General Discussion, Friday, September 7, 2018

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Stella

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  1. Lucille says:
    September 7, 2018 at 1:58 am

    Beautiful photo, Stella! Love it!

    Have a wonderful Friday, Stellars! And for those who are facing health challenges…

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  2. Lucille says:
    September 7, 2018 at 2:58 am

    Great story….

    Pinal County Sheriff donates bike to man who walks to work everyday
    Fox 10 Phoenix

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  3. nyetneetot says:
    September 7, 2018 at 7:22 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 )
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    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_| (Tom Collins)
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_| (Black & Tan)
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
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    Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
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    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
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    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 |_| (Backdraft)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
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    Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
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    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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    • auscitizenmom says:
      September 7, 2018 at 10:33 am

      Gravy and biscuits! AGAIN!! Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂

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    • michellc says:
      September 7, 2018 at 10:38 am

      Mornin’! I popped in on biscuits and gravy day!!!!

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    • Gary says:
      September 7, 2018 at 10:48 am

      Good Morning Nyet, I smelled the biscuits and gravy from the Treehouse………awesome stuff!! Good Morning All!!!!!!

      T.G.I.F. (with an honorable mention nod to Henry Ford for having established the 40 hour work week)

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      • stella says:
        September 7, 2018 at 12:16 pm

        Good morning, Gary!

        Ford also doubled his workers’ salaries so that they could afford to buy a Model T!

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        • Gary says:
          September 7, 2018 at 1:56 pm

          Hello Stella, The man who designed the Model T, Model A, and the infamous 32 Duece Coup was a Hungarian immigrant named Joesph Galamb. In 1943 he suffered a heart attack and was told by his doctors that he could no longer put in the hours at Ford as he had always done. Henry Ford offered him the opportunity to work from home and he took it, at which point he was making mre money working from home than the U.S. Pres. at the time.

          Henry Ford was truly a paradox. I have a photo of Ford, Edison,Pres. Harding, and Firestone sitting around a campfire. I often daydream about what those conversations must have been like.

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        • czarowniczy says:
          September 7, 2018 at 11:26 pm

          He also pioneered the concept of making the car cheaper and making the big bucks off of replacement parts.

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          • stella says:
            September 8, 2018 at 12:22 am

            That naturally followed once interchangeable parts became a reality.

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            • czarowniczy says:
              September 8, 2018 at 12:29 am

              He capitalized, if you’ll excuse the expression, on repairs. All of the parts came off of one dedicated line but the ones sent out for repair were priced far more than the identical ones used to build a car. It insured an almost endless revenue stream off of a single car beyond its purchase price. It’s continued to this day by the car makers patenting their parts to basically prevent non-dealers from getting them, or getting them at a decent price, for quite a few years.

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              • czarowniczy says:
                September 8, 2018 at 12:35 am

                And I won’t even get into the personal and marketing data they pull from customers through the modems they have built into new cars. GPS data on where you go, at what speed, how often and how long you stay. Your phone data, who you talk to and how long. Your texts and whatever other information you have that they can harvest when you give their systems access to the files on your phone. We just bought a new Chevy and the dealers turned hand flips trying to get us to activate the OnStar – I thought we’d end up being off of GMC’s Christmas card list. They weren’t happy – they could remotely activate it but if they did and we somehow found out there’d be liability issues.

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    • Lucille says:
      September 7, 2018 at 3:00 pm


      …good day to you and thank you for all that breakfast cooking each day!

      My niece-in-law loves to cook and is an excellent one. So while they were here at my place she made some lovely meals for the family on the days we didn’t eat out! What a treat!

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    • lovely says:
      September 7, 2018 at 9:17 pm

      Good evening Nyet 🙂 !

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  5. michellc says:
    September 7, 2018 at 10:46 am

    For those of you who have had the Libertarian party in your state for awhile are they always batshit crazy?
    That’s probably not nice to say, but these folks in this state this year are just as nuts as progressives. They keep posting on a conservative facebook group and it’s constant attacks on Trump, singing the praises of Nike and Colin, our country is full of white soldiers and cops going around killing innocent brown people, pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-transgenders in girl’s school bathrooms, pro-Islam, pro-dreamers, pro-illegal immigration because if they’re in our state that makes them Oklahoma citizens, which since conservatives are anti all their pros we’re evil Christians. Oh I forgot their biggest number of posts, Pot, pot and more pot, but don’t call it pot because that offends them, it’s cannabis.

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    • Gil says:
      September 7, 2018 at 10:48 am

      We have libertarians but not so many. They are nutty but this sounds straight progressive.

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      • michellc says:
        September 7, 2018 at 10:54 am

        Not according to them I just don’t understand liberty. Then they inform me how they’re anti-tax and pro-gun when I point out how much of what they’re spouting is in line with progressives.

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    • Gary says:
      September 7, 2018 at 10:51 am

      I’ve feel they have always taken the concepts of personal liberty to the extreme where they actually crossover into the perverse.

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    • Menagerie says:
      September 7, 2018 at 3:15 pm

      Our libertarians are for legalized drugs, not too rough on President Trump but absolutely not in his camp.

      My beef with them is that they are ALL calling the economy a bubble, saying PT has caused it and it’s all coming tumbling down. They never say why, and they never say what exactly does cause a thriving economy and when it is real.

      And they are Ron and Rand Paul fanboys who, for all their claims to just stating the truth about President Trump and the economy, never once believe that either of the Paul’s have ever done wrong.

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      • michellc says:
        September 7, 2018 at 6:25 pm

        I’ve read and heard too much craziness over the last few days and having a discussion with them is like having a discussion with a progressive liberal.
        I really ticked them off when I told them you keep on telling people they don’t need to be Libertarian or don’t understand liberty then they will remain with 3556 in their party. They told me they had over 5000 registered and their percentage of voters was greater than either of the other two parties.

        One of their candidates for governor was just indicted on a murder for hire plot.

        Crazy world this year in my state.

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    • lovely says:
      September 7, 2018 at 9:20 pm

      Short answer. Yes.

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      • michellc says:
        September 8, 2018 at 3:34 pm

        The one who won the nomination argues in favor of abortion by using the old and tired “back alley” abortions. To give him some credit he does say the government shouldn’t be paying for them. He also gets credit for getting it constitutionally correct by saying it should be a state issue and he wouldn’t like what this state would choose.
        The problem is very few hear the rest of what he says because he starts off with if abortions were illegal we’d go back to a horrible time of back alley abortions.

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          • michellc says:
            September 9, 2018 at 12:56 am

            Yeah, Libertarian is not for me so they don’t have to tell me they don’t want me. lol

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            • lovely says:
              September 9, 2018 at 10:09 am

              Neal Bortz is a big libertarian and most of the most malicious Trump haters I have had the misfortune of running across. Libertarianism has some sound points but they are as rigid and blind in their absolutes as are the leftists.

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              • michellc says:
                September 9, 2018 at 12:06 pm

                I told one of their candidates that as a voter I want to see him stand for something because if you don’t stand for something, you stand for nothing.
                He told me he stands for liberty. So I asked him liberty for some but not others? If you tell me I must accept murdering babies, going against my morals and beliefs by putting my mark of approval on gay weddings, must allow men dressed as women to share a bathroom with me and daughter and granddaughter, must accept illegals as citizens and turn the other cheek when they kill American citizens, must call Islam a religion of peace and welcome them with open arms to cut my head off then I’m not seeing much liberty.
                Then he told me I was being irrational.

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                • lovely says:
                  September 9, 2018 at 12:30 pm

                  Then he told me I was being irrational.

                  As I said;

                  Libertarianism has some sound points but they are as rigid and blind in their absolutes as are the leftists.

                  Delusional people. Words have no meaning to them they are Pavlov’s Dog.

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                  • michellc says:
                    September 9, 2018 at 5:54 pm

                    We were at the county fair today so my grandson could do the peewee pig showman show. One of the booths was a pro-life Christian group that had life size babies at different stages in Utero.
                    I overheard a little girl who looked to be about 12 or 13 ask the lady which baby was 12 weeks, she pointed it out to her and told her that was the size she was at one time and isn’t amazing how she once was that size in her mommy’s tummy.
                    The little girl said her friend’s sister had an abortion at 12 weeks and she wonders if she knew it was a little tiny baby.
                    I couldn’t stop the tears.
                    Exactly how can you appear rational to a person who thinks anyone has the right to murder a baby?
                    That’s pretty much a no go for me, if you feel anyone has the right to murder a baby. I certainly could never cast a vote for you.

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                  • stella says:
                    September 9, 2018 at 6:17 pm

                    The Chicago Museum of Science & Industry had an exhibit of actual babies in the various stages of development. I don’t know if it is still there. Probably not. A guy on FB made a comment about a 21 week fetus. I posted a picture, and a description, commenting that a few babies that age can live if born. Not many, but some. I also mentioned that you can hear the baby’s heart beating about 6 weeks, but that it starts beating at 3-4 weeks. Not forgetting that there is unique DNA. How can anyone compare a baby to a tumor? A sick one, or an ignorant one, that’s who.

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                  • michellc says:
                    September 9, 2018 at 6:33 pm

                    I cannot take anyone serious or have a good opinion about anyone who is for abortion.
                    For those who want to argue the Constitution.
                    I personally believe babies are covered under our Constitution under Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness.
                    Then if they want to carry it farther, abortion just like marriage is not mentioned so that leaves it to the states to decide. SCOTUS violated the Constitution when they decided both of these cases.

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                  • stella says:
                    September 9, 2018 at 6:34 pm

                    I posted video of the museum exhibit on the current day’s thread.

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                  • lovely says:
                    September 9, 2018 at 6:41 pm

                    I completely agree. Heartbreaking.

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    • michellc says:
      September 8, 2018 at 5:01 pm

      I saw one of their top honchos in their state party say that if you don’t follow their 5m platform then you cannot advance in their party. I had to look up what the heck 5m is.

      Marijuana:Marijuana must be legalized, nobody should ever be jailed again and it is not a gateway drug.
      Immigration:All immigrants are welcome and are citizens when they step on our soil, especially Mexicans.
      Muslims:Muslims are a great addition to our country and Islam is a religion of peace.
      Marriage Equality:LGBT should have all rights as any other orientation and businesses and Churches should treat them as any other orientation.
      blM: Black lives do matter and blacks have been treated as second class citizens long enough.

      It’s actually good to know since they’re starting to run for more offices since they got back on the ballot. I don’t want to vote for a progressive democrat who doesn’t like taxes and wants to own a gun.

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  6. NYGuy54 says:
    September 7, 2018 at 10:53 am

    Good morning everyone!

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  7. NYGuy54 says:
    September 7, 2018 at 12:04 pm

    This seems very believable

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  8. czarina33 says:
    September 7, 2018 at 12:41 pm

    Please join me this aftenoon at the Monteleone Hotel Carousel Bar in the French Quarter. It actually does turn like a slow carousel!

    https://i.imgur.com/MNne3tR_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

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  9. czarina33 says:
    September 7, 2018 at 12:45 pm

    One more try

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  10. stella says:
    September 7, 2018 at 1:15 pm

    Hi, everybody! It’s a beautiful early autumn day here today, with the high temp in the mid-70’s, and a nice breeze. My windows are open.

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  11. stella says:
    September 7, 2018 at 1:24 pm

    Former Trump Aide Says He Knows Who Wrote Op-ed, Drops Hints About ‘Her’ Identity

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/09/06/michael-caputo-on-oped-writer-its-a-woman-n2516368

    Former Donald Trump campaign aide and political strategist Michael Caputo says he knows who wrote the mysterious “resistance” op-ed in The New York Times. It’s a she.

    “I know it’s a woman,” he said during an interview on Buffalo’s WBEN 930 am. “I’m being cautious. My attorney is keeping me from saying her name but yes I believe it’s a woman. I believe I know who it is.”

    What he can reveal, is that she is a “coward” who “should have stood up and resigned.”

    The Trump administration “is filled with people like her,” he continued. “There are active programs” to stop Trump loyalists from joining the White House and to purge Trump loyalists from agencies, he alleged.

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  13. stella says:
    September 7, 2018 at 4:53 pm

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    • Lucille says:
      September 7, 2018 at 7:09 pm

      If I were still on Twitter, this vid would be sent to every Democrat on that biased social media venue plus every elected Republican (especially those in Florida) ASKING WHY THEY AREN’T EXPOSING THE LIES OF THE LEFT LIKE THIS!

      All this LUXURY that illegal aliens couldn’t get in their own countries they are getting at this ICE facility for FREE because you and I are paying for it.

      I would be just as hot under the collar as Candace if I’d been on that tour. Teed off!

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  15. auscitizenmom says:
    September 7, 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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  16. litenmaus says:
    September 7, 2018 at 9:10 pm

    I’m not sure which thread to post on this evening, but I have found over the last five years that I have become fond of each and everyone of you and as the voice here on the State of Montana, I feel that I’ve failed twice in not being in attendance at the President Trump MAGA rallies and reporting back on the wonderful MAGA agenda. I apologize.

    I’ve just returned from a 10 hour drive that ended at a American Foreign Legion Hall and a funeral that I needed to attend. The drive was in the opposite direction from the Billings rally and I couldn’t make both events.

    As a perfect ending to this week s/…I came home, went to the bedroom to change out of my funeral clothes and lo and behold, Squeaks left me a dead mouse right in the middle of my pillow.

    Sometimes…life sucks.
    .

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    • auscitizenmom says:
      September 7, 2018 at 9:26 pm

      I, for one, certainly don’t want you to feel bad because you feel like you owe me something. So, don’t. And, I am sorry that what took you away was the loss of someone you knew.

      I would like to point out that your cat loves you. 🙂

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      • litenmaus says:
        September 7, 2018 at 9:41 pm

        :0) Thx aus…Nope, I feel bad ’cause I want to share the excitement of the rallies…some day perhaps. {sigh}

        Squeaks and I are back in the routine of sitting on the step in the morning and when he’s not scolding me, he’s been stalking and then bringing me grasshoppers (without the heads)….the mouse still had his, so yep, Squeaks loves me. :0)

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    • lovely says:
      September 7, 2018 at 10:00 pm

      Don’t worry about it litenmaus, we have 6 more years of Trump rallies sooner or later hopefully we’ll all get to go to one, if not, that’s ok too 🙂 !

      I hope he comes here for the November sections, but then again I hope he doesn’t throw any weight behind his enemies. Vukmir doesn’t deserve his support but again a vote for Vukmir is a vote for President Trump’s next SCOTUS nominee so I have to vote for her.

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      • litenmaus says:
        September 7, 2018 at 10:18 pm

        “if not, that’s ok too” :0) that was my conclusion as well lovely

        I haven’t followed the Wisconsin candidates as closely as perhaps I should have Lovely, but I do know that the PAC, Club for Growth, is against Vukmir, and that for me would be at least one point in her favor.

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    • stella says:
      September 7, 2018 at 10:59 pm

      I’m so sorry. May your fortunes improve soon.

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