General Discussion, Friday, January 18, 2019

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  1. Gil's avatar Gil says:

    Hi there all you Stellars! Its been raining all week. When it rains it pours…and here at home the pouring hasnt been to our benefit the past couple months. Its really…pouring. A lot of the reason I am MIA.

    Kiddo is still on a roller coaster but the track is toward improvement even though he has rotten days still. He will see private OT this month and the public school just contacted me for an eval. He was invited to a birthday party and a playdate and got an exception to participate in a school craft club so he has that social interaction.
    Keeping my eyes on the prize.

    I hope everyone has a fantastic friday! (Especially since that letter to nancy from POTUS was such a zinger😂).

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  2. Gil's avatar Gil says:

    I fancy the older pooh style myself. Oh bother! Its a good day for kiddo because its:

    NATIONAL WINNIE THE POOH DAY

    National Winnie the Pooh Day is observed annually on January 18th.  Author A.A. Milne brought the adorable, honey-loving bear to life in his stories which also featured his son, Christopher Robin.  National Winnie the Pooh Day commemorates Milne’s January 18, 1882, birthday.

    Milne’s lovable Pooh Bear, as he was fondly called, is a fictional bear inspired by a black bear named Winnie who lived at the London Zoo during World War I. The author’s son, Christopher Robin, would visit the bear often and named his own teddy bear after her and a swan named Pooh.

    This friendship inspired a collection of books starting with Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926. The books were illustrated by E.H. Shepard.

    In the 1960s, Disney bought the rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh characters dropping the hyphen from Pooh’s name. The illustrations were a bit different, too.

    Milne’s stories have been translated into over 50 languages and are considered classic children’s stories today.

    https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-winnie-the-pooh-day-january-18/

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  3. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

    Whomever owns that house does NOT have cats.

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  4. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    1) President Trump cancels Nancy Pelosi’s vanity tour. (I could really post about this as all 10 posts it is such a day brightener.)

    2) Geodes

    Ethiopian Opal Geode

    3) President Trump is both a sledgehammer and a chisel. Extraordinary.

    4) The MSM, Liberal Elites, RINOs, Never Trumpers Horrible Terrible very Bad 2 years has no end in sight.

    5) Men are still men and women are still women. Tough luck Lefties.

    6) ”We live in a country where Laura Loomer setting up an illegal alien camp on Nancy Pelosi’s lawn is no longer the biggest trolling that Pelosi got this week.__Michael Malice

    7) Ruth Bader Ginsburg is likely not returning to the bench. She missed oral arguments last week, she will miss them this week and she has canceled public appearances for all of January. Justice #3 for President Trump.

    8) Dolly Parton and the purity of “I will Always Love you”

    9) The duplicity of the Left is front and center, who thought the Gillette commercial would so quickly be overshadowed in the scope and breadth of its hypocrisy?

    Nancy Pelosi just pulled a major power move on Donald Trump’s State of the Union__Chris Cillizza (CNN)

    Less than 24 hours later;

    Taking the low road always. President Trump just dunked on Nancy Pelosi’s CODEL.”__Chris Cillizza (CNN)

    Way to go Liberals!! As sane as a crack addict.

    10) The Honorable William Barr simultaneously treats the Left elites with disdain and affability a close to unbeatable strategy.

    https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1085977637951025154

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    • Morning lovely! 😊

      https://twitter.com/stickwithtrump/status/1086193354927419392?s=12

      😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:

      That opal geode is so beautiful. I have several geodes – one is next to me on a stand, and it is filled with amethyst crystals. I believe it is from Brazil.

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:

        Awesome . I have a very small one with amethyst crystals that a friend gave to me, I’m not sure where it is from. I think the opal geode is stunning.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:

        I have a neat geode I found in Egypt, it’s sorta dog bone shaped and the top 3rd was sheared off lengthwise by what could only be a bomb. The inside is a mass of small crystals all neatly arranged.

        We were stationed at an Egyptian air base the Israeli AF had smacked in the ’73 war. We were in the desert and the assortment of rocks we had was amazing, many folks filled up the empty shipping containers we brought back with rocks and petrified plants. In my case I was out by an aircraft bunker the Egyptians had faced with layers of rock cemented into place. One side had taken a direct hit and as the Egyptians never really cleaned thing up the sides that had been blown out were still scattered about. The sun caught the geode as I walked by and the glint was startling. I spent some down time cleaning concrete off of it and was so captivated by it that what’s spent untold eons in the desert now resides in deep southern Mississippi – and is a damn site better off for it.

        You think SAND when you think desert but the Egyptian desert has seas of rocks. While we were digging around the campsite, about 6 feet down, we found a huge bed of stones, all polished round and flat and just a bit smaller than a hockey puck, that could only have been shaped by water action over a long period. I brought back a bunch that looked like flat donuts with another rock stuck into the ‘hole’. Ahhhhh, to go back to the desert with a shovel.

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        • lovely's avatar lovely says:

          The sun caught the geode as I walked by and the glint was startling.

          Awesome.

          And,

          I spent some down time cleaning concrete off of it and was so captivated by it that what’s spent untold eons in the desert now resides in deep southern Mississippi – and is a damn site better off for it.

          Awesome.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:

      The truth of President Trump’s cancellation of Nancy’s trip, and it’s real purpose, is to expose the trip to the American public. If it had gone ahead, most people would not know that Nancy was going away for a week while thousands of Federal workers are furloughed, meaning that the partial shut down would continue for at least another week while she and her buddies had a vacation in Brussels and Egypt (yes, they were visiting Afghanistan too, but that was just to make the trip look better.) President Trump also, very wisely, cancelled his own delegation to the World Economic Summit in Davos.

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:

        I’ve read about the truth about these vacations on the tax payers dime. Sickening people.

        And the military doesn’t like being used or inconvenienced to accommodate a horde of self congratulatory politicians.

        President Trump is shinning a light on so many shenanigans.

        Let’s see if some of the Pork gets trimmed now that the 30 day mark in the government shutdown has been reached.

        Amazing President. Imagine how much goes on in his mind and how much he knows, how much he leverages and how much he must enjoy seeing their faces once the trap is revealed with the rats in it?

        Master negotiator and master persuader, so much fin to watch.

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  5. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:

    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’ NC Nana! 🙂 🍸 (Beautiful)
    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!

    Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Tarts

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  6. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:

    Mornin’ kids!

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  7. czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:

    Hope this is the correct picture. Someone is selling devotional candles with pictures of the New Orleans’ Saints faces replacing Catholic Saints’ faces. Football fans are really crazy!

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  8. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    The camera is flipped so it looks like Crenshaw has his patch on his left eye.

    How long before Ocasio claims that the patch is fake?

    Thank you for supporting Life Rep Crenshaw.

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  9. jeans2nd's avatar jeans2nd says:

    Good evening Stella and Imaginary Friends.
    Your collected comments every day are such gold. You’ve no idea how many take joy from reading here.

    Said goodbye to Wicked Son today. He leaves tomorrow early a.m., just in time for the first major snowstorm to hit, 8-10 inches expected. A U-Haul, plus two cars. He will be back occasionally until June, as DIL is staying here till June to finish her degree.

    So it is just me now. No family left.
    Except…
    Obstreperous GDaughter, my clone, has moved in with her BF, 4 streets up from me. What a cruel joke. lol
    WS will stay in a gated complex until a house is found, On the lake, with all amenities -3 BRs, 2 bath, sun room, plus pool, exercise room, the full gambit, even an Amazon hub. The rent is more than my monthly income. ! He now makes much more than his last boss. CIO. Not much better than that, except going to a larger school perhaps. NCAT (North Carolina Ag & Tech) is not so little, though. Right outside Research Triangle, in Greensboro.

    And yet… Reminded him not to forget he has a mom. Some here are acquainted with the emotions right now. Loss, and yet pride, excitement, etc., for him. And the best – no snow!

    Thank you for sharing your thoughts daily and allowing us to lurk and occasionally comment. You all are priceless.
    Have a blessed and joyous evening and weekend.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:

      My youngest moved down to Chicago just 3 weeks ago. she is house sitting for her sister who is in Asia for four months. I expect her to stay down there once the house sitting gig is over. It is really strange to be a true empty nester.

      I miss her daily but am happy daily that she is starting her independent life.

      Oh and she is going to Bangkok for 2 weeks in February 😑.

      (((jeans2nd)))

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  10. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:

    Though I can barely raise my arm to the keyboard, this is just too funny not to make the effort to post today and give everyone a great laugh…

    Love those Church Ladies. They’re Back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thanks for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services…
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    The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.
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    The sermon this morning: ‘Jesus Walks on the Water.’ The sermon tonight: ‘Searching for Jesus.’
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    Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale. It’s a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.
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    Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community. Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say ‘Hell’ to someone who doesn’t care much about you.
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    Don’t let worry kill you off – let the Church help.
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    Miss Charlene Mason sang ‘I will not pass this way again,’ giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.
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    For those of you who have children and don’t know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
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    Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.
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    Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.
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    A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow..
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    At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be ‘What Is Hell?’ Come early and listen to our choir practice.
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    Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
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    Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.
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    The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.
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    Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM – prayer and medication to follow.
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    The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
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    This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
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    Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10 AM. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B. S. Is done.
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    The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.
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    Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door.
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    The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.
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    Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.
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    The Associate Minister unveiled the church’s new campaign slogan last Sunday: “I Upped My Pledge – Up Yours”.

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  11. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Raising my eyebrow.

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  12. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    This was going to be part of my list for tomorrow but it is so fluid that it is a stand alone post

    BREAKING: Buzzfeed investigative reporter, who broke the bombshell story of Trump directing Cohen to lie about a Trump Tower deal in Moscow, said on CNN that they haven’t seen any evidence to confirm their story.

    BuzzfeedNews Bombshell Reporter: No We Have Not Seen the Evidence Supporting Our Report 😂. @Mediate

    The story was written by Jason Leopold a plagiarist, who has written sourceless articles before (Salon) that proved to be false. Leopold has said of himself that he had engaged in “lying, cheating, and backstabbing” in his life; battled mental illness; and struggled with substance abuse.

    This is the type of person the Left is hanging its hope upon.

    😏

    Never mind. Special Counsel Office says Buzzfeed Report Not Accurate.

    Listening to Dan Bongino who says it was a canary trap. That means that President Trump just outed another enemy.

    Extraordinary that Mueller instructed his office to make an official statement on this matter.

    https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow/status/1086425618802241536

    And just in Buzzfeed says it is standing behind their sources 😂.

    I think Bongino hit the nail on the head.

    Hee hee! Another day of democrats and their accomplices in the media getting flushed down the toilet.

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  13. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

    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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  14. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

    A prayer for Justice Kavanaugh and Col. Flynn:

    Prayer to St. Michael

    St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
    be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
    May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
    and do you, O prince of the heavenly host,
    by the power of God,
    thrust into hell Satan and the other evil spirits
    who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

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  15. lovely's avatar lovely says:

    Jay Sekulow is on Fox talking about the information gathered by the FBI and SC being fruit of the poisonous tree. I believe that this is going to come to an end sooner rather than later.

    Bongino said that the BuzzFeed story was a canary trap. If true this was a huge bold move and the hand of President Trump is tipped. If the opponents of America had any doubt of how wily President Trump is, they now know without a doubt that they are dead in the water.

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  16. michellc's avatar michellc says:

    When did conservatism become it’s alright to murder babies? We have a legislator who is introducing a bill in our state to abolish abortion by making abortions illegal in this state and the screaming by conservatives is crazy. You can’t criminalize abortion, big bad SCOTUS is going to come after us, it’s an assault on women, it’s a violation of the Constitution, on and on and on.
    I even read one stupid woman say if the baby has no heartbeat then it should be allowed and she actually argued with me that a baby didn’t have a heartbeat until 21 weeks, past the legal time to get an abortion. She votes and she votes Republican. smh

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