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Ah, yes. It’s finally Friday. Heading home to see Mrs. T, and some young’uns in the morning. Coffee up y’all, especially if you have to go to the airport. Any airport, tomorrow, today, or any time in the next few days. 🙄
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Why???
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Blurring the lines twixt cute, kitsch and cloying.
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Two out of three ain’t bad. (Your adjectives, not the component parts of the tea set.)
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Roght…instead of ‘cute’ I should have said ‘disturbing’.
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Bambi…your mother cannot be with you anymore…..man has entered the forest.
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Is there some deeper meaning to the tea and/or cream expelling from the mouths of forest animals?
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Because the other orifice would be just plain, well, gross.???
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Do not get me started on my dislike of mucous products……
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Why, snot relevant?
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Gaaaaaaagggg….
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As Mary might say, it was thematic.
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…and not phlegmatic.
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Sorry, a bit slow on picking that one out.
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You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose.
You can’t pick your friend’s nose.
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WOOLY!!!
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C’mon, humour me.
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But…phlegm is one of the four humors?
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yeech!
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Sometimes these threads just run on…
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Well dagnabbit. Note to self, never serve Wee my special recipe of chicken corn chowder.
OMG, just thought of this. Do ya not like gravy either? 😯
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It’s unAmerican to not like gravy. At least it’s unSouthern…
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I am proud to be an American, but I’ve started having doubts about the Southern part when I was offered deep fried pickles. Ditto gravy. Sorry, Tundra!
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Hey, I’m southern, and I don’t GET the deep fried pickles either. But, I do like gravy. 🙂
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To each his own… How do you feel about chopped herring?
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{gag}
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Exactly.
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I like both pickled and creamed herring.
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I guess you aren’t Southern, Stella.
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My dad was German (his grandpa was a sausage maker), born in Illinois, but he spent part of his formative years in Alabama. He had very eclectic tastes in food, and I inherited some of it.
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Makes your life more interesting.
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fried pickles is NOT Southern in any way…maybe some kind of State Fair food junk….but come on….why waste good hot grease on something that has spent time in vinegar ….
You can’t CRISP a pickle….in grease.
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But traditional pickles were fermented, the old barrel pickle. Hard to find them any more, like you have the devil’s own time finding real sauerkraut, that blasted liability thing. I’ll bet a deep fried fermented pickle would be good, just gotta get the right batter.
Next yer gonna tell me that deep fried butter is yucky.
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I’ve never been to a state fair, and being kosher, I can’t even try food junk. Fried pickles were offered at B.B.King birthday celebration in Memphis, in a restaurant on Beale street. Forgot the name of the restaurant (it was about 30 years ago), and didn’t eat anything there, but I was told that the restaurant specialized in Southern cuisine.
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I can’t do deep fried pickles either, Dolly. Now fried green tomatoes is a whole ‘nother thing! Yum. Gravy and biscuits–double yum.
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I like fried green tomatoes! Both the dish and the movie.
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How can ya’ll not like fried pickles? I love fried pickle chips, almost as much as fried green tomatoes.
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I can’t like fried pickles. I don’t like dill pickles anyway.
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Fry you some bread and butter pickles, they’re pretty darn good as well.
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I really, really hate bread and butter pickles.
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My favorite pickle. I make them every year and can open a jar and eat them for snacks.
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They were my mother’s favorites, but I never liked them.
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… and I like chopped herring. One New Year’s Eve, when my son was in high school, he invited several American friends. I had caviar on the table. They all sniffed at it and declared that it looked “yukky” and smelled fishy. They couldn’t understand why we all loved it.
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Caviar is not something I’ve ever been able to even think about tasting. Not even the fried redneck kind.
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Fried caviar – now, that’s an idea! Thank you for giving my insane kitchen fantasy a push!
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The redneck version comes from fresh water not salt water. lol
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We can deal with that!
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Yes – just can’t abide the raw stuff. Cooked, any of it’s good!
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I just found a recipe for a corn pasta (pasta with a corn and parmesan sauce) that I’m going to make for the boys tomorrow. They aren’t fond of beef roast. More for us.
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Why??? Because…
$70.00 is $70.00 😉
Vintage
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Children’s Tea set…RARE !!!
Any Tea Time for adults. 😉
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Any cups for the kiddie set?
Bring my own, time?
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Okay, d’okay.
Found a cup.
Finally, Tea Time…
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Bleahhh. I’ll save my cash.
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Thanks Tex!!! Glad I’m not waiting in the mile long TSA line, or running down the steps from C to B terminals in Atlanta…….
Hey, coffee’s good…
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If you got downtime you can take the MARTA to Ft McPherson and get a quick fix of neo-military bureaucratese…on second though just stop by the airport bar.
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Czar don’t miss that crap one bit!! The only thing I do miss is the people you work with, for,…….
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In truth, those visits to ARCENT/3rd Army weren’t a high point of my career either.
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I’m avoiding even going in Walmart. YIKES!
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Morning, Aus! I avoid going to Walmart always, not only before the holidays. People push those shopping carts in the same manner they drive on Florida roads; in fact, I feel safer on the road – at least, there are traffic signs!
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Safe travels and Merry Christmas.
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Good morning, Texan, thank you for coffee – it really hit the spot!
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Time for another log on the fire…
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Tea needs a sweet treat..
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Maybe a few more…
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Thanks Impeach!!!! 36*, winds SSW at 8 gusting to 10……rain later…..fire is banked,…..now it’s time for blueberry pancakes……..
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Meanwhile…
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/812195510849179648
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https://twitter.com/flexgirl2/status/812194570117128192
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Back in the EU…
https://twitter.com/alimhaider/status/812130555504496640
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On this side of the pond…
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/812128670554865664
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It’s those Amish!!!!
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Probably the originators of the lie confusing an earlier incident of a Jewish family having to flee their town during the holiday to escape persecution.
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Morning, Czar!
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Off and running!!!!
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Mary: How about Egypt?
Joseph: Good idea, sweetie. I hear Egypt is nice this time of year.
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“And with it being some 700 years before that Mohammad party-pooper shows up, it should be a great holiday season!”
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“Hotel rooms are all booked, though, so we might have to stay in a manger…”
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animals are quieter than hotel guests anyway.
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…but the smell…
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Back to the Dark Ages and blood libel trials…
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As long as they’re not done by Judge Judy…
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Yep
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You ran outta reply space: I find animals at holidays are less ‘messy’ than family. Never yet had a dog or cat get drunk and dredge up some long forgotten slight and have the entire thing devolve into an Irish wake.
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Never been to an Irish wake, but I had a dog who would sneak under the table and pee on the feet of guests he didn’t like. He was too young to drink, though…
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Lot like an Irish wake, with or without the dogs.
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LOL
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I can tell by their names, it is those pesky Amish again.
/s
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We were preparing for this for some years after 911 but it never came…they do things on their schedules, not ours.
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…they do things on their schedules, not ours.
Kinda like God does.
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All considered, I prefer dealing with God.
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Amen. Amen, Amen I wear his sword, carry his sword….and defend and kill only in his name…..
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I believe that God is using them… islam, Progs. etc., on His schedule.
All that matters is how we face the hatred with our love.
God even uses people who hate Him. Much to their marionette-strung chagrin.
Ask a certain Pharoah. I bet 100,000,000 Pepe the Frogs are engraved on his tomb.
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Someone knows; but still anyone’s guess…
https://twitter.com/An0nKn0wledge/status/812193470593073153
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“Some reports are suggesting that it’s debt related,” Syed reported. “There is some interesting connections with the location in regards to one of his friends who lived there 500 meters away from where he was found dead that friend was owed 45,000 Euros by the deceased.”
Then there is the fact that the gun was reportedly found in Chandelon’s non-dominant hand, his right hand, when Chandelon was left-handed.
To make the situation even more bizarre, Chandelon had three separate firearms registered to him, but the gun found in his hand was not registered to him or anyone.
http://wearechange.org/nato-chief-auditor-in-charge-of-counter-terrorism-funding-assassinated/
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Maybe maybe not…..found in the Ardennes in December…….
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Stirring the pot…
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The F-18 H the bumble bee, two seater for the Navy has many issues……I’m sure Boeing can trick out a few. On a side not, #Big D is taking on the establishment head on…..
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I’m thinking Boing Boing is being pressured to lower the rediculous costs. No one else’s 5th generation fighters are running this much and ours shouldn’t either.
Our aircraft development has a pattern: developer submits a winning design, design develops issues after acceptance, more money’s thrown at the already accepted design and so it goes. Years after the initial acceptance there’ll be upgrades and new series that all require the money hose be turned on again.
If Trump can bring our defense contractors into line, have them adopt honest and efficient business practices, we’ll all be in better shape. One AF F-35 price is $148 million, one Marine F-35 is $251 million and one Navy F-35 is $337 million. Each one can be downed by a far, farbless exoensive missile.
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Rats, iPad just ‘sent’ it out of the blue.
Each one can be downed by a far, far less expensive missile. Each is vulnerable on the ground or on a ship. Each one requires an extensive support system to accompany it and Each one requires taxpayer monies to be diverted from other areas. Time to rethink weapons acquisition policies.
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And this Stealth stuff is a bunch of crap, “in looks like a bird, can’t be it’s flying 700 knots..”
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What did you say:” honest and efficient?” I don’t think these words are in their vocabulary. Someone has to teach them the meaning, and I believe Trump is just the right teacher!
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Zactly where I was going.
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We’e going in the same direction, looks like.
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We’re buried in a defense contractor mess, remember that post on Eisenhower’s going-away speech? What we gotta do is dig our way out.
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I hope the new president is carrying a big shovel. It is sorely needed!
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Our President Elect Trump (it gave me pleasure to write it all out 🙂 ) has a really HUGE gold shovel. 🙂
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Yes, I believe I glimpsed it in one of the photos of him in a hard hat. Good for him, and great for all of us!
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I think President Trump is going to introduce Defense Contractors to the concepts of LUMPS in their DEALS……not taking OUT lumps…but putting some IN.
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It’s going to be refreshing to have a President who, instead of playing Obama’s sick game of Brewster’s Trillions (sic) by trying to spend every last dollar, acts like a real businessman, and tries to save our country’s money.
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You know, it just occurred to me that there is a possibility that Trump can reduce the national debt by doing things like this. I mean, congress just assumes things will go on as usual and therefore, the debt will just continue to grow.
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Anis Amri is dead. The faux prophet Mohammed’s imaginary blood thirsty god “Allah” failed the savage of Islam and Anis was gunned down in Italy.
Amen.
Berlin Truck Attack Suspect Killed in Milan
https://www.apnews.com/4eddb1bc8977462597e28f091bd6dfe7
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Good!! Glad other police officers/people were not injured in this take down!!!
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I believe there’s no doubt that there is an established rat line for Moslem terrs in Europe. The various major terr groups know how to set up networks and to have an effective operation you need a developed infrastructure.
I’m feeling the authorities are not discussing their knowledge of the terrs’ ops as they don’t want to alarm the public and the pols are mum because they don’t want to let on how badly they’ve screwed up and how deeply they are buried in this.
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Now let’s think about this…
The various old-school Palestinian/Moslem terr groups have been in the US for decades. At some points in the past the groups here supplied a good bit of the funding for these groups’ Mideast operations, they were that organized.
So, an infrastructure of sorts already existed when newer groups of Moslem terrs came here, and there’s no doubt some coordination and sharing existed/exists. See where I’m going here…?
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We get twice the bang for our bucks?
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The wrong kind of bang, unfortunately. Hello, Menagerie!
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I agree, even though I am frequently being accused of “Russian paranoia”
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They really started milking the US cash cow once the USSR went under and stopped finding their proxies.
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Is that how it was? I wasn’t aware.
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Roger that, Russians financed much ofvthe Palestinian terrorists and used Bloc countries as funding/supplying/training cutouts. Wasn’t unusual for folks apprehending ‘Palestinian’ terrs to find Bloc passports on them.
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Yes, but I somehow missed the connection between that and the defense contractors’ corruption.
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The connection? Uh… The both own goats?
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Goats? No. Asses (i.e. donkeys!), maybe.
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The day is not that far away when the “oppressed” groups are going to tear each other to shreds over which group is the most oppressed.
Minority Students At UC Irvine Fight Over Who Is Most Oppressed
http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/21/minority-students-at-uc-irvine-fight-over-who-is-most-oppressed/#ixzz4Tf8LqN1B
Pass the popcorn.
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Need more popcorn for this event……
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Yes, sir! Already popping…
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No reason, can’t explain why…I just like this.
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The rabbit, the rabbit only.
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The sooner, the better… I’ll make a cake to celebrate. Anyone making drinks?
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I’ll make the drinks 🙂
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Fantastic! Happy Holidays!
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Feliz Naughty Dog!
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But, but, but,
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Mornin’ kids!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!!!! Somebody did not file a flight plan…….
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Mornin’ Colonel Sir!
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Morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Mornin’ Miss Wee. Gettin’ ready to head for the Hillz in a few. Since I haven’t seen my lovely bride for nearly a month, not sure how much time I’ma be hangin’ out, so I might need some backup on teh coffeepot. Merry Christmas all.
BTW, yer folks were spotted by another passing plane a few miles down the road. 😆
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Mornin’ T! Travel safe and a Merry Christmas to the extended Texan fambly!
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Merry Christmas Tex. I hope the quality of time you get with your loved ones, and in your home, will help make up for the lack of quantity.
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Thank you Menage. Things are rarely as we might prefer them, but it’s what we do with what we’ve got, that matters. As the script that I had written saw me as a tall, handsome 2nd baseman for my beloved Cubbies didn’t quite pan out, I’ve attempted to make do with what I’ve got. A few missteps along the way, but I’m happy where I am in life, and with those in my life, both here at home at Rancho el Gordito, and my cyber friends on the interwebz. Merry Christmas to you and yours as well.
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My script involved me being a tall, knockout rocket scientist who jetted around the world solving complex problems in ten minutes then swimming in the pristine oceans or hiking up the tallest mountains.
I kinda miss that dream. Oh, yeah, I was going to have been an astronaut for a trip or two. 😀
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Tex, I don’t try and waste your time talking to you much. I pretty much just sit and listen.
You’re above me, in many ways. Have a safe and merry Christmas.
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WP, I’m not above anyone, and don’t ever think that. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
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Safe traveling, Texan, and Happy Holidays to you and yours!
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Merry Christmas Tex to you and yours!
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Merry Christmas Tex to you and yours be safe……..Enjoy……
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Thank you for the kind words Colonel. A Merry Christmas and a healthy New Year to you and yours, as well.
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😦
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Morning Miss Wee.
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Mornin’ Derk!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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I’ve had more than one ‘Larson Christmas’.
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😀
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Good afternoon, Miss Wee! Russian oligarchs taking flying lessons?
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Afternoon Miss Dolly!
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‘Morning everyone!
Yesterday our neighbors stopped by for some Christmas cheer. I actually made those Macadamia White Chocolate pudding cups. They were awesome. They came out like the best, creamiest ice cream you have ever, ever had. The recipe makes a total of 16, it was really easy to mix up. The leftovers are going to another neighbor who will be having a lot of company for Christmas. Today’s major task is to make DH’s favorite pound cake. It’s all good. 🙂
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Good afternoon, Amwick! Happy Holidays to you and the family!
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Happy Holidays, Chanuka tomorrow, Christmas on the day after… all the best to you and your family.
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Thank you so much! Happy Holidays, many blessings, and best wishes to you and yours!
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Good evening Amwick 🙂
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‘Night!
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Oooooooohh….. we all NEED one ‘a these……
https://twitter.com/comermd/status/811943730399813632
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now just pack that dude in a box full of bacon and it’s good to go.
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Joshua: They don’t actually believe any of that pork-bacon-pig stuff.
They only use it as a form of cultural dominance. As with Jews, they are only prohibited from ingesting pig products, alcohol, etc. If any Muslim tells any employer they are not allowed to touch, or sell bacon, booze, etc… They. Are. Lying.
They just know that most gullible, multi-cultural Westerners haven’t actually studied their rule book, their ahadith, and their fatwas; that we’ll just nod and accept what they say.
In other words, it won’t work. They actually laugh when we say stuff like this, because we’re playing right into their hand. Only eliminating them will work.
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They go further with these lies, and we bow down when they do.
http://toprightnews.com/see-happened-one-muslim-says-offended-sign-mentioning-bacon/
The cowardly restaurant took down a sign mentioning bacon, “out of respect for our diverse community” and out of fear. But mostly out of fear.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2908910/Oxford-University-Press-bans-sausages-pigs-children-s-books-avoid-offending-Jews-Muslims.html
Since most haven’t read their rule books, and are too lazy to do so, we just take every Muslim at their word, except when they say they are killing because Islam tells them to kill. THEN, the West says “No, they don’t really mean that.”
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…so now you are going to tell me that the 72 virgin deal is just a Koranic Myth that they know is not true…but they use to convince stupid kids to blow themselves up??? NO!!!! I can NEVER believe they would outright LIE to their own people….heck….WE NEVER LIE to OUR PEOPLE…..so confusing…..sigh….
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There’s a thing in the book of Revelation.
“Great delusion”.
From what I see, it’s pretty much like rain, in that it falls on everyone.
The Muslims are deluded. The West is deluded.
Precious few are not, as much so.
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As my cousin, a retired army officer, says, ” There are no good bugs. A good bug is a dead bug.”
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YES….I love the great SOUND of a bug crunching under foot early in the morning….like the smell of napalm in the morning…..yes…..death to bugs…..
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I can visualize a cartoon, squashing them…
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I don’t know about that, I’ve had more than one of them call me about goats and want to know if we have pigs or dogs.
Having pigs and dogs and refusing to allow goats to be slaughtered by them on my farm keeps me from being sued by one of them for refusing to allow them anywhere near my farm, much less sell them a goat.
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Ain’t gonna help! They are not supposed to eat it, but they can use it.
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Being condemned by CAIR is the best endorsement.
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Fabulous!
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Good old Karma…
4 Washington state electors to be fined $1,000 for vote
Clinton won the state’s popular vote last month, earning her 12 electoral votes. Under state law, presidential electors — who are chosen by their party at their state convention — sign a pledge to vote for their party’s nominees for president and vice president. But during Monday’s Electoral College vote in Olympia, Clinton got just eight votes, while former Secretary of State Colin Powell got three and Native American tribal elder and activist Faith Spotted Eagle got one vote.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/4-washington-state-electors-to-be-fined-dollar1000-for-vote/ar-BBxtdhv?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=mailsignout
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Michael Moore gonna pony up ‘n pay it??? He said he would, if they didn’t vote for Trump.
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Devil’s in the details…
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Republican Electors
Washington electors were Dems.
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But….but…. they voted their CONSCIENCE!!!!!
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Moore doesn’t recognize conscience…a double Whopper with fries and a shake or loaded fries with extra cheese and a malt, maybe , but conscience, no.
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Dam, Z……. that sounds really good…..
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Glad you recognize that.
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Another word not in their vocabulary. I should start making a list.
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Moore will be breaking the law if he does. I’m thinking that’s called bribery.
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So maybe welching out on his “offer” clears him.
Michael Moore’s pic is under the dictionary definition of “class”.
Just below the antonyms section.
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Nope the intent was there. Big Mike broke the law.
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I’m hoping that Mika Moore gets fined. Legally he should. He offered a bribe, it was unlawful to do so. That or send him to an island to live off the land until he loses 300 pounds 😜
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Only $1000? Shoulda been a bigger fine to deter this behavior.
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What other states do is replace the elector if they refuse to vote as promised.
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Merry Christmas Stella’s Place! Hope everyone has a wonderful and blessed holiday with your friends and loved ones!
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I was among a group of folks this week who all volunteer for various endeavors.
After some scripture reading a question was posed. “How have we “made known the message” of God’s love this Christmas?
You may not mention material goods or your family in your answer.
It was a very interesting discussion.
In the beautiful words of St. Francis “Preach, preach, preach, and when absolutely necessary use words.”
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That St. Francis quote is one of my favorites, and one of my guideposts.
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Me too Wooly 🙂
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Did you know the history of St. Francis and the Nativity?
http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/catholic-contributions/st-francis-and-the-christmas-creche.html
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I did not. Thank you, Menagerie.
May we never forget to see in our hearts the little Babe of Bethlehem, who came to save us from sin. We must never forget that the wood of the manger that held Him so securely would one day give way to the wood of the cross. May we too embrace Him with all of our love as did St. Francis.
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Morning Lovely.
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Morning, Derk.
To answer your question from the other day: no. Rent is paid through February, so I have time and options. Doing a lot of odd jobs for the landlord.
Pray that I answer the door when opportunity knocks.
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Sounds more like you are beating the bushes to drive opportunity out, it will come, but what if it isn’t what you expect it to be? Are you preparing for that?
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Nothing is what I expect it to be, Menagerie. I expect that, because I’m used to that.
My life is full of fear. I was given the courage to leave, at long last.
I wasn’t afraid to stay. I was afraid to leave. To your last question: Yes, God’s been preparing me for that for a long time now.
That being said:
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I surprised myself. I like that song. However, my problem is the opposite. Most of my troubles come from trying to hold on to things I shouldn’t be dragging around behind me.
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I like most of their stuff because it’s mostly positive and loving. (1 John 4.)
I dislike Franti’s politics, but if I based my music likes on politics, I would be quite deprived. He’s got some songs that I want to yell at him for.
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In one of his full-of-“love” songs he says, and I paraphrase, “Why they got to have child soldiers? Why we got to be closin’ borders?”
You answered your second question with your first, Michael!
And yet, God uses idiots sometimes to make good music, too.
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Dude is full of love and talent. He’s just an idiot politically. 1 John 4.
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I like this quote from Downton Abbey:
“All life is a series of problems which we must try and solve. The first one, then the next, and then the next, until at last we die.”
We all fear the unknown. Jump in and conquer it.
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Good advice. Sometimes it takes decades to see the victory, but you will.
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I believe that He never creates a problem without creating a solution first. All we have to do is have faith that the solution is there, keep our eyes open to see it, and have enough common sense to recognize the right one.
Happy Holidays, Wooly! Happy Holidays, Menagerie!
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Happy Holidays t you too Dolly.
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Thank you!:)
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Good morning Derk 🙂
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cooked a pie and let the smell tell the story of love and joy…..
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Sounds perfect 🙂
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Clarke’s tweet reads like a headline from The Onion. Love it!
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“…celebrating the end of a terror.”
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How is he planning to retaliate? Wag his finger at Putin and say, “Naughty, naughty!”?
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Hope you haven’t had b’fast, yet.
Fascinating, disgusting photo-essay:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/unfiltered-photo-series-shows-what-progressive-parenting-looks-like_us_585164cfe4b092f086866e66
This is child abuse, cranked up to eleven.
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Twisted. A child of 9 declaring her lesbianism? Her mother encourages her to use the “F” word?
Well, her parents met in a gay bar. I have questions.
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And they run a day-care.
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No – she says it’s a “child care”.
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They call it whatever so they get payments from the state Welfare pool.
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ping pong pizza child care maybe
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Oh, Jesus.
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You won’t find satisfactory answers from the sound of it.
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Oldest kid’s name is Beezus.
Youngest kid is dancing for a “Shout Your Abortion” festival in one photo.
This one family, this one essay, encapsulates everything wrong with Progs.
I’m surprised HuffPo ran this piece with absolutely no sense of irony.
I’m old enough to remember when this essay and these photos would only have been exposed by Zombie.
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It does boggle the mind how fearlessly clueless they are out here.
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Zombie’s photojournalism during the GWB years was astonishing and revealing, and the people at Huffpo (and the rest of the MSM) HATED this person for exposing their deceptions with just a camera, and an internet.
What was that, back in the LGF heyday?
Man, oh man.
Now, Huffpo is doing Zombie’s job.
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Most likely these people have marched screaming, with children on display, past my window
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The child is brainwashed and doesn’t know what she is nattering about, but I have only one question: why is a nutcase like this so-called “mother” allowed to be an educator?
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Because other nutcases got into positions of authority to approve other nutcases.
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Makes sense – a nutcase sense.
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I was so disgusted that I accidentally x-ed out the site. The girl is obviously brainwashed and has no clue what she is nattering about, but I have only one question, Stella, why is this nutcase allowed to educate children?
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I was thinking the same thing, but she is among those of her own kind, which is pretty frightening.
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Are you saying there are many more of her kind? That IS frightening!
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I am surrounded.
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Haven’t realized that. I thought South Florida was the land of fruits and nuts, albeit adorable and harmless.
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Oh, for the love of … Of course it’s out here! SMH
South Park is a couple of miles South of Downtown Seattle. I love the homeless tattoo hippy lumberjack look. For some reason they want their people easy to identify once they get through college. It’s become a style of the useful idiot liberal. The upper-class liberals hide tattoos since they have to fundraise from people that don’t dress like that.
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My first tattoo will most likely be an assigned number.
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Me and you both. I have two sons who chose to get them. I loathe them, and even after all the years they have had them I can never look at them and not cringe. Yes, my dislike, and I know it, my prejudice, runs that deep.
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Yeah, me too, Menagerie.
Someday I’ll bump into a gal; and we’ll both proclaim our lack of tattoos, and then have to prove it!
A man can dream.
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I agree! So far none of my kids or in laws have been inked.
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Definition of a tattoo….”a permanent reminder of a moment of absolute lack of responsible judgement.”
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That would make a great tattoo.
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My husband and I are old school, our children were not allowed to get tattoos and our boys weren’t allowed any piercings and our daughter was only allowed to get here ears pierced.
My husband always told my boys no matter how old they were if they walked through his door with holes in their ears, he was going to give them a big hole when he ripped the earrings out with pliers and that he would use sandpaper to rid them of the tattoos.
I think it worked to this day my children hate tattoos and piercings.
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Ditto.
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numbers are too outdated. It will be QR codes:
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Among their own they call us mad. That is the sheer depth of their inanity and delusion.
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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)
(RumChata)
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! 🙂 🍸 (Baileys 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’ John Denney 🙂
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!
Christmas Donuts
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Mornin’ B! That strudel thing looks yummy.
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Yummy! Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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ThanksNyet, and a good morning to you.
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Yahoo! As I have to work tonight until the procrastinators go home, I need that.
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I figure that is about $150 worth of fried bacon on that plate.
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You can see that ZM is an expensive date.
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Mmmm, cinnamon! Good afternoon, Nyet! I’ll have a piece of that cake for lunch, thank you!
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Good evening Nyet 🙂
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Nye!!! Evening Everyone!!!!! Is this blueberry strudels????? Nye, Merry Christmas to you and Natasha…….made my day!!!!!
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Thank you, sir!
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Good Morning Stella, all,
Beauty once again, thank you. It is getting close!
Kids came in Wednesday night. Only present I truly need or desire.
One more day of work this year, so off I go.
Have a great day y’all.
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You, as well, Derk.
That photo cracks me up. Now we know why it takes three Union guys to edge.
The guy in front is a tool. Literally!
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3951130/Melbourne-tradesmen-make-perfect-curb.html
[video src="http://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2016/11/29/2302433497684882007/640x360_MP4_2302433497684882007.mp4" /]
Hysterical.. pure genius.. 🙂
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They are Genius.
Reminds me of when I started my own stucco business 30 years ago. Just my brother and myself, money was tight and only could buy limited equipment.
Amazing what one can do with some ingenuity and want to. We joked about it, but should have named the business “2 Plank Plastering”. Oh to be young and agile once again.
So I was thinking maybe these guys are just starting out, doing what needs to be done with what they got, beating out the big boys with all of their fancy equipment and high overhead.
Not only funny to look at, but inspiring as well.
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Thanks, Derk.
Heard.
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Good afternoon, Derk! Enjoy your time with kids, and Happy Holidays to you all!
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explains why the future of labor is going to be ROBOTS not STUPIDS.
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The present of labor, though, is three guys sharing “una colada” while the work will be done “mañana.”
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GASP! My dreams of Number Three, Number Six and Number Eight from Battlestar Gallactica and T-X from Terminator 3….coming true….all I want for Christmas!
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Battlestar Gallactirca!!!! Which number was the Cylon blond???
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NUMBAH WUN, GI!
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Speaking of Cylons and The Atlanta airport, I saw the Cylons all got jobs announcing the trains at Hartsfield-Jackson.
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Good afternoon, Stella and company, Happy Holidays, all!
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Good afternoon, Dolly! Just taking a break from house cleaning, bed making etc.
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Same here…
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Yup. Except instead of beds, I cleaned the fridge out.
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Took my teen shopping…..I survived 🙄
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You rock. I remember those years vividly. 😀
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Difficult years to shop for but I found a very cool vintage clothing shop so all is well in this house 😎
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Hippie???? Or really vintage????
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Vintage with historical costumes too.
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Good evening Dolly 🙂
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One more from Franti’s crew, so apropos:
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Trump’s again sticking a finger in the eye of the Palm Beach elite/establishment, he’s having Tiger Woods play golf with him at his Palm Beach golf course.
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Just a couple of townies
playing with their balls. 😉
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wandering around in the rough and sand.
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Yes.
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Awwwww….tis truly the season of giving. Lacking any partridges in our pear tree the outside cat left us a mockingbird on the doormat. Looks like we have to unwrap it ourselves…
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Awww….James and his heroine…
Uh huh, uh huh?
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I recommend “re-presenting” that dead bird gift
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I meant “re-gifting”… 🙂
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Probably to one of the dogs…same wrapping, little bow perhaps.
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Send it to james taylor.
Spice it up and include
a note, “Tis the Season.”
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No problem, all this bird has is the present…
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Don’t unwrap – regift to your favorite mother-in-law!
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Nope, none left, those birds have flown.
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Aw shucks…
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Well….here it is December 23…so happy Festivus everybody..
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Twitter is abuzz over Festivus too. What am I missing here?
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The Airing of the Grievances?
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Thank you for the info.
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So, where are
the dancers? 😉
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Our neighbor walked by with his dogs. His wife had some kind of surgery this past Wednesday, so we asked about her. He said she was doing fine, but his mother died yesterday. 96, took a fall and there wasn’t much they could do. She has been living with him for a few years. He said that she is in a better place with his dad… sighs Amen.
Count your blessings…
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sympathy for the living…but, for me…being 96 years old after losing my spouse would be terrible….as well as living with my children…..so bless this woman and her victory over life. Sad for those left, but an eternity with peace and love is better.
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It was his mom… a mom has no age. They are planning a funeral instead of celebrating Christmas. I don’t know, I had the strangest urge to make a casserole and bring it over.
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So true! It is always a blow to lose your mother, no matter her age. My mother died at age 91, and she would have been happy to live longer, though not afraid to die.
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It’s also ruined Christmas for him….. for awhile…
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You know, he was sad, I could see that, but, I peaked around the corner, and they had their outdoor lights on. Dh said that it could have been a timer.
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I was 19, in college finals, at Christmas time about to go on break, when my father died of a heart attack. My mother was left alone, both of her sons were about to be adults, but had left home….there was no Christmas that year….my heart was broken…he was 57 years old….I am 75 now….I still miss my father….and also my mother who did not live much longer than my father either. Christmas is when a lot of people pass away for some reason….Did not mean my comment disrespectful in any manner….but missing a LONG time partner and friend that you had kids with is just HARD…and lonely.
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I am sorry about your parents, even if it was long ago. I miss my mother this time of year, I suppose that is pretty common. You are spot on about Christmas, heart attacks are very common. hmmmm
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And strokes, Czarina’s hospital dance card is rather full this time of year.
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What??? Is she in the hospital???
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Only as a therapist.
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Thank God. Hey – can I request her ahead of time??
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God bless you, brother.
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I’m sorry, Joshua. That is really sad to lose your dad so young and then your mom not long after.
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I was lucky. I got one last Christmas with my dad when we knew (as did he) that he was terminal. Momma had to go out and buy his last gifts to us kids but we wouldn’t have missed it for the world. He died about 6 weeks after his birthday – Dec. 26. Momma beat him datewise later on, she died less than a month after Christmas 33 years later.
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He just turned 48.
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Prayers and thoughts Ms.WeeWeed, My died when I was 11. My Dad hired a couple of house keepers then he found the right one. She was a very pretty, large, black woman. Very educated, formal, and had a heartily laugh. She made us clean, do laundry, all outside work, and toe the line……She could swear and drink like a trooper, most importantly she taught us respect and every morning before breakfast she would read from the Lords book, in Latin, then English. She passed when I was in college, we went to her funeral, no immediate family, just cousins and others.
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I think we know now one of the people who helped you become the person you are today. 🙂
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So. Poor Debbie Reynolds. She also is having a horrid Christmas.
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her marriage to Bobby Fisher was a storybook thing in its time.
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Eddie Fisher.
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Check.
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Mate
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Thanks but, I already have one.
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Different Fischer…
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Talladega Knights: the Ballad of Ricky Bobby Fischer.
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(I renounce myself.)
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Pray for her. See Drudge.
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In the original films, the Rebels always won.
Like a Trumpslide.
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Carrie Fisher had a cardiac arrest on a plane from London to L.A. An EMT gave her CPR on board, then she was worked on at the airport for quite a while before they could get a pulse.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/carrie-fisher-heart-attack/
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Not looking good, either. No pulse nor breathing for over 15 minutes. On a ventilator now.
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Since she had constant CPR, it may save her, but it doesn’t look very good.
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By lending support to the notion that Israelis are living in the land of Israel contrary to International law, he emboldens the Palestinians to increase the frequency and intensity of their attacks on Israelis. Obama is now directly responsible for any deaths that occur because of his cowardly, anti-Semitic, anti-Western decision.
More at link.
It’s as if Ace’s commenters have entered my mind, fed on my memories, and known all that I know.
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=367545
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Sad day, depending upon your viewpoint, as Mikhail Kalashnikov died at 94.
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I remember the first time those AK rounds went by, always will remember that sound……
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Regardless of what country you’re in when they’re fired at you they all sound the same… and those neat green tracers.
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Well I’m done with my Christmas baking this year….turned the oven on this morning, turn the knob to clean,….then when I came home the oven was clean………
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Catherine Deneuve is staring in the Musketeer……2001. She is and always will be a babe………
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Well, seems that on the way out the door our Imam-lite has ordered his UN dawgz not to veto the usual UN Security Council resolution to stop Israeli settlement activity. Shades of Soros inspired pique, wonder how much he and Chucky are getting from the usual Mideast suspects to hose Israel?
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Joshua, I always thought you were younger than me. You’re 75.
I’ll be 46 next summer. I’ll be looking for new music when I’m 95.
Oh, I’m sure it’ll all be based on old music. Good.
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Spin…
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One more.
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Pure genius.
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