General Discussion, Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Stella

from Pippa Passes

The year’s at the spring
And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hillside’s dew-pearled;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn:
God’s in His heaven—
All’s right with the world!

 Robert Browning
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110 Responses to General Discussion, Wednesday, February 21, 2018

  1. Lucille says:
    February 21, 2018 at 12:11 am

    Illinois: Hamas-linked Muslim group launches hijab propaganda billboard campaign
    February 19, 2018 by Robert Spencer

    GainPeace says that it “works under the umbrella of Islamic Circle of North America.”
    The Islamic Circle of North America: “ICNA has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, the ideological forebear of all radical Islamic movements — including Hamas and al-Qaeda.

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/02/illinois-hamas-linked-muslim-group-launches-hijab-propaganda-billboard-campaign

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  2. Lucille says:
    February 21, 2018 at 12:11 am

    Hahahahahaha!
    Squirrel Snowcone

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  3. Lucille says:
    February 21, 2018 at 12:13 am

    All “reality” shows are somewhat scripted but I always enjoyed this series anyway….

    See the Biggest ‘American Pickers’ Buys Ever
    http://definition.org/biggest-buys-american-pickers/?utm_source=Taboola&utm_medium=theweatherchannel&utm_campaign=DEF_US_D_Taboola_42681_757941&utm_content=56204686

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  4. Lucille says:
    February 21, 2018 at 12:15 am

    Happy Wednesday, Stellars….

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  5. Wooly Covfefe says:
    February 21, 2018 at 12:53 am

    One of the coolest things about records, to me, was that they fit perfectly into milk-crates.

    Apropos of nothing, but how cool is that?

    My uncle had all of Carlin on vinyl. In milk crates, of course. Toledo Window Box. Nope, wasn’t allowed to listen to that particular album as a kid, that’s for sure. And I was too young to understand what I was looking at on the cover, anyway.

    Thankfully, or not, I discovered Carlin much later in life, and I hope he made peace with God before he shuffled off.

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  6. nyetneetot says:
    February 21, 2018 at 7:41 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_| (Tom Collins)
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_| (Black & Tan)
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_| (Boilermaker)
    Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_| (Irish Car Bomb)
    Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_| (Godfather)
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Gin & Tonic)
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Blackberry wine)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 |_| (Backdraft)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
    Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
    Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
    Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_| (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_| (Stinger)
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_| (Rusty Nail)
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_| (Whiskey Smash)
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_| (Rum & Coke)
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_| (Night Train Express)
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
    Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
    Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
    Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
    Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂 |_| (Albanian Raki Moskat)
    Mornin’ rheavolans! (aka “Rhea Salacia Volans”) 🙂 |_| (Hot Buttered Rum)
    Mornin’ joshua! 🙂 |_| (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂 |_| (RumChata)
    Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 |_| (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
    Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Smoking Bishop)
    Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
    Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 |_| (Red Russian)
    Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
    Mornin’ Gary! 🙂 |_| (Yuengling)
    Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
    Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
    Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
    Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂 |_| (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂 |_| (Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
    Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂 |_| (Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

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

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Doughnuts and coffee!

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  8. litenmaus says:
    February 21, 2018 at 10:10 am

    Good Morning everyone. Just stopping in to let ya all know that it is still white here on the Montana prairie. Yesterday we saw the sun and blue sky for the first time in about ten days. It was glorious and although it fell to 24 below last night, today looks like another day of sunshine. Not sure that it will warm up enough to melt some snow, but just the sight of the sun brings thoughts of spring.

    On the other side of the door, I’m still packing and painting and have completed the task that I set out for myself last weekend…hallway, office, great wall and dining room have been completed other than for the bane of my existence right now- the electrical switch outlet plates. I have a gazillion five switch arrays throughout the house, and each one of those suckers has ten screws that have to line up perfectly…who knew???

    It looks to be another beautiful day. :0)

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    • Sharon says:
      February 21, 2018 at 12:23 pm

      When the highs are below zero……………..yes. This morning it is 29 degrees above here in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. I remember exactly what 24 below feels like and am aware that I must have weakened, because 29 above feels like a challenge to me now. The humidity in winter in Oregon is high (compared to low humidities in MN) so that seems to add a bite to it.

      In any case – my wish for you is more bright sunshine. I know how that visual can give some encouragement at the coldest point. It’s not warm sunshine, but it helps.

      Stay very safe.

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      • Sharon says:
        February 21, 2018 at 12:32 pm

        I forgot to say – there is what we used to call a skiff of snow on the ground here this morning. There are some minor snow events occurring all around on the valley floor and it finally reached this area. Perhaps the daffodils that have opened are reconsidering the wisdom of that decision…. 🙂

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      • litenmaus says:
        February 21, 2018 at 12:52 pm

        Thank you Sharon, bright sunshine is indeed an encouragement right about now.

        I heard that you have a good possibility of snow headed your way today, so you stay safe and warm as well.

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    • The Tundra PA says:
      February 21, 2018 at 8:08 pm

      Whee doggies, lit! 24 below is just danged cold! My part of Alaska hasn’t gotten that cold all winter. I know too how important the sunshine is when it is bitter cold out. Keep your woodstove stoked!

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      • litenmaus says:
        February 21, 2018 at 9:14 pm

        Not only keeping the heat cranked Tundra, but am also wearing enough flannel these days to make Paul Bunyan proud. :0)

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        • The Tundra PA says:
          February 21, 2018 at 9:21 pm

          Forget flannel, girlfriend! Flannel ain’t nuthin but puffy cotton. The rule around here is you’re not allowed to complain of being cold if all you’re wearing is cotton. Fleece is the answer, and lots of it. Polypro layer underneath it if you need. And thick SmartWool socks. Save on your heating bill too. Glad you are staying warm!

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  9. czarowniczy says:
    February 21, 2018 at 10:54 am

    Oh ^&%$#, Dr Oz has just told me I should be moisturizing AFTER I shower…so that’s what’s been missing from my life! Ah! Sweet mystery of life at last I’ve found thee. Ah! At last I know the secret of it all!

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  10. stella says:
    February 21, 2018 at 11:41 am

    Columbine Shooting Survivor Introduces Bill To Allow Teachers To Carry Guns In Schools

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/27326/columbine-survivor-introduces-bill-expand-allow-ryan-saavedra

    Colorado House Minority Leader Patrick Neville, who survived the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado, has introduced legislation to remove restrictions on concealed carry in schools, The Washington Times reported.

    Under current Colorado law, anyone who has a concealed carry permit “may bring firearms onto school property, but must keep them locked inside their vehicles.”

    Neville, though, believes that it is time to arm teachers so they can act during a school shooting.

    “This act would allow every law-abiding citizens who holds a concealed carry permit, issued from their chief law-enforcement officer, the right to carry concealed in order to defend themselves and most importantly our children from the worst-case scenarios,” Neville wrote in a statement.

    “As a former Columbine student who was a sophomore during the shootings on April 20, 1999, I will do everything in my power to prevent Colorado families from enduring the hardships my classmates and I faced that day,” the Republican lawmaker wrote. “Time and time again we point to the one common theme with mass shootings, they occur in gun-free zones.”

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  11. czarowniczy says:
    February 21, 2018 at 11:43 am

    Sort of ‘right up there’ in the ‘You Had One Job to Do’ competition: http://abc30.com/security-guard-seen-on-video-pretending-to-point-gun-at-students/3105845/

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  12. Lucille says:
    February 21, 2018 at 11:52 am

    Psalm 3 [a]
    A psalm of David. When he fled from his son Absalom.

    1 Lord, how many are my foes!
    How many rise up against me!
    2 Many are saying of me,
    “God will not deliver him.”[b]
    3 But you, Lord, are a shield around me,
    my glory, the One who lifts my head high.
    4 I call out to the Lord,
    and he answers me from his holy mountain.
    5 I lie down and sleep;
    I wake again, because the Lord sustains me.
    6 I will not fear though tens of thousands
    assail me on every side.
    7 Arise, Lord!
    Deliver me, my God!
    Strike all my enemies on the jaw;
    break the teeth of the wicked.
    8 From the Lord comes deliverance.
    May your blessing be on your people.
    Footnotes:

    Psalm 3:1 In Hebrew texts 3:1-8 is numbered 3:2-9.
    Psalm 3:2 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 4 and 8.

    New International Version

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  13. czarowniczy says:
    February 21, 2018 at 1:51 pm

    It’s a small world. Just got a call that my old Army SF CO just had a massive stroke…and Czarina is his therapist. He couldn’t get a better one.
    Note: Family called me so there’s no HIPPA violation.

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  14. Lucille says:
    February 21, 2018 at 3:26 pm

    Beautiful…but how many days until spring?

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  15. stella says:
    February 21, 2018 at 3:59 pm

    Disgusting!

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  16. Menagerie says:
    February 21, 2018 at 4:29 pm

    Stella, I made those cabbage rolls from the video today, but I won’t know whether they were worth the trouble until tomorrow. I’m going to do as she suggests and refrigerate them overnight, then brown them and serve with sour cream.

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  17. auscitizenmom says:
    February 21, 2018 at 9:00 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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  18. lovely says:
    February 21, 2018 at 10:45 pm

    Hi guys, Lovely here, for some reason WP has disappeared my gravatar for anyplace other than my own little blog, not sire why. I can’t like anything other than replies to my comments and I can only do that on my own page, the bell is gone from everywhere else. I have a little horizontal barbers bar that just keep spinning with the words “Connecting to WordPress.com.” So considered 95% of your posts liked from me 🙂 .

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  20. michellc says:
    February 21, 2018 at 11:40 pm

    I read this FB page every now and then that is a vet page for farm animals, mainly goats, for the humor factor. It’s pretty hilarious sometimes the questions people ask. Sometimes they really have emergencies, but even that kind of cracks me up because if your animal is that bad why the heck are you on FB?

    I was scrolling through tonight and someone asked if they ever needed to put an animal down and a vet could not get there in a reasonable amount of time, what was the most humane way to do so. A vet replied that for hundreds of years a well placed bullet was the quickest and most humane way of putting down a suffering animal. I expected people to have strokes and threaten his license, which if happened comments were removed. What I did not expect was how many comments were what if you lived in town where it was illegal to fire a firearm. How many people these days have farm animals in town? These are people from all across the country including liberal states where I thought they regulated everything. I guess it’s just odd for an old country girl to see farm animals living in backyards.
    I guess still not as bad as one of them who asked how to potty train a goat, because she lived in an apartment and had a bottle baby goat that she got for a therapy goat. Who the heck gets a goat while living in an apartment and what the heck is a therapy goat?

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    • lovely says:
      February 21, 2018 at 11:50 pm

      Wow! I busted Binged therapy goats and it is a real thing. They call them companion goats 😏.

      I think it is probably akin to happy chickens.

      Prices generally run around $1,000 per goat. 😱

      Shazam!!!!! You raise therapy goat Michelle.

      Good grief.

      How is the family doing? Is Gracie still coughing?

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      • michellc says:
        February 22, 2018 at 12:06 am

        Darn $1000 a goat, I think I’m going to have to start raising therapy goats along with my happy chickens. lol

        Both the babies were doing a lot better then this morning they both had snotty noses and coughing again. I think this crazy weather is not helping. It started off yesterday morning in the high 60’s and then rain moved in along with cold front and it was down into the 30’s by afternoon. Now we have ice everywhere, it never got above freezing today.

        We’ve all been bleaching and spraying everything down with lysol. lol

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        • lovely says:
          February 22, 2018 at 12:14 am

          🙏🏼 Prayers continue for the defeat of that nasty bug.

          You could do some kind of package deal buy a companion 😏 goat for $1000.00 and you get a free happy chicken sandwich.

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          • michellc says:
            February 22, 2018 at 12:27 am

            Maybe I’ll start selling therapy chickens as well complete with a chicken diaper. 🙂

            I don’t know if they just keep passing it back and forth or if there’s several bugs out there that they keep catching.
            Sometimes I think going to the doctor just brings home more sickness.

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            • lovely says:
              February 22, 2018 at 12:30 am

              I took my daughter to urgent care (she was diagnosed with bronchitis). Everyone other than the receptionist and myself was wearing a surgical mask. I was plain creepy.

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              • michellc says:
                February 22, 2018 at 12:33 am

                It’s everywhere. My DH went to the store today and he said he wished he had a mask because it sounded like every person in there was coughing and blowing their noses.

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                • lovely says:
                  February 22, 2018 at 12:36 am

                  Now that you mention it I have seen a couple people in stores with masks on. I can’t wear one, I have a very sensitive gag reflex, when I was in the hospital with pneumonia if people wanted to come visit me they had to wear a mask, I think that was just for the first 24 hours though.

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                  • michellc says:
                    February 22, 2018 at 12:39 am

                    I hate even wearing dust masks, I do it when I’m cleaning out the barn because the dust gets to me, but every few minutes I have to go outside and take it off.

                    I don’t understand why so many people are sick this year. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it this bad around here. Several schools have closed down around here more than once due to the number of students and teachers sick.

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                  • lovely says:
                    February 22, 2018 at 12:42 am

                    I don’t think it has hit my town as hard as other places. Not that I have heard of anyhow and no one I know has gotten a bad flu this year. So 🙏🏼 things keep going that way.

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      • michellc says:
        February 22, 2018 at 12:13 am

        Okay I had to search after you told me that. My search also pulled up goat yoga. Of course I had to see what the heck goat yoga is. People honestly are paying hundreds of dollars to take goat yoga classes. Do yoga with baby goats jumping around and on you.

        I love baby goats, but I do not want baby goats using me for a play mat, those little hooves can hurt. 🙂

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        • lovely says:
          February 22, 2018 at 12:18 am

          Did you see the site offering a therapy goats with blue eyes? 😂 I wonder if those blue eyed goats are privileged? And yoga goats. No thanks.

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          • michellc says:
            February 22, 2018 at 12:30 am

            See, I could make a killing, we have lots of blue eyed goats. 🙂

            One of those yoga farms had a waiting list of 900 people. I wonder if there insurance will cover it when one of those people get a bruise from a goat’s hooves?

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            • lovely says:
              February 22, 2018 at 12:32 am

              I have an idea, you could be a pioneer in the field, you should sell happy companion chickens for sad therapy goats.

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              • michellc says:
                February 22, 2018 at 12:36 am

                LOL!!!

                Those poor goats probably are sad. Goats are herd animals and regardless of what people think they want to hang out with other goats not humans. They spend their day within feet of each other browsing around for food.

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                • lovely says:
                  February 22, 2018 at 12:38 am

                  I’m sure there is a Rosie O /goat joke in there somewhere but I’m too tired to think of it ! I mean can you train a goat to use a litter box or do they just poop and pee all over the place if you have one in your house?

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                  • michellc says:
                    February 22, 2018 at 12:42 am

                    I don’t see how you could train a goat, they poop while walking and leave trails of little goat pellets.

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                  • lovely says:
                    February 22, 2018 at 12:44 am

                    That’s my memory from taking the girls and now my niece and nephew to petting farms. Then again they are probably more hygienic than many of the antfia crowd.

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                  • michellc says:
                    February 22, 2018 at 12:47 am

                    I can see how people can train a pig to go to a litter box, because they will choose one place to poop and only poop in that place. A goat, I don’t think they could.

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                  • lovely says:
                    February 22, 2018 at 12:48 am

                    I trust you on that Michelle.

                    But you can force one into a dress apparently!

                    I can’t imagine the goat could walk very well without tripping on her dress.

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                  • michellc says:
                    February 22, 2018 at 9:08 am

                    I see people selling babies on FB all the time that they’ve put tutus on. There’s one lady who makes and sells tutus for goats, miniature pigs, miniature calves and miniature horses. She also makes and sells diaper covers for chicken diapers.

                    You know if these poor animals could talk they’d tell these people to get that crap off of them and put them out in the pasture so they can be an animal.

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                  • lovely says:
                    February 22, 2018 at 10:15 am

                    Just wow.

                    I think because a large potion of our society has decided to remain childless, and thinks abortion is a dandy way to remove a clump of cells that they are now literally rather than fictitiously anthropomorphizing animals to quell the rebellion of their soul.

                    We are created to love and they refuse to acknowledge that natural and soulful desire to have and to love babies and children so it comes out in bizarre ways like having companion goats, pigs, chickens, snakes and on and on.

                    Just a pre-tea thought.

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                  • michellc says:
                    February 22, 2018 at 11:06 am

                    I think that has something to do with it along with the push by the animal rights side trying to humanize animals.

                    Take the local news, every winter and summer you hear them say bring your animals inside. More than once I’ve heard one of them say something about the poor cows they saw out in the weather. I guess they don’t realize God gave animals a fur coat for a reason among other ways to stay cool and warm.
                    If we cut down all the fences I guarantee you animals would survive without our giving them hay and grain.

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                  • lovely says:
                    February 22, 2018 at 12:13 pm

                    Agreed. The animal rights industry adds to the craziness.

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                  • michellc says:
                    February 22, 2018 at 12:49 pm

                    My daughter has a friend that has an 8 year old little boy. The kids had to write about what they did over Christmas break. He wrote about the normal stuff, Santa coming, presents, food, etc., but he’s a farm boy and he wrote about a calf that had to be pulled and brought into the house to try and warm up, but it died and the mama cow had to be put down.
                    The teacher told him how sad that was and he told her, “that’s just farm life, cows die and then you lose money.” His parents got called to the school to have a meeting with the teacher and principal because it wasn’t normal for him to have no regard for life.

                    That is so stupid, which is what they told them along with telling them their kid would not be returning to school. They weren’t going to have idiots telling their child there was something wrong with him because he didn’t act like a human had died.

                    He lives in reality, obviously something they have no clue about.

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                  • lovely says:
                    February 22, 2018 at 12:58 pm

                    Good parenting by pulling the boy out of the school. What did the teacher expect? Is she a vegan? Does she fly a flag at half staff for all the animals she has eaten?

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                  • michellc says:
                    February 22, 2018 at 1:30 pm

                    My daughter told them that is another among many reasons her kids won’t go to public school.

                    As for the teacher I have no idea, but it’s not like this was a big school. It’s in a rural town where there are lots of farm kids and hunters. I can’t believe more parents aren’t beating down the doors. Heck, I don’t have any kids in the school but I still called and told them both adults involved in calling this child abnormal should be forced to go work on a farm for a week and get an education along with apologizing to this child and his parents.

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        • lovely says:
          February 22, 2018 at 12:27 am

          Bohdi the blue eyed goat is sold 😩.

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