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A beautiful Friday to everyone.
Our last cygnet is well guarded.
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What’s the total swan count on the lake now?
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3 It is always just one family.
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Ones from last year left?
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We had the same two swans who would raise their brood every year on the lake. I believe they finally passed away. The same younger couple has been coming for the about the last 4 years? They raise their babies and move someplace with open water for the winter.
This year they have been very standoffish, they started with at least 3 cygnets and are now down to just one and he doesn’t look too healthy. He is smaller than average and his body is really not keeping pace with his bill.
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Sounds like they may have parasites, any chances of getting Fish & Wildlife to work with them?
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No idea. Fish and Wildlife would probably not get involved (in a good way) because they are Mute Swans and they are considered an invasive species.
The parents are healthy. I don’t know how big/old the babies were that have already disappeared.
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Head Count!!!! Forgot Meal count, sensitive items, weapon count, ………..
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So sweet and incredibly beautiful. Happy Friday, lovely!
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Thank you Sand&Sea 🙂 .
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VERY good article:
DUNKIRK: “People Should Be Hung From Lampposts, They Should Be Burned Alive, For What They’ve Done To Britain”
http://www.vdare.com/articles/dunkirk-people-should-be-hung-from-lampposts-they-should-be-burned-alive-for-what-theyve-done-to-britain
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Latter day prog elitists…I’ve got rope (mentioned that b4) and a few spare cans of gas. Someone cut a fire lane and bring over a lamppost and we’re good to go. I had relatives that went thru the Blitz/Battle of Britain in London and came over here as they saw England tilting to the Left. Best we can hope for is the government decides that progs and the PC Corpse are really varmints and declare an open season, either sex and no bag limit leveling. Before they do it to us…
BTW, the article opened a dusty window:
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I don’t thing Fairy is PC anymore….and I don’t know Mersey at all…tranny? or just watered down singer?
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I couldn’t agree more.
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This, or civilized Britain doesn’t survive.
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That’s the reason we moved to the U.S.A. Britain isn’t civilized as it once was, and it’s getting that way here. We still have friends and family in Britain, and they all say it’s gotten much worse since we left in 1997. My DH misses it the way it used to be in his youth, but he knows it’s not that way any longer. Sad!
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Britain never stood a chance…they boil all their meat…no one cooks right over there…and blood pudding…right up there with Haggis….
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Actually, sliced Haggis, fried, on a morning roll with “Broon” sauce is magic! Blood pudding is made all over Europe, esp in Germany. They roast beef over an open fire using a spit that turns it like a rotisserie Chicken. Scotland has the best smoked fish, and the cow’s milk tastes like it did in the old days before we started giving the “Coos” so much hormones and crap! Scotland and England have the best fish and chips in the world! I’ve tried fish and chips from coast to coast in this country, and nobody could do it better.
They still deliver milk and eggs to the front door every morning, and the milk is in glass jars with cream rising to the top.
Europe doesn’t let anyone put preservatives, and additives(chemicals) in the food and even processed food like kid’s cereal and Kraft Mac and Cheese use totally different recipes for their products there, but they still poison OUR food we eat because we are too stupid to make them stop.
I believe this “U.K. food is awful” gossip was started just so we would not know how bad off our food really is.
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I remember my Polish neighbors making blood sausage.
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And England, for centuries, was known for their excellent roast meats.
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Actually, I think I would probably starve to death over there. I don’t think I could eat at a table where haggis or blood pudding was being served. 😯 I like that they don’t allow additives.
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If you read Matt Brackens new book, there will be a trigger, mass civilian casualties event, then the Army will step in. In addition, PZ developed a thesis on the mass invasion. Using TET ’68 as the template. Mary In my humble opinion these senecios are possible. Either way the Britain and Europe we knew are lost.
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The movie “Dunkirk” showed how G.B. prevented invasion. They got invaded, anyway.
That’s saddening.
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Finally Friday… 😉
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Impeach!!!!!!
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Ever had a job that caused your face to look like Monday morning on Sunday? Worse, on Saturday morning? Really need to get a new place to work when halfway thru Friday dinner your whole Weekend ahead looks the same as Monday morning. Been there…
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Yes. It takes a toll on you. I’m grateful and blessed that I get to do a job that I love. Morning czarina!
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Our favorite tour guide… ;’)
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The first thing my DH told me in Scotland was, “If you don’t like the weather, just wait for 15 minutes!” He was so right. I’ve even seen it snow outside of my work in JULY!
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…how Texans and the Scots get along so well…..common weather experience on the homefronts.
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I went to college in Oklahoma & one chapel service went in w/temps in the 70s & came out w/temps in the 30s…in less than an hour. That was pretty wild to this Michigan child!
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A beautiful and wholly truthful quote:
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Amen
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well LBJ pretty much too care of that for minority children in the USA in 1965
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Good quote…..
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This singer/guitarist/composer has an unusual but rather appealing voice. Rodriguez is 75 and lives in Detroit. His music was not well received outside the counterculture and he left the music industry in the early 70s, appearing again in the 90s after discovering he unusually had a huge fan base in Australia and South Africa.
I THINK OF YOU by Sixto Rodriguez
Just a song we shared, I’ll hear
Brings memories back when you were here
Of your smile, your easy laughter
Of your kiss, those moments after
I think of you
And think of you
And think of you
Of the dreams we dreamt together
Of the love we vowed would never
Melt like snowflakes in the sun
My days now end as they begun
With thoughts of you
And I think of you
And think of you
Down the streets I walked with you
Seeing others doing things we do
Now these thoughts are haunting me
Of how complete I used to be
And in these times that we’re apart
I’ll hear this song that breaks my heart
And think of you
And I think of you
And think of you
And think of you
And I do
One article says, “He has no regrets about the lost years of his music career. ‘I don’t mind the way it went,’ he says. ‘You can’t fix that kind of stuff. You can’t really go back in time and change things. I’m a lucky kid in a lot of ways. I’ve seen a lot of the world over the past few years. I’ve got a couple more good years, I think.’
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I like his voice. But, the orchestration behind it is spectacular.
Reminds me of Ray LaMontagne’s orchestral backup.
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VERY interesting, Wooly. I’d not heard of him before. And, yes, the background music is superb.
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Oh, you need to listen to every album. Buy them. I have most of the CDs.
Just go to YouTube and type “Ray LaMontagne full”.
Then “Ray LaMontagne live”.
You won’t be disappointed.
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I think the title track (the first one) is probably my favorite song by LaMontagne.
Can you see the wise man simply living, loving, quietly… til the sun turns black?
It’s hard to pick one, though, as with many artists.
If you’re in a dark, pensive mood, that album is great if you want to stay in a dark, pensive mood. His other albums are decidedly different from each other in mood and feel.
Dude is from Nashua, NH. Quite an impressive musician. His live stuff on YouTube is astounding, especially the BBC show.
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And I love his lyrics, too.
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(Sixto Rodriguez’s, that is. Good stuff.)
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Yes, many of us have lived them and that’s their emotional as well as poetic appeal.
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Beautiful Lucille, thanks, I’ll have search for more of his songs when I get home.
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People don’t respect poetry anymore, but when someone posts the lyrics to songs it becomes so apparent that lyricists are poets. I have always been wild about poetry, probably because my mother was. Learned to recite short & long poems as early as 3 years old. Can’t carry a tune in a bucket, tho.
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Reading poetry aloud is something we did in our house, and I did with my daughter.
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then came the music of the 50s and 60s…I recently read these lyrics to my Class of 1959 high school mates at our reunion to explain why we turned out all literate and sensitive to the world of lyrical literature.
Well
Be-bo a lula
She’s my baby
Be-bop a lula
I don’t mean maybe
Be-bop a lula
She’s my baby
Be-bop a lula
I don’t mean maybe
Be-bop a lula
She’s my baby doll my baby doll my baby doll
Well she’s the gal in the red blue jeans
She’s the queen of all the teens
She’s the one that I know
She’s the one that loves me so
Be-bop a lula
She’s my baby
Be-bop a lula
I don’t mean maybe
Be-bop a lula
She’s my baby doll my baby doll my baby doll
Let’s rock!
Well now she’s the one that’s got that beat
She’s the one with the flyin’ feet
She’s the one that bops around the store
She’s the one that gets more more more
Be-bop a lula
She’s my baby
Be-bop a lula
I don’t mean maybe
Be-bop a lula
She’s my baby doll my baby doll my baby doll
Let’s rock again now!
Well
Be-bop a lula
She’s my baby
Be-bop a lula
I don’t mean maybe
Be-bop a lula
She’s my baby
Be-bop a lula
I don’t mean maybe
Be-bop a lula
She’s my baby doll my baby doll my baby doll
There was a moment of deep silence from the crowd….then one person said…hey, that was one of my favorites to dance to. Vietnam happened to this bunch as well….
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Burma Shave road signs were as far as many of us got regards poems.
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This is a musician I discovered recently…most extraordinary…Dmitry Sinkovsky
Everything about him is startling, from his violin virtuosity, to his bright blue eyes, to his conducting, to his disconcertingly extraordinary voice–what is called a natural (not falsetto) countertenor–which means the range of a mezzo soprano/sometimes even up to soprano.
Dimitry Sinkovsky Singing Countertenor
Dimitry Sinkovsky – Mozart Violin Concerto 4
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Though the orchestra isn’t listed, it might be the Helsinki Philharmonic since NRK Nyheter is from Norway.
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Outstanding! Thank you SO much for posting these, Lucille!
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Looks like I’ll be adding a lot of music to my stash! Thanks again Lucille, stunning!
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So much incredible talent out there, some known and many, many unknown. A good friend of mine is a wonderfully talented pianist with just a few lessons as a child.
In the summertime she would open her condo windows to let the evening breeze blow in. Sometimes she would casually play her piano for a short time. On one occasion when she finished about a half hour of playing, she heard clapping outside. The neighbors had gathered to listen to her play the piano with such sweetness they were touched.
We always tell her she should have become a professional, but her comment invariably is that hers is a minor talent. It isn’t and everyone who hears her musicianship and the expressiveness she puts into her work knows that.
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That is a wonderful story!
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Tonight at work was hard. Chef was a raving angry lunatic, bringing the whole house down instead of lifting it up, as usual when he gets more than five tickets on the printer. I see him becoming who I was, and it makes me cry.
Later, I walk outside and see my friend with the brain tumor/aneurism, he’s had a minor seizure and had climbed over a wall into the back warehouse (the door was locked, but it’s not a full wall) and was standing outside the back door. He didn’t even know my name. I walked back in and asked Chef to go talk with him, because Chef has been his friend for a long time, longer than me, and he needed something familiar to bring him back.
Tonight was one of those nights that hit me, repeatedly, with a giant hammer that has “Everyone is Troubled Somehow” inscribed on it.
He didn’t even know my name. He asked me, “What’s your name? Do I know you?” I told him, shook his hand and said “I’m your friend” and gave him a hug. That’s when I went in and told Chef, “Go talk to this man.”
An hour or more later he was back to his normal, incredibly intelligent self.
I told Chef later, when he left and I was sitting on a 5-gallon bucket out back, “What the F do we have to complain about? We have our minds still.”
It’s all I can do not to cry.
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Pain and frustration are messages God sends us to go out and be of service and gratitude to those less fortunates around us…to get out of our heads and into action for others.
That is what I was told about 35 years ago as I sat on my pitypot moaning and angry about the cards I believed life had dealt me.
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Thanks, Joshua.
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Wooly…you got the stuff, man!!
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I pray for you and him every night.
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I pray that God takes Chef’s voice away for three months, like He did mine. Is it wrong that I pray that? It worked for me. It’s not fun watching your friend slide down the hill that you managed to climb up. I climbed out of irrationality and constant loud complaint and into calm reason and making people happy with my voice. He’s going down to the place I escaped.
I pray that God gives me the right words to say.
Thanks, Ausmom.
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I don’t think it is wrong to pray for that. I believe God knows exactly what you mean and why you are asking for that.
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You might just pray entrusting his needs to the Father. Rarely ever do we need the same things, and what worked in you might bring him rage, pain, and drive him further away.
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I’m sorry it was a rough night, Wooly. 😦
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Dear Stellarites, Some of you have asked for updates about Josiah’s surgery. He’s doing quite well & sleeping relatively peacefully now. He’s been hungry as only had liquids since Midnight yesterday. We’ve had some ups & downs today & I shared many details in basically bullet point form on the Conservative Tree House Prayer Request page 9. The keyboard I’m using here in the hospital room is designed for kids & hard to use so sorry for not posting the link.
So many of you have been praying for us “today” & many have shared encouraging words with us as well. We really appreciate this “body ministry” from such an enterprising, eclectic group of free thinking Conservative culture warriors & rebels. May the Lord Bless Each & Every One of YOU! In Christ, Valerie
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By the way one of the times Josiah startled awake here at the hospital he decided that he wanted more bouillon/broth so I went across the hall to get it for him. I think he’d already been looking at some books he’d brought with a history focus for a few minutes by then. I come back in the room & an alternate nurse is doing data entry on the bedside computer while he’s talking like 100 miles an hour about the French and Indian War, some of its causes, & who sided with the Mohawk & who sided with the Algonquin…because that’s what we all go on about when startled awake around 4am & have a beautiful stranger standing by the bed.
Also, I’m currently enjoying the lovely pastel sunrise that has had some lighter versions of the colors that were on full display with last night’s sunset (& haven’t yet slept from the setting of the sun to the rising of the same–isn’t that the converse of the scripture?)! The doctors doing rounds should be here soon so hopefully Josiah will get real food made available & we can order him some breakfast…& I’ll attempt to snatch a couple of winks while we wait for the food to come…we’ll see.
Hope all of you have a wonderful & blessed Friday & Amazing Weekend! Thanks again for praying for us. God Bless!
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It sounds like Josiah is progressing very well! That’s wonderful! Will keep praying. Try to get some rest. 😊
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I did doze in the chair in the room for a couple of hours…
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So once again John McCain shows what trash he is made of by defeating any changes to he healthcare insurance plans and delaying all tax reform opportunity to get the economy running.
What a pathetic angry little incompetent Napoleon Complex person…failure at all he has done, and jealous that Trump was elected when HE, like HILLARY, was destined to be President because it was HIS turn.
I wish God’s will on him…rapidly.
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You would think that his imminent demise would make him a more honest man.
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rage and brain defects have taken command over humanity for McCain…think of Adolph in the Nazi bunker in Berlin, 1945…..
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I think he is just evil. I don’t know when he started being evil, but the things he has done and stood for are evil.
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Yes, you would think that, if you were sane.
Instead he appears to be ripping the mask off, revealing the demon, and doubling down, to cause as much destruction as he can manage before he goes back to his Father.
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McCain was the chosen traitor. Had it not have been him, it would have been one of the other deceitful RINO’s who cast the no vote. They (the evil ones) felt comfortable letting McCain do it, because he will probably never run again. the rest all look righteous and pure for their voters. You must understand, the end goal for both parties and their masters is single payer! Control health care for the masses and you own them heart, body, and soul. The last Alinsky Rule to implement.
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I wonder if she realizes she made the President’s point?
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I’m guessing no. Wooly rightly made the point yesterday that these people mostly don’t want to serve and protect, this has become a part of their battle plan.
I’m so very tired of giving in to the lowest common denominator in society.
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The lowest common denominator in the electorate is why they keep getting elected. Until that changes, not much else will.
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Stupid Lady Gaga, did you know that the Military is not a mental institution?
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Perfect application of the saying, “Shut Up And Sing!”
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How Trump can win the ObamaCare fight: End the “friends and cronies” exemption for Congress
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/07/28/how-trump-can-win-obamacare-fight-end-friends-and-cronies-exemption-for-congress.amp.html
With a mere stroke of his pen, President Trump could end the exemption that President Obama gave members of Congress and their staffs that makes them the only participants in the ObamaCare exchanges to receive generous subsidies from their employer (the American people) to pay for their health insurance. Nothing would better focus Congress’ attention on changing ObamaCare than being trapped in it just like other Americans.
When Vice President Pence was asked about the special exemption for Congress by Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Wednesday, he lamented that it was “pretty typical” for there to be “one set of rules for the American people and another for the political class here in our nation’s capital.” But he wouldn’t be pinned down over whether the Trump administration would act: “It would be (President Trump’s) decision to rescind that special treatment for members of Congress and their staffs,” he told Carlson.
Well, it’s about time. Ending the special perk funded by taxpayers may represent the only leverage President Trump has to fulfill his promise to repeal ObamaCare.
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That could work. I used to use that on my husband. If he wouldn’t fix the car, I would insist that he drive it. It got fixed immediately.
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Any little bit of discomfort in their offices might at least help.
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How about also cutting off all office decorating budgets for Congress? If they want luxurious new furniture, carpeting, artwork…pay for it yourselves, buddies. We’re tired of your having free rein to spend OUR money as you wish.
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Most of them have more money than any of us will ever see. The can afford the best money can buy. They would start their own CoOp and get the best Doctors.
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Mornin’ all!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Morning Wee!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂 .
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Afternoon Lovely!
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Doctor Frankenstein……”It Lives”
assistant….”maybe not so long now tho”
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Theme association AND seen on Facebook!
Don’t hate me.
An Englishman is being shown around a Scottish hospital.
At the end of his visit, he is shown into a ward with a number of patients who show no obvious signs of injury. He goes to examine the first man he sees, and the man proclaims:
Fair fa’ yer honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain e’ the puddin’ race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
painch tripe or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy o’ a grace
as lang’s my arm.
The Englishman, somewhat taken aback, goes to the next patient, and immediately the patient launches into:
Some hae meat, and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.
This continues with the next patient:
Wee sleekit cow’rin tim’rous beastie,
O what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
wi’ bickering brattle.
I wad be laith to run and chase thee,
wi’ murdering prattle!”
“Well,” the Englishman mutters to his Scottish colleague, “I see you saved the psychiatric ward for the last.”
“Nay, nay,” the Scottish doctor corrected him, “this is the Serious Burns unit.”
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ouch ouch ouch owwwwwwwwwahch Shelly you are not serious here.
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I tried to watch a Scottish film once…without subtitles. Could NOT understand a thing that was said.
Reminds me of several historical TV series from the 80s which came from Japan with no subtitles. Several starred the wonderful Ken Watanabe before he came to American fame in THE LAST SAMURAI (if you’ve never seen this film, be sure to get a copy). I watched every episode even though I couldn’t understand the dialogue or get the gist of what was happening, though you could sort of tell by the visual…had to ask a friend who spoke Japanese what the story plots were. LOL!
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I loved that movie.
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Sort of like that YouTube I posted yesterday about the voice recognition elevator …
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One of my fav Scottish comedies is called “Rabb C. Nesbitt”. When they showed it in England they had to use subtitles because the English can’t even understand the Scots!
They show it on Youtube, and I still laugh at ‘ole Rabb and his antics!
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That’s a good one, Stella!
“To a mouse, on turning up her nest with a plough” November 1785, is one of my favorite poems by Burns. It’s so sweet, and on Wiki, they have it with a translation in modern English.
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Awan and a side of Pizzagate.
https://8ch.net/pol/res/10316968.html
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Before Awan’s lawyer mentioned Pizzagate, nobody every did.
Interesting.
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Okay, I’m bragging about Tucker.
I mentioned a while ago that he rang the bell to ask to get out. Since I always let him out when he goes into the kitchen with me, there has been no need. Well, today he rang the bell twice to get out, since I waited until he asked.
Smart puppy.
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Yay!!! Good job little Tucker!
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🙂
It’s not Tucker, exclusively. It’s you.
Try training a three-legged cat to “meow” when he wants out. I did. Before he would wait until I woke up in the morning, and got out of bed, and then he would meow.
I sat next to him and the door, looked at him, and said “MEOW!” and opened the door. I did this about ten times in a row. Now he meows at 4 in the morning when he wants out, instead of waiting until 6 when I put my feet on the floor, because he knows that “meow” means the door opens. It worked! Catsplaining.
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Pavlov would be proud. Does that ring a bell?
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Teach me a song and
I’ll dance for you… 😉
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True enough. I had a cat who would rattle the doorknob when she wanted out. She would also slap me in the face to wake me up, but that’s another “trick”.
I know I was trying to train him to ring the bell; I’m just amazed that it worked so well.
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Tucker is smart. 🙂
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Cats are the opposite of dogs, though. Cats ARE Pavlov. You’re the dog.
I had a face-slapping-when-you’re-asleep cat once, too. LOL.
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With the door thing with Tripod, I basically taught him that I can be trained.
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What a good boy! Now on Christmas Eve, when you hear the bells ringing, be careful! You might run into Santa!.
My Lacey pokes me in the eye as soon as I open it ! She gets close and stares until I open one eye, then, Bam! It gets me up!
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That’s funny – are you ever tempted to turn away from where you suspect she is – so that you open your eye without getting swatted?
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I wake up slowly, so I always forget she’s there! She’s found my weak point. If I’m not up by 6:30 am, She hovers over me. She doesn’t do it to go out, it’s for her breakfast! She thinks Simon’s cat is her brother, always hungry.
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That’s hilarious! 😀
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True. But, it appears to me that you shot yourself in the foot. Now you have to wake up at 4 in the morning to let him out.
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…because he needs to poop.
There’s a silver lining.
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(NSFW)
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(Seriously NSFW)
But Della Reese, Redd Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, all in one.
Crude? Yes. Funny? Yes.
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And the hats are nice.
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Arsenio Hall plays a role, too. One of the funniest movies ever made, if you can handle the salty (to put it mildly) language. RIP, most of the actors.
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I laughed and laughed all through that movie. That scene and also the one of Arsenio Hall in the street were my favorites.
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I think the bell is such a great idea. 🙂
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It wasn’t my original idea, but it’s a good one!
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Genius.
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That is not the way I trained Tucker, btw. I hung the bells (string of Indian brass bells) close to the gate from the kitchen to the backdoor, but not so close that it would be brushed against accidentally. Next, I ring the bell every time I let him outside. I was in no hurry to get results, but he got the connection between the bell ringing and the back door being opened.
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Lucky just watched how we let him out and one day he figured out all he had to do was hit the flipper door handle and…viola…he’s out. Unfortunately that means the other three also get out and they all head for the mud, water and Indian take-out compost pile.
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Well, unless Tucker learns to unlock the door and turn the knob, then unlock the storm door and open that latch, well …
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Don’t put it past ‘me, they instinctively play on their cuteness. They gave nothing to do all day but scheeeeeeeeme.
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And there autocomplete goes, spilling my secrets. Yes, yes, yes, so I spend a large part of the day scheeeeeeming too…….so what?
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I give it about a month from now.
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Very neat!
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I think Ann Coulter actually answers the question, “Why did the Somali cop shoot a white woman from inside the squad car? Her answer makes sense.
“Coulter: Pretty White Australian Girls’ Lives Matter”
“As usually happens when Muslims attack, the press is consumed with worry about their mental state and well-being.”
http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/coulter-pretty-white-australian-girls-lives-matter
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Indeed it does.
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I was going to post this earlier. It figures, someone did anyway.
I agree with Coulter’s assessment. They need to go back.
They are not Americans.
They will never be Americans, just like I will never be Japanese, nor can I.
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I will be the first to admit that Twitter is not the brightest part of the Internet, but either the Right is more infested with RINOS then I first thought or I’m going nuts.
Somehow, because John McCain is a veteran and has cancer, it’s wrong to call him out for being the lying snake-in-the-grass that he is. I’m glad he served. Really. But as Ann Coulter once noted that John Kerry spent a lot of time crowing about his military service and that most of the veterans she knows don’t really do that. Indeed, I was in college before I found out that my Aunt had been in the military. Several friend at college had been in the military and we did talk about that, mostly about how it shaped their perspective on things now. But they never brought out it as their version of the race card and that is what McCain’s military service looks more like to me every day: it’s his version of the race card and if you don’t agree with him why how dare you attack someone who defended this country.
Second, i would never wish cancer on anyone, but I don’t know what his having cancer has to do with his being a snake-in-the-grass. Back when he first went to the Mayo Clinic for a “clot removal” someone on Twitter noted that you don’t see a lot of veterans going to the Mayo clinic. I never quite overcame that thought. How many veterans stuck in the VA health system died of cancer without ever knowing they had it because they simply couldn’t get in to see a doctor because the VA “lost” their paperwork or cancelled their appointment? And he just screwed the nation over by refusing to vote for a repeal. How many cancer patients lost their insurance because of O-care? Why does McCain’s cancer diagnosis shield him from criticism?
John McCain, who as I am frequently reminded is a veteran, could have used his status as a veteran to become a voice working on reforming the VA. He could have voted to repeal O-care. But he didn’t, twice. But I am watching people get attacked on Twitter for calling McCain out for his outright hypocritical behavior (hey does the Mayo clinic accept Obamacare?). Well, he is a hypocrite and he made the choice to be one. And I might be evil for saying it, but I’m not sorry I said it.
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Here is one answer to the McCain defenders:
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“Second, i would never wish cancer on anyone, but I don’t know what his having cancer has to do with his being a snake-in-the-grass.”
Thank you.
Two separate issues, and those who link them should be asked: “So – of the people you know in your life who have or have had cancer [or if you have had cancer] was it because a) they/you were/are a jerk and b) someone in their lives who hates them hoped they would get cancer?”
The inability or unwillingness to THINK is a really significant, foundational, and possibly terminal, issue in our nation.
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Same logic as those who call you a racist if you criticize what a black man says or does.
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People seem to think that McCain should be immune from criticism because he has cancer. If he wanted to be immune from criticism with that excuse he should have simply abstained from the vote.
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If this is direct response to me – I wasn’t aware that anyone thought he should be immune from criticism because he has cancer. I’ve seen many tying the fact that they are glad he has cancer and that they have wished for something bad to happen to him.
It interests me that if he had just voted yes last night, all of that hate and vengeful presumption would not have been expressed today.
His cancer and his hypocrisy are two separate issues as far as I’m concerned, and ought not be jointed together either pro or con.
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His vote is especially galling, since he campaigned the last time around on ending Obamacare.
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Yup. He’s a liar.
Which was clearly established after his campaign with Sarah Palin, the lies his people told about her and her clothing purchases, etc.
I guess I’m not particularly exercised about it because I don’t think it’s unexpected.
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The real surprise is that anyone thought he would do anything other than what he’s done his whole career. Be a weak, sniveling, lying sell out.
I’ve seen, by the grace of God, bad men repent and change. I can’t recall a single example of a spineless coward becoming courageous and brave. It just seems to me that when you are that way it sticks.
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It’s not a response to you, just something I noticed about Twitter this morning. Over there, anyone who maligns McCain is a scumbag trying to pick on someone with cancer (or attacking a POW, you know, whichever card works).
I don’t accept his diagnosis as an excuse for what he did so it was astonishing to me the number of people who reacted badly when McCain was called out for his behavior.
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“His cancer and his hypocrisy are two separate issues as far as I’m concerned, and ought not be jointed together either pro or con.”
According to idiots on Twitter, you’re not allowed to say anything about McCain at all because that would be maligning someone who had cancer. I don’t care about his diagnosis, I care about what he did, but some prescient people over there have noted and I believe correctly so that cancer will be his new card to play whenever someone maligns him for anything. His veteran status card might have exceeded shelf life, I dunno.
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I think it was Menagerie who said the other week, “Babies get cancer. Democrats win the lottery.”
Tying cancer (or lottery winnings) to behavior is absolutely insane.
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why is there such a growth in pedophilia and sexual deviations? Isn’t anyone happy with normal humanity anymore.
are Japanese sex robots going to be modeled on 11 year old children bodies next?
I am getting truly discouraged by the media and the perverts in our government and institutions.
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It has been going on for centuries. Due to the explosion in a whole variety of news media the word is getting out.
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Don’t get discouraged. We’re the counterculture, now. That’s truth.
We’re not mainstream. That fact itself should be encouraging.
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Our Vale of Tears…we live in the confidence that Charlie is with our Lord….
Charlie Gard Dies After Life Support is Switched Off: Mother Says “Our Beautiful Boy is Gone”
By Steven Ertelt July 28, 2017 | 1:29PM
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/07/28/charlie-gard-dies-after-life-support-is-switched-off-mother-says-our-beautiful-boy-is-gone/
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😥 This is so sad.
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God’s will be done….breaks my heart…maybe He sent us all a message, and these poor parents have to carry the letter to us all….we are so vulnerable…and if we have no trust or love for each other, for little babies and dogs and cats and small things, we have no Christian humanity to call on.
Prays sent for parents….I have no idea how they bear this without God’s love shining on them now.
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I don’t know how they bear this without going on a murderous rampage.
Honestly.
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That God’s love is shining on them is exactly why they bear this without going on a probably necessary murderous rampage, a la Anders Breivik of Norway.
Time will tell if they can maintain and refrain.
I don’t think I could, were I in their shoes. Despite all the bible verses I quote.
The people who killed this kid are hanging from lamp-posts, in my mind.
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I don’t know how any of us bear it without a rampage. And I am not sure at all that we should. Why should we stand by and allow them to kill infants?
If ever there needed to be forceful interventional protests, now is the time. When it is legal to murder a child in such a way, the time has come for us to act.
What next? I don’t know, but I’m thinking. Doing nothing is allowing evil to continue.
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{{{Menagerie}}}
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🙏🏼
No words.
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Good thing I wasn’t eating when I saw that. I would have choked and probably died. 😯
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OMG…..SPITTING DR.PEPPER everywhere on that one…..POST OF THE YEAR.
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Heh. Memes are good.
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Priebus is out and General Kelly is as Chief of Staff!
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Many of us have thought he should never have been in this position in the first place. And, remember, he has been left out of some of the meetings recently.
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Charles Vane left a comment over on Gateway Pundit that made me crack up:
“Trump could have really made a statement by firing [Preibus] midair, then throwing him out of AF1.” http://disq.us/p/1kwl18c
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That’s funny, but Trump really damned with faint praise, speaking to the press as he left AF1, calling Kelly a great great American, and Priebus a good man in the same sentence.
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Beautiful ending thanks to all the compassionate people involved…
Hope For Paws: Stray dog walks into a yard and then collapses…
Hope For Paws – Official Rescue Channel
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A big AWWWWWW! He was so sweet.
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In case you missed it, this is how Sarah closed yesterday’s press briefing. Bang!
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Yes, that was great.
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Dear Stellarites,
Josiah & I are nearing the time to leave the hospital today! I’ve posted what should be our last hospital-based update on the CTH Prayer Request page here:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2011/02/01/prayer-requests-9/
We’ve really appreciated your prayers for us & interest in our situation. Thanks so much for your beautiful expressions of faith, understanding, & even empathy. Those of you have shared some personal details about your own journeys have also been such a blessing & encouragement to me in particular.
Thanks, again for your many prayers for Josiah & I…& we would appreciate any further prayer as the Lord may bring our situation to mind in the coming days as we are adjusting to dealing with his current medical status on the home front.
May the Lord Richly Bless You All, Blessings, in Christ, Valerie
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Prayers continue, thank you for the update, prayers for a peaceful transition to home.
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Thank you! Transition is definitely a work in progress/process? (I’m not even sure of the actual saying now…sleep beckons soon, after I wind down a bit).
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Speaking for myself alone, but probably not:
Our interest in your situation is because you landed here, in this space. God blessed us with you, and so we can only care, and pray for you and yours. It is what we do.
Like you said earlier, paraphrasing, our spirits know each others’ spirits.
And God works. It’s what He does.
Roll on Jehovah thy way, And trust upon Him, and He worketh,
— Psalm 37:5 (Young’s Literal Translation).
Think about that metaphor, as if your “way” is a massive boulder. Once you commit to rolling it down the hill, you let go. There’s nothing else you can do, because it’s a giant boulder, and you rolled it in one direction. You’ve given it to God. He worketh. Get out of the way and pray. He’s got this.
Young’s Literal is the only translation that uses the word “Roll” in this verse, and it works.
I think someone at CTH made a post about that, years back. Or maybe it was Ann Barnhardt. I can’t remember.
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Thank you for sharing this…& how blessed you (all) have been to have shared this CTH-esque fellowship for years!
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I know this is InfoWars, but it was recommended by someone I respect, with the comment that this is the way to get rid of Mueller.
Robert Mueller’s Role in Clinton Scheme to Sell 20 Percent of US Uranium to Russia
Special Counselor Mueller a Clinton Foundation “criminal fixer” in Uranium One scam?
https://www.infowars.com/robert-muellers-role-in-clinton-scheme-to-sell-20-percent-of-us-uranium-to-russia/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialWarfare
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On May 17, the day Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel charged with investigating possible “Russian collusion” with President Trump’s campaign, Julian Assange at WikiLeaks tweeted a WikiLeaks released State Department cable documenting that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered Mueller to deliver a sample of stolen Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) to Russia in 2009.
Assange’s email signaled an investigation is needed into Mueller and his complex involvement with Russia and Uranium One, the company Bill Clinton promoted with Canadian entrepreneur Frank Giustra while Hillary Clinton served as Obama secretary of state in a criminal saga that ended up with Secretary Clinton voting to give the Russian State Atomic Nuclear Energy Agency, Rosatom, control of approximately 20 percent of all uranium holdings in the United States…
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I quoted this above, but here’s the context:
5 Roll on Jehovah thy way, And trust upon Him, and He worketh,
6 And hath brought out as light thy righteousness, And thy judgment as noon-day.
7 Be silent for Jehovah, and stay thyself for Him, Do not fret because of him Who is making prosperous his way, Because of a man doing wicked devices. Psalm 37-5-7 (Young’s Literal Translation)
It seems appropriate, and timely, somehow. Beautiful, too.
Don’t worry about Algore. Hillary. Mueller. The Obamas. John McCain.
“Stay thyself for Him.”
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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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Amen.
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Amen.
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I read this excellent essay the other day, and ran across it again tonight. As the author says,
Why am I telling you all this? Because I fear that, except for a few of us remaining graybeards and some immigrants from the world’s manifold tyrannies and anarchies, most Americans are too young to remember, even vicariously, the ills that the world can inflict and the effort it takes to withstand and restrain them. They have studied no history, so not only can they not distinguish Napoleon from Hitler, but also they have no conception of how many ills mankind has suffered or inflicted on itself and how heroic has been the effort of the great, the wise, and the good over the centuries to advance the world’s enlightenment and civilization—efforts that the young have learned to scorn as the self-interested machinations of dead white men to maintain their dominance. While young people are examining their belly buttons for microaggressions, real evil still haunts the world, still inheres in human nature; and those who don’t know this are at risk of being ambushed and crushed by it.
See No Evil?
Then it will take you by surprise.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/see-no-evil-15330.html
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A most excellent article, Stella.
I fear, and hope, it will prove timeless.
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Aurora (her real name) Aksnes, from Norway, and her band, Aurora.
The entire album is wonderous.
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I fall asleep in my own tears
I cry for the world, for everyone
And I build a boat to float in
I’m floating away
I can’t recall last time I opened my eyes to see the world as beautiful
And I built a cage to hide in
I’m hiding, I’m trying to battle the night.
Let love conquer your mind
Warrior, warrior
Just reach out for the light
Warrior, warrior
I am a-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
Warrior, warrior
I am a-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
Warrior, warrior of love.
I stand behind the wall of people and thoughts, mind controlling
And I hold a sword to guide me
I’m fighting my way.
I can’t recall last time I opened my eyes to see the world as beautiful
And I built a cage to hide in
I’m hiding, I’m trying to battle the night.
Let love conquer your mind
Warrior, warrior
Just reach out for the light
Warrior, warrior
I am a-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
Warrior, warrior
I am a-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
Warrior, warrior of love!
Underneath darkened sky
There’s a light kept alive
Let love conquer your mind
Warrior, warrior
Just reach out for the light
Warrior, warrior
I am a-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
Warrior, warrior
I am a-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
Warrior, warrior of love.
Warrior of love!
Warrior of love!
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Those lyrics appear to have some faith overtones…Lovely!
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My heart breaks at the news of little Charlie’s death, and I pray that his struggle will bring about change among those who have complacently allowed death mangers to rule the world.
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Death Panels. Sarah Palin was excoriated for using this phrase.
And yet, here they are, just as she predicted. White babies need not apply.
It’s just the ongoing White Genocide. Hitler 2 point 0.
The Death Panels have their list of who is worthy of protection, and in which order.
I hope that the white folks on these panels see their own kids denied care, because they are in the wrong demographic. I want to hear their lamentations and wailing, when their “priveleged” kids get denied care, as they set out to do by favoring everyone but their nation’s People.
As they cry over their white babies, I want to give them a middle finger or two. Suck it up, buttercup. You made this bed — sleep in it.
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The “superior” ones will never suffer.
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If my prayers are answered in the affirmative, yes they will.
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I saw the summation of amdiscussion a man had with one of his liberal black friends online last night. I hope he rethinks whomhe calls friend after that conversation.
They got into a talk about her support of Hillary. Much not relevant to what bothers me, skipping that part. Then he asks her how she can stomach the abortion clinics clearly aimed at black people. About how it was supposed to be safe, legal, and rare, but it’s not rare at all.
Apparently she enthusiastically goes all in, telling him, yes, we need abortion, especially we want you white people aborting every one of your kids. We have abortion and eventually that is how we will put you in the minority and things will turn around for us, when we finally have control. And we want you to kill those children.
I don’t know how he could have kept from being sick, literally.
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