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  "Make America hate again"

  by MarkofCane in

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  “trump is predicting he’ll be able to do all these things, but his workload will be pretty enormous and his power would be so limited by precedent, by the bureaucracy, by the constitution,” said robert dallek, a presidential historian.

  “even in trade and immigration, where trump says he will make revolutionary changes, congress has a say on those things.

  a lot of people have a say.

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  I do not put much into the idea of one American president to run the show similarly as it happened in some totalitarian countries around the world. While there is no denial that some people envision having their favorite choice to have this power to squash opponents, it is unrealistic within the political system of USA that survived such crisis like the Civil War and the Great Depression. What is more worrying is the trend, where the American society is heading, which has far more reaching legacy and lasting impact. Trump's big mistake could be destruction of the NATO and USA military standing which itself is worn out by GWB war legacy. Americans after they broke off alliance with France in 1800 until 1942 refused to be part of any, and lived in delusion of isolation until the WWII. Trump is feeding on the same isolationist delusion of the long lost past.
  

  The decline of the USA is already in the second decade of making. Today I saw a chart that plotted car sales in USA since 1951, and we sell 40% less cars than it had in the peaks 30 years ago and less than it was in 1951 when USA had the half of the current population. This only showing a decline of the purchasing power of the American consumers. After inflation, USA incomes are in the 1990's level. Therefore, if anything, the US policy after any election would have to undergo through economic restructuring and reformation while at the same time addressing a needs of Gen Y which is the biggest demographic in the country and its voice was neglected by shrinking Boomer population. I do not see any of the candidate have any ideas what to do, and I frankly do not think that Hillary or Trump even care.
  
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  Share your home remedies for congestion and earache...please?

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  the extraordinarily high pollen count has finally done me in.

  i started with head congestion and coughing on friday and have steadily felt worse.

  i now have an earache and a heavy feeling in my chest.. yes, i do have a doctor's appointment for tomorrow, as i'm sure the advice would be!

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  I suffer with allergies in USA, I have not had them in Europe. I had my sinus drained by otolaryngologist specialist. I felt the relief immediately.
  
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  Is Donal Trump the Anti Christ?

  by Gratefullyunstuck in

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  what do you think?

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  Should be antichrist to be a male who has no desire of women? Neither of his Slavic wives look manly, but were hotties in their younger years.
  
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  Start A Butterfly Garden!

  by Bonsai in

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  time to take a break from debating religion.

  take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?

  how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?

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  We had tons of rain yesterday, tornado warnings and hail storm. The March-April water deficit was finally erased. The lawn loves the rain, so it is lush and green like in Ireland. However, my shrubs are shedding petals from the rain and hails. I will be traveling next two weekends, so I wont be able to do any yard work, but I am not very pleased how the backyard looks right now, so I have to wait till Memorial weekend to do any major fixes.
  
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  Start A Butterfly Garden!

  by Bonsai in

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  time to take a break from debating religion.

  take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?

  how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?

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  cat has just brought in a weasel for the first time...

  Once my deceased cat brought a live snake into the house. And also mice (dead). He also picked up moles, but never killed, but dragged them to the door, and then let it go. I was not very pleased with moles afterwards devastating my garden. Bad kitty.

  When I was kid, I stayed the my grandmother house in the southern Moravian countryside. As a city boy, I never seen a snail, so I picked around the countryside a full box of them and brought them inside of her house. Worried that she would be too pleased with my life collection, I hid them in the water tank at her extensive orangery where she stored subtropical plants. The snails got out and went into feast. For year they drove her crazy, because they were everywhere, and they had to call exterminator. When i was older, i mentioned to my grandmother what I have done, and she laughed it of. She suspected her elderly neighbor was jealous and was throwing snails over the roof into her courtyard.
  
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  Start A Butterfly Garden!

  by Bonsai in

  1. jw
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  time to take a break from debating religion.

  take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?

  how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?

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  So April is over. We had strange weather extremes that month. Rain deficit is 3" or 4" but this will be erased by the next week. We had non-stop rain for the last three days. We had highs to 88F and early morning freeze. My hydrangeas suffered from freeze burn (the first time ever), while wisteria dropped all its flowers, and early blooming azaleas look terrible. On the other had, lawn looks good. I have a tons of lily-of-the-valley, dragonroot, and may night sage blooming. I am hoping for calla lilies and gladiolas to finally poke from the ground, because this time of the of the year, they should be already sprouting.

  I also have a bunny family living under the shed. They stayed there couple years ago, but were gone last year. The biggest issue right now are caterpillars. We never had so many of them like this spring. They totally chew many leafs on my english laurels and some other plants. Birds seem to be too lazy to eat them, but I do not want to overspray the backyard with chemical(s).
  
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  Any thought behind your " Avatar"

  by The Rebel in

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  i think that's the correct phrase?

  anyway when i first came here, that little picture that "the rebel" hides behind, was a self portrait of a very sad man, who simply had too much knowledge.

  now i feel after 7 months here, i should repaint that " avetor" give some happiness to the eyes, and a contented smile to the lips.. in short my " avetor" was a self portrait of a man with too much knowledge.

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  Mine is a Czech cartoon character.
  
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  ANZAC day.

  by zeb in

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  the 25th april in australia and new zealand is called anzac day.

  the word is from australia new zealand army corp.. on this day are commemorated the lives of those lost in war.

  the 25th april is the day in 1915 that the forces under incompetent commanders landed on the coast of turkey at a place called gallipoli or galliboli in turkish, in an effort to force turkey out of the great war.. the landings were an unmitigated blunder.

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  WWI seems so long time ago but... My grandfather fought it in the last year in 1918 when he was drafted as a teen on Italian front line. My great-grandfather (grandpa from my mom side) was an Austrian officer, already retired in 1900s when he was called in once Austria-Hungary run out of soldiers. He survived the war, but his son, who was also teen did not. I agree with prologos, it was delusion of imperial government in Austria when it started the war.
  
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  Start A Butterfly Garden!

  by Bonsai in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  time to take a break from debating religion.

  take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?

  how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?

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  My azalea on the sunny side finally bloomed. The variety is called Karen Azalea and they do well in my climate. I have bluebells around them. On the shaded part, my lily of the valley bloomed and filled the flowerbed. I have mother's day azalea by the shed. One is about to bloom, the other is still waiting to bloom. Behind it is my clematis, forget-me-not and huge catawbiense rhodo.

  
  

  
  

  
  
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  Prince died from overdose?

  by TweetieBird in

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  i just saw where the emergency landing that prince made several days ago in moline was due to an opiate overdose.

  this came from tmz and sounded pretty credible.

  if true, just curious if he would still be given a jw funeral, if that is what he wanted..

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  I would wait till the official reports from the toxicology. He may overdosed from legal prescription or from a bad combo of various medications.