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A happy & blessed Thursday to all!
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And to you Mary!!
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Drive-by:
The Real Existential Threats of 2016: Debt, Demography, And Diversity [Pat Buchanan]
http://www.vdare.com/articles/the-real-existential-threats-of-2016-debt-demography-and-diversity
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I got sidetracked on the VDARE LDS article. The LDS support for immigration’s not surprising, for a long time the church had brough as many new immigrant converts into the US as it could manage, it’s 19th century immigration of European converts is well know to Utah school kids who studied ‘Utah’ history and the BYU football team had a solid salting of Pacific Islanders for sometime.
I’m not as as worried about 1st generation LDS immigrants voting other than they are ‘requested’ to, even lster generations that stay with the church look at church agenda before other issues, it’s not so much they vote Left or Right, they tend to vote in their own andvthe church’s interests. I can remember old timers telling me how they’d be instructed in church mertings/services how to vote on what issues in upcoming elections. There are a lot more non-LDS in Utah now and the LDS voting base is much diluted from what it was when I was there, I wouldn’t put it padt them to bulk up their numbers with converts from the South of the Border missions. Viva la immigrants!
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Serious conversation derailment attempt No. 1
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Good effort, Nyet.
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😀 Fabulous!
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Giant Swamp Leech still leading Trump in polls, crosses tentacles and promises not to slime the electorate.
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Let Donald eat it…
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Makes me laugh every time!
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POTUS experiences
martha’s vineyard vacation.
P.S.- Soros still at the wheel.
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Nope, sorry, still leaves us discussing the present Administration.
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The winnah!
Anyway, that particular post was just a drive-by–i.e., for your reading “pleasure” (a distinctly flexible term, to be sure).
If I really want a discussion, I’ll say so. Then you can derail to your heart’s content, nyet.
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Terrific Thursday…
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I’ll do my best Impeach!!
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Owowowowow…no dear, I was admiring the printing, the PRINTING!
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💥💥💥💥 K-Boom!!! And I was reading the small print!!!!
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It says, “Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate”.
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Thanks Nye!!! Thought it said ” Call Me, I can cook”!!!
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There was small print?
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More than one day in a week;
she has more than one t-shirt. 😉
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Yeah, but his eyes ain’t ‘up here’. What? WHAT?
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Pray for Californians:
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/08/17/blue-cut-fire-devore/
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Wooly, thanks for the link.
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Prayers being said Wooly.
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And here’s a guy whose life is about to get a lot more interesting: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/man-arrested-arson-blaze-wildfire-california-a7193956.html
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Good morning y’all. Hope your Thursday is great.
No pressure nyet.
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Menagerie, Thursday, wow this week went fast!! I’m still working on Mondays list.
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Good morning! The older I get the faster time flies by. At least the week is ending on a better note than it started.
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Good morning Menagerie, say when 🙂
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Better ‘n bacon in my breakfast book.
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
(Tom Collins)
(Black & Tan)
(Boilermaker)
( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
(Irish Car Bomb)
(Godfather)
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Gin & Tonic)
(Blackberry wine)
(Backdraft)
(Flaming Dr. Pepper)
(Stinger)
(Rusty Nail)
(Jack Daniels)
(Whiskey Smash)
(B52)
(Rum & Coke)
(Night Train Express)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
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! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
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!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Pastries for coffee!
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Morning Nye, Everyone!!!! I’m grabbing a plate! Thank you, Sir!
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OK, mornin’ y’all. Strangest memory just came over me while I was reading this post.
It was 1999, a small group of us had been activated for an Asian mission and we were doing our workup at Ft Gordon, Georgia. Our meetings didn’t start until about 0900 but as Gordon’s a training post the activity starts about 0500 so a couple of us old timers decided to drag ourselves out of bed and go to early breakfast with the troops.
Gordon’s a mixed training post so the various classes contained troops from every service. As we walked up to the mess hall the vsrious leaders were marching thier chsrges to the entrance. Normally we’d let the lower ranking troops eat first but as the troop leaders like to keep group integrity we inserted ourselves between units.
We’d all been in over 30 years by then and had the usual patches and badges all over our field jackets. As just about all of the troops had been in less than a year we were a bit of a sensation. Questions flowed, especially about the combat patches on our field jacket shoulders and some of the badges as field jackets serve as portable ‘I Love Me’ walls.
Up to this time in our careers we’d felt like normal troops, judt part of the stream but today we were hearing things like: ” My grandpa was in Vietnam” and “I read about that in my history class”. I thonk my favorite was: “I wasn’t born until 1979”.
Worst part was that we all had from 12 to 18 morecyears until we could start drawing a retirement and we’d all be staying active until the last minute to max our retirement takehome. We all ate soft food that morning.
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Thank you, Nyet! Excellent selections today and foods out early, too! Nice! 😊
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Just what I had, a waffle with raisens, pecans, banana, and yogurt mixed with maple syrup. Thanks, Nyet. Mornin’ everyone.
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Mornin’!
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Good morning Nyet. Beautiful breakfast as always 🙂
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Morning Stella, Mary, Col. Ken, czar, Nyet, Menagerie, ImpeachEmAll, Wolly Phlox, lovely, Pam, Michelle, Margaret-Ann, oldiaguy, facebkwallflower, Wee, ZM, texan59, tessa50, Howie, auscitizenmom, shiloh1973 and all others who venture in today.
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Good morning!
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How are you, Menagerie?
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Great! How are you?
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I’m well, thank you! I hope you have a very good day. 🙂
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Good morning!
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Hi Michelle! How is your morning?
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It’s a normal morning around here.
How are you doing today?
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Good morning!
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How are ya, Nyet?
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Much better, thank you. I’m only now just starting to get over being afraid every time someone looks at me twice in the street . . . every time a cop looks at me . . . thinking they know.
How about you?
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Wow, Nyet! I would have never guessed! Well, we all love you here, no matter what you may have done. 😉
I’m very good. Playing with my giggly grandbaby. He’s just found out he can squeal and he thinks he’s pretty funny!
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My DIL said my granddaughter who just turned 1, loves to make weird sounds and when she discovered a strange gutteral sound, she did it so much the first day that the next day she was very hoarse.
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That’s so funny. Yesterday for the first time my little guy got jealous and so sad when I gave one of my other babies a bottle. I didn’t even know that was possible at 6 months. It’s fun to see them grow and change.
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Maybe yer fly’s open?
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oops!
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If you think I’m gonna ‘like’ this one yer mistakin’.
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Morning SAS!!!
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Good morning Col! Hope you have a great day!
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Good morning Sand&Sea, I have another full day ahead of me :).
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Morning! Busy is good! Makes the days go quicker. My grandson and the other littles I care for are keeping me hopping, keeps me young! 🙂
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And now I’m off to get things done, nothing as fun as playing with little ones 🙂
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It’s the best! Have a great day!
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Good morning! This is a very random offering from me. I ran across this music video on YouTube while looking for Donald Trump live feeds. I watched. I don’t remember this song, part of the soundtrack from a movie that I never saw (Working Girl). What caught my interest is the clothing and big hair (especially the hair) of this 1988 movie, a blockbuster Mike Nichols production with an all star cast, and six Oscar nominations.
P.S.: Carly Simon won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for this song.
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I have a photo on my wall that was taken at a Mother’s Day luncheon in the 1980’s. All of us – me, my mother, my daughter, and my cousins – have big hair.
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In Texas we like to say, the bigger the hair, the closer to God. In the 80’s Texas hair was extra large!!! 🙂
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Also, this is a great song!
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Good morning Stella!
The 90’s hair was still pretty big. I remember my niece who was a teen in the 90’s spending hours in the bathroom with a brush, comb and a gallon of hairspray. lol
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Very cool song, and Carly is so young! My heart breaks overtime I see the Twin Towers in an old movie or video.
The days of big hair. We just went though old pictures at my moms house a few weeks ago and I can’t believe how big my hair was 🙄 !
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Heck, I was still pretty young when that video was made! Yeah, my big hair wouldn’t have been possible without perms …
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My hair is naturally curly and was curlier when I was younger so it was pretty big 🙂
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Those were the days when curly was in. My hair is actually more wavy now that it’s mostly gray. Back then it was straight.
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I have two girls with beautiful curls, one straightens her hair every day, the other straightens it sometimes and then my third daughter has straight hair (and wishes that she had curly hair) 🙂 .
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Girls are so fun! I love being a mom to daughters. The hair thing is always a challenge… we always wish for the hair we don’t have, it seems.
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All three of mine are as different as night and day. It is amazing to me that they share a genetic pool.
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My girls have similar facial shapes and are both short like me, but their hair, eyes, and skin color are completely different. One dark and one blonde. Both are sweet and easy going. They are only two years apart and grew up the best of friends. That’s such a blessing.
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My wife made some comment the other day about her mother’s hairstyle coming back. (Statements like that from her always cause me to pause. Since she grew up in the USSR, and they were 10-15 years behind us in fashion, that must mean a 1940’s-50’s hairstyle for us.)
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Big, then, too. 😉
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That style of hair is very popular right now.
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I can’t believe I get to use this post twice in two years! One of my top three most favorite commercials:
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LOL! I remember that one. Funny enough there was a British band invited to play in the USSR in the 70’s. I’ve seen the tape of the concert. The audience didn’t move. There was no clapping at all.
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I remember going into the Peoples Progressive Public Housing and seeing propaganda posters plastered on tne walls, especially in the corners. I commented on how patriotic they were to have so manynposters. My host laughed and said the posters were free and covered the perling plaster/paint they couldn’t get replaced and the ones in the corners covered the drafts from where the badly mated walls dodn’t quite meet up.
Also remember being asked on the street if I had any western clothes (cotton shirts and Levis were big items) or western currency I wanted to trade at fourvor more times the official exchange rate. We’d leave packs of US gum ang European chocolate as tips for the maids.
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Isn’t that a honky Afro?
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Hillbilly Bee Hive. 😉
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Understand they’re still considered Texas semiformal.
PREPARE FOR INCOMING…….
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Fun fact.
The reason women in Texas are known of their big hair and heavy make-up is that back in the day when their was no air-conditioning make-up would melt and run in the heat and hair would droop thus the more make up you could wear without it melting and the bigger your hair could be without drooping, the wealthier you were as you could afford to be fanned and you were obviously not doing domestic chores or working.
Big hair and lots of make-up was a sign status.
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Finally, a reason
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Now ya’ know 🙂
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Sorry, can’t think Mike Nichols without adding ‘Elaine May’.
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I don’t remember the song but I do recall the movie.
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I, too.
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Imagine reading this from the US media when you wake up and look at the news:
http://www.pravdareport.com/news/hotspots/terror/18-08-2016/135367-0/
“Special operation in St. Petersburg: Terrorists destroyed:
As a result of the special operation in St. Petersburg on August 17, 29-year-old Zalim Shebzukhov was destroyed.
The fighter was the leader of a criminal group from Kabardino-Balkaria Republic. The group was a cell in international terrorist organization “Caucasus Emirate” (banned in Russia).
Two other militants were also destroyed in the special operation, RIA Novosti reports.
In total, four terrorists were neutralized as a result of a special operation on Leninsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg. They were said to be involved in a number of terrorist attacks….”
Terrorists
Destroyed (3X)
Neutralized
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Wonder if the POtuS will be sending sympathy cards?
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Another 1980’s hit – and the unofficial theme for the election:
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Excellent! Nice way to get the morning started, too. Man I miss the 80’s.
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Roger that.
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One of the things I miss most is Ronald Reagan! He was president during my junior high and high school years. What a blessing that was to grow up with him at the helm!
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Ah, I see you are just a youngster. 🙂
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Thanks, that’s sweet of you to say. 😉
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🙂
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Mornin’ kids!
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Mornin’ Wee!
My little man was over yesterday evening tearing through my front room like a tornado and he stopped long enough to listen to music on a commercial and started dancing and twisting his behind. The more I laughed at him the more he danced.
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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That’s adorable!
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He’s gotten to that age where he “performs” for a laugh. lol
Unfortunately, it’s also the age that comes with seeing what he can get away with and hating the word “no.”
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How fun! Oh yeah… I’m very familiar with the hating no thing. One of my littles is now shaking her head at me and saying no-no when she doesn’t want to do things… you know like getting her diaper changed. It’s a cute age, though. Love me some sweet babies! 🙂
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I tell my daughter that he has hit the terrible twos early. 🙂
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My first daughter totally did that! 🙂
The great thing was she had it out of her system long before she turned two.
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My son was saying “Me do” before he was one. He also fought me because he wanted to change his own diaper. By the time he was two, he was talking about getting a job. He wanted to drive and finally I had to tell him that he would get put in jail if he was caught driving without a license. So, he wanted to know how to get a drivers license and I told him he had to learn how to read. After that, his goal was to learn how to read. He kept me hopping, but he was a delight.
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He was a precocious one! Very fun! Those really intelligent kids can really keep you on your toes, but it’s never boring!
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So true. He was a handful back then, that’s for sure. But, he has grown into a confident, caring young man who makes very good decisions and isn’t the least afraid of hard work. He is a very devoted husband and father, too. I couldn’t be more proud of him.
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That’s wonderful! Well done, mom! Behind every good kid is a great parent. 🙂
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Thanks. 🙂
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😊
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One of my funniest moments in my life is after we had finished reading the long version of Pinocchio. My girls were probably 4 and 5 at the time and they loved the line “Hunger makes for a great appetite” that Pinocchio used about eating an apple core.
My daughters were never allowed to eat while we were shopping as we hadn’t paid for it and it wasn’t “ours” . One day we had been running all day and then stopped to do grocery shopping and the girls were “starving” and begging for something to eat. So we paid for loaf of bread and I allowed them to munch on bread as we were shopping, at one point in a crowded aisle the 5 year old puts the back of her hand to forehead and says very loudly “Hunger makes for a great appetite!” and proceeds to take a large bite out of her slice of bread as if I never fed her before. The 4 year old doesn’t miss a beat and says the same thing with the same dramatic motion 😀.
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That made me LOL. 😀
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I try really hard to not spoil him since I see him everyday, but it’s so hard not to.
I was a much better disciplinarian as a mom than I am as a Nana.
He’s a smart little boy and knows how tears pull on my heartstrings and also knows how hugs and kisses can break me.
His new phrase that is making it hard for Papa and Nana to say no is, “Peese, I wuv ooh.”
He’s only 19 months and imo has gotten too smart too soon. lol
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Well he sounds like a wonderful little boy! I get the harder disciplinarian issue completely, it’s hard to see those little angelic faces melt into tears. I’m just beginning to have to say no a little bit to mine. We’re Mimi and Pops and I guess when he’s older I’ll be fine with grandmother, but it seems so formal for now. Have a wonderful time with your little man today! 😊
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I was a Mimi and then one day out of the blue he started calling me Nana. The past few weeks he’s changed that to Nanny. Who knows what he’ll call me next month. lol
I hope I’m never grandmother. 🙂
Enjoy your little one as well. I never knew how much I would enjoy grandbabies. I can’t wait to find out what the next one is.
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My son heard someone on TV say “Gramps” so he told my father that was what he was going to call him. And, he did from then on. He wasn’t 18 mo yet. LOL
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I don’t know why he started calling me Mimi or Nana, but I suspect he starting calling me Nanny either because his Daddy is a turd and will call me Granny or because he heard my sister’s great-granddaughter calling her Nanny.
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LOL Remember, granmas can spoil some. It’s okay. Children know the difference between their parents and grandparents. My granma let me get away with anything when I was at her house and I knew it wouldn’t fly at home.
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I do more than my fair share of spoiling. lol
I tell my daughter it’s my right.
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Well, it is.
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My oldest daughter learned to communicate “no” by shaking her head before she was verbal, it was very funny, this tiny baby just shaking her head no 😏.
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Hehe! So cute! They just make life fun and entertaining!
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She was also my non sleeper. She was about a 18 months old and sitting on the floor of the front room holding her sippy cup, I could see her eyes getting heavy and she started nodding off. All of the sudden she kind of shook herself awake, took her sippy cup and slashed water on her face 😀 and then went about playing with her toys.
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Oh no!!!! She really did keep you on your toes. Funny girl. ;D
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And that was before she could talk much 🙄.
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One of mine still lives at home and goes to college. I’m grateful I get to see my sweet daughters everyday still. An additional perk to caring for my grandson. 🙂
It’s interesting seeing the differences between him and what my daughter was like when little. Both super smart and VERY busy! 🙂
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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From our friend, Jack Cashill:
The difference between Pravda and N.Y. Times
http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/the-difference-between-pravda-and-n-y-times/
… The list goes on and on. Times readers have no idea who Juanita Broaddrick is or Frank Marshall Davis or Nakoula Bassely Nakoula, let alone Harold Courlander.
They just know they’re a whole lot smarter than those ignorant kooks, conspiracy theorists, and – of course – racists who get their news from Fox.
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I’ll offer Ron White to go with this morning’s hair bands. 😉
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That’s funny!!
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Very funny.
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LOL!
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Get a tortoise or a tree 😀
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That’s so great!
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It looks like they did it again. A white St. Louis Police Department Major is suing the City for reverse discrimination.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/multimedia/major-michael-caruso-sues-police-chief-sam-dotson-city/pdf_dd817b50-58a2-5920-ae40-df481c2ec57c.html
A PDF of law suit.
Click to access 57b4cf6f092cc.pdf.pdf
Special promotion practices for blacks goes way back. However, starting in the early 90’s white officers started to defend their rights by suing the Board of Police Commissioners when they “cluster jumped” and went down a “cluster” to promote the chief’s son (black). EEOC investigated the case and issued a right to sue letter to the officers. Prior to trial the Board worked out an agreement to promote the officers who had been passed over.
I can’t find the specific case, but the incident is reference in these two articles.
http://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/police-promotions-protested/article_f2acce00-e374-11e2-af43-001a4bcf887a.html
“On September 19, 1994, the Police Board entered into a conciliation agreement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The Police Board agreed to promote to sergeant eight white men who were eligible for promotion in the 1991/92 cycle, but who were passed over through a process called “cluster-dipping,” that is, the Police Board promoted African-American officers from a lower cluster when there remained white officers eligible for promotion in a higher cluster. While these eight promotions were retroactive to the 1991/92 promotion cycle, the vacancies did not occur until the 1993/94 cycle.”
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-8th-circuit/1306611.html
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Take Care
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It’s part of a poorly thought out process of higher-ups ‘equalizing’ systems without worrying about consequences until they crap in their yards.
In the 70s after the draft was gone and Virtnam was wound-down it was almost impossible to get bodies to enlist. In desperation DoD made a pactvwith Job Corps and weekly we’d get busses of Job Corpses in to test wholesale. We’d be lucky to get 10% to pass the test and 10% of them to enlist. More than a few of those ‘lean days’ enlistees were a problem over the years. So many failed the standard tests for promotions that the Army did away with testings and promoted on far ‘squishier’ beses. One of our major promotion criterion was acreport from our headquarters on the racial/gender construct of leadership versus the racial/gender construct of the command. Same with medals, the report listed awards by race/gender and if we wanted to give someone a medal for accomplishments and that award would have skewed the stats against the ‘persons of status’ some sort of adjustment had to be made.
It’s become so pervasive a process you just learn to live with it.
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Remember Vinko Bogataj ? The agony of defeat? Seems he went on to become a successful artist.
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/happened-agony-defeat-ski-jumper/story?id=41406621
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Sigh.
They’ve resorted to naked Trump statues on street corners in major cities across the US. Of course there is one a few blocks from me.
http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2016/08/chs-pics-the-e-pike-naked-trump-memorial-parklet/
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You have all the luck Nyet 😂.
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I saw that on Twitter. Just gross. So sorry, Nyet. ☹️
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You’re sorry? Someone is running a live feed from their apartment window and all the people are stopping and taking selfies with it. SMH.
Even if you don’t like Trump, why would you want to document yourself with something like that?
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I’m sorry you have to see it. It’s really sick.
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I don’t have to see it in person or anything. I have no reason to walk that direction on that block.
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Well at least there’s that. 👍🏻
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Actually, thinking about it. It’s a really stupid area to leave it here. It’s a block or so away from the hippy/OWS college in the bar/pub crawl area. It may not survive overnight or past Friday. It is a block away from the police station though. They should have left it where the tourists would see it in the downtown core next to Macy’s. Nobody but drunk 20 somthings will see it where it is.
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Well…They’re Bernie and Hillary folks. So it’s fitting.
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I looked at the live feed again. I don’t want to believe it, but people took the children to down for pictures with the naked Trump.
On a side note, the Trump statue seems to be drawing more of a crowd than the “live” Hilary.
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Wow! What a bunch of degenerates. Well… at least it’s not a naked Hillary! Barf!
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I just asked when naked Hillary would appear.
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The blog owner made the comment in the past that he leans towards socialism, and has deleted posts he doesn’t like.
I wouldn’t expect much more than silly arguments from people.
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HA! I just told Mrs. Nyet about the statue and she asked the same question you did.
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Do not Google
naked Hillary.
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😬
Cross my heart.
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Someone drove up in a pickup and took it away about 5pm PST. The local TV news comment is telling; “But like all good things. It wasn’t to last”.
http://komonews.com/news/local/why-naked-donald-trump-is-in-capitol-hill
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Good grief, imagine the MSM and their minions losing their minds if someone pulled this stunt with dough girl HRC?
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Further update. It got moved into a store. off the street for protection as public art…….
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Remember when thevpress crucified Bush II for flying over New Orleans during the Kstrina flooding and not stopping by? Well with the Louisiana flooding being called the worst national disaster since hurricane Sandy there was a call for the POtuS to stop by ob his way back from his endless golf games and provide some moral support.
Nope, ain’t gonna do that and the press is cocering for him. He could land at Belle Chasse Joint Reserve base as Reagan did where National Guard choppers could fly him to the flood sites, the state’s new liberal Rat gov could even accompany him….nope. Louisiana is a red state after all, even if hoards of his bros are bobbing in the flood waters. Things to do, people to see in DC…..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/18/heres-why-president-obama-isnt-stopping-his-vacation-to-visit-the-louisiana-flooding/
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Bush II also came back and visited Nola.
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Right, but the press spun that by saying he did it after they excoriated him for his uncaring flyby/flyover. FEMA misled him and he trusted his underlings to do their jobs. Once he discovered the magnitude of their mishandling of what the press even, on one hand, admitted was an unparalelled disaster there was nothong he could donto keep the parasitic MSM vermin from dumping all of the Katrina blame on him.
The NOLA airport was a disaster on the day Bush flew over (31 August) and Belle Chasse was the only operating air base in the immediate area, and the city was still in whose ever hands had a gun. The police infrastructure was a shambles: no contact between officers, no commo, officers left and right abandoned the city, all police offices except one on the west side of the river were flooded, the city was still awash…exactly what was he going to do?
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Go fishing?
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Simply put Obama is a filthy pig.
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Let’s not get wrapped up in the emotion of the monent and start insulting pigs.
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I thought about that, my apologies to pigs.
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Apology accepted, pass the bacon
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And what if Mike finds out I passed the bacon to you instead of him? I think you are being a little dismissive of my safety.
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Shouldn’t be a problem, I’ll just hold him off with garlic, silver or puns, whichever works.
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Probably the puns.
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Definately the puns, the garlic will go nicely with the bacon.
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Yes, that comment should probably be deleted before ZM sees it! 😯 /s
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He’ll get over it by breakfast.
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Yeah, probably just dangle a piece of bacon in front of him.
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I say we eat the bacon and go for the garlic/silver/puns.
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Heads up. Over at CTH someone just posted address and phone number of home for the jewelry girls. MrTim https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/08/18/stunningly-unprofessional-tacky-and-rude-jewelry-co-crude-snark-toward-customer-ivanka-trump/comment-page-2/#comment-2841368.
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Doesn’t surprise me. I read someone over there suggesting to hack their website or something.
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I thought maybe some here might see and decide to remove before got too publicly spread. Just so not CTH to do that. (Can’t think of the word for the action of posting private addresses and phones and it is driving me nuts!)
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Doxing. And, I hope an admin takes care of it soon.
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Doxing.
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Running late today. Hello everyone. I have been working on plumbing today. I wish I could say it was a complete success. Now, where did I put that mop!
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Czar, While Hillary snoozes and boozes and Obama kneels toward Mecca when not golfing, Mr. Trump is going to be visiting Louisiana flood victims tomorrow. Maybe I missed it but are you and yours safe and sound. Prayers.
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Just the fact that a man who could potentially be president has this much hope in America literally makes me weep.
https://twitter.com/LazieDaize/status/766470539141668868
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