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“Hey it’s the Dam Liquor Store”
TGIT!!!!
Mornin’ Gang -
Second!
My Friday!
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Good morning Hamsters. Just about smothering 78 and still at 6. Weather pattern change can’t come too quickly. Last evening was even more smothering with no breeze at all. Need those afternoon Gulf breezes to make rain and get things back to what is mostly normal for this time of your.
On the positive side though, a real front pushed the high out. Let us hope more come early.
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This is one of the most fascinating stories I’ve ever read about World War II.
I knew we had relatively crude listening posts during the war, but I never knew they were this successful. Note the reference to Pearl Harbor also.
There was nothing remarkable to see on Chopmist Hill in 1940 when, a year before the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor and bring America into the war, a Boston radio technician by the name of Thomas B. Cave drove up Darby Road.
England was already at war with Germany, and Cave knew it was inevitable that the United States, already fortifying Great Britain with supplies and weaponry, would enter, too.
Cave worked for the Intelligence Division of the Federal Communications Commission, charged with finding a hilltop in southern New England that could serve as one of several listening posts to detect radio transmissions from German spies in the United States.
What he discovered up at William Suddard’s 183-acre farm was nothing short of miraculous.
and this,
The Chopmist Hill listening post soon became the largest and most successful of a nationwide network of 13 similar installations. Its ability to eavesdrop on German radio transmissions in North Africa, for instance, was so precise that technicians could actually listen in on tank-to-tank communications within Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s infamous Afrika Korps.
The Germans’ battlefield strategy was then relayed to the British, who under Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery eventually defeated Rommel at El Alamein.
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Oil companies are bracing for “lower for longer” prices
Still, they’ll need Brent at $82 a barrel next year to balance cash flow from operations with investments, he said. Santander’s Jason Kenney puts the breakeven level at $70, about $20 above current prices.
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#4 – Fascinating to be SURE!!!!
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/12/the-spy-satellite-secrets-in-hillary-s-emails.html
It just keeps getting worse for the Hildebeyotch.
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If you haven’t seen this one yet, you gotta see it!
I love the line about the pantsuits.
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Just got a notice from O’Connor & Associates. They managed to keep one of our rental properties appraisal hike to $10K instead of $40K.
God bless ’em. I sure appreciate their services.
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This has gone way too far, blood is going to start spilling if the “host of the perpetually offended” don’t start getting a handle on themselves.
HEADLINE: Wisconsin man accused of going into home to remove Confederate flag
RACINE, Wis. (AP) – Authorities say a Racine man was arrested after forcing his way inside a home to take down a Confederate flag placed in a window.
The Journal Times of Racine (http://bit.ly/1J3lCD5 ) reports 37-year-old Tajaun Boatner has been charged on counts including criminal trespassing and misdemeanor theft.A criminal complaint says a woman and Boatner told police he had politely asked her to remove the flag from her kitchen window Friday, and she moved it to another window.
According to the complaint, both started yelling, and the woman used a racial slur toward Boatner. Authorities say Boatner pushed the woman down and walked into the house to remove the flag. According to authorities, Boatner later argued with police and struggled to avoid being handcuffed.
A message seeking comment was sent to an attorney listed as representing Boatner.
This was in Wisconsin, imagine how fast he would have been perforated had he tried that stunt in Texas. . . . .
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Fidel Castro claims the USA owes Cuba millions because of the trade embargo.
The appropriate response, IMHO, would be: Hey Fidel, go pound sand. Say Hi to Hitler when you get to hell. -
Jimmah Cawtah has announced that he has advanced, metastasized cancer. It appears that soon he will find out just how close his world view matches that of THE CREATOR.
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Second!
My Friday!
It’s my Friday also!
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#4 Texpat, That is a fascinating story, I especially enjoyed it since, back in another life, I was an Avionic’s Technician. I bet Mr. Adee would enjoy it also.
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FWIW; I took that picture of the dam liquor store, below the dam, dam @ Lake Livingston. 😉
Oh and #8 was posted at least twice yesterday….. -
Oh and #8 was posted at least twice yesterday…..
I know, but I just enjoy it so much!
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When ABC starts putting out stuff like this, call a booking agent to see if there are any fat lady singers available.
The last batch of Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department included one from Clinton asking to borrow a book called “Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better,” by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe.
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Take, for example, Chapter Six: “The Email That Can Land You In Jail.” The chapter includes a section entitled “How to Delete Something So It Stays Deleted.”
“Some people are hoarders, some are checkers,” the authors write. “The main thing to consider is that once you do decide to delete, it’s like taking the garbage from your kitchen and putting it in your hallway. It’s still there.”
The chapter advised that to truly delete emails may require a special rewriting program “to make sure that it’s not just elsewhere on the drive but has in fact been written over sixteen or twenty times and rendered undefinable.”
But Shipley and Schwalbe warn that deleting emails could lead to future legal troubles.
On page 215, the authors list “Stupid (and Real) Email Phrases That Wound Up in Court.” Number one on the list? “DELETE THIS EMAIL!’ Later, on page 226, the writers warn, “If you’re issued a subpoena, your deletion binge will only make you look guilty.”
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#4: From your link:
In 1981, George Sterling, who had been the FCC commissioner during the war, told a Providence Journal reporter that he never understood why the United States was caught by surprise in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor since the Chopmist Hill listening station had for months been intercepting Japanese messages in the Pacific indicating an impending attack.
That is a pretty big bombshell question.
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HEADLINE: Letter to Editor PREDICTED COLORADO EPA SPILL One Week Before Catastrophe=> So EPA Could Secure Control of Area (Updated)
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This letter to editor, posted below, was published in The Silverton Standard and The Miner local newspaper, authored by a retired geologist, one week before EPA mine spill. The letter detailed verbatim, how EPA officials would foul up the Animas River on purpose in order to secure superfund money. If the Gold King mine was declared a superfund site it would essentially kill future development for the mining industry in the area. The Obama EPA is vehemently opposed to mining and development.IIRC, The Waco Branch Davidian inferno happened just as the BATFE was about to go before Congress to lobby for increased funding. This, also, was under a slimy D presidency.
What was it that the ballerina said? “Never let a good crisis go to waste” Well if there is no crisis available, why not create one? -
Hey Sarge
Didja see this? It is no longer “our” Army. This makes me sick.
The Army recently validated changes to its 10-week Basic Combat Training program that will take effect Oct. 1. The changes, which emphasize fitness and character building while thinning the skills to those most relevant to a non-war-going force, were formulated at Fort Eustis’ Center for Initial Military Training.
Recently retired Maj. Gen. Ross Ridge, who stepped down last month as the center’s commander, said the changes reflect the service’s transition away from the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“We needed to change everything, so we went from an Army at war to an Army of preparation, so that we start to produce these professional, trusted soldiers, who can win in this next complex world that we anticipate that we’re going to have to deal with,” Ridge said in an interview after his change of command. -
And bonecrusher officially enters the FFCTC, false flag conspiracy theorists club.
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Overwhelm the system and the whole thing will collapse. At some point the naked attack on the American system and the accompanying misery and destruction will rise to the level of treason.
Theoretically, according to the doctrine, a condition of overwhelming tension and strain could be engineered through the overloading of American welfare rolls, thereby smothering the entitlement program structure at the state and local level. The implosion of welfare benefits would facilitate a massive spike in poverty and desperation, creating a financial crisis that would lead to an even greater cycle of demand for a fully socialized system. This desperation would then “force” the federal government to concentrate all welfare programs under one roof, nationalize and enforce a socialist ideology, and ultimately, compact an immense level of power into the hands of a select few.
So instead of focusing on just the welfare side, why not attack with the same goal on multiple fronts: socialized medicine, massive destruction/seizure of private property, running the debt up so high that it can not be repaid, embracing those who wish our destruction and alienating our long time allies, etc. It is hard to look at the current situation as an accident and literally heads need to roll for it.
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#21 did you read the letter in the link?
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#23
What was it that the ballerina said? “Never let a good crisis go to waste” Well if there is no crisis available, why not create one?
Goes to my point.
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“so that we start to produce these professional, trusted soldiers, who can win in this next complex world that we anticipate that we’re going to have to deal with,”
You know, like entire armies of transgender infantry.
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The theory is, the enemy armies will die laughing when the motley US military marches into view. Bearded muslims, sikhs wearing their turbans, gay and transgender troops wearing their Pride Parade feather boas — have I left anyone out?
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The most masculine-looking soldiers will be lesbian wimmins that missed qualifying for the SEALs by ***that*** much.
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I’m taking a hydration break from mowing front yard. The most unever I’ve seen it in years — some high blades from sprinkler watering, some low yellowed spots where the hand watering seems to have missed, green but dry and wilty along the curbs and cement paths.
I was surprised to see it is 92 already. The front yard is 98% shaded during the morning and there is a nice breeze, so I’m not suffering.
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All this newsie focus on Clinton means they see a chance to elect their true commie, Fauxchahontas.
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#29 Hamous:
Could Sanders actually have a chance for the nomination? And what about Biden?
Then there’s O’Malley and Webb and Chafee. Do any of them have a chance?
Say what you will about the Republicans, I think the Democrats have the better soap opera!
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Just so you know…
Jade Helm martial law forces are completely occupying every corner of America.
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#30 FA
Chaffee wouldn’t even win his home state. O’Malley doesn’t seem to have a chance. 25 years ago Webb would have probably won the nomination and the general but he’s way too far right of his party now. Sanders could be the McGovern of our time. If Hillary craters in the next few months I think Warren will jump in.
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Didja see this? It is no longer “our” Army. This makes me sick.
First off, the days of Drill Sergeants screaming at recruits ended in the late 1990’s when they went with the more mentor oriented method of training mentioned in the article, so there’s nothing new there. The fact that the Army was still able to perform not only admirably, but exceptionally, in the aftermath tells me the kvetching that was done over it (mine included) was not merited.
Let’s address the specifics:
More participation is now expected of soldiers in land navigation. The current system has teams of four navigate to specific coordinates in the field, but testers found that typically only one or two of the group were actually doing the map reading. Soon trainees will practice map reading in pairs.
Praise the Lord and the Joint Chiefs Of Staff. This change has been needed since 1917. The most dangerous thing in the world is a Second Lieutenant with a map and compass, and the more troopies who know how to use them on their own, the better.
Most of the attrition comes through the physical demands, because a recruit can’t keep up or gets injured. The new program adds an initial fitness test within the first weeks of training to gauge whether some may need more than the 10 weeks to pass a final physical assessment, which has always been a part of basic. Commanders will soon be able to recycle those that aren’t ready physically.
This is not really a new thing, just a formalization of a practice that’s been going on for ages. If you had some fat body or some matchstick in your BCT (Basic Combat Training) Unit, you just kept finding reasons to “recycle” him until his strength and stamina problem was solved through proper diet and exercise. Looks to me like Chubby and Slim are going to get extra weeks of training out of this, and Drill Sergeants will no longer have to get creative to find reasons to recycle. That’s a good thing. Huld the man up instead of throwing him away, along with the dollars you’ve already spent on him makes sense.
The fitness regime will slowly escalate starting with a 4K march, working up to a longer, final distance of 16K — nearly 10 miles.
Quadrupling the requirement for the length of marches is a good thing, and certainly isn’t coddling to sissies. Building up stamina to do it is a good thing. We did the 4K thing and I remember having to step around a several city fellers who had dropped to the ground in a puddle of sweat and tears while doing it. In February. In New Jersey.
The course is broken into three phases, named for the colors in the American flag. The red phase, weeks one through three, focuses on character building, Army values and physically fitness. The white phase, weeks four through six, covers individual skills including marksmanship, first aid, navigation and communication. An assessment will now be given at the end of each phase to ensure retention.
The final phase is blue, from weeks seven to 10, which brings everything together with team drills and more complex strategy, such as rules of engagement and law of land warfare. These elements used to be taught at the very beginning, Ridge said, “when there was no context.”“We can teach folks to shoot rifles and to navigate on land, but in order to be a good soldier you have to have a good ethical, moral foundation,” he said. “First, I teach you how to shoot, now I teach you how to shoot responsibly. … Then I start to teach you how to take the skills you learned and think through. Do I shoot at this target or do I not shoot at this target? It builds.”
I have no problem with that either. In fact, I applaud it. Cart before the horse has never appealed to me. I’m familiar with the “Army Character and Values” being taught, and there’s nothing to be afraid of.
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Hamous says:
AUGUST 13, 2015 AT 12:27 PM
#30 FAChaffee wouldn’t even win his home state. O’Malley doesn’t seem to have a chance. 25 years ago Webb would have probably won the nomination and the general but he’s way too far right of his party now. Sanders could be the McGovern of our time. If Hillary craters in the next few months I think Warren will jump in.
We’ll see. But I think she’ll see that Bernie is carrying her flag and won’t want to jeopardize his chances.
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BTW:
If “I will not lie, cheat, or steal, nor tolerate those who do.” is something you want our young men and women to be taught, you won’t have any problem with the Army Values they are teaching now.
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Uhhhh Sarge
thinning the skills to those most relevant to a non-war-going force,
A non-war going force? What the hell is that?
That is my concern. The rest I do not care about.
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A non-war going force is one that is not trained for immediate deployment.
Training for immediate deployment will now occur, as it always has,in units that are slotted to be capable of immediate deployment. It will not longer be done during the 10 week Basic Training cycle.
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Shoot, Squawk.
We weren’t even being trained for immediate deployment during Nam.
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Bad move. Nothing against your opinion, I disagree with the policy. What keeps us “partially” safe is preparation.
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Anyone who thinks you can take a snot nosed kid fresh from momma’s kitchen and send him to war after 10 weeks of training, should be required to accompany the young man or woman on the trip.
All due respect—–
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Six years later, the harsh reality is coming into focus: The mandate’s primary impact will be to compel low-income households to buy bronze coverage with deductibles of up to $6,850 per adult that are well beyond their capacity to afford. Because any semiserious health issue will torpedo their finances long before ObamaCare begins to pay the bills, this situation raises a question of whether it is ethical to threaten them with a mandate penalty.
In addition, after two years of ObamaCare enrollment, it now appears likely that this contradiction — the Affordable Care Act mandating unaffordable care — will be the rule, not the exception, for modest-income households between 150% and 250% of the poverty level.
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Yanno, you just ain’t country if you don’t have a bashed in or missing rear fender on your one ton dually.
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#s 39 & 40 – partially trained makes about as much sense as carrying an unloaded sidearm
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Anyone who thinks you can take a snot nosed kid fresh from momma’s kitchen and send him to war after 10 weeks of training, should be required to accompany the young man or woman on the trip.
All due respect—–
Three words
WORLD WAR TWO
or
WORLD WAR ONEAll due respect
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#43
Fenders are for gurly metrosexual cowboys.
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Three words
WORLD WAR TWO
or
WORLD WAR ONEAll due respect
Advocating use of that system of training shows a lack of knowledge of the senseless carnage cause by it as well as the extensive changes made after 1945 by a professional class of officers and NCOs who were incensed that men and boys were thrown at the enemy to no real effect, and how fewer would have been required, or died, had their training been more extensive and effective.
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Anyone remember the police slaughter of bikers in Waco all the way back in May of this year? Well, the autopsies of the 9 deceased which were completed within a couple of days of the events were released, and as you might expect, there are no ballistics accompanying the reports. Interestingly enough, when I looked at the actual autopsy reports of the first two on the list, the medical examiner did call them homicides. Now, if we can just get those ballistics reports, we might find out actually who shot who (or is that whom?). This gets harder and harder to pass the sniff test the longer it goes.
http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Autopsy-Released-for-Biker-Killed-in-Twin-Peaks-Shootout-321768192.html -
Sarge
Once again you miss the point, mistakenly suggest I advocate for that type of training and mistakenly suggest I have some lack of knowledge. And of course after the war they looked back to see how they could improve things.The most ludicrous suggestion in the story that I cited was that we are in some sort of peace time footing. Even if we really were in a peace time lull world wide THAT is when you train everyone for war. The suggestion in the story was that there will not be mass training for war as in the past. And frankly it is a setup for a WWII situation if we really need a lot of people fast it is going to be train em and send them. Much like Viet Nam.
You cannot convince me that this type of stand down is anything more than a disaster waiting to happen.
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/OUT
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The suggestion in the story was that there will not be mass training for war as in the past
I’m pretty sure it didn’t say the Army would no longer be training for war.
Its kinda what they do.
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Even in California, injunction to silence PP horrific videos issued by Obama judge tossed. That’s right, even in Calif…
http://www.redstate.com/2015/08/13/stem-express-injunction-tossed-court/
Note: Realizing of course this is a Red State (read Eric Erickson) article which no longer enjoys any credibility, but the substance may be true, or it may be something they found on The Onion. -
CRAP
My neighborhood is now under stage 4 water restrictions. That means bout all you can do is flush once between every fifth time of going to the terlt.
Our well is dead and the water company is drilling a new well. In the meantime they are trucking in water to fill the storage tanks. Drinking the water is at your own peril as the boil water flag is up too.
Ya know you are in water trouble when one of the suggestions or demands the water company makes is:
If it is yellow let it mellow if it is brown flush it down.
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What about Uncle Joe, Hammie?
I think he will be the nominee.
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I just have this feeling the Dems are more than ready to dump the bitch.
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I heard Al Gore is going to run again.
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What about Uncle Joe, Hammie?
I think he will be the nominee.
He’ll never make it because of Junctiongate where was accused of moving kinda’ slow trying to look up petticoats.
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Note: Realizing of course this is a Red State (read Eric Erickson) article which no longer enjoys any credibility, but the substance may be true, or it may be something they found on The Onion.
I like what your sellin there EG, go get em.
Take all the stuff away and get to the core, we don’t like the MSM because they try to pick winners and losers, some (maybe more) won’t like it when our own side does it. Sit back and let the damned thing play out.
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61 Phil
Smiling, dirty old men are in again.
Maybe I should run.
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#57
Sorry for your pain Mester Squawk. We still gots H2O over here and we got room. Going on vaca and actually need a sitter for this dang sweet puppy that goes wild man trying to kennel him. 😀
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Dang, SQK, that’s a bad situation to be in.
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61 Phil
Smiling, dirty old men are in again.
Maybe I should run.
Coming in vogue just at the right for us aye matey?
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Who said this?
“One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.”
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Hoping you get water soon, dude.
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That’s good. Perry has no chance, but Cruz does.
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Once the well is completed it must pass three consecutive coliform tests on three consecutive days. Then they’ll need to get the chlorination up and running throughout the system. Then they’ll collect the normal number of required samples and test them.
Then you’re back in business.
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Sorry for your plight, Squawk. You, BSue and your mother. Maybe you should take GJT up on the offer to pet-sit…
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I just heard The Donald being interviewed by Mark Levin. If you ask Trump a broad question, e.g. “What would you do about our tax system?”, then just let him talk, he is incoherent. His stream-of-consciousness style of speaking just makes it verbal mush. When his speaking is so aimless and wandering, I have to suspect his thinking is exactly the same. Imprecise. Incoherent. 🙁
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Been considering something a little different lately, or perhaps something you haven’t been able to find at Walmart? Well, here’s a sampling of what’s available out there:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-13/1300-tiger-penis-800k-snipers-complete-black-market-price-guide -
I guess I need to get some shut eye and read that in the morning. Or maybe “Mary who’ll ask anything” will axe what all that meant. Cause I have not a clue.
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Dump the PC Matic, we got Win Cleaner now! But wait….!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fuzAu4s7v-o
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