General Discussion, Friday, June 9, 2017

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Stella

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  1. nyetneetot says:
    June 9, 2017 at 12:08 am

    stella, were you able to change something with the ads? I’m not seeing the video one now (the video was causing me the most problems)?

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    • nyetneetot says:
      June 9, 2017 at 6:52 am

      Never mind. The video is there.

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    • lovely says:
      June 9, 2017 at 6:59 am

      Sorry Stella but I had to add ad block plus because the video kept pulling the page up even while I was typing a response, the advertisements seem to make the page “jittery” for lack of a better word.

      Anyhow that may work for you Nyet or a similar program.

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      • stella says:
        June 9, 2017 at 7:18 am

        I use Ad Block Plus myself. I can see some of the static ads, but not the videos.

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      • KTL says:
        June 9, 2017 at 8:09 am

        Use “Brave” browser

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        • stella says:
          June 9, 2017 at 8:31 am

          Reports of recent problems with Brave. Someone here posted an article about it, and said he (who had been a proponent) might have to switch back to Pale Moon.

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          • Wooly Covfefe says:
            June 9, 2017 at 8:53 am

            That would be me. (Morning, all!) Huge input lag in the text fields, but only on WP sites. It’s not doing it right now, but at times its maddeningly slow.

            Brave just updated yesterday, so maybe that fixed it. I did file a report last week at their site. Still using it, though. No problems with videos or ads. (Shields are down, so no adblocking is happening here.)

            Brave has a single toggle in the upper right, Shields up/down. Basically “Block all ads and trackers, or allow all ads and trackers. Pale Moon/Firefox’s “noscript” lets you selectively block individual scripts, but when a site has 35 scripts running in the background, most of us don’t have the time or patience to decide which to allow.

            So I still like Brave.

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    • stella says:
      June 9, 2017 at 7:17 am

      For future reference, blog owners have no control over the ads that are placed, when, or where.

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  2. Wooly Covfefe says:
    June 9, 2017 at 1:13 am

    A comment from a 2014 YouTube video about the replica of Solomon’s Temple some megachurch church built in Brazil.

    +Tammy Kemper If you read Dr. Randall Price’s book, “Searching for the Ark of the Covenant”, you will see that the Tabernacle (Tent of Meeting), the Ark Moses built, and all the original Temple Treasuries (not the ones Solomon made) were never lost or captured. They were not disposed of or simply put into storage. It is believed that the Tabernacle (tent of meeting) was erected deep underground, directly under the Holy of Holies, with the original Tabernacle Treasuries, in a complete mirror image of the Temple that Solomon commissioned to be built above ground. And now, new exciting archaeological information indicates that Solomon’s Temple was not built on the “so called” Temple Mount, where the Muslim Dome of the Rock stands, but further south, in the newly discovered and unearthed ancient Jebusite City of David.
    Evidence is mounting that what we are told was the Temple Mount, was in fact, a massive 1st century Roman fortification. The very foundation stones upon which the Dome of the Rock stands would seem to contradict Jesus’ words about one stone of the Temple being left standing (see: Matthew 24:2).
    If all of this is verified to be true, that the Ark of the Covenant and the original Mosaic Temple Treasuries, were brought into Jerusalem in the time of King David, and then were errected but hidden deep underground, then, as Price points out, it may mean that they are still standing, as the were, and were never captured! The implications would be nothing short of staggering. It may mean that the Glory of YHWH has never left the Tabernacle! It would also mean that Israel would have the Ark of the Covenant and all of the original the Temple Treasuries, including the ashes of the Red Heifer and the Levitical priesthood could immediately set up an Alter directly above ground and commence the ceremonial preparation for building the 3rd Temple and services.
    Those who do not take Scripture literally and believe that this cannot possibly happen because Christ’s blood has been shed once for all, need to realize that there are numerous passages in the Old Testament that clearly indicate animal sacrifice will be re-instituted during the millennial Kingdom. See: Ezekiel’s Temple vision (Ezekiel 40-48). Also, there are at least four other prophets who join Ezekiel in affirming that the lineage of Zadok of the the tribe of Judah will have a sacrificial system in a millennial Temple (Isaiah 56:7; 66:20-23; Jeremiah 33:18; Zechariah 14:16-21; Malachi 3:3-4).

    The City of David (including his palace) was discovered in complete ruin. As of this writing it is being escavated with plans on complete restoration. Consider the following Biblical prophecy that seems to point to not only the complete future restoration of the City of David, but also the Tabernacle, just as it was, “in the days of old”.
    “In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old” (Amos 9:11)

    —

    Fascinating idea. Thoughts?

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    • Col.(R) Ken says:
      June 9, 2017 at 7:23 am

      Better check with the Knights Templars, those guys did a lots of digging around the “old wall”……..
      I had not read this before, thanks….

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    • Menagerie says:
      June 9, 2017 at 12:50 pm

      What purpose would the animal sacrifices serve now. To God, not merely from a Jewish point of view, but end result, from God’s perspective? What would be the why?

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      • Wooly Covfefe says:
        June 9, 2017 at 2:36 pm

        Good question. It doesn’t make any sense to me, either.

        Are their OT prophecies that foretell a return of animal sacrifices, like the commenter says?

        And if so, why? I thought the temple veil was torn in two for a reason when Christ died on the cross.

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    • czarowniczy says:
      June 9, 2017 at 1:02 pm

      Reminds me of the rancher who bred the perfect red heifer (Parah Adumah) essential for the rebuilding of the Third Temple. A dustup occurred in Israel when the US rancher who bred it and the israeli fundamentalists (and Christians too) tried to bring it in.

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    • lovely says:
      June 9, 2017 at 7:07 am

      May lost seats, Labour gained, it is a mess, May is Islam friendly so it looks like death by slowly sawing off the head rather than a swift blow with the sword will be the way the UK goes. Russia and the US, China and Japan may be the only non Islamic countries in the not too distant future. Poland will defend itself but so does Israel if decisive unalterable action isn’t taken swiftly the savages will have their Islam rooted so deeply into European soil there will be little difference between the ME and Europe other than sand, oil and architecture.

      Iceland is probably safe.

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      • Col.(R) Ken says:
        June 9, 2017 at 7:14 am

        Antarctica……

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      • Col.(R) Ken says:
        June 9, 2017 at 7:25 am

        Lovely, your comments yesterday were spot on. Thank you….

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        • lovely says:
          June 9, 2017 at 7:45 am

          Thank you and you’re welcome Col. 🙂 . I find this stuff fascinating. Comey looked really unwell. I have to wonder why he so readily admitted to being a leaker and I can only conclude Comey has some idea about what dirt President Trump has on him.

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          • auscitizenmom says:
            June 9, 2017 at 8:56 am

            Are you sure that Comey isn’t just sneaky, conniving and stupid, all at the same time?

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            • lovely says:
              June 9, 2017 at 9:07 am

              Sneaky and conniving yes but not stupid, Comey is brilliant, I’d bet his IQ would qualify him for Mensa. Horribly, terribly brilliant.

              As described in the WSJ James Comey is “calculating, self-protective, [and] one of the more skilled political knife-fighters of modern times,”.

              Comey looked terrible yesterday, almost like he is slowly being poisoned by the life he has led.

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              • czarowniczy says:
                June 9, 2017 at 11:53 am

                Exactly, and just as we’ve said many times Trump is not a D.C. Politician and is constantly putting his foot in his mouth. HE is the outsider and, unlike Reagan, did not surround himself with professional DC political fighters. Sounds real nice to just soeak off of the top of your head but when you are surrounded by political lawyers who hate you and are waiting for your slightest gaff to nail you with you can’t afford to be mindless of your speech and actions.
                Even if Trump survives this his gaff will be used to hammer ’18 Republican Congressional candidates, and the Rats were ramped up with money and bodies to make ’18 a living hell for Republicans as it was and Trump’s not carefully considering what he says doesn’t help. You can bet that Reagan or Obamas really REALLY wanted to just speak outright but knew that it was best to moderate one’s speech to keep the agenda on track.
                I hope thst Trump gets his political speech, and its all political speech, under control before it’s too late – if it isn’t all ready. It’s a battle for the future of this country and not his personal schoolyard shouting match.

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                • joshua says:
                  June 9, 2017 at 4:20 pm

                  well..maybe…but Trump is not TRYING to become a mainstream business as usual political type and afraid of his shadow…he uses his so called gaffs to call out his detractors, so then he knows who to not trust and how to circumvent and destroy their effective attacks. He is a consummate business executive and is very good at the long game…and the media bites at every worm he throws out….pretty soon, he has shown the entire world that the idiots are all in the Media and in the GOPe and Uniparty crowd….he is doing business every day….and Congress is doing very little….the citizens are watching this as well…..the Democrats are no better than the GOP, so there is not a real problem with 2018 as neither the candidates of either party or the media will be trusted by the citizen voters by then.

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                  • czarowniczy says:
                    June 9, 2017 at 9:50 pm

                    We’ll see. The a D.C. Incrowd, including Congress, is mostly lawyers and business tactics don’t work all that well on them. Remember, the basis for being a good lawyer is being duplicitous, capable of twisting the hell out of the English language and a really good fiction writer.
                    With lawyers it’s generally not proving their client innocent as it is creating a really good BS line about how your client was caught red-handed with a bag of garbage, a pregnant goat and the missing jewelry. These guys are capable of making Manson look like an overactive Hollywood fan, Snowden look like a patriot and Obama look like an American….oh wait, they did make Barry look American. Manson and Snowden couldn’t afford them, Barry did.
                    The ones that graduate to DC are usually tops in their fields and are the result of Darwinian politics, they have a great survival instincts and eat outsiders for breakfast. Trump needs professional exterminators dealing with them while he tends to their demise and he needs to listen to the exterminator’ advice.

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                • Wooly Covfefe says:
                  June 9, 2017 at 8:31 pm

                  D.C. voted for Hillary 92%.

                  He is in a viper pit. And holding his own.

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                • oldiadguy says:
                  June 10, 2017 at 1:57 pm

                  As a businessman, I expected Trump to make some mistakes, but some of the tweets he sent and remarks he has made, make me cringe. Had Trump fired Comey in the traditional manner and had not sent out those tweets and made the derogatory remarks about Comey, the country wouldn’t be going through this mess.

                  Then there was the suggestion that he may have tapes of the conversations with Comey, Damn, doesn’t Trump remember Nixon. Now Trump has to either give up the tapes and hope the tapes corroborate Trump’s versions of events and if there is any abnormality on the tapes, a whole new can of worms is opened. It was the missing minutes on the tapes that got Nixon. If Trump refuses to provide the tapes to either Congress or the Special Counsel, then the question becomes, what is Trump hiding?

                  Now Trump has made public statements that he is willing to testify under oath, WTH!! You talk about opening a can of worms. Does Trump believe that he only has to answer the questions that suit him? Trump may as well give baseball bats to his distractors to beat him with. SMH

                  I stated that the manner Comey was fired was going to come back and haunt the Trump administration.

                  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/05/09/the-final-top-tier-intel-black-hat-leaker-removed/comment-page-1/#comment-3891333

                  Now there is a special counsel looking into the Russian “thing” as well as the events surrounding Comey’s dismissal. There is no way this isn’t going to be a drag on the Trump administration and his agenda.

                  Take Care

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                  • stella says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 2:08 pm

                    It was absolutely the right way to fire Comey. I disagree with you completely about that.

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                  • auscitizenmom says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 2:30 pm

                    I hope somebody lays out a timeline of the tweets, and what Comey says because they are using it on all the news shows that the tweets are what caused Comey to do what he did. And, I believe it isn’t right. In fact, I wonder if Pres. Trump was given a heads-up on what Comey was planning and that is what caused him to act.

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                  • stella says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 2:36 pm

                    It’s a lie. What should we do about it? The timeline has been pointed out by more than a few people.

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                  • auscitizenmom says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 2:37 pm

                    Tweet it out?

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                  • oldiadguy says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 4:04 pm

                    As I disagreed with Sundance, I’m afraid I have to disagree with you as well. The proper way to have dismissed Comey, was to either have Comey meet with Attorney General Sessions and have Sessions explain the reasons why Comey needed to go, ask for Comey’s resignation and if he refused, fire him on the spot.

                    The other option would have been for Comey meet with Trump and Sessions. Trump give the explanation for letting him go, ask for his resignation and if Comey refused, fire him. This would have been consistent with the Trump persona – “You’re fired.”

                    This is the way it is done in business and in appointive government jobs. This is the way professionals do it. You meet with the person being terminated, lay out the reasons for the termination and allow them to resign gracefully. If they refuse, then fire them.

                    The sudden dismissal without directly facing Comey, the changing reasons for the dismissal and then the derogatory comments about Comey makes it appear the dismissal was for a personal rather than a professional reasons. We also have to remember what was percolating up in the news prior to the dismissal.

                    http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/05/politics/trump-associates-russians-meetings/

                    From the article:

                    Jared Kushner: Son-in-law and close adviser to Trump met with Sergey Gorkov: Chairman of Russian state-run development bank, Vnesheconombank (VEB), which is under U.S. sanctions and was appointed to job by President Vladimir Putin.

                    So the FBI, why conducting a counter intelligence investigation, is was looking at a meeting that his son in law had with the head of a Russian Bank, who was appointed by Putin and the head of a bank that was under sanctions.

                    Could this aspect of the investigation have been the cloud hanging over Trump that caused him to terminate Comey. I don’t know, and the trouble is no one else outside of Trump knows either. I suspect the Special Counsel is going to want to know the answer to that question.

                    As I said before, I don’t believe this is anywhere near over.

                    Take Care

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                  • stella says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 4:54 pm

                    Government employees, driven by politics, are not like private sector employees. President Trump needed to keep the upper hand over a man who is out to destroy him, and may yet do so.

                    Given warning, he would have used the media to do as much damage as he could, and probably would have taken documents from FBI premises that he should not have. He had no problem leaking the memos he prepared about Trump, which were FBI property. Do you doubt that wouldn’t happen again?

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                  • oldiadguy says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 7:23 pm

                    Other than the claims by some sites, I’ve seen no real evidence that Comey was out to destroy Trump.

                    Who said anything about giving him a heads up he was going to be asked to resign? You have Comey come in with Sessions as he would on any other meeting and then pop the termination on him.

                    As far as the memos are concerned, which came first, telling his friend about the encounter with Trump or providing him with the memo to provide creditability in releasing the information.

                    Actually, I doubt it would have happened at all if Trump had fired Comey in a proferssional manner and not started making derogatory remoarks about Comey and the FBI

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                  • stella says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 7:44 pm

                    Providing his friend with the memo, or its contents was, at the very least, unprofessional, and perhaps illegal.

                    And I disagree that he wouldn’t have done it if he had been fired “professionally”. His aim (he said it, not me) was to force a Special Prosecutor/Counsel. His opinion of President Trump was negative from the beginning – again, his words, not mine. He kept memos on Trump, which he had never done with Obama. What does that tell you? That he thought Obama was more trustworthy? Do YOU believe that?

                    Comey didn’t even keep memos on Hillary Clinton (or so he has said).

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                  • stella says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 4:55 pm

                    By the way, I take anything printed by CNN with a HUGE handful of salt. They don’t have a very good track record for telling the truth.

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                  • oldiadguy says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 7:03 pm

                    I agree, but I have also noticed the same problem with many sites supporting Trump. It is one of the reasons I stopped going over to the Gateway Pundit and others.

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                  • stella says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 7:08 pm

                    That’s a wide selection of sites. Other than Gateway Pundit?

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                  • oldiadguy says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 7:02 pm

                    This article is relative to my comment due to the date and the fact Trump has commented that he reads the news everyday.

                    Take Care

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                  • oldiadguy says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 7:08 pm

                    I’ve read the article and found it interesting even though Turley made some mistakes of fact. For instance,

                    “Comey’s position would effectively gut a host of federal rules and regulations. He is suggesting that any federal employee effectively owns documents created during federal employment in relation to an ongoing investigation so long as they address the information to themselves. FBI agents routinely write such memos in investigations. They are called 302s to memorialize field interviews or fact acquisitions. They are treated as FBI information.”

                    302’s are actually an FBI report with a case number, not a memo. The 302’s involving interviews with individuals are co signed by the two interviewing investigators. I know this to be a fact as I have co signed 302 interview reports.

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                  • auscitizenmom says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 2:26 pm

                    I’m afraid I agree with you. At this point, he is digging himself into a hole.

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                  • stella says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 6:37 pm

                    By the way, Comey admitted that he did certain things in order to force a Special Counsel. That was before he was fired. Did you watch his testimony?

                    Former FBI director James Comey said Thursday he helped reveal details of his private conversations with President Donald Trump because he thought doing so would spur the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the administration.

                    http://www.postandcourier.com/news/comey-says-he-shared-details-of-conversations-with-trump-to/article_0d53a8e8-4c6a-11e7-a1de-779463fe73ba.html

                    And this is after he had assured President Trump more than once that he was not the target of an investigation.

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                  • oldiadguy says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 7:46 pm

                    My wife and I both watched Comey’s testimony. My wife has no background in legal proceedings and I have sat through thousands of interviews and watched hundreds of individuals interrogated on the witness stand. We both felt Comey did pretty well considering he was going up against the President of the United States.

                    “Former FBI director James Comey said Thursday he helped reveal details of his private conversations with President Donald Trump because he thought doing so would spur the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the administration.”

                    While I agree the method he used was not the best avenue to the appointment of a Special Counsel, you have to ask yourself why he felt it was necessary to take such a dangerous step?

                    Everyone forgets that few, if any of us know the real Donald Trump. We know the persona, but not necessarily the real person. Remember the whole Kennedy Camelot meme? What do we know today about the Kennedy brothers. It could well be the same with Trump, only time will tell.

                    I also suspect that the Director of the FBI may have information on Trump that most of us here do not have, just by the fact he was in New York area as a US attorney and worked in the Northeast most of his professional life and could have come into close contact with individuals who have had dealing with Trump.

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                  • stella says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 7:48 pm

                    He deserved to be fired, and he was fired appropriately. Frankly, I don’t care what you believe. Sorry. What you think about President Trump is immaterial. Comey acted in an unprofessional manner and was back stabbing his boss. Enough reason to sack the sob.

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                  • oldiadguy says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 8:17 pm

                    I was writing a reply to a couple of your other comments when I saw this one. You asked me previously about some of the other sites that I’ve noticed a problem with, so let me answer it now. The Conservative Treehouse is the main one and now apparently Stella’s Place.

                    I am a Trump supporter, not a Trump follower. I follow only One and that is indicated by the Cross my avatar. In following Him, I continually search for truth so justice can be had and I will continue to do that.

                    My concerns about the CTH go back some time as I indicated in this comment.

                    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/05/28/mississippi-mass-murder-eight-killed-including-police-officer-suspect-captured-said-i-ran-out-of-bullets/comment-page-1/#comment-3961796

                    When Sundance decided to launch his attacks on Comey with little or no real evidence, and upon reading the comments he generated, I had an image of the “Two Minutes of Hate” scene in Orwell’s classic “1984.” It was then I knew it was time for me to leave the tree house. It was no longer the comfortable tree house that it was when I started posting years ago.

                    From the tenor of your comments and the apparent emotional response I trigger, and since this is your site, I will refrain from posting here as well.

                    Goodbye and take care

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                  • stella says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 8:34 pm

                    Goodbye. So I have “a problem”? Because I disagree with YOU? You have a lot of opinions, but not much in the way of facts, so I would look carefully before you throw stones.

                    And your hiding behind the cross is very unbecoming. You aren’t the only (or best) Christian here.

                    PS: Talk about emotional responses. You can’t have a discussion without insulting me and Sundance, all in one comment.

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                  • stella says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 7:50 pm

                    PS: Comey was not “up against the President of the United States”. He was being questioned by members of Congress, and he wasn’t called there by the President. It is a completely different branch of government. But you, the expert, must surely know that.

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                  • czarowniczy says:
                    June 10, 2017 at 7:58 pm

                    You can’t take many false steps in a minefield.

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          • auscitizenmom says:
            June 9, 2017 at 8:56 am

            Somehow the word weasel does really fit him. 🙄

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      • czarowniczy says:
        June 9, 2017 at 1:15 pm

        Keeeeeep reloading…

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  4. nyetneetot says:
    June 9, 2017 at 6:50 am

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    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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  5. stella says:
    June 9, 2017 at 7:24 am

    Regarding the “obstruction of justice” charge being thrown about by the media:

    Does an FBI Investigation Qualify Under the Obstruction of Justice Statutes? A Closer Look

    https://www.lawfareblog.com/does-fbi-investigation-qualify-under-obstruction-justice-statutes-closer-look

    In an op-ed last week, Professor Elizabeth Foley made the case that FBI investigations are covered only by 18 U.S.C. § 1510, a narrow statutory provision that prohibits only interference by means of bribery:

    In the almost 120 years since Section 1505 and its predecessor have been on the books, no court appears to have ever held that an ongoing F.B.I. investigation qualifies as a “pending proceeding” within the meaning of the statute. Instead, Section 1505 applies to court or court-like proceedings to enforce federal law. In addition to prosecutions (where charges have been filed with a court), such proceedings include actions of enforcement by federal agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service, Securities and Exchange Commission or National Labor Relations Board, in which the agency has broad powers not merely to investigate statutory violations, but also to enforce them via subpoena or other administrative proceedings.

    Foley may be right. A fair bit of authority suggests that an FBI criminal investigation is not a “pending proceeding” for the purposes of § 1505. The government has long conceded this point, in fact. Indeed, the U.S. Attorney’s Manual makes the blanket concession that “investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are not section 1505 proceedings”—an interpretation that may well guide Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the conduct of his duties.

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    • Col.(R) Ken says:
      June 9, 2017 at 7:29 am

      Stella, excellent, and thank you for everything…….

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    • lovely says:
      June 9, 2017 at 8:24 am

      Obstruction is just another item that the Left is going to have to scratch off it’s wish list that will get President Trump driven from the face of the earth.

      Russia

      Tax Returns

      Stolen election

      Racist

      Sexist

      Access Hollywood Tape

      Melania won’t hold his hand

      Bannon

      Most racist cabinet in the history of the world

      25th Amendment (Trump is demonstratively mentally ill)

      This tweet or that tweet

      Rosie, Cher, Miley, Streisand, Moore, et al

      Poses a clear & present danger

      Defamed Obama

      Fired Comey

      Xenophobia

      Blood coming out of wherever

      Collusion

      Mean to Islam promoter and defender Sadiq Khan

      Treason

      Nefarious Nepotism

      McCain is not a hero

      Emolument Violations

      Largest inauguration crowd in history

      Darkest, bleakest inauguration speech in history

      Pence said “was”

      Obstruction

      Meh,

      C’est La Vie

      Que será, será

      Every night the Left goes to bed expecting an abundance of joy to happen the next day instead every morning they wake up to this;

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  6. stella says:
    June 9, 2017 at 8:23 am

    Pathetic endings to prosecutorial careers of James Comey and Loretta Lynch
    Their reputations were taken down not by Donald Trump, but by their attempts to take down Trump.

    http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/06/pathetic-endings-to-prosecutorial-careers-of-james-comey-and-loretta-lynch/

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    • auscitizenmom says:
      June 9, 2017 at 9:06 am

      😀 It couldn’t happen to two nicer people…………except for ValJar, Obama, Michelle, and Hillery. I guess it could, now that I think about it.

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  7. lovely says:
    June 9, 2017 at 8:41 am

    James Comey a long time DC insider initiated the first private meeting between him and Trump by choosing to remain alone with President Elect Trump on January 6th, 2017 according to Comey’s own written testimony.

    Comey set precedent and then never mentioned to President Trump that Comey felt private conversations with the president were inappropriate.

    I first met then-President-Elect Trump on Friday, January 6 in a conference room at Trump Tower in New York. I was there with other Intelligence Community (IC) leaders to brief him and his new national security team on the findings of an IC assessment concerning Russian efforts to interfere in the election. At the conclusion of that briefing, I remained alone with the President- Elect to brief him on some personally sensitive aspects of the information assembled during the assessment.

    Where is Chuck Barris when you need him?

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  8. Wooly Covfefe says:
    June 9, 2017 at 9:17 am

    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/06/convert_pay_or_die.html

    As Andrew C. McCarthy has so presciently been pointing out for some time, Islam is sharia, and sharia is a government system that dictates that infidels or non-believers must submit by converting, pay jizya, or be killed. There are no ifs, ands, or buts; it is the nature of the beast.

    Our progressive brethren can pretend all they want; true Islam is not compatible with Western values. Yet my mere mentioning of “Western values” is considered by the left, academia, and the media hate speech, warranting my disappearance from daily life…at the very least.

    Manchester and London Bridge were tests. At what point will we fight back? If they kill our little girls, will we fight? If they kill innocents out for an evening stroll in one of the premier cities of the Western world, will we fight back?

    The consensus is that we will not. That’s just the way progressives like it.

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    • lovely says:
      June 9, 2017 at 9:30 am

      Exactly.

      There was a story about when the jihadis were on their rampage on London Bridge and a chap ran into a pub and said people were getting slaughtered, one of the patrons said “Muslim c*nts” << that patron was chastised for saying such a thing as people were being slaughtered by Muslims.

      London’s Muslim mayor is a terrorist defender.

      England voted for the party of Corbyn.

      England is lost.

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      • Wooly Covfefe says:
        June 9, 2017 at 9:45 am

        I would just like to ask leftists and progressives, “How many little girls’ deaths at the hands of Muslim bombers, per year, are you willing to accept? 500? 1000? 5000? Which number is your red line, at which you will say ‘no more!’ 500 is okay, right? That’s acceptable, right, for you to maintain your delusion that Islam is peaceful?”

        I don’t think most could give me a concrete, round number of the number of dead little girls at the hands of Islam they would NOT find acceptable. They cannot wrap their heads around the concept of EVER criticizing Islam or Muslims, no matter how high the death count. They would rather see little girls blown up by nail bombs than see Muslims offended. One is acceptable to them. The other is not.

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      • joshua says:
        June 9, 2017 at 3:56 pm

        maybe the patron was referring to female genital mutilation by muslims….maybe…/sarc

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  9. Wooly Covfefe says:
    June 9, 2017 at 9:46 am

    WordPress hates me. Literally every other comment is spammed.

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  10. WeeWeed says:
    June 9, 2017 at 9:51 am

    Mornin’ kids!

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    • stella says:
      June 9, 2017 at 12:32 pm

      Most medical devices/procedures have some amount of risk. I agree that it is best to know what the risk is, but I am convinced that the number of those who have been helped far exceeds those who have been harmed.

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      • czarowniczy says:
        June 9, 2017 at 1:33 pm

        I have very very carefully chosen doctors who start at the most conservative levels and move upwards with great care. Let’s not forget that the initial report showing medical screwups as the third greatest cause of preventable death in 1999 AND a redux by another researcher last year showing the same thing point out medical mistakes are not that rare. Also look at the numbers of drugs over the last twenty years that have proven to be…damaging.
        I don’t look at it as ‘acceptable civilian casualties’, I wonder why in the pursuit of profits the Medical Industrial Complex leans to profits over patient safety.

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        • John Denney says:
          June 9, 2017 at 1:55 pm

          It’s good to always have a trusted friend or family member present to observe and verify everything. Docs and nurses are often short-handed and busy, so mistakes are inevitable.
          Sometimes it’s little things.
          In the hospital recovering from surgery, my wife asked me to scratch an itch on her back. Turned out she was so allergic to the surgical tape they used that her skin was blistering.

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  12. The Tundra PA says:
    June 9, 2017 at 1:41 pm

    Morning all, and afternoon to you easterners. Yesterday’s Comey hysteria sent me running to my electronics-free safe space. I just couldn’t take it. So DH and I went out for breakfast, and then a girlfriend and I spent the afternoon getting hair and nails done and having a late coffee.

    This morning in playing catch up, I came across two gems via John Nolte’s twitter:
    10 Things We Learned Today:
    1. Trump was never under investigation.
    2. Trump did not obstruct justice.
    3. Trump did not collude with Russia.
    4. Russia did not alter the election outcome.
    5. Comey leaked his own memo.
    6. Loretta Lynch pressured Comey to cover for Hillary Clinton.
    7. There was ample evidence to put Hillary in jail but Comey chose not to pursue it.
    8. CNN and other fake news outlets have been lying/covering things up this entire time.
    9. The Democrat Party no longer has the ability to scream “RUSSIA” every time Trump tries to do something.
    10. The Russia story is dead–any democrat who continues to push it will look foolish and insane to the American people.

    This was a retweet from Steve Hirsch (@Stevenwhirsch99). I don’t know how to copy tweets so I just retyped the whole thing. Truly old school here.

    The other was this link to an article by Nolte:
    http://www.dailywire.com/news/17347/endless-list-sins-committed-j-edgar-comey-john-nolte#.WTq4K14W-Mc.twitter

    Happy Friday, stellar friends. The weekend is almost here, for some of us anyway.

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    • stella says:
      June 9, 2017 at 1:58 pm

      Add to the list:

      Dem Senators have known for weeks that President Trump was not under investigation, yet they continued to say or imply that President Trump was involved in collusion with the Russians, and yelling “impeachment”.

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  13. John Denney says:
    June 9, 2017 at 1:46 pm

    Can you trust people who want you defenseless?
    This loon thinks men are dumb enough to go along with gun control if it’s called “gun safety”.

    http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/08/dem-reps-genius-plan-for-getting-men-to-support-gun-control-gun-safety/

    Progs are always on about “awareness” and “education”. Is gun safety taught in school? High schools used to have shooting teams; it is an Olympic sport, after all.

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  15. joshua says:
    June 9, 2017 at 2:51 pm

    The Congressional session gave President a dessert

    A rattled Comey filled with a double dip of Lynch
    two scoops in the waffling cone.

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  16. Rhea Salacia Volans says:
    June 9, 2017 at 3:08 pm

    Caught a report on the radio this morning that according to unicef, children in Syria are at risk because of ISIS.

    My immediate reaction was, “only them and the rest of the world!!”

    I am so glad that unicef has investigated this because now I know the truth! /SARC.

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    • Wooly Covfefe says:
      June 9, 2017 at 4:26 pm

      Maybe next Unicef will investigate how many child prostitutes are at risk around the world because of UN organizations and employees.

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    • Wooly Covfefe says:
      June 9, 2017 at 4:29 pm

      I post happy music for a reason. I know too much darkness.

      Watch the Franti videos below. It doesn’t make it all go away, I know.

      It just makes you realize that there is still goodness.

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  17. Wooly Covfefe says:
    June 9, 2017 at 3:40 pm

    Some fun:

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  18. lovely says:
    June 9, 2017 at 5:07 pm

    I was thinking be careful of the enemies you make Comey,

    A Department of Justice spokesman claimed that Comey gave false testimony about whether he had received any internal guidance about the parameters of Jeff Sessions’ recusal.

    http://thefederalist.com/2017/06/09/doj-comey-provided-false-testimony-oath/

    But then I remembered this;

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    • Wooly Covfefe says:
      June 9, 2017 at 5:26 pm

      You misspelled “suicided”.

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    • WeeWeed says:
      June 9, 2017 at 9:05 pm

      I read something on the twit – don’t remember who, said “Comey is an expired Clinton asset. #Seth Rich.”
      No kidding.

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      • lovely says:
        June 9, 2017 at 9:39 pm

        #Nokidding Let’s get it trending!

        I have a feeling we are headed toward a “Super Party” in 2020, McCain, Ryan and some other twats had some sort of meeting where they invited Joe Biden to be the speaker. Right now the headline on NYP is “Romney: Hillary told me to work for Trump”.

        The wording in the article from Mittens is dismissive of President Trump. I am guessing that the perpetual politicians are throwing their lots together against President Trump and are going to say so for 2020 they’ll say something like they are the unity party.

        Clinton/Mittens ?

        And Comey threw Lynch/Clinton under the bus I keep wondering if that was a slip on his part. It was very odd testimony.

        Ramble, ramble I go !

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  19. Wooly Covfefe says:
    June 9, 2017 at 5:34 pm

    Remember that time when you thought reality couldn’t possibly get any weirder?

    https://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/06/so-did-not-see-that-coming.html

    Man, oh, man.

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  20. lovely says:
    June 9, 2017 at 5:49 pm

    Hi folks, I’m making deviled eggs and I’m wondering if anyone has ever tried adding avocado instead of or along with mayonnaise? Do you think the avocados would turn brown by tomorrow even if I keep them under saran wrap? Words of wisdom welcome.

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    • auscitizenmom says:
      June 9, 2017 at 5:53 pm

      My guess is you will have brown deviled eggs. 😯 You could put lemon juice in it, but I don’t know if that will help.

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    • Wooly Covfefe says:
      June 9, 2017 at 5:56 pm

      Yes, avos will turn brown quickly, in less than one day. Even under plastic.

      I know avos. It’s really difficult to maintain perfect ripeness. You buy them and they’re too hard, you put them in a paper bag at room temp and they become perfect in a day, and then they become brown if you halve and pit them, in just one more day. A very volatile fruit.

      I love to eat them, not a fan of dealing with them.

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      • lovely says:
        June 9, 2017 at 5:59 pm

        So you think I should shuck the avocado idea?

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      • Wooly Covfefe says:
        June 9, 2017 at 6:01 pm

        …and avo-devilled eggs sounds really good.

        We did about 250 steak tartare devilled eggs a few months ago.

        Not a fan, but they were a hit.

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        • Wooly Covfefe says:
          June 9, 2017 at 6:19 pm

          At my last workplace, every item on the menu with avocados was called “California”.

          Cali omelette. Cali benedict. Cali BLT. Cali ultimate grilled cheese.

          We went through, and they still do, a whole lot of avos. Getting the perfect ripeness is difficult enough if you’re only slicing it and putting it on a sammy or omelette. Much more volatile if you’re putting it in your devilled egg filling. It’s like bananas. Slice a banana, and put it in a plastic-covered container, see how long it stays good enough to serve to a customer. Avos are like mayflies. They live for one day.

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          • lovely says:
            June 9, 2017 at 6:30 pm

            Funny thing, I’ve never eaten a banana I can’t stand the smell of them so I don’t bake with them.

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          • lovely says:
            June 9, 2017 at 7:03 pm

            I made one as a test. It was delicious! Everything is ready to go for tomorrow. I’m glad that you mentioned the pineapple it is very complimentary. I added bacon in case Mike is lurking, I don’t want him to lose any respect that he may have for me 😊.

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            • Wooly Covfefe says:
              June 9, 2017 at 7:36 pm

              Nice. Remember to put some hot, red, powdered spice on it. Most use paprika or cumin, but you can even use a nice blackening seasoning — just go easy. It’s mainly for color, but that’s why these stuffed eggs are called Devilled. Something hot, something red.

              Just sayin’.

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              • WeeWeed says:
                June 9, 2017 at 10:35 pm

                Speaking of blackening seasoning, Chef Prudhomme’s redfish blackening seasoning is excellent on pork! I fry very little any more and bake big thick pork chops – with that and black pepper. And that is all – enough salt in the redfish seasoning.
                I know, sounds awful, but is REALLY good…..

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    • stella says:
      June 9, 2017 at 7:35 pm

      It would taste good, but I’m not sure about the browning. One thing I’ve noticed is if I refrigerate a ripe avocado and use only half, it doesn’t brown as badly as it does when the avocado is warm.

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      • lovely says:
        June 9, 2017 at 7:47 pm

        It was really tasty I’m just going to make them in the morning and hope for the best 🙂

        And yes Sir Wooly I have paprika ✓.

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      • Wooly Covfefe says:
        June 9, 2017 at 8:01 pm

        Now Brave is snapping me to the top of the page every few seconds while I’m reading.

        Why is life conspiring against me? I’m just trying to read a thread. I mean, I like Stella’s header image, but I don’t really need to see it every five seconds.

        I just don’t get it. Every little thing. A girl who could be mine is moving to Tampa in two weeks. Because of course she is. She’s a singer, too. I don’t get it, but I’m used to it, so it never gets me down for long. I’m back to working my butt off for peanuts and loving everyone like I’m commanded to do in no time at all.

        It’s as if God said, when I was in the womb, to all the Angels, “This kid’s about to be born. Every so often ask him what he wants. As he answers, I want you all to interrupt him before he can even finish the sentence and say ‘FU! You can’t have that!’ for his entire life.”

        I want my alarm on my phone to work in the mor… “*******”

        Yep. This morning Brave was working nearly perfectly, with no input lag in the comment field, now it’s a slide-show, as I type. Yep. Well, I hope the folks who make Brave have enough POCs and LGBTs working for them. That will at least vindicate the fact that their product doesn’t work.

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  21. Wooly Covfefe says:
    June 9, 2017 at 8:37 pm

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    • Wooly Covfefe says:
      June 9, 2017 at 8:43 pm

      This is one of my favorite philosophers, if not my favorite. For more than two decades.

      I didn’t know he had videos, and I certainly wouldn’t have guessed that he would be campy in them. But, there it is. Campy. Wish I could shake this guy’s hand. But he dead.

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    • Wooly Covfefe says:
      June 9, 2017 at 8:46 pm

      I dare say… I DARE SAY, that Francis A. Schaeffer’s Trilogy should be required reading for every person here, let alone every person in public schooling.

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    • Wooly Covfefe says:
      June 9, 2017 at 9:58 pm

      I cannot believe I found this. It is a 10-part series, and is amazing.

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  22. auscitizenmom says:
    June 9, 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 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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  23. WeeWeed says:
    June 9, 2017 at 9:23 pm

    Bar! Beer!!!

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  25. ImpeachEmAll says:
    June 9, 2017 at 10:34 pm

    DD214 Secret Coding…
    (16:00 plus)

    mccain and biden
    are lowlife POS…
    (around 43:20 plus)

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    • ImpeachEmAll says:
      June 9, 2017 at 10:46 pm

      WP having fun???

      Egg on their face???

      Here’s the real URL
      for
      DD214 Secret Coding…

      Again,

      (16:00 plus)
      and
      (43:20)

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  26. czarowniczy says:
    June 9, 2017 at 10:48 pm

    Cool, clear night with virtually no extraneous light. Full moon rose just after sundown and is flooding the area with bright light. The trees like the cypresses and maples still are putting out new leaves and they are a different construct than the more mature leaves so the ends of their branches all gave what looks like, in moonlight, frosted ends, giving each tree a full-leaved Christmas tree look. One of those times that drives home why we live out here.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hr0rDW5j1KU

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