Know-It-Alls: Trivia Tuesday

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Today’s category is FOOD.

How did the pound cake get its name?

Why was the Animal Crackers box designed with a string handle?

On which vegetable did an ancient Egyptian place his right hand when taking an oath?

The pretzel shape was created by French monks in 610 AD. What was it designed to resemble?

What is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box?

What flavor did Baskin-Robbins introduce to commemorate America’s landing on the moon on July 20, 1969?

What is the most widely eaten fish in the world?

What part of the traditional Thanksgiving dinner is called the merrythought?

What is a cluster or bunch of bananas called?

In the world of food, what is pluck?

What part of the orange is the albedo?

What animal’s milk is used to make authentic Italian mozzarella cheese?

What is the only essential vitamin not found in the white potato?

What is the largest fruit crop on earth?

How long does it take to hard boil a 3-pound ostrich egg?

Answers

From the one-pound quantities of the key ingredients (sugar, butter, eggs and flour) in the original recipe.

The animal shaped cookie treats were introduced in 1902 as a Christmas novelty—and packaged so they could be hung from Christmas trees.

The onion. Its round shape symbolized eternity.

A little child’s arms in prayer.

Bingo.

Lunar cheesecake.

Herring.

The wishbone of the turkey.

Hand.

An animal’s heart, liver and lungs.

The bitter tasting white tissue that makes the peel stick to the skin.

The water buffalo’s.

Vitamin A.

Grapes, followed by bananas.

One hour and 45 minutes.

SO…how did you do??

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  1. Morning All!
    it’s above 50* this morning…LOL
    finally.
    putting out the feeders, boy something that sounded big. snorted at me in the woods…LOL

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    1. Morning! 65 here this morning – when I moved from my recliner to the bed in the wee hours, I thought we were going to get some rain but apparently not, since it’s not wet outside. Supposed to be rainy and thunderstorms this week…and I need to take on the VA again to push them to do something about my gums still hurting, and my sinuses. Sigh…..I’m sooo fricking tired of this fight…..

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      1. Morning Filly!
        yeah, it’s been a while for rain here too!
        and i think you gave it enough time to short itself out, which it doesn’t seem to be doing. i think you’ve been very patient

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      1. i tried telling hubby–he asked why I spit every time there is something about the red cross–he doesn’t think it’s true.
        smh
        i asked him…haven’t I been right about everything else so far (not claiming I figured this stuff out, but when presented with evidence, I can see the truth)

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  19. herb
    herb
    May 30, 2023 12:42 am

    Biden Authorizes Order That Will Ban Independent Media in America

    President Biden on Thursday authorized a plan to ban “all independent media websites” in America, in order to “protect Americans from hate.”

    The highly illegal and unconstitutional move is part of the White House’s new “National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.”

    https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/biden-authorizes-order-that-will-ban-independent-media-in-america/

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  22. interesting article from American Thinker. the author posits that moochelle could be nominated to senator feinstein’s seat to springboard her to the presidency. he notes there are obstacles–they aren’t residents of CA–but details, schmetails. but mooch did make an interesting comment –about “we wondered” during “OUR presidency” (about guns…)
    entire article
    Is Michelle Obama going to replace Senator Feinstein to jumpstart a presidential run?

    What are the odds Gavin Newsom will replace Dianne Feinstein with Michelle Obama to start Obama’s real return to the White House? Barack Hussein Obama wants to finish off the country with a fraudulent fourth term with Michelle as the ‘president’, starting her run by being appointed to replace Dianne Feinstein.

    Consider the visible manifestations of the intrigue taking place behind the scenes of the fascist far left the past few days. One is the sudden re-emergence of Barack Hussein Obama and Michelle (aka ‘Big M’) along with a tug of war within the ranks of the authoritarian collectivists on what to do about Senator Feinstein.

    Meanwhile, Mr. Demented Disaster, himself the head of Team Wrecking Ball, is gearing up for another ‘run’ at pretending to be president. It is almost entirely obvious to everyone that it shouldn’t even be close. Frankly, at this point, it shouldn’t matter if it’s Ron or Don, Team Freedom could run a pastrami on rye and still win with Biden as the opponent with 4 years of disaster under his belt.

    We’re presenting this case simply because it’s better to be forewarned of danger and to pre-puncture this little party balloon they have planned. After all, they would love to spring this on everyone as a ‘wonderful’ surprise. If we’ve already predicted and discussed this little trick, it’ll take some wind out of their sails.

    In our day-to-day work, engineers generally look at the initial conditions of a system and apply the appropriate rules of physics to predict what is going to happen with a system and more importantly, what to do about it.

    Thus, we can apply the same kind of logic to politics to predict what is going to happen in the future.

    The ‘initial conditions’ are that the Obamas are acting as Bill and Hillary Clinton when she was gearing up for a presidential run. Logical reasoning also helps inform us as to what the far left will do given the current state of affairs and their default predilection for prevarication. So, let’s consider these events as puzzle pieces and see how they fit together in predicting what is going to happen next, given previous events of a similar nature.

    Michelle Obama made a rather odd and disturbingly familiar statement in an interview with Gayle King on “CBS Mornings” back on Apr 20, 2023. Colion Noir, referenced this in one of his videos: Michelle Obama Says We’re The Only Country With Unfettered Access To Guns & It’s Not A Good Thing

    During one point in the original interview, marked on the timeline as the most replayed, she references their issues with our common-sense civil right of self-defense, parroting the tired old line ‘enough is enough’ saying:

    “we wondered that throughout our entire presidency.”

    Did you catch that? ‘we wondered that throughout our entire presidency.’

    Those of you that remember the bad old days of Comrade Clinton’s presidential aspirations, will recall that she expressed things similarly. Making it sound like it was a “co-presidency” of sorts. As though Michelle had been a full partner in the effort ‘our entire presidency,’ when that was not the case. She used the phrase ‘we wondered’ as though she was in some sort of mind meld with Barack Hussein. History teaches us what happened next.

    Comrade Clinton set up the pattern of becoming a senator of one of the larger socialistic states and then running for the top spot as though she was already experienced in the job. The national socialist media would also play a game of taking the latest utterance of a prominent member of the Demo-Nazi party that Comrade Clinton should run as a ‘Stop the presses’ moment. Cynically exploiting its propaganda value for a day or two and then repeating the cycle when another far-leftist would make the same type of ‘proclamation.’

    Former presidents are supposed to exit the stage and leave it to their successors. Obama broke that mold, staying behind the scenes, to a certain extent much like a puppet master. We aren’t certain who’s been controlling the demented leader of Team Wrecking Ball.

    However, many are guessing it’s Barack Hussein himself.

    But, now that seems to have changed; the Obamas are looking for a bigger role in events. Appointing Michelle as senator as a launching platform for the presidency might be just what Barack Hussein is looking for.

    You also have to consider that the Dems have few other choices; they have no bench or people that are even likable or decent. That’s why they have to constantly point fingers at the pro-freedom right. They can pretend that they can be ‘successful’ at rerunning the 2020 playbook, but the people are sick of the COVID scam and no matter how much they try to distract, the fact is that the Biden regime has been an unmitigated disaster for the country.

    To be fair, we must consider the factors against this taking place. Just as there were rivalries within national socialist Germany, there are rivalries within the far left in the states. Governor Hair Gel isn’t likely to want to appoint Big M to the Senate and potentially to the White House when he covets doing to the nation as he’s done to the people’s republic. Dianne Feinstein won’t want to give up her ability to control other people (for their own good, of course) along with her congressional aides who’ve got their own version of “Weekend at Bernie’s” going (They must figure if it’s good enough for the White House).

    Then there’s the practical side that the Obamas don’t have a residence in the People’s Republic of California. But when have they cared about abiding by the law anyway? Besides, all they have to do is pitch a tent somewhere and they’ll suddenly be residents, just like all of the other illegal invaders.

    So, why is this important to consider? We’re making this case for a couple of reasons. One, the more we talk about this as something that is expected, the less it will be a ‘surprise’ and sudden and ‘historic’ news story that will be blared everywhere, and maybe it’s less likely to happen.

    It’s also simply a case of being forewarned, if we’ve already considered this possibility, we will have already planned for it and it will be devoid of its intended ‘shock value.’

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/is_michelle_obama_going_to_replace_senator_feinstein_to_jumpstart_a_presidential_run.html

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  23. “DOJ, Prosecutors Trying To Claw Back Donations Made To J6 Defendants”
    BY TYLER DURDEN

    EXCERPT: “While BLM protesters got a Kamala Harris-endorsed bail fund during the violent and destructive mostly peaceful George Floyd riots, the Department of Justice is trying to claw back donations made to January 6th political prisoners.

    According to AP, the DOJ is trying to seize over $25,000 raised by Texas resident Daniel Goodwyn, who appeared on Tucker Carlson’s former Fox News show where he promoted a website for political donations. The AP looked at over 1,000 criminal cases from Jan 6., and noted that prosecutors have been asking judges to enhance fines on top of prison sentences to offset donations from supporters.

    Dozens of defendants have set up online fundraising appeals for help with legal fees, and prosecutors acknowledge there’s nothing wrong with asking for help for attorney expenses. But the Justice Department has, in some cases, questioned where the money is really going because many of those charged have had government-funded legal representation.

    Most of the fundraising efforts appear on GiveSendGo, which bills itself as “The #1 Free Christian Fundraising Site” and has become a haven for Jan. 6 defendants barred from using mainstream crowdfunding sites, including GoFundMe, to raise money.

    Were any of the BLM-linked fundraisers, or BLM itself, subject to DOJ scrutiny?

    As the AP notes, the success many J6 prisoners have had fundraising “suggests that many people in the United States still view Jan. 6 rioters as patriots and cling to the baseless belief that Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump.”

    Virginia resident Markus Maly, who is set to be sentenced next month for assaulting police at the Capitol, raised over $16,000 from an online campaign. Prosecutors have requested a $16,000 fine, noting that he had a public defender and didn’t owe any legal fees.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doj-prosecutors-trying-claw-back-donations-made-j6-prisoners

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    1. i think this is disgusting!
      these givesendgo funds should now be in the families’ names–these people had jobs, were supporting themselves and their families–
      I hope when DJT becomes POTUS again–every one of these bastards gets prison time with IMMENSE (financially ruining) FINES

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  25. Hmmm….did you read SD’s analysis of Twitter/Musk? I have been making this same point off-and-on ever since “The Cloud” appeared on the scene!!! All those Hollyweird celebrities putting all their porn pics and videos in “The Cloud” learned the hard way! Why didn’t Musk plan for this? Not so smart, now, eh???

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/05/29/musk-admits-he-doesnt-control-platform-censorship-decisionmaking-watch-the-twitter-financials/

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    2. now i remember why i passed this by yesterday.
      despite his research intensity–which is good–some dude’s conceit shows thru in his writing–see, see–I said this before and i was right–type of thing.
      and he does that A LOT
      sometimes I am not in the mood for PRAISE ME mode
      it’s good info thou

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      1. Yeah, that does get tiresome…President Trump does the same thing, which has ALWAYS turned me off about him – I HATE all his bragging, which is why I do NOT like to watch him speak – I don’t watch the rallies much. At the same time, having been in that position myself too many times to count, I can certainly understand the need to bring up the point. How many times has that happened to me, Pat? It is NOT pleasant and it is so incredibly insulting when people say “you don’t know what you’re talking about,” only for it to be proven true. It gets REALLY old!

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          1. Well, he has different motivations – this is a money-making venture for him, IMO, which puts a different perspective on it. So he stresses his accuracy in the hope of bringing more people, I guess. OTOH, I just want to be believed so people will pay attention and actually look for themselves – don’t take my word for it but check into it at least, ya’ know? He certainly isn’t the only one – GP is one of the worst, IMO. They simply disgust me thru-and-thru, specifically with their flip to supporting uber-corrupt Ukraine! Even JD Rucker has done it now and then, and a plethora of others. Just saying’…..and yes, I am back on the SD train – he was right to ban discussion of Q, IMO. Where are we now on that subject? At most, I am 30/70 but more like 10/90 against it’s validity. Regardless, what it DID accomplish was waking up a hell of a lot of people, and that is always good in my books.

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  26. “Millions invested to progress methane vaccine for livestock”
    10:33 am on 30 May 2023
    Monique Steele, Rural Journalist, New Zealand

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “A methane vaccine for livestock could be a breakthrough tool for farmers to reduce agricultural emissions – but it is still at least a decade away. Researchers have been trying to develop a livestock vaccine since around 2007, amid a greater focus on reducing emissions. Agriculture makes up nearly half of the country’s total emissions.

    Government-industry joint venture the Centre for Climate Action will invest $2.5 million over the next year to review progress on a methane vaccine and a methane inhibitor for cattle, sheep and deer. New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre director Dr Harry Clark said getting methane-mitigating technology onto farms will take solid science, investment and time.

    “We now know an enormous amount more about how to produce a vaccine and we are now working on how to get a vaccine that’s effective,” he said. “With the vaccine, this is a very complex issue because you’re asking the animal to produce antibodies, in the way any vaccine does, against the bugs in the stomach that produce methane.

    “We can produce antibodies, we know that we can produce large numbers of them. In laboratories, we have even been able to reduce methane, but what we haven’t been able to do yet is with the complexity of the stomach of a ruminant, which contains billions of microbes, have different shapes and sizes and functions. So it is very complicated. ” He said there was also promise in the work to develop a methane inhibitor, or feed additives, which reduce activity of methanogens in the animal’s digestive systems, or rumen.

    New Zealand-based start-up Ruminant BioTech received a $1.8m boost from the joint venture to develop a slow-released biodegradable methane-inhibiting capsule in April. “We’ve got a couple of very promising compounds which have undergone short-term animal trials in sheep. We’re now pushing them into longer-term animal trials, both using sheep and cattle. And it’s so far, so good,” Clark said. He said regulatory approval and the pathway to commercialisation were other obstacles for developing methane-mitigation tools.

    In 2021, a feed supplement marketed to reduce indoor livestock emissions, called Bovaer, was approved for use in Brazil, one of the world’s largest meat exporters. It was also approved for use on dairy cows in the European Union last year. Clark said while the product would not work with New Zealand’s traditionally outdoor grazing cows, it also took the product a decade to come to market after successful laboratory testing. “Producing a technical breakthrough is one thing, getting it to market is equally lengthy,” Clark said.

    The Centre for Climate Action joint venture was set up last month to accelerate work on practical solutions to reduce agricultural emissions by 30 percent by 2030. Its shareholders include industry giants ANZCO Foods, Fonterra, Rabobank, Ravensdown, Silver Fern Farms and Synlait, which have committed around $170m over the next four years to the joint venture.

    Executive director Wayne McNee said the size of the prize for New Zealand farmers was huge. “New Zealand’s global customers are setting ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets, and if we can’t meet these targets, export revenue that has underpinned our living standards will be under threat. We must confront this reality, and I believe we can meet the challenge. “We’re focused on scaling up efforts made to date by Kiwi farmers and agri-researchers and forging ahead with investigating new opportunities and investments.”

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/490956/millions-invested-to-progress-methane-vaccine-for-livestock

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    1. i get so sick of people trying to play God.
      He created everything. if there are “flaws” in an animal, genetics and nature will weed out what’s wrong. nature has been doing this forever.
      this is all made up “science” for these people to play God and profit.

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        1. exactly…but go back further.
          $$, yes, but CONTROL is everything. they want to be GOD–changing animals, changing man, they have God complexes–they need to control everything.

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  27. This bastid needs to hang for war crimes!!!

    “Lindsey Graham says ‘Russians dying’ is the ‘best money the US has ever spent’ while in meeting with Zelensky – as Moscow’s London ambassador threatens ‘escalation’ if West continues to help Ukraine; Senator Lindsey Graham appeared to rejoice that Russians are dying in Ukraine; The Republican senator made his third visit to Ukraine since the war began”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12133561/Lindsey-Graham-says-Russians-dying-best-money-spent-meeting-Zelensky.html

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        1. that’s sad too in a way.
          i would never trust a politician.
          but there are people in my life i trust.
          i’ve been wrong before, but i can’t let that harden my heart.

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              1. No, not totally – as for “acquaintances?” Any trust is on a superficial level until proven to be worthy of trust and there are danged few of those, let me tell you! On-line and off!

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  32. “Final Days Sheds Light on the Darkness of mRNA Technologies — Pfizer, US healthcare agencies, government officials, and many leading experts have never been honest with the American people about the contents of the COVID-19 injections; or what the mRNA nanoparticle technologies do to the human body.

    I had the honor of working with the directors of Died Suddenly, Matthew Miller Skow and Nicholaus Stumphauzer, and producer Stew Peters on the film Final Days, premiering today at 5pm Eastern.

    These three brave and brilliant men are dedicated to opening the eyes of humanity, so that people around the globe will reawaken, repent, and rebel against those who unleashed the COVID-19 injections on global civilians without our knowledge of their contents or their devastating gene-editing capabilities.

    Register HERE to part of the FREE premiere viewing.”

    https://karenkingston.substack.com/p/final-days-sheds-light-on-the-darkness

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  33. Freedom ring
    Freedom ring
    May 30, 2023 9:17 am

    How many times will we be sold out by the GOP before we realize
    McCarthy, McConnel, McDaniel = McDemocrat

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  35. Let’s see what kind of memes I can find today…so far, it is a gorgeous morning – just a slight breeze (flag is out), 73 now, sunshine, birds singing…..all’s right with the world here (now that I’ve righted and secured the glider)..for the moment anyway! This IS NE, after all!!! I need to go ahead and get the cantaloupe seedlings shipped overnight to my Sis but they are not looking so good…not sure if they’ll make it. The soil over there just sucks, pure and simple – it was lawn that I had dug up. Oh, well, it IS an experiment after all! She can still go buy some seedlings if they don’t make it.
    “Pumpkin knows what’s up…”

    “Dude’s been dead for 2500 years and looks better than Diane Feinstein…”

    “Yum!”

    “Budget cuts…”

    “Thanks…I think…”

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        1. we were offered chocolate covered ants—way back in grade school–not in the cafeteria but in the classroom. some teacher brought them back from whatever country she had visited from over the summer.
          some of the boys tried them…few girls

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              3. Well, are French Fries really french? The first time I had escargot was in a Turkish restaurant, actually. My boss took me there for Secretaries’ Day and I had lamb shish-ke-bob (yummy – I started making that at home on our grill) and escargot in garlic butter, with freshly-baked warm bread. Oh, it’s heaven!!!

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              4. you’re kidding right?
                i have no idea if french fries are french or is french toast is.
                i lie PLAIN food–no sauces, no creams…garlic butter gives me the willies

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  37. “Tough guy..”

    “Back to the ’80’s…”

    “Obama gives memorial day speech on (White) house lawn” — NF: I had one of these that belonged to my a-Mom…I sold it for $50!

    “I find myself saying it a lot…”

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  42. “The Cancel Culture Tides are Shifting”
    JORDAN SATHER
    MAY 30, 2023

    EXCERPT: “Memorial Day – a tradition in American culture where citizens honor fallen military serviceman and veterans who put their lives on the line to defend American freedoms. Barbecues, family gatherings, and camping excursions often take place during the extended, late May weekend. Beer flows freely… well, except Bud Light.

    (Nobody wants to buy it..)
    Latest sales numbers indicate that Bud Light’s sales have dropped for the sixth straight week, down almost 30% since this time last year due to backlash over their partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, a cringey transgender social media influencer who celebrates “being a woman”, even though Dylan a biological man. Some reports even state that 24 packs of Bud Light are being sold for as cheap as $3.49 per pack.

    Then we get to Target, which has lost $10 billion of market share value in 10 days since their Pride display controversy erupted, $1 billion lost per day. I guess hiring an openly Satanic clothes designer to create pride clothes for children wasn’t a good idea after all?

    (Target moves the pride displays in many of their stores)
    These aren’t the only companies feeling the backlash from jumping on the woke train – Adidas, Nike, Ford Motors, North Face, and many more companies are getting roasted on social media and have boycott campaigns directed at them over their woke pandering, social justice marketing.

    The absolutely hilariously poetic part is that once these companies go woke, conservatives will initiative a boycott against them – then once their sales start to drop they try to backtrack on their wokeness, such as removing the Pride display in Target’s case or apologizing and creating advertisements to appease conservatives like in Bud Light’s case, then because of this backtracking the left-wing groups will initiative their own boycotts. So no matter what, going woke will inevitably piss off everyone. Take note, corporate America!”

    https://jordansather.substack.com/p/the-cancel-culture-tides-are-shifting

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    1. “And it’s beautiful to watch Cancel Culture strike back and cancel what should rightfully be cancelled in society. It’s not hypocritical at all to call for these boycott campaigns, what’s hypocritical is that the radical left is crying about it. If playing victim was a professional sport, they’d take home the championship.

      The revolution will not be televised, but it will be broadcast on social media!”

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  43. EXCERPT: “Former President Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner for president in 2024, rolled out a new policy pledge on Tuesday in which he promised if elected he would sign an executive order on day one of his second term in office effectively ending birthright citizenship for illegal aliens and so-called “birth tourism.”

    The policy proposal, contained in one of his Agenda 47 videos his campaign released, was obtained exclusively by Breitbart News ahead of its public release.

    “As part of my plan to secure the border, on day one of my new term in office I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law going forward the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship,” Trump says in the slightly more than three-minute-long video.

    Trump argues that birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens serves as a “magnet” and an “incentive” for future prospective migrants to attempt to enter the country illegally.”

    Video from Trump: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/30/exclusive-trump-pledges-executive-order-day-one-presidency-to-end-birthright-citizenship-for-illegal-aliens-birth-tourism/

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    2. altho I agree with this…MAKE IT RETROACTIVE or you will just encourage a RUN TO THE BORDER to drop their anchor babies before his inauguration.
      going forward is a horrible caveat

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        1. awesome!
          i am tired of the people claiming the kids did nothing wrong and should stay. (they will only file to bring their parents at a later date)
          you cannot benefit from an illegal act. your father robs a bank and buys you a car with some of the $$ you don’t get to keep it when he gets caught.

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  48. Ok, my Sis helped me work thru a decision I had to make about the yellow (Primrose) lilac bush I ordered. To my knowledge, lilacs always thrive in direct sun but the instructions w/this one said, shade/part-shade…which cornfused me…but, since it IS a hybrid, I figured I’d better check it out first. I ordered it for the far NW always-sunny corner of my back yard…Sis and I have come to the conclusion, after we both went searching on-line, that those instructions were FOS…it is going where I intended it in the first place! Problem solved. Now I can get back to ruminating about the area under the willow tree….not quite settled yet…

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  50. OH, OH, OH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    just had a deer present her fawn at the pond! the fawn is soooo tiny!!!!
    but jumping all over the place and active.
    SO SWEET!!!!

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      1. oh mama is keeping her baby close!
        I have the telephoto lens in my camera, but i can’t get a good shot. if he moves into the open a little maybe i could, but mama moved him back into the tree line.
        but this little one is frisky! i’ll be watching back by the pond to see if that’s where she stashes him while she feeds.

        remember i said something big snorted at me this morning–bet it was her! she will keep all the rest of the deer away from the area for a few days

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