General Discussion, Thursday, July 13, 2017

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Stella

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  1. nyetneetot says:
    July 13, 2017 at 12:31 am

    Here Mary!

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  2. Lucille says:
    July 13, 2017 at 2:37 am

    May I sit in the turquoise Adirondack chair while I’m having my cup of coffee with cream and one spoon of sugar, please, Ad Rem?

    I’ll provide the scones….

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  3. Lburg says:
    July 13, 2017 at 7:23 am

    Thanks for the invite, Stella! I brought a little somethin’ somethin’ for you and the long time Stellars – crocheted leaves:

    There are many more interesting leaf/crochet sculptures here:
    http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/05/dried-leaves-crocheted-into-delicate-sculptures-by-susanna-bauer/?src=footer

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  4. nyetneetot says:
    July 13, 2017 at 7:42 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 Covfefe! (aka “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)
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    Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂 |_| (Albanian Raki Moskat)
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    Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 |_| (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
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    Mornin’ Gary! 🙂 |_| (Yuengling)
    Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
    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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  5. stella says:
    July 13, 2017 at 8:41 am

    Really Fake News
    Spread with the “collusion” of liberals

    http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/07/really-fake-news/

    https://twitter.com/hasavrat/status/883650144247349248

    I saw the photo in the Featured Image above (without the caption). I’m not sure where, guessing Twitter.

    When I saw it, my thought was something along the lines of “that’s not a good look for Trump, feeds the anti-Trump narrative about Russia.” I didn’t pay it a lot of attention, but I distinctly remember it and my reaction.

    It turns out it’s a fake.

    Here is the original Getty Images photo (via Evan McMurry on Twitter) … more

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  6. WeeWeed says:
    July 13, 2017 at 9:00 am

    Mornin’ kids!

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  7. ImpeachEmAll says:
    July 13, 2017 at 10:48 am

    Another brick in the Wall…

    Wall, Wall, Wall…

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm… 😉

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  8. stella says:
    July 13, 2017 at 12:03 pm

    Seen on Facebook. The person who posted it is a small-business owner in Atlanta:

    “Truly one of the silliest memes the left is trotting out is the idea that Trump doesn’t care about the country or is a traitor to Russia.

    Those of you repeating this have zero idea how crazy you sound to middle America. Look at it from their point of view.

    “What America are you even talking about? Let’s say I’m a middle class worker in Ohio. For the last 20 years, and certainly the last 8, all I’ve heard from the left is that I’m a white bigot.

    “Even as my local economy has flailed, I’m told that I’m the benefit of privilege and have to be brought down to size. I’m told that I have to step aside and make room for illegal invaders.

    That I can’t even call them that or I’m a bigot. The left hates my religion but thinks I’m a bigot for not wanting Islamists in the country.

    “So let me get this straight: Trump is not for me and my America? But you leftist are? Because Trump supposedly likes Putin?

    “What does that have to do with me? I want to know who likes ME? You leftists hate me. You make that clear each and every day.

    “I have to watch everything I say or you call me names and potentially damage my job.

    “You write article after article basically saying you are waiting until I’m dead or diluted out. You value plants and turtles above me. YOU make that clear to me each and every day.

    “Why do I care if Trump likes Putin. I’m not even saying he does. I’m just wondering why I would care???

    “Putin is not building a mega mosque in my town. Putin is not censoring my facebook posts.

    “Putin is not saying he’s going to shut down the coal mine in my town.

    “Putin is not charging my son with sexual harassment at college. You leftists are not for me and my America.

    “You want me to die out and make room for YOUR ‘new’ America. Because the ‘old’ America, aka me, sucks.

    “You are more loyal to Syrians and Mexicans and European globalists, than to me.

    “You not only hate me, you mock the very idea of me liking myself.

    “Make America Great Again – you hate and mock the slogan.

    “Me liking me makes me a ‘Nationalist’, a ‘supremacist’ or whatever word you come up with. You sure love to come up with words to bully me.

    “Trump says he likes me. You say that’s a con? What are you even talking about? You hate me. You hate the country.

    “I’ll take my chances with Trump.”

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    • lovely says:
      July 13, 2017 at 12:19 pm

      Very well stated.

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    • Wooly Covfefe says:
      July 13, 2017 at 12:25 pm

      I note that none of the kids featured in the Melania Visits France thread are French kids.

      The kids in that thread’s pics will never be French people. Neither will their kids.

      If I move to Japan, and have kids, and my kids have kids, none of them will ever be Japanese people, either. Not even with reconstructive facial surgery.

      Our side uses props for photos, too. In the case of that thread, France’s Vibrant invading replacement population. She couldn’t find any sick French kids for photo ops?

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      • stella says:
        July 13, 2017 at 12:45 pm

        I don’t imagine she got to pick. How do you know none of those kids aren’t French? I disagree that because someone has a different ethnic origin means they can’t be French, or American, or Japanese, particularly if they were born in the country. Two One of my great-grandfathers was born in Germany. Does the fact that my ancestry is German mean that I’m not a real American?

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        • Wooly Covfefe says:
          July 13, 2017 at 1:01 pm

          On paper, you are. Those who wrote the preamble to our Constitution, specifically the words, “OUR POSTERITY”, were referring to themselves and their future generations. Hence the word OUR. How many Germans are signers?

          America is the only country that is supposed to negate and subsume it’s own culture and belongs to the entire world. Meanwhile, any Europeans in Africa are considered Colonialists and evil, and have largely been kicked out. Good for them.

          Are MS-13 members Americans? Are Jamaat-ul-Fuqra Americans?

          Western European immigrants assimilated, and decided to be not Germans, not Italians, not Dutch, but to be Americans.

          Clock-boy Junior with the legos and the future clitoridectomy recipient in the Melania thread are not, nor will they ever be, French.

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          • Wooly Covfefe says:
            July 13, 2017 at 1:05 pm

            I have to go to work now, so that millions of people who aren’t Americans can receive the largesse of our posterity, free.

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          • lovely says:
            July 13, 2017 at 1:16 pm

            It look like the two featured children are likely Middle Eastern but the gaggle of children at the hospital look as Stella said like plain French children.

            Interesting that two pictures of Melania in France feature her with very ME looking children. I don’t think the MSM would willingly do that as it doesn’t show Melania running in fear from a Musli child which is the optic that the MSM would like to be believed.

            I do agree that the refugees are not there to assimilate but to take over.

            Curious.

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          • stella says:
            July 13, 2017 at 1:28 pm

            How many Germans are signers?

            I’m sorry, but that’s ridiculous. So, only people with the same ethnic background as the signers are real Americans? The “our” refers to all Americans, not just the ones who signed.

            By the way, your original comment belongs on the other thread, rather than under the comment I made that has nothing to do with this.

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          • stella says:
            July 13, 2017 at 3:03 pm

            I’m sorry if I sound mean, but what Wooly said is silly. There were 39 people who signed off on the new Constitution in 1789, as representatives of the people of their state(s). Most of them were born in British colonies in the USA, although several were born in Ireland, one in England, one in Scotland, and one in the British West Indies (Alexander Hamilton). So you can only be a ‘real’ American if your ancestors were from England, Ireland, or Scotland?

            One of my German ancestors came to what is now the United States in 1752, settling in Philadelphia, more than 30 years before the Constitution was signed. Are you saying that I’m not a ‘real’ American because some of my ancestors are German?

            Many of my British ancestors were here in what would become the United States long before it existed, in one case in the 1630’s.

            The latest of my ancestors (German) arrived in Ohio before the Civil War.

            Which part of me is a ‘real’ American?

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            • lovely says:
              July 13, 2017 at 3:17 pm

              Sorry Stella, I thought this was to me and I answered it but it ended up at the bottom of the thread? I thought it was in my notices? Perhaps I have gone around the bend.

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            • joshua says:
              July 13, 2017 at 3:44 pm

              stella….clearly your heart, mind, and soul are “real” American….the rest are just parts.

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            • valeriecurren says:
              July 14, 2017 at 1:28 am

              …and if you have a “family tree” on FamilySearch.org you can use your FamilySearch log in data to use RelativeFinder.org (run by BYU) to find out how you might actually be related to both Declaration Signers & Constitution Signers (assuming the relationships within FamilySearch are in fact accurate), amongst other interesting historical & famous persons. For example….

              With this little fun, genealogical gem, I recently found out that my kids are related to:
              Declaration Signers 23-my side/ 13-my husband’s side
              Constitution Signers 12-my side/ 11-my husband’s side

              Being American is as much in the heart & spirit as it is in the blood &/or longevity of ancestral ties to this land. No matter how many “American” generations you might go back on BHO’s ancestry, that individual didn’t appear to have an American bone in his body (no twisted pun meant here–yikes!)…

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              • stella says:
                July 14, 2017 at 7:33 am

                Interesting! I’m an Ancestry.com member, and I have a FamilySearch tree. I’ll check it out.

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                • valeriecurren says:
                  July 14, 2017 at 5:06 pm

                  It’s pretty fun & a good way to tease those that roll eyes about genealogy into potential slight interest in their familial connections. Josiah’s twin “tweeted” out #poetbyblood after I showed him how they are 1st cousins to William Shakespeare (a gazillion generations removed!)…since B does like to write poetry…

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          • John Denney says:
            July 13, 2017 at 6:52 pm

            At a large Christmas dinner this past year I sat between two Americans, one born in Turkey, and the other a black, born in Jamaica.
            Both are successful in America, the black having risen from very humble means.
            The three of us hold these Truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these Rights are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
            We are united to defend each other’s Person, Property, and Liberty.
            We’re Americans.
            Some born here are citizens, but not Americans.

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      • stella says:
        July 13, 2017 at 12:54 pm

        I looked at the video at the Daily Mail link. Several of the children (the majority) in the video look like plain French children to me, if that is even a description.

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  9. czarowniczy says:
    July 13, 2017 at 12:08 pm

    On the Beauvoir Confederate a Cemetery in Gulfport is the Tomb of the Confederate Unknown Soldier. The cemetery was built on the grounds of Jefferson Davis’s retirementnhouse much as Arlington was on the Lee’s old plantation. GGS is old enough to start appreciating the issues involved with military cemeteries, and he lives right down the toad from it, we’re going to start going there.
    If you’re coming down to the coast to gamble or play in the Gulf, Beauvoir is well worth a visit.

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  10. stella says:
    July 13, 2017 at 12:09 pm

    Another winner from Facebook:

    The #NeverTrumpers are like lunatics who howl at the moon every time they hear a lovesick dog in the night.

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    • lovely says:
      July 13, 2017 at 12:23 pm

      I don’t know if anyone else is using the term but I have started using “Trumphobia”. It actually stopped one liberal dead in his tracks, I said something along the line of you are talking all emotion and fear, no facts, I’d call that Trumphobic.

      It is always good to turn their own words on them and I was really surprised that it silenced him, I don’t think it would silence many but at least one person is thinking about all those “phobia” labels he has been ignorantly tossing around.

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  11. lovely says:
    July 13, 2017 at 12:52 pm

    Six more vermin take their eternal dirt nap 👍🏽.

    Mohammeds meet Mohammed.

    http://i.imgur.com/0xqinyb.jpg

    The Lion of Mosul: Courage of young soldier going undercover as ISIS fanatic to shoot dead six fighters behind enemy lines

    A soldier on a perilous mission to gather crucial intelligence deep behind Islamic State lines during the ferocious battle of Mosul shot dead six enemy fighters.

    The fearless special forces hero Mohammed Qasim, dubbed the Lion of Mosul, disguised himself as one of the fanatics and conned them into believing he was one of them.

    The Iraqi discovered the location of ISIS positions and key sniper and machine gun teams.

    Last night senior Iraqi officers applauded the 25-year-old’s actions.

    General Abdul Wahab al-Saadi said: “We are all very proud of what this soldier did. He is a very brave man. He makes us all hold our heads up high.”

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/special-forces-hero-dubbed-lion-10786736

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    • valeriecurren says:
      July 13, 2017 at 1:35 pm

      “Mohammeds meet Mohammed.”

      In Hell!

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      • czarowniczy says:
        July 13, 2017 at 7:01 pm

        Yeah, and the Iraquis go and post his picture and the story. Smart.

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        • lovely says:
          July 14, 2017 at 12:14 am

          Six of one half a dozen of another.

          Islam is poison.

          http://nypost.com/2017/07/13/video-shows-iraqi-soldiers-allegedly-executing-isis-fighters-violently/

          Disturbing video shows execution of ISIS fighters at hands of Iraqi Soldiers

          Graphic video posted online this week purportedly shows a group of Iraqi soldiers giving ISIS fighters a taste of their own medicine — tossing them off a cliff and pumping their bodies full of bullets as soon as they hit the ground.

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          • czarowniczy says:
            July 14, 2017 at 12:43 am

            Lemme see now…..these ISIS pieces of Shiite slaughter their way through the Iraqi countryside committing unimaginable atrocities and the Iraqi soldiers, when they capture them, are supposed to do…..what?
            I’d spend a few hours with stuff out of the mechanics section making their miserable lives just that much more miserable before I tossed them over a cliff as part of a righteous skeet shoot.

            PULL!!!

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          • czarowniczy says:
            July 14, 2017 at 9:46 am

            Just remembered, if ya wanna talk about animalistic behavior I can find the link to the video of ISIS using an 8 or 10-year-old child to execute, with a knife, one of their captives. Didn’t link to it as the thought should be adaquate, and these are the people the whiners are composing about being treated badly…
            BTW, the AP has changed their style book to eliminate terrorist, replacing it with militant, and doing away with Islamist period. How about letting ISIS deal with the AP style folks, that might open eyes.

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            • lovely says:
              July 14, 2017 at 10:37 am

              I’m not complaining about the behavior of the Iraqi soldiers I am simply stating that Muslims are Muslims and if there is anyone who thinks a new batch of Muslims who were raised in the savagery of Islam are going to become pro-civilized behavior they are not paying attention to history.

              I am well aware of the atrocities committed by ISIS I am also well aware that for centuries before a segment of the savages attached the moniker of ISIS, ISIL, Daesh, Hezbollah, Taliban, The Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, Qaeda, Boko Haram, Jihadis and this that or any other name to themselves that they were committing the same atrocities and simply identified as Muslim.

              They hate us. Once their country is free of this or that labeled group they will turn their savagery more fully upon us infidels.

              I don’t really think we are disagreeing Czar. Maybe I am missing something?

              You have seen in person more than I could ever bear.

              I have likely seen the video of which you speak, I think I posted a still from it in one of my posts here, I’ve seen enough videos and pictures of Muslims using small children to commit inhuman acts on their captors to last me a lifetime.

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  12. czarowniczy says:
    July 13, 2017 at 1:07 pm

    Off to do battle with the VA this afternoon, I’m going to a small outpatient clinic that services our rural area for a referral to a hearing aid clinic. Fourty years of military gun damage, wife nagging damage is non-compensable (I’ll hear about that one, yet more impact damage).
    Found a very helpful woman at the big VA center who’ll help me get a more local referral than the 90 miles I’d have to drive (one way) to the VA hospital. Gotta make sure the local office understands I am NOT there to transfer my primary care from a competent system of for-profit and suable trained physicians to a system that is complicit in the deaths of over 300,000 vets awaiting treatment. Senator’s office is set to intervenve were the VA to try and slam me.
    Now ain’t it a shame that a vet has to go into defensive battle posture to use a service allegedly built to help him? Multiply that by a million vets and you see the magnitude of the problem.

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    • Lburg says:
      July 13, 2017 at 1:42 pm

      Good luck Czarowniczy and safe travels.

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    • sandandsea2015 says:
      July 13, 2017 at 1:50 pm

      Best wishes for you czar. I truly hope our President can make things better for you and all our vets. It’s a real travesty.

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    • The Tundra PA says:
      July 13, 2017 at 3:09 pm

      good luck, czar. My DH, the retired Coast Guard Captain, is just starting to deal with the VA for his health care needs, at age 67. The need for hearing aides is what finally got him into the system. And I gotta say, so far his experience has been great. No runaround, rapid response/follow up of issues and referrals. As a PA, I’m both knowledgeable and critical of health care delivery. Part of my medical training (ok, 25 years ago) was at the Boise VA, where I saw some bad stuff. But (again, SO FAR) the Alaska VA system has been admirable. My fingers are crossed that it stays that way.

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      • czarowniczy says:
        July 13, 2017 at 7:18 pm

        Zactly what I am going for. I’m getting a referral to the closest VA center which would be 80 road miles away (VA can’t use air miles any longer) so I should be eligible to use the Choice Program and go to a civilian audiologist.
        Boise, eh? City whose toads were laid out by a drunken indian (can we still say that?). My unit HQ was in Boise so we came up there a lot from Ogden, UT. Had another unit in Hayden Lakes…you may get the reference.
        I have one civilian doc who’s an ex-Navy doc who served at Walter Reed, another civilian doc who trained with The Godfather of diabetes, and my main med center is the Ochsner Foundation. I am using the VA for a hearing aid, outside of that they can forget my address. Local (NOLA) VA is partnered with the state-owned LSU medical teaching center, a brand new hospital funded by the state that took huge funding hits before it ever opened its doors. I’m sure that when the Joint Commission ever inspects the VA they’re gonna find an excess of unnecessary operations, as they gave st other VA facilities coupled to training hospitals.

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  13. Lucille says:
    July 13, 2017 at 1:29 pm

    Success Involves This One Thing Which Many People Ignore
    by William Pauwels on July 12, 2017
    http://clashdaily.com/2017/07/success-involves-one-thing-many-people-ignore/

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  14. valeriecurren says:
    July 13, 2017 at 1:31 pm

    God Bless here.

    My husband & I joke about him losing his hearing, from rocking, & how he can’t wait to need a hearing aid so he can turn down the volume whenever I start speaking…Wives are such “help-meets” & all.

    Your VA description reminds me of our morass of Special Education system encounters (though yours is a much greater outrage–they OWE you & your fellow warriors). Same behemoth, incompetent, unaccountable, government bureaucracy–why exactly do we have to work to pay their salaries…for if they actually worked in the free market they & their systems would have to actually Do Their Job Competently or they’d be gone–& good riddance!

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    • Menagerie says:
      July 13, 2017 at 5:06 pm

      Having dealt with government employees on a much smaller scale than you, I can’t see any I have encountered yet making it in the free market for more than a week. And I am not being sarcastic.

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      • czarowniczy says:
        July 13, 2017 at 7:38 pm

        Remember, I was a Fed bureaucrat…this is karma.

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      • valeriecurren says:
        July 14, 2017 at 1:01 am

        No doubt. I used to work for a governmental entity in Oklahoma, and amalgamation of Fed & State program…there were people walking around with flat affect & other obvious mental illnesses. One co-worker who’d been there like a decade was an acknowledged schizophrenic & she asked me how to perform the most basic, rudimentary job task that was foundational to our specific work–as in you’d perform it for virtually every “client” & I honestly don’t think she knew or remembered how to do even that task.

        I heard someone on talk radio today, perhaps Mark Levin, describing some of the many outrageous, incompetent , and frankly illegal actions by many in government. He said that if any of those things were done by people in the private sector they would be jailed for life–but of course our “overlords” get a complete pass…especially if they have a D behind their name!

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  15. lovely says:
    July 13, 2017 at 2:22 pm

    I think Spicier is going to cause some permanent cognitive damage to some liberal nutter.

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  16. lovely says:
    July 13, 2017 at 3:15 pm

    I may be misspeaking or you’re not understanding what I’m saying. I am specifically referring to the Muslim refugee influx in France and the two children in the the still photographs with Melanis appear to be of Middle Eastern decent and that indicates to me that they are likely first or second generation immigrants. They may be children whose families have accepted French law over Sharia or they may be children with a long or short French heritage.

    If they are Muslim immigrants then the likelihood of them becoming French is nil, if being French means accepting the laws of France. They will, at the threat of death and eternal damnation always be Muslim and they will recognize no law other than Sharia.

    My grandparents came over from Lithuania and became American citizens because they made America their new home, the constitution their new law. That is all I and I think Wooly are saying, that Muslim’s will always be Muslims and being Muslim means that you must work for the Islamization of any land that you have touched.

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    • stella says:
      July 13, 2017 at 3:17 pm

      lovely, the comment I left was mistakenly under your comment. I have since deleted it and moved it to Wooly’s comment. Sorry for the confusion.

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    • stella says:
      July 13, 2017 at 3:19 pm

      Read what Wooly said to me. He said that because my ancestor was German, I am not ‘really’ American. His words:

      Those who wrote the preamble to our Constitution, specifically the words, “OUR POSTERITY”, were referring to themselves and their future generations. Hence the word OUR. How many Germans are signers?

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      • lovely says:
        July 13, 2017 at 3:24 pm

        I agree I was responding more for myself. Sorry! I should not have included Wooly in my statement as I didn’t fully get the gist of his post.

        I am confused by the “How many singers are German” ??? How many singes are only one ethnicity or many ethnicities yet still fully American? All American singers.

        I’m running late! Have a good afternoon/evening my fellow American !

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          • Lucille says:
            July 13, 2017 at 4:26 pm

            Perhaps people don’t know that at one time there were so many Germans in the colonies and then the U.S. that they considered making the national language German rather than English.

            My mother’s ancestry is German, what is commonly called Pennsylvania Dutch to which some take exception, although my maternal grandfather used that term all the time and didn’t have a problem with it. We used to joke around and tell him his surname sounded more Russian than German and he would yelp out, “I’m no Bolshevik!”

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            • stella says:
              July 13, 2017 at 4:30 pm

              As I said above (to Wooly):

              One of my German ancestors came to what is now the United States in 1752, settling in Philadelphia, more than 30 years before the Constitution was signed. Are you saying that I’m not a ‘real’ American because some of my ancestors are German?

              Many of my British ancestors were here in what would become the United States long before it existed, in one case in the 1630’s.

              The latest of my ancestors (German) arrived in Ohio before the Civil War.

              Which part of me is a ‘real’ American?

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              • czarowniczy says:
                July 14, 2017 at 1:27 am

                Our European ancestors raped, pillaged and propagated across Europe quite freely…who knows what our ancestors were more than a few generations back? Germany wasn’t even a nation state until 1871, it was a glob of fiefdoms for centuries and those ‘states’ every now and then would be absorbed by some other actor.
                We had things like the Austrian-Hungarian Empire that absorbed big chunks of Poland and the Ukraine making Poles and Ukranians ‘Austrians’.
                We had good oil’ Ghengis Kahn who was do prolific in his travels thru Europe and the Mideast that his genes can be found in some 1 in 200 men…so were some of the Signers Mongols?

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            • lovely says:
              July 13, 2017 at 11:49 pm

              There is still a very strong German presence in WI, I’m about 30 minutes away from Germantown, WI.

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            • valeriecurren says:
              July 14, 2017 at 1:48 am

              Wasn’t Pennsylvania “Dutch” really for PA “Deutch” aka German?

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          • lovely says:
            July 13, 2017 at 11:48 pm

            Signers 🙄. Good grief I should not read and post while I’m on the run.

            Anyhow…..

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  17. lovely says:
    July 13, 2017 at 3:25 pm

    Gotta run folks have a good afternoon/evening!

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  18. stella says:
    July 13, 2017 at 4:41 pm

    Seen on Facebook:

    My Co-Pilot here in the lounge just showed me a breaking story that CNN reporter Poppy Harlow mistook the Star Spangled Banner for the French National Anthem.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/13/cnn-anchor-mistakes-star-spangled-banner-for-french-national-anthem.html

    How dumb can you be? I actually know the words (in French) of the first verse of La Marseillaise.

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    • joshua says:
      July 13, 2017 at 5:39 pm

      allons enfants de la patrie…….”all the children go out to the patio”…

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      • valeriecurren says:
        July 14, 2017 at 1:54 am

        You actually made me remember my grandfather (technically adoptive) 1st generation of Finnish stock born in America (both parents from Finland & his mom & later step-mom were both mail-order brides from Finland to the U.P. of MI)…he used to sing La Marseillaise in a Finnish accent, which was bizarre since he spent his whole life in Michigan but then they did sometimes speak Finnish in the home…That memory brings a joyful tear to the eye–Thanks!

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    • joshua says:
      July 13, 2017 at 5:41 pm

      she never watched “Casablanca” then…..

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  19. joshua says:
    July 13, 2017 at 5:45 pm

    Poopy Harlot is worth about 15million and paid about 3 million a year.

    someone is overpaying this female.

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  20. John Denney says:
    July 13, 2017 at 7:17 pm

    Heh. The singers/signers between lovely and Stella above reminds me of the time I stopped for gas one evening on the way home from choir practice, and the heavily accented cashier woman from Eastern Europe or the Middle East observed that I was gassing up much later in the evening than usual.
    “I went straight to choir practice from work, and we just finished.”
    “Oh, you are in a choir! How nice!”
    “Are you a singer?”
    At this she was greatly offended.
    “No!”
    Then she drew herself up proudly and stated haughtily, “I have a husband.”
    That left me perplexed.
    Eventually we figured out she had misunderstood me.
    She thought I had asked, “Are you a swinger?”

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  21. ImpeachEmAll says:
    July 13, 2017 at 7:17 pm

    WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said that it has recently charged more than 400 people, including 56 doctors, with committing health-care fraud that generated $1.3 billion in false billings.

    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/feds-charge-more-than-400-with-health-care-fraud-2017-07-13

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  22. czarowniczy says:
    July 13, 2017 at 7:45 pm

    It’s ma VA Day, y’all. Not only did I get my referral from the VA but when I got home my confirmation letter for my VA disability was in my mail box. It only took eight months and two weeks, and that was with perfectly filled in forms and supporting data. It came in an envelope from one of my Senstor’s offices so that might have a bit to do with it.

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    • sandandsea2015 says:
      July 13, 2017 at 8:59 pm

      Yay for good news!

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    • ImpeachEmAll says:
      July 13, 2017 at 9:33 pm

      Hope they were able to get you 100%.

      Travel Office will pay mileage to hearing
      appointment(s), as well as, others. 😉

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      • czarowniczy says:
        July 13, 2017 at 11:03 pm

        Yeah, if I keep pushing…it’s an incremental process.
        I know they pay, it’s just a pain from where we are, all back roads or it’s longer by interstate. I really like the idea of using a closer civilian audiologist, though pros tell me the VA has an excellent system. Push comes to shove I’ll go, we’ll make a day of it. There’s a great bar/restaurant in the town that we used to go to with a dear friend, a sculptor, now passed. We’ll get my hearing aid and tip a glass to him.

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        • ImpeachEmAll says:
          July 14, 2017 at 12:41 am

          Meant the closer civilian audiologist;
          not just to the VA Med Center. They
          paid my mileage for the pre and post
          civilian urology surgery visits. 😉

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          • czarowniczy says:
            July 14, 2017 at 12:45 am

            Ahhhh….but no sweat, I have to take Czarina into work in the same city and we can lunch at acreally great seafood place. After all that I’d be embarrassed to let them pay me to do it.

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            • auscitizenmom says:
              July 14, 2017 at 9:11 am

              Let’s see. I’d be paying for part of that. I’m good with you getting my portion. 😀

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              • czarowniczy says:
                July 14, 2017 at 9:17 am

                Lemme see….l have a military retirement, a Federal civil service retirement, Social Security and a military disability compensation….I do believe I’m getting your portion andbprolly a chunks someone else’s too.

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    • ImpeachEmAll says:
      July 13, 2017 at 10:55 pm

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      • czarowniczy says:
        July 13, 2017 at 11:05 pm

        Top one has to be purgatory, heaven would never have instant coffee. OK, Postum in Mormon heaven, but that’s different.

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  23. auscitizenmom says:
    July 13, 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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  24. ImpeachEmAll says:
    July 13, 2017 at 9:30 pm

    Big Surprise (not!)

    GOP operative who sought Clinton’s emails committed suicide

    Peter W. Smith, an 81-year-old GOP donor from Chicago, was found dead in a Rochester, Minnesota hotel room on May 14. The Tribune obtained a state death record stating Smith committed suicide in the hotel on the date.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/13/gop-operative-who-sought-clintons-emails-committed-suicide.html

    A more informative article…

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/

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    • auscitizenmom says:
      July 13, 2017 at 10:17 pm

      SMH

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    • lovely says:
      July 14, 2017 at 12:35 am

      An 81 year old wrapped man his head in a plastic bag and filled it with helium ✓.

      And Vince Foster committed suicide in Fort Macy Park, Ron Brown had bad luck and a bad plane, John Ashe dropped a barbell on his head, Seth Rich was randomly shot by an unbeknownst serial killer, Don Henry and Kevin Ives fell asleep on train tracks and didn’t wake up even with a train barreling down on them, ….

      Ok I better stop myself.

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      • stella says:
        July 14, 2017 at 7:26 am

        Reminds me of the line in Downton Abbey, when Bates said to Anna, “why are you sure she killed herself?” (or something like that, talking about his wife, who he was convicted of murdering)

        She replied, “Well, I know you didn’t do it, so who else could have done it? A robber wouldn’t break in, bake a poison pie, and make her eat it.”

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      • auscitizenmom says:
        July 14, 2017 at 9:04 am

        Oh, come on now. These were all just accidents, I’m sure. 🙄

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  25. ImpeachEmAll says:
    July 13, 2017 at 10:46 pm

    socialists being socialists…

    Do as I say; not as I do…

    https://twitter.com/polNewsForever/status/885631908348145667

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  26. Wooly Covfefe says:
    July 13, 2017 at 11:48 pm

    Arguing is worse than pointless. I apologize, Stella, but I won’t argue.

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  27. Wooly Covfefe says:
    July 13, 2017 at 11:51 pm

    Talked with my Dad last night. He told me my Mom has several Aaron Neville albums. I never knew that. Said this was one of her favorites:

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