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Pineledger posted on Main Page The Lobby Happy Birthday, Lucianne.
Love from Pineledger
April 29 at 18:33 EST .
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Surfhut Happy Birthday to our Lovely Hostess! Words cannot express how grateful I am to you for these two wonderful sites and all the other things you do. To a great extent, I owe you my sanity. So many of us have met each other via your sites and are life-long friends. Love from Surfie.
April 29 at 19:34 EST .
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Linder Happy Birthday, Lucianne. I can still hear you talking with Tony Snow....my first awareness of you. It seems like yesterday. Thanks for the forum. Thanks, Pineledger for making us aware.
April 29 at 22:46 EST .
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NotaBene Happy Birthday Lucianne. We are thankful for the website and the Connection. It has been wonderful to come to this site and share comments with L.dotters.
The NotaBenes
April 30 at 01:26 EST .
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Mike PHX Happy Birthday, "Mom".
As my birth mom has, you have taken me to the woodshed on more than a few, and always warranted, occasions. And also as with my birth mom, nothing made me feel lower than a scolding from either of you. And, finally, as with my birth mom, you've shown a remarkable forgiveness and given me a few second chances...of course, after giving me enough time to see the error in my idiocy.
Enjoy, Classy Lady. You're an inspiration to us all.
Mike
April 30 at 01:35 EST .
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Gerty Happy Birthday, Miss Lucianne! Looks like my Mom was right (again ), those born in the Spring time are capable of breathing new life and hope in all things.
Enjoy your day!
April 30 at 02:35 EST .
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Bettijo Happy Birthday, Lucianne! Thanks for making this site available to us. It is the first place I go each morning. I have learned so much from fellow Ldotters.
April 30 at 09:24 EST .
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Lana720 I tried to send Lucianne yesterday, but it came back as undeliverable. Did you change it from aol?
Happy Birthday, Dear lady!
April 30 at 23:15 EST .
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Pineledger posted on Coffee Klatch The Old 1040 Blues....About that Schedule D... Good lord. Got the 1099s last week and this is going to take a Ton O' Time. The moral of the story is, do not enroll in a dividend reinvestment program.
February 16 at 15:20 EST .
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Balogreene Here goes my soap box. I live with my mom and my sister. Two years ago my sister went on disability. Mom is on SS and dad's retirement. We can't file jointly. For years my sister declared the house as a deduction, she can't any more. I can't either. It's a deduction we lose. We all file 1040-EZ. If gays get the marriage benefits, why don't we? Why aren't we a family?
February 17 at 00:33 EST .
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Ole buzzard We're still waiting on 1099s before we can do ours.
February 18 at 06:57 EST .
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Pineledger posted on Main Page The Lobby I'm reading The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, by David Nassaw, and while I suspect most people here haven't much use for the Kennedys, I'm finding it very instructive. Last night read about the 30s, watching JPK maneuver to get himself put in charge of the SEC; how he made money (market manipulation and insider trading, prior to the creation of the SEC, and booze at the repeal of Prohibition ); how his darling (Joe Jr. ) took a year to study in London and do a grand tour of Europe, getting enamoured of both the Nazis and the Russian Communists; and how JPK dealt with Jewish Americans while Hitler was dealing with the Jewish Germans.
I really do recommend this book highly. It is very evenhanded and does not paint an angelic rosy picture of the Kennedys. It is a HUGE book though. I'm about 1/3 of the way through and have been reading it (at night ) for two weeks.
December 8 at 07:21 EST .
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Pineledger posted on Photography Has anyone else tried out the Canon G1X?
May 29 at 09:52 EST .
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Ole buzzard I have not. I use a Canon EOS Xsi for the interchangeable lenses.
May 30 at 22:58 EST .
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Pineledger posted on Photography It's fiddlehead time in Maine...
 May 29 at 07:57 EST .
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Gerty These are parts of fern plants--are they not? I also believe they are eatable. Got a recipe?
May 29 at 08:53 EST .
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Pineledger Yes, they are fern fiddleheads. These had just been washed and the ends of the stems trimmed...I just saute them gently in butter, not too long. No salt or pepper or anything else. To me they taste like really good local asparagus. We usually have them with fresh fish or shellfish. Recently we had them in a mixed greens salad with a simple oil and vinegar dressing -- good that way too!
May 29 at 09:51 EST .
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Pineledger posted on The Road Automobilia There's a great auto museum at Owl's Head, Maine, that you all would enjoy.
May 27 at 15:43 EST .
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Pineledger posted on Suggested Reading I would urge everyone to read Charles Murray's 'Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960 - 2010'. You will find yourself constantly noticing examples of what Murray talks about (and concludes ). He nails what has happened to our country exactly.
May 27 at 15:13 EST .
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RoseOfTexas I've got it on hold at the library. I just finished The Amateur. Not much we l-dotters don't already know, but a fascinating read.
May 28 at 22:41 EST .
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RoseOfTexas The money quotes, to me, in the last chapter (pages 289-90 ): "The new upper class still does a good job of practicing some of the virtues, but it no longer preaches them. It has lost self-confidence in the rightness of its own customs and values, and preaches nonjudgementalism instead."
"...it is not acceptable n the new upper class to use derogatory labels for anyone, with three exceptions: people with differing political views, fundamentalist Christians, and rural working-class whites."
June 17 at 19:02 EST .
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Pineledger posted on Main Page The Lobby This morning an email arrived purportedly from ACH, an electronic fund clearing house. Not bad as phishing attempts go. DO NOT click on the link to a report about a supposed draft/transfer that did not go through from your bank account. Wells Fargo has confirmed that this is a fraud.
November 22 at 08:54 EST .
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Gerty Thank you for this warning.
November 22 at 10:38 EST .
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Rake King If to get a large amount of money, you must first send money...it's a scam run worldwide, usually by Nigerians, but copied by many others. Best advice send a copy of the email to your I.P. or email provider (most have fraud departments ).
November 22 at 12:57 EST .
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