Since its completion in 1837, the Connected Map has endured years of use as an official document and then nearly a century of rolled storage. After considerable expense to rehabilitate and conserve it, the Connected Map of Austin’s Colony is finally being seen by the public as a work of art through the lens of history.
The First Map…….Weekend Comments
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Tucker Carlson is beginning an effort to collect donations to buy Glenn Beck a new set of knee pads.
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All this caterwauling in both parties just tells me that it’s the people versus the establishment this time around. As bad as the Rep party is, the Dems completely ignore the wishes of the voters up front. The Reps at least try to be a little more sneaky about it. I’m still not certain that they won’t pull shenanigans at the convention. Sorta hope that they do so the parties can just explode and then some new groups can form up and reorganize. Until then, a pox on all of them.
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The GOPe is not gonna pull any shenanigans.
The fix is in. Deals have been made, gifts exhanged, hands shaken and those who thought their positions may have been threatened have been reassured that they can keep their phoney baloney jobs as long as they harumpf when Trump tells them to.
This is why it keeps going on, BTW. You had your chance to get a real Conservative Constitutuitionalist who was determined to change the way the Republican Party works and change the Leadership he’d been challenging publicly.
But you called him Lying Ted and followed the guy who said his Daddy killed Kennedy.
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Look out. There’s a full moon out tonight, and it’s a blue one in addition. Now let’s just hope that people don’t get started too early on their full moon freak-out. At least let me get my chores done so that I can get home and put my head under the covers.
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Looks like we’re entering one of those rainy seasons in Houston where the grass gets tall from all the rain, but you can’t mow it because of all the rain.
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Looks like we’re entering one of those rainy seasons in Houston where the grass gets tall from all the rain, but you can’t mow it because of all the rain.
I give up. I’m selling the mower.
When it gets too tall for Max to walk through, we’re moving to San Saba and raise rocks and lizards.
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At least you can eat prickly pears.
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Just get a pet goat.
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I know what a chore it is for you guys to come up with a birthday present for a guy that has everything. But this year I’d like to have anything you can find that references the International Pageant of Pulchritude and Murdoch’s Bath House. Comes in red or black.
https://copanobaypress-gallery.com/products/copy-of-1930s-galveston-murdochs-bath-house-print-black
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Just the natural progression of Socialism.
“These guys I work with every day had turned into demons,” he said. “I could hear the man’s skin crackling and popping. When I put the fire out, they threw bottles at my head.”
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Was there an over-water train to Galveston??
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At least since 1900.
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From Wiki:
The Galveston–Houston Electric Railway was an interurban railway between Galveston and Houston, Texas from 1911 to 1936. The railway was recognized as the fastest interurban line in 1925 and 1926.
The Interurban ran the 50 miles (80 km) from downtown Houston to downtown Galveston in as little as 75 minutes. The track roughly followed the current path of Interstate 45 (Gulf Freeway). -
I once rode a train over Lake Pontchartrain, but it was at night and there wasn’t a lot to see.
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A trestle across Galveston Bay, built from proceeds of a Galveston County bond issue, was completed in 1860, thus completing the rail line between the two cities.
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Construction of temporary railroad trestle next to damaged causeway in 1915
http://www.gthcenter.org/exhibits/causeway/railroad/G-18222FF1.1.htm
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Some great photos and text concerning Galveston access following the 1900 storm:
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Aren’t the tracks still there??
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There’s a freight line into Galveston that sees pretty decent usage. I’d imagine it’s the same right of way.
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Old causeway tracks still being used.
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GoogleEarth shows it with the bridge up for boat traffic.
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Looks like we’re fixin’ to get slammed with that 20% rain chance I heard about this morning.
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Mediocreologists and their forecasts are a nightmarish wet dream when it comes to washing and waxing your car based on what they say.
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The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company was incorporated on May 28, 1873 by a group of Galveston merchants and businessmen seeking a direct rail connection from their city to the interior of Texas. Famous Galveston resident and philanthropist, Henry Rosenberg, served as the company’s first president. At that time, Galveston only had rail connections to the state’s interior via Houston, its economic competitor. Houston periodically imposed embargoes on Galveston traffic as a result of yellow fever epidemics, for which the only known treatment was the quarantining of infected populations. Some Galvestonians believed that Houston intentionally called for quarantining of Galveston without true evidence of an epidemic. They sought direct rail connection through the G.S.&S.F. with the rest of the state to gain independence from Houston.
After a difficult beginning that extended the railroad only to the Brazos River, the line was bought out of foreclosure by Galvestonian George Sealy, one of the original founders of the G.C.&.S.F., and several of his friends. Towns along the line were named for some of the line’s investors, such as Col. William Lewis Moody, Moritz Kopperl, George Sealy, Henry Rosenberg, Isaac Herbert Kempner, J.E. Wallis, Sampson Heidenheimer, Albert Somerville, Joseph O. Dyer, John D. Rogers, and Leon Blum. In 1886, the G.C.&.S.F. merged with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and due to Sealy’s negotiating skills, received lucrative share values.
From the perspective of the 21st century, it is difficult to perceive the importance of the G.C.&.S.F. to the communities which it served more than a century ago. The impact of the company in growing and serving previously isolated communities west of Galveston was profound, and its impact on the state is still felt today.
Sealy, Rosenberg, Kopperl, Somerville all had towns named after them – no doubt in hopes the railroad would come their way.
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Got my periodic screening for arterial plaque build up today. Despite 25+ years of high cholesterol and no statin usage my plumbing remains clean as a whistle. How can that be?
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Sealy, Rosenberg, Kopperl, Somerville all had towns named after them – no doubt in hopes the railroad would come their way.
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I’m reading on the innanet that the pilot of the crashed plane in the Med is a Muzzie; and that he had professed this to be his last voyage…..Wonder if there is any truth to that story?
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El Gordo says:
MAY 21, 2016 AT 7:29 PM
I’m reading on the innanet that the pilot of the crashed plane in the Med is a Muzzie; and that he had professed this to be his last voyage…..Wonder if there is any truth to that story?You mean the pilot of the Egypt Air flight was a muslim?
Now there’s a shocker.
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Looks like we’re entering one of those rainy seasons in Houston where the grass gets tall from all the rain, but you can’t mow it because of all the rain.
I had to go to a wedding, my neice, today. My son in law cut my grass without my knowledge or permission. I am grateful.
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Jackson Rush was the oldest of three brothers and they were railroad construction contractors. He was our great, great grandfather and came to Texas from Pennsylvania via Tennessee and Illinois laying track for the explosion of rails across America after the Civil War.
Once he reached Texas, helping to build what became the AT&SF line from Chicago to Texas, he settled in Coryell County at Copperas Cove on a ranch there in the 1870s. His wife, Marinda Barker Rush died soon after her second daughter was born and raising the girls fell to Jackson.
This article is a sample overview of the incredible railroad construction activity occurring in Texas in that period and illustrates why a man like Jackson Rush and others like him would have been drawn to the state.
The railroads built thousands of miles of track because of this and demonstrates why they became so powerful in Texas.
The GC&SF constructed 355 miles of track before the state law granting sixteen sections of land for each mile of track constructed was repealed. The company received certificates for 3,554,560 acres of vacant unappropriated state land and from the sale of these certificates netted $211,168.06. Under the land grant law the Central and Montgomery received 263,040 acres and the Chicago, Texas and Mexican Central 225,280 acres, but there is no record of the amount received by these roads for the sale of the land.
The State of Texas for a period gave railroad companies 16 sections (16 square miles of land (10,240 acres) for each single mile of track laid.
It boggles the mind. No wonder it was repealed.
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Finally got around to watching the movie “Courageous“. The acting is better than some Christian movies I’ve seen, and I like the message.
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Hey, Hammie – you mentioned something about high cholesterol and clean pipes?
It seems high cholesterol is much less dangerous than those statin drugs.
I had a friend on statins. Dang near killed her; she had the good sense to get off of them before they did her in.
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I quit taking statins in January following the loss of my health insurance and employment in December. (Retail price is $256.00 per month.)
Perhaps sometime I’ll get a cholesterol test done to see how bad the change is.
I do know that once I found a statin I could tolerate the numbers dropped from 400 to 100 (total). -
Sorry, but I think the whole medical industry’s obsession with cholesterol is mostly bullsh!t.
The fact it began with their war on salt, fats and the fraudulent campaign against meat that suddenly coincides with the explosion of obesity, diabetes and myriad heretofore rare maladies and diseases in America must be a phenomenal twist of fate.
Of course.
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I’ve always felt like a freak around here, being the only statin taker. But I think I am as well-informed as anyone when it comes to statins. I have read volumes by medical professionals and witch doctors on both sides. As with any other medication it is a personal decision and I’m completely comfortable with my choices.
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But hey, I let a guy stick a hot poker inside my heart and burn a few places inside, so what do I know?
🙂
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I managed to do my one and only yard chore I wanted to do today, before the rain. In Spring, I rake the fallen magnolia leaves — giant platter-sized leathery leaves — in the front yard into a mulch circle around the base of the big tree. Needs to be done about once a week for 6-8 weeks, till all of last years obsolete leaves have dropped off. After raking, it is good if the leaves get wet, stick together, and stay under the tree. It makes a decorative mulch.
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I’ve been on a statin for 10 years, as is most everyone I know who is over 50. Some younger than that.
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Magnolias are great.
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Well, let me briefly post that we actually adopted out a kitten today. Ms Nicole is a friend and felinophile who lives not far from us.
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I know several people who tried to take statins, including Her Highness, and just could not tolerate it. She had harassed her doctor in writing her the script because her cholesterol level was around 230-240. He kept telling her it wasn’t that big a deal, but she insisted.
So about 3 years later, he relents again, against my wishes, and writes her a script for Lipitor. She now suffers from relentless, chronic insomnia, persistent mild maladies and has gained 20 pounds which she can’t lose even through starvation. She was 108 lbs at 5′ tall before she started the script.
Her cholesterol level is down about 20 points. Big damned deal.
She refuses to listen to me when I point out all these problems didn’t exist until she started taking Lipitor.
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I’ve replaced my statin combo with Blue Bell.
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I’m obese and still don’t take statins. The low carb diet works to smooth out a lot of things. I think I read somewhere that they have about decided the whole cholesterol thing was a bunch of hooey, and to go ahead and eat as many eggs as you want.
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I eat about 16 eggs each week.
I have steak 3 or 4 times a month and ground meat often.
I use salt to taste and only real butter.
Some fruit, a few vegetables, olive oil, pita bread, fish every week and red wine every day.
My cholesterol level runs about 180 at 64 years old.
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Thank goodness the 10 o’clock news teaser just now featured no alligators. Only a preview of a cute marriage proposal.
I’m glad everything is okay otherwise, aren’t you?
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I just don’t know how these local news guys put up with the strain.
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Shannon, I stumbled across a meme Over Yonder that mentioned you.
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If anybody here can locate a respectable, strongly peer-reviewed and scrutinized study proving a direct, conclusive link between elevated cholesterol and heart disease, please post it here.
I’ve looked for years and haven’t found one.
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I keep my cholesterol in check with some COq10, vitamin E, red wine, 3 to 4 mile jogs, a couple of pieces of chocolate cake on the weekend for desert and a little medicinal music.
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I looked up in the sky tonight and got mooned.
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Dang it I knew I shoulda got some kind of patent on that term.
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What in the heck are you doing up at 03:14?
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Gators have been temporarily replaced by the woman in the Chewbacca mask on all local news.
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I was worried that there may not be any survivors after last night’s blue moon. I did notice that it caused the sun to rise this morning about 30 seconds earlier than it did yesterday, and it’s a bit warmer this morning. Does that conclusively prove that man made global warming is caused by blue moons? If so, Congress should just make them illegal and there would be no more problem.
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Has “coyote ugly” been replaced with “chewbacca ugly” in Houston ?
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So I was telling the Rabbi yesterday what a disgusting racist Lloyd Bentsen was and what he did to beat Ralph Yarborough for the Senate race in 1970. Specifically, I told him the story the story of Bentsen going to all the county judges in Texas and telling them the black folks would be running them out of town with shotgun toting mobs if they voted for Ralph. Texas was going to look just like Chicago did two years earlier.
Trying to look up the details, I Googled it and danged if I didn’t Google up myself telling the story here on Hambone 2 years ago.
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I don’t think the Galveston causeway is very high. I hear them on the marine radio a lot responding to whether the bridge is up or down. The tracks down 146 are gone. The ones up 6 are still in use. Haven’t seen anything on 3 in a while. Speaking of 146, I ought to see if I have any pictures of the Kemah bridge. Getting over or under it got to be a real hassle after Clear Lake development went nuts.
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TexpatSpeaking of old day dirty politics, I relived all that stuff watching the HBO movie on LBJ last night, think its called All the Way. The Dixiecrats and him deserved each other.
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In Houston this morning I’m just mowin’…….
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Looks like we are going to keep Kitten #3, Lynx, David’s favorite. I don’t think it’s ideal for people our age to commit to a young cat, but we’re doing it. Wish us luck, not to mention health and at least 16 more years of life. 🙂
And not just any life — lively life to keep cats fed, litter boxes emptied, etc.
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I guess that means El Gordo was partially right in his prediction… But we’d still like to place Gypsy. I’ve done up a new adoption flyer, with only Gypsy on it.
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I saw an interesting sight today on the toy train into Mass. The train is elevated over the old Hardy Rail Yards going into downtown. There was a very long train heading east through the yards. Every car had an M1 Abrams tank on it. All were painted desert tan. I saw probably 50 tanks before the train disappeared around the curve.
If I didn’t know all I’d find is Rense and Jones stories about FEMA camps and Martial Law I’d google to see if I could find out what’s going on.
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Mornin’Afternoon Gang
@ the Car Wash, dang there are two cars be cleaned/vacuumed, three on the way through the washer, one of which is my old Pick-Um-Up. I guess the rain scared the folks off. I know it’ll rain later BUT I try to wash my truck about once a month, if I don’t the brake dust on my fancy wheels will not come off. -
My educated guess is that the Port of Houston is a shipping point for the tanks.
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Sarge, here ya’ go; USGI Multicam MOLLE II Assault Pack.
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Father Felix compared and contrasted Webster’s definition of family in the 1913 and 2016 editions during his homily today.
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Be careful out there, Hamsters.
We have a screened back porch. The mop was leaning in the corner.
She doesn’t know why she looked before grabbing, but she saw the copperhead curled up in the mop head at about eye level.
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Hamous says:
MAY 22, 2016 AT 12:12 PM
I saw an interesting sight today on the toy train into Mass. The train is elevated over the old Hardy Rail Yards going into downtown. There was a very long train heading east through the yards. Every car had an M1 Abrams tank on it. All were painted desert tan. I saw probably 50 tanks before the train disappeared around the curve.If I didn’t know all I’d find is Rense and Jones stories about FEMA camps and Martial Law I’d google to see if I could find out what’s going on.
Its almost June, which means summer camp for National Guard units. Most likely these are NG tanks headed to training at Fort Polk, or any one of a number of Active Duty bases with large ranges for tank training.
All military vehicles subject to deployment these days are painted Desert Tan as that’s the most likely theater of operations anticipated.
Please pass on my regrets to the looney tooners—
Unless its Jade Helm II, then we’re all going to the camps—
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Super Dave says:
MAY 22, 2016 AT 12:26 PM
Sarge, here ya’ go; USGI Multicam MOLLE II Assault Pack.That’s a heck of a lot of money for a used pack.
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That’s a heck of a lot of money for a used pack.
But, is that a good pack? Too heavy?
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Well the boy sold his Gumbi Dammit, 640 HP, Blown, 2016 Cadillac CTS-V, he bought it ostensibly, for his bride, knowing that they were planning on have a baby. Since it has four doors he figured that he would have room for a child seat,…WRONG! It may have four doors but it still has a Camaro back seat. This one had an automatic, his first one was a six speed. He bought her a Chevy Tahoe with all the bells and whistles.
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Super Dave says:
MAY 22, 2016 AT 1:46 PM
That’s a heck of a lot of money for a used pack.But, is that a good pack? Too heavy?
Depends on what your goals are. For regular old summer time backpacking, I’ve got a pack that cost me $150 and weighs 9.75 ounces.
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67 Hamous
…the Battalion leads Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command’s (SDDC) effort to provide the Warfighter with customer-focused deployment support around the world through its 3 strategic seaports in Texas (Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Corpus Christi) and 7 alternate seaports throughout the Gulf Region (Houston, Galveston, Lake Charles, Gulfport, Pascagoula, Mobile, and New Orleans). The majority of this effort takes place at the Port of Beaumont, one of the nation’s busiest and premier seaports.
and,
After the beginning of the Global War on Terrorism (later known as Overseas Contingency Operations) in 2001, the Port of Beaumont moved more military cargo in support of Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn than any other continental US seaport. The 842nd Transportation Battalion was the gateway for the movement of military cargo through the Gulf Coast and represented the military’s lifeline in supporting the Warfighter at home and abroad.
Those endless caravans of military trucks and vehicles heading east through Houston in 1990 from Fort Hood and Fort Bliss went straight through Houston to Beaumont. A whole lot of it got it there by rail, too.
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So we ARE being sent to FEMA camps? 😉
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I had to google, and as expected, the first link was to Rabies Jones. But it was about a trainload a few weeks ago. When fat boy finds out about this new shipment he’s gonna go full on foaming at the mouth.
The next link was to zerohedge. Don’t know whether “The Saint” was serious or sarcastic. Either way you read it it was funny:
Just getting them in position for when Trump takes over Mexico.
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Hamous says:
MAY 22, 2016 AT 3:42 PM
So we ARE being sent to FEMA camps?The time to get really worried is when you see tanks with green woodland camo and guys with blue helmets heading westbound out of Beaumont, Galveston, and Houston—-
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Just getting them in position for when Trump takes over Mexico.
About all those Liberal Celebrities saying they’re going to move to Canada if Trump gets elected—
I wonder why they’re not choosing Mexico?
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I wonder why they’re not choosing Mexico?
Guess they are not completely stupid.
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Mehico haz kilt tha blog.
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Those moving to Canada are attracted to a more advanced form of socialism.
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And lotsa white people.
Down deep, the runners are racist.
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