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Awwwwww…and look how pleased the cats are to be there!
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As pleased as cats get when they are forced to pose…the dog, on the other hand, looks proud to be a prop. Or maybe it’s just the directional hypnosis.
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Dogs are just glad to have three hots and a cot.
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High-rent district model:
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Coffee up;
if you dare…
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Nothing wrong with this…
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Okay, okay…
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Think I mentioned it once before but I nearly arrested him years ago. Ah well, truely the first and last of the great SNL funny guys.
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Cat meets Starbucks
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That picture reminds me of myself when I was a little girl. I was the baby, so was home a long time by myself when I was the only child not in school yet. My playmates were my dad’s hunting dogs and our farm dogs. I would force the dogs to have tea parties and be my students as I played teacher.
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Would have been here sooner but I was at Walmart trying to find the ingredients for a Podestra -recommended Satanic ritual but they’re outta Great Value bodily fluids and the name brand stuff’s waaaay too expensive.
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I’m not even going to CONSIDER looking up “appropriate” images for that.
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Prolly best to just meander down the mind’s eye bleach aisle.
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Repeat from the last thread:
What was long suspected. Now proved.
Judicial Watch: New Benghazi Email Shows DOD Offered State Department “Forces that Could Move to Benghazi” Immediately – Specifics Blacked Out in New Document
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-benghazi-email-shows-dod-offered-state-department-forces-that-could-move-to-benghazi-immediately-specifics-blacked-out-in-new-document/
Judicial Watch today released a new Benghazi email from then-Department of Defense Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash to State Department leadership immediately offering “forces that could move to Benghazi” during the terrorist attack on the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. In an email sent to top Department of State officials, at 7:19 p.m. ET, only hours after the attack had begun, Bash says, “we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak.” The Obama administration redacted the details of the military forces available, oddly citing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemption that allows the withholding of “deliberative process” information.
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The newly released email reads:
From: Bash, Jeremy CIV SD [REDACTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 7:19 PM
To: Sullivan, Jacob J; Sherman, Wendy R; Nides, Thomas R
Cc: Miller, James HON OSD POLICY; Wienefeld, James A ADM JSC VCJCS; Kelly, John LtGen SD; martin, dempsey [REDACTED]
Subject: Libya
State colleagues:
I just tried you on the phone but you were all in with S [apparent reference to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton].
After consulting with General Dempsey, General Ham and the Joint Staff, we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak. They include a [REDACTED].
Assuming Principals agree to deploy these elements, we will ask State to procure the approval from host nation. Please advise how you wish to convey that approval to us [REDACTED].
Jeremy
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I do not know how anyone could vote for this woman, but especially anyone who has ever served in the military or have had family that served in the military.
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US State dept. can not secure approval for Host Nation support/approval, until the POTUS signs “Cross Border Authority”. What’s very informative in this email, is
Gen. Ham was relieved of command. Why? Consider this; no cross border authority issued by POTUS, told the AF elements to fly over target, “recon”. When this was learned by the political girls at the WH, Ham was relieved.
Just my thoughts….
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POTUS can make a verbal authorization and fill in the forms later. Also possible to authorize DoD to take action ahead of time under certain circumstances with State’s gO-ahead. Appears nothing was done here.
Hamm assembled a reaction force and was ready to deploy it without State or WH aporoval. I’m sure his advanced military education gave him a knowledge of how US SF personnel operating in Laos would be chased for days by Communist forces while MACV personnel would be trying to find Ambassador Sullivan and get his personal permission to rescue them…it was and still is a sore spot for many.
On the other hand there’s that lost footnote that the Israelis offered to help and we’re shelved. There’s little going on in the area that the Israelis and the next door neighbors the Egyptians don’t know about. They both monitor comns traffic and physical movements of as many bad guys as they can, it’s a matter of survival. To say that no onevk ew is a bald-faced lie in my opinion. Even if the various US commands couldn’t get relief/rescue gorces there the Egyptians could have and, considering the circumstances, would have. Ditto the Israelis and I’m betting the Egyptians would have given them wink-of-the-eye overflight privileges. This is BS, there are dead Ameticans and tne WH and Hellary will walk.
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Concur with verbal order, don’t want too make a long post. Knew about the SF in Loas from some senior enlisted at Mother Bragg. Your right about Ham, he knew the consequences, and was going anyway. One day, hopefully soon the score will be settled.
Yes, I would have done the same as Ham.
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I don’t doubt it. 🙂
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Yes, Col, you and the other true patriots on this site who have served in our military–all of you, like Gen. Ham, would have done the Right Thing.
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English Folk Verse (c.1870)
The Fifth of November
Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Guy Fawkes and his companions
Did the scheme contrive,
To blow the King and Parliament
All up alive.
Threescore barrels, laid below,
To prove old England’s overthrow.
But, by God’s providence, him they catch,
With a dark lantern, lighting a match!
A stick and a stake
For King James’s sake!
If you won’t give me one,
I’ll take two,
The better for me,
And the worse for you.
A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
A penn’orth of cheese to choke him,
A pint of beer to wash it down,
And a jolly good fire to burn him.
Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!
Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!
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Yeah, great. Anarchist’s holiday.
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A dead anarchist. In his case, crime didn’t pay.
I’ll grant you – it’s a strange holiday.
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I’m thinking about the idiots that run around here.
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This is “Bonfire Night” in the U.K.
When we lived in Scotland, there was a sheep field behind our house. For weeks all the neighborhood would put stuff to burn (tree limbs, furniture, etc) in a huge pile. On Halloween the neighborhood kids would drag a dummy through the streets and knock on doors asking for “a penny for the Guy”. On the 5th, there would be the guy sitting on top of the pile of brush(it was HUGE). The local Royal Navy Band would be there to play patriotic music, the fire would be set, and they would set off a really good fireworks display. Afterwards, everyone would have parties with hot dogs, baked potatoes, chile, beans and other traditional “Fawkes night” fare. Fun for all, except the dogs that were afraid of the fireworks.
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Breaking: Broward County, Florida Officials Caught Filling Out Absentee Ballots
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/11/breaking-broward-county-florida-officials-caught-filling-absentee-ballots/
Mike Cernovich broke this story this morning at Danger and Play:
A massive voter fraud operation was discovered in Democratic Broward County, Florida.
According to a former Secretary of Elections Department employee, there is a secret room where Democrat insiders fill out those absentee ballots.
The woman provided her sworn testimony via affidavit. …
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At this point, anywhere there ISN’T voter fraud would be news.
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He’s also saying that the Trump campaign is filing a suit against Brenda Snipes, the Broward county Sec. of elections.
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http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/this-quickly-escalates-into-open-warfare-why-the-government-is-preparing-for-post-election-chaos_11032016
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I’ve owned many washing machines in my lifetime, all different brands and never had one explode. I’ve had them quit agitating, quit spinning, quit draining and spring a leak, but never explode.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/11/04/samsung-recalls-2-8-million-washing-machines-after-730-reportedly-explode/
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I’m trying to figure out what could “explode” to the degree to cause outer covers to fly off and it’s got to be the electrical motor bearing or capacitor. Modern electric motors are usually explosion proof, but I guess not anymore.
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Support rod for the tub,,, imagine it spinning really fast then something snaps… The tub hits other pieces and sends them flying….
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I thought maybe the agitator was coming loose and flying out the top, but most of these new top loaders don’t have agitators.
It kind of makes you wonder with who is building Samsung products and if they have an ulterior motive, exploding phones and exploding washing machines. What’s next the doors blowing off your refrigerator? It certainly doesn’t make me want to run right out and buy a Samsung gas oven.
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Be glad they don’t make munitions for our military.
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😯 Yes!
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Samsung wasn’t happy about this video, or this mod.
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Made in China? Made in Afganistan?
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Washing machines, auto airbags, runaway accelerators….payback for Nagasaki?
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Maybe I just was lucky but I never heard or had such things happen to me when every last bolt was made in America.
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Another old post of mine – under a previous POtuS the defense contractors and Federal GSA started buying the super hard bolts from China versus US suppliers. Short version: military had to go back and check every tempered bolt installed in a critical piece of gear over a couple of years. Seems things like planes, helicopters, tanks, trucks – you name it – had the crap bolts installed instead of the proper strength ones.
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It amazes me sometimes the stuff that it is so hard to find made in the US. It’s like finding hen’s teeth.
Things you don’t even think about that can cause all kinds of problems if they’re inferior.
Besides lost jobs, it would be nice to have quality again.
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It’s all about money. In the late 70s DoD couldn’t find a US manufacturer of quality portable manual typewriters, we needed them for our bugout kits. They found ones that we’d load up and take tomfight the Bloc Commies, they were made in East Germany.
We started seeing GSA carrying Chinese hand tools about the same time. US ones were far more expensive, so greedy US makers lost out to China.
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I’ve defended business, big, small and all sizes in between for years.
I’m kind of tired of defending them. At some point you have to do what is best for your country not what is best for your bank account.
I think big business and even some of the other businesses are all in the same boat with the politicos, they don’t get why so many of us have had enough.
I guess in some ways I can understand their confusion, we’ve been out there doing their bidding while they’ve been laughing all the way to the bank as our country has went to s**t.
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It’s not the ‘businesses’ any more than it is the ‘government’, they’re both inanimate objects – problems is always the people in both. By changing the direction of the blame the actors can make it look as if the complainers are nuts and the people making the decisions are under attack by dangerous elements. Whine over.
Icky decisions are msde at all levels of busines and government while prodessional apologists and spinners preoare covers. Without the work, if you can call it that, done bybthe Japanese at site 731 in Manchuria during WWII we’d be decades behind in our ‘disease’ research. Without the work done by the special medical staff at Dachau, not forgetting von Braun, we’d be decades behind in our space program. We spent years whitewashing the Germans and Japanese who, were we not to have needed them, would surely have been hung as war criminals. The US businesses that employed them to build our space war and ‘peaceful’ systems, same companies that were building weapons to fight them scant years before, are now praising their work.
It’s all situational ethics and depends upon the morality of the people determining the limits.
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Bravo Mike!
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This needs to go viral.
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This is really great. I do hope it will go viral.
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Sometimes, you just have to love karma…
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parallel universe…
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Reminds me of DUCK, NC……
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Impeach, You have NAILED IT!!!!!!!
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My business teacher ( a rare bird in academia) used to say if we should ban guns because it could save one life then imagine how many lives could be saved by banning cars.
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And if we could save one life by increasing the people’s ability to carry guns….
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😂
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One of the best 10 movies, ever.
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
(Tom Collins)
(Black & Tan)
(Boilermaker)
(Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
(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)
(Albanian Raki Moskat)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ Czarina! 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
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! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂
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!
Doughnuts for coffee!
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Nye!!!!! Morning Everyone!!!!! This was my Breakfast, 0700. Well done Nye! Blueberries!!!!!!
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Wow!
Just, Wow!
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Mornin’!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Yum! All looks good. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Morning Nyet,
Beautiful breakfast! (But you mind flippin’ the eggs just a scosh?)
Thanks, have a great day!
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Mornin’ kids!
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Mornin’ over here too!
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Mornin’ B!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!!! Beautiful morning. Fantastic viewing last night, moon, planets, and stars. Sunrise was great, used the Solar filter to view the Sun. No Sun spots.
Easy day, weekend, Monday, RTD and I’m looking forward to getting back to work.
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Mornin’ Colonel Sir!
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Is the Super moon on the 13th/14th?
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I had a dream about a super moon last night, you just reminded me.
It was impossibly huge, and I was taking pics of it with my phone. A very vivid dream.
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This one is supposed to be the biggest in decades.
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Nov. 14.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/02/world/supermoon-november-14-2016/
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“For viewers in eastern North America and Europe, the best view will likely be on the night of November 13, or the following night. ”
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Well, hell. That’s the day of my eye surgery and I’ll be blind. Curses……
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That sucks. Well, one of your eyes will be okay.
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She murmured hopefully……. 😀 Lol – If there’s a pressure bandage my glasses won’t fit over it.
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They don’t bandage, do they?
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Whothehell knows? I’ve never done this before. I’ll find out Thurs. during the pre-op.
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I was poking around on the internet. Seems some people get an eye patch.
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http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/cataract-surgery.htm
You will be prescribed medicated eye drops to use several times each day for a few weeks after cataract surgery. You also must wear your protective eye shield while sleeping or napping for about a week after surgery. To protect your eyes from sunlight and other bright light as your eye recovers, you will be given a special pair of post-operative sunglasses.
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That sucks…..
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Yeah those, really sexy ones.
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If you get an eye patch, make sure to preface all your utterances with “Arr!”.
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I’ma ask for black.
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A lady friend of mine lost vision in one eye, permanently, a couple of years ago.
A good lady friend of hers calls her “Jack”.
No matter what happens in this life, you have to laugh.
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It was a blood clot that slammed into her eye, blinding it, due to a rare disorder called methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase mutation, or MTHFR.
It’s a mthf’r, alright. She told that to a nurse and doctor and they both had to laugh.
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The evening of November 13. Moon illumination is 99.3%
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Roger that, hi pressure, totally clear and clean sky, we could see the lens of the Milky Way.
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Mornin’ Wee!
I fully believe Satan is her guide.
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Oh, my.
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Yep! Her partner.
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Mornin’ Miss Wee!
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Mornin’ Derk!
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Happy Saturday, team!
Are any of you interested in the Anonymous leaks about the Hillary investigation? It is supposedly going on right now on 4chan. I’m kinda skeptical, but I can give a link or copy and paste if you’re interested.
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4chan ?????
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Pretty much where anonymous began, at least on the WWW.
I don’t visit 4chan, 8chan or any of the others, but I do respect the fact that it’s freer that the Wild West, and decidedly not SJW-converged.
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I saw it. I say if they have these videos and pictures they should have already released them.
Personally I don’t think they have anything and are full of it.
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I agree that speculation (particularly on a website like this one) is a mistake. Let’s see some evidence. Like SD said – keep our eyes on our election goals right now.
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If they have videos and pictures, it would be illegal to post them, because they allegedly contain images of sex with minors.
How can one get the public to literally see what Clintons do, when it’s illegal to show the public what Clintons do? Strange conundrum.
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Good point.
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It’s not illegal to show a jury this evidence.
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If they have the videos/pictures (and I didn’t read any of the links to Chan) they themselves are felons.
They have an obligation to turn the evidence over to a lawful authority. There should be great concern for anyone in possession of child pornography that involves powerful people that if they turn it over to the wrong authorities the material will disappear and the person who turned the vile garbage in may shoot themselves in the back of the head multiple times.
Solution, turn the evidence over to Sheriff Clarke, Sheriff Joe Apaio, hand it to Keith Schiller or Dan Scavino at a Trump rally (Shiller is always accessible by the crowd as is Scavino). There are a lot of viable options, dangling it on the internet is bullshit and the lowest form of self promotion IMO.)
PS. I don’t think I’ve ever been on 4Chan.
PSS O’keefe has over promised and under delivered.
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Agreed on all points.
If nothing big comes out, or no arrests are made by Tuesday morning, we’ve been trolled.
O’Keefe released his dribbles in backward order, from best to worst. Why? Totally out of character for his organization. I stopped watching with the Donald Ducks “expose”. Whoa. Hard-hitting stuff there, James old Buddy.
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Socialist do not play well in the sandbox…
https://twitter.com/LucidHuricane/status/794780949800255489
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https://twitter.com/GOPPollAnalyst/status/794794723512877056
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https://twitter.com/LucidHuricane/status/794823339097329665
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Those voting for Hillary
will need to own their
contribution to her win.
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And,……….she never lies. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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If you are a Social Security recipient, I suppose you have heard the ‘good’ news that we will receive a COLA increase in 2017 – a big .3%!!!! That means less than $10 a month for most of us. For more:
https://www.fool.com/retirement/2016/11/05/social-security-colas-are-being-left-in-the-dust-b.aspx
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Inflation/COL is something else that drives me insane about the government thinking all of us are stupid. Some of us can do math and have to balance our check books and know that the cost of living keeps going up. $10 a month won’t even cover the added cost of food for a week for one person.
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The entertaining way the Feds compute the SS increases, from top to bottom, is a tribute to Federal head-up-the-nether-eyeitis. They figure ‘inflation’ by jiggling the inputs to minimize damage to the figures that might come back to bite them in their hind brains, just as they do all economic stats. They then cherry pick the use of those figures to compute all Fed retirement increases…just more enlightened policies at work.
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IOW, they’re a bunch of cheating, lying scoundrels. I used to work with statistics for a big company. I had to figure out, in some cases, money owed annually by a customer based on cost-of-living increases. I learned then how government and others can manipulate numbers.
(Hi, everyone. I’ve been away from commenting anywhere for a few weeks. Hope everyone is well; and are you as glad as I am that this electioneering is coming to an end?)
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Hi 🙂
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Roger that: liars, damned liars and statisticians.
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Well hell bells, we done worked all our lives and we’re supposed to have downsized our retirement lives to meet a reduced retirement expectation. Those tax dollars we still pay on our SS income are needed to support felonious immigrants, potential cartel staff implants and jihadis who, with the already native flocks of professional welfare parasites, need those tax dollars to survive as expecting them to learn English, get a job and suport themselves is…well…racist.
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Happy National Redhead Day!! http://www.wbir.com/mb/life/redhead-day-is-nov-5-9-fun-facts-about-red-hair/348067476
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Maureen O’Hara, red head, and a Lady……. wow, wow, wow,
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How Green Was My Valley, 1941
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Interesting fact about red heads, they have more hair follicles than any other hair color…hmmmmm
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Feel good story:
Hubby went to to his regular newsstand yesterday in midtown Manhattan for his morning paper, apologized that he didn’t have a smaller bill and the older Indian man said “no problem make America great again” in broken english. Hubby was a little startled and without thinking automatically reached out to give him a fist bump. He received his change, thanked the man again and he received another fist bump this time from him and both said “be well and have a nice weekend” before they went on their ways.
Little older immigrant at a newsstand kiosk gets it.
MAGA.
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I can’t believe I forgot you were “ctdar”. I knew the avatar, but I couldn’t put a name to it.
Then I scrolled back up to breakfast.
Thank’s nyet! Welcome, Patriot.
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Hah I know your avatar from years ago too 😉
It’s nice having virtual homes to gather in…with good friends, a round of coffee and slab of bacon 😄
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It sure is. 🙂
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I changed from the two variations of Taqiyya about a year ago, because why would I want my online identity to reference something i hate? I love wooly phlox. Especially the purple. 🙂
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OMG What a morning! I have been trying to catch up on the news here and Trump has a rally at 10:00 and now another one at 1:00. Annnd now the Navy/Notre Dame game is on. I’m gonna need a nap when all this is done.
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There are FOUR rallies today!
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Bless his heart. He is working so hard…….for us. 😥
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Yep, perfect example of how hard he will work once he walks into the Whitehouse.
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I know this is InfoWars, but his article is worth reading.
Washington Post Hides Article About Podesta’s Nude Children Photo Collection
http://www.infowars.com/washington-post-hides-article-about-podestas-nude-children-photo-collection/
The Washington Post has removed an article in which Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s “art” collection was revealed to contain pictures of naked teenagers.
The 2004 article, archived online, includes comments from former Clinton administration official Sally Katzen in which she discusses the “awkwardness” of being at the Podesta’s home.
“At political events, there’s an inevitable awkwardness,” Katzen said.
The article’s author goes on to mention the disturbing specifics of the Podestas’ taste in “art.”
“Folks attending a house tour in the Lake Barcroft neighborhood in Falls Church earlier this year got an eyeful when they walked into a bedroom at the Podesta residence hung with multiple color pictures by Katy Grannan, a photographer known for documentary-style pictures of naked teenagers in their parents’ suburban homes.”
Podesta also collects imagery depicting cannibalism and is a known friend of occult and gore obsessed performer Marina Abramović.
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I just talked too this NYPD officer who answered the phone. Just asked when the NYPD news conference was being held on information found on Weiners computer. So I’ll leave NYPD’s contact information here;
Deputy Commissioner, Public Information
One Police Plaza – Room 1320
New York, N.Y. 10038
Attn: DCPI
Fax: (646) 610-8795 / 5856
Voice: (646) 610-6700
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Done.
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The guy on the line, who answered immediately, said “We haven’t determined that yet, sir.”
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I said, thank you brother, have a good afternoon.
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Isn’t it illegal to photograph naked kids?
These people are evil.
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Morning Stella,
Love the pic, gives me the feeling of the long road we have all been on. And a sense of tranquility and new beginnings coming up just round the bend. Love it.
Trump’s third stop today before Denver tonight is in Reno. Was 10 months ago (!?) that my brother and I took the trip over there to see him back in January. Time does fly by, but the journey is beautiful. Thanks.
Goes with yesterdays Speedo topic. You all have a great weekend!
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Disregard the twitter thing, didn’t post like I hoped. Austin powers in a Speedo,
“It’s the weekend yeah baby!”
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Austin Powers @Austin_Powers__ · Jul 22
It’s Friday baby yeah!!
Explody Heads, too…
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Stella, when’s this site’s birthday again? What day did you start inviting folks here?
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Thank you, by the way.
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I did my first posts on November 13. Comments started on November 14.
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We already have boxes of toilet paper to throw in the braches next door.
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The Treehouse birthday is February 1 (2011).
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Like a reason is needed for a TP party. 🙂
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Reminds me of high school.
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A few days before Halloween some of us were discussing trick-or-treating and this one guy in his 50’s said him and his friends would TP houses that gave them toothbrushes.
I asked him just how old were you when you quit trick-or-treating. He said about 11. I told him him and his friends were some brats and I’d hate to know what they did when they hit their teens. He said just talking about it would probably get him arrested. lol
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That kid is going to hyperventilate any minute….
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Part 30, you know. Scroll down to “gregga777” at Nov. 4, 4:40 p.m.
Part 31, released three hours ago.
I wonder what this batch contains.
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Teenagers In Macedonia Launch Fake Pro-Trump Sites To Earn Money
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became-a-global-hub-for-pro-trump-misinfo?utm_term=.oh30y7D5P9#.mv82mZ8xgV
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/24/facebook-clickbait-political-news-sites-us-election-trump
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“In Macedonia the economy is very weak and teenagers are not allowed to work, so we need to find creative ways to make some money,” one 17-year-old told BuzzFeed News, which reports on a “strange hub” of over 140 political sites, all being run in the same small town in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
These sites have American-sounding domain names such as WorldPoliticus.com, TrumpVision365.com, USConservativeToday.com, DonaldTrumpNews.co, and USADailyPolitics.com. They almost all publish aggressively pro-Trump content aimed at conservatives and Trump supporters in the U.S… The young Macedonians who run these sites say they don’t care about Donald Trump. They are responding to straightforward economic incentives… The fraction-of-a-penny-per-click of U.S. display advertising — a declining market for American publishers — goes a long way in Veles. Several teens and young men who run these sites told BuzzFeed News that they learned the best way to generate traffic is to get their politics stories to spread on Facebook — and the best way to generate shares on Facebook is to publish sensationalist and often false content that caters to Trump supporters… Most of the posts on these sites are aggregated, or completely plagiarized, from fringe and right-wing sites in the U.S…
Earlier this year they experimented with fake sites supporting Bernie Sanders, “but nothing performed as well on Facebook as Trump content,” according to the 16-year-old who operates BVANews.com. The largest Macedonian sites now have hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook, and sources close to one site say it earns $5,000 per month, and has even earned $3,000 in a single day.
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😯 OMG Navy beats Notre Dame 28/17. I feel faint. {clunk}
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ANOTHER GOOD OMEN.
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“It has been played annually since 1927, making it the longest uninterrupted intersectional rivalry in college football.[1] Notre Dame leads the series 76–12–1.[2] Before Navy won a 46–44 triple-overtime contest in 2007, Notre Dame had a 43-game winning streak that was the longest series win streak between two annual opponents in the history of Division I FBS football.[3] Navy’s previous win came in 1963, 35–14 with future Heisman Trophy winner and NFL QB Roger Staubach at the helm. Navy had come close to winning on numerous occasions before 2007. The Midshipmen subsequently won again in 2009 and 2010.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy%E2%80%93Notre_Dame_football_rivalry
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OOPS, TYPO. 28/27.
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Thought the Army-Navy game was the longest rivalry……Congratulations Mom!!!!!!
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It is.
“Army and Navy first met on the football field on November 29, 1890.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army%E2%80%93Navy_Game
“It has been played annually since 1927, making it the longest uninterrupted intersectional rivalry in college football.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy%E2%80%93Notre_Dame_football_rivalry
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Let’s not forget Harvard – Yale rivalry…
The Game: Harvard vs. Yale 2016
The Crimson take on the Bulldogs at Harvard Stadium in the 133rd playing of The Game on Saturday, November 19 at 12:30 p.m. ET.
First game played = November 13, 1875 😉
https://alumni.harvard.edu/harvard-yale/the-game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard%E2%80%93Yale_football_rivalry
1890 Harvard football team
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Now, if Geaux Tigres beats Roll Tide, it be an…… omen.
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Quick get the bacon salts 😉
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Here you be…
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Quite the game so far, start of 4th, 0-0.
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My thoughts and prayers Mr. Howard. Thank you…..
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Trump has added two rallies tomorrow – one in Michigan, and one in Virginia. That makes FIVE!
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Elvis Chupacabra is next door!
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He IS!!!! Work was long, this time. 😀
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So invite him OVER!
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Show him the LOOOOOOONG-standing invitation at every breakfast.
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Indeed.
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He’s been invited a bunch of times. So has FDR.
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I saw that. He must be home from foreign parts.
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Forget the popcorn. Get a vomit tray and pull up a seat.
http://fmovies.to/film/hillarys-america-the-secret-history-of-the-democratic-party.ojqq4/7w647y
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I’ma open up the bar. Shall we do it here, or the next rally thread?????
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For the next couple of days, maybe it should be on EVERY thread. Could be useful.
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I wuz kinda thinkin’ that myself……
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Lay in a supply of Mortlach and hard cider, and I’ll join you. I assume that ingredients for regular Margaritas are already in place.
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I got the chips and salsa. I’ll have to make the guacamole.
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Sounds good to me. Got salt? (for the Margs)
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Sure.
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Good suggestion.
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I open tomorrow, and have to figure out the math on how to make 2/5 of a batch of sausage gravy.
I know how to follow the recipe, and it’s very simple, for a 5 lb. bulk sausage batch, but all I have is a two-pound package.
But math. Arrrgh! Anyone? It’s just sausage, butter, flour, milk, h&h, red pepper flakes, black pepper, and salt. I’m no roux-master, though. And the recipe is no longer codified. The old way, and the last time I made it as a prep cook two years ago, used a roux base, and not actual flour, and also used three times more pans. My Mehican comes in at 7. We’ll make it work.
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http://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/my-mexican-works-for-less-than-you-mexican
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What are the amts of each of the ingredients?
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Yield: 12 Quart / Shelf life: 7 days
5lb — bulk pork sausage
10 qt — Whole milk
2 qt — Heavy cream
1/8 cup — Crushed Red Pepper
1 lb — butter
4 cups — A.P. Flour
6 TBSP — White pepper
6 TBSP — Kosher Salt
6 TBSP — Cornstarch
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Thing is, that’s from our outdated recipe book. We don’t use the cornstarch any more, and we only use one pot (well, 2, since we do a double boiler after the sausage & spices and butter are browned. I’ve just seen it done, from a distance.)
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You definitely deserve a raise. 🙂
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We’ll see if you’re right, tomorrow.
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Good luck.
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This is what I came up with:
2 lb sausage
4 qt whole milk
1-1/2 pints cream
2-1/2 tsp red pepper
6-1/2 oz butter
1-1/2 Cup AP Flour
2-1/2 TB White pepper
2-1/2 TB Kosher Salt
2-1/2 TB Cornstarch
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I think I have it figured out, but just the math.
2lb sausage
4qt whole milk
3.2 cups heavy cream
2.4 tsp crushed red pepper
6.4 oz butter
1.6 cups AP flour
2.4 TBSP white pepper, salt, and cornstarch
I just hope I can get it to thicken, because roux eludes me half the time.
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LOL thank you, Stella!
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We got the same. I rounded up and down a bit.
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Love google.
Ask it what the speed of sound is in furlongs per fortnight.
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Good. Glad you got that figured out. I just got back to see. 🙂
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Interesting NASCAR vehicle #55 paint scheme…
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Oops…
Here ’tis…
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If I hadn’t sold my XBOX last week because I don’t use it any more, I’d make one better.
Way better.
MAGA — Grab ’em by the Pu**y — 2016
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…being a human is pretty much the hardest thing to be…
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@2:25 “…in the last eight years, I became more human..”
Amazing video and artists.
Oh Wonder is a couple who made an album in their flat in the UK. They produced and released, as promised, one track per month for free on YouTube, for fifteen months. I bought the CD.
Their first album is eponymous.
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Well, wapatuli approaches… I will be up by 5 tomorrow.
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Kid introducing Hillary basically says she is an evil scumbag and there is no point in voting this election. Gets escorted off the stage by SJW handler.
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Oh, isn’t that just the cutest crowd? Bless their hearts!!
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Love tolerance
of Free Speech
by the socialists.
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Reminder…
This weekend we can sleep in an extra hour as we “fall back” into Standard Time and longer nights.
Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, which means you’ll want to turn your old-school clocks back before you go to bed Saturday night, Nov. 5.
http://patch.com/maryland/annapolis/daylight-saving-time-2016-ends-turn-clocks-back-tonight
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Someone forgot to tell my dog. Here I am up in the middle of the night – as usual.
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Wait… it’s only 11:03 right now?
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