General Discussion, Saturday, October 19, 2019

Posted on October 19, 2019 by Stella

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  1. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    October 19, 2019 at 12:31 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 >-I (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 >-I (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel)
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) =^-^= >-I (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 >-I >-I (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 >-I (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 >-I (white wine and perrier)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_| (Tom Collins)
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_| (Black & Tan)
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 >-I (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_| (Boilermaker)
    Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 >-I (Lynchburg Lemonade)
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_| (Irish Car Bomb)
    Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 >-I (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 >-I (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 >-I (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! 🙂 >-I (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 >-I (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Blackberry wine)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 >-I (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 |_| (Backdraft)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 >-I (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 >-I (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 >-I (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 >-I (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 >-I (Jack & Coke)
    Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
    Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 >-I (Mojito)
    Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 >-I >-I (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”) 🙂 >-I (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 >-I (Kamikaze)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 >-I (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_| (Night Train Express)
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 >-I (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 >-I (1961 Château Montrose)
    Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 >-I (Blue motorcycle)
    Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 >-I (1970 Chateau Latour)
    Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 >-I (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! 🙂 >-I (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Smoking Bishop)
    Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 >-I (Old Lady)
    Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 |_| (Red Russian)
    Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 >-I (Blind Russian)
    Mornin’ Gary! 🙂 |_| (Yuengling)
    Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 >-I (Flaming Sambuca)
    Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 >-I (Peach Schnapps)
    Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 >-I (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! 🙂 >-I (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! 🙂 >-I >-I >-I >-I >-I >-I >-I (Chateau Pape Clement Blanc Pessac, 2014)
    Mornin’ Sam Felton 🙂 |_| (Seventhree Cucumber Vodka, Fever Tree Tonic with a slice of cucumber)
    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!

    http://www.oinkety.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSCN48361.jpg

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/150127_em_bacon.jpg

    Doughnuts for coffee!

    https://media.fromthegrapevine.com/assets/images/2015/6/donuts-plate-0604.jpg

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  2. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    October 19, 2019 at 12:32 am

    Sigh

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      October 19, 2019 at 12:48 am

      Traded in my rake for a riding mower and entropy a long time ago.

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      • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
        October 19, 2019 at 1:51 am

        I’m inclined to ask if that’s both you and the yard heading into a gradual decline…and if you’re at the pinnacle, which way is the incline and which is the decline?

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      • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
        October 19, 2019 at 8:14 am

        I have too hire people too cleanup the yard, farm. Doctors orders “No Tractor Riding.”

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          October 19, 2019 at 10:54 am

          Yeah, you’re on the ‘no unnecessary bumping’ list for a while. Then again the romance of riding a diesel belching, no-shock absorber-but-your-butt monster wears off fast, Then there’s that ‘changing 3-point equipment’ thing…

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  4. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    October 19, 2019 at 12:47 am

    City’s scheduled the crane drop for sometime before noon on Saturday. They survived some almost 30 MPH winds today plus all of the hot air the politicians have been spouting in their headshots, God nudged that tropical storm just a bit more south and sped it up so no rain or winds of note.

    Evacuation and exclusion zones have widened and pols – thru intermediaries – are starting to prepare folks for collateral damages while still saying how skilled, experienced and professional the demo folks are. This incident should be fully documented as a perfect example of political blame avoidance and taught in Political Science classes as a survival tool.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      October 19, 2019 at 5:39 am

      This incident should be fully documented as a perfect example of political blame avoidance and taught in Political Science classes as a survival tool.

      New Orleans the Chicago of the South.

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      • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
        October 19, 2019 at 8:20 am

        Hey Lovely, long time no see, yes agree with Czar and Your statements so no shrimping or oyster harvesting for me……

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        October 19, 2019 at 10:56 am

        And this is just Act One, the ‘After the Fall’ act is still being written. Can’t help but wonder if there’ll be an ‘Ask for Federal Funds’ subplot.

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        • rheavolans's avatar rheavolans says:
          October 19, 2019 at 11:40 am

          Well, naturally.

          You don’t expect New Orleans to pay for the lawsuit settlement after they damage neighboring properties in this plot that, I’m sorry. I just cannot get over the huge potential that this can go wrong. “Yeah, no one died, but we dropped a crane arm on a neighboring property and destroyed the building. Hey look, when they finish demoing the place we dropped that arm on, we can buy that lot at a loss and build something new on it!”

          It’s just how my mind works.

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        • lovely's avatar lovely says:
          October 19, 2019 at 4:36 pm

          Hands will be out, no doubt.

          What do we want Federal Funds! When do we want it Now!!

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            October 19, 2019 at 7:30 pm

            Hey, NOLA’s still milking the Katrina funds and is still working on their suits for various other ‘insults’. Oh, and they’re getting Fed $$$ for the ‘damages’done to the fishing/oyster/shrimp industries when, this Spring, the Feds opened the Federal spillway to keep New Orleans from flooding.

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  5. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    October 19, 2019 at 1:22 am

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/08/13/462194E700000578-5062315-image-a-44_1510149527381.jpg

    “The calm before the storm: Jaw-dropping photos of supercells show nature’s beauty before rain, hail, and lightning strike down on the land below”
    By Kelly McLaughlin – Published: 8 November 2017
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5062315/Photos-supercells-beauty-storms-hit.html

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    • glendl's avatar glendl says:
      October 19, 2019 at 11:05 am

      I took a couple of pictures with the clouds a bit tighter than those above. I showed the County Disaster Management Coordinator and he told me I would never have gotten my ass to safety if it had decided to come down. I was to show such clouds with more respect after that.
      The above incident was the sequel to another storm the previous summer. A tornado came down in our town and took out several homes and a couple of larger buildings. A couple of miles away, the neighbor and I had stood outside and discussed the weather without hearing anything.

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  6. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    October 19, 2019 at 5:40 am

    https://i.imgur.com/zDF7FrZ.jpg

    Tuth is stranger than fiction these days.

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  9. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    October 19, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    “Skies” Composer: Ross Bugden
    Katharina Fuchs – Violin
    Magdalena Milovanovic – Viola
    Ilya Osachuk – Double Bass
    Kiara Nathaniel – Piano
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIfpj77RQU&t=3

    VIDEO NOTES: This piece is (obviously) about skies, especially in the Canadian prairies, my home. I wanted to capture them on a literal level (the constant shifting and evolution) and on a symbolic level (the emotions they tend to evoke, which I would describe as a humbling and melancholic awe). I knew that electronics and samples simply wouldn’t cut it for a piece like this, so I was lucky enough to work with a few of my fellow students from university (named above). They donated a huge amount of time to rehearsing my piece, and even performed it at a university recital in April. You guys are amazing.

    The visuals here were filmed by me. I biked around my home town chasing clouds over fields and rooftops with my camera (a Canon g7x). At one point, I actually had the police approach me. They weren’t upset, they were just confused, which is understandable.

    See https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQKGLOK2FqmVgVwYferltKQ for all Ross Bugden’s music videos which he allows to be used for free.

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  10. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    October 19, 2019 at 4:27 pm

    The NY Times chose Mulvaney as the cover, not Turkey ceasefire: S. Grisham
    Fox Business

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  12. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    October 19, 2019 at 8:35 pm

    WAIT A MINUTE!… If Crowdstrike Didn’t Determine ‘Russians’ Hacked DNC/Hillary’s Emails Until June, How Did Downer Know It Was the ‘Russians’ in May?
    by Joe Hoft – October 19, 2019
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/10/wait-a-minute-if-crowdstrike-didnt-determine-russians-hacked-dnc-hillarys-emails-until-june-how-did-downer-know-it-was-the-russians-in-may/

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  13. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    October 19, 2019 at 8:38 pm

    Another good article, this time from THE FEDERALIST…

    Why It Matters That Sidney Powell Wants Data From Joseph Mifsud’s Smartphones
    By Margot Cleveland – OCTOBER 17, 2019

    While Sidney Powell’s latest motion barely comprised two pages, the implications are multi-pronged and monumental.

    https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/17/why-it-matters-that-sidney-powell-wants-data-from-joseph-mifsuds-smartphones/

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  14. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    October 19, 2019 at 8:56 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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  15. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    October 19, 2019 at 8:57 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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  16. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    October 19, 2019 at 9:25 pm

    OK sports fans, the crane demolition has once more been postponed to sometime after noon on Sunday. Presumably the delay was coordinated with the Archdiocese (no one’s saying) as that would be the end of Mass in the big St Louis Cathedral and other churches/chapels in the Quarter where the noise and vibrations from the blasts and falls will be particularly loud/potentially damaging.

    They’ve farther extended the evac and exclusion zones though there’s no indication that they’re going to close the I-10 that runs right by the edge of the exclusion zone. Problem is that there’ll be people driving by when the blasts go of some 300 feet in the air. Even if there is no spall that hits the Interstate the noise is guaranteed to shake up drivers, maybe even cause an accident. Then there’s the inevitability of gawkers, I can’t be the only one who realizes you’ve got a ringside seat to the blasts from the elevated I-10.

    Thing that bothers me is that the wind after noon is guesstimated to be 7-to-10 MPH out of the southish. That will carry the dust and skew the noise to the north – right towards the I-10 a few blocks north. I’m sure the packs of salivating tort lawyer stalking the area have taken that into effect – this is going to be a feeding frenzy – so I’m hoping that someone decides to deal with the I-10 issue and if not well the new emergency hospital is immediately on the other side of the I-10 from the blast zone.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      October 19, 2019 at 11:25 pm

      Has anyone thought of bronzing the entire haphazard structure and just leaving it there?

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        October 19, 2019 at 11:41 pm

        I was suggesting that everyone just leave, leave the area totally abandoned for 48 hours (it’s already been a week) and just let the innercity elves do their work. By the time they return both cranes will be stripped and gone.

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        • lovely's avatar lovely says:
          October 20, 2019 at 7:35 am

          Good plan. Is there a secondary market for crane? I just had a thought! Think how many crack pipes they could make out of those cranes!

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            October 20, 2019 at 1:03 pm

            That could add a needed boost to the city’s economy. NOLA could export crack pipes to China, that should help the trade deficit.

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  17. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    October 19, 2019 at 9:27 pm

    Heard this on the Huckabee show. By Charlie Daniels – Let ’em Win or Bring ’em Home.

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