Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 21 June 2020

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“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91:1 (King James Version)

Like they always say, the easiest position in football is Armchair Quarterback. All you have to do is sit back and say he should have run when he passed and passed when he run, and you never lose a game. Same thing when you decide when a cop should have shot or not shot a victim. You are not our there getting your butt kicked six ways from Sunday by some criminal who won’t accept he is breaking the law. So, you sit there in your high and mighty chair and say that cop should have got beat or shot rather than pull his gun. Armchair QB is the simplest job in the world.

Black Lives Matter, but not as much as Blue Lives and no more than any other race and especially not more than the Judeo-Christian culture. These anarchists who represent the militant arm of the DNC would prefer anarchy since then America becomes a jungle where they are in control through fear and intimidation. Blue Lives or Policemen are that critical 1% of the population who stand between society working and anarchy.

Without the police which the DNC is running on you would not have the most basic society of rules and laws. There would not be ownership of goods or property. There would not be basic expectations of right and wrong being enforced. Assault, rape, murder would all be justified under some explanation while the victim would be left to fend for himself, but that is what they want as you see every night in the riots.

No, time to be serious and realize what is really happening with this jungle mentality, they hate you and America. They are tearing down every statue pointing to America’s history like the savages that they are. These statues do not point to a defined good or bad but a rich history of people doing exceptional things throughout the building of this incredible country. A country these ungrateful brainwashed turd world cretins were born into with no blood, sweat or tears from their lives. History is enriched when you show all of it warts and all.

Most of Americans have ancestors who left countries these savages are trying to form to escape the very tyranny they are trying to install. Every communist dictatorship used the same tactics these bullies are using to take away your freedoms which is to vilify the very people who protect those freedoms. Once you decide there is no need for the thin blue line of police then they will decide what is right and wrong or who is free and who is not. Welcome to the old Soviet Union and today’s China.

At what point does America throw off the handcuffs of the Three Pillars of Communism (Academia, Media, and the DNC)? Every country in the world has been attacked and fooled by these Socialists only to see their lives minimized and enslaved. These Blue Lives are all that stand between you and the gulags and worse. Do not let the militant arm of the DNC fool you into believing they care about blacks, whites, or purples, they only demand ruling your life from birth to death.

America is in the middle of a Civil War and the cops are the front line of that war. Today’s enemy is trying to divide you rather than unite. They are trying to destroy America rather than build. They are trying to fool you into believing they care about the blacks or slavery when it is simply a ploy to fool you.

If they cared about slavery in America 150 years ago why do they have non problem with the hundreds of thousands who are actual slaves today? Why do they have no problem with human sex slaves coming out of Eastern European countries being funneled through the Ukraine and other border countries? The same old selective outrage they have used for decades where it is only wrong if it promotes their Communist agenda.

American slaves never went though anything more than a slave in Sudan or Saudi Arabia is going through today. The difference is there are no slaves today in America while there are slaves all over the world today and they could not care less. There are hundreds of Christian charities trying to free those slaves but not a single protest for the hundreds of thousands of protestors marching America’s streets. At what point does the people realize this is a pure manufactured crisis to change this country for the worse.

Last week at a BLM hate police rally a baby stopped breathing and the mother ran as fast as she could to the person she was protesting against, a policeman. She did not run to the leader of BLM or an Anarchist or some pompous mediot from CNN, she ran to a cop who saved her baby’s life. If she had her way and the protest was successful, her baby would be dead as well as every other baby who needed a first responder cop. You can cut her hypocrisy with a butter knife.

Imagine if BLM cared a thousandth percent about black on black crime as they do about a cop who has to pull a trigger on a black man? Can you at least care about the vast majority of black deaths and how they are caused?

There is no coincidence this revolt is against God first and America secondarily. These are cultists who worship their manmade gods. Their god is gummit and the power it represents. To them the highest form of life is man and the only thing higher than man is a group of superior men such as Academia or gummit. Many believe in paganism or earth worship since they believe the eart created man and is the highest god of all their gods. This is a religious war as much as it is a political war and you can see the evil being spewed from the side of hatred and bitterness.

This fight has to be fought the way it always has been done in America. The Christians and patriots have to continue to stand on love and strength while pointing out their incoherence. They need to keep their faith in God and the Bible like they have for 250 years against these enemies who have always tried to destroy its integrity. They are burning the cities like always putting the people who need punishment the least being punished the most. How many times do you have to see this movie before you understand the ending is death and destruction?

Blue Lives Matter more than my life, white lives, black lives, and every other life since they stand between the law and the horrific jungle they would allow. He very least they should be offered is their presumption of innocence when a tragedy happens. It has taken a hundred years to settle the West from a lawless anything goes to a well civilized society. Now the DNC wants to tear all of society down so they can rule what is left after they destroy it.

They would rather have the cities burned to the ground and stores looted in the name of social justice than allow the American version of free capitalism. They are so indoctrinated in the validity of Marxism they are the last people left on the planet who believe it can work. So, in their world you have to destroy the country to save it and must wipe away the cops to allow them to decide right from wrong and good from bad. This is the world they would have America become.

Pray for the harvest

Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.

50-second excerpt of Maria’s Barr interview on censorship and voter fraud

https://twitter.com/AKA_RealDirty/status/1274555070693195781

• Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.

• Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.

• Yes I am compiling a Blog about the great pandemic of 2020 and how my country stupidly shut down the economy. We will have opinions, political and cultural highlights, my personal experience, social media details, even TV reviews since I watch so much TV while in my home jail. We shall, as always, end with a smile.

MISC. PANDEMIC NOTES OF THE WEEK

(an update for my descendants)

NYPD Removes Plain Clothes Unit

It was Dan Bongino who explained what a plain clothes unit is and/or what it does. Below is a Wikipedia definition.

Plainclothes assignments can mean a variety of duties to many agencies but the agency with the most variety is undoubtedly my former agency, the NYPD.While the NYPD clearly delineates between plainclothes assignments, investigative assignments and undercover assignments, many other agencies do not. That is based, mostly, on the fact that the NYPD is an enormous police agency and there is so much specialization of assignments.

This is mostly due to the increasingly loud command that police departments be "defunded". The removal of over 600 plains clothes cops is not defunding. It IS, however, the these cops back into uniform and the stopping of New York's infamous "stop and frisk" policy.

The media plays it up as being a partial defunding of the New York police department. Bongino explained that plains clothes cops on the street catch more crime than a whole force of cops wearing uniforms.

Which makes sense. One is less likely to commit a crime in front of a uniformed cop than in the presence of normally clothed people not suspected of being a cop.

We shall see how high New York's crime rate climbs with this change, yon decendants.

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MAJOR POLITICAL EVENT OF THE WEEK

(another update)

To yon descendants, it's a bit boring and really does not contain any major surprises. It's the executive branch's rules to control the police problem as it rages and roils in this era, yon descendants. I copy and paste that descendants will know that it is part of history everyone keeps trying to erase.

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Purpose. As Americans, we believe that all persons are created equal and endowed with the inalienable rights to life and liberty. A fundamental purpose of government is to secure these inalienable rights. Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement officers place their lives at risk every day to ensure that these rights are preserved.

Law enforcement officers provide the essential protection that all Americans require to raise their families and lead productive lives. The relationship between our fellow citizens and law enforcement officers is an important element in their ability to provide that protection. By working directly with their communities, law enforcement officers can help foster a safe environment where we all can prosper.

Unfortunately, there have been instances in which some officers have misused their authority, challenging the trust of the American people, with tragic consequences for individual victims, their communities, and our Nation. All Americans are entitled to live with the confidence that the law enforcement officers and agencies in their communities will live up to our Nation’s founding ideals and will protect the rights of all persons. Particularly in African-American communities, we must redouble our efforts as a Nation to swiftly address instances of misconduct.

The Constitution declares in its preamble that one of its primary purposes was to establish Justice. Generations of Americans have marched, fought, bled, and died to safeguard the promise of our founding document and protect our shared inalienable rights. Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial leaders must act in furtherance of that legacy.

Sec. 2. Certification and Credentialing.

(a) State and local law enforcement agencies must constantly assess and improve their practices and policies to ensure transparent, safe, and accountable delivery of law enforcement services to their communities. Independent credentialing bodies can accelerate these assessments, enhance citizen confidence in law enforcement practices, and allow for the identification and correction of internal deficiencies before those deficiencies result in injury to the public or to law enforcement officers.

(b) The Attorney General shall, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, allocate Department of Justice discretionary grant funding only to those State and local law enforcement agencies that have sought or are in the process of seeking appropriate credentials from a reputable independent credentialing body certified by the Attorney General.

(c) The Attorney General shall certify independent credentialing bodies that meet standards to be set by the Attorney General. Reputable, independent credentialing bodies, eligible for certification by the Attorney General, should address certain topics in their reviews, such as policies and training regarding use–of-force and de-escalation techniques; performance management tools, such as early warning systems that help to identify officers who may require intervention; and best practices regarding community engagement. The Attorney General’s standards for certification shall require independent credentialing bodies to, at a minimum, confirm that:

(i) the State or local law enforcement agency’s use-of-force policies adhere to all applicable Federal, State, and local laws; and

(ii) the State or local law enforcement agency’s use-of-force policies prohibit the use of chokeholds — a physical maneuver that restricts an individual’s ability to breathe for the purposes of incapacitation — except in those situations where the use of deadly force is allowed by law.

(d) The Attorney General shall engage with existing and prospective independent credentialing bodies to encourage them to offer a cost-effective, targeted credentialing process regarding appropriate use-of-force policies that law enforcement agencies of all sizes in urban and rural jurisdictions may access.

Sec. 3. Information Sharing.

(a) The Attorney General shall create a database to coordinate the sharing of information between and among Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies concerning instances of excessive use of force related to law enforcement matters, accounting for applicable privacy and due process rights.

(b) The database described in subsection (a) of this section shall include a mechanism to track, as permissible, terminations or de-certifications of law enforcement officers, criminal convictions of law enforcement officers for on-duty conduct, and civil judgments against law enforcement officers for improper use of force. The database described in subsection (a) of this section shall account for instances where a law enforcement officer resigns or retires while under active investigation related to the use of force. The Attorney General shall take appropriate steps to ensure that the information in the database consists only of instances in which law enforcement officers were afforded fair process.

(c) The Attorney General shall regularly and periodically make available to the public aggregated and anonymized data from the database described in subsection (a) of this section, as consistent with applicable law.

(d) The Attorney General shall, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, allocate Department of Justice discretionary grant funding only to those law enforcement agencies that submit the information described in subsection (b) of this section.

Sec. 4. Mental Health, Homelessness, and Addiction.

(a) Since the mid-twentieth century, America has witnessed a reduction in targeted mental health treatment. Ineffective policies have left more individuals with mental health needs on our Nation’s streets, which has expanded the responsibilities of law enforcement officers. As a society, we must take steps to safely and humanely care for those who suffer from mental illness and substance abuse in a manner that addresses such individuals’ needs and the needs of their communities. It is the policy of the United States to promote the use of appropriate social services as the primary response to individuals who suffer from impaired mental health, homelessness, and addiction, recognizing that, because law enforcement officers often encounter such individuals suffering from these conditions in the course of their duties, all officers should be properly trained for such encounters.

(b) The Attorney General shall, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services as appropriate, identify and develop opportunities to train law enforcement officers with respect to encounters with individuals suffering from impaired mental health, homelessness, and addiction; to increase the capacity of social workers working directly with law enforcement agencies; and to provide guidance regarding the development and implementation of co-responder programs, which involve social workers or other mental health professionals working alongside law enforcement officers so that they arrive and address situations together. The Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall prioritize resources, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to support such opportunities.

(c) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall survey community-support models addressing mental health, homelessness, and addiction. Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall summarize the results of this survey in a report to the President, through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, which shall include specific recommendations regarding how appropriated funds can be reallocated to support widespread adoption of successful models and recommendations for additional funding, if needed.

(d) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall, in coordination with the Attorney General and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, prioritize resources, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to implement community-support models as recommended in the

report described in subsection (c) of this section.

Sec. 5. Legislation and Grant Programs.

(a) The Attorney General, in consultation with the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, shall develop and propose new legislation to the Congress that could be enacted to enhance the tools and resources available to improve law enforcement practices and build community engagement.

(b) The legislation described in subsection (a) of this section shall include recommendations to enhance current grant programs to improve law enforcement practices and build community engagement, including through:

(i) assisting State and local law enforcement agencies with implementing the credentialing process described in section 2 of this order, the reporting described in section 3 of this order, and the co responder and community-support models described in section 4 of this order;

(ii) training and technical assistance required to

adopt and implement improved use–of-force policies and procedures, including scenario-driven de-escalation techniques;

(iii) retention of high-performing law enforcement officers and recruitment of law enforcement officers who are likely to be high-performing;

(iv) confidential access to mental health services for law enforcement officers; and

(v) programs aimed at developing or improving relationships between law enforcement and the communities they serve, including through community outreach and listening sessions, and supporting non profit organizations that focus on improving stressed relationships between law enforcement officers and the communities they serve.

Sec. 6. General Provisions.

(a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

DONALD J. TRUMP

THE WHITE HOUSE,

June 16, 2020.

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MAJOR CULTURE EVENT OF THE WEEK

(one more update)

Getting Rid of History

It's all the latest rage yon descendants, this removal of historical statues. I cannot copy all the statues and memorials that the nuts known now as ANTIFA and BLM are tearing down for, mostly, owning slaves back in the day when it was legal to own slaves. But there have been many.

AND CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS???

What on earth did he do to offend anyone, yon descendants?

Just know that there were lots of historical statues all about that you might never see.

But know, yon descendants, you can't erase history. It's done and set, excuse the pun, in stone.

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OVER THE INTERNET

(social media explains so much)

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REVIEWS TV SHOWS

(since I watch so much TV, not for my descendants)

Couple of Cooking Shows

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I do quite enjoy cooking shows, yon descendants, and I hope to someday to cook for some of you should I still be around.

But I am not, sad to admit, such a good cook and so I watch cooking shows to learn how to carefully cook mushrooms and how to properly bread friend chicken.

Further, I cannot stand kitchen appliances all over the place, to include a blender, food processor and big mixer. A slow cooker, a mixer that does its job on a stick type thing and can whip and mix foods while still in a pot, are more my kitchen speed.

And so I watch various cooking shows and sometimes I learn some things.

Above left is Rachel Ray. Ray is a good cook and she also markets pet food, yon descendants. You all might be feeding your own pets with her food. Don't tell anybody, but my cats don't like her cat food. My dog? Well my dog will eat anything.

Rachel tends to put everything in her recipes. I'd estimate that she adds around 25 ingredients to anything she cooks, which includes about 5 spices, various garnishes, and plenty of whatever else is around. I'd for sure eat some of her recipes, yon descendants, but believe that I will never cook anything that complicated.

The fellow on the right is Alton Brown. Alton has a great TV personality and is a great cook as well.

But Alton tends to make his recipes very complicated, so much so that my eyes glaze over. It isn't unusual for Alton to pull 10 ingredients out of his refrigerator to prepare a meal, ingredients that he'd PRE-prepared the prior day. Yon descendants, I have no desire to take two to three days to prepare a meal.

Brown is also very scientific with his recipes, often explaining in detail how ice melts and onions sweat in the pan, including the chemical formulas for a lot of foods.

But as I said, yon descendants, Alton Brown is a very good entertainer and provides intriguing commentary. He's fun to watch is what I'm saying here.

I think I'd prefer Rachel Ray's food, however.

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EDITORIAL

(My opinion for my descendants)

I Have the Solution for Subduing the Bad Guys

Allow me, yon descendants, to state right up front that I consider the deaths of two black men, Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta, Ga. and George Floyd in Minnesota, to be....well death they didn't deserve.

Now I know both of them were up to bad public behavior, oddly in both cases a nasty case of drunkenness. So far as I know drunkenness is not normally given the death penalty.

And so after days of thinking about it, taking into account that police officers are so often put in a position where persons guilty of these "crimes" are a danger to the police. Rayshard Brooks sleeping in the pick up lane of Wendy's is no danger to me, nor to most people in the line. But he became, quickly enough, a danger to the cops called to deal with him.

So you hear the caterwauling about cops being in danger and how they have to defend themselves and I suppose there's some truth to that. George Floyd was not a danger to anyone except he resisted arrest for passing a fake $20 bill. Also not a death penalty crime.

And so I realize yon descendants that the bigger problem through all the yelling these past weeks is because too often the only way a responding cop can defend his or her self is by killing he who swiped a taser or he who won't lay still when commanded by a cop.

I was speaking to a friend about this and my friend, with a good heart but little knowledge of cop danger, shouted "THEY SHOULD SHOOT THEM IN THE LEGS IF THEY HAVE TO SHOOT THEM!!"

Be aware, yon descendants, that I too am no expert on this sort of thing but I do know it's not so easy in the heat of the run, the adrenaline rush, the effort of assessing where the danger is, where the perp of the danger is.....as it all happens within a few seconds. Thus for a cop chasing a suspect who grabbed his taser and is running away leaving his car in the Wendy's drive-through to be pulling out gun and aiming at a leg in the heat of all....well it's not practical.

Although as I thought it through later, good advice.

I don't think a cop one across the fruity plains wants to kill a perp running away, or fighting handcuffs or doing something they shouldn't do but not worth the death penalty. Such as it too often becomes.

So here's my idea.

Invent a gun that shoots another human being ONLY to where it is programmed to shoot on the human body. You got a guy up in a balcony shooting innocent civilians down below, you pull out the gun and shout "HEART". The gun automatically programs to aim at the heart of the person in the gun sight. Same thing, carrying on the same theme, shout "LEG" and the gun programs itself to send the bullet only through the perp's leg.

Now I can hear the laughing out there to those reading, except for my descendants who might well be living in a world where such programmable guns are common place.

Did anyone ever think the day would come when we would have the ability to call anyone on the planet and have a phone conversation with them? How about pulling out that little rectangle we all carry with us and asking a question about anything, all stored on Google? Or we can take pictures and movies with it, just press a button and later, boom, send through the airways to family or to our own home computer? We talk into and send written messages, we can hit "translate" if needed, we can have group meetings from wherever we are, God bless Zoom.

Did we ever think we'd be able to hold a small gun-shaped device up to foreheads and within seconds ascertain the body temperature of the forehead's owner?

Now I don't know if the human leg, for example, has a special kind of DNA that a programmable gun could use to locate. But that's kind of my plan.

Or perhaps some sort of dart that will bring a person down without killing them?

The point here is that the idea is to stop a fleeing suspect without killing the guy. Something I don't think even the nastiest of cops really intends or wants to do.

Please don't say it's impossible. I once had a job as Quality Control inspector for the curl in the telephone cords. Now I carry that miracle of a cell phone in my pocket and ....well who knows, maybe we can program our cell phones to shoot bullets.

Don't say it can't be done.

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TIME FOR A SMILE

Chewbacca's baby picture #chewbacca #baby #funnypicture

Brilliant as usual.The game is to defund the cops and replace them with the antifa,BLM,nato forces and some of the 700k sleepers that area already here.Without the first line of defense:the police we basically would not exist as a nation.We should never forget that. It's a nasty game one the cabal/DNC/CIA are playing over and over in country after country and now it's our turn. Of course they never encountered a Donald Trump before!! ,

Someone who is completely fearless and is up to any challenge they throw at him.Someone who revers what we do here and has made our wishes come true from tax relief to the border wall to putting the U.S. first around the world instead of last. Who else would stand up to Boeing and tell them that two Air Force One's had to start with a "3" in the billion column and not a six. No one but DJT!! He is why we are still America and will always be as long as he is around.

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY to all the dads out there!

I am very fortunate to still have mine for yet another year – 97.5 yo, WWII vet. With family & friends, he’s being likened to the Energizer Bunny … his poor old heart has taken a lickin’ and just keeps on tickin’! Kids, grandkids & great grandkids are blessed and grateful that he’s still around for another Father’s Day. BTW, the “0.5” he says is very important, so we don’t leave that off when talking about his age.

So what to get the 97.5 year old who has everything he wants because he still goes to Lowe’s in his “buggy” aka transport chair (it is NOT a wheelchair & woe to you if you call it that)!.His appetite has seriously diminished, but one thing he still loves & will eat with gusto is steak. Our (the kids) gift to him today is a family cookout with rib eye steaks on the grill, mom’s potato salad (we all love it – beats store bought hands down), deviled eggs, a big green salad with all the ‘additions’ (tomato, cukes, etc.), Brussels sprouts casserole (for the low carbers, but everyone eats it & it’s become a family favorite), & if anyone has room for dessert, Margarita sherbet & an almond cookie. The main event will be the steak – I can hardly wait. :-)

BTW, dad was front & center in his favorite recliner for the Trump Rally last night – he never misses a rally on TV. His goal was to be alive to vote for Trump the first time and he’s holding on for another Trump vote in November!

~Q

That was pretty good.

5.56mm

Here we go, just for today:

"Don't listen to the fake news. You know the fake news is gonna say there was empty seats at my perfect rally last night. BS! Can you say COVID? Antifa?"

That is so awesome for you and your Dad!

My Dad turns 90 next week.

Every year is a miracle. Praise God!

OMG What time do you want me?

Because that meal sounds wonderful and hey, I might be one of the few but I love Brussels sprouts.

Speaking of Dads. I lost mine in 1995.

First Happy Father’s Day to all Dads. Do not listen to those who say a Dad is no longer needed. They are and everyone needs a Dad to love them, protect them and teach them.

So the other day I was thinking about my Dad and it occurs to me how completely amazing my Dad was.

Let me tell you why......you might not even believe it.

MY DAD WAS ADDICTED TO WORK!!!!

Now as I was growing up I thought working about 12-14 hours a day was normal and today, myself, my sister and brothers, all are hard workers and make money for knowing how to do the job.

My Dad worked a job, of course, as a carpenter. When he came home he immediately began whatever construction project he was on in the current home we were living in.

My Dad did what is today called “flipping houses” although once such a thing was considered a bad thing. Now they have entire HGTV shows devoted to flipping houses.

We had a big old house by the Baltimore stock yards, a farm for God’s sake, to living on the waterfront.

My father did everything, electricity, install water and septic tanks, build boat houses....and on and on and on.

“3 and a half hours,” my father would lecture us. “I want you to work 3 and a half hours every day.”

I WAS TEN WHEN HE TOLD US THAT!

And so we worked three and a half hours every day then when he came home from work, we helped him doing whatever, digging a garden, installing a septic tank, putting up wall tiles, adding a new room-which my father would often do as the mood struck him.

He loved to work and today, as I look around me, there’s not too many people loving work.

But we learned from him and we worked and man, between being a farmer or being a sailor....we had it all.

Happy Father’s Day to my Dad who is right now adding rooms in heaven and painting the golden gates.

So glad you enjoyed.

Happy Father’s Day to my Dad who is right now adding rooms in heaven and painting the golden gates.

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I love this! My dad was an engineer, designing water filtration plants, mostly. He grew up on a farm during the Depression & is a “jack of all trades” ... carpentry, some plumbing, a little electrical .... just about anything that needs doing. Thank God (literally) that I inherited his mechanical ability (my mom has “zero”). The great grandkids are still using bunny pens that he made for me when I was 12 .... that was, um, well let’s just say “many” decades ago! :-)

Thanks for sharing the memories of your wonderful dad.

Seriously, I need to ask:

Did you all watch the rally last night?

I did and it was great!

My question for today is what are these DNCMedia “darlings” (bastards) going to say about it?

Dads are “special”, but once they hit 90, it seems to me they’re extra-special. My SIL’s dad is going to be at the cookout - he’s 92 & a Korean War vet ... not in great health. He’s also a widower & with COVID, other than my SIL & his caretaker (he’s able to stay at home, not in a facility), he’s been socially isolated. He really wants to come to the cookout & he also LOVES steak. We’ll send him home with an extra one so he can have steak & eggs for breakfast. He’s a grand old guy & I can’t wait to see him - my dad is looking forward to seeing him, too. Also an avid Trump fan, BTW - I’m sure he had the rally on last night.

Yes, Praise God for our dads & those 90(+) years!

As expected...

“Trump’s Tulsa Rally Fizzles as Seats Go Empty”
NYT - Michael D. Shear, Maggie Haberman and Astead W. Herndon

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3857752/posts

CBS is promoting Communism? Angela Davis? Really? Ms Davis, will the CPUSA going to endorse Biden in 2020 or the leader of CHAZ/CHOP? Or someone worse than Stalin?