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General Discussion, Friday, October 13, 2017
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They survived 6 hours in a California pool while their neighborhood burned to the ground…
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-couple-survives-california-fires-in-pool-20171012-htmlstory.html
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The feckless spoiled boys of the NFL think that they have something to teach men like this.
https://twitter.com/TrumpTrain45Pac/status/918675050751868928
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Once upon a time, America held her celebrities as heroes, and celebrities, especially athletes, modeled American values, granted, not always authentically.
Franchise owners and Hollywood moguls knew who buttered their bread, and many were truly patriots.
Now they are just the entitled elite who scorn their audience, yet demand their money. I spit in their general direction.
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Our culture’s changed to where those who follow the rules, work hard to obtain an education and do something that betters humanity are no longer held in regard, if not ridiculed.
I’ve always felt that the progressives’ attempts to uplift the poor, oppressed and disenfranchised, bringing them into the greater fold were largely a failure. Combined with the internationalist porogs’ complaints about, basically, the US is too smart and too successful and must be dialed back, we come to present day America.
Note that upper scale parents avoid public school like the plague, they send their kids to private schools that specialize in pure academics while more and more public schools are pushing a heavily blue collar or no collar curriculum.
In the more affluent NOLA bedroom communities we have private and parochial schools and some higher level public schools that parent fight to get their kids into while in NOLA the curriciulum is…to be kind…softer. NOLA has an increased emphasis in some, and a special school for, ‘arts’. First thing that comes to my mind is a more educated class of young street performers on Quarter street corners.
Can’t say we don’t support our performing class though, we have a group that builds them free housing as most don’t make enough money for rent/mortgage. We have a group of physicians who provide them free medical care and others who provide free other services…all because their trades don’t pay. Maybe we can pass a special tax on productive people to care for the hangers-on….oh yeah, we did.
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We sent our kids to parochial school, and damned near beggared ourselves to do it, spending all our money on education for so many years that we will never have the kind of retirement we might have otherwise had. The boys helped out some with tuition once they got jobs as teenagers, but a lot of their money soon went to gas and insurance.
For a while there, when they were young men, I thought we had wasted all that money of education, they were still stupid. Time has proven me wrong, thank God.
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New Orleans’ claim to educational excellence after those millions and millions of taxpayer $$$$ thrown at its school system is: we don’t have quite a bad a standardized failure rate and dropout rate as we had pre-K, and we haven’t had any school board members indicted lately.
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I’ve always felt that the progressives’ attempts to uplift the poor, oppressed and disenfranchised, bringing them into the greater fold were largely a failure.
They were not attempting to do that. They were attempting to convince us and all the poor, oppressed and disenfranchised that they were attempting to do that. It was largely a success. MPAI. Most people are idiots, and believed them.
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also made great deals of money running these programs, money hoses flowed freely for decades. The poor were managed like cattle and you really have to squint to see much more than better fed and better housed poor.
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400 more reasons not to watch NFL.
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Oh, my………………………..these are men.
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I hope every NFL team invites this guy to sing the national anthem at one of their games this year! I’d donate to a kickstarter fund to pay his way.
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(waves and smiles) Hi Lucille. Thanks for these lovely messages.
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You are welcome, Lburg.
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Good afternoon, Lucille! Hope you’re having a wonderful Friday.
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Thanks, Sand! It’s rainy and I can see from my home office window that the hill on the other side of the property is mist-covered and the pines are looking very beautiful. It’s a good day!
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No particular reason:
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Good morning, Mary!
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Evenin’, s and s! [cough, cough]
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Actually my ex had that put on a mug she gave me shortly before….hey, how’s the fire situation in your neck of the yet unburned woods?
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Air quality here (where I live) is horrible, with no end in sight. People walking around with masks, some schools closed, no outside play (!!!!!) No fires here, but at least three work colleagues impacted now, either directly or indirectly through close family members.
Death toll rising.
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If it comes to needing a mask forget the paper cup painter’s mask, get one used by spray painters with a filter that can be mounted externally and changed while you wear the mask. You can extend the filter’s life a bit by putting a chunk of pasper cup painter’s mask over the filter (rubber band). It filters out particiulate matter, not gasses loke CO2/CO. Old post-Katrins ‘our world’s made out of stinky dust’ trick.
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Thank you, czar!
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Again, my pleasure.
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Hmmmmmmmmmm… 😉
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… 😉
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I recognize that story’s arc.
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The memories are just flooding over you, aren’t they?
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Can’t Naamah nother event that lets me Ham it up more.
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Gopher broke.
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Thought I’d put that in honoring Noah and Naamah as God’s first au pairs…
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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! 🙂 🍸 (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’ skipper1961! 🙂 (Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂 (Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
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!
Pastries for coffee!
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Good Morning, Nyet – thank you especially for the Friday Feast and all the delicious looking pastries. Good Morning everyone!
“She hadn’t bothered to go to bed, since Tuesday was one of the days on which she rose before dawn to bake brioche, scones, cinnamon rolls, and- Tuesdays only- a coffee cake rich with cardamom, orange zest, and grated gingerroot: a cunningly savory sweet that left her work kitchen smelling like a fine Indian restaurant, a brief invigorating change from the happily married scents of butter, vanilla, and sugar (the fragrance, to Greenie, of ordinary life).” ~Julia Glass, The Whole World Over
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Morning Lburg! The coffee cake description sounds perfectly devine!
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Hope you have plans for a fabulous Friday, S&S. That really does sound good, doesn’t it?
Hmm. (goes on recipe hunt….returns triumphant…)
Here’s one for a coffee cake with cardomom, orange and ginger. Will look around and see what else pops up!
http://franglaiskitchen.com/orange-ginger-and-cardamom-loaf-cake/
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That looks amazing!
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One More – http://www.kitchenbowl.com/recipe/zAdzAJFsi8/orange-ginger-cardamom-cake
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Great finds! My younger DD loves to bake. Maybe I can convince her to make one of these.
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I just looked at this one again, S&S.. I am sooooo baking it this weekend.
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I just looked at this one again, S&S.. I am sooooo baking it this weekend.
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😊
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Oh, goodness, I wish she lived near me. I’d be sure to get acquainted – – appropriately, of course, initiating contacts over 2-3 days before I started sitting at her door at sunrise, looking a little bereft.
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LOL
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Good morning, Nyet! Wonderful breakfast selection today!
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Just what I am going to have, bacon, eggs, and hashbrowns. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Feeling a bit parched… 😉
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Hey! Where’s the 3 Little Pigs???
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… 😉
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Some find tea a bit too strong;
so, a new industry was born… 😉
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Historically coffee came first in most places in the world (including England).
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Seriously? I never thought about it. 😯
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😉
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Was thinking about
the Boston Tea Party. 😉
Thanks for the FYI.
Did not know Starbucks
has been around so long. 😉
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The first coffee house was opened in Oxford in 1651. Tea was first sold in England in 1657. The first coffee house opened in North America in 1689. Boston Tea Party was in 1773.
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Tea was introduced to Europe in 1610 by the Dutch. Coffee came to Europe about 1580-1590 via trade in Italy.
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Nyet! Is that bacon peeking out from under the avocado garnished omelette? Mmmm!
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Good evening Nyet 🙂 .
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Mornin’ kids!
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Good Morning, Wee!
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Mornin’ Lburg!
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Good day to you, WeeWeed. Looks like the President and Rand had some nice behind-scenes talks. Dismantling the Abomination by Obamination piece-by-piece is something the GOPe didn’t grasp would happen. How they hate President Donald John Trump and by extension, us! Well, they better start the love soon or else!
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Afternoon Lucy!
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LOL! Afternoon WeeWeed! I must say that Rand Paul has one of the more fascinating “do’s” on Capital Hill! I’m always wondering if it’s going to crawl off his head.
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Afternoon S&S!
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LOL! A tad disheveled looking up top. Maybe we should start a campaign and send him brush/comb sets.
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Evening Wee 🙂 .
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Evenin’ Lovely!
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Got up to news that NOPD officer was shot and killed last night. Officer was fairly new to the force and rather young (30ish). Four officers got out of their cars in New Orleans East to check out a suspicious person only to have that person open fire, hitting the deceased officer multiple times. Suspect was wounded and fled to an apartment and later surrendered. Wounded suspect is being treated at the same hospital the deceased officer was treated at.
We’ve been losing about two officers a year for the last few years, more than we lost before the new enlightened administration redesigned the PD.
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Shooter was just identified. Darren Bridges, 30 year old black male with extensive criminal record (TV talking head info). First adult felony arrest was 2004 for cocaine possession. Last felony arrest was in 2015 for ‘felon in possesion of a firearm’. He was sentenced to 6-1/2 years in prison but served only 3 years before state paroled him. He was out on probation when he shot and killed the NOPD officer. Despite an’extensive’ criminal record including arrests for violent crimes he has only served 3 years total in prison. No indepth info yet on the totality of his adult sheet but that should be coming and quite possibly his juvie record will be unsealed too.
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So sorry to hear about this Czar. I shake my head in disgust and frustration when reading stories like this. Unfortunately, this is not the only one I’ve ever read.
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I’m hearing there are a lopt of PO’d cops.Not long ago this turd would never have made it to the hospital breathing but we’re a kinder, mo’ gentler city now.
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With all the kinder, mo’ gentler ramifications.
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Typo…last conviction 2012, paroled in 2015. News later tonite will break down his entire adult sheet. One reliable source is saying that DA’s office hasn’t said if they’ll seek death penalty…I’m betting that the uproar if they don’t will comvince the office to do so otherwise some pols there might be forced to get a new job.
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I bet he’s smiling smugly in his mug-shot. Because of course he is. These people aren’t afraid to go to prison, THEY WANT TO.
A few weeks ago I had the day off, and I gave my friend and his daughters a small tour of town, and we ended up back at the restaurant, and got involved in further shenanigans involving water balloons, a target, and climbing up on the roof of the building with them, and firing a “volley”, as it were at said target. One of the girls asked me, and it was late, like 10:00 at night, “Why are you here, at work, if you’re not even on the clock?”
I told her, “Because this is where all my friends are.” She nodded.
These thugs want to be in prison. That’s where all their friends are.
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Today is a special day for us Catholics, as we observe the 100th anniversary of Fatima. Across the world Catholic faithful are having public rosaries, Eucharistic processions, and special observances to mark this miracle.
https://www.ewtn.com/fatima/sixth-apparition-of-our-lady.asp
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Pharmacy Says They Deliver ALZHEIMER’S Medications To Members Of Congress
http://www.dailywire.com/news/22170/pharmacy-says-they-deliver-alzheimers-medications-ryan-saavedra
A Washington D.C. pharmacy revealed on Wednesday that they deliver medications that treat “serious health problems” to members of Congress, including medications to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
Pharmacy owner, Dr. Mike Kim, said that he has “gotten used to” knowing highly sensitive information about some of the most powerful people in Washington, STAT reported.
“At first it’s cool, and then you realize, I’m filling some drugs that are for some pretty serious health problems as well. And these are the people that are running the country,” Kim said, listing treatments for conditions like diabetes and Alzheimer’s…
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Okay, Diabetes is only serious of it’s untreated. I live a fairly normal life in spite of mine. (Of course, it’s dead weight when job hunting, but that’s a different story.) There should be no serious issues if the folks keep on their meds.
Alzheimer’s, however, is a different story….
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Well that certainly explains some things. 😳
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I wonder how much of it they deliver to Pelosi. 🙄
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On the invoice, it says “kg”.
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Probably by the pallet.
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On this day, 1775, the US Navy was established.
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Happy Birthday to the Navy!
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… 😉
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On this day, 1775, the US Navy was established.
To take out Muslims. True story.
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Am I the only one who noticed it is Friday the 13th? Or does nobody actually believe in superstitions like they did when I was a kid? My mother explained the various ones (spill salt, break a mirror, black cat stuff, etc.) but did not believe in them, because her mother refused to be afraid of anything. Gramma was born on a small farm in east Texas (near Paris) in 1898 and came out very practical & sensible, with no tolerance for such foolishness.
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I’ve written the date a few times today, but hadn’t thought about it.
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We just always made a big joke about it. I don’t remember anybody taking it seriously.
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… 😉
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Wikipedia states Spanish speaking countries & Greece think Tuesday is unlucky especially if it is the 13, or 17th. Italy goes with Friday the 17th. Seems there is no reference to it in English literature before 1869. Seems there are an estimated 17 to 21 million people in the US who fear it.
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Anything untoward happening to you on Friday the 13th is about as likely as finding a dead body on your doorstep. Oh, but then if THAT occurred on Friday the 13th, it would have been unlucky for both you and the carcass. Maybe there IS something to it!
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Now, if THIS happened on Friday the 13th, we’d all have to revise our fear lists…
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… 😉
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Lucky Day!!!
Guess who found some matching footwear…
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Friday the 13th is the Egyptian view of Passover.
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Entitled “Rain On Red Leaves”
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So pretty!
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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.
And, Lord, we pray for all the people who have been affected by the earthquakes and hurricanes.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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“Patience” is one of the things I like best about that prayer.
When I pray the first thing I do is Thank God. For so much.
Before I dare ask Him for anything.
He’s not a vending machine. I know that. I don’t pray for me as much as I do for everyone around me. What do I need? Not much. A good woman, sure. Prov. 31 is not lost on me.
Me and God have an agreement. When I’m thinking about someone that is here or in real life, and talking all the stuff out loud because I live alone and can do that, that I wish I was speaking to that person, that I am actually praying for them, and for their well-being. God honors that agreement. It is an odd arrangement, I know, but he worketh.
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You live alone for 46 years, see how much you talk to yourself, and to God, and to all the people you know, without their knowledge.
And then go work with them. Or comment with them.
All my prayers involve all of you folks, too.
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This was Bishop Barron’s gospel reflection of Wednesday. The last paragraph has been on my mind since then.
LUKE 11:1-14
Friends, our Gospel for today gives us an opportunity to reflect on the great prayer that Jesus taught us. Think how this prayer links us to all of the great figures in Christian history, from Peter and Paul to Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Francis of Assisi, John Henry Newman, G.K. Chesterton, John Paul II, right up to the present day.
A desire to pray is planted deep within us. This just means the desire to speak to God and to listen to him. Keep in mind that prayer is not designed to change God’s mind or to tell God something he doesn’t know. God isn’t like a big city boss or a reluctant pasha whom we have to persuade. He is rather the one who wants nothing other than to give us good things—though they might not always be what we want.
Can you see how this prayer rightly orders us? We must put God’s holy name first; we must strive to do his will in all things and at all times; we must be strengthened by spiritual food or we will fall; we must be agents of forgiveness; we must be able to withstand the dark powers.
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Thanks, Menagerie.
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