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What?! Everyone forget to put the coffee and bacon donuts out?,
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Brain short-circuiting (see Saturday’s thread).
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Saturday…thread…?
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You, too?
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Me…what…who?
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Theme overlap!
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I’ll take the Irish Coffee.
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Well, it ain’t coffee or bacon doughnuts, but perhaps it will do as a placeholder:
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Without bacon? I think not. Harumph.
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ARRRGGGHHH!!! Must…fight…healthy…effects…of…statins…arrrgggh!!!
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NOTE: only part of the table has been pictured.
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Only to avoid scenes like this….
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You’re a leg-end in your own time, nyet.
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See separate comment: low bacon reserves! CRISIS!
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If Rats were in power I’d suggest formation of a Federal committee to investigate the causes of the shortage and an Agency to oversee and guarantee future production goals. DC should be qualified, look at all the excess pork they generate without being pressed.
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Aiyeeeeeeee! Battlestations! Battlestations! Alert the media!
http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/01/americas-bacon-reserves-are-running-low-pork-council-warns/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social
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in an emergency, open can
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More like an extinction-level event.
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YUCK.
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😯 Muslims???
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Moslems come in cans now?
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Hm. That would make us safer. As long as the cans were sealed.
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Doesn’t prevent their getting into the country…look at the Mexi-cans…
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Emergency!
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I actually tried them last year. I don’t recommend them, even in an emergency.
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And my wild hogs make lousy bacon! Cursed Chinese owning some 30% of US pork production is getting to us. Making Dong Po, Siu Yuk, Hong Shao Rau and the like instead of BACON! And they call themselves civilized?
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My hogs make excellent bacon, but if supplies are running low I might have to start keeping more hogs back to raise up and start selling bacon. lol
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My cousin, who has decided to do a bit of farming in his retirement years, just got his first breeding pair, Ms Kitty and Leo:
More to follow, I hear. He has also decided to try sheep (I know, I know) and has chickens (of course).
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Tell him to be on the lookout for stray dogs, coons, possums, skunks, snakes, coyotes, fox, you name it, everything wants to kill chickens. lol
There is nothing better than fresh pork.
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My old coworker lost most of his chickens because he wasn’t careful. I don’t think he bothered to lock up his chickens at night, and he let them roam during the day. Both bad ideas if you don’t want to feed the wildlife
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If we didn’t have the dogs we’d have no chickens. Our neighbor locks his up at night, but the foxes will get them during the day.
He’s even put hot wire around his pen and those wily creatures somehow avoid it or cause it to trip out and then dig under.
His new idea is to dig a trench fill it with concrete and set the poles in it. Way too much work imho for chickens, I’ve told him to just get him a LGD and let them do all the work.
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My cousin put hot wire around his pig pen, but I think that it to keep the pigs in, not keep predators out. He also buried the lower part of the fence.
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We put up welded pipe fence on most of our pens, so it lasts forever and they can’t root out.
It’s more expensive doing it that way, but you don’t have to worry about the hot wire getting tripped or replacing fence all the time.
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We have not had internet for a week and still waiting.on them to fix it. I have to be in a certain spot and hold my mouth right to get service on phone and it hurts my eyes but wanted to check in and say still no baby. She”s still dilated to a 3, 70% effaced, minus 1 station. She had contractors 5 minutes apart and a trip to the hospital but after about 4 hours they stopped. They were strong enough to register on machine but didn’t progress …
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THanks for the update.. Blessings on you and your expanding family… Happy times I hope. 🙂
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Thanks for letting us know Michelle. Prayers as always for you and yours and especially the little one 🙂 . I hope your internet gets fixed soon!
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Thanks for checking in. Still praying.
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Thanks for the news, and I hope you get your internet service soon. That girl may be born on Valentine’s Day yet!
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Today is my daughter’s birthday (she was 10 days late), so Feb 5 is okay too.
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Well, a happy birthday from the bunker and all.
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Birthday wishes!
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She didn’t make it yesterday.
She’s just go to go another 8 days and I will get my Valentine grandbaby.
Happy belated birthday to your daughter.
My daughter was 10 days late as well, but she was a December baby, almost a Christmas baby.
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Now you know how I feel…..that phone/internet thing, not the other thing.
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Yep, I’m not a fan of cellphones, especially smartphones, but my old phone took a crap and I couldn’t find a flip phone that wasn’t so flimsy I was afraid a couple of times of opening it that it would fall apart. My only other choice was a smartphone. Writing the post was the first time I had even used the internet on it, but the plan came with internet.
It’s not too smart it took forever to write the post thanks to it automatically deciding my words for me and I missed it changing contractions to contractors.
They finally fixed the internet and tried to lie and say it was on our end until I corrected the young man and told him the first day it went out they had a recording that said they were aware of problems in this area. The second day they thought I had to have a tech call me, one that I could not understand a word he said btw. Then each day after that it was either arguing with them that I had already plugged it straight in to the computer several times and unplugged the router several times or them telling me it was at the tower and they were working on it and would call me with a time frame. A call that never came. Then five families I know of in this area also had no internet all week.
He finally admitted he was saying what he was told to say, but that they had an issue and when they finally fixed the issue it meant updating it to where the receiver we all have on our houses had to also be updated in order to pick up the signal. So now he has to go to each house and update them.
The good thing is construction has started in this area on fiber and max time they say we will have it at our house is 120 days. I can then get faster internet for half the price I pay now and never have to deal with Rise Broadband again.
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Wll, I’m still about one mile from the billion dollar hi-speed internet we were promised nearly ten years ago with no sign that we’ll ever be connected.
I’m trying to get Sprint to put an antenna up so we could get questionable service st a lesser price than we’re forking over to Verizon. Wanna destroy ISIS? Switch their comms to Verizon.
We had dial-up at a really low price and it worked for ash-and-trash finctions and as a backup but one day Southern Bell changed all of the various companies’ access numbers to long distance, forbade their use for data and introduced their own dsl service at over twice the other companies’ prices. Meanwhile their fiber optic cable’s buried at the end of our farm road and no one’s hooked up.
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My daughter tried Verizon phone, they claimed it would work anywhere, but it barely worked anywhere. This was a few years ago so it may be better now, but luckily then if it didn’t work you had 3 days to cancel.
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We purchased their wi-fi hotspot. When it started to malfunction we wentbto their outlet and were told that our only option was to upgrade. OK, since the hotspot you sold us is bad and our only option is to upgrade, then we’ll trade the bad one gir an ipgrade. Uhhhh, no, we were told, you have to pay for the upgrade, you have to be here a year to get a free upgrade.
Soooooooo, you’re telling us we have a bad hotspot and our only option is to rither buy a replacement or use the faulty one for months? Correctamundo, el sucker. They did offer us the option to buy one of their smart phones, a data plan, and use it as a hotspot. Great sales plan…..
Hey Sprint, can you hear me now?
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Fiber is now available here through ATT (which I hate). The speed is really good, but the pricing isn’t, and I’m not sure I can justify the switch. Thinking about it.
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I’m not a fan of ATT either, our land line is through them.
This fiber is through a private company who partnered with our REC.
We now pay $100/month for 8 Mbps, which is the only internet we can get with the exception of satellite internet. The fiber optic will be $49.99 for 100 Mbps, $63.99 for 500 Mbps and $84.99 for 1000 Mbps.
I plan on getting the lower speed because I figure it will be like going from a dump truck to a corvette. lol
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We have ATT on our cells. We had them on NOLA where they…uhhh…worked, but when we moved out here their service stopped a quarter mile from our house. They’ve since upgraded it and we get service out in the driveway on the south side of the house and down by the lake on the notth side when it’s humid and we have a good north wind.
We were going to switch to Verizon until we saw how ‘less than desirable’ their wi-fi service is but as we have landline at the house we kept ATT for when we’re on the road with our flip phones.
Full and fair disclosure: ATT did offer to sell us a $500-ish amplifier we could mount in our attic but we’d have to drill holes in our walls. Also no guarantee how well it would work as it would have to pick up a less than one-bar signal, amplify it and transmit it to our phones.
And the government broke up Bell Telephone why?
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ATT didn’t offer us anything for internet, just said they don’t have anything in our area.
For the past year we’ve had to fight them over our home phone and business phone because every month they try to raise our rate and then when we call they say we changed our plan. It finally gets resolved, but it takes 5 or 6 days of calling until you finally get someone who can get it resolved.
I never thought I would say this, but I would get rid of our landline if we could get cell service here without being in a certain room, standing on one leg, with your mouth held just right. It does work though out in the middle of the pasture anytime of the day or night and it works at the bottom of our drive.
The only towers that work at all in this area are ATT towers, but I refuse to give them cellphone business as well and have straight talk that uses ATT towers.
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I have good cell service, but still keep digital home phone. I’m not sure why I do, any more, since it isn’t a traditional land line.
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I need it for a reliable phone, but the only thing that concerns me and it might be a dumb question, but I don’t know if you can fax with digital?
We have to send and receive faxes for work and we just use our home phone because of how much ATT wants to charge for a dedicated fax line.
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You can fax with digital, although these days I scan documents and email them. I have an inexpensive combo scanner/printer.
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We do e-mail most stuff anymore, but there are some we deal with who want some documents faxed.
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There is software that allows you to send faxes from your p.c. to a fax.
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“Rethinking Possible” = Is it possible that a monolithic telecom company can get me decent wireless service? Think again.
“Mobilizing Your World”= Wanna make a cell call? Drive until you can get a signal.
ATT doesn’t lie.
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You would think as long as cellphones have existed now they all would have it figured out.
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That’s a good deal. I’m paying about $100 (before many fees and taxes) for 30 Mbps and unlimited phone.
ATT wants $80 a month for 100 Mbps plus unlimited phone, so it is a better deal, but I have to sign a one-year agreement. The price is guaranteed for two years. It is a better deal, but marginally. I’m not unhappy with my internet speed.
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I’m considering switching our phone when we get it, some tell me I’ll hate it, others tell me they love it. It is also cheaper for unlimited phone than what we pay for ATT.
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I’ve had phone through the local cable company for a long time. It works just fine, unless you lose power. Not like the old land line that worked with or without power. It doesn’t happen often here, but then I use cell if I have to make a call (like calling the power company!)
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We do lose power a lot and I have to drag out my old rotary phone. lol
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Digital phone might not work for you then. I would ask about battery backup, and how long it lasts.
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I’ll do that because it would save us if it would work for us.
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Just like Michellc we kept an old phone just for power failures. Bell doesn’t work but you can dial out and in, the ‘in’ depending upon your regularly checking the phone.
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With digital phone you have to have power for the converter box too, either from the wall or batteries.
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I have a landline, on a cable I guess it is, and a cell phone. I would like to cancel the landline, but the cell phone works everywhere well………….except in my apartment.
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Prayers!
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Thank all of you for the prayers.
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So, in the political/legal realm, things are running amok. The emergency stay for that TRO, (the travel ban from the Terrorist Seven nations) has been denied… All this is confusing and frightening.
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Mr. Mike, if you are still around, does the US look totally foolish to people in Europe? I mean a judge overturning a president??
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judge needs to take note of history…like Pontius Pilate’s decree….how did that turn out for him in the long run? or for his bunch of Romans….
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My opinion is that the judge doesn’t give a hoot… but that doesn’t help the immediate problem… Judge Jeanine had a lot to say about it… putting non-citizens before citizens, etc.
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It’s not putting non-citizens against citizens if you’re a no-borders globalist. Sesttle’s getting as bad as the rest of the Left Coast, wonder if they’re putting someting in the judiciary’s Starbucks?
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Europe is the last place that should think the US stupid on any Moslem importation issue.
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It isn’t just that, it is more about how a judge can create such a problem. I agree with you about Europe and their own world of hurt.
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Does make you wonder what goes thru their minds.
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Minds?
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Point taken
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Hm. It appears Chuckie Shumer has changed his mind from a few years ago. His stance now is totally political. But, then, we all knew that.
During a press gaggle in November of 2015, Senator Schumer told reporters that a temporary “pause” on refugees “may be necessary”.
http://www.hannity.com/articles/election-493995/flashback-senator-chuck-schumer-in-2015-15518379/
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Wonder if he’s trying to do a Fred Thompson on us and go Hollywood? After all, one of these days his constituency will wake up, realize they’ve elected the equivalent of a Jewish quisling and he’ll need a new host to feed off of. Hope the part doesn’t require a believable display of emotions or he’ll be back to squeegeeing windshields off-Broadway.
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“Chuck Schumer Verified account … ensure passports can’t be faked & stop terrorists who want to exploit the system.”
[Search domain twitter.com] https://twitter.com/senschumer/status/667408740858134528
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Chuck Schumer tweet from a couple of years ago.
http://downtrend.com/71superb/interestingly-enough-chuck-schumer-supported-muslim-travel-ban-2-years-ago
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Mornin’ y’all!
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Sad and true.
‘Morning Miss Weed
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Mornin’ Amwick!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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He put the wrong hat on the Left.
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Mornin’ Z!
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Tain’t my fault, I jes opened my eyes and the sun was there…
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Mornin’ Miss Wee. Holdin’ down the fort out here in West HOU for the day. 🙂
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Mornin’ T!
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Do not be fooled by the message in this tweet… Very interesting twitter tomfoolery!!!
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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)
(Mudslide)
(RumChata)
(Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
(Smoking Bishop)
(Red Russian)
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) 🙂
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Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
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Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
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Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG 🙂
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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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Morning! Thanks Nyet!
Howdy all!
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Breakfast looks so good this morning. Mornin’ Nyet, everybody. 🙂
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Hey michellc, I had a fellow sergeant in the Army who’d drink salty dogs 24/7, but they had to be made only with Hordon’s dry and Shaver’s grapefruit juice.
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Gordon’s dry…s’what happens when your iPad lives in a dry county.
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Happy Sunday folks, be good stewards for Kieth 🙂
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Guy’s gonna be dead three days before anyone notices.
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Mebbe so, but methinks you and I will be long gone before that happens. 😉
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He may already be dead and the drugs and booze have zombiefied him…no telling without a Nat Geo-funded expedition.
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Things that are pickled have a long shelf life.
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One of my relatives celebrated her 97th birthday this week. She still seems to be enjoying life. I don’t expect to make it that long, however.
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Here she is with her family. Happy birthday to Irma!
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Have a blessed Sunday!
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Better late than never. These’ll go quite well with Dr. No’s cinnamon roll. Coffee up y’all. The big game this evening. I’m staying as far away from that area as possible. Gettin’ a tad bit past the optimum date to be hangin’ out with 125K of my new best friends. Will enjoy it from the sofa. 😀
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Our favorite Sunday columnist capsulizes the week of fantasy (of the Lamestream media). Enjoy with your coffee.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/02/the_press_eunuchs_rattling_their_cups.html
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I think this is a really good article. Well written and to the point. Sometimes I have trouble trying to figure out what a writer of these kind of articles is saying when they are calling people names and using words in strange ways to sound smart. This one is very clear.
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Anything you ever read by Clarice, keep this in mind. She is and has been one of us for a long, long time. She is a lawyer by training, worked in past R administrations, and still lives in DC. A really smart lady.
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Clarice is a peach. Also a FB friend.
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And she’s older than I am, so there is hope.
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Make sure that you do not listed to this short clip with either hot coffee or a cinnamon roll in your mouth. “Statue of Liberty was orginally intended to be a mooslim woman”. 🙄 🙄
http://www.cbsnews.com/live/video/the-statue-of-liberty-was-originally-an-egyptian-peasant/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=34134336
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Jhad to bring that up at breakfast, dincha? Funny thing is that if told in a serious enough voice for a long enough period of time it can become a truth. First thing that comes to mind is Charlton Heston in the final ‘Planet of the Apes’ scene…new ending, new apes.
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How Ronaldus Magnus dealt with the sniveling punks at Berkeley back in 1969. 😀
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This opinion piece is in the GUARDIAN!!!!! Hell froze over.
Trump is no fascist. He is a champion for the forgotten millions
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/05/trump-not-fascist-champion-for-forgotten-millions
Obama promised solutions but let the people down. Is it any surprise that they voted for real change?
America is deeply divided, but it’s not divided between fascists and Democrats. It’s more accurate to say that America is divided between the elites and everybody else, and Trump’s election was a rejection of the elites.
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Oh, goodness, I like that. Extreme vetting indeed – and rather amazing since entrance is in fact based on grace, not on performance. That’s good.
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belongs below, of course.
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Stella, what I did mean to post under your Guardian link/Comment was along these lines:
I agree with the point complete and am not afraid of the results/consequences of what Trump does; however, I have wondered about a tipping point with regard to general fearfulness of the stew getting hotter and hotter. Is there a tipping point where the general population will react to the higher temperatures, which are in fact very high simply because the conversation and the fight is finally engaged on the real terms of survival.
Actual survival in life-threatening situations (like on behalf of our Republic) will involve much more of what he’s presently delivering, I think. He’s not :”firing for effect” – he’s doing what he said he would do.
I had thought over the past years that I would never support a candidate who did not say, in advance, that he would have scorched-earth policies and procedures towards the entrenched bureaucracies. Perhaps it was a calculated decision – he didn’t talking bluntly about that a whole lot, but he’s actually doing it. Scary and thrilling to watch.
I saw stats the other day that said government employment is down by 10,000 in the last quarter – didn’t investigate to understand, so I don’t know if that is just from attrition. Could well be, considering how bloated it is.
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What I think will happen (and hope so) is that the public will tire of the constant “CHAOS IS HAPPENING!!!” headlines in the news, and the ridiculous riots and demonstrations or, at the very least, become inured to them. Most people aren’t that interested in politics, as long as they are well fed, warm, and comfortable. If they aren’t discommoded, or if their situation improves, the overheated complaints about President Trump will fizzle.
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And illegal immigration Petered out.
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Even where it remains, it’s only Lukewarm. (I really have tried not to get involved in yours and others’ skills in this area – – I know I can’t sustain any significant foothold!!!)
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Jude think so, but feel free to leave your Mark.
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They are good, I admit. But better when it comes to tea — you should see how well Hebrews it.
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I’m sure it’s quite a Revelation.
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Perfecto.
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An update on Bronco Bama’s early release program. 🙄
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Freed-from-life-in-prison-by-President-Obama-a-10906279.php?cmpid=fb-tablet
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SMH He should at least get the maximum plus one day, or whatever it takes to keep him in jail for his whole sentence. This man is a criminal. And, that is all he will ever be.
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Yes, he is a criminal, but better than that, he’s an idiot. Best be locked up to protect himself, from himself.
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Afternoon Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!!!!
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Afternoon Colonel Sir!
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https://twitter.com/AwardsDarwin/status/827988477224562688
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😯 😯 😯
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OMA! Sue the NOAA, sharks should come with a warning label. You know, something along the lines of “Hey! You €£¥%# idiot, don’t @&$#% do this!
Then again, we revert back to Czarina’s fav quote: ‘You can’t make things foolproof as fools are so damnably persistent.’
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Back out to clearing the ground around my fruit trees, fertilizing and mulching. Cursed global climate change, now I have to deal with early and increased food production!
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Rainin’, here – too dark to paint so we worked on the garage awhile!
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Boooo-t-ful clear blue skies, 75 degrees, low humidity. Curse you, global whatever.
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38 degrees and overcast. Will be 45 and raining by
WednesdayTuesday. Actually, very mild here for this time of year.LikeLiked by 1 person
Making sign of cross with fingers…devil weather begone! I am actually having to put on sunscreen as it’s that bright. Ah well, raised on frozen skunk, crave frozen skunk.
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Rain, in Seattle of all places.
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I bought a 16 inch pot for my corn plant. It is now 6ft tall and 4ft across. It started life as a cheap thing from Lowe’s, now it needs its own room. The reason that it has thrived is that it has been left alone so much. Funny, it loves solitude. This is it for my gardening, guess I do miss the real thing. .
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People tend to kill plants by over-attending them. I am fertilizing as they are still young fruit trees and extra food, mulch and attention gets a burst of growth and I can shape them. Once they’re off and running all it takes is a bit of spraying and trimming.
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Mrs. T started with one corn plant about 2.5′ tall. We now have a full-blown cornfield in the kitchen. Started 15 years ago. But then again, I am originally one of the Children of The Corn from up in the Midwest. 😆 😆
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I have no idea how I can repot something this big. Engine hoist? 🙂
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Take cuttings and start new plants.
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That may happen by accident!
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Cit it from the top whatever height you want to start from. Stick it in the dirt and let it go.
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“Cut it from the top”
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I posted this on somebody’s wall awhile ago on teh FB.
If’n I was running a big medical practice right now, I would go out and hire as many shrinks and psychologist’s as I could, because we would start making more money than we could have ever imagined over the next eight years. If I was running a hospital chain, I would reconfigure my staffing to begin handling multitudes of new stroke patients and rehab.
Just food for thought. 😀 😀 😀
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Or an election…
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Right? LOL.
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A slideshow with prices at the concession stand for tonight’s game. 😯 😯 😯
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/concession-prices-at-super-bowl-are-expensive-dollar15-popcorn/ar-AAmE5b8?li=BBnb7Kz#image=3
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Yeah, no. Ratings are free – and they ain’t getting mine.
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Considering ticket prices the snacks are a bargain. Prices at a Saints game in the Dome ain’t much better.
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Y’all watchin’ the NFL Social Engineering Special, formerly known as the Super Bowl?
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No. I’m watching National Geographic – Brain Games.
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Interesting how the press speculated for weeks before the game as to what kind of political statement she was going to make. Even when she denied she was going to do more than her regular show the press went on about how she was a cast iron Hillary supporter and was just trying to hide the scope of her anti-Trump blast.
Nice show, all her, no politics. Getting to like her more and more.
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That’s what I hear, and I’m glad. She’s a very talented woman.
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And a meat dresser too.
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Nope
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I hear that Gaga did a pretty good job. Didn’t see it. What do you think?
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I think I am still glad I didn’t see it. 🙂
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The dive/lowering from the roof of the Stadium was neat too! Not too many celebs would chance that…take Keith Richards, for example.
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Byron York: Justice Department demolishes case against Trump order
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2613988
Now the government has answered Robart, and unlike the judge, Justice Department lawyers have produced a point-by-point demolition of Washington State’s claims. Indeed, for all except the most partisan, it is likely impossible to read the Washington State lawsuit, plus Robart’s brief comments and writing on the matter, plus the Justice Department’s response, and not come away with the conclusion that the Trump order is on sound legal and constitutional ground.
Beginning with the big picture, the Justice Department argued that Robart’s restraining order violates the separation of powers, encroaches on the president’s constitutional and legal authority in the areas of foreign affairs, national security, and immigration, and “second-guesses the president’s national security judgment” about risks faced by the United States.
There is a lot more, and it’s worth reading.
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… and more!
Finally, the Justice Department noted that even with such a large body of law opposing Robart’s judgment, and in such a high-profile case with so much responsibility on the judge to clearly state his reasoning, Robart “did not confront” the arguments against his position and indeed “gave no explanation why the state of Washington has a high likelihood of success on the merits of its claims.” Beyond that, the state itself, as a state, is not subject to the executive order, and therefore does not have standing to challenge it. And Robart’s order is “vastly overbroad” and “untethered to Washington State’s particular claims” and “extends even to aliens abroad who currently have no visas” and “applies nationwide, effectively overriding the judgment of another district court [in Boston] that sustained the executive order against parallel challenges.”
In fact, while Judge Robart decreed that the interests of Washington State would be harmed by the Trump order, the government argued that the interests of the presidency, and of the Constitution, would be harmed by Judge Robart’s decision. “Judicial intrusion on the political branches’ exclusive authority over the admission of aliens, by violating the separation of powers, in itself constitutes irreparable injury,” the Department argued.
By the end of the Justice Department’s 24-page brief, Judge Robart’s, and the state of Washington’s, argument lay in tatters.
What will the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals do? Impossible to predict, based on past decisions.
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Just saw this shirt on Facebook. I think it’s perfect for Wooly.
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LOL Yes, perfect! 🙂
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Link?
I want to buy this for Chef.
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It’s for you. The link is https://www.sunfrog.com/109708412-297921410.html?9656
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Thank you, Stella!
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I usually don’t read Lame Cherry, but I agree – wholeheartedly – with this:
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-lesson-on-assassination-from-fake-news.html
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I had a great weekend.
Chef is being asked by everyone in the joint, “Who’s the new guy, and why does he work so hard?” Chef knows me, so he just smiles. He knows I give a s**t about the actual business.
I was in the FOH this morning, talking to the entire front-of-house staff — servers, bussers, hostess, and our lazy guy from the kitchen who was out there schmoozing with the ladies instead of working — and asked them all, “So who cleans the windows out here?” because they look like s**t, on both sides of the glass. They all looked at me like I was crazy. It’s as if they expected that a magical window-cleaning gnome did it once a year or so.
All the staff said, “It’s not my job.” My least favorite phrase to hear from a co-worker.
I said, ok. I’ll do it. Someone has to.
I have a guy who’s in the kitchen, black dude (I’m the whitest m’fer there), who must have been blessed with discernment, because he understands. Chef says he works harder since I’ve been hired. And he knows how good it feels to be complimented on work ethic, and probably has an ego, because we all do. So he follows my lead, doesn’t stop thinking and moving and cleaning and making himself useful.
His pops works on the line, and is a John Henry-type worker. This kid’s gonna shine. He wants to be an accountant. I hope he stays in the restaurant biz, because, like his pops, he’s rare.
I am so glad right now. So thankful.
I listed my former bossman on my obligatory “emergency contact list” at the new gig. 😆
He knows it. My new boss is giving him one of his best employees next week to manage the place I just quit. Life is full of surprises, laughter, pain, and — most importantly — love, faith, and hope.
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{{hugs}} ❤ I'm so glad you're happy.
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It’s amazing.
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Twelve years ago I lived in a Geo Metro next to a mosquito-infested pond my Grandpa dug a few decades prior. Other people own the land, now.
I had a giant Vietnam-era net I wrapped around my little car every night to keep out the bugs, because it was June, July, and August. I couldn’t run the car and AC every night, because gas costs money.
I spent my EBT in the next town every day, for non-perishable food, and drove back. If I had a camera phone at the time I would have an excellent time-lapse photo of a pine tree growing, as I smoked my weed and hated myself.
You’re all great, to me. It’s why I hang out here.
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The psychiatrists, whom I actually hate — and I don’t hate many people — said, :”You’re sick, you can’t work — have some free money from the government.”
It’s rather ironic that work healed me.
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Yeah, I’m not too fond of psychiatrists. I had one tell me that I was molested as a very young child because of something I told her. Stupid. For a whole lot of reasons. But, I assure you it never happened. That was back when they were telling everybody that.
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When I say “great to me”, I mean that I aspire to all of your goodness.
It’s amazing.
It’s like the internet became a distillery of quality whiskey.
And it was called “Stella’s Place”.
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Y’all some quality people.
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I figure, that’s probably the people I should hang with.
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😀 Because you are one of us.
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You are the company you keep Wooly 🙂
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