General Discussion, Saturday, March 31, 2018

Posted on March 31, 2018 by Stella

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  2. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    March 31, 2018 at 12:23 am

    Relax, enjoy a peaceful day….

    Au Coeur de l’lmmensité
    (The Heart Of Immensity)

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  3. michellc's avatar michellc says:
    March 31, 2018 at 12:34 am

    Child Arrested for Sharing Photo of Toy Gun on Social Media That He Got for His Birthday

    Woodbridge, Connecticut – A teenage boy was arrested and detained for the crime of posting a photo on social media of a toy gun he received as a birthday gift. Despite the fact that the photo included a “Warning” sticker on the gun, which stated that it was a toy, the student was suspended from school and treated as a criminal.

    Then when Cassidento went to school, he said he was taken out of class and a school resource officer took his possessions and searched him for weapons after a student reported the photo to school authorities.

    “They took my phone and my backpack and pulled me into the office, out into the hallway where the officer told me to put my hands out and he checked me,” Cassidento said.

    The student’s mom, GraceAnne Cassidento, told WTNH that she was shocked when he heard how her son was treated, and she believes there was no malicious intent in his decision to share a photo of the toy gun with his friends.

    “He was arrested because he posted a picture of what he got for his birthday which is an airsoft gun,” Ms. Cassidento said. “If he would have gotten a skateboard he would have taken a picture of a skateboard.”

    http://thefreethoughtproject.com/high-school-student-suspended-arrested-for-sharing-photo-of-empty-toy-gun-on-social-media/

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      March 31, 2018 at 8:17 am

      The world is mad.

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      March 31, 2018 at 8:56 am

      Part of the process of demonizing objects at an early age so the negative aspects are ingrained in the subject’s mind. Fear of snakes, fear of spiders, fear of guns, fear of gluten…

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:
        March 31, 2018 at 10:43 am

        Parents instead of being outraged that they did it to their kids, needs to take back control of their kids. Remove them from the clutches of government ran schools.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          March 31, 2018 at 10:56 am

          Much easier for modern parents to dump their kids onto the state for acculturation, too many fun and distracting things to do otherwise.

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          • michellc's avatar michellc says:
            March 31, 2018 at 11:23 am

            It infuriates me because not only are they turning children into zombies and commies, but they’re not getting an education. I know this because I see far too many teachers who can’t do simple math, can’t write proper sentences and can’t spell simple words. You can’t teach what you don’t know how to do.

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
              March 31, 2018 at 11:29 am

              Probably because too many parents are as bad as the teachers. Makes me wonder why some of these people even bother to have kids.

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              • G-d&Country's avatar G-d&Country says:
                March 31, 2018 at 12:07 pm

                One reason someone actually said to me: “So they’ll take care of me when I’m old.” I thought “Ya – right”, but it’s sad to see that somehow, I’m guessing through guilt and brainwashing, these narcissistic parents DO get their children to take care of them, even though they did not treat their children right..

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          • joshua's avatar joshua says:
            March 31, 2018 at 6:04 pm

            press one for English….all others go to the front of the class for free refreshments and loving attention….

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  4. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    March 31, 2018 at 1:17 am

    Hoosier Cabinet, a historical perspective

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  6. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    March 31, 2018 at 7:05 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!

    Pastries for coffee!

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  7. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    March 31, 2018 at 7:08 am

    Travel day, finally!

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  8. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    March 31, 2018 at 8:31 am

    With hope, faith and prayer we wait.

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  9. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    March 31, 2018 at 9:18 am

    Amazing full moon last night. Cat got me up around dawn – food issues – and I went outside to see why the strange light. The full moon was at the position to catch the sun just before it broke the horizon and it was just glowing with the light.
    It was bright enough about 4 AM (a dog that time) to where you could just about make out colors – or bright enough to imagine them. There were distinct shadows with sharp edges and clear outlines…how did I ever spoend so much time in the city and miss this all?

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  10. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    March 31, 2018 at 9:44 am

    We’re repurposing stuff…hey Bubba, watch this!
    We have tons of cardinals and like to feed them on the patio. Problem is we have a cat that think the patio is his. Generally he sits on a chair and watches the cardinals and these cardinals have to contend with a host of natural predators so they’re quite competent but we still don’t like the chances of one getting nailed.
    We have a pole and dish left over from our miserable experience with HughesNet. When you split the sheets with them they have you send the xcvr assembly back but you have the dish and pole forever. We were looking at mounting a feeding platform on top of the pole but while I was removing the dish Czarina came up with the solution – just rotate the dish 90 degrees to horizontal and use it as the freeding tray. That works – not the tool/construction-heavy solution I was looking st, but it works. One less satellite dish littering the rural dump and it’s already there, no need to add anything.
    As a sop I do get to drill holes in the dish for drainage and install some screen so it’s not a total loss…

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  12. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    March 31, 2018 at 10:17 am

    NOLA DA is up and squawking about juvenile armed robbery. Judges aren’t handing out stiff sentences to the thugettes (just last week a judge gave a juvie charged with 5 armed robberies a 1 year sentence) and there’s a vocal section of the community whining mightily about violent juveniles being shunted to criminal court and charged as adults.
    There are judges that won’t sentence juvies as they feel there are too many young black males in jail and some who feel they be de-praved on accounta they be de-prived. No word from the prog bench about how many innocent civilian deaths are accepotable in the quest to civilize these feral pups but it seems the judicial branch feels that civilian deaths are less of a concern than trying to salvage this urban waste.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      March 31, 2018 at 7:05 pm

      Milwaukee has had a spate of car-jacking by future astronauts of Wisconsin over the past couple of years.

      Mostly the car-jackers are minors, or early twenties with long histories of crime, but the mayor or the police chief (can’t remember which lug-head, has said “Aw come on they’re just out joy riding, they don’t mean any real harm.” Always they have a gun, just “yutes”. So since they are never really punished with more than a “tsk tsk” the thugs are pretty brazen.

      Anyhow in February a young thug, Carlos D. Martin, decided to carjack a car that tickled his fancy and so he approached the car gun in hand. Surprise, surprise! Carlos! the car owner was carrying a lovely gun and had a conceal carry permit. Good guy shoots Carlos dead.

      It’s already been decided that no charges will be filed against the law abiding citizen.

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  14. G-d&Country's avatar G-d&Country says:
    March 31, 2018 at 10:51 am

    To end our week of JF Kernan paintings I chose this painting of a father and son, which I liked very much.

    I hope you enjoy it too. 🙂

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    • joshua's avatar joshua says:
      March 31, 2018 at 11:49 am

      heck…happy boy, happy engaged adult father, loyal friendly dog, open campfire cooking real meat on a stick…no sugary smores …and a kid with real boy haircut, a smile, no cellphone or video game, and no bored sullen expression.

      where did my world go?
      MAGA

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  15. joshua's avatar joshua says:
    March 31, 2018 at 10:54 am

    solution for these troubled young black men in the USA has usually been to have a war and draft them into the military and send them to go shoot someone outside the nation where there are no 7-11 stores to rob and perhaps they get euthanized by the enemy thereby reducing the future spawning of more juvenile delinquents. heck, Planned Parenthood was created to solve the problem in the outset, but what to do with the older ones that refuse to be tamed and civilized…war helped control the problem perhaps….cynical and disgusting as it is…

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  16. G-d&Country's avatar G-d&Country says:
    March 31, 2018 at 11:06 am

    Student Launches Pro-Life Walkout: ‘I Want to Test if There’s a Double Standard’

    Breitbart has more info,
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/30/student-launches-pro-life-walkout-want-test-theres-double-standard/
    but Fox has this comment:
    “But not every student is on board for the alternative walkout. “Abortions aren’t really anything that has to do with school or students,” said student newspaper editor Naeirika Neev. “They have their First Amendment, they can go protest about that anytime, anywhere.” Gillespie says that’s the point.”
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/23/high-school-students-plan-pro-life-march-after-walkout-debate.html
    “Gillespie says he was inspired by history teacher Julianne Benzel, who was placed on administrative leave when she asked students to consider whether there was a double standard over protests on school grounds between gun control and abortion.”

    The walk out is planned for April 11 at the same time for the same 17 minutes. I guess 55 million minutes would be too long.

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    • joshua's avatar joshua says:
      March 31, 2018 at 11:37 am

      in my high school…we define a “walkout” as skipping class, or as truancy….

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    • joshua's avatar joshua says:
      March 31, 2018 at 11:45 am

      solution to snowflakes and activist teachers doing a planned “walk out” is merely to enact a simultaneous entire school building fire drill, so the walkers find themselves in a herd of all the students and lose their moral attention getting high ground of visibility….

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  17. G-d&Country's avatar G-d&Country says:
    March 31, 2018 at 11:18 am

    Veggie Tales is hilarious this morning :-), as well as teaching about the income tax, and business!

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  18. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    March 31, 2018 at 12:53 pm

    Got this announcement from my online security company…

    What happened at Under Armour®?
    The athletic wear company announced Thursday that an unauthorized party gained access to the data tied to its fitness app, MyFitnessPal. The breach, which took place late February 2018, affected approximately 150 million user accounts.

    The related information that was accessed includes:
    • Usernames
    • Email addresses
    • Hashed passwords
    The company is urging MyFitnessPal app users to update passwords immediately.

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  19. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    March 31, 2018 at 12:57 pm

    Yesterday, the aol weather report said we were supposed to get rain, 100% chance. We haven’t had any rain in so long. It rained in Central FL while I was at the beach, but none of it fell here even then. Anyway, I was so excited…..but, nothing happened. Still no rain. And, I keep thinking about globull warming. They keep telling us to worry about something that will happen in the far future and they can’t even get tomorrow’s forecast right.

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  20. Stella's avatar stella says:
    March 31, 2018 at 1:37 pm

    A Facebook friend paints these stones, and leaves them all around the town for people to find. I don’t know why, but aren’t they pretty?

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  21. Stella's avatar stella says:
    March 31, 2018 at 5:54 pm

    Stone Age Thinking

    Stone Age Thinking

    Reason is a fragile thing. Like a tiny, dainty woodland sprite, it can be stomped into a crushed, broken ruin by the mighty foot of ignorance employed by those cynically seeking to advance their agendas. We see this every day, and the biggest feet dancing with hobnailed boots upon poor Reason wherever it tries to peep out of the undergrowth belong to the Progressive Left. Consider a recent example.

    David Hogg, who has turned surviving the Parkland massacre into a career, is vilifying the NRA for “murdering” his fellow students. He likes to use obscenities in his speechifying and proudly sports a “We Call B.S.” lapel pin, because using vulgarities makes him feel like an adult who knows what those words mean. Polite debate isn’t for him. He’s a passionate spouter of truth, and if you don’t like obscenities, you must be, like, really old and stuff. So shut up while he figuratively slaps you around with naughty words his mom should have told him he shouldn’t use. She probably didn’t expect the nation’s media to gleefully encourage her boy to go blue…

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  22. Stella's avatar stella says:
    March 31, 2018 at 6:58 pm

    I just ran across this recipe, and it looks good, although I haven’t tried it yet. Thought immediately of Col. Ken and Menagerie!

    Baked Blueberry Fritter Bites

    https://thebakermama.com/recipes/baked-blueberry-fritter-bites/

    They are mini muffins, and they sound scrumptious!

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      March 31, 2018 at 10:31 pm

      Saved it, thanks! Can’t wait to try that for breakfast. The kids and I made tons of bread today. Lots of challah bread, braided and twisted rolls, and also the cinnamon walnut filled twists.

      We have a kitchen with bread on every surface available. For awhile there was a tray on top of the coffee maker!

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:
        March 31, 2018 at 11:30 pm

        I’ve been lazy in comparison. I did make one loaf of my bread machine Italian bread, though. Made chicken and baby broccoli for supper. Did you try your lamb roast yet?

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        • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
          April 1, 2018 at 1:15 pm

          It’s in the oven now. Smells so good!

          Did you like that challah bread you made? I am going to try to remember to take a picture of one of the loaves I braided yesterday. I made a large one especially for our dinner (showing off). The darned thing got so enormous that I have no platter or board to put it on. It’s a long as the cookie sheet is diagonal.

          Sadie absolutely loved making the braids and then using them in loaves and rolls. It just thrilled her to get to do something new with bread. She brought her apron and rolling pin over yesterday and was ready to go!

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          • Stella's avatar stella says:
            April 1, 2018 at 1:46 pm

            The challah I made was very good tasting, but I think I should have given it another rise, as the texture was a bit close, I thought. I also may have braided it too tightly. Still, it was a success, and I’d enjoy trying it again.

            I’m in awe of your massive bread effort, and it is so nice that Sadie was able to help.

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  23. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    March 31, 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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