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I’d sure hate to have the job of keeping the teak polished. I don’t know a lot about sailboats, but that one is obviously a new, highly efficient one and with all the capstan’s mounted next to the helm. I bet that it can sailed solo. That said, why the dual helms? Oh and I bet that there is an autopilot incorporated into the wheels.
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She’s Driven The Same ’57 Chevy For 60 Years And It Still Looks Brand New.
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2020 Delegate Count and Primary Calendar
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7 AM, OK, let’s see if I can kill this dang thang.
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A couple of good stories over at Power Line concerning Honest Abe Lincoln – You’d almost think it was his birthday or something. Anyway, enjoy the reading. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/remembering-mr-lincoln-9.php
Very few of the black people even know that he was a Republican. Even the Dems seem to forget that little fact from time to time when they are claiming him as one of their own for freeing the slaves. But they also forget that it was the Reps who passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as well, that George Wallace was not a Rep but a Dem, the KKK was the violence arm of the Dem party, etc. A few inconvenient fact like that just seem to escape them these days.
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Early voting starts Monday in Texas. I’m thinking I’ll vote for Bernie in the primary since that’s who the Dems seem to fear the most but who knows, I may just forget it and go vote in the Rep primary. Decisions, decisions…..
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#7 EG: The big question for me is for whom do I vote for Senate in my hope to primary the squish John Cornholio out of office?
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This looks like fun. . . . .
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#8 – You might check this guy out. I don’t know anything about him, but he talks a good story. http://www.texansforstovall.com/platform.php
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Has to be a D b!tch to do something so stupid. I thought the Ds were all about being kind to animals, right?
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Biden peaked in May of 2019 at 46.2%, down to 39.8% in November 2019 and down to 27.8% now.
Joe Biden has dropped from 36.3% to 27.8% since the first day of February. That’s a 23% plunge in 12 days. The strange thing is none of the other candidates have made big gains to account for the Biden loss. Bloomberg and Steyer have gained a couple of points, but I suspect that’s from the carpet bombing of ads in the state currently. So the voters who bailed out on Biden went nowhere and are on the sidelines.
The women candidates – Warren, Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Gabbard – are at 7.6% or less. The grand total for all four is only 18.4%. Deval Patrick, the only black candidate left, has less than 1%.
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Limbaugh: A Genius at Radio By Victor Davis Hanson February 11, 2020 6:30 AM
His ‘army of one,’ inspiring millions who’d been ignored, changed the political landscape.
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Limbaugh: A Genius at Radio
By Victor Davis Hanson
February 11, 2020 6:30 AM
Rush Limbaugh speaks at the 2019 Student Action Summit in West Palm Beach, Fla., December 21, 2019. (Gage Skidmore)
His ‘army of one,’ inspiring millions who’d been ignored, changed the political landscape.
Genius is often defined in myriad ways. One trusted criterion is the ability to do something extraordinary in a field where others could not — and doing something that perhaps will never be done again by anyone else.
By that measure, Rush Limbaugh certainly is the genius of talk radio, a genre in which he not merely excelled but that he also singlehandedly reinvented as something entirely different — and entirely more powerful and instrumental in American life — from what was imaginable pre-Limbaugh.
Even stranger still, his ascendance coincided with the presumed nadir of radio itself. It was supposedly a has-been, one-dimensional medium, long overshadowed by television. Even in the late 1980s, radio was about to be sentenced as obsolete in the ascendant cyber age of what would become Internet blogs, podcasts, streaming, and smartphone television.
Stranger still, Limbaugh has prospered through two generations and picked up millions of listeners who were not born when he first went national and who had no idea of why or how he had become a national presence.
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Well, I flipped over to PMSNBC just to see their take on New Hampshire and they were fawning all over Al Sharpton, in all his wisdom, as the preeminent arbitrator of all things racial. He was excoriating Doomberg for his stop and frisk policy and the two ladies were just, nodding and adding their righteous indignation.
Pitiful,…just pitiful, can you imagine anyone with a half a brain, giving any credence to this race-baiting, poverty pimp? -
1963 GMC Light and Medium duty trucks roll to the final inspection area before hitting the door outside at the Pontiac, MI assembly plant.
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Al Sharpton = Pez Head
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This is an old story (2013) but it bears repeating as it further illustrates the absolute corruption of the JugEars Administration generally and the IRS specifically.
HEADLINE: IRS Sent $46,378,040 in Refunds to 23,994 ‘Unauthorized’ Aliens at 1 Atlanta Address
24,000 refund checks to the same address and that did not raise any suspicions at the IRS?!?
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Texpat says:
FEBRUARY 12, 2020 AT 7:40 AM
This is the FiveThirtyEight polling data chart for the South Carolina Democratic Primary, revised as of today.Biden peaked in May of 2019 at 46.2%, down to 39.8% in November 2019 and down to 27.8% now.
Joe Biden has dropped from 36.3% to 27.8% since the first day of February. That’s a 23% plunge in 12 days. The strange thing is none of the other candidates have made big gains to account for the Biden loss. Bloomberg and Steyer have gained a couple of points, but I suspect that’s from the carpet bombing of ads in the state currently. So the voters who bailed out on Biden went nowhere and are on the sidelines.
The women candidates – Warren, Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Gabbard – are at 7.6% or less. The grand total for all four is only 18.4%. Deval Patrick, the only black candidate left, has less than 1%.
Biden is toast, SC will be his Waterloo. Electablity was his only selling point and its become painfully obvious to Dems that he just isn’t electable.
Bernie won with 25% of the vote, and if you add Warren’s count to his, Dems only went for batschizzle Lefty by about 30%. The problem is that the remaining 70% of voters who go for the merely insane Liberal candidates are being split 3 or 4 ways.
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#10 EG: If he is really serious about only half of what is written (I did not read it all) then he is my guy. To H3!! with Cornholio, the back stabbing bastige!
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The boy, texted me about his next bike, a Husqvarna TE 250i and TE 300i.
A 2 stroke 250, made by Husgvarna? Dang, that thing would be quick! Who knew that you could even get a 2 stroke anymore? -
Texpat, I’ve been hearing rumors that New Jersey is in play, any truth to that? I think that the last Republican to win New Jersey was Reagan?
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If you start looking at these forecasts and delegate spreads on FiveThirtyEight, it becomes very difficult to see how the DNC is going to stop Bernie Sanders. There is no one even close in Nevada while California is not even a race. Bernie looks like a slam dunk in Texas too, which is not surprising when a rich, stunted-growth aging adolescent like Beto can draw votes like he did in 2018.
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Can Bernie win the nomination even when the DNC is determined to stop him ?
Matthew Walther at The Week:
I am not so sure the answer is yes. The biggest obstacle to a moderate candidate edging out Sanders is not the opinions of Democratic voters, more than two-thirds of whom have rejected him in the two nominating contests held so far, but his opponents themselves. There are too many of them. If the vote shares of Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and Warren, who have all denounced Sanders as either too radical, a sexist, or both, were combined, he would lose by a wide margin. Instead the moderate vote is spread thin across five campaigns — and likely to be subdivided even further when Michael Bloomberg begins to appear on ballots. The fact that delegates are awarded to the winner of Democratic primaries and caucuses on a proportional rather than a winner-take-all basis makes the math for taking Sanders out even more difficult. Even in states in which he is not expected to win he is likely to place no lower than second. This could be enough to win if voters in states whose electorates as varied as those in South Carolina, Texas, and Indiana cannot make up their minds about which non-Sanders candidate is the most viable.
Remember the Democrats award delegates proportionally across each state while Republican primaries are winner take all. It makes it even harder to stop Sanders.
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I’ll shed no tears for Biden. I’m operating on the assumption that Biden was the establishment candidate for the Dems, with experience, folksy good humor,and moderate enough views to attract a large following. Yet their very own impeachment charges against Trump set the ball in motion to expose his total corruption and fraudulent behavior while in office. I suspect the fraud is what took him out, the exposure of which was of the Dems own doings. Of course, the touchy feely fingers didn’t help either, nor did his constant gaffes. But he could have gotten away with all that except for the fraud.
I suspect that Amy the Mongoloid is the person to watch right now. Biden is done, the female fake Indian robot is done, all the darkies are already gone, they didn’t have a midget, so it’s between the alleged female Mongoloid and the effeminate Pete the Buttplug versus Barney. And Barney cannot be allowed to stand no matter how many votes he gets. Of course, once the convention gets underway and hiliary steps up to sacrifice herself, martyr that she is, for the good of the nation and the good of the party to take on the job of slaying the evil, fire breathing Trumpdragon she will be nominated by acclamation even if no one shouts out for her.
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My contribution to the Wednesday morning discussions… Breakdown in jail system in Harris County.
https://houstonconservativeforum.com/bail-bond-consent-decree-judge-lee-rosenthal/
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they didn’t have a midget
Boomberg probly works in a pinch.
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#21 – SD Husqvarna has been producing pretty quick and well built dirt bikes since way before I learned to ride back in ’68
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Driving through Sealy yesterday, saw one of these parked in front of Hennessy Motors, Looked pretty cool.
http://hennesseyperformance.com/vehicles/ford/f-150-raptor/2017-ford-f-150-raptor/velociraptor-6×6/
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Pizza Guy Joe will now have more time on his hands to order more pixxxa and sniff more girls.
Did Mr Potato Head, with the Clutch Cargo mouth, ever get upset about Pixxxa Joe calling the woman in Iowa a dog faced pony solider?
#meTooforgivesToTaLitArIanCrATsAlWAyS
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#29 Katfish, Oh yes, when I was growing up, we had a dirtbike racetrack behind Chisholm’s truck Stop. The Husky’s and Ossa’s were BAD AZZ. Oh and I love the little 100 CC Bultaco SUPER RAT’s, it sounded lake a swarm of mad bees when about a dozen of them would take off. The Ossa 360’s ruled that division followed by the Kawasaki 360’s.
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Looks like everyone started their naps early today. I for one got up early, and my plan is to stay up until after Olde Pharts coffee which starts at 2. It’s still rainy and pretty cool outside, but tomorrow is a travel day, so I’ve got to get some stuff together for the ride. BFF turns 70 on Saturday, but don’t tell anybody that I let that out.
El Rushbo sounds good and strong today, and apparently he starts his treatments tomorrow- whatever they may be has not been elaborated on. But of all the options that I’m aware of, none of them are very pleasant experiences.
OK, that’s all for now. You all call or send a text when you get up.
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I keep going back and watching the Pearland Marching Band video I linked to yesterday.
Even though I wasn’t in the band for this performance, it sure brings back lotsa great memories. The guy who did this has listed “through 1997” – and has promised more to come. I can’t wait to see the upcoming videos.
Being in band required a lot of dedication, but Mr. Fariss insisted on excellence and he got it. We were proud to be under his tutelage, sweat and all. During concert season one year, we spent 30 minutes on *one note*. It was at the end of “Jupiter,” and since it was the last thing the judges were going to hear, Mr. Fariss wanted it to be firm but not deadening. He used a Nerf ball, tossing it into the air to illustrate how light he wanted that one note to be. Our band picture that year had him holding that Nerf ball. It must’ve worked, because we got our across the board First Division trophy again. I think PHS accumulated about 30 years of First Division trophies before he retired. I don’t know what happened after that. The marching style changed and I quit paying attention ‘cuz I hate the show band style.
Good results are usually the result of hard work and dedication. We were proud of those trophies because we earned every single one of them.
Our self esteem was derived from achievement.
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Can anyone explain why airplanes don’t simply fall out of the sky ?
But by themselves, equations are not explanations, and neither are their solutions. There is a second, nontechnical level of analysis that is intended to provide us with a physical, commonsense explanation of lift. The objective of the nontechnical approach is to give us an intuitive understanding of the actual forces and factors that are at work in holding an airplane aloft. This approach exists not on the level of numbers and equations but rather on the level of concepts and principles that are familiar and intelligible to nonspecialists.
It is on this second, nontechnical level where the controversies lie. Two different theories are commonly proposed to explain lift, and advocates on both sides argue their viewpoints in articles, in books and online. The problem is that each of these two nontechnical theories is correct in itself. But neither produces a complete explanation of lift, one that provides a full accounting of all the basic forces, factors and physical conditions governing aerodynamic lift, with no issues left dangling, unexplained or unknown. Does such a theory even exist?
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Can anyone explain why airplanes don’t simply fall out of the sky ?
God?
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Pretty spooky stuff IMHO
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Have you noticed the iron sitting out front at Bumbera’s new location, closer to the river? -
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Texpat, I’ve been hearing rumors that New Jersey is in play, any truth to that?
I’d be shocked if it were. I think Trump will make a good showing in NJ, but I don’t think even he can win here anymore. Hillary won 55-42 in New Jersey in 2016.
All the talk was started by the huge rally in Wildwood. One must understand these things:
A) South Jersey is centrist to slightly right on the political spectrum, but most of the population is in the north central and northeastern sectors of the state, suburbs of NYC and very much leftist these days.
B) Wildwood is at the very southern tip of New Jersey at the mouth of the Delaware River. Tons of those Trump rally attendees came from Delaware and Pennsylvania in addition to more conservative parts of southern Jersey. Wildwood is about 90 minutes from Philadelphia and 70 minutes from Wilmington, Delaware.
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A great Bumbera project…
We had the pleasure of building this ride for a special client that told us it was his “dream car”. We happily agreed to make his dream a reality. Little did we know that what we were trying to do had never been done before. The only other Hellcat swaps out there either placed a ’69 body onto a brand new hellcat frame or they did the motor swap but not the complete dash.
We did what we like to call a true Hellcat swap. What does a true Hellcat swap mean? It means that we took a complete Hellcat motor and transmission assembly along with the SRT dash and steering wheel complete with paddle shift controls and placed it inside of a 1969 Dodge Charger. Not only is everything in the car, but it’s functional! From the remote start, 8.4″ touch screen, ice cold air conditioning, and automatic transmission with paddle shift controls, this car has all the comforts of a modern day Hellcat but looks like an old school hot rod!
https://www.bumberas.com/blog/2018/6/25/1969-dodge-charger-hellcat
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Based on the fact that Democrats are voting for Bernie Sanders and not the gay guy, the Chinese guy, the women, and have already kicked the black folks off the ballot, we can logically determine that they are Socialist homophobes who hate women and minorities and love rich white guys.
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#42 Sarge, BAWHAHAHAHA! I love it!! AND, you’re only using their logic.
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It is unpleasant to note how Bernie appeals to so many people who are citizens of the USA.
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#41 – SCHWEET!!
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I have been watching these ridiculously named, endless internet ads for several years and wondering what the backstory was on their origin. I assumed they were all from China.
Mostly, you’ll notice gloves from brands that, unless you’ve spent a lot of time searching for gloves on Amazon, you’ve never heard of. Brands that evoke nothing in particular, but which do so in capital letters. Brands that are neither translated nor Romanized nor transliterated from another language, and which may contain words, or names, that do not seem to refer to the products they sell. Brands like Pvendor, RIVMOUNT, FRETREE and MAJCF. Gloves emblazoned with names like Nertpow, SHSTFD, Joyoldelf, VBIGER and Bizzliz. Gloves with hundreds or even thousands of apparently positive reviews, available for very low prices, shipped quickly, for free, with Amazon Prime.
and,
These “pseudo-brands,” as some Amazon sellers call them, represent a large and growing portion of the company’s business. These thousands of new product lines, launched onto Amazon by third party sellers with minimal conventional marketing, stocking the site with disparate categories of goods, many evaporating as quickly as they appeared, are challenging what it means to be a brand.They’ve also helped overwhelm the United States Patent and Trademark Office, which, not unlike an Amazon shopper, has for years found itself mystified by pseudo-brands as it continues to approve them. Maybe they’re the future of shopping. They’re certainly part of the now. -
The Submarine Cable Map covering all the subsea cables connecting all the continents.
I wonder how many secret cables are down there ?
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#41 DAYAAM, that i$ Impre$$ive, I wonder how much it co$t$, Mucho Buck$ for sure.
I really think that they outdid themselves, BUT NOT my cup O tea. I’d have went with the drive train and the A/C,..why not? And left the interior “Old School” WTH wants all that fancy screen crap…That said; hat’s off to them, they did an amazing job. -
Well, the rain has passed on through, and now we are back to warmer temps and cloudless, bright sunshiny skies. Put out some deer corn and refilled the bird feeder, so the animals should be OK while I’m gone.
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#40 Texpat, Thanks, I kinda’ figured that, there an awful lot of Union Workers all over the state that might vote for Trump, but like New York state, there is a lot of conservatives but they get drowned out by New York City and all it’s burbs, and the part of New Jersey that you live in, is really western New York, right?
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#50 – someone steal all of your maps SD?
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50 Super Dave
…and the part of New Jersey that you live in, is really western New York, right?
No. (okay, maybe)
I live about 6 miles due west of the George Washington Bridge that crosses the Hudson River into New York City in the far northeastern corner of the state. The county I live in is Bergen.
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President Trump – as expected – handily won New Hampshire’s Republican primary, as he had no serious challenger. But what’s raising eyebrows are the total of votes he got in a noncompetitive race.
Trump secured more than 120,000 votes in the Granite State. As Fox News’ Tyler Olson reported, that’s more than double what incumbent President Barack Obama got in the state’s 2012 primary, when he managed to win 49,080 total votes. It also dwarfs the total of other incumbent presidents: then-President George W. Bush received 53,962 votes in the largely-uncontested GOP primary in New Hampshire in 2004. And in 1996, incumbent President Bill Clinton received 76,797 votes in New Hampshire’s primary.
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Trump lost New Hampshire by fewer than 3,000 votes to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election – and his campaign sees the Granite State as one of the few opportunities flip a state from blue to red. -
Good afternoon Hamsters. It appears the good folk of New Hampshire are sending a very strong message with their primary votes for President Trump, who had no serious challenger it is reported. That ought to send Democrat knees to knocking and not just in New Hampshire. It is a message that can’t be missed and likely shall be repeated as primaries are held elsewhere.
Of course the ruling Dems will blow it off, NH being a small state they will reason. They are tone deaf on top of clueless this time around it would seem, and the few Dems left who realize what just happened will not be heard when they try to warn the bigwigs that this omen is serious stuff. May they stay stuck on stupid at all levels unto December.
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Wait, I thought new Hampshire was the nutmeg state. What is a nutmeg anyway?
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“It’s disappointing that Senator Sanders’ supporters have viciously attacked the Culinary Union and working families in Nevada simply because our union has provided facts on what certain healthcare proposals might do to take away the system of care we have built over 8 decades,” Geoconda Argüello-Kline, the secretary-treasurer of the Culinary Union Local 226, said in her statement.
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Wait, I thought new Hampshire was the nutmeg state. What is a nutmeg anyway?
Nutmeg…looks kinda like Sarge without the moustache.
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Shannon, did not notice that. Hennessey usually has nothing out front, just employee parking. I find it ironic that DPS, when I see them shooting radar, are in front of the place or close to it. Maybe playing with their radar when the cars are running on the test track while waiting for a profitable speeder.
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Just not in her neighborhood.
These loser totalitariancrats are all the same.
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I heard someone on talk radio say today that unions would never support a socialist presidential candidate, would not give up their private medical insurance for anything government-provided.
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Big news out of Ontario tonight is some journalist named Christy Blatchford laid a corpse. Near as I can tell she’s the Canadian Baba Wawa.
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That’s always been an interesting turn of phrase.
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#51 #52 I know better,..BUTT
New York City and all it’s burbs, and the part of New Jersey that you live in, is really westernNew YorkNew York City, right?
A heavily populated area, due WEST of NYC, is what I meant, that is, that whole area is influenced by the same type of people.
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I just listened to the John Batchelor show on WABC with Gordon Chang, the excellent investigative reporter on China. He said his wife has been on WeChat today, the Chinese version of Twitter, and it is virtually a ghost town. The Chinese people are both terrified and outraged over the government handling of the epidemic. They don’t want to say anything online for fear of being arrested.
It has been revealed in the last few hours (see tomorrow morning’s news reports in the US) that the infection numbers have exploded (or been lied about) exponentially. Also, the Chinese people are talking about new information leaked out about the virus having originated as a biowarfare weapon in their labs.
Sh*t hits fan blades. Who knew it might be a disease to bring down the largest totalitarian thuggery in world history ?
This is going to be much bigger and uglier than we have thought.
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Yes, in many ways, the immediate surrounding areas of New York City can seem to be mere extensions of the city. In other ways, it can be the opposite. It’s a cultural blending and street fight all at the same time. Lots of similarities, many complementary ethnic and colloquial overlaps, but sometimes sharp differences. The geographical state lines remain clearly established.
It’s complicated.
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And idiots like Amy Klodphocker want to bring 500% more refugees in with no vetting.
Mental cases one and all.
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RE: #64
Gordon Chang said the Chinese government admitted in the last 12 hours there has been over 4 times as many deaths from the coronavirus than what they reported before. Infected rates are more by at least the same multiplier.
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The Hell?
This is freakin’ bizzaro world on roid rage.
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Now back to really serious news…
There were near riots tonight at Madison Square Garden when some absurd poodle won the Westminster Dog Show when the crowd favorite was a golden retriever named Daniel. When he entered the arena the crowd stood and shouted, “Daniel !, Daniel !”.
Apparently, the judge, a likely Obama appointee, chose the standard poodle with the insane haircut despite the the fact all evidence pointed to Daniel being the clear winner.
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Wish I had found this earlier today, but I’ll post it anyway. I haven’t listened to any BootyBoy speeches so I didn’t even know he had been in the military.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/buttigiegs-hollow-military-bragging
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Comment of the day.
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For those of you not in the greater Houston area, Bloomberg commercials run several times an hour, around the clock here.
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Can’t be more annoying than the Wall adds.
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Lady can belt one out.
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Morning gang. New men’s group sweeping the nation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=M7xPrf9f7mg&feature=emb_logo
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