General Discussion, Friday, August 18, 2017

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Stella

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  1. Lucille says:
    August 18, 2017 at 12:36 am

    Recommended reading by the White House’s West Wing Reads…

    “Immigration reform for a more prosperous America”
    Favoring well-educated applicants would diminish social tensions
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/16/immigration-reform-will-lead-to-more-prosperous-am/

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  2. ImpeachEmAll says:
    August 18, 2017 at 12:40 am

    Hmmmmmmmmm…

    Light House is all aglow; but
    would seem nobody is home.

    Where is everyone?

    Stuck in yesterday?

    Hiding in plain sight?

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  3. Lucille says:
    August 18, 2017 at 1:00 am

    Guadeloupe Islands, Grande Anse Beach

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  4. Wooly Covfefe says:
    August 18, 2017 at 1:04 am

    Today, before going in to work, I ate, showered, and rode over to that outdoor piano, parked my bike and played for about a half hour. People going in and out of the antique mall where it’s ensconced. I just tuned all the people out and played, oblivious to who was watching.

    I turned around at one point and there’s a lady videoing me with her phone. She asked, “Do you mind if I put this on my Facebook?” I said, after a moment’s hesitation, “You know what? Go ahead. My name’s Jamie.” She asked, “What’s your last name?” I said, “Hey, don’t push it. We don’t go there.”

    😀

    Life is strange. And I found a new habit that makes people smile.

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    • patternpuzzler says:
      August 18, 2017 at 1:15 am

      You always make me smile, Wooly.

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    • Lucille says:
      August 18, 2017 at 1:33 am

      Love it, Wooly! Keep it up!

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    • Rhea Salacia Volans says:
      August 18, 2017 at 7:43 am

      That’s actually really cool Wooly. She liked your playing so well she wanted to share it with all of her friends on facebook.

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    • sandandsea2015 says:
      August 18, 2017 at 8:22 am

      I love how you bring joy to others, Wooly!

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      • Wooly Covfefe says:
        August 18, 2017 at 3:29 pm

        It is what is most important in life.

        Coming from someone who was depressed, severely, most of his life: actively trying to bring joy to people sets up a feedback loop. I try to impart this to people I meet who are really depressed. Stop thinking about yourself. Bring joy to people! Be Pooh instead of Eeyore.

        Most I know work in the service industries, when they’re not living their normal-but-f’ed-up lives outside of work. You’re on stage in these jobs. You pretend you’re happy, even when you’re not, for the business. Surly waitstaff don’t last long. Happy waitstaff, who bring joy, last forever, and get the best tips.

        And this applies outside of work, too. Bobby McFerrin’s Don’t Worry, Be Happy, is Gospel. And trading in joy is like Reaganomics: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats. So make people happy, and you will be made happy.

        Or do what OWS, BLM, Antifa, and the MSM do.

        Is it any wonder they’re all so angry?

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    • auscitizenmom says:
      August 18, 2017 at 9:12 am

      I’m glad. 😀

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    • nyetneetot says:
      August 18, 2017 at 11:30 am

      I wonder if there would be video taking and smiles if you put clothes on after the shower…..
      I’ll be looking on FB for the video titled ‘naked piano playing bike rider’.

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      • joshua says:
        August 18, 2017 at 1:00 pm

        whoooooooaaaaa there …….whew……..nearly got thrown off the horse………

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      • Wooly Covfefe says:
        August 18, 2017 at 2:06 pm

        Hey, I always wear at least one sock. In homage to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who used to go onstage wearing exactly one sock each. And not on their feet.

        😆

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        • nyetneetot says:
          August 18, 2017 at 2:12 pm

          Rolled, of course.

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        • Menagerie says:
          August 18, 2017 at 2:53 pm

          I had forgotten that. And dang, I like their music. I became a fan after their heyday was done though, so I missed the sock exhibitions.

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          • Wooly Covfefe says:
            August 18, 2017 at 3:51 pm

            LOL! Menagerie?

            That was early on in their career.

            And, no, Nyet. Gym socks. Calf-length. According to interviews, the band wouldn’t take anyone with the Irish curse. Well-endowed-only need apply. I don’t know why. I don’t want to, but there it is.

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            • Menagerie says:
              August 18, 2017 at 4:05 pm

              Well heck Wooly, I don’t know whether to be glad or sad I missed it. Better I suppose to have avoided the near occasion of sin, as I say in the Act of Contrition. 😉

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              • Wooly Covfefe says:
                August 18, 2017 at 5:12 pm

                Flea and Anthony are heckuva musicians, though.

                Psalm 150, with side-buttons next to the text.

                The previous ten chapters are also apropos.

                https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+150&version=KJV

                I think both might just come around.

                I wasn’t wearing any socks yesterday.

                I was wearing sandals. I’m not old enough to wear both, yet.

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                • czarowniczy says:
                  August 18, 2017 at 9:41 pm

                  Yeah, bet they’ll change their schtick when they start playing to their fans in a few years on the Golden Age Coast casino tours.

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                  • Wooly Covfefe says:
                    August 19, 2017 at 12:02 am

                    LOL I hate to imagine seeing Anthony and Flea with walkers, trying to decide whether to hold on to the walker or the mic stand. They were never real pretty in the first place, but that would not be pretty at all. It’s why I wish the Stones had called it quits 20 years earlier than they did.

                    I’m only half-kidding, because I love those guys. I hope they do like Robert Plant, Willie Nelson, and Neil Young — and yes, Mick Jaggar — perform and create until they are unable to do so. Those are heroes and they do what brings people joy. Even when performing on Hoverounds at casinos.

                    😀

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                  • czarowniczy says:
                    August 19, 2017 at 12:26 am

                    True dat, Wolly, lrt the music flo-max.

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    • valeriecurren says:
      August 20, 2017 at 2:35 am

      “I just tuned all the people out and played, oblivious to who was watching.”

      Sometimes when Josiah & I go to U of M’s Hospital there will be a young person (student?) playing on a piano in an alcove adjacent to the pediatric surgery waiting area. The acoustics there allow the sweet sounds to flow into a nearby hallway & nearly to the eatery & the elevators…it’s always such a treat & is so much more enjoyable played live (with feeling) than even some of the recorded sounds piped in when no pianist is present. I’ve walked up to thank a musician in between pieces & they always seem startled that anyone else might be listending when they have been inhabiting that zone just below the threshold to Heaven!

      Thank you for all that you do to make this world a more beautiful place! Blessings

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  5. Lucille says:
    August 18, 2017 at 1:30 am


    Vid “liner” notes: © Written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael (music) and Stuart Gorrell (lyrics) ©
    (The photo has very little to do with the song. Look for “To Have And Have Not.”)
    Gorrell wrote the lyrics for Hoagy’s sister, Georgia Carmichael. However, the lyrics of the song are ambiguous enough to refer either to the state or to a woman named “Georgia.”

    Carmichael’s 1965 autobiography–“Sometimes I Wonder”–records the origin: a friend, saxophonist and bandleader Frankie Trumbauer, suggested: “Why don’t you write a song called ‘Georgia’? Nobody lost much writing about the South.” Thus, the song is universally believed to have been written about the state.

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  6. Lucille says:
    August 18, 2017 at 1:53 am

    The face of Charlottesville leftie outrage…

    GUESS WHO THE CHARLOTTESVILLE KINGPIN IS
    Where is the media’s reporting on a former Occupy Wall Street activist and Obama acolyte?
    August 16, 2017 by Lloyd Billingsley
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267587/guess-who-charlottesville-kingpin-lloyd-billingsley

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  7. MaryfromMarin says:
    August 18, 2017 at 1:58 am

    No particular reason.

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    • ImpeachEmAll says:
      August 18, 2017 at 2:44 am

      … 😉

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    • Col.(R) Ken says:
      August 18, 2017 at 8:36 am

      Mary!!!!!!!!!! May I have an autographed selfie?

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      • MaryfromMarin says:
        August 18, 2017 at 1:14 pm

        I’ve never taken a selfie in my life–but if I had one, I’d save it for you, Col ! (The autograph might be worth more, which isn’t sayin’ much.)

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        • Wooly Covfefe says:
          August 18, 2017 at 5:15 pm

          Someday, Mary. I never thought I would, either. Now you’ve all seen me and my three-legged cat, and me on a detuned piano. You just never know.

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          • MaryfromMarin says:
            August 18, 2017 at 5:21 pm

            I’ve seen Tripod, but I missed the photos of you!

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            • Wooly Covfefe says:
              August 18, 2017 at 5:32 pm

              Hi, Mary!

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              • MaryfromMarin says:
                August 18, 2017 at 5:40 pm

                Nice background (and foreground, BTW). That will fill out my mental images of you while I read your daily comments.

                Sorry I can’t reciprocate. Although I have a decent protest picture of me from a couple of years back somewhere in my computer.

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              • lovely says:
                August 18, 2017 at 6:41 pm

                I like that you posted your picture Wooly, I like connecting a face to your posts, it rounds them out 🙂 .

                Beautiful, joyful smile while you’re playing the piano by the way.

                So here is my selfie, I think it is from 2016 🙂

                Hello Stellars 🙂 . Life is beautiful.

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                • auscitizenmom says:
                  August 18, 2017 at 8:07 pm

                  🙂

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                • patternpuzzler says:
                  August 18, 2017 at 9:46 pm

                  Hello, lovely! And indeed, you are, ever so…

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                • ImpeachEmAll says:
                  August 18, 2017 at 11:21 pm

                  Wow! Just Wow! Never would have matched you with some of your posts. 😉

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                • Wooly Covfefe says:
                  August 19, 2017 at 12:11 am

                  Indeed, Lovely. As I said, I don’t normally do selfies, but I do want people I love to at least know what I look like, especially when they know who I am by my words. None of us are going to be on this earth forever.

                  You are Lovely.

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                  • lovely says:
                    August 19, 2017 at 12:12 am

                    Thank you Wooly. I had the same thought, I am who I am, take it or leave it, I don’t say anything here I wouldn’t say elsewhere.

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                  • Wooly Covfefe says:
                    August 19, 2017 at 1:32 am

                    Heard. I told my Dad a few years ago, I think when I was commenting on CTH, that my commenting is always going to be respectful, and respectable, and — most importantly — truthful. I try to keep that promise.

                    Lately I’ve been thinking, “Why be afraid?” I am above reproach, and I know it, so anonymity is overrated. No, I won’t do FB or Tweeter, but I don’t care if you all see my face. You’re just as likely to see it in a chair next to a campfire someday, laughing about something you said. And I’m just as likely to go to your funeral with others here.

                    Going to a seasonal camper meetup at Covert Park a couple of weeks ago (the place I was almost conceived at) reminded me of this. So many good people. So many we remember, who left this place, this world, and us.

                    It is good to see your face, Lovely.

                    So I’m Jamie. Now you know. I like “Wooly”, though.

                    It’s better than “Taqiyyologist” or “-otomist”. That was named after something I hate.

                    Why would I come up with a nic for ten years, named after something I hate? I actually hate that nic, and wish Nyet would erase it from breakfast. And not that I don’t want any intrepid investigators or AI to connect Wooly with Taqiyy, either. I’m alt right. I don’t care. I said what I said. I wasn’t spreading joy when I was posting as those names, online or off.

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                  • auscitizenmom says:
                    August 19, 2017 at 9:41 am

                    Wooly, don’t waste any time or energy wanting to change the past. You are who you are. And, some of the things you went through helped make you who you are. Those names just show some stages in your growth. I think you are pretty special.

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                  • valeriecurren says:
                    August 20, 2017 at 2:58 am

                    “(the place I was almost conceived at) ” this snip is from one of your posts further down w/out a reply button…it just reminded me of how I used to call this little Boy Scout canvas teepee style tent “The Conception Tent” because my parents told me I was conceived in it in a campground in Kentucky (or Tennessee)…funny what memories we hold on to…

                    I also appreciate seeing a face to go with your names; you, sir, are a Treasure! God Bless YOU & Thank You So Much for how you bless us here!

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              • ImpeachEmAll says:
                August 18, 2017 at 11:18 pm

                Any chance of a piano man link?

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            • Wooly Covfefe says:
              August 18, 2017 at 5:37 pm

              My new hobby.

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  8. ImpeachEmAll says:
    August 18, 2017 at 2:00 am

    It’s not May; but
    what the hey…

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  9. MaryfromMarin says:
    August 18, 2017 at 2:03 am

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  10. nyetneetot says:
    August 18, 2017 at 7:55 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_| (Tom Collins)
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_| (Black & Tan)
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_| (Boilermaker)
    Mornin’ 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! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
    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’ davidhuntpe! 🙂 |_| (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

    Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Pastries for coffee!

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    • sandandsea2015 says:
      August 18, 2017 at 8:24 am

      Yum! Pancakes AND bacon! Superb! Morning Nyet!

      Happy Friday everyone!

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    • Col.(R) Ken says:
      August 18, 2017 at 8:40 am

      Nye!!!!!!!!!! Morning Everyone!!!!!!!!! Excellent!!!!!!! Thank you, thank you…

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    • Lucille says:
      August 18, 2017 at 8:40 am

      Mornin’, Nyet? I’m up REAL early in PDT zone and am starved. Some sweetheart in the county offices called at 3:26 A.M.!!! looking for one of their employees who used to have my land line number over a year and a half ago. Nothing like keeping your employer properly advised of contact numbers!! And this ain’t da first time I’ve received calls for this gal.

      Then I couldn’t go back to sleep. So, what did I do? I got online and found her first name at the county office by tapping into their search engine the phone number recorded on my phone. Apparently she’s in Accounting. Mmmm, wonder if she absconded with the petty cash.

      Anyhow, I’ll take the full plate of eggs, bacon, pancakes (but could I have melted butter in a little pitcher to drizzle over them) and some nice maple syrup? And a pot of licorice tea? Thanks everso!

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      • Lucille says:
        August 18, 2017 at 2:52 pm

        A maddening addendum: After posting this re the phone calls, I decided to go back to bed and was able to fall asleep again only to be reawakened at 7:45 AM with a desperate-sounding man saying he got my phone number from blah-blah sources and that he was looking for this female and he had some guy in his backseat who needed to talk to her! At that point I should have asked if the guy was young and good looking and given them my address. But no, instead I let him know my number does not belong to the female he was hunting down.

        Once again, I laid down only to be stirred from sleep (along with my kitty Mr. G who was sleeping on my chest!) at 10:24 AM by THE POLICE!! I’m sorry but I yelled at the policeman. After apparently convincing him I am NOT the woman they are all looking for, he apologized for bothering me. It’s funny now but, man, I was PO’d. BTW, the guy who said he was a policeman had an “unknown name” and no phone number registering on my call director.

        Maybe she’s a wanted fugitive running from her Russian mole husband…I mean, who goes off and doesn’t let the dozens of people who have called her in the last year and a half know her new phone number…unless she really is a fugitive absconding with the county’s bank account.

        And NOW, for pity’s sake…the news comes over that Bannon has “resigned”…holy plucky Pete, what’s going on!!!!

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        • Wooly Covfefe says:
          August 18, 2017 at 6:12 pm

          Life is indeed strange.

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        • lovely says:
          August 18, 2017 at 6:26 pm

          I used to get phone calls from what I assume are collection agencies for a Chris, now I never answer the phone unless I recognize the phone number or caller.

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          • auscitizenmom says:
            August 18, 2017 at 8:04 pm

            I started getting calls on my cell phone in the middle of the night. He would leave a message and I figured it was drugs he was after. But, after this happened 4 or 5 times, he called rather desperate because he had left his car keys at home or something and needed this friend to come get him to take him to work. I never answered the phone, but finally figured something was up. So, that day I called him back. Bless his heart, he thanked me for letting him know and apologized profusely and told me he had gotten a new cell phone and must have put his best friend’s number in incorrectly.

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          • valeriecurren says:
            August 20, 2017 at 3:15 am

            I’ve been doing that for years…most calls don’t leave a message so less to delete whenever I Finally get around to actually listening to any messages on the answering machine…

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    • auscitizenmom says:
      August 18, 2017 at 9:26 am

      Ahhh, crispy edged pancakes. I made some banana pecan pancakes a few days ago. They were delicious. I bet these taste just like them. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂

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    • lovely says:
      August 18, 2017 at 2:17 pm

      Good afternoon Nyet 🙂 .

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  11. Lburg says:
    August 18, 2017 at 8:06 am

    Thanks Nyet! I’m always surprised by what you find for breakfast!

    “Sometimes life is a feast with eggs Benedict & hollandaise sauce, waffles & strawberries, sausage links & hashed brown potatoes. And sometimes life is scrambled eggs. In the end, your stomach gets full all the same.” ~ Lisa Schroeder, Chasing Brooklyn

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  12. Lucille says:
    August 18, 2017 at 8:44 am

    And the notices from the UN ordering us to do business their way and not our U. S. Constitutional way just keep on coming….

    UN to Trump: Stop Detaining Illegal Aliens
    by John Binder – 15 August 2017
    http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/08/15/un-trump-stop-detaining-illegal-aliens/

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    • stella says:
      August 18, 2017 at 10:58 am

      I’ll bet the UN calls them “immigrants” or “refugees”, not the illegal aliens that they are.

      ADD: Read it. I was right.

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    • czarowniczy says:
      August 18, 2017 at 11:16 am

      This has been a UN issue for decades. There’s a rather large and divisive segment of the UN that wants open borders, an end to nationalism, that everyone should be free to travel, live and work anywhere they wish without that nasty little passport or this ain’t your country’ problem. Proponents are mostly 3rd world reps, gee no surprise there.

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      • nyetneetot says:
        August 18, 2017 at 11:34 am

        “There’s a rather large and divisive segment of the UN that wants open borders…”
        But they would be ok with being in charge of everything and everyone in exchange.

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        • czarowniczy says:
          August 18, 2017 at 9:29 pm

          ‘OK ‘ hell, that’s their objective. I envision some cigar smoking third world dude wearing a grass skirt, tuxedo, top hat and sporting a necklace of skulls from various small animals, designating himself “President for life, Lord of all the beasts of the earth and fishes of the sea and the five boroughs of New York in particular” ( he’d be a Clinton crony). Then agsin, if he had a Nobel Prize…

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    • czarowniczy says:
      August 18, 2017 at 9:46 pm

      Sooooooo…the Antifa folks who fought the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville over their racist/antisemetic beliefs are establishing and antisemetic network…

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  14. ImpeachEmAll says:
    August 18, 2017 at 9:37 am

    It’s not December and
    we’re not in Hawaii;
    but what the hey. 😉

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  15. Lucille says:
    August 18, 2017 at 9:59 am

    It’s so wonderful having purveyors of the Religion of Peace gracing our shores…WHAT would we do without them….

    Virginia: Muslim screamed “Allahu akbar” at news he’d helped buy rocket-propelled grenade for ISIS
    August 17, 2017 6:21 PM By Robert Spencer
    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/08/virginia-muslim-screamed-allahu-akbar-at-news-hed-helped-buy-rocket-propelled-grenade-for-isis

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  16. sandandsea2015 says:
    August 18, 2017 at 10:40 am

    I made the unfortunate mistake of turning on Fox News a minute ago. I had to turn it right back off. Byron York, John Roberts, and Bill Hemmer were talking about our president like he’s a naughty toddler who has to constantly have his bad behavior corrected. 🙄 ☹️

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  17. stella says:
    August 18, 2017 at 12:46 pm

    The New York Times is reporting that Steve Bannon is out. They also reported that Bannon stated that he tendered his resignation on August 7.

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    • nyetneetot says:
      August 18, 2017 at 1:35 pm

      I remember someone next door wrote that Steve Bannon was a target and the next one out of the administration a couple of weeks ago. The user name, Suni Dancer I think

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    • jeans2nd says:
      August 18, 2017 at 2:37 pm

      Stella, imo this is all good.
      Bannon knows POTUS will not deviate from the economic goals. Bannon has no influence over State and DOD (nor should he).
      Andrew went to the kids at the universities. Milo tried to follow and failed.
      The next logical place to go? The faculty. Witness last week’s interview at The Prospect.
      Bannon just did not know when to shutup, imo. (and was prob a leaker)
      Welcome back to my world, Steve. We needed another warrior.

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    • lovely says:
      August 18, 2017 at 2:50 pm

      Scaramucci said that at least 60% of the leaks were coming from Reince and Bannon. I think Reince is deep in Paul Ryan’s pocket so I am not at all surprised by that but I have liked Bannon (or what I know of Bannon) it will be interesting to see the next step for him.

      Bannon did hand in his resignation 2 weeks ago it seems that President Trump did not accept his resignation until Bannon went way off script about NK. Interesting dynamic. The whole Bannon dismissing a military strike on NK was a very odd turn of words.

      I’m going to wait and see what happens next. I trust Scaramucci.

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      • Col.(R) Ken says:
        August 18, 2017 at 3:27 pm

        Bannon did have a point about NK. 2-3 nukes and Soul ( 10 mil + ) is gone from the map. NK doesn’t care about SK populations’. It’s the winning the war, territory. Just like our “Leaders” during the Cold War assured the Russians of mutual destruction. Take the Nukes out of the equation, it SK all the way to the Yaul Rivier…..

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        • lovely says:
          August 18, 2017 at 3:37 pm

          True but we can’t bait NK into an arms race to bankrupt it. China could bankrupt the Nutter Dictator in a heartbeat. Plus Francis is no Pope John Paul ll and Theresa May is no Margaret Thatcher.

          Not sure how we take the Nukes out of the equation anyway other than what President Trump did by persuading China to say if the little dictator fires the first shot then his fate is sealed.

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          • czarowniczy says:
            August 18, 2017 at 9:57 pm

            Forget Kim, he’s only there because the military supports his reign. Kim’s already popped caps in a number of his senior military staff trying to scare the others into obedience. Problem is thst just makes them sneakier and potential Chinese puppets. I’m betting Kim msy have whacked a few of those senior generals ad he feared they’d been co-opted by the Chinese.
            If you start hearing murmurs of senior government types saying Kim’s dishonored the revolution, his father, grandfather, anything like that, look out, they’re setting the scene for a regime change.

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  18. shiloh1973 says:
    August 18, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    I wrote something late last night. Stella, feel free to delete, if not appropriate.
    The enemies of America and of the World must be taken down.
    We may have waited too long, but then again, I see hope in the faces of true Americans, true Patriots in all countries waking up to the truth. The truth that without our rights as human beings, what is there?
    We cannot fall into the lefts vision of separate groups, labels, sexes, religions, races, colors, or ethnic groups.
    We all have the the rights given to us by God, not man, to be free. To live our lives the way we choose. We wish harm to no one! We encourage all to be the best they can be! To rise above cubby holes they have divided us into.
    Stand up, stand up for your families, your friends, your fellow Americans.
    President Trump has espoused these values for his entire life! I have listened to him, followed him, and agreed with him for over 20 years!
    For the love of God, do not let us fall to the evil proponents of Globalism! We will be fodder for the canons and slaves to their whims. We will never again breathe free air!
    They are trying to erase our past to control our future. The past is the only way we can see what evil people have tried to do to us!
    The “game” has been played on both sides for generations. The final move is being made now! Will you live free? Will you submit? Will you sell your soul to the people who will kill you to gain their power?
    Choose wisely!

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    • sandandsea2015 says:
      August 18, 2017 at 2:10 pm

      Hear you, Shiloh. I think that things will get harder before they get better as the leftists realize they are losing their grip on America.

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    • jeans2nd says:
      August 18, 2017 at 2:44 pm

      Shiloh, perhaps all you see right now are the two left coasts. Come look into our world. We ignore those screaming savages, and carry on with our normal life.

      Go read Stella’s car show post. We are having one this weekend as well, at Quaker City Dragway, so of course ours is better…(lolol JK, Stella)
      Stella’s is closer to you though, plus Stella is nicer than I, so recommend going to Stella’s. Rumor is, WC will be playing piano.

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      • shiloh1973 says:
        August 18, 2017 at 9:10 pm

        I don’t even look at the two coasts. I left California in 1987 and never looked back. I was born in Michigan. You can enjoy your diversions all you want. What is happening in this world is real.

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  19. joshua says:
    August 18, 2017 at 1:09 pm

    MSM, esp NTY, Wash Post, CNN, MSNBC, Fox now, and most of Drudge and BB lately….

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    • sandandsea2015 says:
      August 18, 2017 at 2:08 pm

      Hehe! I was singing that to my daughter the other day just to see the shocked look on her face! I got the desired outcome. 😉

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    • lovely says:
      August 18, 2017 at 3:03 pm

      I have deleted Drudge from my frequently visited sites so I have to actually start to type it in my address bar.

      Matt Drudge can go suck an egg, like the election year revealed many globalists amongst the ranks of so called conservatives the Unite the Right Rally revealed many people who are willing to piss on white people and label them all KKK/Nazis (apparently too ignorant to even realize that those who identify as Nazis today are actually Neo-Nazis).

      The Unite the Right rally revealed people who are more interested in appeasing Antifa and BLM that speaking honestly. No one I know supports or is a Neo-Nazi or a KKK member.

      The vast vast majority on the right are not racists or supporters of racists they are believer in judging a man on the content of his character rather than the color of his skin, (hat tip to adulterer, anti-homosexual, anti gay marriage Martin Luther King Jr.).

      Anyhow Matt Drudge had the audacity to cowardly make his headline “Make America Hate Again” during the Charlottesville melee.

      Lines are being drawn, sides are being chosen, people are being killed, maimed, attacked and maligned and as far as I’m concerned Matt Drudge has chosen a side. And it ain’t mine.

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      • stella says:
        August 18, 2017 at 3:06 pm

        I am using Citizen Free Press and lucianne. Thanks to whoever recommended the former.

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      • sandandsea2015 says:
        August 18, 2017 at 8:02 pm

        Yes, it’s unfortunate he’s decided to go that direction. Oh well. 😦

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      • czarowniczy says:
        August 18, 2017 at 10:04 pm

        These neo-Nazis are pale immitations of the real Nazis they play at being. If pretending made things real then Obama would be a real internationally recognized intellectual. I knew ‘Nazis’, these guys don’t know Nazis, they should be sued for copyright infringement.

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        • Wooly Covfefe says:
          August 19, 2017 at 12:18 am

          Vox Day calls them Cosplayers. Indeed. The real Alt-Right doesn’t need to play dress-up with costumes and insignia, but just to tell the truth without fear. They may as well be Furries, or dressing up like their favorite video game or anime figures, and going out trick-or-treating on Halloween. They are a Soros-funded joke.

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          • czarowniczy says:
            August 19, 2017 at 12:23 am

            I’m not monitoring the sites anymore but I’m willing to make a quakity-beer bet that these squirrels are the same ‘occupy Wall Street’ trash that were rented for that stage play. Could also be the next iteration/generation of the same rent-a-loser service that the Left/Soros crowds dredge up as needed.

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  20. G-d&Country says:
    August 18, 2017 at 1:16 pm

    Hello all 😊 – I’m back. Been a lousy few months, & I have not been able to keep up reading how everyone is doing. I hope everyone is doing well, & ignoring much of the “news”, which is actually the politicized “entertainment-news” business. They do it for ratings & to change public opinion, not to report truthful facts.
    This is a “recipe” that I have made for years. Adjust to your tastes, but do not leave in too much of the bacon drippings if too much fat bothers you:
    1 (or more) package bacon
    1 can black lentils (better flavor & more fiber than brown)
    1 jar tomato sauce (we like Rao’s)
    1 box pasta
    1 onion
    In large pan cook bacon, break up, & set aside. Keep some drippings in pan. While bacon is cooking, cook pasta*. Chop onion & brown in drippings. Drain excess bacon drippings, but keep onions in pan. Drain & rinse lentils, then stir into onions & brown. Add sauce to heat & de-glaze pan. If pan is large enough, add pasta stirring & cooking a bit. Re-add bacon to mixture. Sprinkle grated parmesan cheese on when serving.
    *If you cook the pasta a little less (more al dente), & add a little more sauce you can put in a casserole dish sprayed with Pam, top with parmesan cheese (sliced or grated), & bake until it bubbles & some of the sauce is absorbed.
    Here is an interesting painting by Arthur Wardle who painted mainly dogs, & a few people with them. This has autumn colors, but they convey the heat of a hot August day.

    View post on imgur.com

    I forgot how I did this. I hope it appears.

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  21. G-d&Country says:
    August 18, 2017 at 1:50 pm

    The stars in the lighthouse photo are beautiful, & remind me of a weekend I spent at a little B&B in Northern Vermont.One night I looked out the window & saw what looked like a big glowing cloud. I went outside away from the house, & as my eyes adjusted to the dark, I could see it was not a cloud with the moon behind it, but a “cloud” of millions of stars! It was so beautiful. I hope I never forget that. Thanks for that lovely picture reminding me of that beautiful night.

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    • Wooly Covfefe says:
      August 18, 2017 at 2:21 pm

      Welcome back, G&C.

      I remember in my early 20s going to N. Vermont with all my friends from the Boston area. When they saw this, you inevitably heard them exclaim, “Look at all these STAHS! Wicked awesome!” Inside the Rte. 128 circle, you can’t see more than ten stars at night, let alone the Milky Way. And these folks, bless their hearts, had never been outside that circle, in their lives. When I moved there my Senior year in HS, many of the students seriously wondered if we had power and running water in Michigan, because it’s outside the 128 circle. I’ve heard that many New Yorkers think like this too.

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      • G-d&Country says:
        August 18, 2017 at 2:35 pm

        I am glad they pronounced STAHS correctly! hahaha. Good to hear from you. I always loved the outdoors, even tho I lived inside 128. Thankfully my house was full of people from all over, so I did not have that narrow big city viewpoint.

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        • Wooly Covfefe says:
          August 18, 2017 at 4:02 pm

          I was in Melrose, Lynn, Everett, Malden, and all points in between.

          As a senior in HS, and an accent chameleon, I developed it quickly. You didn’t talk like them, you were on the outside. I try to forget that part of my life, but there were, and are, some good points.

          My Nana’s accent, it cannot be described with normal phonetics. It is a very incredibly unique regional accent. Like New Jersey, NYC, and Chicago, but with differences that are noticeable. I know Chicagoans (boy howdy, do I.), who talk like they’re from NYC. It’s the Tough Guy accent. Inside the 128 circle, even the girls have the Tough Guy accent, and then they take it, and accentuate it further afield from Normal American English.

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          • G-d&Country says:
            August 18, 2017 at 4:15 pm

            “Inside the 128 circle, even the girls have the Tough Guy accent” That is in the Melrose, Lynn, Everett, Malden et al area. Some areas sound more like Maine accents, and some more like Old New England Yankee. My dad would always correct me if my Old New England Yankee accent slipped into the Melrose/Malden accent you described! The Kennedy accent was I believe made up by them just for them. I think they added British royalty to Old New England Yankee. I know of no one else who had an accent like that. Some had a mild version slightly different, but not like that.

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            • Wooly Covfefe says:
              August 18, 2017 at 4:28 pm

              Indeed. The accents are not only regional there, but sub-regional, and they change a lot depending on how far, and in which direction, from Congress Street you are. When I was in NH, and on an outing harvesting potatoes in Maine, the folks who owned the farm (and treated us to steak and lobster), didn’t sound at all like the stereotypical Mainer accent on the TeeVee (“Cahnt get theyah from heyah.”) , closer to the N.E. MA accent.

              It was an amazing time in my life. From the woods barefoot on dirt roads, because we could, to the “T” (MBTA, of course), with it’s buses, subways, and trains. I knew every building in the city. Every street. Every alley. I was in all of them, every day. Tagged half the freight elevators with a sharpie. I bet some of my tags are still there, after 20+ years. Why? Because they were small. 1″ max.

              I don’t think I’ll ever go back, even though State Street and Faneiul Hall were my stomping grounds. Boston City Hall is right next to there. It’s the most hideous building ever built in America. I bet if they got their accent right, their architectural and artistic skills would follow.

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              • Wooly Covfefe says:
                August 18, 2017 at 4:40 pm

                I remember a couple at a stop light, asking me how to get to State Street Bank, while I was at an intersection with a two-wheeler full of copier paper, waiting for the light to change, in deep, dirty, slushy snow.

                I told them, and pointed, as I was near the gilded 75 State, Fleet Bank’s flagship, (across the street from 60, also a nice building), that State Street Bank is on Franklin Street. Three blocks over, just over the park from Post Office Square. “See! It says State Street Bank on the top of it!”

                Why isn’t it called Franklin Street Bank?

                Given that most people in Boston cannot speak correctly, is it a wonder?

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              • G-d&Country says:
                August 18, 2017 at 5:19 pm

                Boston city hall -the poster child for the “brutalist” style of buildings. A concrete block looks better. Around that building has it’s own high wind zone. I remember you had some tough times here, but some good times too. Hold on to the good memories 🙂

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                • Wooly Covfefe says:
                  August 18, 2017 at 5:45 pm

                  Every Thursday was big-band jazz ensembles for a couple of years, and all the downtown workers, of every stripe, stopped off there before getting on their train at Haymarket or Gov’t Center stations.

                  The great equalizers were bus stops, subway stations, and Pot.

                  All us couriers, whether on foot or bike, would hang out every lunchtime and smoke funny things in the alley behind 75 State, with janitors, lawyers, judges, architects, and bankers.

                  Waiting for the bus was also a great equalizer.

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                • Wooly Covfefe says:
                  August 18, 2017 at 5:48 pm

                  “Brutalist Architecture”

                  Yes. The best example in America.

                  What could be more brutal than saying to America, “Hey, here’s a building that punches you all in the face?”

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          • valeriecurren says:
            August 20, 2017 at 3:57 am

            I stayed with one of my old roommates over Spring break in Beverly…& I think we took the train through Lynn but definitely Swampscott (what a horrible sounding name) for a day trip into Bean-Town. On some excursion in Salem, where they had witches painted on the sides of the police cars, there was a guy preaching in this central town square. I went over to talk with & encourage him & ultimately prayed with him & as we prayed a woman in flowing black garments & a pasty white face kept circling us from like ten feet out hissing & curling her fingers like claws toward us. It felt like being on the literal front line where Light & Darkness collide…Pretty intense, especially in the era of having recently read Frank Peretti’s Piercing the Darkness!

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  22. Wooly Covfefe says:
    August 18, 2017 at 2:34 pm

    https://www.menofthewest.net/the-man-in-the-arena/

    Excellent defense and explanation of Vox Day by Rabbi B.

    The MSM still hasn’t mentioned the actual 16 points of the Alt Right, nor refuted any.

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  23. Lburg says:
    August 18, 2017 at 5:11 pm

    Hope everyone has plans for a wonder filled weekend!

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  24. stella says:
    August 18, 2017 at 6:26 pm

    Trump And The Jews

    http://carolineglick.com/trump-and-the-jews/


    “But then, it wasn’t unprecedented for a president to obfuscate the potency of antisemitism in political violence.

    In February 2015, a terrorist aligned with Islamic State entered the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris on a Friday afternoon and held the Jewish shoppers hostage while killing four of them.

    When asked about the event, then-president Barack Obama denied the massacre was an antisemitic attack. He referred to the victims as “a bunch of guys in a deli.” The perpetrators were merely “a bunch of violent, vicious zealots.”

    When asked to clarify if Obama really meant to deny the attack was an antisemitic assault, both the White House and State Department spokespeople insisted, repeatedly, that the attack was not antisemitic.” …

    “Antifa is problematic for American Jews specifically because it operates in a coalition of far-left groups that all hate Israel and believe that just as Republicans and conservatives should be banned from participating in public life, so American Jews who support Israel should be silenced. All of its coalition partners support the destruction of Israel and castigate the Jewish state as criminal. All bar Jews who support Israel – or even are proud of their Jewish identity – from participating in their events.” …

    “Given that the white supremacists and radical leftists converge in their hatred of Jews, it is important for the American Jewish community and for America as a whole to embrace Trump’s actions. He is not engaging in moral equivalence between good and evil. He is exercising moral clarity. Without such clarity, the forces of Jew-hatred in the US will never be defeated. Without such clarity, the political position, security and freedom of American Jews will grow increasingly imperiled.

    Israel’s job, to the extent it has one in the current fight plaguing the US, is to point out this truth, not join the bandwagon in obfuscating it. Trump is far from a perfect mouthpiece for this essential battle against Jew-haters on the Right and the Left.

    But at least he is using his mouth to sound the battle cry. For this he should be applauded by Israelis and American Jews alike.”

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  25. lovely says:
    August 18, 2017 at 8:46 pm

    Bannon has already said that “The Trump presidency that we fought for and won is over.”much to the glee of the Leftist lobotomized loons.

    Swift and sly as a fox, Bannon begins playing the MSM as fools I can’t imagine another line that would more fully make the MSM howl at the moon, than that dastardly anti semite racist 😏 Bannon saying that Trump’s presidency is “over”.

    😜

    The MSM should listen with some curiosity one of these days but nope that is what they will run with. Bannon said “The Trump presidency that we fought for and won is over.” The sun will come out tomorrow!!”

    The problem is that Bannon followed up that line with “This movement is bigger than the president.”

    Other nuggets from Bannon since he walked out the door, “Now Im free. I’ve got my hands back on my weapons. I am definitely going to crush the opposition. I built a f*cking machine and now I’m going back to rev it up.

    Go kick their butts Mr. Bannon!

    Meanwhile

    To date, Trump has nominated 44 federal judges and scored eight confirmations, including Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.

    Trump has taken some criticism for not filling executive branch jobs more quickly. But the same cannot be said for appointments to the judiciary, as he is also surpassing Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton in the first 200 days.

    http://dailysignal.com/2017/08/10/trump-appoints-more-judges-in-200-days-than-obama-bush-clinton/

    Give me a judge over an ambassador any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

    Knock your socks off haters. Bellyache all you want. President Trump ain’t going anywhere 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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  26. auscitizenmom says:
    August 18, 2017 at 9:00 pm

    lilbirdee12’s prayer:

    Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.

    Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.

    Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.

    Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
    Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.

    We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
    Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen

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