General Discussion, Monday, February 27, 2017

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  1. czarowniczy says:
    February 27, 2017 at 12:09 am

    I was thinking about going into the Federal Reserve Bank in New Orleans and telling them I self-identify as a millionaire while handing them the routing code and account number of my checking account. Better do it quickly before all the Obama crew be gone.

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    • Col.(R) Ken says:
      February 27, 2017 at 12:51 am

      Yeah!!! Or just take an advance, gold …………….

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    • amwick says:
      February 27, 2017 at 8:30 am

      Meh, you are aiming low… I would want to be a multi millionaire, 5 million is the new million, donchuno! 🙂

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    • Menagerie says:
      February 27, 2017 at 8:44 am

      I always pictured you as kind of a mutt, from what you’ve mentioned about your ancestry, but white nonetheless. I was wrong, you are black? Then of course your plan will work!

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    • lovely says:
      February 27, 2017 at 9:39 am

      Why not?

      Speaking of self identifying Rachel Dolezal is self identifying as being broke.

      Rachel Dolezal is broke

      http://nypost.com/2017/02/26/rachel-dolezal-is-broke-and-may-soon-be-homeless/

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    • Sharon says:
      February 27, 2017 at 10:19 am

      Well, all righty then – and that being the case, I identify as one of your dearest friends and only living relative.

      We sure all missed the boat thinking we had to allow reality to be a primary factor in our lives, I guess.

      Or something.

      Makes me crazy.

      The whole world is crazy.

      This weekend I had the following three conversations:

      #1) my Sis-IL says to me, “(My son) and I have concluded our house is bugged because no matter what we talk about, the next day or a couple of days later, the thing we talked about is on Fox News.The government is listening to us, too.”

      Oh. Now I’m not much fun in those kinds of conversations because my next question was whether or not they had considered hiring someone with debugging skills to find the bugs and remove them. No – hadn’t thought of that…anyway, it’s just really serious – my other suggestion would have been to turn the TV off, but what do I know. (This is seriously a tragic mess with potential consequences for her Down syndrome son in his late 20s…..consequences I can’t bear to think about….)

      #2) I met my new neighbor. Later another neighbor if I had met Cindy. No. I had just met Bonnie at the new move in place. So I ask, “Who’s Cindy?” Neighbor says quietly (watching me closely) “Cindy is Bonnie’s wife.” Oh. Ok.

      Now – I’m here to tell you that I checked my heart and my thoughts to be sure I wasn’t being a Christian jerk. Nope, I wasn’t. I was not and am not “offended” and I don’t feel one bit inclined to go to preachin’. But that does not mean I can imagine moving through the luau in total comfort next month. And there’s no way I’ll miss it. Just have to brush up on situational awareness and doing what my mother always told me to do, “Your mission in life is to make people happy.” (See how that simplifies things, if applied. BTW, that is no longer my mission – such a mission will get ya killed dade…..)

      #3) Yesterdau afternoon I called #`1 Son in Denver (prez of the Marine biker dude club) to tell him I had had a wonderful (no time to tell it now) 45 minutes conversation with #1 grandson in Las Vegas. I only wanted to give a very brief report in any case, and he apologized for the considerable (LOTS) of background noise, saying by way of explanation, “Mom, sorry it’s so loud in here. I’m at a fundraiser for a guy from another club who was killed a couple days ago defending a girl who was being attacked. Talk to ya later….”

      The whole world is crazy.

      If anyone doesn’t understand that living requires the grace of God, they just aren’t paying attention. Matthew 5:3 in the NEB says: “Blessed is he who knows his need of God.” Count me in and help me, Lord, to continuously know my deep need of You. I do know and desire to continuously, effective KNOW that.

      I’m going back to bed now.

      Mornin’, Czar and all.

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      • Rhea Salacia Volans says:
        February 27, 2017 at 10:32 am

        Morning Sharon. I don’t know much about Down’s Syndrome. How will the situation you described affect their son? And if it’s a problem, why don’t they just stop watching TV?

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        • stella says:
          February 27, 2017 at 10:35 am

          I’ll just butt in here (sorry Sharon) to say that I think she is insinuating that her SIL is losing her marbles. Probably some kind of dementia. If so, what happens to the disabled son?

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          • Rhea Salacia Volans says:
            February 27, 2017 at 10:40 am

            Oh, that would make sense too. Like I said, I’m not familiar with Downs Syndrome so I didn’t know if there was something about his mother having a freakout every time Fox started talking about something they’d already discussed was bad for the son or not.

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        • Sharon says:
          February 27, 2017 at 1:47 pm

          Her husband died unexpectedly three years ago, about ten days after my husband (her brother) died. She and her husband had labored for years to have themselves made legal guardian for the Down son which is not easy to get done in many states because the state never assumes that parents are capable of caring for disabled children. If her trolley keeps leaving the track in this way, at some point she will be declared unfit and his guardianship will revert to state management. Not good.

          They do not “stop watching TV” because, in lieu of dealing with life as it really is, they enable one another (she and the older son) with endless drama, visions of grandeur, and super-spiritualizing everything that to around them. They want to watch TV – it feeds their circular thinking.

          Sorry I left out a lot of detail. It was simply the quiet (there was nothing “freakout” about her report – she was quietly and deadly serious about her sense of reality – and that is I found highly disturbing. I was very kind to her on the phone and spent some time praying with her before we hung up. She is quite isolated these days because she and her older son have completely worn out the extended family who simply don’t have anything more to give. That’s more than I have any right to share about others’ private struggles –

          I forget that some newer readers here don’t know me well enough to take at face value what I say and in the internet age, that is my mistake. My apologies. The combination of those three conversations on three successive days, just blew a couple of my fuses. I will replace them soonest.

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          • stella says:
            February 27, 2017 at 1:54 pm

            I remember her.

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            • Sharon says:
              February 27, 2017 at 2:02 pm

              Yes. I have compassion for where she has found herself, which is why I take time to listen when she calls. She’s pretty isolated. So I listen and am present. I will never be a physical or financial port-in-the-storm because in this case, the storms will never end and I have neither the strength or resources to be a primary resource for them…it’s become a way of life for them.

              This kind of consequential confusion is also part of what is generally called deception for people of faith: the kind of deception they have accepted is energy-sucking and life-destroying.

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      • stella says:
        February 27, 2017 at 10:33 am

        Sharon, you just wrote a mini MBOB. Have a nice sleep, and thank you for the entertainment.

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      • czarowniczy says:
        February 27, 2017 at 11:08 am

        Ahhhhhh….now you mention crazy….did I mention I’m working on a VA claim for myself and, when I called the VA call center two weeks ago I ended up with whom I can only believe was Indian as his accent was so thick I could barely understand him. Coulda been worse though, coulda been an Obama-hired ISIS terrorist on hiatus.

        Regarding your #2 issue (an apt term), I lived in NOLA for so long the ‘other identities’ sort of just became background noise. I even had them in my military unit and the brass just ignored them, and with the various organizations Czarina and I worked with they were everywhere. I just adopted the position that their problems were their problems and no mine. As long as they didn’t try to force their lifestyle on me or try to enlist me into their support groups we could work together, judging them was God’s job and not mine. There were too many of them anyway and I had too much to do. There were instances where we were marched into mandatory classes on ‘correct thinking’ where the ‘other’ lifestyle was officially fed to us as ‘normal and acceptable’. Great paid nap time.

        Ahhhh….Denver….lost many braincells there, especially at the Bull and Bush. Your son picked what I consider the best craftbrew beer city in the US. I particularly liked the Sandlot at Coors Stadium as the altitude made the great beer go farther. My son and I still have a rep at a few places in Aurora…I even think the restraining orders have been lifted.

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      • Wooly Phlox says:
        February 27, 2017 at 2:02 pm

        Mornin’, Sharon!

        I feel ya. The whole world is crazy.

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    • michellc says:
      February 27, 2017 at 5:55 pm

      It should only be fair if you can identify as another sex that you can identify as a millionaire. 🙂
      At the moment I’d just take identifying as about 20 years younger and full of energy. I’m tired, chased a 2 year old around half the day Saturday while mommy and daddy took little sister to the ER. She’s fine, she had an eye infection that is just about all gone now, but Dr. told them to take her in when they called him in case she was getting an upper respiratory infection and she’s too little to wait until Monday. Saturday evening/night had to go to Arkansas and didn’t get home until way past my bedtime.
      Sunday birthing season started, which kept me hopping all day into the night.
      Today, it was more birthing along with going with my daughter to Gracie’s appointment to make sure her eyes were fine. Then we made the mistake of going to a consignment sale with a 2 year old and infant without a stroller and they had no shopping baskets. It was being held in a huge building and thanks to a 2 year old boy with way more energy than his Nanny, I got to see every inch of it. I was worried that Gracie doesn’t really cry a lot, well when her mommy goes to the bathroom and she’s in a place she doesn’t like she does have ear piercing cries. My daughter informed me she does that every night about 3 a.m. lol

      Tomorrow should be really fun, mommy has to go to the doctor and Nanny will find out if she still has the ability to deal with a 2 year old and infant. 🙂

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  2. MaryfromMarin says:
    February 27, 2017 at 12:37 am

    That photo ^^^ seems more appropriate for Saturday. But Monday? See below…

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  3. Col.(R) Ken says:
    February 27, 2017 at 12:48 am

    I have never seen a frog do this!!!!!!!

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  4. Col.(R) Ken says:
    February 27, 2017 at 12:57 am

    Nye!!! While channel surfing, between MLB, NGO and DYI……on the NGO channel, Mick Dodge. Lives in the woods, along the coast of Washington. Some type of survivalist, mountain man. Have you ever read about this guy?

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    • nyetneetot says:
      February 27, 2017 at 1:33 am

      I had to look up the name. I recall reading or seeing a news story about him, but it was a couple of years ago. There’s a lot of folks out in the woods. There’s a lot of woods out here.

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      • Col.(R) Ken says:
        February 27, 2017 at 9:06 am

        Yeah, we would do our NVG flying out in that area. The whole place just gave me the creeps.

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        • czarowniczy says:
          February 27, 2017 at 1:36 pm

          Creepy area all right, guess thst’s why AF used it for survival training and Army used it for ‘fun’ training. We used to spend weeks at a time out in the woods at Lewis or other fun and mildew filled areas; only place in the US where you had to check to make sure you weren’t hosting mold and mushrooms when you came back from the ‘field’.

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      • czarowniczy says:
        February 27, 2017 at 1:28 pm

        Yoo hoo…living in the woods person here…

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    • amwick says:
      February 27, 2017 at 6:41 am

      We watched a show called Mountain Men a few times. One guy built an thing for his truck so that it ran off of wood smoke for fuel,,, kinda… it actually worked. You could see how smart he was, in spite of the whole woodsy schtick…. Eustace Conway… and he lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in NC….

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      • joshua says:
        February 27, 2017 at 8:07 am

        during WWII, the German public built a way to run vehicles off of garbage somehow.

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        • amwick says:
          February 27, 2017 at 8:31 am

          Somehow, smoke is combustible… maybe that is the trick…

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          • czarowniczy says:
            February 27, 2017 at 1:48 pm

            This was a topic ‘next door’ some years back. I’d mentioned that the Pacific islanders used to run some vehicles off of smouldering coconut husks and a number of places in Europe found ways to modify vehicles to run off of smouldering wood, coal, anything that could smoulder. Mother Earth magazine’s run articles on converting vehicles to run off of wood over the years.
            Wood doesn’t ‘burn’ as much as the heat applied external to the wood causes the wood to give off gasses that are combustable. If you can divert those gasses to a system that pushes them instead of petroleum into a combustion chamber, you gots ignishun. The power output isn’t as much as a comparable petro system but it does beat walking.
            There, more than you wanted to know.

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          • John Denney says:
            February 28, 2017 at 1:21 pm

            FEMA tells how to do it, in case of a petroleum emergency.

            Click to access 3445602994393.pdf

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      • Menagerie says:
        February 27, 2017 at 8:49 am

        I just saw an article about a young man, early 20″s I think and not too long out of college maybe, some kind of school. He moved to take a job, things were good for awhile, then went south with his car, and maybe job too. His car was also broken into, then he totaled it.

        Anyhow, long story short, the kid set his Prius up (I know, but bear me out) to live in. There were pics. He had it unbelievably organized, lived pretty well, near work and a YMCA where he showered. Anyhow, He says where he lives he saving over a thousand a week and giving himself a future.

        Wish all young people were this smart, and this able to make lemonade out of lemons.

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        • Col.(R) Ken says:
          February 27, 2017 at 8:56 am

          Squirrel Problem
          The Presbyterian Church called a meeting to decide what to do about their squirrels. After much prayer and consideration, they determined the squirrels were predestined to be there and they shouldn’t interfere with God’s divine will.
          At the Baptist Church the squirrels had taken an interest in the baptistery. The Elders met and decided to put a water slide on the baptistery and let the squirrels drown themselves. The squirrels liked the slide and unfortunately, knew instinctively how to swim so twice as many squirrels showed up the following week.
          The Episcopal Church decided that they were not in a position to harm any of God’s creatures. So, they humanely trapped their squirrels and set them free near the Baptist Church. Two weeks later the squirrels were back when the Baptists took down the water slide.
          But the Catholic Church came up with a very creative strategy. They baptized all the squirrels and consecrated them as members of the church. Now they only see them on Christmas and Easter.
          Not much was heard from the Jewish Synagogue, but it’s rumored that they took one squirrel and circumcised him. They haven’t seen a squirrel on their property since.

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        • joshua says:
          February 27, 2017 at 10:06 am

          it’s not easy……… to make love in a Toyota…..it’s just not easyyyyyyyyy

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        • stella says:
          February 27, 2017 at 10:59 am

          There are DIY videos on YouTube explaining how to live in your car. Really.

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    • stella says:
      February 27, 2017 at 10:39 am

      I’ve been watching a lot of NOVA on PBS the past few days, but I usually watch DIY, HGTV etc. Sometimes Nat Geo. Can’t stand most of those trashy reality shows.

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  5. nyetneetot says:
    February 27, 2017 at 7:34 am

    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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  6. joshua says:
    February 27, 2017 at 8:09 am

    someone did not get the message that the OCCUPY FOLK declared today a NO BACON MONDAY and will march on Arkansas capital to protest people that holler….”SOOOOOOEEEEEEEE HOG”….

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  8. amwick says:
    February 27, 2017 at 8:40 am

    BTW I will be expecting a puppy update on a regular basis… 🙂 x 100000

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  9. Rhea Salacia Volans says:
    February 27, 2017 at 8:55 am

    Apropos of nothing, I found Starry Heavens by day after tomorrow on iTunes over the weekend. I was so excited because I love this song. It’s Japanese pop and it’s really good.

    English lyrics:

    If you found a shooting star falling through the sky right now
    What would you wish for?
    In my heart I always hold the promises
    We made when you left

    On nights when I can’t sleep, I want to hear your voice
    We talked until the morning sun came

    Your profile beside me, talking animatedly
    Shone

    You, chasing your dreams; and me, watching out for you
    We’re both bathed in the light of the same stars
    Choking back tears, I saw you off
    Telling you to walk away without looking back

    If you found a shooting star falling through the sky right now
    What would you wish for?
    In my heart I always hold the promises
    We made when you left

    I want to be able to hold you all the time
    I quietly hide my growing sadness

    Since then, the flow of time
    Began to irritate me

    But if I pour my feelings into the bright star
    I can turn them into a strong love
    And surely even the miracle you’ve created for yourself
    Will become something certain

    If you found a shooting star falling through the sky right now
    What would you wish for?
    Your words come back to me
    “No matter where we are, we’re connected”

    You, chasing your dreams; and me, watching out for you
    We’re both bathed in the light of the same stars
    Choking back tears, I saw you off
    Telling you to walk away without looking back

    If you found a shooting star falling through the sky right now
    What would you wish for?
    In my heart I always hold the promises
    We made when you left

    English and Japaneses lyrics at the link: http://www.kiwi-musume.com/lyrics/dayaftertomorrow/primarycolours/starryheavens.html

    I love this song! 😀

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  10. auscitizenmom says:
    February 27, 2017 at 11:20 am

    Ah, well……this is going to be an interesting week. I have been having trouble with my plumbing………in the apt, not in me. They figured out it is roots from the giant oak next to the building. They brought RotoRooter in today to figure out how bad it is. It’s bad. the clog is evidently under my dining room table.

    The talk is that they may have to pull up the carpet and jack-hammer the concrete from the wall to the table, and who knows how much farther. If they do this, I will have to leave until they finish the work. 😦 I am trying to figure out what this will all involve for me. I guess I will find out later today. They are still working.

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  11. John Denney says:
    February 27, 2017 at 12:38 pm

    So I’m driving into work this morning listening to Rush Limbaugh and he breaks to commercial for a product that sanitizes your CPAP (pronounced SEE-pap), and I thought they were saying CPAC (SEE-pack), and that it was one of Rush’s spoof commercials.

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    • joshua says:
      February 27, 2017 at 12:56 pm

      Maxine Waters came on and demanded that Rush just not even consider messing with her seepapc or anything else since he is a racist and a facist and a damn republican

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  12. Sharon says:
    February 27, 2017 at 1:57 pm

    Years ago I had signed up for Macy’s notification emails of specials. Since about three months ago, they now send out at least one email “special” every single day. Really. Every. Single. Day.

    *Free shipping ends at midnight*
    *20% off between now and 6:19 pam – don’t miss out*

    (And alot of them say stuff like………)

    ……*We look forward to your return……*
    *A Welcome Back Special just for you*

    I wonder if they have figured out it would have been a whole easier to just keep selling Mr. Trump’s ties.

    I spit in in their general direction.

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  13. lovely says:
    February 27, 2017 at 3:27 pm

    Don Lemonhead has no idea what Robert Kennedy Jr. is talking about, he just knows that he isn’t happy with the answer.

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  14. amwick says:
    February 27, 2017 at 5:43 pm

    I have another loaf of walnut break in the oster baking…. hmmmmm smells like fresh bread..

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  15. czarowniczy says:
    February 27, 2017 at 7:12 pm

    While everyone’s runnning around trying to change the public’s perception of police the Louisiana State Police are out crawling thru the underbrush again.
    Ladt October the head of the LASP Internal Affairs Division and a gaggle of at least 15 troopers and employees went to the IACP cobference in San Diego. One would think they’d fly there but nooooooooo, they took dtate police vehicles.
    Hmmmmmmm, you’d think that driving to San Diego they’d get on theI-10 right where they are in Baton Rouge and head west in a straight line to San Diego, right? Nooooooo, they ‘dropped by’ the Grand Cayon and Las Vegas, not exactly in a straight libe.
    Ahhhh, it’s a police conference…of sorts…so you might say they were eligible for regular 8-hours per day pay, right? Noooooooo, there were vouchers put in for lots of overtime, including driving to the sidetrips, attending the side trips and partying at the conference.
    Ahhhhh, but they used discretion and stayed at the hotels in San Diego thst offered concention rates! YES…partially. Seems some of the brass stayed ay $300 a nite suites befitting their regal positions.
    The investigative reporter who uncovered this is still racking up the totals but the driving there alone cost the state about six times more than flying them there would have. The questionable charges, not the least the overtime, are being investigated and people arevtap dancing all over the place.
    The reporter cornered the Colonel who heads the State Police who was SHOCKED!, yes SHOCKED!, this had occured and said hevhad no idea who had suthorized this and eould IMMEDIATELY! Start and investigation to grt to the bottom of this.
    Don’t get ahead of me here…Buried in the stack of paperwork the reporter received in his Freedom of Information request was a document authorizing the trip but the signature of the signer was illegible soooooo the reporter started comparingnit to other signstures from the State Police they had on file…..if you guessed the authorizing signature was the Colonel who heads up the State Police, you know Louisiana.
    The Colonel is sorta incommunicado at present though a spokes-straw dog did offer up that Even now, with just four months left in the state’s fiscal year, the LASP still hasn’t spent all of its travel
    budget. Now, in a state with a monstrous budget shortfall looming and critical services already cut to the bone, thst the State Police is still working on wasting its travel budget so they won’t have to return any unused money to the state.

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    • Col.(R) Ken says:
      February 27, 2017 at 11:03 pm

      As with the military, why do people, responsible people do stupid things…….why?

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      • czarowniczy says:
        February 27, 2017 at 11:33 pm

        Because they can. We have,in the military, rank and brass who start to take their command positions a bit too seriously, the perqs of their positions are pushed and pushed until they feel they can get away with bigger and bigger stuff.
        There are ex-LASP who know the big boss and they say he thinks of himself as untouchable. Big cops all over in the state feel like that, largest frog in the pond, and every now and then one crosses someone who spills the beans and I’m sure that’s what happened here.

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  16. jeans2nd says:
    February 27, 2017 at 7:38 pm

    Meandering through the seaweed garden today, found a neat little weed.

    Seems my AI competition way back when was Robert Mercer, who, according to the Guardian, is now “at the heart of a multimillion-dollar propaganda network” that backs Pres Trump, whom we all worked so hard to elect. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage

    Is a very long article, full of psycho-nological psycho-babble, fear and loathing. Laughed through the entire piece.

    Well done, Andrew Breitbart. Thank you.

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  17. czarowniczy says:
    February 27, 2017 at 7:45 pm

    Seems Oscars have hit their EEO stride…why didn’t Kimmel thank Trump for pushing PCness in the Academy by helping push the inbred voters to pick non-white and Moslem winners? Oh, that’s right, Jimmy be too busy making fun of the non-white winners’ foreign names.

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  19. auscitizenmom says:
    February 27, 2017 at 8:26 pm

    I was hoping that Shiloh would check in today. I have been watching. I just feel so sorry for her. And, tonight I was talking to a friend who suggested rabies. I would imagine that she keeps her dog’s shots up-to-date, but I can’t figure out what could have caused him to attack her.

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  20. auscitizenmom says:
    February 27, 2017 at 9:00 pm

    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.

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen

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  21. lovely says:
    February 27, 2017 at 9:17 pm

    I didn’t watch the Jackals of Hollyweird last night, but I have ti say that this is just fabulous! 😜

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  22. auscitizenmom says:
    February 27, 2017 at 9:54 pm

    I saw a segment of the Oscars on FOX on some show. Kimmel brought in some “normal people”and welcomed them. (probably actors) It was to show that they were “inclusive’. The actors on the front row made a fuss over them, etc. It was disgusting.

    I tried to find a clip of it, but failed. I have trouble believing it really happened. SMH

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  23. auscitizenmom says:
    February 27, 2017 at 10:01 pm

    Sabo was just on Tucker Carlson. Somebody please find the clip.

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