Five years into the reign of Bronco the Buff, we see the wonderful results of Smart Diplomacy and how the rest of the world now respects us more because we are sensitive to their needs and we are no longer inflicting our views upon them in an aggressive manner with great vigor.
US to Hong Kong/China: Could you please send the running dog Snowden back to us? Pretty please?
China: Umm, we needed the request in triplicate. Didn’t you read the instructions?
Secretary of State Kerry: Please respect us and our needs. We need you to return the Snowden character to us or our close friendship will be harmed.
Russia: What? Are you some kind of little pansy-boy? You should be happy we have not slapped you like the wh0re you are.
US State Department: Waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! Nobody is listening to us.
Ecuador: The Snowden can sleep on our couch if he wants. I mean, who believes that The Bronco would actually collect enough cojones to actually come down here and do anything. Puleeeeeeze.
We’ll be fine.
Really.
Smart Diplomacy
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Knock knock.
Who’s there?
First.
First who?
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SmartWhat Diplomacy
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SPIEGEL: How long will it still be possible to reconcile such a pause in global warming with established climate forecasts?
Storch: If things continue as they have been, in five years, at the latest, we will need to acknowledge that something is fundamentally wrong with our climate models. A 20-year pause in global warming does not occur in a single modeled scenario. But even today, we are finding it very difficult to reconcile actual temperature trends with our expectations.
SPIEGEL: What could be wrong with the models?
Storch: There are two conceivable explanations — and neither is very pleasant for us. The first possibility is that less global warming is occurring than expected because greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have less of an effect than we have assumed. This wouldn’t mean that there is no man-made greenhouse effect, but simply that our effect on climate events is not as great as we have believed. The other possibility is that, in our simulations, we have underestimated how much the climate fluctuates owing to natural causes.Please elaborate on “… and neither is very pleasant for us.” Both explanations seem pleasant for the entire human race. Why aren’t they pleasant for you as members of the human race?
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They’re huge! And opinionated. And stupid.
Sound like Democrats to me.
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#3 hamous
denialist
I read an article recently that said the current temp trends are well outside the 95% confidence intervals on ALL the major models.
Oopsie.
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Smart phones are amazing devices, but I have always believed they can be overused. I have seen plenty of adults that seem to no longer be able to live in the moment. Their face is buried in their phone. Since a good majority of adults seem to have issues with self control, it is very difficult to teach my children what I consider proper phone etiquette.
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Why aren’t they pleasant for you as members of the human race?
Because they will lose all of their research funding due to lack of panic and hysteria. And to top it off, they will have to rededicate their lives to researching something worthwhile.
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we find that the Russkies say Snowden never crossed the border into Russia.
This may be technically true if he remained in the international transit area of Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow.
Russian FM Sergey Lavrov continued heaping scorn upon the Light Bringer after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday urged Moscow to “do the right thing” and turn over Snowden.“We consider the attempts to accuse Russia of violation of U.S. laws and even some sort of conspiracy, which on top of all that are accompanied by threats, as absolutely ungrounded and unacceptable,” Lavrov said. “There are no legal grounds for such conduct of U.S. officials.”
That’s diplo-speak for “You people have a lot of d@mn gall to come out and accuse us of spying on you when you can’t even keep your own people in line.” He continued, borrowing from the mocha jesus’ playbook:
“We have no relation to Mr. Snowden, his relations with American justice or his travels around the world,” Lavrov said. “He chooses his route himself, and we have learned about it from the media.”
If this weren’t so freaking serious, it would be pure comedy gold.
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Former Rep Jane Harman sees things for what they are:
Former Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., said it wasn’t clear that Obama’s “charm offensive” with Xi and Putin would matter much on this issue. The U.S. has “very little leverage,” she said, given the broad array of issues on which the Obama administration needs Chinese and Russian cooperation.
Even John McCain is waking up on this one:
Sen. John McCain, who lost to Obama in the 2008 presidential election, echoed that concern on Tuesday, telling CNN that “we’ve got to start dealing with Vladimir Putin for what he is.”
The Arizona Republican called Putin “an old KGB colonel apparatchik” who disdains democracy and said that Putin “continues to stick his thumb in our eye.”
“When you show the world you’re leading from behind, these are the consequences,” McCain said.The most pointed analysis comes from the Brookings Institution:
Fiona Hill, a Russia expert at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, said she expected Putin to take advantage of a “golden opportunity” to publicly defy the White House.
“This is one of those opportunities to score points against the United States that I would be surprised if Russia passed up,” Hill said.Although Putin should show his professionalism and decline the own goal scored by chocolate mohammed.
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The NSA et al. know everything squack ordered from The Erotica Hut, but they have no idea of how much Snowden allegedly took?
The NSA boss sez he has no idea how Snowden was able to access servers with “stupendous amounts of data”, copy it, and up and leave.NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander said the system to keep classified information from leaking out “did not work as it should have” and said he didn’t understand why it failed.
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Everybody’s now aware of how big a pansy The one For Whom We’ve Been Waiting is.
If Obama spoke out more forcefully, he would endanger the United States’ standing unless he was prepared to retaliate against countries that refuse to detain Snowden, said Anthony H. Cordesman, a former State Department and Pentagon official now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Kinda like Syria.
Cohen — a top foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney, Obama’s 2012 Republican opponent — said Snowden’s escape was “a humiliation” for the president.
“The Russians repeatedly have stuck a finger in our eye — over Iran, over Syria, over this,” Cohen said. Obama, he added, “doesn’t react in a way that causes them to think, ‘My gosh, we’ve paid a price for taking this attitude.’ ”🙄
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Bu-wahahahahahaha
Seems a couple of rogue bureaucrats in China stalled the extradition request from the US, which allowed Snowden to split.
They had no direction from Beijing in this situation. They acted entirely on their own. 😉“We are just not buying that this was a technical decision by a Hong Kong immigration official,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “This was a deliberate choice by the government to release a fugitive, despite a valid arrest warrant. And that decision unquestionably has a negative impact on the U.S.-China relationship.”
You know, like the IRS.
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#3 hamous
Fear not! Let your spirit not be troubled!
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Morning, Hamsterville. So our petulant little boy isn’t stacking up well against mean old men like Putin. Who would have predicted that? Surely the Russians simply snatched Snowden and anything he was carrying.
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#7 TexmMo
Because they will lose all of their research funding
I’m thinking the loss of standing and confidence hurts them too. Mostly in the ego area.
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Surely the Russians simply snatched Snowden and anything he was carrying.
Nah. They get lots more mileage doing what they’re doing.
Turnabout’s fair play. The West has done this type of thing many times over the years, including quite recently. -
#16 Pyro
Nah? Prove that the Russians did not detain him and in fact still have him. -
They may detain him for a bit, but they won’t keep him indefinitely or return him.
They prolly glued a beard and moustache on him, put him in a fat suit and sent him to Havana. -
Good morning Hamsters. If l’affaire Snowden wasn’t so serious, this would be hilarious and right out of a Peter Sellers movie. Can’t tarnish Peter’s superb Inspector Clouseau performances by comparing them with the total White House and Administration clueless performances. Would not be surprised if the Russians have a pool going on what will be the next cream pie to Obama’s face moment. Maybe the winner gets to heave the verbal pie. Obama and his band of merry idiots has already made Neville Chamberlain look like a genius. Lord help us.
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The Amateur.*
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So we have a stealth spell checker?
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Just in case the world comes to an end because of the deranged, psychotic egos of Snowden, Obama, Putin and whatever freak is in charge of Beijing this day…
…I want the world to know I am still madly in love with Rita Moreno.
After 52 years. West Side Story – 1961 -
Texpat lurks.
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If I was living in Texas with my dogs in the hot summer, this would be the first product I would buy.
Absolutely cool idea. I wish I had invented it.
The Grommet is a unique site devoted to helping less than rich inventors and innovators market their products. I signed up for it today and, trust me, I almost never register anywhere. -
I did not think I would ever see the Voting Right Act of 1965 gutted by the Court.
That’s great.
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American creativity and capitalism at its finest.
Company Sells Pork-Laced Bullets To Fight Islamic Terrorists
Let’s put some ham in moHAMed.
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West Side Story
Arrrgggh. Maybe it’s because I don’t generally like musicals anyway, but I have never been able to force myself to watch that movie all the way through. West Side Story is what I immediately think of when I see the Stinky Occupy Hippies doing their “jazz hands” silliness.
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I did not think I would ever see the Voting Right Act of 1965 gutted by the Court.
That’s great.
Alas, too little to late.Free at last! Free at last! Praise God Almighty, we’re free at last!
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…The Fifteenth Amendment is not designed to punish for the past; its purpose is to ensure a better future. To serve that purpose, Congress—if it is to divide the States—must identify those jurisdictions to be singled out on a basis that makes sense in light of current conditions.
(3) Respondents also rely heavily on data from the record compiled by Congress before reauthorizing the Act. Regardless of how
one looks at that record, no one can fairly say that it shows anything
approaching the “pervasive,” “flagrant,” “widespread,” and “rampant”
discrimination that clearly distinguished the covered jurisdictions
from the rest of the Nation in 1965. Katzenbach, supra, at 308, 315,
331. But a more fundamental problem remains: Congress did not use
that record to fashion a coverage formula grounded in current conditions. It instead re-enacted a formula based on 40-year-old facts having no logical relation to the present day.That’s from Roberts’ opinion, and it speaks volumes about the Act.
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Speaking of…let’s check in on our local Occupy miscreants. Oh no! The last entry was back in January. But at least it was an important topic:
Hello Houston! We had a great time at last Thursday’s Pizza Co-op. For those who joined, thank you. For those who couldn’t make it, we have some great notes and report back information for you. The Pizza Co-op idea/event was very popular via Occupy Houston’s Facebook, thanks to you! You not only showed great interest but your feedback was valuable as well. This report back is lengthy but it’s worth the read. We hope this will encourage your input and ability to join us in the future. P.S. The name that was decided for this business is, “Broke Ass Pizza Co-op”
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People are going to throw in 2-300 dollars each, as shareholders.
Start Date: Pending
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Amarillo.com is reporting that the Court ruling should end the redistricting fight.
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#27:
Maybe it’s because I don’t generally like musicals anyway,
I detest musicals with a white hot passion! They are the most irritating nauseating waste of resources of which I can conceive.
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I was real to see the Voting Rights Act overturned. This will be good for a LOT of southern states, and a few yankee states, but way over due.
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The voting rights acts was mis-named, it really should have been the protected D district act. Now maybe the gerrymandering will not be so extreme.
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We refuse to judge you guys solely on your cultural retardation.
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Oh, for crying out loud, whether anyone likes musicals is not the point. I didn’t care about them either.
I was just nine years old, on the cusp of puberty and discovered hot Latina chicks, or at least that one PR girl. Wow, could she move !
The mad crush never went away and if I look even half as good as Rita does today at eighty-one, I will be happy. Less than a year later, my mother didn’t want to go to movies alone so I agreed to go with her to see something called Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
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#36 I resemble that remark,
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I was driving home from Kroger and heard Rush talking about that. He said the smart guys on the Supreme Court have been saying you can’t keep punishing people who weren’t even born in 1965 for actions of others long ago. -
So the NSA was just laying the groundwork for Obamacare?
For all marketplaces, CMS is also building a tool called the Data Services Hub to help with verifying applicant information used to determine eligibility for enrollment in qualified health plans and insurance affordability programs. The hub will provide one connection to the common federal data sources (including but not limited to SSA, IRS, DHS) needed to verify consumer application information for income, citizenship, immigration status, access to minimum essential coverage, etc. CMS has completed the technical design, and reference architecture for this work, is establishing a cross-agency security framework as well as the protocols for connectivity, and has begun testing the hub. The hub will not store consumer information, but will securely transmit data between state and federal systems to verify consumer application information. Protecting the privacy of individuals remains the highest priority of CMS.
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Wonder how long the howls of Democrat/liberal/progressive/Marxist anguish will be heard over the Voting Rights decision. The Supremes got this one right, thank you John Roberts.
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I was just nine years old, on the cusp of puberty and discovered hot Latina chicks, or at least that one PR girl. Wow, could she move !
For me it was watching Saturday morning Tarzan movies. Loved me some Maureen O’Sullivan!
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For me it was some girl named Holly, in my second grade class.
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I just read Holder’s remarks on today’s Court decision.
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Audrey was in
hubba hubba
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#43 Shannon
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Can’t put Audrey there.
She looks just like my mom and I have an aunt named Audrey.
Puberty was tough for me.
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While out and about yesterday I heard several IRS tyrants make the claim “I didn’t do anything wrong” yet they admit targeting conservative/t-party groups. This gives insight into the culture of the IRS/demo-nazi-terd-nozzles: there is nothing wrong with screwing the opposition and using the power of government to do so. In that culture, right is whatever furthers the goals of the D/govt party, what ever is good for them is good and the ends absolutely justify the means. They are playing a language game hoping they won’t get caught.
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Howdy, a quick drive-by as the swamp continues to rise.
Your tax dollars at work.
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Hope everyone has been well. My dad passed away last Friday. He waited for me to get to the nursing/rehab facility he was at, I told him it was ok to go and that everyone loved him and we’d see him again in heaven, and he went peacefully right after I said that. I was glad I could be there with him but it’s hard, he lived with us so we were with him every day. I still can’t believe it, I go to call him at least once a day about something (usually Obama lol) out of habit. But we take comfort knowing he’s in a much better place and no longer suffering.
Cherish the time you have with your loved ones and the wonderful memories your left with when they’re gone. God bless all of you.
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From Shannon’s #43
Holder rants for almost the entire article on how devastating the ruling was to voting rights, then closes with a paragraph on how everything’s copasetic.Finally, we need to be clear about what happened today. Part of the Voting Rights Act, but not all of it, was struck down. The constitutionally protected voting rights of all Americans remain fully intact. And the right to vote, free from discrimination based on race or language, requires our vigilant protection. We know from many decades of long, hard struggle that the best way to defend a right is to go out and exercise it. So no one should conclude that today’s unfortunate decision has rendered her or his voting rights invalid, or has made attempting to cast a ballot on Election Day futile.
There is no doubt that, when the VRA was signed, there was rampant voter suppression. Anyone who thinks otherwise is either a fool or delusional. But those days are long gone and the VRA has now become discriminatory towards particular states for no other reason than ancient history. As an example, take three states that passed voter ID laws recently – Indiana, South Carolina, and Texas. The SCOTUS has ruled that the law in Indiana is constitutional. The Texas and SC law, almost identical to the Indiana law, were struck down by Holder. There’s no logical reason.
Abbott didn’t waste any time:Just hours after the Supreme Court handed down a ruling that guts parts of the Voting Rights Act, Texas is moving forward with a controversial voter ID law that state Attorney General Greg Abbott hopes to implement right away.
“With today’s decision, the state’s voter ID law will take effect immediately,” Abbott said in a statement to the Dallas Morning News. “Redistricting maps passed by the Legislature may also take effect without approval from the federal government.” -
HS – I’m so sorry to hear about your father. I still remember your description of the trip you took bringing him back from Florida to Texas. Nothing can dull the pain but be content that you had him as long as you did and know that you’ll be reunited. Prayers are up for your family.
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May your father rest in the peace of eternal light.
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#50: My condolences to you HS, may your grief pass quickly.
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This immediately made me think of Big Brother
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/307615-ready-for-hillary-launches-merchandise-store -
#50 Holeeschmokes Shakester!
You have kneemail for Peace, Strength, and Solace pahdnah……..
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#56: When I think of the stupidity of the “reset” button that had the wrong word on it to the CFs in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, BENGHAZI, I am forced to ask this question: what has Shrillery ever done right? It seems like she should be awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry, because everything she touches turns to schizzle.
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LOL that picture will haunt me forever!
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My sincerest condolences HS.
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Headshaker
My sincere condolences.
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I frequently had that level of exasperation at that age, but I did not have as much meat on my bones.
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Racist, insensitive D reveals true colors.
HEADLINE: Democratic lawmaker hits justice as ‘Uncle Thomas’
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Sorry for your loss, Rob.
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#49 TexCan
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#50 HeadShaker
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#50 Headshaker, Glad to see you, sorry for your loss but you did get to see him one more time, that is worth a lot. Prayers to you and your family, as time goes on you’ll not miss him any less but you’ll start to remember all the good times that you had and they’ll make you smile.
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My #50, I was VERY fortunate to be with my dad a few hours before he passed away. He was dying of cancer and I made about 2-3 trips a month, driving from Webster Texas to south Alabama on the weekends, usually leave Friday night and come back on Monday morning. The day he passed away, I got up early and went to tell him good-by and he told me to be careful, and I hit the road @ 6 AM. My sister came over and fixed him breakfast @ 7 and the hospice folks showed up @ 8 and gave him a bath/shave and he went back to bed and passed away @ 9. I only found out about it when I drove up at home around 5 PM and my wife and daughter were sitting in the swing crying.
A few years ago my mom was having problems and I went home on a Friday and got to talk to her and then later she went to sleep and didn’t wake up again, I saw/talked to her on Saturday and Sunday and after I went back to the farm house and went to bed around 10 PM she passed away. My sister told me that she was waiting for me to come home.
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#58 😀
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I’m sure this is not what the producers want but this commercial cracks me up:
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Thanks everyone I really appreciate the prayers and comforting words. It’s nice to see some old friends still blogging. I promise not to revive my site 😉 Plus y’all have turned me into a staunch conservative anyway so I wouldn’t be able to have any fun! Lol!
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Plus y’all have turned me into a staunch conservative anyway so I wouldn’t be able to have any fun!
I suspect Mocha jesus deserves more credit for that than anyone here.
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Texas Senator Wendy Davis is at mid-filibuster on the abortion bill.
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#73 Hammy
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Only in Texas.
Watching live streaming of the Wendy Davis filibuster, I just saw a Senator raise a Point of Order, saying that Senator Davis violated a certan rule by having Senator Rodney Ellis help her put on a back brace.
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Senator Davis made the headlines at FoxNews.
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#72 –
y’all have turned me into a staunch conservative
Oh no we did NOT! REALITY and a wee bit of common sense did that!
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Head Shaker
Condolences on the loss of your father. As the depth of loss softens with time, you will rejoice in being there with him and seeing him pass over into eternal life. My Dad died at home after a losing battle with lung cancer, and while Mom was resting in another room when the time came, I told him we were ready to say goodbye when he was ready to leave us. It was ok, and we loved him. Shortly after that he got his color back, took several slow and deep breaths, and then sort of smiled. He had the most beatific expression on his face as he slipped away. I am so happy to have been there, though I can’t speak of it or write of it without tears flowing. Not for my loss but rather for the wonder of seeing his expression of embracing what he saw on his journey.
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Texpat
For several years after our father died, I would reach for the phone to share something with him about the insane politicians of the world and then realize…it just takes some time.
Tell me about it, when my dad was still around we’d get on the phone and start fussing about something political and if you heard it you’d think that we were fussing at each other but we would just be frustrated. Now that he’s gone daughter does a pretty good job of filling in for him. She’ll hear something and call me and ask “dad did you hear about…..” I love that girl and the fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree. The boy is even coming around now that he’s all growed up, but he’ll never have the passion of his sister.
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Speaking of “Life is good” I finally got daughter-in-law’s birfday present to her, a Bread machine! She loves it, she wasn’t much of a cook when she married the boy but she tries real hard and has become pretty good at it……and I helped. 😀
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Condolences HS, I remember you speaking of your Dad frequently. Mine passed when I was young but I still miss him terribly.
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There are two former Democrats in my universe who are staunch conservatives now. If it took bronco to make it happen I suspect racism on their part, I mean what has happened that hasn’t been on the left’s agenda for decades? They decided a black man was just too much? Just sayin’.
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It appears that the gnashing of teeth, lamentations, wailing, and rending of garments is just getting started in the poverty pimp communities over the Supremes’ decision today.
You know that it was 5-4 will be hammered as somehow unfair and a conservative plot. But of course a 5-4 going their way is pristine…. And John Roberts was their hero a year ago in June. 🙂 -
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Ms Adee
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HS: Most sincere condolences on the loss of your father. I can tell you that while the pain will ease and subside, the sense of loss will be there for a long time. Cherish the good memories and keep them fresh.
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