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[President Bumblebrain rushed up to Buffalo today to make some political hay out of the latest killing spree by a deranged shooter who claims to be a leftwinger, and is accused by the lamestream as being a “white supremacist” rightwinger.  In his speech to the nation our fearless leader’s pabulum included, “I promise you, hate will not prevail.”  What his adoring legions don’t understand is that hate doesn’t have to prevail.  Delivering occasional massacres here and there, hate can just keep boiling along at the current rate, as long as the killers know that wherever they decide to open fire, they will be the only ones with a gun.  gjr]

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  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    lotsa twitter action.
    “In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party.
    But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.
    Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold … 🍿”
    https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526997132858822658
    and, boy howdy, A. Coulter is on a roll.

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  2. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    more E. Musk:
    “Exxon is rated top ten best in world for environment, social & governance (ESG) by S&P 500, while Tesla didn’t make the list!
    ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors”
    “.@SPGlobalRatings has lost their integrity”
    “Political attacks on me will escalate dramatically in coming months”
    “The Golden State is cooking its golden geese” “Sooo tasty at first, but then no more golden eggs …”

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @7:46 pm
    Musk to Trump: Hold my beer. :). We are not alone on this hostile planet. Florida Man bloodied some noses, Biden is toxic, Harris’s new PR coaches haven’t yet cracked the code to not make her more stupid than she really is. Exciting times, bro.
    All in all, I thing our friends on the Left are taking the SCOTUS First Draft pretty good, all things considered. It’s like only the Phil Donahues want to come out and defend their womenfolk now. Old news. Next!
    Don’t think Elon will be old news for a long time. A Coulter on a roll? Can’t read it since I haven’t signed up for a Twitter Machine yet. That A. Coulter (of the A. Coulter cut-out in Punchy’s office fame) sure is a firecracker. She may be a firecracker, but she is our (including Paul) firecracker. And Milo was too much for her, lol. But she liked his “feminism is cancer” speech. Three words he got out and sat down. A couple of co-eds pouring fake menstrual blood on themselves, buildings a blaze, and I bet Milo will be back.

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  4. Scott O Avatar

    Psul Emery – “Keep in mind George Bill doesn’t even know who Rep. Madison Cawthorn is”
    This, a little more than an hour after Psul proclaimed that Cawthorn was Bill’s ‘hero’.
    When the current spokes-liar flames out at the White House, I nominate Psul for the POTUS spokes-liar. He can’t keep his stupid lies straight – he’d be perfect for the job.

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You cannot lie your way out of this creepy grampa joe and the socialist greens. Drill baby Drill! –
    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/05/18/breitbart-business-digest-walmart-and-target-ring-the-death-knell-of-greedflation/
    😉

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 7:00 pm
    Fellow analyst Shaquille O’Neal then asked Barkley if he planned to visit Alcatraz, and Barkley couldn’t help but get in another zinger.
    “Are we going to visit your family? A family reunion?” Barkley said to Shaq.
    Something happened on the streets of San Fransisco that set Chuck off. Wonder if he stepped in a big pile of human poop in his brand new $1,400 shoes. We all have our moments. Yuck.
    There was an NBA hall,of famed that just got carjacked, but it wasn’t Barkley. It’s what American major cities look like today. And now, even mid-size cities as just as bad.

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  7. fish Avatar
    fish

    The real insurrectionists……..

    Pro-abortion advocates threaten to storm the Supreme Court, burn it down, and murder justices.

    Bummer Cheryl!
    https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/pro-abortion-advocates-threaten-to-storm-the-supreme-court-burn-it-down-and-murder-justices/

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  8. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Gregory@5:18AM It looks like we hit the target early.
    “THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law.
    They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking
    than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.”
    Are schools forced to follow those frameworks or is it purely a matter of woke administrators?
    Given the lack of transparency of classroom practices, the crazy thing is that it only takes one activist teacher to destroy your family life. It could be that the real nutcase teachers are rare on the ground, but it doesn’t take many.

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  9. fish Avatar
    fish

    Carl Cameron: Maybe Time To Start Putting People In Jail For Misinformation…
    Fortunately with Newsome shuttering California prisons there might just be sufficient room for the whole of the establishment media in these soon to be empty facilities.
    Who do you want as your celly Carl?
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/05/17/carl_cameron_maybe_its_time_to_start_taking_names_and_putting_people_in_jail_for_misinformation.html

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: fish@7:22AM
    I had to laugh when I ran into that article yesterday. Of course there’s a scad of people out there who call for jailing all them darned Nazis who persist in ‘misinformation’, but here’s a guy who is an actual real-live FORMER FOX CORRESPONDENT!!
    Naturally, that’s the point of the article, not that some fool stands on his two hind legs and says foolish things.
    Here’s his/him webpage: https://frontpagelive.com/
    so you can see where he’s coming from.
    tell o’ the day: anyone who uses the word ‘misinformation’ without irony is likely to be a jackass.

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  11. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    scenes, the math frameworks set the tone for all textbooks purchased by Cali public schools.

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  12. fish Avatar
    fish

    Speculation over whether Biden will run again heats…
    I’m guessing no. Fortunately the DNC will keep sending him across the street to that Oval Office replica. He won’t know the difference and need not be the wiser.

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  13. George Rebane Avatar

    Gregory 518am – Thanks for the link to that revealing Fordham piece on the proposed new math framework. It’s hard for me to conceive that such a purposely destructive proposal was authored by well-meaning educational incompetents. From my perch I see this as yet more evidence that the Left is actively destroying America’s future.

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Read the DHS Memo on Left-Wing Threats Against Judges and Priests
    https://www.scribd.com/document/574825977/DHS-memo#download&from_embed

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Its a surprise its that high given the damage he is doing to that community –
    Biden’s Hispanic approval ratings plummets to 26% in new poll
    Biden approval rating among Hispanics was at 55% last year
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-hispanic-approval-rating-plummets
    😉

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  16. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Gregory: “scenes, the math frameworks set the tone for all textbooks purchased by Cali public schools.”
    Are the public schools forced to draw from a pre-approved textbook list? (for that matter, are private schools made to use them in order to achieve some kind of certification?)

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ooops –
    Dem Rep. Beatty blames White supremacy for Dallas Korean hair salon shooting, but suspect is Black
    Congressional Black Caucus chair blamed ‘White supremacy replacement theorist’ for Dallas Korean hair salon shooting
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-beatty-blames-white-supremacy-dallas-korean-salon-shooting-suspect-black
    😉

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The scumbags in creepy grampa joes admin can not even deport the criminals *&$)@&^&Y@ –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/19/dhs-data-biden-deporting-fewer-illegal-alien-convicted-of-murder-kidnapping-sexual-assault/
    😉

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Primary source of COVID misinformation is the feds, scientists and scholars tell surgeon general’
    Academic freedom groups warn feds not to chill research that challenges conventional wisdom or adjudicate “properly scientific questions.”
    https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/primary-source-covid-misinformation-feds-scientists-and-scholars-tell

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well it’s about time. Where the heck have you guys been? Now, do your Friggin job and protect civil liberties like now, you sluggards. Chop, chop. Principles before personalities.
    ‘An unlikely alliance: ACLU pushes to unseal government warrants targeting Project Veritas’
    Civil liberties groups have expressed concern about DOJ overreaching authority, assaulting free press in sweeping probe against conservative journalist James O’Keefe
    https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/unlikely-alliance-aclu-pushes-unseal-government-warrants-targeting-project

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    New site: RevolverNews
    “Great Replacement: It’s not real, it’s a “conspiracy theory,” but it’s a good thing it’s happening, and shut up and stop complaining about it…”
    https://twitter.com/RevolverNewsUSA/status/1526924925965041664?
    ——————————
    No wonder she was put on ice. I heard this news was breaking about 3 days ago. She didn’t last 8 hours.
    Busted: Biden’s “Minster of Truth” Nina Jankowicz Participated in Secret NATO-Funded Cabal to Subvert Western Democracies Using Disinformation as Cover
    https://www.revolver.news/2022/05/biden-minster-of-truth-nina-jankowicz-and-the-secret-nato-funded-cabal-to-subvert-western-democracies-using-disinformation-as-cover/

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Sounds good to me.
    Conservative earthquake rocks Idaho
    https://thehill.com/news/state-watch/3493405-conservative-earthquake-rocks-idaho/
    —————-
    Sound just fine to me as well
    IS THE NEW DEAL UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
    Well, duh—the obvious answer is YES. But that hasn’t been a winning argument in the Supreme Court since 1935 unfortunately.
    In the aftermath of the leaked Dobbs opinion, the left has been in a panic about what other “rights” the Supreme Court might take away, like the right to same sex marriage, inter-racial marriage, contraception, and watching European soccer in the middle of the night.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/is-the-new-deal-unconstitutional.php
    What the Left lacks in imagination, they make up for in paranoia.

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  23. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Natalie Adona does not have the experience that she is telling you. How can the person “running” the election office not know the law? Don’t vote for this DC partisan…
    http://barrypruett.blogspot.com/2022/05/adona-violates-fair-political-practices.html

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  24. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    For your reading pleasure.
    https://apnews.com/article/biden-approval-rating-drops-ap-norc-poll-d41bce85e1b062b588a32908b2affa65
    from that article:
    “Overall, only about 2 in 10 adults say the U.S. is heading in the right direction or the economy is good, both down from about 3 in 10 a month earlier. ”
    Seriously, I’d like to converse with those 2 people and see what they’re about.

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  25. fish Avatar
    fish

    Seriously, I’d like to converse with those 2 people and see what they’re about.
    You already do…routinely….so you know what they’re about.

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Random thoughts and conspiracy theories surrounded Elon Musk:
    Suppose, if you will, Elon does not intend to buy Twitter but rather to destroy it. His probing about bots on Twitter is meeting resistance from Twitter’s CEO and board, resorting to name calling by the CEO. Ok, what raw nerve did Musk poke?
    Elon said that half of Biden’s followers are bots. Twitter said 5% of its Twitterers are bots. That was based upon a sample of just 100 randomly chosen subscribers. 100 out of million. Musk wants to see those figures and replicate them with another sample of 100 randomly chosen subscriber. Replication is a scientific method to test the validity of results, right? Need to know this stuff before Elon completes the deal with Twitter. Sounds very fair to me.
    Twitter filed with the FEC that 5% of its subscribers are bots. If the CEO and/or Board knew that figure was not true, then they have committed criminal fraud. A fraud filing to the SEC would tank the company. Destroy it. Massive shareholder lawsuits, massive investor lawsuits against the company will follow suit.
    Already the stock is tanking on the news that more that 5% are bots. 7% does not sound like much more that 5%, but it is a hell of a difference in numbers and company value than 5%. Works apart.
    If half of Biden’s followers are bots, that would be 50% of Twitters followers are bots and fake accounts. As Musk said, that would be ten times the 5% of bots according to the company’s FEC filings. Twitter will not revel their research that arrived at the 5% number and all hell could break out if the 5% is proven not accurate.
    So, Musk offered an outrageous offer for Twitter than no group of investors could match
    , then turns around and watches the stock fall to a much lower price that he (or another group) could swoop in and buy the whole enchilada.
    Is Musk’s plan to destroy Twitter, not own it? Revenge? And this does not just affect Twitter. Google, You Tube, FB and other social media outlets could see their share price tank if advertisers were also given false numbers of real subscribers.
    Revenge? Is Musk that smart? They should have never messed with the Babylon Bee.

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    URGENT: The most powerful evidence yet that mRNA vaccines hurt long-term immunity to Covid after infection
    A bombshell study – from the National Institutes of Health and Moderna, no less – should end debate
    Ending sentence: “And expect those articles to avoid the most important question of all – whether unvaccinated people are being reinfected, or only the vaccinated.”
    https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-the-most-powerful-evidence?s=r
    Hmm. Noticed the 4 time super vaxxed and boosted Stephen Colbert came down with COVID three weeks AFTER his recovering from COVID…. Bummer, man. Messes with production of his show…again.

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Conservative Primary Voters Excited To Choose Which Politician Will Betray Them Next’
    https://babylonbee.com/news/conservative-primary-voters-excited-to-choose-which-politician-will-betray-them-next/

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  29. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Readers:
    Before you form an opinion from Bills link to Alex Berenson you should first read this rebuttal from Atlantic Magazine. Shame on you Bill for not vetting Alex Berenson as your source on such an important topic. There are people who actually will believe that crap.
    “The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man”:
    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-wrongest-man/618475/

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, Punchy, we know that vaccines do not prevent one from catching or spreading COVID.
    Good news. New Vaccines are coming out now for 5 year olds who have never been (or needed to) be vaxed and have never come down with the Wuhan Flu.

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    It’s true. COVID is a plague of the elderly. And try as they may after searching thousands upon thousands of animals and places in China, there was been no missing link found to explain how the Wuhan Virus jumped from animals to humans. It’s a miracle!
    To add to the miracle, the bats found in the entire region are very poor carriers of the Chop Suey so not even good for lab experiments or use by researchers.
    Maybe someday science will find the source of the animal to human carrier, but it has yet to do so. Maybe it’s those particular bats found 1,000 miles away that were sent to the Wuhan lab run by the former Chinese military bio-weapons head honcho that may shed some light on the open air fodd market. It’s safe to eat bats again. :).

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  32. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Just after Don Rogers all but called Barry a liar over the Adona flyer, I asked Don to confirm or deny that Adona was the animator of the “Feminista” sock puppet over a two day period, beginning the day of the Big Kerfuffle in the Rude Center orifice.
    Don responded by kicking me off The Union commenting pages… permanently.
    That’ll teach me!

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  33. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Ooops… that sock puppet was Feministic, not Feminista.

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gregory. Oh my. Well, there are a lot better places than the Union to get banned permanently from. Silence is violence. Besides, Don is a Wuhan Lab denier and probably trusts the WHO, lol.
    Do you know if you use the word ‘pansies’ on the Union site your comment will be deactivated. Same as “whatever floats your boat” or referencing the 1968 Hong Kong Flu. That’s racist. No can say Hong Kong Flu.
    The Hong Kong flu, also known as the 1968 flu pandemic, was a flu pandemic whose outbreak in 1968 and 1969 killed between one and four million people globally. It is among the deadliest pandemics in history, and was caused by an H3N2 strain of the influenza A virus.
    Don Rogers has been rather grumpy lately….especially since Elon Musk invaded the liberal media’s preferred playground.

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  35. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I’m trying to figure out just what ‘The Union’ is.
    So far as I can tell, it’s a standardized layout from the mothership and contains a mix of bought content (comics, crossword, Dear Abbys, etc.), various Emily Litellas giving the right/left what fer about once a week (for free no doubt), ‘columnists’ and other submitted columns (for free no doubt) and a couple of stories by ‘staff writers’….all in a narrow format that’s trivial compared to the wall of text that olden days papers used to have.
    Oh yeah, the online version has a micro version of Twitter with about a half dozen posters, not dissimilar to here except for the shorter bon mots and the excessive amount of censorship. It would surprise me if you could make a business case for turning on comments.
    Dunno if anyone from the paper ever goes to a City Council meeting, calls up local business people, tracks down a hot lead.
    I don’t think it’s a particularly bad local newspaper, I just think we’re seeing the death of an art form.

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “. that sock puppet was Feministic, not Feminista.”
    Oh hell, it could be anyone.
    My best is that ‘Feministic’ is one Sasha Jane Lowerson, a men’s championship surfer in Oz at age 40, now a women’s championship surfer at age 43.
    It’s definitely a way to extend a career.
    https://www.trendsmap.com/ipx/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTGsWDfX0AIKqqF.jpg
    https://www.news.com.au/sport/more-sports/transgender-surfer-sasha-jane-lowerson-claims-historic-victory-in-wa-longboard-championships/news-story/305dd76b3e65344d2cb8bdce45fb3824
    The Clownscape never ever stops producing, there’s something new and funny every day.
    Seriously, I’m just praying for the first dominant crossdresser in the LPGA or women’s pro tennis. Imagine the uproar. I would pay good money to see John Daly change his name to Janet and hit awesome drives while woofing a Virgina Slim

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  37. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    “Don responded by kicking me off The Union commenting pages… permanently.” Sill laughing.

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  38. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Federal Judge forces creepy grampa joe to keep title 42 in place.
    😉

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  39. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Barry, now that I’ve pissed off the boss man, it may be time to write a how to primer to browse The Union and comment to one’s heart’s content without paying one red (or blue) cent.

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  40. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    Paul Emery @ 11:35AM
    You unfortunately said:
    “Before you form an opinion from Bill’s link to Alex Berenson you should first read this rebuttal from Atlantic Magazine”.
    Paul, here is the way it works, in a normal world-
    ****Person A makes a statement; THEN person B makes a rebuttal. In your world, person B (The Atlantic) makes the rebuttal on April 01, 2021; then Berenson references the NIH/Moderna study trial paper in his article on May 19, 2022 – emphasis- one year LATER than the rebuttal. I’m pretty sure that isn’t the normal way debate works.
    Alex Berenson merely pointed out that an interesting pre-print (from the NIH & Moderna 30,000 person on-going trial) doesn’t produce a full viral immunity after getting a vaccine, since the vaccine only provides immunity from the spike protein, not the entire (core + spike) that an infected person gets. Berenson merely referenced the results of an NIH/Moderna trial . It is the NIH/Moderna PAPER that has the relevant information in it. Berenson is simply the messenger, albeit a year AFTER the rebuttal.
    Chance of your understanding this time-travel conundrum – less than Joe Biden’s polling numbers.

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  41. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Estonian Fox
    The Atlantic article showed that that the vast majority of what Alex Berenson presented was old hat and has already been responded to. Did you actually read the Atlantic article? If you had you would have seen that.

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  42. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Also
    The bottom line is that there have already been over a million deaths in this country due to covid. What do you think could have been done to lower that number and what should we be doing in the future because this is not over yet.

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  43. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Oh Paul. I have been away for a while and after reading your last posts I realized how much I missed reading your comments. They are so perfect…you have no idea.

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  44. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Greg. Are you sure that you’re banned? Your comment is still there on the union. Lol.

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