General Discussion, Friday, August 2, 2019

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Stella

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  1. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    August 2, 2019 at 3:11 am

    A fun vid…

    F-22 Raptors Aerial & In-Flight Refuel Footage
    Published on Aug 1, 2019
    A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker from the 28th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron refuels two F-22 Raptor fighter jets somewhere over the Middle East on July 28, 2019.

    Have a great Friday!

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      August 2, 2019 at 5:55 am

      Happy Friday Lucille 🙂 !

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    • sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
      August 2, 2019 at 9:31 am

      Love it! Thank you, Lucille. Happy Friday. I hope all your appointments went well. Missed you!

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      • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
        August 2, 2019 at 3:47 pm

        You’re welcome, sand! Was able to rule out a couple of things including the thorough dental x-ray exam they thought might be causing medical issues…now it’s on to checking out other possibilities. Thanks!

        But after watching the following, I’ve vowed not to complain about anything…I posted these at CTH, too…

        Mark Carriker is a young man from Texas with a lovely wife and two children plus a wonderful extended family. Mark’s battle with cancer began last year with an initial operation on his sinus cavity tumor which seemed successful. However, the cancer has metastasized.
        Warning ⚠️ Emotions And Stuff!

        Mark was accepted into the experimental drug non-FDA-approved trials he mentions in th video above. With his great attitude he’s an excellent candidate for such experiments…but the side effects are pretty awful.

        Trial Coti-2 – Day 1

        Please say a prayer for Mark and his entire family.

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        • sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
          August 2, 2019 at 7:47 pm

          Well, I hope they figure out the problem and can find a solution for you. I watched the videos. 😦 Such a tough situation. I’ll pray the chemo works and he has many more years with his family.

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  2. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    August 2, 2019 at 5:59 am

    10 Smiles

    1) I don’t know who painted this rock, but I am 100% certain if I met them we would be fast friends.

    2) The genius of our president. Last night he said “It used to be the Soviet Union but then they decided to call themselves……… Russia.”

    😂

    I felt the elitist Never Trumpers heads exploding. Bill Kristol and Rick Wilson are probably besides themselves.

    But if you examine the sentence it has tremendous political power all the while seeming like a simpleton statement.

    3) There is a movement in China. People are rising up and demanding their God given freedom. Their sign of resistance is the American flag.

    4) “Or, how sweet just to say of a great, burly man: he’s a honey.”
    ― Mary Oliver

    5) Mathew Gray Gubler

    6) “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”__Confucius

    7) Donkey nannies in Italy. Each year in Italy, grazing animals are moved from high pastures down to the plains. Newborn lambs are unable to make this journey on their own. Instead, they ride in the pouches of a specially made saddle on the back of a donkey or a mule nanny. They are taken down at rest stops and returned to their mothers for a bite to eat and a bit of nuzzling.

    Photo: medeamoon

    8) It’s international clown week and as far as I know there are no celebrations planned for anywhere near my town. Good.

    9) Again we have the best, funniest people on the side of America.

    ”I think “The Baltimore Rats” would be an awesome name for a football team.__BackSassBaby

    10) Psalm 143:8Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

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  3. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    August 2, 2019 at 6:01 am

    Morning Stella, I put 5 links in my 10 smiles so it is in moderation, my apologies! Can’t even blame it on needing two hands to count.

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  4. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    August 2, 2019 at 7:04 am

    He did it 🙂 !

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Navy officials said Wednesday they are pulling achievement medals from prosecutors who argued the case against a decorated Navy SEAL who was acquitted in the death of a wounded Islamic State captive after President Donald Trump intervened.

    Trump tweeted earlier Wednesday that he had directed the secretary of the Navy and the chief of naval operations to “immediately withdraw and rescind” the Navy Achievement Medal from prosecutors who argued the case against Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, who was acquitted by military jurors earlier this month.

    “The Prosecutors who lost the case against SEAL Eddie Gallagher (who I released from solitary confinement so he could fight his case properly), were ridiculously given a Navy Achievement Medal,” Trump complained, adding, “I am very happy for Eddie Gallagher and his family!”

    Navy spokesman Cdr. Jereal Dorsey said that on Wednesday, after Trump’s tweet, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer rescinded the awards. As secretary, he has that authority, Dorsey said.

    https://news.yahoo.com/navy-seal-prosecutors-stripped-achievement-220150145.html

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  6. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    August 2, 2019 at 9:21 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!

    Cinnamon rolls for coffee!

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  7. litenmaus's avatar litenmaus says:
    August 2, 2019 at 9:31 am

    Good Morning…..It’s been almost a year, but the contracting crew arrived yesterday morning and the renovation on the outside of the building is in full swing…..if all goes well, my end of August deadline will be met…..

    The garage door finally arrived and has been installed…

    The siding has been removed, the 1960’s post office entrance has been closed off, dirt excavation for the new patio has begun and the crew is swarming all over the place……I’m a happy camper….

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  8. litenmaus's avatar litenmaus says:
    August 2, 2019 at 9:39 am

    Three weeks ago I was wondering if Squeaks would take out the new kitteh, but Iggy has survived, Squeaks has stopped growling and the two are beginning to bond…

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  9. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    August 2, 2019 at 10:22 am

    I am glad to see all the happy news on here today. I am waiting to hear if a couple adopts this adorable doggie I found on an adoption site last week. I was going to wait a little longer, but saw him and really would like to have him. My doggie died back in January. So, anyway, I am kinda on pins and needles. 🙂

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      August 2, 2019 at 11:25 am

      Aus! I’m so happy you’re ready for a new dog! I hope everything works out 🙂 !

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
        August 2, 2019 at 11:35 am

        Thank you. I am trying to be positive, but it is sometimes a struggle.

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        • lovely's avatar lovely says:
          August 2, 2019 at 11:37 am

          Understood the world is upside-down.

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        • lovely's avatar lovely says:
          August 2, 2019 at 11:39 am

          Whoops I’m in the side bar and thought you were responding to a different post. My Grinner was all set to go to a different family, we were second in line and she ended up coming home with us 🙂 .

          If this dog doesn’t work out there is another one just waiting for you 🙂 .

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          • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
            August 2, 2019 at 11:42 am

            I prayed that I would get him, but I told God that I would accept whatever was meant for me. The lady I have been communicating with said she wasn’t sure he was the right one for this couple that will see him today.

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          • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
            August 2, 2019 at 11:47 am

            The funny thing is, I think this is a good adoption group, but for some reason his donation price is higher than others, he is being fostered a long way from here requiring an overnight stay, and now I have to pay a $250 deposit at my apt. complex to have a pet which I didn’t have to pay when I first moved in 9 years ago. So everything is against it.

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            • lovely's avatar lovely says:
              August 2, 2019 at 11:48 am

              If it’s to be it will be, I’ll pray for you and the pup. I think our local place is $280.00 to adopt?

              Milwaukee on the other hand is I think $50.00 to adopt.

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              • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                August 2, 2019 at 12:38 pm

                I noticed that most of the prices around here have some connection to breed, etc. The Yorkies, even the mixes, are very expensive, some over $700. Most seem to be about $250. My last little doggie cost me $250, but then I spent a lot of vet bills in the next two years. She had an ear infection that was difficult to get rid of, a bladder infection that took a year to clear, and teeth that had to be pulled over the years. I never regretted the cost. She was a great little companion.

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                • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                  August 2, 2019 at 1:24 pm

                  I agree on the cost it is well worth it. I still mis my little sweetie every day.

                  I never did a breed specificities rescue, it is what I was looking into when I got my Italian Greyhound and it was about $400. (I think at the time).

                  I had my heart set on a puppy mill rescue. TedTed, he was missing a leg and a large portion of his jaw because of the horrors he experienced in the mill. It turned out his foster mom couldn’t give him up, which hurt at the time but she ended up paying thousands as in over 10 thousand in vet bills over the course of his lifetime.

                  I needed up rescuing an Iggy from Craigs List and she is a terrific little girl, so it all worked out in the end.

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                  • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                    August 2, 2019 at 1:31 pm

                    I am glad you got Iggy.

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                  • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                    August 2, 2019 at 1:44 pm

                    Me too. My little spoiled dog. All 7 pounds of her.

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                  • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                    August 2, 2019 at 2:47 pm

                    My Foxy was spoiled, too. They seemed to love her at her vets. She evidently bit one of the girls there and they wrote “BITES” on the top of her chart. But the vet used to laugh every time she looked at her chart because they knew how to treat her after that. She was so protective of me she would snarl and bark at anyone who got near me. If she was by herself, she didn’t do that. That is her picture in my avatar. She weighed 15 lbs.

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                  • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                    August 2, 2019 at 10:45 pm

                    She was a cutie ❤️. It may just be the picture but she looks like a miniature Golden Retriever.

                    I made the mistake of bringing both my dogs to the vet at the same time once. Lesson learned.

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                  • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                    August 2, 2019 at 11:33 pm

                    She was a cocker spaniel/dachshund mix. Her face was a mix of the Cocker/dachs mix and she had short little legs and a beautiful Cocker feather tail. The kids thought she was adorable. I finally realized she looked like a puppy when she walked. And, when she was being very vicious, she still looked so cute.

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                  • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                    August 3, 2019 at 4:54 am

                    “And, when she was being very vicious, she still looked so cute.” Maybe that’s a small dog thing, my Iggy is adorable when she is on the attack 🙂 .

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        • litenmaus's avatar litenmaus says:
          August 2, 2019 at 11:55 am

          :0) I’m so happy that your heart is ready to receive new furry lovez…keep the faith aus, it will happen when it’s meant to be.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      August 2, 2019 at 3:15 pm

      I hope you get the dog that will fill that space for you. I know what that’s like. Now I have a scamp that still hasn’t grown up. He ate half of the case for my sunglasses this morning – stole it out of my purse. When I got to the funeral, one of the girls asked if I had some Kleenex, which I thought that I did, but it appears that he ate that too!

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
        August 2, 2019 at 3:48 pm

        Yes, a scamp he is. LOL

        My granddaughter who is 3, had to get glasses. She left them out and the Lab (you know how they are) got them and chewed them up. They had lifetime replacement insurance on the glasses and put all the pieces in the case and took them to the eye doctor. Of course, the first thing they said was that they had to produce the old glasses. So, they handed her the case that rattled with the pieces in it and she laughed.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          August 2, 2019 at 4:28 pm

          I have a pair like that too. Tucker got those and totally destroyed the metal frames and scratched the lenses so badly that nobody could ever see through them again.

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        • czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:
          August 2, 2019 at 10:02 pm

          Lucky Dog ate innumerable pairs of Czar’s reading glasses. Lucky had lab in him…

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          • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
            August 2, 2019 at 11:27 pm

            Mine ate some balls off the Christmas tree. They weren’t glass. I think they were some kind of foam coated with something the lab really liked. They stained the carpet all over red. 🙄

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    • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
      August 2, 2019 at 4:27 pm

      Best of luck, Aus! The “doggie” spot in your heart is reaching out.

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  10. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    August 2, 2019 at 4:36 pm

    Beautiful flowery scenes in Holland…

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  11. jeans2nd's avatar jeans2nd says:
    August 2, 2019 at 8:27 pm

    ‘Evening, ladies and gentlymen.
    Today’s selections are a delicious treat of good news, as mom said upthread.
    A piece of laughable irony for tonight – Wicked Son was to close on the new house yesterday, but had to be put off til next Fri. In the process, the bank directed WS to their website, to check mortgage status, etc.

    Imagine WS’s (laughable!) joy to see the website is the one he personally designed and implemented 20 years ago. Seems the bank holding the new mortgage bought out a bank that had bought out WS’s employer for which he had designed the website.

    Think of the damage someone like WS could do with the knowledge he possesses. Thank goodness Evil Mom reared the kid with some morals and ethics, reinforced at regular church attendance.
    (but oh, the fun…)
    Have a Great Evening!

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  12. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    August 2, 2019 at 8:41 pm

    Oh, my…away from the news for even a few minutes and you can miss a lot…

    Rapper A$AP Rocky was released from prison in Sweden on Friday and is on his way back to the United States.

    Thank you, President Trump. My, my, winning and winning and winning!

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  13. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    August 2, 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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  14. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    August 2, 2019 at 8:59 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. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    August 2, 2019 at 10:13 pm

    Amazing: “Decades After Birth, Fetal Cells Remain in Mother’s Body to Repair Injuries”
    By Dave Andrusko – August 2, 2019 | 5:57PM WASHINGTON, DC
    https://www.lifenews.com/2019/08/02/decades-after-birth-fetal-cells-remain-in-mothers-body-to-repair-injuries-2/

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