General Discussion, Friday, September 2, 2016

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  1. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Well, been a while since I done did this…

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  2. ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:

    A day early;
    but…

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

    Stella, great picture of the Milky Way!!!! Unless your out west, and no light pollution the Milky Way in all its glory is rarely seen. Was thi photo taken along the shore of the UP, or Lake Superior? Thank you……

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:

      Pt Betsie Lighthouse, near Frankfort MI (Lake Michigan, not far from Traverse City) – south end of Sleeping Bear Dunes.

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

      We’re about 15 miles from the closest source of light pollution so, on a moonless night, we get a very clear of the lens of the Milky Way. On those rare occasions where the area has a blackout the view’s even better. Having lived in the city for so long we forgot what a night sky looked like; during Katrina those who’d stayed behind got to look at clear night skies for weeks.

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  4. ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:

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  6. 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 – Single Barrel )
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_| (Tom Collins)
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_| (Black & Tan)
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_| (Boilermaker)
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| ( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_| (Irish Car Bomb)
    Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_| (Godfather)
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Gin & Tonic)
    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! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
    Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_| (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_| (Stinger)
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_| (Rusty Nail)
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_| (Whiskey Smash)
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_| (Rum & Coke)
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_| (Night Train Express)
    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!

    Doughnuts and coffee!

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  7. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    Mornin’ kids!

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  8. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Well these co-conspirators are not going to see the light of day for a very very long time.

    http://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/malheur-occupation-trial-evidence-allowed/

    Judge Details Malheur Occupation Evidence Allowed At Trial

    Brown made it clear that under the alleged conspiracy, each defendant will be responsible for the statements made by all other defendants both before and during the occupation.

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  9. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Total trivia:

    For those who liked Downton Abbey, PBS has a marathon on this weekend; all six seasons, in order, starting at 9:00 pm EDT tonight.

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  11. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

    OMG I just nearly died……..laughing. Kaepernick was doing a press conference and he said this, “We were talking to him about how can we get the message back on track, and, not take away from the military. And, as we talked about it, we came up with taking a knee. And, I think what I did was taken out of context and taken a different way.” How is taking a knee better than sitting? Is this football player thinking? How does this guy manage to get his clothes on in the morning? I have a feeling that his new squeez has a hold of his head and he can’t think straight.

    This clip doesn’t cover that exact quote of what he said, but I think it was the same press conf.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ekrjeAV_F8

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  12. Hope he gets a pink slip soon! Then, of course, he’ll blame racism and not his poor performance and stupid behavior.

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  13. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:

    The sun is out, there is a wonderful breeze in the air, beguiling, whispering of the fall wonders to come. The creek placidly meanders along it’s late summer way. It’s only in the seventies, just a perfect, perfect day.

    And off I go to work. Ah well, it’s good to be able to work, and to have a job I really like.

    Happy weekend y’all. Get Wee to pass a drink out in my honor tonight.

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  14. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Seen on Facebook:

    So my work associate pointed this out today and I wanted to share.

    This is the same paper, same date but from different markets. One geared to help sway the Austin Liberals and the other from a clearly more conservative market. Read the difference in headlines. Crazy!!! (September 1, 2016)

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:

      Photo Credit: @bradleyguidry via Instagram
      Location: Austin Executive Airport (KEDC)

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    • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:

      Wow, that’s amazing. I knew there were some regional differences but had no idea it was this stark. I once had a second job delivering the WSJ from 4-6 am five days a week, back in the 80s in Seattle. Didn’t last long, I’ve never been much of a morning person.

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  15. Stella's avatar stella says:

    For Col. Ken and Czar:

    63-Year-Old Vet Sniper Returns From Retirement To Take On ISIS – Drops 174 ISIS Fighters In Just…

    http://usherald.com/63-year-old-vet-sniper-comes-back-retirement-take-isis-drops-174-isis-fighters-just/#

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

      Sigh…if it weren’t for obligations…

      Then again, we may well be needed here.

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

        Yes, unfortunately. 😦

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

        Czar’s right! Going to be plenty of action here. When Obola/Hilllabeast try to steal the election and they are caught red handed. if I could still do that grunt stuff, would have joined that all female Kurdish unit. JohnP would post pictures of those babes. I could give them lessons , then some more lessons……..

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

          Yeah, you and Nyet have been working on setting me up with straight lines.

          I find nothing wrong with being proactive. When the city of New Orleans lied to us and plopped a few hundred Section 8 apartments into our area we started buolding safe rooms and safe (bullet resistant) areas. Out here we know how to incorporate defensive measures into our finctional landscape; trees, ditches, plowed areas, all of those things that are part of our regular existence can be woven into barriers with a minimum of work. Were rustlers to start rustling about 5 minutes of work turns the street into an unusable chokepoint. It can be made temporarily unusable or unusable for varying periods depending upon the need.

          We gotta lotta possible scenarios out here, many triggered by the Katrina evacuee mess, and quite a few folks have worked up personsl defense plans as police are spread thinly during the best of times.

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  16. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

    I just got an email about the Gosnell movie. It is ready and there is going to be a private showing in Washington, D.C.
    “GOSNELL Film Screeningand Meet-and-Greet with Producer Ann McElhinney
    Thursday, September 87:30-9:30 p.m.Empire Ballroom – Omni Shoreham Hotel
    2500 Calvert St NW, Washington, DC 20008
    Please share our Facebook event page with your friends: https://www.facebook.com/events/1420010514681870/?active_tab=highlights
    GOSNELL is a feature film about America’s most prolific serial killer and the fight to bring him to justice. Dr. Kermit Gosnell is currently serving three life sentences for murdering babies and patients at his “House of Horrors” abortion clinic. Starring “Young Superman” Dean Cain, GOSNELL shows how the political establishment knew of his activities but allowed Gosnell to keep killing because they did not want to shine a negative spotlight on abortion. The GOSNELL movie was made possible by a record-breaking crowdfunding campaign when 29,000 people gave a total of $2.3 million.
    Here’s what our president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, had to say about GOSNELL:
    “Everyone needs to see the Gosnell movie particularly young people. I can’t recommend this movie more strongly. The Gosnell movie faces viewers with the brutality and inhumanity of abortion and it achieves this in a movie that looks as good as any Hollywood film. This movie will change hearts and minds about abortion. It needs to be available widely.”
    “We hope you will join us for this very special event!”

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  17. Stella's avatar stella says:

    Seen on Facebook (Robert Chandler):

    Brazil, Had by Far the Largest Number of Slaves in the 18th & 19th Centuries: Around 4,000,000 to 5,000,000

    Yet I never hear ANYONE protest Brazil and its egregious record.

    Slavery was not ended in Brazil until 1888.

    Cuba, that bastion of freedom that football player wore a T-shirt for the other day. They didn’t abolish slavery until 1886 – 21 years after the U.S. did.

    “according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World.

    “10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America.

    And how many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America? Only about 388,000. That’s right: a tiny percentage.

    In fact, the overwhelming percentage of the African slaves were shipped directly to the Caribbean and South America;

    Brazil received 4.86 million Africans alone!

    I’m waiting to hear a black football player, or anybody else fond of protesting,

    start protesting the Arabs and demanding reparations from them.

    They were the greatest African slave traders of the last 500 years.

    http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/2014/01/how_many_slaves_came_to_america_fact_vs_fiction/

    (Note that the source is a liberal black man – Obama’s buddy)

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

      If I remember correctly from Western CIV. History, the Colonies were 3rd or 4th in importing Africans. Think the Caribbean was 1st. Thank you Stelle, brings back memories of reading real history, with a flashlight, as it was “lights out” at 2130 on a school night when growing up……

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

    Hey it’s Friday!!!! Bar, Beer, Ladies dancing, good music, good friends, good times……. Or did everyone leave for the last long weekend of summer?

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  19. Stella's avatar stella says:

    As WeeWeed always says: Bar!! Beer!!

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  20. Stella's avatar stella says:

    And this one is for Tex …

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  21. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Don’t know if I’m alone here but I’m really getting sick and tired of hearing the pols we elect being referred to as ‘our elected leaders’. Aside from the fact that leaders lead and far too many of these elected clowns misread the job description and confused the verb with the noun, it sounds like we’re the livestock and they’re the ranchers.

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