Good morning, sand! Since the ancient Hittites lived in what is now Turkey…(as I gleaned from a history website: The Hittites occupied the ancient region of Anatolia–also known as Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey–prior to 1700 BCE, developed a culture apparently from the indigenous Hatti–and possibly the Hurrian–people, and expanded their territories into an empire which rivaled, and threatened, the established nation of Egypt, see: https://www.ancient.eu/hittite/)…I’ll offer a lovely beach scene near Antalya on the Mediterranean…
Lovely home. I love the grounds, and admiret the house, but clearly I have not even a remnant of aristocratic blood, if there ever was any. I don’t think I would like living in a place like that, but yeah, give me the acreage and the beautiful terraces.
Every time I think about how nice it would be to have a larger house, I also remind myself that it would be more expensive to heat and cool, and take more time and energy to maintain.
Watching ‘Interview With the Vampire’. It’s not a particularly super movie but it came out the same year I started doing security at Ann Rice’s parties.
That’s a part of New Orleans that’s gone now, her parties had an earthy kind of decadence, like when she’d let her guests take her fine china out to the street to watch the parades go by or, in the spirit of the season, pardoned guests who stole her silverware (it wasn’t from Walmart ) of the pickpocket we caught working the sidewalk where her guests were watching the parade. Or that monstrously huge rolling gangplank she had built that rolled out over the wall in front of her ‘party’ house on St Charles that allowed her to climb up and over the wall and the crowds below so that she could personally toast the krewe kings. Or the time she ran out of food and she ordered a truck full of pizzas that were delivered through a parade.
All gone now, we’re back to largely outsiders who fly in to ride the parades (too expensive for most locals), sidewalks stuffed with more drunk tourists who’re largely indistinguishable from drunken locals – though locals do have more unique transportation devices for their drinks. Ah well, there seems to be a resurgence in smaller and unique walking parades that don’t have the huge and expensive floats and accompanying bands but there are some of us grumpy old farts who believe the city pols will strangle them as they did so many other lesser but old time parades as they can’t monetize them. Hail wrecks!
It’s sad when traditions change or go away. I never went to Mardi Gras, but many of my friends went every year when I was growing up. At least I’ve gotten to enjoy some King cake and my share of Mardi Gras beads as my friends would share them upon return.
There are still some of the traditional actors as there are drunken college kids driving straight through to spend a week sleeping in their cars and vomiting on our sidewalks,
The city pols don’t see it anymore as a family affair, it’s an adult bacchanalia with parade krewes more limited to those who can spend thousands a year out-of-pocket (and some are MANY thousands) to belong. It generates big $$$ for city coffers. Actually many of the big fests in and associated with the city are too expensive for most residents, they’re strictly money makers.
The cities of Metairie and Gretna, adjacent to NOLA, get many city residents as they advertise and hold ‘family friendly’ celebrations. They don’t tolerate public drunkenness with all of the civilized-people unfriendly behaviors that come with that. People, especially those you would really rather not see in various stages of undress, are required to stay reasonably clothed of be jailed.
2 )HOLD THE DATE! We will be having one of the biggest gatherings in the history of Washington, D.C., on July 4th. It will be called “A Salute To America” and will be held at the Lincoln Memorial. Major fireworks display, entertainment and an address by your favorite President, me!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
Apparently the liberals are losing their minds over this tweet? I see “Hold the Date” trending on the Twit and find out that the shrill delusional minions of the Left are taking to the Twitterverse to school President Trump on the importance of The 4th of July.
They fall for it every single time, hook, line and sinker.
3 ) “You’ve got a lot of people running, but only one person is going to win. I hope you know who that person is.”__President Donald J Trump
4 ) Fluffy towels.
5 ) R Kelly has spent more than 48 hours in jail. His attorney claims that he does not have the $100,000 bond to make bail.
Attorney Greenberg says R. Kelly “really doesn’t have any money at this point. I don’t think he even owns the rights to ‘I believe I can fly.’”
Someone said this is Kelly’s 3rd attorney in two years ante really is broke. (Broke or laundering cash so when the civil suits come in the court has a harder time tracking down his money?)
I don’t know. I hadn’t heard of him until surviving R Kelly.
Greenberg does not seem to be a top notch attorney.
6 ) Roussanou Monastery in Meteora, Greece
7 ) Fresh pineapple.
8 ) English Nurses praying for their patients before the start of a shift. In 1956:
H/T James Delaney
9 ) Lasagne with garlic bread.
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As Todd McMurtry @FitLwyr and I embark on our fight for justice for Nicholas Sandmann, I am mindful every day of what the FBI & media did to Richard Jewell. Watch this 22 minute documentary and never forget Richard. I will not. I miss him every day. https://t.co/l6azwOjX1A
Good morning, lovely! Your list perked me up this morning. I was kind of dreading today and wishing the weekend could last a bit longer. Thank you! The mushrooms are beautiful and I love that President Trump triggered the libbies with his July 4th celebration tweet! We need to all be praying for him as he travels today to Vietnam to meet with Kim Jong Un.
Love the Blue Mycean Mushrooms, lovely! Is the color a warning that they are poison? Who knows?
The injustice done to Richard Jewell was immense. It wasn’t the first time the FBI hounded a man and, as we know, it wasn’t the last. A thoroughly disrespected entity now and nothing any of the good guys can say or do will truly bring it back.
That roast smoked with mesquite for 7 hours and went into a wet cooker for two with a chicken broth finish. It was super and we have enough left over for pho, sloppy joes and sandwiches – surprising thing was that I got it on sale at $1,50 a pound as it had part of a shoulder blade in it.
Gave the skin and some fat on it to the dogs – they thought it was great, tasted just like a pig that had eaten a chicken and got caught in a forest fire. We don’t hire them for their palates.
Good morning, WeeWeed! Somehow I don’t think the brainwashed fascist criminals of the left are going to stop their tactics. “Be prepared” is still good advice for MAGA hat wearers.
8:30 am || Participates in the 2019 White House Business Session with the nation’s Governors; State Dining Room
12:10 pm || Departs for Hanoi for meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un
Had this have happened in some more liberal state the stepfather would have been charged with leaving a loaded weapon within easy access of a minor and the child, and family by extension, been charged criminally with some version of aggravated battery (with attendant civil suit) for using deadly force on a perp no longer being a threat to the shooter.
Corps of Engineers is looking at opening some 200 of the 350 bays on the Bonnet Carre spillway next week. THe spillway was built to take the pressure of high water on the Mississippi off of the levees in New Orleans and the river’s expected to reach flood stage (17 feet above sea level) early in the week. At 17 feet the water flow is such that it not only puts great pressure on the levees above the concreted areas but can undermine the levees and drop them into the Mississippi. In the early days of NOLA the river undercut an area on Algiers Point and dropped a few acres right into the river.
Funny thing about this high water is that you can be walking on Decatur Street, which parallels the river just a stone throw away, and watch oceangoing ships floating by over your head – the water behind the levees is that high.
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) noted a visit from a bat recently. They called the local bat rescue organization, which sent over a trained volunteer, who took it home to her bat rescue & will release when it is ready. 😊She named it Merlin, after the museum’s acronym. The bat has been issued a library card from the museum. The British are such a trip! You can follow this on Twitter.
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.
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.
‘CONSERVATIVE ANSWER’ TO FACEBOOK LAUNCHES
USA.Life also developing Google alternative
Describing itself as the “answer to Facebook and Twitter censoring Christians, conservatives and liberty,” a new social-media platform called USA.Life will officially launch Wednesday.
Founder and CEO Steven Andrew said he decided to use his Silicon Valley tech leadership experience to launch the project after he saw Facebook block millions of people from getting his posts.
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Reminds me…time to make new bluebird boxes with our GGS.
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Shall we have a little religious humor for the first work day of the week (even if you are retired)…
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Seems someone put the smites in the ‘ites’.
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Good Monday morning, Lucille!
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Good morning, sand! Since the ancient Hittites lived in what is now Turkey…(as I gleaned from a history website: The Hittites occupied the ancient region of Anatolia–also known as Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey–prior to 1700 BCE, developed a culture apparently from the indigenous Hatti–and possibly the Hurrian–people, and expanded their territories into an empire which rivaled, and threatened, the established nation of Egypt, see: https://www.ancient.eu/hittite/)…I’ll offer a lovely beach scene near Antalya on the Mediterranean…
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Love the history and the gorgeous picture!
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Been a long time since I studied Turkish history. Thanks for the reminder.
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So many beaches, so little time…
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Childhood Home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in McLean, Virginia
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Czarina and I were just discussing today (or, in 7 minutes ‘yesterday’) Jackie’s sister, Lee Radziwill, dying just over a week ago.
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I remember her acting in the TV adaptation of LAURA with George Sanders. Interesting but, of course, not comparable in the least to Gene Tierney.
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Beautiful home!
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Lovely home. I love the grounds, and admiret the house, but clearly I have not even a remnant of aristocratic blood, if there ever was any. I don’t think I would like living in a place like that, but yeah, give me the acreage and the beautiful terraces.
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Every time I see a house like that I think, “I wonder how much time it takes to clean that place?”
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Sio do the servants.
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Every time I think about how nice it would be to have a larger house, I also remind myself that it would be more expensive to heat and cool, and take more time and energy to maintain.
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And when you misplace your keys…
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Watching ‘Interview With the Vampire’. It’s not a particularly super movie but it came out the same year I started doing security at Ann Rice’s parties.
That’s a part of New Orleans that’s gone now, her parties had an earthy kind of decadence, like when she’d let her guests take her fine china out to the street to watch the parades go by or, in the spirit of the season, pardoned guests who stole her silverware (it wasn’t from Walmart ) of the pickpocket we caught working the sidewalk where her guests were watching the parade. Or that monstrously huge rolling gangplank she had built that rolled out over the wall in front of her ‘party’ house on St Charles that allowed her to climb up and over the wall and the crowds below so that she could personally toast the krewe kings. Or the time she ran out of food and she ordered a truck full of pizzas that were delivered through a parade.
All gone now, we’re back to largely outsiders who fly in to ride the parades (too expensive for most locals), sidewalks stuffed with more drunk tourists who’re largely indistinguishable from drunken locals – though locals do have more unique transportation devices for their drinks. Ah well, there seems to be a resurgence in smaller and unique walking parades that don’t have the huge and expensive floats and accompanying bands but there are some of us grumpy old farts who believe the city pols will strangle them as they did so many other lesser but old time parades as they can’t monetize them. Hail wrecks!
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It’s sad when traditions change or go away. I never went to Mardi Gras, but many of my friends went every year when I was growing up. At least I’ve gotten to enjoy some King cake and my share of Mardi Gras beads as my friends would share them upon return.
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There are still some of the traditional actors as there are drunken college kids driving straight through to spend a week sleeping in their cars and vomiting on our sidewalks,
The city pols don’t see it anymore as a family affair, it’s an adult bacchanalia with parade krewes more limited to those who can spend thousands a year out-of-pocket (and some are MANY thousands) to belong. It generates big $$$ for city coffers. Actually many of the big fests in and associated with the city are too expensive for most residents, they’re strictly money makers.
The cities of Metairie and Gretna, adjacent to NOLA, get many city residents as they advertise and hold ‘family friendly’ celebrations. They don’t tolerate public drunkenness with all of the civilized-people unfriendly behaviors that come with that. People, especially those you would really rather not see in various stages of undress, are required to stay reasonably clothed of be jailed.
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It’s good to hear there are still options for the regular folks. 🙂
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Hail wrecks! Inside joke…. let me know if anyone wants to understand…..
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Please expound…I’m curious
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Yeah… I had no idea. Lol
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When the big, old-line-money men’s parade, Rex, rolls on Fat Tuesday, the traditional salute is “Hail, Rex, King of Carnival”. You know how Czar puns…
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10 smiles.
1) Blue Mycean Mushrooms look like blown glass.
2 )HOLD THE DATE! We will be having one of the biggest gatherings in the history of Washington, D.C., on July 4th. It will be called “A Salute To America” and will be held at the Lincoln Memorial. Major fireworks display, entertainment and an address by your favorite President, me!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
Apparently the liberals are losing their minds over this tweet? I see “Hold the Date” trending on the Twit and find out that the shrill delusional minions of the Left are taking to the Twitterverse to school President Trump on the importance of The 4th of July.
They fall for it every single time, hook, line and sinker.
3 ) “You’ve got a lot of people running, but only one person is going to win. I hope you know who that person is.”__President Donald J Trump
4 ) Fluffy towels.
5 ) R Kelly has spent more than 48 hours in jail. His attorney claims that he does not have the $100,000 bond to make bail.
Attorney Greenberg says R. Kelly “really doesn’t have any money at this point. I don’t think he even owns the rights to ‘I believe I can fly.’”
Someone said this is Kelly’s 3rd attorney in two years ante really is broke. (Broke or laundering cash so when the civil suits come in the court has a harder time tracking down his money?)
I don’t know. I hadn’t heard of him until surviving R Kelly.
Greenberg does not seem to be a top notch attorney.
6 ) Roussanou Monastery in Meteora, Greece
7 ) Fresh pineapple.
8 ) English Nurses praying for their patients before the start of a shift. In 1956:
H/T James Delaney
9 ) Lasagne with garlic bread.
10 )
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Good morning, lovely! Your list perked me up this morning. I was kind of dreading today and wishing the weekend could last a bit longer. Thank you! The mushrooms are beautiful and I love that President Trump triggered the libbies with his July 4th celebration tweet! We need to all be praying for him as he travels today to Vietnam to meet with Kim Jong Un.
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Happy it perked you up Sand 🙂 !
I’ve never seen the mushrooms before and I thought at first it was fake news but they’re real.
I laughed when I saw President Trump’s text was teeing off the nutters.
What a time to be alive !
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I had never heard of R. Kelley before, either.
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This is who part of him is…
R. Kelly – “I Believe I Can Fly” (Official Music Video)
So many talented broken people, so many who can’t be trusted, so many who have lost who they really could have been.
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I got your email, and dropped a response. I’ll keep an eye out, and ask Ad Rem what she knows.
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Use the name “emma” until earlier this month.
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Hm. I know sometimes people change names, but something just seemed a little off. I didn’t want to make a big deal out of it, but I wondered.
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Love the Blue Mycean Mushrooms, lovely! Is the color a warning that they are poison? Who knows?
The injustice done to Richard Jewell was immense. It wasn’t the first time the FBI hounded a man and, as we know, it wasn’t the last. A thoroughly disrespected entity now and nothing any of the good guys can say or do will truly bring it back.
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This particular one contains psilocybin…soon to probably be legal for snacking in Denver.
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#4 Hot, fluffy towels.
#6 Greece is on my bucket list
#7 Fresh always. But in a pinch, just finished a glass of bottled pineapple juice with
Contreau
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# Greece is on my bucket list.
Me too. My daughter just texted me from Japan where her layover is on her way back from Bangkok 🙂 !
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Mornin’ all!
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Morning WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed! I got a late start today because I stayed up late reading the book you loaned me! Thanks again.
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Mornin’ Stella!
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“Hat up, Pilgrim, and ride on”.
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Afternoon Z’s!
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A nice ‘un too, givin’ us a one day breather until
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Ya, I know…..iz comin’……
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That’s ok, I got my 5 pound pork roast smoked today.
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My spatchcocked turkey is finishing in a few minutes.
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If only Hugo Chavez were here to drink some of my fine Polish vodka and have some smoked pork.Og yeah, he’s in Socialist hell…maybe in the next life.
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That roast smoked with mesquite for 7 hours and went into a wet cooker for two with a chicken broth finish. It was super and we have enough left over for pho, sloppy joes and sandwiches – surprising thing was that I got it on sale at $1,50 a pound as it had part of a shoulder blade in it.
Gave the skin and some fat on it to the dogs – they thought it was great, tasted just like a pig that had eaten a chicken and got caught in a forest fire. We don’t hire them for their palates.
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…until the mud machine cranks up agin’.
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Good morning, WeeWeed! Somehow I don’t think the brainwashed fascist criminals of the left are going to stop their tactics. “Be prepared” is still good advice for MAGA hat wearers.
Another day, another weed…Hedgerow Cranesbill….
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Afternoon Lucy!
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I think we have some of that in our yard.
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Good afternoon Wee 🙂 !
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Hiya Lovely!
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Good morning. No rain yesterday, and supposedly we won’t have any more until Wednesday or Thursday. In these parts that is now considered a drought.
Have a great day, and a great week. Another out of the ballpark list lovely!
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That’s great news! Morning Menagerie!
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Good afternoon Menagerie 🙂 ! I’m happy that you’re getting a break from the rain.
Weather new s says snow here for the next 4 day 😑.
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Hope they are wrong lovely.
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Me too.
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President Trump’s schedule
Monday, February 25, 2019
8:30 am || Participates in the 2019 White House Business Session with the nation’s Governors; State Dining Room
12:10 pm || Departs for Hanoi for meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un
All times Eastern
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Afternoon Stella!
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Afternoon, S&S!
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Where the POTUS will have pho with our previous foe.
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“He started crying like a little baby.”
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PS: This is an old video.
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Had this have happened in some more liberal state the stepfather would have been charged with leaving a loaded weapon within easy access of a minor and the child, and family by extension, been charged criminally with some version of aggravated battery (with attendant civil suit) for using deadly force on a perp no longer being a threat to the shooter.
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Sweet Madison Paige is doing well!!!
https://twitter.com/codeofvets/status/1100060734527016960?s=12
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Beautiful!
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The Spine-Tingling Allure of Marie Antoinette’s Exquisite Jewels
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I watched this last week!
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Gallup: Liberals Outnumber Conservatives in Only 6 States, Down from 9!!!
Dr. Steve Turley
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Nice but it’s the number of bodies that counts.
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From the archives of British Pathe which has some pretty amazing newsreel vids…
Spinning Flax (1940-1949)
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Corps of Engineers is looking at opening some 200 of the 350 bays on the Bonnet Carre spillway next week. THe spillway was built to take the pressure of high water on the Mississippi off of the levees in New Orleans and the river’s expected to reach flood stage (17 feet above sea level) early in the week. At 17 feet the water flow is such that it not only puts great pressure on the levees above the concreted areas but can undermine the levees and drop them into the Mississippi. In the early days of NOLA the river undercut an area on Algiers Point and dropped a few acres right into the river.
Funny thing about this high water is that you can be walking on Decatur Street, which parallels the river just a stone throw away, and watch oceangoing ships floating by over your head – the water behind the levees is that high.
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And more rain and snow melt on the way.
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That sounds scary.
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Not to us, we live in Mississippi now and our house in NOLA’s insured.
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Well, well….
FYI: The Obama Administration, Not Trump, Determined ISIS Bride Isn’t an American
By Katie Pavlich – Posted: Feb 25, 2019 3:15 PM
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/02/25/reminder-the-obama-administration-determined-isis-bride-isnt-an-american-n2542152
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I read that the other day in an NBC article.
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Liberal heads exploding…how can they explain their way out of this.
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Really easy since they aren’t bound t the truth.
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Yep!!! LOL!
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) noted a visit from a bat recently. They called the local bat rescue organization, which sent over a trained volunteer, who took it home to her bat rescue & will release when it is ready. 😊She named it Merlin, after the museum’s acronym. The bat has been issued a library card from the museum. The British are such a trip! You can follow this on Twitter.
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LOL
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Wow! 😀
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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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Amen.
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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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Amen.
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‘CONSERVATIVE ANSWER’ TO FACEBOOK LAUNCHES
USA.Life also developing Google alternative
Describing itself as the “answer to Facebook and Twitter censoring Christians, conservatives and liberty,” a new social-media platform called USA.Life will officially launch Wednesday.
Founder and CEO Steven Andrew said he decided to use his Silicon Valley tech leadership experience to launch the project after he saw Facebook block millions of people from getting his posts.
Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2019/02/conservative-answer-to-facebook-launches/#P4g2dOmHP3PxEKtR.99
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