General Discussion, Friday, February 24, 2017

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  1. texan59 says:

    We made it to the end of another week my friends. Let’s get through today and then enjoy something with a bit more kick tonight. For now, coffee up.

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  2. amwick says:

    Morning all… Yup it’s Friday all right. ‘Sposed to be even warmer here, yesterday was record setting.. Possibly a beach day, if it isn’t too windy. Which makes me think that a kite would be nice… hmmmmm

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  3. WeeWeed says:

    Mornin’ kids!

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  4. nyetneetot says:

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_| (Tom Collins)
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_| (Black & Tan)
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_| (Boilermaker)
    Mornin’ Czarina! 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_| (Irish Car Bomb)
    Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_| (Godfather)
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Gin & Tonic)
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Blackberry wine)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 |_| (Backdraft)
    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 🙂 |_| (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_| (Stinger)
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_| (Rusty Nail)
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_| (Whiskey Smash)
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_| (Rum & Coke)
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_| (Night Train Express)
    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) 🙂 |_| (Albanian Raki Moskat)
    Mornin’ Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂 |_| (Hot Buttered Rum)
    Mornin’ joshua! 🙂 |_| (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ John Denney 🙂 |_| (RumChata)
    Mornin’ litenmaus 🙂 |_| (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
    Mornin’ kinthenorthwest 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine 🙂 |_| (Smoking Bishop)
    Mornin’ patternpuzzler 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
    Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG 🙂 |_| (Red Russian)
    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! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Doughnuts for coffee!

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  5. joshua says:

    consider the courage and spirit of accepting adventurism that was possessed by the first person that ever ate an egg after watching where it came from……

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  6. joshua says:

    music that will not be popular in California right now…

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    • MaryfromMarin says:

      Actually, the forecast for the next couple of weeks is DRY WEATHER here. And the drought is officially over. If you believe GuvBrown (which is not my usual knee-jerk reaction to him).

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  7. auscitizenmom says:

    More winning. 😀 Really good article if you want a laugh. Finally the perpetrators of violence are caught and shocked that the law is being enforced. LOLOLOLOL
    Caution: filthy language.

    “Anti-Trump Inauguration Bully Whines When Facing Jail Time”

    http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/anti-trump-inauguration-bully-whines-when-facing-jail-time

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  8. auscitizenmom says:

    “Sand: Betsy DeVos v. the Education Monopolists”
    “Establishment critics try to pound Trump’s education secretary into submission.”

    http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/sand-betsy-devos-v-education-monopolists

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    • Wooly Phlox says:

      That was almost as delicious as nyet’s breakfast!

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    • czarowniczy says:

      To me the best way to deal with these school problems is at the local level. If parents yook back oversight and control of the local systems THEY OWN (they seem to forget that) things would settle down. You don’t think twice about letting your dog run freely without supervision but the oarents turn the schools loose and take scant interest in what they’re doing to and with our kids.
      Took us just over two years, lotsa meetings, doing our homework and getting Feds involved, finding a law group that specializes in education-based suits…but we got what our GGS was entitled to because we pushed back. At the same time we still run into parents who complain their kids aren’t getting what they should get, what they’re entitled to, but just ‘don’t have the time’ to do what we did.
      The mess is too big to attack from above, just like politics education is all local.

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  9. auscitizenmom says:

    I read this article I found on Truth Revolt and was curious, so I checked out the good pastor Joel Tooley. Interesting. More fake news. I have always felt that a pastor should not lie.

    “Washington Post Reports on ‘Demonic Activity’ at Trump Rally”
    “Remember when the mainstream media made fun of religion?”
    http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/washington-post-reports-demonic-activity-trump-rally

    “Pastor busted after making misleading Trump rally claims”
    http://us.blastingnews.com/news/2017/02/pastor-busted-after-making-misleading-trump-rally-claims-001491379.html

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  10. czarowniczy says:

    11 AM news is all on about a triple shooting in NOLA last night, more Mardi Gras gunnnnn violennnnnnce. Usual areas involved, no one identified but that indentifies those involved.
    Why is it that in our primarily European, Christian rural to ruralish area, awash with guns, our ‘people shot per 100,000’ ratio is so much less than those urban ‘civilized’ areas?

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  11. stella says:

    People are funny. This morning on Facebook, I made a comment on a “friend’s” post that was mildly critical. The man proceeded to insult me, several times, in his quest to “beat” me and “win”. I commented that I would no longer be commenting on his posts.

    He sent me a very nice private message, saying he recognizes that I am a patriot, and that he values my friendship. [ADD: He actually apologized.] I didn’t answer that message, but I wonder why he didn’t say the same thing in public, while letting previous public insults stand.

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  12. stella says:

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  13. lovely says:

    Am I the only one who didn’t know that ANTIFA is supposed to mean Anti-Fascist 🤔 I thought all along it was ANTI First Amendment.

    SMH

    I think living through our runaway democrats, poop smearing and flinging liberals, doctors setting up stands to write false medical excuses for folks, hearing I was a communist and a fascist, people literally breaking down sobbing in the streets, commies pounding drums, et al for over a year during the Walker recall and Act 10 fiasco has made me immune to these clowns. Anti-Fascits? In what world?

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  14. stella says:

    Report: NBC News Behind ‘Access Hollywood’ Video Leak to Hurt Trump

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/02/23/nbc-news-behind-video-leak-to-hurt-trump/

    The “Access Hollywood” tape that nearly derailed Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and got host Billy Bush fired was leaked by the “Today” show staff, according to a New York Post report. A source told the paper that the leak was planned by NBC News with the intent to hurt Trump.

    “Access” had been working on airing a sanitized version of the tape, which revealed Trump’s comments but protected Bush by editing out his. But the full tape, which was leaked to the Washington Post, featured Bush goading the president. The leak got Bush fired from “Today,” which was, according to the source, part of the plan.

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  15. Love this!!!! Rejoice with these our Christian brothers and sisters! 😊🙏🏻✝

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  16. lovely says:

    I’m going to see if I can get the good doc to go counsel the Antifa crowd 🙂

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  17. lovely says:

    Look for a weekend of indignation 😄

    The White House barred several media outlets from covering a press gaggle with spokesman Sean Spicer Friday afternoon.

    http://nypost.com/2017/02/24/white-house-bars-several-media-outlets-from-press-conference/

    Among the outlets barred were news organizations that President Trump has singled out for criticism, including CNN and the New York Times.

    The Hill, Politico, BuzzFeed, the Daily Mail, the BBC, the LA Times and the New York Daily News also were kept away.

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  18. ZurichMike says:

    Photo is of the bell tower of the Cattedrale di Sant’Andrea in Amalfi. Google “Amalfi cathedral” and click on images/photos. It’s stunning.

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  19. lovely says:

    Human “Ken Doll” Rodigo Alves was quite a handsome young man before he began mutilating himself.

    SMH

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  20. stella says:

    Vote on this poll if you are inclined (you don’t have to provide id). It has been highjacked by progs.

    http://nation.foxnews.com/poll/2017/02/21/how-would-rate-president-trumps-first-month-in-office/

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  21. stella says:

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  22. stella says:

    Ann Coulter will be on with Judge Jeanine on Saturday night.

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  23. https://twitter.com/gabechudo/status/835253001707220992

    Oh. My. Gosh!!! Gotta love this!!!!! 😊😊😊😊😊

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  24. WeeWeed says:

    Bar! Beer!! Fixin’ to be 5:00 down heah, and Mardi Gras continues…….. 😀 But tonight we’ll do a class joint!

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  25. Got that Friday feeling!!!!

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  26. Sharon says:

    Well, my computer had the flu and just got it back after ten days or so…..that always seems like such a massive experience even when it’s not.

    So hi again everyone……I’m in a crappy mood today and haven’t been sleeping well and don’t feel good.

    All of the treatment combos and two of the individual chemo-entities I have received/am receiving, while wonderfully successful, are new on the scene (some since 2011 and one since only 2014) so I have also figured out that the aftermath, side-effects are NOT “the same as cousin Tilly experienced in 2005 or 2008. The way this stuff was/is used on Triple Negative breast cancer wasn’t even in view at that time – all new applications/outcomes in the last six years. I’m certainly not complaining – absolutely note. My sister-in-law died from breast cancer about 7 years ago, and my brother has said more than once that he recognizes almost nothing of the sequence and content of my treatments the last year – in terms of overall procedure.

    I’m just realizing that my expectation of “feeling all better” very soon has absolutely no basis in studies or experiences – and I will likely do better if I don’t assume that I will feel significantly better – open-endedly – any time soon. More contentment there, most likely. Just adjusting.

    Not feeling good is really not the end of the world. I’m just generally irritated by it and I think I need to get over that!…… (Lots of people haven’t felt good their whole lives so big deal to that….) I hope most of you know me well enough to understand these expressions. If you don’t – just ignore it! I still can’t taste or smell most of what I eat – and that’s tiresome….since August…..

    Successful research is moving so fast in some areas that the people who researched what I’m on now have already moved on to some other new exploration (which is wonderfully good) and there’s a new group of people now evaluating followup studies, etc. and looking for related applications, perhaps.

    The cancer industry (not meant to be derogatory – just think of what’s involved in the railroad industry – believe me, it’s an industry) is moving so fast. And a lot of it is just flat amazing.

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    • stella says:

      Good to have you back, Sharon, and I hope you feel better soon. Your computer problems weren’t too expensive, I hope!

      One of my cousins is undergoing radiation therapy right now for breast cancer. She posted a pic of her raw underarm, which looks extremely painful; she has two more of those treatments to go. She said she has DCIS which was caught with routine mammograms and ultrasounds (she has every six months), and it is very early stage but high grade. She had a lumpectomy at the beginning of December, I think, so this is part of her follow-up treatment. A few years ago she had some kind of blood cancer, which she beat, so I hope this is the end of it.

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    • lovely says:

      Welcome back Sharon 🙏🏼

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      • amwick says:

        This. Sick and tired of being sick and tired… It makes perfect sense. Even if you are not looking to feeling better, a whole lot better in the near future, I hope you have a way to distract yourself. Making an adjustment like that is admirable, I am not sure I would be that smart or gracious. Bless and keep you.

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      • Col.(R)Ken says:

        Glad your back!!!! Sharon, I know what you mean, and how you feel. Not to go down my path, just maintain your positive attitude, look towards the horizon. Wish I was closer to lend a helping hand. My thoughts and prayers are with you!!!

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    • texan59 says:

      You’re in our thoughts and prayers. And yes. this industry is moving at warp speed. My mother went through chemo 25-30 years ago for Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and what they do today is light years different. Back then, the cure was more likely to kill you. Which it did in her case. None of it is “good”, but it sure has come a long way. Keep the faith.

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      • Sharon says:

        Ha! Yes indeed! I have specifically said out loud to my oncologist, “Cancer has never given me one sick day since this started – can’t say the same for the treatment.” She didn’t seem to be amused. She’s probably heard that before. (Ya think?)

        Thanks, tex.

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        • texan59 says:

          If not, she needs to hear it. Unfortunately, oncology is unlike dental school where they often practice a number of procedures on each other. Here, not so much. Keep up the attitude and the altitude my friend.

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    • It’s okay to feel bad.

      If there’s one thing I learned form being chronically ill though, it’s that it’s okay to feel bad, but try not to wallow in the feeling.

      I hope that makes sense. I don’t know how else to explain it. :/

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      • Sharon says:

        Oh, good grief, yes and yes. If I am EVER caught actually wallowing, get word to Weed right away and she’ll take her trusty shovel and- – – – well, she knows what to do. And if she gets way too enthusiastic about it (she and I sometimes relish such things!! 🙂 ) stella will slow her down just time – love y’all.

        My wailing today is my choice to consciously acknowledge that it’s not all easy. It doesn’t all get better real quick. I have spent way too much time in life carrying on as though, “Hey! I got this~” and have learned in the last ten years or so that there is indeed an appropriate time to say, “Ya know what? I DON’T ‘got this’ and I think I’m just going to sit here with my friends for a few minutes and let them see that which I often conceal.”

        That’s all.

        Thanks to all of you for your responses.

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  27. auscitizenmom says:

    lilbirdee12’s prayer:

    Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.

    Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.

    Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.

    Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
    Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.

    We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
    Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.

    From Lovely, “May Jesus’ crown of thorns surround President Trump and may all evil that is cast his way be bound and dispensed in accordance with God’s will. Amen.” Especially tonight.

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen

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  28. texan59 says:

    If this one doesn’t get me kicked out of that white linen napkin joint, I don’t know what it’ll take.

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    • czarowniczy says:

      I see your David Allen Coe and raise you one Jerry Jeff Walker. See how long they lets ya keep that lace napkin yucked on the neckline of yer sleeveless T after yas starts beltin’ thisun out…in two-step time no less.

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      • czarowniczy says:

        Don’t know if my attempt went into another dimension or the WordPress musical censorship team incinerated it but here goes attempt two to reward your stellar taste in classical music and apologize for not seeing your posting of a foundation piece of drinken redneck sing-along songs.

        PS: it’s playing on mymiPad as I type and my pit bull mix pup’s just howling along with it. We’re agoin’ outbdrinkin’ soon.

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    • czarowniczy says:

      Excuse me? Where has this author been? Likelihood of Christian genocide my you-know-what, Christian genocide in Egypt is a documented FACT.

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      • stella says:

        Did you actually read it? What she is talking about is a second wave similar to the one after the so-called Arab Spring that was perpetrated by the Muslim Brotherhood. If you read the article, you would know that she lives in Egypt, and has also been reporting on the situation in Syria.

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        • czarowniczy says:

          No, the post caught mybsttention with the boldest print being “Likelihood of Christian Genocide on Egypt High”, url containing ‘likelihood.of.christian.genocide.in.egypt.high’ and ‘Christians in Egypt are facing a serious threat of being massacred’. Guess I should have read it to fing out if they meant Syria.
          You may remember from next door that I have a particular itch for the Copt situation in Egypt.

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          • stella says:

            She meant Egypt, but a second wave.

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            • czarowniczy says:

              There’s been an ongoing program to destroy the Egyptian Copts that’s been in gear fir decades. Egyptian Army as well as the government’s been ‘implicated’ by US and other foreign ‘resources’.
              I don’t believe any first waves been found to have ‘broken’ though the goverment slows their actions way back when they’re trying to curry favor with the US or the EU…seems the pogrom ebbed a bit when Egypt was acourtin’ the Russians a few years back, then Coptic churches started burning again.
              I just have a hair trigger on the Copt’s problem there and if they ever decidecto fight back I’m ready to donate so they can buy C-…….rations, yeah, C-rations.

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  29. auscitizenmom says:

    Dear Lord, we ask for protection for our President Trump from whatever evil forces are around tonight. We pray for his safety and health and strength to continue to do your work. Please hear our prayers. We ask this in Jesus’ name. Amen

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