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This man was, and remains, phenomenal.
11 people on stage, with James Brown as the fire in their midst.
MJ always said he was his greatest hero.
From the Infogalactic page on James Brown:
The pattern of attack-points is the emphasis, not the pattern of pitches. It’s as if the guitar is an African drum, or idiophone. Alexander Stewart states that this popular feel was passed along from “New Orleans—through James Brown’s music, to the popular music of the 1970s.”[47] Those same tracks were later resurrected by countless hip-hop musicians from the 1970s onward. As a result, James Brown remains to this day the world’s most sampled recording artist.
He turned the voice into a powerful percussion instrument, coupled with tonality and pitch.
I hope Bobby McFerrin’s next endeavor goes this way, but with my luck it will be Gergorian chants. Here’s the best James Brown performance ever:
We listen to a lot of this guy at work.
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Dang HTML. Only the first para should be italicized.
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Good Morning Lucille – and God Bless you real good!
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Thanks so much, Lburg! I was reading the daily Bible reading just now and came across this in the NIV version…Galatians 5:6b: The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
That’s one of those little “Wow!” verses that tells it all.
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Good morning Lucille 🙂 .
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Good morning, lovely! It’s raining and the snow is melting. Wunderbar!
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Happy Wednesday, Lucille!!! 😊
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Thanks, sand! Woke up chipper so I must have been having lovely dreams!
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😊
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Morning Lucille – God Bless you too 🙂
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Morning, G&C! I’m looking around at all the filing and paper sorting I’ve got to do and thinking how good I’m going to feel when it’s finished. LOL!
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Most of us have heard at least a bit about this, but the detail is fascinating….
Russia scandal? The left knows of the real one
By Howie Carr – Sunday, January 21, 2018
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/howie_carr/2018/01/carr_russia_scandal_the_left_knows_of_the_real_one
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They are so scared.
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Just did the math. I was reading Howie Carr every other day in the Herald, first thing, every other day, almost thirty years ago. He’s a gem, and old-school, and fearless.
Excellent essay. I wonder what “The Swimmer” thinks, when he’s looking up at us.
Probably, “Dang, these flames hurt. I’m sure I’ll be outa here in a couple days.”
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Let’s not forget avowed Commie ex-Congressman Ron Dellums and his many Communist picnics with Ted Kennedy:
http://keywiki.org/Ron_Dellums
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6428
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Morning Wooly!
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Evenin’, Sand.
If you can listen to just one performance from a Crossroads festival a day, at high volume, while singing along…
😀
“Music is enough for a lifetime. A lifetime is not enough for music.”
— Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
(Tom Collins)
(Black & Tan)
(Boilermaker)
(Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
(Irish Car Bomb)
(Godfather)
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Gin & Tonic)
(Blackberry wine)
(Backdraft)
(Flaming Dr. Pepper)
(Stinger)
(Rusty Nail)
(Jack Daniels)
(Whiskey Smash)
(B52)
(Rum & Coke)
(Night Train Express)
(Albanian Raki Moskat)
(Hot Buttered Rum)
(Mudslide)
(RumChata)
(Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
(Smoking Bishop)
(Red Russian)
(Yuengling)
(Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
(Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
(Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
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 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
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) 🙂
Mornin’ Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂
Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂
Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂
Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂
Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
Mornin’ Gary! 🙂
Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂
Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂
Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂
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!
Cinnamon rolls for coffee!
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Good Morning Everyone! Wakey Wakey! Thanks for the good eats, Nyet!
“She dipped a clean pinkie into the hollandaise in the bowl. It coated her finger like a sheath of yellow velvet. Despite her nerves, she plated swiftly and surely. She lifted the poached eggs clear from the shimmering, hot water with a safecracker’s touch, laying each one with infinite care in place on top of its foundation of English muffin and Canadian bacon. Silky drizzle of hollandaise, sprinkle of fresh parsley, grind of black pepper, framed with creamed spinach, dusted with paprika. Done.” ~ Brian O’Reilly, Angelina’s Bachelors: A Novel with Food
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What a great quote, Lburg!
Eggs Benedict, with creamed spinach… a beautiful recipe in a beautiful paragraph.
(I still don’t like hollandaise.)
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Oh Wooly! No hollandaise? Harumpf! (Glad you like the quote….)
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Good morning Lburg 🙂 .
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Morning lovely!
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Hi There Lovely! Hope the weather improves for you real soon…the trees here have that reddish glow about them so they’re budding and the daffodils have been sending up their leaves for ten days or so. Won’t be long now!
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You are ahead f ,my, and spring usually at least tries to come early here in Georgia. I’m going outside to hunt for daffodil signs. 😀
Of course, we just had a long imitation of a Arctic winter.
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I just went out and took a couple of pics to send you, Menagerie, but they really don’t look like much. I’d say that two-and-a-half to three inches of leaves are up. Happy daffodil hunting!
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Arctic winter just arrived here. After weeks of 20 above, we awoke this morning to 10 below, the first sub-zero reading this winter. And once the sun came up about 10 am, a crystal-clear blue cloudless sky with blazing sun and stunning snow-covered mountains all around. A beautiful day!
Good luck with your daffodil hunting.
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Yikes! That is Arctic. I don’t why our roads are never plowed well but they simply are not. Icy roads again today, it’s going down to 20° tonight 🙄.
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And, my friends here are worried that it might get into the high 40’s here tonight. 🙄
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That right there is a heatwave Aus!
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LOL
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Sounds beautiful! We are hitting 50° on Saturday !
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Wow! Such descriptive language that you can envision it happening! 😊👍🏻
Morning Lburg!
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The only difference is that I would have licked my pinky! Good Morning S&S – have a wonderful day!
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😉
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Yum! I so want that now! Bernaise sauce (similar to hollandaise) was one of the few things that took me forever to learn to make – but it’s worth it!
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No. No Bearnaise either. Who puts that on a nice filet mignon? Why?
Some people just want to destroy every thing that is good.
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Just kidding. We go through a lot of that stuff, and Chef knows his sauces. Apparently that’s a thing on steak? And on crab-stuffed deviled eggs. People even order it as a side for their potato wedge steak fries.
I wish I had the statistics. God Mode. How many thousands of potatoes did I cut into 8 steak fries each last year? Best to not ask. I told that to Chef when he wondered how many tons of Cow he’s turned into beautiful steaks in the last three years. How many COWS, for that matter? Best not to ask. It would depress you.
Personally, I think the stuff drowns out the flavor of the thing you’re eating.
Ranch, bleu cheese, au pavre. A-1. Those are good. Hollandaise and Bearnaise make me wonder if my taste buds are malformed or something.
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Mmmmmmm. Best consumed at Commander’s Palace or Brennan’s.
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Morning Nyet! Thank you for breakfast!
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I think I will just have bacon and toast this morning. Looks like an early lunch. We are going to see Darkest Hour today. I’m looking forward to it. I think The 15:17 to Paris will be shown next week. I hope so. I can hardly wait to see it. I will be very surprised if it isn’t a blockbuster. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂 I would mention the weather here…….but I don’t dare. 😯
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Good Morning AUS! Have fun today!
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Morning “mom” 🙂 Yup I also can hardly wait for The 15:17 to Paris to show here!
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Darkest Hour looks like such a good movie. I look forward to seeing it! And hearing your review. We ought to have you start doing movie review posts every now and then.
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Mornin’ Stella 🙂 Doing movie reviews is a great Idea!
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OMG The Darkest Hour was so good I couldn’t believe it was over when it ended. I think everybody involved in the making of the movie did a fantastic job. Gary Oldman was so amazing and believable. There were times when Churchill was suffering over his decisions and I felt almost like I couldn’t breathe. And, I am a great critic of the way many movies are shot, either too close, or too far, or the camera moving around too much. But, in this case, they did whatever needed doing, many close shots for the emotions and many long shots to get a feeling of what was going on overall. Just an amazing movie in every way as far as I am concerned.
However, I would recommend before you go see this, if you don’t know your history, read up a little on Dunkirk and that time. They did a pretty good job of explaining it, but my friend was confused because she didn’t know anything about it. It would help you understand the real dilemma Churchill had at the time.
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Well, what exactly do I do. Something like I wrote today? Or are you thinking of putting it on a thread of its own? Is that what you mean?
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If you want to write a review as a separate post with its own thread, we can do that (like I did with patternpuzzler and the Day in History). If you want to do that, just send it to me in an email and I’ll do the rest. You can just do what you did today, if that’s easier and more comfortable. All up to you!
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OK 🙂
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Good evening Aus 🙂 !
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🙂
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Mornin Nyet! 🙂 I’m so hungry, but so bad – just bacon and cinnamon rolls please!
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Morning, Nyet! That breakfast plate just looks sooo good! For all the pot and skillet slinging you do….
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Thank you, Nyet.
Have to confess: my morning beverage, after water, is a glass of dry or semi-sweet white wine, nowadays. Brings me up to zero on the inebriation line, from about -3.
I see inebriation as a line from -10 (Quick, gimme a g**damn drink) to Zero (Completely level), to 10 (Got a good, fun, happy buzz) to 20, the max, (Puking and fighting the cops at the same time, or falling into your windowsill with your head.) I stay at about 2 most times.
Only been to 20 perhaps twice in my life. Not going to relay those two stories.
😀
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Here’s a strange Twitter thread, although really funny. Don’t know what to make of it.
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Huh… that’s really strange.
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BI is strange at times… Mornin’ S&S 🙂
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Mornin Wooly – keep on the bright side of life! 🙂
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German company thats bought out banner mattress and other companies. Their goal is a shop on every corner. Like a mattress starbucks. Bizarre huh?
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Maybe all the competition will lower the prices. I’m shocked at what is charged now for a queen size set. California King prices would probably make me faint. LOL!
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How often does one need to buy a mattress, though?
How many of these stores are called “Clearance” or “Going Out of Business!!”
It’s just off that they are literally a couple blocks away in many major cities.
I could see there being that many McDonald’s™ that close to each other.
But mattresses?
And if you read the thread, they aren’t even trying to sell mattresses to you when you go in (according to anecdotes, at least).
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About 8 years ago, I paid almost $1000 for a full size mattress. I think I went to every store that sold mattresses looking for a firm one. I am happy with it, but my son just bought one from IKEA for about $400 that is very firm and so comfortable. I love it.
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I have a full-size Select Comfort mattress, the most basic one you can get, with one analog controller. You can remove the cover and have it dry cleaned, if necessary. I’ve had it at least ten years, and it’s like new.
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My husband and I slept on one in my neice’s home once. I didn’t think it was comfortable, but that may have been because there was two of us.
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Did you adjust it?
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Well, we tried, but couldn’t seem to get it right.
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Did you get my email?
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I’ll check.
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Done.
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Thx. ❤
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We got a new mattress several years ago before my surgery, and couple months in bed. Got a memory foam mattress but with a five or six inch topper that is like a standard mattress. So, it gives where I want it to, but is firm on top. I love it, and it is just as comfortable as when we bought it.
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Have a wonderful day folks!
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Have a great day, lovely.
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Thanks you too Sand 🙂 . I woke up yesterday to an unexpected winter wonderland and the great ice roads of Wisconsin. Today it is just cold 24°. No sun. I wishI had tome to go out and take pictures yesterday the trees were magnificent with the icy snow on every branch 🙂 .
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I know what that looks like! Beautiful, but treacherous. Temps dropping here too, and a teeny sprinkling of snow.
Weather Underground says we don’t get any precip until Saturday, and that will be rain.
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Apparently they had large hail in Milwaukee. I was in Milwaukee Monday but in huge building which gave no sign of the weather. Here in Waukesha we currently have ice roads. I’m grateful it is January and not October!
But the trees were stunning yesterday 🙂 .
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lovely, see my response upthread to Menagerie. We’ve FINALLY got winter in Alaska!
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Brrrrrrr…….
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It sounds beautiful. 😊
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HAHAHAHA! 🙂 That’s a good one!
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Pure beauty
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Mornin’ kids!
https://twitter.com/PolToons/status/956134776553066496
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Hi there, WeeWeed!
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Hiya’s Stella!
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Good Morning Wee!
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Mornin’ Lburg!
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🙂 Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ G&C!
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Morning, WeeWeed!
#DemocratLiesMatter, indeed! They’ve lied to their followers for so long it’s second nature, but the lying to themselves is monstrous and what keeps them trudging on…hopefully into oblivion…but the left’s spores of destruction await fertile, vulnerable minds and their corruption just keeps popping up.
This article by Daniel Greenfield is from September 26, 2016 and reveals an inkling of what we are hearing right now about secret groups…
OBAMA STARTING TO PANIC OVER TRUMP
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/264309/obama-starting-panic-over-trump-daniel-greenfield
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Afternoon Lucy!
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Good evening Wee!
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Evenin’ Lovely!
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Just stopped in to grab some bacon, thanks Nyet….:0)
The week before last, I took stock of my situation and realized that in the last two months I’ve put on 15 gallons of paint, I’ve rebuilt two walls, tiled my kitchen backsplash & packed up part of my furniture and I realized, I’m only about half-way done with the work I need to do. Totally deflated my sense of achievement, so in defiance, I took last week off….(definition of self-defeating?), to recharge the batteries.
In the meantime, ‘the bank’ closing is set for next Tuesday and I have a meeting with the architect set up for the following week after.
Have a beautiful day all.
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Look at it this way, you rested for the big huge job over spring and summer.😥😊
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LOL…I know….what was I thinking????? :0) I’m not complaining, I really do love to do this kind of work, it’s just that I do have my days when my project seems daunting….
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So I’m jumping into the middle of a story here – fixing up one house to sell and building another??? Been there, done that! Loved having a house I designed myself! Good luck! 🙂
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Thanks G & C, I’ve never designed a home for myself so, I must admit, I’m excited about the new adventure. :0)
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I missed the part where ‘the bank’ became yours! Congrats!!!
Every large project passes through the ‘I’m only half way done’ self defeating stage, but somehow we work through that phase and things speed up, the light at the end of the tunnel is no longer attached to an oncoming train, and the excitement for standing back to admire our handiwork outweighs the punch-list.
You’re halfway there, which is half way closer than when you started! Woo Hoo!
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:0) I love the encouragement Lburg., thank you.
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I’m so happy for you litemaus!
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She bought a bank to turn into a house? Wut?
That is cool as all get out. We have a restaurant in town that used to be a bank. Gorgeous building. The bar is smaller than ours, but they got it from an old seafaring ship, and it is as gorgeous as the building. It’s called “Clementine’s”.
Yes, I’m late to this discussion. Sorry.
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So cool, isn’t it?
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Toys r us shutting down 182 stores. Several here in CA. I got a letter from the CEO saying basically there may be more and they’ll combine some of the baby and toy stores.
Here is the list.
https://storify.com/cmgnationalnews/toys-r-us-to-close-up-to-182-stores-nationwide
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Wow! “I got a letter from the CEO ” you must have the happiest kids! – Just kidding – know it is a form letter – right?
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Yes it is. Surprising that the ceo cares enough. I get them from gymboree too since they are in the same boat.
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You know, I looked at the CA ones and did a map search, and theyre shutting down several NEW stores, not old ones. I would think the older ones that need remodels would get the ax. The new ones also have the combined baby/toy store.
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Toys have been replaced. They are an anachronism, now.
Toys today are downloads, for which no brick and mortar is needed.
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Not hardly.
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My kiddo loves ghostbusters. I shop at toys rus and got him a few of the playmobil sets.
His obsession now is little things he can stick in his pocket or have in containers. His treasures. Its driving me nuts because its all the time. Is this a thing with boys?
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Not hardly, just mostly. Sadly.
Kids want videogames and phone games and portable games now.
Lego is still a thing for the intelligent kids, and their parents, though.
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Now, these were toys. And this guy is a genius.
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Little kids don’t, especially when their parents don’t allow them.
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How it should be.
I’ve known 6 year olds that are allowed to play GTA V with dad.
I played Forbidden Forest on C64 when I was little. That was some bloody 8-bit stuff.
I don’t know if my dad ever saw this.
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Not my grandkiddos, they love their toys. I hate to see ToysRUs go under, there really isn’t any toy stores anymore. When my kids were young we loved KBtoys, I didn’t even realize they no longer existed until I started looking for them last year.
Something that baffles me about toy makers is why they put button cell batteries in toys. A young toddler in our area died not long ago due to a button cell battery. So now, I read the box and am shocked how many toys contain them. Now finding toys that don’t do something or make sounds is getting harder to find. Outside of building blocks, some dolls, some stuffed animals and hot wheel cars, most do something. However, they have so many more educational toys today than they had when my kids were little that it’s kind of a trade off I guess.
My grandson spends hours playing with his hot wheel race cars and everything becomes a race track. I can sit and watch and listen to him play for hours as well.
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Just looked at the list and none near me are closing down, so that’s a good thing.
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So I’ve been outside since before dawn, about 5 hours now taking pictures of the ice storm as the sun comes up and hits the icy scenery, and I’m frozen! So here is a nice, warm, happy painting for today. ” Harmless indeed were our joys” by William Heath Robinson. He also wrote books and made inventions! A very interesting person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Heath_Robinson
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Thanks, G&C! I never heard of him before.
Here’s his book Bill the Minder, with illustrations, from 1912.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33570/33570-h/33570-h.htm
His wiki page is fascinating, and the book is top-notch, so far.
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I love Daniel Greenfield, though he can be one step behind Sundance…but the more the merrier.
THE OBAMA GOVERNMENT’S SECRET SOCIETIES
Exposing the anti-Trump conspiracy within the DOJ.
January 24, 2018 – Daniel Greenfield
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269115/obama-governments-secret-societies-daniel-greenfield
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I would bet my last paycheck that Trump is reading Sundance.
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More than a paper diploma
“There are a great many reasons to support education choice,” then-Cato analyst Jason Bedrick wrote in 2016. “One reason is simply this: it works.”
This week is National School Choice Week, made official by President Donald J. Trump in a proclamation issued Monday. Just three decades ago, charter schools didn’t exist. Today, more than 3 million students are enrolled in such programs.
Two principles guide the Administration’s vision for school choice: opportunity and results. “Communities that provide academic options — traditional public, public charter, private, magnet, parochial, virtual, and homeschooling — empower parents and guardians to select the best educational fit for their children,” the President wrote.
In aggregate, those opportunities turn into a global competitive edge for America.
Read more: “Our students deserve more than just a paper diploma”: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-proclaims-january-21-january-27-2018-national-school-choice-week/
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Vice President Pence returns to Washington
Vice President Mike Pence returned from a four-day trip to the Middle East last night, during which he met with President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi of Egypt, His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin of Israel.
Here are a few highlights of the Vice President’s trip, in his own words:
• “I can’t help but marvel at the strength of the relationship that President Trump and [Egyptian] President Al Sisi have forged, after years where our two countries were drifting apart.”
• To U.S. troops of the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing: “You’ve answered the call to confront, and defeat, the embodiment of evil in our time — the barbarians known as ISIS.”
• To the Knesset in Israel: “In the weeks ahead, our administration will advance its plan to open the United States Embassy in Jerusalem, and that United States Embassy will open before the end of next year.”
Read Vice President Pence’s full remarks to Israel’s national legislature: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-vice-president-mike-pence-special-session-knesset/
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President Trump’s op-ed: ‘A year of real change’
Congressional Democrats greeted President Trump’s first-year anniversary in office with a shutdown of the federal government. Despite their attempt to grab headlines, President Trump is confident his Administration’s record to date speaks for itself.
One excerpt from the piece: “Estimates predict the U.S. economy grew at an annualized rate of more than 3 percent in the fourth quarter of last year – just like it did in the two quarters before that. The economy has created more than two million new jobs, and the unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest rate in 17 years: 4.1 percent.”
The President closes with a nod to the “forgotten man” theme of his campaign: “After one year, I am proud to report to the American people that we truly are making America great again – for all Americans!”
Read the President’s op-ed here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-year-real-change/
PHOTO OF THE DAY
Vice President Mike Pence praying at the Western Wall | January 23, 2018 (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)
POTUS TODAY
This morning, President Trump will hold a credentialing ceremony for newly appointed Ambassadors to Washington, D.C. Later the President will have lunch with Vice President Pence.
In the afternoon, the President will participate in a working session with mayors. Watch Live at 3:00 p.m. ET.
This evening, the President will depart for Joint Base Andrews, in route to Zurich, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.
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Didn’t tell you, Lucille, was working, but your photo on Monday’s open thread looks like a hand, reaching out and touching the sun. Gorgeous photo.
This one. Whoever took that needs a prize.
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https://i1.wp.com/english.republika.mk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Sachsen-Fichtelberg-Winter.jpg?zoom=2
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I see what you mean about the “hand”…wonderful! And, yes, a gifted photographer.
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Seen on Facebook:
Someone today quotes the reported remark of a congressional aide to a Russian official, and I don’t know if it’s been confirmed. “In America we have two parties, the stupid party and the evil party. I’m proud to be a member of the stupid party. Sometimes the two parties get together and do something both stupid and evil. This is called bipartisanship.”
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Yep. I don’t think Trump is G.O.P., honestly.
Only in name. They all hate him. He doesn’t need them, though.
And he’s far more intelligent than all of them.
I’m never going to stop savoring that fact. He is well surnamed.
He has an (R) after his name, but he is not part of the Uniparty. That was just a formality.
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He is far, far more intelligent than all of them. And a leader.
We haven’t seen those qualities in a POTUS for a long time.
We are 4 days into year #2 of his 8 year presidency. Praise God.
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Operation Rescue’s Statement on the Departure of Cecile Richards from Planned Parenthood
Washington, DC – According to news reports, Cecile Richards will be stepping down from her role as Chief Executive Officer of Planned Parenthood.
The following statement is a response from Troy Newman, President, Operation Rescue:
Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business, is under investigation by the Department of Justice for illegally trafficking in aborted baby remains and other crimes. Could it be that Richards is getting out while she can, before indictments are handed down? Orange may be her new favorite color!
Or could it be that Planned Parenthood now sees her as a liability with all her connections to others under criminal investigation such as Hillary Clinton, the beleaguered Clinton Foundation, and Fusion GPS? Whether she is abandoning a sinking ship or being kicked to the curb by Planned Parenthood, this reveals a destabilized abortion organization, and as long as they are disorganized, it means they won’t be expanding their abortion empire. That is great news.
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I hope all that is true, but some of the last paragraph might be counting eggs before they are hatched. Planned Parenthood’s evil goes deep, deep. It will be like cutting out a malignancy with many tentacles bound deep around vital organs.
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She would never willingly give up that humongous salary and benefit package. Likely she has something else in mind, maybe running for governor like her mother or some other impossible dream like Senator, replacing Ted Cruz.
Perhaps it’s power she’s after now, and with power of the type she craves she’ll make up that million dollar take from killing babies in no time and surpass it.
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Correction: begin the second sentence with “Or if she did, likely……”
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Thank you to Daniel Daleiden. Brave man who exposed the depths of PP evil.
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Letter claims inmates survived infamous Alcatraz escape
https://nypost.com/2018/01/24/letter-claims-inmates-survived-infamous-alcatraz-escape/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow
“My name is John Anglin. I escape from Alcatraz in June 1962 with my brother Clarence and Frank Morris. I’m 83 years old and in bad shape. I have cancer. Yes we all made it that night but barely!” said the letter, obtained by local CBS affiliate KPIX.
He then tries to strike an astonishing deal with the FBI — offering to be locked up again for a year in exchange for medical care.
The feds have reopened the ancient cold case as a result of the shocking piece of evidence, which was sent to San Francisco police.
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The Pope has just come out comparing fake news to the serpent in the garden of Eden. No word yet on if that means he’ll temper his socialist engineering speeches.
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He’s a fool.
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Not much more to say about that.
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https://twitter.com/catholic4choice?lang=en
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OK….this one is for Menagerie and anyone else looking for Spring – this afternoon’s emerging Daffodils!
And this one is for SandandSea – panettone hanging upside down while it cools and then sitting on the counter once it has. I finished the 4th batch today. I have a tendency with tricky recipes to keep making them so I make all the mistakes at one time instead of dribbling them out for years. At last – a panettone I can call my own.
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Never did get time to go looking for mine. Maybe tomorrow! Wow, the bread is beautiful!
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Why is it upside down?
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Well, Gill, according to the recipe (and now, personal >ahem< experience) the dough is so light that it needs to cool upside down. Otherwise it acts like a souffle and deflates.
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It looks delicious!
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lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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WOW! LIVE: Michigan State President Resigns over Nassar Scandal – LIVE BREAKING NEWS COVERAGE
Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon resigned tonight over the scandal involving Larry Nassar, the doctor who was sentenced today to 40 to 175 years in prison for molesting young girls and women, including Olympic gymnasts, under the guise of medical treatment. Nassar had worked at Michigan State during the time he abused his patients, and many of the victims accused the university of mishandling complaints about Nassar.
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I’m really surprised about that.
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