General Discussion, Thursday, March 2, 2017

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  1. kinthenorthwest says:

    The Lord has done so much that it is so hard to know where to start.
    But each new day gives us even more to thank Him for

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  2. texan59 says:

    Gettin’ closer to Friday. Let’s all coffee up and see who the left-wing looney’s are goin’ after today. Never a dull moment. 🙄

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  3. texan59 says:

    Hehe! Plans to cut EPA staff and programs by at least 20%. Could this be another fake-out, just like the leaked speech from last night, or……………..be still my heart, could it be the start of something YUGE! 😆

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-eyes-plan-to-cut-epa-staff-by-one-fifth-eliminating-key-programs/ar-AAnGuxq?li=BBnbfcQ

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    • czarowniczy says:

      Yeah, a good start but nowhere enough. If you have a farm/ranch you are using gas/diesel cans regularly to refil tanks on everything from chainsaws to tractors. Since the stupid 2009 EPA mandated standards you are now more likely to spill fuel than you were with the old ones.
      The EPA changes to design ignored human behavior as well. Obebof the reasons the changes were made was toprevent fools from pouring gas out of the nozzle onto a going fire. There were a few cases of idiots doing so and getting burned so the EPA made the nozzle so that it couldn’t be used to pour without some real bodily contortions. Wow, Mr and Ms Beltway Bureaucrat, great planning but did it ever occur to you Bubba will just unscrew your super-nozzle and pour the gas directly out?
      And that’s just one thing out of many. Ya know, Mr Trump, once ya got them out-of-work EPA employees in hand why don’t ya sendb’em out here, they can help clean up the mess they’ve made over the last few decades.

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      • stella says:

        That’s why folks buy similar water containers (without the super nozzle) and use those for diesel or gas.

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        • czarowniczy says:

          I can’t even find the one gallon nerd-free nozzles, I have two old ones left I use for the chainsaws and just take the spills on larger equipment as part of the cost of doing business.

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      • michellc says:

        That’s why I have plenty of the old cans.
        Although there is a racing fuel jug you can still buy that is made like the old cans, it’s just more expensive. It’s like all their stupid regulations and there are loop holes.

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        • czarowniczy says:

          Can’t tell ya how much diesel I’ve spilled trying to swing a 35- pound ‘can’ of it up and into a tractor tank while balancing on the frame. I’m looking at buying a few NATO jerry cans when they become available.

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          • michellc says:

            You can get the racing fuel jugs in 5, 8 and 10 gallons.
            I actually saw some at Atwoods the other day and they were labeled for diesel, but I didn’t investigate to see if they just looked like the racing jugs or were actually made like the racing jugs.

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            • czarowniczy says:

              I found a Brit source for military cans I’m going to try, they are built to be hailed around more easily. I also have a couple of old GI brackets for gerry cans I can fix to the old tractor.

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              • Mr Snado says:

                Check out your closest GSA public surplus store(s). We stopped in ours last Sat. and they had 5 gal milspec Jerry cans for $30 per pallet. About a buck a piece. http://www.publicsurplus.com/state,wa The inventory changes by the minute.

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                • czarowniczy says:

                  Good idea bu we’re pretty well out of that here, closest GSA property disposal is about 70 miles and there’s a TAG close buy so they get first crack at the good stuff. In all it’s just easier and cheaper to have UPS drop a few NATO cans at my door.

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                  • michellc says:

                    Find you a flea market or consignment/estate auctions. I have more gas cans than I will ever need because I always buy them when I see them.

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                  • Mr Snado says:

                    Yeah, our GSA is 1 1/2 – 2 hours away too, but when we go to town gotta make it as productive as possible. We make a full day of it anyway. Must be a holdover from the Jimmah Cawter days when we had to be rationed gas…

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    • Col.(R) Ken says:

      Czar, that’s just one of many issues. The Gold mine on the Navajo reservation, just criminal.

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      • czarowniczy says:

        Gold or copper? Sorta like the old Kaiparowitz coal project in Utah where Feds were going to allow a California company to dig up hundreds of square miles what they called ‘useless desert’ to get to the coal and divert water from a major river to sluice the coal dust to a plant wherebit would be compressed into bricks to burned. The plant they’d build would burn that coal, sending smoke hundreds of miles east, and provide electrical power for Southern California. At the end there’d be a useless plant and a huge hole in the ground.
        A good part of power generated would be lost in the resistance of the wires transmitting the power to California, sonevwags estimated that good 30% would have been lost between Utah generation and California user receipt, while some estimated even more of a loss than that. Luckily it failed but not without a fight from environmentally conscious California and the Feds to keep it.

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  4. patternpuzzler says:

    Hi Gang!

    From “A Book of Days in American History” and elsewhere: March 2

    1809: “Never did a prisoner released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power,” writes Thomas Jefferson, his second term as president over, the prospect of retiring to his beloved Monticello ahead.

    1836: Texas declares the independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.

    1887: Congress passes the Hatch Act to set up agricultural research stations. [Laying the basis for the Ag Departments in Colleges and Universities.]
    { NOT to be confused with the Hatch Act of 1939, for the purpose of codifying what political activities federal employess may and may not participate in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1939 }

    1899: President William McKinley signed legislation creating Mount Ranier National Park.

    1949: A B-50A bomber completes the world’s first nonstop global flight (94 hours) by refueling four times in midair. She was called Lucky Lady II, and was commanded by Captain James Gallagher.

    1965: Operation Rolling Thunder was implemented, with 100 Air Force bombers striking an ammunition depot at Xom Bang, 10 miles into North Vietnam.

    If anyone would like to add to these lists whenever I get them posted, please feel free. My list is nowhere exhaustive for important events for any given day in United States history!

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  5. amwick says:

    Morning Figments! My puzzle will be done in just a bit, when I get to it… It was only 500 pieces so it should have been easy, but, it was not… I have a couple waiting… Another amazing day.
    BTW, Southport NC is a lovely little place… much too windy to walk around, but I am definitely going back.

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  6. Menagerie says:

    This scientist has become one of my favorite writers. She has a book that’s in my TBR pile. This is a little deep, but really thought provoking.

    http://www.ncregister.com/blog/trasancos/you-are-made-of-dust-which-is-forged-by-god-in-the-stars

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  7. Menagerie says:

    I never have understood why, post Vatican II, Catholics allowed priests and bishops to destroy the beauty of their churches, treat out or cover up beautiful features the original founders sacrificed and gave greatly for. In his usual head on fashion, Father Z tackles the issue.

    I am not in the camp that opposes spending money on beautiful architecture and art in churches. Go back and reread God’s specifications for His Ark, and for the Temple, for the vestments, for the plates, and all the items in service in the the Temple. He didn’t shirk on the beauty, the awe, the wonder to reflect Him, among many other reasons. Anyhow, another good read.

    http://wdtprs.com/blog/2017/02/make-church-great-again-free-our-churches-from-the-ugly-and-stupid/

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  8. Menagerie says:

    And another one, regarding the spells being cast against the President. I urge you all to follow this excellent advice.

    Prayers for protection are very effective, according to Father Lampert, but we should not just be reactionary. “We should always be proactive in our faith and praying for our leaders­­—both civic and religious—as a normal part of our everyday action,” he said. “I would hate to think our faith is just reactionary. Scripture tells us to pray unceasingly

    http://www.ncregister.com/blog/armstrong/exorcists-warn-about-dangers-of-wiccan-spell-to-bind-donald-trump

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    • Col.(R) Ken says:

      Think it’s time to round up a few witches…..””.Spells, according to Father Lampert, only have an effect in people who are spiritually weak. If we are anchored in God, he said Scripture tells us we have nothing to fear. “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places,” (Ephesians 6:10-18).””

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    • Menagerie says:

      More FTA:

      Coming out in the Open

      Msgr. John Esseff, a priest for 63 years and an exorcist in the Diocese of Scranton, Pa. for over 40 years, said the face of the devil that is becoming more clearly seen in public. Previously, he said we saw more of what he calls an apathetic demon that appeals to the lower weaknesses of human nature such as the sexual revolution and all that comes with it.

      “Then, came the apostate demon,” Msgr. Esseff said, “that denies the sacrificial nature of human life is possible. We are told we will never able to achieve this kind of holiness or goodness or unity—it just can’t be done,” he said. “This is a real apostasy; not just in politics but also in churches, convincing people that holiness is unattainable.”

      Now, according to Msgr. Esseff, we are seeing the stage of the antichrist where the evil one is not afraid to show himself to humanity. Msgr. Esseff referred to Scripture: “This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.” (1 John 4: 2-3)

      “It’s not Trump they are against but Jesus,” Msgr. Esseff said. “The devil is saying, ‘no way are you reigning in this country, we are coming out against you!’”

      The spell is nothing to fear if our trust and our hope is in God, Msgr. Esseff said. “Anyone who would even begin to put God back into place is going to have the forces of hell against them,” he said. “Our Lady of Fatima has given us the key to deal with this: Increase prayer and reparation [such as making Five First Saturdays].

      “It’s the Fatima message and it’s coming at this time of the 100th year anniversary much more clearly,” Msgr. Esseff said. “Our Lady warned us about it at Fatima where she said the final battle will be against marriage and the family. This is not about politics, it’s about God.”

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      • Menagerie says:

        Wee, I need to borrow a hat. I don’t know when I’ve ever had such a struggle copying a section of text. I repeatedly copied this, and kept getting other parts of the article. Finally copied the whole thing, and deleted, word by word, as I could not highlight and delete.

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      • Wooly Phlox says:

        That’s clarity.

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  9. 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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  10. joshua says:

    all the virtual carbs in those virtual donuts caused me to gain 10 virtual pounds and my virtual waist size went up four virtual inches. wheeeee

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  11. joshua says:

    no illegals need come to the USA to harvest Brussell Sprouts for me as I have given them up for Lent….my contribution to the President Trump immigration policies.

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  12. Today’s frog is cute. He’s going, “I believe I can fly!”

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  13. auscitizenmom says:

    A Dreamer acted a little arrogant and got picked up by ICE. I am trying to work up some sympathy at this time. She was caught when she spoke out at a news conference. Either dumb or really arrogant. Her DACA visa had expired. They have to reapply every two years and evidently she didn’t get her renewal in on time. Her father and brothers have already been picked up.

    http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/03/01/dreamer-learns-valuable-life-lesson-trolling-ice/

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  14. lovely says:

    No, Attorney General Jeff Sessions DID NOT Lie Under Oath

    http://www.hannity.com/articles/hanpr-election-493995-493995/no-attorney-general-jeff-sessions-did-15607990/

    Attorney General Jeff Sessions is the latest member of President Trump’s cabinet to find himself at the center of Red Scare 2.0.

    On Wednesday evening, The Washington Post reported that in 2016 then-Senator Jeff Sessions spoke twice with Russia’s ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak. According to the report, Sessions spoke with Kislyak in July and September, once at a Heritage Foundation event that was attended by roughly 50 ambassadors, and once in his Senate office.

    Attorney General Sessions has released a statement about the Washington Post’s report.

    “I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign,” Sessions said. “I have no idea what this allegation is about. It is false.”

    More at link. My patience with this @^%$*& is wearing really, really, thin.

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    • czarowniczy says:

      This is all political theater by the Rats to delay Trump’s agenda. Just wait until the SCOTUS fight starts, the Rats and FBI will swear any nominees have Russian diplomatic officials buried in their basements.

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      • lovely says:

        Yep. Ginsburg is going to topple someday soon and there is no way they are going to let Judge Gorsuch to go easily to the bench and that is going to look like a piece of cake once President Trump names Ginsburg replacement.

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    • auscitizenmom says:

      Mine ran out a while back. They are on borrowed time now.

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  15. czarowniczy says:

    Ruh roh, two non-white transgenderites have been killed in non-white areas of NOLA in the last two weeks. City and NOPD have been aflutter about this unacceptable attack on the LGBT community and a special NOPD officer has been appointed to be the LGBT POC. Meanwhile the black community has had more than two murders in two weeks and car thefts and other crimes against the straight community as a whole exceed the ‘two’ number before noon each day with no special attention.

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  16. Wooly Phlox says:

    Germany has Magic Dirt too.

    “Angela Merkel announces that standing on German ground is sufficient to make one a member of the Volk:

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing heavy criticism for claiming the German people, or Volk, are comprised of anyone currently living in Germany regardless of their background.

    The word “Volk”, or people, in German (pronounced “folk”), is a somewhat controversial term in Germany and like many German phrases has no exact English equivalent. Chancellor Merkel is now facing opposition from many, including within her own party, for claiming that anyone living in Germany is part of the Volk, which amounts to saying that all migrants are German by virtue of living in the country, Tag 24 reports.

    Merkel made the comments in her home region of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania as she received the formal nomination from her party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), to lead the party in this year’s federal election. 95 per cent of the roughly 140 delegates voted for Merkel who ran for the nomination unopposed.

    “There is no justification that small groups of our society presume to define who the Volk are, the Volk is everyone who lives in this country,” Merkel said.

    “These luanatics are making the historical National Socialists look sane and reasonable by comparison. The Nazis merely regarded their ethnicity to be ideal. Merkel is openly disavowing science, history, and philosophy.

    “The Teutonic edition of Magic Dirt theory is no more credible or convincing than the American version. Indeed, if we are to take it seriously, we will be entirely unable to make any sense of history whatsoever. I mean, who sacked Rome? It couldn’t have been the Visigoths, because the Gothic people who crossed the Danube became Romans as soon as they settled inside the borders of the Eastern Roman Empire, regardless of their background.

    “Therefore, Alaric the Roman sacked Rome in 410 AD, with the assistance of tens of thousands of other Romans, for no apparent reason.” — Vox Day

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    • Christian Democratic Union?

      Talk about your non-indicative names.

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    • MaryfromMarin says:

      I used to think that insanity was insanity, and that was that. But, noooooooo…there is insanity and then there is INSANITY. And it continues on and on, as far as increasing font size will go (to infinity?) Merkel’s font size above is several degrees above “INSANITY”. (Many of our Dem politicians have reached that point, too, and are poised to top it.)

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  17. Wooly Phlox says:

    Spam:1 Wooly: 0

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  18. czarowniczy says:

    OK, I’ll bite – no one mentioned that Stella’s pic of the day just might be a prototype for the French air force?

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  19. I ❤ Huckabee!!!!

    *snicker snort*

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  20. stella says:

    Latest puppy picture. These are the boys. I will get a 2-week pic this weekend.

    michellc – I asked. They did the puppies’ tails at 2 days (just like you).

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  21. lovely says:

    AG Sessions just recused himself from any investigation that involves the Trump campaign.

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  22. Wooly Phlox says:

    Apropos of nothing, it just occurred to me that if Paul McCartney dies (again, heh), there will be some really strange internet memes.

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  23. Wooly Phlox says:

    Like

  24. Wooly Phlox says:

    One more spin, and you all have a good night.

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  25. 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.

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen

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  26. texan59 says:

    Can’t believe I haven’t seen this big news on here yet. Rachel Dolezal, almost homeless and on food stamps big announce. A name change to reflect her “real” heritage.

    Nkechi Amari Diallo “gift of G-d” my *ss. 👿

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/rachel-dolezal-african-phrase-article-1.2986238

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