity in their hour of such sorrow made all the last 4 years of life possible for my friend. He was in the hospital until heart became available, He was that sick.

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

                Some hospitals ask the donor’s family if they’d like the recipient to contact them. Ours does but some donors’ families don’t want to meet. It’s just amazing to see your loved one go from too weak to stand to alive again.

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

                About the samevtime we were going through our family transplant issues there was a story in the local paper of a man who’d had a double lung transplant running a 10K with the doctor who did the transplant. Look at the Transplant Games of America.

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            • SwissMike (formerly ZurichMike)'s avatar ZurichMike says:

              I am so very sorry about this devastaing part of your life. I will say a special prayer for you and your family.

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

                Say the prayer for the docs who saved his life. He’s in good shape years after the operation and this hospital keeps on cranking out single and multiple organ transplants like other hospitals do tonsillectomies.
                I can remember the first heart transplant and now they do them like dentists do crowns, only downside is that someone has to die so that others may live.

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          • lovely's avatar lovely says:

            My friend’s son has had two kidney transplants, one from a deceased organ donor and one from his uncle because the first one was eventually rejected.

            His mom a wonderful woman has been on the the kidney donation list for years as she felt a moral obligation to give back. She is tested every year to make sure that she still qualifies to donate. Just recently she got the call. On August 11th she will be returning the gift of life by donating one of her own kidneys.

            Prayers for Anne please .

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    • That is incredible! Thanks for posting this, lovely. ❤️

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  3. SwissMike (formerly ZurichMike)'s avatar ZurichMike says:

    Campaigning is hard work. Need to get some calories loaded. This is your breakfast . . . . for the next 30 years.

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  4. 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! 🙂 (Not even water)
    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”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
    Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
    Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
    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!

    Cinnamon rolls for coffee!

    = Unprintable phallic symbol

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  5. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    Mornin’ kids!

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  6. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Today is the day!

    Pray, pray, pray for Nehlen.

    I keep forgetting to mention that on my last trip into District 1 I saw 5 Nehlen signs and 3 Ryan signs.

    Beautiful day here it’s supposed to get up to 84° so we should have a big turn out. I think a large turnout helps Nehlen. I can’t speak to voter fraud though I’m sure the RNC will have some going on but at least they are not yet as efficient at it as the DNC. I do believe Nehlen’s support is stronger and more motivated than Ryan’s, that said just like they attacked Trump mercilessly and ignorantly, all of talk conservative radio continue to talk against Nehlen and support the Muslim importer and Omnibus promoter.

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  7. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    BTW…….

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

      Eject, eject, eject…..I’m pin forward Ms.WeeWeed, you’ll have to punch us out!!!!
      Top gun was a great Navy recruiting movie……..no sexy toys in the Army……

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  8. michellc's avatar michellc says:

    I was only half listening to the local news this morning, but apparently a new thing for car thieves is to hack the computer on your car.
    I guess the old days of hot wiring are over and now you just need a phone or tablet and can unlock the doors and start the engine and be on your way.

    It kind of reminds me of this guy I know who always has to have the latest new thing, he had a new security system installed at his house, coming equipped with his thermostat, electronics, and lights connected to it. About a month ago he started coming home to his lights on and his house like a sauna. He at first called a HVAC company thinking it was something wrong with his thermostat turning itself to heat instead of cool. They told him they couldn’t find anything wrong and should call the company who tied all of it together since his lights were also coming on.
    The company discovered his system had been hacked, but promised they had fixed the problem.

    I don’t really understand how all that works, if there is a password or what, but the hacker managed to hack it again within a week or so said the company when he came home to a sauna again.
    I don’t know if it’s really getting hacked or if it’s faulty, but it does kind of make me laugh because I’m a dinosaur who likes to unlock my door with a key, set my own thermostat and as far as lights go the most I’ve ever needed is a timer to turn on and off lamps. He gives me a hard time telling me I need to catch up, but when I come home nobody or no computer has turned my heater on when it’s 100 degrees outside. lol

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    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

      “…., but apparently a new thing for car thieves is to hack the computer on your car.”

      It’s only new to the media that’s making it new again.

      “… The company discovered his system had been hacked, …

      Also, not new. I would have to look, but I think I started reading about smart home hacking around 2005. Anything connected to the internet or a neighbors with WiFi or Bluethooth (Car, phone, tablet, dishwasher, refrigerator, thermostat, burglar alarm, baby monitor, video game system, digital picture frame, pedometer, television, bathroom scale, electrical power meter, water meter, roku etc.)

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:

        But I should quit being a dinosaur and be able to control everything at the click of my fingers, while others do the same. Outside of Roku and computer, nothing in my house is connected to the internet.
        As for the car they said something about the insurance industry putting this out that there is an uptick of new cars being stolen by thieves using technology.

        Why I love my old truck and old car, no computer anywhere to be found.

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        • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

          “Outside of Roku and computer, nothing in my house is connected to the internet.”

          Depends upon how new the appliances in your home are. Flat panel/LCD digital tuner TV? Is it hooked to your Roku? It’s actually another computer in your home that you have limited control over.

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          • michellc's avatar michellc says:

            You can still buy new appliances that aren’t computerized. That was my #1 requirement when we had to break down and buy a new deep freezer.

            Outside of that though, most of my appliances are older, because I like it that way.

            I do believe the tv in the front room is LCD, not a smart tv though, but because I’m a tight wad and was told my the electric company that electronics plugged in but turned off still use electric, the televisions get unplugged when not in use.

            I’m telling you I’m a true dinosaur and I try my best to remain that way. If my televisions start turning themselves on and off, I will use them for target practice.

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:

        I had someone call me yesterday wanting me to put in a “free” security system and all I had to do was allow them to put a sign in my yard.
        I told them I had a security system, a camera that records anyone coming up my drive, dogs and lots of guns and that nobody was going to see their sign in my yard. They followed on with their sales pitch about how this would notify them and the police. I told them I knew how to dial 911 and would do so after one of us took care of the threat.

        I hate that these telemarketers now use cellphones.

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    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

      Look here to see if your WiFi router has already been listed by hackers.

      https://wigle.net/

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  9. michellc's avatar michellc says:

    I think I might puke.

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  10. michellc's avatar michellc says:

    These people are nuts.

    Arguably the most prominent argument made by pro-Trump conservatives is that Hillary Clinton will load up the Supreme Court with activist liberals if she’s the President. This is partially true, but there’s a more important thing to consider: the scenarios. Let’s look at those scenarios to understand why the best-case-scenario among likely outcomes in this election cycle for the Supreme Court is if Trump loses by a huge margin.

    http://soshable.com/to-save-scotus-trump-must-lose-bigly/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

      Arguably the most prominent argument?

      Forget where did the scholar go to journalism school, where did they go to junior high school? My seventh grade teacher would have hammered me upside the head for that. In the seventh grade she ignored everything we had already learned, insisted we start from scratch. At the beginning of the year we learned to write sentences properly, and we could diagram one with every complex phrase you can imagine. Then she taught us how to write a paragraph. Then a letter, then short papers with different themes. She told us in the fall our final grade would be heavily dependent on a college level research paper. She taught us how to research, what a proper source was. We had to turn in an outline, we had to turn in index cards with our sources, which later became our bibliography. So, by the end of the seventh grade most of us were able to write a true college paper, which she graded with rigorous standards.

      I wish I hadn’t forgotten so much of what she taught me. I still write okay but I have forgotten some grammar rules. We sent our sons through parochial schools, and they never learned to write as well as I was taught in junior high school. One son is pretty good at writing, and he once acknowledged my tutoring on Facebook to one of his old teachers who complimented his skill. It was a proud moment for me.

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  11. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Hillary is truly pathological. Here is what she said to a Latino audience.

    Just as I responded to the question, my first experience working on behalf of Latinos was, well actually, even before I was a legal services lawyer, through my church, I babysat Latino kids on Saturdays while their parents and older siblings went to the fields outside of my home in Chicago, which used to be, hard to believe now, miles of farmland.

    It was my first real lesson in how much more we all have in common. There I was 11 or 12 years-old, babysitting these little kids, and at the end of the day the old ramshackle bus stopped at the end of the road and the parents and the older brothers and sisters got out and these little kids just broke loose and started running down that road with their arms outstretched calling for their mother and their fathers and getting swept up in very tired arms.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:

      Considering that she grew up in Park Ridge in the 1950’s and 60’s, she was far from any farm land, much less migrant workers. Migrant workers in that time period were as likely to be black or white as Hispanic, by the way.

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:

        No way, are implying that Hillary is lying?

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        • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

          I think even her voters don’t expect the truth from her anymore. And they don’t care.

          I have met two people in my life who would tell a lie in front of me or other people who knew they were lying, and expected we would go along with it. It’s rare, even among liars, to find one who will lie in front of witnesses who know better, people who have no reason to support the liar or the lie. They are a special breed.

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          • lovely's avatar lovely says:

            True. I think part of her mental health problems arise from the fact that she has to remember her lies because even though she is immune to any accountability from her followers, the FBI, or the AG she knows that Trump is lurking and it makes her very nervous.

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            • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

              I envision her durn near having a nervous breakdown when she has to stand next to Trump on the debate stage.

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              • lovely's avatar lovely says:

                I think three things here 1) Hillary will be medicated with some type of anti anxiety drug 2) she will have an undetectable transmitter in her ear so that someone (Large black SS/life coach fellow?) can speak encouraging words to her and help her with answers 3) she will without a doubt know every single question that the moderators are not only going to ask her, but are going to ask Trump so that she can be as prepared as possible and I’ll add a 4) In site of all of that Trump is going to throw her off her game and she is going to do poorly.

                Once again Trump has taken advantage of his negotiating skills. Trump knows that Hillary does not want to debate him, trump knows that Hillary needs a very structured script not to fall apart, so what does he do ? Whines and complains about the debates and the NFL competing and gets Hillary to demand that the debates take place. Now she has painted herself into a corner and can’t back out. Unless of course Bill, Chelsea or one of the little ones has a health crisis. They should all lock themselves away from TheBeast for their own safety.

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    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

      “…There I was 11 or 12 years-old, babysitting these little kids, and at the end of the day the old ramshackle bus stopped at the end of the road and the parents and the older brothers and sisters got out and these little kids just broke loose and started running down that road with their arms outstretched calling for their mother and their fathers and getting swept up in very tired arms.

      And the parents would refuse to pay me since the children told their parents how I wouldn’t feed them, forced them to stay in their room, and spent the whole day on the phone. I told the parents that the children were just upset because I was strict. The parents believed me since I didn’t leave any marks on the children, and I ate the food meant for them. They ended up paying me double and beating the children for lying. It was a good day.

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  12. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Seen on FB:

    Overheard at Whole Foods while eating lunch.

    Well coifed affluent mom on the phone apologizing to husband totally seriously: “I shouldn’t have had that toast. I’m sorry I screamed. It was the gluten talking.”

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  13. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

    No idea if this is a reliable source. If it’s trye, these UN pansies underestimate the power of bacon lovers. Every day my disgust for liberal idiots increases.

    http://yournewswire.com/un-plan-to-tax-meat-until-no-one-eats-it-anymore/

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  14. michellc's avatar michellc says:

    I just saw my new grandbaby on an ultrasound this afternoon. Too soon to know what it is, but he/she is one active little thing. He/she was kicking like a mule before deciding to do somersaults.

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:

      I couldn’t help while watching the baby move around think that other little babies at 12 weeks are being killed. Women should have to view their ultrasound and then when they see a little head, two moving little arms and two kicking little legs and they still are able to kill it they have no soul.

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:

        It’s very precious.
        I told her I felt sorry for her when the baby is big enough for her to feel those vicious kicks, because it looked like it was trying to kick it’s way out. lol

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        • lovely's avatar lovely says:

          I swore my one daughter put her feet and arms on my spine arched her back and stretched my belly to its limit. I ended up with my muscles that meet in the center of the abdomen separating during my pregnancy 🙄.

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          • michellc's avatar michellc says:

            My daughter kicked and punched my bladder constantly.
            My oldest son it felt like he was putting his toes between my ribs. My ribs still hurt even after I had him.
            Then my youngest son kicked or punched me in the spine all the time. My muscles didn’t separate, but I was in pain constantly.

            It’s not easy bringing the little rugrats into the world. 🙂

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  15. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    I have an immovable meeting to attend with someone at 6:30 which is a good thing as it will help distract me form thinking about the glorious possibility of throwing Ryan out on his dopey face.

    Here is a District 1 election results link. I just watched the local news and they said zero about D1, just an interview with someone from Milwaukee which I selectively blocked out of my mind.

    https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin%27s_1st_Congressional_District_election,_2016

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  16. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Breaking: WIkileaks Offers $20K Reward for Information on Murder of DNC Staffer Seth Rich

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/08/breaking-wikileaks-offers-20k-reward-information-murder-dnc-staffer-seth-rich/

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  17. Stella's avatar stella says:

    If this is true, it is very interesting (see above):

    BREAKING: Murdered DNC staffer was Wikileaks’ source, Assange admits in interview

    http://christiantimesnewspaper.com/breaking-murdered-dnc-staffer-was-wikileaks-source-assange-admits-in-interview/

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  18. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

    Some of God’s handiwork.
    “This C-Section Baby Just Left A Team Of Experienced Doctors Completely Stunned”
    “We had a meeting with palliative care regarding the use of life sustaining measures,” Nick said in a Facebook post. “And had detailed, awful, and emotional discussions about the ethics of when we might need to remove or cease such measures – which would result in the baby ‘passing away peacefully.’”
    http://boredomtherapy.com/baby-charlie-schnarr/?as=701aol&pas=1

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