General Discussion, Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Stella

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  1. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    May 8, 2019 at 12:34 am

    Have a super good day…

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  2. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    May 8, 2019 at 4:45 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’ Angelle Staria Literary Works! 🙂 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Some more 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!

    Lemon Scones with Vanilla Lemon Glaze

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  4. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    May 8, 2019 at 7:54 am

    Great. And one MORE thing to ponder as you go out the front door…….

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  5. Stella's avatar stella says:
    May 8, 2019 at 8:56 am

    Good morning everybody!

    Here’s another case of unintended consequences. Nobody knows what sunscreen chemicals may be doing in the body – even the brain.

    Sunscreen Chemicals Soak All the Way Into Your Bloodstream

    “Everyone had always thought that because these are intended to work on the surface of the skin that they wouldn’t be absorbed, but they are,” says Theresa Michele, director of the FDA’s division of nonprescription drug products, and coauthor on the FDA-funded study. Her team found that it took only a few hours after the application of sunscreen for the photoprotective chemicals to infiltrate the bloodstream and shoot up to concentrations above the FDA’s toxicology threshold that triggers further safety testing.

    The researchers saw the same patterns in all 24 of the volunteers they recruited—12 men and 12 women, who were randomly assigned to apply one of four commercially available sunscreens: two sprays, a lotion, and a cream. The participants applied their potions according to recommended labeling; four times a day for four days to 75 percent of their bodies, roughly the amount of skin you’d be showing in a bathing suit. For those four days, and three days after, the researchers collected blood every few hours to be analyzed for the presence of avobenzone, oxybenzone, octocrylene, and ecamsule, 30 samples in all. They discovered that while it took only a few hours for the UV-blocking chemicals to spike over the target, for three of the four formulations, those levels remained elevated through the end of the study—three days after participants had ceased spraying and smearing. Only the cream users saw their chemical concentrations tail off sooner…

    To understand what, if any, effects such chemicals have on internal tissues will take more research. Particularly urgent is learning more about long-term exposure and how absorption rates differ in infants and children, with their smaller ratio of body surface to overall size. Then there’s the importance of real-world data; for example, assessing sunscreen’s effects on a hot, sandy beach, instead of in a clinical lab’s temperature- and humidity-controlled confines. Yet the trial’s results underscore the need for more data on sunscreen absorption, as the FDA has long demanded from manufacturers, without success…

    https://www.wired.com/story/sunscreen-chemicals-soak-all-the-way-into-your-bloodstream/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      May 8, 2019 at 9:15 am

      I hope the testing results come out soon.

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    • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
      May 8, 2019 at 3:12 pm

      “Only the cream users saw their chemical concentrations tail off sooner…”

      For years I’ve used Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Sunscreen with active ingredients: Avobenzone 3%, Homosalate 10%, Octisalate 5%, Octocrylene 2.8%, Oxybenzone 6%. The bottle wording indicates it is “fast absorbing” and “#1 Dermatologist Recommended Suncare.” Though I’m not a sun worshiper, during my working years I often walked to and from the office; and my doctor said to use something lightweight as a sunscreen.

      Does using a product that absorbs into the skin also automatically mean that it will get into your bloodstream? Not according to my research on other products I have to use. But it is definitely possible and thus it’s recommended that blood tests be done periodically. I can’t go around worrying about it, though.

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      • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
        May 8, 2019 at 3:16 pm

        P.S.: “…as the FDA has long demanded from manufacturers, without success….”

        So does the FDA penalize or fine those companies which ignore such demands? If not, why not?

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      May 8, 2019 at 7:19 pm

      Good afternoon Stella 🙂 !

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  6. Stella's avatar stella says:
    May 8, 2019 at 11:46 am

    For those who are interested. Jess of Roots & Refuge Farm speaks at the Baker Creek Spring Festival about her gardening journey from being a “black thumb” to growing food for her family and plants for her community. Her talk starts at about 16:30.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      May 8, 2019 at 11:54 am

      Miah points out that gardening, for them, is primarily a worship thing, and food is secondary. Reminds me of my mother: “She brushed the dirt off the vegetables in the garden and bit into them, telling me to taste their goodness. She sees beauty and magic everywhere. I believe she sees God all the time, in all the good and lovely things of the earth.” Her name was Jess too.

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  7. jeans2nd's avatar jeans2nd says:
    May 8, 2019 at 12:36 pm

    WINNING WINNING WINNING!!!!!

    “President Donald Trump and State Senator Sean O’Brien announced on Wednesday that

    —>>>General Motors plans to sell the now-idled Lordstown Assembly Plant to a company that wants to make electric vehicles there.”<<<—
    http://www.wfmj.com/story/40438831/trump-obrien-say-gm-selling-lordstown-to-electric-truck-manufacturer

    Have you all heard the joyous shouting? That noise is the entire North Coast jumping up and down and shouting WINNING!
    Please ignore any low level earthquakes you might experience. That is just us.

    Is Our President Great or what?

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  8. Stella's avatar stella says:
    May 8, 2019 at 2:02 pm

    Jim Jordan makes good points and asks good questions. Notice how he was asked to yield back before finishing what he had to say. They don’t want the American people to hear the facts.

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  9. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    May 8, 2019 at 2:04 pm

    It’s Happening: Congressional Investigators Looking at “Number of False Statements” Made by Mueller and Lies About Mifsud
    by Jim Hoft May 8, 2019
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/its-happening-congressional-investigators-looking-at-number-of-false-statements-made-by-mueller-and-lies-about-mifsud/

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  11. Stella's avatar stella says:
    May 8, 2019 at 4:18 pm

    It’s a beautiful afternoon. About 60 degrees, breezy and partly cloudy. I was just outside with Tucker. The lilacs are starting to open, and the neighbor’s crab apple is almost blooming. Picked up some sticks from my big tree which always loses a bunch of dead wood when it’s windy, and assessed some weeding that needs to be done (but didn’t do that part).

    The three heirloom tomatoes that I moved outside really early are doing great! They are growing steadily but slowly, have really sturdy stems and beautiful green foliage. The two that I kept in the house are leggy and lighter green. I moved them outside to the front porch a couple of days ago, and they will join their siblings in the back yard soon. These are all semi-indeterminate (whatever that means) and are supposed to have orange flesh. Origins are in Belarus. All of them are still in 6″ pots.

    The small hybrid cherry tomatoes and the Amish Paste tomatoes aren’t doing so well, but better than they were for a while, so I’ll give them some love and hope for the best. Probably started them too early! In the meantime, I’ve started some additional dwarf tomatoes for pots, which should be ready to go out by the end of the month. Also started the gherkin plants from seed; they are still babies, but look good. Some flowers too – Cosmos, Nasturtiums and Sunflowers. Nasturtiums are fun. If you’ve never grown them, they are edible, brightly colored and have circular bright green leaves. All parts of the plants are good to eat, and the flowers look pretty in a summer salad. Some of them have variegated leaves too:

    Rain tonight and tomorrow, but much warmer tomorrow – in the 70’s! Won’t last though.

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  12. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    May 8, 2019 at 7:33 pm

    Woo Hoo, getting into a war of words with a Union supporter over at CTH.

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  13. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    May 8, 2019 at 9:01 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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  14. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    May 8, 2019 at 9:02 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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  15. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    May 8, 2019 at 9:35 pm

    Night Beach…

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  16. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    May 8, 2019 at 10:55 pm

    Don’t know where that pro-union dude came from next door, he’s steadily on me but so far no one over there’s buying his crap. He believes my talking anti-union will scare voters away from Trump. Is this guy a plant or just high?

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