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1. 2 days ago on B.C.

   Her fame transcends time itself.

2. 4 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   My doctor took me off of the blood pressure meds because they were dropping it too low, and he was afraid a subsequent fall was too risky. Instead, he suggested I have a shot of liqueur and not more than two a day to help lower it along with my diet. I’ve been steady on ever since.

3. 4 days ago on Betty

   I’ve been pretty lucky the last couple of years as the groundhog that lives somewhere between me, and the fire station next door has stayed out of my gardens. Instead, she visits me each morning to share my breakfast of oatmeal, banana and a 1/2 slice of peanut butter on toast. A firewoman told me they had socialized her about three years ago by leaving out treats for her whenever she would waddle over. The little groundhog became kind of a mascot for them.

4. 5 days ago on Betty

   I seemed to have suddenly acquired both moles and voles one summer, so I bought a bottle of Sweeny’s castor oil product in a spray bottle you just attach to the garden hose. I failed to read the instructions and assumed one bottle did one yard. Well, I used a 10,000 sq. ft. bottle on a 5,000 sq. ft. yard. In just a little over a week the vermin seemed to have completely evacuated the yard. Fortunately, castor oil doesn’t poison or harm anything but is just unpleasant for the critters. The only drawback became evident when my neighbor asked me if I had any moles or voles. When I told him I didn’t he said that all of a sudden, he had a whole bunch of them. I didn’t want them back, so I waited three months and then reapplied the spray to my yard and also sprayed his. A double dose on both. I never heard which neighbor they moved to next.

5. 10 days ago on Herman

   MTG before she bleached her hair.

6. 10 days ago on Adult Children

   In this case each copy, or clone is basically a reference to her original friends and coworkers. Anything can be a referent if it strongly reminds you of something else. I haven’t seen this word in a very long time, and I have certainly never used it even though I like to throw in archaic words occasionally.

7. 14 days ago on Free Range

   The problem with doing your own research is that it will most likely be conducted online where the possibilities for data corruption are very high. This is why I rely on experts for anything I don’t personally have knowledge of or experience in. fortunately those resources are in academia including history, social sciences economic and hard science research. I have read Lieutenant Col. Daniel Davis’s reports and I do have respect for his reporting to the IG and congress but what he was reporting was not anything new as these were unofficial policies of the military and the government writ large since the beginning of time. The concern I have in the repeal of the Smith-Mundt provision is that it is thought that the boomerang of misinformation we use in warfare is often accentuated and modified by our adversaries before it comes back to Americans. But that has nothing to do with what I was talking about. You really went in a weird conspiracy direction. The day-to-day broadcast reporting of the news is typically monitored for truthfulness and when something that isn’t fact slips through there is literally a hoard of fact checkers that will correct it. This really catches in the craw of right wingers who scream that they’re being picked on.

8. 14 days ago on Free Range

   While the enforcement strength of the FCC was severely weakened under the Reagan administration and even worse so in the tRump administration, they have been gradually regaining their authority over the airwaves and print which of course includes broadcast TV and radio. These are public services, so they tend to take our complaints seriously and all it takes is filing one when we see or hear a blatant violation. They do investigate apparent violations. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your views their authority over cable and internet news is very limited or even nonexistent as these are essentially paid content and people have a right to throw their money away on any crap they so choose. Take a closer look at how your local networks are formatted and whether or not you’re only seeing the opinions segments of the shows. It might also help to examine your own biases and whether or not you’re reading something into the broadcast that may or may not actually be there. It’s only human nature to misread what others are saying.

9. 14 days ago on Free Range

   I travel a lot and so far, the only local news service I have found questionable was the Fox station in Atlanta, GA. I wouldn’t say they were blatant lies, but they definitely push the limits there. Pretty much every network news station I’ve watched have been on the up and up and presented their opinions separate from their news segments. Surprisingly, this has been mostly true on both ends of the political spectrum. The stations in Nashville, Tennessee shocked me as to their ability to present the stories about new draconian laws being passed by the republicans in a straight to the facts manner but then unleashed their furious viewpoints when they went to their separate opinions segment at the end and some even reading callers transcripts on the issues. This is how it should be and any news service that fails deserves a visit from the FCC.

10. 14 days ago on Over the Hedge

    Considering Hammy’s cosmic abilities RJ’s explanation sounds about right.