General Discussion, Thursday, October 13, 2016

Posted on October 13, 2016 by Stella

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  1. texan59 says:
    October 13, 2016 at 12:02 am

    On the downhill side of the week boys and girls. Coffee up, or whatever makes ya’z happy.

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  2. texan59 says:
    October 13, 2016 at 12:04 am

    This is just so sweet. The Grey Lady’s token “republican” writes such a sweet story about how sad the Donald’s life must be. Sweet jeebus. 🙄

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/donald-trump’s-sad-lonely-life/ar-BBxgUbe?li=BBnb7Kz

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    • michellc says:
      October 13, 2016 at 12:09 am

      I’ve just started reading the NYT story. I’ve just finished the first accuser and had to take a break to laugh.
      Really lady you want me to believe on an airplane in 1st class a man you’ve never met before suddenly is an octopus? I guess everyone around you just ignored it right?

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      • michellc says:
        October 13, 2016 at 12:14 am

        Okay, the other two are just as laughable.

        Come on ladies, you all support Hillary for President, but the least you could do is invent better stories.

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      • hocuspocus13 says:
        October 13, 2016 at 12:19 am

        Good News…Trump is filing a law suit against the NY Times

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        • michellc says:
          October 13, 2016 at 12:22 am

          Good news, that is the biggest load of manure I’ve ever heard and any respectable journalist(okay I know that is hilarious that they exist) would not have touched these stories with a ten foot pole.

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          • hocuspocus13 says:
            October 13, 2016 at 12:51 am

            I’m sure there will be million$ of reasons why it is “good news”

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            • michellc says:
              October 13, 2016 at 12:59 am

              I would be having my attorneys to send these women letters as well.

              Anyone can read their accusations and see what nonsense they are. The sad thing is I don’t even think Hillary or the establishment had to pay them to do it. I think they’re so mentally ill and such big Hillary supporters they did it on their own. I would hope even Hillary would pay them and then coach them to have more believable stories.

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        • czarowniczy says:
          October 13, 2016 at 1:47 am

          Won’t matter, the main reason these stories are out bis to sway votes and nothing will be decided until way after the election. Might backfire though, might sway the Latino machismo crowd to vote Trump.

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          • Col.(R) Ken says:
            October 13, 2016 at 8:19 am

            I hope somebody from Trump’s campaign is looking for that Marine. Hildabeast, three coffee in his face, she asked him to go get her a cup of coffee, the Marine refused, too leave his post. So the First Lady threw coffee in his face……
            Marine come forward, tell your story…….

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          • michellc says:
            October 13, 2016 at 10:04 am

            As ridiculous as these stories are anyone stupid enough to believe them are already voting for Hillary.
            I think if there is such a thing as an undecided voter they would vote for Trump just for the left trying to insult their intelligence.

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            • czarowniczy says:
              October 13, 2016 at 10:33 am

              True, but there were Rat females who may have been turned off at the prospect of voting for Hellary and they’re desperately trying to get them back by convincing them Trump’s Jack the Ripper.

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              • michellc says:
                October 13, 2016 at 11:01 am

                If they’re true Rat females, the kind that are stupid enough to believe these outrageous stories and not just Rat females in name only, they were never voting for Trump anyway even if they were not voting for Hillary. They’ll still do the same and vote for one of the other idiots running.

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                • czarowniczy says:
                  October 14, 2016 at 12:18 am

                  agreed, they’d never have voted for Trump but they were also starting to be repulsed by Hellary and the Rat handlers had to find a way to make her appear less repulsive.

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            • czarowniczy says:
              October 14, 2016 at 12:25 am

              They’re just trying to make Rat females repulsed by Trump and leftish leaning independent women who have memories of uncomfortable encounters with males, especially pushy alpha males, slither to Hellary. At this point both Trump and Hellary have disapproval numbers that are individually high, so both have voters who think they’re slime but will vote for them.

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    • michellc says:
      October 13, 2016 at 12:20 am

      Just finished reading that one as well and it’s just as laughable. I know it’s been said many times before, but liberals are mentally ill.

      I watched Trump hold that little boy the other day and as a mother and now grandmother you come to know what people interact with kids and what people don’t by the way they hold a child. It was clear Trump had held children before and just because men are fathers and grandfathers doesn’t mean they interacted with their own young children and it’s always obvious.
      That kind of man who is clearly one who interacts with babies and children isn’t a lonely man full of anger.

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  3. nyetneetot says:
    October 13, 2016 at 12:37 am

    A Navy man walks into a bar. Sitting himself down, he tells the bartender…
    “Quick, pour me a drink, before the trouble starts!”
    The bartender pours a drink and watches as the man quickly downs it.
    Putting the glass on the bar, the sailor says…
    “Give me another drink before the trouble starts!”
    The bartender pours another glass and the sailor drinks it as quickly as he had the first, before asking for another, again adding…
    “. . . before the trouble starts!”
    After several rounds of this the bartender says…
    “Look sailor, you’ve been in here ten minutes and you keep talking about trouble starting. Just when is this ‘trouble’ going to start?”
    The sailor looks at the bartender and says…
    “The trouble starts just as soon as you find out that I ain’t got any money.”

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  4. MaryfromMarin says:
    October 13, 2016 at 12:38 am

    We’ve used this occasionally at our 40 Days prayer vigils–it is a patriotic rosary. Very interesting and uplifting, IMO! [the Medjugorje connection doesn’t affect the content of the rosary, for those who have strong feelings about it, one way or another]:

    http://www.patrioticrosary.com/patriotic-rosary.html

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  5. czarowniczy says:
    October 13, 2016 at 1:43 am

    Entirely missed Wednesday. iPad went and automatically loaded an update, eating up the remaining gig of data allowance we had. We could buy an extra gig for $15 but we’d have to have used it by midnight tonite as the remainder would have been lost at midnight Wednesday when our new monthly base allowance would have loaded. Welcome to Verizon, the best of what 1995 has to offer…but then they’re it for WiFi out here. Top add the cherry the iPad update somehow drove it to square one, just as it was when we bought it and it doesn’t recognize the user id/password we set it up with.
    Back to using download allowance robbing Windows laptop.

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  6. MaryfromMarin says:
    October 13, 2016 at 2:01 am

    I…I…didn’t know what to say…[found as a serious pinned tweet on twitter]:

    “Question you need to ask yourself: Am I willing to destroy USA by electing a clown as Leader of the Free World to satisfy my angst w/Hillary?”

    “Angst”? “ANGST”???

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  7. ImpeachEmAll says:
    October 13, 2016 at 3:04 am

    Another cause to pause.
    Has the light finally been seen?

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  8. ImpeachEmAll says:
    October 13, 2016 at 3:33 am

    Still another cause to pause…
    Twitter in the tank?

    https://twitter.com/NytFury/status/786443891063095296

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  9. Cetera says:
    October 13, 2016 at 5:43 am

    Posted this over at the TreeHouse in a thread, in response to a poster wanting Jesus to hurry up and come back. I thought it was worth sharing over here too. It isn’t anything I didn’t say in the First Principles posts, but it came to me again, and I thought it was important.

    Be stouthearted, and fear not. The Light of Christ permeates everything. It is a Light shining in the darkness. Like most light, though, it isn’t visible unless viewed directly from the source, or if it shines upon something. So go stand up, and let the Light shine on you. You don’t have to do anything other than show up, and the Light will be seen on you. You will be a beacon for those looking for the Light, and for those who needed to see the Light, even if they didn’t know it existed.

    There is no power of darkness, no speed of darkness. There is merely light, and the absence of light. When things seem especially dark and fearful, remember the words of Samwise.

    “It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”

    “There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

    Those are two separate passages, one from the Two Towers, and one from the Return of the King, but they work well together.

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  10. ImpeachEmAll says:
    October 13, 2016 at 8:08 am

    Bermuda could use some prayers…

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  11. nyetneetot says:
    October 13, 2016 at 8:16 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’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “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’ 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! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Cinnamon rolls for coffee!

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  12. amwick says:
    October 13, 2016 at 9:35 am

    Heads up…. 10pm EST Tonight on Hannity. He is going to have 3 of the Bill Clinton victims and Kathy Sheldon on the phone… I know people are annoyed with Fox, but Sean is a very vocal supporter…

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  13. czarowniczy says:
    October 13, 2016 at 10:28 am

    Strange coincidence but a murder trial just began in Jefferson Parish, a NOLA bedroom community. Seems two black thugs went on a car burglary spree in an upscale neighborhood and, in the process, shotgun murdered a man and his son in a home invasion. TV’s playing the 911 tapes of the mother’s frantic efforts to give CPR to her dying sion as he chokes to death on his own blood. Family’s name: Pence.

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    • michellc says:
      October 13, 2016 at 11:04 am

      Mornin’ Wee!

      I saw something this morning that made me think of you.

      Mothers: My child only eats organic food.

      Me: Well, my child eats crackers off the floor.

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      • WeeWeed says:
        October 13, 2016 at 11:13 am

        Exactly! Same thing.

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        • michellc says:
          October 13, 2016 at 11:22 am

          I would love to be sitting around with these organic moms. I’d tell them, my kids were organic before organic was cool, they were putting livestock poop and dirt in their mouth all on their own. lol

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      • auscitizenmom says:
        October 13, 2016 at 11:14 am

        LOL And……….whose child catches every little cold and disease that comes along?

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      • auscitizenmom says:
        October 13, 2016 at 11:17 am

        I was obsessive about keeping my son away from …….chemicals. Chemicals of all kinds. Didn’t worry so much about the dirt.

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        • michellc says:
          October 13, 2016 at 11:25 am

          I was kind of obsessive with my first one. I would wash and rinse pacifiers, toys, teething rings that touched the floor.
          Second one I’d wipe them off on my shirt.
          By the time the third one came around I just picked them up and handed them back to him. lol

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          • auscitizenmom says:
            October 13, 2016 at 11:38 am

            My son wouldn’t take a pacifier, he sucked his thumb, until he was 2. He got very upset when I took him to play on the swings the first time and he kept falling and getting sand on his hand, then wanted to stick his thumb back in his mouth, but didn’t like the sand. My friend just rinsed her kid’s pacifiers in her beer. 😯

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            • michellc says:
              October 13, 2016 at 12:43 pm

              My grandson is a thumb sucker. My daughter is trying to break him from it, but it isn’t going so well. lol

              She never wanted him to suck his thumb because it would be easier to take away a pacifier, but he would never take one and has sucked his thumb since day one.

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              • auscitizenmom says:
                October 13, 2016 at 12:53 pm

                Well, my son sucked his thumb and people tried to get me to make him stop. I told them to leave him alone. He pulled his thumb out of his mouth when he turned two, looked at it and never sucked it again. But, that’s just him.

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              • stella says:
                October 13, 2016 at 12:59 pm

                As my dentist said about my daughter when she was four or so, “she won’t be sucking her thumb when she walks down the aisle.” In other words, when he starts school, the other kids will shame him out of it.

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                • auscitizenmom says:
                  October 13, 2016 at 1:10 pm

                  And, that is true. My chiropractor wanted me to stop him before he turned 1 because he would have teeth problems and need braces. I told her braces were cheaper than psychiatrists. LOL

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                • michellc says:
                  October 13, 2016 at 2:45 pm

                  That’s what I tell her he will eventually quit. I still think it’s cute and call him Linus because he has a little mini blanket thing he’s had since a newborn that he cuddles with and sucks his thumb.
                  He loves all animals and if he’s petting one the thumb automatically goes into his mouth.

                  She only cares because the dentist told her she needed to break him by the time he was two.

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                  • stella says:
                    October 13, 2016 at 4:09 pm

                    Well, my daughter never needed braces.

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                  • michellc says:
                    October 13, 2016 at 5:10 pm

                    I’ve told her not to worry about it and she never did until she had his first dentist appointment and he told her a load of stuff it could cause.

                    I think though she’s about to the point of he’ll quit when he quits.

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                  • auscitizenmom says:
                    October 13, 2016 at 5:20 pm

                    I have thought that sometimes they have attributed buck teeth to thumb sucking when it actually was just a genetic characteristic.

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                  • michellc says:
                    October 13, 2016 at 5:46 pm

                    I know a lady that has 4 kids, one sucked their thumb up until they were school age and she says even longer at night because she would stick her thumb in her mouth in her sleep.
                    One sucked a pacifier until she was 3.
                    Two sucked neither.
                    The one who sucked her pacifier and one of them that sucked neither both had to have braces.
                    The other two didn’t.

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                  • auscitizenmom says:
                    October 13, 2016 at 6:03 pm

                    LOL

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                  • auscitizenmom says:
                    October 13, 2016 at 4:55 pm

                    I dreaded the nasty, dirty, blanket that I had seen so many children carrying around. My son messed all his receiving blankets on the 3rd day he was home. My husband went out and bought flannel material and made 8 identical blankets. LOL So, my son always had a clean blanket to carry around and I was so grateful. I wondered what they would do with my granddaughter. My son had said that wasn’t going to happen. She is about 15 mo. now, and when I was there, she didn’t carry a blanket at all. She doesn’t suck her thumb and sometimes will take the pacifier, but usually she just spits it out. I imagine by now they don’t even bother.

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                  • michellc says:
                    October 13, 2016 at 5:12 pm

                    He now only wants his to go to sleep with and he’s not picky about it being the same one. He has two blue ones and two white ones.

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                  • auscitizenmom says:
                    October 13, 2016 at 5:16 pm

                    That’s good because you can keep them washed. My son loved getting a clean, folded blankie. 🙂

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                  • michellc says:
                    October 13, 2016 at 5:42 pm

                    I already miss seeing him carrying it everywhere he went, but he’ll always be my little Linus. lol
                    I have a picture of him with it and his thumb in his mouth while he’s sitting at a play piano. It’s one of my favorite pictures.

                    Luckily for me I get to see him often enough to still see him take naps with it.

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          • Jacqueline Taylor Robson says:
            October 13, 2016 at 3:28 pm

            My daughter was born with a callous on her thumb from sucking it before she was born. I reckoned if she loved it that much, just don’t bother with a pacifier. She gave it up on her own accord at about 18 months and she had beautiful teeth. My family kept warning me she would need braces, but they were perfect. The only other habit she had was a blanket that she loved to rub the satin binding while that thumb was sucked.
            I sure do miss those days long ago…

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    • lovely says:
      October 13, 2016 at 12:57 pm

      Hee hee! 😂 Jeb is finally getting to do all that fun stuff he was missing out on whilst he was out begging people to clap for him during the primary.

      Good morning WeeWeed 🙂 Thanks for the laugh!

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    • nyetneetot says:
      October 13, 2016 at 5:55 pm

      BAWAHAHA!!!

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    • texan59 says:
      October 13, 2016 at 8:53 pm

      Sweet jeebus, Miss Wee. Put a warnin’ sign up, or sumpin’. I need’z yer eye bleach.

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  15. WeeWeed says:
    October 13, 2016 at 11:18 am

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  16. lovely says:
    October 13, 2016 at 1:13 pm

    By the way folks from the horses ass himself Paul Lyin’Ryan. He told Vicki Mckenna (local radio talk show host) that he, Paul, was on a conference call with several people and he told them that if they felt Trump was bringing their ticket down from him that they should cut and run with Ryan’s blessing and Ryan absolutely did dis-invite Trump from the Fall Fest.

    BUT the horses ass whined it was supposed to be a private conversation and someone from the conference call tipped MSNBC about Ryan’s betrayal.

    Ryan is more pissed that he was ratted out than he is pissed about anything else.

    Trump is coming back to WI on Monday (Green Bay) then to West Allis, no way I’m driving to Green Bay, I might do West Allis but it is in the heart of Milwaukee and I assume there will be a horde of protestors.

    I will say it right now I will consider my life in danger if they block my car on the road.

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  17. amwick says:
    October 13, 2016 at 1:33 pm

    Wki pt 6… oh boy…

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  19. auscitizenmom says:
    October 13, 2016 at 3:08 pm

    This made me smile, so I though I would share. Watch to the end.

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  20. Cetera says:
    October 13, 2016 at 3:17 pm

    Any of you folk know how to use 4chan or 8chan? I was sent a link to this last night, but I’ve never used those sites, can’t find the original posts, and have no idea how to try to back-track this to follow up:

    pol

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  21. Wooly Phlox says:
    October 13, 2016 at 6:05 pm

    Hi, Stellars. Catering for the Gov. tonight. I’m just working the back end. Some fundraiser for the Flint water disaster. I’m just working the back end, at the restaurant.

    I’ll go on record saying that I believe Flint’s water problem is not the fault of the Governor.

    No, it’s the fault of Parliament and Funkadelic, et Communist al.

    The ongoing cause of Flint’s problem is the same as Detroit’s problem and Benton Harbor’s problem, and none of these is the fault of whoever happens to be the Governor of the state in any given decade. Just Democrats, as always, acting like Democrats, corrupt and self-serving, and — ultimately — destructive of the lives who vote for them like slaves.

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  22. Wooly Phlox says:
    October 13, 2016 at 6:09 pm

    Here’s a movie about the Siege of Vienna in 1683 that has a whole lot of really bad reviews by people who love to hate truth, who drink the rotgut of SJW, and who sniff the throne of Islam.

    I haven’t watched it yet, but I think I’ll probably love it, because of who hates it.

    http://123movies.cz/film/the-day-of-the-siege-september-eleven-1683-3411/watching.html

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    • nyetneetot says:
      October 13, 2016 at 6:25 pm

      If it’s the movie I’m thinking of, aside budget constraints and poor computer generated scenery, the complaints I heard about had to do with historical accuracy, important events missing, things happening in the wrong order. I tried watching it anyway, but couldn’t get into it.

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      • Wooly Phlox says:
        October 13, 2016 at 6:40 pm

        I’ll try to watch it later tonight.

        I only found it because I wanted to know more about that period of history.

        I wish I knew it all, and deeply. Time: from Christ to WW1. Place: From Scandinavia to Capetown, and west to India.

        And I don’t. I have more puzzle pieces than most people I know, but my view of history’s tapestry (mixed metaphors rock!) is still woefully incomplete.

        Is there a free online course that’s not SJW? Does anyone know?

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        • nyetneetot says:
          October 13, 2016 at 7:07 pm

          It’s the same for all of us. Part of the problem is all the writing that was burnt during that 700 years. The largest libraries in the East and West were destroyed. The only things to survive are copies of texts used to teach reading and writing. All we have are copies from about 1200-1300. All the educated people were killed. Families that paid the fees to be left alone, were killed anyway after people in charge were replaced for various reasons.
          Also, the way we think of books is from about 1300-1400. Before that it was wax on panels of wood Think of wood cigar boxes with writing on the inside. There is your birth certificate and citizenship records. And all these cigar boxes were kept in the hall of records. For a hefty bribe, you could have your citizenship record added or backdated and placed in the correct location in the record.
          There were books that look like ours today, as well as printing presses. Just not movable type like todays (that we know of).

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  23. nyetneetot says:
    October 13, 2016 at 6:39 pm

    Speaking of movies, I finally got to see Hilary’s America. Spoiler Alert:

    It is really slow for an action flick. Jean-Claude Van Damme isn’t Dinesh D’Souza’s stunt double in the Turkish prison shower room scene. The action finally picks up at the 106 minute mark.

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  24. Wooly Phlox says:
    October 13, 2016 at 6:46 pm

    BTW, Stella, awesome pic for the thread. As always.

    Wish I were ambling down that road,
    …with a walking stick I found,
    and whittled with a pocket knife
    a handle that was sound.

    I used to do that a lot.

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  25. Wooly Phlox says:
    October 13, 2016 at 7:12 pm

    I walked across all five lakes at the Lynn Woods Preservation during that time. On solid ice, sometimes making ominous echoing cracking sounds. With a pound of something and everything in the Phish collection at the time, on cassette, and a Sony Walkman, a pouch of batteries, and a walking stick that I found and carved a handle out of anew, every day for a year.

    While reading books on philosophy.

    This one helped. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002DQUP6S/ref=nav_ya_signin?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=NSXW3FYXFGG2DHM2JN91&

    I always left the stick at the entrance gate. The next day it was always gone.

    I was like the hippie Thoreau.

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    • Wooly Phlox says:
      October 13, 2016 at 7:20 pm

      I can’t stand to listen to Phish now. It’s postmodernist, intentional Commie nonsense.

      It’s Calder. It’s Springsteen’s Blinded by the Light.

      It’s the Beatles’ Come Together. Nonsense and ugliness for the sake of replacing logic and beauty. Communist Goals, FTW!

      After that hallucinogenic era of my life, I prefer music with actual meaning.

      Not that into Jackson Pollock or Salvador Dali any more, either.

      I asked a Deadhead at work a couple of years ago:

      Q: What did the Deadhead say when he ran out of drugs?
      A: Man, this music SUCKS!

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  26. Wooly Phlox says:
    October 13, 2016 at 7:42 pm

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    • Col.(R) Ken says:
      October 13, 2016 at 7:59 pm

      Thought he stayed in Paris

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      • Wooly Phlox says:
        October 13, 2016 at 9:39 pm

        Can’t stand the guy, politically.

        His Greatest Hits: Vol 1 is my favorite album, ever.

        I don’t like Vol. 2. Or anything else in his discography.

        That one, I know by heart.

        If I judged great music through a political lens, I would only listen to Ted Nugent.

        And since he doesn’t innovate and evolve, I say, “meh.”

        He’s no Bon Iver.

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  27. WeeWeed says:
    October 13, 2016 at 9:11 pm

    I’m so glad some third world shithole has now taken over the innertubes. My reception is execrable, I can’t manage 3 or 4 windows at a time, and I’m so enlightened to know how stupid I am.
    Jus’ sayin’.

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  28. WeeWeed says:
    October 13, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    No dates on this, (quelle suspicious) but…..

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  30. ImpeachEmAll says:
    October 13, 2016 at 10:10 pm

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  31. ImpeachEmAll says:
    October 13, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    Will the 3:00 am call go to voice mail?

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  32. Ziiggii says:
    October 13, 2016 at 11:05 pm

    Has anyone talked to SD? Is it a little weird that he hasn’t posted anything all day?

    Just wondering… not that I’m worried. He’s probably out cutting trees or some sh$&@&. We’ll be cleaning up here well east of me for months to come.

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  33. lovely says:
    October 13, 2016 at 11:29 pm

    Instructions on how to change your avatar on Gab.ia from upthread

    1) Click on the small avatar in the upper right hand corner on your home page

    2) At the end of the bar that has the little frog, and the words posts, followers, following there should be a link that says “settings.”

    3) Click on settings link

    4) On the settings page there is a bar that says Profile Picture (upload if you want to change). Inside that bar is a button that says choose file.

    5) Click on choose file

    6) That will pull up pictures and downloads on your computer

    7) Click on the picture that you want.

    8) After you click on the picture that you want in the bottom of the box that has your pictures there will be a “choose” button click on “choose”

    9) You will be back to your “settings” page.

    10) Scroll down and click on save changes and you will have the avatar that you chose 😜

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  34. texan59 says:
    October 13, 2016 at 11:42 pm

    This’ll warm yer heart. BLM thugs get push back from cops, in of all places, Portlandia. I wouldn’t have believed it except for the video. Kinda funny how they back off when confronted with a little bit of force. It doesn’t take much when you’re not really down with the Shtruggle. 😆

    http://madworldnews.com/blm-cops-protest-town-hall/

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