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The calendar says Wednesday, but my body keeps sayin’ Tuesday. Guess it don’t much matter cause the alarm’s still gonna go off. Coffee up y’all, and power through. January 20 can’t get here soon enough. 😆
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Especially if she is selling it. 😉
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I have always wondered about drinking something called “oolong”….don’t know, but personally it feels like planning to eat something called “tripe”….sorry for a weird post, but it IS hump day.
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You should try a spot of Lapsang Souchong.
Tastes very smoky. Like bong water. No cream or sugar can improve it.
I used to set up Tea, at 3:00 PM, of course, in the Great Library at a very exclusive condo in downtown Boston. We had every variety of Twinings, and every variety of Pepperidge Farm’s fancy cookies. A nice silver samovar, too.
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Other than Irish and English Breakfast, Lapsang is the only tea I drink. It is like a liquid camp fire.
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It might actually be good with whiskey and maple syrup.
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I never liked Earl Gray either. Secret ingredient: “oil of bergemot”. I don’t want oil in my tea. I want oil in my snowblower, or my fryer.
My favorite Twinings teas were English and Irish Breakfast. More caffeinated than coffee.
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I love Earl Gray. Bergamot is a citrus fruit.
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Bergamot: think orange zest from an orange variety that only grows in a very specific, tiny area of Italy.
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Green tea is unfermented; black tea is fully fermented; oolong is partially fermented.
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Roger that Tex!!!! Put down another ton of corn for the boys/girls to feast upon. Add some orchard grass bales…..rain for the AM,, so I’ll have another cup……
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bit of a chill in the air.
Time for another log
and a few snacks…
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Impeach, if I owned 10 of those Bud horses, I’d be bankrupt in a year!!! If you’re ever in St.Louis, stop by their farm for a tour….. thanks…..
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This one is a little closer. 😉
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If the US govt under Obama owned the Budweiser Horses, he would appoint a special grooming czar for foot hair management and each horse foot would have a staff dedicated to making certain that their foot was all AOK at any time….unless of course it was a federal holiday, in which case the darn horses could just have to wait and be dirty while fed employees get the long weekend off.
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Before a KC Chiefs game, mid ’90s, a team of Clydesdales was hitched and standing around before showtime. One of the wranglers I was talking to said there are 10 teams throughout the US that do appearances weekly. Costs about 100,000 p/week, p/team. These Clydesdales work for 5-7 years, then turned out to pasture. Yes, I was a gentleman helping Ms. Budweiser up to her seat on the wagon………
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Too bad she did not
know how to cook. 😉
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Her hands were soft, manicure, and I’ll just say she was well structured……
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Clydesdales are amazing.
Feed them enough water and grains, and they actually march in parades for you, while simultaneously creating Budweiser beer!
We see through a glass darkly, folks. You just never know.
😀 😀 😀
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Back to my old Bud story.
Sonecyears ago I was assigned to a section of the Mardi Gras parade assembly route where the Bud wagon was setting up. Being a cop, and totally taking advantage of it, I wentnover to where Bud team was being harnessed. I watched as they were set up and hooked to the wagon, then walked around the wagon. On the other side, sitting on the curb, was part of the wagon crew, next to them was a large beer cooler.
I walked over and, as I watched, one of the crew opened the cooler and pulled out a cold, dripping, icy……Coors Light. The whole cooler was full if Coors Light.
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well….Bud is sorta the equivalent of Panther p*ss.
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So is Coors.
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It’s a matter of degrees…Coors Light just tastes like moderately polluted water to me.
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I don’t give it that much credit.
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Well, whoever works for Shorts, Bells, and Founders must feed their horses better.
All I know.
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I wouldn’t feed my horse any Bud product…I’m OK with Ballantine or Narragansett though.
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Up early today, TV weatherguessers were al showing maps of brightly colored death and destruction tearing through the area well before dawn. Even though the core of the tornado watch was well north of us and we were in a ‘marginal’ zone they told us all to get our Munchkin translators out as we were all in imminent danger of being blown to Oz.
Future weather guesstimate maps showed huge angry swaths of red thru purple flooding and miscellaneous ruination bearing down on us.
As of now, less than a 10th of an inch since midnight and the leading egde of the projected doom, immediately west of us, is broken and mostly light yellow to green on the Doppler.
They need a Emmy catagory for ‘best fiction writing in a weather broadcast’.
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We are getting hammered right now, and there were tornadoes south of us in Alabama. Much, much needed heavy rains here. Our power was out for four or five hours .
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Very funny! Good morning Peach.
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YES! In your saucers, tea addicts!
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Donuts demand COFFEE for proper dunking….Tea…well, not so much….what IS a crumpet anyway?
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Think of an English muffin.
Also, coffee cake versus tea cake.
Lemon Huckleberry Tea Cake
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Now that looks so good. I have a lemon blueberry cake recipe that has made me decide God meant lemons and blueberries to go together.
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ok…NOW I have to go take those overripe banana left from Thanksgiving fruit salad prep, and make them into Banana Nut Bread so I can have some good trash to eat around here…..froze the ham remains because four days of ham, turkey, mashed sweetpotato casserole, and cranberry sauce it too darn much repetition…the pecan and pumpkin pie were gone in a day….so….to the kitchen…..gosh pictures of food on the internet help me understand why porn happens so much on the WWW. Images….
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Czarina made my fav (next to real Key Lime), a cranberry-apple pie. The turkey carcass is in the pot as I speak, getting boiled down for gumbo or stew. Not sure yet.
We have bags of frozen persimmon, roasted squash, pumpkin and overripe bananas in the freezer for various breads. A chunk of good pie or fruit bread with a dollop of quality French vanilla ice cream and perhaps a brandy or Drambuie makes a nasty evening easier to take.
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Well, those of us with blueberry bushes in our yard say: “cough the recipe up!”. Please.
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Sub Blueberries for Huckleberries…
Huckleberry Lemon Verbena Tea Cake with Vanilla Bean Glaze {Gluten-Free}
Don’t fret if you don’t have huckleberries; this cake should work equally well with fresh or frozen blueberries (especially wild ones), raspberries, or blackberries. If you don’t have fresh lemon verbena on hand, try using an equal amount of basil, mint, or lemon balm, or 1 tablespoon fresh lemon thyme leaves, or 1 tablespoon lavender buds, ground finely, in its place. If you or your cake-eaters are highly sensitive to gluten, make this with flours that are certified gluten-free, particularly the oat flour. If gluten isn’t an issue for you or your cake-eaters, feel free to try this with 1 3/4 cups all-purpose wheat flour instead of the rice, oat, millet, and tapioca flours. (Or use this recipe and add lemon verbena to it.)
Makes one 8×4, 9×5, or 10×5″ loaf
For the cake:
1 stick (4 ounces / 115 grams) unsalted butter, softened
3 ounces (85 grams) cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup (3.5 ounces / 100 grams) organic blonde cane sugar
finely grated zest of 1 lemon
2 large eggs, at room temperature
3/4 cup (4 ounces / 115 grams) sweet white rice flour (mochiko)
1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons (1.5 ounces / 45 grams) GF oat flour
1/4 cup (1.25 ounces / 35 grams) millet flour
2 tablespoons (.5 ounces / 15 grams) tapioca flour/starch
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
1 cup fresh or frozen huckleberries, plus 1/4 cup for topping the cake (7.75 ounces total / 220 grams)
3-4 tablespoons chopped fresh lemon verbena
For the glaze:
1/2 cup (2 ounces / 60 grams) powdered sugar
seeds from 1/2 a small vanilla bean (or a splash of vanilla extract)
1-2 tablespoons lemon juice (enough to make a drizzle-able glaze)
tiny lemon verbena leaves for garnish, optional
Make the cake:
Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350ºF. Line a loaf pan (I used a 10×5″ pan but a 9×5 or 8×4 will work, too) on the bottom and sides with parchment paper (or grease with softened butter, dust with flour, and tap out the excess).
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or in a large bowl fitted with your arms and a wooden spoon), cream together the butter, cream cheese, sugar, and lemon zest on medium speed until light and fluffy, 3-4 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing to combine after each, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. The mixture may look broken; this is ok, it will come together in the next step.
Meanwhile, sift together the sweet rice, oat, millet, and tapioca flours with the baking powder and salt into a medium bowl. With the mixer on low, stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture until just thoroughly combined, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Remove the bowl from the mixer, add the 1 cup of huckleberries and all of the chopped lemon verbena, and fold gently to combine, scraping the bottom and sides of the bowl to make sure the batter is homogeneous.
Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Sprinkle with the remaining 1/4 cup huckleberries and press them gently into the batter.
Bake the cake until the top is lightly golden and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, or with a few moist crumbs, 45-55 minutes in a 10×5″ pan (longer for smaller pans). Lift out of the pan and let cool until barely warm, an hour or so.
Make the glaze:
In a small bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar, vanilla bean, and enough lemon juice to make a drizzle-able glaze. Whisk well to eradicate lumps. Peel the parchment away from the sides of the cake. Drizzle the glaze over the top of the cake and let cool completely.
Serve the cake at room temperature, scattered with tiny lemon verbena leaves, if you like. Extras keep well, airtight at room temperature, for a day or two, or refrigerated for up to a few days (let come to room temperature for best results).
Note to Czar: The glaze
may be a no-no for you.
Should be able to omit.
http://bojongourmet.com/2014/10/gluten-free-huckleberry-lemon-verbena-cake/
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Sure thing. It’s worth the trouble to make, believe me. I think it is much better after it has chilled in the fridge for awhile, but that’s just personal. This is probably my favorite cake recipe. Incidentally, I found four different recipes for Jack Daniels cakes, on for cupcakes, and a Guinness cake recipe while locating this. 😀
http://sweetapolita.com/2011/02/triple-lemon-blueberry-layer-cake/
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I’ve made a cake like this one, but without the blueberries. The lemon curd and lemon buttercream frosting are to die for. As you said, lots of work, but worth it. My frosting is a real buttercream, though, instead of the one with powdered sugar. It’s not as sweet.
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Careful there us tea drinkers leave no fingerprints 😉.
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A steep price to pay for a little humor.
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Just a little tease.
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Figured that kind of pun would be an easy Ceylon this site.
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ok…I’m an amateur here….why do you need the little teapot if you are brewing directly in the teacup? So many questions, so little importance….kinda like MSM reporters hollering “WHO PAID FOR LUNCH?”
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Some restaurants serve tea with the infuser inside of the cup along side a pot of hot water. Steep your first cup of tea in the cup then put the infuser in the pot. There should be a tea caddy to rest the tea steeper in but I believe it is more of a artsy picture than anything else 🙂
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well…lol….this
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As a little kid, going over to grandma’s house, there were always tea-bags on the back edge of the kitchen sink. Yep, she reused them.
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Lovely, nice gloves!!!!!!
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I have 3 pairs (even though that is a stock photo) 😎
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the fingers on the gloves look like they are webbed together…syndactyly much?
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Don’t know, suggest you Google it on…the web.
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Always wondered where ‘Glove’ went after Yellow Submarine
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When my internist says drop em and GLOVES up with a dollop of stuff…it is time for me to fake a heart attack and then leave….no yellow submarine in that deal…..(nor any beetles either I hope
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Mr. Prager on why the lefties are cuttin’ Trump voters out of their lives.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442538/why-left-wingers-cut-ties-trump-voters
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Not much you can add tonthat.
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Adulting…hmmmmmm… I say drop em all on an island and see how they survive.. or something like that.
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Many decades agonsone pundit suggested the government buy up all of Wyoming, put a huge fence around it, pick up every child in the US of a certain age and deposit them therein. Inspectors would come back at intervals and harvest, at an age such as 18, all of those who’d survived. Idea did have a certain appeal to it when I was dealing with mine.
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same reason that I thought the hippie communes were a great idea in the 1960s…when you gotta grow your food and tend the babies with a bunch of worthless choomers doing nothing but pontificating about America Done Us Wrong and is Stupid and Never Trust anyone over 30…..after awhile, like a stent in Prison…just maybe some innate “Adulting” rationalizing will occur.
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Yesterday’s hippies, today’s homeless.
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Today’s dem politicians and college professors…..
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Just plain old gutter trash putting on Ayers…
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Indeed…. tossin’ bombs here ‘n there….
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My feeling are hurt…..NOT!!!!
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You expect too much…
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Just when you thought
it could not be worse…
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😦
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I need to take a baseball bat to his teachers, and if he is a college graduate, needs to ask for a refund. Maybe he can handle a shovel, clean out my barn….then hand spread the manure……….
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Take em OUT…..keep their cellphones.
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You gonna let some clowns who can’t answer these questions handle a shovel?
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This commercial cracks me up every time I see it.
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I don’t watch TV, ever. That was incredibly funny.
“I… I don’t need it.”
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I am reminded of the old saw..”Rastus, get away from that there wheelbar…you KNOW you don know nuthin bout Mochinery….”
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Which, in turn, reminds me of that phrase I heard way too often during my Federal employment: “You want me to do WHAT!?”.
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Or, Careful with that ax, Eugene.
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Next question: why are there 50 stars? Some people are EJITS.
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Frosting on the cake = why 13 stripes?
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Fifty stars for fifty states, 13 stripes for the original 13 colonies.
Thank you Homeschool. 🙂
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I thought of that too! 🙂
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And the colors, don’t forget the reasons for the colors: http://www.usflag.org/colors.html
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the stars represent contestants on America’s Got Talent…that was the number of actually potential entertainers found out of thousands put on the show….OR, it represents the mean average IQ of Hollywood actors and actresses.
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If not for folks like us, these mindless minions would be less than a decade away from this;
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I thought that clip was about Chuck Shumer…
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looking at the blonde…both of THEM…I can see how Megyn Kelly got her “job”…
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Spot on article.
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If only…………. 😆
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Love it. Hilarious. 😀
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Time to get rid of old Air Force One and just use the Trump Force One instead…IT HAS A REAL MESSAGE OF LEADERSHIP…..and equip it with some BOMBS instead of all defensive protection crap for the POTUS….Trump will take the BOOM to YOUR PLACE…don’t EVEN think you are going to get him first…..Just change the lump recipe to lumps for you, pudding for US.
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Here’s a short feel-good piece: https://www.military1.com/military-heroes/article/1656353014-navy-vet-to-be-buried-at-sea-at-site-of-sunken-sub/?NewsletterID=&utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Features2Title&utm_campaign=M1Weekend&cub_id=usr_NrwS78rXKkawACPK
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Tragic day in Naval history. Rest easy Sir, may you have clear skies, smooth seas, and good winds.
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Stella, great photo, has to be around Tundra’s AO. I’m adding another log on the fire just to keep me warm……
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I was thinking that looked like my backyard somewhere…
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Long live free speech. Not. Apple removes Breitbart app from app store, according to Gateway Pundit. 👿
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/11/conservative-purge-begins-apple-removes-breitbart-app-store/
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Thanks to social media, the Breitbart
advertisers are being listed. They fear
negative publicity. Pulling ad money.
Kellogg is the latest to pull ad money.
The suits fail to realize the silent majority
will boycott their products because they
are boycotting Breitbart. Election was
three weeks ago. Talk about a short
memory. Better gat their act together.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2016/11/29/kellogg-join-others-removing-advertising-breitbart/94619068/
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How IS Macy’s doing now? Yeah, that’s what we MEAN.
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These are businesses, their only loyalty is to their balance sheets, they’d cater ISIS breakfast meetings if there were a buck in it.
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what IS the profit margin on toasted camel dung and goat yogurt?
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Ask the Moslems, they’re familiar with marginal,prophets.
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Okay czar, in a long line of czar puns, you have simply outdone yourself with this one. You will have to really work to better this offering. I declare it your all time best.
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I figure I’ll get a fews days less in purgatory for that one…it just came to me, wrote itself.
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aloha snackbar back attch…..
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If the target market is socialists;
they’re a cash cow in record time. 😉
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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)
(Hot Buttered Rum)
(Hot Buttered Rum)
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’ Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂
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!
Apple Coffee Cake with Crumble Topping and Brown Sugar Glaze!
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Morning Nyet! Thanks for the delicious breakfast!
Morning all! Happy Wednesday!
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Perfect Nyet, and a good morning to you as well.
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Mornin’!
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Good morning Nyet! that crumb cake and bacon look yummy! ^.^
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Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂 Thanks for breakfast, Nyet. 😀
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Yummo! Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Nye!!! Morning Everyone!!!!! Over easies, I’m in!!!!
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I open and close a wonderful, primarily breakfast joint four days a week. I get up at 5, open it all up between 6 and 7, and leave sometimes at 6, with a smile on my face. I come home and see breakfast here.
My life is like The Truman Show and Groundhog Day, all rolled into one.
We have an incredible stuffed french toast dish that requires prepping grapes that have been neatly sliced in half, tossed with grapeseed oil and fresh-plucked rosemary, then baked for exactly 11 minutes at 350. Fill a small plate with grapes. Put another small plate on top of it, inverted. Cleanly slice all the grapes in half in 10 seconds with an offset bread knife. Pluck your rosemary, add it. Splash your oil. Put that half-sheet in the oven.
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Whoa! Great technique for halving a bunch of grapes!
I would have been doing them one grape at a time.
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Same technique as cherry tomatoes.
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Mornin’ sportsfans!
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Morning Miss Wee!
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Mornin’ Derk!
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Think I told you all before, but bought Scott’s self help book, “How to Fail at Almost EVERYTHING and Still Succeed.”
It is really good, very practical wisdom, touch of humor, I really like his approach on the subject. Have read a few others along the way, and for me, this one hits home.
Getting copies for the children for Christmas.
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I thought that book was instructions for future College Professors to follow….the secret of tenure vs competency.
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!! Rain passing through, easy day and I foresee a nap after lunch……
Trump does play MSM……..
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Mornin’ Colonel Sir!
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Well, the barn is warm.
Time to put a log on the
fire at the old farm house.
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Well done Impeach, banked the fire this morning….
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You cannot make up this stuff.
Note: She’s holding her participation trophy. 😉
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Brain is actually short circuiting over this one, refuses to be re-programmed by this utter bs. Cannot fathom.
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Diversity Officer at US Colleges and University is an evolutionary position.
Started in principle a LONG time ago before the US Academic community decided that everyone and everything is equal and deserves to be parented forever by an institutional parent and cultural society. Don’t believe it…look at the early candidates for the job.
Now you can laugh, be offended, or pay no attention…but no flags were burned in posting this comment and picture. Consider it 1st Amendment humor maybe.
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The chimp says: “Won’t anyone think of my feelings, being compared to a Diversity Officer?
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chimps hate legos, but like to eat playdoh pretty much….
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Everyone’s gotta have a specialty.
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Yes Mam, I keep thonking about his feelings…did he feel the round that ended his murderous rampage? What was the last thing to go thru his mind and what caliber was it? Then again, Ms Diversity Officer, maybe in the community you service, murderous reactions to perceived insults is a norm and you don’t recognize civilized resolutions of issues as a viable alternative.
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Unfortunately it doesn’t look like he suffered much or had much time for self reflection. No blood smears around the body, or even a pool of blood that I could see so likely a kill shot with internal blood collecting.
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What OSU needs is a ‘safe zone’ where aggrieved jihadis can murder at will and without interference by the repressive police arm of the ruling elite.
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maybe Black Lives Matter members will volunteer to run target for such zones….heck, I would even pay a range fee to participate in that if I could bring my own long guns.
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I’d be happy if the BLM whiners would just concentrate on keeping their own people from killing each other.
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If that terrorist did bleed on the side walk, hopefully somebody cited him for littering…..or releasing bio hazardous fluids without the proper permits……
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And may he discover his 72 virgins are all video gamers living in their moms’ basements.
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and all of them missing the same Star Wars action figure from their respective collections…
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Yeah, I’m betting the Princess Leia…I understand they can’t be cleaned.
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HIV potential there….
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When somebody is murdering, or attempting to murder, another human being, I consider ending their life to be a civilized resolution, as I know you do.
People like this woman have only one thought in their brain. Any action not in line with their trained Pavlov like conditioning is racist. I don’t believe they think, they have just been trained like a dog would be. No mental capability, just indoctrination.
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I could go on for hours on this one, especially the activist trash that believes the murderous thugs of all persuasions should becallowed to kill you THEN be brought to justice, which usually means treatment for their ethnic rage. I, on the other hand, will aim for center of mass on anyone who threatens me and mine and deal with the consequences.
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Exactly this the brain has left the station and only left the marionettes mouth behind.
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looks like she moved on up from the Ebonics straight into Enlightened stupidity….heck, and they say that only white privilege will get you the American Dream…I think it all depends on what you dream about mostly.
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Some of them don’t believe what they are saying and don’t think deeply about it either way. This type of stuff keeps them in top of mind awareness with their followers/court.
I think the conditioning is all to grab low hanging fruit to keep their specific affluence and wealth levels from slipping backwards.
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So says a victim of racist genetics.
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Yeah, I’m Alt-Right.
I say truthful, but offensive things like that, sometimes.
Someone has to.
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Trump gives Ford and Carrier cause to pause.
POTUS dumbfounded as to how accomplished.
https://twitter.com/Italians4Trump/status/803786959374127105
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Obama sez: What ARE YOU DOING. You TALK WITH THEM. Are you buttcrazy Donald? You didn’t make that. You cannot talk with people that need to have Rules and Laws to Splain stuff to them. Don’t you understand US Political Bidness man. You gonna make a sorry ole white President….I gonna take the fambly and move outta here while you play TALK WITH FOLKS”
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Morning Stella, Stellagtites!
Gorgeous photo!
T’is the season, tree going up this weekend with the 2 daughters, round of golf with the future son in law, going to be 66 Saturday, veritable heat have compared to of late.
Have a great day out there!
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Decorating this weekend also 🙂 and if Hillary thinks she is ever getting off the naughty list she is in for a big surprise 😎
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Stella, 2003-2016
My baby is gone. She declined rapidly this past week, and it was a mercy (though sad) to let her go this morning. The vet, the tech and I were all crying and hugging, and Stella was surrounded by people who cared about her.
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Oh, Stella…. she was a gorgeous girl and so loved. My heart hurts for you. Is Luna looking for her yet?
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Luna has known something is up for a couple of days now. She has been sniffing Stella, and slept right up against my chest the past two nights.
It was very sad, but there was no doubt that it was time for her to go. She was dazed, probably because of the anemia, so weak that she could no longer stand, wasn’t eating anything for the past two days, and drinking very little.
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She was waiting for you to let her go…
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Tears here. I am sorry, and I know you did all you could.
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OH, I am so sorry… RIP sweet Stella.
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God be with you and her lovely spirit…I know dogs get to OUR heaven…that is why God made them special for humans to love. So sorry for your loss….no words. Bless you at this very hard time.
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So sorry to hear this, it’s always hard to go through these losses. Small comfort but she’s at rest now and her suffering’s over. Our prayers are with you and, if God is kind, we’ll see our companions again.
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It was difficult, but I was as ready as I could be. So was she. Thanks for your kind thoughts. All pet lovers go through this at least once, but it’s worth the pain.
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Blake was our first dog, he was with us for about 15 years. Zauber was second, he went for about ten but he was an oversized GSD and his hips just totally gave out. Both had to be euthanized and I sat with them as they left us, we still have their ashes. Yes, they get under your skin.
Thinking about replacing your ‘Kilroy’ with a pic of Stella?
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I’ve used it before, so maybe.
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My old girl is noisily rolling around on the floor playing with the now 30-pound ‘puppy’, teaching him who’s boss. In between she’s grooming him.
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Stella, A short poem that perhaps will help heal your sorrow. I found this little poem years ago and always take it out of my Bible and read it when one of my beloved pets have reached the end of their life.
I explained to St. Peter,
I’d rather stay here,
Outside the pearly gate,
I won’t be a nuisance,
I won’t even bark,
I’ll be very patient and wait.
I’ll be here, chewing on a celestial bone,
No matter how long you may be,
I’d miss you so much, if I went in alone,
It wouldn’t be heaven to me.
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So sorry to hear, heart is breaking for you and Stella. Quite the pair.
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So very sorry Stella. You did your vey best by her and let her go when that was the kindest most loving thing left to do. 💔
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I’m so sorry about your sweet Stella girl. Like many here, I’m feeling your loss acutely. Miss Stella will live on in our hearts and through your blog with her name. Sending much love from Texas to you and yours.
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Time passes;
as do we
and those
we love.
Condolences.
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I’m sorry, Stella. 😦
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Stella, my thoughts and prayers…..Rain bow bridge…..
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I’m so deeply sorry. My prayers are with you.
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So, so sorry, Stella. It’s really hard when this sad day comes for people who love their pets the way you obviously do. I’ve been through this many times and it doesn’t make it easier. She is beautiful. You gave her a wonderful life.
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Oh Stella, so sorry for your loss. Tears and prayers for you, and for her. As the poem above says, I know she’ll be waiting at the gates of heaven for you.
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Deepest condolences
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{{{Stella}}}
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So sad for you, stella. That photo breaks my heart. I had to say good-bye to a dearly beloved cat at the vet’s office, years ago. Some of that pain remains, will remain always.
I am glad the people at the office with you were loving and supportive. It helps.
Holding you in my thoughts.
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I’m so sorry for your loss of Stella. My prayers for you and and may God ease your pain. Take care stella.
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NOLA TV is glowing about how some 68-thousand fans attended the annual Bayou Classic football game between historically black Grambling and Southern Universities. They are equally tortuous in trying to spin the shooting in the French Quarter involving two attendees. The actors are said to be from ‘out of town’, one station said once they were students but neither that station nor any other said that again. No surveillance videos are being shown and any possible references connecting the Bayou Classic, its attendees or any other potentially embarrassing information is being quashed.
So, apparently using revised standards, 68-thousand attendees with only one death and nine wounded (not counting persons in the Quarter/downtown who were just physically assailted) is a success!
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but WHO won the Drumline Contest between these two affirmative action institutions?
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My $$$’s on Grambling!
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You’re on. A round of drinks for the next party.
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Stompin the Yard…fo shizzle…
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Don’t know, being a reactionary Southern redneck I was more interested in watching the press squirm trying to report the various assaults without reporting the various assaults.
Note that this year there was virtually ZERO reporting on the huge parade of thugmobiles that traditionally parade Canal street at 5 mph, enhanced sound systems blaring obscene rap music atvear shattering levels, blocking traffic and sparking rolling gang fights. Citynpolice have sorta been told to ease up,on enforcement. Also the suggestions that locals who don’t really have a reason to be out on the streets in their own town might want to stay home during the ‘celebration’ were noticably absent.
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well, since Pat Obriens had to stop selling Hurricane glasses and would not let everyone contribute to the street broken glass litter, I have felt that NO just would not have much appeal banking on beads and jazz music…so maybe girls pulling up their shirts for beads replaced Mari Gras real stuff that we enjoyed a million years ago when I was there in 1962.
Next up maybe….the Ku Klux Krews…..possibly?
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The Quarter’s turned into a huge money machine, none of the mass-sales bars use glass any more, all use pkadtic ‘go cups’. They just sell the cup with the drink as you can drink out of plastic and you can just leave without eating up floor space. They also don’t have to worry about glases being stolen for souvenirs or having to wash glasses.
Some years before Katrina our activist mayor and city council decided to stick it to the Mardi Gras krewes, especially the old line 19th century ones, and ordered they allow anyone who wanted to to join or they wouldn’t be allowed to parade on city streets. Most caved in but a few just dropped parading, remainded krewes doing social programs and having parties but no uses of city property.
Being part of a krewe is very expensive. Back in the early 80s I worked with a guy who was a member of a big, old krewe. His yearly dues were around $25,000 and that didn’t include his miscellaneous expenses which easily equalled his dues. Expenses haven’t gotten no betterer either, we’ve had a number of krewes over the last few years that have stopped parading due to the costs. Considering the expenses involved and the city leaders activism I can’t help but wonder when the city will start issuing ‘krewe stamps’ to facilitate inclusion?
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I believe that behavior is called “trolling”. Looking for a reason to take offense.
A lot like walking impossibly slow through an intersection with pants half-down.
Lookin’ like a fool with your pants on the ground.
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Sounds more like the trolling Jimmy Swaggart was doing out on Airline Highway.
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You Know, I was just scrolling down through the posts intending to make another comment here after the latest belly laugh provided by Czar above. (Wee, need to pick it up a bit, just saying).
Was going to say along the lines of, that along with the gorgeous photos daily, the wisdom and knowledge shared, it is the laughs that bring me here daily.
Then hit Stella’s, and the tears haven’t stopped yet. Crying as though she were my own dog, which was one of the last times that I actually cried like this.
And that is the beauty of this Place. Don’t know you all, never seen ya. Yet you all have grown to be family. And that is what truly brings me here. Ok, gotta go before I short circuit something.
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You have a kind heart, and this is something most of us have experienced. It is all okay.
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Yep, bit emotional of late. Thanks
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For today’s episode of ‘Law & Order for True’, Louisiana: womam meets a man on line and agrees to meet him in another city. Guy meets her, kidnaps her and dtoves away with her. She manages to jump out of his truck (BTW, he’s also hauling a big tool trailer), runs into a store and calls 911. Police find truck, he drives some ten miles, police in pursuit, gets onto a bridge that’s about 26 miles long and totally over water with original police and new bridge police in pursuit. On the south side of the bridge he now picks up a group of shefiff’s deputies to the following…he’s still pulling the trailer…and he drives through one of the most densely populated areas in the parish, over another huge bridge over the Mississippi where he adds police from another jurisdiction…did I mention he’s still pulling a trailer?
He stops in the city and a very close range gun battle ensues, recordings have it sounding like Saturday night in Fallujah. Situation ends when police bring the shooter’s Mom to the site to aid in his surrender. Casualties are one police officer grazed by someone’s bullet and minor injuries to the kidnapper. No word on how many bullet holes are in how much private property.
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Trailer was unharmed.
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And the train was fine.
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1112 alligators were shot dead tho….and a couple of wild hogs…heck it’s Louisiana…they’re everywhere….
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The sheriff’s department released it tally of round it fired in the incident – they fired over 500 rounds of ammunition with the bad guy receiving a superficial wound that may have been caused by spalling from a bullet. Someone be needin’ range time, badly.
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Some good news…
Donald Trump met with U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara on Wednesday at Trump Tower, a senior law enforcement official told NBC News.
Bharara, whom many regard as the Justice Department’s most powerful prosecutor, told reporters that he agreed to remain the U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York after a “good meeting” with the president-elect. He added that Sen. Jeff Sessions, Trump’s attorney general pick, previously reached out to him, asking him to stay as well.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/30/trump-to-meet-with-us-attorney-preet-bharara-nbc-news.html
Note: Odds are, Hillary just soiled herself. 😉
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Well Hillary’s situation just Depends.
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Stella, I always rely on Carlin’s advice regarding good dogs.
Get another good dog, and the love is back. It’s unconditional. Puppy or old rescue.
He’s crude about this fact: Life is a series of dogs.
Get another of the same breed and you don’t even have to change the pics on your mantle.
If Tripod kicked the bucket tonight, I’d have to get another kitteh by Monday. And I would.
(NSFW Language)
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Three-legged black-and-whites on Craigslist have got to be rare.
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I’m already looking.
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I see it like Carlin did. We live longer than them…
…but they’re literally angels.
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Like the gravitar change, Stella to the front!
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This been dropped here yet? Some right-on-target points. At least half of the reasons Left cut ties with Right were reasons some of my children did not come to Thanksgiving, “….to not be part of a toxic enviorment.” And this coming from them in spite of the fact that we never even talked Trump or election with them. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442538/why-left-wingers-cut-ties-trump-voters
“5. People on the right think that most people on the left are wrong; people on the left think that most people on the right are evil. …”
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Yes it has but it’s good enough to be put here twice…or more. Good points not to forget.
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Not sure that I can get to sleep tonight….what with worrying about all those methane filled California farting cows……..jes myserabobble feelins.
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