Happy Friday! Are we ready for a weekend? Settle into the Q Treehouse and let’s catch up. Let’s see what our buddies are doing down the street and across the world. Yes, it is Friday the 13th, but bad karma can’t touch us. In fact, this Friday afternoon would be a lovely time for a big info drop from the OIG, especially since it’s the 13th.
We welcome you to the Q Tree, WQTH! Here, you can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on. Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it. Please, keep it SOMEWHAT civil because most of the people here are our friends. They tried to FORCE fake Orwellian civility on us. In response, we CHOOSE true civility to defend our precious FREEDOM from THEM.
Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven.
You may have noticed the sun has shifted and the days are getting shorter. Time to get out of our Treehouse for a while and still enjoy the outdoors while we prepare for winter. When we were little, we could watch a caterpillar for hours…….. and in the grand scheme of life, probably more important than our latest text message. Yet, it’s mid-September and time to take that last dip in the lake…….
…… before we stock the pantry, recaulk the exterior doors, and clean gutters. Don’t forget to clean out the birdhouses and bird baths for winter. Might be nice to make a little treehouse, a smaller version of our own, for our fine feathered friends.
Never let the music die, and look for the music in the most unexpected places.
As we discuss topics of the day, never forget Wheatie’s Rules.
- No food fights.
- No running with scissors.
- If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Our rules began with the civility of the Old Treehouse, later to become the Wolverinian Empire, and one might say that we have RESTORED THE OLD REPUBLIC – the early high-interaction model of the Treehouse – except of course that Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged, and speech is considerably freer in other ways. Please feel free to argue and disagree with the board owner, as nicely as possible.
SPEAK THE FIVE WORDS BOLDLY TO OUR PRESIDENT, “I AM PRAYING FOR YOU!“
When you’re finished with chores and taken a walk in the forest, come on back to the Q Treehouse. We’ll still be here.
Yes, indeed…here we are again…
Good MOOOOOOORRRRNNNING, Harry!
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Just in case any of us who would be Knights Templar, and who do not want to find ourselves dead in a cage on the roadway. Oh, wait. That was Friday, October 13.
Nope. Today, especially if you are a teacher, cop or ER nurse, this is the real issue:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-24ioLeD_y8o/T_L9vypez2I/AAAAAAAACkM/U5riouIMLTs/s1600/full-moon.jpg
… 😮🤚‼️ …. 😱 … 😫 ….. Friday, September 13, 2019 …. full moon … 😐 … 🤭
Owwwww-wwwoooo!!!!!
This is just for the ahh wooooooo .. 🎶
😛🤚❤️‼️
https://youtu.be/iDpYBT0XyvA
DP…I chuckled when I read your last sentence (think you can add OB doctors to the list, as well). Sprung hubby from the cardio unit this am (3 stents placed last night), and the unit nurse commented they all dreaded today because in her several years of experience…there definitely is a connection between the two.
I was born on a Friday the 13th..in October (wink)
(yawn)…GOod morni…(yawn)…
COSTCO Piano Girl was fun;-)
Good morning all…as I bid ya’ll, g’nite…;-)
QUOTE:
“As the debate began, the opening pans showed at least three of the candidates standing on booster boxes: Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, California Sen. Kamala Harris and Juan Castro.”
https://twitter.com/AlexThomasDC/status/1172297491187785729
https://twitter.com/AlexThomasDC/status/1172299957967020032
And you know they work all that out in contracts ahead of time too, to 5he precise height. Does he wear lifts too? Deniro could help him out.
Here he is playing herman munster.
I see your De Niro platform shoes and raise you (HA!) Mark Zuckerberg’s booster seat!
Good one Sadie Slays !
these people are so fake
They’re itty bitty people .. with bad attitudes … unfortunately .. 😑🤚
Hollywood too. Those people are tiny, insecure, and morally bankrupt.
… and they should be ignored at every opportunity .. 😉👍❤️‼️ ..
Oh gee this cracked me up more than anything else lately.
Frankenstein wore did better … what a yutzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz … 😑🤚
Now, now. Some of us carry folding step stools to the grocery store so we can reach items on the top shelf.
When I can’t reach something in the grocery store I trot over to the household isle, grab a mop and have at it on the shelf getting the elusive item … and I always trot back to household and put the mop back in it’s place. It works in the freezer isle too when the item is out of reach .. 😛👍❤️ heh heh
I’ve been known to go get a cane from the pharmacy section at Walmart. My tea is always on a top shelf.
Yeah that’s a good idea, they don’t make it easy do they .. but where there’s a will there’s a way … 😉🤚❤️ .. 😛
Actually, I’m not sure about Walmart, but in a lot of stores, the merchandisers pay for premium shelf space (eye level). It just tells me that the distributor of this particular brand does not do that.
..ahh .. makes sense, it is annoying though ..
😐🤚❤️
Hey, just ask Michelle Obama to reach the item for you and give her another opportunity to point out how racist that is.
If I’m ever in the same zip code as Michelle Obama, I’m leaving. That’s why I live in flyover country. Those people generally stay away from here.
It is called little man syndrome.
Dems are done,not well done but they are done.Any of these fools go against President Trump in a debate they are burnt toast done…
Awesome job Daughn you rocked the open thread.
I go for my MRI on my leg tomorow,sure could use some prayers.Posted a pic of my leg on my GAB acct after 8 months of this shit I am done I am really done…
Night n God bless you all I will be back when I can.
Good luck. Put the ear plugs in and headphones on while youre in the machine and try to relax, even for 45 minutes…
NO metal allowed in the MRI room – even tiny stud earrings!
Most facilities have your choice of music that can be piped in (of course, actually hearing it is another matter). My advice, keep your eyes closed tightly the entire time and meditate about life.
Prayers now for you Rodney. Not on soc media… not trying to be nosy Rodney, but I have something wrong with my leg for over 20 years but simple treatment could have kept it from deforming my calf. I went to several docs for it, and finally found a doc 7 years ago who went to her textbooks and confirmed the treatment for which I was asking. Diagnosis? Or do they even know?
I have perephial vascular disease (sorry for spelling) and my legs swell up from time to time, mostly my right leg and it keeps ripping an old scar open.I have no pulse in my right ankle and it is weak at my knee.
Now my new Dr has sent me to a specialist and wants to replace the veins in my right leg from my chest to my ankle.
So sorry Rodney. I supposedly have Lipodermatosclerosis which I acquired about 8 years after vein stripping knee to ankle. Thank God, so far no ulcerations, but pretty much assures a poor outcome if I have knee replacements for my bone on bone knees.
Just a question, do the MDs think there is a chance your body can/will find/grow it’s own new path for blood flow instead of going through the surgery. Two years ago I was told that I only had 10% circulation in my right foot and I was going to loose it. BS. I don’t think those dopplers are all they are cracked up to be. When I change positions my circulation improves. If I am laying flat on my back as during a doppler test, they think I am dead.
Not telling you what to do, but many years ago, when open heart surgery was being explored, my friend was a nurse at a hospital doing the new surgeries. She was livid…saying that she was seeing older people walk in for the surgery who couldn’t run because they had heart disease, but they could walk with resting periodically. They usually went out on a slab.
I wonder if you don’t just need sound wound therapy for the ulcerative location and keeping away from long periods of standing or sitting.
Prayers for your body and decisions Rodney. God bless you and yours.
p.s. My thinking is based on my age of 74 which does color my perspectives.
The reason I had the vein stripping back then was because of a ruptured vein that ruptured again at age 40 after a hysterectomy and I was put on hormone replacements. Within 3 months the vein ruptured again. Hormone replacement is notorious for cancer and vein problems as is the birth control pill.
I see the specialist the 30th and am actually feeling really good about the results from yesterdays test.Even though my veins are alot worse that in 2015 the tech that did the test said not to get alarmed. My primary physician is looking at worse case scenario and the tech thinks he is off base.The specialist I see the 30th is the best on the left coast and I have alot of prayers behind me so I am not gonna sweat the small stuff and leave it in Gods hands.
All I have to do now is get the infection gone and keep it gone.
Sounds like the tech has common sense. Will keep the prayers going. Please keep me posted.
Thank you for the prayers and I will keep you informed when I learn more.
Rodney, Prayers for complete and total healing for you in Jesus’ Name, Amen!
Thank you
🙏s
Leg prayer! God Bless.
Thank you
prayers going up for you Rodney!!!
Thank you
Prayers and thoughts sent up on your behalf Rodney
Thank you
God bless and watch over you today and always Rodney … May He bless you with excellent care and thorough healing, and comfort …
According to His will for His glory, in Jesus name amen …
Amen and thank you
🖖😉👍❤️‼️
Praying for ya Rodney! Best wishes.
Thank you
Are you saying normally the dems would be deader than fried chicken, but today you had an epiphany and they are just “done”…LOL
Love me some fried chicken lol
LOL me too.
Prayers for you Rodney!
Thank you
Trump War Room is right on top of things. Here is a whole thread of all the times POTUS has condemned hate and bigotry:
Of course he has.
But all the left has is lies, invective, and rank hypocrisy.
It’s really quite simple. They’ve painted themselves into a corner be trying to pretend they are orally righteous. They cab’t admit the truth, because that would be admitting that they’re lying, hypocritical jackasses, and that would destroy any kind of support they have.
Make no mistake.
Today’s leftists are EXACTLY no different than Hitler or Stalin. To them, the end justifies the means. And rather than admit he was wrong, rather than admit he was defeated, Hitler insisted on the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Germans and their children….the almost total destruction of all of Germany….before he took the corward’s way out and committed suicide. Hitler would rather have seen his beloved Germany in RUINS…and did….rather than save his country from total destruction and the loss of life that went along with that.
Today’s leftist are absolute no different. They are FANATICS. Just as convinced of their own “superiority”, moral and otherwise, as Hitler and the “master race” ever was.
And today’s leftists are absolutely, positively, just as vile and evil. You’ve all seen the latest from them. Do you really think that scum would draw the line at infanticide??
No. Fucking. Way.
Infanticide is simply a starting point for the evil the left wants to unleash on the world. History repeats itself, because after such kind has been slaughtered and their numbers drastically reduced, there comes the time of peace when they are allowed to build up their numbers once again.
Thus, “the tree of Liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants alike.”
Rinse, repeat. Over and over again.
A very sad, but altogether unavoidable truth…grounded in the unchanging nature of mankind. The times change, but but human nature….particularly it’s worst traits….never do.
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*morally righteous
Funny how I at first thought you were joking with a reference to Bill Clinton.
Great post!
Ditto!
I hope DJT declines to have a debate with any of these dem morons. The chance of a sympathy backlash is just too great since he could not fail to stomp his opponent into roadkill. (figuratively speaking, of course).
And be deprived of this kind of sound bite?
No way!
I would agree with you, except that the one debate that always seems to be in my hometown is amazingly disruptive to life for everyone in a one mile radius from the venue. Just getting out of the church parking lot at noon that last time was an issue.
A week or so ago, I read there would be three. Seemed like an early detail to have in the process.
As President Trump literally owns every issue Americans care about, the D-Rats are doomed to fail.
ONLY thing that can fail us, is voters. We gotta get the vote out and trounce any D-Rat on the ballot.
“ONLY thing that can fail us, is voters.”
I would say we also need to take steps to defend against the use of
-fake voters,
-fake voting machines,
-and of some kind of spectacular, never-seen-before, October surprise fake news item, pushed by a coordinated campaign of the unholy trinity of Project Mockingbird: Goolag et al., TV and print fake news platforms, and Hollywood.
Yup.
Believe me fake voters and like issues are being dealt with.
Breaking news…something will break late October…we need to stand tall, resolute and get the votes out for President Trump.
We can prevail.
Well, if piano performance is an available topic, here is Marc-Andre Hamelin. It should be noted that the sheet music for this piece is notated with “cadenza ad lib” at the end…..which essentially means, “keep rockin'”. Many pianists record the piece without a cadenza because it’s already freaking exhausting. Hamelin’s cadenza is noteworthy for being equally as manic as the piece.
This youtube is also hilarious because there is a point where a drop of sweat drips from the end of Hamelin’s nose. It’s only funny because: concert hall, fancy dress, formal piece, stuffy conventions of behavior…..it’s totally understandable from the difficulty of what Hamelin is doing so beautifully and with such effort and technique. And he is truly a master demonstrating mastery.
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Things could be worse……
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That is funny!
No dissing Liberace, now. He actually was a great pianist. The candelabra just added what it took to attract the women in the suburbs who he knew were his real audience.
Looking back, Liberace was a marketing genius…kind of the Lady Gaga of the era.
Jim Nabors was similar…real talent hidden in guise of comedy.
Yes. Liberace (Italian, just like Lady Gaga) knew where the market was for what he was selling. There’s a story about him driving around the valley outside of LA and pointing out all the TV antennas, and telling a companion in the car, this is where the real audience is.
He wishes his brother George were here…LOL
Gosh, I had totally forgotten about brother George.
Believe it or not, I remembered it because of a Buggs Bunny cartoon. LOL
As a teenager in the 60’s, I think I was the only kid who actually went to Ferrante and Teicher concerts. I loved them. But then I loved Hugo Winterhalter also.
We often play Ferrante and Teicher Utubes.
I love all the music this morning. I thought I’d get out my own favorite Liszt to add to the rest. 🙂
Franz Liszt – La Campanella.
Now, now. Those stage lights are HOT. I mean HOT. And most orchestras and concert halls have it in the union contracts that the AC blowers not be on during performance. Essentially, the air currents blow the music off the stands.
And concert black is HOT. I mean HOT to work in. One time, a chorus member I used to sing with took a thermometer on stage and by the time we were done with an 83 minute piece with no intermission (Beethoven Missa Solemnis) which just happens to call for a 120 piece orchestra, including the big organ that throws off heat, it was 100 degrees on the stage. We were all dripping. I felt like I had been hit by a Mack truck.
After that performance, even the orchestra wanted the AC running when the chorus was on the stage.
And really, if people knew what really happened on a symphony stage, and that the white tie, black tie, etc., is a uniform to all of us, orchestral music might be more respected.
… wow .. 😮 … kudos DP … I admire musicians and people who sing in the chorus … totally awesome … 🤨👍❤️‼️‼️
It’s A LOT of work. Seriously. When I was really active, it was like having two full time jobs.
I admire you ❤️ … I’d love to hear your voice sometime … if there’s a way to do it. I know your top drawer .. 😉🤚❤️
We go to several Live from the Met broadcasts every season and over the years have come to recognize several of the chorus members (as well as the non-singing cast)…fanciful elves one performance, Roman soldiers the next one, etc.
We were in a national parks tour a few years ago and became friendly with another couple, she a professional opera singer in NYC. We learned a lot about being in the Met chorus….she eschewed it because of the long hours of rehearsal (often more than one production at the same time), the hours of costume-fitting, the choreography rehearsal, etc. evidently she could get enough private gigs to not need the steady paycheck. I enjoyed her perspective and it’s made me appreciate the chorus more.
In NYC it’s easier to make it. Here, EVERYBODY other than the symphony members themselves has multiple gigs or jobs. The chorus only meets once a week. And you are expected to put in extra work outside of rehearsal to learn your part.
I was in the Cathedral Choir at the same time. There were only three of us that were then. There were stretches where I was putting in 32 hours in an office, 3-4 evenings of 3 hour rehearsals, and then performances on the weekends.
When I shed both gigs, I didn’t realize how tired I was.
Great work on the daily Open-T, Daughn!
😀🤩👍
Love all the pictures of little ones…they are Why We Fight.
And I love that video of the Cosco Piano Girl.
Well done!
We also get a Harvest Moon tonight, on Friday the 13th.
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The Almanac explains how this is not only an early ‘Harvest Moon’…but also a ‘MicroMoon’…and how rare it is for us to have a Full Moon on Friday the 13th:
https://www.almanac.com/content/full-moon-september
——— From the article:
September’s Full Moon: A “Micromoon” Harvest Moon on Friday the 13th!
This month’s full Moon rises on the night of Friday, September 13, and reaches peak fullness at 12:33 a.m. EDT on the 14th.
Yes, that’s right—the brilliant Harvest Moon makes its annual appearance on Friday the 13th this year! What a clash of lore! Look skyward on Friday night for the best view of the shining Full Harvest Moon (but watch out for black cats and open ladders, too).
How Rare is a Full Moon on Friday the 13th?
Because Friday the 13th only happens between one and three times a year, it’s not particularly common for the full Moon to line up with it exactly. The last time there was a full Moon on Friday the 13th was in January 2006—13 years ago—and the next won’t occur until August 2049. Needless to say, cherish it this year!
What is a Micromoon?
As if this Harvest Moon wasn’t interesting enough already, September’s full Moon will also be a “micromoon.”
By this time, you’ve probably heard of a supermoon. A micromoon is exactly the opposite: a full Moon that occurs when the Moon is at the farthest point in its orbit around Earth (the point of apogee). In other words, the Moon is about as far from Earth as it can get, causing it to appear about 7% smaller and 15% dimmer than usual.
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Pretty cool, huh?
🤓😀
Let’s hope the moon-worshiping death-cult Islamists don’t take this as a ‘signal’ to go out and kill people.
🤞😕🤞
The Moon was GINORMOUS tonight. So big and pretty.
We have had cloud cover this evening, so…didn’t get to see it.
Not complaining though, because we got some much needed rain.
We have cloud and rain too … we don’t need any more rain … our ground is squishy … yuk ☹️
My friends who are nurses and teachers have been dreading the full moon tonight for weeks.
And our 9-1-1 operators and dispatchers have many more calls on full moons too.
🧐👍❤️ … 😃🤚❤️ … 🌙🌙🌙
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Here! Here! … 🤨👍❤️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️❤️❤️❤️
One city, one street, multiply that by the thousands of varying degrees. I saw a mention that PORUS team is looking at triage on a grand scale at a former air base of some sort. Thats got to be done, but the cities have to enforce the laws and heavily presssure suck ramento to rend ab 109 and prop 47 and prop 57.
https://twitter.com/claud91423/status/1172034134740361217?s=20
Years ago, I had a business trip to Denver. I noticed that their park benches had a center rail to keep people from sleeping on them. Then I staggered to my hotel from a bar at 2:00 am to find them spraying off the sidewalks with firehoses at 38 degrees. Very clean city, Denver (at the time). Zero homeless encampments.
Unfortunately, Van Nuys generally doesn’t freeze.
I see those benches now and again. Saw homeless setting up camp in the park last night. When i called the police, theyd already received 2 calls and ifgicers were on the way. No one here wants that.
I thought Van Nuys was middle class at the very least.
I really do not know the Los Angeles area, but I seen to recall that it was not a skid row kind of place.
Its very middle class. Nice area. My area is southwest and nice and being invaded.
I’m going to leave this link here because of a late discussion in Daughn’s Sidney Powell post regarding Powell’s recent motion to the Court on behalf of her client, General Flynn. I hold an optimistic perspective on Powell’s moves, and believe Powell has solid arguments backed up by facts for the Court to delve into.
Margot Cleveland, a lawyer, and law professor wrote this analysis. Robert Barnes, another well-known conservative legal name has tweeted it. Worth reading, Cleveland does a good job with her analysis, pointing out weaknesses and strengths of Sidney’s motion.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/12/sidney-powells-latest-motion-michael-flynns-case-russiagate-bombshell/
The previous discussion links are here:
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/09/11/time-to-talk-about-mike-flynn/#comment-251962
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/09/11/time-to-talk-about-mike-flynn/#comment-252007
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/09/11/time-to-talk-about-mike-flynn/
Margot Cleveland is a national treasure.
Yes, she’s done a good job using the legal lens necessary for our outstanding.
Thanks, Lady P. I’ve read Sidney’s filing and this is a good follow up. I pray Judge Sullivan is up to the task of serving justice within our politicized system. It has been a real eye opener to realize the DOJ has all the tools to ‘legally’ bankrupt a presumably innocent person under the guise of prosecution.
Will watch this play out with great interest. It seems Brady is a great tool on behalf of defendants, however it appears the defense attorneys have to already know everything the prosecutors haven’t disclosed (hence Sidney’s 40-item list) or else the prosecution will not ‘come clean’. Very biased in favor of our crooked DOJ bureaucracy.
Stay tuned …
Appreciate your input, Alison. There has been varied perspectives on Powell’s motion/plea. It does all boil down to what is in the Law, but unfortunately, the courts have been tainted by ideology first and the Law second, and we’ve seen the results of this play out publicly.
McCabe can afford lawyers who have spent the past year appealing the potential charges, and other folks – get 6AM door knocks with full SWAT teams and FBI guys with drawn guns.
Just putting this here — http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/11/0415/Fellowes1.html
Sorry, this belonged over on Daughn’s China thread.
cthulhu, maybe so, but it’s a Great Link.
As if we do not have enough reasons to despise the chicoms.
thanks for this link.
First his eyeball…and now his teeth.
Creepy Joe is falling apart!
😄😆
https://twitter.com/FuctupMike/status/1172329983462608897?s=20
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I’m looking forward to what the meme-makers do with this.
😁
David J Harris has a great laugh about it.
Haaa. I love it.
https://twitter.com/DavidJHarrisJr/status/1172378560503246848?s=20
Reminds me of The Joker:
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Or the Maximum Overdrive clown truck:
Sooner or later something was going to give on that front.
Yeah yeah … rrrriiiiigggghhhhhtttt …. you can’t keep your teeth in your mouth .. 😖🤚😑‼️ … go away ..
Speaking of Friday the 13th…
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WHY NC-9 SHOULD FRIGHTEN DEMOCRATS
Minority voters are starting to walk away.
https://spectator.org/why-nc-9-should-frighten-the-democrats/
QUOTE:
“Last week the Democrats were touting the special election in North Carolina’s 9th District as the first major contest of the 2020 cycle, and the polls indicated that Democrat Dan McCready might win what should be a pretty safe GOP seat. But by Wednesday morning, after Republican Dan Bishop had won, their focus had shifted and much commentary was devoted to his “thin margin of victory.” Little notice was taken of certain voting patterns that should frighten the Democrats.
The most unnerving example, from the Democratic perspective, is rural Robeson County. The ethnic makeup of this county is as follows: Native American (38.6%), White (25.7%), Black (24%), Hispanic (8.52%), Two or More Races (2.15%), Asian (0.66%), Other (0.275%). On Tuesday the Democrat received a fraction of the votes he received in 2018, running for the same seat.
Ryan Matsumoto of Inside Elections provides the gory details: “McCready won Robeson County by only 1.11 points, a MASSIVE decrease from his 15.31 point margin last November.” In 2012, Obama carried Robeson by 17 points!
This is a county of about 143,000, and 74 percent of these folks are clearly not the racist rednecks the Democrats would have us believe make up most of the Trump/GOP base. The shift away from McCready was the result of disenchantment among minority voters with the Democrat. Moreover, though Robeson was the most obvious, it was by no means the only ethnically diverse county whose voters “walked away.” Nearly 60 percent of Cumberland County’s approximately 333,000 residents are Black, Hispanic, or a member of some other minority group. McCready won it in 2018. Dan Bishop won Cumberland on Tuesday.”
Excellent, and just barely 10 months post 2018 election, the Dems are finding out that buyer’s remorse is bigger than they ever expected. In fact, they didn’t expect it – these are Dems not voting for the Dem, but turning out to vote. Bishop won by 4,000 votes, 2% points, would have been easy for 4,000 to stay home – which is the passive method used for voter disenchantment. No, these folks were active and voted for POTUS’ endorsed candidate.
That’s adds to the strength of what happened in NC-09.
Once I get my behind moved to NC, I’ll be visiting my aunt in Knoxville. And if I’m spending time in Knoxville, I understand that there’s a plaque for this hero — https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tennessee-teen-zaevion-dobson-dies-shielding-friends-gunshots-police-say-n483111 — a young man who died shielding three from gunfire. It’s on my list to touch this plaque and add my prayer to it.
Some happy news for the president this morning.
Trump Hotels are renowned for their exceptional service and impeccable housekeeping.
It is something that travelers can rely on, without fail.
So it is great to see one of them win an award…especially now, when so many rabid leftists are trying to sabotage them.
😁
The Trump Hotel in DC also made the list, in 9th place.
And Florida is still above water.
Verse of the Day
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“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”
1 Peter 5:8 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!
Jesus Loves Babies…Pray for the Unborn
Jesus Loves the Little Children…Pray for the Little Children
http://byronbayphotographer.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/inspiration-jesus-and-children-picture.jpg
Jesus Loves You…Come to Him
Jebus!
He obviously picked up Hillary’s old talking points. Unbelievable!
*facepalm* 🤦♀️😕😖
Did you see this?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/american-priest-to-pope-im-wearied-from-being-scorned-and-demonized-by-you
American priest to Pope: I’m ‘wearied from being scorned and demonized by you’
In response to Pope Francis’s remarks about Americans and “rigid young priests,” Monsignor Charles Pope wrote on social media:
Santo Padre, I’m not feeling the love here, I don’t feel accompanied by you. Make room in your heart for me and others like me. I am not a young priest, but I know you don’t like my type of priesthood. Further I am an American and this mere fact seems to also make me troublesome in your eyes. I am not afraid of everything a you state, but I do have concerns for the ambiguity of some of your teachings and severity of some of your actions. Yet when we, your less favored sons, ask you questions you will not answer or clarify. In all this I am still your son and share the priesthood of Jesus with you. I await the solicitude and gentle care from you that you say I, and others like me, lack. Meanwhile I must honestly and painfully say that I am wearied from being scorned and demonized by you.
Respectfully,
Carlo.
I’ve been following Monsignor Pope for years.
He is a wonderful priest trapped among liberals in the Washington DC dioceses.
I’m glad he wrote this.
What is encouraging is to see the push back. Yes, it’s still polite, barely, and collegial, but I don’t recall seeing both the laity and the priests who still are more orthodox speaking out this way.
Here is his twitter if you are interested:
Tweets by MsgrPope
Oops. I didn’t know they would all come out. Sorry.
^^^ “Global Educational Alliance”
Frances spouts nauseating BS, me thinks. Seemingly everything this guy says is utter nonsense. Open borders. Global warming. Now, “Global Educational Alliance”.
He needs to retire, to Venezuela.
Yeah, Gaslighting takes a tag team.
And today a lot of his work is banned.
https://twitter.com/historylvrsclub/status/1172428416785637376
Riki Tiki Tavi is a childhood favorite in this house. Sad.
Come on Nan! Let it come up for a vote!
I didn’t watch the ridiculous ‘debate’ last night…but I found this clip over at CitizenFreePress:
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What is he going on about…it’s actually painful to watch.
“Make sure you have the record player on at night…” <– Huh?
Can some clever person come up with a graphic of Joe Biden as MR. TUDBALL from the old Carol Burnette show? That’s what I’m seeing and hearing from Ole Joe from that “debate” of last night.
Mark Your Calendars.
I swear I’ve seen that set in at least one movie. Who was the art director again? Same guy who did The Wizard of Oz in the Wizard’s chamber, and the 1927 Metropolis, and at least one James Bond SPECTRE scene.
Oh, wait. That’s the UN green marble place. Nevermind. [/s]
Great POST Daughn ……………… love the little children, and the music! Allso, the cute little treehouse for the birds…
You’re a hard working gal, and we appreciate you so much! Thank you for all that you do.
Receipts and outlays for the month of August are in. Very bad month for the Federal government. We are going to have the worst deficit year in history unless September comes in strong. Whoever says the economy is roaring is lying to you. FY2020 looks like it could be a very bad year if something does not change.
Receipts (millions)
$227, 965
Outlays (millions)
$428,309
Deficit (millions)
$200,349
The annual deficit is now at $1,067,157 (millions). Looks like FY2019 receipts will match FY2018 but spending has jacked up.
Things that need to happen. Now a must.
1. Lower interest rates
2. USMCA gets approved
3. China trade deal
The administration cannot wait too much longer to add stimulus to the economy. Whether it is the above three, or some short term measure, we absolutely need it now. POTUS will lose leverage if these results continue unabated. A healthy economy means the Federal government turns a profit.
Thank goodness we have braindead finance people running for the Democrat nomination.
Surely I will never be the sharpest tool in the shed.
The deficit is a problem. A big one, is an understatement.
The economy in a bad way? Not seeing it.
Economy appears to be hot. Slowing? Perhaps. Ebb and flow of an economy, me thinks.
World economy, specifically, China, EU, Canada…in the toilet. American economy, chugging along, me thinks.
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Yea, USMCA is a must pass. IF nitwit Nan plays politics and NOT allow a vote. President trump will, IMO, immediately give six month notice to terminate NAFTA. Gotta terminate NAFTA. NAFTA has gutted US jobs, manufacturing and fueled that debilitating sucking sound of American wealth being ex filtrated.
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Gotta have a China deal? Well, it would be OK by me. BUT, massive tariffs screwing China is my preference.
– No interest in a strong communist economy…feeding a commie military…destabilizing economies around the globe. Piss on China.
“Whoever says the economy is roaring is lying to you.”
Bullshit.
That’s just one measurement of many, and POTUS is well aware of your concerns. Unfortunately, and for one thing, the dim idiots control the House. For another, he still has a lot of GOPe clowns to contended with. POTUS can’t refuse to sign a budget bill without taking on a fight he doesn’t necessarily want to wage. And he is FAR more informed and experienced than you are.
Don’t spew this kind of garbage in this space. Just don’t.
We are clocking at 1.9% GDP for the current quarter. The only nonsense is people who say the economy is roaring. Sorry if you don’t like the truth. This is not the President’s fault. He has done everything he should. We have traitors in Congress.
hmm…my post about the Fed’s receipts and outlays did not appear?
checking
ok I see it above.
Link
https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/reports-statements/mts/current.html
Atlanta Fed GDP now forecast for 3rd quarter is 1.9% which is shocking (we get an update sometime today). We get the latest update for 2nd quarter GDP on September 26th. And GDP by state for the same period on November 7th.
Losing Boeing costs us 4/10ths of a point by itself.
Yup, we need Boeing firing on all cylinders.
Last I read, a month or so ago, 737 MAX software would be ready for FAA review / certification last quarter this year.
While the software was faulty, I do wonder how much lack of pilot training / pilot experience played in the two or three crashes. Regardless, the software needed fixing.
Someone is our resident aviation guru so to speak. NYGuy? Wonder what his thoughts on this are?
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Please, please, please. Boeing needs to rebound. Please, please, please.
Very in-depth thread on why Flynn was targeted. Good Job.
https://twitter.com/1GigiSims/status/1171844705795096576?s=20
MUST READ, actually. This thread fills in a lot of holes.
Yes it is.
This needs to be circulated as widely as possible!
^^^ Echoing DP comment, thread an excellent read.
Thread reaffirms why we need Flynn in the Trump Administration.
After the case against Flynn is tossed, hope President Trump offers Flynn the National Security Adviser, again. President Trump unconventional way of operating in DC, allows this decision.
The Flynn case getting tossed, regaining the National Security Adviser position would be total vindication, me thinks.
MCM, D-Rat splody heads would be a sight to behold;-)
Wild card for me, would Flynn reenter the Fray in that position. Thinking he would.
And he would re-insert all the spooks he put in place there in Jan 2017, that McMasters iirc immediately replaced !
Chief executives of 145 companies urge senate to pass gun control laws
including ‘ red-flag ‘ laws
Scroll own article and push ‘see the letter ‘ for CEO’s and company names ..the usual suspects
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/12/chief-executives-of-145-companies-urge-senate-to-pass-gun-control-laws.html
It’s all about the USChamber and trade with China – they want things to go back to the way it was – keep stealing from the USA and doing biz in China.
Every one of them are attacking the Pres on social issues to drag down his approval rating…. but it has nothing to do with their stance on guns.
Levis donated a million for gun campaign, but Levis has not made a pair of blue jeans in the USA since 2004.
It’s why Nike hired Colin Kaepernick.
The CEO of Nike can’t come out and lambast the Pres, and say “Hey, I really like the sweet deal we have, manufacturing in China, importing back to the USA with hardly any customs duty, and yeah…. we’re a little bit sorry for killing thousands of jobs in the USA, but we’re making a $.50 cheaper t-shirt —– so we’re serving the people.
Right on point, as usual Daughn…
CHILDREN ARE A HERITAGE FROM THE LORD
Michael Youssef, Ph.D.
Sep 12, 2019
abraham heritage promises of god
Some parents who are knee-deep in diapers and family deadlines may wonder if there will ever be a time when they can just relax and enjoy their children. The Truth is children can be a great comfort from the Lord. In them we can learn to see life from a different perspective—one of wonder and freshness.
When we get older, our children will be the hope of our heritage. Abraham understood this principle. He longed for a son but remained childless. God had promised him that Sarah would have a son. As the years moved on, Abraham wondered if this promise would be fulfilled. Then when Sarah was past childbearing age, she gave birth to Isaac. Scripture says:
Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. (Genesis 21:1-2)
https://www.ltw.org/-/media/Images/LTW/Read/My%20Devotional/2019/09/edev_091219_2000x833%20jpg
We rejoice over the fact that God did exactly what He promised He would do.
Isaac’s birth was a cause for celebration but not just because of his birth. We rejoice over the fact that God did exactly what He promised He would do.
Like Sarah, you may have waited for years to have a child. Or there may be another promise you have from the Lord that has up until this point gone unanswered. When you think all hope is gone, God will step into your situation with an answer to your deepest prayer. There is no higher calling than to be a person who helps to mold and shape the life of a child. And there is no greater experience than to trust in Jesus Christ.
Prayer: Father, thank You for the gift of my children. Teach me to be a parent whose life is guided by Your Truth and wisdom. I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.
“God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever” (Psalm 73:26).
https://www.ltw.org/read/my-devotional/2019/09/children-are-a-heritage-from-the-lord
https://twitter.com/GrrrGraphics/status/1172508256335364096
One Year Later!…’We Uncovered an Evil Agenda to Deceive Millions of Believers!!’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4VxGNTq8IY&feature=em-uploademail
duchess, I’m seeing a big blank space. Do you have a link?
False alarm. A refresh and it’s now showing.
I listened to it but did not hear the first report (no time to listen today) and have no idea who they are referring to and what exactly they were talking about. There are a lot of national ministries speaking about money.
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Oh, sorry – here it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4VxGNTq8IY&feature=em-uploademail
Anybody recall the movie “Dave” from the early 90’s? Kevin Kline, Signourney Weaver. In the movie, COS and real-prez were charged with 1) Election Fraud. 2) Obstruction of Justice. 3) Money laundering frpm S&L, instead of Russia. Oh, and at the end, 25th Amendment was used due to “incapacitation”. Sound familiar?
So the small group has been running a movie script all along! Throw in a couple of Clancey books, and you can see the progs everywhere.
We ARE talking about Obama, aren’t we? Election fraud, obstruction, money laundering….
Wait a minute, that was the one where the real president had a stroke in bed with his mistress and they used a body double, right?
Yes! Found it interesting that the charges against the president in that movie are the same ones small group tried on President Trump. And the 25th Amendment. All in one show. Hmmm.
I can see this happening. And that’s scary!
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No Matter Who Wins in 2020, There Will Be Blood
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/no_matter_who_wins_in_2020_there_will_be_blood.html
I totally disagree with the article.
No. 1 ……………. there’s no chance a DIM gets elected. Donald Trump will win in a landslide. By end of 2020 those judges who support the Constitution will be in the majority in almost all of the lower courts.
No. 2 …………….. what of the reasons there is such a long time coming for IG reports, declas etc is to continue to inform and redpill Americans. Trump supporters will not be rioting… and 99% of the SJWs and Commies live in coastal areas. LEO including Federal Marshals along with the Nat’l Guard will be available to maintain order.
Some people, esp. those too young to have lived through desegregation need to pull out a history book or two.
It really makes me livid when so-called intelligent people write articles like this.
I have given a cursory reading to most of the comments about General Flynn’s recent court hearing.
Fwiw, though not a lawyer, I believe that General Flynn will not withdraw his guilty plea about lying because it allows him to demand the documents which prove the tremendous scope and illegality of the coup and disinformation waged against him as well as against the President and his supporters.
I pray that before he is done, the coup plotters and their stooges will begging for him to withdraw his plea and have the whole thing dismissed.
Anyone wonder why the Democrat Party leaders don’t simply take out Joe Biden? Not hard to figure. They need him to go by himself, without their activism – and they certainly could get him out simply with the right narrative pushed by the MSM.
Right now they’re using subtle efforts, but they can’t go full out on this – unless they get desperate. Why?
Joe knows where all the bodies are buried, and even with his dementia, he’ll be able to tell enough stories that will have the Dems running for cover.
I think that there are those behind the scenes who want the stupidest and most easily controlled puppet they can get in there to be President.
To me, like Hillary, Joe Biden is a perfect example of who they are: grasping, shallow, self serving, godless, ego-centric, deceitful, immoral tyrants.
I agree with stupid candidate, and easily malleable, but Biden’s dementia is a big problem for them. IF he is the candidate, the Dems will have the problem of their voters staying home – hating Trump but not going to vote for a guy this over the hill. It will have adverse effects on their downticket races.
Second that opinion Lady P.,
Yet they may run him in spite of the problems, stemming—imo—from hubris due to their success in manipulating the public ever since the Clinton corruption elevated “spin” to an art form in their party.
It may be that they believe (with some justification) that they can simply lie enough about an obvious truth to deceive enough of the public to allow them to justify their electoral cheating.
Good Morning, WQTH Trump Troops and Prayer Warriors!
Our daughter Sally Q is home from the hospital after 21 days!!! We brought her home yesterday afternoon. She was so tired she slept last night from 10:30 pm to 10:30 am! No nurses to wake her up and take vital signs and give meds!
She will get her first shower and shampoo since August 21 – 22 days with just bed baths and dry shampoo!
We have new diet, exercise routines and recommendations from OT, PT, Dietician, Speech Pathologist. We are going to get a heart/BP monitor for home and a few other precautionary items and routines. It will take a bit more home care and assistance now.
Thank you all for your prayers and encouragement!!! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️!!!!!
Georgia, GREAT NEWS ……………… so happy for you and your family.
Thank you Lord for prayers answered…………
You must be over the moon now that she is HOME !
“…. bit more home care and assistance now.” Do you have additional help? Please remember to take care of Georgia too 😉
May God continue to strengthen Sally, and bless you and all your family.
Wonderful news!
I am thankful to God for answered prayer and a sweet victory for you and your daughter.
https://www.bible.com/bible/1/ROM.8.28.KJV
Praise God! That is such great news to hear.
That’s wonderful news. Even sooner than expected. 🙂
GREAT news GA/FL so happy for you.
Delighted to read that your daughter is at home! Excellent news! You must be so relieved.
I do look forward to your updates. Many thanks.
Prayers continue for Sally Q’s further recovery.
Amen!
Thanks so much, CM – She is doing better every day! So thrilled. A wonderful, merciful answer to prayers around the world!!!
You are most welcome, GA/FL.
I cannot imagine what you have been going through and the immense relief you feel right now.
Prayer is an amazingly underrated resolution to so many issues.
May God continue to bless you, Sally and your family.
the amount of money being sent to other countries is astounding!
FTA:
The “Directo a Mexico” program Malkin references was started by former President George W. Bush’s administration in 2005, funneling remittances through the Federal Reserve directly to Mexico’s central bank, according to Judicial Watch, which has been suing the federal government for more information on the scheme.
“The Trump administration should release it to Judicial Watch and then shut it down,” Malkin said.
Malkin said when she first reported on Directo a Mexico, she discovered how American taxpayer money has funded the Federal Reserve’s marketing of the program to illegal aliens living in the U.S.
“I reported for the first time … how they marketed the program I believe it was in Minnesota,” Malkin said. “So taxpayer money was used to have a little fair and there were games and they brought families in to recruit illegal alien customers.”
“It’s very important that American taxpayers know that its largely their money that’s funding their own destruction,” Malkin said.
Every year, as Breitbart News has reported, about $150 billion in remittances are sent to foreign countries by illegal aliens and legal immigrants living in the U.S. This money is untaxed.
Mexico, in 2017 alone, received about $30 billion in untaxed remittances from foreign nationals living in the U.S., while China took in between $15 to $20 billion that year. India and the Phillippines also enjoyed more than $10 billion in untaxed remittances sent from foreign nationals living in the U.S.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/13/watch-exclusive-michelle-malkin-to-trump-shut-down-federal-reserve-remittance-program-for-illegal-aliens/
The USA has been the worlds ATM!
Time to end excessive US welfare programs and foreign aid!!!!
AGREED!!!
Good to see you here Pat ………….. you are sorely missed!!!
Certainly time to end the multiple perks for illegal immigrants and foreign aid in the form of NATO, UN monies to protect those whom claim to be ‘allies’ and can afford to pay their fair share and DON’T……..
Our POTUS is working on this agenda as fast as he can …………………….
Thanks very much for the thread.
I went to the v. long thread that Praying Medic cites. This could be the nightmare security scenario playing out:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1172540842944471043.html
Is this basically what IIhan and perhaps Rashid are guilty of ……………?
Probably so but if they won’t even charge ELMI of immigration fraud and campaign finance fraud (which both appear to be easily proven) I can’t see them getting charged with this.
For all that ELMI has done she hasn’t even been censured by Congress
Exactly Mollly… these DIMs seem to get away with murder…………………………
Yep..2 words…Seth Rich
Agree ……………..
1. Why would sealed indictments be outside of DC jurisdiction? What purpose would this serve?
A: To avoid the predominately leftist juries inside DC who would be told that any indictment against an Obama-era official was politically motivated.
2. Why are judicial appointments being rapidly completed?
A: To prevent and forestall activist judges and the Lawfare gang from interfering with the coming prosecutions, esp. at the appellate level.
3. Who can you trust?
A: Only President Donald J. Trump….whose life and fortunes….as we as that of his family’s…utterly depend on the successful elimination of the DC swamp.
A+ on your answers FG&C ………………..
Interesting:
The Reckoning 💥
@sethjlevy
“treasonous crimes”
Btw treason can only happen in 2017 once Trump is already President.
Watch and learn.
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….IG Report, which showed him to be a Disgraced & Dirty Cop. Republicans have unified like never before. You don’t impeach Presidents for doing a good (great!) job. No Obstruction, No Collusion, only treasonous crimes committed by the other side, and led by the Democrats. Sad!
Nope, treason happened when Obama used FOREIGN spies on FOREIGN soil to spy on Americans in an effort to subvert the laws of the US to interfere in an election. Subversion of the people, sedition and Treason happened when they tried to remove Trump in 2017. But the former is conspiracy against the US and against the laws of the US (Constitution) with a foreign power. Benedict Arnold ring a bell? As a kicker, we STILL are at WAR in multiple countries, which makes ANY conspiracy against the interests of the US TREASON and punishable by DEATH.
Good points, Rex. I’m pretty sure POTUS’ use of the word Treason is serious stuff – it’s a matter of the legal logistics being sorted out. We don’t want any of them to get away…
Exactly right, and the reasons it has taken so long, is the corruption was so wide and so deep it took time to flush enough out that lead to the big fish. Now all I’s have been dotted, and t’s crossed, and it is now time to pull back the curtain and start the show. Are you ready? I am, I have been waiting for this for two years plus since I first started looking into what the Cabal did,
The 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals is going rogue, reinstating 2 previously dismissed lawsuits today….one against POTUS re: “emoluments clause” as well as the idiotic suit against Fox News by Seth Rich’s parents.
Activist judges.
FYI to the Q Tree at large, the 2nd Circuit covers this territory.
Its territory comprises the states of Connecticut, New York, and Vermont, and the court has appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:
District of Connecticut
Eastern District of New York
Northern District of New York
Southern District of New York
Western District of New York
District of Vermont
The swamp pool of attys~
https://twitter.com/filthy_liberals/status/1172336374227189765
Figures.
LifeNews.com
@LifeNewsHQ
This is Christina.
She was born on 9/11
at 9:11 p.m.
weighing 9 pounds, 11 ounces!
#FridayFeeling #prolife
http://bit.ly/32BJYks
We have enough homegrown thugs..we do not need to import them. Get out!
https://twitter.com/WinstonCovfefeB/status/1172491014227070976
see I have a problem with this.
I’m just supposed to accept that this is an immigrant gang because some twitter user says so? How do we know this isn’t a US gang?
Guess it’s not definitive that it’s foreigners but the incident is real. No names given in the report
https://www.fox9.com/news/targeted-for-cell-phones-robbery-victims-beaten-in-downtown-minneapolis-crime-spree
Agreed to a degree. The number of accepted “truths” based on one person’s word is disturbing. Without knowledge of who these guys are, a group of immigrants could be targeted incorrectly.
The gang, whoever they are, does need to be rounded up, though.
First, listen to this drooling idiot…..
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Now before you get all worked up, if you haven’t already, listen to Chris Matthews….yes, THAT Chris Matthews….
QUOTE:
“Beto came along and said he’s going to not just buy back semi-automatic assault rifles, but demand that they sell them back. I don’t know where you get away with that. I noticed that Kamala talked about an executive order. This would be an extraordinary ruling by the Supreme Court that would allow a president to use executive orders to demand the end of ownership of semi-automatic assault weapons. I just think these are three or four cases of extreme, ideological positions.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/12/matthews-i-dont-know-where-you-get-away-with-saying-youll-take-away-ar-15s/
Is beto running just to make rest of them seem sane and their leftist policies seem centrist?
The thing about buybacks is that it tends to be law abiding citizens who take advantage, not criminals. There was one here, and, yeah, thousands of firearms were turned in, but it was the working class wanting the money more than anything else that made it a “success.” Crimes with firearms were not effected at the time.
Fight Back !!
Robinson released~
https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1172535907733229568
https://twitter.com/1776Stonewall/status/1172535814817009665?s=20
It was the local Houston ABC affiliate station that ran it, not the entire ABC network, so it was only seen in Houston. IMO, it was quite good and very thought provoking. That’s probably why the snowflake liberals hate it so badly.
Thank God for AOC, who makes even dim moderates recoil in horror.
They going full cannibalism
Just a few low points from last night’s Demonrat debate
Kamala seemed high and cackles like Hillary.
Who are those people cheering for taking guns? They are anti-American.
Biden is toast.
Warren (not in that clip) presents as someone who cares, is serious, and is somewhat sane, though socialist to the core. She could fool people.
…. pssssst … 🤫 …. Litzzy/sane …. it’s and act … 😉👍❤️🤡
… 🧐 … 😳 … I think my cat Nikki decided to add a post .. 😑 … she can’t type or spell for crud tsk tsk ..
I considering buying her opposable thumbs … 🤫 … I want it to be a surprise .. heh heh .. 😜
She gets opposable thumbs and can open her own cat food you are getting kicked to the curb
LOL .. 😝👍❤️ …… Yeah .. maybe, I’m still taller than her though … but she’s sneaky and quiet, except when she jumps off her tower, then you hear a loud .. thud .. (she’s a fatty 🤫)
AWWW – she’s just Rubeneque!
HA! She’s a big girl but I love her 😛🤚❤️
I would like to get a couple chihuahua’s to run wild in the house and chat Nikki and Chico around. Chico is good at hiding in high places … poor Nikki is very gravitationally challenged so she would have to run like heck to escape the dogs …. and she would be getting her exercise ..
😃👍❤️ … 🤫 … one of these days … heh heh … SURPRISE ‼️‼️
Unless you’re in law enforcement, I think Open Carry is stupid. IMO, Concealed Carry is the way to go. A lot of these Open Carry guys are just on a power trip and want to look tough. It’s like, “Don’t mess with me ’cause I’m packin'”.
Depends on the neighborhood, don’t you think?
IMO, the rougher the neighborhood, the dumber it is to Open Carry.
Thugs have been known to walk up behind an Open Carry advocate, put a gun to the back of his head and demand his gun. IMO, Open Carry can trigger someone to become suddenly violent with their gun. Why risk it when you can Carry Concealed?
phoenix, I think it may.
I have friends in Apache Junction AZ, and guys open carry in the grocery store, and no one seems to notice or care.
you can tell by their tack they probably wear their gear in their houses!
Sends a powerful message when you combine it with the right to assemble.
Something that may well need to be done to make these leftists think twice.
I’m sure some to many “open carriers” are on a power trip, but in my state you need no permit and no expensive to very expensive training and renewals. You just open carry.
Unless you’re in law enforcement, I think Open Carry is stupid.
^^^ Everyone is welcome to their opinion. Including what appears to be a bit, narrow minded.
Thankfully we are in America, Freedom reigns. Cherish, the choice is ours. Yea, State dependent, it is a choice.
Sort of like revolver or semi-automatic. Necessary round capacity…4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 15, 17…. Carry extra rounds / magazines? OC or CC? CC, IWB, OWB, sholder, ankle… OC… Type of holster. Caliber? Weapon manufacture… On and on.
It is all situational and personal preference. Me thinks.
D-Rats live for the day they can further restrict the Second Amendment until it is extinct.
100% vote freedom of choice. Whether I like the choices is irrelevant. So long as OC motives are legal, it is not my place to hot mouth them.
Amen. Open carry is a lot like many choices in clothing and accouterments. Sometimes it’s just right, and sometimes it make one look like a yahoo. Let freedom reign!
Store owners open-carrying always get a thumbs-up from me. The message to any person should be “Guess who else in this store MIGHT be carrying?”
Out in the country – small town – just looks natural to me.
OTOH, I was in a campground with real yahoos open-carrying, and it was *facepalm*.
Open carry to a gun rights rally or a gun show, also a thumbs up here!
‘Asking’ is just that ……………….. what are they going to do if someone legally open carries in their store?
Ask them to leave, turn away their money? HAHAHAHAHA NO………..
They’ll DO NOTHING. This way they are playing both sides of the fence on 2A issues.
The store manager can ask you to leave and if you don’t, you’re trespassing and subject to arrest.
It’s private property. They can do what they want.
Actually, I asked a Walmart manager after Walmart opted for the dark side a week or two ago. Walmart manager said OC is absolutely not accepted and the OC person will be asked to leave.
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What can they do? What they can do, varies by state laws.
Some states dictate required signage size, narrative, placement…
NV, they can ask you to leave, and you must. First offense not leaving is a misdemeanor, AND OC person leaves the business. Beyond that, dunno. Rather sure, significant legal problems.
thanks kalbokalbs
Smith’s one of the many supermarket brands Kroger owns. Kroger has made statements I consider to be on the dark side…
Also asked a Smith’s manager, IF OC was banned, the OC person would be asked to leave. She told me no change in policy that she was aware of…follow state law.
So, in NV, OC is OK in Smith’s.
I always find this interesting. I know that some people are scared at the mere sight of a gun, Setting them aside, if someone is carrying openly, you know they have a gun and can avoid them if you want. If someone is carrying concealed, you have no clue. You could be engaging them in conversation within a couple of feet, and you would be a couple of feet away from a gun.
Open carry could deter criminals, but no one wants to look at that.
The Left doesn’t want people to get used to seeing guns. That would help our side, not theirs. It would normalize it as it once was, and they can’t have that. We need to keep fighting because they will never stop.
I think that qualifies it as a phobia, if you don’t care about it unless you can see it.
Hard-core leftists don’t want anyone to own a gun, much less carry one, concealed or openly. But those less politically aware who are only looking at surface issues just don’t want to see the nasty gun. Out of sight, out of mind. They would probably prefer there be no guns, too, but their gut reaction is “Get that icky thing out of my sight.” They are the ones who can be used to further the agenda of keeping people afraid of the sight of a gun.
We’re both right–there are genuine hoplophobes out there, and just people who’ve been trained to think of them as “icky”
Both serve the Left’s purposes.
Yes, phobias can’t be allowed to set the agenda. We don’t outlaw balconies because some people are afraid of heights. They have made “-phobia” a pejorative suffix — homophobia, Islamophobia, etc. — so if someone suffers from firearmaphobia, they must be called to task for it.
Someone or other (Jeff Cooper?) coined the term “hoplophobia” (and “hoplophobe”) for a pathological fear of weapons (or the person suffering from it).
I was looking for such a term. 😎 But hoplo-? I can’t find anything about its etymology.
Hop lite. Greek infantry
Well, that didn’t occur to me.
ORIGIN OF HOPLITE
1720–30; < Greek hoplī́tēs, equivalent to hópl(on) piece of armor, particularly the large shield + -ītēs -ite1
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hoplite?s=t
Thanks Steve …. I was about to ask about the term “hoplophobia” …
Hoplo reminds me of cowboy Hopalong Cassiday !
My wild ass guess is it comes from “hoplite”
A+ for you Steve ……….. makes sense to me. A new word for me!!!
Sigmund Freud:A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. General Introduction to Psychoanalysis. (1920)
Ah – this is why “they” are infantilizing us. SMART.
para, hey thanks!
sweet!
We allow LEOs to carry in sight …. regardless of how SJWs feel.
I do not care if a person carries a gun. To me it does not matter maybe I am a little fatalistic at my age.
If a person wants to shoot they are going too if one carries open or not.
A couple decades ago, at a former employer, there was a sketch artist tutorial going on in the meeting rooms. City and county cops were attending in street clothes with their side arms on their belts. The moonbat employees of the place were like, are those people wearing guns?!
The staff had to explain that they were police officers getting training. Then it was okay.
I’m seeing this here, although it’s a change from gun free zone to no open carry. There must be an industry wide movement or something along those lines.
Me thinks it is all PC crap from CEOs trying to placate nanny state fools against guns by stating no OC AND placating gun owners that they can still CC, if allowed by that state. CEOs focused on money.
Me further thinks nanny state fools, anti gun are happy…chipping away at gun rights.
AND, me also thinks gun owners should take ZERO comfort when OC is banned.
True. Losing OC does not feel like winning. But it does feel like businesses who are clearly IMPLYING that CC is OK, are helping us create a DEFENSIBLE LINE on CC. So there is that. They are basically saying “we don’t mind if our sensors show you carrying – you don’t mind, either”.
It’s a nice trick that reverses the outrage. We WELCOME THE SENSORS by welcoming the non-ban.
Cunning.
Because TRUST ME – this is all about sensors, IMO. That’s where the money is going to be. Sensors hooked up to AI that can even “guess in the absence of CC data” whether a carrier is friend or foe, although they can use FBI data to get around that for many cases. It is this ADDED SALE of “friend-or-foe AI” that is, IMO, behind relenting on CC. There’s more MONEY in it if sensor companies “do the math” than just “identify a POTENTIAL threat”.
Change of heart at security state sensor companies. There is now MORE MONEY in allowing CC than in getting rid of it, which the cabal originally pushed them to try in beta testing.
CC won’t be CC to corporate and government sensor networks sharing through 5G. We will only be CC to each other.
Cunning.
The world is becoming a very complicated place. What little privacy we have, is all there is that restrains many corporate and government criminals from hacker-minded social scams through deterministic knowledge – facial recognition, ubiquitous sensors, 5G, government and corporate databases. And that’s not counting higher players, who apparently already have some kind of abilities to use our current cellular infrastructure. I find that startling. How much more can they do with 5G? I’m betting a LOT.
We have to be very careful now. We are sometimes building what the enemy needs.
Here’s a guy with my sense of humor
https://katu.com/news/local/cougar-greets-bandon-resident-from-neighbors-roof
I’m so excited!
I replied to a Catturd tweet today, and he (she?) followed me back!!!
Love Cat Turd, what a funny guy.
Awesome Aubergine!!! So fun when the big accts NOTICE us little guys!!!
I just heard a guy call into the local radio talk show station and say when the protesters were yelling at Creepy Joe last night in the debates, he saw Beto O’Rourke turn his back to the audience and put one finger in a nostril, then blow out the other once right onto the stage.
I didn’t watch much of the event, so I can’t verify this. Did anyone else notice it? If he did that, it’s truly disgusting and fits his character or rather lack thereof.
OMG, it’s true! I found a video of it!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/video/protesters-interrupt-biden-during-democratic-debate/vp-AAHdEe7
Wait! There’s more video here:
https://twitter.com/JoeySalads/status/1172545051311988736?s=20
That was good, especially the Photoshop of Spartacus’ bug eyes. 🙂
What you are referring to is commonly called “the farmer’s blow”. And I have and will still do it, usually when I’m doing yard work and 1) don’t have a handkerchief at hand, or 2) to prevent sneezing.
I most def. would NOT do it during a televised debate.
OMG – you’re “real country”! High five!!!
My wife HATES IT, but I learned it from country kid friends when I was a kid, and refuse to give it up, although I never do it where anybody but my “country” neighbors can see it.
What in the heck is Beto doing? Trying to get cred with rurals? BAD MOVE. That’s like doing it in church.
Uggghhhhhh….what a disgusting person.
And now for the news we have all been waiting for!
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/461251-trump-on-energy-efficient-light-bulbs-i-always-look-orange
Trump on energy-efficient light bulbs: ‘I always look orange’
In a speech to Republican House members reported by NBC News, the president quipped that light bulbs that the Obama administration “forced” Americans to use were “no good.”
“People said, ‘What’s with the light bulb?’ And I said ‘Here’s the story,’ and I looked at it. … The bulb that we’re being forced to use, number one, to me most importantly, the light’s no good. I always look orange,” Trump said, to laughter.
“And so do you, the light is the worst,” Trump added.
ORANGE MAN GOOD!!!
Finally!
R.I.P. Eddie Money
https://people.com/music/eddie-money-dead-70/
I’m sorry to see this. I took a number of jobs and told the boss to shove them. Best thing I ever did in some cases.
Oops. Wrong artist. Been a long day. Still sorry that this man has passed.
https://twitter.com/Shem_Infinite/status/1172600884737585152
Protection against liberal ideology
PROPOSED LEGISLATION:
Any local, state, or federal legislator or elected gov’t official who publicly either publicly endorses and/or votes in favor for ANY infringement of the 2nd Amendment rights of any US citizens shall immediately, without delay of any kind of type or reason, dispossess themselves, their family members, and any security personnel either assigned to or hired by them for protection of any and all kinds and types of firearms
Theory: They were going to bomb the Washington Monument on 9/11.
From 1999-2000, the Washington Monument was shutdown for repairs and covered in ugly scaffolding that sort of resembles the old WTC. The Parks Service’s website describes these repairs as:
“The Monument closed to the public once again in December 1999 for the refurbishment of observation levels at 490 and 500 feet and to replace the elevator with an upgraded cab. When it reopened to the public on July 31, 2000, only the new elevator had not been installed.”
“Refurbishment of observation levels at 490 and 500 feet” is good cover for planting explosives in anticipation of 9/11. Kind of like that “Israeli art project” that was used as cover for planting explosives at the World Trade Center in 2001. I believe FLOTUS’s 9/11 dress is a depiction of this horrible plan. Note the “explosion” on the right side of the monument on her dress.
The monument briefly re-opened on 7/31/2000, but was shutdown again from 12/2000 – 2/2/02. Probably to avoid anyone accidentally discovering or (worse) triggering the planted explosives.
Source:
https://www.nps.gov/nationalmallplan/Documents/WAMO_CLI_10-9-2009.pdf
On that note, Melania will attend the re-opening of the Washington Monument on 9/19/19. It has been closed since December 2016 for “repairs.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MfLWfuhW3Y
Best youtube comments:
Screw area 51, we should raid this place…
AND
The island workers are getting tired of you, rusty.
A little bit more on phobias…. Phobas was the greek god of fear (Hercules carried his image on his shield, a ferocious lion’s head, for it loved blood and men feared it), his brother was Deimos (god of terror) and their sister Eris (goddess of strife or as the Romans would call her Discoord) all offspring of Ares (god of war) and they accompanied him into battle. In those days those gods were revered and sacrificed too so that they would accompany them into battle.
In the past people faced their fears. Today people are taught to indulge them.
Sigmund Freud said: A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. General Introduction to Psychoanalysis. (1920)
Freud always goes to secual and mommy issues, but frequently its appropriate.
I love mythology. Ive got to introduce kiddo to some stories
So here. Now the waterways are being contaminated with fecal matter. Now THIS is absolutely an environmental and health disaster waiting to happen. Start testing more areas, esp after we start getting rain.
Its bad enough we get mexicos sewage spills off the socal coast, now weve got whatever is in the water from vagrants.
Sacramento is worried about the dekta smekt, well, wtf are they going to do about this?
Its not goose poop. They really think people are stupid.
“A stretch of the American River in Northern California is seen in this undated image. (Credit: KTXL)
A newspaper investigation finds part of the American River in Sacramento contains high levels of E. coli bacteria, a sign of fecal contamination.
The Sacramento Bee says this week that E. coli was found along the lower stretch of the American, where homeless camps line the banks, residents walk their dogs, and swimmers dip into the water in the summer.
Thirteen out of 15 samples taken at a beach since June exceeded state and federal standards.
Local officials have begun a study that will test DNA of the bacteria to determine its exact source.
The newspaper says homeless encampments are proliferating, and there is a widespread lack of bathroom access in the area.
But the contamination also could be a result of geese excrement.
E. coli can sometimes sicken people, with symptoms ranging from diarrhea to respiratory distress.”
https://ktla.com/2019/09/13/feces-is-apparently-contaminating-a-stretch-of-the-american-river-in-sacramento/
Last night on local San Diego news..Mexico’s waste treatment plants spewing sewage into the ocean. It’s drifting all over, beaches closed.
Do ANY of these lousy countries ever take care of themselves? Will the US have to step up and fix their pumps and old pipes to keep their waste from polluting?
Yes and as beautiful as the Hotel Del Coronado is, their beach gets hit with that nasty sewage .
Dr. Drew has been sounding the alarm on this for a while. 60,000 homeless people adding “untreated waste” into the city’s storm drains are bound to cause environmental issues. Would a small town be allowed to do this? Where are all the environmentalists??
“Where are all the environmentalists??”
^^^^This. Those who truly care and monitor these situations would have been on this from Day One. Why are people on the Right the only ones concerned about this?
Funny how, following Epstein’s murder, news reports about him have gone POOF! Gone.
Thread on the Canadian spy (RCMP) they just caught. Read somewhere else, he speaks fluent Chinese IYKWIM.😉
The plot thickens……
Epstein-like perps caught:
https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1172409243082706944
I’m glad POTUS clarified this. The vaping community has been going nuts the last few days after the prior comments made.