I have truly enjoyed the wildflower pics this week Miss Stella. Thank you. But it’s now Sunday morning and everyone needs a drink. I’m bringing the coffee y’all. Still not too sure about this wack-a-doodle machine, but for now, we run with it. Coffee up y’all. I’m sure it’s going to be a busy week.
Poor Boo Boo, the show ends…he and Yogi get nailed on a Fed charge of theft and conspiracy to commit theft of pickanick baskets on Federal property. Boo gets time and it doesn’t go well for him being a small and slowish bear.
Boo gets out and there’s no work so he ends up living out of a shopping cart under a bridge. The booze, the drugs, his life fell into bruination.
We see him here at an AA meeting in his reBuild-a-Bear halfway house as he tries to piece his shattered life back together.
Czarina has a pair of old teddy bears, almost forgot. The larger bear wears my old green field fatigue cap from the late 60s and smaller bear sits in the lap larger bear. Haven’t had the bear tableau up for a while, paternalistic, demeaning, sexist…all of that…
but now we’re out in the more conservative sticks maybe it can go up again.
My daughter has the teddy bear that her grandpa gave her when she was 2. It is held together by the clothes that my mom made for him, because he is now almost completely hairless and threadbare. His name is “Teddy”, and he now lives on the mantel in her home.
Looks like Americans have finally had enough beatdowns and various other assaults by the antifa crowd.
Amen.
Antifa clash with Trump supporters during a pro-Trump march. We're tired of being trampled on and we WILL fight back! #MAGAMARCHpic.twitter.com/T10zgwDr5h
Including an app that lets you produce a pic that has that background blurring like a depth of field effect – it’s not only available with a new phone as they’d like you to believe.
“…We are not talking about Muslims here. We are talking about Islam. Lots of individual Muslims desire peaceful coexistence, even assimilation. But Islamβs aim is to prevail…”
My current phone is poweful, I guess. That’s what I’m told.
My old phone from 5 years ago took better macro pics, by far.
I took a photo of a leaf growing out of the side of a tree, from literally an inch away from it with my old phone, and had an amazing photo of a leaf smaller than my pinky fingernail, filling the screen, in glorious, high-res detail. It was a virtual microscope. Lenses matter.
My current phone cannot focus at a one-inch range.
My grandpa on my mom’s side, my “Bumpa”, was an avid gardener, and an avid photographer. He was on the East Coast, we were right where I sit. Him and Nana visited every so often, He was the man who taught me the phrase “G-d D-mn it All!” when he lost his camera at the K-Zoo airport. He said that about fifteen times.
“He said that about fifteen times.” …. that you heard him say… Cameras didn’t come cheaply then, either.
I got a nice Canon t2i as a gift last year, and even though I live in a smallish town I hesitate to go to the river or the local park alone with it, as I’m afraid it would be stolen. We’ve had a lot of gangbangers and illegals moving in here from Chicago, sadly.
There aren’t many places here to take good pics as it is.
I have been wanting to save up for a new camera. The one I have now is a $60 drugstore buy that is now coming apart at the edges, but I’ve taken about 15,000 pictures on it. It drives me crazy it takes so long to start (then I miss the animal I’m trying to photograph), and the back is flat with no eyepiece, so all I see is a reflection of my face a lot of times. Do you take a lot of photos, and what camera do you like?
Oh Oh sorry – had camera on the brain (big investment). Those flowers are amazing! Do you know what they are? I would love to have a flower garden again. Gardening is good π
Back in late 1990/very early ’91 I was sent to a classified tech meeting at a place in the Beltway. There was a number of devices all forgotten except for one. The presenter trots out a well-known Japanese camera with a wire attached from the back plate to some control box. Attached to the box was a battery pack and an old bulky hard drive. All of this, minus the camera of course, fit onto the user’s belt, not all thst comfortably.
This was cutting edge, a touchable scaling of the tech used on surveillance satellites, the working model of a system to come.
I can’t remember what the system’s resolution was, but ten years lster when the first cellphone cameras came out they were 176×208 so it couldn’t have been all that hot.
We got to use a version of it in the late 90s on a NEO mission, coordinating someone taking pix many miles from our work center and sending them back to us thru our secure computer system. Now you can do it with a few button punches on your smart phone and with far better resolution and ease.
This is rather appalling and I’m sure you’ll want to go take a shower afterwards, but I doubt that any of us are truly surprised. Note that in the story, Huma’s “people” deny this is happening.
lovely and I discussed this briefly on the previous thread. As long as they are married, they don’t have to testify in court against each other. As lovely says, this is a marriage of convenience, similar to Bill and Hillary.
(This is not the main point of his article but a salient one).
Speaking of healthcare, I predicted on Periscope here several days ago that the only way to get a bill passed was to let Ryan fail hard on the first attempt while scaring the left at the same time.
In the 2D world, where everything is just the way it looks, and people are rational, Trump and Ryan failed to improve healthcare. But in the 3D world of persuasion, Trump just had one of the best days any president ever had: He got promoted from Hitler to incompetent. And that promotion effectively defused the Hitler-hallucination bomb that was engineered by the Clinton campaign.
Thanks for posting. I really like to read Adam’s posts. He thinks in a way that does not come naturally to me, and gives me a viewpoint I would not normally have.
So Sweet!
You know – I really do think twice about a person who does not like dogs. My mom was afraid of dogs after being attacked by one as a child, and that is different. People who don’t like dogs I immediately don’t trust.
The great thing about some dogs, is they can also tell you who not to to trust, as well.
Chef’s dog barks at two people, and menacingly growls at one, who walk by his yard on the sidewalk. Chef and I always had bad knowledge about two, a bad feeling about all three of them, and his cute little dog either knows that fact, or intuits it otherwise.
Not only that, but who has ill intent, and who is absolutely evil.
Not even toward us, or the dog, just in general.
I’ve seen it too many times to discount it.
Experienced it too. You meet someone and in five seconds something inside you wants to growl menacingly. Or conversely, you meet someone and within five seconds you know they are Good People.
Sodium azide is the bang in an airbag, that free sodium stench is the heart of bleach (sodium hypochlorite) and the sodium azide gas. We used to use lots of neat and highly corrosive stuff in bio/chem decontamination operations and that concentrated bleach smell used to fry your nose., there are times I’m amazed that I have anybnose left at all.
Sidebar: We got into airbags as there were fears that bad guys would break into cars to steal the detonators to use to trigger IEDs. Appears that stealing the entire airbag assembly and reselling it to unscrupulous dealers yields enough mobey to buy the good detonators stolen from storage sites.
Two decades ago, when I was at rock bottom, living in my car, I tried in vain to sell my car’s airbag, just for the cash. No luck.
I guess I didn’t know the right people. You’d think “well, maybe that airbag saved the next owner’s life”. You’d be wrong, as I destroyed that Geo with a flat-bladed shovel when I couldn’t dig it out of the ice its wheels were encased in.
Yeah, I used to be a very angry person.
Now I sing all day, because I’m lucky to be alive.
And you do a lot of good through your joy in God. One word sometimes changes the course of events minor and great. We are celebrating my mom’s birthday in a couple of weeks and I was at a loss for a gift. She, like many people her age just doesn’t need anything and her house is full of the things she treasures and enough knick knacks for anyone.
Last night your “WOW” to my picture made me think of a great gift. I am going to put 25 -50 pictures of my mom’s flowers from over the years together and put them in a scrapbook for her. She has some pictures from me on her computer but I know she would love to have a book to look at especially over the long winter. So thank you Wooly!
Just throw on a hijab and the churls will quiet down and behave whenever you’re around they might even pay for all your meals and comp you the hotel room.
Mornin nyetneetot, as always thanks for breakfast. Coffee above, food here yum!
You and lovely cracking me up today! So apparently the kiddies are not to your liking (I agree – I would not want to be on vaca on school break either) I know you are blameless in all things ;-), but perhaps think of it as penance for the 1 sin thou mayest have committed this past year.;-) – It’s Sunday after all.
Trim the pork of any excess fat and rip off the silvery membrane if itβs still attached.
Spread 1tsp mustard over the top of the roast, then the garlic and onion powder. Fold the tapered end of the pork back under the rest of the tenderloin a little bit, just to the point where the whole tenderloin is a uniform thickness. Wrap the pork in strips of bacon, overlapping the pieces and making certain they fit snugly around the pork Tightly tuck the ends underneath the tenderloin to hold them in place. Secure the ends of the bacon strips in place with toothpicks.
Heat the oil in a roasting pan or a large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat. Sear the pork until itβs brown on all sides, about 10 – 15 minutes total. Transfer the pan to the oven and roast the tenderloin until the core temperature registers 145Β°F for medium, about 15 minutes, or 155Β°F for medium-well, 20 – 30 minutes.
While the pork is cooking, pour excess drippings out of the pan and cook the onion over medium heat until soft and browned. Mix together the apricot preserves and 1 tsp mustard, add to onion and warm over medium-low heat until it begins to bubble, about 5 minutes.
About 5-10 minutes before the roast is done depending on how crispy you want it, spread on the apricot, mustard and onion mixture [1], and finish cooking. When the roast is done set aside to rest, covered, for 5 -10 minutes.
[1]You can make extra sauce mixture and put over the roast when cooking. When done, pour out of pan, skim off fat and serve, or just make and set aside to pour over roast when served.
Some recipies add brown sugar, but I prefer it without as it dilutes the other flavors, and makes it very sugary. This process can be used for any spice/preserve combo you want. Enjoy!
Islam continues to get Antifa to march to its orders. Wait until Antifa finds out that donning the hijab is not points of debate or optional in the world that they are trying so hard to help create. Nor are womenβs rights, homosexuality, music, movies, dancing, drinking, protection against rape, pedophilia or protesting. The minions are fighting so hard to give up their rights, if they only knew.
America is the the Great Satan___ Islam & Antifa
Hmmmm….
Muslim or Antifa?
SMH The dumbing down of the American mind is in overdrive.
Watson is solidly behind Trump and patriotism, solidly against Islam. He posted the hijab idea from someone else’s account to show how foolish and dangerous the Antifa crowd is.
Better late than never, but then, it IS Sunday… Hello, all!
This Day in (Mostly) American History: March 26
1776: South Carolina approves new Constitution
1790: US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
1804: Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1804: Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase
1830: The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1845: Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
1859: 1st supposed sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury; it doesn’t exist
1863: Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves
1872: 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
1872: Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher
1885: Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1910: US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick [Wikipedia lists this as the Immigration Act of 1903. For a complete – and interesting – list of Immigration Laws, please see Wiki http://tinyurl.com/jqvxz54
1926: The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
1930: Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway. The Inter-American Highway (IAH) is the Central American section of the Pan-American Highway and spans 5,470 kilometers (3,400 mi) between Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and Panama City, Panama. At the time, the US still owned the Panama Railroad and the Panama Canal. US had a military presence.
1936: Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
1937: Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye
1941: Naval warfare gets new weapon On this day, Italy attacks the British fleet at Suda Bay, Crete, using detachable warheads to sink a British cruiser. This was the first time manned torpedoes had been employed in naval warfare, adding a new weapon to the worldβs navyβs arsenals.The manned torpedo, also known as the βChariot,β was unique. Primarily used to attack enemy ships still in harbor, the Chariots needed βpilotsβ to βdriveβ them to their targets. Sitting astride the torpedo on a vehicle that would transport them both, the pilot would guide the missile as close to the target as possible, then ride the vehicle back, usually to a submarine. The Chariot was an enormous advantage; before its development, the closest weapon to the Chariot was the Japanese Kaitenβa human torpedo, or suicide bomb, which had obvious drawbacks.
1953: Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio On March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio. In 1952βan epidemic year for polioβthere were 58,000 new cases reported in the United States, and more than 3,000 died from the disease. For promising eventually to eradicate the disease, which is known as βinfant paralysisβ because it mainly affects children, Dr. Salk was celebrated as the great doctor-benefactor of his time. Polio, a disease that has affected humanity throughout recorded history, attacks the nervous system and can cause varying degrees of paralysis. Since the virus is easily transmitted, epidemics were commonplace in the first decades of the 20th century. The first major polio epidemic in the United States occurred in Vermont in the summer of 1894, and by the 20th century thousands were affected every year. In the first decades of the 20th century, treatments were limited to quarantines and the infamous βiron lung,β a metal coffin-like contraption that aided respiration.
1954: US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1955: “Ballad of Davy Crockett” becomes the #1 record in US
1956: Medic Alert Foundation forms
1956: Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One
1958: 30th Academy Awards-“The Bridge on the River Kwai”, Joanne Woodward & Alec Guinness
1962: US Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legistature
1964: “Funny Girl” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances
1969: Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV
1970: 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
1970: Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
1973: TV Soap “The Young & the Restless” premieres on CBS
1974: George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title in Caracas, Venezuela
1975: [Vietnam] Hue falls to the communists The city of Hue, in northernmost South Vietnam, falls to the North Vietnamese. Hue was the most recent major city in South Vietnam to fall to the communists during their new offensive. The offensive had started in December 1974, when the North Vietnamese had launched a major attack against the lightly defended province of Phuoc Long, located north of Saigon along the Cambodian border. The communists overran the provincial capital of Phuoc Binh on January 6, 1975.
President Richard Nixon had repeatedly promised South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu that the United States would come to the aid of South Vietnam if North Vietnam committed a major violation of the Peace Accords. However, by the time the communists had taken Phuoc Long, Nixon had already resigned from office and his successor, Gerald Ford, was unable to convince a hostile Congress to make good on Nixonβs promises to Saigon.
This situation emboldened the North Vietnamese, who launched a campaign in March 1975 to take the provincial capital of Ban Me Thuot in the Central Highlands. The South Vietnamese defenders there fought very poorly and were overwhelmed by the North Vietnamese attackers. Once again, the United States did nothing. President Thieu ordered his forces in the Highlands to withdraw to more defensible positions to the south. What started out as a reasonably orderly withdrawal degenerated into a panic that spread throughout the South Vietnamese armed forces. They abandoned Pleiku and Kontum in the Highlands with very little fighting and the North Vietnamese pressed the attack from the west and north. In quick succession, Quang Tri and Hue fell. The communists then seized Da Nang, the second largest city in South Vietnam. Many South Vietnamese, both military and civilian, died in the general chaos while attempting to escape from the airport, docks, and beaches.
By this time, the South Vietnamese forces were in flight all over the northern half of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese continued to attack south along the coast, overrunning city after city, methodically defeating the South Vietnamese forces. By April 27, the North Vietnamese had completely encircled Saigon and began to maneuver for their final assault, which became known as the βHo Chi Minh Campaign.β By the morning of April 30, it was all over. As the North Vietnamese tanks broke through the gates of the Presidential Palace in Saigon, the Vietnam War came to an end.
1975: “Tommy” premieres in London. Created by Pete Townsend of/and The Who, becomes the first Rock Opera. For a more complete history of Tommy, please see http://ultimateclassicrock.com/history-of-tommy/
1975: The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
1979: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat sign the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty in 1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
Washington, D.C. In a ceremony at the White House, Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sign a historic peace agreement, ending three decades of hostilities between Egypt and Israel and establishing diplomatic and commercial ties. For their achievement, Sadat and Begin were jointly awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Peace. Sadatβs peace efforts were not so highly acclaimed in the Arab worldβEgypt was suspended from the Arab League, and on October 6, 1981, Muslim extremists assassinated Sadat in Cairo. Nevertheless, the peace process continued without Sadat, and in 1982 Egypt formally established diplomatic relations with Israel.
1982: Groundbreaking in Washington, D.C. for Vietnam Veterans Memorial. For more information, Please see today’s Tara Ross column at taraross.com . I cannot do it justice here.
1982: Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release “Ebony & Ivory” in the UK
1983: US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986: Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
1989: 1st free elections in USSR; 190 million votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
1990: 62nd Academy Awards: “Driving Miss Daisy”, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jessica Tandy win
1996: The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for Russia.
1997: Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven’s Gate cult suicides.
1999: A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man. Jack Kevorkian was a U.S.-based physician who assisted in patient suicides, sparking increased talk on hospice care and “right to die” legislative action. He was a pathologist who assisted people suffering from acute medical conditions in ending their lives. After years of conflict with the court system over the legality of his actions, he spent eight years in prison after a 1999 conviction. Kevorkian’s actions spurred national debate on the ethics of euthanasia and hospice care.
2000: 72nd Academy Awards: “American Beauty”, Kevin Spacey & Hilary Swank win
2001: Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister opens an oil pipeline from the giant Tengiz Field to the Russian port of Novorossiysk on Monday, giving the Central Asian producer its first direct link to international markets
2005: The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People’s Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.
2005: “Doctor Who” returns to BBC TV after 16 years with the debut of Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose
2012: Canadian filmmaker James Cameron becomes the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth in over 50 years
Stella has suggested Tara Rossβ website for more detailed American History. Ms. Ross is an author and a constitutionalist who publishes, on her website, βThis day in American Historyβ. She writes quite well and Iβve also become a fan. While, because of time issues, I cannot incorporate Ms. Rossβ writings here, I do suggest subscribing to her web newsletter for historical information in depth in your morning email. The signup for her newsletter, and her daily post can be found at at http://www.taraross.com/
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1910: US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick [Wikipedia lists this as the Immigration Act of 1903. For a complete β and interesting β list of Immigration Laws, please see Wiki http://tinyurl.com/jqvxz54
Isn’t wanting to overthrow the US government and replace it with Sharia Law criminal?
She does cover this very well. By now Trumps people should be pouring through the information from one whistle blower, Montgomery. Seems Trump has a small “staff” group assembled in the WH that was comparing transcripts of Democratic operatives and John McShames public comments, and then with transcripts of phone calls, conversations within his transition team. The press will dropped this story like a hot potato, once the FISA warrant becomes public. Then when the supeana for 12-20 people who were in the meeting that Comly mentioned……..
I bet he knows how to, and can, grout marble tile.
The dude is indomitable.
Trump could understand industrial engineering and 3D printing inside a week.
Hillary had to e-mail (imagine how long it took to teach her how to e-mail, and to keyboard) Huma, just for TV listings, to find out what time her favorite show came on.
I bet he knows how to, and can, grout marble tile.
I mean that. How much marble tile has been grouted, cleaned, and sealed in his presence, building resorts, golf courses, hotels, casinos, and skyskrapers?
I would bet he does too. Eric said he himself is probably the only son of a billionaire who is as comfortable at the controls of a Caterpillar backhoe as he is behind a desk. POTUS has always said he knows the construction business from the ground up.
Yeah Trump was played by Ryan, and GOPe. Whether he knew it or not. Now Tump know the score, hard lesson to lean, Trump will move forward. Trump should back off his criticism of conservatives, Freedom Caucuses, solicit their support for up coming events. With Ryan, the smack down of his plan, thisn was not the plan that was made in 2015, this should end his influence. Rumors are Tray Gowdy is moving on up……..
Yesterday a group of young βuns invited me to attend an outside tea party. Yes, the wind was howling, yes the grass was as brown as the Sahara, but there was a beautiful bouquet of florist wildflowers lending color to the table and the early thaw provided us with the background music of a spring run-off rushing over the nearby reservoir dam.
Laughter & hot tea were pouring out around the table when we noticed that a rabbit had quietly emerged from the tree line. The rabbit paced around the edge of the lawn, it stood up, smelled the wind & clearly focused on us for about five minutes. And then spring arrived in all its glory. Mama bunny brought forth her fluffle of babies and guided them across the lawn in front of us as she headed down to the creek bed below.
Tea party AND bunniesβ¦.a sure-fire restorative for a weary soul.
The babies were probably about two weeks younger than the ones in your photo and mama was definitely “winter skinny”….regardless….they were precious and it was a remarkable encounter. :0)
Did ya’z turn on all of your electrical appliances last night, fire up the pollution-belching diesel truck and celebrate Earth Hour last night? I did. π π
A journey most would have thought an exercise in futility and the tilting of windmills. His college prof gave him a C on a college paper, and he went on to change the Constitution.
The stupid is Bigly here. I used to think that Senators were a cut above – sort of like the House Of Lords in Parliament. My, how things have ‘changed’:
Judge Gorsuch has consistently valued legalisms over real lives. I won't support his nomination. https://t.co/7SLAOI6MXx
— Vice President Kamala Harris Archived (@VP46Archive) March 24, 2017
All of this posturing and playing to the sound bite is wearing me out. I’m to the point where I don’t believe a word they say, whichever side of the aisle they sit on. Weasels like McCain and Graham on our “side”, and drivel like this from her, Scchumer, and Co. Boring and tiresome.
IMO a big part of what is totally wrong in the world today is people thinking that they have the right to “feel good” or that they are entitled to agree with what is good and right. They think it must not conflict with their wants and desires, when in actuality we must conform our wants and desires in right order to the Good in order to truly be happy.
Short term pleasures are not the be all end all, but I see no indication that the world will ever understand that again. Today I went to confession. For the first time in a long while I didn’t want to. I wanted to continue on my path. I wasn’t feeling it. But my faith, and the grace of prudence tell me to use an act of will rather than wait until I feel like doing right. It is far from the most emotional confession I ever made, but I think it was one of the most needed and important ones. And Jesus gave me exactly the counsel and penance I needed.
Menagerie, I agree wholeheartedly with your post!!!
“And Jesus gave me exactly the counsel and penance I needed” How wonderful God is! I am truly happy for you.
I got into an argument about politics with a co-worker tonight. I had just gone in (it’s just next door, pretty much) to help the kitchen close down for the night. She is going to school to be a “diplomat”, but she’s a hard, hard leftie. The argument we had was (I was pro) whether North Africa was better or worse off under English Colonialism. I had made the point, offhand, that I’ve known several people from Nigeria and elsewhere, and that their command of the English language is superb, and that they speak it better than anyone on earth except Indians.
Oh, she snapped. “Yeah, because of England and their bad Colonizing!”
Then I led her into a discussion of The Prime Directive, from Star Trek, and whether she agreed or not that it is good to give less-advanced civilizations things like refrigeration, medicine, the scientific method, language, and philosophy?
I said, what, just tell them “Good luck! Invent it yourselves!”???
What I found amazing is that (and I love everyone, and keep that in mind whether I’m working for them or educating them) I kept absolutely cool the whole time. That is incredibly rare with me, except lately. I think reading Vox Day really helped in that regard. Confidence was gained in my life over this last decade like no other.
I stopped talking about all these things with people, about four years ago: politics, religion, culture. Nope, stick to weather, music, work, and humor. Never, ever argue the more important things. I lost my voice for the three busiest months of summer. Try yelling “Behind you! Sharp!” or “Behind you! Hot! Hot!!” when you sound like a Scooby Dooβ’ ghost villain, in the busiest kitchen in town. It was not a fun three months.
He took my voice. Then, He gave it back. That was unexpected. After two months, I thought it was gone forever. And now, somehow, years later, can actually argue with progs with real confidence, and love. And sing in the kitchen like Smokey.
Why He took my voice? I only used it for evil, and never for good. All I did was bitch.
Boogie on, Reggae Woman. That’s what I use my voice fo, now.
Next time tell her that Europe most certainly does serve an important function in north and sub-Saharan Africa. Were it mot for Europeans the residents wouldn’t have an excuse for their relative lack,of overall progress.
We are a nation of LAWS. Not of feelings, not of personalities. If you don’t agree with that, you will be voted out of office.
Enjoy your lifetime pension and platinum bennies for you and all your kinfolk.
(And that needs to end too. You get voted out of the House or Senate? You better go find a job right quick. We vote them out, then give them, essentially, lottery winnings for life.)
I’m sitting outside, late afternoon, glorious day: clear sky, about 70 degrees slight breeze. For some reason the air’s full of carpenter bees and smaller dragon flies.
Dog’s asleep next to my chair and I’m sitting under a white oak Inraised from an acorn.
Dear Congress: @$&# all of you. Molon labe this…
Thought you might want to hear..
Dh’s SIL is a CO for Suffolk County NY… He just told Dh that ICE is filling up their jail…. (with South of the Border illegal aliens) He has been there a few years now.. this is new…
Good, maybe they can get the dude across the lake with tne thug chicken collection.
Interesting to watch the black Rat pols tap dancing around immigration knowing that those South of the Border Rats will only vote for them as long as the Rats continue to support them and the traditionsl Rats are slowly catching on to the fact that their entitlement pies are being sliced more thinly.
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.
That story a couple of days ago about the ex-military Sniper who save his neighbors by shooting their three captors?
There is no such thing as the Seattle Tribune. They have the Times and the Post-Intelligencer.
It is a fake news site. I’ve been reading news long enough to know the names of most of the major city newspapers in this great nation.
The story is fake. The site is fake, and made to look exactly like a local big-city news site. You click on the tabs on top and get a clue. Blank pages.
Or you can go to infogalactic and search for the Seattle Tribune.
Lots of intentional disinformation out there. It’s good to have, and practice, discernment.
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I found out today that there are actually sites where you can make fake news articles, appearing on real-MSM-looking templates, to spoof your friends (or enemies) in real life, and then propagate the links through FaceBook, where they will then be further propagated. These sites are like IMGUR or Photobucket, only instant-fake-news-making sites.
Reminded me of all the beautiful people here at Stella’s Place
God Bless and Have a great Sunday.
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By kinthenorthwest on March 26, 2017 at 12:06 am
Have a blessed Sunday, kin! ππ»β
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By sandandsea2015 on March 26, 2017 at 7:31 am
A blessed and happy Sunday Kin π .
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 9:50 am
And it’s beauty reminds us of you as well. Thank you for these lovely posts! π
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 10:44 am
I have truly enjoyed the wildflower pics this week Miss Stella. Thank you. But it’s now Sunday morning and everyone needs a drink. I’m bringing the coffee y’all. Still not too sure about this wack-a-doodle machine, but for now, we run with it. Coffee up y’all. I’m sure it’s going to be a busy week.
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By texan59 on March 26, 2017 at 12:10 am
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By MaryfromMarin on March 26, 2017 at 12:16 am
Who is that? It’s not Paddington. It’s not Pooh. It’s not Corderoy.
That is a mutt. Just look at him.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 12:24 am
Is that a Steiff?
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By stella on March 26, 2017 at 12:26 am
Dunno. It’s not mine (although it’s as worn with love as mine is). Like many of your photos, stella, I just found this online.
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By MaryfromMarin on March 26, 2017 at 12:29 am
Poor Boo Boo, the show ends…he and Yogi get nailed on a Fed charge of theft and conspiracy to commit theft of pickanick baskets on Federal property. Boo gets time and it doesn’t go well for him being a small and slowish bear.
Boo gets out and there’s no work so he ends up living out of a shopping cart under a bridge. The booze, the drugs, his life fell into bruination.
We see him here at an AA meeting in his reBuild-a-Bear halfway house as he tries to piece his shattered life back together.
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By czarowniczy on March 26, 2017 at 1:06 am
Czarina has a pair of old teddy bears, almost forgot. The larger bear wears my old green field fatigue cap from the late 60s and smaller bear sits in the lap larger bear. Haven’t had the bear tableau up for a while, paternalistic, demeaning, sexist…all of that…
but now we’re out in the more conservative sticks maybe it can go up again.
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By czarowniczy on March 26, 2017 at 10:37 am
My daughter has the teddy bear that her grandpa gave her when she was 2. It is held together by the clothes that my mom made for him, because he is now almost completely hairless and threadbare. His name is “Teddy”, and he now lives on the mantel in her home.
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By stella on March 26, 2017 at 12:27 am
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?
I had a “Teddy” too. He’s gone, now, but he was similarly threadbare last I saw him.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 9:54 pm
I stopped by for a cup of coffee but I see I’m too late…the coffee pot is empty β maybe next time
HAPPY π· SUNDAY
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By hocuspocus13 on March 26, 2017 at 1:35 am
Oh my, I thought it was a magic pot that never emptied. π
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By amwick on March 26, 2017 at 9:12 am
π― π― π―
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By texan59 on March 26, 2017 at 11:00 am
COFFEE! COFFEE! (as she stumbles towards the machine like Frankenstein) π Thanks texan!
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 10:46 am
Without my morning coffee I’m just like a dried up piece of roast goat.
— Johann Sebastian Bach.
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By nyetneetot on March 26, 2017 at 11:44 am
Damn that man had talent.
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By Menagerie on March 26, 2017 at 2:28 pm
Thank you Tex……time EQ for the day……..
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 26, 2017 at 2:50 pm
Looks like Americans have finally had enough beatdowns and various other assaults by the antifa crowd.
Amen.
Or as someone on Twitter said “When you’re caught playing Call of Duty when grownups are around.”
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 12:15 am
They got their ass kicked σΎ¦
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By hocuspocus13 on March 26, 2017 at 1:30 am
Someone was shouting at the end ” YOU CAN’T RUN, YOU CAN’T HIDE”
sweet.
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By amwick on March 26, 2017 at 9:15 am
I keep wondering what the guy in the upper left pic was going to do with the flag once he catches that dude in black.
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By czarowniczy on March 26, 2017 at 10:20 am
Insert your own idea here. It will be rect, ah, I mean correct.
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By Menagerie on March 26, 2017 at 2:30 pm
Glad you rectified your comment.
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By czarowniczy on March 26, 2017 at 3:25 pm
SMH.
Dang near killed em!
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 5:47 pm
Stella, your theme this week is absolutely beautyful,
If i had the gumption, I would make a photo site with all your pics.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 12:16 am
It would take a while, but it could be done, easily.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 12:17 am
Most of the pics I use are the property of others. I just share the ones I like.
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By stella on March 26, 2017 at 12:18 am
stellasplace1photos.com would be neat, though.
There have been many amazing ones.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 12:26 am
Once again, the color saturation above ^^^ bowls me over. Thank you, stella!
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By MaryfromMarin on March 26, 2017 at 12:18 am
I think this one is oversaturated, but the bluebonnets are truly beautiful, aren’t they?
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By stella on March 26, 2017 at 12:20 am
Sometimes, oversaturation is just what one NEEDS.
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By MaryfromMarin on March 26, 2017 at 12:24 am
It’s a gift to the eyes. I can’t explain it any better than that…
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By MaryfromMarin on March 26, 2017 at 12:25 am
HDR
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 12:26 am
Succinct.
High Dynamic Range
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 12:28 am
Look it up on infogalactic.
You can get HDR apps for your phone camera, with sliders that adjust the color saturation, from pure B&W to acid trip-level color, and much much more.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 12:31 am
Including an app that lets you produce a pic that has that background blurring like a depth of field effect – it’s not only available with a new phone as they’d like you to believe.
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By patternpuzzler on March 26, 2017 at 11:12 am
It’s not oversaturation, it’s…art.
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By czarowniczy on March 26, 2017 at 1:08 am
I just thought they were purdy.
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By amwick on March 26, 2017 at 9:16 am
It’s Beautiful – has been all week! First thing in the morning, I probably couldn’t see a pale picture anyway! Love your pictures.
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 10:50 am
Drive-by:
Islam and the Jihad in London
“…We are not talking about Muslims here. We are talking about Islam. Lots of individual Muslims desire peaceful coexistence, even assimilation. But Islamβs aim is to prevail…”
https://counterjihadreport.com/2017/03/25/islam-and-the-jihad-in-london/
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By MaryfromMarin on March 26, 2017 at 12:23 am
I am not a gardener but I look forward to my mom’s garden every spring. Maybe we will get another mystery plant this year π .
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 12:27 am
WOW
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 12:32 am
My current phone is poweful, I guess. That’s what I’m told.
My old phone from 5 years ago took better macro pics, by far.
I took a photo of a leaf growing out of the side of a tree, from literally an inch away from it with my old phone, and had an amazing photo of a leaf smaller than my pinky fingernail, filling the screen, in glorious, high-res detail. It was a virtual microscope. Lenses matter.
My current phone cannot focus at a one-inch range.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 12:37 am
My mom is a terrific gardner. I have a ton of pictures of her flowers. This one was likely taken with my Nikon camera not my phone.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 12:40 am
My grandpa on my mom’s side, my “Bumpa”, was an avid gardener, and an avid photographer. He was on the East Coast, we were right where I sit. Him and Nana visited every so often, He was the man who taught me the phrase “G-d D-mn it All!” when he lost his camera at the K-Zoo airport. He said that about fifteen times.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 12:59 am
“He said that about fifteen times.” …. that you heard him say… Cameras didn’t come cheaply then, either.
I got a nice Canon t2i as a gift last year, and even though I live in a smallish town I hesitate to go to the river or the local park alone with it, as I’m afraid it would be stolen. We’ve had a lot of gangbangers and illegals moving in here from Chicago, sadly.
There aren’t many places here to take good pics as it is.
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By patternpuzzler on March 26, 2017 at 11:21 am
You can empathize with Norway.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 5:55 pm
I have been wanting to save up for a new camera. The one I have now is a $60 drugstore buy that is now coming apart at the edges, but I’ve taken about 15,000 pictures on it. It drives me crazy it takes so long to start (then I miss the animal I’m trying to photograph), and the back is flat with no eyepiece, so all I see is a reflection of my face a lot of times. Do you take a lot of photos, and what camera do you like?
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 10:56 am
Oh Oh sorry – had camera on the brain (big investment). Those flowers are amazing! Do you know what they are? I would love to have a flower garden again. Gardening is good π
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 10:58 am
I don’t know what the flowers are but someone here likely does.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 11:18 am
Lovely, it’s from the daisy family…….. the center yellow head….hey what do I know…. would like to have a few seeds though…..
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 26, 2017 at 10:08 pm
More than me π I’m sure my mom would know.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 10:26 pm
I take loads of photos and I have a Nikon D3200 I’ve always had a Nikon since I was 16 years old. I just like them.
My camera is considered a camera for beginners or amateur hobbyists, I’m an amateur I just enjoy being able to set it to point and shoot.
Any Nikon even Cool Pix is a good digital camera.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 11:14 am
Thanks for the advice! You have really nice pictures there π Even baby swans!
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 11:21 am
I took this with my Pentax. My phone is crap for photos!
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By Jacqueline Taylor Robson on March 26, 2017 at 12:00 pm
It’s a very good photo! I love the look on your cat’s face π
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 1:20 pm
I thought the kitty looked like she was somewhat displeased. LOL
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By auscitizenmom on March 26, 2017 at 1:35 pm
Good photo catching his expression of displeasure! Dogs love getting their nose in the camera – guess cats not so much! π
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 1:52 pm
This was her in the kitchen and she IS most displeased because the camera gives her no sweeties!
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By Jacqueline Taylor Robson on March 26, 2017 at 2:18 pm
I’ve pisted this many moons ago but….
Back in late 1990/very early ’91 I was sent to a classified tech meeting at a place in the Beltway. There was a number of devices all forgotten except for one. The presenter trots out a well-known Japanese camera with a wire attached from the back plate to some control box. Attached to the box was a battery pack and an old bulky hard drive. All of this, minus the camera of course, fit onto the user’s belt, not all thst comfortably.
This was cutting edge, a touchable scaling of the tech used on surveillance satellites, the working model of a system to come.
I can’t remember what the system’s resolution was, but ten years lster when the first cellphone cameras came out they were 176×208 so it couldn’t have been all that hot.
We got to use a version of it in the late 90s on a NEO mission, coordinating someone taking pix many miles from our work center and sending them back to us thru our secure computer system. Now you can do it with a few button punches on your smart phone and with far better resolution and ease.
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By czarowniczy on March 26, 2017 at 11:23 am
‘Posted’….sheesh, mistakes like that get me post off.
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By czarowniczy on March 26, 2017 at 12:22 pm
This is rather appalling and I’m sure you’ll want to go take a shower afterwards, but I doubt that any of us are truly surprised. Note that in the story, Huma’s “people” deny this is happening.
http://nypost.com/2017/03/25/huma-abedin-is-giving-marriage-with-anthony-weiner-another-try/
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By texan59 on March 26, 2017 at 12:34 am
I hereby renounce myself, prior to the act.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 12:39 am
Call me cynical, but I smell an ulterior motive.
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By MaryfromMarin on March 26, 2017 at 12:41 am
lovely and I discussed this briefly on the previous thread. As long as they are married, they don’t have to testify in court against each other. As lovely says, this is a marriage of convenience, similar to Bill and Hillary.
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By stella on March 26, 2017 at 12:43 am
Stella and I were just talking about it on yesterday’s thread.
DC is a cesspool of perverts.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 12:42 am
But the cheese pizza in DC. Have you had it?
π¦
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 1:36 am
Yeah, and that’s putting it nicely.
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By Menagerie on March 26, 2017 at 2:37 pm
Annnnnnnd I have acnumber of replies, none of them appropriate for a Sunday post. Not too sure about the other six days of the week either.
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By czarowniczy on March 26, 2017 at 1:10 am
Well, there’s no accounting for taste.
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By Rhea Salacia Volans on March 26, 2017 at 2:19 pm
There is no joy quite like that of the joy of dog.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 12:48 am
Looks like Hooch from the Turner and Hooch movie. Loved that movie!
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By sandandsea2015 on March 26, 2017 at 7:36 am
I just love the face on this guy, he does look like Hootch π
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 9:31 am
We are blessed that God gave us dogs. π
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 10:59 am
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By stella on March 26, 2017 at 11:03 am
WOW, just WOW watery eyes. I need to “download”? this so I can listen to it anytime. Thank you so much for posting this Stella.
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 11:25 am
That is so sweet!
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By Jacqueline Taylor Robson on March 26, 2017 at 2:21 pm
Absolutely awesome, Stella.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 3:42 pm
It never gets old, and my eyes are weepy yet again.
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By stella on March 26, 2017 at 3:54 pm
I’m too manly for that.
:sniffs, wipes eyes:
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 5:56 pm
IMO Adam’s has it exactly right on the health care debacle.
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/158812654486/trump-and-healthcare
(This is not the main point of his article but a salient one).
Speaking of healthcare, I predicted on Periscope here several days ago that the only way to get a bill passed was to let Ryan fail hard on the first attempt while scaring the left at the same time.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 1:01 am
Very good article!
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By MaryfromMarin on March 26, 2017 at 1:03 am
I’m so glad Scott Adams decided to switch to writing, finally. He’s a beautiful man.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 1:04 am
I think of him as a modern day philosopher.
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By amwick on March 26, 2017 at 9:20 am
Bill Watterson was too. And Charles Shulz.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 5:57 pm
In the 2D world, where everything is just the way it looks, and people are rational, Trump and Ryan failed to improve healthcare. But in the 3D world of persuasion, Trump just had one of the best days any president ever had: He got promoted from Hitler to incompetent. And that promotion effectively defused the Hitler-hallucination bomb that was engineered by the Clinton campaign.
Adams is a Genius.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 1:08 am
1,343 comments.
Dang.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 1:14 am
I agree.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 1:16 am
As if further proof was needed here is something I found on FB π
1) Healthcare failed
2) Muslim ban failed
3) Negative approval rating π
4) Android broke u canβt tweet!
Adams hit the nail on the head.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 1:26 am
Thanks for posting. I really like to read Adam’s posts. He thinks in a way that does not come naturally to me, and gives me a viewpoint I would not normally have.
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 11:28 am
I agree he has a very well trained unique perspective but it can be learned!
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 11:31 am
Czar, I think this was left for you and Czarina π
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 1:18 am
A basket of adorables!
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By MaryfromMarin on March 26, 2017 at 1:22 am
(Using poetic license with “basket”)
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By MaryfromMarin on March 26, 2017 at 1:23 am
We know it’s not a handbasket, and that it’s destination is not Hell.
As I’ve said: they’re angels. On temporary assignment.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 1:40 am
That pic is actually Angel #12532 through #12534, and they’re just starting to adjust to This World.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 1:43 am
Yes it is!
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 1:24 am
It’s like a box in Czar’s road. x3.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 1:45 am
EXCELLENT! “adorables” π
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 11:02 am
So Sweet!
You know – I really do think twice about a person who does not like dogs. My mom was afraid of dogs after being attacked by one as a child, and that is different. People who don’t like dogs I immediately don’t trust.
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 11:04 am
Me too.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 11:16 am
Me, too.
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By auscitizenmom on March 26, 2017 at 11:47 am
The great thing about some dogs, is they can also tell you who not to to trust, as well.
Chef’s dog barks at two people, and menacingly growls at one, who walk by his yard on the sidewalk. Chef and I always had bad knowledge about two, a bad feeling about all three of them, and his cute little dog either knows that fact, or intuits it otherwise.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 6:02 pm
I have always been amazed at how dogs instinctively know who is a dog lover …
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By stella on March 26, 2017 at 6:03 pm
Not only that, but who has ill intent, and who is absolutely evil.
Not even toward us, or the dog, just in general.
I’ve seen it too many times to discount it.
Experienced it too. You meet someone and in five seconds something inside you wants to growl menacingly. Or conversely, you meet someone and within five seconds you know they are Good People.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 10:10 pm
I don’t trust people our dog doesn’t like. So far he’s batting 1,000.
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By Mr Snado on March 26, 2017 at 10:26 pm
It would be cuter if it weren’t so true.
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By czarowniczy on March 26, 2017 at 12:26 pm
Mornin’ kids!
https://twitter.com/CrazyinRussia/status/845622654606422016
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By WeeWeed on March 26, 2017 at 8:13 am
Good morning WeeWeed π
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 9:56 am
Mornin’ Lovely!
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By WeeWeed on March 26, 2017 at 10:13 am
Mornin WeeWeed. Hope you were rejuvenated from the movie, and your azalea has survived. Be careful out there with that chainsaw. π
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 10:31 am
Mornin’ G&C!
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By WeeWeed on March 26, 2017 at 11:00 am
Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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By stella on March 26, 2017 at 10:52 am
Mornin’ Stella!
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By WeeWeed on March 26, 2017 at 11:00 am
Mornin’ Miss Wee.
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By texan59 on March 26, 2017 at 11:03 am
Mornin’ T!
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By WeeWeed on March 26, 2017 at 11:06 am
Where can I get that bumper sticker!?
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By czarowniczy on March 26, 2017 at 12:27 pm
I keep on forgetting the power of the right index finger. Googled and bought it in less than two minutes time.
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By czarowniczy on March 26, 2017 at 12:33 pm
The smell of an airbag that has gone off leaves your nose in about four to five days.
It’s another great incentive to not crash your car, remembering that.
I don’t know what’s in them, but working with strong bleach products for a few hours, that bleach smell stays in your nostrils for about 2-3 hours.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 6:06 pm
Sodium azide is the bang in an airbag, that free sodium stench is the heart of bleach (sodium hypochlorite) and the sodium azide gas. We used to use lots of neat and highly corrosive stuff in bio/chem decontamination operations and that concentrated bleach smell used to fry your nose., there are times I’m amazed that I have anybnose left at all.
Sidebar: We got into airbags as there were fears that bad guys would break into cars to steal the detonators to use to trigger IEDs. Appears that stealing the entire airbag assembly and reselling it to unscrupulous dealers yields enough mobey to buy the good detonators stolen from storage sites.
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By czarowniczy on March 26, 2017 at 7:16 pm
Two decades ago, when I was at rock bottom, living in my car, I tried in vain to sell my car’s airbag, just for the cash. No luck.
I guess I didn’t know the right people. You’d think “well, maybe that airbag saved the next owner’s life”. You’d be wrong, as I destroyed that Geo with a flat-bladed shovel when I couldn’t dig it out of the ice its wheels were encased in.
Yeah, I used to be a very angry person.
Now I sing all day, because I’m lucky to be alive.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 10:16 pm
And you do a lot of good through your joy in God. One word sometimes changes the course of events minor and great. We are celebrating my mom’s birthday in a couple of weeks and I was at a loss for a gift. She, like many people her age just doesn’t need anything and her house is full of the things she treasures and enough knick knacks for anyone.
Last night your “WOW” to my picture made me think of a great gift. I am going to put 25 -50 pictures of my mom’s flowers from over the years together and put them in a scrapbook for her. She has some pictures from me on her computer but I know she would love to have a book to look at especially over the long winter. So thank you Wooly!
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 10:34 pm
Thanks for the continuing education, BTW.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 10:17 pm
Just giving back what your tax dollars gave me. Wanna know how to make it?
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By czarowniczy on March 28, 2017 at 12:20 am
Just kidding about that ‘make it’, btw.
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By czarowniczy on March 28, 2017 at 12:22 am
Evening Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!!!!! Tad chilly with the rain……..nice gentle rain,….should make the daffodils grow……
Hope you got that deadfall cut down.
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 26, 2017 at 10:27 pm
Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) π πΈ (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) π πΈ (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! π
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) π± πΈ (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! π πΈ πΈ (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! π πΈ (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! π πΈ (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! π
Mornin’ texan59! π
Mornin’ ZurichMike! π πΈ (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) π
Mornin’ Czarina! π πΈ (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! π
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! π
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) π πΈ (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! π πΈ (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! π πΈ (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! π
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! π
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) π
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) π
Mornin’ TwoLaine! π
Mornin’ Sha! π πΈ (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! π πΈ (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) π
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! π πΈ (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ lovely! π
Mornin’ michellc! π πΈ (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! π πΈ (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! π πΈ (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! π πΈ (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! π πΈ (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! π (Not even water)
Mornin’ Ms.Tee! π πΈ (Mojito)
Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! π πΈ πΈ (Cuba Libre)
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll π
Mornin’ Monroe! π
Mornin’ Les! π
Mornin’ shiloh1973! π
Mornin’ TexasRanger! π
Mornin’ Ziiggii! π
Mornin’ oldiadguy! π
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) π πΈ (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (βStellarsβ) π πΈ (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson π πΈ (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! π
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) π πΈ (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! π πΈ (1961 ChΓ’teau Montrose)
Mornin’ amwick! π πΈ (Blue motorcycle)
Mornin’ hocuspocus13! π πΈ (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ Sloth1963! π πΈ (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) π
Mornin’ Rhea Salacia Volans! π
Mornin’ joshua! π
Mornin’ John Denney! π
Mornin’ litenmaus! π
Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! π πΈ (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! π
Mornin’ patternpuzzler! π πΈ (Old Lady)
Mornin’ SenatssekretΓ€r FREISTAAT DANZIG! π
Mornin’ G-d&Country! π πΈ (Blind Russian)
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! π (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. π³
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! π
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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By nyetneetot on March 26, 2017 at 10:08 am
Good morning Nyet π I hope you are enjoying some sunshine !
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 10:25 am
I forgot about spring break. There appear to be children everywhere. Let see if Mrs. Nyet requires I sleep in the underground parking lot.
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By nyetneetot on March 26, 2017 at 10:37 am
Just throw on a hijab and the churls will quiet down and behave whenever you’re around they might even pay for all your meals and comp you the hotel room.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 10:43 am
Mornin nyetneetot, as always thanks for breakfast. Coffee above, food here yum!
You and lovely cracking me up today! So apparently the kiddies are not to your liking (I agree – I would not want to be on vaca on school break either) I know you are blameless in all things ;-), but perhaps think of it as penance for the 1 sin thou mayest have committed this past year.;-) – It’s Sunday after all.
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 11:11 am
Yep, bacon, eggs, and fried tators. Yum. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. π
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By auscitizenmom on March 26, 2017 at 11:49 am
Nye!!!!!! Evening Everyone!!!!!!!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you……..
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 26, 2017 at 10:31 pm
Evening Sir!
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 10:39 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/25/westminster-attack-khalid-masoon-acted-alone?CMP=twt_gu
Westminster attacker acted alone and motive may never be known, say police
Extensive inquiries find no motive for Khalid Masood and senior officer says there is no intelligence to suggest more attacks are planned
πππ
The Ostrich Reflex is strong.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 10:28 am
Response from London’s Moslem msyor: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/sadiq-khan-shuts-down-disgraceful-trump-jr-tweet-on-terror-attack-a3498261.html
Move along people, nothing to see here.
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By czarowniczy on March 26, 2017 at 12:57 pm
Here’s a bacon recipe for today – still have time to make it before lunch π
TODAY’S BACON RECIPE – BACON APRICOT PORK ROAST
Ingredients
1-1 1/2 pound pork tenderloin
6 – 8 strips bacon
4 Tbl apricot preserves
2 tsp mustard
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/2 cup onions chopped fine/minced, or sliced fine
2 tablespoons olive oil
Preheat the oven to 350Β°F
Trim the pork of any excess fat and rip off the silvery membrane if itβs still attached.
Spread 1tsp mustard over the top of the roast, then the garlic and onion powder. Fold the tapered end of the pork back under the rest of the tenderloin a little bit, just to the point where the whole tenderloin is a uniform thickness. Wrap the pork in strips of bacon, overlapping the pieces and making certain they fit snugly around the pork Tightly tuck the ends underneath the tenderloin to hold them in place. Secure the ends of the bacon strips in place with toothpicks.
Heat the oil in a roasting pan or a large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat. Sear the pork until itβs brown on all sides, about 10 – 15 minutes total. Transfer the pan to the oven and roast the tenderloin until the core temperature registers 145Β°F for medium, about 15 minutes, or 155Β°F for medium-well, 20 – 30 minutes.
While the pork is cooking, pour excess drippings out of the pan and cook the onion over medium heat until soft and browned. Mix together the apricot preserves and 1 tsp mustard, add to onion and warm over medium-low heat until it begins to bubble, about 5 minutes.
About 5-10 minutes before the roast is done depending on how crispy you want it, spread on the apricot, mustard and onion mixture [1], and finish cooking. When the roast is done set aside to rest, covered, for 5 -10 minutes.
[1]You can make extra sauce mixture and put over the roast when cooking. When done, pour out of pan, skim off fat and serve, or just make and set aside to pour over roast when served.
Some recipies add brown sugar, but I prefer it without as it dilutes the other flavors, and makes it very sugary. This process can be used for any spice/preserve combo you want. Enjoy!
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 10:35 am
Yummo!
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 10:40 am
Zingers have apricots! I’ve made probably thousands of them for catering apps.
1/3 strip of bacon, lay a bunch out.
Place a dried apricot on the center of each piece. Then add a slice of jalapeno.
Wrap both ends over those, and toothpick it.
The thing about this appetizer, is it contains all five “S” flavors.
Sweet, Sour, Salty, Spicy, and Savory (umami).
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 6:18 pm
Sounds really good – I’ll have to try – Thanks! π
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 10:13 pm
I forgot a step: Cook until done.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 10:19 pm
Posted by Paul Joseph Watson;
Islam continues to get Antifa to march to its orders. Wait until Antifa finds out that donning the hijab is not points of debate or optional in the world that they are trying so hard to help create. Nor are womenβs rights, homosexuality, music, movies, dancing, drinking, protection against rape, pedophilia or protesting. The minions are fighting so hard to give up their rights, if they only knew.
America is the the Great Satan___ Islam & Antifa
Hmmmm….
Muslim or Antifa?
SMH The dumbing down of the American mind is in overdrive.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 10:39 am
Yeah, and the problem is that for several generations lots of American minds don’t have a lot of room for the downswing.
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By Menagerie on March 26, 2017 at 2:44 pm
Based on your pendulum analogy, maybe that’s a good thing.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 6:21 pm
It almost reads as parody. I think it might actually be a parody.
I don’t know where this guy stands re: Trump outside this one thing, but…
https://infogalactic.com/info/Paul_Joseph_Watson
He may be another Godfrey Elfwick. A 5D chess troll on our side.
I don’t know… just throwing it out there.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 10:23 pm
Watson is solidly behind Trump and patriotism, solidly against Islam. He posted the hijab idea from someone else’s account to show how foolish and dangerous the Antifa crowd is.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 10:39 pm
Better late than never, but then, it IS Sunday… Hello, all!
This Day in (Mostly) American History: March 26
1776: South Carolina approves new Constitution
1790: US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
1804: Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1804: Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase
1830: The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1845: Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
1859: 1st supposed sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury; it doesn’t exist
1863: Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves
1872: 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
1872: Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher
1885: Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1910: US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick [Wikipedia lists this as the Immigration Act of 1903. For a complete – and interesting – list of Immigration Laws, please see Wiki http://tinyurl.com/jqvxz54
1926: The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
1930: Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway. The Inter-American Highway (IAH) is the Central American section of the Pan-American Highway and spans 5,470 kilometers (3,400 mi) between Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and Panama City, Panama. At the time, the US still owned the Panama Railroad and the Panama Canal. US had a military presence.
1936: Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
1937: Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye
1941: Naval warfare gets new weapon On this day, Italy attacks the British fleet at Suda Bay, Crete, using detachable warheads to sink a British cruiser. This was the first time manned torpedoes had been employed in naval warfare, adding a new weapon to the worldβs navyβs arsenals.The manned torpedo, also known as the βChariot,β was unique. Primarily used to attack enemy ships still in harbor, the Chariots needed βpilotsβ to βdriveβ them to their targets. Sitting astride the torpedo on a vehicle that would transport them both, the pilot would guide the missile as close to the target as possible, then ride the vehicle back, usually to a submarine. The Chariot was an enormous advantage; before its development, the closest weapon to the Chariot was the Japanese Kaitenβa human torpedo, or suicide bomb, which had obvious drawbacks.
1953: Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio On March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio. In 1952βan epidemic year for polioβthere were 58,000 new cases reported in the United States, and more than 3,000 died from the disease. For promising eventually to eradicate the disease, which is known as βinfant paralysisβ because it mainly affects children, Dr. Salk was celebrated as the great doctor-benefactor of his time. Polio, a disease that has affected humanity throughout recorded history, attacks the nervous system and can cause varying degrees of paralysis. Since the virus is easily transmitted, epidemics were commonplace in the first decades of the 20th century. The first major polio epidemic in the United States occurred in Vermont in the summer of 1894, and by the 20th century thousands were affected every year. In the first decades of the 20th century, treatments were limited to quarantines and the infamous βiron lung,β a metal coffin-like contraption that aided respiration.
1954: US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1955: Black music gets whitewashed, as Georgia Gibbs hits the pop charts with βThe Wallflower (Dance With Me, Henry)β For its time, the mid-1950s, the lyrical phrase βYou got to roll with me, Henryβ was considered risquΓ© just as the very label βrock and rollβ was understood to have a sexual connotation. The line comes from an Etta James record originally called βRoll With Me Henryβ and later renamed βThe Wallflower.β Already a smash hit on the Billboard Rhythm and Blues chart, it went on to become a pop hit in the spring of 1955, but not for Etta James. Re-recorded with βtoned-downβ lyrics by the white pop singer Georgia Gibbs, βDance With Me Henry (Wallflower)β entered the pop charts on March 26, 1955, setting off a dubious trend known as βwhitewashing.β While many Americans might have preferred the Etta James version to the Georgia Gibbs cover had they heard the two in succession, they would rarely have the opportunity to do so. Pop radio was almost exclusively white radio in 1955 America, and middle-of-the-road artists like Nat βKingβ Cole and the Ink Spots were rare exceptions to this rule.
1955: “Ballad of Davy Crockett” becomes the #1 record in US
1956: Medic Alert Foundation forms
1956: Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One
1958: 30th Academy Awards-“The Bridge on the River Kwai”, Joanne Woodward & Alec Guinness
1962: US Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legistature
1964: “Funny Girl” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances
1969: Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV
1970: 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
1970: Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
1973: TV Soap “The Young & the Restless” premieres on CBS
1974: George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title in Caracas, Venezuela
1975: [Vietnam] Hue falls to the communists The city of Hue, in northernmost South Vietnam, falls to the North Vietnamese. Hue was the most recent major city in South Vietnam to fall to the communists during their new offensive. The offensive had started in December 1974, when the North Vietnamese had launched a major attack against the lightly defended province of Phuoc Long, located north of Saigon along the Cambodian border. The communists overran the provincial capital of Phuoc Binh on January 6, 1975.
President Richard Nixon had repeatedly promised South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu that the United States would come to the aid of South Vietnam if North Vietnam committed a major violation of the Peace Accords. However, by the time the communists had taken Phuoc Long, Nixon had already resigned from office and his successor, Gerald Ford, was unable to convince a hostile Congress to make good on Nixonβs promises to Saigon.
This situation emboldened the North Vietnamese, who launched a campaign in March 1975 to take the provincial capital of Ban Me Thuot in the Central Highlands. The South Vietnamese defenders there fought very poorly and were overwhelmed by the North Vietnamese attackers. Once again, the United States did nothing. President Thieu ordered his forces in the Highlands to withdraw to more defensible positions to the south. What started out as a reasonably orderly withdrawal degenerated into a panic that spread throughout the South Vietnamese armed forces. They abandoned Pleiku and Kontum in the Highlands with very little fighting and the North Vietnamese pressed the attack from the west and north. In quick succession, Quang Tri and Hue fell. The communists then seized Da Nang, the second largest city in South Vietnam. Many South Vietnamese, both military and civilian, died in the general chaos while attempting to escape from the airport, docks, and beaches.
By this time, the South Vietnamese forces were in flight all over the northern half of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese continued to attack south along the coast, overrunning city after city, methodically defeating the South Vietnamese forces. By April 27, the North Vietnamese had completely encircled Saigon and began to maneuver for their final assault, which became known as the βHo Chi Minh Campaign.β By the morning of April 30, it was all over. As the North Vietnamese tanks broke through the gates of the Presidential Palace in Saigon, the Vietnam War came to an end.
1975: “Tommy” premieres in London. Created by Pete Townsend of/and The Who, becomes the first Rock Opera. For a more complete history of Tommy, please see http://ultimateclassicrock.com/history-of-tommy/
1975: The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
1979: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat sign the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty in 1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
Washington, D.C. In a ceremony at the White House, Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sign a historic peace agreement, ending three decades of hostilities between Egypt and Israel and establishing diplomatic and commercial ties. For their achievement, Sadat and Begin were jointly awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Peace. Sadatβs peace efforts were not so highly acclaimed in the Arab worldβEgypt was suspended from the Arab League, and on October 6, 1981, Muslim extremists assassinated Sadat in Cairo. Nevertheless, the peace process continued without Sadat, and in 1982 Egypt formally established diplomatic relations with Israel.
1982: Groundbreaking in Washington, D.C. for Vietnam Veterans Memorial. For more information, Please see today’s Tara Ross column at taraross.com . I cannot do it justice here.
1982: Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release “Ebony & Ivory” in the UK
1983: US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986: Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
1989: 1st free elections in USSR; 190 million votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
1990: 62nd Academy Awards: “Driving Miss Daisy”, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jessica Tandy win
1996: The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for Russia.
1997: Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven’s Gate cult suicides.
1999: A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man. Jack Kevorkian was a U.S.-based physician who assisted in patient suicides, sparking increased talk on hospice care and “right to die” legislative action. He was a pathologist who assisted people suffering from acute medical conditions in ending their lives. After years of conflict with the court system over the legality of his actions, he spent eight years in prison after a 1999 conviction. Kevorkian’s actions spurred national debate on the ethics of euthanasia and hospice care.
2000: 72nd Academy Awards: “American Beauty”, Kevin Spacey & Hilary Swank win
2001: Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister opens an oil pipeline from the giant Tengiz Field to the Russian port of Novorossiysk on Monday, giving the Central Asian producer its first direct link to international markets
2005: The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People’s Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.
2005: “Doctor Who” returns to BBC TV after 16 years with the debut of Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose
2012: Canadian filmmaker James Cameron becomes the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth in over 50 years
Stella has suggested Tara Rossβ website for more detailed American History. Ms. Ross is an author and a constitutionalist who publishes, on her website, βThis day in American Historyβ. She writes quite well and Iβve also become a fan. While, because of time issues, I cannot incorporate Ms. Rossβ writings here, I do suggest subscribing to her web newsletter for historical information in depth in your morning email. The signup for her newsletter, and her daily post can be found at at http://www.taraross.com/
Text in this post may reproduce fully or in part certain websites, primarily history.com and onthisday.com, and is used here under fair use and for educational purposes.
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By patternpuzzler on March 26, 2017 at 11:06 am
1910: US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick [Wikipedia lists this as the Immigration Act of 1903. For a complete β and interesting β list of Immigration Laws, please see Wiki http://tinyurl.com/jqvxz54
Isn’t wanting to overthrow the US government and replace it with Sharia Law criminal?
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 11:26 am
In a rational world it would be – along with a lot of other things that violate the Rule of Law.
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By patternpuzzler on March 26, 2017 at 1:45 pm
1926: The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
1926 (shortly afterward): Chapstick invented
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By MaryfromMarin on March 26, 2017 at 5:30 pm
1964: βFunny Girlβ opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances
2017: Hi, Mary!
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 6:23 pm
Sunday painting for your viewing pleasure:
L’Innocence by Bouguereau 1893
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 11:18 am
So sweet!
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By sandandsea2015 on March 26, 2017 at 3:31 pm
Our favorite Sunday columnist looks at the Trump wiretapping and the insidious “media”. Enjoy with your coffee.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/03/obama_did_wiretap_trump_its_like_putting_together_a_russian_nesting_doll.html#.WNeMa-Gjkv0.facebook
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By texan59 on March 26, 2017 at 11:34 am
She does cover this very well. By now Trumps people should be pouring through the information from one whistle blower, Montgomery. Seems Trump has a small “staff” group assembled in the WH that was comparing transcripts of Democratic operatives and John McShames public comments, and then with transcripts of phone calls, conversations within his transition team. The press will dropped this story like a hot potato, once the FISA warrant becomes public. Then when the supeana for 12-20 people who were in the meeting that Comly mentioned……..
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 26, 2017 at 10:59 pm
If anyone is wondering about how The Donald feels about Paul Ryan this is his tweet before Judge Jeanine went on to call for the ousting of Ryan.
Trump is a quick learner, the political theater is new to him.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 11:35 am
I bet he knows how to, and can, grout marble tile.
The dude is indomitable.
Trump could understand industrial engineering and 3D printing inside a week.
Hillary had to e-mail (imagine how long it took to teach her how to e-mail, and to keyboard) Huma, just for TV listings, to find out what time her favorite show came on.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 10:40 pm
“My Chef called in sick today, Huma. How do I use the microwave oven?”
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 10:42 pm
I bet he knows how to, and can, grout marble tile.
I mean that. How much marble tile has been grouted, cleaned, and sealed in his presence, building resorts, golf courses, hotels, casinos, and skyskrapers?
Hillary can’t look up TV Guide.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 10:44 pm
I would bet he does too. Eric said he himself is probably the only son of a billionaire who is as comfortable at the controls of a Caterpillar backhoe as he is behind a desk. POTUS has always said he knows the construction business from the ground up.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 10:54 pm
Yeah Trump was played by Ryan, and GOPe. Whether he knew it or not. Now Tump know the score, hard lesson to lean, Trump will move forward. Trump should back off his criticism of conservatives, Freedom Caucuses, solicit their support for up coming events. With Ryan, the smack down of his plan, thisn was not the plan that was made in 2015, this should end his influence. Rumors are Tray Gowdy is moving on up……..
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 26, 2017 at 11:13 pm
Yesterday a group of young βuns invited me to attend an outside tea party. Yes, the wind was howling, yes the grass was as brown as the Sahara, but there was a beautiful bouquet of florist wildflowers lending color to the table and the early thaw provided us with the background music of a spring run-off rushing over the nearby reservoir dam.
Laughter & hot tea were pouring out around the table when we noticed that a rabbit had quietly emerged from the tree line. The rabbit paced around the edge of the lawn, it stood up, smelled the wind & clearly focused on us for about five minutes. And then spring arrived in all its glory. Mama bunny brought forth her fluffle of babies and guided them across the lawn in front of us as she headed down to the creek bed below.
Tea party AND bunniesβ¦.a sure-fire restorative for a weary soul.
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By litenmaus on March 26, 2017 at 12:29 pm
How wonderful!
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 1:28 pm
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By MaryfromMarin on March 26, 2017 at 5:33 pm
The babies were probably about two weeks younger than the ones in your photo and mama was definitely “winter skinny”….regardless….they were precious and it was a remarkable encounter. :0)
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By litenmaus on March 26, 2017 at 6:09 pm
Look, I know they’re r-selected, but…
BUNNIES!
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 6:24 pm
π
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By auscitizenmom on March 26, 2017 at 12:36 pm
Did ya’z turn on all of your electrical appliances last night, fire up the pollution-belching diesel truck and celebrate Earth Hour last night? I did. π π
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By texan59 on March 26, 2017 at 12:36 pm
Missed it! I did leave the lights and tv on all night in the living room, though.
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By stella on March 26, 2017 at 12:46 pm
π π π
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By texan59 on March 26, 2017 at 12:47 pm
Shite!!!! I always leave lights on but if I’daknow’dit, I’da done laundry, too! Plus, do the dishwasher and mebbe ALL the t.v.’s,….
Shite…….
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By WeeWeed on March 26, 2017 at 8:21 pm
I forgot. Dang.
I was busy burning a giant pile of tires.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 10:48 pm
Oh, and feeding five 50-gallon drums of refried beans to a ranch of cows.
All in good fun. And for HD audio recording purposes. Don’t ask.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 10:50 pm
Wooly, Wooly, Wooly………. refried beans…….
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 26, 2017 at 11:21 pm
A journey most would have thought an exercise in futility and the tilting of windmills. His college prof gave him a C on a college paper, and he went on to change the Constitution.
http://kut.org/post/he-got-bad-grade-so-he-got-constitution-amended-now-hes-getting-credit-he-deserves
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By texan59 on March 26, 2017 at 12:54 pm
Now that’s a great story!
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By stella on March 26, 2017 at 1:10 pm
Wow. I love this story. Without that “C” on his paper, I wonder if he would have accompished all this?
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By auscitizenmom on March 26, 2017 at 1:34 pm
https://twitter.com/marincogan/status/606538182180634624
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By stella on March 26, 2017 at 2:38 pm
Nothing new here for anyone who’s ever lived with a cat.
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By czarowniczy on March 26, 2017 at 10:02 pm
Luckily, Tripod can only hunt-and-peck on the keyboard with his one paw.
If Stella ever censors me here, that was him.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 10:47 pm
The stupid is Bigly here. I used to think that Senators were a cut above – sort of like the House Of Lords in Parliament. My, how things have ‘changed’:
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By stella on March 26, 2017 at 3:10 pm
All of this posturing and playing to the sound bite is wearing me out. I’m to the point where I don’t believe a word they say, whichever side of the aisle they sit on. Weasels like McCain and Graham on our “side”, and drivel like this from her, Scchumer, and Co. Boring and tiresome.
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By texan59 on March 26, 2017 at 3:29 pm
I haven’t figured out a good reason to listen to any of them. They make my head hurt and raise my blood pressure and I can’t see the reason to do it.
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By Menagerie on March 26, 2017 at 5:59 pm
“My” Senator….. illorum culpa (I NEVER voted for her and never will).
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By MaryfromMarin on March 26, 2017 at 5:37 pm
He values the actual written laws over feelings?
How quaint.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 6:28 pm
IMO a big part of what is totally wrong in the world today is people thinking that they have the right to “feel good” or that they are entitled to agree with what is good and right. They think it must not conflict with their wants and desires, when in actuality we must conform our wants and desires in right order to the Good in order to truly be happy.
Short term pleasures are not the be all end all, but I see no indication that the world will ever understand that again. Today I went to confession. For the first time in a long while I didn’t want to. I wanted to continue on my path. I wasn’t feeling it. But my faith, and the grace of prudence tell me to use an act of will rather than wait until I feel like doing right. It is far from the most emotional confession I ever made, but I think it was one of the most needed and important ones. And Jesus gave me exactly the counsel and penance I needed.
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By Menagerie on March 26, 2017 at 8:31 pm
Menagerie, I agree wholeheartedly with your post!!!
“And Jesus gave me exactly the counsel and penance I needed” How wonderful God is! I am truly happy for you.
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By G-d&Country on March 26, 2017 at 10:32 pm
I got into an argument about politics with a co-worker tonight. I had just gone in (it’s just next door, pretty much) to help the kitchen close down for the night. She is going to school to be a “diplomat”, but she’s a hard, hard leftie. The argument we had was (I was pro) whether North Africa was better or worse off under English Colonialism. I had made the point, offhand, that I’ve known several people from Nigeria and elsewhere, and that their command of the English language is superb, and that they speak it better than anyone on earth except Indians.
Oh, she snapped. “Yeah, because of England and their bad Colonizing!”
Then I led her into a discussion of The Prime Directive, from Star Trek, and whether she agreed or not that it is good to give less-advanced civilizations things like refrigeration, medicine, the scientific method, language, and philosophy?
I said, what, just tell them “Good luck! Invent it yourselves!”???
What I found amazing is that (and I love everyone, and keep that in mind whether I’m working for them or educating them) I kept absolutely cool the whole time. That is incredibly rare with me, except lately. I think reading Vox Day really helped in that regard. Confidence was gained in my life over this last decade like no other.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 11:03 pm
Wooly some people need the Shook of Life too wake them up…..
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 26, 2017 at 11:30 pm
I stopped talking about all these things with people, about four years ago: politics, religion, culture. Nope, stick to weather, music, work, and humor. Never, ever argue the more important things. I lost my voice for the three busiest months of summer. Try yelling “Behind you! Sharp!” or “Behind you! Hot! Hot!!” when you sound like a Scooby Dooβ’ ghost villain, in the busiest kitchen in town. It was not a fun three months.
He took my voice. Then, He gave it back. That was unexpected. After two months, I thought it was gone forever. And now, somehow, years later, can actually argue with progs with real confidence, and love. And sing in the kitchen like Smokey.
Why He took my voice? I only used it for evil, and never for good. All I did was bitch.
Boogie on, Reggae Woman. That’s what I use my voice fo, now.
MPH. Make People Happy.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 11:41 pm
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 11:55 pm
I sure did.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 11:56 pm
Next time tell her that Europe most certainly does serve an important function in north and sub-Saharan Africa. Were it mot for Europeans the residents wouldn’t have an excuse for their relative lack,of overall progress.
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By czarowniczy on March 27, 2017 at 12:01 am
Every leech in Congress needs to be told:
We are a nation of LAWS. Not of feelings, not of personalities. If you don’t agree with that, you will be voted out of office.
Enjoy your lifetime pension and platinum bennies for you and all your kinfolk.
(And that needs to end too. You get voted out of the House or Senate? You better go find a job right quick. We vote them out, then give them, essentially, lottery winnings for life.)
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 6:33 pm
I worked for former Bossman for 9 years, loyally.
Is he still paying me? No! Because I am no longer working for him!
These leeches “work” for four or less years and get paid for life.
That needs to end.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 6:49 pm
I’m sitting outside, late afternoon, glorious day: clear sky, about 70 degrees slight breeze. For some reason the air’s full of carpenter bees and smaller dragon flies.
Dog’s asleep next to my chair and I’m sitting under a white oak Inraised from an acorn.
Dear Congress: @$&# all of you. Molon labe this…
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By czarowniczy on March 26, 2017 at 7:21 pm
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By WeeWeed on March 26, 2017 at 8:31 pm
I see what you did there.
π π π
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By texan59 on March 26, 2017 at 8:44 pm
Maybe in the morning I’ll get the joke. Great song, still.
I’m slow.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 11:30 pm
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By Wooly Phlox on March 26, 2017 at 11:25 pm
All the leeches in Congress need to bebtold is: “Don’t let the doors hitcha in da ass on da way out”.
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By czarowniczy on March 27, 2017 at 12:03 am
This is the same topic: http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/03/ca-sen-kamala-harris-no-on-gorsuch-because-he-rules-on-law-not-feelings/
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By amwick on March 26, 2017 at 8:51 pm
Thought you might want to hear..
Dh’s SIL is a CO for Suffolk County NY… He just told Dh that ICE is filling up their jail…. (with South of the Border illegal aliens) He has been there a few years now.. this is new…
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By amwick on March 26, 2017 at 8:48 pm
Very interesting! I just saw somewhere (FB?) that a cock fighting operation was broken up in Ohio, and arrests made and deportations are planned.
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By stella on March 26, 2017 at 9:00 pm
Good, maybe they can get the dude across the lake with tne thug chicken collection.
Interesting to watch the black Rat pols tap dancing around immigration knowing that those South of the Border Rats will only vote for them as long as the Rats continue to support them and the traditionsl Rats are slowly catching on to the fact that their entitlement pies are being sliced more thinly.
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By czarowniczy on March 26, 2017 at 11:57 pm
lilbirdee12βs 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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By auscitizenmom on March 26, 2017 at 9:10 pm
Amen
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By auscitizenmom on March 26, 2017 at 9:13 pm
Amen.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 11:02 pm
Amen.
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 26, 2017 at 11:32 pm
Amen.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 12:09 am
π
Tip of the hat to Mike.
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By lovely on March 26, 2017 at 11:03 pm
Yeah, and there is Tons of Gold in the Gold Vault at Ft.Knox……..
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 26, 2017 at 11:37 pm
I wish Molyneux were Press Secretary. or some other position in DJT’s admin.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 12:42 am
He needs to stay right where he is. His independence is important.
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By stella on March 27, 2017 at 9:16 am
BY THE WAY
That story a couple of days ago about the ex-military Sniper who save his neighbors by shooting their three captors?
There is no such thing as the Seattle Tribune. They have the Times and the Post-Intelligencer.
It is a fake news site. I’ve been reading news long enough to know the names of most of the major city newspapers in this great nation.
The story is fake. The site is fake, and made to look exactly like a local big-city news site. You click on the tabs on top and get a clue. Blank pages.
Or you can go to infogalactic and search for the Seattle Tribune.
Lots of intentional disinformation out there. It’s good to have, and practice, discernment.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 12:15 am
Q: Does anyone sight in their sniper rifle, after taking it apart, reassembling it, and reattaching the scope, by aiming it at their neighbor’s house?
I mean, don’t you have to shoot it to adjust the sights?
This article is fake. I don’t know why? But it is.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 12:31 am
Disclaimer
The Seattle Tribune is a news and entertainment satire web publication. The Seattle Tribune may or may not use real names, often in semi-real or mostly fictitious ways. All news articles contained within The Seattle Tribune are fictional and presumably satirical news β with the exception of our βlist styleβ articles that include relevant sources. The content published on The Seattle Tribune is intended to be entertainment and is often intended to generate thought and discussion among its readers. Any resemblance to the truth is purely coincidental. Advice given is NOT to be construed as professional. If you are in need of professional help, please consult a professional. The Seattle Tribune is not intended for children under the age of 18.
http://theseattletribune.com/disclaimer/
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By stella on March 27, 2017 at 9:13 am
I found out today that there are actually sites where you can make fake news articles, appearing on real-MSM-looking templates, to spoof your friends (or enemies) in real life, and then propagate the links through FaceBook, where they will then be further propagated. These sites are like IMGUR or Photobucket, only instant-fake-news-making sites.
Discernment is a valuable gift.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 12:21 am
A.i. could make these sites, at this point, how stupid our population has become, and it could actually be that this is true now.
A.I. could design a “news” site.
“Live 365 [Your State]”
“Local 24/7 [Your City]”
“Live and Breaking [Your Country] Now!”
Easy. And we’re seeing it now. Easy. It’s just templates. Add some red, white and blue, and some flags. instant MSM local news website.
Click on the other tabs on these sites. Blank pages.
That’s the tell.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 12:41 am