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General Discussion, Friday, August 4, 2017
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Morning Everyone!!!!!!!! Got to grab some shut eye…0430 comes very early….TGIF!!!!
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The Col. was on duty! (and is now getting some well-deserved rest)
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Thank you Mary for those kind words……
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Guess what’s sitting on my counter? Leftover blueberry pie! All these years I never made one until you gave me the craving. I don’t know whether to thank you or throw my scale away. Fortunately, I don’t make them frequently. I’ve been doing those blueberry muffins for years though. Can’t have Irish oatmeal without them in my house.
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Early bird gets the worm;
or in your case, blueberry
something or other. 😉
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Impeach!!!!!!!! Yes, two pieces of blueberry pie last night……
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Great minds think alike. You ever been to Maine? I had the best piece of blueberry pie ever in Maine. Those little wild berries. Just bursting with flavor.
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Do you ever buy the frozen wild blueberries? Delicious! I think the big ones have a skin that is too tough.
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Yes, they sell them at Costco, that’s what I like to use. I go through those big bags fast! Love them in smoothies too.
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I may have to, birds cleaned my bushes this year.
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I have a friend from New England (Maine). I made blueberry muffins for her. 😐. She then taught me how to make real blueberry muffins. After she tasted my muffins, it was pretty funny because she said “Do you want me to be gracious or teach you how to make blueberry muffins?” 😊.
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Wanna share the recipe? I sure would love to have it, even though the berries we get down here are nowhere near as good as those little Maine ones are!
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I’ll have to get it from her. My kiddos preferred their blueberry jam mini muffins that I always made, but her and I are due for a lunch so I’ll get it then. She will be pleased.
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Thanks, I sure would like to have it. I think my muffins are very good, but if there is better out there I am all in!
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If you keep this up, you may start looking like a tall smurf. 😯
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If you eat too many carrots you get keratosis, and your skin turns orange.
I wonder what the medical term for turning blue from eating too many blueberries is?
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Blueberryosis?
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Smurfosis?
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In time, Col Ken might
resemble a pirate!!!!!!!!
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well…holding your breath will do the same thing to your face….as in “Mommy, I am going to hold my breath until I die”
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John Boehner had keratosis?
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Good morning Col. ! May your workload be a little lighter today and your play & relaxation time be a little longer.
How is Hottie Grandma doing?
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Would seem she’s keeping
Col Ken’s tummy happy. 😉
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Very good article by Sally Zelikovsky, former head of SF Bay Area Patriots (and a friend):
Cooler Heads and Chaos
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/08/cooler_heads_and_chaos.html
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Mary, excellent article!!! It’s the country class who revolted against the political class. That’s how you defined the election of President Trump, 2016. Pass along to you read good friend my best, and keep these articles coming!!!!!!!
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The Dynamic Duo is back….
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Ladies, Ladies, these Ladies are on Target!!!!!
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My future ex-wife.
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Here’s a quickie… 😉
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define “quickie” for me please.
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Video only lasted
for 15 seconds. 😉
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Wooly, very nice looking young Lady, and skilled……….
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But can she bake blueberry pie?
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music for the belly
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The bass guitar has always been one of my favorite virtuoso instruments, though, and I’ve never seen a pretty girl (or any girl, really) playing one with skill.
Plenty of dudes can rock this instrument. Not enough pretty girls.
Then there’s Flea, Jaco Pastorius, Victor Wooten (!!!), Stanley Clarke, Richard Bona, Les Claypool and a whole entire male pantheon besides them.
Bobby McFerrin sang a gig with Richard Bona. Astounding.
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Then there’s my fav guitarist: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fL78hjk7CM0
He was over a hundred and still playing.
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Tal Wilkenfeld
She chirps, as well. 😉
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So, who is she?
Steven intros her
as Jeff’s bass player. 😉
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… and with Herbie,
seven years ago. 😉
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Late back from work. WOW. Thank you!
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Real Bass Player
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Did you read today?
No, read yesterday. 😉
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From the depth of his work I’m betting he’s just a stand in….a bas-relief?
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I got another one but it’s too close to the line.
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My old friend Don Fagenson (also known as Don Was) playing bass with Was/Not Was:
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He used to play bass (traditional and electric) for a jazz group in a bar I frequented in the 1980’s, long before he became a big time music producer. Nice guy. We would talk and have a drink once in a while between sets.
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Incredible performance!
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Congratulations/Condolences
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Hey, I’ll get those alimony checks, so it’s a wash.
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She’s a cutey for sure. 🙂
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Let’s just hope she doesn’t meet this chap first 😊.
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Bring him around here if he’s alookin’ fer free metal, we’ll sling some his way. Maybe by the time we’re done he’ll be aplayin’ lead guitar.
I do love English.
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Give that man a metal medal.
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Lock Up Reporters Who Leak Classified Material! Dick Morris TV
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morris….the Keebler elf boy himself…too many cookies, too many bad predictions.
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He’s Poppin’ Fresh, the
Pillsbury Doughboy. 😉
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Can’t change the law to retroactively prosecute publishers/reporters who have already released leaked information but they can make more severe consequences for reporters but then you get into the weeds of people who leak information that is helpful to the country.
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Hang ’em. 👿
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Some things never seem fair. 😉
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Morris always has good insight because he is one of the few people who has escaped the belly of the beast without suiciding.
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A little entertainment during your morning tea, coffee, or … 😉
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I’ve been there!
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Unlike Johnny Cash, I haven’t been everywhere. Not even lots of places.
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I got West of the Mississippi once. Went to Scottsdale with my folks when he had a business meeting there. Climbed Camelback Mountain (a bump, really), lit up a cigarette, and had fifty hikers look at me like I was the devil. I was pleased at that reaction from these health nuts. I looked at them and said “Yep. I’m smoking a cigarette after climbing up to the top of a mountain. I don’t know what you do after a climb, but that’s what I do.”
I guarantee they all had sexual thoughts after I said that.
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My sister calls them the granola people. 🙂
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I’ve been in at least 35 states, and 7 countries. (My Mom was a traveling fool). My party piece is if anyone asks where I’m from, I can recite all 50 states in alphabetical order. Always makes people say, “Really?”. It’s one of those strange things you remember from 5th grade. I was in a choir and we learned a song called “Fifty Nifty United States”. It stuck in my head!
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a real bummer…..lol
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I have CDO. It’s like OCD, but the letters are in alphabetical order.
As they should be.
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My best friend was OCD. She was a social worker supervisor and liked to hire OCD people because she could count on them getting the work done and all the paperwork filled out completely and correctly..
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I should known that but I am like the agnostic dyslexic that couldn’t spell dog.
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believe in, not spell….
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Would say, “Mad dog!”
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Good one, JTR! My strange thing from 5th grade: I can recite the 32 prepositions in alphabetical order. I think yours is more useful…
Mutters to self…about, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, at…
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soon you will have to learn the 32 versions of global gender self determinations
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But ya have been to Alaska, ah? And hopefully will come again!
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You betcha!
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Yep! We lived in Idaho (Couer D’Alene) when I was 5. We went to Alaska for a Vacay! I was very young, but I remember fishing!
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Hope you caught a salmon!
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I just remember a big ‘ol stinky fish that my Mom cooked! It was great! I can’t believe I can remember that long ago! I’ve always wanted to go back to Alaska for a visit!
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Did your Mom
fish with a rifle. 😉
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gotta come visit the Brown family in Browntown…Alaskan Bush People…
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Menagerie….this is for you to celebrate not having been everywhere.
think of all the TSA groping you missed, the bad food you did not have to eat, the lumpy bed hotel mattresses you missed out on the rude cab drivers you never met, the shoes you never broke on rough uneven cobblestones, the beggars and swindlers you never had to get rid of, and the postcards you never had to send back to everyone.
lol
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There’s an Alaska version of this song that I like even better. It’s on Michael Faubion’s CD Greetings from Paris on the Kuskokwim. I can’t find a YouTube of it, only the CD itself available from Amazon for 20 bucks. The entire CD is great, all songs about Bethel, Alaska, which is a rare and unique place. “I’ve Been Everywhere in Alaska” names every city, town and village in the entire state–and some of those names are incredible tongue-twisters. Kwigillingok, Kongiganak, Napaimuit, Atmautluak, Nunapitchuk, Quinhagak, Kasigluk, Akiachak, Chuathbaluk…
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Is this it?
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I’ve Been Everywhere in Alaska
song by Geoff Mack (I’ve Been Everywhere)
Bethel lyrics by Michael Faubion
I got my snow machine stuck out on that windy Atmautluak trail. When along came a musher, pulled me out and a saved my tail. He said, “If you’re going to Atmautluak man, with me you can ride.” So I climbed into the sled and I hunkered down inside.
I said, “Have you ever seen a trail with so much ice and snow?” and he said, “Listen, Bud, I’ve been everywhere in this state there is to go.”
He said–
I Been everywhere, man,
In Alaska I been there, man,
Across the tundra bare, man,
I even seen a grizzly bear, man,
I been everywhere!
I been to Juneau, Prudhoe, Yukon, Barrow, Minto, King Cove, Kobuk, Koyuk, Cordova, Seldovia, Sleetmute, Nightmute, Paimute, Ohogomuit, Nogomuit, what a hoot–
Togiak, Kodiak, Akiak, Aniak, Nushagak, Chevak, Naknek, Yakutat, Noatak, Nyac, Napaskiak, Napakiak, Adak, Unimak, Snack Shack, Hell and back–
Nenana, Tanana, Tanacross, Holy Cross, Quinhagak, Kanatok, Hooper Bay, Scammon Bay, Hydaburg, Petersburg, Petersville, Placerville, Farewell, Cantwell, oh well, what the hell–
Sheldon’s Point, Dall Point, Pitka’s Point, Pilot Point, Point Spencer, Copper Center, Point Hope, Point Lay, Sand Point, Icy Cape, Big Lake, Tanakee, Kake, Mcgrath, Wasilla, Willow, what a killer–
Noorvik, Anvik, Selawik, Kotlik, Sitka, Chitna, Chickaloon, Chicken, Kwethluk, Kasigluk, Nunapitchuk, Alakanuk, Koyukuk, Holikachuk, Chuathbaluk, just my luck–
Lime Village, Mountain Village, Arctic Village, Stevens Village, North Pole, North Way, Skagway, Glacier Bay, Kalskag, Kaltag, Shageluk, Shaktoolik, Moose Pass, Rainy Pass, False Pass, Anaktuvik Pass–
I been to Anchorage, Dillingham, Anchorage, Bethel, Anchorage, Nome, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Anchorage, Palmer, Anchorage, Seward, Anchorage, Homer, Anchorage..Anchorage..Anchorage–
Old Harbor, Dutch Harbor, Hog River, Stony River, Eagle River, Salmon River, Crooked Creek, Cripple Creek, Flume Creek, Heinie Creek, Kong and Eek, Unalakleet, Savoonga, Matanuska, Unalaska, Alyeska–
Gambell, Wrangell, Wainwright, Rampart, Venitie, Valdez, Diomede, Deadhorse, Skewntna, Shishmaref, Pribiloff, Chichigof, Kwigillingok, Kotzebue, Iditarod, OH MY GOD–
Angoon, Hoonah, Newhalen, Russian Mission, Kipnuk, Kilamak, Chugiak, Nushigak, Tuluksak, Kanakanak, Nunivak, Katchemak, Susitna, Chulitna, Holitna, Hoholitna–
Saint Michael, Saint George, Saint Paul, Saint Mary’s, Andreafski, Oozinki, Mount Mckinley (Or Denali), Emmonak, Chefornak, Nicholai, Kenai, Pelican, Mekoryuk, Egegik, Aleknagik–
I Been everywhere, man,
In Alaska I been there, man,
Across the tundra bare, man,
I even seen a grizzly bear, man,
I been everywhere!
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Yep, joshua, this is it!
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If not, perhaps
this version… 😉
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Nice guitar. 😉
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Thinking of that song,
“I left my Heart
In Shishmaref ……
High on a drift
It calls to me…..”
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Oops.
Sorry.
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An interesting article re Colonial America’s indentured servants….
“Positive Lessons from Indentured Servants in Colonial America”
By James Arlandson – August 2, 2017
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/08/positive_lessons_from_indentured_servants_in_colonial_america.html
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It’s a mixed bag as to how indentured service appear to have been treated. By some accounts, many didn’t survive to the end of the term, or were not released as agreed.
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Dear Stellarites,
Please keep my son Josiah in your prayers we just passed the halfway point with his catheter yesterday, but he’s having a number of issues. We spoke with an on-call doctor last night & will be speaking with the surgeon this morning…I don’t know what’s gong to happen but he might need another “procedure” to get things back on track…Thanks for praying for him/us. God Bless!
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My continued thoughts and prayers.
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Thanks Much!
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Praying that this is resolved quickly. 🙏🏻
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Amen…& Thank You!
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I’ve been praying. Hope he doesn’t have to have another procedure.
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Me too, unless that’s the easiest & quickest way to resolve things…hopefully we’ll find out soon. Thanks for praying!
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Prayers
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Thx
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Just got off the phone w/the Surgeon’s Nurse…we’ll see her later today for some minor interventions, but any further surgery (if needed) would be have to wait 6-8 months for the current site to fully heal. Thanks again for praying!
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We just finished up with the Urology Nurse & it looks like the catheter isn’t blocked! Josiah may be “pushing” against the catheter which is causing some issues. He also might be developing an infection at the incision site. They are going to up his Keflex from 1X/day to 4X/day. Please pray that he heals fully & there will be no further need for surgery. He is scheduled to get the catheter removed next Friday.
Thanks for all your prayers & encouragement! Blessings to All…
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Liquid vitamin E
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How so?
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We got home about an hour ago & Josiah ended up throwing up practically as soon as we walked in the door…He’s a bit subdued now but keeping things down.
Refilling his pill box for the week he’s gone from 14 pills/day taken in two doses (pre-surgery) to 28 pills/day taken in 4 doses, plus liquid laxative, ointment 4 X/day, & a mouth rinse PRN. It’s a lot to keep track of, especially when you’re fatigued.
Thanks for praying for him! We really appreciate this boost to the Throne of Grace!
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I don’t stop praying for your family, Valerie.
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Thanks so much! Wow, that is humbling & such a blessing…
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🙏🏼 Every day!
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Wow…Lovely!
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You and Josiah are on my daily prayer list, Valerie. God’s grace and blessing on you both. May this be resolved quickly.
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Thank you so much for your faithful prayers! He is feeling better, I think just having had a nurse check things out & reassure him (& me) is making a difference.
Have an awesome weekend, does it even get dark up there at all this time of year? Any Northern Lights of late?
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The sun is setting before midnight now, and 3 am is almost completely dark (as opposed to mid-June when civil twilight is as dark as it gets). No Northern Lights at all from April through October.
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Thanks for the clarification…I saw the greenish Northern Lights down in metro Detroit at like 4 am years ago…& woke up each kid separately to show them (none of them remember) & spent a lot of time just praising the Lord for his Glories!
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Amen!
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Still praying, Valerie. He will be healed, it just takes time and prayer. Give him a wee kiss for us.
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I just gave him that kiss “from people praying for you on the Internet” & he didn’t stop me–Progress! Thank you for praying…
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Any of you near South Eastern Michigan (Metro Detroit) please consider coming out to “Jamb for the Lamb” on Sunday. This event features 3 bands, including my husband’s band, Lively Pelts, and a Hot Rod & Bike Show (19th annual event). Fun, Free, Family event (food costs minimally). Check out the Pelt’s Reverb page for details…or to listen to some music (recorded before my husband joined the band)….Blessings!
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I can only dream of going to this event.
I remember catering and setting up a roadside kitchen for the bikers in New Hampshire, along their route for the big, annual Laconia gathering. We didn’t proselytize, we just set up the biggest roadside kitchen in America, and gave anyone who stopped in a good breakfast, and prayed for them.
With them, if they wanted it. For them, if they didn’t.
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That sounds amazing! We’ve never been to Jamb for the Lamb before, but it happens at Marty’s (Pelt’s lead guitar) home church. He says their pastor rides his Harley down the center aisle of the church to get things started! Apparently the Pelts will be playing last, about 4pm. I guess you’ll be with us in spirit!
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Mornin’ y’all!
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Morning Wee!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Afternoon Stella!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂 . I’m still waiting for President Trump to do the wave with Vladimir Putin at a ballgame.
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That would be awesome!! Afternoon Lovely!
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Lookie what I found!
😂
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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’ czarina33! (aka 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!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Blueberry Scones
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Thanks for the smaller portion size, Nyet! Hope you have plans for a delight filled day.
“Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs.”
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910)
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Morning Lburg!
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Good Morning S&S!
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Sizzling bacon to start the day! ❤️
Morning Nyet and thank you!
Happy Friday y’all!
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Eggs and bacon, 🙂 . Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Looks more like
egg, sausage,
and bacon strips. 😉
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Loving that sizzle–for shizzle!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Oh, yes, Nyet, I’ll take the skillet-full…but over well on the egg, please. Thanks so much.
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Lesson: Flipping egg(s):
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Walked out the door this morning and it’s not steaming. already. We usually get some slightly cooler temps, at least early in the day, in mid to late August.
One morning in a few weeks I’ll take my coffee out to look around the woods, and feel the first mild bite of coolness to come. And it will be the epic annual Starting The Sourdough day, in preparation for fall and winter soup and bread. Absolutely one of the best days of the year.
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I’m ready for cooler temps, too! And I love the fall. 🙂
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Me too, but these last few years as I have gotten older I hate the winter so much that I’m a tad less joyful than I used to be in the fall, and I really hate that.
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We don’t get a whole lot of winter in North Texas, but when we do, I don’t like it. Snow here brings everything to a grinding halt.
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I was just thinking a couple of nights ago, as I stood outside drenched in a total sweat to let my little doggie go pee before bed, at about 11:30 PM, that I can’t wait for winter. 😦
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You hate winter…in Georgia?? All the greater miracle that you came to Alaska in February! At least we had a warmish spell for you and it wasn’t 40 below.
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Alaska in the winter, for a week, is an experience. Down here it’s just cold. But 40 below would have required copious amounts of coffee and Jack.
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Many things require copious amounts of coffee and Jack. Even a relatively warm 10 above. If only the Gentleman came in a 5 gallon bottle, I’d be really happy.
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Football!
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😊
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Yes indeed. Roll Tide! (Sorry, Wee Weed)
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You mean Go Blue!
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We had a 72 degree day Monday, it was strange and not something you see in August here.
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Michellc…. good to see you! Hope all is well with your family!
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Everything is good, just a lot has been going on.
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We miss you – you always have something to say that I want to read.
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All of you are always in my thoughts. Life just gets in the way.
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It tends to do that! Blessings that you have so much “real life” to keep you busy.
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Good to see you Michelle !
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Hi lovely!
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That’s what we call a “pretty hot” day here. “Really hot” is when we break 80, which occurs every 2-3 years. We did break 100 once, back about ’03 or so.
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Sharon, if you stop by today, I am wondering if it did indeed get up to 108 in your neck of the woods?
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We have smoke from fires in BC, Canananada covering much of the Northwest (Washington, Northern Oregon) that kept the temps down a few degrees, so hopefully it didn’t get that high. Visibility is about 5 miles in Seattle.
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Sorry nyet, I hate that. We had really bad fires all around last summer, and terrible damage to homes and forest.
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And some lives lost as well.
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I’m in Eastern Washington and the smoke is terrible. My eyes are burning and I feel like I’m going to cough up a lung. I try to stay inside most of the day. Not sleeping well, so I am up at 4AM running sprinklers. The farmers started wheat harvest two days ago in my area. This is when it starts getting dicey for fires here. We have had a couple, but our local Fire crews are jumping on them. Supposed to reach 96 today. YUK!
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Hi Menagerie!
It was 105 yesterday; 107 the day before. Today is supposed to be only 96 or something.
It didn’t get as hot as expected because the sky is so full of smoke from the forest fires (in Washington and Canada) that the sun is somewhat blocked. My outside view right now is that “all-orangy” sunshine, filtered through the smoke.
I’ve almost had to conclude that everyone (or apparently, at least those who watch the news) in Oregon is so flippin’ stupid that they have to be told to drink more water and don’t do the usual 2-mile run when it’s over a 105 or something. Good grief.
Yesterday they actually interviewed the folks at Les Schwab (a reputable tire chain) to have them tell people – “No. When it’s really hot and air expands [including in your car tires] it is neither wise nor safe to remove air from the tires to compensate for it.”
Good grief. It’s good to stay home a lot on hot days. The stupidity might be catchy.
Apparently it’s a verbal meme in OR to drop tire pressures when it’s really hot. Who knew.
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We went through the stupidity last summer. Hard to believe that people, including me until we bought our first house, used to live without air conditioning. Apparently now the heat is an automatic death sentence.
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Why, yes. Heat is an automatic death sentence. And apparently there’s absolutely NOTHING one can do for oneself to survive it.
Same happens when it gets below 40 degrees (F).
Yer gonna die.
Yer just gonna die.
They have already had FEMA-level exercises all over Oregon (both east and west of the Cascades) because of the million people who are coming to see the eclipse (and who are gonna die) because apparently none of them know how to survive outside the urban grid either.
And obviously, Menagerie, the hard-hearted peeps like you and I just don’t understand that those things actually ARE true for a sizable portion of the alleged population.
Just makes me wanna cry sometimes. Or stomp somethin’.
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Ha! A few years back we had two snowstorms they told us we were all going to die!!! It was going to be a one, two punch, if the first punch didn’t get you the second punch would!!!! Every show was interrupted it was all they could talk about SNOW!!!!
So we got a lotta lotta snow, we shoveled, plowed we used our snow blowers and we all but a few people who had no business shoveling snow in the first place, survived.
Somehow I haven’t frozen to death yet either though my good weather forecaster has told me it could happen on the way to my car 😳.
Weather is weather.
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At least you got a lot of snow. Down here if we get two inches they predict doom and death. People fight in the grocery stores over bread and toilet paper.
None of that is exaggeration.
In 93 I think it was we had two feet of snow. It was a blizzard and no one had power for days. We ran out of toilet paper and had to cook stuff on the gas grill and in the fireplace because I refused to go fight at the store. Also because no one believed we were really getting two feet of snow. Our forecasters are notoriously bad about snow, or at least they were back then.
I haven’t learned my lesson either. I still refuse to make a desperate store trip, although I do keep a cabinet full of toilet paper. If we have to live on cold canned beans for a few days we won’t die.
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Our stores get picked thin whenever the storm of the century os predicted.
The only time I prepared for a storm was a hurricane in NC and we did lose power for several days. I had filled the tub with water and bought supplies.
So far so good!
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I almost forgot my favorite storm warning. It goes something like this If there are live wires on the ground do not put one in each ear.
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I remember when they did that where I lived. For days they went on and on. We finally got a whole {gasp} two inches, which was actually considered a lot of snow. I was in TN.
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We had about an inch in Chapel Hill NC. The world stopped. The shelves were bare.
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the hilarious part is when it rains freezes on the streets…then snows on top and the locals to put tire chains on and go 70 mph down the streets totally oblivious to the ice under sheet….sounds like a column of Russian Tanks coming down the street….I go hide so I don’t have to go pull a dead body out of a car in my front tree line. Dallas Tx and Atlanta Ga are two identical places when it comes to knowing what to do when it snows on the streets…..
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“…then snows on top and the locals to put tire chains on and go 70 mph down the streets totally oblivious to the ice under sheet….sounds like a column of Russian Tanks coming down the street…”
Ok, that right there is funny.
Hey, as long as you have chains on, then it’s all good……………..right?
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I had a friend who moved from the north to Houston. It snowed her first winter there, and she told me she was staying in the office until everyone else was home.
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Chains on your tires is illegal here. People with large trucks tend to think the law of physics does not apply to them when we have icy roads here.
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I’ve never seen cars with chains in Michigan either, although I don’t know if it is illegal. The idiots here think that 4-wheel drive will keep them from sliding on ice. Wrong. I saw a guy in a truck one morning speeding down Woodward, and ended up between two trees at the side of the road (lucky for him).
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I saw a car straddling the freeway divider during one storm. I took the next exit and went home. Snow and ice seems to bring out the lunatics.
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Boy is that the truth! One nasty morning on my way to work (on Woodward again), some crazy woman stopped her car in the middle of the road to clear her windshield.
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I grew up in Metro Detroit, spent a decade in “exile” in Oklahoma, & 1/2 a decade in (paradise) Northern Michigan, the last where the regular annual snowfall exceeded 200 inches. Now being in OK for that long, but from MI, those Okies drove me crazy whenever it snowed & they couldn’t drive in it At All.
In Northern MI the snowfall was taken in stride & mostly no big deal. (I did have to turn back from attempting to take my twins to an appointment in Traverse City once during a blizzard with white-out conditions.) Being back in Metro Detroit it’s actually disgusting how the news hyperventilated about any sort of snow, & completely exaggerates the accumulation. What a complete bunch of whiners! I personally like it to stay colder after a snowfall downstate so that the salt on the roads doesn’t slush up so much & keep all the roadside snow a dreary gray…
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I like it much better since I am retired, and don’t have to drive in it unless I want to.
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No doubt!
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150 years ago, Atlantans (the ones with money) Used to come up here where we live to spend the summer because it’s usually about 10 degrees cooler here in the higher altitude. Back in the old days the houses were built with high ceilings, so the hot air rose up, and they had big windows to let in a breeze, if there was one.
This summer hasn’t been too hot. I can remember the temps being over 100 for days! With our humidity, it’s not nice! But folk have lived here for a long time that managed and if that’s what you have, you just deal with it. I can remember not having AC. We just drank a lot of sweet tea, and sweat a LOT! By the way, my Mom always put a pinch of baking soda in the tea as it was steeping. She said it was for the hot weather. I didn’t really know what she was on about, but I do now.
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I grew up in Panama, Cuba, Georgia, VA, and FLA. We got an air conditioner when I was in my late teens. I never cared about the heat because I was so used to it and actually didn’t really know anything else. Except at night. I couldn’t sleep. I don’t think I can cope at this age.
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These stories crack me up. How did the South survive before the 1950s?
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There are places all over this world that have to put up with worse. I’m just grateful that my Grandpa taught me years ago what it was like, and ways to overcome. People today just do not know what is needed to survive, and I try to pass this knowledge on to my own daughter, and granddaughter. Always ask the oldest people around about what they know, because you won’t learn it in a book! I’m really not that old, (59) but I’ve always valued any knowledge my family elders could give me. When I had my baby, the only person I knew that had breastfed was my Grandma. She gave me advice that even “La Leche League” didn’t know, lol.
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1950’s? My family lived in Miami, FL without a/c until 1965. My elementary, junior & senior high schools did not have a/c. Some of my college classrooms did not have a/c. I finished college in 1972. We survived by staying outside in the shade, drinking cold water & iced tea, eating cool foods which did it have to be cooked inside, going to the beach or someone’s pool or riding a bicycle fast. None of our cars had it either. Now that I’m older, I can’t seem to stand to be outside for more than a few minutes if it is over eighty five degrees. Not so good since our back patio is often near or over one hundred in August!
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I went to school in Florida. No air conditioning in my schools or church. Daddy did put a window air conditioner in where it would blow down the hallway to the bedrooms. Better than nothing.
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Remember when southern churches all had fans in the backs of the pews along with the hymnals, and the fans had the church’s name and a picture of the front on them? Hadn’t thought of that in years.
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And, we sat in girdles, hose, and gloves, and hats, while we sweated through them.
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I remember the Methodist church we went to when I was a kid had fans stuffed in with the hymnals in the pew holders. These were colorful pieces of stiff paper or cardboard stapled to what looked like tongue depressors. Now, even though our current church has A/C I’ll use a bulletin to get some air flow–Menopause?
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Yes, all the churches had them. 🙂
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for fanning the flames (of hellfire) burning in the breasts of all the church ladies; didn’t all the men in suits never actually pick up a fan to use?
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Yep.
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easy…..little zip oscillating fans, and afternoon naps in your underwear….all churches had both ceiling fans, and all the women picked up cardboard fans on handles to fan themselves during the service in the heat…the fans were printed with scriptures and hymns…most kids just went to sleep listening to the ceiling fans buzz and the preacher drone on….
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No television weather men to tell us we were in danger of death.
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Quite serious about the news being filled with nothing but weather – they lead, fill, and end the “news” with weather-related goofball stuff. Just silly.
They decided they had to see if it was “hot enough to fry an egg” the a couple days ago. You know what they did? They SET A FRYING PAN ON THE PAVEMENT AND PUT THE EGG IN THE FRYING PAN!!! ….and yes, videotaped it for the evening news. Sheesh.
It’s depressing. I hope that living in Oregon, which I generally absolutely love, does cause that. Oh, well. I survived 20 years (cum) of Minnesota and 28 years in SoCal.
I already know not to look directly at the sun. Learned that when I was about four or something when I tried it one day and it hurt. So I already have my eclipse glasses.
We will have totality here for about 75 seconds and I am glad to get to see that, literally once in my lifetime.
I have an attitude these days.
As you can tell.
It’s better if I don’t socialize much.
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I basically have become a hermit. I go into the tiny town nearest me and it is still too many idiot people for me to tolerate. I can’t wait to get home. On a side note, I had to refill my BP medicine the other day. The pharmacist said he was sorry, but could not give me my proper dosage and I would have to cut them in half! He said there is a nationwide shortage and no one can get it! I asked him how soon that would be corrected and he said, “not sure it will be!” What the heck? This was the only one that did not give me side affects! I asked him about getting them from Canada and he said they are out too!
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I’ll bet the higher dosage costs more per dose than the smaller one as well. That’s one for “big pharma”.
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We have a pill cutter from back when I had to divide my son’s meds. It’s plastic with a V shaped channel to accommodate various sized pills. The lid basically had a razor blade on the underside. It usually divided the pills without too much crumbling or dust…& they didn’t leap out of the device. It works best on round pills…
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I have to divide pills for the puppy. I usually just do it in my hand (the pills with the groove), and it works pretty well.
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I’ve actually never tried it that way, but used to use a knife on the counter & things would go skidding hither & yon–hence the pill cutter!
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Two thumbs on top, either side of the slit, index fingers underneath.
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our pills were so small, no more than 1/4 inch in diameter, that I could never get the leverage to do that…but thanks for explaining…
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Oh, I have one, but do you think I can find the stinking thing? I used it a couple years ago and have no idea where I put it! Scavenger hunt begins today.
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Do you have a miscellaneous drawer?
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Which of my drawers is not miscellaneous!
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When I first moved down here and they delivered my things, my OCD friend came over to help me unpack. She wanted to know why all the boxes were marked misc. LOL
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When we get close to fire season here, which is now, I pack a bunch of stuff in my camper. A month later, I will tear the house apart looking for something. Yup, in the camper. I thought that was where the cutter was and it was going to be easier to buy a new one!
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Success! I found it where it never should have been. Pure dumb luck that I found it. After the “accident” with my dog, I went through the cupboard and got rid of all his treats. I was just now putting dishes away and the plate would not go all the way in. I reached behind and found a bag that I had missed. After I pulled it out, the plate still would not go in. I am a little on the short side and could not see anything. Pulled everything out and lo and behold there was my cutter. I live alone, so I guess I put it there.
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As they say, it wasi n the last place you looked, right?! LOL
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Except, I was even looking there. Just trying to put the dishes away!
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I think God thought he had laughed at me enough for one day.
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Good luck with the search!
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Started the day off getting an appointment with the VA, as usual the customer service is just a weeeeee bit short of what you’d have gotten at the Hanoi Hilton in ’69. Not quite ‘whatshu want and why you boderin’ me?’ but not far off.
Then again if they weren’t employed (note my aversion to using the word ‘work’ in relation to civil service) they’d rather be on the dole or corroding productive civilian industry. And we wonder how/why they managed to be complicit In the killing of 300,000 of their charges. Then again, when you don’t have to rely upon those patients paying their bills…
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but but but Trump says its all fixed for our wonderful military folks at the VA…..
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If Reagan couldn’t reign them in, preventing them for being complicit in the deaths of more US military than Hitler and Tojo combined I don’t think Trump’s going to do it.
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Actually, that level of service mentality is what we experienced in SoCal 45 years ago when our group health insurance was with Kaiser.
Exactly that attitude – “whaddayou want? what for?” – that kind of language and attitude was precisely what I got at both the front desk and from the physician. It was high motivation to stay well. …. and never voluntarily use Kaiser again.
Here in OR they claim to have a five star rating. All that tells me is how much the “five star rating” is worth.
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I remember them well, some of their policies used to scare the hell out of us.
Question is who gave them the ‘five star’ rating….ISIS, Kim Jong-UN, Grim Reaper?
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HYPOCRIT!!!!!!!!!!!
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(Oops. Don’t know how that got posted.) 😯
HYPOCRITE!!!!!!!! But, then we knew that.
“Gore Uses 7 Times More Energy to Heat His Pool Than American Home Uses in Year”
Al Gore resides in a 10,070-square-foot Colonial-style home in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, the eighth-wealthiest neighborhood in America according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The past year, Gore’s home energy use averaged 19,241 kilowatt-hours (kWh) every month, compared to the U.S. household average of 901 kWh per month.
• Gore guzzles more electricity in one year than the average American family uses in 21 years.
• In September of 2016, Gore’s home consumed 30,993 kWh in just one month — as much energy as a typical American family burns in 34 months.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/gore-uses-7-times-more-energy-heat-his-pool-american-home-uses-year
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Yes, but he uses solar energy. Millions of years ago the sun shone down on plants and animals who absorbed it to live, stored it as body mass and died and were converted into coal, gas and/or oil. Sheesh, get your Gore facts straight, kids.
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BTW, if you’re ever in Ft Collins stop by the New Belgium Brewery if you want to see a green Brewery. They’ve been at this for years and they are good, as is their beer. They also have a free tasting when you stop by, a goodlybsized free tasting.
http://www.newbelgium.com/Sustainability/Environmental-Metrics/Energy
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Fort Collins, CO? My mom’s birth cousin’s husband was (is?) the mayor there–Doug Hutchinson, a retired military guy & possibly a common sense conservative. My husband has CO roots too, his Great-Grandfather was the Governor of Colorado, Oliver H. Shoup & his GG-Grandfather, J. J. (James John) Hagerman was a visionary “robber baron” in his time with mining, railroad, banking, & political interests…
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but but but….The Lincoln Bedroom !!!!! Chinese donors….but but but….Chinese are non polluters….
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And those wonderful Arabs who buy failed cable TV stations…
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Come to think of is, Aus, the pronunciation of the word would actually suggest no “e” at the end since the “i” utilzes the short sound. Funny.
Hadn’t thought of that until I saw your accidental misspelling.
English. Weird language.
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My youngest son was quite infuriated when he started learning to sound words out that Chevrolet did not have a let instead of a lay as the last syllable.
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LOL
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Exactly.
Something floated back to my mind the other day from about 49 years ago – the day our older son was about 2 1/2-3 years old.
He went to the kitchen and stood in front of the refrigerator and kept asking me for “a chee, Mommy!” I couldn’t figure out what he wanted so I opened the door to have him point at whatever it was.
He pointed at the cheese slices. And I said, “Oh, you mean ‘cheese’. That’s cheese, honey.”
He answered, “No, Mommy. I just want one.”
Good grief. He had figured out that you added “s” for “just one”. I was so sorry to have to tell him that in that case you didn’t add s.
Cough, tough, through, bough. I think there’s another one – can’t think of it right now.
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The mathematician who asked for another piece of blueberry pi maybe”
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English ragamuffin in school complained about phonically misspelling the word “pie” in class and getting razzed by another loudmouth brat in class..Says ragamuffin, “there ain’t no “e” in “pie”….can’t be”….teacher says “e’s silent”…ragamuffin disgustedly hollers…”no e ain’t silent…e’s mouthin off loud in the back of the bloody room, teach!”
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Ever see the studies showing that words mispelled or or with leters left out usually do not register with the reader as long as the pattern of the word and it’s context work in the flow the sentence? Then again when
I worked with the USDA the readability of anything we produced either for public or internal use could not exceed an 8th grade level of comprehension…though that’s probably been lowered even more by now.
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Which also reminds me – that after four solid years of schooling which told me to “sound it out” – how I made a complete fool of myself in fifth grade when the teacher wrote “unique” on the board and asked if anyone in the class knew what that word was.
Of course.
I knew.
SMH.
To this day.
Still SMH.
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Sharon, I still do that. Because I read a lot, I guess you could say my reading vocabulary outpaces my spoken vocabulary. Sometimes I forget to look words up for pronunciation, and I just have it in my head that they sound a certain way. It’s one reason why I like reading on my Kindle or iPad. I have a dictionary at my touch.
One of my sons used to sometimes laugh at my mistakes, which were rare but embarrassing to me. I forcefully reminded him that I did not have a private school education but I sure helped pay for his. And that I likely had a better vocabulary than him even with my mistakes. Last time I got made fun of (for that, tough family!) but I am pretty self conscious about it. I have possibly dumbed down my spoken vocabulary just to be absolutely sure I don’t bite off more than I can chew.
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When my son was very young he seemed to love language. He would hear new words and then try to use them. I am talking about 18 mo. on. Sometimes he used it correctly and sometimes he didn’t. I was careful not to laugh at him because I didn’t want him to become put off by being teased. He had a huge vocabulary early and became a voracious reader, which pleases me very much. His wife is a reader, too, and I am sure his two daughters are going to be.
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Being a military family, me and my ex-FIL, my kids enjoyed picking up new words. Aaannnnddddd you know where this is going.
We thought it was a hoot but the small town LDS school teachers were somewhat less amused.
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I picked my son up from 1st Grade one day. He was telling me his little friend said bad words. So he spelled it out for me. He said his friend said, “Shirt.” And, I replied “shirt?” He grinned and spelled it right and laughed.
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in second grade my sone came home telling me his new friend, who had just moved here, had a speech impediment (of course, those weren’t his words) and I was very proud of him for befriending the little boys. I asked the teacher about it and the snotty…haughtily told me he was from up north and that she had told the kids over and over HE was the only one who talked right. I always loathed that woman.
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Aw sheet, that’s cute. Ran outta reply space before I ran outta replies.
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Yup! To all of it.
I do love the internet for quick lookups of exact definitions.
A couple of years I spent $100 I probably shouldn’t have spent to obtain for myself a used and HUGE Oxford English Diction – the one that you have to use massive magnification in order to see the tiny, tiny letters.
Oh, goodness, I have enjoyed the education I can get from working my way through that!
Love me some words. Language is truly such a marvelous gift – and then to realize all of the language developments all over the years of history as well as current usages – so wonderful.
There are tribal languages, as I understand it, that use only clicks of the tongue and guttural sounds for communication.
Love it.
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“…guttural sounds for communication.” Ah, so you’ve been to a Brooklyn?
Between my German and Polish it at times sounds as if I’m trying to hack up a furrball with the cat still wrapped around it. My ‘frontal s’ at times interferes with my abilities to be understood but as it so irritates my Czarina I water and fertilize it like a prize plant.
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Babel’s Brave New World!
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When I was taking teacher training, we had a lesson on phonics. I questioned the instructor about one word that she said fit in one group. She told me that it did fit in that group and that I said the word incorrectly because of my southern accent. I discovered that I could not say it with that sound. LOL When we went to Georgia, my son was about 6 and his teacher had a very, very southern accent. He kept misspelling words because he spelled them the way she said them. LOL
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I mostly knew how to read before I started school. I was an exceptional student from the first, but I could not learn phonics because it made no sense to me. Finally my teacher passed me anyhow because I was the best reader in the class.
Recently when we were on the way to Florida we stopped at a country store in a very small town in southern Georgia. It was lunch time and the deli there was full of the locals. I literally could not understand some of them, and I have a very pronounced drawl, having lived in Tennessee and Georgia my whole life. It wasn’t that they talked too slow. They had a dialect that sounded like a foreign language. I could only pick up part of what most of them were saying. I have never had that happen before. It was really weird.
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I still have trouble understanding some things my cousins say in TN. LOL They actually say “J’et yet?” “Y’ont to?”
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if you are not hungry, the proper Southern reply to the lady asking if an adult, is “Nome”
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I’ll have to confirm that with a local woman I know, next time I see her Alaska.
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“nome” = “no maam” = “no ma’am” = “no madam”–just guessing…
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Did you know that the original Andy Griffin scripts had to be shortened to give time for their drawls? I read that somewhere but really I only remember Andy having a pronounced drawl.
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LOL. I didn’t know that.
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when you discover, as a growing up person in the deep southwest rural area…that there are actually three syllables in the common four letter word for poop.
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I always kinda figured that to speak southern you smooshed everything kinda together and made 1 syllable words out of multi-syllable words and multi-syllable words out of 1 syllable words.
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it is necessary to have “a lazy tongue” when talking Southern. A smattering of pure ignorance is also a great advantage in communicating here also.
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Mmmmmmhhhhhhhhhmmmmmm.
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When my husband was a small boy he insisted on pronouncing stomach with the ch sounding like it does in Cherry because pronouncing it “stomak” made no sense 🙂 .
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And then we have the child-speak ‘chimbley’.
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And bisgetti.
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And ‘baba’ for bottle…oh wait, that was my middle son just a week ago…..never mind.
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My youngest always called Kenny Chesney “Chenny Kesney”. I still call him that.
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pasketti
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LOL Yes, that always bothers me. And, when I put the e on the end, in my mind I pronounce it with the long I. What happened was I dropped the mouse and it posted it.
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I’ve had that happen! Mouse on the floor – comment goes public!!!!
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Rats, hate it when that happens.
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brings to mind Vice President James Danforth “Dan” Quayle judging a spelling contest for little kids….when a 6th grader in 1992 had to explain that potato has no “e” on the end of the word….
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not being hyper critical of English grammar or syntax..like “how do you say hippocratic if you are not talking about large animals?”..how about the fricative “h” as a spirant../h/ (the phoneme spelled h in hot): voiceless fricative, produced at various points depending upon the vowels in the vicinity. For example, in hot, /h/ is velar, whereas in heat, /h/ is alveopalatal
such mind consuming information in the use of an initial letter in “hypocrite” just stops me dead in conversation every time….so I usually call hypocrites “Pecksniffians”…
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In addition to a “like” we need to have a thing we can check for busting up laughing.
Oh, dear – mind-consuming information for sure. I love it! even though I’ll never retain it.
Is it personal interest or professional background that has provided you with these insights?? Seriously – fun stuff it is.
I have never heard of a “fricative ‘h’ ” (much less considering “a spirant”) – it all sounds vaguely risque. 🙂
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I was unaware of the word, until my youngest returned from graduating at Furman University in English, and having a penchant to insane humor said something to me about “the fricative” to which I accused him of using crude language so he educated me…his older brother had taken a course in the origin of sounds and language when he was at college, and explained bird sounds, animal sounds, and tribal native click and drumming sounds as communication methods which in the end made me just want to stick with English, a little French, some Latin stuff, and a smattering of Spanish so I could remain as ignorant as MY generation thought appropriate if you were educated enuff…
My kids are now educated beyond the ability to get seriously employed in a meaningful work force….heck, I only got hired by IBM out of college…and they never said anything about fricatives at all….
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I think I shall speak of the fricative h to my grandson. And then tell him not to tell his dad I did. hmmmmmmm……this has possibilities……
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not to get confused with “fricassee” dealing with cooking cut up meat…as in stewed human tongue…which is likely why some cannibal tribes only spoke to each other in clicking sounds….
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oh, dear…… :O
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On Latin, my daughter was mentioning some time back that she wanted to learn Latin…& Josiah, who was standing close by & loves to quote movies pipes up with “Arry-Lay” & Clarissa’s like “Not Pig Latin”. J has a great associative memory & he recalled the 3 Stooges scene where they were teaching Pig Latin…we still crack up on that one. For the scene re: Moe, Larry, & Curley they said O-May, Arry-Lay, & Curley-que…
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Psst……knowing Joshua, he probably made them up. LOL
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Al Gore and I invented the Internet, and I started Wiktionary….lol
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LOL
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Gasp – consider your electrical use/footprint as a result of the internetz. And all the dead cats.
I don’t think catz are like tribbles. Tribbles could deal with outer space and stuff….I think cats die with what they go through in the internetz.
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I blame all cat untoward incidences on the Higgs boson….lurks on the side of all interstate highways…
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CONSONANTS: FRICATIVES
http://eweb.furman.edu/~wrogers/phonemes/phono/fric.htm
so I didn’t make it up at all….and I truly did not ask to learn anything about it either…just my boys don’t know when to shut up mostly.
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You do know that I was teasing, right?
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aus…you are one of my favorite people here and would never offend me ever….
heck..I HAVE BEEN OFFENDED plenty enough in my life to know what being offended feels and looks like….and now the liberals and progressives have brought being offended to an entire different level of terrorism and fear….I sorta think Stella has a safe space here for us all….keep looking for the legos….lots of puppies and kiddies and breakfast food tho.
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Yes, ite is. 😉
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Click on the link to see the titles of the songs. They are really funny.
“Jim Acosta Accosted on Twitter, Gets Hilariously Songified Over Immigration”
The thrashing of Acosta continued on Twitter Thursday as users turned his whiny interruptions at the press conference into song.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/jim-acosta-accosted-twitter-gets-hilariously-songified-over-immigration
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“Comfortably Dumb” 😂love it!
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That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen today!
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Thank you Brown a Water Navy wherever you are! Five…four…three…
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Mornin’, WeeWeed! Did you see this Chuck & Nancy Show further down in James’s feed?
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schumer..
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A little bitty tear
let me down,
spoiled my act
as a clown.
I had it made up
not make a frown,
but a little bitty tear
let me down.
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Afternoon Lucy!
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Socialism is a
mental disorder.
Proof: They treat the
clintons as the greatest
thing since sliced bread. 😉
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I think at least some of the Dems are becoming disillusioned with the Clintons and are ready for them to go away.
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Consider the motives of the haters.
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Beset by enemies on all sides, our President still keeps moving forward toward the goal of Keeping America Safe Again…
Iranian general boasts of Quds Force killing U.S. troops in Iraq
August 4, 2017 8:52 AM By Robert Spencer
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has been behaving for decades as if it is at war with the U.S. And now they are doing it with billions of dollars they received courtesy of Barack Hussein Obama.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/08/iranian-general-boasts-of-quds-force-killing-u-s-troops-in-iraq
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There is NOTHING new about Iranian forces killing US forces in a Iraq and Afghanistan but it’s about as well known as Russian and Chinese forces confronting US troops in Vietnam. The true depth of the US/Iranian confrontations in Iraq and Afghanistan will probably not be released, if ever, for decades…let’s hope it’s before we have to deal with ALLEGED Iranian machinations inside of the US.
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Since Federal Law seems to now be optional per CA kicking ICE out of the state and closing their offices, I call on WI to kick Planned Parenthood out of the state and shutter their butcher shops.
Let’s roll!
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Federal law is completely optional for law enforcement.
Oregon’s local LEOs are specifically instructed that they are not authorized (by their local rulers) to enforce federal law at their own personal whim, and they would be wise not to do so.
That includes the larger cities and the small towns – my town has about 24,000 peeps and specifically informed the public after POTUS was inaugurated that local police and sheriff’s departments do not enforce ICE regs.
The US used to be known for being a nation where the law was equally applied to every one. Hasn’t been the case for a very long time.
Law-abiding citizens – no longer a relevant phrase, and has not been for some time.
Sharia law was being rolled into financial regs at least 25 years ago and we saw it first hand in MN.
The stuff that everyone is wringing their hands over these days is just now being exposed to the point where the general public can no longer ignore it so the din of the outcry is louder – but this is not just happening now. The outcry is the result of the shadow being cast by the tree that is a hundred years old – and the outcry is the equivalent of being shocked by that shadow.
National elections in 1912 and thereabouts featured audio that included speeches by Wilson mocking the Constitution and those who still took it literally.
We’ve been a hundred years getting here – we finally got where we were headed – and now more people are noticing.
Isn’t that special.
Don’t get me started.
And believe me, I haven’t started.
That’s one of the reasons I just don’t comment much any more.
If you can’t say anything nice……….
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Understood Sharon. Understood.
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Yes, lovely – I didn’t intend to look like I was picking on you.
The tendency to blame obama for all of it, and the seeming expectation that Trump can fix it all is just irritating to me beyond my capacity to be gracious in how I express myself.
What is happening these days illustrates how longstanding the issues are and how deeply institutionalized they are.
I said many times during the election season that began in 2014 – that I was not hearing ANY candidate talking about torching the regulatory agencies and that until I specifically heard that, I wouldn’t be convinced. Trump is obviously DOING THAT as well as he can. But there is no way that those very agencies would allow one man, not even POTUS, to take away their oxygen.
Unfortunately, I am not rendered speechless on the subject! 🙂
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The tendency to blame obama for all of it, and the seeming expectation that Trump can fix it all is just irritating to me beyond my capacity to be gracious in how I express myself.
I’ve said as much and completely agree. People who imagine Trump is going to fix the mess we are in are in for a rude awakening. We are off the cliff. I don’t know that there is anyway to get back on the road sans a miracle.
But hey! There was a double rainbow at the White House!
PS. I didn’t feel picked on 😊. I was just thinking let’s roll.
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Wasn’t that kind of sweet that there was a double rainbow at the White House?
I have gotten a kick out of the very recent meme that someone has started – “Let’s reclaim the rainbow!!!”
I’m all for that! The rainbow is a literal visual of the promise of God – reclaiming it would provide multiple comforts in these days!!!
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I think maybe God sent the double rainbow to the White House to encourage President Trump who said the place is a dump and is going to his own place in NJ for vacation while they paint the interior and repair the AC systems in the White House.
Even Our Lord knows that President Trump is getting abused for his good works done for no compensation out of love for his country.
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It was sweet. But I’m afraid some see it as a sign that all is well. I call them the Trollyannas.
I’m a realist even if I am what some call “perpetually peppy,” I’m joyful because “God is” in spite of whatever is happening in the world. I do believe that there was not a single politician who could have done anything to aim the country back toward the cliff at least Trump seems to give a darn about restoring what our country to what it should be for his grandchildren rather than collecting as much wealth off the backs of taxpayers and backdoor deals to feed his lust for money and power while the future of the US and her people are damned.
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lovely, my grandmother, aged tho she was in my youth was “perpetually peppy” and amazed me….until I discovered her bottle of Geritol in the medicine cabinet and it showed over 20% alcohol….also Hadicol was popular in the day…..lol
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My mother and her many sisters (she had ten of them) – would always put a teaspoon of vanilla into their coffee because “it just makes it so good” as they got into their 70s and headed onward.
Their adult children would enjoy sharing that fact and, as far as I know, none of the cousins ever blew the whistle on them. They would have been horrified since none of them ever used alcohol in any form – except vanilla.
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My friend’s mum who is a boozer to put it in the kindest terms possible, had to have surgery. The mum was 85 at the time. Her daughter was staying with her after the surgery to make sure everything went well.
My friend knew her mum was drunk but couldn’t figure out how she was getting booze. It seem in preparation of her being bed bound and having a “sitter” she filled her water bottles in the refrigerator with a mix of about 50/50 vodka/water. Her daughter doesn’t drink water and she never thought to check them because she thought they were sealed bottles.
Tricky, tricky woman 😳.
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I guess that’s why every non-busy minute of my day and evening anymore I spend as much time as possible enjoying my babies. God’s gifts are what keeps me sane these days.
My son-in-law races so that also takes up much of our time, but I enjoy watching him and watching my grandson, who I’m working on preparing myself for him to follow in his footsteps. We go to the pits this year as it makes it easier for me to help my daughter keep them corralled than it is for me to try to do it by myself with help from a PaPa who gets wrapped up in watching the races and forgets we’re watching babies. lol
I was telling my sister how racing people are like being back in high school with all their drama and she asked how I could stand it. I told her their drama gives me 4 hours of mind numbness two nights a week to not worry about the real drama going on.
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“Every Communist must grasp the truth, “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun”. Problems of War and Strategy, Mao Tse Tung.
And who controls the guns in America?
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Tom Fitton discussing New Docs on the Lynch Tarmac Meeting, Deep State Lawsuits, & Abedin Emails
The Deep State is still stonewalling Judicial Watch and thus we aren’t getting information re cover-ups and federal government negative behavior.
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somehow, the idea of Bill Clinton meeting up with some female in an airplane “out on the tarmac” would sound like normal Bill Clinton stuff…until you see a picture of Loretta Lynch…and even Bill Clinton would prefer the pilot instead of Loretta…..
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http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/half-of-detroits-mayoral-candidates-are-felons/?cat_orig=us
Haven’t read it, but the title pretty much says it all…hmm
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I saw that and didn’t read it either but came to the same conclusion as you.
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More surprising is that half were Not felons!
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Sadly true!
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The incumbent mayor, a white guy (Democrat, but smart and good for the city) will win in a landslide. Keep in mind that Detroit is mostly populated by blacks, and they support Mayor Duggan.
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I think you might be right…
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Good News!
http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/nfl-quarterback-says-he-heard-gods-voice-saved-3-lives/?cat_orig=diversions
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Powerful.
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“Joni says she thanks God for her wheelchair, for without it, she wouldn’t have the platform she has to encourage and lift up people in similar situations to hers. But more importantly for her, without her paralysis, she might not have had a relationship with Jesus Christ. In one of the most telling statements in her post, she says, “I really would rather be in this wheelchair knowing Jesus as I do than be on my feet without him.””
She is an inspiration & so is her husband–a hidden hero..
https://pjmedia.com/faith/2017/07/31/fifty-years-after-a-tragic-diving-accident-paralyzed-her-joni-eareckson-tada-still-offers-a-message-of-hope/
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These verses are so incredibly wonderful…it’s never too late to start believing….
“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” ( 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (ESV))
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Amen…that reminds me of something my husband used to say (before hitting 50 & getting “weirded out” again by “aging”)–he used to rather envy older people whose bodies were slowly beginning to fail them. He thought it was a reminder that “soon” they would be able to scrape this life off & see the Lord face to face…so that the afflictions & indignities of aging could actually lead to rejoicing!
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There is a police or military helicopter circling my building very low. It concerned me so I called the office and they are looking for a lost little boy. I had pulled out some protection. Guess I don’t need it.
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depends on whether the “little boy” is a Dreamer up from the South and on the loose. “Little boy” is a loosely used phrase by the police sometiimes.
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He is 6 years old,, autistic, 4’3″ tall, and I thought they said he was 37 lbs. That would be very skinny. It is dark now and they haven’t found him yet. I live on a small lake/pond and that is one thing they are very worried about.
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A couple of years ago, my now 88 year old mom was in the hospital and was seriously ill. I had been up for about 48 hours when they took her to surgery – I was exhausted. One of the O.R. nurses saw me, asked if I needed to take a nap and when I said yes, took me to a back room reserved for the docs, brought some warmed blankets and told me to sleep until I woke up – that she would keep an eye on what was happening with my mom and would wake me with any news, good or bad.
Before she switched off the light, she asked if I wanted her to pray with me – and even though I’m not overly religious, I said yes. She enveloped me in her arms and prayed a powerful prayer over me and for my mom. As she spoke, I felt an inner peace unlike anything I’d recognized before and after ‘amen’, fell asleep knowing that my mom would be fine.
I’ve always had an intensely personal relationship with God and even from an early age, knew that I was one of his beloved children. However, the power of prayer was revealed to me and my relationship with God deepened as a result.
Today I took the day off from taking care of mom, worrying about politics, fretting over President Trump’s well being and worries in general. I went sailing. The sheer physical nature of sailing and the beauty of being on the water refreshed me in a way similar to that important prayer.
I now know that getting away from ‘it’ all – even if it’s just for a walk – will renew the many commitments in my life in a substantive way.
I suppose now I’m ready for tomorrow. Whatever it brings.
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I know that exact feeling being on the water brings and the feeling of simply knowing you are in the stillness of God.
I heard a story once about a little boy who was born very prematurely. His mom wanted to hold him but he was too delicate so she dedicated him to God and asked God to hold him until she could. Eventually he was a healthy baby and he could be held by his mom.
When he was a very small boy maybe about two there was a thunderstorm moving in, the kind where you can smell the rain before it gets there. The mom took the little boy out on the porch to watch the storm come in, and he said “Mom, do you smell that? God is here.” She smiled and asked him how he knew what God smelled like and he said “From when he used to hold me when I was a baby.”
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What a great story!
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It really made an impression on me.
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thank you so much for sharing this–beautiful!
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Excellent article about the Special Counsel asking for a Grand Jury to be empaneled:
(Andrew McCarthy)
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450149/robert-mueller-grand-jury-appointment
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There are virtually no limits on the investigative powers of the grand jury. Under our law, a grand jury may conduct a probe simply to satisfy itself that no crimes have been committed. That is to say, there is no evidentiary threshold that must be crossed before a grand jury can begin investigating.
Bingo!
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Still, the impaneling of a grand jury is a highly significant development. Prosecutors do not seek the assistance of the grand jury’s subpoena power, and do not contemplate presenting evidence to a grand jury, unless they see a realistic possibility of filing criminal charges.
Prosecutors do not seek the assistance of the grand jury’s subpoena power, and do not contemplate presenting evidence to a grand jury, unless they see a realistic possibility of filing criminal charges.
This is where I would hit the gong.
It is in this case an outright lie.
Mueller can not realistically be considered a prosecutor who sees a realistic possibility of filing criminal charges. NR knows it. Andrew McCarthy knows it.
Mueller is first and foremost a Clintonista. He is self interested, self preservationist. So we have to look beyond what a traditional honest prosecutor might do and mark Mueller with the sign of the Beast. I personally think the impaneling of a Grand Jury in DC 🙄(of all places) is more of the smoke and mirrors show.
Likely Trump has enough dirt on Clinton, Obama, Biden, Ryan, McConnel et al.to destroy them all. Hillary “We’ll all hang if Trump wins,” Clinton knows this. they all know it.
We are IMO seeing an amazing game of cat and mouse being played out, it seems the cats thought the mouse was paying them homage for all these years, whereas the mouse was filling his quiver. Assange has repeatedly said he has nothing on Trump even though he has looked. Whatever they may conjure up on Trump, whatever citizen or candidate Trump has done will never see the light of day as it pales in comparison to the crimes and treasonous actions taken by the swamp denizens and their peremptory heirs and successors. They really should hang. In the public square.
I don’t think Trump speaks off the cuff in the true sense anywhere near as much as it appears that he does not when it comes to laying low his enemies. I think when he said on national television to a former FLOTUS, a former SOS, to a presidential candidate that she would be in jail that Trump was speaking far more intimately than any of us could have guessed.
If anything Mueller will go after someone like Flynn or another person just to cast shade at Trump.
Andrew McCarthy was a Never Trumper, he said it was the only way as a conservative he could maintain his dignity (or something along that line) his bias showed in the article.
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It’s all a chess game. For Trump. I think the other side is playing checkers.
Seriously, I agree with you. They haven’t been able to make anyone but their own journalists and a few pajama wearing idiots give any credence to the Russia crap. Now they are desperate to try to up the game.
I don’t think it’s going to work, but they live in lala land.
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I had this conversation with my friend through email earlier today. He was a reluctant Trump supporter who became an enthusiastic Trump supporter. Now he is sure doom and gloom is around every corner. Here is part of what I emailed him with some small changes to make it more readable and less personal.
I know there is a lot of worry about Mueller, the swamp, the silent coup, the Grand(scam) Jury, MCCain and a pact with the devil, but I’ll say this go back and watch Hillary’s testimony before congress about Benghazi or her emails and find one moment in all her guffawing and fawning over herself where she looks anywhere near as dour and frightened as she does after Trump says “Because you’d be in jail.”
(I’d forgotten that dope Cooper’s stern admonishment 😂)
President Trump isn’t worried and he isn’t going anywhere.
So when the Lefties and the Never Trumpers cackle about Trump’s borrowed time. Just say “Cheers Darlin’….” <<< (Personal note this one of both of our favorite songs) Let’s see how it all shakes out. Does anyone really think those Trump kids would not average their father and that they are not well aware of his arsenal?
The liberals are in quicksand. And they know it. And Trump knows it.
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The remarkably intelligent, challenging and well-spoken Amity Shlaes talks with Mark Steyn. If you have a spare half hour, it’s worth your time to view….
Published on Aug 4, 2017
“November’s US election was, according to Kellyanne Conway, the “Forgotten Man” election. President Trump has returned to this theme from time to time – he did so in West Virginia just last night – and it reminds us (as the “Russia investigation” and Scaramucci/Preibus palace intrigue do not) of just why he won. But the idea of the Forgotten Man has deep roots in American political history, and in this edition of The Mark Steyn Weekend Show, Mark explores them with the author of a fine book on the subject. Steyn and Shlaes discuss the evolution of the Forgotten Man from the late 19th century to the Trump era.”
FYI, Shlaes graduated from Yale University magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in English in 1982 and also attended the Freie Universitaet Berlin.
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Apparently, the Trump DOJ is still protecting Hillary Clinton.
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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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Amen.
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Amen.
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How Much Did It Cost the Hospital to Kill Charlie Gard?
By Jesi Smith – August 4, 2017 | 6:10PM WASHINGTON, DC
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/08/04/how-much-did-it-cost-the-hospital-to-kill-charlie-gard/
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No special reason;
just because… 😉
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Lookit this. The field drug tests are no good.
Attorney working to ban field drug test kits in Pinellas, Pasco
http://www.fox13news.com/news/local-news/272055635-story
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SMH
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They are putting people in jail with this baloney.
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Democrats the party of senility.
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