General Discussion, Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Stella

Into the rock man carved a road.
It winds around and round above the sea.
Wheels go confidently up the mountain
Ignoring caution signs and falling rock,
Gambling with death and usually winning.

Up there, I saw a newborn lamb and mother
By the road,
Sheltered in a cleft of rock.
God cares for them, I thought,
And felt secure knowing He cares for me.

Why are you so fearful, O you of little faith?
God owns the cattle on a thousand hills.
Today, I think I saw them all.

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148 Responses to General Discussion, Tuesday, February 6, 2018

  1. Lucille says:
    February 6, 2018 at 12:18 am

    The beautiful PCH, as everyone in southern California calls the Pacific Coast Highway. It’s also known as Highway 1 in certain stretches. Plus it’s a designated Blue Star Memorial Highway in honor of those who serve/d in the United States military. Bet the California legislature would love to rescind that last designation.

    This beauty is one of the reasons ex-Californians feel sorrow at what has been done politically to benefit the selfish and deranged Left and only the Left. Having been born there almost 76 years ago and moved away ten years past, I miss it more than I can convey.

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    • czarowniczy says:
      February 6, 2018 at 12:23 am

      Like Czarina and I miss the Florida that ain’t there no more.

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    • stella says:
      February 6, 2018 at 12:59 am

      When I was 16, my parents and I took PCH from Los Angeles to north of San Francisco. It was in January, and the route was all ours.

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      • patternpuzzler says:
        February 6, 2018 at 1:50 am

        That would have been a great age for a young woman to have had that experience, Stella!

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      • Lucille says:
        February 6, 2018 at 2:29 am

        In the years before surfers took over some areas of the California coast, being the only car or one of three or four cars on the PCH wasn’t unusual. I don’t remember there ever being even mildly heavy traffic prior to 1965-70.

        One of my loveliest childhood memories entails trying to stay awake while my father drove the family south from Ventura (Santa Buenaventura) after our visiting his parents and siblings. In a certain spot, the PCH went through a short pass, then down a hill where the Pacific spread out before us. At night that was such a spectacular sight. I’d open the window and smell the ocean, feel the breeze and look at the lights twinkling in the darkness. Beautiful!

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        • Lucille says:
          February 6, 2018 at 2:44 am

          Ventura in the early 1950s….

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          • Lburg says:
            February 6, 2018 at 6:34 am

            Good Morning Lucille. What a great photo – and thanks for the memories of the PCH.

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            • Lucille says:
              February 6, 2018 at 11:42 am

              Morning, Lburg! The sweet thing about it was there’s an inland route to Ventura from where we lived in southern California, and Dad usually took that route to his folks’ home as it was shorter timewise. But at night he knew we all loved the Pacific views; so he chose that going home. I’m sure he loved it, too.

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        • lovely says:
          February 6, 2018 at 9:03 am

          What a beautiful memory. Good morning Lucille 🙂 !

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          • Lucille says:
            February 6, 2018 at 11:48 am

            Good morning, lovely. Growing up in California for my generation was great, especially if you lived in the countryside. The schools were excellent, except for Los Angeles which has always been on the low side academically even though there were pockets of excellence such as West L.A.

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            • lovely says:
              February 6, 2018 at 12:16 pm

              My husband grew up in California, he lived there until he was 23 and then we moved there when he was about 24? I’ve lived in Sonoma and Condord. I preferred Sonoma. beautiful beautiful country.

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        • joshua says:
          February 6, 2018 at 11:40 am

          ah…back when cars had window vents to direct outside air into the car, and everyone drove around with the windows down…..and you could smell as well as see the surroundings….also not so much truck fumes around on the highway. and the gas station filled your tank, cleaned your windshield, checked your oil and tire pressure, and had clean restrooms, and the station staff wore clean uniforms……

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          • Lucille says:
            February 6, 2018 at 11:55 am

            Exactly! We lived in dairy country and the morning aroma would be milk (not a pleasant smell). LOL!

            We also had acres of walnut trees with white-washed trunks where in the summertime it would be much cooler than the usual 95 degrees outside of the branch and leaves canopy. As long as you didn’t mess up the irrigation ditches or leave trash, the walnut farmers didn’t mind if you sat in there. The groves weren’t even fenced in most places.

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            • stella says:
              February 6, 2018 at 11:58 am

              When I visited my brother in the summer in Orland, CA (he had a dairy farm there), we went swimming in the irrigation ditches. We also rode my niece’s horse. My niece and nephew were more my age than my brother.

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            • joshua says:
              February 6, 2018 at 12:12 pm

              when beef became a function of industrial scale growth, they invented Cattle Feed Lots where the poor creatures stood around on mounds of manure and got fattened. You could smell these for MILES….a good reason to auto air conditioning and closed windows..

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              • michellc says:
                February 6, 2018 at 8:00 pm

                Too many people who like beef and too few ranchers created that. 🙂

                It still doesn’t smell like turkey houses, nothing on earth smells as bad a turkey houses and chicken manure on crop fields smells horrible, but still not as bad as turkey houses. I always feel sorry for the poor folks who have to make a living that way.

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      • stella says:
        February 6, 2018 at 10:09 am

        The whole trip was great. We drove from Chicago to LA, and spent Christmas in Las Vegas (very strange, but it was my parents’ wedding anniversary), then on to LA, where we had many relatives. While there, I visited Knottsberry Farm with my cousin, and we went to the Rose Parade and had a picnic on New Year’s Day. After that, we drove north on the PCH up past Santa Rosa (took two days) and visited my brother in Orland, CA, where he had a dairy farm. Back to Chicago on the snowy northern route, through Tahoe and Carson City.

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        • Menagerie says:
          February 6, 2018 at 11:35 am

          I stayed in Carson CIty almost a week about 10 years ago. Loved it. We went all over California and Nevada, and though I hate touristy places, I loved Tahoe. It was very cool to get to go to Virginia City, and also to Death Valley.

          Getting up every morning to freezing temps, looking at the snow covered mountains completely surrounding us, then driving out into the desert, or up into the mountains. It was a wonderful trip. I had never been in the desert before, and I loved it.

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    • czarina33 says:
      February 6, 2018 at 8:17 am

      In 1981 my mother & I drove the PCH from San Diego to Vancouver (is it still the PCH that far north?). Took a month. Wonderful, except the day she made me visit a cave to see seals: to get to the cave you rode an elevator cut into the rock. All I could think of was earthquakes!

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      • joshua says:
        February 6, 2018 at 11:43 am

        at least you could visit a cave without everyone around you with their noses stuck into a cell phone…

        or as we know them to be called in Chicago…Obamaphone = Seal Foam

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    • G-D&Country says:
      February 6, 2018 at 9:06 am

      I have always wanted to drive up and down the west coast. It must be so beautiful, but according to the goals of communism read into the congressional record, getting rid of beauty is one of them.
      Lucille I’m guessing many of us miss the beauty that is past, not only physical beauty, but of the culture (eg: manners). That is one of the great things about Stella’s – we choose to create a place of beauty, lighting a candle rather than cursing the darkness, and you our dear Lucille, spread so much beauty and love here! We all appreciate the beauty you create here 🙂 God Bless!

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      • Lucille says:
        February 6, 2018 at 12:03 pm

        Thanks so much, G&C…sweet words much appreciated. Yes, this is an oasis of grace, remembrance and concern for our nation without the sturm und drang. God bless you, too!

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  3. Lucille says:
    February 6, 2018 at 12:21 am

    “Dr. Sebastian Gorka: The real Donald Trump, revealed”
    Rebel Media YouTube Channel – Published on Feb 5, 2018

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  4. nyetneetot says:
    February 6, 2018 at 6:13 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
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    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)
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    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

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

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Doughnuts for coffee!

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  5. G-D&Country says:
    February 6, 2018 at 8:58 am

    Morning everyone 🙂
    So I was looking for a beach scene to go along with the recent theme here, and when I found this it made me laugh – so this it is! The Walrus & the Carpenter by Willy Pogany

    I know it’s “deep” story, but I just have to smile at the painting 🙂
    William Andrew (“Willy”) Pogany (born Vilmos András Pogány) 1882 – 1955 was a prolific Hungarian born illustrator of children’s books, painter in oils & watercolour, author of instructional books on drawing, creator of famous murals, designer of sets for opera & ballet, & Hollywood art director. He is best known for his painstakingly detailed pen & ink drawings of myths & fables. A large portion of Pogany’s work is described as Art Nouveau, & his style often features motifs of mythical animals such as nymphs & pixies. He paid great attention to botanical details.
    In London, he crafted his quartet of masterpieces: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1910), Tannhauser (1911), Parsifal (1912) & Lohengrin (1913). Each of these was designed completely by Pogany, from the covers & endpapers to the text written in pen & ink, pencil, wash, color & tipped-on plates.
    Pogany was awarded medals in Budapest, London, New York, Panama Pacific Expo, & Hungary. His illustrations appeared on the cover of many magazines, & he designed for the Metropolitan Opera. Pogany’s public art appears on walls of the Ringling Museum of Art, & in theaters in New York City. He is also the designer of the swimming pool at the St. George Hotel in NY, at the time the largest salt-water pool in the world. Pogany was commissioned by William Randolph Hearst’s Wyntoon Estate, & painted for Enrico Caruso, & many movie stars.
    Interesting info note – In Whittaker Chambers autobiography he described “Willi Pogany” as the brother of Joseph Pogany. Willy Pogany sued Chambers for $1 million but lost in court According to Time magazine a court had found that Chambers, in his mistaken identification, had not maliciously implied that Willy was closely associated with ‘a Communist leader & spy’,” who had been “once (until Stalin liquidated him) Communist Hungary’s puppet Commissar of War.” ~ from Wikipedia & IMDB.
    Here is a photo of a ceiling attributed to him:

    Have a great day everyone 🙂 Have to get some work done!
    P.S. Stella what is the best font & size for me to use on Word to get an idea of how much space a bio will take up once put into a comment here? Thanks 🙂

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  7. lovely says:
    February 6, 2018 at 9:34 am

    Beautiful picture and poem Stella.

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  8. lovely says:
    February 6, 2018 at 9:37 am

    Good morning all 🙂 . It’s always nice hanging out with you folks.

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  9. lovely says:
    February 6, 2018 at 9:39 am

    And it all becomes clear with one photo.

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    • G-D&Country says:
      February 6, 2018 at 9:50 am

      🙂
      But on a serious note – if the President needs to have a physical & the results made public, why don’t the congress critters? I think Pres Trump doing the Montreal Test was not to prove he was OK, but to say to congress – hey I know (it was reported in the press) you’re getting dementia drugs from the congressional pharmacy, so don’t pursue this nonsense, or I’ll pursue it with you! How much of the progs saying he is actually crazy have you heard lately?
      A couple of years ago I noticed Pelosi having the same speech patterns, eye movements, etc. as my mom when she started suffering with dementia. (God rest her soul).

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      • lovely says:
        February 6, 2018 at 9:54 am

        If I recall correctly, the good doc was not even going to administer the the Montreal Test but President Trump instead that he do so.

        I bet Pelosi would score under 10, Waters under 5, Hillary it would depend on how many vodkas deep she was but even on a good day I’d bet she’d score under 20.

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  10. derk says:
    February 6, 2018 at 9:46 am

    Morning Stella, Stellars,
    Love the photo, reminds me of when we moved to Big Sur at the end of my sophomore year from Monterey, which high school I attended. Had a few weeks left to finish the year of high school, so task was left to my older brother to transport me to and from.
    Well, form of transportation was his motorcycle, and he was/is a bit of a speed freak. Needless to say I’d arrive at school hoarse, scared to death with hands bruised from yelling and beating on his helmet to slow the F down! Followed by my “I’m telling mom!’, and his usual reply of a just a smirk, as he’d flip his visor down and zoom off. Next day, repeat.
    Did get to travel that beautiful 26 miles twice a day though, and the following year at Carmel High, bus service was provided, thank God.

    Photo is of Pebble Beach, which I finally played on a couple of weeks ago, 10th hole as it heads to downtown Carmel and the beach before turning inland.

    Love beach week, have a great day y’all!

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  11. lovely says:
    February 6, 2018 at 9:48 am

    Dear People Smarter than me,

    I have a question for you smart tech people. I have mini magnets that are very strong, they are about an 1/8 of the size of a single key on a keyboard but only 2 of them will hold a full size calendar to the fridge. (One will do it but the calendar will slide when someone slams the fridge door shut 🙄.)

    I found one of the magnets stuck to the metal insert of my phone charger, likely it had been on it for a few hours or maybe overnight, will it have damaged the connection? Is it ok to use it or should I just buy a new phone charger ? Thanks.

    Clueless in Wisconsin

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    • joshua says:
      February 6, 2018 at 11:28 am

      if your phone works normally…no harm done
      the phone charger is just a transformer that reduces the 120 v house alternating current down to 6 volts direct current to charge a phone. A plugged in transformer might easily attract a magnet but would not likely do anything to the output going to the phone you are charging.
      I don’t think you have an issue with the charger if it still charges the phone. Turn off the phone entirely, connect the charger and plug it in…if the phone says it is charging, you are good to go.

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  12. G-D&Country says:
    February 6, 2018 at 10:00 am

    Now this…
    According to reports from 2016 Carter Page was previously working as an undercover informant for the FBI.
    Via Conservative Treehouse:
    In 2013 Carter Page was working as an under-cover employee (UCE) of the FBI, helping them to build a case against “Evgeny Buryakov”. In March 2016 Carter Page remained their informant pre-trial. [Note – Pay attention to the names in the following citations]
    Sources: ♦ In 2013 the U.S. Department of Justice, Southern District of New York, announced an indictment against a Russian Operative Evgeny Buryakov. LINK HERE In March of 2016 Buryakov pleaded GUILTY.
    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/breaking-carter-page-lynchpin-deep-state-spying-trump-working-spy-fbi/
    🙂 Another busy day next door!
    Auugghh! it’s 10 am! HAVE. TO. STOP. &. GET WORK. DONE! Bye!!!

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  13. joshua says:
    February 6, 2018 at 11:33 am

    the internet and media speculation and blather about meaningless junk is a distraction from real issues….like the SuperBowl was just ENTERTAINMENT…nothing more and to get all hyped up and riot about the outcome is just more stupidity of the bored and ignorant people with no values or responsible conduct.

    beginning to think that the increase in amount of comments going up to over 1000 in the early days is just becoming a gossipy speculation place for folks to pontificate, worry out loud, or substitute for social interaction with live people.

    Not trying to criticize this site at all, but next door is getting to be one SD statement of importance vs 500 wandering comments and blather, IMHO.

    So bad I am going Friday for a new eyetest and glass prescription….gotta get off the video screens.

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    • lovely says:
      February 6, 2018 at 1:03 pm

      I went over there to read Sundance’s post about Carter Page, well written, well researched, good information and another nail in the corrupt hierarchy at the FBI’s coffin.

      Then I closed the page.

      There may be something of value in the comments but there may also be a diamond in a mound of cow dung and I ain’t gonna ever know.

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      • stella says:
        February 6, 2018 at 1:10 pm

        I have to be honest – I don’t usually try to moderate comments over there in any meaningful way. We used to remove off-topic comments, or excess pics/memes/videos, but there are too many to keep up.

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        • lovely says:
          February 6, 2018 at 1:52 pm

          That’s what I figured. I believe at some point right around when I left several of you suggested turning comments off or requiring a verified email in order to post. Mostly I stay away, as most know I am not a fan of Sundance but I do respect when he posts something of value and I believe he has done that with the Carter Page post.

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        • czarowniczy says:
          February 6, 2018 at 5:37 pm

          I’ve wondered if there isn’t a group opposed to the CTH that’s decided to try and sink it through trashing it? I go over every now and then but the volume of off-topic and off-color comments limits my ability to linger.

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          • rheavolans says:
            February 6, 2018 at 6:42 pm

            It would be interesting to find out. Of course, first you’d have to get all the well-meaning folks to stop wandering off topic on threads that are marked to particular purposes.

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            • czarowniczy says:
              February 7, 2018 at 12:27 am

              Well hell’s bells, I’d be gone too

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            • Menagerie says:
              February 7, 2018 at 9:47 am

              They can’t even keep presidential politics off the open thread. There is a dedicated thread for it every day, and numerous other political threads, but they just can’t stand to have one damn thread not mucked up with their non stop stuff.

              I can’t even check out the OT anymore, enjoy the cartoons, or just see what’s going on in people’s lives. I get so mad every time I try that I just mostly gave up.

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              • stella says:
                February 7, 2018 at 10:54 am

                Remember when I used to delete that crap? I gave up.

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                • Menagerie says:
                  February 7, 2018 at 12:52 pm

                  Me too. It was an all day battle, never ending, and not worth it. I am almost at the point of not posting anything anymore, because someone almost always makes a political comment.

                  I admit I’ve lost perspective and humor. It is like waving a red flag at a bull for me.

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                  • Sharon says:
                    February 7, 2018 at 3:49 pm

                    A place filled with newcomers who have no idea what the front porch is about and yet, taking ownership and acting like they are oldtimers……Menagerie, I’ve lost my perspective, too. A long time ago. They have no idea. Muddy shoes all over the carpet to the point where the carpet now looks like the place never had doors.

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      • michellc says:
        February 6, 2018 at 8:08 pm

        I rarely even read the posts anymore and certainly not the comments.

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  14. Lucille says:
    February 6, 2018 at 12:29 pm

    Here’s a couple more items on Pitcairn Island…

    ADAMSTOWN, PITCAIRN ISLANDS
    Christian’s Cafe
    https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/christian-s-cafe-pitcairn-island


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  15. rheavolans says:
    February 6, 2018 at 3:29 pm

    stella, who wrote the poem you posted today?

    Thank you for posting it. I think I needed to see it.

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  16. Jacqueline Taylor Robson says:
    February 6, 2018 at 4:11 pm

    Just watched the big spaceship take off It was spectacular! Very exciting. They said there were over 100,000 people lining the nearby beaches.

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  17. czarowniczy says:
    February 6, 2018 at 5:37 pm

    Raking a break…medicating.

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  18. stella says:
    February 6, 2018 at 5:40 pm

    EXCLUSIVE: Adam Schiff sent his staff to try and collect ‘classified materials for the FBI’ after Russian pranksters told him Putin has NAKED blackmail pictures of Trump

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5355713/Adam-Schiff-spoofed-Russian-claim-nude-Trump-pic.html#ixzz56N28wihx
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  19. auscitizenmom says:
    February 6, 2018 at 9:05 pm

    lilbirdee12’s prayer:

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

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

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

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

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

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

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  20. lovely says:
    February 6, 2018 at 11:03 pm

    This is one of the most encouraging things I’ve read all day. The Clintons are simply out of luck, friends with power and sycophants who are willing to risk it all for them.

    If they really used Blumenthal as their go between it means even when 99% of democrats believed that Hillary would be the President of the United States the Clintons still had to recycle their sloven document thief Sidney Blumenthal from the 1990’s 😂.

    Gowdy hints Sidney Blumenthal leaked info to dossier author Steele

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/06/gowdy-hints-sidney-blumenthal-leaked-info-to-dossier-author-steele.html

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