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General Discussion, Thursday, October 26, 2017
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Glad to see the weather is good for some exercise! 😉
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Morning G & C!
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Morning Sandandsea 🙂
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It’s really cold here. It got down into the 50’s last night. 🙄 I actually had to put on a shirt that had sleeves in it.
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And we are going to have freezing nights next week!
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Some people here say they are freezing. LOL
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🙂 Hope the crops will be Ok!
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Well, I put on a long sleeved shirt this morning and now I am sitting in the living room with the sun shining in the sliding glass doors and am starting to sweat. May have to change.
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That is often how it is here this time of year. The day starts out chilly, but by afternoon it is in the 70’s and sunny.
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It’s almost 80* now in my LR. I guess that is why I am too warm.
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We’re only going up to 56° today. Open windows fresh air! I love this time of the year.
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My friends in L.A. are still wearing their flipflops and shorts. 85 degrees there right now.
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It was 91 today here in socal. Going to be that way through halloween then supposedly cool down. And we have a smaller wildfire here, again.
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Morning Lucille…..Yes, chilly here.
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Good morning Col. Ken!
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Good morning Col. Ken. You are daily in my prayers.
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Morning Col. 44° here 🙂 .
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That’s what that fireplace is for. Reminded me: y’all remember the smell of the smoke from the homes in Germany that burned coal briquets in the winter for heat? Used to be a lot of ’em around Graf and K-town.
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Good day to you, Colonel. Lovely fall day here in Idaho.
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Very cute! Good morning, Lucille!
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Yes, it was a good morning, sand…didn’t get up until 11:00…LOL!
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Nice!
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Good Morning Lucille.
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Good autumn day to you, Lburg.
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If I am going to have fall colors, I will need to have this highly enlarged and paste it on my sliding glass doors.
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Gorgeous!
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Stella What happened to my name???
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Oh I know – ‘never mind” (shakes head) – time for supper and a heat pack for my back – Sorry!
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I have no idea.
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God morning Lucille 🙂 . I went as Mickey Mouse for halloween one year when I was about 4. But my true love at the time was Mighty Mouse!
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Afternoon, lovely! I always wanted to be a princess…those were such fun years when everyone would come dressed in costume.
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I was a tomboy not much into girly things but I really hoped to marry Might Mouse one day ❤️.
Now I love special dress up occasions other than the ghastly shoes I have to wear 😐.
My niece loves to play fairy princess, I just bought her a beautiful “princess” dress all lace, sequins and flowers, I’m sure she’ll be over the moon about it.
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Mighty Mouse was my husband’s hero as a child. He and his brothers and sisters always played MM and he had to be the hero. One of his sisters bought him a stuffed Mighty Mouse doll, and he keeps it in his den. Won’t part with it.
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Hot DIGGITY DOG……..lol
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A few beautiful autumn-themed items for your display cabinet…Emile Galle Vases (French glassmaker)
Opalescent on the inside…Circa 1905
Acid-etched…Art Nouveau
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Beautiful, just beautiful!
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Yes, those pieces are beautiful.
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So pretty!
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Art nouveau is my favorite. Went to several exhibits while visiting NY & DC over the years. Love that art nouveau design was inspired by the Broighter Hoard found in 1896 (look it up, the story is fun, but the pieces are wonderful, & would be fashionable in any era!) Of course, beautiful gold jewelry is always appreciated….
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Just looked it up. The torc is beautiful, but I must admit that little boat is my favorite. The tiny oars and other parts are amazing! How wonderful you have been able to go to those exhibits. 🙂 Thanks for posting such an interesting story.
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That was a neat story. I enjoyed the pictures so much.
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Beautiful!
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Beautiful!
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has a sad….
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Have anyone to blame it on, Josh?
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So as I previously posted, I had a couple of hundred trees cut down. Last winter the original tree company asked me to number trees in order of importance to be cut, hence the 0’s 1’s and 2’s on trees in my back yard photo.
Then a deer wandered by and ….
‘Hank’s PTSD kicks in as he remembers his last words to Hal…’
“Bummer of a birthmark Hal”.
The Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson was what I was going to post here for my artwork of the day post, but sigh: In 2013 Larson has asked his fans not to repost his work on the internet. In a public letter, he told fans his work was too personal and important to him to have others take control of it.
So you’ll just have to remember the visual “punch line” !
Gary Larson (born 1950) is an American cartoonist. Larson was born and raised in Washington state. He graduated from Washington State University with a degree in communications. He also played guitar and banjo. Larson said his family has “a morbid sense of humor”, and that he was influenced by the “paranoid” sense of humor of his older brother, Dan. Dan played pranks on Gary, Dan “scared the hell out of me” whenever he could, Gary said, but Dan also nurtured Gary’s love of scientific knowledge. They caught animals and placed them in terrariums.
Larson was working in a music store when he finally realized how much he hated his job. He then decided to try cartooning. In 1979 Larson submitted his work to The Seattle Times where it was accepted and published weekly. To supplement his income, Larson worked for the Humane Society as a cruelty investigator. Larson thought he could increase his income by selling his strip to another newspaper, so he pitched his work to the San Francisco Chronicle. To his surprise, the Chronicle bought the strip and promoted it for syndication, renaming it The Far Side. The Seattle Times then dropped it. Themes in The Far Side were often surreal, such as “How cows behave when no human watches”. In 1987, Larson married Toni Carmichael, an anthropologist. Early in their relationship, Carmichael became his business manager. “She’s my pit bull, but she’s a nice one,” Larson has said. The Far Side ran for fifteen years, until Larson retired with his final strip published in 1995. His twenty-three books of collected cartoons have combined sales of more than forty-five million copies. Larson’s Far Side cartoons were also reproduced extensively. Far Side calendars, greeting cards, t-shirts, etc. are all discontinued.
Larson was awarded the Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award by the National Cartoonists Society in 1985 and 1988, and the society’s Reuben Award for 1990 and 1994. Larson has been recognized for various individual strips by the Society in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1995. Larson is also an outspoken environmentalist. In 1989 a newly discovered insect species was named after Larson. He wrote: “I considered this an extreme honor. Besides, I knew no one was going to write and ask to name a new species of swan after me. You have to grab these opportunities when they come along.” A butterfly was also named after him.
So no more Larson NON-pictures!
Have a great day everyone 🙂
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I miss far side so much. And Calvin and Hobbes. A favorite:
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HAHAHA! I remember that one!
By the way – Hal’s birthmark was a bullseye for those who forgot or did not know 🙂
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….fry em like bacon…….
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Loved Far Side!
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Me too. So did DH 🙂
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Same here…Katrina didn’t ask though, felled between 11 and 14-thousand 20+ year old pines.
‘Birthmark’ cartoon is my #2 favorite, #1 is the ‘The real reason dinosaurs became extinct’ as Czarina had it posted when she was getting me to quit.
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I pray you were able to quit Czar. I watched two wonderful family members die from cancer from smoking.
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couldn’t leave the room unmanned. window
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Wow! That was interesting…cursor suddenly started erasing what I’d written and posted in mid erase. Trick or treat.
Anyway, was saying I knew the date right down to the exact minute I’d quit, I’d been a heavy smoker for years and it wasn’t easy to stop. I had a swing shift lone-operator position at a commo center that handled TS traffic so I couldn’t leave the room. I had my final Kool Unfiltered at 4:30 PM, 30 September 1980.
We used to go into the bathroom, open the window and blow the smoke out of the window after they installed the huge Halon tanks and sensors in the main room. Used to be able to smoke at our break/dinner area off in the corner. I had them take the key for the window with them so that I couldn’t open it…I was trapped. Also, at shift end I walked the two miles home instead of driving, and bussed in/walked home every day for a month.
Cigarettes were an old and dear friend, and breaking up is hard to do.
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Dems Said Trump Jr. Deserved Jail for Russian Collusion, But Clinton Justified for Doing Same
It’s fun watching them squirm in their own cesspool of hypocrisy.
10.25.2017 – Trey Sanchez
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/dems-said-trump-jr-deserved-jail-russian-collusion-clinton-justified-doing-same
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I will wait and see……
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Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Doughnuts for coffee!
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Good morning, Nyet! Thank you for breakfast!
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Good Morning, Nyet and thanks for breakfast. Just some orangy orange juice for me today!
“Miss Tarabotti was not one of life’s milk-water misses–in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing a very strong cognac when one was expecting to imbibe fruit juice–that is to say, startling and apt to leave one with a distinct burning sensation.” ~ Gail Carriger
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Pretty sure I would enjoy Miss Tarabotti.
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Mornin’!
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Breakfast looks really good. Mornin’ Nyet, everybody. 🙂
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Good morning Nyet 🙂 .
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Mornin Nyet. I’ll just have the ZM bacon special and some coffee please. 🙂
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Since I got up late, Nyet, I’ll take something that’s good for lunch…so that’d be bacon, and what looks to be potato cakes on both plates….plus a bear claw if there’s one left.
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Mornin’ kids!
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So true!!!!!
Morning WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Good Morning Wee!
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Mornin’ Lburg!
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Mornin Stella. That photo on the top of the page is gorgeous! I have never seen trees with bark and leaves those particular colors. I’m guessing in Spain they have autumn “leaf peepers” the same way we do here in NH 🙂
The past couple of years leaf colors have been very good here. Would it be OK to post maybe 3 a day of my photos I’ve taken in my area. I don’t want to slow the page down with too many pictures.
I feel for Larsen about control of his work,.I don’t have the ability to do a watermark with only Paint, so I am trying to put my signature on without it ruining the photos. I figure if I’m out there at dawn, or in the snow, or hanging out of a car window taking the pics, it is my art same as a painting, and I don’t want someone taking or altering my work. Please, at your convenience, let me know if it’s OK. Thanks! 🙂
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Sure!
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Thank you 🙂
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Good morning Wee 🙂 .
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Mornin WeeWeed 🙂
That’s a good one! May I humbly suggest the artist add to the cartoon the Chamber of Commerce et al stuffing cash into their pockets?
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Mornin’ G&C!
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Congressional GOPes wouldn’t know how to bring in anything on time and under budget since their playbook seems to be full of frustrating routes which make goals for the other team.
Thank God, WeeWeed, for Donald J. Trump demanding goals and extra points for the American people.
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Evenin’ Lucy!
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I like this picture of President Trump. Everyone else is busily fluttering around, and he is happily, calmly sitting there – happy, sure of himself, and confident. 🙂
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Me too, it is one of my favorites.
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HAHAHA! That’s a good one! 🙂
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Yep, someone is having a birthday…
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… 😉
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Have a ball… 😉
https://twitter.com/American1765/status/923304068663140355
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hmmmmmmm……do you get two scoops with that cake slice?
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To bring back my fav reply to this old tweet: “You misspelled ‘convict’.
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cofefe…..
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Her arrogance as an adult is stunning, but the expression on her face as a child is – unusual shall we say. That’s forced/fake smile if I ever saw one.
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I’m not criticizing her AS A A CHILD. I actually feel sorry for kids with such fake smiles.
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So when daddy splits with the waitress from iHop the kiddies angst can be soothed with some white bread and artificially flavored liquid sugar product. Ain’t carbs wunnferful.
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Cute kid. What she has become is a tragedy.
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These are 3 photos I took last year before the trees were cut. We tried to save as many maples as possible, and we were able to save these.
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Ok, apparently imgur deleted it before I posted. I’ll try again doing one pic per post.
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Getting into winter here, leaves and vines are dropping leaves so we have to go out and thin our volunteer oaks and maples. Hurts to do it but it opens up the canopy and the hardwoods will rush in to spread out, shade the competition and head for the sky.
We have had some great growth this year due to the wet spring and summer, long leaf pines did better than 18-inches and some of the oaks and maples we grew from seeds from Katrina-downed trees have really taken off. We’re planning on using the thinned trees that are thick enough for Christmas and New Years fires.
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That’s wonderful Czar. I’m glad your trees are coming back and doing well! It’s really nice you can have your own trees you cut yourself for Christmas. 🙂
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just for bonfire burns, Southern pines make lousy christmas trees unless you’re doing a Charlie Brown Christmas.Everything else gets chipped and goes back to the soil.
We’re sorta blessed with so many hardwoods and squirrels that self-replace what nature takes down. Our job’s just to thin them out for best growth. BTW, time of the year to be sweeping the tons of pine seeds off the porch.
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I love A Charlie Brown Christmas. It’s one of my very favorite shows from tv or movies. Sounds nice on your “bit of Heaven”. 🙂
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We worked at this for years. After where we lived and what we did for some 27 years it’s what we needed and wanted.
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Beautiful pictures G-d&Country !
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Thank you. I also enjoy your pics as well.
I must admit that drugstore $50. Vivitar takes some good photos in the right light. Of course, out of about 20,000 pics over the past 4-5 years, a couple of hundred should hopefully be OK 😉 There are light situations that just photograph strange. I’ll post them tomorrow. They are pretty, but odd. I’m still checking into cameras, and everyone’s advice on them. Different light, atmospherics, being able to take them quickly enough, and an EYEPIECE are important. In reviewing photos to post, I would say “what in the world was I taking a photo of?!”, and then I remembered most of the time, I can’t see what I’m taking a photo of!
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Yes it is hard to imagine the “picture” with the naked eye. Lots of things disappear 😞.
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As a teen, I had a friend named Reenee Zaragosa. I wonder if his family name derives from Zaragoza.
I was an amateur coin collector at the time and met him in the local pizza parlor when I noticed he was paying his bill with pre-1965 silver coins. I offered to buy them from the cash register, but when the cashier refused, Reenee said no problem, he had plenty more. He took me to his house and showed me a trunk that had silver coins about two inches deep, and a long leather purse stuffed completely full of mercury dimes.
His family valued silver coins more than paper dollars.
Back then, a dollar would buy a quarter pounder, fries, and a chocolate malt. Or three gallons of gas, or 4 loaves of bread. A paper dollar won’t do that anymore, but a silver dollar still will.
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Oh my! I hope he saved some of them!
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Baxk when I worked at the Towers in Plam Beach (very early 70s) there used to be two residents who’d have me go to the bank next door and pick up a wagon load of bagged coins – dimes through half dollars. They’d spend their spare time digging thru the bags looking for silver coins. When they were done I or another would trundle the bags back, bank would count the coins, they’d get a check for the difference it would take to get whole bags and it would start over.
They didn’t need the money from the coins, they just couldn’t stop from making money even though they were more than wealthy. They used to tell me “buy silver, buy silver, it will shoot through the roof soon!” I never thought much of it, especially as I had a family and money was tight, but just a few years later that Hunt family finagling that caused silver to inflate out of sight hit. Some you win, some you lose…
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Good article about the Russian dossier and the network of cells subverting America. It does not identify, but does support, my contention that the Soviet infiltration of media, education, and unelected government positions that started in the 1920s (according to Whittaker Chambers in his autobiographical book, “Witness”) has never been routed out.
Senator Joe McCarthy was onto the government infiltration, but the infiltrated media destroyed him. Meanwhile, the infiltrated education system continues like termites gnawing at the framework of America.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268230/how-obama-used-hillarys-dossier-spy-trump-daniel-greenfield
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Thanks John, very good read.
What Hillary and Obama did wasn’t Watergate. That was amateur hour. Its sophistication is a tribute to the left’s deep knowledge and control of the workings of Washington, D.C. The men and women who planned this and carried it out understood not only government, but had an intimate familiarity with the loopholes in the laws and the networks of contacts that could realize their highly illegal plans.
The combination of media propaganda, government surveillance and contrived investigations of political opponents is the sort of thing you would expect to find in… Russia. The key players were wary enough that they compartmentalized their conspiracy, breaking it up across the private and public sector, the media, private firms, law enforcement figures and even another country. But that just makes it look like a cross between terrorist cells and organized crime.
And that is what we are dealing with here.
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People tend to forget that the only thing that changed when the USSR went belly up was the form of government, the professional sh*t-stirrers may have suffered some displacement but it was minimal.
The goal of Russia as a world power has been in play since Peter the Great, we blew our chance to really influence Russia (largely, I believe, because Clinton was our POTUS) and they’re back in the game. They had a rich vein of imported and native supporters in the US that itself was a bit misplaced during the Russian interregnum but it wasn’t hard to reactivate and redeploy, just ask the progressives in the Democratic Party.
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Trump Picks Replacement For Embattled IRS Chief John Koskinen
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/26/trump-picks-replacement-for-embattled-irs-chief-john-koskinen/
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Wonderful news! I hope the permanent replacement person is a person of integrity.
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Cruising Julian Assange’s twitter feed for Hillary birthday surprises, I found this, which made me realize it’s not just America that’s been infiltrated.
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/John-Pilger-Clinton-Assange-and-the-War-on-Truth-20171020-0020.html
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England was/is a heavily communist infiltrated country and you can bet many of those leading the fight for “refugees” being domiciled on the island as well as other parts of the Empire are more than a little actively red. They care nothing for the nation’s people, only for their goal of dictatorship. It’s a plot straight out of the Pit.
And so many are blinded to how much the Left hates them and the methods lefties use to further their objective.
UK: Muslim who attended prestigious Church of England school travels to Syria, joins the Islamic State
October 25, 2017 by robert Spencer
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/10/uk-muslim-who-attended-prestigious-church-of-england-school-travels-to-syria-joins-the-islamic-state
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This wasn’t meant to be in response to your “Assange” post, John. Got in the wrong line. LOL!
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Julian Assange has basically been living in a box for the last 5 years and he still looks healthier than Hillary Clinton.
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And, Bill Clinton.
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And Chelsea 🙂 .
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While it’s always great to have the true Hillary revealed to citizens of other nations, that’s not exactly a website to be recommended. I read a couple of other articles…whoah, lefties galore.
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WHITE HOUSE PHOTO OF THE DAY
President Donald J. Trump, joined by Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and FEMA officials, attends a briefing on the continuing Hurricane Harvey relief and recovery efforts | October 25, 2017 (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)
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Recommended reading by the White House….
Senators rally behind Trump and his agenda after mini-revolt
By Erica Werner and Alan Fram
https://apnews.com/32ba75f6e70647cf83b5b50bfb3ead95/Senators-rally-behind-Trump-and-his-agenda-after-mini-revolt
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Thank you, Lucille. I’m happy that most of the GOPers are acting like adults instead of stomping their feet like Flake and Corker. I do take issue with one statement regarding supposedly low poll numbers. I call fake polling on that.
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We have a forest fire gere in sical. Started about 115pm pst. Up to 200 acres in an area thats for off road vehicles and not easy to access. Only air drops for water right now. Its hot, but winds are calm. Lots of thick smoke. Tis the season here unfortunately.
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Just a little memo for the memory.
Dates to keep in mind, should something happen…
10/31/17- 11/2/17 in Oklahoma City
11/3-5/17 in Orangeburg, N.C. area
Hint: Advertisement for a new group of crisis actors
Time will tell.
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The Antifa gatherings?
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http://www.anonews.co/antifa-november-4th/
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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.
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