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[Hopefully, after our Christmas gut busting binges, everyone today is eating more lightly, no matter that such professed dedications never last long.  In the meantime we must gird our loins for the Georgia vote, and then the darkness that the new regime promises to spread across the land in 2021.  gjr]

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266 responses to “Sandbox – 26dec20”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Brother Walt
    “Bill.. Tomorrow morn’n the poor man’s prime rib goes in the smoker.(12 pound pork butt) The fire gets lit at the crack of dawn. @ .89 cents a pound at Safeway there no passing that up!
    It would take the whole DEM stimulus check if I had bought the beef.(cheap bastards)”
    Well, that answers my question if you are on solid food yet. :). Your recovery is right on schedule. I will send a drone over to swoop down and grab me some a succulent hunk of Walt’s pork butt with SPD rub and bring it on back….weather permitting of course. I am sure you won’t mind. 🙂
    —————-
    About the cougar(s) sighting(s), been thinking long and hard about that one. Cougars, mountain lions, panthers….bad ass kitties. I cringe to say this, but I am ok with hunting them down in rural neighborhoods if kids are around. Of stay at home moms. They are powerful animals. Unbelievable strength. Their tongues alone can lick the skin right off your arm. They are not bobcats and foxes and things that can kill house cats and raid the chicken coop. Have you seen my white chicken? Have you seen calico cat? No, I see wildlife, I keep it too myself. Courgars are different. I would warn a neigh or two, but they probably have lost a goat or two and know about it. No good for young ones (toddlers) walking about outside unintended. You never know. They are the definition of stealth.
    Once gave a neighbor a heads up about a bear close by. I yelled at bear outside in the dark one night and he took of running like a bat out of hell and your could hear very loud breaking of manzanita branches and brush and trees as Yogi fled. Boy baby. That had to hurt. So. I told a neighbor and he called Fish and Game and grabbed his shotgun and….no more bear. After that I keep it mum.
    Last thing any property owner in these parts should do is open their pie holes and post pictures of an endangered frog or bug found on their property. Just give them their space and co-exist. Otherwise, the bug owns the land and you don’t in any practical or utilitarian way.

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  2. Walt Avatar

    OH Yes Bill. Keep your mouth shut about anything critter. or pretty rarely seen seen flower. Fill those low spots where a tree stump used to be,,Uh,, “vernal pool”. The county will be sure you can never use that land again.(or anyone else for that matter.) The people that bought Pilot Peak a 20 years ago found that out. They put it up for sale 15 years ago,, and still no takers.

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  3. D Avatar

    Trump hugs and kisses the flag but he will pardon a spy convicted of life imprisonment to kiss the butt of Netanyahu.
    Anything to get hotels and golf courses in the Holy Land.
    Snowden next, so Putin won’t call those loans in?

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  4. Walt Avatar

    TROLLING so soon D-? Memory loss showing again? Your boy “O” trades terrorists for a traitor. You know,,,Bowe Bergdahl.
    Then we the taxpayers paid for his sex change. The only good outcome is that he/she/it can’t Father any future traitors.
    Yup, Snowden exposed plenty of Proggys and their dirty laundry.
    Your right.. Hang’m high……

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  5. D Avatar

    “The Senate is not going to be bullied into rushing out more borrowed money into the hands of Democrat rich friends who don’t need the help.” – Mitch “Magoo” McConnell.
    Magoo is as clueless as WalDoH!™. Why would rich people need $2,000? If a couple makes over $175k they don’t even get a check.

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  6. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    “Seems reasonable. Perhaps a national electronic registry of those vaccinated and an ATM card that retrieves your information and image, could be used to expedite airline travel, admission to theaters and restaurants, etc. Maybe only the vaccinated should be allowed these venues, after July 1, 2021?” Douglas Keachie.
    And now the gestapo is getting warmed up. Let’s violate everyone’s individual rights. What a tool.

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Lol.
    “Seems reasonable. Perhaps a national electronic registry of those vaccinated and an ATM card that retrieves your information and image, could be used to expedite airline travel, admission to theaters and restaurants, etc. Maybe only the vaccinated should be allowed these venues, after July 1, 2021?” Douglas Keachie
    Well, well, well. I didn’t know the Del Oro (Sierra Cinemas) as let Keach back in. Vaccinated or not, I would not want to share the same theater with the banished one.
    Can you say “lack of self awareness”? It’s like Heidi Hall lecturing us about community safety after smashing into a car falling off the barstool drunk at a public park with children around, lol. Love it.

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  8. Walt Avatar

    Oh Douchey… Like the ones busted for ripping off paycheck protection? You do remember those were friends of LIBS…..

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  9. Walt Avatar

    Has Stacey Abrams conceded to her loss as Gov. of Georgia yet?
    Or does she still think she’s Governor?

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  10. Walt Avatar

    Who coulda thought!!?? Biden acting like “O”!
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-transition-disables-zoom-chat-function-lack-questions
    Biden just ain’t answering questions. I’m sure he has nothing to hide…… Right??

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So you have to wonder how much that is going to damage his draft standing as a QB? LOL
    https://www.foxnews.com/sports/wisconsin-badgers-qb-fumbles-bowl-game-trophy-smashing-it-on-floor-video-shows
    😉

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  12. Walt Avatar

    But wait! The LIBS wanted to do away with the electoral college
    Why the change of heart?????
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-who-praised-2004-objections-to-electoral-college-certification-now-slam-hawley

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  13. Walt Avatar

    Rat out the UK and go to JAIL..
    Where is our queen and Country Emery??
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/12/31/woman-arrested-for-filming-inside-empty-hospital-in-england/
    “Police in England have arrested a woman in connection with a video of an allegedly “empty” hospital in Gloucestershire that was posted on social media.”
    “The 46-year-old woman has been bailed until January on the condition that she does not enter any NHS facility except for a health emergency or appointment, according to the local news outlet Gloucestershire Live.
    In the video posted on social media, the woman is heard saying: “Where’s the second wave? Where’re all the people dying from the second wave?” as she wanders through the largely deserted corridors of the hospital.
    “We’ve just been locked down in Gloucestershire into Tier 3, for this? For an empty hospital, look at it, this is a disgrace,” the unnamed woman went on.”

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  14. D Avatar

    Clueless WalDoH!™ continues with his BrainlessBart News posts,
    https://twitter.com/gloshospitals/status/1343568619150700545?s=20

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Feel lazy today, so it’s easy pickings posting about the Enemy of the People. I could do this all day if so inclined, but I feel lazy as stated above and will only post the top ten lists as the mood strikes. Like being an artist waiting for inspiration. So many lists, so much time. 🙂
    The 10 Worst Legacy Media Abuses in 2020
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/12/30/the-10-worst-legacy-media-abuses-in-2020-n1293042?

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  16. L Avatar
    L

    To paraphrase Kevin Williamson, I’m not staying up late tonight to welcome in 2021, I’m staying up to make sure 2020 leaves as scheduled.”
    Happy New Year, everyone!

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  17. Walt Avatar

    Twitter? D-? yup there is some hard hitting news….
    Now explain why your hero Dementia Joe won’t take questions from the press.

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  18. D Avatar

    WalDoH!™, Why doesn’t Trump even do press conferences anymore?

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  19. D Avatar

    WalDoH!™, you really are ignorant aren’t you? I posted the actual Twitter link from the actual hospital. All you have is breathless reportage from Brainless Bitch news from a QAnon wackydoodle who wandered some hallways.

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  20. Walt Avatar

    Why should he? He’s taken just about every question for the past 3.8 years.
    It’s Dementia Joe’s job now…
    In other news,, The middle East instigators(terrorists) are coming out of hiding and getting back to work.. They know Joe is limp dicked and won’t do anything. (If you actually paid attention to the news,,, you would know that.)

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  21. D Avatar

    WalDoH!™, give till it hurts,
    Trump’s last fundraising plea of the year. Why does Trump still need more of your money? He’s raised over $170 million and spent $10 million… What’s the other $160 million for?
    https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/1344699601094279168/photo/1

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  22. D Avatar

    WalDoH!™, wanna ‘splain to me how giving $2,000 to the poor is socialism for the rich?
    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell dubbed the effort to increase direct payments to $2,000 “socialism for rich people,”

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, that stand-off in Tacoma is over. Defund the police and use the money for free rent is a common refrain from the Leftinistas and the French Green Party. In prior years (like two years ago), it was AOC saying to defund the military and spend the money on giving folks free shit. Prior to that, it was decades of Leftinistas spouting the same thing. We demand this, we demand that! Ok, give them all a participation trophy so no loser gets butt-hurt feelings.
    “The unlawful occupation was reportedly staged by an Antifa-affiliate called Tacoma Housing Now who demand free accommodation for everyone.”
    Police Evict Antifa Who Bum-Rushed Motel In Tacoma, Wash.
    https://www.oann.com/police-evict-antifa-who-bum-rushed-motel-in-tacoma-wash/
    Is it just me or have others noticed that young anarchists demand a lot from government such as free food, shelter, money, and Porta-Potties. Odd for such a group that does not believe in government to demand so much from government. The irony is richer than the Christmas fudge I indulged in. They may not know Diddley Squat about how the world operates. They should have occupied a Holiday Inn Express instead and woke up feeling great.

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  24. Walt Avatar

    Douchebag is all full of piss and vinegar today.
    How come your queen of the DAMNED gave more of OUR money to shithole countries than to us? Remember DB? the 1000n bucks we got from the Trump tax cuts were “crumbs”.. Now Douchey,, what did your queen of the DAMNED(yes,, your one of them) call the piddly 600 bucks? (since your memory is as bad as Emery’s,,,) she called it “significant”.
    But take it up with Emery.. He’s the one complaining about all the spending.

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  25. George Rebane Avatar

    L 1005am – Well said Bro Larry, and I also wish all a happier and healthier 2021; but then, we all will be dissecting that possibility in the coming months.

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  26. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    This is from an editorial in the conservative Wall Street Journal blasting Trumps pathetic attempt to flip the election. This is an embarrassment for the sad ol’ GOP.
    President Trump’s last and worst shot at overturning the 2020 election will come on Jan. 6, as the new Congress meets in joint session to tally the votes from the Electoral College. Mr. Trump wants Republican lawmakers to lodge formal objections to Joe Biden’s electors, and this kamikaze mission already has a few volunteers.
    Here’s what would happen next, at least according to the Electoral Count Act: If a state’s electors are challenged by both a Senator and a Representative, then each chamber is supposed to retire to consider it. If they rejected the electors of enough states to deny Mr. Biden 270 electoral votes, then the House would choose the President.

    But how could lawmakers justify throwing out electors for Mr. Biden? Although Mr. Trump keeps tweeting claims of massive vote fraud, his lawsuits have been rejected in court, sometimes by his own conservative appointees.
    Any challenge to Mr. Biden’s electors appears doomed, since upholding the objection takes a majority in both chambers. The Democratic House would use the opportunity to excoriate Mr. Trump a final time on his way out the door, and grown-ups in the Republican Senate are unlikely to play along. Hence the Trump crowd’s latest argument: that the power to invalidate electors rests with the joint session’s presiding officer—Vice President Mike Pence.
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-embarrassing-electoral-college-hustle-11609371708?mod=opinion_lead_pos1

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Happy New Year L. For those going out and about tonight, be careful. It’s what we former town drunks call ‘Amateur Night’. Those weekend warriors on New Year’s Eve are a menace to society and don’t know the slightest about how to handle their liquor. Danger Will Robertson, danger. Amateurs abound out there.

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Free Tibet. There is more than one China Virus; another is suppressing religious freedom.
    ‘Trump’s New China Policy Earns Praise From Tibet And Fury From Communists‘
    The policies are preemptively countering China’s plans there, defending religious freedom, and drawing attention to swelling human rights abuses in Tibet
    https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/31/trumps-new-china-policy-earns-praise-from-tibet-and-fury-from-communists/

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Under the Great Divide topic
    ‘Boston Leaders Remove Statue of Lincoln Celebrating Emancipation of Slaves’
    “…141-year-old statue of Abe Lincoln celebrating the emancipation of slaves in America has been removed in Boston. The bronze statue, which was a copy of a monument in DC, had been in the Boston Park Square since 1879.
    However, a monument celebrating the Republican President that freed the slaves that was, according to the National Park Service, FUNDED by freed slaves, was too offensive for liberals in Boston and had to be removed.”
    “After receiving a petition calling for the statue to be taken down and threats it would be torn down by a mob this summer, the Boston Arts Commission unanimously voted to remove the statue. Boston’s mayor Marty Walsh added, “After engaging in a public process, it’s clear that residents and visitors to Boston have been uncomfortable with this statue, and its reductive representation of the Black man’s role in the abolitionist movement.”
    To hold a country together long-term, there have to be some shared values. If you believe that even statues of Lincoln are so offensive that they shouldn’t be allowed to stand, then what do we have in common? Note that it wasn’t just a few nutjobs pushing this, the liberals in charge of the city of Boston all went along with this nonsense. It’s a disgrace and it makes you wonder how long this country can continue to hold together as a nation.“
    https://bongino.com/boston-leaders-remove-statue-of-lincoln-celebrating-emancipation-of-slaves?
    Hmmm. After Native Americans were not granted the right to vote until the 1900’s and such, all I can do is leave the reader with one exit question:
    Q: What do we have in common with the wingnuts in Boston, “those people”?
    A: Nothing, absolutely nothing.

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  30. Walt Avatar

    But Emery.. Your LIBS hate the electoral college. They wanted to do away with it… Now you try and defend it?

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  31. D Avatar

    Trump pastes image of Nobel Prize over the Israel UAE peace deal image – as if he won the prize. I guess that image will go next to his fake image of “Time person of the year”,
    https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world/donald-trump-suggests-he-won-nobel-prize-for-brokering-israel-arab-peace-deal-in-a-campaign-style-video-6283681.html

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  32. Walt Avatar

    Now read this Emery,,
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-who-praised-2004-objections-to-electoral-college-certification-now-slam-hawley
    Sen. Josh Hawley sparked outrage Wednesday with his decision to object to the certification of certain states’ Electoral College votes during Congress’ joint session on Jan. 6 — joining several House members who have also said they will object to force a vote in each the House and the Senate over whether to accept individual slates of electors.
    “The last three times a Republican has been elected president — Trump in 2016 and George W. Bush in both 2000 and 2004 — Democrats in the House have brought objections to the electoral votes in states the GOP nominee won. In early 2005 specifically, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., along with Rep. Stephanie Tubbs, D-Ohio, objected to Bush’s 2004 electoral votes in Ohio. ”
    So don’t start whining about what the Repubs are going to do,, when your OWN have done the same PLENTY of times.
    So tell us Ol’ news dude, if your FAKE NEWS reports THAT.

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  33. George Rebane Avatar

    BillT 1159am – A necessary reminder as we pass into 2021 Mr Tozer, thank you. For a more complete answer to what we have in common, I again offer the view from my perch.
    https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2020/08/e-pluribus-unum-still-really.html
    PaulE 1123am – Until our courts allow the existing and building evidence of election fraud to be examined, then such studies as the recent –
    https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-touts-new-study-estimating-289000-excess-votes-in-battleground-states_3637809.html
    will motivate Americans of goodwill to do everything legal to have such evidence see the light of day and witnesses testify in court. The banana republic sense of justice that you and yours have is foreign to half the country and our Founders.

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Poor D-…. Your boy “O” got one for no reason at all.
    Was it for keeping GM on life support? Or screwing over the bond holders? Killing OBL? Or killing SEAL team 6?

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh Walt, give Punchy a break. He gave us a most refreshing break by his absence recently and I for one thank him. You can always count on the local News Redirector to take a leave during Winter Solace….and Summer Equinox. I do wish those particular days lasted longer for the Druids and pagans and certainly wish those days lasted for a few weeks more.
    Never look a gift horse in the mouth. At least the elderly buzzard of Off Broad Street does not sport a man bun. Always a silver lining.

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    What to look forward to next:
    ‘In 2021, Watch What The Supreme Court Does With Philadelphia’s Ban On Christians Parenting Foster Children’
    It’s clear the City of Philadelphia is far more anxious to punish the free exercise of religion than to serve its most vulnerable children
    https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/31/in-2021-watch-what-the-supreme-court-does-with-philadelphias-ban-on-christians-parenting-foster-children/
    ———————
    https://www.facebook.com/PatUnleashed/videos/406618133918696/?

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    In the finest chicago tradition –
    Chicago city leaders on Wednesday released more than 150 emails, as well as other documents, photos and police body camera footage in connection with the botched February 2019 raid at Anjanette Young’s home.
    More than 150 pages of emails between city aides contradict Lightfoot’s initial claim that she didn’t know about the raid until earlier this month when Chicago’s WBBM-TV first aired police footage. The incident and the city’s response prompted nationwide criticism, the ouster of the city’s top attorney, and led to an independent investigation.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-botched-raid
    😉

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  38. Walt Avatar

    Well,, if you though 2020 was bad,, we have Biden, 2020 will look real good. So drink up tonight and kiss the good times goodbye.
    Bloomburg spend 500 million on political ads. That’s more than a million bucks PER PERSON here in the U.S.
    And the LIBS still have to rig the game to win…..
    Sorry folks, a pound and a half of COKE ain’t making the party tonight. GVPD got it before the local snowman could distribute it…. Yup,, tough times, bro,,, tough times.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Will $600 even pa for an airline ticket for me to go check out how my gender studies investment is going in Pakistan? —Ryan Fournier
    ——-
    New lockdown study out: Surprising results.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/2207377852729573/?
    Things that make you go “hmmm.”
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.254420818025296/2206976512769707/?

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  40. Walt Avatar

    D- must be down 3 boxes of MD2020(good ol’ MAD DOG) by now.
    Got that hookah bowl glowing red with some of Nevada County’s 3RD best weed? (the 600 bucks hasn’t showed up yet)
    Yup,, kiss the good times bye bye!! You get what you “voted” for.
    You got Herr Gavin for Prez…Just almost 80, and showing the first signs of Mad Cow.

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  41. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Walt
    “Bloomburg spend 500 million on political ads. That’s more than a million bucks PER PERSON here in the U.S.”
    You’re off by about a million.

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gregory, perhaps this is the source of the problem.
    ‘Brian Williams And An MSNBC Guest Did Some Very Bad Math On The Bloomberg Campaign’
    Could Mike Bloomberg have given us all $1 million each with the money he spent running for president??
    “Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The US population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over. I feel like a $1 million check would be life-changing for most people. Yet he wasted it all on ads and STILL LOST,” writer Mekita Rivas tweeted on Super Tuesday. (Rivas has since made her Twitter account private.)”
    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/msnbc-math-mike-bloomberg-one-million-dollars
    No one, but nobody, as ever accused ‘Brian helicoptering under a barrage of fire through a hot zone Williams’ of being the sharpest tool in the shed. He gives dim wits a bad name. As far as the member of the NYT editorial board….well, at least they are consistent. 🙂
    Bet Andrew Yang never made that mistake. Not to stereotype, just saying. And Yang has taken out papers to run for Wilhelm de Blasio’s current job. Apparently Yang’s proposal to ban circumcising males did not gain any much election year traction….other than Don’t Circumcise the Yang jokes.

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