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Made it through Monday. Perry may be Energy Sec. T-Rex for State. Could be quite a week indeed. Coffee up y’all, and let’s see what drops today. 😀
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At least they aren’t ugly Christmas sweaters:
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Nice and cozy, fits ’em to a tea.
Hey, told ya, I’m burnin’ download.
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Don’t sweat(er) it, czar.
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Ya make it sound like I’m knit picking.
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Another purl of wisdom.
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Doesn’t decrease my appreciation of a good yarn.
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I need to cast off now.
Good night, all–happy Tuesday!
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Gonna slip off to bed myself after I try and selvage what I can outta this, seams weave about exhausted the thread.
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Trying to expand the theme like that may cause a tear in the fabric of the universe.
(Ahem) Just needling you, czar.
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{snort} You two are something else. LOL
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You two sound like a couple of old knitters.
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Tex, good coffee………27*, wind SSW-5, overcast, broken and scattered at 5k……….
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No weather here. Just sun.
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7° here Col. 😦
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Just because we can. 😆
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Damm straight!!!!!
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Snow relocated, earlier.
Time for another log on the fire…
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Also, time for a refill.
Have plenty; help yourself.
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A little midnight snack…
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Not enough bacon. In fact, there’s no bacon at all. Harumph.
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I love bacon as much as anyone, but never expect it to be on the dessert trolley.
It comes before AND after dessert.
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Bacon crusted maple doughnuts. Just sayin’.
🙂
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They have their OWN trolley.
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Bring light to a dark place.
Offer a tray of bacon treats. 😉
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ZM!!! Where, where, where are these doughnuts sold?????? Always good seeing you ZM!
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Here’s a hole lotta flavor.
Just need to find the
rest of the doughnut. 😉
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Looks DELICIOUS!
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And ‘as’: http://www.food.com/recipe/bacon-maple-ice-cream-359986
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well…just don’t be puttin any cookies on the bacon trolley then…..jes sayin’
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Oh ye of little faith.
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https://mcphee.com/products/bacon-candy-canes
I saw these at the local grocery store the other day and thought you might find them… interesting, they can never match bacon topped donuts though! 😉
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I don’t like candy canes at all — every as I kid I hated that sharp peppermint taste and the mess and sticky fingers from eating candy canes. I do decorate our Christmas tree with candy canes wrapped) — looks festive!
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Well, these have zero peppermint and 100% bacon flavor… still sticky though! There’s a site called baconfreak.com that I found when looking for these and they have some very intriguing items. The maple bacon jerky sounded good.
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We sell bacon jerky at Bass Pro. It’s good but the maple ham jerky is the best.
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That sounds really good! I love that store! That would be such a fun place to work. When ours opened I considered applying, but I love what I do. I can spend hours there.
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Maple beef jerky. Mmmmmmm.
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Maple beef jerky sounds like a Bernie Sanders give away thing…Vermont and NH and all those maple trees….
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Bwahahaha! 🙂
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Impeach well done…… wood rack is filled, fires banked, coffee’s hot, and I’m ready for the day……. thought I heard revile……
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Reveille’s over, we’re outside in formation now:
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However revile is still the order of the day for those of us who hate Hillary’s guts.
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Today is December 13th, St. Lucy’s Day (Santa Lucia of Syracuse, Italy). Patron Saint of Sweden. Lovely celebration in Sweden, bringing light to dark places. St. Lucy is also patron saint of those with eye ailments.
More about St. Lucy’s Day:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy%27s_Day
Santa Lucia for Dummies:
Gorgeous harmony in the classic Santa Lucia song, set to a tune from Naples, Italy:
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Hey Hillary! We’ve found you a saint to work on your eye problem: Matthew 7:3
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Hillary’s a Haint…don’t need no Saint….
She got more “nays” than “eyes”….
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Haint disagreein’ witcha, just ghosta showya how many folks hatevher.
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picture of Russian peasant carrying seeds in a ha’ tevher…
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Uhhhh..sow?
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When my great-aunt was born it was obvious she had eye problems. She was consecrated to Saint Lucy and named Lucille. This is how I came to know about St. Lucy.
When we were on vacation in Sicily (in spring it is among the most gorgeous places to visit), we visited the catacombs of Syracuse as well as the church that houses her relics. Considering her importance to Sicilians and Scandinavians alike, the church is surprisingly not as well maintained as other sites.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/05/07/st_roch_chapel_in_new_orleans_is_filled_with_prosthetic_legs_false_teeth.html
Great/neat place to visit, just don’t go unarmed (pun NOT intended) or alone.
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Thank you ZM…..
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Gotta get movin’ here, my WiFi plan dumps my remaining download capacity in 28 minutes and bills my Visa for the next 30 days usage. Gonna go cruise the Slobovian cooking channel to see what’s new with marmot and cabbage.
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Stella, have you shown that view ^^^ before–but NOT taken in the winter?
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Not answering for Stella, Have seen this before….still fantastic…..
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Not that I know of, Mary, but anything’s possible!
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copied from the internet:
my great grandmother perfected a dish that made use of a common pest abundant on her eastern Montana homestead, and like the capybara, it is a member of the rodent family. Of course, I am referring to the marmot, or whistle pig as Granny called them. This recipe is probably the root of a family tradition—never waste beer, ammo, or something potentially edible.
What You’ll Need
1 marmot (the bigger the better) skinned, quartered, and deboned
2 1/2 cans grain beer
2 cups buttermilk
1/2 cup water
4 large garlic cloves, pressed
1 large onion, chopped
2 large potatoes, cubed
3 large carrots, chopped
6-8 mushrooms, whole
2 strips bacon, chopped
1 tbsp. Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce
Preparation
In a large bowl or marinating pan, combine the buttermilk, one can of beer, and two cloves of garlic. Soak the marmot meat in this mixture. Overnight is recommended, but soaking the meat for a couple of hours will suffice. In a large skillet, cook the chopped bacon until lightly crisped. Using a slotted spoon, remove the bacon and set aside, leaving the drippings in the pan. With the skillet on low heat, add a portion of onions, a pinch of garlic, and the Worcestershire sauce. Once the mixture is aromatic, add the meat and brown lightly on both sides. Once the meat is browned, add the contents of the skillet, one-and-a-half cans of beer, the bacon, and the rest of the ingredients to a slow cooker. Set the cooker on low and stir periodically. Once the potatoes and carrots are cooked through, the meal is ready.
Tips & Tricks
Depending upon how the marmot was procured, it might be important to remove any bullet fragments from the flesh. Use only the larger cuts of meat; forgo rib and head sections as they’re not worth the trouble. Feel free to get creative with the marinade, as marmot can be a touch stringy. Buttermilk really works wonders as a tenderizer, and teriyaki, sweet chili sauce, maple syrup, or a host of other things may be added according to one’s tastes. If you’re feeling especially gourmand-ish, drain the stew liquid into a separate bowl and add seasoned flour to turn out some unique gravy, then serve the whole mess over a bed of rice. This recipe also works wonders with rabbit, game birds, and even neck roasts from larger game. Keep it simple, and when your guests ask what kind of meat you used, tell them it’s whistle pig. They’ll just assume it’s some sort of pork. Bon appétit.
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A related strange eats story – In Michigan, Catholics are allowed to eat muskrat as an alternative to fish during Lent.
http://catholicreview.org/article/life/muskrat-love-a-lenten-friday-delight
The custom of eating muskrat on Ash Wednesday and Fridays in Lent apparently goes back to the early 1800s, the time of Father Gabriel Richard, an early missionary in Michigan whose flock included French-Canadian trappers. Legend has it that because trappers and their families were going hungry not eating flesh during Lent, he allowed them to eat muskrat, with the reasoning that the mammal lives in the water.
The story varies on just where in Michigan the dispensation extends. Among areas mentioned are along the Raisin River, along the Rouge River, both of which flow into Lake Erie south of Detroit, Monroe County in the southeast corner of Michigan, or all of southeast Michigan.
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When I was a kid, our neighbor trapped them. I don’t think they ate them, though, and just kept the skins. They may have fed them to their pigs.
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“I am referring to the marmot, or whistle pig as Granny called them.”
feeding “whistle pigs” to pigs for food sounds like a form of cannibalism, and that’s not whistling “Dixie”
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I was referring to muskrats.
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misunderstood. my bad…rats are not pigs…fur shur…
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The Yup’ik Eskimo people eat muskrat, as well as beaver and porcupine. I haven’t tried the ‘rat, but beaver and porky are both pretty good.
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You eat what you have, I guess!
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Exactly. If you are scratching to find enough calories, it doesn’t much matter whether you like the taste.
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Sitting down bored, waiting for the dog to come back in – watching movie with The Rock in it. Can’t understand why he never won an Oscar…
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i would gladly vote for your dog to win an Oscar….
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Three ladies wouldn’t even come close to a nomination but my male’s got a leg up on it.
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that’s quite a hike.
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Naw, he’s a hoser https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iTRrP71zDgg
And another double entendre carefully sidestepped
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you got your dog in Indiana?
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Yes, he does…
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Encore, encore…
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See my gravitar? Zauber lying in front of a huge bonfire with a ‘McCain for President’ sign on it. He opted for a more direct message.
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Theme (VERY semi) association:
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Urine rare form tonite.
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Will gladly accept all plugs.
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Water you suggesting?
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Easy peasy…
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Didn’t do squat for me.
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political piddle
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Drive-by–Procurement as appeasement:
Pimping Out the Rhinemaidens to the Culture-Enrichers
http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/12/pimping-out-the-rhinemaidens-to-the-culture-enrichers/
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This is discussing, and sad, within a generation the German culture of old will be wiped out. I do remember after the wall came down, East Germans moved almost entirely into W.Germany. Then the crap hit the fan, most of these recent arrivals wanted their handouts, lived like pigs, and practiced other non German ways. You could see the culture dip, dirty streets, begging on the streets, dope use…..Now with this garbage all Heck with break loose……..
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Borders. Language. Culture.
Lose any one of these, and you lose your nation.
Most EU nations have lost all three.
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They’re new, exotic and exciting…not to mention forbidden in a way. They’ll discover just how schnitzeled they are in good order.
As I’ve mentioned before I blame it on der wussyfication of Germany by testosterone-lite prog social engineers who, post-WWII, felt the future to a war-free Europe was the destruction of nationalism and especially nationalist patriotism in Germany.
NATO, the EU, all attempts by Euronuchs to create Sergeant Pepperland where previously there was a group of endlessl warring tribes. Seems they may be succeeding beyond their wildest dreams…in Germany at least.
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Dems and RINOs are the lowest of the low.
They only understand hate and hurt.
They never do anything good for society.
They lie and defraud to enrich themselves.
Hillary supporters unable to list one achievement.
Vietnam and the 2016 election are examples.
Hopefully, January 20, 2017 secures their demise.
View this video and let it sink in. They did this.
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Don’t wear my old ‘Nam, or anything else Military Related! You mess with me snowflake, I’ll put a Colt under your nose and give you about 5 seconds to repent………..
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Two examples…
McConnell and Ryan Back Russia Inquiries,
Raising Potential Clash With Trump
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mcconnell-and-ryan-back-russia-inquiries-raising-potential-clash-with-trump/ar-AAlu2L9?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
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Another example…
Trump warns Electoral College
lawsuit could undermine his election
By Kyle Cheney
12/12/16 01:50 PM EST
The filing is the first evidence that Trump and his campaign are paying close attention to the legal efforts supporting the longshot bid to stop him from taking office. Baca and Nemanich are leaders in a group called “Hamilton Electors” that is working to convince dozens of Republican electors around the country to unite behind a mainstream GOP alternative to Trump. So far, nine Democratic electors have endorsed the effort and one Republican – Chris Suprun of Texas – has signaled support as well.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-electoral-college-lawsuit-232515
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Yes, this and your other post yesterday when Congress convenes to count the votes of the Electoral College. 5 U.S.C., if this happens the election for President goes into the House, Then each state delegation has 1 vote.
Keep your powder dry, it may be a target rich environment soon……..
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The Rat electors will be Rat electors and that RINO elector will probably see his career in politics, if not the private life, take a dive. Trump Republicans will not forget those who bolt and it’s safe bet that RINOs, in the long run, won’t trust them either – if they knifed their charges once…
The National Archivist has weighed in saying this isn’t the first hotly contested Electoral College contest but 99% of past electors have voted true, and as they have to account for their votes they aren’t as likley to jump dhip. This is the second time in less thst twenty years we’ve had a contested election andvit’s starting to look like this will be the norm until the balance of parasite versus democratic voters is resolved.
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Impeach, this guy IS right on the money……….. and may Ted Kennedy burn in H$LL…..
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Can’t and don’t need to watch it…watched the Rats surrender to the North Vietnamese, taking actions to ensure that whatever gains we made were blunted and offset by Rat engineered losses.
Watched them sacrifice the US POWs in the North just as they did the US POWs in WWII and Korea. Now, some 70 years down the road with thecremaining eyewitnesses dieing off to almost nothing, they are reengineering the stories of WWII and Korea. Let’s see how the veterans of Iraq and Afghanista take to their squandering their sacrifices and reengineering their stories.
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Understand your thoughts.
This was not what I expected,
given today’s PC world of BS.
Credits troops with victory,
acknowledged by north, and
credits Dem congress with loss.
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To me, too little, too late.
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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! 🙂
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Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
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Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
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Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
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Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
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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!
Doughnuts for coffee!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Hi lovely! Feeling any better?
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. Yes Sand&Sea much better so well in fact I need to get some more stuff done 🙂 Thanks for asking.
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I’m happy for you! You’ll get it done! I had great success finding very unique and affordable gifts at 1/2 Price Books last weekend. I love shopping there, but I kind of forget about it, it’s a great resource. Anyway… glad you’re on the mend!
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Actually I’ll be going to 1/2 Price Books tomorrow 🙂 . Fave Tea is in the same strip mall and I’m getting tea for a few people and there is never a reason not to give books!
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Very fun!!! 😊
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Morning Lovely, lovely morning!
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Morning Derk 🙂 It is a lovely 7° here 😦 Sun is shinning though. Tomorrow we are not supposed to get above zero.
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Morning Nyet! Looks yummy. No doughnuts for me today, though. I’ll take the eggs.
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thinking of Easter….and eggs…
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Just finished our second brunch with the microwave egg poachers recommended here a while back, they work just super. Refrigerator to mouth for two in less than 10 minutes total, includes English muffins, poached eggs and Canadian bacon, all eaten in our special breakfast canook…
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Elegance in simplicity.
Mine worked well, all
things considered =
not a chef, all thumbs.
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Roger that, there are some days you just want something to eat.
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I am getting them for Christmas. I ordered them and gave them to Dh saying that they would make a fine stocking stuffer for me.
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I’m very happy with how well thrybwork, even been playing with cooking time to adjust yolk runniness.
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Did you fork yolk
before nuking?
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OK, Nyet, I can hear you snickering in the background. I poke the yolk with a wooden toothpick, right thru. Doen’t make ’em leak and if you don’t get a good puncture you’ll be treated to the sound of exploding eggs. They still eat well, just a bit visually off.
They call for 1/2 tsp of water in each egg compartment. I found 1/2 a bit much but start there and scale back by drops if you want a firmer egg. You have to work at ruining an egg in this thing, don’t let it cow you.
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Udder glee, here, too.
Popped 4 slices in toaster,
nuked two jumbo eggs for
for about 1 minute. Enjoyed
with grape jam on two slices.
Fast, simple and yummy. 😉
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you sold me….just ordered one of these from Amazon…shipping was 2 dollars…I can’t drive to the store to buy one that cheap….and watched a video about how to do it…said to prick the eggs before microwaving with a fork to keep from exploding, and to add 1 tablespoon of water on top of each egg to make the cooking even…and the dude goes in the dishwasher when done…..wow….great plan for a breakfast.
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Roger that…might wanna check that water amount, more like 1/2 teaspoon.
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Thank you Nyet! Good morning!
Morning all!
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Morning Sand!
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Morning derk!
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Morning Nyet,
Patties!
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Those eggs look really good. Thanks, Nyet. Morning everyone. 🙂
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racism displayed in the donut/sweetroll tray…..OMG….a powdered sugar donut surrounded by “others”
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To my own shame I often enough look at humanity and think to myself, “What the hell was God doing”? Then some small light penetrates and I am reminded that He knows what He is doing and that it is of little to no importance whether or not I understand.
Psalm 46:10 Be still and know that I am God….
What a beautiful world it is, in-between the cracks.
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So, just to prove how far the indoctrination goes, here is a question that was in my college text book (paraphrased):
“You are in charge of community corrections and you must make an appointment of someone to the head a particular department. There are two men up for the position. One is black, has fifteen years of service, and gets good scores on his continuing education tests that are given by the state. The other is white, has twenty years of service, and scores near the top of the exams. A retiring judge tells you she thinks the black man should be appointed because most of the neighborhood this department would be working with is black, and so he is her recommendation. Who would you pick and why?”
I’m glad we didn’t actually have to answer this one, because being PC isn’t my style and I would have probably written a rant about MLK and judging people on character and qualifications not skin color (and probably would have thrown in something about the soft bigotry of low expectations while I was at it, too.) This pandering nonsense is getting out of hand.
But what do you all think?
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“You are in charge of community corrections…”
BHAHAHAHA The fools hired me!
“…and you must make an appointment of someone to the head a particular department. “
Family obviously. Looser nephew on the wife’s side probably.
“There are two men up for the position.
Yeah, yeah. Nether one are the wife’s nephew, but you have to make it look like there is a chance. I wonder if I can claim overtime for interviewing these shmucks…..
“One is black, has fifteen years of service, and gets good scores on his continuing education tests that are given by the state.”
Obviously someone else’s nephew. Nobody scores that well on the test.
“The other is white, has twenty years of service, and scores near the top of the exams.”
Isn’t this the same guy that was found to only show up for two hours before leaving to play golf the rest of the day?
“A retiring judge tells you she thinks the black man should be appointed because most of the neighborhood this department would be working with is black, and so he is her recommendation.”
Oops. I guess we know who’s nephew it is.
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First…define “community corrections” in terms of objectives, goals, and measurement.
Second…define what “years of service” actually MEANS in terms of competency, accomplishment, successful vision, wisdom, universal maturity, communications skills…or merely TIME IN PLACE.
Third…decide not to hire anyone and let the Community Correct itself on its own.
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Lemme see….once again the local press is looking at the numbers of shootings in New Orleans, wailing about how they are higher than they’ve been in years. As they go on about ‘guuuunnnnn violennnnnccceeeeeee’, mothers of dead thugs cry about how there ‘be too many gunses on the street’ and the talking heads show maps of where the clustered incidences of ‘guuuuunnnnn vilennnnccceeee’ occured the modt outstanding feature is…….thry are overwhelmingly in the same majority black areas of town they’ve been centered in for the 30 years we were there.
Dozens of ‘community healing’ programs have been instituted over those 30 years and the results….bupkis. And it’s never the fault of community geing serviced, it’s always the fault of outside influences, frequently blamed on some commission/omission on the oart of those being bled to pay for the programs.
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I guess the solution is to provide MORE guns into that area of town, and open multiple outpatient Planned Parenthood Clinics next to the liquor stores….heck, we tried public school education, missionary events, outright welfare money payment, big brother programs, just say no to drugs programs, scientology, and zoroastrianism….just wall it all off and check back in a few years….keep the MSM out.
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There’s a wall I could get behind.
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Nyet, thank you for treating that scenario with all the gravity it deserved.
I laughed until I had tears in my eyes. 😄
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Spot-on, Nyet.
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You do what we did in the Fed and local government – hire the PC one that makes your ‘numbers’ look good and tell the competent ones that their job is to make the PC ones look good.
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I agree with you, because, if they put a black in to deal with the blacks, then at some point all whites would be blocked in those jobs. AND,,,,,,,,,,,,, it is segregation again.
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When I hear black academics demanding their own dormitories at colleges, I want to ask them when they’d like their own drinking fountains installed.
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Where; not when. 😉
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Good one!
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right…and no one eats at a Woolworth Lunch counter anymore anyway….all KFC takeout stuff….funny how the push was to OPEN the public schools to integration, and now the highest truancy non attendance rates are the minorities in integrated public schools….
leading horses to water…..and they really wanted purple drank.
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My answer?
Our current president was raised by his white grandparents and he is considered black so if you think that race riots, ambushing and murdering police officers, becoming the godfather of ISIS, 20 trillion dollars in national debt, embracing and encouraging illegal Mexican thugs who kill rape and maim innocent Americans, spitting on our veterans, empowering Sharia Law proponents and bringing migrants to American who openly state it is their will to kill us all, then you should put whitey in charge of the black folks.
Answers like this make sociology teachers lose their lunch. Always throw a ball at them that is not hittable.
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As someone with a degree in Sociology I can answer that…’your accusations are RACIST!’. Case closed.
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What accusations? Just the facts sir 🙂
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Facts, schmacts, we’re talking Sociology here. If I wanted to deal with facts I’d have majored in a hard science.
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Like Global Warming? 😎 Ain’t no one in academia got time for facts.
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Sociologists don’t deal with global warming, just the injuries inflicted upon the oppressed peoples of color by capitalist/materialist Eurodescendants whose greed created it.
Yup, some 50 years out and I still gots it.
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Making Global Warming Sociology friendly.
1) The Sun is racist it can alter white people’s skin to look more like people of color’s skin. (Apparently Sean King has not learned this trick 🙄).
2) Snow is white and therefore racist.
The conundrum global warming is killing polar bears and polar bears are white so maybe global warming is good.
Write a 5 page essay on the pros (death of whites) and the cons (people of color die along with white people) of global warming.
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See, you’re getting the hang of it…now on to the 200-level courses.
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yeahhhhhh….like Economics…..
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The sad part of it is that this wasn’t sociology class, it was Criminal Corrections class.
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They are all sociology classes now regardless of the title. Every class is about social engineering.
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Who do you think comes up with most of the criminal-related programs? I always thought of those who went to social work from sociology as those who couldn’t pass the math classes in sociology. Social work department also had softy beanbag chairs in the classes vice desks.
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“Who do you think comes up with most of the criminal-related programs?”
You know, that explains a lot.
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And they mostly live in suburban, gated communities with guard towers and moats.
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they used to ride pink bicycles with flower baskets on the front too….
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Wouldn’t be surprised if many of them still did.
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Make like a golfer;
always aim for the cup. 😉
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Megyn says either cup is great.
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Mornin’ kids!
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That is so awesome! He must be watching me now…. I need pants.
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Pants are good. Mornin’ B!
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In some of the “married” “households” today thanks to liberals….the only thing with “pants” is what the dog does after chasing squirrels…..
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I got pants under my pants right now. It’s cold!!!
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Semper ubi sub ubi
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Morning Miss Wee, I want one.
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“Please, sir. I would like Samoa”
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Mornin’ Derk!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Meh. I don’t care. 😀
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Me, either. Mornin’ Menage!
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Hiya Wee!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
Well then let’s make the drinking merry !
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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I get the eye when a laugh is needed. 😉
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Evenin’ Peach!
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Evening Ms.WeeWeed
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Evening Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!! Thought I would take the evening off. Started snowing, snowing, snowing and still snowing!!!!! Looks to be about 4″ of the wet heavy variety. After supper, firing up the tractor, and plowing……. hopefully I’m done by midnight…..are you healing okay? And if your skies are clear, full moon, with Gemini meteor shower tonight.
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I’m well, Colonel Sir! Be able to resume target practice in 3 weeks. I’ll go look for the Gemini shower inna minute…. evenin’!!
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Morning Stella, Stellers and Stellettes,
Great photo, stunning. A flame still burns, and winter is on its way. “Colonel!, ‘Peach!”
My, times do change now, don’t they?
Have a great day out there, doing what you do!
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feminists are the Plantar’s Warts on the Feet of Humanity.
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Don’t know who made her sign;
but she really needs to read it.
Needs to let it sink into her mind.
The unimaginable is now reality.
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Doris Day!!!!
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WSJ: An Electoral College Coup
FTA: What should really distress Americans is that the losers are trying to overturn the election results based on little more than anonymous leaks and innuendo. Whatever Russia’s hacking motives, there is no evidence that the emails it turned up were decisive to the election result. Mr. Podesta is citing a CIA judgment that Americans have never seen and whose findings are vaguely public only because one or more unidentified officials chose to relate them to a few reporters last week.
Much of the press is reporting these as the gospel truth, though it isn’t clear that the CIA’s judgment is even shared across the intelligence community. The FBI doesn’t share the CIA’s confidence about Russia’s hacking motive, and our sources say the evidence is thin for the CIA’s conclusion.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/an-electoral-college-coup-1481590179?mod=djemMER
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On election day someone told me that Russia had hacked the election. I replied that that was great, this would be the safest election ever as far as not having voter fraud.
I don’t know why I said that. Probably because I was sick of the election back in September.
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Emails hacked, Americans saw how the sausage was being made, decided to go vegan. Simple as that.
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Even the WSJ is parroting the lie, while sagely rubbing it’s chin-whiskers — pretending to be above it all — when they say:
Whatever Russia’s hacking motives…
There WAS NO HACKING. It was a LEAK. As in: wikiLEAKS.
Someone inside the DNC got hold of Hillary’s and Podesta’s e-mails, because her private, illegal server was less secure than G-mail, and probably 100 people had her username and password, and gave the dump to Assange.
All that happened comes back to Pizzagate, which is funny, I guess.
Go to Google Trends. Type in “fake news”. Then compare with the timeline for another search, “comet ping pong”.
“Fake News” is a bigger term in the public lexicon, is a household word, even more than the term “alt-right”. It’s like they went into panic mode with this.
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The people who are the direct descendants of the Frankfort School in the 19-teens are now blaming Russia, and invoking the Red Scare.
It’s all so messed up.
Isaac Azimov could never have written this.
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Quick, let’s start the rumor that Podesta did the leak as he saw Hillary was going to lose and saw this as a desperate hail-mary shot at pulling a Hillary win outta the can!
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You know, the rumor a couple of months ago was that the leaker was that DNC guy who was murdered.
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Well, the murdered part lends credence.
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Seth Rich?
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Yeah, him. I’ve heard/read that over and over, right up to yesterday.
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Wikileaks has offered a $20,000.00 reward for information leading to the arrest of Seth’s murderer. Seems to me that is significant.
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https://twitter.com/TEN_GOP/status/808372041682452480
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Donald Trump Picks Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry as Energy Secretary
http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-picks-former-texas-gov-rick-perry-as-energy-secretary-1481641430
Dec. 13, 2016 10:03 a.m. ET
President-elect Donald Trump has picked former Texas Gov. Rick Perry as his energy secretary, transition officials said Tuesday.
Mr. Perry was a former rival to Mr. Trump in the Republican primary and once advocated for eliminating the agency he has now been tapped to lead.
(More to come.)
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Rumor has it that upon reporting for duty in his new job at the Energy Commission, that forgetful Rick will have to ask the name of the job that he is reporting to do and where is it located.
He will remember however the scores of the UT vs Texas Tech games for 1976 and beyond.
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Gorgeous photo, Stella.
I thought: That’s where I want to be right now.
Then I thought, it already is. Just replace all the trees with downtown buildings.
I just need to find a way to make my apartment windows look like those in a Kinkade painting.
Maybe I’ll get a fake fireplace.
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Electric fireplace?
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Probably digital. Raspberry PI, HDMI to a used 50″ HDTV. Nice barnwood mantle and frame. I’ve already got the audio. And the cat. And Impeach’s video above I can loop.
Two space heaters next to it, pretty quiet. I can just pretend they’re wood stove blowers.
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This will tick off a lot of people:
After talking with Trump, Bill Gates likens president-elect to JFK
“A lot of his message has been about … where he sees things not as good as he’d like,” the billionaire Microsoft co-founder said on “Squawk Box.”
“But in the same way President Kennedy talked about the space mission and got the country behind that,” Gates continued, “I think whether it’s education or stopping epidemics … [or] in this energy space, there can be a very upbeat message that [Trump’s] administration [is] going to organize things, get rid of regulatory barriers, and have American leadership through innovation.”
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/13/after-talking-with-trump-bill-gates-likens-president-elect-to-jfk.html
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In other words, “Make America Great Again” wasn’t bulls**t.
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“Hope and Change” was. We got change. And lost hope.
“Stronger Together” was also bulls**t.
Yeah, fascism works, a bundle of sticks doesn’t break like a single stick does.
That’s all true. Too bad your faction is fractious. Dems are all against each other, because all their ideologies are against each others’. Some love gays. Some throw them from rooftops and shoot up their bars. Some love big government and corporations and some like to Occupy Wall Street, poop on cop cars, and throw bricks through buildings. Some hate war, some ignore it, but go to the protests anyway, just to display their inflated scrota.
That last one is as true as the rest. I won’t link the picture.
Zombie was brave to take the picture. Strong stomach.
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Sounds like Rat inclusiveness and diversity still needs some fine tuning.
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It is wonderful that the Progs can’t do fascism. They will never be a bundle of sticks tied together, unbreakable. Because they all hate each other, and put themselves into Identity Boxes.
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Oh yeah, can’t wait until the first DNC meeting where the plurality black, Latino, Moslem and suddenly-aware-of-the-pickle-they’re-in white enablers come nose-to-nose over their agendas.
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Then again maybe Gates sees a ‘what’s in it for me’ opportunity. Never can be too geeky or too rich…
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I agree. If it ticks off some people at the same time, so much the better.
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Gates is just making sure he’s protecting his interests no matter who’s in charge now or in the future.
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A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience.
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Nobody wants to be “that guy” drug out in the street at night to be killed for stealing everyone’s fair share. He wants people to remember the billion USD invested in the Serengeti portable flush toilet invention effort.
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And not for the fact that his personal residences cost more than all the aid to the Serengeti residents over the last ten years.
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says the main money behind Common Core Education….yeah, sure BillyBoy
MAGA is not Microsoft And Gates Arrived
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Sen McCain is leading the Rat charge in trashing Trump’s choice of Tillerson ad SecState. I can understand McCain’s unease, if Tillerson works out a deal with Vietnam to hit those huge offshore VN oil fields the US drillers might just stumble across where they VNese dumped those POWs the government sold out.
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Did McLame ever pay for that plane he lost, or was he court marshal for causing that accident on the carrier…..
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Not the plane, not any associated damages, not the few thousand POWs he was in on damaging…when you’re a Senator all sorta things are forgiven.
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I wish Trump would troll the MSM, Paul Ryan, McCain, Clintonistas, Reid, et al and tell them that he has decided on the Red Russian Army Choir as Inaugural entrainment.
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Thst sort of a possibility has to be Putin perspective.
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Ok then the Leningrad Cowboys?
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RESET……lol
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Rumor is that Anthony Weiner’s being nominated for the ”Pullitsir’ prize in selfies.
Heyheyhey, don’t kill the mesenger, it’s probably just a piece of false news anyway.
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To be awarded July 14;
or 21, or 24 and will be
National Hot Dog Day. 😉
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Not enough eye bleach
for a weiner selfie with all
the optional accouterments.
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Making of a Masterpiece.
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A master piece of ****
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was thinking of a verb, not a noun….evil comment…..
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New Orleans mayor and City Council came together today to photo-op the opening of a new library branch in central Bew Orleans. Unsaid was the city’s functional illiteracy rate that rivals some 3rd world countries. Then again, it provides employment for staff and shifts of deputies who man the metal detectors keep the innercity patrons from killing each other and is a great place for crackheads to find shelter from inclement weather and come down from highs.
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provides computers for the homeless to watch porn on the internet.
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Yeah, definately not fair…we gotta PAY for it!
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Interesting side on the Charleston church shooting. News is saying that GPS investigations have show the shooter was at/around the church months before the shooting. Hmmmmm…who might be saving that GPS location data, unknown by the phones’ owners, for months?
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Every single wireless provider with a tower.
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Let’s not forget the Utah Center with its huge metadata vacuum.
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It’s only a couple hundred petabytes.
Why worry?
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Yo, petabyte dis!
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petabyte YOU if you hurt animals.
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Not if it was peta bred.
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reminds me of the Oklahoma boomer sooner cheer sorta.
“I’m peta borne and peta bred and when I die I’m peta dead
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I think this thread’s about petad out.
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Romney would prefer that you forget.
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Well it works, forgot him till you brought him up.
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Seamus must be remembered. Riding on Car Roof is CanineCruelty.
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Unless the dog preferred it to riding with the crew in the car.
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Speaking of cell towers and things cettain members of the government want you to forget…
Feds have had two programs recently that have each paid at least $2-billion to communications companies to bring internrt yomthe underserved. You may remember my previous rants on the issue.
Sprint has just announced it will give one million wireless devices to the underprivileged at no chargevto bring them into the wireless age. Of course ‘FREE’ is a relative term as I’m willing to bet they’ll end up being deducted from corporate profits meaning we’ll pay for them. There was also no word as to who’ll pay for the air time…think how printers and printer ink works. “Hey kid, wanna try a wireless…first one’s free..”
Now if we could just get them to bring service, don’t even want no free stuff, just reasonably priced setvice, to flyover country. Especially after $2-billion was tossed into the wind.
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I’ve mentioned this before, but the voice part of a call is not actually voice. When you speak with someone on a modern mobile phone, you are hearing a small, poor quality, digital file that was transmitted via wireless modem. It’s data, not an analog audio radio transition.
It’s all stored.
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But I mumble, still recorded?
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Back in the Clinton era the Feds tried to pressure the wireless carriers to record all of their digital traffic. Carriers balked saying it would require massive storage facilities and cost a fortune, gov said to pass the cost on to users and carriers told gov to pound sand.
It took a few years and the grease of 911 paranoia but the Feds got their zettabyte/exabyte/yottabyte data vacuum, and we lost any pretense to privacy.
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Uh Oh!!!
Records: Too many votes in 37% of Detroit’s precincts
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/12/records-many-votes-detroits-precincts/95363314/
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Remember some precincts had over 150% turnout in the 2012 election. Precincts that went 98% for Obama.
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That was Ohio, wasn’t it?
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I don’t recall. (Look at me sounding just like a democrat).
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You have the Belly Laugh of the Day for tis comment, beating out the Czar, who holds the record at 4 days, usually dethroned only by the Wee One. Nicely done.
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I think the armed Black Panthers were standing guard in Pennsylvania in 2008.
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Yes the armed black panthers with broom handles was in Philly……As Eric the Red Holder would say: My people, my people…….
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So I’m having a technical discussion at work about a customer’s perception that our software is running too slowly, and my co-worker says, “nanoseconds” and I hear “manoseconds”, and it all become clear.
I measure time in manoseconds, and my wife measures it in womanoseconds.
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I always go back for seconds….helps keep my body in youthful shape.
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Neighbor whose farm we’ve been taking feral hogs off of has planted a whole field of turnips for deer food. He pulled some yesterday and brough ’em over. Fresh pot o’turnip greens on the burner, turnip root, fresh and peppy smelling, simmering seperately for later addition. Onions, garlic and ham will go in a bit down the road and, on this drizzly and dark evening, fresh corn bread to accompany. Now all I need is to figure out which beer will go with it…..ahhhhhhhhhh.
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Save me a Plate!!!!!!
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Too late for tonite but I’m going back over tomorrow.
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Your neighbor is lucky
to have a deer friend. 😉
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nice!
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And I’m not gonna buck the relationship
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Doe! it wasn’t so fawny.
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my Heavens you brought out my feral slobber face…..I love turnip greens….cooked with ham or bacon, and doused in pepper vinegar sauce…..next to the black eyed peas…and a baked yam…..and maybe a chicken fried steak smothered in cream gravy…and baked cornbread and butter…….ooooolowdymercyme…..take me back to those hills….
My wife’s family was poor folks, unlike my family that had a front porch on our house makin us part of the town elites….and she had to eat a lot of turnips….and cannot abide the smell of turnips cooking….cannot convince her that greens and turnips are only related at the waist level, and above ground is the goods, below ground…well…those white things you feed to the hogs maybe…..glad we wuzzent pore like that…heck we had a washing machine without an outrigger wringer attached…..our clothes lines were elegant too…mu Mother was church people in the Big Thicket area of East Texas….she thought the Gospel song “Bringing in the Sheaves” was actually “Bringing in the Sheets” thinking about closelines….
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We have a clothesline…love it.
My greens were doused with Crystal hot sauce, seems to work better with me than Tabasco, though I did dust them with a sprinkle of Sazon Completa, a leftover from Miami and my go-to salt substitute.
Tomorrow a roast squash doup from the garden with something else I haven’t decided on yet.
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News tonite is all aflutter about an Amtrak/car crash on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain, two in the car were killed. Seems the crossing arms were down, alarms were blaring and a car was already stopped at the arms. The driver of the crash-car went around the stopped car and part way thru the crossing…the onrushing Amtrak train met him halfway.
Now you’d think the buzz would be all about how stupid this dude was in passing a stopped car, going around lowered crossing gate arms outfitted with flashing lights and ringing bells… Oh no, news blab is on ‘how can we make railroad crossings safer’.
Back to Czarina’s credo: You can’t make things foolproof as fools are so damnably persistant.
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Darwin award winner. Too bad he/she took someone along for the trip.
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guns….the problem is too many guns in Nawlins…makes it dangerous around Pontchartrain especially driving one of those pickups with a rebel flag license plate and bumper sticker that says Security Provided by Smith and Wesson….
I am sure the driver had a gun in the vehicle…for sure wasn’t drunk or on a cell phone or engaged in anything other than road superiority testosterone proving race the train stuff.
Heck, that is just what MEN do….
“laissez les bon temps rouler”
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Le Amtrak done rouler right over his ass. I doubt that there was a gun in the car, if there were it would have been another clear-cut case of guuunnnnn viooollllennnncccce.
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my 8th grade math teacher used to proclaim:
“Live and Learn,
Die and forget it all.”
I never much liked math somehow……
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Enjoy life.
It may end
all too abruptly.
https://twitter.com/mattfharris/status/808851508523626497
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Always enjoyed him. Sad.
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I haven’t been around much because I’ve been busy. My daughter a few weeks ago one night started having a lot of back pain and a lot of pressure one night. She went to the hospital and no early labor, but the baby had dropped extremely low. They didn’t put her on complete bedrest but told her to take it easy, no lifting including her son. He’s a mamas boy, so Nanny has stepped in, not that she’s complaining, but a soon to be 2 year old doesn’t understand why mama can’t “pick up,” but he has learned real quick, “Nanny pick up and give to mama!”
At her Dr. appointment last week she was measuring behind, concerning the doctor, worrying the Nanny. She ordered a growth scan, had it today and all is good. Her cervix is showing no signs of her being so low causing her to go into early labor and her estimated due date hasn’t changed and the ultrasound measurement show her to be right on in size.
So now they’ve decided she’s just going to get to be miserable for the next two months unless the little ornery girl decides to move up, which is still a possibility, but if not she gets to experience the constant pressure that will get worse as she gets bigger along with back pain and feeling like the kid is going to fall out at any minute.
To err on the side of caution, no lifting, no exercising, short walks only until she either moves up or it’s closer to delivery time. Oh and her bladder is taking a beating as well, I get told that several times a day. lol
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Prayers for all of you Michelle.
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Thank you lovely. I’m a lot less worried after today. She’s 30 weeks today, so according to them 6 weeks and she’s in the safe zone.
The doctor did say today that some women have had them that low and end up going past their due date.
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Hurray! Sounds like the granddaughter is going to have a million kicks of energy in her after arrival also!
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I’m thinking she’s going to be a handful and will be able to hold her own with big brother.
I think she just might be another thumb sucker, she was asleep today sucking her thumb. Then I guess she got tired of the prodding and woke up and started kicking, punching and squirming.
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I swear my middle one used to put her hands and feet on my spine and then arch her back. My muscle(s) that meet in the center of my stomach ended up separating with that one.
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She’s kicking her in the side and back and either punching or butting her pelvis and bladder.
According to the ultrasound tech today her bottom was pretty much on her lower spine.
They’re all pretty amazed at how low she is.
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I hope all continues to go well for all of you, and I’m saying a prayer for protection of your daughter and her dear little one. She’s lucky to have you for a mom!
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Thank you Stella.
I honestly don’t know how to be anything but a mom, so it’s kind of nice to be cooking and cleaning for kiddos again. lol
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I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing, but in the political world and news world I’ve kind of been a mushroom these past few weeks.
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You haven’t missed a thing.
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Isn’t that a song?
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Hey! Hi!
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Hi! Another song?
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Best thing
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Probably so.
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Sorta like the heebe-geebees I had while small GDIL was carrying twins. She was 110% miserable those last two months, looked as if she were giving birth to a small foreign car. When she delived the twin girls were underweight and she was miserable for a month.
Guess it’s what we’re here for, good luck to you both and get some sleep while you can.
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I have been sleeping at night pretty good. I think my worrying exhausts me.
Tonight I think the dreading the ultrasound and now the relief has me a little wired.
We’re here for it, but I know I’d rather be the one going through it. It’s stressful when you’re worried but do your best to pretend you’re not. Then it kills her when the GS wants to be picked up. Plus she’s an active girl and not being able to do as she pleases is driving her nuts.
On the positive side she’s knitting a lot of cute stuff. I think everyone is going to have lots of hats, socks and scarves. 🙂
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Yeah, and soon the worrying will be over and the lill’ darlin(s) will be puking proto-cheese all over your shirt.
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They keep guaranteeing there is only one little darlin and keep saying she has a HB. It never looks like a HB to me, but whatever they want to call it. lol
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279 posts today…youse guys ain’t got nuttin’ else to do?
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Time to put another log on the fire…
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nope
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290, time to open a second discussion!
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See ‘Wednesday’.
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Got a few going there already, let’s DO THIS!!!!
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Spinnin’ for the ladies of Stella’s Place.
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