From TempleSquare.com:
Completed in 1867, the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City was built as a place for Church members to gather and hear the words of their leaders.
Today the Tabernacle is home to the world-famous Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. The dome-shaped auditorium is so acoustically sensitive that a pin dropped at the pulpit can be clearly heard at the back of the hall, 170 feet away. Imagine the symphony of sound you can hear from the magnificent choir and the 11,623 pipe organ that fills the front of the Tabernacle.
Stella's Place 
Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels – Single Barrel)
(Tom Collins)
(Black & Tan)
(Boilermaker)
(Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
(Irish Car Bomb)
(Godfather)
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Gin & Tonic)
(Blackberry wine)
(Backdraft)
(Flaming Dr. Pepper)
(Stinger)
(Rusty Nail)
(Jack Daniels)
(Whiskey Smash)
(B52)
(Rum & Coke)
(Night Train Express)
(Albanian Raki Moskat)
(Hot Buttered Rum)
(Mudslide)
(RumChata)
(Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
(Smoking Bishop)
(Red Russian)
(Yuengling)
(Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
(Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
(Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
(Some of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
(Some more of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
(Seventhree Cucumber Vodka, Fever Tree Tonic with a slice of cucumber)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
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 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
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) 🙂
Mornin’ rheavolans! (aka “Rhea Salacia Volans”) 🙂
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂
Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂
Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂
Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂
Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
Mornin’ Gary! 🙂
Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂
Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂
Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂
Mornin’ NC Nana! 🙂 🍸 (Beautiful)
Mornin’ bjosz! 🙂
Mornin’ Angelle Staria Literary Works! 🙂
Mornin’ just stevie! 🙂 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 (Chateau Pape Clement Blanc Pessac, 2014)
Mornin’ Sam Felton 🙂
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!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Pastries for coffee!
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I will have that egg thing, a piece of bacon and a sweet roll today. It rained last night. It was miserably hot and humid until the temp dropped into the 40’s. SMH Weather!
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As we’re subjecting the Temple/Tabernacle today I’ll have the Postum and green jello. (only humorous if you’ve lived in the Valley).
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Good afternoon and evening, Nyet! I totally missed the feast. I’ve gone out here for the weekend…
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Good morning everyone. Hope your holiday season is bright and full of anticipation. Yesterday was a busy day. The two youngest grandchildren, had their Christmas program. Conner, the four year old, goes to a special needs school because he is autistic.
These children just put on the best show ever. The youngest ones, six of them, came in in a six baby stroller decked out as a sleigh. It was precious. Attention wandered, some participated like they had performed forever, some refused like my grandson, and only one poor child was obviously in pain from the sounds and music. That child should have had headphones, but his father took him out quickly. At the end some of the adult services clients did a performance with the little ones.
It was a heartwarming show. So much has been done for these kids. My grandson was non verbal when he entered the program a year and a half ago, and many other students have much more severe issues. The work, the abilities and knowledge and love of the staff is amazing. If I ever win the lottery, this school gets a huge chunk of it.
Today is a granddaughter’s winter dance recital, and a family trip this afternoon to a church’s Walk Through Bethlehem. This is really an amazing experience. This church has turned their whole entire large building into Bethlehem. It’s laid out like a little village, bustling and busy. People in what seem to be quite accurate costumes, including Roman soldiers, are busy. Breadmaking stalls where the kids get to roll out dough, leather making, pottery, etc. Roman soldiers everywhere, and they will accost you and ask if you’ve paid your taxes.
Finally you come to the inn, and get turned away, then there is a short program about the birth, life, and death of Jesus, and his resurrection. Then you go to the stable, complete with a bunch of live animals.
This year, since we went last year, I got an email about it and they asked if anyone in our party had special needs and how they might accommodate us better so I told them about our two autistic boys and that a smaller party, perhaps moving faster through some areas, might be better, so maybe that will happen.
Anyhow, can you imagine the work and the money involved, to turn your whole church and pretty much all the rooms, including the large auditorium like sanctuary, into Bethlehem? They have probably a hundred people or so in costumes and roles, or as guides, greeters, support. Amazing effort.
I pray that this church and her people are richly blessed in their efforts to reach people’s hearts this Advent, and teach them the true meaning of Christmas. I will happily be making a donation to this wonderful church.
Happy weekend pals.
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It does sound like a wonderful church. And what an inventive way to make Bethlehem com alive.
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Sounds beautiful Menagerie 🙏🏼❤️.
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We had an awesome evening, and even the two youngest were, relatively speaking, very good.
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Mornin’ kids!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Seriously? 😯
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Mornin’ Mom!
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Mornin’ Wee. 😀
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Catzirra…or why you don’t feed your cat the Walmart store brand food.
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I’ll have you know that there iz “fine art.” Afternoon Z’s!
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😀 😀 😀
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Yeah, Robert Crumb on acid redoes Fritz the Cat.
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They hung worse on the walls of my liberal arts college.
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I figured the universities hung that type of student art on the walls to show the ‘arteests’ what it would look like if anyone ever bought some of their %$#@
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People paid for that garbage and donated it to the college.
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There’s no accounting for taste…or the lack there of. Then again, it sort of sets the students up for the scam concept of ‘public art’.
My fav example is some public art bought by the city (politicians with taste in art…mull that one) in NOLA some years back. I had one pissed professional (he made money at it) artist friend who picked up a pair of heavy scissors, some light sheet metal and in a few seconds snipped out a duplicate of the ‘public art’. “Here”, he said, “slap a little paint on this and see if the city will buy it!”.
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It’s stupid. And people paid money to buy that garbage and donated it to the college.
Once upon a time you had to have talent to be an artist. Now you don’t have to have more advanced techniques than finger painting to be considered an artist.
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Don’t start me on performance ‘art’.
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Don’t go dissing Fritz.
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Wasn’t trying to be crumby…
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Just as I was reading your comment, a Walmart ad popped up on the right side in the “annoying ad space” and showing containers which will accommodate cat food. LOL!
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If Santa doesn’t know Bentonville does.
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Or Bezos.
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He thinks he knows it all.
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Afternoon Wee : ) !
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Evenin’ Lovely!
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Good afternoon, WeeWeed! Whoever the guy is, he deserved it! The cat tried to warn him…
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Evenin’ Lucy!
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I went on about the Tabernacle earlier, it’s one of my favorite music venues. It’s amazing that it was built where and when it was with the qualities it has. The church had attracted a lot of artisans from the East Coast and Europe and their expertise to the build, there was a lot of amazing work done on it.
I found the Old World methods used such as pegs, wedges and dowels being used instead of nails and bolts, surprising. Some of my ex’s relatives were in the construction teams, something my ex’s family was proud of – even after my ex-MIL converted to Catholicism when she married my ex-FIL and the LDS all turned their backs on her and her entire family.
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Nigel Farage hints he will join Donald Trump’s presidential campaign next year
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nigel-farage-hints-he-will-join-donald-trumps-presidential-campaign-next-year-2019-12-12
The plan for Nigel to Stump for Trump sounded CONFIRMED by what Nigel said 🙂
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This man just defeated the entire remain establishment
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Huckabee on Johnson victory, says Trump will be elected in a ‘landslide’
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Is that good?
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Yes 🙂
Farage has been the driving force for 25 years.. to get UK free of EU. He is a charismatic kinda guy… great speaker and motivator. A politician that actually seems to be telling the truth 🙂
He did did speak at a few Trump events in 2016.. and the two of them seem to be genuine friends since then.
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I have always loved the genuineness that shines through in this photo.
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When the political Campaign for UK general election started, Farage had to give up his daily talk-back radio show on LBC…. I think it was his last show? that he opened with a caller he described as “Donald from Washington” …which of course was Trump… he did about an hour exclusive interview. … very relaxed and chatty. Trump endorsed Boris as well as Nigel.. and condemned Corbyn.
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Neat. I’m going to see if I can find the chat with Donald. They are obviously on the same wavelength.
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I was going to post link to 2 hour show. I found the interview part was juts half hour. I found a clip of just that.
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Thank you Rumpole, not sure I’ll get to it tonight but definitely tomorrow 🙂 !
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Democratic impeachment holdout Jeff Van Drew planning to switch parties
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/14/jeff-van-drew-change-parties-085036
As I mentioned before… it would be nice if sanity prevailed and the nonsense did not even pass a vote in the House. The DIMS have 233 Congressmen, they require 218 vote for impeachment…..We need only 16 DIMS to wise up. There were 2 DIMS who voted agains the “Impeachment Inquiry” already… so we need another 16 🙂
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I meant 14 more required….
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Awesome.
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I don’t expect 16 DIMS to switch parties… just vote Nay to the resolution (or abstain)
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Nobody I can pretend to influence.
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31 Rats who may temporarily be in Trump districts?
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McvAdams from Utah is the only Rat in the entire Utah Congressional lineup and won by a razor thin margin. He’s up for election in a rather reddish area and says he needs time to think about what his vote will be due to blah blah blah. Only thing he has to consider is ‘does he have a day job he can go back to’.
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Fabulous.
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Friends often send me cards from the British Jacquie Lawson website…so, of course, the site sends me samples. This is a sweet one for Christmas…hope it comes through….
https://www.jacquielawson.com/sendcard/preview?cont=1&hdn=0&fldCard=3502238&path=105741&pmode=init
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My sister sends them. They are sweet!
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WOOOOOOOTT!!!
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EVERY ONE knew he would win!
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And the booze/beer distributors in Baton Rouge better schedule Sunday replenishment deliveries. If you don’t think the BR crowd takes LSU football seriously they announced last week that profits from beer sales alone in Tiger Stadium were $2.5-million this season.
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May i politely note the picture at the top of the page is NOT the Tabernacle, it is the Salt Lake City Temple. The Tabernacle is an elongated, low building for meetings, and where the Choir sings. Tourists are admitted to the Tabernacle. When people tour Temple Square, they look at but are not admitted to the Temple. The Temple, and all the temples are not open to non-Mormons after they are sanctified, and are composed of meeting and research rooms for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to do the work of the Church.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/locations/temple-square-salt-lake-city-tabernacle?lang=eng&_r=1
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Yeah, but I have been in the Temple. They did a major renovation and before they resanctified it they allowed gentiles to tour it. Our guide/minder was super motivated (and they didn’t partake of caffeine) and took us into rooms the regular tour didn’t go to. It wasn’t all that much, you have to be LDS to really get into the rites, rituals and symbolism but it was neat. There was a really heavy audio/visual presence inside, as this was over 40 years ago I imagine it has increased significantly since.
lso got to tour the Ogden Temple (no biggie, we lived a few blocks away and there was little else to do in town) when it was built. They’re nice but they don’t have the visual appeal of Christian cathedrals, they seem more businesslike, there’s not that internal ‘WOW’ factor.
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Rep Matt Gaetz Calls Out The Schiffty Impeachment
Huckabee – Published on Dec 14, 2019
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