General Discussion, Monday, July 15, 2019

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Stella

Fifty years ago this week, the Apollo 11 mission traveled to the moon. The rocket launched on July 16, 1969, and the Eagle landed on the moon on July 20, 1969.

It was one of those occasions that every American alive and old enough to remember will never forget. We remember where we were, who we were with, and what happened. I spent it with my 17-month old baby girl, my husband and his aunt and uncle at their home. They had a beautiful in-ground pool, and a terrific family room where we watched the moon landing on television. It was amazing!Neil Armstrong died in 2012 at the age of 82, but Buzz Aldrin, 89, and Michael Collins, 88, are still living.

Considering technology at the time, their successful mission was a triumph. Knowing what we know now, it is truly amazing!

This is the rocket that got them there and back.

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95 Responses to General Discussion, Monday, July 15, 2019

  1. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    July 15, 2019 at 12:39 am

    Just got my notice from WordPress – I’ve been spouting off for 7 years now…seems like just yesterday.

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  2. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    July 15, 2019 at 12:40 am

    Posted this next door, thought I’d post it here so you could see where your tax dollars are being spent:

    The last C-130U ‘Spooky’ is home from the war and looking at being turned out to pasture. It’s being replaced by the Block 30 upgraded C-130J.

    The ‘J’ model is a beast, it carries the same 105mm cannon as its predecessors had but has an upgraded fire control suite and a new 30mm super accurate gun that can drop a round in a tea cup. The ‘J’ will also carry pods under the wings that can fire Hellfire missiles or a new slim 250-pound smart bomb. It will also have AGM-176 missiles on it, facing backwards. The missiles can be fired and then corrected in flight to attack targets in any relationship to the aircraft. This is a far cry from the old AC-47s with the three manually fired Vulcans on board, I’m gonna see how I can beg a slot at Eglin to see this beast fire.

    BTW, rather un mentioned by the MSM was that some of the AC-130s being flown in support of our Syria operations were jammed by ground ECM stations. Now there was nothing said officially about who was jamming their systems, making the weapons team check and recheck their data to make sure they were actually firing at the targets they wanted to, BUT I think we can safely assume that it wasn’t ISIS, the half-assed Syrians or Hezzbollah…leaving only the Russians. Makes me wonder if the new J-model might have some sort of HARM round on board to target SAMs or jamming units? Hmmmmmm…

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  3. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    July 15, 2019 at 1:36 am

    Total rain today here was 6.6″ over 24 hours – piece of cake. Total for 3 days is just over 7 inches.

    Ground was dry so the first two light days just broke the surface while today’s soaked in mostly. All of the creeks and rivers were quite low and had lots of free space left to take runoff but there doesn’t seem to be that much of it. So much for the predicted disaster.

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  4. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    July 15, 2019 at 1:37 am

    Stellars…

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  5. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    July 15, 2019 at 2:49 am

    Further to what we talked about last week….

    “Study finds psychiatric diagnosis to be ‘scientifically meaningless’ ”
    by University of Liverpool – July 8, 2019
    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-07-psychiatric-diagnosis-scientifically-meaningless.html?utm

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  6. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    July 15, 2019 at 7:03 am

    I was too tired last night to put together a 10 smiles list.

    Many of you are praying for my cousin, this is us when I was 7 and he was 9.

    His health statuses about the same, currently he is enjoying his cabin with his sister and niece. Probably his last summer there but we thought that last year so I will continue to pray and hope for a miracle.

    The sunrise from a highway that was not there before.

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  8. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    July 15, 2019 at 11:20 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!

    Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Tarts

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  9. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
    July 15, 2019 at 12:05 pm

    Hey Stella, this is up soon on the fermented foods list. I thought of you when I saw it this morning. I am assuming that I can thaw my cranberries and they will be okay fermented. If not I’ll have to wait.

    https://www.growforagecookferment.com/fermented-honey-cranberries/

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  10. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    July 15, 2019 at 5:18 pm

    First Lady Melania Trump Visits Huntington, West Virginia
    The White House

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  11. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    July 15, 2019 at 5:47 pm

    My opinion…either Guatemala controls their citizens from migrating illegally to the U.S. and/or provides us assistance in becoming a “Safe Third Country” for non-Guatemalan illegal aliens OR all monetary aid will be cut to the percentage left over after we pay the in-essence “blackmail” money it costs to take care of the illegal aliens once they illegally arrive in the U.S. They want to enable criminal activity against the U. S. then it will cost them…

    MORNING BRIEF BY AUDREY WILSON | JULY 15, 2019, 6:04 AM
    Guatemala Cancels on Trump

    Guatemala Cancels on Trump

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  12. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    July 15, 2019 at 5:58 pm

    It’s ‘rough irony’ day in the mews.

    (1) James Alex Fields, the putz who plowed his car into a crowd of protestors in Charlottesville in 2017 and ran over and killed a protestor, is being sentenced in state court. News reports that judge is awaiting ‘victim impact statements’.

    (2) In Baton Rouge a woman community activist who opened and ran a African American history museum in the city was found dead from suffocation in the trunk of a car. As the news droned on about how details weren’t available but they were going to blather on anyway, the cameraperson centered her car being towed out to impound, right past a huge road sign in front center saying ‘DEAD END’. Can’t tell me s/he didn’t see that.

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  14. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    July 15, 2019 at 6:54 pm

    Developing: Obama and His Italian Friend Renzi Suspected of Spying on Trump and Using Italian State Secrecy Decree to Cover It Up
    by Joe Hoft – July 15, 2019
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/developing-obama-and-his-italian-friend-renzi-suspected-of-spying-on-trump-and-using-italian-state-secrecy-decree-to-cover-it-up/

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  15. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    July 15, 2019 at 8:57 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. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    July 15, 2019 at 8:58 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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  17. Stella's avatar stella says:
    July 15, 2019 at 9:35 pm

    Just picked my first gherkin cucumber. I will eat it tomorrow for lunch

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  18. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    July 15, 2019 at 11:19 pm

    Good night! God bless!

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