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I’ve been running 12-14 hours a day for the last several days and barely had time to glance at the news. I will say I think Tucker Carlson’s Monday night show was terrific. With very few exceptions, the political class in this country is useless.
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Some Antifa boys showed up in Yucaipa, California outside of San Bernadino. Apparently, nobody invited them and they were not welcome at the party. The locals sent them back out of town rather abruptly and one guy lost his shirt and a shoe.
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In other good news, perennial skanky liar and perpetual self-promoter Valerie Plame is running a distant 2nd place in the New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District Democratic 4 candidate primary. Plame has about 23% to the leader’s 42% with 87% of the vote counted.
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RE: Minneapolis tan truck driver
This has probably been covered here, but I’m posting it again. I don’t have time go back and read the last two days.
Officials said Monday that a 35-year-old Minnesota semi-truck driver did not go around barricades on I-35 and there’s no evidence that he was deliberately targeting protesters when his tanker truck sped onto a crowded bridge Sunday.
“From the traffic cams we know the driver of the tanker truck was on the freeway already,” Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington told reporters.
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But some people who know Vechirko quickly came to his defense.
“He’s a great guy. That’s it,” said Lonnie McQuirten, owner of 36 LYN Refuel Station – a BP gas station on Lyndale Avenue in South Minneapolis.
McQuirten says Vechirko has just made a badly needed fuel delivery to his black-owned station – one of only a few stations still open.
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Mornin’ Gang
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1950 GMC FC-100 1/2 ton pickup.
Bryan Windham searched for and finally located his grandfather’s former GMC 58 years after he owned it. Bryan then restored it and brought it back to his grandfather to enjoy.
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Good morning Hamsters.
It appears from the article in the Chron that the gathering to honor George Floyd and his family whose wishes that it be peaceful was honored by those who attended. Support for the family was obviously carried out by most, as it should have been.
It would appear that Houston showed the rest of the country how this is done, given the riots reported elsewhere. It would have been terrible to dishonor the grieving family’s wishes, and Houston obviously knew it and respected them. Enough said.
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Actually, not enough said above. Will the New York Times and other liberal news organizations accurately report how the Houston gathering went??? Goes against their obvious hopes for violence in the home town, doesn’t it?
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Morning gang. Another bright shiny day out here. No looting or rioting that I’ve been told about. Preparing for a road trip tomorrow.
#8 – I agreed with you yesterday about how well orchestrated and choreographed yesterday’s Houston protest was handled. If Trump wants to play with their minds, he should compliment the leaders on a job well done – that should take away all their credibility and raise the noise level considerably.
Rod Rosenweasel is supposed to be testifying about something in from of some worthless congressional committee this morning. Linda Graham heads that committee and should be able to effectively cut off any tough questions and preclude any follow-ups. But I’ll watch a little of it anyway.
OK, you all have a great day. More later.
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One California suburb extinguishes Antifa threat.
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#11 Shannon, what an uplifting video, we need to see more of that. 😀
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Due to increased hearing loss and other reasons, I’ve been using ear buds a lot lately to enhance my listening pleasure and discovered that the white Apple version and its widely copied knockoffs are extremely uncomfortable.
I found these and they are a dream. You forget that they’re even in your ears. They provide three different sizes of ear cushions to customize the fit to your ear canal.
A surprisingly good feature is that the ear pieces are magnetized on the back side which prevents tangling when not in use.
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RE: #11 video
I know Shannon complains about nobody reading his posts, but dang, you only had to go to the second comment this morning to find that story. It’s okay – that video deserves to be posted twice.
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He didn’t have his ear buds on.
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#2, #11, #12
Am I the only one who watched Texpat’s video? Shame on Shannon and Dave.
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Lots of black-owned businesses were vandalized or burned in St. Louis.
Minneapolis
Luis Tamay, an immigrant, reportedly saved for more than 10 years to open his Ecuadorian restaurant, El Sabor Chuchi, in Minneapolis seven years ago. After guarding his restaurant during the first couple of nights of unrest, Tamay obeyed the city’s curfew Friday night and went home, believing the Minnesota National Guard would keep order.
When Tamay arrived at his restaurant Saturday morning, it was burned to the ground, the Minneapolis StarTribune reported.
Austin
Looters targeted a black-owned salon over the weekend in Austin, Texas, NBC affiliate KXAN reported.
The owner of Private Stock Premium Boutique set up a GoFundMe page and as of Monday had raised more than $60,000 to help rebuild.
Denver
That meant the next morning, businesses were washing graffiti off the sides of their buildings and boarding up broken windows.
“It is frustrating,” said the owner of Buffalo Bills Wings and Things, Zac Gabani. “I think the part of breaking is pretty counter intuitive.”
Gabani said his shop stayed open throughout the protests to help make sure everyone was fed and taken care of.
“We were the only place open to feed them,” he told CBS4. “We like to support the community, we just wish they would help support us as well.”
Another black-owned business, World Liquor & Tobacco, was looted twice Sunday, KXAN reported.
Philadelphia
The forum included black clergy in Philadelphia as well as Human Rights Coalition 215 and Philadelphia Community Stakeholders.
Among those speaking at the event this week were Elliott Broaster, owner of Smoke N Things, a shop that was burned down.
“When I got home alone, I shed a few tears. I saw my business burn down and it hurt me a lot. And especially for my own community to do it to my business, that’s what really [hurt],” Broaster told ABC-6.
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#2, #11, #12
Am I the only one who watched Texpat’s video? Shame on Shannon and Dave.
😀
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#2 #11 #12 #18,….I know, I’m soo ashamed, I just don’t always scroll up.
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I’m sticking with my theory that smart people (like us) gravitate to the same stories, and that they often deserve to be posted more than once. The reason for that is that we are all approaching our golden years, and occasionally when we read or see something, we may soon get lost in the weeds of another story and forget about it – so, frequent reminders are helpful. In some cases, it really doesn’t matter if we read the earlier comments since we can’t remember them anyway. So, post away dear friend.
In other news, I forget.
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I may just send a few shekels to THIS fine Lady candidate!
You GO Marjorie Green!!
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Brain dead and brain washed “college educated” snowflake is no match for this lovely and intelligent woman.
wish I could have a glass of vino with the smart lady.
it’s systematic . Rubbish!
it’s white supremacy——pffffffttt!
keep voting for the totalitariancrat party since it’s gotten you nowhere for the last 50 to 60 years now.
looking inward is alien to all of these losers because blaming whitey is so easy and it’s the lazy and cowardly way out.
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#22 – God BLESS that oh so intelligent Lady!
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Fixed
I got mine at Walmart btw
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Always one of my favorites…
On this day in 1836, a mounted ranger company in the service of the Texas revolutionary army captured a Mexican ship. The rangers, under the command of Maj. Isaac Watts Burton, had been dispatched by Gen. Thomas J. Rusk to watch a stretch of the Gulf Coast south of San Antonio Bay. When they heard of a suspicious vessel in Copano Bay, the rangers hid on the shore and sent up distress signals. The ship responded first by hoisting American and Texan signals, which were ignored. Only when the ship raised Mexican signals did the rangers respond. Thus tricked into thinking the supposedly distressed soldiers were Mexican, the captain came ashore and was captured. With him as hostage, sixteen rangers rowed out, boarded the Watchman, and seized its cargo of provisions for the Mexican army. Burton and his men employed this decoying tactic twice more on June 17, when they captured the Mexican ships Comanche and Fanny Butler. For these unlikely captures at sea, the mounted rangers were dubbed “Horse Marines.” – TSHA
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This poor dude is having about 10 funerals. He’s gonna be a political tool all the way to the grave and beyond.
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Nike says their new shoes are flying off the shelves. https://babylonbee.com/news/nike-releases-commemorative-shoe-to-honor-looters
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Channel 11 has taken to closing their noon newscast with a “moment of zen” including the peaceful sound of wind chimes 😉
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Super Dave – I had a cousin share a photo I have of one of our 3rd great uncles named Jackson Doyle. He was from Coweta Town which was where present day Phenix City is. Anyway, the photo was on a FB group called “Old Alabama Family Photos”. Pretty cool group if you like old photos.
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Uncle Jack killed the blog.
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Hearing thunder, brought up doppler map and see some thunderstorms getting close.
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Uncle Jack looks Native American Indian.
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Cool photo.
If Texpat ever gets his stuff together and digitizes some special family photos, we’ll share one of our maternal great grandfather. (He took custody of the entire bank of family photos 14 years ago.)
It looks so shockingly much like Texpat (at that age) that we had a hard time convincing my Dad that it wasn’t a photo of Texpat.
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I believe the photo was taken when he left to join TR and the Rough Riders.
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I just got hearing aids today and I can’t believe all the sounds I was missing. Perhaps the days of thunderous TV are over for me.
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35. Yup, Creek.
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Welp, brother is back home. They finally got his internal bleeding stopped yesterday. They went in through his abdomen to do the prostate removal, but the internal blood loss has distended his abdomen and actually popped a couple of the sutures which they will redo tomorrow. He’s basically a dark purple from his areole to below his naval. It’s going to take a while for the body to remove all of that stuff. Anyway, the pain seems to have subsided, so hopefully he’s now on the mend for good.
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That’s great, ELG.
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The totalitariancrat party is the party of systemic rƎgrƎssivƎ-ism, rƎgrƎssivƎ supremacy and totalitarianism.
Trump 2020 of the country falls.
Turn the onus back on them every chance you get.
It’s a matter of life or death to the USA.
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#32 Hamous, DANG! Coweta Town was where my great grandpaw was born! His daddy came from North Carolina in 1856 and settled there for a short while. When George Amos, (great grandpaw) was 2, they moved to Haw Ridge, about 7 miles west of our farm. When George Amos came of age he moved to the Marley Mill area and bought a house from his uncle, who had came from NC in the 1850’s! My grandfather was born in that house in 1878, my dad in 1921. FWIW; Haw Ridge was purchased, along with a whole bunch of land around it, 63,000 acres, by the US government to establish a wildlife preserve in 30’s, part of the NRA/WPA effort. When WW II broke out it became Camp Rucker and only lasted through the war, after the Korean conflict came about it was reopened and shut down again. The locals tried to get it turned into a permanent Fort but politics woudn’t allow it. But after the Air Force came into being, the powers that be, gave the Rotary Wing to the Army, (they used to have the Army Air Corps) and they were based at Fort Hood in Texas, a Tank/Artillery unit,…SO, after they decide to move the Rotary Wing, somewhere, it was decide to move it to Camp Rucker, and the rest is history. .
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My #43, my mom’s brother, Ben, helped build the dam at Lake Tholocco, just south of where Bear and Claybank Creeks ran together in western Dale county, the lake was a WPA project and part of the “Bear Farm”, as the locals called it.
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Radio news item at 3:30 during the Sean Hannity show. The three despicables masquerading as Minneapolis police officers who stood by and did nothing to prevent the murder of Mr. Floyd have been charged with second degree murder. Good.
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My #43, correction, the Rotary Wing moved from Fort Sill Oklahoma to Fort Rucker. I can’t believe that I got that wrong, …See El Gordo’s #20. 😉
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#22 – God BLESS that oh so intelligent Lady!
Yup she caused that brainwashed rƎgrƎssivƎ white college girl’s brain to blue screen.
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Just a slight correction.
Chauvin’s charges upgraded to 2nd degree murder.
The other three are now charged with “aiding and abetting” 2nd degree murder.
In Minnesota, 2nd degree murder assumes intent to kill (without premeditation).
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#40 – GREAT NEWS EG!!!
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I hear the great Kenyan agitator came out of the bath house long enough to agitate some more about white racism all the while ignoring his black racism.
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I wish them luck getting that particular conviction. It won’t be easy.
And Ellison admitted as much.I have no idea if it’s true but someone on the news at noon said there was police audio of one cop saying “I can’t find a pulse. Should we change his position?” Chauvin responded “No, let’s leave him in this position.” If that’s true, that’s intent.
Or … Antifa Ellison knows he can’t get 2nd degree conviction and he’s setting us up for more mayhem.
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Is Art Avacado trying to tell us that Skateboard Jesus is really an Nazifa white boy punk?
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43 SD
My 3rd great grandmother Nancy Doyle was born there. She was the sister of Jackson. She and two other sisters married three brothers named Hill in a big wedding in Coweta Town. Somewhere I’ve got a copy of a newspaper article that talks about the wedding of the “Belles of the Creek Nation”.
Their father Nimrod (heh) Doyle ended up taking three of his sons to Texas where the Rangers hired him to bring in Creek mercenaries from Alabama to fight Comanches. I also have a copy of a proclamation by Mirabeau Lamar granting the sons of Doyle, including Jackson, land in payment.
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Wow, I’m getting lost in all this who begat who. I was never very good with keeping up with kinfolk.
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Ran out of vape and smoked a cigarette today.
Nasty Nasty Nasty Nasty Nasty Nasty
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#55
I gave up smoking cold turkey at age 50, after smoking heavily from age 17. If I could quit, anyone could quit.
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It took me innumerable tries but I quit.
Except for the nicotine part.
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Good news on your brother, EG. Speaking of areolas, I had a 9 month checkup with the dermatologist this afternoon (right as the skies opened up). I can’t walk out of there without Dr. T slicing something off me. Today was a mole that’s been on my cheek for decades but he decided to slice it off. Doesn’t look like there will be a problem so if the biopsy comes back good I’ll be two years cancer free.
The Dr. had two young PA gals when he did my full body scan. I’m covered in various type of mole looking things so he was quizzing them. He pointed to a little non-descript one on my right pec and asked them what it was. They both guessed wrong. Then he asked me. I said I thought it was another mole. Nope. He said “It’s an extra nipple, so, congratulations!” I was hoping for a parasitic twin, because that would be a cool story at parties, but I’ll take it 😉
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#36
It looks so shockingly much like Texpat (at that age) that we had a hard time convincing my Dad that it wasn’t a photo of Texpat.
I went to a maternal side family reunion years ago. On one of the tables were some binders with photos in it, most of them black and white. While perusing the photos, I stopped at a wedding picture.
I was in it.
I was so certain it was me and finding myself puzzled, trying to figure out whose wedding it was and why didn’t I remember being a bridesmaid? that it took me a few minutes to realize it wasn’t me. Seriously, it must’ve been a good 120 seconds or more to realize that any photo I was in would have been in color.
It was my mom.
A lot of my childhood grief came from the fact that I reminded my wissed off siblings of the mother who could have used some antidepressants and parenting classes. They couldn’t freely take out their frustrations of our home life on Mom or Dad, so I became the surrogate.
I was so amazed by the likeness that I took a picture of the picture. Then I wondered if it was the wedding that Mom was so bitter about. Being black and white, I couldn’t tell the color of the bridesmaid’s dress, but I remember Mom’s anger at being made to wear orange – which she hated because it made her look sick. She’s right about that, our complexions dictate that we avoid anything with warm tones, especially yellows and oranges. Just wearing orange makes me look at least ten years older, with cancer and about 20 hours behind on sleep.
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EG – so glad to hear the good news. Here’s hoping for more to come.
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Mom had a thing about yellow.
Ruined the color for us for almost a lifetime.
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I have my next project for this weekend, while Hubby’s out of town with a car show.
When we installed our cook top, he removed two drawers that were going to be underneath it, thinking we needed that space for cook top wiring and stuff. Turns out that the profile needed is very shallow, and we’d talked about reinstalling the drawers years ago. It kept getting put on the back burner, no pun intended. I thought the drawers had been damaged or tossed out years ago, but Hubby recently did a massive cleaning on the garage so he could put his baby under cover, and he found the drawers. And the slides.
So, while he’s out of town, I’m going to take a run at reinstalling the drawers. I went to buy the handles today, but couldn’t find matching handles. I bought two of a different pattern, and it’ll just have to do.
Youtube videos beforehand will help me a lot. I’ve never done this before, but I’m looking forward to learning something new.
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Apparently the woke term “people of color” is being told to go to sleep and is no longer acceptable. No word on a replacement. Racialist nomenclature seems to have a shelf life of about 25 years and then it turns offensive.
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#63
Apparently we can’t say “black people” either.
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Our local HOA Nazi has been busy. 😉
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I’m trying to lose some of the extra weight I’ve gained over the past 10 weeks or so. It’s only Wednesday and I’ve already walked/jogged 20 miles this week.
I’m also doing the keto thing. I’m going to start posting all things keto just so Hamous is haunted no matter where he goes on the internet.
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My #66
Day three of no alcoholic beverage imbibing.
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I’m still alive.
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65 TexMo
I only lived for a brief period in a neighborhood with an HOA. After reading that article at the link, I’ll never buy a house in a place where there is one. There has never been one in this neighborhood and there is no reason for it. The letters at the link are nightmarish, particularly the ones about people being sued for thousands by their HOA.
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Apparently the woke term “people of color” is being told to go to sleep
Apparently we can’t say “black people” either.
The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.
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My #43, correction, the Rotary Wing moved from Fort Sill Oklahoma to Fort Rucker. I can’t believe that I got that wrong, …See El Gordo’s #20.
Got it wrong again. In 1953, Fort Sill was designated home of Army Aviation, to include fixed and rotary wing as at that time the only aviation functions the Army was involved in was aerial observation for artillery fire, and transport of personnel and materiel. With Fort Sill being home of Field Artillery and Post Army airfield being (at the time) the largest Army airfield in 5th Army area, it was a natural fit.
in 1956 when the Army started seriously looking at using rotary wing as a means of inserting combat personnel, the moved Rotary Wing aviation to three additional bases: Fort Benning to begin work on the “aerial envelopement” infantry tactics that saw full fruit in Viet Nam, and two training bases: Primary Helicopter Training Center at Fort Wolters,TX and Advanced Helicopter training at Fort Rucker. The Army Aviation Command at Fort Sill became the Field Artillery Aviation Command. Graduates from Advanced Training would then be sent to Benning to learn how to fly grunts around, Sill to learn all about working with great big guns and to develope a silly concept called “Aerial Field Artillery” a waste of the AH-1 Cobra’s superior infantry support capabilities, or remain at Rucker for Combat Cargo training.
I was in the last Primary Helicopter Training Company at Fort Wolters when the Army moved all training to Rucker in the post-Viet Nam drawdown. I went from there to the US Army Field Artillery Command in Fort Sill and my last day in the Army was also the last day that USAFAAC existed as a command.
Post script: I beleive that Fort Wolters is still the largest heliport in the world, albeit the most inactive heliport in the world these days.
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I would think some of those HOA boards need armed escorts every time they slither out of their own front doors.
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Clearly this country is in the shape it is in because of the proliferation of HOAs.
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And here I thought you were in the hourly motel down the street from Fort Sill all of the time.
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76. Something else good to come outta Waco.
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Like I say
Totalitarians are never satisfied.
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Black Magic (1949) with Orson Welles
Love it.
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#48 Shannon
I saw on the Channel 11 news at 6 pm the corrected from earlier radio reports of the charges for those accused in the heinous murder of George Floyd. With video from surely numerous news sources of the act I don’t know how juries can not reach guilty verdicts for the accused police officers in every case: the murderer and those who did not try to stop it.
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Proving intent can be tricky.
However, George’s own words may be enough.
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She does a nice version.
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