Hi-70s to low-80s next few days with temps going into mid-50s at nite. That said, supposed to hit close to freezing Sunday/Monday nite. If yas don’ likes da weather….
For the Czarina that’s Point Barrow…told you before I was looking to move to snow country when we retired and she and I compromised: I want snow I open the freezer and stare..
Please pray for Former Miss Wisconsin, Melissa & her son. She said it was so very important for her to know she was leaving her son a better world if she could help get Trump elected. Melissa was so full of joy Nov. 8th. There is a heartbreaking video of Melissa crying tears of our joy when she learns that Trump won the election but I cannot find the video. .
Trump promised Melissa that he would take care of her young son Jack.
SAD NEWS: Health Of Melissa Young, Fmr. Miss Wisconsin And Vocal Trump Supporter, Takes Turn For The Worse
What an amazing woman. My heart breaks for her and that sweet boy. She has fought valiantly and she has given so much. I’m thankful that our new president will make sure her child is well cared for, he’s a truly honorable man. Prayers for comfort and peace of mind for her.
“…caused by medical negligence…” medical mistakes, third leading cause of preventable deaths in the US. That recent report, unlike what the doctors try and tell you, was not an anomalous blip on the paranoia radar screen, it was a redux of a 1999 report that was done to see if things got better in the intervening 15 years…nope.
You pays your money and you takes your chances, step up and roll the medical dice.
I am arguing with my new doc as the Organization is pushing to get every one of those pieces of Medicare billing gravy-tests run first. Never had them push those tests the day before I got on to Medicare, day after they’re like rabid dogs.
My mom gets the same thing. You need this, this and that.
Is there any possibility of you being pregnant? No no there is not not. No there is not a law that makes you give a 77 year old women a pregnancy test to satisfy your insurance requirements to have Medicare pay for a test that could be harmful to a fetus.
One of the additional questions on my ballot when I voted:
The South Haven Community Hospital Authority proposes to transfer South Haven Community Hospital and the hospital’s related operations to an affiliate of Bronson Healthcare Group, on terms negotiated by the Authority board. If that transfer is completed, no property taxes would thereafter be levied to support the hospital’s operations. Should this proposed transfer be approved?
Pretty much everyone including me, who popped outa’ my momma there, voted yes.
With this win, hopefully SH Hospital will no longer be the death emporium that it has been for a long, long time. Finger injury? You die. Colonoscopy? You die. Foot injury? You die. It’s the sad refrain, and everyone here knows it. If you have to go to a hospital, you run from South Haven, fast, toward either Holland, G.R., or K-zoo.
I had one doc, probably suffering from medical ennui,tell me that I really needed that colonoscopy soon as they can’t bill Medicare for it after I’m 75. Nice to know where my internals figure in here…
Trying to motivate myself to make coffee. Two of my favorite little hellions are headed this way soon. Their mama and her sister are off for a girl’s weekend, much deserved. Going to have me a play day. It should be lots of fun, if I can keep up with Conner. That little rascal may be the fastest one yet, and he’s not quite walking. He crawls out in the middle of the floor, stands up on his own, but he will not take a step without a finger to hold.
Oh…. nice to have the little guys. My neighbors have their two grandsons all the time, I have seen them grow up a bit. They are helping since their daughter is a single mother. Such decent and caring people.
My friend used to have her two grandsons, under 5 years old, stay with her for the day. It used to take her the next two days to rest up even though they were really good kids. LOL
I would say that they are almost raising the grandchildren, they are paying for private school, a christian fine arts kind of place…Very lucky little children.
At exactly noon on this day, American and Canadian railroads begin using four continental time zones to end the confusion of dealing with thousands of local times. The bold move was emblematic of the power shared by the railroad companies.
The need for continental time zones stemmed directly from the problems of moving passengers and freight over the thousands of miles of rail line that covered North America by the 1880s. Since human beings had first begun keeping track of time, they set their clocks to the local movement of the sun. Even as late as the 1880s, most towns in the U.S. had their own local time, generally based on “high noon,” or the time when the sun was at its highest point in the sky. As railroads began to shrink the travel time between cities from days or months to mere hours, however, these local times became a scheduling nightmare. Railroad timetables in major cities listed dozens of different arrival and departure times for the same train, each linked to a different local time zone…
This is a very interesting (and LONG) piece about whether or not Trump is a racist. The author doesn’t like Trump, and supported Hillary Clinton for President, which makes it particularly interesting. He also say why falsely calling Trump and his supporters violent, hateful, racists is dangerous; in his words, crying wolf. Description by a FB friend: “the article is long, requires actual reading, and has numbers and graphs. It demonstrates what other serious researchers have also concluded: the number of white supremacists, KKK members and neo Nazis in the US is miniscule — under 50,000. You are choosing to be deluded. ”
Watching all the reports of the whining college students, I thought back to my own college. A tiny place in upstate NY… I took a class on something about the environment, the one thing I remember the professor saying over and over is that “if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.” This is pretty much the opposite of what is going on, these kids face a problem and are encouraged to curl up and cry…. SMH.
I had a priest once who gave one sermon I will never forget. He said before you tear something down, be sure you have a solution for how to rebuild it, and that you are actually going to do the work required to replace what you tore up. It started as a way to address problems in the parish, but he was wise enough to expand the thought.
It is the most memorable sermon I’ve ever heard, given by a priest who wasn’t a great speaker, and he was on the other end of the spectrum from me politically and theologically, but he was dead on. Everyone has a little good advice or wisdom to impart.
Reading that book from the 1790’s, John Robison wrote that the youth get attracted by the sense of belonging to an insiders club, by knowing some secret.
All the people who are older, working, raising families, and have wealth are the sheep that don’t know the secrets of the universe that they were shown in the university.
In fact there are even books from ancient Rome written in verse, that tell youth to stop listening to their university professors, grow up, and go get a job.
Problem is the definition of racist to the Left has all of the objectivity of fog. They can twist the definition to meet their needs – who cares whom they call racist?
I had to go back and re-read Alexander’s article because his dichotomy of truth is just so fascinating.
He is in the mental health field, it seems a therapist (Master’s degree) at the very least.
Rhetoric that he has possibly pushed or passively accepted as justifiable means to an end to one degree or another has landed two of his own patients at his feet with suicide ideation which has forced him to step back from the more shrill and dangerous acrimony of the Left and try to look at it objectively through his subjective glasses.
Alexander continues to promote a false narrative about Trump because his liberal mind will allow him to do nothing else.
Alexander sees the danger that, as he sees them, nameless well intentioned right fighters, are causing by screaming fire in a crowded theater when some nèer-do-well has naughtily only lit up a cigarette, but Alexander still manages to be lost in the Trump-phobia that defines the very people he is begging to step back from the rhetoric.
I am thoroughly impressed with Alexander’s attempt to talk the wolf criers off the ledge of nincompoopery and his use of statistics and willingness to bring a rational argument against the charge of Trump being “the first openly white supremacist to be elected president” and a man whose very existence is an imminent danger to the very life of each and every member of the LGBT community.
Alexander does not seem concerned with the vitriol and violent protest because of the inflammatory vitriol and violence against Trump and his supporters so much in and of itself, but rather he seems against the narrative because it is causing good people (non Trump supporters) to be fearful. Even suicidal.
But Alexander is so entrenched within his world view that his warning is not so much about the danger of mindlessly following hysterical headlines and Tweets because that level of Goose Stepping is in and of itself a grave danger to a free society but rather it seems that the effect of this Goose Stepping is negatively affecting weak-minded and or mentally delicate people. And that is the problem that Alexander is trying to address. He is upset about a branch not the root.
Alexander fears that mis-labeling Trump as an overt racist and homophobe may more easily pave the way for a truly overt racist homophobe to come into power because over using those words drains them of their power. News flash for Mr. Alexander, the Left has mis-used the word racist so often and inappropriately attached -phobic to so many things that those words for all practical purposes have lost any credibility when they are leveled against almost anyone.
Alexander’s whole argument is with the use of words. He argues that even though Trump is divisive, using identity politics and a generally terrible person that Trump is not openly a white supremacist nor does Trump want to kill gays. Trump in Alexander’s mind is likely simply a run of the mill racist in the image of both Romney and McCain.
Alexander is seeing the fruit of the inflammatory words of the Left in his practice. And it makes him uncomfortable. Yet Alexander still allows those same people who have made people suicidal by their Alinskyeque methods to lead Alexander to proclaim that Trump is a terrible, crazy, divisive average racist.
Alexander’s words about his Leftist bedmates.
“The logic is flawless, it’s just that you’re wrong about everything.”
Alexander’s logic about the rhetoric of the Left making mentally unstable people fear for their lives to the point of having suicidal thoughts is flawless, it is just that Alexander is wrong in every way that within Trump is an underlying intrinsic racism, terribleness, homophobic, malicious divisiveness. Those predilections have been suggested by Trumps’s words or behavior.
The mental breakdown of people, the tears, the violence are all exclusive fruits of the Left’s dangerous malicious rhetoric. Alexander needs look no further than President Obama for the violent rioters biggest visible cheerleader or the mentally unbalanced biggest agitator.
Trump can no more easily control the Left purposely misconstruing his words than the Left can tell the truth about who Trump really is as a human being.
The Left stands alone in driving the mentally delicate to madness, violence, and suicide (if any have occurred because of unfounded fear of a Trump presidency) and suicide ideation.
Alexander is very delicately defending Trump against the most grievous malevolent charges leveled against him by the disingenuous Left, to Alexander’s credit it seems that somewhere in his conscience these words are echoing,
“Also I will, according to my ability and judgment, prescribe a regimen for the health of the sick; but I will utterly reject harm and mischief”
I wonder if Alexander can get out of the quagmire of liberal thought that still is wrapped firmly around his ankles. If he can, he may be a real force of good for the world, especially the mentally unwell who he has an obligation both professional and moral to be a caretaker of.
I give Mr. Alexander a bravo but no standing ovation. Wake up Mr. Alexander.
“I’ve come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world, is that people’s perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want and do not want to be true.” -Travis Walton
Happy Friday Nyet! Thank you for the crispy hash browns and bacon!!!!
Happy Friday all!!! It’s amazing how fast this year has flown by! I can’t believe it’s almost thanksgiving! I’m thankful for Stella’s place and all the great folks who reside here! 😊
One inescapable drawback of globalization is that it requires, actually requires foreign intervention in “internal affairs”. That’s why joining the EU meant Brussels made British law; Brussels controlled UK borders. That’s why the Iran deal was made in the UN and not in the Senate. John Podesta is a lobbyist for the Saudis. Someone has to represent their interests in the US government.
You can say “this is good in the net”. But there are some minor side effects. One of them is that foreign powers take an interest in elections. They try to influence them in any way they can. So when we say Putin interfered with the election one can resist this, but it shouldn’t be surprising.
Once the electorate understand the side effects of integration, transnational institutions and a world order they may adjust the dose. This is what the UK did with Brexit. They didn’t “leave” Europe completely, but they did adjust the terms.
President Obama himself said that globalization needed adjustment. But he still sees adjustment in terms of more international regulation. He doesn’t get that it’s the international regulations themselves that are the source of internal interference. It’s the tight coupling that does it. If you want more sovereignty, you must loosen the coupling and allow for more, not less subsidiarity.
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace
Under Putin.
Wretchard T. Cat is Richard Fernandez, who writes for PJ Media/Belmont Club.
Yes, probably. They’ll all start screaming he’s a racist. This might be another real-time example of the long “You Are Still Crying Wolf” article you posted above.
Just coming here to post this, y’all beat me to it. Best news since ‘your coffee’s ready’.
Watch the self-righteous RATS and BGI light up over this, a white, Republican from ALABAMA?!?!?!?!
He had problems in the mid-80s when he was nominated for a Federal judgeship. Cjarges of racism were leveled against him when the left butt cheeks of a selection of BGI posteriors were dusted by a RAT political forensics team and his lip prints were noticeably absent. Expect the RAT walking dead to do no less this time.
Czar, had just finished reading your comment yesterday on my experience with Thanksgiving and I’ll add Christmas dinners. Then all hell broke loose. The electrical sub station blew up, telephone switching station and mrico wave tower fried. The serge of power thru the lines, melted my power panel. House filled with that electrical smell of fire. Use two fire extinguishers, panel was gone, main breakers/ground did there job. Working thru the night, everything is now good to go. Can’t wait for this bill, informed home owners, and adjuster with stop by. I think you and I share the same insurance company. I think we share the same company, in Texas…….
Yeah, had that in RVN, and many other experiences that I could talk about, but I might be smited…….
best Thanksgiving and Christmas meals were in ’90. Hot, good, fulfilling and on time!! Was a 48 hour food fest….. No “T” rats, everything was fresh.
Yeah, I got State Farm…can’t say much for the company but worship the ground my local agent walks on, his office goes over backwards to help.
If you don’t have one look at getting a whole-house surge suppressor put into your panel. We have boucoup lightening storms so I sweat a strike. Whole-house may save you insurance cash and your company may now help may to put one in.
Um, Ben Franklin invented this thing called a lightning rod. All the barns in Iowa had them when I was a kid.
I never saw such violent lightning storms as what I witnessed while stationed at Eglin AFB. One dark and stormy night I was alone in the middle of reading “The Exorcist” when a bolt struck just outside the heavy double metal doors with the wire reinforced glass and pneumatic closers, blowing the doors open, and a cloud of smoke rolled in. That was scary.
Months later on duty at a different building, a strike fried the teletype wires.
We don’t need lightening rods, the trees we have do the job We lose two or so a year, you can see the rips right down the bark where the sap heated to steam and blew it out. Got one old girl that’s at least 60 years old, has been hit a few times and has ridden out around three major hurricanes. God’s own lightening rods.
In Covert, MI, where I lived as a child, I saw the aftermath of a tree that got completely exploded by lightning. There was perfect lath-wood all over the road. Some of the pieces were over 15 feet long. Pre-Sheetrock™ we could have used them for lath-and-plaster walls, they were that perfect.
I’ve seen some good hardwood tree explosions but my tallest ones are pines and they just get this neat rip snaking down the bark then die off, becoming woodpecker construction projects.
I grew up on Lake Michigan, and never found a Fulgurite. I’m guessing it’s because being this far North, our lightning isn’t high-voltage enough to melt the sand.
We don’t have ball lightning, either, Thank God. That stuff digs trenches.
Yeah, I like living this far north. Our spiders and snakes are smaller, too.
Folks near the equator call our lightning “sparks”.
Never found melted sand in Egypt, either. Found petrified wood, geodes, landmines, unexploded ordnance, usual Mideast souvenirs…
Yeah, I can remember some really spectacular lightening in Panama, used to be up on Quarry Heights where, while sipping a glass of white rum on ice, we got a bird’s eye view. Not much else to do there then that didn’t require antibiotics within two weeks.
Trump has also offered Mike Pompeo the DCI’s post. Expect there to be a booming business at The Farm as new the Company goes back to its primary business of being proactive i keeping America safe. The POtuS’s policy of treating jihad as a moving traffic infraction’s a gawn pucawn.
Yeah, NASA was put on hold while Obama waited for Moslem rocket scientists to graduate from Madras Tech…didn’t work out all that well as they were a bit slow getting out of the Student Union Building and the 7th century.
Forcing a person to resign in tears for, after landing a spacecraft on a COMET (not the pizza place) for wearing a triggering shirt with anime ladies on it, during a press conference, might also have contributed to NASA’s decline.
I figure Obama was upset when NASA told him those 70’s blacksploitation SciFi films with Afro-haired buxom vixens were just movies, they weren’t real nor was NASA planning on missions to find them. Payback’s a beeatch.
Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!! Wait for it…Bam, Bam…. now my vote for Sheriff Clark, FBI director…….Now my other vote for SECDEF is Gen. “Mad Dog” Mathis, USMC (R). And my final vote is for Czar Secretary VA!!!!!!! With Stella, Ms.WeeWeed as Czar’s smiters…..oh baby!!!! Rock and Roll……
Got up earlier than usual this AM, two dogs and one cat decided that I’d really slept enough. While the morning coffee was brewing I flip on the boob tube and there was a commercial for a NOLA low-income medical group offering those ‘in danger’ of contracting HIV access to a daily pill, covered under Medicaid/Medicare/Obamacare, that will reduce the possibilities of the taker contracting HIV. Cost is somewhere around $1500 per month per patient.
We are assured that the expenditure of monies for party pills will reduces the costs of treating infectees by some undetermined amount at some undetermined point in the future and that subsidizing risky behaviors (now determined to be a right, if not sacrament) is the right thing to do. Oh to live in enlightened times.
What’s wrong with letting ’em die off? Father Z calls it the biological solution. It’s cheap, it works wonders, and it’s fair. Hits us all. Who am I to interfere if they wish to hasten their solution?
I guess I should clarify. I am not saying we should let victims of AIDS die off without treatment, but I see no reason to give risk takers 1500 bucks a month to make them feel safer while they go out and try hard to throw their life away. That I do not see any up side to.
I gotta work really hard at being Christian about this. I’ve seen the damages infectees do when they refuse to curtail their sexual behaviors. Those hubbies on the down-low or injecting drugs who come home and infect their wives. The ones who, despite free testing, not only don’t get tested but seek out risky encounters…and I could go on but you get the idea. You let them live and how many innocent lives will they destroy?
Just flashed back…years ago we used to do security details for various HIV awareness events. Organizers used to get a bit miffed that we would largely avoid the food/drink venue and were totally icked out at any of the ‘attendees’ wanting to show their ‘gratitude’ by hugging us.
Explanation was that you can’t get it from hugging…got a nasty look once when I asked how they got it then.
In a pejorative sense? After all, in a post-modern progressive world we’re not supposed to complain as we are led to bite the pillow, anger at progressive cultural reprogramming is a sociomental disease.
We just saw a fb post by someone we know, vowing 4 years of civil disobedience.
We were wondering before the election if the person was getting money for posting anti Trump things, but now the only explanation is they’re crazy.
Funny thing is, they’ve been practicing their uncivil disobedience (in my lifetime) since 9/11/2001. Zombie of Zombietime can attest, and has borne witness.
But protesting Government is finally bad now, since Trump.
Today was test kitchen day. The menu is unbelievable. The beer and liquor selection, too. I’ll post photos. Yesterday I built the liquor storage cabinet-on-wheels in the basement. Like a big 500-part LEGO project. I only cussed once, while hanging the doors on it.
Monday and Tuesday we get the first food orders in. I’m giddy.
Ecclesiastes 10:2 “The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.”
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 12:05 am
A fitting accompaniment to Trump’s announced nominations.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 8:44 am
Amen, brother
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By derk on November 18, 2016 at 9:57 am
It’s here boys and girls. Another Finally Friday is upon us. Rejoice and coffee up y’all. 🙂
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By texan59 on November 18, 2016 at 12:17 am
Get ready for Thanksgiving tea:
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By MaryfromMarin on November 18, 2016 at 12:32 am
Thanksgiving Tea Time warm up…
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By ImpeachEmAll on November 18, 2016 at 2:55 am
Morning Tex, need massive amounts this morning!!!!! Thank you Sir!!
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By Col(R) Ken on November 18, 2016 at 9:03 am
Stella, great timing on your lead in photo. Local weather girl says 1-3 inches Sunday late.
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By Col(R) Ken on November 18, 2016 at 9:06 am
The Michigan UP is expecting a huge storm – 20 ft waves on the south shore of Lake Superior, and SNOW!
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 9:10 am
Expecting it to plunge to the mid-40s here….brrrrrrrrrrrrr
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 9:26 am
Lol !
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By Pam on November 18, 2016 at 11:32 am
Shorts and T shirt today… I might go fishin….
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By amwick on November 18, 2016 at 12:00 pm
Hi-70s to low-80s next few days with temps going into mid-50s at nite. That said, supposed to hit close to freezing Sunday/Monday nite. If yas don’ likes da weather….
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 12:48 pm
No smoke anywhere…That is good enough for me.
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By amwick on November 18, 2016 at 3:39 pm
Cold front coming thru, with any luck you may get enough of it to bring some rain.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 8:10 pm
That’s a heat wave for Tundra……. or for me in January, February……
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By Col(R) Ken on November 18, 2016 at 8:54 pm
For the Czarina that’s Point Barrow…told you before I was looking to move to snow country when we retired and she and I compromised: I want snow I open the freezer and stare..
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 9:05 pm
Lake Superior/Split Rock:
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 7:17 pm
Minnesota.
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 7:19 pm
Did you see the SNOW????
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By Col(R) Ken on November 18, 2016 at 8:57 pm
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By ImpeachEmAll on November 18, 2016 at 12:18 am
Since everyone seemed a bit discombobulated around here today, I thought I’d throw this up to hepp ya’z out. 😆
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By texan59 on November 18, 2016 at 12:25 am
Thanks Tex…. thought I was having a “Groundhog Day” yesterday……
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By Col(R) Ken on November 18, 2016 at 9:08 am
^^^ Pomegranates? Persimmons? ^^^
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By MaryfromMarin on November 18, 2016 at 12:26 am
I don’t know either, but it is a beautiful photo.
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By Pam on November 18, 2016 at 11:33 am
The greatly-feared Turkeyleaks:
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By MaryfromMarin on November 18, 2016 at 12:26 am
Please pray for Former Miss Wisconsin, Melissa & her son. She said it was so very important for her to know she was leaving her son a better world if she could help get Trump elected. Melissa was so full of joy Nov. 8th. There is a heartbreaking video of Melissa crying tears of our joy when she learns that Trump won the election but I cannot find the video. .
Trump promised Melissa that he would take care of her young son Jack.
SAD NEWS: Health Of Melissa Young, Fmr. Miss Wisconsin And Vocal Trump Supporter, Takes Turn For The Worse
http://www.hannity.com/articles/election-493995/sad-news-health-of-melissa-young-15312086/
I had the honor of seeing her in Janesville WI.
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 12:49 am
What an amazing woman. My heart breaks for her and that sweet boy. She has fought valiantly and she has given so much. I’m thankful that our new president will make sure her child is well cared for, he’s a truly honorable man. Prayers for comfort and peace of mind for her.
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By sandandsea2015 on November 18, 2016 at 9:32 am
“…caused by medical negligence…” medical mistakes, third leading cause of preventable deaths in the US. That recent report, unlike what the doctors try and tell you, was not an anomalous blip on the paranoia radar screen, it was a redux of a 1999 report that was done to see if things got better in the intervening 15 years…nope.
You pays your money and you takes your chances, step up and roll the medical dice.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 10:30 am
She begged her OB to run different test because she knew her body was shouting down. Nah what does a silly lay person know.
So sad.
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 11:29 am
I am arguing with my new doc as the Organization is pushing to get every one of those pieces of Medicare billing gravy-tests run first. Never had them push those tests the day before I got on to Medicare, day after they’re like rabid dogs.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 12:57 pm
My mom gets the same thing. You need this, this and that.
Is there any possibility of you being pregnant? No no there is not not. No there is not a law that makes you give a 77 year old women a pregnancy test to satisfy your insurance requirements to have Medicare pay for a test that could be harmful to a fetus.
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 1:25 pm
Or a pap smear for a 90 year old woman, and wanting to do a liver biopsy (no other tests first) because her liver was slightly enlarged.
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 1:38 pm
Good grief.
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 1:41 pm
One of the additional questions on my ballot when I voted:
The South Haven Community Hospital Authority proposes to transfer South Haven Community Hospital and the hospital’s related operations to an affiliate of Bronson Healthcare Group, on terms negotiated by the Authority board. If that transfer is completed, no property taxes would thereafter be levied to support the hospital’s operations. Should this proposed transfer be approved?
Pretty much everyone including me, who popped outa’ my momma there, voted yes.
With this win, hopefully SH Hospital will no longer be the death emporium that it has been for a long, long time. Finger injury? You die. Colonoscopy? You die. Foot injury? You die. It’s the sad refrain, and everyone here knows it. If you have to go to a hospital, you run from South Haven, fast, toward either Holland, G.R., or K-zoo.
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 9:58 pm
Ironic? South Haven Health System is about to be Made Great Again.
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 10:00 pm
I had one doc, probably suffering from medical ennui,tell me that I really needed that colonoscopy soon as they can’t bill Medicare for it after I’m 75. Nice to know where my internals figure in here…
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 8:47 pm
But that rat bastage Obama promised no death panels!
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 8:50 pm
They aren’t ‘death panels’, they’re ‘death boards’.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 9:02 pm
Well Hillary was hoping to be the “Death Broad” which given how she looks may be working out differently than she hoped for.
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 9:17 pm
She’s starting to look like a death plank.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 9:21 pm
That she is.
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 9:30 pm
And Hildabeast was going to CUT Medicare reimbursement rates…..
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By Col(R) Ken on November 18, 2016 at 9:03 pm
Happy Friday! Stella, this is another great picture. It makes me smile.
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By Menagerie on November 18, 2016 at 5:33 am
Thanks, Menage! I see you are up – we just woke up here.
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 5:34 am
Trying to motivate myself to make coffee. Two of my favorite little hellions are headed this way soon. Their mama and her sister are off for a girl’s weekend, much deserved. Going to have me a play day. It should be lots of fun, if I can keep up with Conner. That little rascal may be the fastest one yet, and he’s not quite walking. He crawls out in the middle of the floor, stands up on his own, but he will not take a step without a finger to hold.
Anyhow, I’m having a fun day with my guys.
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By Menagerie on November 18, 2016 at 5:42 am
Oh…. nice to have the little guys. My neighbors have their two grandsons all the time, I have seen them grow up a bit. They are helping since their daughter is a single mother. Such decent and caring people.
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By amwick on November 18, 2016 at 7:48 am
My friend used to have her two grandsons, under 5 years old, stay with her for the day. It used to take her the next two days to rest up even though they were really good kids. LOL
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By auscitizenmom on November 18, 2016 at 8:30 am
Only two? 😀
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By Menagerie on November 18, 2016 at 9:01 am
😀
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By auscitizenmom on November 18, 2016 at 9:02 am
I would say that they are almost raising the grandchildren, they are paying for private school, a christian fine arts kind of place…Very lucky little children.
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By amwick on November 18, 2016 at 12:03 pm
1883
Railroads create the first time zones
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/railroads-create-the-first-time-zones
At exactly noon on this day, American and Canadian railroads begin using four continental time zones to end the confusion of dealing with thousands of local times. The bold move was emblematic of the power shared by the railroad companies.
The need for continental time zones stemmed directly from the problems of moving passengers and freight over the thousands of miles of rail line that covered North America by the 1880s. Since human beings had first begun keeping track of time, they set their clocks to the local movement of the sun. Even as late as the 1880s, most towns in the U.S. had their own local time, generally based on “high noon,” or the time when the sun was at its highest point in the sky. As railroads began to shrink the travel time between cities from days or months to mere hours, however, these local times became a scheduling nightmare. Railroad timetables in major cities listed dozens of different arrival and departure times for the same train, each linked to a different local time zone…
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 6:12 am
Nice bit of trivia…. TY.
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By amwick on November 18, 2016 at 7:50 am
Wow, that’s one I never heard of, and it makes perfect sense.
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By Menagerie on November 18, 2016 at 7:54 am
Very interesting.
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By auscitizenmom on November 18, 2016 at 8:25 am
Used to be a sundial next to the train station in my Iowa hometown. I remember my Grandpa checking it once to see what time it was.
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By John Denney on November 18, 2016 at 1:09 pm
This is a very interesting (and LONG) piece about whether or not Trump is a racist. The author doesn’t like Trump, and supported Hillary Clinton for President, which makes it particularly interesting. He also say why falsely calling Trump and his supporters violent, hateful, racists is dangerous; in his words, crying wolf. Description by a FB friend: “the article is long, requires actual reading, and has numbers and graphs. It demonstrates what other serious researchers have also concluded: the number of white supremacists, KKK members and neo Nazis in the US is miniscule — under 50,000. You are choosing to be deluded. ”
You Are Still Crying Wolf
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 7:14 am
Watching all the reports of the whining college students, I thought back to my own college. A tiny place in upstate NY… I took a class on something about the environment, the one thing I remember the professor saying over and over is that “if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.” This is pretty much the opposite of what is going on, these kids face a problem and are encouraged to curl up and cry…. SMH.
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By amwick on November 18, 2016 at 7:53 am
I had a priest once who gave one sermon I will never forget. He said before you tear something down, be sure you have a solution for how to rebuild it, and that you are actually going to do the work required to replace what you tore up. It started as a way to address problems in the parish, but he was wise enough to expand the thought.
It is the most memorable sermon I’ve ever heard, given by a priest who wasn’t a great speaker, and he was on the other end of the spectrum from me politically and theologically, but he was dead on. Everyone has a little good advice or wisdom to impart.
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By Menagerie on November 18, 2016 at 7:58 am
They are being told the protests and riots are the solution.
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By nyetneetot on November 18, 2016 at 7:58 am
I think most of them are driven by “virtue signalling” (discussed yesterday), or “virtue raging”.
They care.
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 8:12 am
Reading that book from the 1790’s, John Robison wrote that the youth get attracted by the sense of belonging to an insiders club, by knowing some secret.
All the people who are older, working, raising families, and have wealth are the sheep that don’t know the secrets of the universe that they were shown in the university.
In fact there are even books from ancient Rome written in verse, that tell youth to stop listening to their university professors, grow up, and go get a job.
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By nyetneetot on November 18, 2016 at 8:36 am
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 8:44 am
Good advice never gets old. And rarely gets used.
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By Menagerie on November 18, 2016 at 9:03 am
Very good article.
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 9:17 am
Problem is the definition of racist to the Left has all of the objectivity of fog. They can twist the definition to meet their needs – who cares whom they call racist?
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 9:29 am
I had to go back and re-read Alexander’s article because his dichotomy of truth is just so fascinating.
He is in the mental health field, it seems a therapist (Master’s degree) at the very least.
Rhetoric that he has possibly pushed or passively accepted as justifiable means to an end to one degree or another has landed two of his own patients at his feet with suicide ideation which has forced him to step back from the more shrill and dangerous acrimony of the Left and try to look at it objectively through his subjective glasses.
Alexander continues to promote a false narrative about Trump because his liberal mind will allow him to do nothing else.
Alexander sees the danger that, as he sees them, nameless well intentioned right fighters, are causing by screaming fire in a crowded theater when some nèer-do-well has naughtily only lit up a cigarette, but Alexander still manages to be lost in the Trump-phobia that defines the very people he is begging to step back from the rhetoric.
I am thoroughly impressed with Alexander’s attempt to talk the wolf criers off the ledge of nincompoopery and his use of statistics and willingness to bring a rational argument against the charge of Trump being “the first openly white supremacist to be elected president” and a man whose very existence is an imminent danger to the very life of each and every member of the LGBT community.
Alexander does not seem concerned with the vitriol and violent protest because of the inflammatory vitriol and violence against Trump and his supporters so much in and of itself, but rather he seems against the narrative because it is causing good people (non Trump supporters) to be fearful. Even suicidal.
But Alexander is so entrenched within his world view that his warning is not so much about the danger of mindlessly following hysterical headlines and Tweets because that level of Goose Stepping is in and of itself a grave danger to a free society but rather it seems that the effect of this Goose Stepping is negatively affecting weak-minded and or mentally delicate people. And that is the problem that Alexander is trying to address. He is upset about a branch not the root.
Alexander fears that mis-labeling Trump as an overt racist and homophobe may more easily pave the way for a truly overt racist homophobe to come into power because over using those words drains them of their power. News flash for Mr. Alexander, the Left has mis-used the word racist so often and inappropriately attached -phobic to so many things that those words for all practical purposes have lost any credibility when they are leveled against almost anyone.
Alexander’s whole argument is with the use of words. He argues that even though Trump is divisive, using identity politics and a generally terrible person that Trump is not openly a white supremacist nor does Trump want to kill gays. Trump in Alexander’s mind is likely simply a run of the mill racist in the image of both Romney and McCain.
Alexander is seeing the fruit of the inflammatory words of the Left in his practice. And it makes him uncomfortable. Yet Alexander still allows those same people who have made people suicidal by their Alinskyeque methods to lead Alexander to proclaim that Trump is a terrible, crazy, divisive average racist.
Alexander’s words about his Leftist bedmates.
“The logic is flawless, it’s just that you’re wrong about everything.”
Alexander’s logic about the rhetoric of the Left making mentally unstable people fear for their lives to the point of having suicidal thoughts is flawless, it is just that Alexander is wrong in every way that within Trump is an underlying intrinsic racism, terribleness, homophobic, malicious divisiveness. Those predilections have been suggested by Trumps’s words or behavior.
The mental breakdown of people, the tears, the violence are all exclusive fruits of the Left’s dangerous malicious rhetoric. Alexander needs look no further than President Obama for the violent rioters biggest visible cheerleader or the mentally unbalanced biggest agitator.
Trump can no more easily control the Left purposely misconstruing his words than the Left can tell the truth about who Trump really is as a human being.
The Left stands alone in driving the mentally delicate to madness, violence, and suicide (if any have occurred because of unfounded fear of a Trump presidency) and suicide ideation.
Alexander is very delicately defending Trump against the most grievous malevolent charges leveled against him by the disingenuous Left, to Alexander’s credit it seems that somewhere in his conscience these words are echoing,
“Also I will, according to my ability and judgment, prescribe a regimen for the health of the sick; but I will utterly reject harm and mischief”
I wonder if Alexander can get out of the quagmire of liberal thought that still is wrapped firmly around his ankles. If he can, he may be a real force of good for the world, especially the mentally unwell who he has an obligation both professional and moral to be a caretaker of.
I give Mr. Alexander a bravo but no standing ovation. Wake up Mr. Alexander.
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 1:39 pm
Those predilections have been suggested by Trumps’s words or behavior.
Should read “Those predilections have neverbeen suggested by Trumps’s words or behavior”.
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 2:20 pm
Lovely, your writing gets better every day.
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 10:03 pm
Thanks Wooly, a little more thorough proof reading on my part 😊
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 11:04 pm
“I’ve come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world, is that people’s perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want and do not want to be true.” -Travis Walton
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 7:46 pm
Beautiful picture Stella. Good morning everyone.
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 7:46 am
Good morning, lovely.
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 7:48 am
Morning Lovely,
going to be a GOOD day.
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By derk on November 18, 2016 at 10:04 am
Clear and sunny here. What a relief. We might get to the beach for a walk…. Even my sweet old dog is feeling better.
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By amwick on November 18, 2016 at 7:55 am
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’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
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 and coffee!
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By nyetneetot on November 18, 2016 at 7:56 am
And that, folks, is a perfect breakfast! Thanks nyet.
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By Menagerie on November 18, 2016 at 8:13 am
That looks so good. Now I am craving biscuits and gravy. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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By auscitizenmom on November 18, 2016 at 8:34 am
Nye!!!! Morning Everyone!!!!!! I’ll wait till lunch, thank you!!!
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By Col(R) Ken on November 18, 2016 at 9:15 am
Good morning Nyet 🙂
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 9:19 am
Happy Friday Nyet! Thank you for the crispy hash browns and bacon!!!!
Happy Friday all!!! It’s amazing how fast this year has flown by! I can’t believe it’s almost thanksgiving! I’m thankful for Stella’s place and all the great folks who reside here! 😊
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By sandandsea2015 on November 18, 2016 at 9:39 am
I missed biscuits and gravy this morning.
After Thanksgiving I’m hoping things quit being quite so hectic.
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By michellc on November 18, 2016 at 10:52 pm
Seen on Facebook:
Wretchard T. Cat
8 mins ·
One inescapable drawback of globalization is that it requires, actually requires foreign intervention in “internal affairs”. That’s why joining the EU meant Brussels made British law; Brussels controlled UK borders. That’s why the Iran deal was made in the UN and not in the Senate. John Podesta is a lobbyist for the Saudis. Someone has to represent their interests in the US government.
You can say “this is good in the net”. But there are some minor side effects. One of them is that foreign powers take an interest in elections. They try to influence them in any way they can. So when we say Putin interfered with the election one can resist this, but it shouldn’t be surprising.
Once the electorate understand the side effects of integration, transnational institutions and a world order they may adjust the dose. This is what the UK did with Brexit. They didn’t “leave” Europe completely, but they did adjust the terms.
President Obama himself said that globalization needed adjustment. But he still sees adjustment in terms of more international regulation. He doesn’t get that it’s the international regulations themselves that are the source of internal interference. It’s the tight coupling that does it. If you want more sovereignty, you must loosen the coupling and allow for more, not less subsidiarity.
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace
Under Putin.
Wretchard T. Cat is Richard Fernandez, who writes for PJ Media/Belmont Club.
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 8:05 am
It was Rush Limbaugh who said, years ago, that the Progs think that “Peace is the absence of conflict.”
Ergo: North Korea and Soviet Russia were peaceful.
I don’t know who it was who opined, “You should be careful what you wish for.”
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 8:04 pm
Seen on Facebook:
BREAKING: Trump offers AG to Jeff Sessions.
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 8:07 am
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-offers-jeff-sessions-attorney-general-post/
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 8:08 am
Ha!
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By Menagerie on November 18, 2016 at 8:14 am
Hallelujah!
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 9:20 am
BTW just heard that Sessions will be AG… hope that is right..
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By amwick on November 18, 2016 at 8:18 am
I can see that I should refresh before posting… but great news anyway..
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By amwick on November 18, 2016 at 8:19 am
I expect a huge fight against this appointment by Democrats.
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 8:27 am
Yes, probably. They’ll all start screaming he’s a racist. This might be another real-time example of the long “You Are Still Crying Wolf” article you posted above.
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By Pam on November 18, 2016 at 12:19 pm
Just coming here to post this, y’all beat me to it. Best news since ‘your coffee’s ready’.
Watch the self-righteous RATS and BGI light up over this, a white, Republican from ALABAMA?!?!?!?!
He had problems in the mid-80s when he was nominated for a Federal judgeship. Cjarges of racism were leveled against him when the left butt cheeks of a selection of BGI posteriors were dusted by a RAT political forensics team and his lip prints were noticeably absent. Expect the RAT walking dead to do no less this time.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 8:31 am
RAT walking dead…………..Cummings comes to mind.
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By auscitizenmom on November 18, 2016 at 8:37 am
I already read late last night that people were starting to go nuts that Sessions would be put in any position.
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By nyetneetot on November 18, 2016 at 8:41 am
I’m on pins and needles to see who will be his SCOTUS nominee, bet we won’t know until after his inauguration.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 8:43 am
Well, I have to think the PE Trump wouldn’t appoint someone who would never get approved. Not sure I understand it all, but it will happen…
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By amwick on November 18, 2016 at 8:57 am
As long as the RINOs don’t mutiny they’ll be confirmed.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 9:14 pm
You are right. Sweet!
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By amwick on November 19, 2016 at 4:14 pm
I just put in a comment:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-offers-jeff-sessions-attorney-general-post/
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 8:25 am
Like the live feed is letting me find anything. But wow. Quite the language over there.
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By nyetneetot on November 18, 2016 at 8:47 am
I’d definitely love to get a ticket to the CRS office Christmas party.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 8:48 am
I’ll take one, and I’ll fill Complaints against all of those so call civil rights snowflakes…..
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By Col(R) Ken on November 18, 2016 at 9:20 am
Czar, had just finished reading your comment yesterday on my experience with Thanksgiving and I’ll add Christmas dinners. Then all hell broke loose. The electrical sub station blew up, telephone switching station and mrico wave tower fried. The serge of power thru the lines, melted my power panel. House filled with that electrical smell of fire. Use two fire extinguishers, panel was gone, main breakers/ground did there job. Working thru the night, everything is now good to go. Can’t wait for this bill, informed home owners, and adjuster with stop by. I think you and I share the same insurance company. I think we share the same company, in Texas…….
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By Col(R) Ken on November 18, 2016 at 11:31 am
All I’ll say about military thanksgiving/Christmas dinners is this; hope/wish/pray you are in garrison…….
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By Col(R) Ken on November 18, 2016 at 11:37 am
A friend of mine was in infantry, then a medic, in Vietnam. He said that they all got food poisoning from their Thanksgiving meal.
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 11:39 am
Yeah, had that in RVN, and many other experiences that I could talk about, but I might be smited…….
best Thanksgiving and Christmas meals were in ’90. Hot, good, fulfilling and on time!! Was a 48 hour food fest….. No “T” rats, everything was fresh.
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By Col(R) Ken on November 18, 2016 at 10:16 pm
Yeah, I got State Farm…can’t say much for the company but worship the ground my local agent walks on, his office goes over backwards to help.
If you don’t have one look at getting a whole-house surge suppressor put into your panel. We have boucoup lightening storms so I sweat a strike. Whole-house may save you insurance cash and your company may now help may to put one in.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 12:53 pm
Um, Ben Franklin invented this thing called a lightning rod. All the barns in Iowa had them when I was a kid.
I never saw such violent lightning storms as what I witnessed while stationed at Eglin AFB. One dark and stormy night I was alone in the middle of reading “The Exorcist” when a bolt struck just outside the heavy double metal doors with the wire reinforced glass and pneumatic closers, blowing the doors open, and a cloud of smoke rolled in. That was scary.
Months later on duty at a different building, a strike fried the teletype wires.
Yet I never saw any lightning rods installed.
What am I missing?
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By John Denney on November 18, 2016 at 1:27 pm
Oh. Sandy dry soil isn’t conductive enough for an 8 foot copper rod driven into the ground to actually work as an electrical ground.
http://publish-www-ufl.wcm.osg.ufl.edu/news—archive/archive/2002/08/in-southeast-ground-rods-may-not-protect-homes-against-lightning.html
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By John Denney on November 18, 2016 at 3:18 pm
So… why not a 20-foot copper rod? 50? 100?
I don’t get it, either. Pretend it’s a well and you’re looking for a water source.
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 8:09 pm
We don’t need lightening rods, the trees we have do the job We lose two or so a year, you can see the rips right down the bark where the sap heated to steam and blew it out. Got one old girl that’s at least 60 years old, has been hit a few times and has ridden out around three major hurricanes. God’s own lightening rods.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 8:44 pm
In Covert, MI, where I lived as a child, I saw the aftermath of a tree that got completely exploded by lightning. There was perfect lath-wood all over the road. Some of the pieces were over 15 feet long. Pre-Sheetrock™ we could have used them for lath-and-plaster walls, they were that perfect.
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 8:53 pm
I’ve seen some good hardwood tree explosions but my tallest ones are pines and they just get this neat rip snaking down the bark then die off, becoming woodpecker construction projects.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 9:01 pm
I grew up on Lake Michigan, and never found a Fulgurite. I’m guessing it’s because being this far North, our lightning isn’t high-voltage enough to melt the sand.
We don’t have ball lightning, either, Thank God. That stuff digs trenches.
Yeah, I like living this far north. Our spiders and snakes are smaller, too.
Folks near the equator call our lightning “sparks”.
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 8:57 pm
Never found melted sand in Egypt, either. Found petrified wood, geodes, landmines, unexploded ordnance, usual Mideast souvenirs…
Yeah, I can remember some really spectacular lightening in Panama, used to be up on Quarry Heights where, while sipping a glass of white rum on ice, we got a bird’s eye view. Not much else to do there then that didn’t require antibiotics within two weeks.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 9:12 pm
Been to Eglin, early 80s, Ranger School, winter time…..cold, but not cold enough!!!!!
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By Col(R) Ken on November 18, 2016 at 9:25 pm
Good tip, Thanks
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By Col(R) Ken on November 18, 2016 at 9:14 pm
Trump has also offered Mike Pompeo the DCI’s post. Expect there to be a booming business at The Farm as new the Company goes back to its primary business of being proactive i keeping America safe. The POtuS’s policy of treating jihad as a moving traffic infraction’s a gawn pucawn.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 8:37 am
I wonder if he will put NASA back in the space business instead of, what was it, making the muslims feels good or something?
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By Menagerie on November 18, 2016 at 9:06 am
Yeah, NASA was put on hold while Obama waited for Moslem rocket scientists to graduate from Madras Tech…didn’t work out all that well as they were a bit slow getting out of the Student Union Building and the 7th century.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 9:23 am
Forcing a person to resign in tears for, after landing a spacecraft on a COMET (not the pizza place) for wearing a triggering shirt with anime ladies on it, during a press conference, might also have contributed to NASA’s decline.
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 8:12 pm
I figure Obama was upset when NASA told him those 70’s blacksploitation SciFi films with Afro-haired buxom vixens were just movies, they weren’t real nor was NASA planning on missions to find them. Payback’s a beeatch.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 8:25 pm
Found it!
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 8:59 pm
Ahhhh…the Space Race-ist
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 9:07 pm
Mornin’ y’all!
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By WeeWeed on November 18, 2016 at 8:59 am
I am on the floor howling. Gosh Wee, I barely rescued my coffee, and I’m running low.
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By Menagerie on November 18, 2016 at 9:07 am
Mornin’ Menage!
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By WeeWeed on November 18, 2016 at 9:11 am
You are truly the master of the no warning hit and run.
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By Menagerie on November 18, 2016 at 9:07 am
Mornin’ WeeWeed! That will be the lead on CNN.
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 9:11 am
All the news that’s fit to print! Mornin’ Stella!
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By WeeWeed on November 18, 2016 at 9:12 am
Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 9:26 am
Mornin’ Lovely!
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By WeeWeed on November 18, 2016 at 9:48 am
Beau already has a statue in NOLA that the BGI whiners/wieners have been trying to take down, let’s loan it to the DoJ for an office centerpiece.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 9:32 am
Mornin’ Z!
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By WeeWeed on November 18, 2016 at 9:48 am
Yeah, one step closer to eternity.
‘Little Miss Sunshine’ winner, 1986.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 9:53 am
Better a winner;
than a weiner. 😉
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By ImpeachEmAll on November 18, 2016 at 6:28 pm
Frankly speaking…yes.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 8:09 pm
That is great!
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By nyetneetot on November 18, 2016 at 9:50 am
Mornin’ B!
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By WeeWeed on November 18, 2016 at 9:51 am
Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!! Wait for it…Bam, Bam…. now my vote for Sheriff Clark, FBI director…….Now my other vote for SECDEF is Gen. “Mad Dog” Mathis, USMC (R). And my final vote is for Czar Secretary VA!!!!!!! With Stella, Ms.WeeWeed as Czar’s smiters…..oh baby!!!! Rock and Roll……
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By Col(R) Ken on November 18, 2016 at 11:49 am
Mornin’ Colonel Sir!
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By WeeWeed on November 18, 2016 at 11:54 am
Hilarious!!! I didn’t even know he is a “Beauregard.” It’s delicious.
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By Pam on November 18, 2016 at 12:24 pm
Mornin’ Pam!
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By WeeWeed on November 18, 2016 at 12:49 pm
Evenin’, Wee!!
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By Pam on November 18, 2016 at 6:49 pm
LOL!!!
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By michellc on November 18, 2016 at 10:55 pm
Got up earlier than usual this AM, two dogs and one cat decided that I’d really slept enough. While the morning coffee was brewing I flip on the boob tube and there was a commercial for a NOLA low-income medical group offering those ‘in danger’ of contracting HIV access to a daily pill, covered under Medicaid/Medicare/Obamacare, that will reduce the possibilities of the taker contracting HIV. Cost is somewhere around $1500 per month per patient.
We are assured that the expenditure of monies for party pills will reduces the costs of treating infectees by some undetermined amount at some undetermined point in the future and that subsidizing risky behaviors (now determined to be a right, if not sacrament) is the right thing to do. Oh to live in enlightened times.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 9:14 am
What’s wrong with letting ’em die off? Father Z calls it the biological solution. It’s cheap, it works wonders, and it’s fair. Hits us all. Who am I to interfere if they wish to hasten their solution?
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By Menagerie on November 18, 2016 at 12:53 pm
Singin’ to the choir, but Rats have made them objects of cultural adoration.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 12:54 pm
I guess I should clarify. I am not saying we should let victims of AIDS die off without treatment, but I see no reason to give risk takers 1500 bucks a month to make them feel safer while they go out and try hard to throw their life away. That I do not see any up side to.
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By Menagerie on November 18, 2016 at 2:44 pm
I gotta work really hard at being Christian about this. I’ve seen the damages infectees do when they refuse to curtail their sexual behaviors. Those hubbies on the down-low or injecting drugs who come home and infect their wives. The ones who, despite free testing, not only don’t get tested but seek out risky encounters…and I could go on but you get the idea. You let them live and how many innocent lives will they destroy?
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 8:58 pm
Just flashed back…years ago we used to do security details for various HIV awareness events. Organizers used to get a bit miffed that we would largely avoid the food/drink venue and were totally icked out at any of the ‘attendees’ wanting to show their ‘gratitude’ by hugging us.
Explanation was that you can’t get it from hugging…got a nasty look once when I asked how they got it then.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 1:04 pm
Another word I hadn’t seen before until this morning: ‘Trumpertantrum’
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 9:56 am
In a pejorative sense? After all, in a post-modern progressive world we’re not supposed to complain as we are led to bite the pillow, anger at progressive cultural reprogramming is a sociomental disease.
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By czarowniczy on November 18, 2016 at 10:45 am
We just saw a fb post by someone we know, vowing 4 years of civil disobedience.
We were wondering before the election if the person was getting money for posting anti Trump things, but now the only explanation is they’re crazy.
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By nyetneetot on November 18, 2016 at 11:03 am
Does this mean the second 4 years
will experience civil obedience? 😉
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By ImpeachEmAll on November 18, 2016 at 6:36 pm
Would be nice.
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By nyetneetot on November 18, 2016 at 6:42 pm
Funny thing is, they’ve been practicing their uncivil disobedience (in my lifetime) since 9/11/2001. Zombie of Zombietime can attest, and has borne witness.
But protesting Government is finally bad now, since Trump.
They needed Trump like the desert needs rain.
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 9:31 pm
OK. As long as we stay away from saying “Merry Trumpmas,” I’ll be good.
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By Pam on November 18, 2016 at 12:27 pm
Where is Wee’s bar?
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 6:29 pm
Next Friday is covered…
Wooly Phlox says:
November 17, 2016 at 6:56 pm
Next Friday I’ll post the bar, Weed. Ours.
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By ImpeachEmAll on November 18, 2016 at 6:43 pm
Today was test kitchen day. The menu is unbelievable. The beer and liquor selection, too. I’ll post photos. Yesterday I built the liquor storage cabinet-on-wheels in the basement. Like a big 500-part LEGO project. I only cussed once, while hanging the doors on it.
Monday and Tuesday we get the first food orders in. I’m giddy.
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 8:18 pm
Photonbucket hates me. PARTICULARLY me, may I add. I notice few others are having issues……
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By WeeWeed on November 18, 2016 at 6:43 pm
I gave up on photobucket it went wonky on me a while back.
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 6:48 pm
Flickr??
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By amwick on November 18, 2016 at 7:30 pm
I use imgur. I haven’t had any problems with it.
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 7:40 pm
Will a flashback
to election night
do in a pinch? 😉
WeeWeed says:
November 8, 2016 at 7:47 pm
Bar! Beer!! Victory!!!
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By ImpeachEmAll on November 18, 2016 at 6:52 pm
This is strange. I can see the bar, then the link breaks and it disappears. Happens again if I refresh the page.
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 6:54 pm
Now it seems okay.
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By stella on November 18, 2016 at 6:55 pm
The red and blue colors are really pretty.
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By Pam on November 18, 2016 at 7:02 pm
That is just what a blue motorcycle looks like,,, but it usually is an a tall glass.. to leave room for 8 shots… 🙂
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By amwick on November 18, 2016 at 7:31 pm
Victory!!! The future’s so bright…….
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By WeeWeed on November 18, 2016 at 7:09 pm
The EU/Globalists making their moves against Brexit:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3948808/We-not-letting-EU-German-finance-minister-warns-Britain-paying-Brussels-coffers-2030.html
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By Pam on November 18, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Send them a one pound p/year. Then shut down the immigration, what will the EU do, spank the Brits?
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By Col(R) Ken on November 18, 2016 at 9:32 pm
More on Pizzagate. This is our Elites, and they’re being exposed.
http://archive.is/hjMZc
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 7:33 pm
If the folks throwing Trumpertantrums knew all of this very real information, they might actually calm down.
Maybe SABO can do something about it.
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 7:42 pm
I don’t recommend that anyone research this whole thing in depth unless they have great Faith in Christ, and strength of mind.
I mean that with all seriousness.
It’s a rabbit hole like none I’ve ever seen. And it’s all true.
Our elites worship Satan, in deed, and in speech, and in ritual.
They screw and kill kids, and they groom kids to grow up to do the same.
And they laugh about it. I’m calm about it. Cold Anger, as SD would say.
I know what millstone-sea combo they face.
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 8:31 pm
Wooly, I’m ready to Lock and Load…….
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By Col(R) Ken on November 18, 2016 at 10:00 pm
If by that you mean pray…
Me too.
Last thing I could lock and load was a Daisy 880.
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 11:02 pm
This was flying around twitter..
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By amwick on November 18, 2016 at 7:54 pm
This reminds me of a question that’s been bouncing around my head for a while.
When, exactly, did being the First Lady become a position of Executive Power?
This baffles me, that she, xhe, ze — or whatever pronoun she prefers — can make proclamations that become law. It’s stunning.
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 8:23 pm
Remember when Bill and Hillary promoted themselves as a blue light special? Two for the price of one.
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 8:39 pm
I remember when Nancy “consults with a Satanic spiritual advisor” Reagan started the whole “Just Say No to Drugs” campaign.
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 8:45 pm
(Aside: regarding my above dark info from wikileaks)
Remember when Michael Jackson met with Ronald Reagan, ex-Hollywood superstar?
I bet my right eye that they met many, many years earlier. When Mike was a child.
I’m sure it was a loving relationship …not.
Jackson was passed around like the Coreys. (Haim and Feldman)
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 9:38 pm
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 9:19 pm
Evening lovely!!!!!
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By Col(R) Ken on November 18, 2016 at 10:02 pm
Good evening Col. 🙂
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By lovely on November 18, 2016 at 11:03 pm
We got missed. That’s the biggest bow-front I’ve ever seen. Continental.
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 10:27 pm
Whoops.
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php
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By Wooly Phlox on November 18, 2016 at 10:28 pm