[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
By E. E. Cummings
Stella's Place 
The day before Valentine’s Day…a reminder…it’s hearts and roses…
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So pretty! Happy Wednesday, Lucille! I know it’s odd, but I told hubby all I wanted was a George Foreman grill with removable/dishwasher safe grilling plates. LOL! And that’s what I got. 😊😊😊
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Thanks, sand! A good man listens and acts.
Recipes: https://foremangrillrecipes.com/vegetables-recipes/grilled-asparagus/
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I love asparagus! Thank you! He is a good man and he’s looking forward to me cooking him some yummy burgers on it, tonight. 😉
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Homemade burgers are just the best. Have fun!
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Thank you! 🙂
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We’re not playing: Here’s how possums can help your household
https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/home/not-playing-here-how-possums-can-help-your-household/HzKwFxddP36d7Al86oZjiN/
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We have opossums in the wooded area behind our house, along with bobcats, and coyotes. Recently, a neighbor posted on a local app that she had one up in her tree and it was making the birds shriek. She wanted to know what to do about it and should she call pest control? Thank goodness people responded to just ignore it and eventually it would just take off. 🙄 Oh… another opossum story… my aunt lives in an old historical home and woke to her dogs barking in her room, like crazy. Somehow a baby opossum had gotten in her room and had wrapped itself around the top of one of the four posters on her bed, while she was asleep!
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My friend had a cat door and late at night went into her bedroom in the dark and thought the figure she saw was her cat. Luckily, it turned and ran back out. This ad always made me think of her.
😯 DO NOT TRY TO PET raccoons. While I was looking for this video, I saw many of people who had been bitten by a raccoon.
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Yeah…. that would be very alarming and they can be aggressive, even though they are kind of cute. On our ring camera, we pick up raccoons walking around our yard at night. For a while there was a momma and three babies that would go through regularly, until the babies got big enough to go on their own.
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We had prisoners working at our Pound in Florida that we had to watch. They’d unload the animals from the trucks as they came in and, as Florida was building up back then, the Pound got a lot of raccoon calls.
We had a Jamaican prisoner who thought he was an animal expert and one day when they had a huge boar coon brought in in a box trap he was all hot about showing the workers how a ‘pro’, a true animal whisperer, was going to get this coon out of a trap.
When that trap came outta the truck it looked like it was just stuffed with this coon, it was a large trap and this coon must have weighed over 30 pounds, he ate very well. The Jamaican was talking cool and low to the coon and the coon was just hunched down with eyes coolly locked on the Jamaican. The Jamaican slooowly opened the trap door as he sloooowly moved to loop end of the catch stick towards the coon…who had eyes still locked onto the Jamaican.
It was an instantaneous change, those who blinked missed it, but one second that coon was in the trap and the next it was on the Jamaican biting and scratching him from head to toe, not missing a beat. It launched outta that trap like a tomahawk missile outta a Trident sub and did about as much damage. It spent about 30 seconds taking its pique out on that guy, wasn’t anything we could do as it would have gotten us. Couldn’t shoot as we weren’t allowed to be armed on the grounds so best we could do it yell and try to discourage it.
When it was finally done it stood its ground, looking at us with that coon ‘You wanna piecea me?’ look, them just sauntered over to the fence, climbed over and disappeared into the scrub. We got the Jamaican some towels to sop up the blood, took him to the ER where they tended the wounds (didn’t need any stitches) and the County started him on rabies shots. He never came back to the Pound, he went some other place to work off his time, but I’m betting he never messed with another Florida coon.
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“Humiliation often goes hand in hand with unwarranted pride…and wounds”…must have been said by someone famous…or not.
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He was wounded in both hands…and elsewhere.
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I think opossums live everywhere – we have them here in the Michigan burbs too! I love the story about your aunt and the opossum on her bed!
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I imagine they do. I think I’m just more aware of them, because I live by a creek with lots of trees. We also have armadillos come through. Both are good for eating unwanted bugs and grubs. I’ve opened my front door and had an armadillo on my porch before.
I need to ask my aunt how she got that little opossum out of her room. 😉
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Our dogs get one every now and then, we’re alive with them. The one they almost got a few weeks back still comes by looking for food (except frozen key lime pie) and is patiently awaiting my persimmon trees to fruit again and our yard is rather free of snakes. Good trade-off.
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How did she get the baby out of there?
A number of years ago I read an article which claimed that opossums have a low body temperature and thus don’t carry diseases. Then a few days ago I read that they do carry diseases and named a bunch of things I’d never heard of. So much info out there who knows what to believe!
Guess next will be a check at the Center For Disease Control site to see how many people and pets got sick recently from opossum bites or picking up feces. Or maybe I’ll just forget about it…LOL!
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I’ll see if I can find out. It’s possible my mother knows and since tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, I will be calling her. I’ll try to remember to ask. 🙂
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Last month Czar bought me a plush possum toy. I like to hold it under my arm while I read the blog. Makes the cats a little freaked out because it has a reealistic face, I guess….
https://cdn3.volusion.com/9nxdj.fchy5/v/vspfiles/photos/WA-CCR-2230OP-2.jpg?1504857400
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1) Stella already posted this but it is so fabulous it deserve a second posting!
Hat tip to Stella!
2) It is going to be 39° here on Thursday with rain so some of his white stuff will melt.
3 ) An amazing closeup of a hummingbird. Sadly I don’t know who the photographer is.
4 ) It’s Doggity Day!
5 ) California Governor Gavin Newsom (D.) said on Tuesday “it would cost too much and take too long” to build a high-speed train line between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Newsom announced that he is cancelling the state’s plan on the project during his first State of the State address.
😂
I think Ocasio is having a bad week.
Heck the gang of ghouls is having a very bad couple of years.
6 ) Have I mentioned that I really like the way Lin Wood fights?
7 ) Part of President Trump’s 2020 election strategy seems to be to paint the democrats as the rabid, dangerous’ lunatics that they are 🙂 ! Yeehaw!
I want to thank all Republicans for the work you have done in dealing with the Radical Left on Border Security. Not an easy task, but the Wall is being built and will be a great achievement and contributor toward life and safety within our Country! __President Trump
I can’t wait to watch the civil war that President Trump is creating in the heart of the Democratic party.
8) Jussie Smollett is heading for the dungheap of Liberal Lunatics who have overplayed their call to the mandated hatred of the white man assigned to him by his Masters the MSM and Liberal hierarchy.
9) Absent friend who we love and pray for every day.
10) Seeing an old friend and picking up right were you left off.
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Hummingbirds are amazing animals. So beautiful. Next month it should be warm enough to put our feeder out. It’s so fun to watch them flitting about the yard.
I’m loving that President Trump came right out, yesterday, and said that Ilhan Omar should resign from Congress for her anti Semitic statements. She shouldn’t even be allowed to be in Congress. She was married her brother and committed immigration fraud to come to the states. This is the Democrat party. 😳
Have a great day, lovely!
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The hummers used to arrive in West Texas Mar. 15 (+,- a day or two) and stay until Oct. 15. The males usually arrive first, about 2 weeks ahead of the females. One year a hum built her nest at the top of our porch swing – really!!! It was pure magic to watch her and her navy bean-size eggs hatch, and to watch the babies and their first flight. From hatching to first flight is about 3 weeks…..and then, they’re gone!
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For about 2 – 3 years one little bird would come and hover in front of the big window in the den looking for me to let me know that the 2 porch feeders were empty…. I like to think that it was the mama, as I was really careful to keep her feeders fresh while she was nesting/feeding the babies. 😉
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So sweet! We have a specialty store that sells all kinds of bird feed, hummingbird feeders, and birdhouses. Neat store. They also carry little feeders that you can hold in in your hand for the hummers to eat from. It would be fun to try it out.
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I just learned that there are five species of hummingbirds that have been sighted in Michigan, starting in April. I have never had a feeder, but maybe I will get one this year!
http://lansingwbu.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-many-species-of-hummingbirds-are.html
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Their very entertaining. You should do it! You can make your own simple syrup and store it in the fridge. It’s inexpensive and keeps well. I think my husband made fresh every couple of weeks. Maybe you could do a hummingbird series in a few weeks. 🙂
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I was making a pitcher full twice a week.
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Wow! You must’ve had quite a few hummers!
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LOL My father started it. He put out one feeder and had about 6 birds that quickly turned into 10 and were fighting over it. So, he put up another one on the back side of the house and got even more birds. So we put up two on our side and one day counted them. There were at least 40. My father finally got tired of making more for them and quit, so I did it. We loved watching them.
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There’s something a little bit magical about them. Sort of fairy-like. How fun to have so many to enjoy!
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It was neat that they got used to us sitting near the feeder and would come over, get a few inches from the bridge of our noses, and stay there for a little. It was a little scary at first.
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That must have been amazing to experience!
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It really was. They got so used to us being around that we could stand next to the feeder and put a finger near it and they would land on it for a fleeting moment. We just loved them.
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I love that! ❤️
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I was buying 10 lb bags of sugar at a time, which was highly unusual for us.
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https://texashillcountry.com/hummingbird-babies-eggs/
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Thanks Sand, that is awesome, I’m going to send it to my mom. Those teeny tiny babies !
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They are the sweetest little things. I’m glad you liked the video.
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Awww! I love that! Someone posted a pic of a teeny hummer nest on Twitter recently with two little eggs and then another with the two babies that had recently hatched. So precious!
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We had four feeders and at least 40 hummingbirds. The most fierce of them all was a mother with her small baby. She even chased off the one we called “Knothead” because of his lump on the top of his head, and he was absolutely vicious. Nobody came around the feeder, not even him, when she was letting the baby eat.
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They’re tough, alright! I gave up feeding/watching them when we got Punkin’…. she proved that she could leap up about 10′ and catch them in midair. A baited field, so to speak.
There’s a restaurant at mile marker 367 in TX where they’ve got feeders all the way around the front and sides of the building. No matter which window you sit by you can watch hummers in the spring and summer. Very neat.
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That’s fun. I looked up the map. Is it the Dairy Queen?
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New York Hill!
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I’ve never been to that part of Texas. Mostly stayed around, SE Texas, East Texas, and North Texas.
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Ours are picky little creatures, they will not eat their simple syrup if it’s made with any brand of sugar other than C&H and they’ll dive bomb you every time you walk onto the porch. Sometimes I purposely make a small amount to fill only one feeder with an off brand of sugar just because I find them humorous.
They also tap on the windows when they’re out of food.
We have 4 feeders on the porch and 4 in the trees in the yard and still have to fill them up at least twice a week.
It’s funny though they let us know every year they’re back by one tapping on the window and each day more and more show up.
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LOL One day, we noticed one flying around the porch post where one of the feeders usually hung. I had brought it in to fill it. The little bird flew around the post, then flew up and down the post, and back around. He just knew that was where the food was. LOL Then, when I took the feeder out, he was really impatient for me to get it back up and flew to my face chattering. It was so funny. They would also come to the window to see where it was if the feeder wasn’t out.
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They are very entertaining.
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Very. I really hated to leave because I knew I would not ever be in a position to watch them like that again.
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The ones who intrigued us the most were the mother and baby. It took us a little while to figure out why the one was so little and none, NONE of the other hummingbirds would come around while he was eating. The mother just hovered around him, and didn’t eat, just guarded.
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Our males are always fighting each other and the females are always running the males off the food.
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Map of northen migration. Change the date to last year to see the signtings over time
https://maps.journeynorth.org/map/?year=2019&map=hummingbird-ruby-throated-first
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Getting our feeders ready as we speak. Put our purple martin houses up this weekend and still feeding increasingly obese wrens and cardinals.
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Morning czar! Lots of plump birds here as well. Barely had winter, so they just stayed and kept eating!
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Who knew birds were Democrats?
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LOL!
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My mom puts out hummingbird feeders every year 🙂 . I love their flittering about.
President Trump is such a breath of fresh air.
And the dems, well, may the earth swallow them whole.
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😀
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I’ve been looking at some hummingbird sites and pics of their little eggs and babies. They are adorable. ❤️
I’m ready for another Trump rally! 😊
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Me too! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a baby humming bird, I’ll have to go look. They must be tiny!
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Mornin’ y’all!
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Morning WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Good day, WeeWeed! Railroading downhill until they reach their destination where their jobs will consist of endlessly re-living their descent.
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Evening Wee 🙂 !
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Happy Hump Day!
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I’m so glad President Trump is taking time to decide on this 👆🏻
https://twitter.com/kevinqpubliq/status/1095722206955560961?s=12
So much truth! 👆🏻
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Two setups in two weeks and now this they’re trying real hard to vilify that hat!!
this is what makes President Trump so powerful. He refuses to backdown.
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And that’s why we love him! 😃
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My latest pitch to those unsolicited phony ‘pharmacy’ calls: “I’m sorry but I can’t talk with you right now, I’m busy eating what may be one of your deities”.
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Update on Covington Catholic case:
https://twitter.com/flipitred_2020/status/1095761484926181376?s=12
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“Is this good enough Attorney Linn?” __Diocese of Covington
Cowards that is what every single person in the hierarchy of the Diocese of Covington is who blindly and maliciously sided with Nathan Phillips.
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It’s really sad they didn’t support those kids from the start.
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It is, or at least say, we will receive judgment until we have more information, but these boys have a good history. Instead they sided with the enemy and spit on their own children.
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reserve not receive 🙄
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This is jumping on the pile after the ref has blown the whistle.
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Yep. Did you read Covington’s statement.
I am very level headed and slow to anger. but I read the first sentence and had to stop there.
The big bad diocese was so pressured by outside sources they just had to throw the boys to the wolves?
No. Wrong. I haven’t read the statement yet. I have to be ready to do some power cleaning or go for a long walk after I read it.
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Look for “collar” when pruning limbs…
https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/home–garden/look-for-collar-when-pruning-limbs/qjxP4v56uDaGieTJSWvokK/
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Notre Dame Professors: Pro-Life People are Just White Supremacists in Disguise
By Micaiah Bilger – February 11, 2019
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/02/11/notre-dame-professors-pro-life-people-are-just-white-supremacists-in-disguise/
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That makes no sense.
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None whatsoever. Doesn’t compute. Ludicrous!
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I’ve been getting called worse on FB by pro-choice people.
Then even the so called pro-life people who think we need to change the hearts of people and show them it’s a baby instead of crazy laws that will never be ruled constitutional call me a crazy Bible thumper.
Bad on my part I guess, I always thought pro-life meant what it said.
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KAMALA HARRIS’ POLITICAL BLACKFACE ROUTINE
Awkward racial stereotypes by a fake black candidate.
February 13, 2019 by Daniel Greenfield
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272856/kamala-harris-political-blackface-routine-daniel-greenfield
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Can somebody explain what in the world this commercial is about? I know it is about the Lincoln Nautilus, but I just don’t get it. 🙄
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I can’t. But then, I often don’t get the point of these esoteric ads.
I like the era of the old Alka-Seltzer ads –
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My favorite old ad. Faygo Pop (made in Detroit since 1907) and the Boblo Island boat on the Detroit River.
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I found an article explaining it.
https://www.autoblog.com/2018/12/21/lincoln-nautilus-ad-matthew-mcconaughey-pool-trick-shots/
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My computer won’t open the page 😏.
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It’s that time of year again, folks, time for another kind of strange, awkward Matthew McConaughey Lincoln commercial. And, yes, checking back when each ad comes out, it’s usually in Decemeber or near the end of the year that these ads are released. This latest ad has the actor hanging out with a group of friends having a generic conversation about something over dinner. They all then head inside, and McConaughey breaks away from the group to walk to a pool table, and he promptly makes a trick shot on the pool table while a woman says “I’ve never seen that before.”
This leads to clips of McConaughey getting into a 2019 Lincoln Nautilus and driving it on beautiful backroads. And before he starts driving, there’s a shot of the instrument cluster with a bunch of driver aid options displayed. The woman’s words come in again, and he follows it up with his own words, “I have.”
Basically, the idea is that the trick shot of the cue ball threading between other billiard balls is like how the Lincoln driver aids help keep the Nautilus under control. Except it’s a vague, awkward way of doing it, which is also par (above par?) for the course of McConaughey Lincoln ads. A much better ad accompanies the actor’s version. This one features a real trick pool player making some clever shots to illustrate the individual features available on the luxury crossover. They’re legitimately nifty shots, and the features are clearly explained. Maybe all of Lincoln’s ads should have this pool player.
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Thanks Stella 🙂 .
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Thanks, Stella. No wonder I didn’t “get it”. I guess they figure we ALL know about stupid trick shots, etc. What a dumb commercial. I, too, prefer the “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz” one. LOL.
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Weird. I think it’s just saying that the car maneuvers smoothly and elegantly, but it’s a bizarre way of getting to that.
This one from SNL is funny, because it’s making fun of the Lincoln commercials, but if you don’t care for Jim Carrey, you might not want to watch it.
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Jim Carrey gives me the heebie-jeebies. There is just something down right creepy about him.
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He is creepy. 😦
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I know a few people who feel the same way. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie with him in it. The few times I’ve seen him on TV or say a trailer for a movie I feel creeped out. That is the best way I can describe it.
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I think you are right to feel that way. There’s something very dark going on with him.
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It’s nonsense. Its market audience is people who consider themselves superior to other people. It wants people to “get it” when there is nothing to get in other words if you buy the car you must be brilliant because you understood the commercial.
Gibberish that makes the vain feel good about themselves.
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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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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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