General Discussion, Monday, September 19, 2016

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Stella

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  1. MaryfromMarin says:
    September 19, 2016 at 12:28 am

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  2. ImpeachEmAll says:
    September 19, 2016 at 12:57 am

    Socialism: The path to success lacks sunlight
    and well intended thoughts go ever so wrong.

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  3. ImpeachEmAll says:
    September 19, 2016 at 1:09 am

    Cause for pause…

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    • czarowniczy says:
      September 19, 2016 at 1:12 am

      ‘Swhat happens when you let the whores and drunks supervise the whores and drunks. .

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      • Col(R) Ken says:
        September 19, 2016 at 2:55 am

        👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

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        • czarowniczy says:
          September 19, 2016 at 9:47 am

          That small screen problem agin’….them’s thumbs, right?

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        • czarowniczy says:
          September 19, 2016 at 10:31 am

          BTW, two weeks ago I ordered a trailer hitch adapter for the 3-point on my tractor. Ordered it just before noon and actually had it in hand by noon the next day. Last week I ordered a 6-foot backhoe attachment with thumb from the same company. Ordered it at 4 PM on Wednesday and would have received it on Friday had the rain not been so bad, getting it today instead.
          Company is outside of Memphis, I’m on the coast. They are about half the price of the big tractor places, are more eager to please the customer than the other major tractor players and dhopping/lift gate charges are included in the purchase price.
          This is an American company, a lot of their farm supply stuff’s made on-site. I got more customer service on hold than most of the Big Boys give you when you’re sitting in their offices. Not that often I deal with a non-local farm supply, or even a local one that represents the Big Boys, and not come away feeling like I’ve just gone forca dip in the septic.

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          • shiloh1973 says:
            September 19, 2016 at 12:44 pm

            Could I have the name of the company?

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            • czarowniczy says:
              September 19, 2016 at 12:59 pm

              Disclaimer: I have nonfinancial connection to this company nor am I actively promoting their products , I’m just floored by their services. If you’re farming you know what it’s like to buy hardware and customer service frequently makes the process resemble a colonoscopy by a chimpanzee without benefit of anesthetic.

              http://www.palletforks.com

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              • shiloh1973 says:
                September 19, 2016 at 3:26 pm

                Thanks. I do not have any large companies near me. Closest is about 35 miles.

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                • czarowniczy says:
                  September 19, 2016 at 4:31 pm

                  Yeah, I have mine 15 or more miles away and I don’t have a great assortment to choose from. I have to go through the usual ” it’ll work pretty well if change your task, don’t expect as much and stand like this” routine. If they have to special order it’s a couple of weeks or better.
                  These guys just surprised me with having what I needed, delivery and lift gate charges included in the purchase price. I have some minor digging to do and the six-foot,
                  especially with the thumb, at half of what local dealers were asking for one without the thumb, was a deal. There’s also that piece you have to go through where they don’t have what you want but do have a ten-footer out back they haven’t managed to sell and twist your ear telling you how this piece is really what you need, they’ll throw in free hoses yada yada yada.

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      • Col(R) Ken says:
        September 19, 2016 at 2:56 am

        👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

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  4. ImpeachEmAll says:
    September 19, 2016 at 2:19 am

    Homeless guys may have saved many lives…

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  5. ImpeachEmAll says:
    September 19, 2016 at 2:49 am

    Please remember,

    Freedom is not Free…

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    • nyetneetot says:
      September 19, 2016 at 8:40 am

      The problem is that there is no E-Mail from anyone directing the CEO of that company to do the things he asked others guidance for.
      While there may be a connection between the one request and a specific customer (Hillary), there is no way to prove he isn’t just showing his personal support for a customer that pays a lot of money on time.

      Personally, I think the questions add to the already large mountain of evidence his company’s inability to provide competent technical services of any level.

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    • nyetneetot says:
      September 19, 2016 at 10:20 am

      The tweet needs to be rewritten.
      He was asked to do something? By whom? Why was he asked? Who is being accused of what?

      He asked how to do something? I’d change the “ASKED TO STRIP …” to “ASKED HOW2 STRIP …”

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  7. ImpeachEmAll says:
    September 19, 2016 at 3:48 am

    Blue Lives Matter…

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  8. nyetneetot says:
    September 19, 2016 at 7:24 am

    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!

    Pastries for coffee!

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  9. WeeWeed says:
    September 19, 2016 at 8:05 am

    The smartest woman in the world…… !! Mornin’ kids!

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  10. derk says:
    September 19, 2016 at 8:09 am

    Good Mornin’ Nyet, lovely breakfast, thank you.

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  11. derk says:
    September 19, 2016 at 8:23 am

    Good Morning Stellars, betcha all want one of these.

    Good test subject for your “intentionally exploding devices”.

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  12. Menagerie says:
    September 19, 2016 at 8:39 am

    It’s that time of year again folks. I urge you to take care of your health. Due to my own diligence I believe I shouldn’t have a case of the flu until 2061.

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  13. czarowniczy says:
    September 19, 2016 at 12:54 pm

    Ahmad Khan Rahami, wanted for questioning in the NY and NJ bombings, has been captured in Elizabeth, NJ after a shootout. Two cops and Rahami were shot.
    Seems Rahami’s family owns a fried chicken store there, though no word on if Ahmad had any part in it. Apologists quickly mentioned that Ahmad’s family was on the receiving end of religious persecution in the city, were arrested for simply recording a police interview and had to sue the city for harassing their business. No specifics but we don’t need them, we clearly see what the POtuS would see as ongoing institutional American racism.
    Meanwhile, de Blasio is saying the investigation into the NY bombing ‘is definitely leaning’ in the direction of terrorism. Wobder If he’s formed any opinions about 911?

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  14. Wooly Phlox says:
    September 19, 2016 at 2:30 pm

    http://www.independentsentinel.com/latino-activist-who-criticized-trumps-comments-about-mexican-rapists-arrested-for-rape/

    You can’t make this stuff up, folks.

    It reminded me of the Muslim dude who had a public access cable channel devoted to correcting ignorant western ideas about Islam, who was feted by the elite NYT/NPR crowd, then beheaded his wife. I was like, “Yup.” Nodding my head at the news, then shaking my head sadly at the idiocy of those who surround me.

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  15. Wooly Phlox says:
    September 19, 2016 at 2:55 pm

    I’m thinking about starting a kickstarter project, asking for donations so that I can come up with however many millions of dollars it will take the Geniuses in I.T. to come up with a reliable predictor of how long it will take for your download to complete. In 45 minutes, my “time remaining” will say “43 minutes”. And it’s been this way since the dawn of the internet.

    Why is this? You say, varying bandwidth and computing power on either side of the transaction. I say, ok, programming geniuses, learn the bandwidth on both sides, for the user, and at varying times of the day, week, or year.

    Or perhaps companies who write programs which tell us how long we have to wait are all on Colored People Time, in which case I must just smile and say, oh well! at least their companies are Diverse. I mean, who cares about a product that works, right? Diversity is paramount.

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    • Wooly Phlox says:
      September 19, 2016 at 2:59 pm

      CPT is real, folks.

      I downloaded Fallout 4 the other day. The whole time, I was being told I had two hours or so remaining. The number kept changing over the next six hours, but not by more than a few seconds. Not until hour five or so did it start going down substantially.

      CPT means multiply whatever time estimate they give you by a factor of three. At least.

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      • Wooly Phlox says:
        September 19, 2016 at 3:08 pm

        Say I walk into Wal-Mart, on December 24, at 8:00 PM. The place is a hornet’s nest.

        The Greeter says to me, upon entry, “Hi! The checkout lines are really fast tonight!”

        I then wait 3 hours in line.

        The Greeter was lying. Then she keeps coming up to me and telling me I only have 43 minutes left until I can be served.

        What company would keep this employee?

        That employee wrote the algorithm that tells us how much time we have remaining on a flippin’ download. They’re probably in a protected class, so i can’t complain.

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        • Wooly Phlox says:
          September 19, 2016 at 3:23 pm

          When your technology becomes worse and worse over time, this is the reason: every one of your tech companies have made Diversity their primary goal, not profit.

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          • Col(R) Ken says:
            September 19, 2016 at 3:33 pm

            Ask Nye…… It’s designed this way…..captive audience……

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          • nyetneetot says:
            September 19, 2016 at 11:07 pm

            Actually, diversity is only lately. It was always make a quick buck at the expense of everyone else. Most new products on the shelves for consumers to buy are older components assembled in a new case. Programming is so inefficient now that new computers spend most of their time looping through useless code before doing anything meaningful.

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    • nyetneetot says:
      September 19, 2016 at 10:55 pm

      It wasn’t always this way. But it was before windows that the computer wasn’t doing other things at the same time as your download. 1MB took about 55-56 minutes via X-modem almost to the second.
      As I recall the story, the whole download time remaining in MS Windows was a guess from the very beginning. There were too many things outside of the connection established speed to factor in and line noise was a big X factor. Mostly it was all the other programs running checking mouse cursor location and screen redraws. Now it’s become even more complicated as computers are faster untold numbers of programs running at the same time using recourses. To top it off, programmers are even more lazy than ever before and write horribly inefficient programs/apps.

      It would add to the download time significantly for the computer to constantly read all conditions and update your download time more than it does.

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  16. Wooly Phlox says:
    September 19, 2016 at 3:26 pm

    Our kitchen is the best crew we’ve had in 9 years.

    Diversity isn’t our goal, but it’s also the most diverse kitchen we’ve ever had.

    Making the boss big heap profit is our goal. Diversity wasn’t even in the top five goals.

    It just happened.

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  17. lovely says:
    September 19, 2016 at 3:26 pm

    I was in a waiting room today. Some ignorant rude SJW sat down across from me and started watching something on her phone without using headphones. It was very loud.

    She was unresponsive to “the look.” 🤔

    So I keyed up a Trump rally, turned the volume up on my phone, got up and sat down right next to her and started watching it 😜.

    Heh, heh, if looks could kill I would be dead.

    She told me she was listening to something. I said “Yes and you’re forcing everyone else to listen to it, that is the problem.”

    She huffed, turned her phone off and got up and moved to a new chair, never made eye contact with me once.

    So far a good day 😎

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    • Col(R) Ken says:
      September 19, 2016 at 3:30 pm

      Lovely, you are priceless!!!!!

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    • sandandsea2015 says:
      September 19, 2016 at 11:50 pm

      You crack me up, lovely!!! Bravo for your spunk!

      Also…Hope your pup is getting better with each day!!!

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      • lovely says:
        September 20, 2016 at 7:09 am

        Thanks S &S 🙂 .Some days I would have not gone as far as I did, I would have simply asked her to turn it off, but yesterday I just had the feeling she was more likely to turn it up if I asked her anything and I was just not in the mood so I figured something in a more teachable vein would be a good idea 🙂 .

        Iggy is doing great, all medications done, she is spry and irritating her dog sister, her teeth look great and she doesn’t seem to be in any pain. I’m introducing dry food back into her diet, so far so good. Thanks for asking.

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        • sandandsea2015 says:
          September 20, 2016 at 8:55 am

          I admire your courage to stand up for yourself and the other folks there. Sometimes I’m feisty that way, but I definitely have to be in a certain frame of mind to do it.

          I’m so glad to hear Miss Iggy (love her name) is back to normal. 😊

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          • lovely says:
            September 20, 2016 at 9:13 am

            Sometimes I’m feisty that way, but I definitely have to be in a certain frame of mind to do it.

            Same here. Though I am definitely getting less tolerant of idiots.

            I learned the trick of getting up and moving next to someone when I was dating a Marine. We were at a movie theater and the couple behind us kept talking, my boyfriend asked them to stop and the chap told my boyfriend that if he didn’t like it he should change his seat. My Marine stood up on the seat of the chair stepped over it and sat down right next to the loud mouth. The chatty Cathies never said another word 😀.

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            • sandandsea2015 says:
              September 20, 2016 at 9:18 am

              The older I get, the more I just say whatever I’m thinking, but I do fear it might get me in a bind someday. 😉
              Sounds like an awesome boyfriend to me! God bless those guys, wish more men had that kind of honor code!

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              • lovely says:
                September 20, 2016 at 9:37 am

                You know I feel the same way. When I’m in Chicago and see BLM idiots with their pictures of the Trayvons and Michael Browns of the world I don’t say to them what I would like to say because I value my life and the lives of the people with me. That said, I have always spoken my mind but respected people in their ignorance also. Now not so much. Today ignorance is getting people killed so I say more. Most people shut up quickly.

                I definitely don’t go around confronting people willy-nilly but I definitely call people out on their ignorant rude behavior because it isn’t something that is happening in a bubble.

                Just last night I was at a social function and a woman said that she is a mentor for a company and her job is to coach and guide mentors below her through practices that the company frowns on in online chats with customers such as personal family talk, religion, and then as a joke she said or voting for Trump. I asked her if she can encourage them to vote for the woman who let 4 men die in Benghazi and who accepts millions of dollars from Muslim countries while simultaneously claiming to be an advocate for women. It was uncomfortable for a moment but because of the setting the subject was changed and nothing more came of it.

                That is something likely I would not have done 6 months ago. Today is a new day.

                I am tired of morons, not because they are morons but because they are dangerous.

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                • sandandsea2015 says:
                  September 20, 2016 at 9:58 am

                  I commend you for that. We definitely need to stop the PC garbage that has infected the minds of many. It’s getting folks killed nowadays. Scary stuff. I think Trump has really opened a lot of eyes with his calling out the political correctness and made folks less afraid to challenge that kind of thinking. It’s like people have had a veil lifted and can see how far society has fallen. Time to take our country back! 🇺🇸

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    • Wooly Phlox says:
      September 21, 2016 at 1:52 pm

      You rock, lovely!

      Helps to have a louder phone too, and perhaps a 8-D-Cell bluetooth subwoofer-speaker combo. Yes, ghetto blasters still exist.

      Everyone needs one of these. For situations like that.

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      • lovely says:
        September 21, 2016 at 2:04 pm

        Thanks Wooly 🙂 I’d like to know the spin she put on her bad behavior when she told her friends the story of the crazy lady who harassed her with a Trump video 😱.

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  18. Col(R) Ken says:
    September 19, 2016 at 3:37 pm

    Stella….how can I get a little sugar time on that bench, with a sweetie, looking at that beautiful bridge. When you are behind me taking pictures!!!!!!
    Just kidding….. Excellent engineering…….

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  19. michellc says:
    September 19, 2016 at 3:58 pm

    Just got home from the ultrasound………………………

    It’s a somersaulting, kicking and punching……………baby girl. 🙂

    Nanny’s going to be in Nanny heaven buying ruffles and lace.

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  21. czarowniczy says:
    September 19, 2016 at 4:59 pm

    How things go around here: took the ATV down to check the mailbox and, half way down the driveway, is a skinny male basset hound, collr but no tag. Appears that soneone else without the guts to take their dog to the pound has dumped it here.

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    • WeeWeed says:
      September 19, 2016 at 5:20 pm

      Awwwwww…… starving to death, no doubt.

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      • czarowniczy says:
        September 19, 2016 at 5:23 pm

        Skinny and definately looking for its people. I put out food and water, if I can’t find a ‘lost’ notice it’s off to the humane society, we’re totally dogged out here.

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        • michellc says:
          September 19, 2016 at 8:07 pm

          At least you have somewhere to take them, we’re always stuck with doing something. Some we can save and find homes, others we can’t.
          I sure wish folks would learn just because you dump them off in the country doesn’t mean they will find a home.
          We saw a mixed breed black dog that was skin and bones and looked to have mange when we were coming home today. It was running down the dirt road. Not very charitable of me I know, but I sure hope he finds someone else. It would be kinder to the dog if they would just put them down rather than dump them off.

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          • czarowniczy says:
            September 19, 2016 at 11:06 pm

            Our little shelter has a deal with out-of-state agencies and sends just about all of the dogs/cats it can’t adopt out to them. I’m just tired of being a dumping ground.

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            • michellc says:
              September 22, 2016 at 9:08 am

              We only have three shelters in the county and all three are ran by cities who only allow dogs found in the city. If you don’t have a city address they won’t take them.

              There is one rescue group but they will only take small dogs and puppies. Small dogs and puppies are easy to find homes for, big dogs not so much.
              I try when I can, but diseased looking dogs I won’t risk making my animals sick and dogs who snarl and growl I won’t risk getting bit. Then of course starving dogs and dumped dogs often form a pack and then your livestock is at risk. That is what these people who dump dogs in the country don’t understand, very few find a home, most get ran over, starve to death or shot.

              I get tired of being a dumping ground as well.

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  22. czarowniczy says:
    September 19, 2016 at 6:16 pm

    Yeah, cel-e-brate, cel-e-brate…it’scthecstart of Opiod Awareness Week…how did I EVER let that one slip on my calendar? I’d prefer they rename it ‘Let a Junky OD Week’ but no one asked me. Havind dealt with heroin abusers and seen the wake of destruction they leave behind them I’m not sympathetic to their freely-entered-into plight.

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  24. czarowniczy says:
    September 19, 2016 at 11:19 pm

    Czarina driving home tonite ran into a sounder of pigs smack in the road, she estimates twenty to thirty, mostly piglets with a few sows. They just stood there as she drove through them. In the meantime I have two more youngster, cochon de lait size, pigs in the trap. That’s 22 we’ve turned intonfreezer fodder and they’re still thicker than fleas on a hound. Not exactly one of those problems one has in the urban environment.

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    • auscitizenmom says:
      September 20, 2016 at 2:49 pm

      Need to drive some of those to some places in Minnesota.

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    • Wooly Phlox says:
      September 21, 2016 at 1:57 pm

      Never mind the thermometer.

      When the tire marks are almost gone, they’re done meduim-well.

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      • czarowniczy says:
        September 21, 2016 at 2:09 pm

        Well it’s a small Ford and they get badly damaged running head-on into a strong wind. We have some rather large live-traps set up on 80 acres the road borders on the north. We’ve taken 22 of their kin over the last two months, lotta people have fill freezers, and sooner or later these dudes and dudettes will fall sway to the lure of corn, donuts and strawberry Kool-Aid.
        We two full freezers ourselves and deer season isn’t here yet.

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