The first working steam engine is often credited to be Richard Trevithick in 1804. However, George Stephenson’s engines were more famous because of their greater impact. For example, his Rocket, built in 1829, running along the Great Liverpool, Manchester railway helped to usher in the new railway age and the age of industrialization in Britain and later the world.
James Watt played a key role in making the steam engine more efficient.
Ludovico Einaudi “Due Tramonti” (Two Sunsets)
(Unfortunately the YT doesn’t list who the wonderful cellist is.)
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Thank you Lucille, may blessings be bestowed upon you…..
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You’re welcome, Colonel! And thank YOU!
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Beautiful Lucille. Thank you for starting the day peacefully.
You are a blessing. 🙂
The cellist is Marco Decimo.
See: https://musicbrainz.org/release/5f5e20c0-dbc5-4bec-b249-a4ac78253e19
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Thanks so much for the cellist’s name, NC Nana! I’ve bookmarked the link in case I have similar questions in the future.
Here’s another Einaudi composition and performance…”Nuvole Bianche” (White Clouds)
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Good morning, Lucille! Have a beautiful day!
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Good morning, sand! Thanks!
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There is a special that I watched yesterday on Acorn. It is about a young cellist in Britain. The description:
Making history at 17 years old, Sheku Kanneh-Mason became the first black winner of the BBC Young Musician competition. Even more extraordinary, Sheku has six siblings who are musically gifted like him. Told through the prism of family life, this documentary explores what drives them to be the best they can be and culminates with Sheku’s debut at London’s world-renowned Royal Festival Hall.
He is amazingly talented, as are his siblings. It is he who played at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
But THIS is the one to watch!
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Here’s the whole family!
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Wow!
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Mornin’ kids!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed………this ought to be very interesting. The illegals, phony bombs….
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Mornin’ Colonel Sir!
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Ya know, that could work another way too……?
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Mornin’ Z’s!
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Different side of the street but still soggy, chilly and ucky.
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Morning WeeWeed!
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Afternoon S&S!
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Good morning, WeeWeed! Yes, the Dems are hoping for a population and voting registration explosion.
The Left is, as always, callous when it actually comes to the “masses” and their welfare. Rush mentioned this ayem that hundreds of people are sick, coming down with various diseases.
It’s a sin what the organizers have done to these uneducated and ignorant dupes (and I’m still believing Soros’s plus the other U. S. leftist foundations are sponsoring this). The marchers’ clothes are sopping wet from laying down to rest in the rain and mud. Their feet are swollen, blistered, bleeding. The “doctors” who are traveling with the invasion force are probably overwhelmed (but I bet they get a nice place to sleep and good food anyway).
These thoroughly exhausted souls are likely having second thoughts but the paid “enforcers” are making them continue. Maybe even the young men are thinking this wasn’t exactly what they signed up for. Hopefully the organizers call the whole thing off before they are in sight of the border. If they do, it won’t be because of compassion but because they will see they’ve failed.
President Trump says we’re ready, and I’m sure we are.
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Afternoon Lucy!
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Afternoon Wee 🙂 !
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Afternoon Lovely!
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Computer printers have been quietly embedding tracking codes in documents for decades
https://qz.com/1002927/computer-printers-have-been-quietly-embedding-tracking-codes-in-documents-for-decades/?fbclid=IwAR2o_RzUcJAM6TUDY8xSd3hYHwDH8hO37lf6s4k87dQx8ovjyzyUJAcvSIA
The existence of the hidden dots gained renewed interest this week when they were found embedded in a top-secret report by the US National Security Agency (NSA) that was published by The Intercept on June 5. About an hour after the report was published, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had arrested a suspected leaker. The 25-year-old NSA contractor, Reality Leigh Winner, was charged “with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet.”
In an affidavit released by the DOJ, an FBI agent described how Winner had been tracked down. The scanned copy of the document, which The Intercept had given to the government to confirm its authenticity, “appeared to be folded and/or creased,” the agent wrote, “suggesting they had been printed and hand-carried out of a secured space.”
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It’s called “printer steganography”.
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They did it with typewriters as well
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How?
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Handwriting, Typewriting, Shoeprints, and Tire Treads:
FBI Laboratory’s Questioned Documents Unit
…
Reference and Standards Files
To aid in physical and comparison examinations, the QDU maintains the following files that are divided into two types:
Reference Files: Repositories for information drawn from casework, which are used to relate incoming data to previously examined material, for example, to make an association between two threatening notes.
Standards Files: Repositories for manufacturers’ and similar primary-source data, which are used to determine the source of an item of evidence, for example, the maker of a style of typeface.
…
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/about-us/lab/forensic-science-communications/fsc/april2001/held.htm
Forensic Database Questioned Documents Table
https://www.nist.gov/oles/forensic-database-questioned-documents-table
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manufacturers’ sent in samples of type to the FBI before the typewriter left the factory.
I also recall the selectric typewriter ball used by the government was not the same a public consumer one.
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If you got yours from the GSA store but some of us had permissions to go to local civilian outlets for supplies. We still have a Selectric with the type balls, not sure if it works but…
Reminds me of a small spy story back in the day. Seems the Soviets discovered a way to correlate the spacing between when the typist’s finger hit the key and the ball hit the paper to figure out letter being typed.
They also found a way to intercept our early computer comms. We had the main CPU cases ‘Tempest’ hardened to prevent extraneous leaks but they forgot about the CRY screens. Bad Guys, and later us, found that with some stuff you could actually round up at Radio Shack you could build a device that would capture the CRT screen from outside the building. We also had large filters on the electrical lines that prevented any signasls from being leaked backwards out of the building.
Then there was the entire issue of your cell/smart phone imprinting your GPS and time on pictures you took. You generally didn’t see the info unless you knew how to access the picture’s metadata – don’t know if the phones still do that but no reason to believe they don’t. It used to be used by various folks both good and bad (‘good’ being a relative thing) to find your location at a certain time.
I’ve said a number of times that your loving and benign government has been working on violating every shred of privacy you have for decades. The home entertainment system hack was my personal fav, they can hack right in if it’s connected to the internet (even if it isn’t in some cases) and use the system’s camera and mike to eavesdrop on you.
So remember, y’all, you elected the folks doing this so you have no room to complain, you approved their actions thru your votes. Anyway, if you are an honest and loyal American you should have no worries about benign government monitors searching thru every aspect of your life, you should have nothing to hide, citizen.
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‘sokay, I’m gettin’ my smoker out so I’ll throw the spam in with the ribs.
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The phones are much worse now. It’s just a modem sending and receiving poor quality audio files. All sorts of data gets embedded into them.
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Yup, we’re pretty good at screwing our own people.
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Everybody can be big brother today. Tracking what we say, what we do, and web sites we visit. Even private companies can do it.
Last spring our sweet grandbabies where going on a school field trip and my husband and I were filling in for our daughter as chaperon. She had emailed us the address then we talked on the phone because it was at an out-of-the way park.
The thing that I learned that day was her private company’s software could see when I received the email, when I opened it, and how I disposed of it. (We use to do that type of thing when I was working but we all had matchie/matchie internal computers on the same internal network.) Our daughter’s private company’s tracking device allowed her to know when to call to answer our questions because she knew we would have them.
A couple of weeks ago my husband and I were doing the video and sound equipment at church when we had a problem with the big screen display that the worshippers see. We did the routine checks and fixes but ultimately had to call the electrician/computer expert. He was out of town so he had to do a Google Join session to read the churches computer from his iPhone. In fairly short order he had the hymns displaying on the big screen. The need to go to the church hymnals was averted.
We had a young man working with us who was shocked that someone at will could get into the church computer. He said that is just scary. I told him that we use to do that 30 years ago but with dial up modems. If he was shocked before he practically fell out of his chair that it was possible 30 years ago.
Years and years ago I read that no computer or computer device was secure unless it was in a room with no windows, doors, or outlets. And even then he wasn’t sure if it was secure.
Welcome to the world of big brother. Personally I don’t worry about it because I think most people know what I think. On the bright side we have friends all over the world that can talk about current issues and their love of family and friends freely.
Have a truly blessed day.
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I think it is interesting, and that everybody should know about it. Knowledge is power.
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Hi Stella,
“everybody should know about it. Knowledge is power.”
I agree 100%.
Back in the ‘80’s I went to a computer conference that included speakers from Microsoft*, Apple, HP etc.
At that time people were big stuff if they had a 40 mg hard drive personal computer because most people were still using dual floppies at the time.
The speaker that was really interesting to me was the one from HP. He was talking about computer storage capacity. CD’s were not even being produced at the time and this HP presenter was telling us what physicists had projected would be available in the future. His projections in the 80’s are so far behind what is happening today it is astounding.
Bottom line: When the young man expressed unawareness of connection capabilities at church that Sunday, I told him he needed to think of computers as tools. (He had said he hated them.) I also told him he needed to never put anything on a computer that he doesn’t want his grandchildren to know. That storage capacity is out there today. There is absolutely no telling what will be out there tomorrow.
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The classification line on the document’s a bit interesting. We have Top Secret signals intelligence information with release controlled by the document’s owner, the NSA.
What I find curious is that in the group already approved for release is FVEY, or ‘Five Eyes’, an intel sharing group composed of the US, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. They’ve been working behind the lines to get total and complete access to ALL communications by individuals and companies by making sure any companies or individuals making encryption programs give them the ability to break the encryption. The Five Eyes have long been vacuuming up the world’s metadata but have been stymied by some new encryption systems.
Just an observation.
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All this info gathering/monitoring so they can fulfill their goal of controlling every human being on the face of the earth who is connected up…and maybe they’ve found a way to know what the guys and gals are doing in the remotest jungle village, too. Amazing evil but disguised as being good.
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Oh yeah, ooooooh yeah.
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“Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 5h5 hours ago
The New York Times has a new Fake Story that now the Russians and Chinese (glad they finally added China) are listening to all of my calls on cellphones. Except that I rarely use a cellphone, & when I do it’s government authorized. I like Hard Lines. Just more made up Fake News!”
I was fascinated by President Trump’s statement that he likes Hard Lines.
I asked my husband if he thought the POTUS really uses land line telephones. He said when they show the POTUS talking on the phone it is always on a land line type phone.
Made me think of the Cherokee Nation Code Talkers from WW II.
Land lines – who would have thought that was a way of securing phone calls.
Fascinating way of dealing with security issues.
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Hello! Hello! Is it just you and me, Wee?
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Yes. Every day.
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Ms.WeeWeed is always on duty……
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Mornin’ Col. Ken. Hope you are doing well.
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Good morning auscitizenmom!
You’re sounding chipper this morning.
Just a long day yesterday and a short night for us.
Many blessing as you do your Mom job today.
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🙂 ❤
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Howdy Aus 🙂 ! I’ve been out of town but I’m home and snuggled up with my pups, I hear our President hasn’t changed a bit and the MSM and democrats still don’t know their ass from a hole in the wall so things are looking good 🙂 !
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Yep, nothing’s changed. 🙂
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Yep. Someone mailing fake bombs to fake Americans, that’s about all that is new. Oh and the Saudis admitted that they intended to kill the Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer all along.
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
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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)
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Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
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Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 (Godfather)
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 (Mortlach)
Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 (Roy Rogers)
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Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 (Backdraft)
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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!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Doughnuts and coffee!
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Nye!!!!!!!! Fantastic, thank you, Morning Everyone…….
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Good afternoon Nyet 🙂 ! How are you liking Vegas?
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Whoops!!! Good afternoon Col. !
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Wow, look at those crispy edged pancakes and all that fruit on top! Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Good morning nyetneetot,
That bacon is looking mighty inviting this morning. Is it smoked applewood by any chance?
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Mornin’ ya’all! I’ll have everything on the table in the first picture.
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Morning Nyet! Thank you for breakfast!
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Good morning, Nyet! I’ll have both the beautifully done up pancakes with berry preserves and that concoction with the egg on top. Looks amazing!
I’m in a warm, dry climate today…Browne’s Beach, Barbados…that’s my umbrella and sand set-up there…
Better send lots of food because folk are stopping by to say “hello” and I don’t want to be inhospitable…
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Be sure to enlarge the top photo. Just my kind of spectacular place.
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Afternoon Nyet 🙂 !
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Good afternoon Nyet 🙂 !
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Good morning! Have a great day!
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/9ra2k7/what_will_they_think_of_next/?utm_source=reddit-android
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I don’t know, but I hope it involves an anvil and a cliff.
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Beep beep! 😀
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Good Morning Everyone,
I have been busy the past week or so preparing for a fundraiser for a great candidate named Steve Negron in U.S. Congressional District 2 in NH to replace the super liberal Dem. Annie Kuster. This would be a great win not only for the people of NH, but for everyone across the country who believes in the goodness of our country, our laws, and the Trump agenda. I wrote this to ask everyone to spread the word about him, offer any help they can, but also to show WHAT AN HONEST INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN IS UP AGAINST WHEN TRYING TO UNSEAT THE PROGRESSIVE BIG MONEY MACHINE. So many people ask, ‘why don’t honest individuals run for office’? I never realized how well funded and organized the progressive machine was, and would scoff at “community organizers”, but no more. This is Steve’s story.
My husband worked with Steve at GTE, now General Dynamics. DH has great respect for Steve, saying he is tough, but fair. We certainly need more people with backbone in Congress. Steve is an Air Force veteran, small business owner, and NH State Rep. Steve has a truly grassroots campaign funded by people’s small donations and his own hard earned money. He only has a few thousand dollars of PAC money from two PAC’s: Kelly Ayotte’s – she lives in his district, and a PAC that gives money to elect veterans to Congress. Steve has raised somewhat over $300,000. from his own pockets, actual NH residents, and from relatives and people that he has worked with from around the country. Annie Kuster has over $3,500,000.! Ten times as much money, however ALMOST ALL of that money comes from OUTSIDE NH, and most of it is from PACs, lobbyists, unions, and large dollar donors from NY & Calif.
Steve believes in God, that this country is great, the rule of law, and he supports President Trump. He believes in small government, stopping the attacks on the Bill of Rights, the frugal use of the taxpayers’ money (There is NO such thing as government money), and ending run away debt.
He believes in LEGAL immigration – just like how his grandfather immigrated here from Mexico, securing our borders, and taking care of veterans. Taking care of our veterans is personal for him. His friend who was a veteran died from lack of proper care. Steve and his family have over 100 years of combined military service to our country since his grandfather LEGALLY immigrated here.
NH suffers from voter fraud [1]and huge amounts of progressive out of state money pouring in. We have now passed laws to tighten the ridiculous “voter laws” pushed through by a past Democrat government that allowed fraud, however on Oct. 22nd a democrat appointed judge stopped them from taking effect in this election [2]. Between these two problems it is very hard to stop the voter fraud. It is like trying to fix the hole in your lifeboat while one group is dumping more water into it and another group is making the hole larger. Because of the fraudulent votes, it’s hard to get the people elected that will stop the fraudulent voting, and Soros’s millions paying for progressive Attorney General and Sec. of State candidates to be elected only adds exponentially to the problem.
If any citizen reading this from NH or elsewhere across our great country would like to help Steve Negron be elected to represent OUR VALUES in the U.S. Congress, here is his website: http://www.Negron4Congress.com. Please let other people know of Steve. We believe if he can get known, he will win! His numbers have been rising as more people hear about him. Polling shows 45% of the people want Kuster out, but she has so much money, she is flooding the airwaves with ads, and people do not know Steve.
I also want to say that when I told Steve I would be praying for him, his face lit up! He would be so grateful for your prayers, and his election would help us all. I truly believe God will only bless the USA if we act, do the right thing, and pray. Thank you.
[1] How Stopping Vote Fraud Gets Done! NH AG’s Office Indicts UNH Student for Double-Voting Sep 27, 2018
http://granitegrok.com/blog/2018/09/how-stopping-vote-fraud-gets-done-nh-ags-office-indicts-unh-student-for-double-voting
(Spencer) McKinnon, who identifies himself as a UNH student on his Facebook page, was indicted last week by a Strafford County grand jury, MacDonald’s office announced. He is charged with knowingly voting twice in the Nov. 8, 2016, general election.
[2] Activist Judge Bars New Hampshire Proof of Residency Requirement For New Voters 2 Weeks Before Midterms https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/activist-judge-bars-new-hampshire-proof-of-residency-requirement-for-new-voters-2-weeks-before-midterms/
TheOriginalG-d&Country
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Send an appropriately revised communication to President Trump, perhaps asking a mention of Steve’s name and his district as someone important for the Trump (and our) agenda.
Never can tell, the President might actually do it.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
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Thanks Lucille – Great idea!
I’ve missed your daily Blessings, as well as everyone else here. We had a death in the family, as well as doing the prep for the fundraiser.
Have a great day everyone 🙂
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Heartfelt condolences to you and your family, TOG&C. Take care!
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Thank You for your condolences Lucille. My brother in law was a much loved man who went peacefully in his sleep. It was a surprise to everyone.
I wrote the White House. I’ve never done that before. I hope Pres. Trump Tweets or mentions Steve’s name. It would really make a difference – Great idea Lucille.
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Let’s hope for a special Tweet…or one of combined endorsements by our great President.
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🙏🏼 prayers for you, your loved one and for all the candidates who would make our country great again.
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Thank you Lovely for your prayers for both our family, and our country. Good to hear from you again.
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Sometimes life is just full. Always good to see you 🙂 .
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Glad to see you. Sounds busy busy. Kiddo still has his ship photo next the his bed so thanks!
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Good to see you too Gil. Happy the little guy likes the ships. I think I may have a couple of more photos I can post, but probably only after the election. Which ones did he like most? I tried to put the ship name with the pics if you have that, or the date posted.
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It looks like a bucaneer with a huge American flag off the back, sides painted blue.
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Today’s Trump Schedule
Thursday, October 25, 2018
11:30 am || Receives his intelligence briefing
2:00 pm || Delivers remarks on drug pricing; Department of HHS
6:15 pm || Delivers remarks at a reception commemorating the 35th anniversary of the attack on Beirut Barracks; East Room
7:30 pm || Hosts a pair of fundraisers; Washington
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Remember, November 2018 is to be set aside as rodent removal month. The RATS have to go.
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Love it! Great plan!
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Afternoon Lucille ! I like it! Hey, hey, ho, ho, all the rats have got to go!
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Afternoon, lovely!
“Hey, hey, ho, ho, all the rats have got to go!” would be a super chant for all the Presidential Rallies from now to election day.
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Wouldn’t it be! Chants have their place 🙂 .
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I love mechanical things. The annual Old Threshers Reunion in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, where I spent my boyhood, was a boy’s dream.
I love the clockwork graphic at the top of your home page here, Stella. Makes me think of George Daniel’s book, “Watchmaking”, which I own, of course, and have penciled in my own marginal notes. 🙂
Check out a copy from the library. The illustrations and color photos are gorgeous.
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Every year my parents gave my brother a watch for Christmas or his birthday. One day my mother was cleaning out his dresser & found lots of watch parts. Seems he was taking them apart to learn how they worked. He did not grow up to repair watches; clearly he could not put them back together!!!
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That’s funny. Enquiring minds 🙂 !
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Some type of mechanical device rusting away somewhere in Poland (I found it at a Polish language site)…
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Well, phooey! Since it didn’t come through, perhaps the Russians are blocking our view of an old device used when Poland was dominated by the USSR. Intrigue…or maybe you just have to belong to pixabay to get their free images.
So it’s back into the Brown’s Beach waters for the afternoon. I just have to watch out for those huge turtles…
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Latest picture of Tucker (goofy):
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A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E.! Mr. Goofy Pants!
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Can he be any cuter? Lol! I love when they play goofy.
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Thanks. He needs a hair cut.
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OMG! I just realized, today is MS. Lacy kitty’s birthday! She is 10 years old! I’m going right now to give her a luscious treat!
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By all means! I don’t know my kitty’s birthday, just how old she is (5); her name is Luna.
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For Miss Luna…
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Thanks! She came to me from the Humane Society with that name, and I kept it. My last dog’s name was Stella, which I am sure you know means star.
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I know that pose! I also like the “on their back head off the couch” sleeping ones. He looks like he wants to play.
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He was just posed there like that for a long time. No wiggling or nudging.
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She looks so much like Daisy when she’s doing her upside down backscratch thing!
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Oops, sorry Tucker, I recall you are a boy!
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Tucker just melts my heart…what a great pic. thx Stella :0)
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I love his face! Afternoon Stella! 47° here. The little dog went out and her ears are frozen. Grinner has stopped falling over so I am not really looking for any rugs at the moment but I have all the ideas tucked in my mind 🙂 !
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You notice what has disappeared from the so-called conservative cable news cycle…FISA/FISC!
A good compilation of things so far…
Thread by @_ImperatorRex_: “1. Must read thread about the origin, growth and dying days of the Clinton/Obama ‘Trump-Russia’ lie.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1054940980153962496.html
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Okay czar, final report on the spaetzle. My husband, a real meat and potato lover, although he really also likes a lot of whatever I throw at him, pronounced it truly delicious and let me know he’d welcome more of it.
As you suggested, I made mac and cheese out of the leftovers, only the easiest you’ve ever done. Since the noodles were just oozing with goodness, I decided not to be picky. I put them in a dish, salted lightly and peppered them, poured a little half and half over them, dotted with butter, topped with some grated cheddar and a little gouda, sliced thinly. When the whole thing was done, I just stirred it up. And it was so delicious.
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I bet if you did that as a side dish for thanksgiving it’d be gone fast.
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It is at our house!
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Oh, Menagerie, that sounds so good. Send some over.
All I had for lunch was Brussels sprouts with butter, bacon, crumbled Parmesan cheese and touch of lemon. I’m just an ambitionless garden-variety cook who fixes stuff the easy way…but it was good. Now I’m off to make a salad out of whatever is in the fridge.
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I love brussels sprouts roasted with oil and salt, then finished with either lemon or balsamic vinegar.
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Kiddo saw the child psychologist who said he did very well and is very talkative and interested in learning. Speech therapist consult next, then aptitude testing and return to see psychologist. By the end of next 2 weeks I hope I have a better picture on what kind of a student he is. His paediatrician has a new clinic that also does behavioral testing. Its covered until he is 6, so I asked for that referral too. Doesnt hurt to have another opinion, esp when we already pay for it.
He had a bad couple days, very roller coaster week.
Still wants to go to school every day. Ill take it. 🙂
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By the end of next 2 weeks I hope I have a better picture on what kind of a student he is.
I know you will – but please remember that others especially professionals can only give you a snapshot of what they have been trained to check off on their preordained checklist. I know that there are good professionals in the mental health industry but in all honesty I have to say I believe a good mental health expert is a rare rare bird. I hope and pray your little guy gets people who evaluate him as a unique individual and simply a set of DSM – 5 .
Gil, you know your little guy and what is uniquely him, what makes him tick, filter whatever information you are given through your own mom sifter.
I am happy to hear that he wants to go to school everyday. the boy has a fighting spirit if he wants to go forward with things that are hard for him. Strength is a beautiful trait to have.
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Yes. I now believe his teacher is becoming hypercritical. I was really clumsy and he is too. He has shoes a half size too big, he likes wiggle room. His teacher decided it was worth writing a note. 😒 And she says he ran “passed” her(how she wrote it) and pinched her. He told me he did run up to her (hyper actively) pinch her to get her attention to ask permisdion to go to the bathroom. Then he was put in time out and never asked if he needed something. Using his words, keeping his hands to himself rules if the road. Hes probably the youngest boy also.
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Prayers for you and the little guy Gil.
I don’t want to overstep but please be really careful with the teacher. Document everything email as much as you can so you have an unassailable record. I don’t like the situation at all. Too many teachers are little power hungry gestapos who love wielding their power over children and their parents.
Some battles you cannot win. If the situation at school becomes un-winnable because the teacher decides that your boy is not worthy of her effort because he will never paint flowers in neat rows of green and red get him the hell out of that school.
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Agree. 😦
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For what it is worth………….I was either the teacher’s pet, or totally disliked by the teacher. And, I couldn’t tell you why, except maybe it was because I was also called Daydreamer by a couple of teachers. I tended to stare out the window and watch the butterflys. I had trouble keeping my mind on anything too long.
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My husband and I discussed taking him out. We are continuing for now. He loves art, music, and likes p.e. but those are different teachers. I am certainly keen to being disliked at school. I had similar experiences like you. If I home school, then I will make it work somehow. I am watching.
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This could be a personality conflict. And, it can go both ways. If his teacher dislikes him, he can sense it and maybe act in ways he wouldn’t with someone else. Can you get him transferred to a different room?
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Not at this time. There are 2 other classes and the kids play with each other. He also knows the other teachers already. I suspect even though he says he likes his teacher, you are right.
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Well, I just hope you can get something resolved. Your little kiddo sounds like a charming little guy to me.
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He is. 😉 me 2! Ty…
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Re: Jordan Peterson, and his BS. Don’t stop listening until you get it.
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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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Prayer for Justice Kavanaugh:
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/kavanaugh-v.-ford
“After watching her husband rip into pro-death senators who used Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in attempts to derail the appointment of her husband to the U.S. Supreme Court, Ashley is asking all people of faith to unite in praying Psalm 40, which reads:”
“BE PLEASED, O LORD, TO DELIVER ME, LOOK DOWN, O LORD TO HELP ME. LET THEM BE CONFOUNDED AND ASHAMED TOGETHER, THAT SEEK AFTER MY SOUL TO TAKE IT AWAY. LET THEM BE TURNED BACKWARD AND BE ASHAMED THAT DESIRE EVILS TO ME.”
In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen
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Here is a bit of good news, the maggot faced bully who verbally accosted the 9/11 widow was fired from his job.
And of course this scum of the earth person worked on youth development.
Antifa Thug Who Berated 9/11 Widow Identified, FIRED FROM JOB
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/antifa-thug-who-berated-9-11-widow-identified-fired-from-job/
Wilson lists Self Enhancement Inc has his employer. SEI describes itself as “Self Enhancement, Inc. is one of the nation’s most comprehensive and successful youth development organizations.”
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