General Discussion, Thursday, May 4, 2017

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Stella

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  1. MaryfromMarin says:
    May 4, 2017 at 12:13 am

    Millinerial theme association:

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  2. nyetneetot says:
    May 4, 2017 at 12:14 am

    Happy times in the hot tub….

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  4. Wooly Phlox says:
    May 4, 2017 at 12:54 am

    Who the heck is Candy Duffer?

    Wow.

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    • Col.(R) Ken says:
      May 4, 2017 at 1:29 am

      Wooly!!! Don’t know, looks good, sounds good……can she cook??? Make blueberry pies???? .

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      • Wooly Phlox says:
        May 4, 2017 at 9:13 am

        I’m amazed I never heard of her. Like Rachmaninoff said, “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”

        via Infogalactic:

        Dulfer has released nine studio albums, two live albums, and one compilation album. She has performed and recorded songs with musicians including her father Hans Dulfer, Prince, Dave Stewart, Van Morrison, and Maceo Parker, and has performed live with Alan Parsons (1995), Pink Floyd (1990), and Tower of Power (2014).

        I must have found her in the YouTube sidebar last night when I cued up Tower of Power. Stunning performance.

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      • czarowniczy says:
        May 4, 2017 at 8:52 pm

        You can always just order out…

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  5. Col.(R) Ken says:
    May 4, 2017 at 1:33 am

    More rain today, throughout the weekend…….

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    • lovely says:
      May 4, 2017 at 7:09 am

      Yesterday we had frost! But the sun did come out and dry things up and today is supposed to be much like yesterday. Stay dry Sir !

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      • amwick says:
        May 4, 2017 at 7:28 am

        Yesterday was in the low 80s, low humidity and sunny. Dh and I lounged by the pool for a bit. Tennis was fun, and after dinner I went fishing. sighs One for the books, in a good way.

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        • lovely says:
          May 4, 2017 at 7:45 am

          37° this morning and I left a window open 😳.

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        • patternpuzzler says:
          May 4, 2017 at 9:29 am

          How wonderful for you!! Those days are the kind we want to store in a special place in our minds, because they calm, ground, and center, not just for the immediate pleasure but for a sanctuary we can retreat to in our memories. We very much need those sanctuaries in today’s worldly chaos.

          Glad you had such a treasure, amwick!

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          • amwick says:
            May 4, 2017 at 11:47 am

            Did I mention the big bass I caught? He is fine, I always catch and release.

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            • patternpuzzler says:
              May 4, 2017 at 4:40 pm

              Ooooooh… bass fishing. Used to live in Oklahoma and did a lot of striper fishing below the dams. They fought like the devil. Isn’t it fun having to master the rod and the touch to reel ’em in?

              Feeding frenzies are very cool to watch, too.

              Can’t find anyone around here that wants to fish – and to be quite honest, I’m not sure I would want to even touch anything that came out of Big Muddy (cause the Mississippi is no longer just about mud) and most of the smaller lakes around here are private ponds.

              Thanks for (for me) that bit of nostalgia. Catch a couple for me next time you’re out.

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              • amwick says:
                May 4, 2017 at 5:09 pm

                We live on a fake lake. Part of new construction zoning requirements are retention ponds for drainage. It is pretty though, and big fish live there. It is a giant drain, no way would I eat a fish. I walk out the front door and fish right there, just across our street. It is very relaxing.

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              • czarowniczy says:
                May 4, 2017 at 8:54 pm

                You should be here at THIS end of the Mississippi, the terminus of 1800 miles of industrial sewer line.

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                • patternpuzzler says:
                  May 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm

                  Ew, uh, no thanks. I would imagine that the river there has 20′ gars, fish with no gills that glow green at depth. That’s in addition to the reports of the fish with the cancerous tumors. Definitely no thanks!

                  Oh, yeah, and the smell. Ok, I’ve pursued that imaginary thread as far as I’m comfortable with! The area must have some terrific aspects to overcome that stuff.

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                  • czarowniczy says:
                    May 5, 2017 at 1:35 am

                    I’ve seem fishermen pull monster catfish out of the river both right at the riverside right at the Quarter and down around the grain elevators. To be frank, they don’t look too healthy and the long-time fishermen generally won’t eat them.

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        • sandandsea2015 says:
          May 4, 2017 at 1:02 pm

          A perfect day! 😊

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  6. MaryfromMarin says:
    May 4, 2017 at 2:02 am

    Something big is happening in England. Speculation includes a possible death at Buckingham Palace.

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  7. MaryfromMarin says:
    May 4, 2017 at 3:09 am

    ANFSCD:

    “May the 4th be with you.”

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  8. ZurichMike says:
    May 4, 2017 at 5:11 am

    Nothing like a little acid phosphate to get you over your exhaustion and dyspepsia! LOL!

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    • BigMamaTEA says:
      May 4, 2017 at 7:27 am

      Well, here ya go ZM. You can buy it….

      https://www.artofdrink.com/product/acid-phosphate

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      • amwick says:
        May 4, 2017 at 7:31 am

        Acid Phosphate is more than just diluted phosphoric acid, it’s actually a partially neutralized solution made with salts of calcium, magnesium and potassium. The solution has a pH between 2.0 and 2.2, or about the same as fresh squeezed lime juice.

        Got it….

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        • BigMamaTEA says:
          May 4, 2017 at 7:37 am

          Well, some dyspepsia (acid reflux, used to be treat with something sour) Then, apparently soda fountains had it in the early days. You can probably put it in a cocktail.

          In fact, that bottle above says ” Added well to Libations as a Mental Balm to Nervous Perturbations…….”

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          • BigMamaTEA says:
            May 4, 2017 at 7:44 am

            I still can’t figure out where the supposed help for exhaustion comes from.

            Back then, products had like cocaine and stimulants too.

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            • Wooly Phlox says:
              May 4, 2017 at 9:19 am

              Before the FDA, yes, it was the Wild West, concerning “medicine”, and advertising, too. Lie your butt off, it didn’t matter, it was allowed. Then came the lawyers.

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            • patternpuzzler says:
              May 4, 2017 at 9:38 am

              I’ll take a gallon of Lydia Pinkham’s Medicine. Liquid, please, and thanks!

              “Although her company had humble origins in her own kitchen, by the time the FDA restrained the company’s activities in the early 20th century (the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 forced the company to reveal that the compound contained up to 20% alcohol), the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company was a true multi-national corporation with production centers in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. “Lydia Pinkham Herbal Compound” is still available for sale in pill and liquid form. In the process, Lydia Pinkham changed the lives of thousands of American women by drawing attention to serious female medical issues that were being neglected by mainstream medicine.”

              http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/pinkham.html (The Working Women Collection)

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              • Wooly Phlox says:
                May 4, 2017 at 10:22 am

                I take the Lydia Pinkham’s in 25 oz. cans. And the “compound” only contains about 5.9% alcohol.

                I haven’t had a cold or flu or laryngitis or pneumonia or bronchial pneumonia or bronchitis in almost a decade. I can’t remember the last time I had a fever.

                I wonder why? I used to get all those, twice a year each. Many fevers.

                I quit drinking about a year ago (maybe two, I dunno), and I got sick. Within two days, it was like I went back in time ten years. I was off the sauce for twelve days. Since that first six-pack after that? I’ve never got sick. I can’t complain.

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          • Wooly Phlox says:
            May 4, 2017 at 9:21 am

            I’m going to memorize that phrase for when the landlord asks, “Is that a bag of beer?”

            Why, no! dear landlord! This is a bag of libations to be used as a mental balm for nervous perturbations!

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      • ZurichMike says:
        May 4, 2017 at 7:39 am

        “Tastes like bacon.” 🥓 🥓

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    • czarowniczy says:
      May 4, 2017 at 11:13 am

      Or bourbon.

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  9. amwick says:
    May 4, 2017 at 7:32 am

    Morning Figments!
    Vote on the Healthcare bill. hhhhhhmmmmmm. I am hoping that the cost of premiums will go down, but I kinda think it is like putting toothpaste back in the tube. 😦

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    • Rhea Salacia Volans says:
      May 4, 2017 at 10:53 am

      I’m just hoping it gets voted on and causes real, actual change. My opinion of Ryan the rat is so low, you would need a shovel to get to it.

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    • czarowniczy says:
      May 4, 2017 at 11:35 am

      I can’t help but wobder if the insurance companies got to the POtuS and told him that they’d be his BFF if he pushed a bill that gave them free rein to raise premiums thrunthe roof.
      First off, anyone who ever worked insurance knew that forcing companies to accept all people with preexisting conditions and keeping your kids on until they’re almost ready for Medicare would force rates up. Only question was how high how fast.
      The other big lie was that this wasn’t an income transfer program. OK, so they said the increase in premium amounts from younger, healthier folks now mandated by law to buy insurance would offset increased costs from the inclusion of people with preexisting conditions. Sure sounds like income transfer to me. Thing the Rats didn’t take into account…or did and ignored it…was that companies had to maintain profits so the HAD to raise premiums.
      Let’s also not forget the Medical Industrial Complex. They recognize the opportunity to bill as much as humanly possible with these new patient additions, the billing department’s designed to work with the providers in maximizing income potential. A lot of insurance carriers will react to the increase in billings by hiring new staff, further increasing costs…oh yeah, and tax deductions for operating expenses. And so it gies.
      I just can’t help but wonder where those donatiobs covering Barry’s $500-million library are coming from??? Coulda fed a lotta hongry innercity chirruns wid dat monies.

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      • amwick says:
        May 4, 2017 at 11:56 am

        Preexisting conditions. SMH. No one seems to have an issue with older people being charged more, because they are statistically more likely to have issues. No, that makes sense, but bring up pretty existing conditions and all hell breaks loose. Insurance is based on two things, $ and stats. So, at my age, I pay high insurance, but I would take on someone 10 years younger when it comes to fitness.

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      • amwick says:
        May 4, 2017 at 12:00 pm

        FWIW, BOR always called the ACA income redistribution.

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      • czarowniczy says:
        May 4, 2017 at 12:06 pm

        Another fib…that preexisting conditions are only 2% of the total number of enrollees. That’s another manipulated statistic, note you never hear what the true parameters for determining that number are. I know that our slice of the Federal program, some 36,000 enrollees, had well over 2% preexisting rate and we weren’t exceptional.

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      • stella says:
        May 4, 2017 at 1:39 pm

        The diff with pre-existing conditions this time is that the premium difference will come directly from the government fund (all of us) rather than just those people who are enrolled in the ACA (true income distribution). The hope is that will keep premiums down. Regardless of what you think about covering those with pre-existing conditions, it is a difference.

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        • amwick says:
          May 4, 2017 at 2:15 pm

          That makes more sense. Just like buying federal flood insurance, if you need to, well sort of.

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        • czarowniczy says:
          May 4, 2017 at 6:21 pm

          For the medical industrial complex preexisting conditions are a cash cow. I constantly get entreaties to buy this, that or the other disbetes supplies which ‘are covered by your insurance!’. Reminds me of the local pol who used to own a medical service, he had vans that traveled the innercity roads looking for chirruns to exploit. Not in the expected way though, he’d stop them to see who hadn’t had this, that or the other medical test then drive them over to his clinic where they’d do anything possible thst they could bill Medicaid.
          These clinics that milk Medicaid would freely diagnose chirruns wif ADHD and help the parent apply for a child’s disability, locally called ‘crazy money’. So the parents get SSI and the clinic gets to treat the chile – cash cow city.
          There’s gotta be a better way to manage the preexisting problem, and given time and Rat proclivities I can see that becoming the government either heavily subsidizing the premiums or putting preexistings on Medicaid.

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  10. WeeWeed says:
    May 4, 2017 at 8:01 am

    Mornin’ y’all!

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  11. nyetneetot says:
    May 4, 2017 at 8:04 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)
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    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
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    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
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    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

    Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Doughnuts and coffee!

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  12. lovely says:
    May 4, 2017 at 8:35 am

    Have a beautiful day folks 🙂

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  13. Menagerie says:
    May 4, 2017 at 10:36 am

    Stella, when I was in high school for some reason my commercial art class got off on a little tangent about Gibson Girls artwork. Your pictures reminded me of that, a little. I always wanted to be able to fix my hair that way.

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    • stella says:
      May 4, 2017 at 1:17 pm

      I was just watching a BBC program called Victorian Farm. The woman said that they used hair pieces under their own hair to get that look. She has long, but thin, hair, and it took her two braided hair pieces to get the “look”.

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    • stella says:
      May 4, 2017 at 4:29 pm

      Correction: It was Edwardian Farm, Episode 6 (about 13:00). I’m hooked on these programs. There is also a WWII series called War Time Farm, and another one called Full Steam Ahead, which covers the rise of the railroad in England, and how it affected society.

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  14. czarowniczy says:
    May 4, 2017 at 11:56 am

    Trump speaking on signing his religious freedom order. Waiting for pundits to start calling him a hypocrite for this versus his stand on Islam. Waiting for Islam to start saying this allows them to continue female genital mutilation, cutting the heads off/stoning people who are perceived to insult Islam and murdering Christians and Jews….sort of a return to the Obama period.

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  15. czarowniczy says:
    May 4, 2017 at 12:29 pm

    BGI be a’Huffin’ ana’Puffin about the Alton Sterling shooting in Baton Rouge. Seems that the DoJ’s decision not to prosecute the police who shot him, those were Obama folkses, has outraged them! They are dusting off their usual pack of self-serving lies about how innocent young men on their way to Bible study are jumped, prosecuted and murdered by evil pig henchmen in thecsrvicevof the white, Republican plantation overlords. Pkays well to the intended audience.
    Last nite aggrieved pritestors were demanding access and input to the parish SO’s training manual, especially in the area of use of deadly force. I imagibe they’ll suggest something along the line of an officer must be shot by an aggressorcst least twice before s/he can return fire. Thry also want a citizen’s review board of police actions, and guess which ‘citizens’ be sittin’ on dat bowd?
    I say wall off the aggrieveds’ living areas, withdraw the police and let them deal with the results of their failed cultural system on their own.

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  17. Jacqueline Taylor Robson says:
    May 4, 2017 at 2:24 pm

    Hiya, everyone! I had my 2nd eye operated on Tuesday, and So far, It’s great! I have gone from a -10.75 to 20/20 vision! Both eyes have 20/20, and I can see the computer just fine. I still will need reading glasses to see really close up. Having the cataract removed has also brought back my colour vision, so everything looks so bright and beautiful.

    All things bright and beautiful,
    All creatures great and small,
    All things wise and wonderful,
    The good Lord made them all.

    I can’t express how thankful I am for this blessing of being able to see properly for the first time ever. Even with insurance, it has cost a lot, but it is worth every penny.

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  18. lovely says:
    May 4, 2017 at 2:31 pm

    REVEALED: FBI found email that Lynch would do everything she could to protect Hillary from CRIMINAL CHARGES

    REVEALED: FBI found email that Lynch would do everything she could to protect Hillary from CRIMINAL CHARGES

    Wow.

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  19. stella says:
    May 4, 2017 at 2:53 pm

    House approves Obamacare repeal bill

    http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/04/obamacare-repeal-house-vote-decision-237972

    The House passed legislation Thursday to repeal and replace Obamacare, as Republicans came closer than ever to realizing their seven-year pledge to overturn the Democratic law and remake health insurance for millions of Americans.

    The plan, the American Health Care Act, was approved mostly along partisan lines, 217-213, with just one vote to spare. No Democrats backed the bill, and a slew of Republicans opposed it as well.

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  20. amwick says:
    May 4, 2017 at 2:54 pm

    Health care bills squeaks through the House.. Barely.

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  21. stella says:
    May 4, 2017 at 2:57 pm

    Measles outbreak in Minnesota sickens dozens

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/measles-outbreak-minnesota-sickens-dozens/

    An outbreak of measles in Minnesota has sickened more than 30 children in recent weeks, primarily in the state’s large Somali-American community, where many parents avoid the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine because of unfounded fears that it causes autism.

    “This has nothing to do with being Somali, it has everything to do with being unvaccinated,” Kris Ehresmann, infectious disease director of the Minnesota Department of Health, told CBS Minnesota last week as the number of cases grew.

    Somalis are just the latest example of a tight-knit community in which the highly contagious disease has gained a foothold in the U.S. in recent years.

    “With Somalis, we know that it’s a community that’s been targeted for misinformation from the anti-vaccine community and so that’s a bit distressing,” she said.

    Medical professionals and state health officials are working to contain the virus, but they expect more measles cases in coming weeks. A look at the situation:
    Measles outbreak

    As of Wednesday, 34 measles cases were confirmed in Minnesota. It’s the largest outbreak in the state since 1990, when 460 people contracted measles and three died.

    Nearly everyone infected is unvaccinated, and all but a few are of Somali descent. So far, 11 children have been hospitalized.

    The source of the outbreak is unknown, said Ehresmann. But since measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, outbreaks in the U.S. are typically caused when international travelers are infected overseas and bring the virus home.

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    • jeans2nd says:
      May 4, 2017 at 8:20 pm

      Stella, you would have enjoyed Ground Zero the other night. Ground Zero is a conspiracy theories show for the truly-true believers.
      The host had an M.D. on. They claimed that vaccinations are a population-control mechanism to rid the world of the working class morons who pollute our sacred Mother Earth.

      Just buy my vitamins and meal-replacement shakes, as endorsed by this conveniently-same-minded M.D., and all will be right with the world and you will live forever kum-buy-ya.

      No UFOs or chupacabras that night, though. Bummer.

      Just saw the USS Intrepid post next door. Had a long talk with a CV-11 (Intrepid) Viet Vet today who was also onboard for one of those space capsule recoveries. That guy really loved that old ship. Were it not for listening to these guy’s stories, my VA minder, a Womyn Marine, would’ve been decked by now by this Lady Marine. Mebbe next week…good medicine for all that ales ya.

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  22. Menagerie says:
    May 4, 2017 at 5:46 pm

    Here’s a rainy day recipe for you guys. It caught my attention because it has bacon as an ingredient, and bacon as a topping. Looks good.

    http://centslessdeals.com/creamy-blt-dip-recipe/

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  23. Menagerie says:
    May 4, 2017 at 5:54 pm

    Monsoon day # 23. I think. I loose count. The sun is shining while the rain eases up a bit. Strong winds headed our way. I think I am going to buy me some rain wear and just put it on when I get up every day.

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  24. Menagerie says:
    May 4, 2017 at 7:14 pm

    This is really funny. My personal favorites are Kentucky and Maine, but Ohio is a close second.

    http://twentytwowords.com/photos-that-hilariously-sum-up-each-of-the-50-states/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=22&utm_campaign=22

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  25. auscitizenmom says:
    May 4, 2017 at 9:00 pm

    lilbirdee12’s prayer:

    Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.

    Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.

    Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.

    Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
    Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu. We pray for France, and for the safety of Marine Le Pen.

    We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
    Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen

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  26. WeeWeed says:
    May 4, 2017 at 9:28 pm

    So, there I wuz. Mindin’ my own biness….. and smoking, which is of course against the law. Blue Angels show up (air show this weekend…..)

    Half of the livestock is still under the bed…..

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