It’s almost time for iris to bloom. I think they are my favorite flower of all. They are tall, regal, and majestic.
This iris used to be in my garden, before it got “changed.” I made the unfortunate discovery that if you plant different iris too close together, their colors will blend. This pink lady was beautiful the first year. The second year she was yellow. I know this because I took pictures.
Beware if you plant premium iris. Spread them out real well.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/9WoM2bHfr48
Ha ha ha! It looks like Mistress Moon has pissed off the SoN.
SoN turns from truth like it is Kryptonite.
I have looked and have yet to see Miss Moon analyze the results of the caucus.
The analysis of the caucus is simple. Bloggers like SON and BVBL are irrelevant and insignificant when it comes to moving the electoral needle.
Looks like commoners are disagreeing with him over there. And that’s the FEW they let through.
I think you might have to use a secret code to get through.
Two Islamic terrorists were shot is Texas while attacking a free speech event.
This is called “hunting over bait.”
“Hunting over bait”. 🙂
A suggestion for “terrorist” wannabes. Next time just hang a US flag upside down and say the Pledge in Arabic with kids present. Then burn it and replace it with a rainbow flag. Promoters of that “free speech event” would have died of rage induced heart failure–A far more satisfying response, I would think, than trying for 77 virgins on the Jihad economy plan.
Sheriff is getting lazy. Since he couldn’t control all his elections I guess he just gave up.
What’s he gonna do about the budget other than whine and cry along with his other Mcmansion buddies who bought houses they couldn’t afford.
Boo Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Two more police officers shot to death, one white, one black –
In Hattisburg, Mississippi. Tragedy!
Sandra Fluke, that icon of feminism, is back in the news to share words of wisdom.
“I must say that as dire and barbaric as these Boko militants in Nigeria seem, we have to remember that if these girls are released and come to America as political refugees, they could end up working for Republican lawmakers here in California or in Washington, or end up living in a Red state in the South, which would no doubt make them wish they were still in the clutches of militant al-Qaeda-linked rapist terrorists,” Fluke told Brand.
“I’d rather be a captive Nigerian girl than touched by Republican….”
http://duhprogressive.com/index.php/444-sandra-fluke-i-d-rather-be-a-captive-nigerian-girl-than-touched-by-a-republican
I say that her views should be fully supported and spread far and wide by radio and TV. Her close connection to a certain party and specific people in that party should be definitely publicized.
What a loser.
I expected she was kidding. Do you have a context for this statement, IF she even made it?
I believe you are failing to see her sarcasm. Actually, she usually makes a good feminist. What’s wrong with feminists? I was born one.
I forgot to add….this interview was done in June 2014…… Too bad Sandra didn’t get airplay then. I think she should get it now……
Cargo —– I think you may have grabbed onto something which smells like an onion, if you get my internet drift. The author (I use that term loosely) calls himself “D’Leereeus Johnson.”
Fluke doesn’t need the jokes. The denizens of liberal land in West LA, Santa Monica, Malibu, et al, told her to get lost in the 2014 contest for the State Senate seat. They handed the seat to local boy Ben Allen by a very easy margin. Even the libs don’t always go for carpetbaggers with name recognition.
@Wolve
Perhaps so.
If so, I completely and utterly retract it.
That last exchange (Comments 10 – 16) shows how completely nuts the modern political commentary scene has become. The trend toward substituting ideology for analytical thinking, coupled with easy access to mountains of information on the internet, has led to mass gullibility. Blindingly obvious satire or farce can be confused with fact, even by intelligent readers. There are many reasons for this, I suppose, but one prominent explanation is that people have become completely comfortable with thinking backwards from ideological pre-dispositions.
I think cable news is a big problem. Not only is it on all the time, it has its own ideology. Its like 24 hour big brother, feeding us “think-speak.”
The internet also dumbs down thought. Too many people think if its on the internet it must be true. How many people get their news from blogs? Far too many. Blogs are biased by definition.
@Scout
+1
We no longer think for ourselves. We let a pundit rant away and think it is news. We take single stories out of context and make people think it is the norm. We listen to single partisan, slanted sources, who are themselves in an echo chamber.
@Scout
Sometimes the satire, as obvious as it is in retrospect, is not, at first, detectable. Too many people actually state things similar to that satire. The things I’ve seen……
Thank goodness for BBC News, without which I wouldn’t get ANY
news about what’s happening in other parts of the world. Oh yes,
they have newscasts about the US as well. And their female
“anchors” do not wer cocktail dresses with mini skirts. 🙂
“war on women”…. Democrat hero Alan Grayson on his wife who recently divorced him (any who he physically assaulted): “Gold diggers gotta dig”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3088458/Gold-diggers-gotta-dig-Millionaire-Florida-congressman-takes-swipe-estranged-polygamist-wife-annulment-hearing.html
What a guy…
I know what you mean…. http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/original2.jpg
by the way punchak… who the heck wears a cocktail dress WITH a mini skirt? Must say, I’ve never seen that done before 🙂
That’s like saying you saw a guy wearing jeans with a pair of shorts. You need to get out more…
@Jackson Bills
Looks like that blond nitwit with Joe on MSNBC?
@Jackson Bills
Well, you gotta look at “Outnumbered” on FOX around noon.
There’s cocktail at the top plus mini skirts and eight long, long
legs, properly crossed so that a bit of thigh shows.
Bet they have a director who puts the legs the way he wants them.
And no one is allowed to changed position, as long as the cameras
are rolling. 🙂 Try it! You’ll like it!
🙂 Yep
@punchak
I think where I’m confused is the terminology and maybe someone can help out but if I’m not mistaken a cocktail dress is just that… a dress meaning it’s all one piece from top to bottom.
A skirt is just that… a skirt meaning it’s just the bottom part of the outfit separate from the top. Saying that a woman is wearing a cocktail dress WITH a miniskirt paints an odd picture for me of a woman wearing a dress with a skirt on top of the dress.
Semantics… I know. But my wife gets frustrated when I call a dress a skirt and vice versa so over the years I have come to know the difference.
Ill have to catch “Outnumbered”, I kinda like “long, long legs” 🙂
You like long legs? Well, that explains why you have been sucked in by the foxies.
Explanation /
A skirt sewn on to a bodice equals a dress.
I figured a cocktail dress is what you wear when drinking cocktails.
Skirt length be damned. Your wife is too picky. 🙂
Officer down.
Kerrie Orozco, Omaha PD, shot and killed while serving a warrant. She was married, with two stepchildren and a premature girl baby who was born on 17 February 2015 and due to come home for the first time today, 21 May, when Kerrie was scheduled to begin maternity leave.
R.I.P……again.
Sadly, these incidents aren’t new. Police officers never know if they are coming home every time they go to work. I am not all are correct in every action but it sure makes one understand judgement calls a little easier.
Wall Street Journal (21 May) says that it may be a hot summer around this country as state insurance regulators go head to head with major health insurers on premium increases for people covered under the ACA. (I understand that it has to be the state guys because the Feds have no power to force the issue with the companies.) The major health providers in a number of states are claiming that the past year has given them enough solid health care cost data with regard to the large numbers of newly insured to justify big increases in premiums. Examples: In New Mexico they are asking for a 51.6% increase. Tennessee 36.3%. Maryland 30.4%. Oregon 25%. Virginia 13.2% (Don’t ask me why.) Opinions from some state regulators are that they will probably be able to negotiate some drop in the opening company quotes but not to expect that the companies will cave in all that far.
@Wolve
Unfortunate that the rates need to increase – but it does show that there is/was a segment of the population that was in desperate need of healthcare services. What is the alternative?
And Yes, the States regulate insurance individual which is why you cannot buy health insurance across state lines – States Rights.
It will be interesting to see solid analysis of the data on impacts on premia. The influx of new insureds may bring additional costs, particularly among those who had been ignoring heath problems for years, thus unleashing a lot of pent-up demand for services, but it also brings in a tremendous amount of new premium revenues from people in low health cost demographics, (e.g., the young and healthy who had been going “naked” in hopes that no major health event would befall them). It may take a couple of years to parce out exactly what the cost impact has been.
The pressure to permit competitive sales of insurance across state lines will continue to build.
@Wolve
wolve – see here for another point of view – http://acasignups.net/15/05/22/wsj-story-illustrates-most-my-points-re-2016-rate-increase-requests – WSJ looked at single plans, not across the board increases. And some of the proposed increases will bring the cost in line with other plans/states. So, did the insurance company underprice the plans in an effort to gain market share?
Beware of the Phillips crabmeat that is on sale at Giant. It says product of India. Yuck. Just YUCK. Mr. Howler can eat it.
I guess it isn’t MARYLAND blue crab.
It appears that one of the sheriffites is trying to send someone they disagree with over here to discuss something we aren’t discussing.
Interesting. What branch did he fall off of?
Heads up: We are not having a hissy fit one way or the other over blogger rights or over free speech.
The blogger knew what he was doing when he put up the post. He is a smart man. He knew at some point he was going to get a reaction.
Unfortunately for him, the bad boys are coming to his defense (and also outing him).
Alanna, Elena and I all three received threats at one time or another. I was glad for the people who had my back, often on their own time. So no, I am not getting involved.
For the record, I consider the blogger in question a friend. We just do things very differently. We also have a different world view most of the time. (other than at 730 pm)
Looks like a shell company of the Clinton’s has been exposed (WJC LLC.)… http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DEM_2016_CLINTON_COMPANY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Apparently the company was set up as a “pass-thru” to channel payments to the Clintons. It was also cleverly set up to limbo under ethics disclosure rules so that Hillary’s campaign wouldn’t have to disclose it. The Clintons did this by setting up the shell LLC with no employees and no assets thus bringing it under the $1,000 disclosure threshold.
The shell company was used to primarily to pay Bill Clinton for ‘consulting fees’. Bill Clinton had several contracts approved by Hillary’s State Department to ‘consult’ for various big Democrat donors like Steve Bing, Casey Wasserman and Haim Saban.
The funny thing is none of the proposals or contracts contained how much Bill Clinton would or did get paid. The only amount at this point we know of is it’s over $1,000. I’m sure there will be more to come on this one, stay tuned.
Well maybe he would go to jail. Would that make you happy?
Nah, a simple acknowledgement of the many shady pay-to-play/money laundering/cash schemes perpetrated by the Clintons would suffice for me instead of dismissal/denial/snark.
I bet that there could have been some charges filed against them but unfortunately Mrs. Clinton had her personal email server destroyed thus (I’m sure by accident) destroying any possible evidence.
Gee, she said that her home email server was put together for Bill, right? But even Bill says he has only sent two email his entire life and both were composed and sent by someone else. Then she said that having only one email address on one device was the reason. But then she brags about how many modern devices she has and a second personal email address was exposed that she used for ‘other’ official business. You can’t trust these two as far as you can throw them but for some reason he is a sacred cow and she is revered.
I can tell you why he is a sacred cow here. Elena and I declared him to be. As for revering Hillary…sez who.
Yes, but not for their money laundering scheme known as the Clinton Foundation. I would be happy with an honest and open investigation into his friendship and many visits and travels with Jeffery Epstein.
Here is what we know about Jeffery Epstein:
* Arrested, convicted and jailed in 2008 for soliciting underage prostitutes. He was only caught when a mother of a 14 year old girl discovered that Epstein paid her $300 to have sex with him.
* Between 2002 and 2005 Epstein owned an island officially called Little St. James, unofficially referred to as ‘rape island’.
* Since 2005 over 40 women have come forward with claims of Epstein being a serial sexual predator.
* One woman who worked for Epstein kept nude pictures of underage girls on her computer in sexually explicit positions to assist Epstein recruit underage girls to stock his private island. That same woman was also apparently a friend of Bill’s and even attended Chelsea’s wedding.
* According to verified flight logs Bill flew on Epstein’s private jet to this island several times starting shortly after Hillary got elected as a senator for NY and ended only after Epstein got busted in 2008.
Unfortunately a shady plead deal the billionaire Epstein somehow managed to get with the help of his million dollar lawyers has hindered any further investigation.
I put your story in the same category as I do the Vince Foster “killing.” Pure Bull puckey.
@Jackson Bills
Jackson – you are reading the national enquirer of news and thinking it is true. For one, Bill Clinton never flew to ‘this island’ on Epstein’s jet (according to the logs). He did fly on it – with Kevin Spacey to Africa for aids outreach and also with Naomi Campbell – are they in on it too?
Too much speculation and no facts. And, Epstein’s legal team includes Ken Starr, yes, that Ken Starr.
The Democrats are trying to save the Patriot Act. And yes…some Republicans are too.
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http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/207867/
Funny…I thought Bush was horrible in their eyes….why are Democrats trying to continue his policies?
Broadbrush alert. Why would any one person’s policies ALL be wrong? Are you saying because I was not a Bush supporter that I should refuse to ever consider using Medicare RX?