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[Trump keeps sticking his foot in it at every turn.  Now enough crap is starting to pile up so that a significant number of Rs are starting to voice opposition.  That can mushroom in the Senate and end his administration.  Right now the immediate pile consists of 1) Ukrainian pro quids per Mulvaney, 2) Abandoning Kurds in Syria, and 3) holding the G-7 in his Doral digs.  All of which could have been avoided if someone would only tell him, 'Mr President, STFU!!'  gjr]

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  1. J. Barron Avatar
    J. Barron

    Trump is a stable genius. All of this has long been planned, choreographed, and spit polished by his team of lawyers.

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  2. Walt Avatar

    She SAID IT!!!!
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/19/nancy-pelosi-compares-impeachment-effort-american-revolution-times-have-found-us/
    Yup The Progressive(Commie) idea to overthrow America is well underway. And Trump is standing in her way.
    Thanks Queen of the DAMNED,, for admitting it.

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Agree with your opening comments, Dr. Rebane. It can be frustrating, but I have always encouraged the reader to strap on tight…it’s going to be a bumpy ride. I am riding that loose bull into the ground as he charges through walls and China shops. And even in the ground, I strap on tighter cause I know the ride is far from done. Yes, much appears self inflicted.
    ————————————
    Is Jill Stein a Russian agent ? Well, she did have her debates on RT (Russian Television). What is yet to be determined is if she honeymooned in Moscow. On top of that, not only did Jill meet with Russians, she dined with Putin!!! Oh, one must keep a close eye on those Green Party types, for sure. There is little difference between the Soviet Constitution and the Green Party platform….and Justice Democrats.
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/why-are-senate-russia-investigators-interested-jill-stein-n831261

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt,
    What time today??

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    More on the Pencil Neck Shiftylipps.. You just know he was the kid that everyone bullied at school and stole his lunch daily.
    “On Sept. 29, Schiff talked about the whistleblower coming in “without a minder from the Justice Department or from the White House to tell the whistleblower what they can or cannot say. We’ll get the unfiltered testimony of that whistleblower.”
    “In early October, however, news broke that the complainant had come to Schiff’s staff before filing. Schiff stopped demanding the testimony, and last Sunday he claimed it was no longer needed. While the extent of their coordination is unknown, the major problem was that the discussions were undisclosed by both Schiff and the anti-Trump complainant. Schiff had publicly denied any such interactions while the bureaucrat failed to mention the contacts when specifically asked about them on a government form.
    “The final portion of the whistleblower form requires whistleblowers to attest under penalty of perjury that they have neither misstated nor concealed material facts in their complaints.”…..
    Democrats have dramatically switched from demanding transparency about the whistleblower complaint to hiding depositions, transcripts, and evidence. In contrast, President Trump declassified the transcript of the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, and documents surrounding the whistleblower complaint.
    “Democrats have insisted on holding their inquisition in secret behind closed doors and are now refusing to allow the whistleblower to testify as both the whistleblower and Schiff had claimed to want prior to the news of their coordination.
    Republican members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have written a letter to Schiff about his concealment of key documents and evidence from the full committee. It ended by noting that the decision to hide the key witness from questioning severs any feasible tie to the Intelligence Committee.
    “The highly irregular manner in which you are conducting your so-called ‘impeachment inquiry’ gravely concerns us, as does the fact that you have decreed this matter to be under HPSCI’s jurisdiction despite it lacking any clear intelligence component. Further, given that you have recently acknowledged that the Committee no longer needs to receive testimony from the whistleblower, your ‘impeachment inquiry’ lacks any relationship with the jurisdiction of this Committee,” all Republican members of the committee wrote in a letter, adding that “partisan activities” are “best suited for another Committee.”
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/18/adam-schiff-flip-flopped-on-whistleblower-testimony-after-reports-of-coordination/
    Yep, when Nancy saw what a debacle-circus the formerly fat ticket fixer Jerry Nadler made after just one day of questioning Corey Lewandowski, she closed down the House Judiciary Committee investigation (where impeachment inquiries belong) along with all the other half dozen House Committee anal probes and handed the keys over to the Pencil Neck. She even shut down the esteemed Elijah Cummings House CYA probe into Trump.
    Speaking of Cummings, yesterday he tweeted “Man, it’s hot down here.” John McCain tweeted back, “At least it’s a dry heat.”
    Always said the Mueller Report was not about uncovering evidence, but about burning evidence.
    Welcome to Mueller Report Two, the “phone call.” And I thought impeachment was about The Tower. Silly me.

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  6. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    An interesting claimed factoid… is it true that more Californians voted for Trump than in any other state?
    Cue the Final Jeopardy! theme.

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  7. Walt Avatar

    Just got back Bill, Hope you didn’t miss it.
    Nice small event, and good crowd. Dropped forty bucks on good food. Our two German Shepherds were well received by the folks.

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt:
    Darn, I missed it. I snooze, I loose.
    ————————————-
    Is Putin the New King of the Middle East? Look what he gets to inherit. Mercy. Pat Buchanan
    https://www.wnd.com/2019/10/putin-new-king-middle-east/
    “The Syria of which Putin is now supposedly king contains Hezbollah, al-Qaida, ISIS, Iranians, Kurds, Turks on its northern border and Israelis on its Golan Heights. Five hundred thousand Syrians are dead from the civil war. Half the pre-war population has been uprooted, and millions are in exile in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Europe.
    If Putin wants to be king of this, and it is OK with Assad, how does that imperil the United States of America, 6,000 miles away?
    But how long does the GOP believe we should keep troops in Syria and control the northeastern quadrant of that country? If the Syrian army sought to push us out, under what authority would we wage war against a Syrian army inside Syria?
    And if the Turks are determined to secure their border, should we wage war on that NATO ally to stop them? Would U.S. planes fly out of Turkey’s Incirlik air base to attack Turkish soldiers fighting in Syria?
    If Congress believes we have interests in Syria so vital we should be willing to go to war for them – against Syria, Turkey, Russia or Iran – why does Congress not declare those interests and authorize war to secure them?
    Our foreign policy elites have used Trump’s decision to bash him and parade their Churchillian credentials. But those same elites appear to lack the confidence to rally the nation to vote for a war to defend what they contend are vital American interests and defining American values.
    If Putin is king of Syria, it is because he was willing to pay the price in blood and treasure to keep his Russia’s toehold on the Med and save his ally Bashar Assad, who would have gone under without him.
    Who dares wins. Now let’s see how Putin likes his prize.”

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  9. Walt Avatar

    Damn Bill,, you would have liked it. Hell, I may even enter next year.
    seven Pork ribs, one chicken , two tri-tip entries.
    Plenty of nice cars

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  10. Jig Wiggly Avatar
    Jig Wiggly

    Gregory 1:30-
    Florida and Texas had more Trump votes than CA. The country with the most English speakers in the world is China, followed by India.

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  11. Walt Avatar

    Go do a headcount jiggered one in China to be sure.
    Something says you would wind up stir fry before you got back.

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  12. Walt Avatar

    Notice something? The Trump supporters didn’t bust any Commie heads.
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/10/19/watch-live-trump-supporters-rally-outside-bernie-sanders-event/
    You know,, unlike your ANTIFA ProggyCommie spawn try and do.

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  13. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Trump total n Cali 4,483,810
    Florida 4,617,886
    Texas 4,685,047

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  14. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Trump won Texas and Florida and lost Cali so I think I get what Gregory is saying.

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  15. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    In the ‘truly above the law’ category: A federal law prohibits any executive branch “officer or employee” from seeking any “ruling or other determination, contract, claim, controversy, charge, accusation, arrest, or other particular matter” in which he holds a “financial interest.” If that action is done willfully, it is punishable by up to five years in prison.
    exception: Donald Trump using his position to line his own pockets by hosting G7 at his financially troubled resort. A repeat of the Scotland episode. Can anyone say ‘goombah’ yet?

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  16. Walt Avatar

    Bobby don’t know about trusts, and LLCs and other corporation shielding?
    Where were you when Hillary and bubba were raking in millions with that joke called a “non profit”? Plenty of pay to play going on there. Yet you and yours look the other way.
    Now tell us again who sent MANY of the million dollar checks.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/06/27/foundation-face-off-the-trump-foundation-versus-the-clinton-foundation/
    ““Data doesn’t lie: Clinton Foundation was ‘slush fund’ while Hillary was a Senator/Secretary/Pres candidate. Trump Foundation helped people in need with 100% to charities, but @realDonaldTrump voluntarily shut his down. Yet who is the sleazy NY AG suing?!” ”
    Sure thing Babs,,, you picked a good one.

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  17. Scott O Avatar

    Boobie – “If that action is done willfully…”
    Got any proof of that, Boobie?
    The ‘Scotland episode’ turned out to be nothing. Fake news.
    Maybe the Putin Cuddling can be brought out again.
    Keep trying.
    I’m trying to figure out who wants to F’up their own case the most – the Dems or Trump.
    Like two punch-drunk palookas staggering around the ring, swinging wildly at one another and pretty much missing entirely.
    I could have sworn that Schiff claimed that he had the goods on Trump months ago. What might have happened to that?
    Meanwhile the Dems claim to have the votes to impeach but won’t hold a vote. They claim Trump is a danger to our ‘democracy’ but refuse to actually do anything to remove him. Kinda looks like they are either lying or they don’t care if our ‘democracy’ goes down the drain.
    Seems like these days there’s a new ‘crisis’ everytime I check the news.
    When I was younger we had the Cuban missile crisis.
    And that was about it.

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  18. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    Walty — who gives a crap about the Clinton’s… trump is President and he is using his office to make money for himself, not a trust , not a foundation, but into his own pockets. The point is that if he were any other employee of the uS government except president he would be arrested. His is using that loophole to funnel taxpayer and other countries’ money into his businesses. The Clinton’s are not employees of the federal gov’t anymore so they can do whatever they want..not T-rump. Come on Walt, say it.. say the truth.., trump is a goombah, a mobster, and a crook.

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Looks like the socialist dems have a another shrillary herpes outbreak –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/19/hillary-clinton-decries-bankrupt-dnc-were-going-to-be-outgunned-outspent-out-lied/
    Gabbard says Clinton ‘Russian asset’ remarks are part of ‘smear campaign’ as 2020 Dems voice support
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tulsi-gabbard-2020-democrat-candidates-hillary-clinton
    😉

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  20. Scott O Avatar

    DB – Love it.
    Hil claims the Dems will be out-lied.
    Out spent?
    Probably.
    Out-lied?
    No way.

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  21. George Rebane Avatar

    Looks like if you did crimes a few years back and were not nailed, then you can no longer be nailed for them. But all the crimes that Turmp’s been investigated for (with no evidence found) were supposedly done years ago. How come it’s fair to continue trying to nail him for those bygones?

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  22. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Takin no shit from the chi coms and show them things they never saw before! –
    The U.S. Navy recently sent an aircraft carrier strike group and an amphibious ready group consisting of two large deck warships, dozens of aircraft, and thousands of sailors and Marines into the South China Sea, apparently for the first time ever.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/19/u-s-navy-conducts-high-end-warfighting-exercises-with-2-large-deck-warships-in-south-china-sea/
    😉

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Hillary ain’t coping with reality very well. With 36 of her compadres found to have violated laws in the e-mail case, with donations to her and Bill’s foundation drying up, with her half empty ‘Evening With The Clintons’ Tour (in New York!), with that and so much more, it’s best she stay low (and dry).
    https://nypost.com/2019/10/19/hillary-clinton-bails-on-dc-event-that-tulsi-gabbard-is-attending/
    Tulsi’s husband fights back! Wow. Best for Hillary stay low and dry. How does Hildabeast respond to this photo?
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbards-husband-shares-powerful-photo-reminding-people-where-her-loyalties-lie
    True colors for Tulsi and Hillary.

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  24. Walt Avatar

    LOL Babs!! A little triggered about the Clintons? Yup, It was just fine when THEY did it. Plenty for PROOF of that,, but do you care? Not in the slightest. I give you facts about Trump and HIS charities and you ignore it. So prove that money is going into HIS pocket. Miss the news at the event will be “at cost”? You do know that means, “no profit”?
    But throw a hissy fit “just because”.

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  25. Walt Avatar

    Jiggered is triggered!! He has to throw the “nazi” card.
    Now go puke in your own salad.

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The jiggly one does not recognize ongoing up to date news, it would appear when that comes on its fingers in the ears and yell na-na-na-na-na-na-!
    😉

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  27. George Rebane Avatar

    Jig’s “Rebane Nazi’s(sic)” comment is gone, and so is Jig.

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  28. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: George Rebane | 19 October 2019 at 06:26 PM
    It’s jeffy……after he’s back from Vegas following more gratuitous air travel he’ll be back as a clean sock tomorrow!

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Everything the Libs touch goes to shit as evidenced above. )
    Maybe I will have my driver drop off a bottle of Obsession for him.

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    A seismic change that the socialist dem elites just don’t get while the want to bring in every illegal to compete for resources and jobs. It is a zero sum game.
    Its the economy stupid’s! –
    Mr. Trump accelerated the movement of working-class voters into the Republican Party, creating a GOP that now represents more middle- and lower-income Americans … He has reframed much of the Republican agenda to appeal to these voters, particularly on trade, immigration and foreign affairs, in many cases upending 40 years of GOP policy.
    In turn, the Democrats are increasingly the party of America’s wealthiest cities, post-industrial business leaders, and the “woke” professional class.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/19/wsj-trump-is-converting-gop-to-populist-pro-employee-party/
    😉

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  31. Clean Sock Avatar
    Clean Sock

    Yes, Jig has been censored once and for all. No room for dissent on a propaganda page. Someone might defect to the other side.

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Lest we forget
    After Pelosi pounds the gavel, Pelosi, Pencil neck, AOC, the Squad and other bugged eyed boogaloos have no say in the matter. It’s all in Moscow Mitch’s hands. He and his colleagues decides who gets removed, not Hildabeast, not the Lamestream, not nobody else. Well, the voters do have the final say. It’s our values.
    “The Senate is assigned the sole power to conduct impeachment trials and decide whether the president should be removed.” —-Andrew McCarty, New York Post.
    https://nypost.com/2019/10/16/pelosis-impeachment-drive-is-all-politics-no-law/
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    Scott @ 5:36 pm
    “I’m trying to figure out who wants to F’up their own case the most – the Dems or Trump.”
    The one thing that makes Trump so unique as a Republican politician is Trump is willing (eagerly?) to take some big body blows and damage as long as his opponents are inflicted with more damage.
    To quote moi, do the Dems really want to open this can of worms?

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  33. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Just cause you can code or some other talent does not ensure sense much less common sense and we see it from the masters of the universe and their socialist partners all the time. –
    Equifax (EFX) used the word “admin” as both password and username for a portal that contained sensitive information, according to a class action lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District of Georgia.
    Equifax employed the username ‘admin’ and the password ‘admin’ to protect a portal used to manage credit disputes, a password that ‘is a surefire way to get hacked,’” the lawsuit reads.
    When Equifax, one of the three largest consumer credit reporting agencies, did encrypt data, the lawsuit alleges, “it left the keys to unlocking the encryption on the same public-facing servers, making it easy to remove the encryption from the data.”
    https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/equifax-password-username-admin-lawsuit-201118316.html
    😉

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  34. Walt Avatar

    It CAN be done! Just smoked up a test salmon with pellets, an no pellet stove. Just dumped a pile in old reliable and got the airflow to behave. Got the temp to hold steady at 225, and fish done in the specified time frame.

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  35. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Todd is such a dumb shit. Bragging about Trump getting Trump 4,483,810 votes in 2016 in California. Gosh and Golly Todd Hillary got 8,753,788. It was a total romp. Trump only got 31.62% of the vote. Hillary got 61.73%

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    OH LOOK! The pony tail of ignorance is scratching in the cat litter!

    Looks like the evil orange man has them panicking before the first votes are cast for anything!-
    So almost everything about the week was grounds for optimism for Democrats – except for one event, which was the fourth Democratic debate, held in Westerville, Ohio. That debate quickly faded from view, swept aside by the tidal forces of a president on the defensive. For some Democrats, the three-hour session simply added to questions about the party’s fitness to win a general election.
    Much of this is a result of the continued debate performances by former Vice President Joe Biden. He has been effective at times. But the sum of Biden on the stage against his rivals has been underwhelming at best, disappointing to those who see him as the most capable of winning a general election.
    But the campaign to date has produced questions that will demand answers. Can Biden step up and show something more than he has? Can Warren demonstrate that her proposals and campaign machine are enough to overcome reservations about her general election viability? Can a slipping Sanders rebound? Can Buttigieg or someone else who is less liberal than Warren or Sanders displace Biden?
    Trump might look like a weakened candidate, but he will be a tenacious campaigner, willing to do anything he can to demonize and defeat his challenger. Democrats have many choices but are anxiously wondering which one of them will get the party to the White House in 2021.
    https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/As-Trump-reels-Democrats-wonder-which-of-their-14546913.php
    😉

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Tag team has started. Oh goodie! Now, shut up and dribble!
    Hey, what ever happened to all those campaign election law violations that were going to nail Trump? Cited chapter and verse by the uniformed and gullible. The Unhinged Mob used that Siren Song now twice….once with Michael Cohen and once with Da Phone Call. Now, poof, gone with the wind. All quiet on the Western Front.
    “And just like that, for no particular reason, everybody stopped talking about Trump’s Election Law violations.”—Forrest Gump
    ———————————-
    While I took little interest in Labon James stories and his current propaganda with Red China nor did I have a clue about the Chinese Premier looking like Winnne the Pooh and objecting to said comparisons, apparently others did. Now I am up to speed.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/10/the-week-in-pictures-lebron-2020-edition.php

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  38. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Paul Emery | 19 October 2019 at 07:23 PM
    You are hallucinating again. All I did was list Trump’s vote totals. Nary a word. You really are mentally ill Paul Emery. Are you and Adam Schiff brothers?

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  39. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Trump got the message and no Doral.

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    HAHA! –
    Politics
    ‘We’re going to have him for another four years.’ Impeachment fight riles up Donald Trump supporters for 2020
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/were-going-him-another-four-120335251.html
    😉

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  41. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Jeffy is doing a lot of vacationing without his wife or kid…

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  42. Jeff Pelline Avatar
    Jeff Pelline

    Gregory,
    Thanks for noticing! I noticed your son changed his name …

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    What goes on in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Sounds like those free drinks at Lost Wages casinos is muddling up his mind….not to mention he does not sound like he is raking the chips. Losing is no fun and nothing to do but look at the cocktail waitresses fine legs in those short skirts. Keep those adult beverages flowing. Just one more, I swear. I really mean it this time. “It’s a Saturday night and I ain’t got nobody….”….as he reaches for the credit card.
    I may be wrong, but night shift Pig Wiggly ain’t feeling the love. Gone is the euphoric zero gravity and the nice glass of iced tea. Being charged for two airline seats to haul his girth and paying extra for the excess baggage…well, someone is not a happy camper.

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  44. Scott O Avatar

    Wow, Jeff – that took 31 minutes.
    Yeah, George – your little blog is nothing.
    No one pays any attention to it.

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  45. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    That’s for a different reason than your vacationing separately. China, Vegas. Wow!
    And my son still raises his hand for Goodknight. Imagine that.

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  46. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    I see Pelline is still scanning the legal notices. What a life of thrills he leads.

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  47. Jeff Pelline Avatar
    Jeff Pelline

    Gregory,
    China. Vegas. And soon Singapore (my wife and I are going on this one). We’d invite you but you don’t strike me as a world traveler type. LOL.

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  48. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer