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A Story in the Making......by Gunny et al

Via: pj • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 1 Comments • 8 years ago

For those of you who haven't heard, Perrie created a group " And now for Something..... " as a reprieve for us when we need a break from saving the United States of America and solving...

Stolen bottles of Kentucky whiskey may be destroyed instead of auctioned

Via: community • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 6 Comments • 8 years ago

Prized Pappy Van Winkle bourbon recovered in whiskey theft-ring were set to be auctioned but owners of distillery fear bottles could be contaminated. Prized bottles of Pappy Van Winkle...

Life is the Sound of Distant Thunder at a Graduation

Via: perrie-halpern • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 23 Comments • 9 years ago

So it's the day my daughters graduation. A moment I had been both looking forward to and feeling a bit blue about. My little shrews had finally gotten their wings. Did I say shrews out loud? .....

Happy Thanksgiving News Talkers

Via: robert-in-ohio • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 12 Comments • 9 years ago

A hearty Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow News Talkers! A time for reflection (we must learn from the past), a time for gratitude (we should be thankful for what and who we have in our lives)...

Stuart Varney: Thankful for one of the best days of my life

Via: xxjefferson51 • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 1 Comments • 9 years ago

Last Thursday, I became an American citizen. With immigration a very contentious subject, I want to tell you my very positive immigration story. Last Thursday was one of the best days of my life....

Why Smart People Act So Stupid

Via: robert-in-ohio • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 5 Comments • 9 years ago

It’s good to be smart. After all, intelligent people earn more money, accumulate more wealth, and even live longer. On the surface, being smart looks like easy living. But there’s another side...

Opinions, Perspectives and Facts

Via: robert-in-ohio • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 8 Comments • 9 years ago

I have heard a lot of discussion on NT about facts, opinions, perspectives, sources and the validity or absurdity of each in the eyes of those with conflicting facts, opinions, perspectives and...

Carrie Underwood, American Girl

Via: xxjefferson51 • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 1 Comments • 9 years ago

In her first release in almost three-and-a-half years, Carrie Underwood’s fifth album, “Storyteller,” drops Friday. Most of the 13 tracks center on the country star’s familiar themes: tight-knit...

Woman Sees Something Unex pected On Homemade Monopoly Game Board…Instantly Tears Up

Via: xxjefferson51 • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 0 Comments • 9 years ago

When one man’s girlfriend got a first look at her boyfriend’s amazingly detailed, hand-made Monopoly game board, she was duly impressed. But she still wasn’t prepared for the even more amazing,...

Fruit bats use oral sex to prolong the deed

Via: rescue • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 17 Comments • 9 years ago

When they do their thing, female Chinese fruit bats add oral sex to get the males to prolong the act, The investigators took digital videos at night of the bats having sex, with males...

The 87 Year Dash

Via: captainkidd • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 12 Comments • 9 years ago

I went to the funeral of my favorite uncle on my mothers side a few weeks ago. He was a genial, funny old country guy who I have never heard an unkind word said about. One of those guys who was...

Grandma? Grandpa? Is that You?

Via: captainkidd • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 13 Comments • 9 years ago

This is something I wrote in July 2010.So, I took my kids (Age 15, 19 and 26) to see The Eagles, the 70s band, a couple of Saturdays back. My kids, though fans of modern music (That I do not like,...

NewsTalkers, Happy Anniversary...

Via: perrie-halpern • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 72 Comments • 9 years ago

Today is kind of theanniversaryday for NewsTalkers. Although NT opened for business on October 23, today is the day, that it became my sole concern, so I thought that it would be only appropriate...

The Upside Of Anger

Via: perrie-halpern • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 39 Comments • 9 years ago

Over the years I have seen many movies that inspired me. Made me think and even taught me a lesson or two. One such movie was Academy nominated, "The Descendents". I knew from the ads, that husband...

She Laughed

Via: captainkidd • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 3 Comments • 9 years ago

This is something from a couple of years ago that I felt like I had to publish as an introduction to the next piece which is new. I hope you, Dear Reader, will bear with me and read both, for they...

Transitions

Via: captainkidd • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 11 Comments • 9 years ago

I wrote She Laughed about two and one half years ago, with a short addendum on our anniversary, so that people would know how the woman I love, my soul mate, the other half of my heart and I had...

Deck Musings #1

Via: captainkidd • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 8 Comments • 9 years ago

I was sitting on my patio early Saturday Morning, watching a hawk hunt over the fields behind my place. It was a peaceful, tranquil setting (unless you happened to be a field mouse, rat, or rabbit,...

Ben's Father's Day Rant

Via: ben • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 9 Comments • 9 years ago

I know that some folks haven't been as lucky as I have been to have had their Father around. Mine was there most times, except when he was deployed. I realize that some people have lost...

Winning the Battle

Via: captainkidd • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 25 Comments • 9 years ago

The weight kind of sneaks up on you. The lifestyle becomes more sedintary as you get a bit older (I'm 49) and you don't notice the added pounds or inches, you just buy a larger size.Last November,...

Perrie Halpern- Are you TRYING to get me kicked off NewsTalkers??

Via: neale-osborn • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 18 Comments • 9 years ago

Listen, Girlie. you GOTTA dump an advertiser or my better half is gonna catch on to what we are doing here, then she;ll take my laptop and smack my lap with it! I mean, C'mon!! A FLIRTING site?!?!?...

Marie's Story, a tale for Mother's Day. (reprint of my article on NewsVine)

Via: neale-osborn • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 3 Comments • 9 years ago

It was October, 2004. My wife had been working her ass off (literally) trying to lose the accumulated weight from 3 kids. She still looked awesome to me, but every day she was looking awesomer....

I Feel So Violated!!!

Via: leonahardware • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 12 Comments • 9 years ago

Wednesday morning I began my workday just like any other. I unlocked the door and carefully locked it up behind me....turned the lights on....put my purse on the counter....and went upstairs to...

The Second Amendment, The Shooting Range, And the Race Card.

Via: neale-osborn • Scattershooting,Ramblings & Life • 11 Comments • 9 years ago

Recently, the Supreme Court gave us Hoplophiles (gun people) a half-assed victory. They acknowledged that the 2nd Amendment is about an individual right, and applies to the states as well as the...

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