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George Rebane

[Correction: This is the submitted form of my column that appeared belatedly in the print edition of the 25may12 Union.  I was informed of the delay due to a rush of political columns and articles on the new marijuana ordnance.]

In this election year all the weird stuff we’ve been hearing about seems to be coming at us more loudly and from every direction.  Each piece by itself sounds like a purposed effort to drive America deeper into a place that most of us don’t want it to go; each piece sounds like the revelation of another quiet conspiracy at work.  And when you gather all the pieces together, they don’t look like separate pieces at all, but to many they appear to fit into one big concerted effort from somewhere by some people who are working together.

And what makes it even more curious is that the individual pieces have been promoted by people from all political parties – most certainly including Republicans and Democrats.  So we can’t just point our finger at one side and blame the whole thing on them.

We start with the International Democrat Union (idu.org) founded in 1983 by the likes of Margaret Thatcher and Republican Party National Committee’s John Allen, and joined by VPOTUS George HW Bush.  It is a self-declared union of ‘centre and centre right’ parties with high sounding principles that include abiding by the anti-constitutional UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and calls for unspecified obligations between nations.  Who knows what the IDU does, but it meets every four years near the Republican Convention.

FM 3-39.40Then we have the notorious UN Agenda21 initiative to which President GHW Bush signed us up (http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/res_agenda21_00.shtml).  Reading its tenets and principles calls for a one world in which human activity is restricted to a fraction of the earth’s land surface, and everyone belongs to a wholesome, sustainable, inclusive, happy society of peacefully like-minded and sensitive people.  The progressive principles of this future UN-dominated world are being implemented through something called the ICLEI Global (iclei.org) which organizes “local governments for sustainability” and already has over 550 US cities as members.

Next we come to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 with its draconian Title X, Subtitle D.  There its anti-terrorism provisions give the President powers to do all kinds of spooky and unconstitutional things like constructing a gulag of stalags in the US for forcibly interning thousands of US citizens when the need arises.


People then point out that this goes along with President Obama’s promise to create a “Civilian National Security Force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as our military upon which “we cannot continue to rely on … to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set.”  It doesn’t help that we hear of all kinds of federal regulatory agencies which today are training their own enforcement SWAT teams.  And on top of that comes the news that the feds have ordered a multi-year buy of almost half a billion rounds of 40 caliber ammunition of the kind used by domestic law enforcement agencies.

In the meantime, others call attention to what appears as a coordinated policy to bring the US to its knees by spending us into oblivion – an intended tactic by the hidden ruling elite to weaken the country so that it will be more compliant to joining other nations willing to surrender their sovereignty to the UN.  This claim is already in the works through the ongoing negotiation of ‘sneaky treaties’ covering submission to an international criminal court (making US leaders liable for prosecution), remitting offshore revenues for UN redistribution, UN small arms control/confiscation, forced funding the care of children in poor countries, and UN regulated outer space conduct.  All such treaties would be binding once accepted.

But wait, we’re not done yet.  Should there be any public resistance to this brave new Amerika, then FEMA, with its United States Police, is said to have already built and is staffing hundreds of ‘facilities’ to house mega-multitudes of anti-social activists and non-believers.  Some call these concentration camps, others say that they are simply for ‘re-educating’ the socially misguided.  What’s most interesting here is the discovery of a February 2010 Army field manual, FM 3-39.40 – Internment and Resettlement Operations that we can now download.  This 325 page tome, written for detaining foreigners and US citizens, makes for some real intense reading.

Finally, we recall that a ‘theory’ is a unified explanation of past observations and data that can also be used for understanding and predicting future observations and data, and by these predictions its validity is assessed.  Oh my!

George Rebane is an entrepreneur and a retired systems scientist in Nevada County who regularly expands these and other themes on KVMR and Rebane’s Ruminations (www.georgerebane.com).

[14may12 update]  And now to all this we add the rumors of the DHS fomenting a “civil war” in America to call for a “clamp down” by the government and the postponement of this November’s elections.  All this in preparation to create a worldwide crisis this summer that would make all the people demand the security that can only be provided by an authoritarian global government.  The developing report on this is put out by an outfit called The Northeast Intelligence Network.  Hard to think of a more sinister rumor of conspiracy than this, but it just keeps on building.

[21may12 update] The above conspiracy now has a name – “The Reichstag Event”.  In a circulating email sourced from Canada it claims that “The Obama agents, through the DHS and other assorted colluders, are plotting a major ‘Reichstag’ event to generate racial riots and produce the justification for martial law, delaying the November 2012 elections, possibly indefinitely, a DHS whistleblower informed the Canada Free Press on Tuesday.”

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78 responses to “Conspiracy Theories by the Dozen, Oh My! (updated 21may12)”

  1. Gregory Avatar

    “When someone blames what’s happening in Mexico on Eric Holder, it reveals a prejudice that has nothing to do with drugs or guns.”
    The only thing I blamed Holder and Fast and Furious for is the lying to Congress and the knowing delivery of about 2000 guns to the drug runners in a completely failed (meaning not one success) attempt to trace them to the kingpins they thought they would find. One Federal agent with a name (do you know it?) was killed with one, and very possibly other Feds, not to mention American and Mexican innocents.
    I’m the guy who thinks most all drugs should be legalized. Re-legalized, actually. Even codeine was once OTC. Great for coughs. Even heroin, developed as a remedy for morphine addiction. The illegality isn’t what keeps me from shooting up. Anyone who wants it can get it, so what’s the point.
    So Mike, your premise is again BS.
    And back to the Plame affair, you’re a perfect example of Frisch’s double standard. Steele mentions a story about a Reichstag rerun that some (not Russ) say is happening. Meaning one supposed whistleblower, and Frisch goes ballistic calling into question the sanity of Rebane and Steele. Now you come on board making the statement that Armitage and Cheney were conspiring to ruin Plame for political gain, with absolutely no corroborating evidence, or even rhetoric from any player, major or minor, and we hear… silence.
    As the judge wrote when throwing the Wilson’s civil suit out of court, “The alleged means by which defendants chose to rebut Mr. Wilson’s comments and attack his credibility may have been highly unsavory. But there can be no serious dispute that the act of rebutting public criticism, such as that levied by Mr. Wilson against the Bush Administration’s handling of prewar foreign intelligence, by speaking with members of the press is within the scope of defendants’ duties as high-level Executive Branch officials. Thus, the alleged tortious conduct, namely the disclosure of Mrs. Wilson’s status as a covert operative, was incidental to the kind of conduct that defendants were employed to perform”.
    Tell me, Mike, if your wife was a covert CIA operative, would you be writing incendiary op-eds about a junket to her (in the Wilson’s case, former) turf that you went on, that she recommended you for? Do you really think an Iraqi nuclear expert would go to a small country whose only export of value was yellowcake uranium, and not chat about uranium with the locals? The intentional suspension of disbelief here is amazing.

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  2. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    If the facts don’t fit MichaelA’s screed, use the screed. Amazing!

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  3. billy T Avatar

    This whole Fast and Furious thing can be put to bed as soon as one question is answered. Who ordered Fast and Furious. Simple question with a simple answer. Congress is not doing a political witch hunt. They are not even asking about the details of the operation. They just have 1-3 questions that need to be answered. The word Stonewall comes to mind. What,its been 10 months of repeated requests and still not one person can say who ordered this. Was it some lone supervisor off in the Netherlands? Who was consulted and who gave the final ok. Reminds me of the time a bar room bouncer with no special education suddenly appears at the White House and is hired to pour over FBI files of Republicans during the Clinton Administration. I watched the hearings and questioning of the bouncer on C-Span. He did not know who hired him, who called him out of the Mid West, and who was his contact. He just magically got a phone call to come work for the White House Legal Department. To this day nobody knows who hired a bouncer and what were his credentials to pour over classified FBI documents of the opposing political party. Its a great mystery to this day. Probably the same with Fast and Furious. Nobody knows nothing….nobody authorized it, nobody knew about it, nobody became aware until after the fact. It just happened. Shit happens I suppose. And you wonder why there are so many conspiracy theories swirling in the air?? I am NOT a birther, but Obama’s SS number was issued for a resident of Vermont. Red flag? You bet. Leaving the entire birther thing aside, what will historians do when writing about our President’s teen and college years?? Did he apply for financial aid? Why the big hush hush about his time at tiny Occidental College in LA? I don’t really dwell on those things, but we know a heck of a lot more about Mitt Romney’s minute details of his past that our mystery man President. About the only thing we know about Columbia was he smoked pot and snorted some coke and was unhappy, big deal. He was billed as a community organizer as his qualifications for holding the highest office in the land, but what exactly did he do during his stint as a community organizer? For how long? Sure, he provided legal advice for Acorn and said Acorn will “always have a seat at the table”, but what did he do as a community organizer? Hold car washes and bake sales? And people will say I am a racist or flat earther for daring to think like a historian. Can you tell me one President in the post Industrial Revolution that we know so little about and why normal public and private records have magically disappeared or are off limits? That in itself feeds conspiracy theories.

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  4. George Rebane Avatar

    billyT 934pm – my money is that your questions will go unanswered in the interval during which the answers will matter. The Grand Collective Left, without any organization or conspiracy, will instinctively act on their own separate volitions to guarantee the silence while their nationwide and ever alert acolytes vilify those who dare ask. The wagons have been circled tightly enough to give new meaning to a hermetical seal.

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  5. Michael Anderson Avatar

    Gregory, thanks for pointing out how and why the 1st Amendment is only valid for some Americans. You can read this if you’d like: http://www.thenation.com/blog/156354/plamegate-finale-we-were-right-they-were-wrong …but I’m positive that it’s not going to change your mind. Just like anything you say is not going to change my mind.
    The Plame affair is about the bigger lie that brought us the Iraq War, an illegal war that came complete with unpunished war crimes. But hey, what’s wrong with bending the constitution a little if it’s for the Greater Good, eh?
    Like I said, we’re just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. Thanks.

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  6. Gregory Avatar

    “Gregory, thanks for pointing out how and why the 1st Amendment is only valid for some Americans.” 11:05, m anderson
    Amendment 1
    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
    If Mike is trying to now say Plame and Wilson were somehow denied a freedom of speech or press, we may now have a complete break with reality. Did Bush and Cheney somehow cause Oliver Stone not to be the one to do the movie version? Or maybe cause George Clooney to lose out to Sean Penn for the Joe Wilson role?

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  7. Michael Anderson Avatar

    I like “a complete break w/ reality.” It sounds so dangerous! (-;

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  8. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    The Nation is the farthest left magazine in America, right up against the Daily Worker. Here is some wiki on it. Sorry to say the Plame’s were not exonerated as your link stated, but they did make some money by lying, a lefty tactic par excellence.
    Here is the Wiki
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nation

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  9. Gregory Avatar

    Mike, you made a clear inference claiming the Wilson’s 1st amendment rights were somehow abridged. With books written, one being made into an almost major motion picture, numerous op-eds and countless interviews, I’m at a loss to understand what you were thinking.
    And you have yet to justify your charge that Armitage and Cheney were co-conspirators in the outing by Armitage. Was that in the movie?
    “We were right and they were wrong” isn’t a reasoned discussion.

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  10. Michael Anderson Avatar

    Geez Greg, what part of “I’m not going to discuss this with you anymore” don’t you get?
    Break out your Google keyboard and search for people a whole lot smarter than I am to go deeper into the claims I have posited, if you really care (which I suspect you don’t). But the bottom line is that I could care less what you think about the Plame issue, and my mind is closed on the issue, like a steel trap.
    I’m not looking for a reasoned discussion with you on the Plame affair. Deal with it.

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  11. Gregory Avatar

    I don’t care whether you want a reasoned discussion or not, Mike. You made a bizarre claim that I was “pointing out how and why the 1st Amendment is only valid for some Americans” in a hit and run.
    So how were the Wilson’s 1st amendment rights violated? Did the Obama administration help once the Bush was out the door?

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  12. Michael Anderson Avatar

    Greg, my usual tactic with you–when you become tedious and overbearing–is to just ignore you and move on.
    Not gonna do that this time. This goes against my better judgement, but I guess I got kinda pissed off when, on another thread, you questioned Ryan’s educational credentials and technical background.
    I haven’t seen him comment here since. I understand that it takes a lot for Mr. Rebane to remove inappropriate commentary, so I’m going to call you out on that.
    So let’s get some things straight:
    1. I’m done talking with you about the Plame affair. You can ask all the questions you want and they will go unanswered. Get it?
    2. Anyone should be able to comment on any blog about any topic, without have to justify their educational background or be vetted by the likes of you. Stick to the subject matter–if someone floats an idea that is bankrupt, call out that idea, not the person’s background or education.
    3. Stop being such an arrogant bully.
    Thanks…M.

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  13. George Rebane Avatar

    Gregory 1109am – I’m afraid now that MichaelA has brandished his “steel trap”, you will henceforth be attempting to reason with an echo chamber. A short perusal of RR reveals that progressives often resort to this handy appliance at some point in the discussion. And whenever they do, for all intents and purposes the discussion is over. Reason is no match for a steel trap.
    However all is not lost, for the independent reader, whose mind is not yet so tightly clamped, will be able to review the progress of such exchanges right up to the instant of the sharp report of unyielding steel from one of the parties, signalling the end of discourse. MichaelA did all a favor by the timely and visible springing of his own steel trap on the matter.
    In the final analysis, it is, after all, that open-minded audience that you are really addressing with such debates that in reality are performance art.

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  14. Gregory Avatar

    It appears that in MA’s world, someone who stands up to him when he’s being an arrogant bully is a worse arrogant bully.
    Your “Gregory, thanks for pointing out how and why the 1st Amendment is only valid for some Americans” was arrogant snark without support. Arrogant bullying incarnate. Leave it to the professionals like Maddow.
    Sorry, but when an English Ed/English Lit./Rhetoric/Linguistics student who is now somehow an authority on tech and math education starts making pronouncements about science and math education, and apparently denigrating other views as being mere “rote”, it’s reasonable to talk about background. George asked the question, I supplied a couple of answers.
    Math education is serious, and there are SEVERE performance problems continuing in a number of local schools. The defenders of the status quo of youth graduating from our schools with compromised futures should be met with extreme approbation (…one of your past phrases, thought you’d like it).

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  15. Gregory Avatar

    Let’s go back to Mike Anderson’s half-dozen conspiracy theories (all quotes from his 13 May 2012 at 07:06 AM). He says he doesn’t want to discuss it, and he certainly doesn’t have to:
    “Cheney was the mastermind. Armitage was glued to his hip.”
    As far as I can tell, this was created out of whole cloth. If you want to believe in a conspiracy to ruin the Wilson’s, you have to think Armitage was in on it, since he was the guy who managed to first mention to a journalist that Mrs. Wilson (he apparently didn’t say Plame) was CIA. Most sober observers never saw Armitage as a Cheney crony.
    “Plame’s CIA relationship was compromised, and people she used in other countries to help the US were probably killed.”
    I’d say her relationship was compromised the moment her husband wrote a prominent Op-Ed in the New York Times ripping into US policy based on his junket to her old territory, made after her recommending him for the job.
    It’s been years since this happened, if anyone was killed why don’t we know about it? And if it was a Bush conspiracy to ruin the Wilson’s and violate their constitutional rights, why didn’t the Obama justice department step in when the Bush cabal left town?
    “I guess everyone’s OK with that.”
    More Anderson snark. Sorry, Mike, you can’t just spout nonsense and then smear others with it.

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  16. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    George is right on the mark with his view of the lefty taking their ball home when they don’t get their way. When confronted with the truth the left just won’t beliebeve it. Then they cry about partisanship. The reason there is partisanship is because the left creates it not the right, well mos of the time anyway. When you have bare-assed facts like the Plame/Wilson hogwash (I think they made a few bucks on the book and they are now in the 1%) you have to wonder how it is a human with a brain can even make the false connections to speak their support. The other tactic of a lefty who has a blog is to “moderate” those they disagree with. We have seen these tactics time and again even locally. But hey, we on the right and some in the mushy middle like more speech not less so usually we encourage debate as George does here. When the non-aligned read these debates they must be able to see how the spoiled brats of the left cry and go home, never to speak or debate again. Or well, maybe until they get over their low blood sugar attacks.

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  17. Michael Anderson Avatar

    George, on your blog where labels reign supreme, and everyone is fit conveniently into one simple category of non-complex political beliefs, it is impossible that someone would end a conversation for any other reason except that someone got the best of them.
    George wrote: “However all is not lost, for the independent reader, whose mind is not yet so tightly clamped, will be able to review the progress of such exchanges right up to the instant of the sharp report of unyielding steel from one of the parties.”
    The trap is also sprung when the tedium becomes too great, the bad manners too bad, and the whole discussion has stopped going anywhere. It’s ridiculous to assume that the Plame affair, and the Iraq War for that matter, can be adequately debated on this blog. There’s just not enough air in the room for someone like myself to maneuver without being pigeon-holed and pejoratively tagged as an (name-calling adjective) liberal or a (name-calling adjective) progressive, of which I am neither.
    As I’ve said before, there is plenty of information out there supporting my POV regarding the disrespect shown for the 1st Amendment, the rule of law, and what types of behavior make up a functional national security policy, surrounding the Plame affair and the Iraq War. I’m just done trying to provide it in this forum.
    Frisch’s tactic is to come back with labels of fascist, racist, and bigot, but I choose not to go that route. I don’t think he’s a bad person for doing that, I just don’t see the point.
    You may have noticed that I’ve been absent over here for some time. The reasons mentioned above are why. I thought I’d give it another shot, but I see not much has changed.
    I enjoy your tech articles very much, so maybe I’ll just stick with commenting on those. BTW, I posted some links regarding broadband during a recent educational thread (CENIC/CVIN) and didn’t get a single response or question about it.
    It’s very difficult to navigate over here with the current signal-to-noise ratio. You might take a hint from Lars Larsen, he puts so-called liberals at the head of the line and treats them with respect and dignity. If they say stupid things, he gracefully lets them hang themselves, without the rhetorical flourishes about how progressives are destroying everything beautiful in the world. Perhaps that’s why the Lars show is carried on over 200 stations across the country, and this blog carries the same 10 ideologue commentators who keep saying the same thing over and over again.

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  18. Gregory Avatar

    “Frisch’s tactic is to come back with labels of fascist, racist, and bigot, but I choose not to go that route.”
    Since we’ve established our politics aren’t that far off, you have to resort to “arrogant bully” when you’re not able to persuade. You also had to just resort to dismissing the words of Hitchens because of his drinking, and not because of any flaws of his arguments; that, my friend, is textbook argumentum ad hominem, one of the classic logical fallacies. As is your decision to label me an arrogant bully for hitting you back with facts and inconvenient questions.
    If you have the right to say “the king is a fink”, that doesn’t negate the right of all of the king’s horses and all the king’s men to respond with “the knave is a jerk” in the normal performance of their duties. And that’s the core of the Wilson/Plame issue.
    Once again, if my wife was a covert CIA operative, I know I’d not risk blowing her cover by writing an Op-Ed in the NY Times blasting her boss’s boss’s boss regarding what they paid for me to go see on her old turf on her recommendation, because I didn’t manage to see what others saw (including a bipartisan congressional investigation who thought Wilson’s own report supported inferences of Iraqi interest in Niger yellowcake. That’s essentially one of the inconvenient points MA danced around by refusing to respond to anything the apostate comrade Hitchens wrote after he went off the reservation. Apparently, Hitchen’s lubricated words in The Nation and Vanity Fair were welcomed, just not his lubricated anti-totalitarian Leftist words that refused to bow to the establishment left’s apologist embrace of Islamic fascism in the middle east when the war once again got hot.
    I’m going to guess that Mike was one of the few who actually paid to see Plame’s “Fair Game” made into a movie. It cost a reputed $22 million to make and earned less than $10 million at the box office, so it doesn’t look like there’ll be a sequel.

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  19. Michael Anderson Avatar

    I didn’t even know that the Plame affair was made into a movie until I read about it here, FWIW.
    And I’m sure I won’t waste my time with it either, since docudramas ain’t my cup of tea.

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  20. billy T Avatar

    Mr. Anderson: “since docudramas ain’t my cup of tea.” By Golly, Mr. Anderson, now you are speaking my language. Kudos to you sir. All this time I have been feeling like a dummy and a neanderthal cause I say “ain’t” and “got no” and hey….hey, isn’t “I ain’t got no satisfaction” a double negative? I forget. Its been quite a spell since I slept with my high school English teacher and those grammatical rules were not the reason I aced the class. But, I digress for the hundredth time. I thought Mrs. Plume-Wilson was a CIA desk clerk, never a real operative. So a clerk got outed by Novak and Co. Should not have happened, but it did. Loose lips sink ships. Don’t know why it is so important unless it ranks right up there with the great conspiracies of our time such as man never walked on the moon, the Jews caused 911, the check is in the mail, and the Mercedes is in the shop. I understand you are not particularly partial to labels, but it is only a minor distraction to the gist of Dr. Rebane’s commentaries. I know I should not call libbowels “libbowels” or “dumbshits” dumbshits, but old habits are hard to break and sometimes these short labels say exactly in one word what I am struggling to convey. I know it ain’t right…it is sooo left. Yet I am still evolving into the man Phil Donahue would be proud of and real women avoid like the plague.

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  21. Michael Anderson Avatar

    Billy wrote: “Yet I am still evolving into the man Phil Donahue would be proud of and real women avoid like the plague.”
    Oh Billy, you will be so so surprised. Putting the seat down is like catnip, trust me on this. And if you can cook the meals, and clean the house, and shop for groceries, and shuttle kids around? Dude, you will be golden. I guarantee it. It’s actually scary what this level of cooperation can achieve in a relationship.
    I know, Phil is kinda creepy, but put him out of your mind and go fill the dishwasher while time is still on your side.

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  22. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    It sounds like BillyT is a man’s man (women like that) and MichaelA is a metrosexual. LOL!

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  23. Michael Anderson Avatar

    Todd splorted out indiscriminately: “It sounds like BillyT is a man’s man (women like that) and MichaelA is a metrosexual. LOL!”
    Todd, next time you are headed down to Sac for your regular “look at me! look at me!” TSA exercise, please give me a call.
    I’d like to see how a “man’s man” struts his stuff in front of minimum wage Filipino-American grandpas.

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  24. David King Avatar

    You guys are killing me! 🙂

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  25. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    MihaelA, you comment is kind of creepy man. Sheesh! When I go through he TSA detector women faint and and men are envious. Just accept it. I know you metrosexuals have a problem with the lack of testosterone but call Barry Bonds, he can help. LOL!

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  26. billy T Avatar

    Michael, thanks for the tips. I can always learn something new every day. A woman is one of the most beautiful and majestic and mysterious creatures this side of Paradise. Partnership and open dialogue is important. Winter before last the little lady wanted a big garden for collard greens and other weeds to eat. We went over the finances and couldn’t afford to fix the old one lung rototiller Gramps welded together 75 years ago. So, we discussed the options in a calm exchange of what ifs and together came up with a solution. She grew out her toenails for months until they got real long. I unstuck the old plow that had been a sittin out in the back pasture for decades and hitched her up to it. When her toenails sunk deep into the soil and she pulled and pulled until the plow broke ground, my heart soared. Gosh, she looked so beautiful and I never had loved her or appreciated that woman more than at that moment. Good communication and having common goals is the key.

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  27. Douglas Keachie Avatar

    A toe-toe-tiller! What will you think of next?

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  28. Gregory Avatar

    billy T, this side of Paradise would be Oroville. Your plow may still be there.

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