Nothing is so beautiful as spring —
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
The glassy pear tree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.
What is all this juice and all this joy?
A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning
In Eden garden. — Have, get, before it cloy,
Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.
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And you too Lucile……..
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Good morning Col. Ken!
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Thanks, Colonel! Prayers for you are ongoing.
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Beautiful message, Lucille! Have a blessed weekend!
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Thank you, sand! We’re headed into a snowy one, but doable.
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Good Morning Lucille – thank you. Three words say so much. “God is Faithful”
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Morning Lburg! Happy Friday!
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Good morning, Lburg! Amen!
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Good morning Lucille 🙂 ! And my battle with WordPress begins 🙄.
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Morning lovely! WP and my iPad do not get along. 😦
Anyway… have a great Friday!!! 😊
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I have to have my site page open to see anything under the little bell. I can’t like Stella’s initial thread posts and WP boots me out every now and again 🙄. Oh well just an inconvenience.
Going out for tea and coffee with my friend soon. Hazy day here.
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Have fun!
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Good morning, lovely!
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Thanks for the smile!
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Though I don’t watch boxing anymore, my first boxing crush was Ingemar Johansson, a Swede who beat Floyd Patterson to win the World Heavyweight Championship in 1959. Sigh!
My dear Dad was a big Patterson fan and asked if I could keep the cheering down a bit when Ingemar won. LOL!
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Love it Lucille! Out and about helping liberals to see the light!
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Keeping on with the good fight for truth, justice, and the American way!
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Dying Man Pleads With Facebook to Find Home For His Dog and the Response is Overwhelming
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/dying-man-pleads-facebook-yo-find-home-dog-response-overwhelming/
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Another Dog Story…
Woman Realizes the Old Dog She Just Adopted Was Same One She Had as a Child
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/woman-finds-old-dog-is-same-from-childhood/
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How sweet. 🙂
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Well, after a shooting last year and another almost shooting recently, followed by other restaurant shootings recently, my son’s boss has asked him to carry at work. Soi he’s signed up for classes to meet liability/ccw needs and for his b’day instead of something more b’dayish I’m sending him a ccw gun.
Ain’t the first time – back in the late 80s when another son was managing restaurants in NOLA he was robbed twice during rush hour, once by a couple of thugs waving shotguns. Not much better after he moved back to Denver, his store manager got shot while unloading a ‘secure’ delevery area at the rear of the store at about 5 AM. These stores didn’t allow staff or managers to be armed, store policy was to ‘give it up’ and hope the robber(s) weren’t nut jobs.
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Czar, my prayers your Son will never have too clear leather……….
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Amen, I join your prayer Col.
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And if you’re shooting in defense of life you can end up in as big of a jam as the bad guy.
I’ve drilled into all of them that their lives and everything they own or will own rides on any bullet they fire. I’ve been heavy on them for marksmanship as the fewer bullets you have to shoot the less the chance for a miss and unintended strike, You could be shooting at John Wayne Gacy in the middle of preparing dinner, have a miss that wounds a bystander and you’ll be up on charges or at the very least be facing a civil suit.
Those of us on the department who were chartered to carry a gun frequently bought liability insurance. The department has insurance and lawyers and we’re told that the opposition most surely would go for the deepest pocketsd – the department – in the case of an accidental wounding BUT there was no guarantee they would not come after us too. When you consider the attitude of the folks we most oftenest worked with had towards us, and that in case suich happened we knew we’d be thrown to the wolves. Heaven help a civilian who has to shoot to save a life, especially if the attacker’s a member of a group whose behaviors we are constantly apologizing for…
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Yes. When our son was LEO with Portland he was the first officer onscene at a home invasion armed robbery. No one answered the door. He heard yelling. He went around to the back of the house where there were barred windows. Through a window he saw two men fighting on the floor, one of them obviously getting the worst of it. Our son (Police officer) yelled all the right stuff. Fighters did not hear or respond. Then man on top shows a gun in his hand, begins to pistol whip the man on the bottom, then begins to turn the gun in apparent prep for a head shot. So –
Our son shot the guy on top to prevent him from killing the guy on the bottom. Non-lethal (but very serious) wounds to guy on top.
Turns out the guy on top was the householder about ready to kill the guy on the bottom – invader.
The householder sued the police department and our son, each, for ten million dollars. (I remember asking him at the time if he was planning to set that up on payments are would he just be writing a check…………)
PD defense provisions for son were minimal and weak. They pressured him (extremely) to agree to a settlement, which they had to have him involved in – they were all hot to trot on a settlement. Police KNOW they are completely on their own and cannot expect effective defense from their superiors.
Son has a sort of right/wrong sense of life (don’t know where he got that from….) and said to them, repeatedly, “No. Not one dime. If he gets one dime that communicates that I did something wrong. I did not do anything wrong. I did exactly what my training told me to do.”
Because of his refusal to go along, both he and the police department ended up winning the case. The guy didn’t get a dime.
Very frightening weeks with a full blown trial.
He always told us that if he was killed on duty to 1) never talk to the investigators early on; 2) demand a full transcription of all investigations; 3) demand accounting of every step of who handled his weapon and its location after the incident. Anything that would make it VERY difficult for them to communicate that the situation was officer error since that is always the goal from the political snakes’ nest that is the police commander’s office in Portland, OR.
That was almost 20 years ago now – so none of this new, as your report illustrates. None of it is new at all.
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Yup, you get astraight-line training in deadly force, training that stays right along the legal justification in state law. Problem is thelaw readsobjectively but the soul of it’s subjective. You shoot and it’s first up to the political structure of the jurisdiction to determine your fate. Then it’s up to the community and a sea of tort lawyers all willing to maunfacture an alternative trurh and sell it to twelve folks who are motivated by their own experiences and prejudices.
If you shoot a perp waving a gun that other side is going to go o and on about ‘how could you be sure he was going to shoot’ and ‘why didn’;t you just try to shoot the gun out of his hand or wound him?’. Trick here is if you do that, and your shot doesn’t wound anyone else, you can STILL be sued…it’s the job.
Then we have the domestic incident where, upon stopping the attacking partner, the injured partner turns and attacks you for attacking the partner who was doing the attacking. Sigh…glad it’s all behind me.
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One of my top favs is security footage of a medical schhol student, late at night, rushing to the aid of a young woman being forcibly shoved into a car in an attempted kidnapping. The thug wrenches away from the rescuer, pulls a KG-99(!!!) out of his pants and shoots the student in the stomach. The student’s on the ground in pain and you see the thug put the gun to the stiudent’s head THREE times and try to fire – the gun jammed.
The student lived, took up a residency and pracrice in New York then started a charity in NOLA to try and rescue at-risk thugs….errrr, children. Not that we don’t already have an army of them but I guess if that’s how he fed his denial that’s his thing.
Local news treated it as another case od GUNNNNNNN VIOLENNNNNCE, heaven forbid we refer to it as yet another example of the almost daily black thug violence that plagues the city. Thug was arrested after, the very next day, he abducted a married couple and raped/robbed both of them. He received more time in jail than he’ll ever live thru but the nagging question is would he have received those sentences had his case not been so politicized?
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No wonder the Left gets along so well with these crackpots…birds of a feather….
Video: Muslims burn piles of diapers because cartoon cat’s whiskers resemble Arabic for Muhammad
February 22, 2018 by Robert Spencer
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/02/video-muslims-burn-piles-of-diapers-because-cartoon-cats-whiskers-resemble-arabic-for-muhammad
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🙄 Crazy
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the pictures of Muhammad show him wearing what looks like a diaper on his head anyway.
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Muslims mistake cat whiskers for Mohammed.
Liberal mistakes sidewalk utility markings for swastikas.
6 of one half a dozen of another.
Psychos.
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SMH
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Seattle Residents Complained About A ‘Confederate Flag.’ It Was Actually The Flag Of Norway.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/27472/seattle-residents-complained-about-confederate-emily-zanotti
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SMH
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I looked at both and they had to really twist their minds to come up with those two things looking alike.
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One of Sesame Street’s greatest tunes!
Some one should put together the Presidential portraits and this song 🙂 !
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Let’s start with the REAL Democratic Party as opposed to what they portray themselves as. “One of these things is not like the other…”
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Dear Stellarites,
Would you please pray for my son Brandon today? He’s having orthopedic surgery later this morning on his broken & displaced collarbone, following a snowboarding fall on a fun event to begin his Spring Break from college a couple days ago (thankfully he hasn’t been in much pain). His twin brother, Josiah, & I will be accompanying him to the hospital & J has been showing him the surgery ropes having been under the knife so many times himself…
Please pray that the surgery would go well & that he won’t need an in-patient stay; that he can have some financial favor (the co-pays, “thanks” to Obamacare, look to be roughly 1/2 of his gross earnings for 2017); that he can heal quickly; that he’ll not fall behind in his studies (he’s a couple months from college graduation); that work can make some adjustments so he can continue with some income (he’s a waiter at a local restaurant); that the Lord would guide & direct his footsteps for the next phase of his life; that we can all shine the light & love of Jesus wherever we go (this isn’t the hospital where J has had all his surgeries so is unfamiliar territory); & that God will be glorified throughout these adventures. Thanks so much for your prayers!!!
Blessings to you all!
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In my thoughts and prayers.
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Thank you, Colonel! God Bless
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prayers for a safe recovery. ortho surgery today is amazing, and recovery fast. our healthcare folks are so superior today, but way too expensive, I think.
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Yes to all! & thanks!
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prayers
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Thanks!
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Will do, Valerie. 🙏🏻
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Thanks S & S…Blessings
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Of course, Valerie.
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Thanks much Stella…
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🙏🏼Anytime Valerie.
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Thank you Lovely…Blessings!
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Prayers up.
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Thanks! 🙂
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Praying for you and especially for Brandon.
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Thank you!
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Valerie: what a privilege we have to pray for one another. Prayers have been and will continue to be said for Brandon’s successful surgery, a complete and speedy recovery, an intervention regarding finances, and the ability to keep up with his studies. God bless you all!
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Thank you so much! God Bless YOU!!!
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Thanks, Lucille! Blessings
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Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Doughnuts and coffee!
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Morning Joshua!
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morning to you s&s. storm hit at about 2 thirty am and rainy
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I think we need to build an ark. This rain is getting ridiculous.
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Mornin’!
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Morning Michelle!
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Hi Michellc!
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Hi!
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Morning Nyet! Thank you for breakfast! Happy Friday!
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Hello There S&S and Good Morning to you!
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Good morning Sand 🙂 !
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Good Morning Nyet – thanks for another enlightened breakfast! Good Morning Stellars!
“Jenny’s admonition had the desired effect. Ned drew a deep breath and thrust his arm gingerly into the bag, his mouth puckered in distaste. The expression on his face flickered from queasy horror to confusion. From there, it flew headlong into outright bafflement.
Shaking his head, he pulled his fist from the bag and turned his hand palm up.
For a long moment, the two men stared at the offending lump. It was brightly colored. It was round. It was— “An orange?” Lord Blakely rubbed his forehead. “Not quite what I expected.” He scribbled another notation.
“We live in enlightened times,” Jenny murmured.” ~ Courtney Milan, Proof by Seduction
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Good morning Lburg 🙂 !
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Good Morning Lovely! Grey, wet, chilly, windy. However, the daffodils are up – well, four of them are so spring is happening despite the weather! HA!
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Like czar said the other day, overnight the grass is green. I want to the park this morning, and on the way all the grass was so green and dazzling. Lots of flowers. It’s a very sunny day.
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Good morning Nyet 🙂 !
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Breakfast! Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Morning, Nyet! Scrumptious looking…all of it. In the next week or so, perhaps you could whip up some of these…Pumpkin French Toast Muffins with Cinnamon Streusel Topping
https://www.cookingclassy.com/pumpkin-french-toast-muffins-cinnamon-steusel/
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Mornin’ all!
https://twitter.com/PolToons/status/966738152940621824
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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maybe we do not need the FBI anymore….if we THINK they are doing a job, and they are NOT doing it, aren’t we fooling ourselves to keep paying them and believing them?
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Mornin’ Joshua!
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Top of the Rainy Dallas Day to you, Ms. Wee….may the sun shine brightly on your being.
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I wish! We’s wet, too!
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Morning WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Good Morning Wee – Happy Friday!
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Mornin’ Lburg!
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Good morning Wee 🙂 .
The current state of Boward county LE and school officials.
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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So true!!! 👍🏻
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Due to failure to follow established procedures the FBI once again faces grave consequences.
How many more of these screwups caused disasters of a smaller degree that we just didn’t hear about as individually they weren’t newsworthy? And now they want us to believe their Trump-Russia investigation was and is all honest, above the board and by the book.
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Mornin’ Z!
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A humid and also another record breaking temp one…save me Saint Gore, save this unworthy soul with a size 13 carbon footprint.
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Whoa, you got some longfellers there, czar! You must match DH’s 6’4″ or close. Somehow I never imagined you as particularly tall.
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That’s jes my carbon footprint, my regluh fgoot footprint’s an 11-E. I done shrunk though to about 5′ 10″ from close to six feet thanks to the military – collapsed discs. Do have two sons closer to or at 6′ 4″ with bklue eyes and blond hair….strange resemblance to the milkman.
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*Snort* Your boys sound like Aryan youth to me. My Germanic genes approve.
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You should see my GGS, he looks just like a poster child for the SS ROTC, great in profile too. Then again his Mom’s blond/blue first generation from deep in the heart of Deutschland. He loves to listen to the Greatest Hits of the 3rd Reich with his Ur-urgrossmutter.
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You feetz ‘at big?? I own a 9. 😀
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lI started out around a 9 but after years of falling out of the sky at somwwhere around 20 feet a second it tends to make your feet spread. Helps though, longer and wider dem feets be the more you can use ’em to slows ya down on da way down.
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The last big ball they admitted dropping was before 9/11/2001 when they refused to listen to many tips which would have led to stopping the murder of thousands. If they think of these errors as insignificant as “dropping the ball” they need to be seriously re-educated.
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Also have to replace the culture they grow in, if not you just get more weeds.
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Morning, WeeWeed!
The Left is winning on this so far. They love the failure of our institutions and the incompetence of those who are charged with protecting us. I’d wager they’ve had their traitorous spies in place for quite some time, influencing policy and day-to-day activities of the FBI rank and file. That President Trump has involved himself and his Administration deeply already in finding solutions is a big minus as far as the Left is concerned because it throws that proverbial monkey wrench into their plans.
However, the FBI displayed, IMO, a second tier dereliction of duty. Long before the FBI was notified that Cruz should be on their radar, the first series of school officials who saw a child in trouble (and Cruz likely was in the principal’s office quite a bit beginning with primary school) and did a completely inadequate job of getting to the bottom of it, are the culprits. Sundance has laid out that institutional failure very well.
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Evenin’ Lucy!
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Wooly, I made a promise that when my world got a little bit more stable, I would figure out Imgur and introduce you to Squeaks. At this point, I recognize that my world has been so altered that I’m chasing an illusive unicorn waiting for ‘stable’ to happen……..
With that said..I introduce Squeaks.
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What a cutie!
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He has truly been a gift from God for me lovely. He’s a talker and he is quite indignant about some of the changes taking place in the remodel…I took down his window perch the other day and oh my goodness, you wouldn’t believe the smack talk this ‘cutie’ threw at me…:0)
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I have a cat window perch for my dogs but I haven’t put it up yet. They love to look out the window. I’m sure your little guy will get used to his new digs once you settle in. Love that he is a talker. My dog is a talker also.
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:0) I love talking doggies…they are sooo cute.
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I’ll try to post a video some time 🙂 !
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Awesome, I look forward to seeing it. :0)
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She also snores 🙂 .
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I had a cat once that snored, the little sucker liked to sleep under the guest bed and I would forget to tell guests…..I had some pretty freaked out visitors :0)
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My cat snores sometimes.
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My vet at the time told me that purebred Persians and smashed face kitties have a higher chance of have difficulty breathing and are prone to snoring, but mine was a Russian Blue and I had her checked out for breathing issues…nope, she was just a heavy sleeper who snored….
Is your kitty a purebred or just one of the heavy sleepers in the cat kingdom Stella?
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She’s a tortoise shell rescue. American shorthair. She doesn’t snore all the time, just once in a while. She’s sleeping next to me right now.
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Ahhhh, those are the “bestest” times…..:0)
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My little doggie talks some. This morning she decided it was time to get up, so she was staring at me for a while and finally gave a little “huff” and strained to see if I was awake. She is very loud barking at strangers, though.
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For some reason Squeaks doesn’t come into my bedroom and he won’t sleep with me but if he thinks there’s a chance I’m awake, he’ll sit in the doorway and ‘chatter’. Which really sucks, cause he’s mostly black and I can’t pretend I don’t see him…..Drats!!!! :0)
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LOL
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LOL My friend had to move the chair her dog considered her own “special” chair to put up her Christmas Tree. It took about a week for her to adjust to it.
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Tripod is also quite a talker. After a long day at work, I sit down to relax. He’ll get off the bed, sit in the middle of the apartment, halfway between his food and the door, and MEOW. I know he has food and water, so I’ll respond, “What? You want outside?” And he’ll yell at me again. So I get up. Then he’ll walk to his food. So I sit back down. Then he does it again. So I get up. Then he’ll walk back to his food. So I sit back down.
This is every night. I feel like I’m in church sometimes. Sit, stand, sit, stand!
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It is the attention they want…nothing more, nothing less, just 100% your involvement in their world…I have a long hallway, Squeaks likes to lure me out of the back office and then he’ll strut the “cat walk” ending with the crowd pleasing biiiiiggggg streeeeetcccch. Cats are little attention hounds. :0)
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tripod has you well trained.
the walk to the door and the eye stare is a give away, along with failure to acknowledge your asking what do you want.
attention…and exclusivity….that is all.
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Wow, that’s my Tripod’s doppleganger!
Thank you bigly, Litenmaus!
Just checked Google Earth. Exactly where is Stable? I can’t find it. I know I’ve heard of the place, but I’ve never been there.
😀
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LOL…well Wooly I have always said, I live on the corner of ‘Wits End’ and ‘WTF’ and I wasn’t able to find locate that on Google either….:0)
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My dad used to say, “We didn’t move to nowhere, but you can see it from the back porch.”
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What a clever Dad!
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Looks a bit like our back porch cat. I hope your success with Imgur continues….I have a relationship which is rapidly cycling bi-polar at best! Sometimes it posts what I want, sometimes something from a prior effort, sometimes something I never intended. Look forward to more from you! Especially details of the bank building.
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Thanks czarina…I may try to post some before and afters of this house to get a little practice with imgur before I get to the bank remodel just so I can get a feel for some of the quirks.
And by the way, I literally suck at taking good pictures…. :0)
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I charged up my old phone yesterday and brought it to work, because I know it takes good macro pictures. I was foiled, because it told me, when I clicked the shutter button, “You Need a SD Card!”, and wouldn’t allow me to save to pic.
The thing about this old phone: It can focus at less than one inch away from the subject. It is a pocket microscope. It’s like five years old, now, and still the best camera I’ve had. It’s an HTC, I believe.
Somewhere, I have a picture that is HD (1080) of a leaf I took with that phone. The actual leaf was in a knothole in a tree in front of Chef’s house, that I took from less than an inch away. The leaf is about 1/4 the size of my pinky fingernail. Smaller, even. It fills the screen in high def. That camera was bada&&.
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Czarina, I’m so glad you decided to start commenting here.
That was unexpected by all, and very, very welcome.
You’re a blessing, and no longer this mysterious, who-knows persona.
You were, for a couple of years, there.
This is a strange family.
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I hope you can get a SIM card for the old phone. And thanks for the complement & the welcome!
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A relative of our b&w mostly inside cat.
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What a cutie! So good to see you, litenmaus!
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Good to see you too S&S…..The sun is shining and it looks to be another beautiful day. :0)
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That’s great!
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A truly pretty puss! Aren’t kitties grand.
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He has turned out to be a handsome young lad and you have stated it perfectly Jacqueline…kitties are grand. :0)
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No doubt many of us are challenged on the “love” part when we bounce up against a difficult personality, be it friend, family, co-worker or fellow church member. If we’re Christian, we full well know we should follow Jesus’s example on this.
Also, in the highly-charged atmosphere of political opposition it’s easy to let our emotions get the better of us. Thus, we slide into personal attacks against people rather than their policies (Matthew 7:12: “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets”).
I must say that it was always a challenge to pray for President Obama, even keeping in mind the command to pray for those in authority over us. Obviously I’d never met him, but his persona on so many occasions seemed unlikable.
On the other hand, it’s easy to pray for President Trump and asking God to guide him and his policies. He’s certainly far from perfect, but it seems much easier to connect with him. His what-you-see-is-what-you-get persona is much easier to like for me.
All this being said, “love” is something I need to work on.
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“Depression Course for Teens Gets High Marks”
Written by Cathy Cassata on February 1, 2018
A psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins has developed a proactive way to get high school students thinking about the seriousness of depression.
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/depression-course-for-teens-gets-high-marks
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Author Triggered by Norwegian Flag
https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/author-triggered-norwegian-flag
She thought it was a Confederate flag. Ha!
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Not only is she ignorant, she considers her concern a ‘news tip’ and sent this to the paper????
“Hi. Suddenly there is a Confederate flag flying in front of a house in my Greenwood neighborhood. It is at the north-east corner of 92nd and Palatine, just a block west of 92nd and Greenwood Ave N. I would love to know what this ‘means’ … but of course don’t want to knock on their door. Maybe others in the area are flying the flag? Maybe it’s a story? Thank you.”
So this ‘veteran journalist’ gets triggered, refuses to actual do anything resembling journalism, doxxes one of her neighbors, assumes responsibility for the neighborhood’s political correctness (it’s no longer OUR neighborhood but MY neighborhood), proves beyond doubt that she’s a lazy concern troll and that the NYT bestseller list is filled with dopey authors – all in a single paragraph?
Impressive.
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Sorry I stepped on your post upthread, Stella. Pays to read the entire blog before posting anything.
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No problem.
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Some people have asked for some updates on my son’s surgery…so here’s some of what I shared at the CTH Prayer Request Page here:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2011/02/01/prayer-requests-9/
“Valerie Curren says:
February 23, 2018 at 3:45 am
Thank you so much! We, Josiah & I, are taking Brandon to the hospital for that surgery later this morning. He, B, seems to be doing pretty well & thankfully not in much pain. Josiah being such a veteran of Many surgeries (I think 19 now) Really Wanted to come for Brandon’s event–he’s being a real support & encouragement to his twin! It’s always great (& surprising, given Autism) to see him so focused on someone else’s needs…
Valerie Curren says:
February 23, 2018 at 12:03 pm
Hey Prayer Warriors
Josiah & I got called back to see Brandon & just before he went back for his surgery my husband unexpectedly showed up! He (fortuitously?) had jury duty today…& wasn’t picked! So the three of us are hanging out in the waiting room. Michael just spoke with the OR & B’s procedure starts soon. We should see him in about an hour & a half…
Thanks for your prayers & encouragement…
Valerie Curren says:
February 23, 2018 at 4:11 pm
Thank you all so much for praying for us today. Brandon came through surgery well with only a little little queasiness & dizziness. He & Josiah are heading home now with my husband & I’m getting blessed with some live piano music as I pause to write this post..Thank you Lord for this extra measure of grace& beauty at the end of a long & trying week (that included having our 27 year old furnace& A/C replaced)…
We are All very thankful… & also very tired…God bless you all!”
We are all back home from the hospital & pretty worn out. Brandon is resting comfortably & my husband just laid down for a nap…Me, I’m sharing updates here first! Blessings…
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Thank you for updating! Will be praying for a speedy recovery.
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Thanks & Blessings!
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Thank You dear God for protecting this wonderful family.
{{{hugs to you all}}}
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Amen
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Thank you so much…Blessings!
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Nanette Fabray, Charming Singer, Dancer and Comedienne, Dies at 97
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/nanette-fabray-dead-caesars-hour-879513
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Fabray always seemed like such a nice person, besides being hilarious. For some reason I looked her up recently to see if she was still among us. She lived a very long life, but I’m still sorry to hear of her death. R.I.P. Nanette!
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I really loved her. I didn’t realize she was still alive.
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It has been pouring rain for 6 hours straight now on top of all the rain and ice we’ve had all week. Everyone is getting cranky, including the animals. I was checking on goats earlier, the girls are all pregnant and huge, kidding can start any time up to the end of March. They were all butting each other and doing their goat growls at each other. My DH asked what the heck their problem was. I told him spoken like a true man, they’re fat, miserable and stuck inside a barn, he’d be a little cranky as well. 🙂
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My brother and his then girlfriend once traveled from Hawaii to visit our family in Maryland. He caught a cold while in transit and was upstairs recouperating. His girlfriend went to check on him and on her return to the kitchen announced, “I don’t know whether to give him an aspirin or an Oscar.”
The girlfriend didn’t last – but her line did!
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Men don’t make good patients.
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Priceless, Lburg!
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My parents lived with me until they passed–from November 1980 to May 1989 for my father and until March 2006 for my mother. Each day as I move toward the last days of my own life I realize how fortunate it was that they both were so stoic about their health matters, though they were pretty severe. Drama just wasn’t their style.
When a young teen my friends used to occasionally tell me they envied me my parents. I was usually rather amused because they were just my folks and what was so unusual about them? Now that I’m up in years, the realization that they really WERE unusual–out of the ordinary in attitudes and in their caring ways towards family and others outside the family–and I’m ever so grateful.
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((Lucille))
I understand. 90% of my friends’ parents were divorced or separated, as a kid, both white and black, and they all were exactly like you describe, regarding my parents. How can they be so loving? How can that actually happen? I cannot possibly explain how grateful I am, Lucille.
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Hugs to you, Wooly!
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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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Amen.
Thanks, Aus.
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