Sorry to be so late, but I was in bed when Hubby called me to tell me that we had peacocks in our front yard. Normally the flock is a over a half mile away , several blocks north of our street and down nearer the park. People there feed them, so that’s normally where they hang out. I jumped up, grabbed my camera, and got shots of the fourteen or so birds crossing from our yard into our neighbor’s yard. I then stayed to talk to our neighbor for a while. It turns out he needs a water meter. If I can figure out how to upload the pictures, I’ll try to add them to the post later.
Last night Fr. Fernando came to our church for a healing mass. I’m not normally one to fully embrace these types of events, believing it is mostly psychological, but I decided to join in at the end (I was working the parking lot and some other stations during the Spanish mass). I listened to the long list of people testifying to their healings: able to hear out of an ear they had been deaf in, eyesight clearing up, various pains in various body parts disappearing, etc. There were a some people being “slain in the spirit” as well, laying on the floor. I thought “What have I got to lose?” Fr. Fernando came by grabbed my cheek by my jawline and said something that I didn’t quite catch. Then moved to the man next to me. As he passed by, my knees went weak and I almost fell backwards. The “catchers” put their hands on me and kept me from falling, and I continued to stand there. My friend Irma had gone all out and was on the floor, but I didn’t know until afterwards. Fr.Fernando, praying over the man next to me, reached out a hand and put it on my head briefly and then moved on. When I didn’t feel so wobbly I went to sit down and waited for Irma. We went to get her purse from the locked room (she had been helping out, also), and it was then that I realized that the sharp pain in my foot that had been bothering me all night was gone.
The English mass is tonight. I’m supposed to be running things, so I’ll be there anyway. May as well try for a second helping and see what happens. I’ll be less resistant tonight.
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G’Morning all
Glad someone else remembers
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HAPPY TEXAS
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Glad someone else remembers#1 Bonecrusher
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Scientists in Switzerland, expressing surprise that they didn’t cause the End Of The World, are restarting the Large Hadron Collider.
We’re doomed.
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Scientists in Switzerland, expressing surprise that they didn’t cause the End Of The World, are restarting the Large Hadron Collider.
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Think we could (of should) try it again?
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Think we could (of should) try it again?
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SUMTYMEZ MUH SPLR DUNT WERK SEW WEL
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A friend emailed me this one:
Southern Ingenuity
One morning 3 South Georgia good old boys and 3 Yankees were in a ticket line at the Albany train station heading to Athens for a big football game.
The 3 Northerners each bought a ticket and watched as the 3 Southerners bought just one ticket among them.
“How are the 3 of you going to travel on one 1 ticket?” asked one of the Yankees.
“Watch and learn” answered one of the boys from the South.
When the 6 travelers boarded the train, the 3 Yankees sat down, but the 3 Southerners crammed into a bathroom together and closed the door.
Shortly after the train departed, the conductor came around to collect tickets.
He knocked on the bathroom door and said, “Tickets please.” the door opened just a crack and a single arm emerged with a ticket in hand. The Conductor took it and moved on.
The Yankees saw this happen and agreed it was quite a clever idea.. Indeed, so clever that they decided to do the same thing on the return trip and save some money.
That evening after the game when they got to the Athen train station, they bought a single ticket for the return trip while to their astonishment the 3 Southerners didn’t buy even 1 ticket.
“How are you going to travel without a ticket?” asked one of the perplexed Yankees.
“Watch and learn”, answered one of the Southern boys.
When they boarded the train the 3 Northerners crammed themselves into a bathroom and the 3 Southerners crammed themselves into the other bathroom across from it.
Shortly after the train began to move, one of the Southerners left their bathroom and walked quietly over to the Yankee’s bathroom. He knocked on the door and said “ticket please”.
There’s just no way on God’s green earth to explain how the Yankees won the war………
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A friend emailed me this one:
Southern Ingenuity
One morning 3 South Georgia good old boys and 3 Yankees were in a ticket line at the Albany train station heading to Athens for a big football game.
The 3 Northerners each bought a ticket and watched as the 3 Southerners bought just one ticket among them.
“How are the 3 of you going to travel on one 1 ticket?” asked one of the Yankees.
“Watch and learn” answered one of the boys from the South.
When the 6 travelers boarded the train, the 3 Yankees sat down, but the 3 Southerners crammed into a bathroom together and closed the door.
Shortly after the train departed, the conductor came around to collect tickets.
He knocked on the bathroom door and said, “Tickets please.” the door opened just a crack and a single arm emerged with a ticket in hand. The Conductor took it and moved on.
The Yankees saw this happen and agreed it was quite a clever idea.. Indeed, so clever that they decided to do the same thing on the return trip and save some money.
That evening after the game when they got to the Athen train station, they bought a single ticket for the return trip while to their astonishment the 3 Southerners didn’t buy even 1 ticket.
“How are you going to travel without a ticket?” asked one of the perplexed Yankees.
“Watch and learn”, answered one of the Southern boys.
When they boarded the train the 3 Northerners crammed themselves into a bathroom and the 3 Southerners crammed themselves into the other bathroom across from it.
Shortly after the train began to move, one of the Southerners left their bathroom and walked quietly over to the Yankee’s bathroom. He knocked on the door and said “ticket please”.
There’s just no way on God’s green earth to explain how the Yankees won the war……… -
The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. It was adopted at the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836, and formally signed the following day after errors were noted in the text.
In October 1835, settlers in Mexican Texas launched the Texas Revolution.
However, within Texas, many struggled with understanding what was the ultimate goal of the Revolution. Some believed that the goal should be total independence from Mexico, while others sought the reimplementation of the Mexican Constitution of 1824 (which offered greater freedoms than the centralist government declared in Mexico the prior year). To settle the issue, a convention was called for March 1836.
This convention differed from the previous Texas councils of 1832, 1833, and the 1835 Consultation. Many of the delegates to the 1836 convention were young men who had only recently arrived in Texas, although many of them had participated in one of the battles in 1835. Most of the delegates were members of the War Party and were adamant that Texas must declare its independence from Mexico.[2] Forty-one delegates arrived in Washington-on-the-Brazos on February 28.
The convention was convened on March 1 with Richard Ellis as president. The delegates selected a committee of five to draft a declaration of independence; the committee was led by George Childress and also included Edward Conrad, James Gaines, Bailey Hardeman, and Collin McKinney. The committee submitted its draft within a mere 24 hours, leading historians to speculate that Childress had written much of it before his arrival at the Convention.
The declaration was approved on March 2 with no debate. Based primarily on the writings of John Locke and Thomas Jefferson, the declaration proclaimed that the Mexican government “ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived” and complained about “arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny”. The declaration officially established the Republic of Texas.
Among others, the declaration mentions the following reasons for the separation:
* The 1824 Constitution of Mexico establishing a federal republic had been usurped and changed into a centralist military dictatorship by Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna.
* The Mexican government had invited settlers to Texas and promised them constitutional liberty and republican government, but then reneged on these guarantees.
* Texas was in union with the Mexican state of Coahuila as Coahuila y Tejas, with the capital in distant Saltillo, and thus the affairs of Texas were decided at a great distance from the province and in the Spanish language.
* Political rights to which the settlers had previously been accustomed, such as the right to keep and bear arms and the right to trial by jury, were denied.
* No system of public education had been established.
* The settlers were not allowed freedom of religion.Based upon the United States Declaration of Independence, the Texas Declaration also contains many memorable expressions of American political principles:
* “the right of trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty, and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty, and property of the citizen.”
* “our arms … are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments.”
Fifty-nine men signed the Declaration of Independence. Ten of them had lived in Texas for more than six years, while one-quarter of them had been in the province for less than a year.
* Richard Ellis, President of the Convention and Delegate from Red River
* Charles B. Stewart
* Thomas Barnett
* John S. D. Byrom
* José Francisco Ruiz
* José Antonio Navarro
* Jesse B. Badgett
* William D. Lacy
* William Menefee
* John Fisher
* Matthew Caldwell
* William Motley
* Lorenzo de Zavala
* Stephen H. Everett
* George W. Smyth
* Elijah Stapp
* Claiborne West
* William. B. Scates
* Michel B. Menard
* Augustine B. Hardin
* John Wheeler Bunton
* Thomas J. Gazley
* Robert M. Coleman
* Sterling C. Robertson
* Benjamin Briggs Goodrich
* George Washington Barnett
* James G. Swisher
* Jesse Grimes
* Samuel Rhoads Fisher
* John W. Moore
* John W. Bower
* Samuel A. Maverick (from Bejar)
* Sam P. Carson
* Andrew Briscoe
* James B. Woods
* James Collinsworth
* Edwin Waller
* Asa Brigham
* George C. Childress
* Bailey Hardeman
* Robert Potter
* Thomas Jefferson Rusk
* Charles S. Taylor
* John S. Roberts
* Robert Hamilton
* Collin McKinney
* Albert Hamilton Latimer
* James Power
* Erastus Smith, known as “El Sordo”
* Sam Houston
* David Thomas
* Edward Conrad
* Martin Parmer
* Edwin O. Legrand
* Stephen W. Blount
* Robert Thomas ‘James’ Gaines
* William Clark, Jr.
* Sydney O. Pennington
* William Carroll Crawford
* John Turner
* Herbert Simms Kimble, Secretary -
The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. It was adopted at the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836, and formally signed the following day after errors were noted in the text.
In October 1835, settlers in Mexican Texas launched the Texas Revolution.
However, within Texas, many struggled with understanding what was the ultimate goal of the Revolution. Some believed that the goal should be total independence from Mexico, while others sought the reimplementation of the Mexican Constitution of 1824 (which offered greater freedoms than the centralist government declared in Mexico the prior year). To settle the issue, a convention was called for March 1836.
This convention differed from the previous Texas councils of 1832, 1833, and the 1835 Consultation. Many of the delegates to the 1836 convention were young men who had only recently arrived in Texas, although many of them had participated in one of the battles in 1835. Most of the delegates were members of the War Party and were adamant that Texas must declare its independence from Mexico.[2] Forty-one delegates arrived in Washington-on-the-Brazos on February 28.
The convention was convened on March 1 with Richard Ellis as president. The delegates selected a committee of five to draft a declaration of independence; the committee was led by George Childress and also included Edward Conrad, James Gaines, Bailey Hardeman, and Collin McKinney. The committee submitted its draft within a mere 24 hours, leading historians to speculate that Childress had written much of it before his arrival at the Convention.
The declaration was approved on March 2 with no debate. Based primarily on the writings of John Locke and Thomas Jefferson, the declaration proclaimed that the Mexican government “ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived” and complained about “arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny”. The declaration officially established the Republic of Texas.
Among others, the declaration mentions the following reasons for the separation:
* The 1824 Constitution of Mexico establishing a federal republic had been usurped and changed into a centralist military dictatorship by Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna.
* The Mexican government had invited settlers to Texas and promised them constitutional liberty and republican government, but then reneged on these guarantees.
* Texas was in union with the Mexican state of Coahuila as Coahuila y Tejas, with the capital in distant Saltillo, and thus the affairs of Texas were decided at a great distance from the province and in the Spanish language.
* Political rights to which the settlers had previously been accustomed, such as the right to keep and bear arms and the right to trial by jury, were denied.
* No system of public education had been established.
* The settlers were not allowed freedom of religion.
Based upon the United States Declaration of Independence, the Texas Declaration also contains many memorable expressions of American political principles:
* “the right of trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty, and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty, and property of the citizen.”
* “our arms … are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments.”
Fifty-nine men signed the Declaration of Independence. Ten of them had lived in Texas for more than six years, while one-quarter of them had been in the province for less than a year.
* Richard Ellis, President of the Convention and Delegate from Red River
* Charles B. Stewart
* Thomas Barnett
* John S. D. Byrom
* José Francisco Ruiz
* José Antonio Navarro
* Jesse B. Badgett
* William D. Lacy
* William Menefee
* John Fisher
* Matthew Caldwell
* William Motley
* Lorenzo de Zavala
* Stephen H. Everett
* George W. Smyth
* Elijah Stapp
* Claiborne West
* William. B. Scates
* Michel B. Menard
* Augustine B. Hardin
* John Wheeler Bunton
* Thomas J. Gazley
* Robert M. Coleman
* Sterling C. Robertson
* Benjamin Briggs Goodrich
* George Washington Barnett
* James G. Swisher
* Jesse Grimes
* Samuel Rhoads Fisher
* John W. Moore
* John W. Bower
* Samuel A. Maverick (from Bejar)
* Sam P. Carson
* Andrew Briscoe
* James B. Woods
* James Collinsworth
* Edwin Waller
* Asa Brigham
* George C. Childress
* Bailey Hardeman
* Robert Potter
* Thomas Jefferson Rusk
* Charles S. Taylor
* John S. Roberts
* Robert Hamilton
* Collin McKinney
* Albert Hamilton Latimer
* James Power
* Erastus Smith, known as “El Sordo”
* Sam Houston
* David Thomas
* Edward Conrad
* Martin Parmer
* Edwin O. Legrand
* Stephen W. Blount
* Robert Thomas ‘James’ Gaines
* William Clark, Jr.
* Sydney O. Pennington
* William Carroll Crawford
* John Turner
* Herbert Simms Kimble, Secretary -
6 Bonecrusher says:
March 2, 2011 at 8:59 amSUMTYMEZ MUH SPLR DUNT WERK SEW WEL
That’s why I write real slow, cause I know you don’t read too well.
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6 Bonecrusher says:
March 2, 2011 at 8:59 am
SUMTYMEZ MUH SPLR DUNT WERK SEW WELThat’s why I write real slow, cause I know you don’t read too well.
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Think we
could (ofshould)try it again?!!!Fixeditforya
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Think we
could (ofshould)try it again?!!!Fixeditforya
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The King’s Speech won the Oscar for Best Picture Sunday. It’s about how George VI worked with a speech therapist to cure his impediment and give a great wartime speech.
We need to get the same therapist working with Obama to get him say that we must cut spending.
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The King’s Speech won the Oscar for Best Picture Sunday. It’s about how George VI worked with a speech therapist to cure his impediment and give a great wartime speech.
We need to get the same therapist working with Obama to get him say that we must cut spending. -
Great Britain began a no-fly zone over Kadaffi-controlled areas of Libya to stop him from killing his own people.
Germany proposed an economic sea blockade
France vowed to support an arms embargo.Obama offered to handle refreshments.
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Great Britain began a no-fly zone over Kadaffi-controlled areas of Libya to stop him from killing his own people.
Germany proposed an economic sea blockade
France vowed to support an arms embargo.
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News from the land that birthed our benefactor:
Calvin Lee Devol, Jr., told a wildlife officer he got his stolen rifle from a guy named “Bo” and his stolen pickup from a “blue eyed Cuban.”
What about the dead alligator in the back with a hole in its head?
“It was given to me by a co-worker.”
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News from the land that birthed our benefactor:
Calvin Lee Devol, Jr., told a wildlife officer he got his stolen rifle from a guy named “Bo” and his stolen pickup from a “blue eyed Cuban.”
What about the dead alligator in the back with a hole in its head?
“It was given to me by a co-worker.”
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Obama offered to handle refreshments
That is still way above his level of competence, perhaps he should offer to shine shoes.
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Obama offered to handle refreshments
That is still way above his level of competence, perhaps he should offer to shine shoes.
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Happy 175th Texas. Great read.
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A TEXANby Bum Phillips
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Happy 175th Texas. Great read.
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#13 Pyro:
Jail records show Devol was arrested eight times between 2004 and last summer, on charges that include aggravated battery on a pregnant person and carrying a concealed firearm, and a probation violation.
This was the last paragraph of the story. A couple of things bother me about the highlighted section:
1) aggravated battery on a pregnant person?? When males can get pregnant only then would a gender neutral term like person be appropriate.
2) Arrested 8 WISSING TIMES??? Why did they let that piece of human debris out of jail?? He has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that he is a threat to civilized society and a lying sack of crap to boot.
3) As far as sack of crap goes, he beat up a pregnant woman. . . . .it just doesn’t get a whole lot lower than that. -
#13 Pyro:
Jail records show Devol was arrested eight times between 2004 and last summer, on charges that include aggravated battery on a pregnant person and carrying a concealed firearm, and a probation violation.
This was the last paragraph of the story. A couple of things bother me about the highlighted section:
1) aggravated battery on a pregnant person?? When males can get pregnant only then would a gender neutral term like person be appropriate.
2) Arrested 8 WISSING TIMES??? Why did they let that piece of human debris out of jail?? He has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that he is a threat to civilized society and a lying sack of crap to boot.
3) As far as sack of crap goes, he beat up a pregnant woman. . . . .it just doesn’t get a whole lot lower than that. -
#15 cbr: That brought tears to my eyes.
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#15 cbr: That brought tears to my eyes.
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Wangs. Peacocks.
This used to be a family blog.
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Wangs. Peacocks.
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Noted Zionist Louis Farrakhan sez the Juice are dragging us into a war with his good buddy Big Mo.
Dude’s hopeless.
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Noted Zionist Louis Farrakhan sez the Juice are dragging us into a war with his good buddy Big Mo.
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#18 Sarge
I just posted some pictures. The males are obviously in 1:00 am honky-tonk mode. It usually takes more than one year for males to get their full plumage, and there’s obviously a junior in the group who is trying hard but just getting shown up by the older males, even with their plumage not fully in yet. Two of them actually started dancing, and one female was chased briefly.
But I didn’t post those pictures. It is still a family blog. I think.
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#18 Sarge
I just posted some pictures. The males are obviously in 1:00 am honky-tonk mode. It usually takes more than one year for males to get their full plumage, and there’s obviously a junior in the group who is trying hard but just getting shown up by the older males, even with their plumage not fully in yet. Two of them actually started dancing, and one female was chased briefly.
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I’m terrified of birds. Probably too much Hitchcock for me as a yoot.
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I’m terrified of birds. Probably too much Hitchcock for me as a yoot.
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Perhaps you have seen this before, but I have not.
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Perhaps you have seen this before, but I have not.
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#23 Texpat
That was great. I liked Freeman before, even more now.
Racists are always the first to call attention to race.
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#23 Texpat
That was great. I liked Freeman before, even more now.
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WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A TEXANby Bum Phillips
Spoken by a a true Texan
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WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A TEXANby Bum Phillips
Spoken by a a true Texan
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I just posted some pictures.
Pretty as a peacock, they are.
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I just posted some pictures.
Pretty as a peacock, they are.
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#20 wagonburner
The two TSA agents and supervisor who completely missed the blades at a security checkpoint “will all be disciplined and undergo remedial training,” said spokeswoman Ann Davis.
I would suggest an immediate check for hours worked and escorted off the premises, just like we do to pond scum in the real world.
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#20 wagonburner
The two TSA agents and supervisor who completely missed the blades at a security checkpoint “will all be disciplined and undergo remedial training,” said spokeswoman Ann Davis.
I would suggest an immediate check for hours worked and escorted off the premises, just like we do to pond scum in the real world.
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Woodlands Obituary. Be sure to read the last sentence. 😉
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Woodlands Obituary. Be sure to read the last sentence. 😉
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*Remember the ALAMO!! Remember San Jacinto! Remember GOLIAD!! Happy 175th Birthday TEXAS!!!*
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*Remember the ALAMO!! Remember San Jacinto! Remember GOLIAD!! Happy 175th Birthday TEXAS!!!*
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#15 – Ya RASCAL – you shouldda posted a *kleenex alert*!!
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#15 – Ya RASCAL – you shouldda posted a *kleenex alert*!!
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#30 – I are a proud one – NO kleenex needed.
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#30 – I are a proud one – NO kleenex needed.
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#28 WW/ST
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TEXAS. We got here as soon as we could 42 years ago come the end of March. More than ever, Don’t Mess With Texas.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TEXAS. We got here as soon as we could 42 years ago come the end of March. More than ever, Don’t Mess With Texas.
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#33 Queen TT: It would be really cool if they could extract the entire concrete model and get it all away from the dirt. What a great museum piece it would be. I can only imagine what a BEYOTCH it would be to move it.
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#33 Queen TT: It would be really cool if they could extract the entire concrete model and get it all away from the dirt. What a great museum piece it would be. I can only imagine what a BEYOTCH it would be to move it.
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My father’s mother was born in a house that was built in 1865 by her grandfather. It is still standing and is now a museum in Sam Houston Park downtown.
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My father’s mother was born in a house that was built in 1865 by her grandfather. It is still standing and is now a museum in Sam Houston Park downtown.
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The Westboro “Baptist” “Church” prevailed in the Supreme Court in a case brought by the family of a fallen Marine for protesting at his funeral.
Sadly, the Court got it right, even though I hold Phelps and his “parishioners” in the utmost contempt.
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The Westboro “Baptist” “Church” prevailed in the Supreme Court in a case brought by the family of a fallen Marine for protesting at his funeral.
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#38 Wagonburner
Beauty, brains, talent – and Salon was ticked off that she considered motherhood her “greatest role”.
Let me guess who has the smaller mind.
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#38 Wagonburner
Beauty, brains, talent – and Salon was ticked off that she considered motherhood her “greatest role”.
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OUR money!? Money is a NATIONAL RESOURCE?!?
Somebody help me sit down, my head is spinning, spinning, spinning.
Whey does anyone even work at a job? Just hand out money to everyone and be done with it!
Oh, the nausea!
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OUR money!? Money is a NATIONAL RESOURCE?!?
Somebody help me sit down, my head is spinning, spinning, spinning.
And not in a good way.
Whey does anyone even work at a job? Just hand out money to everyone and be done with it!
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Moore is an imbecile. I can’t take him seriously enough to get upset about anything that emanates from his filthy pie-hole.
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Moore is an imbecile. I can’t take him seriously enough to get upset about anything that emanates from his filthy pie-hole.
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#40 tedtam
Let him put his money where his mouth is – first.Absolutely nothing is stopping him. Why interviewers don’t ask that obvious question is beyond me.
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#40 tedtam
Let him put his money where his mouth is – first.
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#42 Pyro
Guess rich lefties aren’t “the eeeevill rich”… -
#42 Pyro
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From the deparment of cutting off your nose to spite your face:
By canceling all extra curricular clubs on campus, Flour Bluff ISD hopes to avoid the Equal Access Act — a federal law, passed in 1984, that requires schools receiving federal funding to offer “fair opportunities for students to form student-led extracurricular groups, regardless of their religious, political and philosophical leanings.”
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“What a sad, sad day in Corpus Christi. Hatred and intolerance prevails in Flour Bluff ISD. Rather than allowing the Gay-Straight Alliance to form at FBHS, Administrators have chosen the alternative route of dis-allowing ALL non-curricular clubs to meet on campus. Not only has this district turned its back on the students who could benefit from a GSA, but now has alienated the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and other non-curricular clubs on campus as well.”Ironically, the purpose of the 1984 act was to protect the rights of religious clubs to use school facilities for their gatherings.
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From the deparment of cutting off your nose to spite your face:
By canceling all extra curricular clubs on campus, Flour Bluff ISD hopes to avoid the Equal Access Act — a federal law, passed in 1984, that requires schools receiving federal funding to offer “fair opportunities for students to form student-led extracurricular groups, regardless of their religious, political and philosophical leanings.”
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“What a sad, sad day in Corpus Christi. Hatred and intolerance prevails in Flour Bluff ISD. Rather than allowing the Gay-Straight Alliance to form at FBHS, Administrators have chosen the alternative route of dis-allowing ALL non-curricular clubs to meet on campus. Not only has this district turned its back on the students who could benefit from a GSA, but now has alienated the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and other non-curricular clubs on campus as well.”Ironically, the purpose of the 1984 act was to protect the rights of religious clubs to use school facilities for their gatherings.
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I blame teh gayz
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I messed up the linkie.
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TT are those the decendents of the peacocks that escaped from the old Vargo’s Restaurant?
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TT are those the decendents of the peacocks that escaped from the old Vargo’s Restaurant?
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Good afternoon Hamsters. Wonderful 39 this morning at 6, another wonderful day that we all deserve, and a few more coming.
Have been busy stuck at home with renovations–gratefully mostly outside–last week and this.
Can’t leave except briefly on the days spouse is at the office, and when he’s home he does not do well with the racket and disruption. Neither does Mariposa.Friday morning was the worst traffic jam ever in our driveway in front of the garage. We have a long driveway and a generous apron in front of the garage; the barn is 50′ from the garage and a straight shot beyond the apron. By 10 am we had the farrier (horse shoer) parked at the barn doors, the vet behind him on the grass leading to the apron, the siding man parked in front of the “carriage house” (where the horse trailer lives) at the far side of the apron opposite the garage, a friend behind him, the carpenter behind him, our housekeeper on the apron next to the garage with enough room for the vet to get out since she was leaving first. And the lumber company truck dropped by to deliver moulding and a door. Spouse and I were taking turns asking someone to move so someone else could get out. He said he felt like a valet but nobody was leaving a tip.
Yesterday it was only mildly congested with three trucks in the driveway at times. Things are coming nicely despite the inconvenience. Painters and electricians are yet to come, carpenters and siding man are finished today. We decided to replace the original siding on our 31-year-old house while we could stand the mess and disruption.
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Good afternoon Hamsters. Wonderful 39 this morning at 6, another wonderful day that we all deserve, and a few more coming.
Have been busy stuck at home with renovations–gratefully mostly outside–last week and this.
Can’t leave except briefly on the days spouse is at the office, and when he’s home he does not do well with the racket and disruption. Neither does Mariposa.
Friday morning was the worst traffic jam ever in our driveway in front of the garage. We have a long driveway and a generous apron in front of the garage; the barn is 50′ from the garage and a straight shot beyond the apron. By 10 am we had the farrier (horse shoer) parked at the barn doors, the vet behind him on the grass leading to the apron, the siding man parked in front of the “carriage house” (where the horse trailer lives) at the far side of the apron opposite the garage, a friend behind him, the carpenter behind him, our housekeeper on the apron next to the garage with enough room for the vet to get out since she was leaving first. And the lumber company truck dropped by to deliver moulding and a door. Spouse and I were taking turns asking someone to move so someone else could get out. He said he felt like a valet but nobody was leaving a tip.
Yesterday it was only mildly congested with three trucks in the driveway at times. Things are coming nicely despite the inconvenience. Painters and electricians are yet to come, carpenters and siding man are finished today. We decided to replace the original siding on our 31-year-old house while we could stand the mess and disruption. -
Well, I waited as long as I could. Here’s the whole thing:
The Unanimous
Declaration of Independence
made by the
Delegates of the People of Texas
in General Convention
at the town of Washington
on the 2nd day of March 1836.When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression.
When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the everready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants.
When, long after the spirit of the constitution has departed, moderation is at length so far lost by those in power, that even the semblance of freedom is removed, and the forms themselves of the constitution discontinued, and so far from their petitions and remonstrances being regarded, the agents who bear them are thrown into dungeons, and mercenary armies sent forth to force a new government upon them at the point of the bayonet.
When, in consequence of such acts of malfeasance and abdication on the part of the government, anarchy prevails, and civil society is dissolved into its original elements. In such a crisis, the first law of nature, the right of self-preservation, the inherent and inalienable rights of the people to appeal to first principles, and take their political affairs into their own hands in extreme cases, enjoins it as a right towards themselves, and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to abolish such government, and create another in its stead, calculated to rescue them from impending dangers, and to secure their future welfare and happiness.
Nations, as well as individuals, are amenable for their acts to the public opinion of mankind. A statement of a part of our grievances is therefore submitted to an impartial world, in justification of the hazardous but unavoidable step now taken, of severing our political connection with the Mexican people, and assuming an independent attitude among the nations of the earth.
The Mexican government, by its colonization laws, invited and induced the Anglo-American population of Texas to colonize its wilderness under the pledged faith of a written constitution, that they should continue to enjoy that constitutional liberty and republican government to which they had been habituated in the land of their birth, the United States of America.
In this expectation they have been cruelly disappointed, inasmuch as the Mexican nation has acquiesced in the late changes made in the government by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who having overturned the constitution of his country, now offers us the cruel alternative, either to abandon our homes, acquired by so many privations, or submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and the priesthood.
It has sacrificed our welfare to the state of Coahuila, by which our interests have been continually depressed through a jealous and partial course of legislation, carried on at a far distant seat of government, by a hostile majority, in an unknown tongue, and this too, notwithstanding we have petitioned in the humblest terms for the establishment of a separate state government, and have, in accordance with the provisions of the national constitution, presented to the general Congress a republican constitution, which was, without just cause, contemptuously rejected.
It incarcerated in a dungeon, for a long time, one of our citizens, for no other cause but a zealous endeavor to procure the acceptance of our constitution, and the establishment of a state government.
It has failed and refused to secure, on a firm basis, the right of trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty, and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty, and property of the citizen.
It has failed to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources, (the public domain,) and although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people are educated and enlightened, it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity for self government.
It has suffered the military commandants, stationed among us, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyrrany, thus trampling upon the most sacred rights of the citizens, and rendering the military superior to the civil power.
It has dissolved, by force of arms, the state Congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our representatives to fly for their lives from the seat of government, thus depriving us of the fundamental political right of representation.
It has demanded the surrender of a number of our citizens, and ordered military detachments to seize and carry them into the Interior for trial, in contempt of the civil authorities, and in defiance of the laws and the constitution.
It has made piratical attacks upon our commerce, by commissioning foreign desperadoes, and authorizing them to seize our vessels, and convey the property of our citizens to far distant ports for confiscation.
It denies us the right of worshipping the Almighty according to the dictates of our own conscience, by the support of a national religion, calculated to promote the temporal interest of its human functionaries, rather than the glory of the true and living God.
It has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments.
It has invaded our country both by sea and by land, with intent to lay waste our territory, and drive us from our homes; and has now a large mercenary army advancing, to carry on against us a war of extermination.
It has, through its emissaries, incited the merciless savage, with the tomahawk and scalping knife, to massacre the inhabitants of our defenseless frontiers.
It hath been, during the whole time of our connection with it, the contemptible sport and victim of successive military revolutions, and hath continually exhibited every characteristic of a weak, corrupt, and tyrranical government.
These, and other grievances, were patiently borne by the people of Texas, untill they reached that point at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. We then took up arms in defence of the national constitution. We appealed to our Mexican brethren for assistance. Our appeal has been made in vain. Though months have elapsed, no sympathetic response has yet been heard from the Interior. We are, therefore, forced to the melancholy conclusion, that the Mexican people have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty, and the substitution therfor of a military government; that they are unfit to be free, and incapable of self government.
The necessity of self-preservation, therefore, now decrees our eternal political separation.
We, therefore, the delegates with plenary powers of the people of Texas, in solemn convention assembled, appealing to a candid world for the necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve and declare, that our political connection with the Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the people of Texas do now constitute a free, Sovereign, and independent republic, and are fully invested with all the rights and attributes which properly belong to independent nations; and, conscious of the rectitude of our intentions, we fearlessly and confidently commit the issue to the decision of the Supreme arbiter of the destinies of nations.
Richard Ellis, President
of the Convention and Delegate
from Red River.Charles B. Stewart
Tho. BarnettJohn S. D. Byrom
Francis Ruis
J. Antonio Navarro
Jesse B. Badgett
Wm D. Lacy
William Menifee
Jn. Fisher
Matthew Caldwell
William Motley
Lorenzo de Zavala
Stephen H. Everett
George W. Smyth
Elijah Stapp
Claiborne West
Wm. B. Scates
M. B. Menard
A. B. Hardin
J. W. Burton
Thos. J. Gazley
R. M. Coleman
Sterling C. RobertsonJames Collinsworth
Edwin Waller
Asa BrighamGeo. C. Childress
Bailey Hardeman
Rob. Potter
Thomas Jefferson Rusk
Chas. S. Taylor
John S. Roberts
Robert Hamilton
Collin McKinney
Albert H. Latimer
James Power
Sam Houston
David Thomas
Edwd. Conrad
Martin Parmer
Edwin O. Legrand
Stephen W. Blount
Jms. Gaines
Wm. Clark, Jr.
Sydney O. Pennington
Wm. Carrol Crawford
Jno. TurnerBenj. Briggs Goodrich
G. W. Barnett
James G. Swisher
Jesse Grimes
S. Rhoads Fisher
John W. Moore
John W. Bower
Saml. A. Maverick (from Bejar)
Sam P. Carson
A. Briscoe
J. B. Woods
H. S. Kimble, Secretary——————————————————————————–
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Well, I waited as long as I could. Here’s the whole thing:
The Unanimous
Declaration of Independence
made by the
Delegates of the People of Texas
in General Convention
at the town of Washington
on the 2nd day of March 1836.
When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression.
When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the everready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants.
When, long after the spirit of the constitution has departed, moderation is at length so far lost by those in power, that even the semblance of freedom is removed, and the forms themselves of the constitution discontinued, and so far from their petitions and remonstrances being regarded, the agents who bear them are thrown into dungeons, and mercenary armies sent forth to force a new government upon them at the point of the bayonet.
When, in consequence of such acts of malfeasance and abdication on the part of the government, anarchy prevails, and civil society is dissolved into its original elements. In such a crisis, the first law of nature, the right of self-preservation, the inherent and inalienable rights of the people to appeal to first principles, and take their political affairs into their own hands in extreme cases, enjoins it as a right towards themselves, and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to abolish such government, and create another in its stead, calculated to rescue them from impending dangers, and to secure their future welfare and happiness.
Nations, as well as individuals, are amenable for their acts to the public opinion of mankind. A statement of a part of our grievances is therefore submitted to an impartial world, in justification of the hazardous but unavoidable step now taken, of severing our political connection with the Mexican people, and assuming an independent attitude among the nations of the earth.
The Mexican government, by its colonization laws, invited and induced the Anglo-American population of Texas to colonize its wilderness under the pledged faith of a written constitution, that they should continue to enjoy that constitutional liberty and republican government to which they had been habituated in the land of their birth, the United States of America.
In this expectation they have been cruelly disappointed, inasmuch as the Mexican nation has acquiesced in the late changes made in the government by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who having overturned the constitution of his country, now offers us the cruel alternative, either to abandon our homes, acquired by so many privations, or submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and the priesthood.
It has sacrificed our welfare to the state of Coahuila, by which our interests have been continually depressed through a jealous and partial course of legislation, carried on at a far distant seat of government, by a hostile majority, in an unknown tongue, and this too, notwithstanding we have petitioned in the humblest terms for the establishment of a separate state government, and have, in accordance with the provisions of the national constitution, presented to the general Congress a republican constitution, which was, without just cause, contemptuously rejected.
It incarcerated in a dungeon, for a long time, one of our citizens, for no other cause but a zealous endeavor to procure the acceptance of our constitution, and the establishment of a state government.
It has failed and refused to secure, on a firm basis, the right of trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty, and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty, and property of the citizen.
It has failed to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources, (the public domain,) and although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people are educated and enlightened, it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity for self government.
It has suffered the military commandants, stationed among us, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyrrany, thus trampling upon the most sacred rights of the citizens, and rendering the military superior to the civil power.
It has dissolved, by force of arms, the state Congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our representatives to fly for their lives from the seat of government, thus depriving us of the fundamental political right of representation.
It has demanded the surrender of a number of our citizens, and ordered military detachments to seize and carry them into the Interior for trial, in contempt of the civil authorities, and in defiance of the laws and the constitution.
It has made piratical attacks upon our commerce, by commissioning foreign desperadoes, and authorizing them to seize our vessels, and convey the property of our citizens to far distant ports for confiscation.
It denies us the right of worshipping the Almighty according to the dictates of our own conscience, by the support of a national religion, calculated to promote the temporal interest of its human functionaries, rather than the glory of the true and living God.
It has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments.
It has invaded our country both by sea and by land, with intent to lay waste our territory, and drive us from our homes; and has now a large mercenary army advancing, to carry on against us a war of extermination.
It has, through its emissaries, incited the merciless savage, with the tomahawk and scalping knife, to massacre the inhabitants of our defenseless frontiers.
It hath been, during the whole time of our connection with it, the contemptible sport and victim of successive military revolutions, and hath continually exhibited every characteristic of a weak, corrupt, and tyrranical government.
These, and other grievances, were patiently borne by the people of Texas, untill they reached that point at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. We then took up arms in defence of the national constitution. We appealed to our Mexican brethren for assistance. Our appeal has been made in vain. Though months have elapsed, no sympathetic response has yet been heard from the Interior. We are, therefore, forced to the melancholy conclusion, that the Mexican people have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty, and the substitution therfor of a military government; that they are unfit to be free, and incapable of self government.
The necessity of self-preservation, therefore, now decrees our eternal political separation.
We, therefore, the delegates with plenary powers of the people of Texas, in solemn convention assembled, appealing to a candid world for the necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve and declare, that our political connection with the Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the people of Texas do now constitute a free, Sovereign, and independent republic, and are fully invested with all the rights and attributes which properly belong to independent nations; and, conscious of the rectitude of our intentions, we fearlessly and confidently commit the issue to the decision of the Supreme arbiter of the destinies of nations.
Richard Ellis, President
of the Convention and Delegate
from Red River.
Charles B. Stewart
Tho. Barnett
John S. D. Byrom
Francis Ruis
J. Antonio Navarro
Jesse B. Badgett
Wm D. Lacy
William Menifee
Jn. Fisher
Matthew Caldwell
William Motley
Lorenzo de Zavala
Stephen H. Everett
George W. Smyth
Elijah Stapp
Claiborne West
Wm. B. Scates
M. B. Menard
A. B. Hardin
J. W. Burton
Thos. J. Gazley
R. M. Coleman
Sterling C. Robertson
James Collinsworth
Edwin Waller
Asa Brigham
Geo. C. Childress
Bailey Hardeman
Rob. Potter
Thomas Jefferson Rusk
Chas. S. Taylor
John S. Roberts
Robert Hamilton
Collin McKinney
Albert H. Latimer
James Power
Sam Houston
David Thomas
Edwd. Conrad
Martin Parmer
Edwin O. Legrand
Stephen W. Blount
Jms. Gaines
Wm. Clark, Jr.
Sydney O. Pennington
Wm. Carrol Crawford
Jno. Turner
Benj. Briggs Goodrich
G. W. Barnett
James G. Swisher
Jesse Grimes
S. Rhoads Fisher
John W. Moore
John W. Bower
Saml. A. Maverick (from Bejar)
Sam P. Carson
A. Briscoe
J. B. Woods
H. S. Kimble, Secretary
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It is 8:40 ish and I am the first one to comment this morning?? Like wake the H_LL up dudes and dudettes!
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It is 8:40 ish and I am the first one to comment this morning?? Like wake the H_LL up dudes and dudettes!
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