Ahhhhh…another week in the bag, one day closer to infinity and another chance to carpe that diem as I wrestle the world…..oh, I’m retired, to hell with it all I’m gonna sleep in.
The ‘like’ was my liking your post but also liking my being retired. Not having to go in on a Monday and face yet another week of dealing with Federal supervisors with wet socks (a polite way of saying thry couldn’t figure out how to pour pee out of their boots) is a reward in itself.
I loved my work, I jusy couldn’t stand the people (and I use the term loosely) I worked for. Then again, having at least 67 paid working days off a year – and the ability to buy cheap and tax free booze at the Coast Guard Exchange next door – helped greatly.
I had to be there at 5:15am and it was pretty much an hour and 20 minutes one way, without traffic… 2 hours getting home after a 12 hour watch….not pretty,,, but it was long ago, in a universe far away… 🙂
My last four years were the best. I ran a one-man shop and people had to bring their work to me. As production was machine-based and documented at every step I had those who failed to put on their adult planning caps dead to rights.
My fav was when Washington decided our supervisors should all take the Six Sigma course to improve their imagined skills. They just couldn’t find the time, energy or abilities to survive the ‘Six Sigma for big guys’ course so they took a much abbreviated version.
All the locals taking the course had to do was get me the raw msterials for the next week’s course NLT COB on Wednesday so I could schedule, compile and finish the product. These supervisors responsible for what amounted to international production frequently had to rush stuff on after the deadline, stuff that was sent to them a week prior and basically required them putting a final quantity on it and carrying it down the hall. One time they didn’t even make it by COB on Friday, requiring my coming in on a weekend at double time to get it done. Ironic part was that I already had an MBA and had taken the long Six Sigma years ago but ‘lacked the skills and education to join the club’.
Yeah, Mondays eere, without a doubt, the worst day of the week.
On the subject, if any of you have seen the ‘Assassin’s Creed’ movie you msy have noticed that the thread running through it is ‘histoty rewritten’.
They too the Reconquista and made it vile, murderous Catholic Templars pushing the civilized Muslemsvout of Spain – murdering, torturing and otherwise debauching as they went. They spliced the Inquisition in too, making it all about the evil Torquemada (though in reality he’d been dead almost 30 years by the movie’s period), dressed in his Church garb, burning heretics and Moslem Assassins, wholesale for Ferdinand and Isabella’s enjoyment.
The Moslem Assassins are portrayed as snow white counterparts to the evil Catholic Templars which, I do believe, by the movie’s period had long been disdolved in Spain and folded into other military orders. The Assassains were trying to prevent the Catholic Church from fibding a religious srtifact that would allow the Church to suppress all free will! The Moslem Assassins have been protecting it, snd allowing mankind to retain free will…Islam=free will, Christianity=enslavement.
Now you might think that the bending of history and the blatant pro-Islamic message would be lost on the audience but the entire movie, based on a popular teen video game, is carefully done. The violence is enough to keep the younguns attentive while not being graphic and bumping it up from a PG-13. The whole movie’s done in a sepia tone and the visuals don’t draw the viewer’s attention away from the anti-Christian message…in all a great pioneering piece of Hollywood pro-Islam social engineering.
I’m gonna see if I can dig around and find out who backed this financially, it’s just too blatant to be accidental, and from some unhappy Hollyork leakers this is just the beginning.
Yeah, but that could be explained by just saying it was a science fiction film, the blatant redesigning of the violence to get the movie a PG-13 rating and the flagrant reengineering of Christian and Islamic history thst gobsmacked me.
Wow, that is quite a mess of historical mishmash. Rome made it’s money worthless and over taxed it’s citizens to the point everyone moved to other countries or landowners that stayed, signed themselves into slavery to their wealthy neighbors because slaves weren’t taxed (which is the beginning of peasants BTW). The barbarians walked in and took over a largely unpopulated Rome, put their kids in school and said “life is good”. Then the Muslims came….
Mornin WeeWeed 🙂 Now add smell-a-vision to that, and make it the Budweiser coming from the Merrimack waste water plant we were talking about recently, and you’ve got!
I was mislead by the lack of hills and ended up walking over 7 miles with Mrs. Nyet. I got sunburned since I did not prepare for one of her death marches. That was day one.
Mornin Nyet! Thanks for BF! I always forget to eat the most important meal of the day. Hope you don’t mind if I add my bacon recipe of the day in here. It’s sort of a breakfast item, but I don’t want to step on your sunburned toes! Give one a try – it may make your boo-boo better 😉
6 slice bacon
¼ c. maple syrup
¼ c. packed light brown sugar
½ c. pecans
1 can Refrigerated Biscuits
½ tsp. ground cinnamon
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Heat skillet over medium heat. Add bacon and cook until it begins to brown. Transfer to a paper towel–lined plate.
Combine maple syrup, brown sugar, and pecans. break up bacon and stir in . Divide among 8 muffin cups [of a 12-cup muffin tin].
Place the biscuits on a sheet of wax paper and sprinkle both sides with the cinnamon. Place biscuits over the bacon mixture in each of the cups, gently pressing to fit.
Bake until the biscuits are golden brown, 18 to 20 minutes. Remove from oven and immediately invert onto a baking sheet. Let cool for 5 minutes before serving.
These recipes are killing me…. I have been cutting out sweets and snacks and other wonderful things since last November……I cling to my beer and occasional Jameson… I have limits donchuknow.
On a happy note, Mama Duck is safely on her nest.. We looked last night and she was gone, with at least three eggs waiting…Perhaps she was out getting dinner.
Her nest is less than 2 feet from our front water spigot… Guess who ended up hauling water from the back?,,, Giving the plants their fertilizer.. (miracle grow)
Off and running today – too many snoozes…
This Day in (Mostly) American History: March 27
1513: Spaniard Juan Ponce de León and his expedition first sight Florida
1775: Jefferson elected to the Continental Congress Jefferson, a Virginia delegate, quickly established himself in the Continental Congress with the publication of his paper entitled A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Throughout the next year, Jefferson published several more papers, most notably Drafts and Notes on the Virginia Constitution.
In June 1776, Congress put together a committee to draft the Declaration of Independence. After much discussion, the committee chose Jefferson to compose the document. At just 33 years old, Jefferson finished writing his draft of what is considered the most important document in the history of democracy in just a few days. After a few minor changes, the committee submitted the draft, titled “A Declaration” by the Representatives in General Congress Assembled, to Congress on June 28, 1776. After some debate, the document was formally adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776, under the new title, The Declaration of Independence.
1790: The modern shoelace (string and shoe holes) invented in England
1836: First Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland, Ohio)
1841: First US steam fire engine tested, NYC
1848: John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
1849: Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill
1855: Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
1860: M L Byrn patents “covered gimlet screw with a ‘T’ handle” (corkscrew)
1866: Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
1866: US President Andrew Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment (More information: Wiki http://tinyurl.com/77terl3
1884: First long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY
1865: Lincoln, Sherman and Grant meet to plot the final stages of the Civil War
1912: First Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington, D.C.
1915: Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid
1905: Fingerprint evidence is used to solve a British murder case
1914: First successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
1931: John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on
1933: Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
1933: Japan leaves League of Nations
1933: Polythene ( polythyrene) discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
1943: Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) first heard on CBS Radio
1944: 1,000 Jews leave Drancy, France, for Auschwitz concentration camp
1944: 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania
1944: 40 Jewish policemen in Riga, Latvia, ghetto are shot by the Gestapo
1944: Children’s Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno
1945: Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record “It’s Only a Paper Moon”
1945: Gen Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken
1948: Just 11 days after being released from prison, Billie Holiday plays in front of a sold-out crowd at Carnegie Hall
1950: Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner’s solo concert (Cleve OH)
1951: Frank Sinatra records “I’m a Fool to Want You”
1952: Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
1952: “Singin’ in the Rain”, a musical comedy starring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds, is released
1956: US seizes US communist newspaper “Daily Worker”
1957: 29th Academy Awards: “Around World in 80 Days”, Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner win
1958: Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier as well as First Secretary of the Communist Party
1961: Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
1965: [Vietnam/Cambodia] South Vietnamese forces conduct combat operations in Cambodia Following several days of consultations with the Cambodian government, South Vietnamese troops, supported by artillery and air strikes, launch their first major military operation into Cambodia. The South Vietnamese encountered a 300-man Viet Cong force in the Kandal province and reported killing 53 communist soldiers. Two teams of U.S. helicopter gunships took part in the action. Three South Vietnamese soldiers were killed and seven wounded
1964: Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale, 118 die
1966: Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia
1969: Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston
1969: Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars
1970: Ringo releases his first solo album “Sentimental Journey”
1970: USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973: Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession
1973: [Vietnam] Bombing of Cambodia to continue. The White House announces that, at the request of Cambodian President Lon Nol, the bombing of Cambodia will continue until communist forces cease military operations and agree to a cease-fire. In March 1970, Lon Nol had overthrown Prince Norodom Sihanouk in a bloodless coup. Between 1970 and 1975, Lon Nol and his army, the Forces Armees Nationale Khmer (FANK), with U.S. support and military aid, fought the Khmer Rouge and Sihanouk’s supporters for control of Cambodia. During the five years of bitter fighting, approximately 10 percent of Cambodia’s 7 million people died. When the U.S. forces departed South Vietnam in 1973, both the Cambodians and South Vietnamese found themselves fighting the communists alone. Without U.S. support, Lon Nol’s forces succumbed to the Khmer Rouge, surrendering to the communists in April 1975. The victorious Khmer Rouge evacuated Phnom Penh and began reordering Cambodian society, which resulted in a killing spree and the notorious “killing fields.” Eventually, hundreds of thousands of Cambodians were murdered or died from exhaustion, hunger, and disease.
1973: 45th Academy Awards: “The Godfather”, Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win. The Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather attended the ceremony in Brando’s place, stating that the actor “very regretfully” could not accept the award, as he was protesting Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans in film.
1976: Washington, D.C. underground Metro opens
1977: 583 die in aviation’s worst ever disaster when two Boeing 747s collide at Tenerife airport (Canary Islands)
1978: Bob Fosse’s “Dancin'” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1,774 performances
1979: US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that cops can’t randomly stop cars. The Fourth Amendment bars the police from stopping motorists at random merely to check licenses and auto registrations. Without some cause to believe that a car is being driven in violation of the law, such stops violate the constitutional guarantee against unreasonable seizures, the court declared.
1984: Beginning of “tanker war”: over the next 9 months, 44 ships, including Iranian, Iraqi, Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti tankers, are attacked by Iraqi or Iranian warplanes or damaged by mines
1989: First African American soap opera, “Generations” premieres on NBC-TV
1990: The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime. which broadcast television programs into communist Cuba. Despite the fact that TV Marti was a dismal failure in terms of weakening the Castro regime, it continues to receive funding and is still in operation.
1995: 67th Academy Awards: “Forrest Gump”, Jessica Lange & Tom Hanks win
1998: FDA approves Viagra Viagra’s massive success was practically instantaneous. In the first year alone, the $8-$10 pills yielded about a billion dollars in sales. Viagra was marketed on television, famously touted by ex-presidential candidate Bob Dole, then in his mid-70s. Such direct-to-consumer marketing was practically unprecedented for prescription drugs. Viagra was marketed on television, famously touted by ex-presidential candidate Bob Dole, then in his mid-70s. Such direct-to-consumer marketing was practically unprecedented for prescription drugs.
2006: The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
2014: UN General Assembly condemns Russia’s annexation of Crimea
1979: Pattie Boyd and Eric Clapton are married Pattie Boyd, whose participation in various affairs and marriages among the British rock royalty of the 60s and 70s inspired three famous popular songs, “Bell Bottom Blues”, “Layla,” and “Beautiful Tonight” by second husband Eric Clapton.
(more info: http://tinyurl.com/llozvfd
Stella has suggested Tara Ross’ website for more detailed American History. Ms. Ross is an author and a constitutionalist who publishes, on her website, “This day in American History”. She writes quite well and I’ve also become a fan. While, because of time issues, I cannot incorporate Ms. Ross’ 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.
Well, Texas and Oklahoma got hit pretty hard last night with hail storms and there were tornado warnings, but I don’t know if any touched down. We tried to protect our cars, but they got hit hard anyway. We will have to get those fixed and probably a new roof. Nothing major, but not fun. Golf ball sized hail is pretty big and loud.
Thank you. When I was about 18, I was in the car with my mom driving down the freeway and a hail storm hit. There was no way to get off so we were stuck. Biggest hail I’ve ever seen. One came down close to us that was nearly football size. It was a short lived storm, but I truly don’t know how we got out of it without busted windows. Miraculous really. Big prayers were going up!
Just over a decade ago, I was working and living in a campground.
I was sitting at the picnic table outside my camper, the park was empty except for me, and I heard a roaring sound in the woods that got louder and louder. This is Fall, and deep woods on Lake Michigan. It sounded like four train engines were barreling toward me through the woods. I ran. I didn’t know what I was hearing, but instinct said “RUN!”
I made the hundred-yard dash to the store before the hail came down, but it was four inches deep, shooter-marble sized hailstones.
The sound, though. Unbelievable. And it came out of nowhere. It wasn’t even raining.
Was in the Tornado Breakout of 1974. Had a 5 week old – hubby laughed at me when I put the filled diaper bag and flashlight next to the door. We were on the 2nd floor and ended up running down to a garden level apartment with all our neighbors. Watched a carpet warehouse across the street have the sides blown out by huge rolls of carpeting; it also threw a boxcar off the tracks 1/2 block away.
For years I would get a panic attack in a high wind or hearing wind whistle. Nothing quite like watching the National Guard going down your street with heavy equipment to make a path. You take care this spring, sand. I have a feeling it’s going to be exciting!!
I have a 10×18 tractor shed, complete with electricity, heat, roll up garage door….keep my yard tractor in. Saves time, instead of driving over to the farm, then back along the highway………also my farm tractors are a tad to big, ruts in the yard and such……
I’m so sorry! That happened here a few years ago – got dents on my car and also damage to the roof. Be sure to check your window screens too. A couple of mine were torn.
Rode a motorcycle through golfball sized hail in Nebraska once. Nearest shelter I could see from the Interstate was a tree about 10 miles away.
The hail hurt most when it hit knuckles and knees, but even that wasn’t bad, mostly absorbed by the padded gauntlets and leather pants and rain suit. It was just noisy on the helmet and faceshield.
The big Yamaha XS1100 road bike plowed through the hail on the road like it wasn’t there.
Me too. Was lucky enough to go to a museum exhibition of his works in Boston about 30 years ago. I was surprised at how large some of the paintings were.
There are internet painting sites that have very good resolution and a zoom-in capability. I know it is not the same as going to an exhibition, but that is no longer an option for me, so I enjoy browsing great art on the web. It is very relaxing. That is why I post paintings here.
I like great art turned into jigsaw puzzles… you know the dog’s playing poker on black velvet.. 🙂
As a college student, and for 16 years after that I lived in NYC…. I seldom went to the art museums… I should have..
‘Sabout it for me too. Had a friend who was a somewhat well-known sculptor with whom I drank a lot and fired guns with – when we were drunk. He used my face for one of his bronze scultures in an Orlando project, that’s about as ‘into’ art as I ever got…I leaned more towards the vaquero with sombrero on velvet myself.
:0) I went to an exhibition of Monet’s work at the Portland Museum of Art and when I walked into the gallery, I too was blown away with the size of some of the works. The fact that his paintings of large haystacks were small and his paintings of small water lilies were humongous was rather strange.
The haystack painting and other Monet works are in a Baby Einstein video I play for my littles. I didn’t realize the size difference, probably because I’ve seen most of the paintings in art books. Interesting.
:0) I’m like you s&s. I had only seen the work in calendars and books and I think the biggest image I ever saw of his work was a poster. I was totally unprepared to see the lily canvasses that went from floor to ceiling and took up half a gallery wall. (haystack paintings were a normal size…about 16″x20″)
Gaugin’s art in reality as opposed to Gaugin’s art printed on calendars etc was another one that shocked me. Not the size of the canvasses, but the ugliness and ferocity of the brush strokes. Who knew??
Just because. These folks are husband and wife. Started in separate heavy metal bands, then joined one together, then went to Ireland to learn Irish music, then Spain, and here we are.
Opened that in a new browser tab so I can take in the whole thing later. You’re right about her hand flying like a hummingbird; she amazes me how she combines strength and a type of delicacy in guitar playing I’ve not seen before. Thanks.
On a completely unrelated note to anything at all, if you grew up watching cartoons, or have kids who have done so, enjoy some improv comedy, and celebrity impersonations, check out Twisted Toonz: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpwD_RtSPZwSpgzDqFNdUww
Professional voice actors reading popular/nerdy movie scripts, doing voices as characters they voice, or impersonating other actors. They do these live at various conventions, and if you ever get a chance to watch it live, they are absolutely worth it.
I can, and have, sat and watched these guys all day. They are generally beyond funny. I saw the Ghostbusters one in PHX ComiCon last year.
Since I haven’t seen the other movies, I just went to the channel and watched these insane folks do The Empire Strikes Back: Part 1, and it is an absolute laugh riot.
Wish me luck….or more like patience…as I go in to file for an upgraded VA disability. I will not only have to provide VA checklists my doxs have to fill out but excrucistingly detailed information they already have.
If the little welfare-to-work pukes can’t figure out what the dox have put on the VA’s own ‘checklist for dummies’ checklist then they send it to me, I have to go back to my dox for clarification and then send it back to the VA who’ll….you get the idea.
If they’ve screwed the info they have when they previously put it into their system then my duplicate info that I have to provide again will kick out, requiring me to send notarized resubmissions. No, they don’t want it now, they wantbit ‘then’. This includes all of the info on my previous and Czarina’s previous marriages and divorces and, in her case, death certificate for her ex. Oh yes, they have this all already, but……
Pure karma, I was a Fed puke and now I am subjectbto them.
The VA’s excuse is ‘they’re only following the law’, totally ignoring how they use it to beat vets over the head. One of these days ther’ll be a VA ‘Nuremberg’ trial and the SOBs can yell ‘I was only following orders’ right up until the rope snaps taught.
I get the rating, already got the disability. Some VA petty bureaucrat who, just two months ago, was a prep chef at Mickey D’s will tell me how much its worth. Main benefit is that in the likelihood I go to room temp before Czarina this disability rating will be combat-related and entitle her to a cash indemnity claim until she checks out.
That’s about the time, they tell me that even though I’ve submitted the correct and completed forms and the docs have completed their checksheets it will be at least 5 months (probably more) until I hear anything.
Even then they could order me to a VA hospital to gave my doc’s conclusions (a nationally recognized doc in specialist practice, he was a Navy doc at WaltervReed) reviewed by some VA doc who graduated from the Lower Slobovian School of Medicine and Drain Cleaning. That could extend the conefy production by a year.
The Freddie Gray cops won again in a lawsuit against Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby. Ms. Mosby put six police officers on trial without the evidence to back up the charges. At first, critics said she over-charged the officers, but, in the end, the judge found there was no evidence to back up the charges.
“Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.” __George Saunders
There is no form of legal authority that the left accepts as a permanent institution. It only utilizes forms of authority selectively when it controls them. But when government officials refuse the orders of the duly elected government because their allegiance is to an ideology whose agenda is in conflict with the President and Congress, that’s not activism, protest, politics or civil disobedience; it’s treason.
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The left is a treasonous movement. The Democrats became a treasonous organization when they fell under the sway of a movement that rejects our system of government, its laws and its elections. Now their treason is coming to a head. They are engaged in a struggle for power against the government. That’s not protest. It’s not activism. The old treason of the sixties has come of age. A civil war has begun.
As usual with Mr. Greenfield, the whole thing is good.
I was reading today about people fleeing the inner cities because if/when there is an economic collapse it truly will be civil war. Chicago alone has seen the largest population drop in its history in the last few years. Baltimore and Detroit same scenario.
I’m quite familiar with Young. I was born in Detroit, and lived in the general vicinity for most of my life; the latest stretch is 1971 until now. Fortunately Young is gone, but his illegitimate son is now serving in the Michigan legislature.
Detroit now has a pretty honest and competent mayor, an improved City Council, and passed a law that Council members must live in their districts. I think there is one member that isn’t required to do so (at large, is that the term?)
There is a lot of development because there are several people who have the money and faith in Detroit to do so. The Ilitch family, Dan Gilbert of Quicken Loans, Peter Karmanos (former owner of Compuware), and Roger Pensky are a few of the leaders who are helping to turn the city around.
So you’ve been reading my posts here and nect door, eh? Zactly why we hatted-up and hidey-ho’d out here. Close enough to where we can go in to enjoy the whatever whenever and far enough out to where stray bullets won’t hit us. Also gotta coupla bridges we can blow if things get really bad.
Just watching AG Sessions announcement (next door)… OJP grants/funding will be withheld from sanctuary cities unless they hold/turn over criminal aliens. $4.1 Billion at stake. Sweet
From Sharyl Atkisson.
“For a health care a bill or any bill, we should require that a nonpartisan Congressional recorder publicly post a summary of each paragraph five days before a vote, with a notation disclosing which members of Congress and which lobbyists wrote/worked on that particular provision. If anything is added to or subtracted from the bill after it’s posted, that, too, should be posted at least 48 hours before a final vote, and include the same disclosures.”
One nasty old biddy complained at a soccer club. One NOB. Guy was 82 yo, loved by everyone. “Love” and “Lovey” are standard fair for “old gents” in the UK. Who says they are old, anyway? phooey
But it was a lovey day for tennis. No love for soccer.
I saw our Second Lady Mrs. Pence on FOX and FRIENDS today. She was discussing women in the military and military families. She got all choked up when they asked about her DIL. I think you might enjoy her interview. No wonder VP Pence likes to have her around all the time. 🙄
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.
No doubt it will be a busy week my friends. Sustenance. Get your flak jackets and helmets at the ready because we know what’s coming. Coffee up y’all.
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By texan59 on March 27, 2017 at 12:05 am
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By MaryfromMarin on March 27, 2017 at 12:23 am
I want to frame that, Mary, and put it in the kitchen at work.
Then I want us all to look at it each morning, and realize how easy our jobs are.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 10:19 am
Those Tommys’ taking a tea break, WW2, and I would venture to say in North Africa, maybe Tunisia……
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 10:21 pm
Morning Tex, great Coffee this morning!
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 7:12 am
Yum! must be that Black Rifle coffee 🙂 Thanks Tex!
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By G-d&Country on March 27, 2017 at 10:20 am
Black Rifle it is!!! I drink regular…..
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 10:24 pm
Ahhhhh…another week in the bag, one day closer to infinity and another chance to carpe that diem as I wrestle the world…..oh, I’m retired, to hell with it all I’m gonna sleep in.
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By czarowniczy on March 27, 2017 at 12:10 am
“No fair!”
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By MaryfromMarin on March 27, 2017 at 12:18 am
The ‘like’ was my liking your post but also liking my being retired. Not having to go in on a Monday and face yet another week of dealing with Federal supervisors with wet socks (a polite way of saying thry couldn’t figure out how to pour pee out of their boots) is a reward in itself.
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By czarowniczy on March 27, 2017 at 12:25 am
Actually, I love my work, but couldn’t resist posting the picture and sentiment!
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By MaryfromMarin on March 27, 2017 at 12:28 am
I loved my work, I jusy couldn’t stand the people (and I use the term loosely) I worked for. Then again, having at least 67 paid working days off a year – and the ability to buy cheap and tax free booze at the Coast Guard Exchange next door – helped greatly.
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By czarowniczy on March 27, 2017 at 12:31 am
“I loved my work, I just couldn’t stand the people ..”
I told my daughter the same thing just last week. A couple of particular people, including my boss, who needs psychoanalysis.
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By stella on March 27, 2017 at 9:15 am
Then there was the getting up a 5:45 and driving a half hour in traffic, and sometimes snow …
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By stella on March 27, 2017 at 9:27 am
I had to be there at 5:15am and it was pretty much an hour and 20 minutes one way, without traffic… 2 hours getting home after a 12 hour watch….not pretty,,, but it was long ago, in a universe far away… 🙂
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 2:15 pm
I’m happy for you!
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By stella on March 27, 2017 at 2:40 pm
Crazy hours was one of the reasons it was so easy to walk away… back in 2004. Haven’t looked back.. but I know about crazy bosses…
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 2:50 pm
My last four years were the best. I ran a one-man shop and people had to bring their work to me. As production was machine-based and documented at every step I had those who failed to put on their adult planning caps dead to rights.
My fav was when Washington decided our supervisors should all take the Six Sigma course to improve their imagined skills. They just couldn’t find the time, energy or abilities to survive the ‘Six Sigma for big guys’ course so they took a much abbreviated version.
All the locals taking the course had to do was get me the raw msterials for the next week’s course NLT COB on Wednesday so I could schedule, compile and finish the product. These supervisors responsible for what amounted to international production frequently had to rush stuff on after the deadline, stuff that was sent to them a week prior and basically required them putting a final quantity on it and carrying it down the hall. One time they didn’t even make it by COB on Friday, requiring my coming in on a weekend at double time to get it done. Ironic part was that I already had an MBA and had taken the long Six Sigma years ago but ‘lacked the skills and education to join the club’.
Yeah, Mondays eere, without a doubt, the worst day of the week.
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By czarowniczy on March 27, 2017 at 10:48 am
Every job has some bennie!!
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 7:16 am
I wish I coulda worked with bennie Hill.
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By czarowniczy on March 27, 2017 at 11:38 pm
Often, not as quite as many as many folks could use, lol!
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By patternpuzzler on March 28, 2017 at 12:47 am
My thoughts exactly Czar!!!!! Let these young bucks Army 24/7/365, and don’t drop your Ruck!!!!!
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 10:26 pm
Roger that, rotsa ruck!
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By czarowniczy on March 28, 2017 at 12:08 am
Drive-by:
“Strengthen our weakness, we beseech Thee, that we may do valiantly in this spiritual war…” [St. Augustine]
Islam, Not Christianity, is Saturating Europe
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9954/islam-christianity-europe
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By MaryfromMarin on March 27, 2017 at 12:30 am
On the subject, if any of you have seen the ‘Assassin’s Creed’ movie you msy have noticed that the thread running through it is ‘histoty rewritten’.
They too the Reconquista and made it vile, murderous Catholic Templars pushing the civilized Muslemsvout of Spain – murdering, torturing and otherwise debauching as they went. They spliced the Inquisition in too, making it all about the evil Torquemada (though in reality he’d been dead almost 30 years by the movie’s period), dressed in his Church garb, burning heretics and Moslem Assassins, wholesale for Ferdinand and Isabella’s enjoyment.
The Moslem Assassins are portrayed as snow white counterparts to the evil Catholic Templars which, I do believe, by the movie’s period had long been disdolved in Spain and folded into other military orders. The Assassains were trying to prevent the Catholic Church from fibding a religious srtifact that would allow the Church to suppress all free will! The Moslem Assassins have been protecting it, snd allowing mankind to retain free will…Islam=free will, Christianity=enslavement.
Now you might think that the bending of history and the blatant pro-Islamic message would be lost on the audience but the entire movie, based on a popular teen video game, is carefully done. The violence is enough to keep the younguns attentive while not being graphic and bumping it up from a PG-13. The whole movie’s done in a sepia tone and the visuals don’t draw the viewer’s attention away from the anti-Christian message…in all a great pioneering piece of Hollywood pro-Islam social engineering.
I’m gonna see if I can dig around and find out who backed this financially, it’s just too blatant to be accidental, and from some unhappy Hollyork leakers this is just the beginning.
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By czarowniczy on March 27, 2017 at 1:11 am
Wow. What would you say is the average educational level of male refugees flooding into Europe?
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 7:22 am
The koran, Kill, Steal, Destroy, and using smartphones to that end.
Yep. That’s pretty much the totality of their education.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 10:23 am
Measurable with one finger.
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By czarowniczy on March 27, 2017 at 10:49 am
We watched it. You left out the socialist junk science of genetic memory.
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By nyetneetot on March 27, 2017 at 8:39 am
Yeah, but that could be explained by just saying it was a science fiction film, the blatant redesigning of the violence to get the movie a PG-13 rating and the flagrant reengineering of Christian and Islamic history thst gobsmacked me.
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By czarowniczy on March 27, 2017 at 10:57 am
I wonder who underwrote the financials. I always do.
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By patternpuzzler on March 28, 2017 at 12:50 am
So they were faithful to the game, then?
The longer you play the games, the more you come to realize (at least I did) that the hero/me is on the wrong side.
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By Cetera on March 27, 2017 at 11:04 am
I played that game for well over twenty years…I keep waiting for it to follow me home.
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By czarowniczy on March 27, 2017 at 11:41 pm
I play games sometimes.
I will never play an Assassin’s Creed game.
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How heavy-handed can SJWs get after they take over production companies?
How much hatred of the West, whites, males, and Christians can they portray?
How much can they fellate Islam, while also ignoring its female victims?
SJW delenda est
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 7:38 pm
Hang in there, we’ll be playing it for real soon enough.
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By czarowniczy on March 28, 2017 at 12:09 am
I just hope soon isn’t too late…
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By patternpuzzler on March 28, 2017 at 12:51 am
Wow, that is quite a mess of historical mishmash. Rome made it’s money worthless and over taxed it’s citizens to the point everyone moved to other countries or landowners that stayed, signed themselves into slavery to their wealthy neighbors because slaves weren’t taxed (which is the beginning of peasants BTW). The barbarians walked in and took over a largely unpopulated Rome, put their kids in school and said “life is good”. Then the Muslims came….
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By nyetneetot on March 27, 2017 at 8:52 am
Bingo Nye!!!!! Party like it’s 417 AD…..
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 10:29 pm
Mornin’ kids!
https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/846248243231117312
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By WeeWeed on March 27, 2017 at 5:46 am
Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!!! what a waste of a good soldier!!!!! Too much head…….
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 7:25 am
Mornin’ Colonel Sir!
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By WeeWeed on March 27, 2017 at 7:27 am
If DC was beer…. Good Morning all…
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 7:35 am
Mornin’ Amwick!
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By WeeWeed on March 27, 2017 at 7:43 am
Afternoon,,,, my morning flew by. 🙂
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 2:16 pm
Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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By lovely on March 27, 2017 at 7:43 am
Mornin’ Lovely!
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By WeeWeed on March 27, 2017 at 7:44 am
Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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By stella on March 27, 2017 at 9:18 am
Mornin’ Stella!
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By WeeWeed on March 27, 2017 at 9:20 am
Stella, I have very little luck with crocuses. Seems my ground is too clayish…..Beautiful just beautiful…..and thank you….
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 10:31 pm
Morning WeeWeed!
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 9:35 am
Mornin’ S&S!
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By WeeWeed on March 27, 2017 at 9:51 am
Mornin’ Weed!
I can’t stop laughing at that.
Imagining either serving someone that beer, or being served that beer.
Either way, there would be violence.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 10:26 am
Indeed there would – from my end, anyway! Afternoon, Wool!
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By WeeWeed on March 27, 2017 at 5:23 pm
Mornin WeeWeed 🙂 Now add smell-a-vision to that, and make it the Budweiser coming from the Merrimack waste water plant we were talking about recently, and you’ve got!
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By G-d&Country on March 27, 2017 at 10:26 am
Afternoon G&C!
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By WeeWeed on March 27, 2017 at 5:24 pm
Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
(Tom Collins)
(Black & Tan)
(Boilermaker)
(Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
(Irish Car Bomb)
(Godfather)
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Gin & Tonic)
(Blackberry wine)
(Backdraft)
(Flaming Dr. Pepper)
(Stinger)
(Rusty Nail)
(Jack Daniels)
(Whiskey Smash)
(B52)
(Rum & Coke)
(Night Train Express)
(Albanian Raki Moskat)
(Hot Buttered Rum)
(Mudslide)
(RumChata)
(Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
(Smoking Bishop)
(Red Russian)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ Czarina! 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂
Mornin’ Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂
Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂
Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂
Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂
Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Cinnamon rolls for coffee!
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By nyetneetot on March 27, 2017 at 7:43 am
Thank you, Nyet! Cinnamon rolls are a very good way to begin the week!
Morning all!
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 7:50 am
Breakfast looks delish. Just what I wanted. Mornin’ Nyet. Are you still having fun? Mornin’ all. 🙂
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By auscitizenmom on March 27, 2017 at 8:03 am
I love Cinnamon rolls, bigly… Someday,,, someday… 🙂 TY
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 8:10 am
Morning! *waves*
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 9:36 am
Waves back It been a beautiful day here,, but we are running around..
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 2:17 pm
I was mislead by the lack of hills and ended up walking over 7 miles with Mrs. Nyet. I got sunburned since I did not prepare for one of her death marches. That was day one.
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By nyetneetot on March 27, 2017 at 8:31 am
😯 Not a good start.
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By auscitizenmom on March 27, 2017 at 8:32 am
🙂
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By G-d&Country on March 27, 2017 at 10:28 am
Hopefully each day gets better and better 🙂
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By lovely on March 27, 2017 at 12:05 pm
Buck up weak American.
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By Menagerie on March 27, 2017 at 1:55 pm
Morning! *waves*
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 9:36 am
Good morning Nyet 🙂
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By lovely on March 27, 2017 at 9:00 am
Mornin Nyet! Thanks for BF! I always forget to eat the most important meal of the day. Hope you don’t mind if I add my bacon recipe of the day in here. It’s sort of a breakfast item, but I don’t want to step on your sunburned toes! Give one a try – it may make your boo-boo better 😉
Maple Bacon Pecan Sticky Buns
6 slice bacon
¼ c. maple syrup
¼ c. packed light brown sugar
½ c. pecans
1 can Refrigerated Biscuits
½ tsp. ground cinnamon
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Heat skillet over medium heat. Add bacon and cook until it begins to brown. Transfer to a paper towel–lined plate.
Combine maple syrup, brown sugar, and pecans. break up bacon and stir in . Divide among 8 muffin cups [of a 12-cup muffin tin].
Place the biscuits on a sheet of wax paper and sprinkle both sides with the cinnamon. Place biscuits over the bacon mixture in each of the cups, gently pressing to fit.
Bake until the biscuits are golden brown, 18 to 20 minutes. Remove from oven and immediately invert onto a baking sheet. Let cool for 5 minutes before serving.
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By G-d&Country on March 27, 2017 at 10:37 am
These recipes are killing me…. I have been cutting out sweets and snacks and other wonderful things since last November……I cling to my beer and occasional Jameson… I have limits donchuknow.
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 5:47 pm
Nye!!!!! Evening Everyone!!!!!! Thank you Nye, you and Natasha enjoying Spring Break? Forgot to mention another warm place, Wake Island. Enjoy!!!!!!!
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 10:35 pm
We’re near a Navy base and isolated. Might be 78F or 80F tomorrow.
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By nyetneetot on March 27, 2017 at 10:38 pm
Has to be Wake Island then…… good for you!!! Enjoy!!!
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 11:20 pm
So, it bothered me when I saw this… but
http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/03/made-obamacare-great-again/
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 8:06 am
LOL! True that!
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By Rhea Salacia Volans on March 27, 2017 at 10:51 am
Later. Got an appt. And, I see I am already running late. 😦
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By auscitizenmom on March 27, 2017 at 8:31 am
It’s gonna be that kind of week.
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By Menagerie on March 27, 2017 at 8:34 am
Is it me, or is that glass bent? 😮
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 8:38 am
It looks like you need to replace the bottle already.
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By nyetneetot on March 27, 2017 at 8:57 am
It may have been refilled with Everclear™.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 10:34 am
I don’t need Everclear. There continue to be entrepreneurs out in the hills here.
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By Menagerie on March 27, 2017 at 1:57 pm
Yeah, but, still….
🙂
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 7:42 pm
(What have these sick, twisted punsters done to me? What have I become?)
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 7:43 pm
You study at the knees of masters.
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By Menagerie on March 28, 2017 at 5:24 am
It is indeed and I don’t drink. Morning Menagerie!
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 9:37 am
Good morning!
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By Menagerie on March 27, 2017 at 1:58 pm
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 10:28 am
That’s his daughter.
Looking like, “Yep. That’s muh dad.”
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 7:44 pm
Wow this guy’s good!! Never heard the original, but can’t be much better than this, if it is! This guy belongs on The Voice!
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By patternpuzzler on March 28, 2017 at 12:43 am
Tex’s top shelf premium whiskey bent that glass…….wow
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 10:38 pm
On a happy note, Mama Duck is safely on her nest.. We looked last night and she was gone, with at least three eggs waiting…Perhaps she was out getting dinner.
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 8:37 am
We see that here, too.
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By auscitizenmom on March 27, 2017 at 2:06 pm
Her nest is less than 2 feet from our front water spigot… Guess who ended up hauling water from the back?,,, Giving the plants their fertilizer.. (miracle grow)
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 2:20 pm
🙂
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By auscitizenmom on March 27, 2017 at 3:28 pm
Off and running today – too many snoozes…
This Day in (Mostly) American History: March 27
1513: Spaniard Juan Ponce de León and his expedition first sight Florida
1775: Jefferson elected to the Continental Congress Jefferson, a Virginia delegate, quickly established himself in the Continental Congress with the publication of his paper entitled A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Throughout the next year, Jefferson published several more papers, most notably Drafts and Notes on the Virginia Constitution.
In June 1776, Congress put together a committee to draft the Declaration of Independence. After much discussion, the committee chose Jefferson to compose the document. At just 33 years old, Jefferson finished writing his draft of what is considered the most important document in the history of democracy in just a few days. After a few minor changes, the committee submitted the draft, titled “A Declaration” by the Representatives in General Congress Assembled, to Congress on June 28, 1776. After some debate, the document was formally adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776, under the new title, The Declaration of Independence.
1790: The modern shoelace (string and shoe holes) invented in England
1836: First Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland, Ohio)
1841: First US steam fire engine tested, NYC
1848: John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
1849: Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill
1855: Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
1860: M L Byrn patents “covered gimlet screw with a ‘T’ handle” (corkscrew)
1866: Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
1866: US President Andrew Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment (More information: Wiki http://tinyurl.com/77terl3
1884: First long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY
1865: Lincoln, Sherman and Grant meet to plot the final stages of the Civil War
1912: First Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington, D.C.
1915: Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid
1905: Fingerprint evidence is used to solve a British murder case
1914: First successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
1931: John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on
1933: Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
1933: Japan leaves League of Nations
1933: Polythene ( polythyrene) discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
1943: Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) first heard on CBS Radio
1944: 1,000 Jews leave Drancy, France, for Auschwitz concentration camp
1944: 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania
1944: 40 Jewish policemen in Riga, Latvia, ghetto are shot by the Gestapo
1944: Children’s Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno
1945: Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record “It’s Only a Paper Moon”
1945: Gen Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken
1948: Just 11 days after being released from prison, Billie Holiday plays in front of a sold-out crowd at Carnegie Hall
1950: Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner’s solo concert (Cleve OH)
1951: Frank Sinatra records “I’m a Fool to Want You”
1952: Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
1952: “Singin’ in the Rain”, a musical comedy starring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds, is released
1956: US seizes US communist newspaper “Daily Worker”
1957: 29th Academy Awards: “Around World in 80 Days”, Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner win
1958: Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier as well as First Secretary of the Communist Party
1961: Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
1965: [Vietnam/Cambodia] South Vietnamese forces conduct combat operations in Cambodia Following several days of consultations with the Cambodian government, South Vietnamese troops, supported by artillery and air strikes, launch their first major military operation into Cambodia. The South Vietnamese encountered a 300-man Viet Cong force in the Kandal province and reported killing 53 communist soldiers. Two teams of U.S. helicopter gunships took part in the action. Three South Vietnamese soldiers were killed and seven wounded
1964: Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale, 118 die
1966: Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia
1969: Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston
1969: Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars
1970: Ringo releases his first solo album “Sentimental Journey”
1970: USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973: Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession
1973: [Vietnam] Bombing of Cambodia to continue. The White House announces that, at the request of Cambodian President Lon Nol, the bombing of Cambodia will continue until communist forces cease military operations and agree to a cease-fire. In March 1970, Lon Nol had overthrown Prince Norodom Sihanouk in a bloodless coup. Between 1970 and 1975, Lon Nol and his army, the Forces Armees Nationale Khmer (FANK), with U.S. support and military aid, fought the Khmer Rouge and Sihanouk’s supporters for control of Cambodia. During the five years of bitter fighting, approximately 10 percent of Cambodia’s 7 million people died. When the U.S. forces departed South Vietnam in 1973, both the Cambodians and South Vietnamese found themselves fighting the communists alone. Without U.S. support, Lon Nol’s forces succumbed to the Khmer Rouge, surrendering to the communists in April 1975. The victorious Khmer Rouge evacuated Phnom Penh and began reordering Cambodian society, which resulted in a killing spree and the notorious “killing fields.” Eventually, hundreds of thousands of Cambodians were murdered or died from exhaustion, hunger, and disease.
1973: 45th Academy Awards: “The Godfather”, Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win. The Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather attended the ceremony in Brando’s place, stating that the actor “very regretfully” could not accept the award, as he was protesting Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans in film.
1976: Washington, D.C. underground Metro opens
1977: 583 die in aviation’s worst ever disaster when two Boeing 747s collide at Tenerife airport (Canary Islands)
1978: Bob Fosse’s “Dancin'” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1,774 performances
1979: US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that cops can’t randomly stop cars. The Fourth Amendment bars the police from stopping motorists at random merely to check licenses and auto registrations. Without some cause to believe that a car is being driven in violation of the law, such stops violate the constitutional guarantee against unreasonable seizures, the court declared.
1984: Beginning of “tanker war”: over the next 9 months, 44 ships, including Iranian, Iraqi, Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti tankers, are attacked by Iraqi or Iranian warplanes or damaged by mines
1989: First African American soap opera, “Generations” premieres on NBC-TV
1990: The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime. which broadcast television programs into communist Cuba. Despite the fact that TV Marti was a dismal failure in terms of weakening the Castro regime, it continues to receive funding and is still in operation.
1995: 67th Academy Awards: “Forrest Gump”, Jessica Lange & Tom Hanks win
1998: FDA approves Viagra Viagra’s massive success was practically instantaneous. In the first year alone, the $8-$10 pills yielded about a billion dollars in sales. Viagra was marketed on television, famously touted by ex-presidential candidate Bob Dole, then in his mid-70s. Such direct-to-consumer marketing was practically unprecedented for prescription drugs. Viagra was marketed on television, famously touted by ex-presidential candidate Bob Dole, then in his mid-70s. Such direct-to-consumer marketing was practically unprecedented for prescription drugs.
2006: The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
2014: UN General Assembly condemns Russia’s annexation of Crimea
1979: Pattie Boyd and Eric Clapton are married Pattie Boyd, whose participation in various affairs and marriages among the British rock royalty of the 60s and 70s inspired three famous popular songs, “Bell Bottom Blues”, “Layla,” and “Beautiful Tonight” by second husband Eric Clapton.
(more info: http://tinyurl.com/llozvfd
Stella has suggested Tara Ross’ website for more detailed American History. Ms. Ross is an author and a constitutionalist who publishes, on her website, “This day in American History”. She writes quite well and I’ve also become a fan. While, because of time issues, I cannot incorporate Ms. Ross’ 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 27, 2017 at 8:58 am
Morning pattern!
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 9:37 am
Morning s&s… have a great day!
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By patternpuzzler on March 27, 2017 at 10:43 am
You, too! Thanks!
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 10:46 am
1998: Bob Dole was up in the polls that year. Heh.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 1:02 pm
We just happened to start watching the Godfather last night… wait till I share that tibit with DH!!!
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 2:22 pm
The Godfather and Omerta by Mario Puzo are two of the best books ever written.
The first two films in the trilogy are two of the best films ever made. No pun intended.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 7:47 pm
Has anyone heard from Michelle? I haven’t seen her in a while.
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By lovely on March 27, 2017 at 9:15 am
Morning lovely. I’ve missed her posts. Hopefully she’s okay and just really busy.
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 9:29 am
That’s what I’m hoping also. Good morning SandandSea 🙂
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By lovely on March 27, 2017 at 9:36 am
For that matter, where’s Joshua been?
Nobody’s seen or heard from him since last Wednesday. Hope he’s ok.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 10:49 am
He commented next door last Friday.
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By stella on March 27, 2017 at 11:11 am
It’s been almost two weeks.
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By stella on March 27, 2017 at 11:05 am
That’s a long time for her to not at least check in, I hope everything is ok.
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By lovely on March 27, 2017 at 12:08 pm
Me too.
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By stella on March 27, 2017 at 12:57 pm
Can you email her?
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By lovely on March 27, 2017 at 12:58 pm
Perhaps. I don’t want to intrude on people. I’ll think about it.
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By stella on March 27, 2017 at 12:58 pm
I understand.
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By lovely on March 27, 2017 at 1:00 pm
It’s like a family, isn’t it? Where’s Joshua? Where’s Michelle?
If I disappeared from here, my folks would tell you all.
They don’t read here for the same reason. They don’t want to intrude on their son.
Both of them would love this place.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 1:06 pm
Why I stopped watching TV and movies, 15 years ago.
I have real, non-fictional people to get weepy over.
Go ahead, keep watching “Walking Dead” and weep over the visceral death of your favorite character.
I’ll keep praying for real people.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 1:11 pm
How about Impeach and Derk………
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 10:42 pm
Wow. Indeed.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 11:29 pm
Well, Texas and Oklahoma got hit pretty hard last night with hail storms and there were tornado warnings, but I don’t know if any touched down. We tried to protect our cars, but they got hit hard anyway. We will have to get those fixed and probably a new roof. Nothing major, but not fun. Golf ball sized hail is pretty big and loud.
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 9:34 am
Sorry San&Sea !
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By lovely on March 27, 2017 at 9:38 am
Thank you. Springtime in Texas. It’s beautiful, but we have crazy storms.
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 9:40 am
Wow, Glad everyone is safe – even though cars are not. Can’t imagine what it would be like stuck outside with those things hitting me!!
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By G-d&Country on March 27, 2017 at 10:40 am
Thank you. When I was about 18, I was in the car with my mom driving down the freeway and a hail storm hit. There was no way to get off so we were stuck. Biggest hail I’ve ever seen. One came down close to us that was nearly football size. It was a short lived storm, but I truly don’t know how we got out of it without busted windows. Miraculous really. Big prayers were going up!
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 10:46 am
Just over a decade ago, I was working and living in a campground.
I was sitting at the picnic table outside my camper, the park was empty except for me, and I heard a roaring sound in the woods that got louder and louder. This is Fall, and deep woods on Lake Michigan. It sounded like four train engines were barreling toward me through the woods. I ran. I didn’t know what I was hearing, but instinct said “RUN!”
I made the hundred-yard dash to the store before the hail came down, but it was four inches deep, shooter-marble sized hailstones.
The sound, though. Unbelievable. And it came out of nowhere. It wasn’t even raining.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 11:23 am
It can be a terrifying sound. We get hail and twisters around here. Scary moments when things go pitch black and then that howling wind starts. 😳
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 12:50 pm
Was in the Tornado Breakout of 1974. Had a 5 week old – hubby laughed at me when I put the filled diaper bag and flashlight next to the door. We were on the 2nd floor and ended up running down to a garden level apartment with all our neighbors. Watched a carpet warehouse across the street have the sides blown out by huge rolls of carpeting; it also threw a boxcar off the tracks 1/2 block away.
For years I would get a panic attack in a high wind or hearing wind whistle. Nothing quite like watching the National Guard going down your street with heavy equipment to make a path. You take care this spring, sand. I have a feeling it’s going to be exciting!!
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By patternpuzzler on March 28, 2017 at 1:01 am
Thank you. That would be terrifying! Especially with a tiny baby. I think you’re right… weather wise and politically too! 😉
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By sandandsea2015 on March 28, 2017 at 8:10 am
Did you like living in a camper??? I often wondered about it… Dh thinks I am crazy, but I love little spaces… and compactness..
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 5:52 pm
Yup, I loved it. It was the beginning of my healing, too.
If you knew my whole life, and all the different spaces I’ve called “home”, which you kinda do…
I saw every sunset and walked the beach every morning, before anyone in the place was even awake yet.
Now I live in a tiny apartment, and I love it. Nine years.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 7:53 pm
That is great. Tiny can be comforting. I had a 12 x 14 cabin in PA that I loved. Never lived there, but you almost could..
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 10:42 pm
I have a 10×18 tractor shed, complete with electricity, heat, roll up garage door….keep my yard tractor in. Saves time, instead of driving over to the farm, then back along the highway………also my farm tractors are a tad to big, ruts in the yard and such……
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 10:51 pm
I’m so sorry! That happened here a few years ago – got dents on my car and also damage to the roof. Be sure to check your window screens too. A couple of mine were torn.
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By stella on March 27, 2017 at 11:09 am
Heat-sinks on the back ends of window air-conditioners, too.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 11:51 am
Based on the damage, mine got cut down to 45% efficiency.
It would be neat if someone made a steel fine-tooth comb that could straighten the dented fins.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 7:58 pm
Thank you!
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 12:48 pm
😦
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By auscitizenmom on March 27, 2017 at 2:15 pm
Rode a motorcycle through golfball sized hail in Nebraska once. Nearest shelter I could see from the Interstate was a tree about 10 miles away.
The hail hurt most when it hit knuckles and knees, but even that wasn’t bad, mostly absorbed by the padded gauntlets and leather pants and rain suit. It was just noisy on the helmet and faceshield.
The big Yamaha XS1100 road bike plowed through the hail on the road like it wasn’t there.
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By John Denney on March 27, 2017 at 3:23 pm
That’s amazing the bike handled so well.
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 7:15 pm
O_O
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 8:00 pm
It’s another dreary, gray day in the northeast, so here’s a bright, sunny painting for your viewing pleasure
Red Boats at Argenteuil by Monet
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By G-d&Country on March 27, 2017 at 10:42 am
I love Monet!
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 12:51 pm
Me too. Was lucky enough to go to a museum exhibition of his works in Boston about 30 years ago. I was surprised at how large some of the paintings were.
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By G-d&Country on March 27, 2017 at 1:41 pm
I attended an exhibit in Chicago with my daughter. It was about 20 years ago, I think.
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By stella on March 27, 2017 at 1:42 pm
I haven’t been to an art exhibit in many years, I need to make an effort to do that.
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 2:54 pm
There are internet painting sites that have very good resolution and a zoom-in capability. I know it is not the same as going to an exhibition, but that is no longer an option for me, so I enjoy browsing great art on the web. It is very relaxing. That is why I post paintings here.
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By G-d&Country on March 27, 2017 at 3:25 pm
I like great art turned into jigsaw puzzles… you know the dog’s playing poker on black velvet.. 🙂
As a college student, and for 16 years after that I lived in NYC…. I seldom went to the art museums… I should have..
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 5:55 pm
‘Sabout it for me too. Had a friend who was a somewhat well-known sculptor with whom I drank a lot and fired guns with – when we were drunk. He used my face for one of his bronze scultures in an Orlando project, that’s about as ‘into’ art as I ever got…I leaned more towards the vaquero with sombrero on velvet myself.
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By czarowniczy on March 27, 2017 at 11:36 pm
Thank you for sharing the artwork. They are beautiful and it’s nice to stop and focus on something calm and tranquil when the days gets hectic. 😊
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 7:10 pm
Sometimes I forget to just look at the beauty paintings offer. Thanks for the fine art posts, G-d&Country!
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By patternpuzzler on March 28, 2017 at 1:08 am
:0) I went to an exhibition of Monet’s work at the Portland Museum of Art and when I walked into the gallery, I too was blown away with the size of some of the works. The fact that his paintings of large haystacks were small and his paintings of small water lilies were humongous was rather strange.
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By litenmaus on March 27, 2017 at 4:08 pm
The haystack painting and other Monet works are in a Baby Einstein video I play for my littles. I didn’t realize the size difference, probably because I’ve seen most of the paintings in art books. Interesting.
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 7:13 pm
:0) I’m like you s&s. I had only seen the work in calendars and books and I think the biggest image I ever saw of his work was a poster. I was totally unprepared to see the lily canvasses that went from floor to ceiling and took up half a gallery wall. (haystack paintings were a normal size…about 16″x20″)
Gaugin’s art in reality as opposed to Gaugin’s art printed on calendars etc was another one that shocked me. Not the size of the canvasses, but the ugliness and ferocity of the brush strokes. Who knew??
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By litenmaus on March 27, 2017 at 8:08 pm
I love the Water Lilies painting, the colors are gorgeous. It would certainly be an impressive piece being that large!!!!
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 9:21 pm
Just because. These folks are husband and wife. Started in separate heavy metal bands, then joined one together, then went to Ireland to learn Irish music, then Spain, and here we are.
So amazing to watch them interact live.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 11:01 am
What Gabriella does with her playing hand is beyond me. It flies like a hummingbird.
She speaks through her instrument, and also uses it as a percussion instrument.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 11:03 am
She redefines the term “rhythm guitarist”.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 11:05 am
Opened that in a new browser tab so I can take in the whole thing later. You’re right about her hand flying like a hummingbird; she amazes me how she combines strength and a type of delicacy in guitar playing I’ve not seen before. Thanks.
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By patternpuzzler on March 28, 2017 at 1:14 am
Mr. Molyneux kills it again with an absolutely masterful piece on healthcare:
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By Cetera on March 27, 2017 at 11:08 am
On a completely unrelated note to anything at all, if you grew up watching cartoons, or have kids who have done so, enjoy some improv comedy, and celebrity impersonations, check out Twisted Toonz:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpwD_RtSPZwSpgzDqFNdUww
Professional voice actors reading popular/nerdy movie scripts, doing voices as characters they voice, or impersonating other actors. They do these live at various conventions, and if you ever get a chance to watch it live, they are absolutely worth it.
I can, and have, sat and watched these guys all day. They are generally beyond funny. I saw the Ghostbusters one in PHX ComiCon last year.
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By Cetera on March 27, 2017 at 11:30 am
Since I haven’t seen the other movies, I just went to the channel and watched these insane folks do The Empire Strikes Back: Part 1, and it is an absolute laugh riot.
Thank you!
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 1:37 pm
The concept is like Carrey’s Whose Line is it, Anyway?, but with bona fide professional voice actors. Insanely funny stuff. It’s like AoSHQ on stage.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 1:39 pm
You’re welcome! They always get me laughing and feeling better, when I’m grumpy.
One of my favorites is the Return of the Jedi from Seattle, which ends up featuring Darth Vader as played by Winnie-the-Pooh. It slays me!
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By Cetera on March 27, 2017 at 2:26 pm
I’ll find it.
This is my new favorite channel “on the youtube” as we say out here in the sticks.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 8:03 pm
Darth Vader as played by Winnie-the-Pooh.
What the.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 8:04 pm
Wish me luck….or more like patience…as I go in to file for an upgraded VA disability. I will not only have to provide VA checklists my doxs have to fill out but excrucistingly detailed information they already have.
If the little welfare-to-work pukes can’t figure out what the dox have put on the VA’s own ‘checklist for dummies’ checklist then they send it to me, I have to go back to my dox for clarification and then send it back to the VA who’ll….you get the idea.
If they’ve screwed the info they have when they previously put it into their system then my duplicate info that I have to provide again will kick out, requiring me to send notarized resubmissions. No, they don’t want it now, they wantbit ‘then’. This includes all of the info on my previous and Czarina’s previous marriages and divorces and, in her case, death certificate for her ex. Oh yes, they have this all already, but……
Pure karma, I was a Fed puke and now I am subjectbto them.
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By czarowniczy on March 27, 2017 at 11:42 am
I wish you all of that, czar. Let’s hope and pray for the best!
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By stella on March 27, 2017 at 11:46 am
May angels of the Lord watch over and shepherd your paperwork, Czar!
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By Cetera on March 27, 2017 at 12:12 pm
Might wanna pack the hip flask…
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By Rhea Salacia Volans on March 27, 2017 at 1:28 pm
and a meatloaf sammie…
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 2:29 pm
Muffaletta…preferably outta Central Grocery. BTW, y’all ever been to Rocky and Carlos in Chamette? Ethnic St Bunnawd dining at its most bestest!
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By czarowniczy on March 27, 2017 at 11:53 pm
Gonna be doin’ that before and after the meeting. The process makes more sense that way.
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By czarowniczy on March 27, 2017 at 11:50 pm
Disgraceful, shameful! on gov’t’s part! Don’t let those turkeys see you sweat. Best wishes for it going smoothly.
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By G-d&Country on March 27, 2017 at 1:46 pm
The VA’s excuse is ‘they’re only following the law’, totally ignoring how they use it to beat vets over the head. One of these days ther’ll be a VA ‘Nuremberg’ trial and the SOBs can yell ‘I was only following orders’ right up until the rope snaps taught.
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By czarowniczy on March 28, 2017 at 12:14 am
🙏🏼
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By lovely on March 27, 2017 at 1:52 pm
Hope you get your disability,,, errrr,,, that doesn’t sound quite right,,, but I hope you make it through the bureaucracy..
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 2:28 pm
I get the rating, already got the disability. Some VA petty bureaucrat who, just two months ago, was a prep chef at Mickey D’s will tell me how much its worth. Main benefit is that in the likelihood I go to room temp before Czarina this disability rating will be combat-related and entitle her to a cash indemnity claim until she checks out.
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By czarowniczy on March 27, 2017 at 11:57 pm
“Czar vs The VA”, good luck my friend…….. you should have enough posting stories for the next six months…….
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 11:05 pm
That’s about the time, they tell me that even though I’ve submitted the correct and completed forms and the docs have completed their checksheets it will be at least 5 months (probably more) until I hear anything.
Even then they could order me to a VA hospital to gave my doc’s conclusions (a nationally recognized doc in specialist practice, he was a Navy doc at WaltervReed) reviewed by some VA doc who graduated from the Lower Slobovian School of Medicine and Drain Cleaning. That could extend the conefy production by a year.
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By czarowniczy on March 28, 2017 at 12:03 am
‘comedy’, conefy was how it was spelled on the VA form.
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By czarowniczy on March 28, 2017 at 12:04 am
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By stella on March 27, 2017 at 11:45 am
Watery eyes and smiles at same time – Thank you again for a wonderful post 😉
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By G-d&Country on March 27, 2017 at 12:46 pm
Amazing beings, dogs. Thanks Stella.
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By The Tundra PA on March 27, 2017 at 1:16 pm
Refuse to watch. I learned my lesson yesterday. 😀
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 1:42 pm
It has funny parts all throughout 😉
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By G-d&Country on March 27, 2017 at 1:47 pm
I really enjoyed that… thanks..
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 3:03 pm
And what’s that reddish-brown splotch over on the left???
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By czarowniczy on March 28, 2017 at 12:06 am
Judge Rules for Freddie Gray Cops, “Malicious” Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby Faces a Civil Trial
http://www.independentsentinel.com/justice-judge-rules-freddie-gray-cops-mosby-now-faces-civil-trial/
The Freddie Gray cops won again in a lawsuit against Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby. Ms. Mosby put six police officers on trial without the evidence to back up the charges. At first, critics said she over-charged the officers, but, in the end, the judge found there was no evidence to back up the charges.
“Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.” __George Saunders
Amen.
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By lovely on March 27, 2017 at 12:55 pm
THis is me,,, jumping up and down… thump thump thump 🙂
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 2:30 pm
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 2:32 pm
Me too (only not as thin haha). A sane judge – value beyond pearls. A sane judge – worth their weight in gold.
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By G-d&Country on March 27, 2017 at 3:28 pm
Just grabbed a gif from yahoo… I had no idea it was so big… oopsie doodle.
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 3:37 pm
Nah. News that good demands a HUGE jumping up and down!!
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By patternpuzzler on March 28, 2017 at 1:28 am
Excellent news. 🙂
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 2:56 pm
Take her Bar Card…………
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 11:08 pm
Another good piece from Daniel Greenfield:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266197/civil-war-here-daniel-greenfield#.WNiiWjpjFHk.twitter
There is no form of legal authority that the left accepts as a permanent institution. It only utilizes forms of authority selectively when it controls them. But when government officials refuse the orders of the duly elected government because their allegiance is to an ideology whose agenda is in conflict with the President and Congress, that’s not activism, protest, politics or civil disobedience; it’s treason.
-snip-
The left is a treasonous movement. The Democrats became a treasonous organization when they fell under the sway of a movement that rejects our system of government, its laws and its elections. Now their treason is coming to a head. They are engaged in a struggle for power against the government. That’s not protest. It’s not activism. The old treason of the sixties has come of age. A civil war has begun.
As usual with Mr. Greenfield, the whole thing is good.
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By The Tundra PA on March 27, 2017 at 1:39 pm
I was reading today about people fleeing the inner cities because if/when there is an economic collapse it truly will be civil war. Chicago alone has seen the largest population drop in its history in the last few years. Baltimore and Detroit same scenario.
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 3:03 pm
Detroit has been dropping in population since 1960. In fact, it has been making somewhat of a comeback, or at least beginning to make one.
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By stella on March 27, 2017 at 3:19 pm
Have you been reading Matt Brackens book??????
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 11:12 pm
Detroit is a tad different Stella, and I won’t go into the story, just dig up Coleman Young for starters……..
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 11:13 pm
I’m guessing Stella knows more than most folks about Coleman Young.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 11:50 pm
I’m quite familiar with Young. I was born in Detroit, and lived in the general vicinity for most of my life; the latest stretch is 1971 until now. Fortunately Young is gone, but his illegitimate son is now serving in the Michigan legislature.
Detroit now has a pretty honest and competent mayor, an improved City Council, and passed a law that Council members must live in their districts. I think there is one member that isn’t required to do so (at large, is that the term?)
There is a lot of development because there are several people who have the money and faith in Detroit to do so. The Ilitch family, Dan Gilbert of Quicken Loans, Peter Karmanos (former owner of Compuware), and Roger Pensky are a few of the leaders who are helping to turn the city around.
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By stella on March 28, 2017 at 10:26 am
Benton Harbor, MI is also experiencing a comeback.
Why? Gentrification. Which is to say, “White folks moving back in and asserting themselves and acting out their culture and their values.”
That always makes a ghetto better. Every time.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 11:52 pm
So you’ve been reading my posts here and nect door, eh? Zactly why we hatted-up and hidey-ho’d out here. Close enough to where we can go in to enjoy the whatever whenever and far enough out to where stray bullets won’t hit us. Also gotta coupla bridges we can blow if things get really bad.
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By czarowniczy on March 27, 2017 at 11:46 pm
😳
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By sandandsea2015 on March 28, 2017 at 8:08 am
Today’s commentary:
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By stella on March 27, 2017 at 3:17 pm
Is that George Clinton at the far right (irony!) of the cartoon?
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 8:10 pm
Just watching AG Sessions announcement (next door)… OJP grants/funding will be withheld from sanctuary cities unless they hold/turn over criminal aliens. $4.1 Billion at stake. Sweet
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 3:44 pm
It was at the beginning of today’s Press briefing. I just posted the separate video.
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By stella on March 27, 2017 at 3:46 pm
TY….
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By amwick on March 27, 2017 at 5:36 pm
From Sharyl Atkisson.
“For a health care a bill or any bill, we should require that a nonpartisan Congressional recorder publicly post a summary of each paragraph five days before a vote, with a notation disclosing which members of Congress and which lobbyists wrote/worked on that particular provision. If anything is added to or subtracted from the bill after it’s posted, that, too, should be posted at least 48 hours before a final vote, and include the same disclosures.”
https://sharylattkisson.com/in-order-to-form-a-more-perfect-union/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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By auscitizenmom on March 27, 2017 at 3:51 pm
Note to tennis players – female-only judges from now on.
“‘Old-School Gentleman’ Forced to Retire For Calling Female Colleague ‘Love’”
https://heatst.com/world/man-forced-out-of-job-for-calling-female-colleague-love/
One nasty old biddy complained at a soccer club. One NOB. Guy was 82 yo, loved by everyone. “Love” and “Lovey” are standard fair for “old gents” in the UK. Who says they are old, anyway? phooey
But it was a lovey day for tennis. No love for soccer.
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By jeans2nd on March 27, 2017 at 6:31 pm
😡
Terms of endearment might be unwelcome, but it’s not worth causing someone to loose their job over.
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By Rhea Salacia Volans on March 27, 2017 at 8:50 pm
I saw our Second Lady Mrs. Pence on FOX and FRIENDS today. She was discussing women in the military and military families. She got all choked up when they asked about her DIL. I think you might enjoy her interview. No wonder VP Pence likes to have her around all the time. 🙄
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5373831928001/?#sp=show-clips
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By auscitizenmom on March 27, 2017 at 6:39 pm
I watched that this morning. So touching how she reacted to her DIL. It’s really sweet.
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 7:03 pm
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 8:17 pm
These are humans. Flying.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 8:18 pm
Every Olympic medal needs to be taken from their recipients, and given to these folks.
Except for maybe the downhill and freestyle skiing ones.
You’re jumping around and flipping and stuff on a padded mat?
You’re diving into a pool and doing flips and stuff??
You’re running around throwing a ball into a hoop?
These guys deserve your medals.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 8:27 pm
@6:58 Can you imagine?
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 8:34 pm
I wonder what Orville and Wilbur Wright would think about these cats.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 8:44 pm
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen
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By auscitizenmom on March 27, 2017 at 9:01 pm
Amen
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By auscitizenmom on March 27, 2017 at 9:03 pm
Amen.
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By sandandsea2015 on March 27, 2017 at 9:16 pm
Amen.
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By lovely on March 27, 2017 at 9:27 pm
Amen.
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By The Tundra PA on March 27, 2017 at 9:28 pm
Amen.
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By Col.(R) Ken on March 27, 2017 at 11:18 pm
Amen.
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By Wooly Phlox on March 27, 2017 at 11:34 pm
Amen. Thanks, mom!
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By patternpuzzler on March 28, 2017 at 1:33 am
❤
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By auscitizenmom on March 28, 2017 at 8:58 am