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Busy working on my day job today and didn’t get to this until now (7:30 PM) . What’s on your minds today?  4 comments
on Mon Sep 10, 2018 at 06:32 PM PDT
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This is an Open Thread / Coffee Hour and all topics of conversation are welcome. What is for dinner? How are you doing? What is on your mind. If you are new to Street Prophets please introduce ...
by linkage
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on Mon Sep 10, 2018 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is Confirmation hearing highlights:
by Barbara Morrill
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on Mon Sep 10, 2018 at 12:00 PM PDT
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NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD for Sunday, September 9th, 2018
174th Weekly Edition
This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue . We hope this regular platform gives readers interested in North ...
by randallt
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on Sun Sep 09, 2018 at 10:05 AM PDT
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Hello, Minnesota. Welcome to the Twin Cities Kossacks Weekend Open Thread, a weekly (usually) post for all things Minnesotan. Please join us to Connect, Unite and Act with other Twin Cities Kossacks. Posting most every Sunday. Do you live in Minnesota?...
by idlemoments
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on Sun Sep 09, 2018 at 07:46 AM PDT
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As promised during our Labor Day break last week, it’s back this week to Moondai evenings for mischiefery with our mashery of Ogden Nashery (illustrated)!
Oh To Be Odd!
Hypochondriacs
Spend ...
by elenacarlena
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on Mon Sep 10, 2018 at 06:59 PM PDT
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Surprise, surprise...it looks like I’m your new Sunday host! I love spending my Sunday mornings here so much that I thought I’d might as well volunteer to host. Don’t expect too much from me, though—there’s a reason I mainly write for evening series. I...
by Chrislove
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on Sun Sep 09, 2018 at 07:30 AM PDT
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That anonymous op-ed? Pence did it. And then he lied to Drumpf.
He’s not ballsy enough? Sure he is, if he does it anonymously.
Not Jesusy enough? He’s doing it for himself.
And even if he didn�
by JeffW
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on Sat Sep 08, 2018 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly DKos Asheville Open Thread for Saturday, September 8th.
We offer this space every weekend to share what we're up to in Western North Carolina and beyond.
DKos Asheville and other local...
by randallt
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on Sat Sep 08, 2018 at 09:49 AM PDT
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Greetings and welcome to another of my little, community open threads. This week I’m finishing off the slideshow of my vacation in Tuscany with a trip to the heart of a mountain.
by Marko the Werelynx
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on Fri Sep 07, 2018 at 01:04 PM PDT
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Welcome, welcome, welcome!
I feel like that net hangin’ on the Cafe ceiling might just be for me!
Please…
Don’t ever let me have more than two cups of coffee again!
I just wanted coffee…....
by The Marti
198 comments
on Fri Sep 07, 2018 at 07:30 AM PDT
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Welcome, welcome, welcome!
I guess we all enjoyed the Senate BBQ. You know, the one the Dems did of Kavanaugh. That was enjoyable.
Please do not ask about the grilling “mystery meat.” ...
by The Marti
241 comments
on Thu Sep 06, 2018 at 07:30 AM PDT
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Welcome, welcome, welcome!
How can it be Wednesday, already?
Dunno.
But here it is!
by The Marti
140 comments
on Wed Sep 05, 2018 at 07:30 AM PDT
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Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is What are Democrats undecided on Kavanaugh thinking?
by Barbara Morrill
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on Tue Sep 04, 2018 at 12:00 PM PDT
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Farms View
Good evening, Kibitzers! Since I forgot that Labor Day was the day before Tuesday until pretty late in the game, I didn’t have time to write anything very involved (which I’m ...
by belinda ridgewood
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on Tue Sep 04, 2018 at 05:30 PM PDT
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Yes, even though this is a Monday of a holiday weekend, I am still working. I decided to not put much effort into this, so that I relax and have my own holiday from writing this, but I’ll share with you something one of the people I spoke with last...
by ColoTim
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on Mon Sep 03, 2018 at 06:01 PM PDT
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It’s a Moondai holydai! Let’s do something to celebrate Labor Day! We’ll resume more mischiefery with the mashery of Ogden Nashery next week. (If you want!)
From the US Department of ...
by elenacarlena
125 comments
on Mon Sep 03, 2018 at 06:59 PM PDT
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This is an Open Thread / Coffee Hour and all topics of conversation are welcome. What is for dinner? How are you doing? What is on your mind. If you are new to Street Prophets please introduce ...
by linkage
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on Mon Sep 03, 2018 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Welcome, welcome, welcome!
On Sunday afternoon, I read and commented in ...
by The Marti
140 comments
on Tue Sep 04, 2018 at 07:30 AM PDT
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NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD for Sunday, September 2nd, 2018
173rd Weekly Edition
This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue . We hope this regular platform gives readers interested in North ...
by randallt
9 comments
on Sun Sep 02, 2018 at 10:00 AM PDT
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Busy working on my day job today and didn’t get to this until now (7:30 PM) . What’s on your minds today?
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