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[In updating the government’s butt stupid department, we witnessed today a major speech by SecTreas Janet Yellen assuring the Red Chinese that that US has no intention in surpassing them in international trade and economic progress, let alone outcompeting them in military matters.  Then for what in hell are these people getting paid??  gjr]

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  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@12:31PM
    That sort of story always reminds me of this scene that was cut under pressure from ‘Nixon’.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWRVyaKnGcA

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    scenes @ 1:52 pm
    Tanks. Tanks a rocket. Watched it twice.
    ———————————————————-
    ‘Not Tolerated’: Musk Nukes Pedophile Pride Flag Creator Off Twitter
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-tolerated-musk-nukes-pedophile-pride-flag-creator-off-twitter

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    For a chuckle, I will never forget the time a commenter on the Union site accused Gregory of being a Russian bot. Bot scratch fever.
    A TWITTER FILES FOOTNOTE (18)
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/a-twitter-files-footnote-18.php

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Tanks. Tanks a rocket. Watched it twice.”
    I love the small effect with Helms at 9:13-9:15, I think Oliver Stone knows what he’s about there.

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The lamestream are co-conspirators of creepy grampa joes crime family –
    Biden caught with crib notes detailing reporter’s question prior to calling on her during press conference
    Biden was informed of journalist’s question prior to calling on her, paper reveals
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-caught-crib-notes-reporters-question-prior-calling-her-press-conference
    😉

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Not ready for prime time –
    First responders sound alarm over EV batteries after electric F-150s burst into flames: ‘Totally different’
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/first-responders-ev-batteries-electric-f150s-catch-fire
    😉

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Fossil Gas’: Climate Activists Press Biden To Stop Companies From Calling Gas ‘Natural’
    https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/fossil-gas-climate-activists-press-biden-to-stop-companies-from-calling-gas-natural/
    I got some natural gas for that noise.

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    EDUCATION
    ‘Unconscionable’: House Republican Takes Randi Weingarten to Task over Covid School Closures
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/unconscionable-house-republican-takes-randi-weingarten-to-task-over-covid-school-closures/

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Man, they can’t even trust Joe to announce his re-election in front of people. Cancel the debates and keep him away from speaking. No one trusts Joe to speak anymore.
    There have been talk of Joe’s rapid mental decline from since two years ago and now his condition is picking up the pace in free fall.
    https://fb.watch/ka51qbr1_u/

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Damn. Wrong link my a mile. This early bird caught no worm.

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  11. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    Student’s lawsuit against college officials for suppressing her First Amendment rights moves forward.
    Maggie DeJong, who studied art therapy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), expressed her Christian religious values and conservative political perspectives on social media, in student group chats, and in class conversations.
    On February 10, 2022, DeJong was served with no contact orders from the University precluding her from any contact with three of her fellow students—including in classes. According to a letter sent on DeJong’s behalf to SIUE by her attorneys with the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the no contact orders not only “offered no factual basis” for the school’s actions but also violated her rights to free expression at a public institution.
    When asked by Campus Reform what the final incident was that prompted DeJong’s compatriots to complain to the University administration, DeJong’s lawyer said the inciting incident is still unknown.
    Though she had quickly forced her school to back down from trying to blacklist her, as described in a previous blacklist story in 2022, Maggie DeJong has now won a major court decision with a ruling on March 20, 2023 by the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Illinois that her lawsuit against three administrators at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) can go forward.
    More important, the ruling stated that these three administrators do not qualify in almost all circumstances for qualified immunity. They are liable for their actions in violating DeJong’s constitutional rights, including her right to free speech.
    https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21711
    https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/pushback-students-lawsuit-against-college-officials-for-suppressing-her-first-amendment-rights-moves-forward/#more-94579
    This is a substantial change in how to combat free-speech suppression. She is not suing the university, but the 3 individuals who tried to shut her up. Good choice.

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  12. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    BT at 4:32 AM
    Go easy on Mr. Pres – his handlers had John Fetterman and Dianne Feinstein write the script for him. Top ten on the Razzy list for 2023.

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    scenes

    When drawing a picture on a piece of metal is outlawed, only outlaws will have pictures on a piece of metal.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/youtuber-guilty-selling-metal-cards-doj-says-are-machine-guns

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  14. fish Avatar
    fish

    Looks like gay Nevada City residents may “improve their odds”…..

    Democrats Float Bill To Allow LGBTQ Migrants To Walk Into US Unrestricted

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrats-float-bill-allow-lgbtq-migrants-walk-us-unrestricted

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  15. Scott O Avatar

    scenes 9:09 – “The DoJ said it took ATF agents about “40 minutes” to remove the pieces from the metal card via a Dremel rotary tool.”
    So, if I go to the steel yard and buy a piece of metal and it takes me 40 minutes to make the offending item, do they arrest the owner of the steel yard? What if it takes me 45 minutes? Since the time it took the ATF agents to make the naughty bit is factored into the equation, what is the time limit here? And it said agents (plural) so if I act alone do they allow less time or more time? What if I have a CNC plasma cutter and make it in 30 seconds? Have the agents at the ATF linked any of these bottle openers to any actual crimes?
    Are the authors of murder mysteries responsible for some who reads their book and copies the crime explained in the book? If not – what exactly is the legal difference?

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Liars.
    ‘Biden Nominees Torpedo Own Confirmation To Kill Report On Whether Lax Crime Policies Hurt Minorities’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-nominees-torpedo-own-confirmation-to-kill-report-showing-whether-soft-on-crime-policies-hurts-minorities

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    scenes

    re: Scotto@11:03
    These things are unknowable. Essentially, if the 17 intelligence agencies or the umpteen police agencies take an interest in you, crossbar college is in your future. It can be arbitrary as all get-out. They have infinite ability to cause pain at no cost to themselves.
    Meanwhile:
    https://www.ammoland.com/2023/04/atf-determines-a-metal-sliver-is-a-machinegun/#axzz8070YUKws

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    scenes

    lol. OK, I’ve see it all now.
    Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm Backs Requiring Military To Go Electric Vehicle Only By 2030
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOL5F0SmWT4

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You cant fool them all all the time –
    Overall, 56 percent said the Biden family did receive money from sources linked to the Chinese government, while 44 percent said it did not receive money.
    The majority of independent voters (55 percent) believe the Biden family received funds. Forty-five percent said it did not.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/27/poll-majority-believe-biden-family-received-millions-from-chinese-government-linked-sources/
    😉

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  20. Scott O Avatar

    scenes 2:46 – An all electric military fleet in less than 7 years?
    What do we do with the old stuff? We’ve already equipt the Taliban.
    Maybe the Ukrainians will accept used?
    So – let’s see…
    Hmmm
    I wonder how many 10s of thousands of MDiPEVSUs (mobile diesel powered electric vehicle support units) the military will then need?
    As long as we’re getting all new stuff, I wonder if they’ve thought of re-designs in general? Most all military stuff is pretty butch-looking. You know – too much toxic masculinity and all that. Let’s get some friendlier gender-neutral looking stuff.
    And the colors! Good Lord. Can’t we work in some creamy hues from the pastel palette?
    Our country is truly doomed.

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  21. Scott O Avatar

    “…take an interest in you, crossbar college is in your future.”
    You will at least be forced to empty your bank account and retirement funds to get an acquittal. And since you were held without bail, you’ve lost your job. Not to mention the joy of having the agents bust into your house early in the morn and line the wife and kids up at gun point while they scream and yell obscenities and cuff you and drag you away.
    This WAS a comedy, right?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWbIxFKtTmE

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  22. Scott O Avatar

    Don 3:11 – “…while 44 percent said it did not receive money.”
    Even though they have the bank records proving it is so.
    You know our resident lefties are among the 44%.

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    scenes

    re: Scotto@3:32PM I was looking for Roger Stone.
    As usual, the Process is the Punishment.
    Meanwhile, in Minnesota: https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/arguing-covid-came-from-china-could-land-you-on-minnesotas-government-bias-registry/
    I do have to wonder when the Secretary of Energy, a strong powerful woman, will go after the nuclear fleet. Like ambassadorships, those gigs are political payoffs in any case. Next up will be ranks with pronouns added.
    Dunno if anybody ran into this:
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1762762/ukraine-attack-russia-moscow-ww3
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/24/discord-leaks-moscow-strikes-ukraine/
    I mean, what could go wrong? The Biden administration probably needs to make Duck and Cover it’s centerpoint.

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    re: DonB@3:46PM
    Truth be told, I’d say that offshoring was ramping up pretty well in the mid 1980s.
    Obama simply is an example of ambition made flesh. Getting a machine behind you and being able to read a teleprompter is enough to get the keys to the kingdom. If protectionist or some other pro-industrial policy would make him rich and powerful, he’s have done that instead.
    These Netflix deals (like the book deals) are simply a way to pay him and the missus off. I somehow doubt that Michael Wood or David Attenborough got high 8 figures to assist in a documentary.

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  25. Scott O Avatar

    re scenes 4:01 Minn govt registry – I think this has already been going on in Jolly Olde England. You get reported to the police for some sort of sorta-crime that isn’t criminal, but the police have to show up to “have a word”. And you get put on a list that you’ve been warned.
    Best quote:
    “Vang suggested this question would be better answered by lawyers and added, “I’m not going to say yes or no to that question.””
    What a great set up!
    Before you put on a message T shirt you have to run it by your lawyer. The fact that there are Americans that want this as a law is sickening.
    “Yeah, you’re free to say that but we can maybe write you up later depending on who you vote for/pay money to/how cute you are/etc.”

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  26. Scott O Avatar

    Say kids – have you paid your “assault weapons” tax”?
    https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/04/27/internal-revenue-service-hiring-armed-agents-all-50-states/
    I thought the IRS was going after the multi-millionaires that don’t pay taxes.
    Think again. This is how they will try to stop citizens from being armed.
    Since the IRS doesn’t have to consider you ‘innocent until proven guilty’ what a fun time they’ll have with you freshly minted “tax dodgers”.

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  27. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe and cnn what could go wrong? –
    The report from Politico, which delves into Mr Biden’s consumption of media, says that the president will turn on the 10 – 12” television when press or dignitaries are not around.
    More often than not, he will supposedly turn the television to CNN.
    Other TVs, located outside of the Oval Office and on Air Force One, are also usually turned to CNN per the report.
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/joe-biden-keeps-small-tv-182757230.html
    😉

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  28. Scott O Avatar

    Paul Krugman once again, once again, once again, manages the anatomically impossible by shoving both feet into his mouth, while at the same time inserting his male member far up inside his anus. Can’t be done, you posit? Paul sez “hold my chardonnay”.
    https://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/03/longhorns-17-badgers-1.html
    This isn’t a matter of opinion, folks. The left is in fantasy land with made up stories backed with pure 100% BS.

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  29. Scott O Avatar

    More required reading for Lefties:
    https://archive.jsonline.com/news/education/89007417.html/
    Whoops – I forgot! The lefties can’t read! God love ya.

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  30. Scott O Avatar

    Don 5:21 – re Biden watching CNN.
    Wouldn’t that be the ultimate example of a negative feedback loop?

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    ….grifter, grifter, grifter…..!

    The Inflation Reduction Act Price Jumps From $385 Billion to Over $1 Trillion

    ….and from a source that’s Punchy™ approved.
    https://mishtalk.com/economics/the-inflation-reduction-act-price-jumps-from-385-billion-to-over-1-trillion

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  32. Humphrey Ploughjogger Avatar
    Humphrey Ploughjogger

    With all the talk about allowing children to
    experiment with gender reassignment, it is interesting to note that over 300,000 child marriages have occurred in the US between 2000-2018, usually between a younger woman and an older man.
    Only a few states have made it illegal for minors to get married before the age of 18.
    https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/fight-continues-end-child-marriage-us

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  33. fish Avatar
    fish

    Presumably you’re an adult “Humphrey”…..you want to cut your boy parts off…..knock yourself out. No one cares!
    I do find it interesting that this is the only argument on which you attempt to justify child mutilation.
    How bout we just wait until they’re adults Buffalo Bill.

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  34. Scott O Avatar

    HP 7:17 Hilarious! You’re comparing a 16 year old girl wanting to get hitched to one wanting to be permanently sexually mutilated? Seriously? I’m seeing more and more evidence that being a lefty is a mental derangement issue.
    Why don’t we get a full breakdown on a chart showing ages of both parties and the ethnicity involved. We had friends living in Mexico and their housekeeper’s daughter was married at 13. It was considered completely normal there.
    BTW – one of my uncles married at 28 to an underage girl (with her parents’ blessing) and they had a happy and long marriage raising 4 children.
    You might want to narrow your anger at child marriage down to certain religions that “arrange” a girl’s marriage against her will at a young age. Not to mention the barbarous practice of forced female genital mutilation.
    And of course you won’t bother to mention the Biden admin’s practice of enabling the cartels child sex trafficking.

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Scott O | 28 April 2023 at 07:39 AM
    You might want to narrow your anger at child marriage down to certain religions that “arrange” a girl’s marriage against her will at a young age.

    Humphrey doesn’t usually think that far into the future.

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Humphrey and child marriage.
    Dunno why this person keeps on bringing it up, it’s not exactly a burning issue. Naturally, I’ll always respond that California has no age requirement.
    Team Blue bombthrowers aside, it’s an interesting question, one of those tensions between the rights of individuals, the responsibilities of parents, the authority of The State. Given that a)’diversity’ is the absolute highest good, above all else and b)45% of marriages are between relatives in the Middle East and places like Afghanistan have an average female age of 15 for marriage, you probably won’t see much push for restriction here.
    Dunno what the rules should be. Modern courtship and marriage practice is so far afield from the way it worked for the last 10k+ years that it’s probably a bit unnatural. Maybe the future is in the Japanese model of the ‘parasite single’.

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    Scotto: “Not to mention the barbarous practice of forced female genital mutilation.”
    That is an odd one, no medical need I can think of with obvious poor side effects. A bonafide history of the practice and where it came from would be interesting but is bound to get mixed-up with too much feminism handwaving. I’ll have to wait for ChatGPT-5 to write the book.
    Urges for human body modification have been pretty common. Tattoos at the lower end with various sorts of cranial modifications, footbinding, BIIDs, acrotomophilia (now there’s a word for you) at the other. Maybe it’s just that now and agin’ everyone goes crazy and feels the need to surgically remove sex organs or turn their infants’ heads into cones. No one ever accused humanity of acting in a practical manner.

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  38. fish Avatar
    fish

    You know they’re in full PR flail mode when they start giving things science fiction names…..!
    https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article274799281.html

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    Tell them to bring some of that sweet, sweet Burisma money….

    Trapped Americans In Sudan “Shocked & Disgusted” – Left By Biden To Fend For Themselves

    That always peaks Shotgun Joeys interest!
    grifter, grifter, grifter…..!

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  40. fish Avatar
    fish

    That always peaks Shotgun Joeys interest!
    “piques”….shameful when I type on autopilot!

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  41. Humphrey Ploughjogger Avatar
    Humphrey Ploughjogger

    Interesting, from the responses on the child marriage question can I assume that fish and Scott O are still in full trans hysteria mode? I was only comparing the two subjects because they both concern juveniles.
    So child brides and arranged marriages are fine with you two blokes?
    Scenes, I don’t remember ever bringing up child marriages.
    I would like to see the state by state breakdown or community by community breakdown of where child marriages are most common.

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    scenes @ 8:05 AM
    “Dunno why this person keeps on bringing it up, it’s not exactly a burning issue. Naturally, I’ll always respond that California has no age requirement.”
    I dunno know why he keeps going back to that well either. He keeps drawing the equivalency of pedophilia, irreversible minor genital mutilation, and under the legal age of consent marriages WITH legal and consensual marriages of those not legally adults. But, that’s what waterboys for the Biden Administration and MSM do.
    Different cultures still have arranged (forced) marriages. The only reason Muslims believe the marrying age for their daughters is 12 years old is because the Prophet took himself a 12 year old wife. If he married a 11 year old, that would be the marrying age of girls. The reason the Muslims force genital mutilation of their young daughters by removing the skin around and cutting the clitoris (the pleasure center of the vulva) is because they (and any future husbands) do not want the girls to become whores.
    But, he just keeps going back and drawing from that well. I reject that premise of any moral equivalence, which definitely puts me at odds with the Biden Administration. Thank goodness.
    ‘Whistleblower Warns US Government Is ‘Middleman’ in Child Trafficking at the Border’
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2023/04/27/whistleblower-warns-us-government-is-middleman-in-child-trafficking-at-the-border-n2622507
    ————-
    Biden Admin Files Lawsuit Challenging Tennessee Ban on Transgender Procedures for Minors
    ——————
    ‘Leftist Minnesota Just Gave State Power To Take Kids Away If Parents Don’t Approve Gender Surgery’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-minnesota-just-gave-state-power-to-take-kids-away-if-parents-dont-approve-gender-surgery
    Full disclosure: My 28 or 26 year old grandfather eloped with the boarding house owner lady’s 16 year old daughter with her mother chasing after then crying out, “Make sure you get married in a church!”…..so the family story goes. Grandma said she cried and cried because she was homesick….cried all the way to California.

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  43. fish Avatar
    fish

    Interesting, from the responses on the child marriage question can I assume that fish and Scott O are still in full trans hysteria mode? I was only comparing the two subjects because they both concern juveniles.
    So child brides and arranged marriages are fine with you two blokes?
    Scenes, I don’t remember ever bringing up child marriages.

    I would like to see the state by state breakdown or community by community breakdown of where child marriages are most common.

    “With all the talk about allowing children to
    experiment with gender reassignment, it is interesting to note that over 300,000 child marriages have occurred in the US between 2000-2018, usually between a younger woman and an older man.
    Only a few states have made it illegal for minors to get married before the age of 18.”

    You’re the only one who raises the issue of child marriage unsolicited. “Trans Hysteria”… please….as detailed in my earlier response, what you enjoy as a “personal hobby” is of little concern to me.
    You can even borrow my “Sawzall”! Just replace the blade and clean it up after.
    Are you really that challenged from a “reading comprehension” perspective?

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    HP “Scenes, I don’t remember ever bringing up child marriages.”
    Somebody named ‘Don T’ did in February, so I assumed it’s the same person with different aliases. It’s a peculiar (and unusual) corner case in morality used as a stick-it-to-the-Republicans argument point.
    If you are simply a member of the Boston Ploughjoggers making an important and heartfelt point, then mea culpa.
    re:Arranged marriages. It’s worth keeping in mind that those aren’t always (or often) selling the daughter off into servitude somewhere. In an era when families (and extended families) still mattered, it was all as much business deal as anything. Both of the concerned parties weren’t expected to fall in luv until some time later, if at all. You might tell your Sikh friends about how awful arranged marriages are with that concerned Progressive face.
    It’s not a thing I have a strong opinion on other than noting it’s just one more way to glue human groups together, like religion or bowling leagues.

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  45. Scott O Avatar

    HP 10:48 – “So child brides and arranged marriages are fine with you two blokes?”
    Go back and read my post again. If needed, maybe a sober adult helping you will be needed. Adults can do whatever they like to themselves. On their own time and their own dime. And I retain the right to call them whatever I want. Hardly hysteria.

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    MAP: minor attracted persons. Pedophile has such negative connotations.
    Teacher, teacher, I declare!

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Rhetorical question, fish?
    “Are you really that challenged from a “reading comprehension” perspective?”
    Posted by: fish | 28 April 2023 at 11:25 AM

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  48. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 28 April 2023 at 11:46 AM
    “Are you really that challenged from a “reading comprehension” perspective?”

    Not all Willlam…..heartfelt concern for someone who may be suffering from cerebral injury due to carrying 500 lbs on a frame that shouldn’t carry more than 30% of that or for someone so old and addled that he thinks the Greek Fisherman’s cap is a solid look.
    Remember….I’m a humanitarian!

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