General Discussion, Monday, July 17, 2017

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Stella

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  1. MaryfromMarin says:
    July 17, 2017 at 12:08 am

    Monday (theme association):

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  2. czarowniczy says:
    July 17, 2017 at 12:29 am

    Wash Post and ABC, two impeccable news sources whose standards are beyond reproach, have conducted a poll that shows Trump’s disapproval rate has reached lows not seen under Obama or Clinton, not seen since Bush’s second term.
    Well now, that couldn’t be because the MSM dared not savage Bush until 911 wore down and ignored the immoral, if not criminal, activities under Clinton and Obama, could it? The MSM, Wash Post up in the front of the pack, has been savaging Trump and creating crimes and half truths en masse since before the election. Working overtime to maximize any negativity and create falsehoods out of whole cloth the MSM has been the Kowakian monkey-lizard to the Rat Jabbas they’re now patting themselves on the back.
    Keep sharpening those guillotine blades, we may have acuse for them yet.

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  5. nyetneetot says:
    July 17, 2017 at 8:18 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)
    Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
    Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
    Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂 |_| (Albanian Raki Moskat)
    Mornin’ Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂 |_| (Hot Buttered Rum)
    Mornin’ joshua! 🙂 |_| (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂 |_| (RumChata)
    Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 |_| (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
    Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Smoking Bishop)
    Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
    Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 |_| (Red Russian)
    Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
    Mornin’ Gary! 🙂 |_| (Yuengling)
    Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
    Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
    Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
    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!

    Apple Coffee Cake with Crumble Topping and Brown Sugar Glaze!

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  6. WeeWeed says:
    July 17, 2017 at 8:21 am

    Mornin’ kids!

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  7. joshua says:
    July 17, 2017 at 8:26 am

    I understand the Capital Cafeteria is now serving Congressional Black Couscous …..so much for Arabic Foods for our elected offals…

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  8. ImpeachEmAll says:
    July 17, 2017 at 8:30 am

    Guess what has been happening;
    while the socialists have been busy
    pushing their Russian/Trump agenda…

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    • joshua says:
      July 17, 2017 at 8:34 am

      if Alex Jones says it…it must be right…..bring torches and shotguns…..

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      • ImpeachEmAll says:
        July 17, 2017 at 8:50 am

        The Doctor, not Alex, says it. 😉

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        • joshua says:
          July 17, 2017 at 9:31 am

          The doctor is brilliant. Alex Jones cannot stop interrupting so he gets noticed. His show is sometimes good, and this Pieczenik is very informative and incisive…Alex was my focus as a joke. So many of the show guys like Hannity, and O’Reilly, and Jones, and others keep interupting their guests due to air time issues, they they mess up the logical thread.

          This is why Cable and Radio talk hosts are difficult to actually like when they get a good guest on air and talk over them and try to summarize for them before they have even made their points.

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  9. joshua says:
    July 17, 2017 at 8:33 am

    Wilford Brimley is a name for someone who represents Dudley Doright for high crimes and treason against the crown.

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  11. lovely says:
    July 17, 2017 at 10:06 am

    Another terrific thread by Thomas.

    The tribe has been breached! Spot on.

    https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/886734174249402368

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  12. stella says:
    July 17, 2017 at 11:25 am

    Spicer returns to the podium

    http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/342319-spicer-returns-to-the-podium

    White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday will hold his first press briefing in nearly three weeks.

    Spicer will address reporters at an off-camera briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at 2 p.m.

    It will be Spicer’s first briefing at the White House since June 28.

    President Trump was in Europe for the Group of 20 summit from July 5-8 and traveled to France Thursday and Friday of last week, meaning there were no briefings at the White House.

    The press secretary has largely been missing from public view in recent weeks

    Spicer has taken on many of the behind-the-scenes duties of the White House communications director, a post that has been vacant since early June following the resignation of Mike Dubke.

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  13. auscitizenmom says:
    July 17, 2017 at 11:44 am

    I’m finally a Grandma again. A dainty new girl came in the world last night right after midnight, weighing 10 lbs 4 oz, with thick black hair, and is the spitting image of her older sister who just turned 2 Sunday. Mom and baby are doing great. My son sent me a picture of her and her mother right after she was born. I can’t believe how beautiful my DIL is.

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  14. Lucille says:
    July 17, 2017 at 12:01 pm

    The Guy Who Issued The Trump Dossier Refuses To Testify! Dick Morris TV

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    • auscitizenmom says:
      July 17, 2017 at 12:04 pm

      That won’t save his life.

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      • lovely says:
        July 17, 2017 at 12:31 pm

        If it wasn’t macabre we could start a pool will he suicide by train, plane, gun, barbell, helium with a plastic bag tied over his head or some other new method like throwing himself into a piranha infested pool of water.

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        • auscitizenmom says:
          July 17, 2017 at 12:32 pm

          🙄

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        • stella says:
          July 17, 2017 at 12:50 pm

          Or bake himself an arsenic pie (Downton Abbey reference).

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        • stella says:
          July 17, 2017 at 12:52 pm

          Seriously, while researching my ancestry, I discovered that my paternal grandmother killed herself by eating ant poison. I can’t help but wonder if it wasn’t murder. She had married a second time and moved with him to California. No way of knowing now.

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          • lovely says:
            July 17, 2017 at 1:04 pm

            Strange world isn’t it? My great great grandfather was a fugitive in Norway he changed the family name to a name he saw on a boat slip and never told anyone what our real last name was. He also stowed away on a ship to get to America.

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            • stella says:
              July 17, 2017 at 1:16 pm

              That is a mystery!

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              • lovely says:
                July 17, 2017 at 1:21 pm

                It really is we don’t know why he was a fugitive, both his son and his grandson were heavy alcoholics and apparently he wasn’t such a swell fellow.

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                • stella says:
                  July 17, 2017 at 2:42 pm

                  My father is a mystery too. Completely estranged from his family for decades. I haven’t yet found out what happened to my paternal grandfather. He disappeared some time in the 1930’s.

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                • Menagerie says:
                  July 17, 2017 at 4:51 pm

                  My great grandfather who immigrated from Germany died of unknown, to descendants, causes. My dad said his father told him he would tell him when he was older. He never did. I once asked my uncle, who was in his 80’s if he knew, and he told me no, but he was uncomfortable and kind of stumbling a little. He was a very devout Christian, a psychologist who had practiced many years, an honest and forthright man. I’m not sure he wasn’t telling the truth, but is suspect so, and that’s really strange for him. What could matter so much about how a man died in 1884?

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                  • stella says:
                    July 17, 2017 at 5:00 pm

                    See if you can get a death certificate. Many are on line now. I’m finding many in Michigan via ancestry.com. I ordered my grandmother’s death certificate from California, which is how I found out the cause of death.

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                  • Menagerie says:
                    July 17, 2017 at 6:02 pm

                    I’ll go looking. Been curious for a long time. I found a census page one time with him and my grandmother and their kids on it. If I remember correctly, it was prior to 1881 and my grandfather, their youngest child born that year wasn’t on it.

                    I also found some listings of the cemetery where they are buried, which is neat for a couple of reasons. First, I have lots of family for generations back buried there, a couple with some real humdinger stories that my uncles told me when we visited that cemetery. Second, the cemetery is way out on the plains of Kansas, not really close to anything at all, and it just seems so eerie that this windswept and quietly beautiful desolate spot I see so clearly in my memory has been found by technology.

                    One of the odd stories. Way, way back, early 1900’s one of the great greats couples divorced. Apparently they couldn’t or wouldn’t give up the house. So they built a wall through the middle of the house, front to back, floor to ceiling, and lived side by side with no contact until the first one died.

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                  • auscitizenmom says:
                    July 17, 2017 at 6:07 pm

                    Sounds like you come from stubborn, determined people. LOL

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                  • stella says:
                    July 17, 2017 at 6:32 pm

                    That’s a funny story!

                    If you need help looking up records, I’ll be happy to do it.

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            • joshua says:
              July 17, 2017 at 4:49 pm

              So the last name became “Mr. Usenohooks”?

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          • joshua says:
            July 17, 2017 at 2:30 pm

            well…because there is no such household chem as Uncle Poison.

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        • Howie says:
          July 17, 2017 at 3:40 pm

          Terrible case of suicide. Worst ever.

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        • joshua says:
          July 17, 2017 at 4:48 pm

          prolly he will just do the kid thing and hold his breath until he dies……..cia will coach him.

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    • joshua says:
      July 17, 2017 at 2:29 pm

      Morris has become the Michelin Man…..

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    • ImpeachEmall says:
      July 17, 2017 at 4:33 pm

      GPS is too busy making
      his funeral arrangements.

      Seth Rich made him silent
      and Clintons are all smiles.

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  15. stella says:
    July 17, 2017 at 12:20 pm

    Lake Superior at Marquette, MI, last night about 11:30 pm

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  16. Lucille says:
    July 17, 2017 at 12:50 pm

    French National Day Parade | July 14, 2017 (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

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  17. joshua says:
    July 17, 2017 at 2:31 pm

    well rating for Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly are in….

    lol

    Earlier in the night at 7 p.m. on NBC, “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly” drew a 0.4 rating and 3.1 million viewers, the newsmagazine’s lowest total viewer number since it debuted at the beginning of June. Kelly also matched a series low in the key demo.

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  18. auscitizenmom says:
    July 17, 2017 at 5:54 pm

    “Conservative radio host: Russian lawyer ties back to Clinton and Lynch tarmac”

    “Based off these bullet points, Andrew lays out an incredible argument that the Russian lawyer meeting was set up and managed by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. He ties everything back to the mysterious tarmac meeting between Lynch and Clinton in summer 2016. It’s truly amazing.”

    http://dennismichaellynch.com/conservative-radio-host-russian-lawyer-ties-back-clinton-lynch-tarmac/?newsletter_uid=2764&newsletter_date=07%2F17%2F17

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  19. czarowniczy says:
    July 17, 2017 at 6:41 pm

    Well the VA’s resurrected one of their old ‘Death to the Vets’ programs.
    Back in the 70s the VA was sending Vets appealing disability diagnoses all over the western US on the Vet’s own dime. After the September VA IG report showing Over 300,000 vets had died waiting treatment the VA agreed to the Choice program…I say agreed as there’s no doubt the VA brass put in poison pills to ensure their client base stayed enthralled to them.
    The Choice program allows a Vet to go to a civilian provider if the VA can’t get him/her in within 30 days or if the Vet’s VA specialist is over 40 miles from the Vet’s VA clinic..and there’s the rub.
    The VA has to get you in but there’s no saying when…you could be scheduled for 7:30 AM and live 100 miles from the specialist, requiring you to stay overnight and lose two days of work. See that ‘100’ miles I mentioned, thinking about that ’40 miles from your clinic’ I’d mentioned earlier? That’s 40 miles from the clinic where your VA primary care physician is, not 40 miles from where your specialist is.
    My VA outpatient clinic is about two tires short of being a mobile home, it would draw second looks in a 3rd world country. Only tests it can do is draw blood, collect urine/fecal and open a window so you can put your hand out to see if it’s raining. If I want to get the hearing aid I have to go over 80 miles one way for testing and, later, for fitting. I’m 20 miles from the Mayberry VA trailer so that satisfies the regulation.
    The VA undoubtedly influenced the inclusion of that mileage requirement, it is now as it was then a way of showing ‘backlog’ so they can request more money and more bodies which in turn gets them higher wages as they have more responsibility. Dead Vets, no problem, they just use their deaths as proof they need more money. It’s the same regulation that slowed them to send Vets all over the West to prevent their getting treatments or decisions on their disabilities while keeping their numbers high.
    Thityfive Vets a day committing suicide, over 300,000 dead while awaiting treatment, the VA is complicit in the deaths of more American military than the combined deaths of thevKorean War, Vietnam and the GWOT. One ofbthebironies is that the decreases in combat deaths is lower as they have had better treatment in the war zone than they do back home.

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  20. ImpeachEmall says:
    July 17, 2017 at 7:16 pm

    Treasure life; it may end unexpectedly…

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    • ImpeachEmall says:
      July 17, 2017 at 7:16 pm

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      • stella says:
        July 17, 2017 at 8:46 pm

        Does anybody else find it strange that all of these reports said a policeman fired “their” weapon, instead of “his”? Are they trying to avoid being gender specific, or what?

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        • auscitizenmom says:
          July 17, 2017 at 9:08 pm

          Or, grammarily ignorant? 🙄

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        • czarowniczy says:
          July 17, 2017 at 10:22 pm

          Cops are not grammarians and frequently get boxed in trying to write in ‘cop speak’. I know thatbfor decades the biggest problem the NOLA DA’s office had was crappy police officer narratives. They’re still complaining about the quality of reports and as they’re not teaching English in school anymore I don’t see it getting more better ER.
          My favorite is shootings, can’t remember how many reports I read that say the Vic was shot in the driveway, shot in the living room, shot in the street……certainly painful places to be shot in.

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      • Wooly Covfefe says:
        July 18, 2017 at 12:54 am

        The officer was a Somali diversity hire named Mohamed Noor.

        Lots of digging had to be done to find that out. Not even the Aus paper I read mentioned that salient fact.

        I guess kudos to the entire MSM for not wanting to be racist by noticing, and leaving his name out of every article. Now the story is just Anti-Police fodder, and that’s cool, right?

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  21. auscitizenmom says:
    July 17, 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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