There are places I’ll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I’ve loved them all
But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I’ll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I’ll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
Songwriters: JOHN LENNON, PAUL MCCARTNEY
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Good Morning, Lucille! Dance all day!
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Morning, Lburg! Thanks!
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I hope you do, too, Lucille! 🌷
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Thanks, Sand! Life continues to flow….
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Good morning Lucille, have a beautiful day 🙂 !
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Thanks, lovely!
I’ll take my beautiful day at the ocean…
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Looks wonderful!
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A restful day to you, G&C…
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Thank you Lucille. Beautiful pictures! 🙂
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You’re welcome, G&C!
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Because of warmer-than-usual temps in late January and early February, some of the daffodil beds in the neighborhood (we’re a Zone 6) have begun to bloom. Mine have the fat buds hanging but haven’t begun to open yet, although I saw one crocus open in the back the other day. That’s early!
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They’re such lovely flowers. Thank You, Lord!
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Goodness, we are zone 8B and ours are just popping out of the ground!
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World’s top 10 quirky hotels
http://www.lfpress.com/travel/2011/07/14/18418221.html
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How do we keep our kids safe from mass murders?
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I see where she’s coming from, but I don’t really agree with her. This is the perfect time for a rant, especially since the school was blaming everyone in America, and liberals are blaming people like me. And I don’t like her questions, either. Her Very Long List of Questions was deeply irritating. (When I was in college and was writing college-level papers, I was informed that I should never ask a question I was not going to answer in the paper. And this list is way too long to be rhetorical.) The only sane question she asked was “why do these shooting keep happening in gun-free zones?” Good luck getting an honest answer about that from anyone on the Left side of the aisle.
What do we do? For starters, hold the school’s feet to the fire over this. An email saying “don’t let him on campus” is NOT sufficient. There was a lot more they could have done. Reporting threats to the police, for starters. paternpuzzler went last night and found sundance’s smoking gun regarding Broward County’s political correctness. Maybe if the school had actually turned him in, this might not have happened.
Wanna know how to protect people? Give them guns. You cannot get liberals to grasp that you are much safer when you are somewhere that is NOT a gun free zone or when hordes of NRA members are around. During Obama’s reign of terror, murders started to spike in Indianapolis, and one year during O’s reign, the NRA convention came in. We joked that the safest time to be in Indianapolis was when the NRA convention was there. These nutjob mass shooters like soft targets, like schools, and movie theaters. It throws off a nutjob’s desire to be famous if he only gets to kill a couple of people before someone else pulls out a gun and drops him.
I’m tired of this. And nothing will change, liberals will wail about the need for gun control, the NRA/ gun rights supporters et all will go out AGAIN and point out that all these mass shootings keep happening in gun-free zones, which is a concept liberals will never grasp because it interferes with their worldview. Nothing will change.
But next time, like this time, and the time before this, I’ll be expected to feign shock and sorrow over something that was preventable.
End rant.
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That’s a nice rant, rhea, and right over the target.
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Thank you. I’m tired of stories like this and I’m tired of having to pretend that this is such a sad thing. Yes, it’s sad these kids died, I’m not happy to hear the news, but this could have been avoided.
A tornado striking a school is a tragedy. A shooter coming in is preventable.
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Just because some incident was preventable doesn’t make it any less a tragedy, Rhea.
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And you know, you make a good point, and I modify my opinion accordingly. But I would still view a tornado hitting a school as more tragic than this incident. The school had a lot of advance warning that this person was a mentally unstable lunatic and took practically no precautions.
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The word “tragedy” doesn’t limit itself to such a strict definition. Compassion is the key to holding life dear. When tragedy of all types occurs we will then be ready to render spiritual and physical comfort to the bereaved…as we would hope to be comforted in our times of need.
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Tragedy is unrelated to who is at fault.
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I know exactly what we need to do…………….we need to find out from Israel what they do. They used to have a big problem with the terrorists attacking their schools, and they have stopped. I doubt we have to reinvent the wheel here.
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I’m disappointed I can only like your comment once.
But the Left, again, won’t be okay with that because they would have to acknowledge that Israel was doing things right.
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That’s what I kinda figure, too. 🙄
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Everyone to his own opinion, and certainly everyone reacts differently.
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We could start by taking bacvl local control of OUR kids and OUR schools. If you go back through the Communist, Marxist, Leninist, Maoist, all of the ‘ist’ writings, you see that where they hope to convert the adults that adult conversion is a stopgap measure to their ultimate goal – the ownership and indoctrination of the young.
Murder and death in general has always been a means to their end, with age and gender never a determinant. What could scare the urban/suburban parents more than the thought of their children being killed in school? What would drive these parents to surrender their rights and obligations as parents and citizens, rushing to the safety of a benign dictatorship where professional Leftists trade security for measures of freedom?
Look at the Hollyork Useful Fools backing a non-Constitutional ruling class of ‘experts’ The same celebs who sot the TV and movies designed for youth with almost nonstop gore and violence from start to finish. “Oh”, they say, “It’s not violence violence, it’s violence with a positive social engineering end!”‘. “It shows the futility of violence to youth!” BS, adults with fully functional frontal cortexes maybe yes but to the under-20ish target audience, no. They are stimulated by and engrossed in it. Same goes for the video games that all seem to have killing (but that’s ‘pretend’ killing of monsters with a positive social goal) and scantily clad female figures galore. It’s Trump’s fault.
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We really do need to take back local control of schools. The goobermint has a way of destroying everything it touches.
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Or turning them into weapons.
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There were three different schools near me where kids got arrested for bringing guns to school, yesterday. Lots of copycat stuff. 🙄
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The almost legendary numbers of murders in the NOLA public schools during the 80s and 90s seem to have disappeared from the public’s consciousness.
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I grew up on the Texas/Louisiana border in the 80’s, and I’m sure it was in the news, but I wasn’t paying much attention to the news back then.
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Yes! I said Corey Lewandowski got good training for a presidential election by watching the school board elections and meetings here in town!
I’m going to be watching the local school board broadcast on Tuesday. The school board voted to let children use whatever bathrooms etc they “identify” as, versus what their actual gender is. They voted for this with NO public input! There is an election next month. There is a meeting for public input on Tuesday. I’m going to sit home with my popcorn and watch the fireworks. (I can’t go to the town hall its old and the mold makes me sick. There are plenty of upset parents who actually have kids in the schools.) What is sad is the town actually voted for Trump, and nationally for conservatives in general.
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The Board yes BUT you have to grab the teachers and school administrators. I’m tired how :HI, I’m Joe A****le the svchool’s BS Allocations Officer, how may I blow smoke up your butt and make you go away?” School officials charged with enforcing programs seem to spend as much time denying your access to them as they do actually performing the work they’re paid for.
Wanna cause Board members and school admin to choke? Start filing FOIA requests for how Fed funds earmarked for special ed are expended – detailed records.
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“how Fed funds earmarked for special ed are expended – detailed records. ” Very interesting you mention this – A couple of years ago I asked the school superintendent about funding for special needs at a school board meeting. He wrote me a note asking to meet with me privately. I declined. Soon after he got a job at a different town.
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Yup, follow the money. Ain’t unusual for Fed and state monies earmarked for special ed to be repurposed. If they think you’re serious about getting a Fed audit in it ain’t unusual for everyone concerned to get nervous.
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Obama repurposed most of the moneys we sent the government, I believe.
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Democrats are always repurposing others’ monies.
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
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Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
Doughnuts for coffee!
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Morning Nyet! Thank you for breakfast! Happy Friday!
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Good morning Nyet. Tea and left over mashed potatoes for breakfast here.
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🙂
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Hm. I’m really wanting that buttermilk doughnut today. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Mornin’!
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Hi there Nyet! I’ll live dangerously and try that (not sure what it’s called) that piece of toast with the avo and bacon. It’s intriguing, lol!!
Hope everyone has a great day!
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Good morning, Nyet! One of my favorite breakfasts…
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Just woke up, Nyet, to this wonderful meal. Thank You! Good Morning Fellow Stellars!
“We plan, we toil, we suffer — in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol’s eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake up just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs. And, again I cry, how rarely it happens! But when it does happen — then what a moment, what a morning, what a delight!” ~ J. B. Priestley, British author (1894-1984)
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Morning Lburg! Hope your Friday is a great one! 😊
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Good Morning amd thanks S&S – hope your Friday is a good one, too!
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Hi there sand! How have you been?
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I’m doing well. Are you feeling better? It’s good to see you, puzzler.
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I’m doing much better now that the sun is shining! Cabin Fever got the best of me, but now I’m looking forward to all the things I want to accomplish as winter has broken (hopefully!). Now I’m watching the weather planning ahead to getting out walking!
Glad to hear you’re doing well!
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I’m glad you are, too ! 😊
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Glad to hear you are feeling better!
Have a sun-shiny day!
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Afternoon S&S 🙂
Here’s sending you some sunshine your way!
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Thank you, friend!
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Good morning Lburg 🙂 !
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Hello Lovely! Good Morning to You!
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Morning lovely! I keep missing you lately. I hope your doing well and that the weather is improving for you. 🙂
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Hi Sand. We are getting sunshine so I can’t complain. My little Iggy is sick 😦 .
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Ohhh. Hope he gets better soon.
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Me too. And she is a grouchy grouch.
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Oh, dear, did I misgender Iggy. My apologies. 😯
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Well she never told me how she identifies so, who knows…..
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LOL Well, at least which bathroom to use isn’t an issue. 🙄
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I hope Iggy is feeling better soon.
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Me too.
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I’m so sorry Iggy isn’t doing well, lovely. That’s sad.
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Well she stopped throwing up last night but didn’t eat her breakfast so I gave her some crackers which she did eat. She has turned her nose up at breakfast before so we will see. She looks better today and is grumpMcgrumpster so she may be better.
Thanks Sand and good morning 🙂 !
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Morning! Well that’s good news. Hopefully just a fleeting thing.
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🙂
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Morning, Lburg! I don’t know where or how you manage to find these quotes, but I want to say I really enjoy them. Thank you!
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What a great place to have a meal, Stella! That Beatles song is etched in my memory. TY.
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Beautiful picture Stella, it brings back many good memories.
The Beatles song reminded me of one of my favorite songs.Garth Brooks is so young in this video.
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This was my son’s favorite since he was about 3.
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Seen on Facebook:
A comment about ‘If you see something, say something” from a former teacher:
This was MY experience, and I will lay out just the facts and you can draw your own conclusions about what is going on with mental health issues and students in our public schools
I was a 4th grade AAP teacher in Fairfax County several years ago, and had a student in my class that almost drove me to have a nervous breakdown (one of the major reasons I resigned).
Almost every day, this student would disrupt the class with violent outbreaks (yelling, throwing objects, etc). He choked other students, manufactured weapons out of pencils and paper clips and pokes other students as they passed by, slapped classmates across the face, tripped students…and the list goes on. Each time I referred him to administration, he was sent to speak with the counselor, and returned with stickers and rewards. And the behaviors continued.
I requested that a behavior analyst visit to observe and make recommendations for a behavioral plan. He came and stayed in my class for 40 minutes, talked to the counselor the entire time, and recommended that I not pair him with boys during group work.
I was ultimately able to go through the proper channels and have him assessed by the school psychologist, and he was diagnosed with some type of Detachment Disorder. However, no accommodations or alternative placement recommendations were made, other than to visit with the counselor 40 minutes a week.
And the behaviors continued. Every day someone was accosted- verbally or physically, but nothing was done to remedy the environment. Parents appealed to me, but my hands were tied as a teacher.
At one point, he stated, “I wish my teacher was dead,” which prompted the students to let me know what (they were afraid). I alerted the counselor, and she told me that he said, “I didn’t threaten her, I just WISHED it.” So nothing was done. I reminded her that he had an IQ over 140, and she laughed and said, “Oh yes…he is so smart, isn’t he.” And that was that.
From that point on, I began to lose sleep, my hair fell out and I had nightmares fearing that he would act on his ‘wish.” It impacted my life severely.
Ultimately, nothing was done and all complaints fell on deaf ears. At one point, one of the administrators commented that perhaps he would feel better if he was in a less threatening environment. This was an indication to me that they were placing the blame for his behavior on me. At that point, I decided that I would not return to teaching the following year.
They were the most horrible 180 days of my 25 year teaching career.
The irony is, many of the staff made similar comments about this student regarding likelihood that he would commit some type of crime in the future.
***The message here is: Parents, if you hear your child complaining about a student with abhorrent behaviors, SAY SOMETHING. Teachers are often limited to what they can do, but admin is more likely to take action when parents pursue an issue. Maybe, just maybe, it can prevent another horrible tragedy.
God bless those families.
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See something say something is useless at this point. The Social Justice Warriors, The Pharisees have deemed the seer as the problem, a racist, a Islamaphobe, a person who creates a hostile environment, a xenophobe, anything other than a conscientious citizen with something of value to give to law enforcement.
Recently (maybe 2 years ago) we had a violent 20 something year old kid, he was involuntary committed because he was not in touch with reality. The facility held him for the mandatory 36 hours and deemed him safe to rejoin society, gave him a pat on the back, a bottle full of pills and said good luck.
The facility did not contact the people who signed documents to have him committed. They did not contact local police ( a police officer had to sign to have him committed also. They did not provide any transportation for him to get from the facility to whatever his destination may have been.
A pat on the back, some pills, a promise that he would take them, “Good luck Johnny Boy!” and he was on his way. So he walked and walked and walked until he came to a farm house and with his pills in his pocket, his pat on his back still warm, he beat to death the elderly couple who lived in the farm house.
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Yup! Exactly! And how many teen developing brains are affected by the “bottle full of pills” that are handed out like candy, and forced on the students by the school system to drug normal, active (usually boys) into a stupor? Political Correctness Kills.
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That’s horrible. That’s what they do now, though. How many just like him are walking around us each day?
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“but nothing was done” Yes there was a whole lot of nothing done with all the warnings in this case too.
This is not the answer either – “Broward Sheriff Give Police the Power to Involuntarily Commit People Who Raise ‘Red Flags’ https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/broward-sheriff-give-police-power-involuntarily-commit-people-who-raise-red
(CNSNews.com) – Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel on Thursday called for more first responders, more mental health treatment, and more power for police to involuntarily commit people who raise what he called “red flags.” The Baker Act in Florida [already] allows law enforcement or medical professionals to confine a person involuntarily…but you have to have a reason, you have to be able to articulate that they’re a threat to themselves or a threat to someone else.”
They HAD PLENTY OF REASON – THE AUTHORITIES JUST DID NOTHING. Listen to yesterdays Jeff Kuhner. His statement on how they won’t act because of political correctness causing them to lose their jobs seems about right. Political Correctness Kills. The teen was obviously mentally ill from his social media posts, speech and actions in real life..
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Okay.
I guess my reaction to this is, if my child comes home and tells me that someone in their class tried to strangle them, and I come in and talk with the principal and was told that the student got sent to “counseling,” and was put back in the class after that I’m going to be put out. Extensively. Especially if my child comes home the next day and says that their classmate was choked by the same student.
The only question after that is, do I hire a lawyer and have them go in and explain why that thug had better not be in my kid’s class anymore, or just call the cops and report my child was assaulted on school grounds? Hmm…tough one. I lean towards the lawyer.
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I lean towards filing a police report, THEN retaining the lawyer!
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So, here’s a question though: why are things like what was described in this teacher’s post even permitted past the first incident? If I am out at the local diner, and try and strangle someone, I’m going to be taken jail. No “counseling” no “talking to the therapist” just jail. IANALB, At the very least, what the teacher is describing the student as doing sounds like assault, which in turn makes the school’s actions look like criminal negligence: they knew this was happening, sent the child to “counseling” which did not help, he kept repeating the behavior. What if the classroom menace had seriously hurt someone? Or killed another student or the teacher?
Why is it that students get suspended for making pop-tart guns, but the student in this story is allowed to go back to class and continue their behavior?
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And I’d be pulling my kid out and homeschooling! (Which I did, actually, but not for the same reasons.)
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The owner of this blog, Stuart Schneiderman, is a former psychoanalyst. He’s not a big fan of ‘how does that make you feel’ and looks at things more from the ‘now what are you going to do about it’ perspective.
http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.co.id/2018/02/failing-to-treat-nikolas-cruz.html
FTA: One understands that not all mass murderers are psychotic. And yet, offering treatment to those who seem to be in the midst of a psychotic breakdown would be a good place to start. It would not have been a difficult diagnosis. Everyone who knew Cruz knew he was crazy… not just rebellious or strange. It pains one to say it but it is a lot easier and a lot more humane to treat incipient psychotics, even against their will, than it is to confiscate hundreds of millions of guns. The revolution in psychiatric treatment, initiated over forty years ago emptied out mental hospitals and made it extremely difficult to treat those who were manifestly deranged. It was mistake and ought to be corrected.
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You may remember our experience with behavior plans re: my GGS. Czarina and I had to go to the Federal DoE and start contacting lawyers before his school would even start an IEP. Only nearly TWO YEARS of our hounding, threatening legal action and driving 50+ miles one way on a regular basis to pound the table during meetings at the school (and they STILL need fine tuning) got results. Luckily Czarina is a person with a lot of knowledge in special ed so she caught their finagling and BS at every turn until they did what they received Federal monies to do.
Schools are insular, unless they are wrestled to the ground they’ll never yield their powers to play god with our children, never admit that the PARENTS own the schools and THEY work for US. Sadly too many parents are lazy and just roll over.
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God Bless you and Czarina for doing that.
I was talking to a lawyer last year while waiting in doctor’s office. This lawyer specialized in family law. He said he sees often that it is the love of a grandparent, even if the child does not get to spend a lot of time with them, that is a great help to the child.
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Three of us, in the early 90s, got OPM to allow Federally employed grandparents taking care of their grandchildren to put them on their Federal health insurance as dependents. We just sent suggestions, with CCs to the appropriate Congressjerks, that if they provided over 50% of the child’s support that the child was a dependent under Federal regulation.
We noticed how many women were taking full time care of their nieces, nephews and/or grandchildren while their parents were ‘gone’ for whatever reason.
Grandparents taking care of kids isn’t that unusual, the first day the announcement was made that they could put the kids on their health insurance people were lined up down the hall.
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I wonder how many parents aren’t lazy, but are told “you don’t understand. We’re the educators; WE understand” and then they give up after they buy the line because they don’t know how to handle it. A pretty common slam against homeschooling is that parents won’t be able to properly educate the child because they aren’t teachers and they don’t know how teaching works.
As G-d&Country said below, bless you both for being willing to go all the way, even when it was tough, or inconvenient, or when the school district was giving you the run around.
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Oh there’s a lot of that, that’s why there are so many parents’ groups dealing with that. Problem with a lot of these schools is they are in areas where the parent (frequently single-parent) types are not exactly education-heavy themselves…even if they do speak English.
Some schools even try to get programs like mainstreaming to self destruct. They take ‘disruptive’ kids and put them into regular classes without specially trained sitters, disrupting the class, burning out the teachers and eventually irritating the **** (choice of fricative adjective yours) out of the parents. Parents go to Board who sends them to Congresspersons in attempts to get the law changed.
I’m a firm believer in the idea that progs discovered it was too hard to bring certain groups into the 20thy (or 21st) century and get them to embrace education so rather than fight they found it easier to dumb down the achievers – equality is equality whether you raise the floor or lower the ceiling. We just happen to love knowledge.
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Just Because….
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WOW Thank you Lburg for posting this video of beauty in such a sad time.
I have seen still photos of bismuth, but not as many, and not read the info. Well done!
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So pretty!
But I wish the video maker had said whether or not the birds that were force fed it were okay after it had gone through their system, and did it really work to save the animals?
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I’ve given Pepto-Bismol to my dog for diarrhea. Works a treat! Just an eyedropper full after every poo, and soon she’s fine. DO NOT give to cats!
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What does it do to cats?
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PB contains salicylates (think aspirin). If the animal should not ingest aspirin, it also should not have PB.
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Oh, okay. I did not know that about cats.
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I believe they recommend that a vet be consulted before using with either dogs or cats. I do know that aspirin is safe for dogs.
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Cats can metabolize aspirin but do it verrrrrrry slowly. I’ve used aspirin for my dogs’ aches but’ if I remember correctly, upper limit is about 10mg/lb and some dogs develop gastric problems. There are far better analgesics available at the vets office.
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That’s true. I had used enteric coated aspirin with my old dog, Sassy, but Rimadyl with Stella.
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I found enteric aspirin frequently passed thru Z undissolved as dogs have such a short carnivore tract. I went to Rimadyl with him and now with Daisy, using the smallest effective dose, as they were older dogs and its possible internal effects probably wouldn’t have time to show up.
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I used Rimadyl for Stella when she was in her final two months, so the main concern was pain relief.
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Yeah, I used a lot of stuff trying to ease Z’s pain before R but there is a point where you have to weigh the options.
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I use the tablets wrapped in a piece of cheese…two-pronged approach in plugging the leak.
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This was really cool.
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Look at the jewelry!
https://www.etsy.com/search?q=bismuth+jewelry
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Oh My! Sooo pretty!
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Make your own crystals at home:
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Mornin’ y’all!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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There’s a pill for that impotence – Take the RED PILL Pauly boy. Take the RED one!
Good Morning Wee!
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Mornin’ Lburg!
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🙂
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Is it just me, or does he do a lot of sighing?
Morning WeeWeed!
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It’s from all that hot air and hypocrisy!
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Mornin’ Rhea!
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Donate to Nehlen, and pray it does not rain again so the authorities have to “copy”/re-write the votes when the basement floods.
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Mornin’ G&C!
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After seeing a recent interview with Nehlen, I find him truly alarming. Unfortunately, Nehlen is not who he presents himself to be, nor does he remonstrate with his followers when they threaten bodily harm to those who reveal he admires David Duke and accepts much of his philosophy.
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I have only seen a couple of interviews, and what he has written on different subjects, so I have not seen anything like that. Do you have a link to that interview? I would really like to see it.
Do you know if anyone else is running that looks good against Ryan? Ryan really needs to lose that seat.
Thanks for the info. 🙂
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Check his twitter feed too. A couple of things:
Paul Nehlen, challenger to Speaker Paul Ryan, tells columnist to ‘eat a bullet’
http://fox6now.com/2017/12/07/paul-nehlen-challenger-to-speaker-paul-ryan-tells-columnist-to-eat-a-bullet/
Oops. I started to post a twitter link, and it said his account is suspended.
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Thanks. Know if anyone else is running against Ryan that may be good?
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I don’t know, but I’m sure lovely will keep us informed, since it is her stomping ground.
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🙂
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Nope. Nehlen has no support because he is off the rails. Ryan if he doesn’t retire will face his toughest re-election as a very popular Union Democrat, Randy Bryce, is running against him. Bryce is a nightmare. An Obamaesque liberal. He is known as “The stash” because of his mustache.
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That’s not good news.
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Yeah, I know. I’ m happy I don’t live in his district because I could not vote for either of them.
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Well, there has been a dem in my district for decades – Sander Levin. I vote for whoever runs as an R, but it’s no use.
ADD: I even crossed over and voted in the D primary once for his opponent. No dice.
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Bryce is very popular from my understanding. He is a rabid abortion proponent.
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Naturally.
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And the unions love him because he is a big union guy. I can’t remember where he works but I believe he’s been a union member since he was 18 or 19 .
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It was a youtube interview on the Rebel Media channel. It does not seem to be on their site anymore. Sorry.
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Thanks for checking. Know if anyone else is running against Ryan that may be good?
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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I started to answer this about four times and decided it’s better left un-Czared.
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Lol – Afternoon Z!
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Goin’ to the beach down in Gulfport in a few minutes….clear, sunny 80-degrees. I’ll send ya some warm, salty air.
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The sand is nice, just don’t get in the water unless you’re going out to Ship Island (said the former Gulfport resident).
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I find a nice spot more towards Waveland, take the umbrella, blanket, chain and cooler out and chill. Ship and Cat islands can be crowded, those western beaches are almosr deserted.
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…dare I ask what the chain is for?
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Long time since you’ve been to the ‘new’ Gulfport, eh? To secure the mispeled ‘chair’.
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about 40 years, I’d guess.
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Oh yeah, it’s changed. I remember it a bit from the early 70s…remember it from before Katrina picked up the offshore casinos floating on huge barges in the Gulf and swept them inland right over US 90. I still like the smallish town feeling there and the beaches are open and not crowded.
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That is probably a wniczy idea.
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Tak.
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I’m ready to see him go.
Morning WeeWeed!
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Afternoon S&S!
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Good evening Wee 🙂 .
I’m hoping that he is getting enough of a kickback from Foxconn that he retires.
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Here is one of my favorite Bierstadt paintings – Mountain Lake lll
This is the 1st time the magnify button copied onto imgur, so I’m not sure the size it will come out. I made it 675 pixels. I wanted to make it as large as possible to see the deer at the water, but still under the 700 Stella suggested.
Enjoy! 🙂
Off to the doc’s soon.
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Pretty! 😀
I hope you get a good report from the doctor.
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Thank you!
(It’s not for my overactive immune system attacking my eyes etc. It’s for my wrecked up body after getting hit by a car.)
Hello (waving) and good morning to all the wonderful Stellars I may have missed! 🙂
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Hit by a car?!
Ooh…I hope you get good news from the doc…
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Thank you. 🙂 They are ongoing problems that very gradually worsen. It happened a long time ago. I just pray I will never need any joints replaced, because I can’t have any implants.
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Oh dear! When did that happen?
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34 years ago this past week my mother and I were walking into a store at night when a woman rushing home to make supper did not turn on her lights or clean all the snow off her windshield. She drove right into us. We were almost at the sidewalk. My mom is larger, taller, and heavier than me, so she fell onto the hood and slid down hurting her shoulder. I was thrown up into the air, spun around, my shoe, purse and umbrella were thrown off. I hit the ground almost head first. My shoulder hit, then my head,then hips, then feet. It was a miracle I was not killed or my neck broken. It has caused problems and pain all my life since then. I know it may sound odd, but I think that, along with other things, had an effect on my immune system causing it to be in overdrive all the time.
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OMG That is so horrible. I hope you improve.
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That sounds awful. I do believe that traumatic injury can permanently change your body’s ability to heal itself.
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Evening G-d&Country 🙂 . It looks so peaceful.
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🙂
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Auugghh! posted wrong picture! Sierra Nevada 1 has the deer! THIS is the one I really like, and meant to post! (the tiny little icons are hard to distinguish sometimes)
🙂
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well, this one is pretty, too. 🙂
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I looked & looked for the deer I the other one….
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Hangs head Sorry!
Here we go – it’s not quite a deer, but hope it puts a smile on your face 🙂
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🙂
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OK – Dear Hubby said the deer is behind the trees! You know – DH’s family came from Mississippi – do you think he is related to Czar!??
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LOL
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Gorgeous! Hope your feeling better, G & C!
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Thank you S&S. It’s an ongoing journey. This wonderful site and the people here are a great help, not only with all the caring well wishes and support, but the positive, lovely, and informative posts! 🙂
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Well, it’s nice to have such delightful people here to share with. With my mother being a patient at the Dallas clinic, too, I can relate to some of the challenges you’ve had with the immune system stuff. Mom has been dealing with that for much of her life. She’s been back at the clinic recently for the IV therapy. They know exactly what to do to get her health restored. Anyway, it’s great to be able to share with someone who understands. 😊
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Hi Sand&Sea, I’m so glad your Mom was able to be helped!
The Vit C IV’s helped me. The allergy and ALF treatments also make a big difference.
An awkward question I have never asked anyone down there is what happens when Dr. Rea retires or dies. He’s getting pretty old. Have you heard anything?
It is good to be to be able to share with someone who understands. {{{hugs & best wishes to you & your Mom}}} 🙂
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Actually I was just discussing that with my sisters. They worry where mom will go when he retires. We all decided we need to pray someone really great takes over the practice. Mom has another Dr she loves and I might be able to get that info to you through Stella. We will see how best to work that out. Have a blessed day!
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Thanks so much for any reference of a doctor your Mom likes!
Yes I pray someone takes over the clinic. Dr Rea has an amazing amount of knowledge, but even after he is gone, the clinic will help thousands. At one point another doctor was going to open up another clinic in South Carolina, but decided against it. I have been praying a clinic opens on the east coast. I do not know his wife’s or children’s plans. I thought his children ran parts of the clinic. The A.L.F. is so helpful, I believe he has patented it, so I pray that continues. Thanks so much SandandSea, God Bless 🙂
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I could send the doctor’s name to Stella and maybe she could forward it on to you. Take care, G & C!
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I would do that.
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Thank you, Stella. I’ll get the contact info together.
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Thank You SandandSea 🙂
Thank You Stella 🙂
I value your help especially because it comes from someone who understands this “orphan” i.e. rare illness.
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I am waiting on my sister to send me the doctor’s info. As soon as I get it, I will email Stella. Thank you, Stella.
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Morning G & C!
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I tried to send to G&C, but the email address I have isn’t a valid one, and the message bounced back. I asked G&C to email me (on another thread), so I will resend as soon as I have a valid email.
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Thank you, Stella. I appreciate your help with this.
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The more I think about Cruz and people like him the more convinced that the ONLY way to deal with the school shootings issue is to harden the target. We need more guns, not less – LOTS more. As rhea stated above, shooters are less likely to choose the target where they are more likely to be dropped by another gun carrier.
The issue, at the crux of it, is that civil liberties prevail unless a law is broken. We have no laws that are allowed to cover multiple small and disparate offenses. These kinds of things are taken each on it’s own instance rather than in the aggregate, wherein a continuum would constitute an identification of the individual as a potential threat to the greater good. I don’t know how anyone could write such a legislative bill that stood a chance of becoming law.
I don’t mean to be flip at all, but if this was the kind of atmosphere Cruz’ mother lived in at 68, she may have chosen death by flu as compared to the continued abuse her son likely put her through, based on this report:
https://nypost.com/2018/02/16/deputies-called-to-suspected-shooters-home-39-times-over-seven-years/
Before Nikolas Cruz carried out his mass killing at a Florida high school this week, police responded to his home 39 times over a seven-year period, according to disturbing new documents.
Details about the calls to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office — obtained from police records by CNN — were not immediately available and it was impossible to determine if all involved Cruz.
But the nature of the emergencies at his Parkland home included “mentally ill person,” “child/elderly abuse,” “domestic disturbance” and “missing person,” KTLA reported.
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Easy one: Prog response to police/mental health/prosecutorial inaction is to have fewer guns so that chances of violent actions are fewer. After all, dead bodies in the pursuit of social perfection is an acceptable side effect of the process of dragging the mouthbreating public into the New World Order.
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“…to have fewer guns so that chances of violent actions are fewer…”
First order “logic” on the left. As if…
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We hear the same crap time and time again from the NOPD and city talking heads. Fact is that the huge violent crime rate in the city is NOT the result of hordes of law abiding citizens suddenly going off the deep edge, it’s young black thugs and older black scofflaws. You don’t get a description of the perp’s race on the news any more but once you hear the area the violent act took place you have a very good idea. Also don’t hear descriptions much anymore, instead they show the perps’ pictures and avoid the inevitable racist label for speaking the politically unspeakable.
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It was almost 80 degrees here yesterday, it’s 32 degrees this morning. That’s hard for an old body to adjust. )
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We got similar temps in N. Texas. Super windy today, too. Hope your crew is getting better! Good to see you, Michelle!
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Gracie is sick again. She went to the doctor today and he gave her antibiotic. I think we all keep passing it back and forth.
Poor baby keeps coughing so bad she throws up.
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Sorry to hear that! Poor little girl.
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Poor baby.
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Prayers the little one gets better soon!
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Thank you. I’ve always said I’d rather be sick than my babies and I think it’s worse with grandbabies because I can’t sit up with them all night.
I did get to sit and rock my little angel today though.
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Hope she’s better soon. Awful hard to see the little ones sick.
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🙏🏼 So sorry Michelle.
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That’s awful. I hate that for her. It’s the illness that has no end. I still have random days where I’ll start coughing again. In my opinion, doctors should go back to taking a blood sample to determine what kind of viruses people have. I don’t think doctors are very good at diagnosing anymore. Doctoring seems to be a lost art. If they would study this virus, then maybe they could come up with a way to stop it.
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It’s like pulling teeth to just get them to do a blood test at all. All they want to do is those rapid tests for flu, RSV and strep unless you insist.
She seemed a lot better this morning after a few days on the antibiotics. Her nose was still running, but she wasn’t coughing and was all smiles.
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I hope she continues to get better quickly. 🙂
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19 ° here 🙂 .
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It’s the dramatic change that is hard on the system. We drastically warmed up the past two days to then drop back down overnight.
My DH said this morning, “you gotta love Oklahoma weather.” I told him, “No I really don’t.” lol
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We’ve had a high – low winter here. It’s already hit 50° this year and also -9°.
One of my favorite songs since I was a little girl.
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We’ve had a cold winter here and Oklahoma has always been known for changing weather, sometimes hourly it changes. It’s just every year it seems to get harder for my system to adjust.
This morning it felt colder to me than it did when we were in single digits, but then I had time to adjust to the cold. lol
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I was in Oklahoma a month ago. I thought the wind was going to blow me into the next county. Which made the cold bitter cold.
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Yep, we get lots of wind until it gets the middle of summer then you can’t even get a breeze. lol
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Morning Stella and all,
Beautiful photo, first thought though was how to get on the floating platform without knocking lanterns over. Staged I’m sure but still gorgeous.
The one thing that really triggers me is injustice, as with most people. Still don’t know why this guy just doesn’t go in and blow it all sky high.
Saw Howie come through yesterday, and must say now, I’m more in agreement with his view on this fellow. Had hoped for more.
Anyways,
Y’all have a great day out there, reaching 70 here today, just another day in paradise!
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Take care, derk.
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Oh ye of little faith. President Trump knows more about these people than they know about themselves. They are righting a wrong as deep as the Marianas Trench. Sessions tipped his hand.
From a Breitbart interview;
Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday that the Department of Justice was ending the “executive branch legal activism” of the previous administration, while also fighting the judicial activism of liberal judges.
“I think the department did become too political” under President Barack Obama, Sessions said. “Essentially, it was executive branch legal activism. They would take cases or regulations or statutes and expand or redefine the meaning of words in them to advance the agenda that they thought ought to be advanced — an agenda that often had zero chance of passing Congress, where the elected representatives sit.
“So you have an agenda, and you can’t get Congress to pass it, so you use unelected regulatory officials and lawyers to draft regulations and enforcement policies that carry out a political agenda that the people don’t favor.
“And I think that was a factor in this past [presidential] election, and it was an issue that was known to a lot of business and legal experts. They saw this as a dangerous trend.”
Sessions singled out President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — which expires March 5 — as a primary example of “executive branch legal activism.” And he excoriated the courts for preventing President Donald Trump for withdrawing Obama’s policy.
“[President Obama] said repeatedly that it was not legal, he couldn’t do it. Congress had took up an issue and it failed to pass. So they just did it anyway.
“But now when we tried … to withdraw the DACA policy … we’ve been sued and judges have stopped simple withdrawal of the policy.”
In other words the Trump administration is not chopping down a tree only to leave a stump and roots behind, the Trump administration is burrowing all around and amongst the roots and the tree will fall with a mighty mighty crash. From the roots to the tippy top leaf.
😉
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For sled dog enthusiasts:
#downtownmarquette #up200 (Photo courtesy of Lake Superior Photo, Shawn Malone)
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That’d be me! Thanks, Stella. Two weeks until Iditarod starts! Once again I’ll be pulling for Aliy Zirkle and hoping this is (finally!) her year. Her husband, Allen Moore, won the Yukon Quest three days ago with a monster performance–over 6 hours ahead of the 2nd place finisher. And out of 13 teams who finished, he was the only musher to have all 14 dogs still in harness. That means their dogs are in great shape! Yahooooo, go Aliy!
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6 hours ahead of second place ! Wow! I love your updates on the Iditarod. I’ll be rooting for Aliy fro afar.
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Yay, thanks lovely! Maybe if we have a mushing prayer chain it will help.
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I’ll be praying for her and the dogs their safety, health and speed 🙂 ! I’ve never be part of a mushing prayer chain! Exciting!
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Please listen to Jeff Kuhner online . Now he is taking about big pharma’s role in shootings.
BTW this week Kuhner was also discussing how in Massachusetts now elders are being institutionalized against their wills (used to be kids) when they are not demented. Then they are put on psych drugs, and when they eventually get physically ill, they are given a few antibiotics, then killed with morpheme. (Usually they have some sort of money).
Before I had asked who started this craziness in psychiatry. Was it one of the list of communist goals – I think it may have been. Kuhner – (who’s family came from a communist country) stated saying someone was crazy and putting them in an institution was a way to get rid of them.
I do not like the “weaponization”, one way or another, of psychiatry – whether medicating and leaving out in society not being cared for people who need help, or forcibly institutionalizing and medicating people who do not need it.
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“he is talking about”
(used to be kids forcibly taken from parents, institutionalized and drugged)
Sorry.Trying to type fast.
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I disagree about a lot of this. See my post on institutionalization. I believe in it.
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I absolutely agree with institutionalization when needed.
We had to put my mom in a nursing home for dementia patients when we could no longer physically care for her. One time my husband and I together could barely keep her from running out onto a busy street. It was amazing how strong she could get. As I said I do NOT agree with medicating and leaving out in society and not caring for people who need help.
The forcibly institutionalizing and medicating cases I referenced are with a particular lawyer and particular organization that has now done this with three seniors. Forcibly institutionalizing people when NOT needed has gone on since there have been institutions – usually caused by greed. Some people are bad and greedy, and will use any means necessary, even forcibly institutionalizing someone, to get what they want.
Jeff Kuhner was also instrumental in the Justine Pellitier case.
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This is Tucker’s first birthday!! I just made him a pan of chicken fudge. Otherwise, it’s just another day in the neighborhood. Here’s a pic of him from Christmas (with grandsons).
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Chicken fudge? Bet my doggie would like that. 🙂 Happy Birthday, Tucker.
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Easy to make:
1 12.5 oz can chicken, with the liquid (you can use tuna)
3/4 Cup Whole Wheat Flour (I used white whole wheat)
3/4 Cup Rolled Oats
2 eggs
1/4 Cup Grated Parmesan
1/8 Cup finely chopped fresh parsley (you could leave this out, or substitute
something else that is safe for your dog to eat)
350 degrees for 20 minutes in a covered, greased 9×9″ pan. Should have the consistency of fudge, and must be stored in the refrigerator or freezer. Cut or break up into sizes appropriate for your dog.
I added grated carrot and frozen peas. It made the mix wetter, so I had to bake it longer. It should be fairly dry.
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Copied and printed. Thx
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Tucker and the cat, Luna, both like this!
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I’ll bet. 😀
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I just noticed the peas. Think I will leave those out. Foxy doesn’t do peas. LOL She just spits them out.
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They aren’t in the original. I just added them.
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Hey! Wait a minute – I think I made that for supper last night! 🙂
Sounds good!
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Oh my! look at the time! My eyes are getting tired, and I need to start making tonight’s supper! 🙂
See you all later.
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I actually tasted it the first time I made it. Not bad!
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Chicken fudge? My reaction too. 🙂 Bet his tail was wagging like crazy. He is looking so intent on something – maybe chicken fudge hahahaha! 😉 It looks like there is another little doggie back there as well?
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My grandsons’ dog, Coco, a terrier mix.
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🙂
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Happy birthday to Tucker! What a lucky dog 🙂 .
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Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
– Isaiah 26:3 (King James Version)
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Be sure to click on the first photo to get a full screen view.
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Thank you! I’m copying this and keeping it on my desktop. 🙂 Very nice and calming.
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It would make a good computer background!
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600daily/
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In about an hour my yard will look like this. It’s snowing silver dollar size snowflakes right now….
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My electricity just went out. I’m sure my wireless will go at any time. See you all later!
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Out until 9:45 they say.
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Back on!
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Tucker napping, on his birthday:
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Aaaaaaawwwww! Too precious!
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He is just soooo cute!
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He’s certainly a beautiful baby, stella!
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He’s different looking than Stella (he looks like his mom). I love his freckles.
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Awwwwwww. 😀
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🙂 He looks so soft!
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He is!
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Tucker’s mom and her new puppies (one week old). Breeder sent me the pic a few minutes ago.
This must be when they were first born – they still have their tails! The tails are normally docked within the first two days.
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My goodness! Eight little pudgy puppies! Her nose is pink 😉
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The American Brittany always has a pink or brown nose. A black nose is a fault. Look at Tucker’s nose.
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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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I can’t wait for the General Flynn conviction to be vacated. Poisoned fruit from a poisoned tree.
Unrolled thread from @drawandstrike
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/964602994938535946.html
Not to mention that General Flynn’s attorneys have demanded the enemies playbook and legally they will have to turn it over.
I’m surprised that Hillary has not been run out of the country by all the people who are going to hang from nooses because she was too arrogant, sick, and lazy to campaign.
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Seen on Facebook:
Making America Great Again
Please don’t misunderstand.
It’s not a dog whistle for a feeling of nostalgia for a time where some Americans were favored over others.
No. It’s about turning the country back over to We the People, as intended.
America is a representative republic. We elect people to represent us – not rule over us.
This is not a 2-class system where those whom we’ve elected have carte blanche.
They are not special.
Justice is blind.
The intent was not for our elected representatives to be able to:
• trade on insider information
• sell our natural resources (for any reason, but particularly personal gain!)
• create slush funds from tax dollars to pay hush money to cover up their bad behavior
• walk away from crimes for which the rest of us would be convicted
• create fake charitable foundations to sell American influence for personal gain (pay-for-play)
• use our systems against us (voter fraud, immigration, electronic surveillance, health care, 2nd amendment, free press, courts, CFPB, etc)
With today’s revelations, we are on our way to turning this around. FINALLY.
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