General Discussion, Thursday, April 18, 2019

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Stella

On April 18, 1956, actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco in a civil ceremony, effectively ending her acting career. The formal church ceremony will happen the next day, watched by millions on live TV. Prince Rainier III and the Princess consort will remain married until her death in 1982.

 

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  2. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    April 18, 2019 at 12:19 am


    Maundy Thursday…

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  3. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    April 18, 2019 at 5:40 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel)
    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’ bjosz! 🙂 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Some of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

    Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Doughnuts for coffee!

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  4. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    April 18, 2019 at 6:05 am

    10 beautiful things

    1 Skeleton Flowers

    2 Horseback riding.

    3 Poprocks.

    4) About today’s presser and the release of the redacted and color coded Mueller Report, Rachel “The Brains of the Left” Maddow said ”Shouldn’t… uh… Mueller be there?”

    😂

    No Rachel Mueller already stated that Candidate Trump did not conspire with Russia and he took the long road of saying nor did he obstruct justice. Mueller’s job is done.

    Silly Brainiac Rachel.

    5) The awesome artwork of Richard Scarry.

    6) Perry Mason reruns.

    7) Sharing a good book with a lifelong friend.

    8) My Heart Leaps Up

    My heart leaps up when I behold
    A rainbow in the sky:
    So was it when my life began;
    So is it now I am a man;
    So be it when I shall grow old,
    Or let me die!
    The Child is father of the Man;
    And I could wish my days to be
    Bound each to each by natural piety.

    __William Wordsworth

    9) Cheese enchiladas with mole sauce add a side of corn chips and freshman guacamole dip.

    10)

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    • sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
      April 18, 2019 at 7:58 am

      Love Richard Scarry! I got my grandson a book for Easter called The Bunny Book by Richard Scarry. I’m hoping he will love it as much my girls did.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      April 18, 2019 at 8:08 am

      Morning lovely. Ha don’t to look up poprocks. 😀

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      • joshua's avatar joshua says:
        April 18, 2019 at 8:14 am

        right there with “Lick-m-aide” and wax black mustaches.

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:
        April 18, 2019 at 5:43 pm

        I grew up near the Kool Aid factory in Chicago. We kids would walk there and the guys would give us boxes and boxes of pop rocks for free. As in cases of Pop Rocks 🙃. If a box dropped they couldn’t fill an order with it so out it went. It could never happen now I’m sure for fear of a groundless lawsuit but biy was it fun to go and chat with the factory workers and see what bounty they were going to give us.

        I think our little gang of neighborhood kids had rattled brains for a few years we ate so Pop Rocks.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      April 18, 2019 at 8:33 am

      Lovely, those pictures you post of smiling President Trump? I think AG Barr might be a kindred spirit. I’m beginning to see pictures of him that look like he is a man not on the hot seat, but enjoying every minute of his job. I hope that is so, he sure has some big smiles.

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      • sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
        April 18, 2019 at 8:38 am

        Morning Menagerie!

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        • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
          April 18, 2019 at 10:39 am

          Hey sand. Hope you guys in Texas, and all over the country, all of us, are on track for a beautiful Easter. Forecast for here has changed from gloriously sunny to partly cloudy. I sure hope that we get dry weather and sun so the little guys can hunt eggs.

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          • Stella's avatar stella says:
            April 18, 2019 at 11:16 am

            It’s warm enough to be comfortable here, and cloudy. I uncovered the tomato plants that I moved outside. They are looking better; some of them had started to look stressed inside the house.

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          • sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
            April 18, 2019 at 11:35 am

            Ours is supposed to be really nice! I’m looking forward to it! Thank the Lord, we did not get the baseball sized hail yesterday that was forecasted. It just rained really hard. We had businesses and schools closing early due to the threat of severe weather. Better safe than sorry, though, because just days ago a small Texas town got flattened by that kind of weather.

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          • joshua's avatar joshua says:
            April 18, 2019 at 6:54 pm

            my Easter eggs are in the fridge and will get scrambled and with crisp bacon

            I miss coloring eggs with the kiddos, and writing messages before dipping them in colors using a parafin wax crayon.
            Every one had their name on a special egg.
            I loved hiding them and then watching the little guy grab off an egg before his older brother got them all….I confess I sorta showed him where they were…what can I say….I also love little dogs too.

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:
        April 18, 2019 at 6:20 pm

        Afternoon Menagerie, I haven’t read anything about the released redacted report other than the screaming headlines but I did catch this on Twitter.

        And I actually said a little prayer of thanks as I don’t feel any compunction delve deeper into it. This snippet says everything.

        I must have listened to to it a dozen times already.

        Barr is a beast.

        This exchange is extraordinary.

        Seething angry blonde reporter while wagging her finger at Attorney General Barr You cleared the president on obstruction. The president is fund raising on your off of your comments about spying. And here you have remarks that are quite generous to the president including acknowledging his feelings and emotions. So what do you say to people on both side of the aisle who say you are trying to protect the president.?”(Blood pressure probably 300 over 250)

        Attorney General Barr Well actually the statements about his sincere beliefs are recognized in the report that there was substantial evidence for that, so I’m not sure what your basis is for saying that I’m being generous to the president. (Blood pressure probably 112 over 60)

        Seething angry blonde reporter while wagging her finger at Attorney General Barr ”you just said this is an unprecedented situation, it just seems like (unintelligible) ..

        Attorney General Barr ”Well is there another precedent for it?”

        Seething angry blonde reporter while wagging her finger at Attorney General Barr No.

        Then Barr simply dismisses her as a kook.

        This is an incredible exchange.

        We all have our gifts and one of my gifts is deciphering language, I especially enjoy legal word play. Parse Barr’s words and in the context of the exchange they can objectively only mean one thing. There is concrete proof that the Obama administration spied unlawfully on citizen Trump and President Elect Trump and likely President Trump.

        Substantial evidence for President Trumps feelings.

        But in what context was Barr responding? Barr was responding to the statement by the reporter that ”The president is fund raising off of your “spying comments”

        Objectively Barr’s words can not apply to the dismissal of the obstruction statement because that is a finite d conclusion, the only thing that begged an answer was why did Barr make the statement about spying if not solely to be favorable to President Trump.

        This is lawyering at its finest.

        (I hope I am coherent, this little blurb has me so exciting I’m hopping and down)!!

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      April 18, 2019 at 11:48 am

      And here I thought ‘The Best Lowly Worm Book Ever’ was Hillary’s ‘Hard Choices…’.

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    • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
      April 18, 2019 at 3:51 pm

      9) Yes, yes, yes, and yes…a favorite…along with handmade beef tamales steamed in corn husks.

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  5. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    April 18, 2019 at 6:11 am

    Mornin’ all!

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  6. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
    April 18, 2019 at 8:36 am

    I wonder why they had a civil ceremony one day and the Church wedding the next day. Maybe something to do with the monarchy? She was such a very beautiful woman, and I suppose he looked dashing but I think he only got handsome as he aged.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      April 18, 2019 at 8:56 am

      In France, it used to be (maybe still is) that a registry office (government) wedding was mandatory. Observant Catholics would also have a church ceremony.

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      • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
        April 18, 2019 at 9:45 am

        Personally, I think government shouldn’t be involved in marriage at all. It should be a choice for people to have a religious service or not, and of course I believe that the government cannot tell any faith, be it Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, or whoever, who can be married or anything else at all regarding the Sacrament (to Catholics and Orthodox), service (I don’t know the right term here, mean no disrespect).

        So, surprisinglyyou may have pointed out something here in French law that I agree with.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          April 18, 2019 at 9:52 am

          I agree, and have always thought that it is sensible. I first read about it in a book (fiction) about an American woman who joins the Red Cross during WWI, marries a French citizen, and their story through WWII.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      April 18, 2019 at 9:14 am

      In France, a civil marriage is mandatory and this takes place at the local “mairie,” in your commune.

      The French law is that at least one of the couple has lived in France for more than 40 days immediately prior to the wedding day. Once this legal civil wedding has taken place, you can go ahead with either a religious or non-religious ceremony if you like.

      https://www.weddingsabroadguide.com/plan-a-wedding-in-france.html

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  8. Stella's avatar stella says:
    April 18, 2019 at 9:08 am

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  9. Stella's avatar stella says:
    April 18, 2019 at 9:20 am

    Just saw on OAN that:

    Mexico Deports Cuban refugees, but helping Central American Migrants Reach the U.S.

    If true, that really stinks.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      April 18, 2019 at 9:51 am

      Sometimes over the course of the last several years I have pondered over what I know about Mexico and their culture. I cannot help but feel that a country that large that tends toward as much horrid violence as they do has some rot deep down. How in the world do you let your country get so depraved? And, most important, am I living in times that answer that question for my own country.

      Am I wrong in thinking that what sets us apart as Americans, one of the things, is our ferocious clinging to our right to bear arms because we have been shown from the very first that governments are never trustworthy? I don’t know much about the other countries who have no right to bear arms, and how they lost it, how much, if any, struggle there was from the people.

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      April 18, 2019 at 1:32 pm

      It’s generally taken as unfounded rumor that the Mexican government’s mostly owned by the cartels but if you’ve ever worked the border/drug issues you pretty well accept it as you do that the sun comes up in the east.

      The cartels want/need folks here as does the prog Rats and their fellow travelers. The kleptocrats in the Mexican government follow cartel orders as do most of the police, about the only group that’s ‘trustworthy’ is the Mexican Marines but even they have kleptocrats in their chain of command. Those illegals can’t make it across the border without cartel sponsorship and the cartels can’t operate as they do without Mexican government help. It’s us against them and far too much of us is helping them.

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  10. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
    April 18, 2019 at 12:48 pm

    This is a really good interview with Bishop Barron. As a student years ago, he was once a tour guide at Notre Dame. I love that he speaks so much about the non corporeal, if you will, of what Notre Dame is.

    Everyone is struggling to so poorly make the point that Notre Dame is more than a building, more even than a great cathedral. Bishop Barron better captures some of that and brings it to life here, as well as a little background on why Paris became what it is. The North Rose Window as a foretaste of the Beautific Vision. “You are meant to go in that Cathedral and be prepared for heaven.”

    “The Incarnation, which happened in the womb of Miriam of Nazareth,is the central generative principle of Western Civilization.”

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  11. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    April 18, 2019 at 1:39 pm

    We’ll probably be off the net from sometime this afternoon to later this evening as strong storms are moving in, depends on how the power and cell phone reception is effected.

    I love how the weatherguessers are telling us that we should, at the start of the tornado watch, start heading to the basement or center room in our house and cover ourselves with blankets, a mattress anfd/or wear a helmet. First off, most of the houses in NOLA are raised or slab, you don’t have basements in a city below sea level for obvious reasons. As far as a helmet goes…what?

    Anyway, it’s another prediction of gloom and doom day, will let you know the extent of the Biblical damages when and if.

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      April 18, 2019 at 2:20 pm

      There is a station in Chattanooga that has a long term weatherman who is pretty good, and usually pretty low key about bad weather potential unless he’s really convinced, and even then he isn’t alarmist. When other stations forecast snow, he hardly ever does, and he’s right most of the time.

      I appreciate him, and when he says bad weather, I’m more likely to believe it. It’s good to have someone like that around. Of course, most of the time, except for tornado weather occasionally, our weather here is much tamer than what you guys get, so it isn’t big business to keep people on the edge of their seats.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        April 18, 2019 at 3:27 pm

        Weather folks have to involve the viewers in the weather, make it like a Disney or a Universal ride – scary but safe, you’re mutually involved with others on a vicarious terror trip with little real danger.

        The firs Line of Thunderstorm Terror has gone thru, about a 10th of an inch of rain and winds no worse than intermittent 30 MPH gusts.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      April 18, 2019 at 6:34 pm

      Prayers you and Mrs. Cz 🙏🏼.

      PS Don’t forget to run a few strands of masking tape along your windows 🙄.

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    • joshua's avatar joshua says:
      April 18, 2019 at 7:04 pm

      there is a reason that burial in NOLA is all above ground.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        April 18, 2019 at 11:12 pm

        Whole thing was a bust…again. A total of 1.1″ of rain between about 2 and 9 PM with a little wind earlier. None of the hail or tornadoes we were beat over the head with for the last two days – far, far less rain than they predicted too.

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        • sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
          April 19, 2019 at 9:02 am

          That’s good. The winds started kicking up here again last night and I started thinking we were going to get that bad weather. Thankfully, it petered out. Not sad about it.

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            April 19, 2019 at 9:03 am

            Could have been worse, coulda been the civilization-ender the weatherguessers predicted.

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            • sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
              April 19, 2019 at 9:16 am

              Our cars got pummeled by hail last year, along with our roof. We got all that fixed. If we get hit similarly, the insurance company will total our cars and not pay to fix them again. It’s just a pain. About two weeks ago many around us got golf ball sized hail and had broken car windows and badly damaged roofs. We got lucky that time and it didn’t get our neighborhood. Sometimes the weather people do overreact, but when they don’t, and something bad does happens, like the small town in Texas that was recently flattened by a tornado, then they have egg on their face. The weather people have been saying the the air pressure changed and the computer models didn’t pick that up and that’s the reason the forecast was so off, but the folks who got to leave work early and the kids who got out of school early, didn’t mind too much. LOL!

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                April 19, 2019 at 9:33 am

                It’s the theatricality that bothers me, I’m waiting for the forecast with the Greek chorus in the background.
                Back in the pre-digital days when we had Nash Roberts with his black marker and big notepad we had detailed explanations of oncoming hurricanes (his accuracy and methods were years ahead of even the NWS) he’d do his forecasts with a serious note but a professional serious manner. Now we get a full Hollywood…OK, more like a local theater production…minidrama complete with hysterics.

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              • czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:
                April 19, 2019 at 11:20 am

                Of course, the town would have been flattened whether the NWS predicted it or not. But the people should know to take care, especially if they live in flimsy structures. We always note that Walmarts and mobile homes fare the worst.

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  12. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    April 18, 2019 at 5:28 pm

    I have to share a story. My lovely friend works nights so she is a day sleeper.

    She sleeps naked.

    She heard fire alarms going off at her complex, she panicked and started searching fervently for her cat, she looked for a few minutes with the sirens screaming and flashing lights outside of her windows, finally she grabbed a t-shirt dress tossed it on and ran out the door.

    She made her way down the stairs and outside where she saw police, a fire engine and an ambulance, she saw an officer and ran toward him to tell him about her cat. He started walking, backwards, rapidly, away from her.

    She finally started yelling at him, “My cat is inside” . The officer looked at her and deadpanned “Then go inside lady.” She stopped for a minute to collect herself.

    There was no fire. It was a scheduled alarm system check (which all the residents had been informed was going to take place) and the emergency crew happened to be there for an unrelated medical emergency.

    And as to that t-shirt dress…well it was let’s say….it was a waist length t-shirt 😮!

    Mortified she ran back inside and did as she called it “the run of shame up the stairs and down the hallway” ran into her house and there is her cat sitting on the top tire of its cat tree. (Where it likely was all along amusedly watching her) .

    She swears it was smiling.

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  13. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    April 18, 2019 at 7:16 pm

    President Trump seems to follow Judicial Watch a lot…

    HUGE: President Trump Retweets Judicial Watch

    President Donald Trump retweeted Judicial Watch six times last night! The six tweets were about Judicial Watch’s latest press release discussing new Clinton emails uncovered, A segment of Hannity discussing Judicial Watch’s newest discoveries, a Judicial Watch press release discussing new FBI documents uncovered showing ‘cover-up’ discussions in the Clinton investigation, a segment of Tom Fitton on Fox News discussing AG Bill Barr, a Judicial Watch press release about FBI and DOJ communications discovered, and a segment from Judicial Watch’s weekly update.

    The retweets are below here:

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  14. joshua's avatar joshua says:
    April 18, 2019 at 7:19 pm

    The Benefits of Gardening

    Spending time outdoors can greatly improve your mental and physical
    health. If you’re thinking we mean strenuous exercise like rock climbing
    or hiking, think again. Something as simple as gardening can have a big
    impact on your well-being.

    The physical benefits of gardening are pretty
    obvious. Standing, bending, kneeling, digging –
    gardening is good exercise! Gardening can burn
    off approximately 300 calories per hour and all
    that movement can improve muscle tone
    and strength.
    But as you age, it’s important that you not only
    take care of your physical health, but you need
    to take care of your emotional health as well.
    That’s where gardening comes in. Numerous
    studies have also shown that regular gardening
    can have a positive impact on mental health
    struggles such as anxiety and depression (one
    of the leading mental health problems affecting
    older adults).
    Even if you’ve never had a “green thumb,” you’ll
    reap the mental health benefits from planting
    and nurturing your very own garden. Here’s why
    gardening is so good for your emotional health:

    • Reduces stress. According to a study in the
    Journal of Health Psychology, gardening can
    lower cortisol levels in your brain. Cortisol is
    known as the “stress hormone.” Too much
    cortisol can negatively affect your blood
    pressure and glucose levels.

    Naturally incorporates mindfulness.
    Mindfulness, the process of being aware of
    the present moment without judgement,
    has been shown to improve the symptoms
    of depression and anxiety. Gardening allows
    you to be fully in the moment.

    • Provides a sense of purpose. A healthy
    garden needs attention. You have to get
    outside on a regular basis to tend to your
    garden.

    • It can be fulfilling. When you take good care
    of a garden, it pays you back with beautiful
    blooms and a bountiful harvest that will
    make you proud.

    • A calming effect on the brain. When we
    slow down and take in the beauty of our
    natural surroundings, we not only feel
    invigorated but our mental performance
    improves, too.

    • Provides social opportunities. If you share
    a garden with a neighbor or volunteer at
    a community garden, it will help you stay
    connected to other people, which is an
    important part of healthy aging and can help
    stave off depression.

    May reduce the risk of dementia. One
    study showed that gardening could lower
    the risk for dementia. This could be because
    gardening requires the use of many critical
    functions, including dexterity and sensory
    awareness.

    • Does wonders for your mood and your
    health. Lots of fresh air and sunshine not
    only cause your body to produce vitamin D,
    but it also boosts the serotonin levels in your
    brain which improves your mood and helps
    you feel calm and centered. But be smart
    and remember to wear sunscreen.

    Springtime is the perfect time to reap the
    health benefits of gardening. If you don’t have
    a yard, consider planting a “container garden”
    on your porch or patio. Researchers from NASA
    found that gardening, even in small pots, kept
    astronauts happy in the harsh environment of
    outer space. (It works here on Earth, too.)

    Whether you choose to grow flowers, fruits,
    herbs or vegetables in the ground or in pots
    — gardening can enhance your life in so many
    ways. Happy gardening!

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  15. sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
    April 18, 2019 at 9:00 pm

    lilbirdee12’s prayer:

    Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.

    Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.

    Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.

    Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
    Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.

    We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
    Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

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  16. sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
    April 18, 2019 at 9:00 pm

    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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  18. Stella's avatar stella says:
    April 18, 2019 at 10:35 pm

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  19. Stella's avatar stella says:
    April 18, 2019 at 10:40 pm

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