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I'm a 60 something wife, mom and grandmom who is homebound/disabled by severe hypersensitivity to chemicals. I fill my days with learning, loving and art. My favorite values are truth, generosity and gratitude.

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Fox News’ Bill Hammer with Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani — NoKo meeting, Mueller investigation

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FAKE NEWS

Trump Haters can’t even get their Fake News on straight.

FIRST, they circulated this …. as some sort of PROOF POSITIVE of how evil President Trump is. On Saturday, Hillary advisor Zac Petkanas even accused President Trump of selling children to human traffickers.

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Never Forget

2018_05 28 Memorial Day by Terrell

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What’s wrong with Hillary now?

Or should I ask, “What ELSE is wrong?” Or maybe, “Who cares?”

According to various weather reports, it reached nearly 90 degrees in Boston on Friday when she appeared in public wearing a heavy coat and scarf. The wind helpfully blew back the scarf to reveal what appears to be a back brace.

2018_05 25 Hillary back brace

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BILLIONAIRE REPUBLICAN IS MAKING US ALL RICHER: Since President Trump took office, the median household income in America has climbed 3%. At least one poll shows the public credits Trump for the good news.

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2018_05 26 Animals vs Depolorables

SPYING ON TRUMP: Ari Fleischer (who served Dubya as White House Press Secretary) told Fox News Outnumbered that no FBI director would put informants inside a presidential campaign without presidential authorization. Continue reading →

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2018 Democrat Agenda

DEMS STAYED HOME: This Tuesday’s elections, Georgia Republicans cast 54,000 more votes than Democrats. In Arkansas, Republicans cast 96,000 more. In Texas, Democrats had the lowest turnout since 1920.
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Hoist with one’s own petard

This phrase is from Hamlet. I always though it meant something like “stabbed with your own sword” or maybe “lifted up on your own spear.” It DOES mean “injured by the device that you intended to use to injure others.” However, a petard is not a sword or spear, as I mistakenly thought, but rather a box filled with gunpowder that was used in siege warfare to blast down a door or make a hole in a wall.

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To hoise means “to lift or raise”, which is what happens to a person who sets off his own explosive device by accident. Continue reading →

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:  Responding to those Democrats who have been saying it was no biggie that the Obama administration placed an informant inside Trump’s campaign, conservative strategist Chris Barron said, “I assume Democrats won’t mind when the Trump administration places an informant inside the campaign of the Democratic nominee in 2020, right?”

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