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Hate to post this twice within an hour but I see this as a major issue that had some scary potential. Don’t know how true this leak is but would the Post engage in ‘false news’?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign/2016/12/09/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.50591036f9db&wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-politics%252Bnation
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I agree. This is sobering,”false news” or not.
This is the kind of thing that could provoke a really stupid, evil, and dangerous executive order. The sort of EO that would be the culmination of Obama’s entire lie- and treason-filled life.
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And he wants that report on his desk by 20 Janusry, suggesting he wants it in time to take some sort of action.
Constitution has old POTUS going out on 20th but is rather silent on what happens if, let’s say, current POTUS says on 19th that the election was tainted and signs an Executive Order delaying the swearing in. Legality is questionable but the SCOTUS would have to decide that and it’s in a bind. New Republican Congress would be sworn in on the 3rd so sending the issue to it woudn’t do him any good and places the possibility of an impeachment on the table – and that definitely wouldn’t go in his favor.
That leaves the possibility of massive and violent demonstrations in the streets along with the very real potential for nasty martial law issues.
Don’t stop reloading.
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I wouldn’t put ANYTHING beyond them.
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Yesterday I heard from a friend still active in law enforcement about a meeting their department had this week with Fed LEA reps. The meeting was confusing to him due to the really fuzzy presentation of a veiled ‘threat’, he’s been doing policing for a long time and he’s scratching his head. Don’t want to sound mysterious but there were other issues in the meeting that also left us scratching our heads.
Not a good time for people drinking a lot of caffeine and resding false news.
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I’ll just wait and see on this. Your points are acknowledged and valid concerns.
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Forgot to mention, received my Brownells Gunnery No.3 yesterday. It’s DYI-ing your AR or pistol…….
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Been using Brownells since late 80s, if they ain’t got it you don’t need it. Ever use the old Herter’s in Minnesota?
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Saw this comment there. It was not well received.
agree , I think Russia made Clinton set up that private sever in her basement and in that bathtub in Colorado. And the Russian mind meld made her send Classified material on it and use her blackberry while traveling overseas. And forced her and Wasserman to conspire against Bernie in the primaries. And they made all those foreign governments send money to the Clinton foundation and give Bill those $500,000 speeches. It good that we are finally getting down to the truth. The Martians invaded her body.
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By now the Martians may need therapy.
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Saturday, Caturday. Who cares. Here’s the coffee. 😆
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(you were overheard, texan…)
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I taut I taw a Pooh-tea cat.
OK, now back to the political paranoia thread.
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Followed you over to CTH and reposted my riposte.
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Woof, good to be back over here. Always feel like I’m standing on someone else’s porch when I’m over there, been here too long I guess.
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I visualize myself wearing a “Visitor” peel-off name tag when I post there.
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It feels like going back to your old high school for a 50th reunion – it’s familiar but it ain’t.
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man….me too….like it has been invaded by the hanky wringing concern beasts of the world. I cannot read through it all anymore….I get weary of the constant evaluation fear mongering interpretation of the “no news is false news” blather…..thank you Stella for this place of rational and fun loving adults.
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Yeah, great parking too.
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hmmmm…I haven’t parked since my senior year in high school…out by the watertank in the boonies…..
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LOL That reminded me of a time my boyfriend (later my husband) and I went parking on the boat ramp of a lake. Great spot. But, he had to get smart and drive right down near the water. …………….and then……..and then……..remembered he had no reverse. He had to drive into the water to make a circle to get out. We were both sweating it. I had visions of having to call my dad. Remember, no cell phones back then. And, my dad would have banned him, if he hadn’t killed him outright. 😯
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“Joy”?
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Her happy, Christmas JOY face. 😉
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Spreading Joy’s joy. 😉
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“I used to be a Starbucks barrista, but I had to show them too much about manners vs. here’s your damn coffee attitudes…..I liked the yelling “Trump” part….but they caught me spitting in the liberal’s latte”
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This is full of awesome. “Joy.” LOL.
And the 18-cent tip in a pool of coffee is a bonus.
Funniest cat pic all week. That expression. So purrfect.
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My darling bride of many years had a doctor’s appointment Thursday set for 11 AM….she was not allowed or drink anything after midnight Wednesday….No coffee….that cat’s expression is very close to how she looked leaving for work, and I suspect how she looked to the other cohorts at work…..then AFTER the appointment tests were taken, she asked about the fasting deal…., the doctor said…Oh, you coulda had coffee as long as you didn’t put anything IN it…that is what we don’t want in our testing……I think she is banned from that office and the doctor has been missing for three days without a trace…..DO NOT PULL ON SUPERMAN’S CAPE, SPIT INTO THE WIND, or tell DW afterwards you coulda had a V8 or somesuch……
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LOL
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Morning and thanks Tex!!! Coffee’s Good!!!
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Time to put another log on the fire…
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I’m looking at a fire here, right now!
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Just checked
the temperature.
19.3 °F
Winter begins
December 21.
Enjoying the
warm temps
before then. 😉
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Hope the local
fire dept is not
watching it, too.
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right now!
gave cause
for pause. 😉
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Had a bonfire tonite, warmup for Christmas. Nothing really matches a big outdoor fire on a cold night.
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Time for a refill…
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Plenty more,
help yourself.
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6.3 °F
Time for another log
and…
Think I’ll have another…
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Baby, it’s cold outside.
Time for another log. 😉
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13.9 °F
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Yeah, it was below 50* when I got up this morning. I had to wear my coat. 😯
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23* here.
Supposed to get between 5 and 8″ of snow tomorrow into Monday, then a repeat performance next Friday, followed by an inch of ice on Saturday. I hate winter.
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No snow here.
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You never know. I’ve been in Sarasota in December when it is below freezing in the morning.
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Well, I actually remember it snowing here when I was in the 6th grade. They let the whole school go out for it. Of course, it never really was enough to make the ground white.
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In Dallas, snow is so rare…that idiot drivers would go by tirechains and mount them on their tires if white stuff covered the streets…..trouble was….it was ice….chains and ice don’t go together….we used to say that Dallas and Atlanta drivers in the winter are dangerous as hell….
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Meanwhile…
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13° here they are predicting between 4 and 11 inches by Monday morning 😐
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Morning Lovely, have a wonderful day.
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Good morning Derk 🙂 Have a beautiful day. I am down and out for the count with the flu. I missed the first Christmas party of the season yesterday. 5 different people texted me. I said to the last one are none of you talking to each other ? Sheesh! It is a party of about 30 people can one person just tell the rest I’m sick and not coming? 🙄
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Well, FYI, they didn’t let me know either! =D
Take care, no Bueno wit the flu. Hasn’t come out this way as yet that I’ve heard of. Go Bears?
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I don’t know what they didn’t tell you 😜!
I’m not watching the NFF even though I’m a lifelong Bear’s fan. I was pleased to see that they kicked that moron Kaepernaick’s scrawny racist butt.
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Oh, poor baby. I hope you get well quick. 😦
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Thanks Aus 🙂
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I hate winter.
You’re in luck.
Winter does not start
until four days after
your icy Saturday. 😉
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after Rahm Emmanuel gave the uplifted center digit sign of intellectual discourse to the media from Chicago, I think Mother Nature has sent him a message about Global Warming Ain’t Happening this Year in the Windy City…..enjoy your snowplows, Balletboy.
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I got my Carhartt gloves. My Carhartt coat. My Carhartt scarf. My Carhartt convertible hat/facemask. Tomorrow I’m getting my Timberland boots. I’ll be toasty outside for the next few months.
Milwaukee™ makes heated jackets with battery packs that also charge your mobile devices. I wish they would get together with Carhartt™ on a coat.
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Think layers.
Milwaukee™, then
Carhartt™ over it. 😉
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Impeach, well done!!! I slept very good last night, warm….. now fires banked and ready for barn clean up.
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10.3 °F
Time for another log on the fire.
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A fireside chat between you
and someone else in another
place, might be in your future. 😉
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Can’t help but wonder in some enterprising prog somewhere is planning a ‘Million Thug March’ to disrupt inauguration festivities?
Program tonite was bubbling over how much difficulty Trump’s team’s having finding name petformers who’ll perform at his inauguration, they don’t want to be associated with him or his administration. Kanye West dyed his hair ‘Trump’ blood, maybe he’s considering…
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Michael Moore has been promoting protests:
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Moore like el Gordo’s promoting himself. Or maybe he’s heard Baathhouse is looking for a new towel boy and he’s auditioning?
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BTW, I said that in Spanish so it ain’t body shaming/hate speech.
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Thst fat, leftist, hypocritical POS’s hands on the flag makes me want to puke. His even touching it is more offensive than some turd burning it.
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Somewhere there’s a little fat globule being guided by the fickle finger of fate, working its way towards a tiny arterial space…
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:0) Sweet dreams are made of these…who am I to disagree……
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I ❤️ This
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I am campaigning for the #NeverStentforMM then….
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Did I mention Magic Mike’s starting, to me at least, like Hillary in drag?
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Amen, Amen, Amen, disgusting having MM even near the flag.
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Michael Moore needs to worry about his weight issues rather than our national issues….he needs to just shut his mouth on both issues.
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Hey, I’m always up to buy him a few more Big Macs and a gross of Krispy Kremes, he’s still too svelte for my needs.
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He needs TWO HUGE BELTS….one for his waist….and the other direct to the kisser.
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Perhaps, off Broadway
for a cast of characters.
also,
‘Million Thug March’
Think of all those who carry;
thinking of all the live targets.
Christmas in January. 😉
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Yeah, thru could take the play to the streets and issue some of those ‘billion Federal bullets’ along with the free cheese. “Let’s all go to the lobby, let’s all go to the lobby..”.
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along with the free cheese
Helps with the selfies…
Say, “Cheese!”
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Free cheese is known to draw Rats.
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Definitely not a banana he grabbed.
Did make her smile; if not her day. 😉
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“Favorite Son” by CCR, some guy in the troop played that 2-3 times a day on base camp and couple of times rolling around at night………was quite when he rotated out. Also drove the “lifers” crazy………
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Fortunate Son
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Next cubicle over in Vietnam it was ‘Funky Briadway’, hour after hour, day after day. We were drawing straws to see who’d frag him when his record player mysteriously broke.
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My error, Funky Broadway’, don’t even like to spell it right. Listen to this for hours at a time, for days at a time and then think how hard it would be to have a ‘friendly fire’ incident.
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She is with the local Fox station…..and Megyn Kelly got all offended when Roger Ailes touched her…..this ape knows the basic perverted grope moves way better than old Roger.
Megyn needs to interview the simian…
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They said on FOX and FRIENDS this morning that the authorities were not going to issue any permits for protests that day. Don’t know if that will stop them.
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Lol!!
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Samsung has volunteered to provide Burniephones to every minority person. They have the patent on the battery and circuit boards just to Burnie.
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I really want to watch a LIBERAL MILLION MAN MARCH on WASHINGTON in the MIDDLE OF WINTER……lol.
Occupy Wall Street showed how protests work out in really cold weather….
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Amen!!!! Amen Wooly….. I’m rocking Now Army just scored a touchdown….Lets lock and load!!!!! Warm fire, eats, Tex’s whiskey, Army-Navy Game……..
Mom wishing your Son well, hey GO ARMY-Beat Navy…………
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Go Navy, BEAT ARMY!!!!!!
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Rock ON !!!!!! Thank you Impeach!!!
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Rotten Cotton….rush reparations and free stuff.
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Thst picture’s RACIST! Might remind someone of the bumper sticker: If I knew it was going to be this much trouble I’d have picked my own damned cotton! See, it DID!
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Trump will just get some serious patriotic talent to “entertain” at the inaug….no one cares if the libs come or not….and the Trumpsters just want to see The Donald with his hand on a Bible afterwhich he becomes PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DONALD J. TRUMP….
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I’m just tired of the vacuous Hollyork crowd thinking their equally vacuous opinions have any more of an impact on my thinking than my dog’s/cat’s musings.
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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I hope there are no pop performers at the inauguration.
I hope it’s a solemn affair, for a change.
This event isn’t Eric Clapton’s Crossroads festival or Lollapalooza.
D.C. doesn’t need to be completely trashed by pop-worshipping idolators, and lined with porta-potties when our President is sworn in. We’ve dealt with that twice. Sure, the Union Workers who pick up trash in D.C… and the local cops, and fire, and EMS, got bonus hours, but our nation’s capital got trashed in Jan. ’09 and ’13.
It’s a solemn affair, not a goddang Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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Activist Who Served on George Soros-Financed Boards Behind Scheme to Take Trump’s Electoral College Votes
NEW YORK – Harvard law professor and progressive activist Larry Lessig has announced that he is teaming up with a California-based law firm to offer “free and confidential” legal services to any members of the Electoral College who will vote against President-elect Donald Trump in violation of state law.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/09/activist-served-george-soros-financed-boards-behind-scheme-usurp-trumps-electoral-college-votes/
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Run the clock back eight years and
imagine the socialists response had
this happened to obama. Explodies. 😉
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White Russians fought for what, six years, against the Leninists? What the hell, TV sorta sucks anyway, bring on the Reds.
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I’m loading, loading……this is going to be target rich!
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Typical socialists.
Do as I say; not as I do…
https://twitter.com/LeeAnnMcAdoo/status/807248994091102209
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Yeah, but nothing bears finding those long-lost Whitewater documents, files the Government searched high and low for, on a desk in the White House. Nothing suspicious here folks, just Move Along.
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Hillary’s first major exposure to Fake News what Bill statement “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinski”….followed by the statement, “It depends upon what the definition of what “is” is”……she and hubby are EXPERTS on creation of Fake Everything including “news”.
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Hillary’s days of fake news go back long before the rats scurried into the White House. They go back to dead boys on railroad tracks and telling a jury that 12 year old rape victim Kathleen Shelton was a promiscuous trollop who had fantasies about older men.
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And don’t want their opponents to be able to use it…
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Selfishness is not popular.
Socialists just do not get it.
Unable to fathom hillary’s loss. 😉
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Hildabeast for Prison!!!!! Great tags, Impeach!!!!
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Hm. “Fake news” is fake news.
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That Clinton fan is sporting a Great Haircut….
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Stella, great photo for your daily lead in! Something I have witnessed only once in my life……..Thank you!!!!
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Mornin’ Stellars!
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Best comment?
“I think John Lennon shot himself.”
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well….have you ever REALLY looked at Yoko’s face????
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And, then, she opens her mouth! 😯
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Good morning Wooly, that is a cruel assault on the eyes and ears for so early in the morning.
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I had to. Found it via AoSHQ this morning, and couldn’t stop laughing.
Actually, Ace posted the original version, which is just Yoko screaming.
I found this mashup on the sidebar of The YouTube, and almost fell down.
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I saw a clip once of Lennon singing and Yoko rolling around on the stage doing primal screams 🙈🙊🙉. Yoko is as likable and well intentioned as Hillary Clinton.
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Iowahawk pretty much quit his job, for which he was known, a few years ago, because these people have now gone far beyond any parody or satire he could possibly muster.
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Yes real life has almost rendered the Onion redundant. Brian Williams pontificating about fake news?
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Hillary would have given a great State of the Onion Report….
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Actually, not going to listen, don’t want to blemish a great song. Usually enjoy all your music selections, but will pass on this one! =D
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Smart decision.
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Smart man.
Better cover. My favorite.
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Lots of neat surprises in this video, typical for WOTE.
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Oh my gosh!! So many things to like on so many levels! Bert and Ernie, hot blonde w/ glasses, great voice, ukulele and catch, tattooed bracelet, great arrangement, bangs, unique version.
Thanks!
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You absolutely have to go to their channel on YouTube, and watch every cover they’ve ever done. Walk of the Earth is my Robin to Bobby McFerrin’s Batman.
Both of their catalogues are College, for people into music, and instruments.
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Ys, looked at a few, loved their cover of Royals, sent that one and this one to my youngest daughter. Thanks!
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Mornin’ kids! And a happy birthday shoutout to WaltzingMtilda!!! Who is 29 again today. 😀
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Happy Birthday, Tilda!
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Happy Birthday, Tilda! And, many more.
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Good morning WeeWeed and happy birthday Mtilda 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Happy birthday, WaltzingMtilda!
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Dang, I want one!
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Morning Wee,
Don’t know Tilda, but Happy Birthday to you!
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Mornin’ Derk!
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Health and Happiness…
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Happy birthday Tils!
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my kinda cake…..Happy Birthday too.
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Happy Birthday Waltzing Matilda!!!!!
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Evening Ms.WeeWeed!!!! Waiting for the Snow….not much 4-6 inches to start, then anther inch or so. I have a warm fire, plenty to eat/drink. “Buck Season” is over for another year. No cows lost, or new holes in the barn roof. That’s good!!
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Evenin’ Colonel Sir!
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Happy Birthday Tilda next one…
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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!
Pastries for coffee!
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My compliments to the chef, and my sincere gratitude to the bar tender. I’m sick. I need the alcohol to sterilize myself. Or help put me out of my misery.
You da best nyet.
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Good morning Nyet 🙂 Gracias!
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Morning Nyet (whomever we will never really know) =D,
Smashing per usual,
Have a great day up there!
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Thanks! Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Good morning Ausmom!
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Bye!!!!! Evening Everyone!!!!!! After game celebration!,,,,,,
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Morning Stella,
You getting by up there? Warmed up here, got into the 50’s yesterday, after low 40’s and heavy mist like rain past couple of days. It was just 100 ere in mid October. Bit of adjustment which my knee does not agree. Have a great day!
Just for fun, noting implied!
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😀
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I see where we’re going with this thread…
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Nope, not going there.
BTW, thanks for all the great laughs this morning. Does one well.
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Thanks for all the great straight lines.
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Ok, getting the wife things out of the system, again, nothing implied to you fine ladies in this Place.
Pillaging was very good tis morning!
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I used to hate me some naggers.
Early in life, my dad told me, “Son, in life you’re going to interact with people who nag you a lot, a lot. We call those people naggers. In this family, son… we don’t like naggers.”
Then I saw dad nagging mom about dinner, or did she do the taxes. Then I saw mom nagging dad about gettin’ on us boys to do some chores, or did `he fix the lawnmower yet.
Then I saw us boys nagging dad about buying us stuff that all the cool people had.
That was when I realized that really, we’re all a bunch of naggers.
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Young and wise, I suppose you are correct. Think some of us just sugar coat it better tan others.
What? You get a day off?
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Until I get a new job, I do.
I just made my key-ring lighter yesterday morning.
I think by Tuesday I’ll be painting or doing construction.
The bossman’s not mad at me, he says.
I think he knows that 9 years was enough, too, and that I need a change.
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I didn’t hear about that. Just happened? You were so happy in your posts here earlier this week. Sorry to hear now.
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Derk, I’m happy now.
I’ll have a job by Tuesday.
I just graduated from the College at which I’ve studied for 9 years.
When you wake from nightmares about working your job for almost a decade, it might be time to find a new job. The night before I quit, two nights ago. I awakened from a crazy work-dream, all of them full of surreal levels of frustration and pressure and stress, EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES. Then I got up at 0500, shaved, sh*t and showered, and walked into the Kafka-esque dream I just escaped.
When you can’t escape your job even in sleep, it’s time to move on.
When your job itself makes you think of Kafka, it’s time to move on.
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So … what happened?
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When I figure it out, I’ll let you know.
Rather, when I figure out how to put it, without bad-mouthing my former employer and his family and company, I will. Because I love them all, and did — actively — for years. I just can’t work for them any more.
I’m sure that God speaks through dreams every so often.
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I was praying that your boss’ eyes would be open to your worth and that you would have the courage and confidence to demand what you are worth. Didn’t work out quite the way I envisioned, but then, often things don’t. 🙂
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Ausmom, slaves don’t really have the standing to make demands.
We can leave the plantation, though. Yes, we can.
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I’ll bet your ex-boss’ eyes will be open to your worth when he sees what it is like without you.
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Aus, I’m not wishing for that. I ate Thanksgiving dinner with him, or his folks, or his brother, for six of nine years. I’m wishing his current employees work with Christian love, and an eye on the bossman’s profit, too. Despite that I left because I don’t think that’s going to happen. It’s still the best food in town. Bar none.
And he’s the hardest-working boss I ever had.
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For the first time in nearly a decade, I’m nobody’s b**ch.
That feels really good.
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Well, I must say, your talents were not being put to full use where you were. I’m sure you will find a place to flourish!
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“When you wake from nightmares about working your job for almost a decade, it might be time to find a new job. “
I have gone through the very same thing, twice. It was wives though.
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Just once for me, Czarina and I have a pact that if it ever gets that bad we’ll just lock,ourselves in a room with a Luger and winner take all.
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my second wife and I were grown when we married. we agreed that if anyone wanted a divorce, they had to take all the stuff and kids and the other got all the money. No one played any cards on that poker table for 35 years.
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I never became some girl’s Left Hand Man.
I don’t know if I regret that or not.
I’ve witnessed so many great, wonderful marriages, and so many that were horrifying.
I don’t even buy scratch tickets.
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Gee, that is how it was with my marriage.
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sounds rooosisst 2 me….
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I am so glad you got the SPLC-approved spellcheck/autocomplete.
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my PC antivirus software is called Trumpvictorymaker. It has NO damn spellchecking at all. If you can type it, it will accept the will of the Citizen.
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Pray for his safety please.
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And for a couple of safeties against Army.
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And Obama announces that he’ll make an appearance at the Saudi soccer stadium for the weekly televised limb choppings. Be sharia to get their early, ladies, first 100 get a free burqa in any color of your choice..as long as you choose black.
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Model T burqa. 😉
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Good column from Anne, re how Establishment will try to break Trump. Ehen Trump said “Wall” I said “In.”
Born and raised is San Jose, ghetto boy that I am, I have been personally affected bu the influx since a young lad. Like Johnny Cash once sang, “Had to get tough or die.”
After moving over to the coast in high school, got a bit of a break. Towards the latter years tough, my children become more impacted as the once fine school they went through became more English as a Second Language, so actual teaching was reduced to taking care of the “Joses and Marias” that imploded upon the small school.
I worked construction, and over the years, would get stranger and stranger looks as I showed up on jobsites. Another local contractor even told me that at the supply yard, he was told by the Mexicans there that he had to go through them to get work. Big, strong Irish man. he told them to GFY.
My son, soon after getting his drivers license, and me paying for a car and insurance, was blindsided by a truck that ran a red light. Could have killed I’m but luckily, basically in hurt, car totaled. Driver got out, said sorry in best broken English, and took off running while my child was stumbling out dazed and confused. No registration, no insurance no drivers license.
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2016-12-07.html#read_more
Now, I don’t consider myself racist. I love the Mexican culture, I have many Latino friends, illegal even. But what gets me is the overrunning, the free stuff, entitlements, gangs, their racist views, and not assimilating but rather demanding that this country bend over for them. I am required to follow the laws of this land, but they are not. Infuriating.
If Trump does end up backing down on this, done. I’m out. Another politician, whom I did not vote for, make calls for, travel to see for, defended and lost friends and relatives over.
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Speaking of Fake News: The Washington Post’s ‘Jimmy’s World’ Scam
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2016/12/10/speaking-fake-news-washington-posts-jimmys-world-scam
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As a further example of how not new fake news is;
Published in 1852, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, by Harriet Beecher Stowe was considered a true to life retelling of slavery and planation life. It was made into plays (it was the first play ever done in Seattle). Laws were passed. The Northern state politicians ran on the extra sensationalism it created. The problem is that it was all made up. Reading Southern newspapers and magazines of the time up to the war of northern aggression, nobody knew who Harriet Beecher Stowe could have used as a model on her – one – brief – trip – to – a – Southern state.
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Feel like I’m in “Trumans World”, waking up to find out everything is a lie. Whom is it exactly we have given this power to? Whom is it we have allowed to let us be informed “on a need to know basis”. The “you can’t handle the truth” mantra.
I believe we, as a people, could handle the truth just fine, it is those the keep it hidden whom can’t.
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The soviet citizens went through that at the end of the USSR, and within a relatively short time, everybody adjusted to ignoring everything outside of their daily lives again
It’s no different here. The original people that started what became known as socialism have been dead and gone for almost 300 years. Their legacy has been picked up by every get-rich-quick, self-serving, opportunist and twisted for their own enrichment. It was refined and made into scientific socialism by Friedrich Engels with Karl Marx.
“Whom is it exactly we have given this power to?” Men instead of God, that’s who.
The truth isn’t exactly hidden. It just isn’t propagated. Don’t read history books thinking the author is anymore qualified than you to interpret what you read. Herodotus was bias in his opinions, but at least he made it clear when he stated opinion.
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One of the best movies ever made.
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If yo have ever gone to or enjoy horse racing, check out “Let it Ride”, older Richard Dreyfus movie. The most hilarious movie from beginning to end I have seen. Many different characters, a hoot.
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Dreyfus is my third favorite white actor.
Mel Brooks is my second.
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So now we rate on skin color? Ok. =D
Let me guess, Michael Caine number 1? No, wait, Gene Wilder!? Hang on a sec….
I got this!
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Is it Jim Carrey?
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Clint Eastwood.
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{sigh}
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Close. Tall and thin, both.
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This is not new, nor has it stopped. Occasionally in working for the large retail companies I was previously employed by I encountered people who came down here prepared to live and thrive amongst the stupid, dirty hillbillies. Most realized they had wrong impressions. A few considered every living person of southern birth to be genetically and intellectually challenged. We didn’t think much of them either.
The south has her share of notions about other parts of the country too, especially the Northeast and California.
People like to propagate their own beliefs, and are not necessarily interested in truth.
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I doubt it will ever stop. The Romans were doing it, and Western society used them as the model for everything. Socialism included.
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http://www.voanews.com/a/exxon-executive-rex-tillerson-emerges-as-lead-contender-for-trump-top-diplomatic-post/3630991.html
Rex Tillerson leading contender for Secretary of State.
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I am a little puzzled by Trump’s appt. of Puzder. The more I hear about him, the more puzzled I get. I just had a thought. I wonder if Trump is putting him out there knowing the Dems won’t like him or accept him and then they will accept who he really wants?!
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I think it will be like the election staffing. Trump will try various people in positions he thinks they will do well in, and quickly replace those that can’t produce desired results within a set time. Anything we hear about people in the media may not have anything to do with “can they do the job?”.
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Absolutely.
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I read a piece of advice ten years or so ago that I have added to my mental favorite file. If you are going to fail, fail fast. Meaning don’t keep doing the same thing that isn’t bringing results. After sufficient time to see it really does not work, quit, and learn from what you did to make a better choice.
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Sometimes one must do it in spectacular fashion as well, so it can become company folklore as well. Go big, or go home. 😀
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That is the exact rule that Turnaround CEO management use. Come in fast and low, do not try to make a career or reputation out of doing what has to happen, and if it doesn’t work fast….switch the players and the playbook immediately….you are not there to make friends or draw a salary or get promoted.
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I heared we missed a celebration ’round here a couple days ago. Anybody know somethin’ about this? I hate it when we miss an occasion for drinkin’. 😆 😆
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We were all lured over here a year ago mid-November, with the promise that there was running water and flush toilets. That anniversary?
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I think it was fer someone amongst us celebratin’ another year of wedded bliss. According to the folklore. 😉
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😆
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The Flint MI folks got running toilets and flush water….
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Yeah!! We even celebrate peeps’ life sentences ’round here!! Don’t care whoy’are!!! 😀
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Now for something completely different: In the arena of ‘man versus corporation’, me one, corporate low-level toad zero.
When I feel I’m getting totally screwed by a local big box I’m dealing with I don’t waste time with the store manager or his toadies, I just go home and write corporate. Not just any place in corporate, I find out who the CEO is and address the letter to his desk.
Usually the CEO has a layer of protection that intercepts the complaint, but even then their intercession has a profound effect on the local squirrel…imagine being called at your podunk store by someone at the corporate itch-relief level. Well this time I was royally shafted by a local branch of a big national chain, my order of an item on sale, a major item listed as being in-stock wasn’t, and they cancelled my order. I wasn’t told they cancelled it and as the day I ordered was the last day of the sale the locals told me I was SOL and couldn’t get one or a rain check.
One letter to the company’s CEO and calls went out to the store and to me. This letter actually did get to the CEO, slipped past the guard corps, and a person was appointed to ensure that I received the item at sale price and the store cleaned up its act. I also have a call on my machine from the stores manager asking mevto call…corporate guy said he’d called him too.
I also write the CEOs when I receive exceptional setvice above and beyond from staff, it’s only fair. CEOs tend to like it as they get far fewer attaboys than complaints and some really enjoy calling a local employee to say ‘good job’. Tends to make the employee happy too. Regular satisfactory service is getting to be a rarity, exceptionsl service should be rewarded in hopes thst employee will become management and pass along the trait.
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Compliments like that can really give a career boost. It does wonders for morale, and is good for the management team to be able to use as leverage in the eternal quest to improve customer service.
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True dat, I find that really great service is so rare that feel an obligation to recognize it. I’m off to an unnamed Arkansas-based big box where service with a smile’s so rare I feel like I need a shower after shopping there.
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Everything they sell was Made in China and the employees are part time retirees with no motivation. The parking lot is where you get mugged or robbed. Hillary was once on their board of directors, if you need any greater explanation of how Sam saw it all…dispite their campaign propaganda of community committments….
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John Walton, one of Sam’s sons, was Special Forces, MACV-SOG in Vietnam. The Chinese trained and helped man special NVA hunter-killer teams to track and kill/capture SOG people. Always a bit ironic to me that the family would so heavily sell out to the Chinese, especialy as so much of the mobey they spend there goes to the Chinese military to support its plans to destroy America.
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Sooooo, you’re the guy? 😆
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Because you can’t make it up… I was waiting for my tennis friends to show this morning. The temperature was borderline, 34F, so I was ready to leave and head home, but I was hoping that somebody would come. I turned on the radio as I was pulling out… and this is what played, that very second:
Should I stay or should I go now?
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble
And if I stay it will be double
So come on and let me know
I swear sometimes the universe speaks through the radio.
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well….Orson Wells tried that premise back in October 1938 on CBS radio….lots of people today would call that Fake News…got a lot of folks believing what they were hearing.
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Yes.
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I’m a huge fan of the Beach Boys. Never heard that song.
It’s nice when that happens.
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I was just speaking with my dad about Sloop John B..
About two hours ago.
Such a wonderful band.
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today’s MSM would insist that Sloop John B had sexual connotations in the opening lines even. sheeeesshhhhh
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Me, too, Wool – me, too. And that’s why God made the radio. 😉
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Remember all the hubbub about the transition efforts being behind and scattershot? I.Don’t.Think.So. This post lines out the 74 questions they are asking at Energy Dep’t. As you may have heard, those gubmint meatheads are all atwitter about this. Looks like someone has done their homework. This is kinda long as it lists each question, but if you just look at the first 5-10, you’ll get the idea. WOOHOO!!
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Looks like the DC elites are on notice that they are going to be called into account. Beautiful.
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You got the keys to the bar??? I can’t find ’em and I needa beer……
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Un momento, por favor.
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Good stuff!
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And on that note Army 21, Navy 17. A come back win. First win for Army in 16 years……
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Bundle up before you belly up. Bar’s open. 😀
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Beer!!!!! Dam….. an’ a space heater….
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I’m just gettin’ ready for my trip the the froze northland tomorrow. We’ll see how well the Texas long-john’s work. They were on sale. 😆 😆
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I’ve been tole (by my brother that lives in Idaho) that the winter equipment we wuz privy to in Tejas didn’t quite cut the mustard in the froze northland. How ’bout a good coat? Our windbreakers don’ work up there……
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I got a half-fast coat Im’a take with me. Luckily I just have to jump in a cab. Run into the hotel and across the street to our office. Got me a sock cap too, to cover up my melon. 😯
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Gloves???
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Got anything for your feet and hands? We are getting significant snow here.
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Yes’m. Sure enough do.
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You need ya’s a long coat, like a lined London Fog or a lined duster. Oddly enough, they never go on sale until like, April……
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They’re a tad hard to find in HOU any time of year. I already have a hard enough time managing two wardrobes as it is. Don’t know if’n my cranium could keep up with a real winter wardrobe. 😆
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IKR??? Keepin’ up with our shorts/pants, t-shirts vs. sweatshirts iz hard.
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One of my top ten coldest places was Amarillo, winter of ’65-66. That was C-O-L-D. As my late, dear MIL would describe it: “nuthin tween you and the north pole ‘cept a four-strand bahb-whire fence and two strands were broken”.
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Hq for my military unit was in Boise, spent a lotta time up there. We’d trade the AF for those wolf hair-trimmer snorkel parkas and, when we had to drive the old 5-tons, dumps or tractors to/from there we scrounged those nice AF insulated jump suits. Understand they had that gear built for emergency use when the A/C in the NCO/Officer’s clubs got stuck.
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made in China……keep a warn puppy on your lap…..brrrr…single digits in Indiana and Illinois….
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Mebbe this works better??
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I remember these bad boys.
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Rockets!!!! We had them in the welding shop. Wuz the only thing that kept us alive during EOY inventory. Plus, you can heat yer burrito up good on ’em. 😀
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Also use ’em fer dryin’ out hay and stuff in a barn.
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That looks like a very ugly Electrolux.
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It may be ugly Dr. No, but it works somethin’ like this here. 😆
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Yup. I do love teh fire/heat shootin’ outta the back. Gotta have a big room for them burrito cookers, however.
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I find the overtone of JP-4 tends to overwhelm the more delicate burrito salsas.
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Well, yeah – but ya’s gotta admit they get warmer than frozen!
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Check out about 4 min. into this video… Maho Beach…. really cool place. We went there the last time we in St. Martin..
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got hard to find coal oil (kerosene for you slickers) to run those bad boys….but they will heat up a warehouse at the spot you are working on.
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Oh, dear, I think I will get cold in shorts and bare feet.
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just sing a few lines of “walkin in a winter wonderland” and you will get colder.
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Tell you what.
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Fixed (?)
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I was thinking more like this:
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I was thinking of that in terms of ‘do you have a sister?’.
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You can’t go wrong with the Avett Brothers.
Not really at all.
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Wish the bossman could see this, and understand.
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the album cover logo looks like an attempt at Starbucks….
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One more.
Great band. Two people.
Best with 5-way and a subwoofer.
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Anyone here seen my wife?
She doesn’t know she’s my wife, yet.
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she plays the harpsichord also…..
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Dear Lord. My eyes.
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Yeah, ’round here that’s called ‘stalking’.
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Any of you hear about this little ditty that sailed through the Senate recently? Under the guise of battling Russian “propaganda”. Coming to your favorite websites soon. 👿
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-10/senate-quietly-passes-countering-disinformation-and-propaganda-act
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Sloooooly the screws turn, more reverse threads on the way. Preventing truth from being freely published is a bipartisan effort. Watch them start taking down sites that promote things like shooting, hunting, reloading and other sports that don’t have us visiting public venues selling overpriced refreshments.
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They’re not even edible.
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One more, a concert. Bobby and Chick Corea.
It’s not all improv. It’s all genius.
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Bobby. Blame him.
Last one today, I promise.
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This is pure musical genius.
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By 7:46, you’ll begin to get it. Genius.
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😀 One ‘a my fav-or-ite Roy Orbison ripoffs.
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What happened to day six of weird xmas gifts? what about the Six geese a laying?
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I was wondering… I just finished my wonderful Christmas craft project, a stable for a nativity.. Now there is no thread…..
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Despite a heavy dose of out-of-state money and volunteers Foster Campbell just conceded the Federal Senate seat election to Republican John Kennedy. This puts the nail in the Congressional coffin for any Rat attempts to block Trump. Campbell’s now on TV whining about how the people picked a Republican candidate over his leftist-progressive agenda. We’re talking probsbly fewer than 700,000 votes cast total with some 65% going to Kennedy. Cold weather, Rat parasites couldn’t even rally to save their own free lunch giveaway entitlement programs.
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Woo hoo! I
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Breathtaking!
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