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129 responses to “Sandbox – 17mar24”

  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Google Gemini.
    MSM just makes me laugh and laugh.
    “Google Gemini product lead retreats from social media after troubled AI product launch led to harassment”
    “Critics claimed, without evidence, that he had an “anti-white” agenda and included images of Krawczyk in their posts and responses.”
    https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/01/google-gemini-head-removes-social-media-profiles-after-product-launch.html
    some twitter work by Mr. Krawczyk
    https://twitter.com/drakeslayer100/status/1760636646985458022
    Gotta love how information near-monopolies are steered by insane people.

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  2. Scott O Avatar

    scenes 4:29 – From the CNBC article:
    “In the days following the release of the image engine, users discovered historical inaccuracies that went viral online.”
    And that, kids, is how you can tell the literal truth and be totally misleading.

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  3. Scott O Avatar

    Being the most obvious ‘diversity hire’ on the court, I’m not surprised she never knew this. But to give her credit she’s starting to understand the point of the Bill Of Rights:
    “Justice Jackson Tells GOP Officials: Your View of First Amendment Is ‘Hamstringing the Government’”
    I hope she’s aware that the feds can still put out all the “information” they want. Hardly ‘hamstrung’.

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  4. Scott O Avatar

    “Washington law students may ‘bypass’ bar exam, Supreme Court rules”
    “[The exam] disproportionately and unnecessarily blocks marginalized groups from entering the practice of law… [and is] at best minimally effective for ensuring competent lawyers.”
    And when this little ploy doesn’t produce the required numbers of ‘marginalized’ barristers?
    Then what?
    https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/washington-bypass-bar-exam

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Funny how the wokesters have no problem beclowning themselves –
    AOC takes heat over ‘RICO is not a crime’ comment in Biden impeachment probe hearing
    Bobulinski attempted to tell AOC that RICO is “a category of crimes that you are then charged under” as the congresswoman talked over him
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-takes-heat-over-rico-crime-comment-biden-impeachment-probe-hearing
    😉

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  6. Scott O Avatar

    Anyone can make a mistake:
    “Immigration judges dismissed deportation cases against some 200,000 migrants under President Biden because the Department of Homeland Security failed to file the required paperwork before their court dates, according to a new report.”
    Boy – I’ll bet whoever screwed that up will get fi… a big promotion.
    They’re openly pissing in our faces now. They’re begging for violence.
    Stay tuned.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-administration-fails-to-file-paperwork-causes-200k-migrant-deportation-cases-to-be-tossed-serious-concerns/ar-BB1kfzS3?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=fe73defb45394997b5b2648ec64be20d&ei=50

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So how is it that the UK and EU have figured out that mutilating kids before they have grown a brain and the preexisting mental health components of kids and stopped harming kids and yet the US has not?
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/03/20/j-k-rowling-threatens-legal-action-against-transgender-fan-site-for-posting-claims-about-family/
    😉

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    OH now this should be fun! –
    Embattled NY AG Letitia James accused of bullying women with trans sports stance in new federal lawsuit
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/embattled-ny-ag-letitia-james-080020945.html
    😉

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  9. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Props to Krugman once they bought him with that “prize” he stayed bought.

    Paul Krugman — People Who Don’t Love Biden’s Economy Just Haven’t ‘Done Their Homework’

    A rare quality these days……..
    https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2024/03/19/paul-krugman-people-who-dont-love-bidens-economy-just-havent-done-their-homework-n4927455

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  10. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Seen elsewhere…..

    “BIDEN REACHES ANOTHER RECORD LOW: When the U.S. Embassy in Haiti was closed, it marked the 11th such American overseas facility to be shut down since Joe Biden took the oath of office as Commander-in-Chief.
    “This record of failure is particularly noteworthy given that Biden bumbled his way into office promising to ‘restore America’s standing in the world,’ which is still listed on a White House website as an ‘immediate priority’ of his administration,” according to Issues & Insights (I&I).”

    You numbnutz should have listened to his former supervisor…..“Never underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up”!

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  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Props to Krugman once they bought him with that “prize” he stayed bought.”
    I figure that he’s a shorter version of Robert Reich. Honestly, I don’t know that I’ve ever seen an economist who wasn’t just a bundle of opinions on how-people-outta-live with a slather of handwaving mathematics smeared on top, so there is that.
    re: Scotland and jail for the unwoke. Canada has pretty much the same deal going on. Naturally, it’s all a giant ratfuck (a technical term) of people taking advantage of the situation, a big wide-open power grab. It’s wild watching politicians from the Levant and southern Asia swooping in and dealing in full-on wokery. To the more excitable, some variant of class enemies can be found under every rock.
    Perhaps the fact that native traditionalist populations just sit and take it simply proves that it’s time for the West to fold up it’s tent. The occasional Old Man Yells At Cloud Via Editorial Page is simply a last twitching limb of the animal. Once you gave up your children to these people it was game over. Moloch is real, has blue hair, and is nonbinary.
    Optimism is cowardice.

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  12. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Optimism is cowardice.
    …depends on just what you are optimistic for.

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  13. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “what you are optimistic for.”
    Well, there’s always more primate exercises in group behavior. Just keep the femur by the obelisk away from the bigger apes.
    “Efforts to mend division in our community: Gaza ceasefire walk this Saturday”
    https://www.theunion.com/news/efforts-to-mend-division-in-our-community-gaza-ceasefire-walk-this-saturday/article_978dee1e-e70a-11ee-89cd-db4e995b35c5.html
    We’ll always have The Shoe vs. The Gourd as Dunning–Kruger is the philosophy of the age.
    As one city council lady defines herself she is “passionate about using anti-oppressive practices to pursue racial and social justice and equity through collaborative innovation with diverse populations.”
    No doubt, thinking outside the box while involving stakeholders in a listening session in order to facilitate matters is it’s own reward.
    I’ll give you my talking stick when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

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  14. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: scenes | 21 March 2024 at 07:43 AM
    To quote Leonard from, “The Big Bang Theory”, ‘I’ll have to infer from context’.
    I can’t read the linked ….ahem….article. On general principle I refuse to let “The Bee”, “The Union”, “SFGate” et al. have my email address but I can guess though that it’s probably just another declaration of “moar feelz” that make menopausal women and Individual Juan think they’ve made a difference that day.
    About right?

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  15. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Kickin societal change Haitian style…..

    Vigilantes set gang members on FIRE & cut victims’ hands off in ‘world’s most dangerous city’ as bodies pile up in Haiti

    You really have to appreciate their “Mouse that Roared” enthusiasm! Wonder how many “guests” you guys can expect in your neck o the woods once President Brainstem extends the welcome mat? Send them to psul’s place I hear he has lots of extra space!
    https://www.the-sun.com/news/10847011/vigilantes-gangs-set-fire-bodies-haiti/

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  16. Scott O Avatar

    “As one city council lady defines herself she is “passionate about using anti-oppressive practices to pursue racial and social justice and equity through collaborative innovation with diverse populations.””
    Anti-oppressive practices…
    Like slapping the ‘Free Tibet’ bumper sticker on your Volvo?
    How’d that work out?

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  17. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    “As one city council lady defines herself she is “passionate about using anti-oppressive practices to pursue racial and social justice and equity through collaborative innovation with diverse populations.”
    Look ….I get it….it’s just another progressive incantation, a way to signal the other sheep in the flock. That said, every single person who was raised with English as their primary language should be horrified at that bafflegab vomitus!
    Which deep thinker on the council offered that gem?

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  18. Scott O Avatar

    “Which deep thinker on the council offered that gem?”
    Most any lib arts grad these days can come up with that sort of gibberish. It’s what passes for an ‘education’ these days.
    It is virtue signalling and making sure the correct folk show up for whatever sort of clam-bake is planned.
    “anti-oppressive practices” is the real howler.
    These are the same folk serving up jail sentences for those who dare to express wrong-think.

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  19. Scott O Avatar

    re the situation in Haiti – can you just imagine how pissed Greta is to see all those tires on fire?

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  20. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I am personally passionate about using truth based arguments to promote truth, justice and the American way.

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  21. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    re the situation in Haiti – can you just imagine how pissed Greta is to see all those tires on fire?
    Much like during the Summer of Floyd if those conducting their “Bidness” occupy the proper location on the Pantone scale all “Right Thinkers” will remain properly mute.

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  22. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    In NC, The Mayor sez: “We are taking steps to look at professional facilitation and looking at a process where we can bring in community stakeholders and assess the consensus of the community to then take action,”
    If we were playing City Council Bingo, the ‘stakeholder’, ‘consensus’, and ‘facilitation’ squares would now be marked.
    Some speaker or the other sez: “Let’s say all of those Neo-Nazis who called in before came in, and wanted to be part of a community discussion. I don’t think we would let them do that.”
    Free speech only going so far and all, although I expect that ‘Neo-Nazi’ is a much more expansive term than you might think, ranging from an ex-SS officer in Venezuela to the local Republican Ladies Garden Club.
    Life goes on in Pridetown USA, you just have to hope that there’s someone who worries about budgets, sewers, and fire danger. Out here in the country there’s just the murmur of wildlife and the occasional shooting star.

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Gregory: “I am personally passionate about using truth based arguments to promote truth, justice and the American way.”
    Thank you for your service.
    The friction between truth and feelz-based government goes on.

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  24. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    scotto: “re the situation in Haiti – can you just imagine how pissed Greta is to see all those tires on fire?”
    I was going to make some sort of smart-assed remark about necklacing, assuming that they were just making protest fires.
    Nopers. The news disabused me of that thought. The ability of people to fall short of my expectations should not surprise me at this point.
    You’d hope that the Dominican Republic will reinforce whatever border they’ve got, although I expect that the Biden Administration is hoping for a mass movement of people into their country, walls being so passé and all.

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  25. Scott O Avatar

    “You’d hope that the Dominican Republic will reinforce whatever border they’ve got…”
    from 2 years ago –
    “Dominican Republic begins building border wall with Haiti”
    https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/dominican-republic-begins-building-border-wall-with-haiti-2022-02-20/
    The DR does not want any more vibrancy and diversity, thank you very much.

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  26. Scott O Avatar

    “I am personally passionate about using truth based arguments to promote truth, justice and the American way.”
    Uh oh – that’s sure to put you on the White Christian Nationalist watch list by the Nevada County Chapter of Decent Dems for Democracy! – (TM pending).

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  27. Scott O Avatar

    The CDC just released a 148 page paper after a request under the FOI ACT.
    It was entirely blank.
    148 pages of absolutely nothing.
    Because the public should be kept informed of what the gubmint is up to.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/cdc-s-chance-to-debunk-florida-s-top-doc-on-link-between-covid-vax-heart-disease-came-up-empty/ar-BB1jE3vG

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  28. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Anybody surprised that the house Majority Leader was cozying up to Charles Schumer…….anyone, anyone??

    House Passes Pork-Filled Bill To Fully Fund Government

    I understand there is even a line item to allow old hippies to buy government subsidized theft resistant guitar cases in which to catch their change!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gay-senior-home-dei-zoo-gender-malarkey-pork-filled-12t-spending-package-faces-uphill

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  29. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Big deal…..

    “Terrified” Joe Biden Demands Ukraine Halt Strikes On Russian Refiners As It Is Sending Oil Prices Surging

    “Nothing terrifies a sitting American president more than a surge in pump prices during an election year”


    So grampy shits his depends ….how’s that different than every other day at the White House?
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/terrified-joe-biden-demands-ukraine-halt-strikes-russian-refiners-it-sending-oil-prices

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  30. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “So grampy shits his depends”
    Assuming he was involved in the decision making.

    To be fair, being re-elected is the Prime Directive of any President, and foreign policy will reflect that. It’s baked into the cake of the US political system I think.

    I did like this one.
    https://www.openthebooks.com/substack-university-of-virginia-spends-20-million-on-235-dei-employees-with-some-making-587340-per-year/
    https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/why-cant-the-university-of-virginia

    I just have to laugh and laugh when I see how much grift there is in this country. It an inverted pyramid with a scad of HR departments, scammy non-profits, ‘activists’, school administrations on top, one overworked plumber on the bottom.

    As usual, on Mondays and Fridays…
    “The two traditional political divisions, liberal and conservative died with Covid. Now there are simply the sane versus the insane. The sane have had enough of being pushed around by the insane. The insane don’t register much of what reality tries to tell them. They have a body of insane ideas to comfort and protect them from the reality’s rigors. To call that body of ideas an “ideology” is way too polite.
    That the insane call themselves “progressive,” is a signature of their insanity. Progress toward what better state of things? Toward a supremacy of fiends, sadists, degenerates, and morons seizing riches and power by every dishonest means possible outside the rule of law and common decency? It’s not even suitable to call them “communists.” They lack the necessary idealism for that. They don’t expect to put their shoulders to the wheel with their fellow man. They just want to grab your stuff and then kill you so they don’t have to hear any complaints.”
    https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/wake-up-call-2/

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  31. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    You have to admire the free market’s ability to step in when the government abandons you.
    https://www.youtube.com/@SquatterSquad
    https://squattersquad.co/
    You know, there’s a reality show in the making here.

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  32. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: scenes | 22 March 2024 at 01:12 PM
    Assuming he was involved in the decision making.

    I envision it very much like asking the dog if he wants to go for a ride…….when the ride actually involves a trip to the vet. Poor Joe ….every mental faculty dulled to the point of uselessness except of that for being a craven coward politically and an idiot savant like talent for graft!
    But I do get why Punchy likes the guy….

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  33. Scott O Avatar

    What in hell is a “DEI zoo”?
    Unless they mean they realize most DEI adherents are a bunch of freaks and they want to round up a few dozen and put them on display in cages?

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  34. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    You know, maybe it would be best to shut down all of these grifter non-profits and start over. Just fire everybody.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/us/politics/aclu-employee-fired-race-bias.html
    (hopefully it’s not paywalled, I’m seeing it fine.)

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  35. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The Grey Lady has gone down… I can’t see it.

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  36. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Thanks for going the extra mile… I’ve had a bad time with the Time’s paywalls as of late.
    I’d guess that ACLU orifice isn’t quite bright enough to keep up with an attorney with Korean DNA.

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Kind of late to come to reality global warming freaks –
    Those on the environmental left cheering the Biden administration’s electric-vehicle mandates or Gov. Hochul’s offshore wind farms would be wise to heed a painful and embarrassing lesson New York is learning from its not-so-distant past.
    Not only do so-called “green” policies drive up consumer prices, decrease reliability and upend everyday life (say goodbye to wood-fired pizza ovens and gas-powered stoves), they often end up harming the environment they’re supposed to be saving.
    Nearly four years after the Indian Point fiasco, New York emits more carbon per megawatt-hour than Texas — the nation’s leading oil producer — and outpaces America as a whole.
    Another twist in this saga: The power Indian Point produced was carbon free.
    In fact, nuclear is such a clean form of energy that France derives 70% of its electricity from it.
    Naturally, the 1,000 jobs Indian Point provided also went away and never came back.
    When even the fairly left-of-center British outlet The Guardian admits Indian Point’s closure turned out to be a bad decision, the eco-left is running out of friends and advocates.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/even-lefties-now-admit-closing-the-indian-point-nuclear-plant-actually-harmed-the-planet/ar-BB1kjP7Q?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=dd5e69da2da143f1abbdade9c4cf9a98&ei=77
    😉

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  38. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Brought to you from the same idiots socialist dems that caused the catastrophic afgan shit show bug out. And they wonder why they cannot recruit good Americans to serve anymore. WTF they are not cannon fodder or sacrificial pawns of the wokesters!!! All to suck up to the dems jihadi contingent. –
    U.S. troops will be working on ships just a few thousand feet from shore and well within the range of Hamas missiles, Greenway said.
    “I don’t want to get into you know, potential vulnerabilities. Obviously a complex operation here, all the things that we’re going to work through. I think the key aspect here is that again we’re working alongside partners and allies in the region, as well as NGOs to help implement this,” Ryder said on March 8.
    The plan’s rapid conception caught some military officials by surprise, NBC reported, citing three U.S. military officials. As far as is known, the military does not have a plan for security of U.S. forces and aid deliveries to the active war zone.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-s-gaza-aid-puts-troops-at-risk-to-appease-voters-experts-say/ar-BB1kn1zt?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=cbc54874cd6c42928096cb39f8be2673&ei=28
    😉

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  39. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    DEI
    Didn’t Earn It.

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  40. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “DEI”
    Probably an ephemeral thing in the long run. Of course, we’ll all be dead by then. I have to admit that I’m surprised by how people with bonafide handicaps are mostly left out of the mix. I guess that vision issues and wheelchairs matter less than Pantone color and crossdressing.
    The presence of someone like Grand Admiral Levine at the top of a grievance heap will likely be replaced by something less understandable over time.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/family/ar-BB1klb2A
    At least I’m now acquainted with the genius of ‘Skibidi Toilet’, as arguing about Trump or 19th/20th C. political philosophers veers ever closer to Old Man Yells At Cloud.

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  41. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    lol. And The Beat Goes On.
    “A migrant TikToker with a 500,000-strong online following is offering his comrades tips on how to “invade” unoccupied homes and invoke squatter’s rights in the United States.
    Venezuelan national Leonel Moreno, who appears to live in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, said in a recent video that under US law, “if a house is not inhabited, we can seize it.””
    https://nypost.com/2024/03/21/us-news/tiktokker-tells-illegal-immigrants-how-to-invade-american-homes/

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    fish ole’

    …..and in a stunning win for fiscal rectitude….!

    Spending Deal Bans Flying Pride Flag Over US Diplomatic Buildings

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/spending-deal-bans-flying-pride-flag-over-us-diplomatic-buildings#google_vignette

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  43. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Best wishes to the Princess of Wales and her family.
    I expect her diagnoses and treatments to be akin to the ovarian cancer news my wife got in ’99, and a debulking surgery has largely emptied out her nethers.
    It’s a shame we can’t easily speak of such cancers.

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  44. Scott O Avatar

    Damn voters are believing their own lying eyes and won’t follow the instructions on their screens.
    “White House Communications Director Ben LaBolt stated that President Joe Biden put “the strongest economic recovery of anywhere on the planet” into motion, but “in 2020, for persuadable voters, the number one television show that they watched was ‘The Bachelor,’” and “People are busy in their lives. They’re not watching the news throughout the day.””
    My investment portfolio has just now edged back into the black after the first part of Joe’s Reign clobbered it. Combined with the high inflation that is NOT going down (despite the continued lies) I’m still behind financially. Both our son and our son-in-law lost their jobs this year due primarily to complete lack of economic activity in their respective fields. Son-in-law saw it coming and has secured another job after a long search and our son will be back to gig work for now. Funny how none of us watch ‘The Bachelor’ nor any other BS yet we just won’t fall in line with the preferred mantra.
    And –
    I see they want another 100 Big ones to light on fire for the Brown Streak choo choo train. Will that be a priority before or after the reparations? I know you good folks in Kali have a little debt problem right now so it’s hard to focus on fiscal realities.
    Enjoy!

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