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A lovely stone in the town cemetery
East of Miami, Texas

I didn't notice it until I got home and downloaded the day's photos to my computer, but the background reflection of the bluffs on the other side of Red Deer Creek seem to blend into the scene on the stone.

A grave plot in the Miami, TX. cemetery

The Cowboy's Prayer

Oh Lord, I reckon I'm not much just by myself.
I fail to do a lot of things I ought to do.
But Lord, when trails are steep and passes high,
Help me to ride it straight the whole way through.
And when in the falling dusk I get the final call,
I do not care how many flowers they send--
Above all else the happiest trail would be
For You to say to me,
"Let's ride, My friend."
Amen

On Roy Rogers' gravestone (about halfway down the page)
Sunset Hills Memorial Park, Apple Valley, California

Between a donkey and an a$$.

In case you are having difficulties, the donkey is on the left.

Democrat presidential candidate Marianne Williamson announces plan to create 'Department of Peace'




Uh, hate to break it to you Ms. Williamson, but we ALREADY have a "department" for that:

Stacey Abrams to forgo 2020 presidential bid

Instead, she's going to try out for the Atlanta Falcons; they're needing some outside linebacker depth.

That is, if she can make the weight limit. The "Dirty Birds" want her to get down to at least 240.

Video shows CNN host Chris Cuomo getting into heated altercation after man calls him "Fredo"

WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE



Well, Fredo...I got just one thing to say to you:

At the recent Trump rally in Cincinnati, Ohio Millie Weaver challenges some of the protesters to walk with her over to see if Trump supporters are as bad as the mainstream media says. After several attempts, Millie meets Marcos, a black American, who takes her up on the challenge.

Marcos believes President Trump and his supporters are racist and that if he goes inside the event he will be attacked and told to leave. However, what ends up happening is amazing and will leave you speechless.

WARNING:  Graphic Language (mostly from those protesting the rally)

I wouldn't normally post a video this long (nearly 45 min.) but it literally was one of the bright spots of my day, if not the entire week. 

What with the Epstein suicide, news of yet more product tampering has been pushed to the back page. 

Following on the heels of the recent ice cream licking incidents, police have reported a man going into local craft stores and dipping his testicles in glitter.

It's pretty nuts.

From The Washington Examiner:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign responded Tuesday to a social media picture that shows a group of boys at political event in Kentucky while they jokingly kiss and choke a cardboard cutout of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Ocasio-Cortez first responded to the picture in a tweet she later deleted, which read, "Here's the close up, in case you're having trouble recognizing them in the photo they posted to social media. Look forward to hearing your update on these #TeamMitch values!"

First of all, the young men are not involved in the Senator's campaign and secondly, they're just boys (and at least weren't wearing masks and beating up  old men) and in the third place, it's not much different than how people - esp. kids-  act when posing with cutouts of Dumbo, Bozo the Clown or Zippy the Pinhead.

Strike "much" b/c come to think about it,there's no difference at all.

Trump, going away;  not even close.

It might be a little presumptuous of me, but I think he's gonna win tomorrow night as well.

Trump 2020 !!!  MAGA !!!  Down with the Leftists !!!

Marianne Williamson really just started yodeling in the middle of the #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/LiGaAsdYMg

— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) July 31, 2019

Someone should do a mashup with that and this:

I was looking through Twitter last night and saw a re-Tweet of a Tweet made by Bette Midler.  I noticed others doing the same and a comment "I came for the Tweet, stayed for the ratio."   Now, I'm still a Twitter newbie, but as I understand it, the "ratio" refers to Tweets that get a disproportionate number of comments to "likes", which generally signifies displeasure in the post.   I clicked on the re-Tweet to read the comments under the Tweet and sure 'nuff, people were giving her some deserved grief. 

Anyway, under it I got these recommendations for Twitter users to follow.  Not sure why they recommended these b/c I only follow Conservatives and a couple of parody sites...and one of those makes fun of the left.

I wouldn't follow any of these three unless you were holding my family hostage...and I'd have to mull it over first, at that.