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242 responses to “Sandbox – 14apr19”
My goodness, the ol’ pussy grabbing porn star bonker is now achieving Biblical comparisons:
Michele Bachmann
“He is highly biblical, and I would say to your listeners, we will in all likelihood never see a more godly, biblical president again in our lifetime. So we need to be not only praying for him, we need to support him, in my opinion, in every possible way that we can.”
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link
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michele-bachmann-godly-trump_n_5cb5697fe4b098b9a2d91706
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Spoken by a goat sacrificing druid. What a hoot!
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Paul
That sounds like a White House job interview.
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Poor Emery.. Forgets his boy “O” sat in a church, yet never heard a word Rev. Wright said. Yet was REAL GOOD at siting the Muslim book.
Trump has done nothing but good for the nation. Done his best to restore the rule of law.(something your boy “O” sure didn’t do)
No you go and do whatever dieasts do. Or whatever religion your following this week.
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“we will in all likelihood never see a more godly, biblical president again in our lifetime”
Says everything I’ve ever needed to say about the hypocrisy of Christians and Christianity. Run down the list and Trump does everything scorned bu Jesus.
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Huffington Post? I once met Michael Huffington at a convention for the R’s along with my wife. He went gay to get away from the women he was married to. She was/is a gold-digger. Her “journals are crap/.
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Todd.. I will be in the land of Druids next week. I will ask around if any know Emery. Oh.. Wait.. He ain’t one. He just hijacked the word for personal benefit.(yaaa…. It sounds cool…)
Never heard of a pacifist Druid.(they were mean bastards)
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Walt, watch out those Druids still sacrifice virgins. The Romans were in a five hundred year war with those meanies and finally, they were defeated. Now they sit on boulders at the river and stare at the women.
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Gosh Todd
when do you believe Trump achieved his holy ascension? Before or after his affair with a pornstar while his wife was at home with a babe in arms?
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Unlike you phony libs, we on the right practice “forgiveness”. No one is perfect. But you beat the drum until you are no longer relevant. Stop beating the drum and join the human race.
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It’s all good Todd,, It’s the land of MY ancestors.(yup, I have rock solid proof of that)
Emery’s kin only came in to try and rule the place. It didn’t work out so hot in the long run. No real diff. between a Greek and a Roman,,, right Emery? Just a “name change”.(kinda like LIB and Progressive… Same damned piece of work)
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Poor Emery…. Better read up on Mary Magdalene.
Now just what’s been said about her and Jesus?
No,, Trump ain’t no Saint.. No one ever said he is.
Yet you still have no proof. Just hearsay. Your whore Stormy
lost BIG. Yes,, those nondisclosure agreements are legal.
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Todd “I cheated on all three of my wives” Juvinall speaking as a character witness for Trump who cheated on his three wives. As they say, consider the source.
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What next? OOzzz will tell us he walks on water?
As it’s said,, “he who is without sin cast the first stone.”
OK OZZhole,, your chucking the rocks, yet hide behind one.
(TROLLass somebitch.)
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More protectionism of Hillary comes to light.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-failed-to-provide-details-on-contact-with-clinton-campaign-lawyer-judicial-watch
Then there is this.
DOJ REACHED SECRET AGREEMENT WITH CLINTON LAWYERS NOT TO SEARCH SERVER EMAILS RELATED TO CLINTON FOUNDATION
Yet the LIBS think the Muller report will sink Trump?
How “O”and Co. protected Clinton and spied on Trump.
The facts are coming out!
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Happy Easter –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/christianity-grows-syrian-town-once-besieged-islamic-state-124025292.html
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Its not over baby, go get em judicial watch –
In response, Judicial Watch announced Tuesday it has filed lawsuits seeking the full release of all relevant documents. The flurry of litigation comes just days before Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report is set to be publicly released, with some redactions.
Separately on Tuesday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham was joined by Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson in sending a letter to the Justice Department demanding the release of information concerning the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s private email server, known as the “Midyear Exam” probe.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-failed-to-provide-details-on-contact-with-clinton-campaign-lawyer-judicial-watch
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Its open civil war in the socialist dem camp –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/16/pelosi-admits-she-defended-ilhan-omars-9-11-remarks-without-knowing-what-was-said/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/16/bad-blood-bernie-clinton-camp-feud-rages-in-battle-for-control-of-the-democrat-party/
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The other front of the socialist dem war –
As Schultz weighs a possible presidential campaign, many Democrats have been up-in-arms over the possibility that he will siphon votes away from the party’s eventual nominee. Schultz had been a long-time Democrat and one of the most progressive CEOs in Corporate America. More recently, however, he has been critical of the far-left tilt of the party as the growing list of candidates are embracing progressive issues such as universal health coverage and free college tuition.
Retaining a conservative consultant like McCloskey – which has yet to be reported – may further inflame the opposition Schultz has faced from top Democrats as well as party activists. As FOX Business first reported, some Democratic groups such as the Center for American Progress have put Starbucks on notice that if Schultz does indeed run as an independent in 2020, the company could pay a stiff price.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/howard-schultz-retains-republican-advisor-brewing-dissent-among-democrats
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Walt 3:27 – “The facts are coming out!”
Well –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/justice-department-ig-blames-fbi-wide-software-failure-for-missing-strzok-page-messages-says-phones-were-wiped
Uh oh – Oopsie again! Anyone notice how anything related to stored digital data by the Dems seems to have the same exact problem? Just another ‘glitch’.
One after another. Failed hard drives, lost in the mail laptops, wiped memories. Go ahead and try that with the IRS next time you’re audited.
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Kinda odd that the French said the cause of the Norte Dame fire was likely an accident while the timbers were still smoldering. Over here in the States, it takes at least a week or two to sift through the aftermath to determine the cause of arson or accident. Odd.
“The first question on everyone’s minds was whether Monday’s fire was set deliberately, though authorities have said it was an accident amid a multimillion-Euro renovation. Already this year, however, vandals have attacked numerous Catholic churches across France, destroying various objects within them or harming the buildings, including by setting two of them on fire” 🔥
“In 2017 alone the French government recorded 887 attacks on Christian artifacts or churches.”
“It’s unclear if any of these attacks have been attributed to Muslims, but given the rise of radical Islam in Europe, it’s not unthinkable. France, where at least one-eighth of the population follows Islam, has the Western world’s largest number of Muslims. And, of course, other deadly attacks in France have been perpetrated by radical Islamists.
“Yet far more important than the burning of Notre Dame is the metaphor it creates for Western Christianity. Once the center of Christendom, Europe has descended over the last two centuries into a secular, post-Christian — and often anti-Christian — malaise. Arguably, Europe was always more culturally Christian than doctrinally Christian, but now instead of the church being the center of society, government is.”
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What happened to the LIBS? Can’t deal with the “sins” of your own elected?
All that criminal activity getting unearthed, and the news of the setup of Trump is ready to hit the fan..
Notice how uppity the LIBS got when an investigation of the investigation was put on the table? Queen Nan wizzed her Depends!
Pencil neck grew a new eraser with fear, and fake rage.
Yes Proggys,, your troubles are just starting.
Oh… And those Lefties looking to beat Trump? Yup,, Stating that the plan is to bury you in new taxes is really going to sell.
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OUCH,TMZ Headline that’s oh too true. There’s still porn –
Jussie Smollett
State’s Attorney Kim Foxx Calls Him
‘Washed Up Celeb’
😉
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The socialist dems had lobotomized their sense of humor before Trump but now its psychotic –
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was pumped to attend a taping of The Price Is Right in Hollywood this week. The special guest introduced herself as a U.S. representative and rising star of the Democratic Party. Things got interesting when the game began and every time it was her turn to estimate the price of an item her answer was “free.”
Items included a set of Italian leather handbags, an all expenses paid trip to the Bahamas, and a brand new 2019 BMW 330i, at all of which Ocasio-Cortez shouted, “FREE!”
When host Drew Carey asked if Ocasio-Cortez understood the game’s rules, she told Carey not to cat-call her and then responded, “Don’t hate me cause you ain’t me.”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/04/16/snopes-fact-checks-christian-satire-website-babylon-bee-again/
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It is just too true so why didn’t they see it coming and do something when they had the chance? I would bet they already have a greatest flubs video reel accruing fast.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-a-glass-of-water-with-d-next-to-it-would-win-ocasio-cortezs-district
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OH… So THAT’S it…. Todd’s Conservative…
So of he was LIB, you would pat him on the back…. Got it
Thanks.
So maybe we should track down every LIB with a gun? So only Conservatives should have them? That’s in line with YOUR thinking,,,
Whatda say to that Emery? And most mass killings have been done by Left leaning thinkers.(fact old geezer) So let’s releave the likes of you of weapons…The streets will be safer.(and schools,malls,,,)
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The pony tail of ignorance is bereft of any actual thoughts worth writing @ 634!
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Well – the left shows again how ‘inclusive’ they are. Another thing to ban.
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Cow-Palace-to-stop-hosting-gun-shows-beginning-in-13772291.php
Of course the bay area lefties still allow kiddies to watch gay porn, murders and rape on TV, because they don’t want to be accused of censoring anything.
And rap songs glorifying violence against women, rape and murder are still on the air.
Glad to know the kiddies won’t have to be subjected to the horror of non-violent white males politely visiting the bay area in a non-violent atmosphere.
And the Dems ‘discuss’ the future of a living human being just born lying on a table in a hospital.
Brave new world.
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WOW… And the LIBS whine that their elected Muslim is “in danger”
because Trump pointed out 9/11.
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2019/04/16/black-man-wearing-donald-trump-maga-hat-beaten-maryland/
A black immigrant from West Africa was beaten up Saturday by two black men in Germantown, Maryland, because the victim was wearing a red Donald Trump “Make America Great Again” hat, police say.
Maybe Paul will say Trump paid him to get beat up.
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Giving a home to anti-Semites and raking in their cash and then polluting the system with dirty money –
https://freebeacon.com/politics/omar-tlaib-saw-spikes-in-campaign-cash-after-accusations-of-anti-semitism/
https://freebeacon.com/politics/two-house-dems-dont-disclose-contributions-from-ilhan-omar/
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Omar
https://www.facebook.com/comedianbryandey/photos/a.860184647518165/1139433416259952/?type=3&theater&ifg=1
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It’s only getting worse for the LIBS and Hillary.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/16/gop-senators-fbi-clinton-memo/
“The Republican chairmen of three Senate committees are pressing Attorney General William Barr for details about “highly classified information” that the FBI declined to investigate as part of the Hillary Clinton email probe.
According to the Republicans, the FBI drafted a memo in May 2016 saying that the information was “necessary” to complete the investigation into Clinton’s handling of classified information on her private email server.
But as the Justice Department inspector general found in a report released last year, the FBI declined to take up the matter before closing the Clinton investigation in July 2016.
The trio of senators want to know why.”
Because you don’t indict a Clinton????
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Walt,
The Enemy of the People shithead media won’t say anything about it. A illegal killed a Muslim teenage girl. An illegal did it. The Wa Po and others did a lot of stories on the anti-Muslim fear in the Muslim community, blamed Trump, etc. Even covered the sentencing. Never mentioned the murderer was an illegal. Neither did the BBC. Finally, the NYT mentioned it. El Salvador.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/us/muslim-girl-murder-virginia-illegal-immigrant.html
https://www.facebook.com/TheFederalistPapers/photos/a.673409832697256/2397437240294498/?type=3&theater&ifg=1
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People are not so afraid of the chi coms now –
The Philippine government announced on Monday it will take legal action against China for harvesting giant clams at the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
Filipino fishermen complained, with video evidence to back them up, that Chinese Coast Guard ships are blocking their access to the shoal and seizing their catches while Chinese fishermen harvest the clams. The Philippine government has tended to downplay these claims until now, stating they have no conclusive evidence of the Chinese physically harassing Filipino fishermen in the area.
That seems to have changed suddenly with the release of a report by ABS-CBN News in which Filipino fishermen talked about China’s bullying tactics and mass harvesting of claims in the area, a process that disturbs the water so much that other forms of fishing become impossible. Mud blasted up into the ocean by the clam harvesting process can actually endanger the health of spear and net fishermen, as well as making the water too cloudy to work in and driving away so many fish that the livelihood of Filipino fishermen is in serious jeopardy.
ABS-CBN reporters actually found at least 14 Chinese boats engaged in these activities and saw “pile upon pile of dead giant clams, each batch marked distinctly with yellow, green, and red labels.”
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/04/16/philippines-sues-china-harvesting-clams-south-china-sea/
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Soda tax is racist.
“Furthermore, while that $79 million sounds great, in fact, the tax lagged projections by about 17 percent. Apparently, pennywise consumers with the means to do so don’t mind shopping outside the city for soda (and when they do, they take other shopping business with them).
“This leaves the bulk of the tax to be paid by the city’s lower-income population, which likes soda but has little choice but to buy it at its new premium price, making it a highly regressive tax. Furthermore, the tax falls disproportionately on the city’s black population, which has left the tax and its supporters open to charges of elitism and racism.
“Wrote Ernest Owens in Philadelphia magazine,
“The soda tax, as it currently exists, further aggravates our growing divide — on one side the privileged who can benefit from pre-K programs and recreation centers without ever sipping on a can of soda again, and on the other the impoverished and people of color who fund them.”
“Americans have a long history of resisting taxes on their drinks.
“Following the Revolutionary War, to pay off its hefty war debt, the federal government passed a tax on spirits that led to a full-scale revolt known as the Whiskey Rebellion (1791-1794). The rebellion saw several tax collectors tarred and feathered after its passage in 1791. Violence steadily escalated until George Washington, riding at the head of 13,000 militiamen, peacefully put down the rebellion in 1794. (Though a couple dozen ringleaders were arrested, all were acquitted or pardoned.)”
https://fee.org/articles/philadelphia-s-soda-tax-already-is-facing-threat-of-repeal-from-democrats/
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It’s hard to believe that AOC and Candace Owens are the same age. One called for the elimination of ICE today, the other squares off against fascists and calls them for what they are.
“CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST CANDACE OWENS CALLS ANTIFA ‘NEO-KKK’ BEFORE SPEAKING AT IVY LEAGUE REPUBLICAN EVENT”.
https://www.newsweek.com/conservative-activist-candace-owens-calls-antifa-neo-kkk-speaking-ivy-league-1397549
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Imagine that.. Paul not answering up.. Looks like I’m right again.
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Twisted off LIB chick on the loose!!
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/16/jefferson-county-schools-lockout/
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Administrivia – Just finished deleting a pot load of comments that contained references to commenters sexual affairs. Let’s see how long I can keep that up before you guys stop the junior high playground slurs and name calling. And yes, I know – ‘But he started it …’
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Well that makes sense, takes free pass off the tail –
Immigration judges cannot release migrants who are caught sneaking into the United States, even if the migrants ask for asylum, says a binding legal decision by Attorney General William Barr.
The decision will dramatically shift the migration-caused civic and housing crises from the nation’s blue-collar communities over to the Congress and the Department of Homeland Security, whose budget and detention centers only have enough resources to house about 50,000 people year-round.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/16/attorney-general-barr-blocks-catch-and-release-by-migration-judges/
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Don 8:24 – China will tell any court to go pound sand. What will the world do? What did the world do when the USSR closed Berlin against their own agreement? What did the world do when China reneged on their own agreements with Hong Kong?
I say cut China off and blockade the country until they leave the disputed islands they took by force. If not, the spoiled brat will do what it wants and we will all have to suffer the consequences.
Global chaos? Of course. But nothing to compare to what is to come. Russia and China must be brought to heel now or we repeat the same mistake we made in ’38 letting Hitler have his way.
Does the world have the nerve? Of course not. We didn’t in ’38 and we don’t have it now. Fun and games to follow.
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Really, just figuring that out?
Sen. Booker, Democrats say Trump’s sanctuary proposal wouldn’t be safe
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A long read, but a good review of Russian Collusion as we approach the eve of the Mueller report release. The media goes not look good nor neither does every argument the Popinjay wasted our time for months obsessively putting forth….not to mention the 17 iintel agencies. :). A great chronology of events.
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/russian-collusion/
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Scott I think Trump kicking nato in the ass, empowering central Europe, the northern tier and selling everything wanted by our real friends with the new world attitude will clip the dragons wings. Our friends are coordinating their buys to complement each other and owning their space like never before.
https://www.defenseone.com/business/2019/04/army-secretary-reveals-weapons-wishlist-war-china-russia/156347/?oref=d-topstory
https://www.janes.com/article/87914/uk-india-renew-defence-collaboration-pledge
https://www.janes.com/article/87898/boeing-awarded-usd14-3-billion-for-bomber-support
https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/aaaa/2019/04/16/bell-v-280-flies-with-system-that-can-see-through-aircraft/
https://thediplomat.com/2018/12/japan-approves-plans-to-convertizumo-class-into-f-35-carrying-aircraft-carriers/
https://southafricatoday.net/world-news/asia-and-pacific/south-koreas-first-f-35s-to-arrive-in-march-amid-easing-tensions-with-north/
https://www.janes.com/article/87849/us-military-examining-army-s-role-in-the-pacific-along-island-chains
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A word of warning for our cap and trade scammers.(yaa. You on the Left)
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/17/alberta-canada-carbon-tax/
It’s the first time an Albertan government has been toppled after only one term in power, and it’s the second time in the last year conservatives have won a landslide victory on a platform centered around repealing carbon taxes.
“Friends, tonight the silent majority has spoken,” Kenney said in his victory speech. “They have chosen free enterprise values over the politics of resentment.”
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Don 11:04 – Trump is doing what he can and I think Japan and the Philippines and possibly Indonesia are getting nervous. China just marched into Tibet and took over and the world put bumper stickers on their cars.
Europe is too far gone for the most part. Germany, France and England are being take over by North Africa and the response is everything from welcoming it (Germany), Resentment (France) and some actual pushback (England). The Scandinavian countries and the low countries are in no position to do much. Russia has the enviable position of being able to survive as a nation under extreme hardship and deprivation, so economic pressure on them doesn’t accomplish as much as it does on China. China’s economic boom has allowed Xi to take over as eternal dictator with popular support from the masses. He needs to keep it going, and when times get tough – dictators need to find countries to conquer and loot. Just as we see some hope of North Korea coming out of their nightmare, China is sliding into a new kind of high-tech totalitarian disaster. I think Xi read Brave New World, Animal Farm and 1984 and believes them to be guidebooks – not cautionary tales.
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Perhaps a word on the Notre-Dame school… of polyphony. Music. Co-incident with the building of the great cathedral was the beginnings of Western music. The first two composers whose names are known (from the writings of an English student at Notre-Dame known only as Anonymous IV) are Leonin and Perotin, believed to have been employed at the cathedral. Leonin left a number of two part Organum (two voices dancing above a chant), Perotin built upon the two part theory and wrote three and four part polyphonic song.
Here’s a nice write up in the Telegraph, with links to some recordings that hope to be representative of how this sounded:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classical-music-guide/9958013/Ivan-Hewetts-Classic-50-No-15-Perotin-Viderunt-omnes.html
The technology of music notation was also new… five lines drawn across the page, with squares (mostly) showing tones but not the length of the notes. That came later. In a second semester of a history of technology sequence I took at Scripps College, I wrote a research paper on music notation (earned an A and a real nice note from the prof who contrasted it with the paper I’d written for the first semester, that for good reasons wasn’t as well received). As a freshman (and sophomore, I think) at Mudd I also had a weekly radio slot at KSPC (Pomona College’s station) where I played selections mostly from my own collection of early music. from Perotin to early Baroque, such as written by Claudio Monterverdi of the Venetian school.
That was 45 years ago. Time flies.
Great music, that. The very soul of Western Civilization. Thank you, Notre-Dame circa 1200. Thank you, Venice circa 1600.
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Thanks, Gregory…
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There is a price to pay for lying to your audience –
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/04/17/nolte-cnn-loses-nearly-50-of-primetime-audience-msnbc-down-nearly-30/
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