General Discussion, Friday, March 23, 2018

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Stella

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  1. joshua says:
    March 23, 2018 at 12:32 am

    happy Friday everyone……

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  3. Lucille says:
    March 23, 2018 at 1:51 am

    Things Not To Miss in Ireland

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  4. nyetneetot says:
    March 23, 2018 at 6:19 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!

    Cinnamon rolls for coffee!

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  5. stella says:
    March 23, 2018 at 7:41 am

    President Donald J. Trump’s schedule for Friday, March 23rd:
    · Meeting with Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Deputy Secretary of State
    · Travel to Palm Beach, FL

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  6. lovely says:
    March 23, 2018 at 8:37 am

    Dershowitz;

    I am a civil libertarian.

    I have the same standard for Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.

    I am against partisan criminalization.

    Mueller is looking for a crime and going after low hanging fruit.

    I predict that one of these days Dershowitz’s emotions and ideology are going to catch up with his intellect and knowledge.

    And then there is Cooper 😂 who was the main show, I was watching his face and he had no idea what either Dersh or Toobin was talking about, he almost looked dead his face was so blank for a while in there, so to hear him say “This was like a graduate class at Harvard” was the cherry on the sundae of this video.

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  8. joshua says:
    March 23, 2018 at 9:12 am

    March 23 is National Puppy Day

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  9. stella says:
    March 23, 2018 at 9:22 am

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    • Lucille says:
      March 23, 2018 at 11:23 am

      Oh, I hope our President does this! Send those squeegy squishies to the corner stool. He’s got a lot to weigh, but he’s good at taking flack from the unenlightened

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  10. litenmaus says:
    March 23, 2018 at 9:31 am

    Good Morning all…I am almost at the end of my renovation here and thought I would post my starting project today and my ending project in a couple of days.

    I thank you all for the encouragement, the laughter, the good thoughts and the prayers that have accompanied me on this journey…..

    I earnestly began this renovation in November and the very first large project that I tackled was the kitchen backsplash which turned out to be the worst project I encountered….a simple tile removal ended with the knowledge that two walls had to be rebuilt because there were no 2 x 4 studs, only 1 x 2’s….and I must admit, I almost quit before I started. Five months later…..

    Before:

    After

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    • Gil says:
      March 23, 2018 at 9:51 am

      And its done! Now for the bank….

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    • czarina33 says:
      March 23, 2018 at 10:00 am

      Classy!!

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      • litenmaus says:
        March 23, 2018 at 10:06 am

        Thanks czarina….I’m thinking the little stainless touches with the wood seem to have helped bring this mid century house design into the present without sacrificing too much of the house’s charm…..kind of a tough balance to do with a few touches, but hopefully, I’ve succeeded…

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        • czarowniczy says:
          March 23, 2018 at 11:11 am

          We sorta got carried away with stainless. Being out here a light year away from any place to dine out we decided to get a large Viking range in stainless. That led to a stainless range hood, stainless backsplash, stainless covers sidewings and the range sits on a stainless prep table we had cut down. Then again when you throw yourself into cooking the stainless makes the cleaning disaster recovery much easier.

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          • litenmaus says:
            March 23, 2018 at 11:15 am

            I think I would adore your kitchen…..and as far as your food….I drool every time you talk about your gumbo……Yum~~

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            • czarowniczy says:
              March 23, 2018 at 11:50 am

              Yeah, I was lucky enough to hit NOLA when the ‘famous’ chefs were mostly still ‘local’ and approachable. Also had the luck to work with the husband of a noted local chef so gottta lotta help.
              The cooking isn’t hard, it evolved from home cooking folks did on wood stoves with rather basic implements, modernchefs have just used a lot of smoke and mirrors to make it seem more complicated and mysterious than it is. Gumbo is really rather simple (except for the molten lava roux), we just overthink it. Don’t sweat it, enjoy it.

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              • The Tundra PA says:
                March 23, 2018 at 2:05 pm

                czar, I forgot to mention that last week I made your Crawfish Bisque recipe for my church’s Meatless Friday supper and it was a great hit. Really easy, and a lot fewer calories than expected once I added it all up. I made it with salmon since we don’t have crawfish in Alaska. Next time I’ll make it with shrimp and halibut. Thanks so much for posting it!

                https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/222538/louisiana-crawfish-bisque/

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                • czarowniczy says:
                  March 23, 2018 at 2:38 pm

                  These recepies came from frontier homers where various cuisines melded and whatever youn had went into the pot. Adjust the seasoning a bit so that the chicken doesn’t steal the flavor and it should work quite well. Wonder if it would work with ptarmigan? Now a nice Creole brown sauce with ptarmigan…

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                  • The Tundra PA says:
                    March 23, 2018 at 2:43 pm

                    I did take your advice and cut the Tony Cachere’s in half. Thank goodness. I would not have been able to eat it if I hadn’t. Though DH would have loved it, and added about that much back to his bowl.

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                  • czarowniczy says:
                    March 23, 2018 at 7:41 pm

                    Esasier to put more in than try to take it out. You can also experiment and make your own version of Tony’s…we practically have an isle of ‘croele’ seasonings in our stores.

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                  • The Tundra PA says:
                    March 24, 2018 at 2:38 pm

                    We’re lucky to have Tony’s here. Alaskans mostly aren’t much for the hot stuff.

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                  • czarowniczy says:
                    March 24, 2018 at 10:00 pm

                    I’m surprised, that hot stuff helps fend off the chills. BTW, you can find Paul Prudhomme’s early 80s cookbooks on Amazon iused (best way to buy a cookbook) and his recepies will give you the formulas for his various bottled spices you find in the store.
                    BTW, looking for a great meatloaf recipe? This works great winter or summer. They say it feeds 6 but ‘roun heah it barely gets by two. If there’s any left it makes great french bread sammiches the next day wid mayo, lettuce and to tomato. Might want to warch the cayenne if you’re not into Prudhomme hot. Note the seasoning mix, later versions call for use of his seasoning mix instead of the individual spices.

                    http://www.nola.com/food/index.ssf/2015/10/chef_paul_prudhommes_cajun_mea.html

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                  • czarowniczy says:
                    March 24, 2018 at 10:17 pm

                    BTW, if you use ground fatty pork that meatloaf should be great with moose or caribou.

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                  • The Tundra PA says:
                    March 23, 2018 at 5:03 pm

                    Side note: DH puts Tony’s on absolutely everything he eats. Including his two staples, peanut butter and oatmeal. Wish I could find it in one-gallon size containers.

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              • joshua says:
                March 23, 2018 at 8:44 pm

                laissez les bon temps roulez

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    • czarowniczy says:
      March 23, 2018 at 11:14 am

      Looks great – stainless to me makes the cooking area more like a cooking area, tile belongs in the shower. Is that an induction range top?

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    • lovely says:
      March 23, 2018 at 6:26 pm

      Well worth your time, effort and frustration litenmaus, it is beautiful.

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  11. Wooly Covfefe says:
    March 23, 2018 at 10:20 am

    Morning, all.

    It almost feels like spring in SH. Lots of sunshine for the last few days.

    Sounds like spring, too. Lots of boids. Sittin’ on the coib, choipin’, and boipin’, and eatin’ doity oitwoims.

    I got one bird in a tree outside, he meows like a cat. It’s funny. He is mimicking my cat. There are birds in NYC’s Central Park that do cellphone sounds. This bird decided a meow was his favorite.

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  12. Lucille says:
    March 23, 2018 at 10:51 am

    From Mark Steyn….
    Spoiling for a Fight
    Tucker Carlson Tonight – March 22, 2018
    On Thursday evening, Mark joined Tucker Carlson to discuss Joe Biden’s urge to beat up Donald Trump.
    https://www.steynonline.com/8535/spoiling-for-a-fight

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  13. Lucille says:
    March 23, 2018 at 11:24 am

    “Blarney Castle Ireland” by photographer Douglas Berry

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  14. Lucille says:
    March 23, 2018 at 12:14 pm

    Interesting that this young man seems unaware of how remarkable he is…and maybe that’s a good thing…

    “A single father at 16, Jake and his son Kade share their story”

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    • joshua says:
      March 23, 2018 at 6:15 pm

      I’m not buyin’ it.
      sex at 14
      kid at 15
      big deal daddy at 27
      and the kid is cute, but phony

      have been too long with high school kids to know about the reality of maturity and parenting skills…as well as behavior and ability to manage emotions and relationships.

      nope nope nope….
      hope I am wrong

      hope the Easter Bunny brings me blue eggs.

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  16. Lucille says:
    March 23, 2018 at 5:54 pm

    I never get tired of watching his departures and arrivals….

    President Trump departs Washington, DC en route to Palm Beach, FL March 23, 2018 Joint Base Andr

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  17. lovely says:
    March 23, 2018 at 7:10 pm

    Saudi Arabia opens airspace to Israel for first time ever for Air India flight bound for Tel Aviv

    Saudi Arabia opened its airspace for the first time to a commercial flight to Israel with the inauguration of an Air India route between New Delhi and Tel Aviv.

    Flight 139 landed at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport after a seven-and-a-half hour journey, marking a diplomatic shift for Riyadh that Israel says was fuelled by shared concern over Iranian influence in the region.

    “This is a really historic day that follows two years of very, very intensive work,” Israeli tourism minister Yariv Levin said, adding that using Saudi airspace cut travel time to India by around two hours and would reduce ticket prices.

    Saudi Arabia – birthplace of Islam and home to its holiest shrines – does not recognise Israel.

    Riyadh has not formally confirmed granting the Air India plane overflight rights. While the move ended a 70-year-old ban on planes flying to or from Israel through Saudi airspace, there is no indication that it will be applied for any Israeli airline.

    Just how sweaty is the young prince going to make the mullahs is Iran, Iraq and Syria?

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  18. sandandsea2015 says:
    March 23, 2018 at 9:18 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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  19. stella says:
    March 23, 2018 at 10:00 pm

    Total hysteria tonight on Facebook about the President signing the omnibus spending bill. Very tiring.

    ADD: Thanks to all of my friends here at Stella’s Place for having level heads. It is delightful to be surrounded by people who are capable of having calm conversation.

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