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That photo reminds me of one of my favorite books as little boy: Benjie Engie by Louise Lawrence Devine. I also loved “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel” by Virginia Lee Burton.
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Geez, my Brit side would give me Noddy, Tintin books and pop-up books from England with golliwogs. Twas a different time though, I beat myself up constantly for not being more prescient.
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today the golliwogs are all working in the US Congress.
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With a few in local offices.
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Schumer: GOP wants to ‘Make America Sick Again’
Roughly 8.8 million if all are dumped.
Small % of total population.
More socialists lies.
Too Funny!
Chucky not very tolerant…
17 Arrested at Schumer’s Office
By NEETI UPADHYE | Nov. 15, 2016 | 0:48
AllofUs, an activist group led by young people, staged a sit-in at Senator Chuck Schumer’s office to protest Democratic Party leadership.
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Is there any other service the Government demands you purchase with no other option if you don’t but a fine? You buy the cheapest insurance you can afford just to keep from vreaking Federal law and being fined. The insurance generally doesn’t cover much, rarely saves you money and stretches many already ‘at the breaking point’ budgets.
Feds must have gotten into bed with the insurance companies as it’s been obvious to anyone in the field that rates would skyrocket once having insurance was mandatory, lower cost meet-the-need insurance that covered bupkis was just gravy and there were no provisions in the law to prevent insurance companies from screwing enrollees.
Congress also shot itself in the foot, disenrolling all Congresspersons and virtually all of their staff from the Federal health insurance program. Those Federal employees on the Fed program have seen premiums skyrocket to almost unaffordable heights. Yeah, setting the stage for a European style single-payer system where welfare-to-work Federal employees determine if you’re gonna get that treatment the pissed-off and (s/he thinks) underpaid doc has ordered.
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I once found a “Robertson’s” golliwog in a junk shop in Scotland for 50p. I bought for a doll collector who is my best friend. The little guy is worth a LOT of money!
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And “The Little Engine That Could”.
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Stella, great photo!!!!!
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famous words from that…”I think I can, I think I can”
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I read Mike Mulligan to my son so many times that I almost had it memorized. 🙂
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I was that way with “One fish, two fish”
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A Bargain for Frances, Caps for Sale and Go Dog Go were 3 books that I’m sure I read over 2000 times each.
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I remember Go Dog Go.
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ZM!!! Glad to see you! Yes I know you reside in a very safe country, just be careful……
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Czar, your not the only one, I just ran wild until I was six, then my education started.
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Same here but then I enlisted and they actually paid me to run wild.
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I remember those days. Wake up, run around all wild like. Biting trees n’ stuff. Posting breakfast pictures to some blog…. Oh wait. Sorry. Never mind.
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This was my favorite. Robert Kraus signed it for me… I think he lived near us in Danbury Ct, so he was kind enough to show up at a local church book sale, or something.
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Childhood books included “Little Black Sambo” which did not seem racist to me, was about a little boy and tigers…..as the Little Engine that Could….I still have these books now.
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“Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel!” One of my favorites, it was one of my husbands’s favorites when he was a boy and my daughters favorites!
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Today, the elite liberals would point out that Mike Mulligan, being Irish, was portrayed as too stupid to plan a ramp to get the steam shovel out of the basement hole…and that the steam shovel, named Mary Ann was a misogynistic attempt to insult women by naming an out of date machine a woman’s name, and then when the man was “done” with Mary Ann…they just made “her” into a furnace boiler….stuck her in the kitchen to heat the building…..yep…today they would destroy the book and brag about it to each other.
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Ugh….indigestion….why did I buy the ‘fried chicken bits on a stick’ at the gas station when I coulda gone down the road and bought the processed industrial food product pizza?
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Elliptical theme association:
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Much the same decision process I made in my auto-borne food quest.
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That’s why I posted it.
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But itbdid smell good at the time. It was that or the chicken portobello pizza with feta and kalamata olives but I usually find gas station kalamata olives a disappointment.
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their endive salad is usually a tad wilted at our local Racetrack Stations too.
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It’s a shame how far fine gas station dining’s fallen, almost as if they’ve abandoned all sense of taste.
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Our gas station used to carry Krispy Kreme doughnuts. My friend buys her bananas there and claims that they are the freshest in town.
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My local gas station has two gas pumps and a diesel pump. It looks straight out of Mayberry RFD, if you need PVC fittings for your mobile home, deer or chicken feed, hydraulic fluid or a really fine meal from their 50s looking dining room, you’re in. It’s those shiny chain stations with tempting morsels of enteritis on a stick that gets ya.
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Louisiana definitely has mo bettah selections of chemicically enhanced processed foods at their gas stations. Here it’s fried chicken, chicken livers, and tater logs, or hot dogs.
I’d rather eat nothing. So I’ve learned to carry a bag of fruit with me at all times.
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“So I’ve learned to carry a bag of fruit with me at all times.”
You misspelt “deep fried chicken gizzards”.
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Blech! I’m not much into fried foods anymore, and I do not share the enthusiasm for eating animal organs.
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Hillary always traveled with a bag of fruit I think too….just not quite the SAME as your description. Middle Eastern Fruit I believe.
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Even worse…this was in Mississippi.
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Stay away from gas station “Sushi”.
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Down here that’s sold as ‘bait’.
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and do not buy a tamale from a street vendor in Juarez….
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Years ago Bew Orleans had a tamale vender who sold tamales from carts usually found chained to light poles. Never did have the nerve to eat one.
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roger that. In Mexico…the meat is limited to chicken, beef, pork, or dog and horse maybe.
In Louisiana…there are SO MANY other meat options as to be terrifying when unidentified and covered up with cornmeal battering and hot sauce…..lots of turtles, gaters, gar, frogs, snakes, cats, wild hogs, and various things that fly…to cook up and toss into a “tamale”…
cover it with hot stuff from Grand Isle and who is to know….and if in the Quarters, who is sober enough to even ask?
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S’what I get for confusing the Michelin star with Michelin Man.
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and do not eat the mountain oysters in colorado.
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Soooo many possible replies….soooo few acceptable in a mixed audience
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spoken in a falsetto voice no doubt….
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More like the Stones.
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or the Ungrateful Dudes
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We generally stick to a basic hot dog. One time, in Texas, we got hot dogs at a gas station and they had jalapenos… 😦 I will never forgive that state.
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jalapenos with a pay toilet in the station….how Texas pays for public schooling….
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My husband is a very gracious man about food. After 40 years, he still doesn’t complain if I have a cooking failure or cook something that isn’t particularly something he likes. When we got married he only asked me never to cook one thing. He hates hot dogs, and will eat them only if that’s his only choice and he is really hungry. So we never have them at home.
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We try to have good hot dogs at home… Sarbretts or Nathans… here in SC we have an actual Nathans restaurant, we are regulars there. Dh has a thing for their french fries. We used to make them as midnight snacks.. those were the days.. 🙂
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Roger that, Nathans or Hebrew National only. We do have cheapies in the fridge but they are for giving the dogs pills.
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I use peanut butter, but you have to be careful, some have an ingredient that is bad for dogs…
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I have had to wash three dogs in the last month who’d eaten and rolled in things long dead and largely unrecognizable. I’m betting they’re pretty well immunized against a random hot dog.
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Is Nathan’s brand Kosher?
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Generally, no, but a kosher version’s reportedly made for larger Jewish markets. There are other kosher brands other than Hebrew National and they’ll all have ‘kosher’ prominently printed on the package.
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I like Hebrew National and kosher dogs because there’s no pork in them. My child won’t eat pork in any form whatsoever.
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I like Hebrew National’s slogan: “No ifs, and, or butts”
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I like sausages, but I rarely have hot dogs, either. Maybe one at the ball game.
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We love brats, he will eat those, but never plain old dogs. So occasionally if I’m at a place I can get a good old hot dog I like one. Or a home grilled one, sometimes my son will grill hot dogs for a kid’s party.
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This time of year (because of the large population who have family ties to Poland) fresh Kielbasa is widely available, and I love them. I also like bratwurst. When I was first married, my local butcher made them fresh.
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They have a couple of butchers down in the market here. I go get the sheep sausages when I’m allowed.
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Luckily the beetles are an intermittent problem here, we can usually catch them and deal with them before they become a big problem. Then again, being rural and eithout homeowner associations, whiney neighbors or zoning laws we have our tractors and mowers parked out in the ‘front yard’ so in the unlikely event a tree flies in our direction they should shortstop it.
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skip the sausage and go directly to the Kremówka
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Do you mean krakowska?
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Most commercial kielbasas sold outside of a heavily Polish area are just someone’s plain smoked sausage repackaged…ditto andouille. I have a couple of Polish butcher shops that custom make it and we gave it UPSd in. We know the best commercial andouille but we also have a local shop that custom makes, boudin blanc and rouge too.
Regular commercial mass production’s leading us into a world of bland commercial sameness…gourmands of the world unite!
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I live a few miles from Hamtramck (now also a new home for Muslims, but that’s another story). There are many Polish butcher shops/sausage shops around here, but the biggest producer in the area is Kowalski in Hamtramck:
http://www.kowality.com/
https://www.yelp.com/biz/kowalski-sausage-hamtramck
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Kremowka…. Polish cream cake that sandwiches vanilla pastry cream between two layers of puff pastry…Pope’s favorite…
krakowska is sausage.
I suggest forget the meat and go directly to dessert….Eastern European desserts are fabulous….
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I know. Now I realize that you were suggesting to skip the sausage.
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Sonic Drive In has foot long chili cheese dogs that are great, but messy.
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Ran outta reply space. I like Hebrew National because commercial brands have so many crap ingredients their contents labels look like the EPA’s report on the Love Canal. With Hebrew National I don’t get post-ingestion reflux that bleaches my mustache.
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We have a local Mex resturant we go to. Every tome the owner sees me come in he grills three or four jalapeños and brings them over to me for an appetizer. The jalapeños don’t really effect me…but those nasty little pea-sized red peppers you get in some Cambodian resturants are definately fire starters.
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and beware of habanero peppers…they will make you call out the Lord’s name spontaneously….if you still have a voice.
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Years ago a metal sculptor friend of ours had a party. He kbew I ate hot stuff so as a joke he had one of his apprentices, dressed in full molten-metal,protective gear, bring me a habanero pepper using a set of tongs. I had to eat it, it was a matter of honor, and it hit my stomach like a small nuke. It was a long ride between gas station bathrooms.
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I eat habaneros off the plant, after they’ve almost turned red.
Chew it up slowly and swallow. Then I act all casual, and keep chatting.
Until everyone is out of sight and hearing range.
I won’t eat a ghost pepper, a scorpion pepper, or a Carolina Reaper, though.
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One seedling gives you like 75 peppers, if you have a hothouse.
That’s a lotta bang for the buck.
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Go ahead and look up people eating those on YouTube.
You’ll say, “Nope. I’m good.”
Those I mentioned are best dried, and then turned into powder with a good spice grinder. You can do a lot with powdered ghost, scorpion, and Reaper. Just wear a Hazmat suit.
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Too true. 😦
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Could have been Gator Bits on a Stick……..
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This is a pre-post, for nyet’s breakfast special. Enjoy now, and avoid the rush.
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No, THIS is:
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I’ll skip the breathmint and have a Stoli on ice. What retired badasses have for breakfast.
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I don’t believe there is any such thing as a “retired” badass.
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Hey, one of these days even Vin Diesel will be shuffling up to the Early Bird at the Golden Corral.
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Czar, …. I have to wipe up my coffee……change my shirt……..
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It’s how I keep life in perspective
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I have a group of older retired friends… One is facing serious surgery on the 10th. As a send off we are getting together for burgers at a pub. One of his favorite places, it is almost authentic (the owner is from the UK) and the food and the drinks are cheap. There is a Golden Corral here, but it is pretty crappy.
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“Golden Corral” is Spanish for “Crappy”
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Yeah, I keep on seeing the ads saying ‘military discount’…I wouldn’t recommend them to ISIS. Life’s too short for less than mediocre food.
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Apparently, it seems I’m an underachiever and a badass.
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50% successful is at least half good…jes sayin….lol
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I’m more than half good.
If you threw me off a 20-storey building, I’d be like “Yep, still okay!” about 19 times.
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Forgot to add:
That’s called optimism.
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kinda like eating that slim jim and the pickled hard boiled egg in the bar…..shoulda stuck with the peanuts…
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[ANFSCD…]
Close one door, another is forced open:
The Routes Used by Organized Crime to Traffic “Refugees” Into Europe
http://gatesofvienna.net/2017/01/the-routes-used-by-organized-crime-to-traffic-refugees-into-europe/
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Mary, great article. If I was in charge, and I’m not, Would have grabbed everybody in that room. Then I would use some enhance interrogation techniques on these scum bags……..
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Italian Interrogation via fungo bat…..highly instructional even if not a lot of intelligence gained upon application…..
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Very good article:
Speak Truth to Power? [Anthony Esolen]
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Yeah, I can like that one five or six times – lotta littlt nuggets in there.
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Thank you Mary……. good article.
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It’s a really good one, from a good and courageous writer.
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I thought of you immediatly when I read it, Menagerie–it’s one of the reasons I decided to post it.
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(I was so eager to tell you that, that I misspelled “immediately”.)
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Thanks, Mary. Just bookmarked the site, too.
Excellent essay.
See the picture, too, in the article. 8th c. Commentary on the Apocalypse.
Why are they walking on pizza? Hmmmmmm. 😀
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Dude on the right is Frenchkissing an animal.
What the actual heck. (That’s my 1950’s voice.)
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Images from medieval illuminated manuscripts are incredibly entertaining. Love ’em, love ’em, love ’em.
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BIG wind storm here–couple of power outages here in Marin. I’m surprised we still have power.
BIIIIG redwood trees in the backyard…
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Still vertical I hope.
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Yes. Please pray they stay that way. Otherwise I may never see nyet’s contribution for the 12th day of Christmas. And you’ll have to look up your OWN theme association cartoons.
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Tis the price you pay for living amidst the trees. With us it’s lightening, we lose about a tree a year. Usually trees native to the area and trees that aren’t part of one of those FHA prescriptions stay up while those brought in for landscaping go roots up. After three wars and the NOLA projects, to go out by having a tree fall on me would be humorous enough to numb the irony.
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pine tree borers taking out our 80 footers, and a dead pine tree is a death trap in a wind storm
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We lose several old hardwoods a year, usually after the ground is saturated and we get heavy winds. I love living in the woods, but it’s nerve wracking.
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many visitors go out and gaze lovingly at our trees at the lakehouse….surrounded by pines and oaks….me…I go out and check to see what might fall and hit the house or cars.
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We cut back for a large yard and replaced regular trees in the yard with fruit trees. Now our major worry is getting hit by a random possim or coon blown out of a fruit tree.
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“our major worry is getting hit by a random possim or coon blown out of a fruit tree.”
down here we have to refer to those as “indigenous furry friends of the forest” so as not to offend the PC police of the local Democrat Party and ACLU tree hugger contingency…
but we get even with that on the open highway as frequently as they present an opportunity for a chance meet up.
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Down here we just consider them as primary ingredients for light entrees. .
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Ours are mostly pines and major killer is lightning. We leave the dead ones standing as woodpeckers, owls and other birds move in but we’ve cut back far enough where none could hit us if they were to blow over.
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Czar, now how does a coon or possum get blown out of a tree? Wait a minute…. are using your NVGs?
In all of my years of hunting, had only shot one raccoon out of a tree. Now that was with a 12g. Yes he was blown out, so to speak……
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Wind, BIG wind. Come fall the coons and possums are hanging in my persimmon trres like Disney Christmas tree ornaments. If I really wanted to eat the greasy things I could do so easily…think I’ll wait till ‘the bad times’.
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🙏🏼
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Thank you, lovely. We survived, but some of the backyard furniture didn’t. (And before czar, or anyone else, says “Why didn’t you secure them?”, this freaky windstorm came up out of nowhere…)
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I’m happy that you are safe Mary. Stuff is replaceable.
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On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…
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Nye, I’ll be back later! Got to go to Oak Island to dig up some gold coins for this……..
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ah…..hope springs eternal at Oak Island….bring a shovel
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Nye!!! I have 1/2 oz of gold. The fire is burning, wood rack is stacked, I’m ready now!!!!
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Nyet, have you added up how much your True Love has spent 😳
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Spent? Pfffffft! It was my money in the first place.
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Tell her that. I double dog dare ya’ 😎
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33.4 °F
Still enjoying a heat wave.
Life continues and the fire
needs another log or two.
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Impeach!!!! Letting the fire burn out, I’ll clean the ashes later……current temp is 38*, wind NW at 15-20, rain gage indicates .36 . Snow shower passing with heavy overcast.
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(actually, that one would pretty much heat a warehouse.)
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I like that. With two of these on either side.
It’s COLD here.
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Wooly, I know Army mechanics that would have Kill to have two of those heaters. Changing a tank engine in the winter close to the border in old W. Germany was not fun….
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Well, the only beverage my eyes see
is booze and booze is not my cup of tea.
Col Ken should be stirring shortly
and seeking some hot coffee. So,
here’s the endless coffee pot that
tripped me as my feet hit the floor.
At least did not spend a lot of time
trying to remember where it was
placed so it would be easily found,
should the need arise; as it has. 😉
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Something for the tea lover in me
and my oversized sweet tooth. 😉
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The nesting dolls are an adorable added bonus! Treats and an attractive table!
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as a child we had a nesting doll set next to the kitchen table where we mostly ate….never got tired of taking it apart and back together again.
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I’ve always wanted a set. A good excuse to go antiquing! 🙂
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my parents used the set to explain family…from big old great grand daddy down to little bitty me….taught me value and traditional life as it was before the 1960s happened
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I like that! 🙂
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Ask and ye shall receive, Impeach:
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Thanks Impeach, need a refill after Czar’s Vinn Diesel comment…….
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Impeach!!!! Refilling my cup, before Nye released his eleventh day of Christmas surprise….fire feels good….
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A little after the holidays pocket change, perhaps…
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Those Bast….ds should have known Lindsay was dirty.
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Clintons seem to have a wholesale theft ‘family and friends’ theft agreement with the Archives.
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Both of those crooks need the King and Queen suite at Leavenworth Brks.
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The ones with the for true bread and water.
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I’ll just wait and see!!!
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Where do I pick up my check?
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Followed by the sign…..” $50,000 reward for exposing any government employee or bureaucrat that actually does work and accomplishes anything meaningful to the rest of us that pay his/her/its salary. “
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Hey! I resemble that remark.
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Mornin’ kids!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!!!! Yeah!!!!!
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Mornin’ Colonel Sir!
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Evening Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!! In for the evening, temperatures dropped throughout the day, 30* now, wind NW 15-20. That wind chill woke me up…… Did you catch that story of a west Texas lady, shot at a home invaded who had a gun on her, when she pulled her own gun, well she hit the wall all around him. Home invaded ran….
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Forgot, the Washington Examiner has a picture of a moving Van outside the back side of the White House……… thanks for making the call…..
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Good Morning! Everyone! I have to confess it is hard to tell who is doing mornings, and who is doing evenings, even if the time stamp says late night. The wold is a big place, so I suppose it is always morning somewhere…
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Mornin’ Amwick!
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shalom and RIP barry.
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Morning Miss Wee!
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Mornin’ Derk!
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One of the best. It will be an ecumenical holiday the only team not celebrating will be the Savages of Islam.
Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Old joke but it still plays.
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I first heard it when Arafat died.
Wish it had played when Christ died. Oh, well.
No offense, my Hebrew brethren and sist’ren.
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Actually…
IS there a Jewish Holiday related to Christ?
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IS there a Jewish Holiday related to Christ?
No. There are no “Jeshua Ben Joseph” three day weekends in Jerusalem
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Whenever I see Fiddler on The Roof there is a scene where Motel says to the Rabbi
Rabbi, we’ve been waiting all our lives for the Messiah. Wouldn’t now be a good time for Him to come?
It always makes me sad.
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All I find in a Google search is articles on Why, If, or How Christians should celebrate Jewish Holidays. None on the vice-versa.
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A sign in my H.S. science classroom: There are no stupid questions.
I’ve never heard this question asked, and only thought of it just now.
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My guess?
No, there are none.
Yes, there will be.
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“There are no stupid questions.”
… but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
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I was already thought a fool anyway. So I though, what the heck?
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Wooly, as we used to say in Army Aviation; “there are NO stupid questions, except the one you didn’t ask”.
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I think the Christians absorbed the pagan holidays and melded them to Christian holidays. Don’t think they did any of that with Jewish holidays, although Christmas and Chanukah are usually at the same time of year.
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Due to spending 30-40 minutes daily hunting down and saying good morning to everyone wandering around in the thread looking for coffee and/or bacon in the pantry, I’m going to get this out of the way all in one shot:
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)
(Mudslide)
(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”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
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!
Cinnamon rolls for coffee!
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I just had bacon, eggs, and a potato cake, so a cinnamon roll would be great! Morning Nyet!
Morning everybody! Happy hump day! 🐪
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Nye!!!!! Morning Everyone!!!!!! Now this is fantastic, and I’m famished!!!
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Crispy Edged Pancakes! Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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potential permanent damage to the septic tank here……
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Morning Nyet, bountiful bacon, thank you.
Have a great and prosperous day up your way.
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Breakfast looks fabulous as always! Thanks, Nyet!
Morning everyone! 😊
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Good morning Nyet! 🙂
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I am digging the cin. buns out of the freezer. TY…
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Morning Stella, all,
Never thought about taking a train into Mordor, that’s why you get paid the big bucks! Beautiful as always, thank you.
Was thinking of getting a pug, and naming him Frank. Yes, after Men in Black, love that dog.
Have a great day out theres.
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Good morning Derk 🙂
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Afternoon Lovely, hope you’re back up to speed.
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Word has it this can last up to a year 😐. That said it is getting less painful not more painful si that is a good thing. A lot of pampering and making sure I don’t strain the tendon any further than it is already strained. All is well 🙂
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As we say out here in California,
“no bueno”, on the lasting a year part. Good positive attitude, (yes, a Californian) always helps. =D
Prayers headed your way.
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Thanks for the prayers. I don’t have it as bad as it could be and I can walk. Doing lots of what I should do and modifying things (like the boot) to keep the arch high and the calf stretched seems to help a lot.
Nothing to bit*h about too much beauty in the world.
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Prior to nationwide prohibition (1920-1933), there were several efforts to get rid of alcohol. Christmas was a huge target in the late 1800’s of anti-alcohol progressive campaigns and milk and cookies for Santa was one of them. Prior to 1900 it was common practice to leave a mince pie (with booze in it), and a dram/shot of whisky for Santa (and a carrot for his reindeer). I’ll have to look but I think it was in the December 24th 1891 of “Puck” I ran across it.
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heck…..without a shot of “kindness” under the belt, who is going to climb around on roof tops in the snow and navigate the chimney while hoping the stupid deer mules pulling the sleigh do not wander off to eat bark or something…..then OUR Santa gets INVENTED by Coke as an advertising gimmick, and no one puts out Coke for Santa….milk, coffee, hot chocolate…cookies…sure….I would love to see current day “Santa fathers” assembling stuff under the tree for Christmas Morning after a tot or two of the Saint’s Elixir…
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I have had several pugs, the first was mixed but mostly pug, and was the smartest and best dog ever. Others, pure bred…not so much….but they are a few steps in wild beneath Jack Russell Terriers….not calm so much…put fun to play with….have eye issues often, one of mine lost an eye playing with another dog….but loved my firsty. He did every trick in the book for me….would go get my houseshoes from my closet and bring them to me, and match them up if they were separated. Also brought in the newspaper in the morning from the front yard.
Heck, now we have dachshunds…and a recently rescued Australian Cattle Dog, that attempts to “herd” the dachshund…much to his sorrow and frustration…cats and dachs do not “herd”….
Would not like to live without doggies….
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My sweet old dog is full blooded Jack Russel. She is quiet, I mean Mime-dog quiet, and only barks in her sleep. It is funny to hear, a dream bark, and I always gently say “hush puppy!” As Dh says, an old dog is a good dog, she is both..
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Jack Russels are so smart.
Our red dachs girl sleeps with us in the bed…she never moves, but makes sure she is touching both of us while lying there….she gets dreams frequently and does the little woofing quietly…and one of us reaches down and strokes her head or scratches behind her ears and sometimes says “shhhhh” and she gets through it…but even tho it wakes me, I get a mental grin out of her living stuff.
The oldest dog in our house is my wife’s husband…or so she tells me. “good”…well, that too is a question posed from her side of the breakfast table…lol.
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🙂 She seems smart. There are a whole bunch of words we dare not speak, she picked them up… like “look” “bunny” “squirrel”. I have been giving her joint supplements so she totally know the word “medicine” which means yummy.
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the word “squirrel” is like humans hollering “FIRE”, to my two dogs…immediately they hit the doggie door for the back yard and the traditional “chase the squirrels up the tree” places…the don’t really want to catch the squirrels…but they love the chase and excitement. Other words carefully spoken are “treat” and “yum yum”.
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We’ve reached that point in our dog/servant relationship where we say ‘NO!’ and they point and laugh.
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We have learned to say B or SQ… She was something in her youth… now, she rests on the porch. She has earned it.
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Aww. Cutest thing I’ve heard all day.
Tripod is not quiet unless sleeping. Then he only grunt/meows every now and then and runs in place.
“Mime-dog quiet.” Love it.
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Yeah, We owned larger working dogs (OK, one or two were ‘government worker’ dogs) before we got the beagle/spring cross. It’s nice having a smaller, excited wriggly dog that hi-speed prongs between point A and point B, C, D…..
Now we have the lab/pit ‘pup’ the two can go outside running at top speed around the house, rolling and generally making us jealous of their excess energy.
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In this area there have dog parks.. I love driving by and watching them fly around… racing… they just seem so happy!
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We opened up the yard to about two acres so our two older dogs (the juvenile delinquents) and the two young dogs (the terrorists) can have their own environs. The two older dogs like to trot around and swim in the nadty water. Two terrorists like to rip around the house at top speed, knocking each other over and generally being terriers. Afraid if I took my dogs to a city dog park we’d all be charged with ‘contributing to the delinquency of’.
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Sweet… I love to see dogs being dogs..
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Uhhhh…dogs being dogs….yeah….sweet…uhhuh
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My friend sent over an email… thought this was cute:
Subject: Wisconsin Fishing Contest
How do you settle a presidential election when the vote is too close to call? With an fishing contest in northern Wisconsin in January, of course!
After the final votes were counted, Hillary and Donald were deadlocked.
Instead of going through a recount, they agreed to a week-long ice fishing contest to settle the election. Whoever caught the most fish at the end of the week would be the President.
They decided that a remote frozen lake in northern Wisconsin would be the ideal place. No observers on the fishing grounds, but both would need to have their catches verified and counted each night at 5 pm.
After Day 1, Trump returned with a total of 10 fish, Hillary came back with nothing.
Day 2 finished, and Trump caught another 20 fish, but Hillary once again came back with nothing.
That night, Hillary and her cronies got together and accused Trump of being a “low-life, cheating son-of-a-gun.” Instead of fishing on Day 3, they were going to follow and spy on him and figure out how he was cheating
Day 3 finished up and Trump had an incredible day, adding 50 fish to his total!
That night, Hillary and her democratic cohorts got together for the full report on how Donald was cheating. Hillary stood up to give her report and said, “You are not going to believe this! He’s cutting holes in the ice!”
This story tells you all you need to know about the difference between a successful businessman and a career government politician.
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Here are some additional actors that you can add to your boycott list, if you are so inclined:
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Sally Field and Rosie Perez, Westworld star Jeffrey Wright, comedian Keegan-Michael Key, Boardwalk Empire actor Steve Buscemi and other activists — appear in the video released Tuesday, titled #StandUpForUS.
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Man, I had a crush on Gidget when she was in reruns and I was on training wheels.
Sad.
Buscemi is still being listed, I am reliably told, as a dependent on Tarantino’s tax returns.
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but Sally Fields was NO Sandra Dee…..you had to be a teenager in 1959 to know the true Gidget…..
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Hey, at least Buscemi has nice teeth, though.
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Trying to be nice to the dude.
I got a few missing, ferchrissakes.
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Oh snap, not Steve Buscemi… we really like him in Boardwalk Empire…. hmmmmm
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He was actually really good in Resevoir Dogs, too.
I wish he would just shut up and act.
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Just don’t let any of them get in your head…. That isn’t hard to do…who cares what they think… they probably don’t even play tennis.
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Of all those names I only recognize Sally Field so it is another thing which is easy for me to boycott.
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I say instead of sending US troops to Idaq and Syria to fight ISIS we adk Trump to send a large contingent of Hollyork activists instead. They can convince the ISIS and other assorted Islamists that their drug and alcohol sotted, atheist, amoral butt-surfing lifestyle could really put the fun in fundamentalism. Might get a lot of problems solved in short order.
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I.Like.It. Gets rid of a whole lotta bad t.v., too.
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“……amoral butt-surfing lifestyle ….”
blink….blink…
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good….”lifestyle” is just so bigoted and racist…I don’t understand the other stuff too much….lol
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And whom was in the forefront of bringing a lifestyle condemned for centuries as immoral right square into our living rooms for us and our children to see? And whom was in the vanguard making it not only legal but a sacrament? Oh lordie, if there be any justice send these people to ISIS as immoral emissionaries to slow ISIS down. They can be cultural speed bumps if nothing else.
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https://twitter.com/JayCostTWS/status/815422366411096064
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Amazing how effective raw momentum can be.
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At Ace’s right now. As expected, there are some zingers in his commentary.
Of Course: Hot New Trend is Offering No-Boys-Allowed “Co-Working Spaces” for Women
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Absolutely priceless comment:
It’s 11 a.m. on a recent Friday, and 29-year-old Andrew Gelman–public-relations powerhouse, former GWBush press aide, longtime friend of Milo Yiannopolis– is sitting on a cammo-print couch at the Rifle, the co-working space and
social club he co-founded this October in New York. A woman walks through
the elevator doors, and Gelman throws her a friendly wave. “That’s our cleaning gal,” he says. “She’s basically the only woman that comes through
here.”
So….total male chauvinist pig, amirite????
Posted by: Lizzy at January 04, 2017 02:05 PM (NOIQH)
Aaaaand, from the actual, real, published Bloomberg article:
It’s 11 a.m. on a recent Friday, and 29-year-old Audrey Gelman–public-relations powerhouse, former Hillary Clinton press aide, longtime friend of Lena Dunham’s — is sitting on a pink couch at the Wing, the co-working space and social club she co-founded this October in New York. A man walks through the elevator doors, and Gelman throws him a friendly wave. “That’s our AV guy,” she says. “He’s basically the only man that comes through here.”
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here we GO……..
A moving truck was seen on Wednesday parked outside the White House, where President Obama will live and work for just two more weeks.
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Wonder what they’re stealing?
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Beat me to it.
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WeeWeed!
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Personally, I think they’re gonna either burn the place down or bring in a dozen Mason™ jars full of cockroaches and termites on their way out.
Prolly pull off all the “T” keys on the computer keyboards, too.
These people never change.
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I’m just happy that Obama will never be able to steal a priceless bust of Winston Churchill.
Because, you know, he sent it back.
I hope Trump has a 3D-printed sculpture of Obama’s feet on the Resolute desk, on a nice bubinga wood plaque. And he never puts his feet up there himself.
We’ll see. About a month later, when the MSM learns of it all.
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Trump will do stuff like that, because he’s a genius.
Obama flipped the middle finger like five times. It’s all in evidence. (Hi, Internet!)
Obama had his sycophant press corps show the bottom of his feet on the Oval Office desk for more than one symbolic reason, for more than one audience.
He may as well have been smoking a blunt in that pic.
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Go here. Just go.
https://tinyurl.com/jlc83x8
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I’ma go play my piano.
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No respect, no sense of history, no common sense, a very, very, self centered juvenile……
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And why bubinga? ‘Cause I’m rayciss like that.
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Got nobody to give that song to, so y’all can have it to kick around.
If you just let YouTube play on, it’s nothing but good.
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Got most of his CDs. When it’s this good, I prefer to own a physical copy.
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Remember this?
Teen Pinned Down At McKinney Pool Party In 2015 Sues Former Officer, City For $5 Million
http://keranews.org/post/teen-pinned-down-mckinney-pool-party-2015-sues-former-officer-city-5-million
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Because what else would she do? SMH.
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Yes. A Social-Media-made pool party at someone else’s pool, who wasn’t home, and because they weren’t home. FUBU. For us, by us. I have a FUBU shirt. Cosby kids are on it. Love that shirt.
It was a party made, on the fly, with social media, in someone’s backyard, and a backyard home invasion.
I hope she loses big, in discovery.
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Ssheesh…..just got a ‘like’ pop up from next door on something I posted back in March of 2011. Don’t know if I have a stalker or if the NSA’s digging up my old stuff for a profile.
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As always, the UK Daily Mail comes through with the details our MSM won’t touch.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4092360/Three-teens-24-year-old-charged-wi.html
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