General Discussion, Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Posted on July 9, 2019 by Stella

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  1. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    July 9, 2019 at 12:40 am

    Get ready folks, those brand new levees the Corps of Engineers built in New Orleans are sinking. Private engineers told them they had to be built higher to guarantee the 4-foot height as the new soil would compact the soil under the levees and they’d sink.

    “POO POO”, said the Corps, “We know what we’re doing!”. Big chunks of the levees they put in just a few years ago have already sunk to 10-feet. City’s looking for Feds to cough up $800-million to put more dirt down. State will have to pony up some $240-million of that first – fat chance, but they’re amaneuverin’ to get y’all to bleed it all.

    BTW, expect the Corps to beg more billions out of Congress to keep the Mississippi in the same bed it’s flowing in now. The Mississippi, through some previous diddling stupidity, wants to change its course and go down the Atchafalaya River, leaving the Mississippi north of Baton Rouge a mostly dry ditch. Actually the Gulf will come up that ditch to backfill until it reaches an area that’s at sea level but that will still mean no drinking water waaaaaay up river as most of the area gets it water from the river.

    Y’all start adiggin’ in them couch cushions, we needs dem pennies to fix our messes.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      July 9, 2019 at 4:25 am

      🎼Ain’t that bureaucracy, it’s something to see, Awwww Ain’t that bureaucracy, Aww great big tax bills for you and me…..🎼

      (With apologies to John Cougar).

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        July 9, 2019 at 9:54 am

        Even with loads of immigrant carpetbaggers the ‘hand out’, ‘gimme somethin’ mister’ ethos survives. Must be something in the water.

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      July 9, 2019 at 5:42 am

      Lovely do you mean “John Don’t Call Me Cougar Mellonhead”…..Czar, ..Maybe you can tap into the 10 Trillion dollars of wealth created since PDJT has been in office……..
      On another note, Good Morning, Lovely, Czar……

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        July 9, 2019 at 9:52 am

        Urrah, sun’s up and first formation’s over. Time for staff meeting – coffee and donuts on the tailgate of the 5/4er.

        Don’t you know, it was the prescience of our first Baathist POtuS that created this economic miracle?! All the more miraculous and Nobel-deserving as he did this with zero personal knowledge and experience with a real job that earns money through work.

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:
        July 9, 2019 at 5:26 pm

        Yes Sir, that would be the one 🙂 ! Evening Col. Ken 🙂 !

        As to John it always made m laugh every time I would hear “I fight authority authority always wins” I mean, What was he thinking!!! It’s already been done John, far better far simpler and far closer to the heart.

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    • sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
      July 9, 2019 at 9:54 am

      Seems Louisiana and Cali have some things in common. Morning czar!

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        July 9, 2019 at 9:55 am

        At first reading I thought it was ‘Louisiana and cats’. Yeah, that works too.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        July 9, 2019 at 11:19 am

        And a productive one so far! Working a few minutes in the heat then retreating to the A/C.

        Folks in NOLA were on the news yesterday complaining about the heat even though it wasn’t even near record heat. They had a few old timers about my age on saying how they’d lived in the city for their entire lives and don’t remember it this hot. Thing is the city was only about 6 stories tall until the 60s when they started building ‘skyscrapers’. There was also nowhere near as much asphalt and concrete, the city was exposed to breezes from the marshes and there was a helluva lot more green around.

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        • sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
          July 9, 2019 at 1:28 pm

          I think it’s always been hot. My grandfather worked at the Gulf Refinery out in the heat everyday and after retirement he’d work outside at his house. My Papaw worked at a lumber mill out in the heat all day. If they were still alive today…. they’d also say that this part of the country has always been this hot. 🤷‍♀️

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  2. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    July 9, 2019 at 1:15 am

    Stella, is our theme this week waterfalls or ebbing/flowing water in general?

    Happy Tuesday, Stellars…..

    “9 Incredible Northwest Swimming Holes”
    Published in the August 2016 issue of PORTLAND MONTHLY
    https://www.pdxmonthly.com/articles/2016/7/12/best-nw-swimming-holes-2016

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  3. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    July 9, 2019 at 4:21 am

    10 Smiles

    1) Wimbledon.

    2) A baby in an overhead cradle on an airplane in the early 1950s.

    3) This lovely heron who always comes to visit me when I’m down at my mom’s house.

    4) President Trump is training people to be courteous.

    “If you’re the perpetrator of a cough or of a sneeze or any kind of thing that makes you look sick, you get that look,” said a former Trump campaign official. “You get the scowl. You get the response of — he’ll put a hand up in a gesture of, you should be backing away from him, you should be more considerate and you should extricate yourself from the situation.”

    “If you’re standing by him, and you’re going to look at something on his desk, and you lick your index finger to open the thing to try to catch an edge on the paper, he’ll smack your hand and be like ‘What are you, disgusting?’” Scaramucci said.

    This makes me really really like the man.

    5) Stones smoothed by a relentless river.

    6) The University of Texas women’s track team at practice in 1964.

    Can you imagine the wind resistance?

    7) My relatives in California are all safe and sound ❤️🙏🏼. Prayers for all those in California especially our Stella Californians.

    8) Milk chocolate sea salt caramels.

    9) Michelin Tires advertisement from the early 1900s

    10)

    Friend

    by Rabindranath Tagore

    Art thou abroad on this stormy night
    on thy journey of love, my friend?
    The sky groans like one in despair.

    I have no sleep tonight.

    Ever and again I open my door and look out on
    the darkness, my friend!

    I can see nothing before me.

    I wonder where lies thy path!

    By what dim shore of the ink-black river,
    by what far edge of the frowning forest,
    through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading
    thy course to come to me, my friend?

    ***

    Have a beautiful day folks 🙂 !

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  5. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    July 9, 2019 at 9:07 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’ just stevie! 🙂 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 (Chateau Pape Clement Blanc Pessac, 2014)
    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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  7. Stella's avatar stella says:
    July 9, 2019 at 11:08 am

    CBP: $3.7M seized from abandoned boat in Puerto Rico

    https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/07/09/CBP-37M-seized-from-abandoned-boat-in-Puerto-Rico/7631562659026/

    Border agents seized $3.7 million in cash left abandoned in a boat on the shore of Puerto Rico, authorities said.

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Drug Enforcement Administration agents seized the money found in five duffle bags aboard a vessel near Fajardo, the U.S. agency said Monday in a statement.

    The seizure followed CBP Air and Marine Operations agents having detected the vessel heading from Fajardo to the U.S. Virgin Islands with its lights off and requested a Marin patrol aircraft to conduct surveillance.

    The vessel then abruptly turned around and headed back to Fajardo, landing near Rio Fajardo.

    Agents in pursuit watched the suspects unload duffle bags from the vessel before abandoning the money and fleeing, CPB said.

    Along with the money, the agents seized a loaded Taurus .40 calibre pistol and 63 rounds of ammunition, the department said, adding that the seizure was made under failure to declare and bulk cash smuggling laws.

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  8. jeans2nd's avatar jeans2nd says:
    July 9, 2019 at 12:37 pm

    Afternoon ladies and gentlymen.
    Am sad to report the world may be ending sooner than expected, sooner than from climate change.

    Dropped out of Master’s Psych program some 30-40 years ago, as psycho-logy is stupid and doesn’t work the way the books and profs teach.
    Now it seems the psycho-logists agree with me. Not a good sign…

    “No two people are exactly alike. Therefore, attempting to classify each unique individual’s mental health issues into neat categories just doesn’t work…”

    “psychiatric diagnoses are…worthless as tools to accurately identify and address mental distress at an individual level…”

    “diagnoses tell us little to nothing about the individual patient and what type of treatments they will need…they are scientifically meaningless …”
    https://www.studyfinds.org/study-psychiatric-diagnoses-are-scientifically-meaningless/
    exactly as I told the profs
    Psycho-logists are nothing more than someone you pay to be your best friend.

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  12. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    July 9, 2019 at 7:43 pm

    My friend and I went to see Toy Story 4 today. It was so good. We laughed out loud along with all the rest of the movie goers all through it.

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  13. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    July 9, 2019 at 8:59 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:
    July 9, 2019 at 9:01 pm

    A prayer for Justice Kavanaugh and Gen. 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. Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Covfefe says:
    July 9, 2019 at 9:23 pm

    Hey, all. Greets from central FL.

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    • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
      July 9, 2019 at 9:27 pm

      Oh, Wooly, Wooly…so grand to see a post from you! You’re going to have to tell us all that’s printable! We’ve prayed for and worried about you. God bless, dear one!

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      • Wooly Covfefe's avatar Wooly Covfefe says:
        July 9, 2019 at 9:36 pm

        Sorry I haven’t been posting these last six months, glad to see nyet is still wishing me a good morning after all this time. I do think about you all every day.

        Not much to say, other than I’m six months sober as of yesterday. Vodka nearly killed me on the 8th of January, and that’s what it took I guess. Haven’t desired it since. Detox and 17 days in the hospital was absolute hell, and I never want to experience it again.

        I’m bored as all get out, but still sane (as I ever was, heh), and I get along great with my folks down here. Besides them, I have no human contact, and it’s hard having no friends here, in the middle of nowhere. I’m 45 minutes drive from towns smaller than South Haven, and all the neighbors are old and keep to themselves, and so do we. I read a lot online, watch ABC News with the folks every night, followed by Jeopardy, and the very occasional movie or baseball game.

        I’ve never been this bored in my life, but I’m alive, at least.

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        • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
          July 9, 2019 at 9:46 pm

          So happy for you re the six-month sober. Proud of you!

          Maybe next holiday a potluck is in order for the neighborhood for miles around…someone more your age might show up. Labor Day, September 2nd is the next holiday. Maybe a little live music will show up, too, if you have any musicians in your neck of the woods. And everyone bringing an edible of some type is always fun.

          We’ve missed you lots!

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        • sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
          July 9, 2019 at 10:13 pm

          I’m so happy for you, Wooly! Thank you for posting this evening. It’s great to hear from you. 😊

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        • czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:
          July 9, 2019 at 10:28 pm

          So glad to hear you are back! Thought of you just is morning, while driving from my home which is 30 minutes from the nearest Wal-mart, to the nearest hospital, 25 minutes away. Our neighbors aren’t very social. Kinda like where you are. But, we’ve got these friends online who keep us busy… been missing your music and photos, just in case you’d like to post some.

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        • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
          July 9, 2019 at 10:47 pm

          Been praying for you every night.

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    • sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
      July 9, 2019 at 10:08 pm

      So glad to see you, Wooly! Missed you!

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    • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
      July 9, 2019 at 10:18 pm

      Oh Wooly, it is so wonderful to see you post. I sent you an email recently checking on you. I’ve prayed and wondered and hoped to hear good news.

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      July 9, 2019 at 10:45 pm

      WOOLY!!! 😀 ❤

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      July 10, 2019 at 5:14 am

      Wooly! So sorry I didn’t see this until just now 😦 ! I’m so very happy to see you here ❤️. Love you and have been worried about you and missing you. Daily prayers for you always.

      I read your replies below (((Wooly)))) it sounds like a bitter sweet time, I am out the door at 4:30 am I hope you stick around and chat with us !

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  16. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    July 9, 2019 at 9:25 pm

    Since I purchased a large supply of “Forever” postage stamps two years ago, I wasn’t even aware that First Class is now 55 cents…LOL! Wish I’d purchased two 100 rolls.

    We’re still the lowest priced in the world, though I haven’t recently checked rates in Botswana or Saudi Arabia (speaking of which, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a huge man…

    …and President Trump’s guest today, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani …https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-amir-al-thani-state-qatar-bilateral-meeting/
    …is tall and thin….

    …what is in the Middle East water these days!)

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