General Discussion, Thursday, March 30, 2017

Posted on March 30, 2017 by Stella

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  1. kinthenorthwest says:
    March 30, 2017 at 12:10 am

    Seattle is going to sue Trump yet look at the state of washing ton and their once glorious city of Seattle.
    Just take a look at this Facebook page on the state of Seattle.
    https://www.facebook.com/SeattleLooksLikeShit/?fref=nf

    Seattle suing Trump administration over threats to sanctuary cities
    http://kimatv.com/news/local/seattle-suing-over-threats-to-sanctuary-cities

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  2. texan59 says:
    March 30, 2017 at 12:10 am

    I’d say we’ve had a pretty good 24+ hours. Got rid of a bunch of EPA caca, one of Bronco Bama’s lackey’s spilled some of the beans, and it’s already Thursday. I’ma call that WINNING. Now, coffee up, as we can’t sleep much today either. They’re still coming like the zombie apocalypse.

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  3. MaryfromMarin says:
    March 30, 2017 at 12:35 am

    “Infanticides R Us”

    Planned Parenthood Director Caught Admitting Babies Born Alive After Abortion are Killed

    http://www.lifenews.com/2017/03/29/shocking-video-planned-parenthood-director-caught-admitting-babies-born-alive-after-abortion-are-killed/#.WNxMH16Jxy0.twitter

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  4. patternpuzzler says:
    March 30, 2017 at 12:52 am

    Wow, Stella, I’m going to have to paint a painting like your header photograph – it’s mesmerizing!
    Out of town Doc appt tomorrow, so I’m runnin tonight. Hi to all, and catch up with you later!

    This day in (Mostly) American History; March 30
    1822 Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory
    1842 Ether used as an anesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford Long (Ga)

    1855 Violence disrupts first Kansas election In territorial Kansas’ first election, some 5,000 so-called “Border Ruffians” invade the territory from western Missouri and force the election of a pro-slavery legislature. Although the number of votes cast exceeded the number of eligible voters in the territory, Kansas Governor Andrew Reeder reluctantly approved the election to prevent further bloodshed.
    Trouble in territorial Kansas began with the signing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act by President Franklin Pierce in 1854. The act stipulated that settlers in the newly created territories of Nebraska and Kansas would decide by popular vote whether their territory would be free or slave. A few months after pro-slavery forces defrauded Kansas’ first election, the Kansas Free State forces were formed, armed by supporters in the North and featuring the leadership of militant abolitionist John Brown. In May 1856, Border Ruffians sacked the abolitionist town of Lawrence, and in retaliation a small Free State force under John Brown massacred five pro-slavery Kansans along the Pottawatomie Creek.
    history.com: http://tinyurl.com/k3a9jf3

    1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia)

    1867 US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2 cents an acre – Seward’s Folly)
    1867 Seward’s Folly U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward signs a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7 million. Despite the bargain price of roughly two cents an acre, the Alaskan purchase was ridiculed in Congress and in the press as “Seward’s folly,” “Seward’s icebox,” and President Andrew Johnson’s “polar bear garden.”

    1870 XV Amendment to the US Constitution is adopted, guarantees right to vote regardless of race. Following its ratification by the requisite three-fourths of the states, the 15th Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote, is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution. Passed by Congress the year before, the amendment reads, “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” history.com: http://tinyurl.com/5stbgnc

    1870 Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union
    1870 Florida territorial government established.
    1889 John T Reid opens 1st US golf course (Yonkers, NY)

    1891 “Sockless” Simpson rallies populist farmers Signaling a growing movement toward direct political action among desperate western farmers, “Sockless” Jerry Simpson calls on the Kansas Farmers’ Alliance to work for a takeover of the state government.
    Simpson was one of the most popular and influential leaders among Populist-minded western and mid-western farmers of the late 19th century. Angered over low crop prices, crippling bank loans, and high shipping rates, farmers began to unite in self-help groups like the Grange and the Farmers’ Alliances. Initially, these groups primarily provided mutual assistance to members while agitating for the regulation of railroads and grain elevators. Increasingly, though, they became centers of support for more sweeping political change by uniting to help form the new nationwide third-party movement known as the Populists.
    Simpson understood the West and the challenges of making a living in that difficult land. Since 1878, he had operated a ranch in southwest Kansas, where he first became involved in Republican politics. During the economic downturn of the 1890s, he became disgusted with the Republican’s timid and ineffective efforts to help farmers and ranchers. Like many other men and women who worked the land for a living, he abandoned the major parties to try to achieve more fundamental change through the Populists. history.com http://tinyurl.com/m6kf7ho

    1893 Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain
    1939 The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets the world airspeed record of 463 mph.
    1944 781 British bombers attack Nuremberg
    1945 USSR invades Austria
    1945 World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans.
    1946 3rd Golden Globes: The Lost Weekend, Ray Milland, & Ingrid Bergman win

    1948 Henry Wallace (Progressive Party) criticizes Truman’s Cold War policies. Henry Wallace, former vice-president and current Progressive Party presidential candidate, lashes out at the Cold War policies of President Harry S. Truman. Wallace and his supporters were among the few Americans who actively voiced criticisms of America’s Cold War mindset during the late-1940s and 1950s.
    Widely admired for his intelligence and integrity, Henry Wallace had served as vice president to Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1941 to 1945. After Harry S. Truman succeeded to the presidency upon Roosevelt’s death in April 1945, Wallace was named secretary of commerce, but Wallace did not get along with Truman. A true liberal, Wallace was harshly critical of what he perceived as Truman’s backtracking from the social welfare legislation of the New Deal era. Wallace was also disturbed about U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union. During World War II, he came to admire the Soviet people for their tenacity and sacrifice. Like Roosevelt, he believed that the United States could work with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in the postwar world.
    After Roosevelt’s death, the new Truman administration adopted a much tougher stance toward the Russians. In March 1948, Wallace appeared as a witness before the Senate Armed Services Committee to criticize Truman’s call for universal military training, a program designed to provide military training for all American males of draft age. Dismissing Truman’s alarming statements about meeting the communist threat as part of a “deliberately created crisis,” Wallace denounced the universal military training program as one that would lead to “death and taxes for the many and very handsome profits for the few.” He implored the Senate and U.S. government to strive for a “peaceful foreign policy.” “If we are to compete with communism,” he declared, “we had better get on the side of the people.”
    history.com: http://tinyurl.com/k8w6454 [The more things change, the more they stay the same.]

    1949 Riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joined NATO.
    1950 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
    1952 6th Tony Awards: Fourposter & King & I win
    1953 Albert Einstein announces revised unified field theory
    1955 27th Academy Awards: “On the Waterfront”, Marlon Brando & Grace Kelly win
    1956 USSR performs nuclear test
    1959 Dalai Lama flees China and is granted political asylum in India
    1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600′ (51,690 m)

    1965 [Vietnam War]: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others. A bomb explodes in a car parked in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, virtually destroying the building and killing 19 Vietnamese, 2 Americans, and 1 Filipino; 183 others were injured. Congress quickly appropriated $1 million to reconstruct the embassy. Although some U.S. military leaders advocated special retaliatory raids on North Vietnam, President Lyndon B. Johnson refused.

    1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.
    1967 Cover picture of Beatles’ “Sgt Pepper’s” is photographed
    1970 Miles Davis’ “Bitches Brew” released
    1972 [Vietnam]North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam
    1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
    1973 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam
    1974 John Denver has his first #1 hit with “Sunshine On My Shoulders”

    1981 Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley III John Hinckley, Jr. shoots President Ronald Reagan outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C. just after the president had addressed the Building and Construction Workers Union of the AFL-CIO. Hinckley was armed with a .22 revolver with exploding bullets and was only ten feet away from Reagan when he began shooting. Fortunately, he was a poor shot and most of the bullets did not explode as they were supposed to. Hinckley’s first shot hit press secretary James Brady and other shots wounded a police officer and a Secret Service agent. The final shot hit Reagan’s limo and then ricocheted into the President’s chest.
    Hinckley’s path toward the assassination attempt began in 1976 when he saw the movie Taxi Driver. Robert DeNiro’s Travis Bickle stalks a Presidential candidate in the hopes that he will somehow impress and rescue a young prostitute played by Jodie Foster. Hinckley, who spent seven years in college without earning a degree or making a friend, added Foster to his list of obsessions, which also included Nazis, the Beatles and assassins.
    In May 1980, Hinckley wrote to Foster while she attended Yale University, traveled there and talked to her on the phone at least once. Soon after, he began following President Jimmy Carter. In October, he was arrested at airport near a Carter campaign stop for carrying guns. However, the Secret Service was not notified. Hinckley simply went to a pawnshop in Dallas and bought more guns.
    For the next several months, Hinckley’s plans changed daily. He pondered kidnapping Foster, considered killing Senator Edward Kennedy and began stalking newly elected President Reagan. Finally, he wrote a letter to Foster explaining that his attempt on Reagan’s life was for her. He kept abreast of the president’s schedule by reading the newspaper.
    Hinckley was later not found not guilty by reason of insanity. Hospitalized, Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist who testified for the prosecution, diagnosed Hinckley with narcissistic and schizoid personality disorders and dysthymia, as well as borderline and passive-aggressive features.[18] At the hospital Hinckley was treated for narcissistic and schizotypal personality disorder and major depressive disorder. On July 27, 2016, a federal judge ruled that Hinckley would be allowed to be released from St. Elizabeth’s on August 5,as he was no longer considered a threat to himself or others, but conditional on strict and specific parameters. Source: Wikipedia and History.com: http://tinyurl.com/k3tkset: […and the Brady bunch has been fighting against our right to Keep and Bear Arms ever since.]

    1982 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands, NM
    1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
    1983 New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) begins trading in crude oil future
    1984 US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force

    1987 59th Academy Awards: “Platoon”, Paul Newman & Marlee Matlin win; Matlin is the only deaf actor to receive an Oscar

    1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (found not guilty)
    1992 64th Academy Awards: “The Silence of the Lambs”, Anthony Hopkins & Jodie Foster win
    2006 Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space.
    2006 UK Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.

    2009 President Obama announces auto industry shakeup On this day in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama issues an ultimatum to struggling American automakers General Motors (GM) and Chrysler: In order to receive additional bailout loans from the government, he says, the companies need to make dramatic changes in the way they run their businesses. The president also announced a set of initiatives intended to assist the struggling U.S. auto industry and boost consumer confidence, including government backing of GM and Chrysler warranties, even if both automakers went out of business. In December 2008, GM (the world’s largest automaker from the early 1930s to 2008) and Chrysler (then America’s third-biggest car company) accepted $17.4 billion in federal aid in order to stay afloat. At that time, the two companies had been hit hard by the global economic crisis and slumping auto sales; however, critics charged that their problems had begun several decades earlier and included failures to innovate in the face of foreign competition and issues with labor unions, among other factors. History.com http://tinyurl.com/mtpo3mz

    2012 Mastercard and Visa announce a massive breach in security with over ten million compromised credit card numbers

    2012 American Mega Millions lottery hits a world record lottery amount of 640 million dollars
    2013 North Korea declares it is at a state of war with South Korea

    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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    • czarowniczy says:
      March 30, 2017 at 1:35 am

      More coincidences.
      Czar et al still live in ‘West Florida’ as our Mississippi county was smack in the middle of the West Florida panhandle. As France had surrendered our part of New Orleans we lived in to Spain in 1762 we actually lived in West Florida as we were, and our house still is, in NOLA Westbank about 1/2-mile from the river.
      People think of NOLA as French but there was and still is a very heavy Spanish influence in it.

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      • patternpuzzler says:
        March 30, 2017 at 1:42 am

        Wow I bet that was an interesting confluence of the French/Spanish architecture(s) – I would love to have seen that! Unfortunately, when I was living in Pensacola, I never got that far West. I’ll always regret not being able to survey NOLA.
        Closest I’ll get now is probably Google Earth, lol!

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        • czarowniczy says:
          March 30, 2017 at 1:52 am

          Sure is, Jackson Square is perhaps the most iconic area of NOLA has the Pontalba buildings on the eadt andcwest sides of the square. They are in the French style but were built by the Spanish Baroness Pontalba. On the north sidecare the Cabildo, Presbytere and St Louis Cathedral, all in Spanish style and built by Don Andres Almonester y Roxas.

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          • amwick says:
            March 30, 2017 at 6:56 am

            The map showed really bad storms that way….Everything ok???

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            • czarowniczy says:
              March 30, 2017 at 11:30 am

              We live north of the lake east of Bogalusa. It’s been amazing for the last couple of years, the big storm shields seem to go around us to either side or peter out before they land. We get enough rain but nothing like the floods they get just a few miles north or south. Despite that monstrous red and yellow blob that floated, and still is to an extent, around us we only had 1/2-inch since it started just before dawn. After that deluge we got a few years back where all of the river’s overflowed and we were all cut off St Medard has dialed back on the rain events.

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    • Wooly Phlox says:
      March 30, 2017 at 10:37 am

      1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia)

      And yet we still need these, because the lead lasts longer than the eraser, for some reason.

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    • czarowniczy says:
      March 30, 2017 at 12:24 pm

      All of my doctor appointments are ‘out of town’ as, well, I’m outside of a town. Got a good vet right close though and he’d probably be a better doc than some I’ve had.

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  5. amwick says:
    March 30, 2017 at 7:38 am


    http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/03/branco-cartoon-fire-bug/
    Good Morning Everyone… sighs More political firestorms…

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  7. sandandsea2015 says:
    March 30, 2017 at 7:49 am

    Last night my family watched a beautiful documentary about Yosemite National Park. It was very well done, but of course it was interspersed with climate change propaganda. 🙄

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    • Menagerie says:
      March 30, 2017 at 8:12 am

      One of the things that irks the heck out of me these days is that people have decided they don’t like truth so they want to latch on to fantasies to worry about. Also, where is the sense of priority?

      First, it takes about 30 minutes of googling to debunk climate change easily and with many scientific sources. Second, we need good jobs, safe homes, lower taxes, the out of control inner cities and their putrid spawn cleaned up and toward that end we need massive welfare and social program reform. Our children are brainwashed in lieu of being educated, and they care about the weather doing what the weather does, which is be volatile and unpredictable.

      Yes, I clearly understand that line of thinking. This is what happens when kids no longer have to take classes that teach them critical thinking skills. They grow into adults who are still playing dress up and think life is a big video game.

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      • sandandsea2015 says:
        March 30, 2017 at 8:27 am

        Looking back now, I realize the indoctrination on climate change really started when my kids were little, meaning that they’ve now heard it their entire lives, they’re both in their mid 20’s. An entire generation that have been propagandized to every day for 25 years. I don’t know how that can be rectified.

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        • Wooly Phlox says:
          March 30, 2017 at 11:04 am

          When I was 7 or 8 or so, my Bumpa (mom’s dad) subscribed us to Nat. Geo’s World magazine. It was in effect even then, in the early 80s. If you find a stash of them, try and read them without gagging on the propaganda-for-kids.

          Back when afternoon cartoons were still a thing, when we only had 5 channels, and when Saturday morning cartoons were still the fad, we had Captain Planet and Scooby Doo Mysteries to teach us who the bad people are. Knight Rider and The A-Team taught us who the bad people are. They were all morality tales.

          Last time kids just had FUN with TV was Bozo the Clown in Chicago.

          And I can’t diss on Mr. Rogers, because his morality tale was in line with goodness.

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          • sandandsea2015 says:
            March 30, 2017 at 1:53 pm

            I’m sure your right about the timing. I graduated HS in the mid-80’s and I probably wasn’t paying attention at that time. I was pretty oblivious back then. It’s seeing re-runs of the stuff my kids watched that woke me up to the reality. It seemed innocuous at the time and subtle, but that’s how it starts.

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      • Wooly Phlox says:
        March 30, 2017 at 10:56 am

        I think it’s more herd mentality, and wanting to be part of the herd.

        Indoctrination teaches exactly which beliefs you must (and must not) hold in order to part of the herd. The cool people.

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      • joshua says:
        March 30, 2017 at 7:25 pm

        I blame it on pastel neckties…..bring back the bold regimental stripes set on a pure white dress shirt….

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    • czarowniczy says:
      March 30, 2017 at 11:45 am

      What? No frantic narrator going on about the mobster caldera simmering under Yellowstone, just waiting to explode and DESTROY LIFE ON EARTH AD WE KNOW IT!!!!

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  8. nyetneetot says:
    March 30, 2017 at 8:13 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_| (Tom Collins)
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_| (Black & Tan)
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_| (Boilermaker)
    Mornin’ Czarina! 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_| (Irish Car Bomb)
    Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_| (Godfather)
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Gin & Tonic)
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Blackberry wine)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 |_| (Backdraft)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
    Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
    Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
    Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_| (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_| (Stinger)
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_| (Rusty Nail)
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_| (Whiskey Smash)
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_| (Rum & Coke)
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_| (Night Train Express)
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
    Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
    Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
    Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
    Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂 |_| (Albanian Raki Moskat)
    Mornin’ Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂 |_| (Hot Buttered Rum)
    Mornin’ joshua! 🙂 |_| (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂 |_| (RumChata)
    Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 |_| (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
    Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Smoking Bishop)
    Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
    Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 |_| (Red Russian)
    Mornin’ 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! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Cinnamon rolls for coffee!

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  9. sandandsea2015 says:
    March 30, 2017 at 9:24 am

    https://twitter.com/mmcleieer/status/847437972039385088

    Sorry if y’all have to go grab the eye bleach now, but this pic cracked me up. 😉😊

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  10. lovely says:
    March 30, 2017 at 10:54 am

    Mr. Comey this is your life;

    because

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  11. lovely says:
    March 30, 2017 at 11:39 am

    In 2012 Mitt Romney was asked what the largest geo-political threat was to America, he answered “Russia.”

    Obama responded “You said Russia. Not Al Qaida. You said Russia,” Obama said regarding biggest threats. “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because…the cold war’s been over for 20 years.”

    From Politifact;

    In March 2012, at a summit in South Korea, Obama was caught in a “hot mic” incident. Without realizing he could be overheard, Obama told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he would have more ability to negotiate with the Russians about missile defense after the November election.
       
    “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space,” Obama was heard telling Medvedev, apparently referring to incoming Russian president Vladi­mir Putin.
       
    “Yeah, I understand,” Medvedev replied.

    Now sitting on the Intelligence Committee on Russia and the 2016 election, Eugene Rumor, Clinton Watts and Godson are all testifying that Russia has a long long history of interfering in other countries and the interference have never stopped. They claim to have proof that the Russians were interfering in the US elections since 2009.

    Rubio is jumping in feet first with the Russians are disseminating disinformation to attack immigrants and cause Americans to turn against each other. “Isn’t this just information warfare by Russian Trolls designed by Vladimir Putin?” asks a sweaty jittery Rubio.

    Watts has just told me because I’m from WI that Vladimir Putin has hoodwinked me by using fake tweets with people who look and sound like me to trick me into liking Trump and hating Clinton.

    I’m willing to bet a dollar to a donut that this is the line of nonsense that that the entire conclusion of the investigation is going to spin as the unavailable truth.

    “While there is no evidence of nefarious collusion between Team Trump and Russia it is Russia’s interference, their unleashing of thousands of trolls who tricked knuckle dragging Americans into voting for Trump and hating Madame Clinton. Russia worked through Putin controlled trolls to socially engineer thousands of Americans but only in Wisconsin, Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Had Russia not interfered in the US election, with fake propaganda and an army of Putin Bots a reasonable person can only conclude that we would have seen a very different result in the 2016 election.”

    There is no evidence of any nefarious collusion between Team Trump and Russia but 85% of the committee is meeting in an to attempt to delegitimize President Trump’s presidency. And our votes.

    Good grief Watts just said that all the Russian deaths over the last 3 months are tied to this investigation.

    Even John Grisham couldn’t get a book with this kind of nonsense published.

    Rut Roh! Godson is catching on to the fact that it is getting hysterical and cautioning folks not to overreact.

    SMH

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  13. lovely says:
    March 30, 2017 at 11:54 am

    Ok Clinton Watts suggested that cyber media titans rate articles and news sites like consumer reports or nutritional facts on food packaging, he thinks letting Google, FaceBook, Twitter Yahoo and other media controlled by the Liberal Elites should be the abitrar of deeming information on the internet as true or false. He believes Trump voters (and POTUS himself) are too stupid to figure out if an article is actual news, fake news or even satire and that we need to have someone (someone approved by the government) explain to us such things as Hillary is healthy as a horse and we didn’t actually see her entire body seize up on 9/11.

    Oh no! Watts just said “I’m going to walk out of here today and get hit by tolls!”

    Speaking the truth makes one a troll 🙄.

    Trolls for Truth!

    SMH

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  14. Wooly Phlox says:
    March 30, 2017 at 12:35 pm

    Nat was given the song by a white Jewish guy who was turned away by his bouncers, and the writer said, here — handing over the manuscript and score — give this to Nat.

    Amazing story.

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    • Wooly Phlox says:
      March 30, 2017 at 12:39 pm

      Right now, in my alley, there is a large compressor running. It’s very loud and annoying.

      Then I realized that it’s a note. A constant drone note.

      So SING! So I sang that, loud. Because why not?

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      • Wooly Phlox says:
        March 30, 2017 at 1:14 pm

        Compressor turns off. I go outside and tell the guy running it (it’s a pesticide company) what I was singing loudly to his compressor accompaniment note. A great singer friend of mind comes out of the restaurant, sees me and says goodnight, then sees this guy.

        She and her band played this guy’s wedding. They took selfies in the parking lot.

        😀 😀 😀

        It’s a Pat Benatar cover band, and they are amazing. and rapidly approaching 70.

        And she has Benatar’s voice, and then some.

        Now the compressor’s back on, droning, so I gotta go back outside and sing.

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  15. kinthenorthwest says:
    March 30, 2017 at 5:22 pm

    Yes

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  17. stella says:
    March 30, 2017 at 7:50 pm

    Hillary Clinton aides had access to State Dept. after she left, says key lawmaker

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/30/hillary-clinton-aides-had-access-to-state-defter-left-says-key-lawmaker.html

    This is really bad.

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  18. jeans2nd says:
    March 30, 2017 at 8:34 pm

    Stella – today am rcvng add-on msg from WordPress, requesting to run a Win script. This is new. Did not rcv when using tor. Put msg next door – might want to read this, is a quick fix.
    https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/fake-wordpress-plugin-opens-sites/

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    • stella says:
      March 30, 2017 at 8:40 pm

      Thanks jeans, but since WordPress hosts my site (and CTH) we don’t use plugins, nor can we run scans. I don’t have a server of my own running WordPress. We are pretty much at their mercy.

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    • stella says:
      March 30, 2017 at 8:43 pm

      I think they (WordPress) has been making changes, because I noticed differences in the admin interface. They tell us nothing. WordPress probably has the worst customer service I have ever seen. Many of their people are downright surly.

      ADD: Forgot to mention, neither site is using WordPress SEO tools (or any SEO tools, for that matter).

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  19. stella says:
    March 30, 2017 at 8:57 pm

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  20. auscitizenmom says:
    March 30, 2017 at 9:01 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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  22. auscitizenmom says:
    March 30, 2017 at 10:09 pm

    Stella, have you watched “Lilies”? It is about an Irish family. I just watched the first episode last night and it was very good. Although, you may need closed captioning to know what they are saying sometimes. LOL

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  23. texan59 says:
    March 30, 2017 at 10:11 pm

    I don’t read Town Hall much anymore, but this is Kurt Schlichter’s latest, and it’s a masterpiece. “Nuke ’em ‘Til They Glow”

    https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2017/03/30/nuke-em-til-they-glow-n2305926

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    • lovely says:
      March 30, 2017 at 10:36 pm

      Sweet. Nuke ’em no reason not to.

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    • sandandsea2015 says:
      March 30, 2017 at 10:40 pm

      “Thank you, Harry Reid! You’ll never know how much we appreciate you taking time away from your bizarre relationship with your NordicTrack dominatrix to instigate the glorious Reid Rule and thereby surrender the one tool Chuck Schumer and his band of merry losers had to derail the oncoming train that is a yugely conservative SCOTUS.”

      Wow!!!! 😳😳😳 That’s one way to put it!

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    • Wooly Phlox says:
      March 30, 2017 at 11:08 pm

      So many wonderful turns of phrase by this guy.

      …the only way to be sure that we have at least a couple decades before Chelsea, or whichever other quarter-wit dynastic Democrat cheats its way into the Oval Office…

      …he also faces a never-ending supply of bad choices because his genital-beanied base is dumb enough to force him to push the Big Red Button…

      Excellent article, and I agree. Don’t stop until they surrender, and lay their king down on the board.

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  24. auscitizenmom says:
    March 30, 2017 at 10:25 pm

    Finally. A connection with the Russians!

    “State Department Employee Arrested and Charged With Concealing Contacts With Foreign Agents”
    ‘“Candace Claiborne is accused of violating her oath of office as a State Department employee, who was entrusted with Top Secret information when she purposefully mislead federal investigators about her significant and repeated interactions with foreign contacts,” said Assistant Director in Charge Vale.’

    http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/state-department-employee-arrested-and-charged-concealing-contacts-foreign-agents

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  25. Wooly Phlox says:
    March 30, 2017 at 10:56 pm

    video/1

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  26. lovely says:
    March 30, 2017 at 11:15 pm

    Bridge Collapses in Atlanta Freeway Fire During Rush Hour

    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bridge-collapses-atlanta-freeway-fire-during-rush-hour-n740871

    Some PVC pipes spontaneously started on fire? No terrorism? Could be an accident could be arson of the garden variety but it does have a strange feel to it.

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  27. lovely says:
    March 30, 2017 at 11:42 pm

    And Ms. Farkas shows up in Podesta’s emails 🙄

    Attn Media: Evelyn Farkas Was a Hillary Campaign Advisor Touted for Clinton Admin Appointment

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/03/attn-media-evelyn-farkas-hillary-campaign-advisor-touted-clinton-admin-appointment/

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