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Lady in Black: His awful appearance may suggest Hillary is really a succubus. She's stealing a little bit of his soul every night when he goes to sleep.

Objection! Presumes facts not in evidence.

JEM: Modern products are much more carefully assembled, the engines and electricals and transmissions and etc. are generally more reliable and MUCH longer-lasting. The problem of course is that they're also VASTLY more complex...

Our Nissan van, which has been in the shop over the weekend, apparently had a loose spark plug or something. (Will know more for sure when our mechanic gets it back to us.) It's a 2004 and seems to keep going like an energizer bunny. However, the mechanic has to take half the engine apart just to get at the spark plug.

"Something's gained and something's lost..."

FenelonSpoke: ...theme to joy-on keeping a cheerful spirit...

How many people suffer the mental paralysis of fear, self-doubt, inferiority, and inadequacy! Dark thoughts blind them to the possible outcomes which the mind is well able to produce. But optimism infuses the mind with confidence and builds up belief in oneself. Result? The revitalized mind, newly energized, comes to grips with problems. Keep the paralysis of unhealthy thoughts out of that incomparable instrument, your mind.
-Norman Vincent (not Van Gogh) Peale
Have a Great Day - Every Day

Entry for.. well, tomorrow. I cheated and read ahead.

Wish I could testify to this. Cheerfulness alone will not actually create answers to problems, but at least it keeps your nose above water.

garrett: You really need to be able to see the texture in VanGogh works to get the full effect of his technique. Prints just don't do him justice.

* puts on red-green paper-frame glasses *

Oh, yes, that's much better!

rickb223: Moo moo on last thread...

I skipped the last thread. But you just had to drag that forward off the street and into the art gallery, din'cha! You know that counts 1/3 toward a barrellin', right?

When all you have is some green and blue, go with what you got, I guess. He was poor, after all.

Nood repost and I've probably got better things to do than keep hanging around with this circus.

Whattaya call a small Mexican Islamic place that spreads a deadly virus?

A mosquito.

Yeah, time for me to move on...

Sherry McEvil @239

Milady Webworker came out of a Chicago Democrat family and environment in the 1960s. The kind of folk who, these days, just know that Hillary is the right candidate. She said she started studying feminism in college, and the more she read, the less sense the feminists made. Self-deprogrammed.

Always amusing to me to hear her, nowadays, exclaiming about the latest stupid feminist thing, knowing what her sisters might think if they heard her. Like the first time I heard her describe herself as "conservative." Whoa!

'Way back when, I, too, thought the modern feminist movemen was important. Seeking equal treatment in the workplace, getting rid of barriers to opportunity, all seemed like an extension of the old enfranchisement battle. I viewed it as just one more facet for human rights.

It wasn't the superficial issues, like the language nazis, - the power-women I respected were, like, the head of some corporation who said she didn't give a flip about being called "chairman" instead of "chairwoman" because she knew she was the boss! Confidence, not victimhood.

I believe that kind of "feminism" is still important, but "feminism" as a brand is spoiled, and, as with race relations, much of the battle against prejudice has long since been won, in America at least, and what's left is screaming harpies making up new insane causes, like the rabid environmentalists crying about global warming long after the water's clean.

(Don't know if I'm saying this well. Fortunately, I'm done.)

AllenG: ...what's the deal with the Zika Virus?...

Was around for a long time with only minor problems known. May have mutated as it traveled to other areas. Scary, and awful for those who get the worst of it, but possibly not as horrific as the scare-media say.

A couple of resources.

"...El Salvador's Ministry of Health reported this week that 13 women infected with the disease had given birth to healthy babies with no signs of microcephaly..."
Breitbart
http://bit.ly/1Ri0RYS

Zika Virus: What We Know (And What We Don't)
SciShow
https://youtu.be/JUlGN5XJ5dc

An Observation: Easy to see why the military didn't want anyone keeping these kinds of journals, if they fell into enemy hands they would be of tremendous value for targeting etc.

Not sure how much value, really, but, yeah, I thought something similar the other day reading the journal entry.

Glad, from today's perspective, that he kept it, though.

Kinda wonder if - in the perverse way of someone whose surprise was spoiled - Carson would've gone ahead and dropped out already, if the Cruz campaign (and CNN) hadn't pointed out the likelihood.

http://bit.ly/1Sb6qcq

All this, and we haven't even begun to reach Peak Stupid yet.

We, the nation and world, I mean, not the island of relative sanity that is the Horde.

Morning, glorious overnight morning people.

The morning crowd gathered at the end of the overnight thread feels like folks lined up in front of a business waiting for it to open.

Or something.

Thanks for the news reports, Vic.

Good news about that town with the God Bless America signs.

Hilarious news about the precinct with one voter who voted Bernie but it came out Hillary - may be the biggest predictor out of Iowa for the November elections.

Now that I'm here... willow me, o morning thread!

Lo, my call to be willowed worked. Happy chance, that.

It worked!

Say, I heard there was some sort of athletic contest today. Anybody know anything about that? Possibly cricket or curling.

Having finished my nightcap tasty,
and perused the post and thread,
I'm starting to feel kinda wastey,
so, I'll trundle off to my bed.

See what's left of y'all in the a.m.

Good night, Grackles!

Evening, Overnighters!

Which would you consider the more disgusting news item?

#1

NARAL objects to hilarious Doritos Super Bowl ad because it "humanizes" the fetus?

I know, you'd think, what could possibly compete with that for disgusting?

Well, you'd have to cross two disgusting things in one:

#2

Yoko Ono: I Had An Affair With Hillary Clinton In The '70s

NARAL-Doritos: The Other McCain
http://bit.ly/1QPOeSC

Yoko-Hill: Blazing Cat Fur
http://bit.ly/20DZdGK

At least BlazingCatFur offers a palliative pic - of neither.

Oh, yeah: the Joe Dan Gorman link

TRUMP: Not A Liberal Or A Conservative, But A Pragmatist
http://bit.ly/1TMZu4M

Joe Dan Gorman (Intellectual Froglegs) has an article up about how we need Trump because we need a pragmatist, not a liberal or a conservative.

However, while he rightly defines liberals, he only addresses the "so-called Republican conservative perspective." He does not address true Constitutional republican conservatism at all.

I suppose Trump looks better than Cruz, if you're just "sick of lawyers" as RickZ says, and Trump may seem the pragmatic choice if you think "most of the country is not conservative" as Notsothoreau says. Or, if you're one of those who's found a thing or two Cruz did that outweighs all else he says and does - which I can sort-of understand.

Joe Dan, to his credit, is not anti-Cruz, in fact, seems to recognize Cruz as the next best thing, but he won't change, I'd wager, from his "pragmatic" idea. (His uncritical all-out Trumpeting has almost but not quite dampened my enthusiasm for his excellent Intellectual Froglegs videos.)

Personally, I can and have voted "pragmatically" in the past, but even if the whole rest of the country is so ruined that it chooses to commit national suicide by electing another Communist, I'd still welcome a chance to vote for a candidate who understands and supports Constitutional issues, and Trump is not that guy. Cruz is as close as we seem to have.

And I'd not have to hold my nose, at least as hard, as I did with Romney and McCain. Hoping, of course, that Cruz is the real deal, not another liberal in conservative's clothing.

Christopher Taylor: Schlafly was the voice of conservatism for women in the 70s... loud and strong against... the Equal Rights Amendment...

Back when the ERA was a thing, I was for it, and still am on the face of the wording, although I think it's unnecessary and of course would be abused now.

That was when I first heard of Schlafly (unaware she was the author of A Choice, Not an Echo, of which I had heard), and I thought she was nutty, saying that the ERA would lead to "unisex bathrooms" & such.

And she was wrong, obviously.... They didn't need the ERA to start arguing for boys in the girls' room.

My respect for her grew in later years... right up until she endorsed Trump.