Like much secular music, they understand the problem, and yet are unwilling to see the only solution. If there is no Gospel, then Dust in the Wind is absolutely spot-on.
Except… Kansas became A.D., a Christian band. Funny, that.
Here’s a song by Kansas (from Leftoverture) that talks about knowing that you’re about to jump over a wall, and that after everyone behind you sees it, they will want to come, too.
I know this is in actuality a song about a drug overdose. Although I think the larger vision is about a near death experience where one chooses to stay or go.
Your lips move but I can’t hear a word your saying. When I was a child I had a fever my hands felt just like two balloons.
I had this exact experience as a child and almost died. The doc said it was a matter of hours not days I was so sick. Every time I hear that line it brings the experience back to my mind. Fleeting glimpse.
One of my memories of GW1 was flying back from a recon msn, passed, I think it was 3/5 Scts along the FEBA, in front of a few blocks, someone sprayed painted “The Wall”. Scts always had that fine sense of humor…….
Roger that, city will start demanding that every finacial facility that does debit cards in the city provide free debit cards to the panhandlers who can reload them at meters. Tap and Pay comes to the streets.
One of the prime reasons the Feds switched from paper stamps to EBT was that food stamps had become THE de facto second currency in the country. You’d bust any illegal operation like a drug ring and you’d find bundles of food stamps, in ‘some’ areas it was easier to find fiid stamps than cash-cash.
Also, crooked food stores eould buy them for cents on the dollar and cash them in. With EBT it’s easier to electronically check purchases on the EBT against the stores’ records. Doesn’t stop it, just makes the crooked process mo’ easier.
Here’s the latest on Hilllabeast’s medical condition; Lame Cherry speculates, Liver Cancer. The only treatment I’m aware of is transplant, only if the doctors can keep you alive long enough……..
Now your average apologist engineers could argue that black offenders are still shot out of proportion with their representation in the general population but then you could argue back that so is the the percentage of violent crime owned by the black community but then they could argue back that the arguement’s specious, racist and if you don’t stop immediately they’ll burn your house diwn. (Whew)
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Still on vacation. Finished up the canyon parks yesterday, now going to Las Vegas for one day before flying back to Switzerland. Will visit Hoover Dam en route.
Sounds wonderful. My aunt and uncle took me and a friend on a road trip for my high school graduation present. The Grand Canyon and Vegas were both part of the journey and I have memories that will last a life time. I’ve heard that Lake Mead is way down. We swam there on our road trip I don’t know if that is still allowed now.
We stopped by Vegas for three nights, at the Flamingo. I saw Zumanity, and something else that involved ladies in feathers, oh, now I remember, it was Jubilee. Dh hated it, I want to go back.
The hotel/motel we stayed in at Branson had free hot breakfast, we walked down and looked at it and it was pale scrambled eggs that looked to come from a microwave or box, sausage that was either microwaved or turkey sausage and powdered gravy and biscuits that would make Ellie Mae’s look appetizing. We passed on the free and went to Shoneys.
We had stayed there before but it had been several years ago and now they’re under new management. They better learn to manage better in a hurry or they will fail. They give you two bath towels, two hand towels and two wash cloths and won’t answer the phone when you call and ask for more towels. My son, daughter, son-in-law and grandbaby stayed in one room, we had to go get pool towels for them.
Then about 5 in the afternoon we all had gotten back to our rooms after swimming. I had just gotten out of my swimsuit and someone knocks once on the door and then opens the door. I dive for the bed and cover up, my husband was sitting on the end of the bed about to put his clothes back on and he dove under the bottom of the covers.
This lady says she’s just checking to see if someone is in the room and then asks if we want a sign on the door. I tell her I would appreciate her shutting our door and getting the hell out.
Once again nobody answers the phone, so I go down to the front desk and am told they are sorry but they’re under new management and are working on a new system. I told her how about a system where people don’t use a pass key barging into rooms, by this time I had learned she done the same thing to my kids telling them she didn’t think anyone was staying in the room and would let them know it was occupied.
I’ve stayed at many places and never had that one happen before. Didn’t think about in the middle of the afternoon needing to use the little latch thing, but did after that. We tried to find another hotel but couldn’t find two rooms available, so were stuck at that point.
At least it was clean, is about the only nice thing I can say about it.
The rest of the trip was fun though, my grandson had a ball on the ducks and the train. He got to pet the animals at the zoo, he liked everything but the snake and told his Daddy to kill it, which cracked us up, but I don’t think anyone else found it as funny as we did.
He does not like snakes. We were in the yard one day and two copperheads were by the gate and one of them tried to bite his dog. He saw it and he saw them get killed.
He likes to gather eggs and a rat snake was in a nest one day and scared him.
I’ve noticed it’s getting more common. The Mrs. and I jokingly call out “housekeeping” now when we walk into a room and the other is in some condition that would be laughingly awkward in a hotel.
I like the ones that have a delivery to your room, see the do not disturb sign and try to open the locked door, then beat on the door to get you to accept the delivery. On the off chance you are in the shower, they will call several times from the front desk.
Then they will pick up the fallen do not disturb sign and replace it on the door.
I guess I learned a valuable lesson, always use the lock that prevents them from barging in.
We didn’t even have a sign until she arrived and then when we went out we had a do not disturb sign on the door.
I’m still trying to figure out why that time in the afternoon they’d be going to the rooms anyway. Checkout is 11 a.m. and check in is 2 p.m.
My DH was the one who needed a cool head once the shock wore off.
He gave his two cents as well when we were checking out, but his were she’s lucky she wasn’t shot. To that he got that would have been tragic to which he replied, “not really, she wouldn’t be barging into rooms anymore.”
The folks about to check in looked like they were second guessing staying there. lol
I remember them fondly from the military. We had a wise old mess sergeant who brought egg shells with him into the field. He’d put small pieces into the scrambled powdered eggs to make you ‘think’ you were eating real ones.
We pulled off the road one night on a trip. There were conventions in town and we couldn’t get a room anywhere but this motel. I had grave misgivings as soon as we went to the desk. The people were wearing mideastern garb and I have no idea where they were from, but boy were they rude. We only stayed because my husband was too tired to drive any farther. But, we were glad to get out of there. He said after that, that we would never again stay any place where the people at the front desk were rude to us.
These were white folks and very friendly on the phone and in person, but I think were very new to running a motel.
We made the mistake once of booking a room in a pet friendly hotel without seeing it or talking to anyone, just did it online.
When we got there we found out it was ran by middle eastern folks, it was so nasty we never even unloaded our suitcase. We had to pay a cancellation fee, but it was worth it to not have to stay there.
We used to officially ride security on a semiannual meeting of Nigerian ‘businessmen’ that was held at a rather notorious NOLA motel. We parked out front, guests parked in the lot, FBI in the vans with blacked-out windows parked up and down the other side of the street.
Wellllllll…we have deputies providing security for a Nigerian expat meeting while The Feds quasisurreptitiously skulk nearby. Not Earl Stanley Gardner but meat to gnaw on.
This is really hard to watch but it needs to get out there. I’d like to see it played on TV every day with the caption “Brought to you courtesy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama”.
White man begs for mercy as he is savagely attacked by thugs of Soros. Stay armed and alert folks.
Scary times we are living in. I pray that the good Lord continues to expose the people who are instigating this (Soros and his ilk) and that they face justice for their crimes.
Big thing in NOLA last November, made Time and international news too, was the shooting of a medical student who came to the aid of a woman being assaulted and dragged to a car by a thug. http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/11/police_release_video_of_tulane_1.html
Thug shot the student in the stomach and, while the student was on the ground in pain, tried to shoot him again but his gun jammed. Thug took off and the next day kidnapped, at gunpoint, a man and a woman whom he forced to drive to a remote parking lot and repeatedly raped them both.
Police caught hom, he’s charged with six counts of first degree rape, attempted murder (student lived), carjacking and a hostbof lesser crimes. If NOLA courts treatment of thugs charged with violent felonies is precedent he may get a few months in jail and some community service. Sound bitter? Yeah, I am..
Savages of Obama. A Hillary POTUS will bring us more of these barbarians getting a free pass to rape torture attack plunder and maim at will. Historic times.
Yep and saying most of them were peaceful last night. Anderson Cooper said that a protester knocked over a reporter by mistake. They can all go to hell.
Am I just missing the reports on the nightly/noon MSM broadcasts or are y’all not hearing about US airstrikes targeting ISIS chemical weapons storage sites and the possible use of a mustard gas filled rocket by ISIS against US troops?
The rocket landed a few hundred meters away from an airbase the US troops were repairing for use (whaaaaaat?). First test on fragments tested positive for mustard gas but, as with any number of instances during Desert Storm, subsequent tests proved either negative or inconclusive. Oops, my bad, ALLEGEDLY proved negative or inconclusive.
With as large of a chemical weapon stockpile Syria and Russia had stored there obe wonders how much of it has worked ita way outside of the Mideast for use at a more propitious time?
The primarily black ‘Take ’em Down NOLA’ group, dedicated to removing white-related monuments from the city, is saying it will go to Jackson Square this weekend, will violently move to destroy Andrew Jackson’s iconic statue, and have warned, warned mind you, NOPD to stay away during their ‘peaceful’ protest.
Rub here is that the pre-warmer, fuzzier, PC pol administration such an ‘in yo’ faze’ insult to the city and PD would have been met with a ‘y’all wanna try dat’ response. No telling what this group will do.
I don’t think this is a handbag I’d want, but I did know a woman when I was a kid that had her dog stuffed and her cat turned into a wall hanging, she might have liked it. lol
I remember seeing that book in the library. Maybe I’m warped, but it made me laugh.
I’ve seen lots of odd things in my lifetime, so the handbag didn’t really get me riled up. I found the lady’s stuffed dog creepier. Her skinned cat complete with head hanging on the wall was pretty creepy itself. In someway since they were pets made it odder to me.
I still have my mother’s mink coat and fox stole, because I found them both the coolest thing ever when I was a kid. She saved for years to buy them.
Coffee up y’all. See you in a few. 🙂 #1
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By texan59 on September 22, 2016 at 12:02 am
Gonna need this tonight! Thx Tex
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By Ziiggii on September 22, 2016 at 12:05 am
SITREP……. And time to return to Firebase……
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By Col.(R) Ken on September 22, 2016 at 12:58 am
At the ready Sir! Got Firewatch all night tonight; alls quite.
Coms are blacked out though
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By Ziiggii on September 22, 2016 at 1:00 am
Black Links Matter…
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 1:04 am
No intel makes it a little more “spooky”
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By Ziiggii on September 22, 2016 at 1:05 am
It’s all a matter of shades of interpretation.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 1:06 am
Man I can’t beat the master of puns!
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By Ziiggii on September 22, 2016 at 1:07 am
Good heavens! Was there a pun in there???
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 1:08 am
Felt like it
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By Ziiggii on September 22, 2016 at 1:08 am
Then Stay put!! No coms, you don’t move……. Put your claymores out, then stay in your foxhole….
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By Col.(R) Ken on September 22, 2016 at 1:32 am
Don’t forget to tie your shoelaces. The devil is in the details…
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By amwick on September 22, 2016 at 9:31 am
I do miss those claymores and toe poppers. They may not make you secure but you feel secure.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 12:53 pm
Thanks Tex…….
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By Col.(R) Ken on September 22, 2016 at 12:56 am
…pour me a cup…strong…splash of cream
…hold the sugar…I wouldn’t want it to spoil my wicked disposition ☕☕☕
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By hocuspocus13 on September 22, 2016 at 1:00 am
Hi Tex! Hope you are doing well.
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By ZurichMike on September 22, 2016 at 9:27 am
Howdy ZMike. Doing fine here in still warm and muggy TX. Hope all is well in the land of Chocolate. 😉
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By texan59 on September 25, 2016 at 7:06 am
Thanks, however…
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 2:47 pm
Whoa, THAT photo is impressive ^^^ .
“The Wall.”
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By MaryfromMarin on September 22, 2016 at 12:06 am
Alternative title: “Ayers Rock Disintegrates.”
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By MaryfromMarin on September 22, 2016 at 12:07 am
Red storm rising
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By Ziiggii on September 22, 2016 at 12:14 am
One of my very favorite books.
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By MaryfromMarin on September 22, 2016 at 12:17 am
What can I say, I’m having a 70s attack.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 12:19 am
Good pic though
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By Ziiggii on September 22, 2016 at 12:23 am
My opinion from the first time I heard this: hauntingly beautiful music, but fatalistic and depressing message.
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By MaryfromMarin on September 22, 2016 at 12:23 am
Great music to drink to though…
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 12:26 am
IDK, it kinda makes you want to kickstart your life… take advantage of the time you have…
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By amwick on September 22, 2016 at 9:33 am
Like much secular music, they understand the problem, and yet are unwilling to see the only solution. If there is no Gospel, then Dust in the Wind is absolutely spot-on.
Except… Kansas became A.D., a Christian band. Funny, that.
Here’s a song by Kansas (from Leftoverture) that talks about knowing that you’re about to jump over a wall, and that after everyone behind you sees it, they will want to come, too.
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By Wooly Phlox on September 22, 2016 at 11:57 am
When Lindgren wrote Dust in the Wind he knew it was a lie.
Because he knew the Truth. Makes it more meanin’ful in that light, don’t it?
Christ is the answer to the problem of Dust in the Wind.
The whole song is like a Hebrew Old Testament rhetorical question, with an implied answer. (cf. Proverbs 31:10)
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By Wooly Phlox on September 22, 2016 at 12:50 pm
Christ: The solution to the equation.
Find X.
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By Wooly Phlox on September 22, 2016 at 12:53 pm
Hiding in plain sight.
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 1:43 pm
Been a while, ChinGum, make yaself ta home.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 12:48 am
Pink Floyd is genius.
I know this is in actuality a song about a drug overdose. Although I think the larger vision is about a near death experience where one chooses to stay or go.
Your lips move but I can’t hear a word your saying. When I was a child I had a fever my hands felt just like two balloons.
I had this exact experience as a child and almost died. The doc said it was a matter of hours not days I was so sick. Every time I hear that line it brings the experience back to my mind. Fleeting glimpse.
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By lovely on September 22, 2016 at 9:17 am
Theme association:
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 12:25 am
Now this brings back memories; up my alley
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By Ziiggii on September 22, 2016 at 12:29 am
Not the wording I’d use in light of the movie’s theme of a British boy’s school but ‘The Wall’ did spend 14 straight years on the Billboard 200 chart.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 12:33 am
One of my favorite albums growing up and an under appreciated movie IMHO
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By Ziiggii on September 22, 2016 at 12:36 am
Roger dat, and Tommy.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 12:54 am
Who…
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 11:01 am
Got me there, but I Won’t Be Fooled Again.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 11:12 am
You play a mean pun-ball.
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By Wooly Phlox on September 22, 2016 at 1:34 pm
That sharp czaowniczy shure (sm-58, what?) plays a mean pun-ball.
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By Wooly Phlox on September 22, 2016 at 1:37 pm
Ran outta reply space Wolly, glad you see me, feel me.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 1:38 pm
No one knows what it’s like to be the dishwasher.
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By Wooly Phlox on September 22, 2016 at 1:41 pm
Still no more space Wolly, guess you’ll just have to plate by ear.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 1:48 pm
One of my memories of GW1 was flying back from a recon msn, passed, I think it was 3/5 Scts along the FEBA, in front of a few blocks, someone sprayed painted “The Wall”. Scts always had that fine sense of humor…….
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By Col.(R) Ken on September 22, 2016 at 1:21 am
Lol
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By Ziiggii on September 22, 2016 at 8:02 am
My daughter’s favorite too. I can remember taking she and her friend to see the movie.
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By stella on September 22, 2016 at 6:26 am
I knew I shoulda copyrighted that theme association business.
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” [inhale, exhale, repeat mantra]
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By MaryfromMarin on September 22, 2016 at 12:30 am
Law of Unintended Consequences
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 12:42 am
Been in a few on the ground, and had the pleasure of flying thru a couple……white knuckle kind of pleasure…….
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By Col.(R) Ken on September 22, 2016 at 1:00 am
This one hit me in Eastern Washington 2 years ago.
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By shiloh1973 on September 22, 2016 at 1:23 pm
Maybe it’s just me….but every time I read this, I get hit with cognitive dissonance, in the spheres of both logic and compassion [YMMV]:
San Rafael touts donation meters as panhandling mitigation
http://www.marinij.com/social-affairs/20160919/san-rafael-touts-donation-meters-as-panhandling-mitigation
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By MaryfromMarin on September 22, 2016 at 12:11 am
No sweat, the city confirmed the meters are a ‘dignified alternative’.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 12:36 am
They are a convenient sidestep.
“Spare a dollar for a cup of coffee?”
“No, but look! I’ll drop a buck in the donation meter for you!” [walks away whistling]
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By MaryfromMarin on September 22, 2016 at 12:42 am
There are many cities where panhandlers have to get licenses. In all the entire panhandler/citizen/bureaucrat interaction rates a Monte Python skit.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 12:44 am
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By Wooly Phlox on September 22, 2016 at 12:15 pm
Look, I’ve told you once!
No you haven’t.
Yes I have.
When?
Just now!
I think Monty Python is just a reductio ad absurdum in a direct line from Orwell.
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By Wooly Phlox on September 22, 2016 at 12:18 pm
A line which includes Franz Kafka and the Zucker Brothers. And probably Lewis Carroll.
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By Wooly Phlox on September 22, 2016 at 12:28 pm
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By Wooly Phlox on September 22, 2016 at 12:29 pm
Roger that, city will start demanding that every finacial facility that does debit cards in the city provide free debit cards to the panhandlers who can reload them at meters. Tap and Pay comes to the streets.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 1:30 pm
Switching from actual, perforated sheets of “food stamps”, because that’s what they were, to an EBT card was also a “dignified alternative”.
Funny, that.
Now we’re going to have Homeless Meters, where people drop quarters in slots.
We’re quite possibly through the looking glass, folks.
We knew what was coming. That is what makes the ride fun.
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By Wooly Phlox on September 22, 2016 at 1:20 pm
One of the prime reasons the Feds switched from paper stamps to EBT was that food stamps had become THE de facto second currency in the country. You’d bust any illegal operation like a drug ring and you’d find bundles of food stamps, in ‘some’ areas it was easier to find fiid stamps than cash-cash.
Also, crooked food stores eould buy them for cents on the dollar and cash them in. With EBT it’s easier to electronically check purchases on the EBT against the stores’ records. Doesn’t stop it, just makes the crooked process mo’ easier.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 1:35 pm
A haboob, Miss Stella?
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By texan59 on September 22, 2016 at 12:12 am
Waiting for czar’s response to THAT one.
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By MaryfromMarin on September 22, 2016 at 12:18 am
Not rising to the bait, I have a difficult enough time staying abreast of Nyet’s trolling.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 12:29 am
Too late.
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By MaryfromMarin on September 22, 2016 at 12:31 am
Never…
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 12:34 am
You’re milking it. 😉
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 10:13 am
Bull…
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 10:17 am
Try da udder…
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 11:08 am
That was a teatching moment…
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 11:13 am
Lovely dust storm
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By ChinGum on September 22, 2016 at 12:34 am
Or it could be a Trump discussion ‘next door’.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 12:52 am
Yeah, Trump throwing some dust into Hilllabeast’s eyes!!!
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By Col.(R) Ken on September 22, 2016 at 1:04 am
While she’s blowing smoke up our nether eyes.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 1:05 am
Here’s the latest on Hilllabeast’s medical condition; Lame Cherry speculates, Liver Cancer. The only treatment I’m aware of is transplant, only if the doctors can keep you alive long enough……..
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By Col.(R) Ken on September 22, 2016 at 1:11 am
Somehow I picture Bill luring a bimbo to one of their estates with a full transplant center in the basement and the bimbo is never seen again.
Stay safe bimbos!!!!
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By lovely on September 22, 2016 at 9:24 am
Lovely!!!!!!
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By Col.(R) Ken on September 22, 2016 at 10:03 am
Someone should do a public service announcement.
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By lovely on September 22, 2016 at 10:11 am
Perhaps on the boob-tube.
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 11:09 am
Rack one up for you
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 11:14 am
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered…
Lucky you, almost
had a new pair of
puppies at home.
Could have called
the latest pal Joey.
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 2:00 pm
Lol but i came here only because of dust storm. and that picture is really amazing. rolf!
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By ChinGum on September 22, 2016 at 1:15 pm
So did most of us…
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 1:27 pm
By the way very lovely picture.
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By ChinGum on September 22, 2016 at 1:29 pm
Any port in a storm…
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 2:02 pm
Although, this one
provides a warm,
fuzzy feeling. 😉
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 2:04 pm
So does sherry…
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 2:31 pm
From what I heard, that’s why she became a flight attendant after high school.
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By nyetneetot on September 22, 2016 at 2:57 pm
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 3:12 pm
I prefer sherry
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 2:30 pm
Barrels of fun…
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 3:02 pm
Wood that Incould tap into that….sherry’s a palamino. Or something like that.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 3:16 pm
Spirited old nag, is she?
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 10:19 pm
Good prayer for every day:
“Do Thou, O LORD, protect us, guard us ever from this generation/On every side the wicked prowl as vileness is exalted among the sons of men.”
—Psalm 12:7—
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By MaryfromMarin on September 22, 2016 at 12:52 am
Amen…….
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By Col.(R) Ken on September 22, 2016 at 1:04 am
HAPPY🍁AUTUMN🍁EQUINOX
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By hocuspocus13 on September 22, 2016 at 12:58 am
I’m in the EST time zone, it’s 10:21 local……..
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By Col.(R) Ken on September 22, 2016 at 1:06 am
Nite all, both my iPad and I are out of juice.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 1:10 am
Wrap up Ranger, chilly, zero visibility, heavy due before sunrise. Stand To: 0430………
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By Col.(R) Ken on September 22, 2016 at 1:29 am
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 11:13 am
I ain’t gonna ‘like’ that but I like that
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 2:32 pm
Just like Rock n Roll…
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 3:07 pm
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 2:15 pm
Posted by Milo on Facebook:
Here is the FBI statistics page, if anybody wants to check the figures:
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2013.xls
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By stella on September 22, 2016 at 7:09 am
This is a really good graph. Shows the numbers very clearly.
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By auscitizenmom on September 22, 2016 at 9:24 am
Yeah, and here’s a nice piece on persons shot by police by race: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/11/arent-more-white-people-than-black-people-killed-by-police-yes-but-no/?utm_term=.dcf17ac71993
Now your average apologist engineers could argue that black offenders are still shot out of proportion with their representation in the general population but then you could argue back that so is the the percentage of violent crime owned by the black community but then they could argue back that the arguement’s specious, racist and if you don’t stop immediately they’ll burn your house diwn. (Whew)
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 10:11 am
In the early 90s, the same people were protesting the Catholic Church for child abuse.
The graph would look exactly the same, only relabelled:
Public Schools, Catholic Church, Protestant church, Hollywood/TV Industry.
Except the CC line would be exactly one pixel tall.
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By Wooly Phlox on September 22, 2016 at 1:02 pm
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’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “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’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (2008 Château Haut Brion)
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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By nyetneetot on September 22, 2016 at 7:43 am
Morning Nye!!! Everyone!!!! Now this is what I need this AM. Thank you…….
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By Col.(R) Ken on September 22, 2016 at 8:11 am
Thanks, Nyet! Looks good!
Morning everybody!
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By sandandsea2015 on September 22, 2016 at 8:34 am
Great breakfast. Thanks, Nyet. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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By auscitizenmom on September 22, 2016 at 9:22 am
Good morning Nyet 🙂
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By lovely on September 22, 2016 at 9:26 am
Excellent breakfast with the basics and prominent bacon.
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By ZurichMike on September 22, 2016 at 9:32 am
Good to see you Mike. How was the vacation?
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By lovely on September 22, 2016 at 9:32 am
Still on vacation. Finished up the canyon parks yesterday, now going to Las Vegas for one day before flying back to Switzerland. Will visit Hoover Dam en route.
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By ZurichMike on September 22, 2016 at 9:39 am
Sounds wonderful. My aunt and uncle took me and a friend on a road trip for my high school graduation present. The Grand Canyon and Vegas were both part of the journey and I have memories that will last a life time. I’ve heard that Lake Mead is way down. We swam there on our road trip I don’t know if that is still allowed now.
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By lovely on September 22, 2016 at 9:43 am
We stopped by Vegas for three nights, at the Flamingo. I saw Zumanity, and something else that involved ladies in feathers, oh, now I remember, it was Jubilee. Dh hated it, I want to go back.
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By amwick on September 22, 2016 at 2:59 pm
Mornin’!
The hotel/motel we stayed in at Branson had free hot breakfast, we walked down and looked at it and it was pale scrambled eggs that looked to come from a microwave or box, sausage that was either microwaved or turkey sausage and powdered gravy and biscuits that would make Ellie Mae’s look appetizing. We passed on the free and went to Shoneys.
We had stayed there before but it had been several years ago and now they’re under new management. They better learn to manage better in a hurry or they will fail. They give you two bath towels, two hand towels and two wash cloths and won’t answer the phone when you call and ask for more towels. My son, daughter, son-in-law and grandbaby stayed in one room, we had to go get pool towels for them.
Then about 5 in the afternoon we all had gotten back to our rooms after swimming. I had just gotten out of my swimsuit and someone knocks once on the door and then opens the door. I dive for the bed and cover up, my husband was sitting on the end of the bed about to put his clothes back on and he dove under the bottom of the covers.
This lady says she’s just checking to see if someone is in the room and then asks if we want a sign on the door. I tell her I would appreciate her shutting our door and getting the hell out.
Once again nobody answers the phone, so I go down to the front desk and am told they are sorry but they’re under new management and are working on a new system. I told her how about a system where people don’t use a pass key barging into rooms, by this time I had learned she done the same thing to my kids telling them she didn’t think anyone was staying in the room and would let them know it was occupied.
I’ve stayed at many places and never had that one happen before. Didn’t think about in the middle of the afternoon needing to use the little latch thing, but did after that. We tried to find another hotel but couldn’t find two rooms available, so were stuck at that point.
At least it was clean, is about the only nice thing I can say about it.
The rest of the trip was fun though, my grandson had a ball on the ducks and the train. He got to pet the animals at the zoo, he liked everything but the snake and told his Daddy to kill it, which cracked us up, but I don’t think anyone else found it as funny as we did.
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By michellc on September 22, 2016 at 9:35 am
powdered gravy and biscuits that would make Ellie Mae’s look appetizing.
At least Grannies stewed opossum wasn’t on the menu 🙂
Your grandson wanting grandpa to kill the snake is great!
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By lovely on September 22, 2016 at 9:38 am
He does not like snakes. We were in the yard one day and two copperheads were by the gate and one of them tried to bite his dog. He saw it and he saw them get killed.
He likes to gather eggs and a rat snake was in a nest one day and scared him.
So now he wants every snake killed. lol
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By michellc on September 22, 2016 at 9:48 am
LOL!
I’ve noticed it’s getting more common. The Mrs. and I jokingly call out “housekeeping” now when we walk into a room and the other is in some condition that would be laughingly awkward in a hotel.
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By nyetneetot on September 22, 2016 at 9:52 am
It was quite crazy and once you see the room is occupied you’d think you’d say sorry and close the door, not ask questions about a sign.
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By michellc on September 22, 2016 at 4:55 pm
I like the ones that have a delivery to your room, see the do not disturb sign and try to open the locked door, then beat on the door to get you to accept the delivery. On the off chance you are in the shower, they will call several times from the front desk.
Then they will pick up the fallen do not disturb sign and replace it on the door.
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By nyetneetot on September 22, 2016 at 5:02 pm
I guess I learned a valuable lesson, always use the lock that prevents them from barging in.
We didn’t even have a sign until she arrived and then when we went out we had a do not disturb sign on the door.
I’m still trying to figure out why that time in the afternoon they’d be going to the rooms anyway. Checkout is 11 a.m. and check in is 2 p.m.
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By michellc on September 22, 2016 at 5:13 pm
Glad you were able to have fun in spite of the hotel issues. I would not have been able to keep a level head with the staff/management.
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By sandandsea2015 on September 22, 2016 at 9:57 am
My DH was the one who needed a cool head once the shock wore off.
He gave his two cents as well when we were checking out, but his were she’s lucky she wasn’t shot. To that he got that would have been tragic to which he replied, “not really, she wouldn’t be barging into rooms anymore.”
The folks about to check in looked like they were second guessing staying there. lol
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By michellc on September 22, 2016 at 4:57 pm
ROFL!!!! 😉
My husband would have said something similar!
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By sandandsea2015 on September 22, 2016 at 6:13 pm
The eggs were older than Kenny Rogers…
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 10:14 am
I really think they were powdered eggs.
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By michellc on September 22, 2016 at 5:03 pm
I remember them fondly from the military. We had a wise old mess sergeant who brought egg shells with him into the field. He’d put small pieces into the scrambled powdered eggs to make you ‘think’ you were eating real ones.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 6:00 pm
We pulled off the road one night on a trip. There were conventions in town and we couldn’t get a room anywhere but this motel. I had grave misgivings as soon as we went to the desk. The people were wearing mideastern garb and I have no idea where they were from, but boy were they rude. We only stayed because my husband was too tired to drive any farther. But, we were glad to get out of there. He said after that, that we would never again stay any place where the people at the front desk were rude to us.
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By auscitizenmom on September 22, 2016 at 11:19 am
One of my most memorable hotel experiences was meeting an Amish millionaire at the hotel bar. You cannot make stuff like that up.
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By amwick on September 22, 2016 at 3:03 pm
That is unreal. 😯
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By auscitizenmom on September 22, 2016 at 3:16 pm
These were white folks and very friendly on the phone and in person, but I think were very new to running a motel.
We made the mistake once of booking a room in a pet friendly hotel without seeing it or talking to anyone, just did it online.
When we got there we found out it was ran by middle eastern folks, it was so nasty we never even unloaded our suitcase. We had to pay a cancellation fee, but it was worth it to not have to stay there.
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By michellc on September 22, 2016 at 5:07 pm
We used to officially ride security on a semiannual meeting of Nigerian ‘businessmen’ that was held at a rather notorious NOLA motel. We parked out front, guests parked in the lot, FBI in the vans with blacked-out windows parked up and down the other side of the street.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 6:07 pm
And……………and……………and?
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By auscitizenmom on September 22, 2016 at 7:37 pm
Hotel…motel…that ‘theme’ thingy. Food wasn’t too hot but there was a lotta free booze after the event. Helping round the theme out?
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 8:08 pm
It’s just that your stories are always so interesting and I feel there is more to them.
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By auscitizenmom on September 22, 2016 at 8:29 pm
Wellllllll…we have deputies providing security for a Nigerian expat meeting while The Feds quasisurreptitiously skulk nearby. Not Earl Stanley Gardner but meat to gnaw on.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 8:49 pm
Mornin’ y’all!
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By WeeWeed on September 22, 2016 at 9:17 am
😀
Morning WeeWeed 🙂
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By lovely on September 22, 2016 at 9:27 am
Mornin’ Lovely!
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By WeeWeed on September 22, 2016 at 9:34 am
This is really hard to watch but it needs to get out there. I’d like to see it played on TV every day with the caption “Brought to you courtesy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama”.
White man begs for mercy as he is savagely attacked by thugs of Soros. Stay armed and alert folks.
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By lovely on September 22, 2016 at 9:32 am
Scary times we are living in. I pray that the good Lord continues to expose the people who are instigating this (Soros and his ilk) and that they face justice for their crimes.
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By sandandsea2015 on September 22, 2016 at 9:51 am
Big thing in NOLA last November, made Time and international news too, was the shooting of a medical student who came to the aid of a woman being assaulted and dragged to a car by a thug. http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/11/police_release_video_of_tulane_1.html
Thug shot the student in the stomach and, while the student was on the ground in pain, tried to shoot him again but his gun jammed. Thug took off and the next day kidnapped, at gunpoint, a man and a woman whom he forced to drive to a remote parking lot and repeatedly raped them both.
Police caught hom, he’s charged with six counts of first degree rape, attempted murder (student lived), carjacking and a hostbof lesser crimes. If NOLA courts treatment of thugs charged with violent felonies is precedent he may get a few months in jail and some community service. Sound bitter? Yeah, I am..
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 11:07 am
Savages of Obama. A Hillary POTUS will bring us more of these barbarians getting a free pass to rape torture attack plunder and maim at will. Historic times.
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By lovely on September 22, 2016 at 12:09 pm
And the prog apologists are STILL blaming their actions on everyone else but the actors and making all sorts of excuses for them.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 12:18 pm
Yep and saying most of them were peaceful last night. Anderson Cooper said that a protester knocked over a reporter by mistake. They can all go to hell.
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By lovely on September 22, 2016 at 12:32 pm
Yes, as if the wildings can instinctively recognize their keepers.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 12:36 pm
I have to not watch any coverage of this crap, because I start wanting to shoot my tv.
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By michellc on September 22, 2016 at 11:47 pm
AHA! A documented case of white gun violence!
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By czarowniczy on September 23, 2016 at 12:32 am
I did see a video of a white guy whose car was surrounded and he pulled out a gun and they backed off.
My white privileged self says if you started shooting a few, they’d stop their wicked ways.
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By michellc on September 23, 2016 at 12:36 am
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By WeeWeed on September 22, 2016 at 9:33 am
Aging gracefully…
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 10:37 am
Interpreting instructions has consequences…
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 10:43 am
Ya’ll m’fers need Jesus.
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By Wooly Phlox on September 22, 2016 at 1:04 pm
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 2:20 pm
Nooooooo!!!! 😮
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By sandandsea2015 on September 22, 2016 at 1:27 pm
Am I just missing the reports on the nightly/noon MSM broadcasts or are y’all not hearing about US airstrikes targeting ISIS chemical weapons storage sites and the possible use of a mustard gas filled rocket by ISIS against US troops?
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 12:14 pm
They are ignoring it. It doesn’t fit their narrative that the world is falling apart under Obama and Hillary promises more of the same.
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By lovely on September 22, 2016 at 12:33 pm
The rocket landed a few hundred meters away from an airbase the US troops were repairing for use (whaaaaaat?). First test on fragments tested positive for mustard gas but, as with any number of instances during Desert Storm, subsequent tests proved either negative or inconclusive. Oops, my bad, ALLEGEDLY proved negative or inconclusive.
With as large of a chemical weapon stockpile Syria and Russia had stored there obe wonders how much of it has worked ita way outside of the Mideast for use at a more propitious time?
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 12:47 pm
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 10:53 pm
The primarily black ‘Take ’em Down NOLA’ group, dedicated to removing white-related monuments from the city, is saying it will go to Jackson Square this weekend, will violently move to destroy Andrew Jackson’s iconic statue, and have warned, warned mind you, NOPD to stay away during their ‘peaceful’ protest.
Rub here is that the pre-warmer, fuzzier, PC pol administration such an ‘in yo’ faze’ insult to the city and PD would have been met with a ‘y’all wanna try dat’ response. No telling what this group will do.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 1:12 pm
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By Wooly Phlox on September 22, 2016 at 2:00 pm
Commies… Bless their hearts.
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By Wooly Phlox on September 22, 2016 at 2:01 pm
Federal prisoner number 32751-034, better known as ex-mayor Ray ‘Chocolate City’ Nagon, appreciates your remembrance.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 6:10 pm
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By lovely on September 22, 2016 at 8:45 pm
Puhleeeeeeezeeee, I just ate…..
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 9:23 pm
Weak constitution?
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 10:38 pm
After 8 years of Obama the Constitution’s almost unconscious.
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By czarowniczy on September 22, 2016 at 11:01 pm
This is not a woman with all he neurons firing properly.
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By lovely on September 22, 2016 at 11:10 pm
Clinton math…
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By ImpeachEmAll on September 22, 2016 at 10:42 pm
I don’t think this is a handbag I’d want, but I did know a woman when I was a kid that had her dog stuffed and her cat turned into a wall hanging, she might have liked it. lol
http://www.odditycentral.com/art/taxidermist-turns-dead-cat-into-a-handbag-sparks-controversy.html
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By michellc on September 22, 2016 at 11:52 pm
NO!!! Just.NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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By auscitizenmom on September 23, 2016 at 8:16 am
OMG.
In my grandma’s basement when I was a kid, there was a handbag/purse made out of a whole baby alligator — head, eyes, and all.
But that? OMG. Something wrong about that. I’m looking at my Tripod on my bed right now, thinking, “Handbag?” SMH. :shudder:
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By Wooly Phlox on September 23, 2016 at 11:04 am
Norman Bates comes to mind.
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By lovely on September 23, 2016 at 11:05 am
If I saw that in person, on a person, I would have nightmares.
That’s some serious Island of Dr. Moreau s**t, right there. Tell you what.
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By Wooly Phlox on September 23, 2016 at 11:06 am
Norman Bates territory.
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By lovely on September 23, 2016 at 11:10 am
Simon Bond.
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/resources/longbox/35722/
I remember this book. 101 Uses of a Dead Cat.
Pencil sharpener:
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By Wooly Phlox on September 23, 2016 at 11:24 am
I remember seeing that book in the library. Maybe I’m warped, but it made me laugh.
I’ve seen lots of odd things in my lifetime, so the handbag didn’t really get me riled up. I found the lady’s stuffed dog creepier. Her skinned cat complete with head hanging on the wall was pretty creepy itself. In someway since they were pets made it odder to me.
I still have my mother’s mink coat and fox stole, because I found them both the coolest thing ever when I was a kid. She saved for years to buy them.
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By michellc on September 23, 2016 at 2:38 pm
Here. You’ll laugh.
Simon Bond Cat image search
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By Wooly Phlox on September 23, 2016 at 11:28 am