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We gather grumbling at the gates of morning.
Choking on the stale perfumes of overnight.
Coffee! we bring. Doughnuts! we sing.
Open the gates to freshness and light!
The cobs sleep on, oblivious to our plight.

Refreshed and ready for another round of whatever.

Bring on the Saturday morning thread. I'm ready!

Right after a nap...

Just lurked through the 300's... hope there was nothing vital before that... and in that was just 'way too much soccer love for me...har har... so, on my way to bed...

But I'll leave this fresh webwork here by the DVD.

Hillary's Turn video 0:35
She's done her time in the barrel, now make her President!
http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical/hillarys-turn

Don't tell your friends, don't pass the link along, and for heaven's sake don't click the donation buttons. In fact, don't click the link. Forget the whole thing. Just forget I mentioned it.

Good night, Gracies.

GOP and Dem leaders hold hands and sing?

[gurgle * choke]

Makes one look back fondly on Thong Thursday!!

Reading backwards up the thread, I run into...

GM: I realize some folks want to genuinely discuss posts and issues, but it's hard to have a discussion with one or two bonafide interlocutors while others shout hatred and bile. Quite simply, I don't have any interest in welcoming that kind of negativity into my life, and certainly not on a daily basis.

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I'm tempted to say, whoa! the horde, the whole commentary system here has just been dissed, but I wouldn't mean it.

The broadly tolerant (but not too broad) policy and open forum format of comment areas like at AoSHQ is not for everybody. Heat, kitchen, door.

I've been in online groups for... eek, well over 30 years now? I've seen, good continuing communication amid the rabble takes a great deal of self-effacing wit, and ,what also helps is that ability not merely to turn the other cheek, but grace to turn awkward and indiscreet moments into uplifting and tension-relieving experiences for all involved (insofar as possible), utilizing wise patience, sympathetic understanding, and good humor. (I have long had the best mentor on that, but I remain a poor student, m'self.)

Although blasting back at people is another technique.

Generally speaking. I'm not too fond of hot kitchens.

But now I want some lunch.

Past #100 and the last thread looks stale... off-topically... via Drudge big headline right now (Pelosi was better):

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TUCSON, Ariz. (CBS Las Vegas) - Border Patrol agents in Arizona were reportedly fired upon by a Mexican military helicopter that traveled across the border. ...

[This is it! Mexico decares war on USA!]

... KVOA-TV reports that Mexican authorities were conducting a drug interdiction operation when the incident happened early Thursday morning on the Tohono O'odham Indian Nation. The Mexican chopper fired at the agents and then flew back into Mexico. ...

[Oh, well, that's still pretty bad. And, Mexico does drug interdiction?]

...Art del Cueto, Border Patrol Tucson Sector union president, tells KVOA that they called and apologized for the incident. ...

[Oh, well, everything's swell, then. Couldn't we have a little more cross-border coordination on such operations, there? Oh, right, the border patrol is repurposed as a daycare service now. Like NASA outreach to Jihadis.]

... "Two shots were fired from the helicopter but no injuries or damage to U.S. property were reported...."

[Cancel flaming skull.]

h/t sven - your own pet troll.

"This website has embraced the hateful ideology..."

This is so over the top, I can't imagine it's a real troll, not a mock sock. It's a new angle, anyway. Almost amusing like Cloggenstein if a mock, otherwise, debbil can quote scripture & all that.

Sock Switch.

There should be a special room for that.

"...FireFox add-on that one of the Morons created that would let you ignore comments from selected hashes?"

I find it an amusing game to guess the poster, on the small cell screen where the nic is below the window. A few lines in, I'll say, this can only be Capt Hate, or, this is Panz, or This is so off-kilter it must be [that guy]... and it is. Then I complete reading the comment... or not.

[flying off rails, heading over cliff like the locomotive in Back to the Future III]

the gheys stealing the rainbow is :
#GodsPromiseToNotDestroyThe WorldHijacking
Posted by: phoenixgirl

Vroooom

The Case for a Boring Man? heh - Irresistible webwork hook. (I'm just compulsive, I guess, like ol' Billy Clinton...)

One of my infrequent attempts at polytickle cartoonery, from 1992 Apr 16, but still applicable. Could be 're-scanned, tho:

Newman for President
What we need is an ordinary President
http://mindfulwebworks.com/headshop/01/newman-for-president

fwiw, my own shallow research from 2011 Feb 7:

Ronald Reagan, Homosexuality, and AIDS
Was Reagan slow on addressing this new, mysterious disease?
http://bit.ly/RRnAIDS

Pull quotes to give gist:

"'You could have poured half the national budget into AIDS in 1983, and it would have gone down a rat hole....'"

...Seems to me, these positions of Reagan's were not based on religious dogma or social prejudice but on the same simple American principles he always espoused....

sigh!

Just caught up reading comments to my first, #117 & #118. Double-posted a long comment with a punchline-spoiling typo. Is this Monday or did I not have enough coffee yet?

"...I just gave myself say away."

FTR

toby928(C) & Mrs,

Congratulations. May you share decades more!

I expect, at this point, you should've found out what are your mutual conflicts, and learned to live with them, or, more exactly, steer around them. It's all easier after you give up thinking you'll ever understand each other.

Lady in Black > "Oh, and anyone on the ONT last night......couldn't sleep and foolishly took a 10mg Ambien and kept posting...."

Note to self: Check ONT for LiB's comments....

153 Posted by: mindful webworker - click here for webworks at June 27, 2014 08:14 AM (uBQ7I)

Yeah Levin was always wobbly on the Donk hate...

JJS>Wow, Levin used the "F" word - "Fascist"

I got to catch Levin's "Democrats are now the fascist party on my show" rant on rerun last night.

Mighty nice.

Glad to know Levin is wising up.

We'll make a real Constitutional conservative fighter out of him, yet!

Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 27, 2014 07:01 AM

Most. Boring. Hollywood. Story. Yet!

You lost me at Worcestershire sauce.

Gabriel: "I want to point out that I thought of it a long, long time before David Rivkin and Elizabeth Price Foley. In fact, I've been pressing for a lawsuit on those grounds for almost a year."

Wow! So, there's a chance that someone, somewhere, once read one of Gabe's posts?

(Oh, wait, like the kid at the dinner table who said his sibling was peeking during grace, I just gave myself say.)

Morning, Glories.

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For some reason, I was just thinking...

This is Christ's world. He lived here. He won this world, earned it, owns it. He's never left in Spirit. He knows exactly what's going on.

So where are the legions of angels intervening under his command? On standby, grieving for us, with us, but restrained. Why?

Patience.

I once had to / chose to let my son follow a potentially lethal decision. He lived and learned.

Better a world that learned the hard way and stays learned.

Anyway, my 2c worth inserted, now I can go read comments.

Gabriel: "I want to point out that I thought of it a long, long time before David Rivkin and Elizabeth Price Foley. In fact, I've been pressing for a lawsuit on those grounds for almost a year."

Wow! So, there's a chance that someone, somewhere, once read one of Gabe's posts?

(Oh, wait, like the kid at the dinner table who said his sibling was peeking during grace, I just gave myself say.)

Morning, Glories.

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For some reason, I was just thinking...

This is Christ's world. He lived here. He won this world, earned it, owns it. He's never left in Spirit. He knows exactly what's going on.

So where are the legions of angels intervening under his command? On standby, grieving for us, with us, but restrained. Why?

Patience.

I once had to / chose to let my son follow a potentially lethal decision. He lived and learned.

Better a world that learned the hard way and stays learned.

Anyway, my 2c worth inserted, now I can go read comments.