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[Yet one more indicator that we are no longer smart enough to govern ourselves as a free nation was the most recent WaPo/ABC poll in which 51% of respondents were satisfied with Bumblebrain’s handling of the economy – ignoring literally every related factor that is promoting the economy coming off of its C19 hiatus (thanks to Trump) while blind to the administrations plans to pass tax and regulation legislation to stifle the economy, launch rampant inflation, and push national debt to historical records not even seen during wartimes.  gjr]

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  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt. 2 days ago a lady in PV told me that she saw the PG&E twirly birds flying low overhead in the am. She said that means either the power is going out…or coming back on in a half hour. She asked me the same question. Did you lose power? She did not know if her house was out cause she was working. Heard out near Pardon power was out two days ago.
    FYI: For the first time since before the mad rush of Toilet Paper Combat Shopping and Hoarding, I placed an order with the Blue Cow for pickup. Guest were unexpectedly in route and we did not feel like cooking or shopping. House was pretty clean, no need to take the leave blower inside for a quick cleaning of the carpets and counters. :). Oh yeah, the point. So, I went up to the Blue Cow to pick up an big phone order and upon leaving, I noticed the Blue Cow had a Ted Cruz Sandwich for $12.99, about 3 bucks higher than their salads, sandwiches, and paninis.
    I said aloud, “Darn, I wish this was on the web menu” The nice you man said, “It is quite popular. People are fond of it.”, lol. The Ted Cruz looks great! In fact, I may order a couple for lunch today….if the power is on up in Penntucky, USA.
    Now, if people would stop all this consuming of out of state energy perhaps rolling blackouts would not be necessary. It was a tad breezy yesterday down in the Inferno Zone. 91 degrees never felt cooler in my life. Folks out walking the dogs with smiles and not carrying waterbottles. Reminded me of the days in the Great Northern Woods when it hit 34 degrees and folk were out throwing Frezbies and riding their bicycles with shorts on.
    91 degrees is now a cool day! I have been climatized.

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  2. Walt Avatar

    Is Ted getting royalties?
    Now what would be fun to watch,, name a sandwich after LIB as well at a ridiculous price. Like “the Gavin screwball sub.. 30$
    It’s rich LIBS with all the money these days.

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt. PS: yesterday in the am around 6:30, I saw of fleet of trucks and pickups and about 50-60 Orange Vesters people gathered in a big pow-wow at Penn Valley Drive and 20, across from the Park-n-Ride lot where the occasional vender sells their wares. It looked they were either having a union meeting or they gathered everybody together for a plan of attack. PG&E contractors, not PG&E trucks. Knew then something was up.
    Each time the solar guy comes by doing his unsolicited thang, the offer gets better and better. No financing, no nothing. Free, including panels and switch over box. Another neighbor told me that PG&E is so desperate to meet their state mandated no carbon green goals that they wanted him to set up panels just so they could buy the power. I figure I might just have them set up some of those ugly black panels, get it done for free, never use it and just sell the power back to PG&E. Plus a $1,000 check if I refer someone, anyone to the solar contractors. The dude said some old vets are referring friends and are bringing in 2-3k a month just for doing that. Even roofers.
    If I hang off long enough, I won’t pay a penny for the whole set-up. Sucks to be the first ones who had to pay it back over twenty years and now their expensive panels are approaching end of life or need to have them removed for a new roof, ROFLMO. Might do it (as you know, when Mama ain’t happy, ain’t no one happy) when they pay me to have them come on out and set up the system for free. I would like to keep the well going to keep the body order down during prolonged outages. Old people smell. So do white women. Welcome to the knew normal.

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Wonder what the Mad Max sub would consist of? Spam?
    Goat meat is overrated, but edible.
    ,A Caribbean Recipe That Combines Both Kamala Harris’ Indian And Jamaican Heritage For The White House Chef’
    https://www.newsamericasnow.com/caribbean-recipes-a-recipes-that-combines-kamala-harris-indian-jamaican-heritage/

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  5. Walt Avatar

    Let me fix that recipe.. Instead of ( Add tsp of white rum, onion, garlic, thyme and let it sit. )”Add half bottle of white rum.”
    It will still taste like crap, but you won’t care.

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  6. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Check this our. “‘Election integrity committee’ in York County accused of voter intimidation”
    I thought our votes were private information? what should the criminal penalty be for this?
    https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/local/2021/07/29/election-integrity-committee-york-county-accused-voter-intimidation/5399739001/

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  7. Walt Avatar

    Bill. If you watched the first MAD MAX, a can of dogfood was on the menu. (Dog got the empty can)
    SPAM would be fine dining.
    Now if it’s the “other” MAD Max,,, Catsup sandwich with Mack and Cheese, tuna. Only available to EBT card holders.

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  8. Walt Avatar

    Sniff Sniff… I smell a TROLL spewing fake news.

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  9. Walt Avatar

    So what TROLL? I remember some ECO nuts claiming to be from the NH2020 society wanting access to private property to take a endangered whatever survey.
    When denied, they would hop fences to do their “looking”.
    OH, how the denials flew.

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  10. Walt Avatar

    Purge the Right “leaning” employees? If they refuse,, INVESTIGATE…( Marxist, don’t ya’ think?)
    OHH is Trump had done that.(like when “O” did)
    Replace with people loyal to the empire.
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-white-house-cfpb-concerns-loyalists-replaced-top-workers-loyalists
    “Specifically, Toomey wants to know if English is aware of whether the CFPB since Biden’s inauguration:
    Took any steps to replace or encourage career employees at the agency to leave their positions
    Offered CFPB employees separation incentives to leave their positions
    Opened an investigation into a CFPB employee at the assistant director level or higher
    Placed any career CFPB employees who were assistant directors or above on administrative leave
    If English is aware of any of the above, Toomey asks that she provide details about who else was involved and when the events described occurred.”

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  11. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1242pm – Sounds like a false flag operation. There are no voter integrity trained people who 1) are not registered with local jurisdictions, and 2) are so ignorant about voting and voter inegrity as to do what was cited. Anyone going door to door with such questions is definitely attempting to discredit voter integrity programs. As you can tell from your own beliefs, it is so easy to convince liberals that such operations were launched by the Right.

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  12. Nasalis larvatus from Old World Avatar
    Nasalis larvatus from Old World

    Breaking News! First story! Headline! #1 in trending!
    Trump supporters going door to door in Pennsylvania demanding to know which candidate voters backed
    https://www.rawstory.com/york-county-trump/
    Demanding, not asking. Demanding!

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  13. Nlarvatus larvatus Avatar
    Nlarvatus larvatus

    #1 Trending. Breaking News! Headline!
    ‘Trump supporters going door to door in Pennsylvania demanding to know which candidate voters backed’
    https://www.rawstory.com/york-county-trump/
    Trump supporters DEMANDING, not asking.

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  14. Walt Avatar

    Yup,, that must be for Emery.
    Now for some fun facts.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow
    RL has NOTHING on Branco He tells it like it is.

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Its true. Its a good thing. Glad we are enemies of The State, not the enemy of the people. Since our founding, we were instructed by our Founding Fathers to always be very suspicious of Big Bro. Always remain on alert, always be eternally vigilant. It is the price of our liberty, after all.
    Thanks NYT for the compliment. Much appreciated. Another badge of honor.
    ‘Trump Supporters Are ‘Enemies Of The State’ According To New York Times Reporter’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-supporters-are-enemies-of-the-state-according-to-new-york-times-reporter

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    oh no! First Senator Whitehouse and the whole lot of them!
    ‘#NegotiationsSoWhite’: AOC, Cori Bush Denounce Bipartisan Infrastructure Group For Being Caucasian’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/negotiationssowhite-aoc-cori-bush-denounce-bipartisan-infrastructure-group-for-being-caucasian

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  17. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    That’s pretty far fetched George. What you are saying is that Anti Trumpers are risking breaking the law to go door to door asking for illegal information so it could be blamed on Trumpers by the press. Really!!!!

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So what is illegal about asking oh great ponytail of ignorance, pollsters do it at polling places on election day?
    😉

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Funding the destruction of society –
    One such prosecutor is Kimberly Foxx, the district attorney in Chicago. The Vera Institute is hosting an event this week with Foxx and Angela Davis, the Communist Party USA member who supports the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. Foxx was reprimanded last year over her handling of the investigation into actor Jussie Smollett’s false claim that he was the victim of a hate crime. An independent prosecutor said Foxx displayed “substantial abuses of discretion” during the investigation, in which she dropped charges against Smollett for filing a false police report.
    Vera has also partnered with two other left-wing prosecutors, Boston district attorney Rachael Rollins and St. Louis circuit attorney Kim Gardner. The Washington Free Beacon reported that Rollins, who Biden nominated for U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, helped form a commission last year with the Grassroots Law Project, a group that supports the defund cause.
    Gardner has come under fire in St. Louis after judges tossed out three murder cases in one week earlier this month after Gardner’s team of prosecutors failed to show up for trial. In another case, the mother of a murder victim blasted Gardner for striking a plea deal that involved no jail time for her son’s killer.
    https://freebeacon.com/politics/federal-government-gives-millions-to-group-that-supports-defunding-the-police/
    😉

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  20. Walt Avatar

    Hells bells Emery! How bout the sham hearing for impeachment with fake evidence?
    How bout those “never Trumpers”? And your fake news Proggy press ate it up.
    How bout the FBI setting up kidnappings to blame the Trump side?
    How bout blaming Trump for the peaceful gathering at the capitol? Plenty of false flag ops there. Right down to blaming Trump for things he never said.
    Then there was the burning of DEM campaign offices.. “BLAME THE RIGHT!!” Done by pissed DEMS.
    Burning of Black churches.. More inside jobs.
    Nooses hung… Done by LIBS trying to blame the Right.
    Naa,, you Proggys would NEVER pull bullshit scams… Is that what your claiming Emery?

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  21. Walt Avatar

    Oh.. Back in the 21ST century.
    Thanks PG&E..
    Now if the damned state gov. had been running the show,, the lights would be out for a week.(if not longer)

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  22. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    About that creepy grampa joe and the socialists? –
    How did they get there? They had entered illegally and were subsequently turned loose by the Border Patrol, whose agents have been forced to process illegal aliens into the country by President Biden, rather than keep illegal aliens out, as federal law requires. Not only were the illegal aliens spreading COVID-19 around the Whataburger restaurant, they were also spreading it at a local hotel that had been completely booked by Catholic Charities to house illegal aliens.
    Biden’s Border Patrol doesn’t test illegal aliens in its custody for COVID. And the aliens certainly aren’t asked to get vaccinated. Biden is more concerned with forcing American citizens to get vaccinated.
    This must be an aberration—Biden has to be taking steps to stop COVID-infected aliens from spreading into the country, right? Wrong. In fact, Biden’s policies have opened up the nation’s interior to illegal aliens infected with COVID-19.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/29/exclusive-kobach-biden-aids-and-abets-the-spread-of-covid-while-demanding-americans-get-vaccinated/
    😉

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  23. Walt Avatar

    More believable than Biden actually winning by a legit vote.
    https://dailycaller.com/2021/07/29/bigfoot-alleged-photos-iowa/

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  24. Nlarvatus larvatus Avatar
    Nlarvatus larvatus

    ‘More People Believe In Bigfoot Than In Green Libertarians’ Honesty’
    https://dailycaller.com/2016/11/03/more-people-believe-in-bigfoot-than-in-hillarys-honesty/

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  25. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Worried about you walt. You’re getting way out there even by your standards. FBI setting up kidnappings to blame Trump??? Can you provide links for that… Peaceful gathering at the Capitol??? Why then did they smash in the locked doors? Are you saying that’s peaceful.

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  26. Walt Avatar

    OH TROLL… It your lack of knowledge. Not mine.
    How bad do you care to look here? The Proggy press not giving you the real news? Better do some research.
    Since I know you won’t I’ll go ahead and put the egg on your face.
    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/michigan-kidnapping-gretchen-whitmer-fbi-informant
    Can you say “entrapment”?
    https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/06/07/whitmer-kidnapping-plot-suspect-pete-musico-fbi-agents-informant-entrapment/7590816002/
    The same games they play when trying to get terrorists.
    Now how do those stupid terrorist wind up with fake explosives Emery?
    Now go play with your dolls.

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  27. Walt Avatar

    Political prisoners’. Right here on U.S. soil
    https://dailycaller.com/2021/07/29/denied-entry-jail-gaetz-greene-gohmert-gosar/
    A little Marxist, don’t you thing O ponytail of donkey droppings?

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt. Maybe the International Red Cross can get to visit the prisoners in solidarity confinement. It’s how things used to work when dealing with totalitarian and fascist regimes. You know, check up on how Big Brother’s POWs are being treated.

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Like pissing in the wind.
    ‘Report Reveals Shocking Double Standards For Bringing U.S. Rioters To Justice’
    The sheer similarities and differences between the treatment of the 2020 rioters compared to the treatment of the January 6 riot rioters are shocking
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/29/report-reveals-shocking-double-standards-for-bringing-u-s-rioters-to-justice/

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  30. Walt Avatar

    Bill,, look at all the convicted KILLERS that got sprung from prison, all because they “might” catch the Kung Flu.

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  31. Walt Avatar

    OH… Sure… That was it. Emery will buy that excuse.
    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/07/28/twitter-says-it-banned-election-audit-accounts-for-spam/
    “Twitter is claiming that the real reason it banned six accounts dedicated to the audit of 2020 election ballots in Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada and Pennsylvania is because the accounts were “spamming” the platform.”
    It’s could never be for allowing the real facts to get out.

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  32. Scott O Avatar

    BT 6:14 – “Like pissing in the wind.”
    Yep.
    I know the author means well, but to say that the double standard is ‘shocking’ shows this guy hasn’t been paying any attention.
    Remember the old elected hag from LA telling citizens to “get up in their face” as to how to confront public officials she doesn’t like?
    Try doing that to her.
    You’ll be very lucky if a knee on your neck and getting hog-tied and off to prison is all that happens.
    A few rounds of 9mm is more probable.
    Remember when the mayors of both Seattle and Chicago just waved away concerns of looting and buildings being destroyed?
    Then they found out some protesters had shown up at their homes.
    The police cleared out the protesters even though they hadn’t broken any laws.
    It isn’t the buildings that matter – it’s who is in the building.
    You know – important people.
    Police locked inside a building being set afire aren’t important. Shop keepers watching their life’s work being destroyed aren’t important.
    I could have told any of those fools that went inside a building that had the offices of important people that important people will go full Stasi on them and expect no justice, no mercy and no ‘equality’ of law enforcement standards.
    It seems that once most folks go to Washington to run the govt, they quickly loose track of what they’re supposed to do and how our govt is supposed to run.
    And us ‘unimportant’ people keep sending them there.
    We get the govt we deserve.

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “No Democrat is for defunding the police.” Well, maybe so, maybe not. But what about the Leftinistas. You know, the Marxists and Maoists and Stalinists and other regimes with police states. It’s not me, it’s the other dude, comrade!
    ‘Feds Pump Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars Into Group That Supports Defunding Police’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-pump-millions-of-taxpayer-dollars-into-group-that-supports-defunding-police

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  34. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Its still tyrannical control they seek what ever name –
    Lindsay went on to say that “Critical Race Theory is trying to build a dictatorship of the anti-racists to march us through a ‘racial socialism,’ into an ‘equity’ phase that’s a racial communism,” in the same way “Marx was looking to build a dictator of the proletariat to march us through socialism as a transitional stage to communism.”
    Lindsay also warned that Critical Race Theory champion Ibram X. Kendi “wants to build a department of anti-racism that’s above the branches of government, backed by a constitutional amendment that gives it absolute authority.”
    “Dictatorship of the anti-racists. That’s what the goal of Critical Race Theory is,” Lindsay affirmed.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/29/exclusive-dr-james-lindsay-goal-crt-set-up-dictatorship-anti-racists/
    😉

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Darn. There goes my badge of honor. Well, easy come, easy go. Now I will have to prove she said what she said or I’m a liar! Memory holed.
    -After Backlash, NYT Reporter Deletes Tweet Calling Trump Supporters ‘Enemies of the State’
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2021/07/29/after-backlash-nyt-reporter-deletes-tweet-calling-trump
    Unclear? Oh, I heard her loud and clear. And no apology. Didn’t expect blood from a turnip anyway.

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The drama queens of the lamestream just can not help themselves with the insane hyperbole their socialist allies spew all over the place. Are you fking kidding the same as 9/11!!! –
    Liberal reporters and activists have compared the Capitol riot to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in spite of the 9/11 terrorist attacks yielding nearly 3000 deaths in a single day. Families of the victims of 9/11 as well as witnesses to that day have called out media pundits for making the comparison.
    “It’s a shame,” retired New York Deputy Fire Chief Jim Riches said. “Are they kidding me? 3,000 people died, plus we have more people dying from the air that was down there … They’re comparing it to score points politically. The families are really [angry]. When I talk to them, when they compare it to that, they find that outrageous.”
    Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles Burlingame was murdered while piloting American Airlines Flight 77, penned a Wall Street Journal opinion piece also decrying the comparisons.
    “It is deeply offensive and sad that the brutal and harrowing memories of the worst terrorist attack in American history are being deployed by political partisans,” she wrote.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-guest-implies-capitol-riots-worse-than-911
    😉

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    More good money down the toilet. And to think the taxpayers paid 18% of our local director’s salary. Sucking at the public trough.
    ‘NPR Ethics Striptease on Protests: Let Your Progressive Flag Fly, Reporters!’
    “National Public Radio is bowing to pressure from leftist journalists inside their workforce, and loosening restrictions on their “objective” reporters marching in protests for the “freedom and dignity of human beings.” You don’t have to choose between activism and journalism. Blur it up.
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2021/07/29/npr-ethics-striptease-protests-let-your-progressive-flag-fly
    “Our goal was to make NPR a place that employees felt they could be themselves at work, and they wouldn’t have to be one version of themselves outside of work and another version at work,” said Alex Goldmark, senior supervising producer for Planet Money and co-chair of the 22-member committee that handled the revision..
    Hmmm. .Polices that restrict personal expressions” at work? You mean like journalist standards?

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Change of pace. Right side of the brain time.
    Check this lady out. Nice custom rendition of the song. I can see why Matt Walsh ended a show with her last week.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWsEBqMWR24

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  39. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    https://www.foxnews.com/sports/simone-biles-fires-back-critics-withdrawing
    “I didn’t have a bad performance and quit. I’ve had plenty of bad performances throughout my career and finished the competition. I simply got so lost my safety was at risk as well as a team medal.” She can say what she wants. She can call it what she wants. What happened is that she was having bad performances at the Olympics, because she wasn’t mentally tough enough to handle the extreme pressure. It happens. So she quit, withdrew, decided to stop, or whatever word you choose doesn’t matter. She was performing badly and had to withdraw. Just admit it and move on

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  40. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/31849287/us-gymnastics-star-sunisa-lee-long-winding-journey-olympics-2021
    Sunisa Lee IS the Olympic all around champion. This girl has been through way too much as a young adult. And despite all of those trials and tribulations, she was mentally tough enough to navigate the Olympic games and win a gold medal for herself, for her family, for her community, and for our country. She is brave and clearly demonstrates that the mental part of gymnastics is equally as important as the physical part. Sunisa Lee put them together and won. Go USA.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Baby come back. I really need you. I am asking you nice this time, don’t make me ask again. This is not about your business, it’s about the community.
    ‘Gov. Andrew Cuomo Pleads With Citizens To Return To New York City’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/gov-andrew-cuomo-pleads-with-citizens-to-return-to-new-york-city

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Visual aids for the class. And just for our STEM students.
    THE GEEK IN PICTURES: DELTA BLUES EDITION
    So It’s wall-to-wall “Delta Variant” right now, and it’s ideally named to appeal to our Deviant Variant governing class. John has already shared some good charts on how out of whack this is, but why not have more:
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/the-geek-in-pictures-delta-blues-edition.php

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  43. Scott O Avatar

    Walt 8:09 – from the article:
    “They need entry level porn!”
    I thought Netflix provided that.

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Moi @ 10:32 am
    Opps again. Should have read “and NOT for just our STEM students.” So easy a caveman can follow.

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Never mind, didnt mean lockdowns, well kind of not really oh screw it –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-walks-statement-covid-lockdowns
    😉

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  46. Don Bessee Avatar