A few years back, my sister’s step-daughter adopted three kids, supposedly all brothers and sisters, but more likely half brothers and sisters. The oldest boy, six years old at the time had anger issues. It was understandable, as the mother had done such things as put him in charge of the younger kids for the weekend while she was off making whoopee.
After adoption, the anger in the oldest boy receded, as here was a nice stable environment. Now, 9 years later, they are back again. He is a big fella, who is wise to the system. He threatens to call child protective services when there is an attempt at discipline. He also understands what his size does for him. Therapy doesn’t seem to be working particularly well. Short answer — he can get away with it because the system effectively encourages him.
As for his real mother, she is undoubtedly really to blame. Welfare and whoopee isn’t a recipe for success, for here or her children.
Who is ultimately to blame for all of this? Lefties throughout the last 60 years. This is the fruit that they create. Will they take responsibility?
I had a brother go the ‘child protective services’ route with my step-dad and mom. He didn’t care for State care. Put an end to that. No fun for my parents either, but everything ultimately ended up ok for them (and the rest of kids) on the other side. Might consider letting him go.
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I am curious. Can you give more details?
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All the decent bits from last night’s Question Time. i.e. the bits where Laurence Fox laid into the PC bollox of the rest of the panel. Some comedy classic material here. They should get him to replace Ricky Gervais at the acting awards thing next year.
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RADA = Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts (or something like that). The pedigree place to study to become an ac-tor.
Mentions, among other things, Get woke, go broke although not with the words.
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‘Random member of BBC audience’ who called the handling of Princess Sparkle racist (slapped down by Laurence Fox) turns out not to be all that random or lacking in self-interest
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Hmm. This is a good point. And great news for libtards
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The papers have wandered around the political spectrum a little in the intervening decades but there are truths that are eternal (like the last one in the clip. And RIP the actor who died today)
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I watched “Inspector Lewis”. Fox was the best part of it. It kinda looked like they were setting him up for his own show toward the end, but it seems that they didn’t. The boss lady cop was not appealing though. Too much of a “know it all”.
It was odd that Lewis started out as the comic relief for inspector Morse, but ended up as this super-detective.
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He is a big fella, who is wise to the system. He threatens to call child protective services when there is an attempt at discipline. He also understands what his size does for him. Therapy doesn’t seem to be working particularly well. Short answer — he can get away with it because the system effectively encourages him.
He needs to be emancipated so he can the out there, get a job, and pay his own fucking bills.
Or is it too late to drop him off at the firehouse, no questions asked?
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Morning Joe co-anchor Joe Scarborough said on Thursday that history “will be bleak” for the children and grandchildren of President Donald Trump’s defenders.
“History, it will be bleak, and their families, their children—their grandchildren—everyone who has their last name will carry that around with them.”
https://freebeacon.com/politics/msnbc-anchor-bleak-future-for-children-grandchildren-of-trumps-defenders/
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A handy cut out and keep guide to you being a racist
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Must admit that I’ve not watched Morse, Endeavor or Lewis. Jack Regan speaking with a cut glass accent? Does not compute
Yes, that’s Inspector Morose in his The Sweeney days
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Bit of a classic theme tune
Not that I watched that either. Even young me found the cop-on-the-edge meme to be worn out
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https://acton.org/publications/transatlantic/2020/01/14/nhs-leader-stop-prioritising-your-own-health
A senior official in the UK’s single-payer healthcare system says that patients should stop selfishly putting their own health and well-being first in order to improve the funding and “morale” of the NHS.
Jessica Arnold, who “has held a number of senior roles in the NHS,” argues in the Guardian that the National Health Service would be in fine shape if citizens were willing to suffer in silence until the service can tend to them.
Arnold makes an impassioned plea for Brits to stop using private healthcare, regardless of long wait times, because the private sector drains staff and resources from the NHS.
“I strongly encourage people not to use private healthcare services,” she writes. “I implore anyone who uses private healthcare to be aware that they are effectively privatising the NHS by doing so.”
In a ponderous sentence, she writes: “I ask people to think carefully about the impact of prioritising themselves at a high cost to not only other people who do rely on the NHS, but to their future selves who may rely on the NHS one day because they have an accident or emergency, or become really quite unwell, or can no longer afford to pay privately.” (Emphasis added.)
Really, you shouldn’t want to get well sooner, or even avoid death by using private healthcare if that’s the only working option? It’s selfish? Fuck off, Jessica Arnold. BloJo should sack her by end of day.
On this side of the pond it would translate to: “Medicare for all, healthcare for none.”
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Note that the older boy mentioned here is the same one mentioned in this post
https://spawnyspace.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/eighteen-years-old-and-a-white-male/
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FB – with the OP, you are basically inviting a discussion of the age-old nature vs. nurture issue. You are asking who is to blame wihout mentioning the birth father. He contributed at least half of the nature side (maybe more, depending on the dominant versus recessive gene stuff), and who knows how much of the nurture side (even if totally absent from the child’s life, that absence is itself a nurture contribution).
I think this is a conversation worth having – but only if all of the potential contributors are identified and included in the conversation.
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Clarification: It is also possible that the birth mother contributed more than half of the nature side – again, depending on how many of her genes were dominate rather than recessive.
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Laurence Fox folds to twatter pressure
Just kidding
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Jack Regan speaking with a cut glass accent? Does not compute
That was my reaction too, the first time I heard him open his mouth on Morse. The Sweeney was great. Morse was good, largely because of Lewis. Lewis was better than Morse, largely because of Hathaway.
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Morse, the character, was too depressing for my liking. I could only take so much of it. Otherwise the series, Morse, was brilliant.
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“That was my reaction too, the first time I heard him open his mouth on Morse”
That’s lucky. If you’d have disagreed I’d have had to do your legs like an Intercity 125
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And let us not speak of the the remake movie of more recent times.
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He’s still going. Got to be worth a squiz
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Skip to 3:26 for the incident and the interview with the marvellous (in this incident anyway, I know nothing else about her) McSally
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A post at Dalrock’s place last night (he hasn’t posted for a few weeks):
@cynthia
Does anybody know if Dalrock is okay? Hope all is well with him and his.
Thank you. All is well in the Dalrock household.
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Oh noes! Bad news about ultra-woke Watchman
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Bullet dodged, mate.
https://www.indy100.com/article/woman-wedding-dress-reddit-post-online-cost-fiance-9287386
I was actually expecting something like $5,000-6,000 price for the dress. $1000 is still too much, but girls are supposedly dreaming about that stuff since pre-K.
The fact her family is piling on is more evidence that he barely missed getting hit by a bus.
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CNN captures Martha McSally viciously beating Kam Fong to death with a tire iron.
CNN: “He’s dead, Jim!”
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CNN now reporting that Kam Fong played Chin Ho on Hawaii 5-0 and that McSally actually murdered Zulu Kono.
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CNN is now reporting that Zulu played Kono and that Steve and Danny were members of the Hawaii branch of the Nazi Party. # Heil Haole!
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McSally Murders Curious George In Cold Blood!!! – trumpets CNN.
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CNN: “Ok, ok, it wasn’t Curious George. It was Apu from the Simpsons! She’s a racist! RAAAAACISSSST!!!”
last one
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Alright! Alright! She’s clearly a monster
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In retrospect, it’s an obvious idea
But brilliant.
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Or…
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Well, to be honest, Laurence Fox would be a much more appealing James Bond than the woman they have lined up next. She is rather hard on the eyes
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BOSTON, MA—Students in the dining hall at Boston University were in for a surprise when presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren suddenly appeared above their heads, wearing pink fairy wings and holding a magic wand.
“I am the Student Loan Fairy and I’m here to pay off all your debts!” exclaimed the Democratic candidate
https://babylonbee.com/news/elizabeth-warren-swings-above-college-kids-on-wires-shouting-im-the-student-loan-fairy-and-im-here-to-pay-off-your-debts
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—It was a somber day for the U.S., as House Democrats formalized the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi took seven solemn hours to sign the articles of impeachment with 582 custom pens on silver trays before she sent them over to the Senate. As the articles were handed over, the Impeachment Dancers entered the room, marking the dark day with a well-choreographed dance number accented by a tasteful amount of pyrotechnics.
https://babylonbee.com/news/somber-impeachment-ceremony-concludes-with-the-impeachment-dancers
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Yesterday, the Department of Education released a proposal for a new rule that would, among other things, tie grant funding from the department to compliance with the First Amendment.
https://www.thefire.org/new-department-of-education-first-amendment-grant-regulations-have-real-promise-but-require-caution/
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Is it just me, or does it appear to others that lefties have amped up their gaslighting to 11?
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Climate shite is currently at twelvety on the UK MSM.
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I read somewhere recently that Watchman was “cancelled” because the creator of the show did not want to create a second season. That would be a different angle than the network cancelled the show – because of low ratings or whatever.
Sort of demonstrates the point that, without a writer, you don’t have a show – no matter how many quality actors you may have participating.
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“By their fruits you shall know them
My latest post takes a different perspective on this passage from scripture.
“When one can get out from under the umbrella of sin, one will naturally experience the showers of God’s blessing and grace. Churchians with a superficial understanding of sin would be tempted to conclude that the fornicating is the sin, but it is not. Fornicating is merely the fruit of the sin. Kline’s sin, in this case, was not fornicating, but was in postponing marriage while believing that her sexual “purity” is what made her righteous, worthy, and would bring her blessing. She compounded this sin by resolving to retain her purity under her own free willpower, instead of trusting in the provision of God (which came in the form of a high school boyfriend / potential husband whom she was originally crazy about). Unfortunately for the sap who became her future husband, it required a bit of whole-hearted fornicating to wake her up from her deception and idolatry.
What no one is saying is the obvious – that the Purity Movement turned out to be, for some, a modern reiteration of the age old practice of S1ut Shaming. Of course, s1uts don’t like S1ut Shaming because it makes them Feeelz ashamed and pressures them to adjust their behavior.
https://sigmaframe.wordpress.com/2020/01/17/the-sin-of-prioritizing-purity-above-marriage/
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It’s hard to imagine that being judged on merit, not diversity points, would be such a controversial thing to say, but for once in my adult life I can applaud Stephen King for a view he holds.
But now the question is, will Stephen King be canceled?
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/welcome-to-the-republican-party-stephen-king/
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Stephen King: .I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.
It would certainly be wrong to considered diversity in matter of art. I mean, it matters a lot if I’m picking a surgeon, engineer, ect. But not an artist. Pick an artist based on diversity and a lot of stuff can go wrong.
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Pick an artist based on diversity and a lot of stuff can go wrong.
Yes. It even has a name – Smollett Syndrome
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A little something to clear the visual palate: (courtesy of Jack)
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I’ve read through Jack’s and Gunner’s articles linked to above. I’ve read earl’s comments at Gunner’s thread. All of it reminded me that folks cannot have useful conversations unless and until they have defined their terms and all agree on those definitions. Without that, folks are simply talking to the wind. Which is what seems to be happening at the writings linked to above.
Among some of the issues that jumped out at me are these – not intended as criticisms but as points that hinder clarity when not defined, and that help the faith conversation in the manosphere when clarity is enhanced by definitions that all agree on. All questions here are rhetorical, meant to trigger thinking, particularly thinking about the effect of writing when your terms are not defined.
What is the difference between the churchian, the christian, and the redeemed. (Hint: only one of those will get a pass at the Judgement Seat,and, ultimately, that pass is all that matters).
What dynamic was Paul pointing to when he said that, without faith, it is impossible to please God. And then said whatsoever is not of faith is sin? And then said (paraphrased), if you think God said not to eat meat offered to idols, then don’t eat it (because eating it would display a willingness to disobey God). On the other hand, if you think God didn’t say we couldn’t eat meat offered to idols, then eat it with gusto and a clear concience.
Can faith exist where proof exists? is proof necessary where faith is required?.
What is a virgin?
You do know that “virgins” can get pregnant, right? You do know that the clear pre-ejaculate liquid contains sperm, right? That the pre-ejaculate liquid can impregnate a “vigin” if it can get past the hymen, even if there is no p in v and the guy does not ejaculate, right? You can bet that many girls know this. And therefore there is a logic to a “virgin” requesting a pregnancy test before she has an x-ray.
No one can say that Jesus is Lord without the help of the Holy Spirit. (1st Corinthians 12:3)
The natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually perceived. (1st Corinthians 2:14). The mind governed by the flesh (the desires of the five senses) is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh [focusing only on satisfying their five senses] cannot please God. (Romans 8:5-8)
When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. (Colossians 2:13; NIV) And you [hath he brought to life], who were dead in trespasses and sins; (Ephesians 2:1; KJV) Note that in neither instance did the spiritually dead person bring himself to spiritual life. Lazarus can’t call himself out of the grave.
Was the Purity movement an attempt to make its practitioners “redeemed” (see above)? The answer is no. The Purity movement was an attempt to keep the girls from getting pregnant outside of marriage and to inhibit the spread of venerial disease. That is all.
To criticize the folks “damaged” by the Purity movement for not behaving as the redeemed do is to totally miss the distinctions laid out in this post. Only God could call Lazarus out of the grave (Lazarus couldn’t do it). And only God can call the spiritually dead person to spiritual life (the spiritually dead person can’t do it, because they do not perceive spiritual things). As an example of this, think of Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus when he was stuck by the blinding (literally) light. Being part of the Purity movement and being redeemed (brought to spiritual life so that one follows the commandments of Jesus) are two completely separate issues. Trying to stay pure through your own efforts and trusting God to help you do the right thing are two completely separate issues – as some of the commenters in the threads linked to above pointed out.
What we end up with in the articles linked to above by Jack and Gunner is a big to-do about criticizing the not redeemed for not being redeemed. That is not very useful.
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@Jack said: Churchians with a superficial understanding of sin would be tempted to conclude that the fornicating is the sin, but it is not.
There is sin.
There is that which will cause God to reject you at the Judgement Seat.
Which of those two is more important?
“Fornication” is on the list of things that the Bible says will cause God to reject you at the Judgement Seat. If you care about whether God rejects you or not, then you should care about whether you are doing that which will cause God to reject you. Since “fornication” is one of those things that the Bible says will cause God to reject you, it it probably important to give a damn about whether or not you are fornicating.
The Bible says nothing about God rejecting someone at the Judgement Seat because they didn’t get married.
Jack – don’t get out into the weeds. Just say what the Bible says. And – in this case – the Bible does say that fornicating is the problem, not staying unmarried. Contrary to what I quoted from you at the top of this post, those with a non-superficial understanding of what the Bible says understand that the Bible DOES conclude that fornicating is the sin.
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My mates the Royals shaffted us Aussies they never did a damn thing for us worth a tin of shit. Don’t turn the spawny blog into another bloody royal tabloid mates. A royal couldn’t crank its ringear out of a dung heap mate. Prince Harry and Meghan Markel are crap you shake off like a shoe full of dung mate. I typed dung instead of shite becuae Im trying to be pilite mtae. I’m sorry mates I am tired.
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It’s more of a ‘look what happens when you marry the wrong woman’ type thing for me. I’m no royal fan. It’s more that the alternative might leave us with the likes of President Bliar. When current Queenie pops her clogs then dumping the royals as a relevant political entity becomes a no-brainer though. Charles and William show worrying signs of being eco-mongs and not very intelligent either.
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Starts with the good news, then come the worries.
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It’s more of a ‘look what happens when you marry the wrong woman’ type thing for me.
Agreed
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This mong-a-athon is currently live. Ladies’n’gentlemen this is the modern left in the UK. Pray for us, fuck them.
[Emily sexy she would be?]
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LMAO
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To be fair, it’s only the men being asked to watch the movie that are refusing, the rest just can’t be arsed.
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Lily Allen is a (rather poor) alleged ‘singer’, daughter of a singer father (always nice to have nepotism as a career aid) and professional gobshite. Bit rich coming from her.
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You know that your royal goose is cooked when the memes start to flow.
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My mates the Royals shaffted us Aussies they never did a damn thing for us worth a tin of shit. Don’t turn the spawny blog into another bloody royal tabloid mates. A royal couldn’t crank its ringear out of a dung heap mate. Prince Harry and Meghan Markel are crap you shake off like a shoe full of dung mate. I typed dung instead of shite becuae Im trying to be pilite mtae. I’m sorry mates I am tired.
Choicy, stop being an idiot, mate. The Westminster system of government, from which come a good many of the benefits in Aussie that we take for granted on a daily basis, is rooted in the British monarchical system. The British monarchy is a fundamental part of our system of government which is built upon interlocking tiers.
Just consider for a moment how much the left in Australia hates the monarchy and wants it gone. Then consider the fact that the left are wrong about everything. Then consider that anything that the left really hates, such as the Catholic Church and the British monarchy, just might have something going for it. The left only hates something which is a threat to its existence. In that regard, the British monarchy is not just critical, it is precious. It is our history and our shared heritage, things which the left constantly desire to undo.
I stand by the British monarchy.
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God Save The Queen
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Richard,
I liked what your feedback for Gunner and Jack.
What is a virgin?
The technical definition is a woman who has not had sexual intercourse.
The biblical definition is a woman who is pure of body.
In the modern world a woman can have sucked off 50 different men on separate occasions but is technically still a virgin as she has never had intercourse. However, she is not pure in body. Thus, she is not a virgin, at least not in the spirit of the term.
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And us from the Prince Of Wales
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How does one define “virgin” for those 57 types of whatever?
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Hillary’s Latest Move Has People Convinced She’s Running for President in 2020
https://pjmedia.com/trending/hillarys-latest-move-has-people-convinced-shes-running-for-president-in-2020/
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Not much love for California
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“Pick an artist based on diversity and a lot of stuff can go wrong.”
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https://babylonbee.com/news/pelosi-releases-limited-edition-replica-of-dentures-she-was-wearing-during-trump-impeachment
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“God Save The Queen”
If only for the fact that the alternative might well be worse.
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Slightly awkward wording here (but perhaps effectively true)
Britain shows Japan how to Attack Pearl Harbor – Battle of Taranto – WW2 – 064 – November 16, 1940
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Just added that youtube channel to my subscriptions.
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Since the legal case is nonsense and the outcome foreordained, it is only a public relations battle now. The farther the administration is seen to enable an airing of the facts, the better and more electorally valuable will be the result. The Democrats created this trap for themselves; they should be allowed to take the consequences when that trap snaps closed on them.
https://amgreatness.com/2020/01/16/this-tawdry-impeachment-spectacle-must-run-its-course/
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Is Emily called a Shadow Minister because a she casts a large shadow?
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Elizabeth Warren Takes Credit for Sponsoring Bills She Voted Against
https://freebeacon.com/politics/elizabeth-warren-voting-record/
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Gay men get married, adopt a young boy, aaaaaaaaaannnnnnnd … what comes next do you think?
https://pushingrubberdownhill.com/2020/01/18/friday-hawt-chicks-links-the-love-song-edition/
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If you think it is impossible to sink lower than CNN, well have a look at a piece up over at NBC News by Noah Berlatsky: Trump Voters Motivated by Racism May Be Violating the Constitution: Can They Be Stopped?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/media-madness-nbc-news-tells-cnn-hold-my-beer.php
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I have no (had no) idea who Laurence Fox is, but thanks to CdO I at least know how he thinks. Very impressive man, and at about 7:00 of the second video, he demonstrates fluency with:
a. God
b. Douglas Murray
c. the 2008 financial crisis
d. the iPhone
All in one paragraph. Thank you, CdO.
Also, the interviewer’s body language in this entire 30 minute clip is hilarious. That is one frightened human.
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Nancy Pelosi fist bumps impeachment with Bill Maher.
Spare us the lecture about being serious and somber, Nancy.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) January 18, 2020
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Gratuitous images
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‘Will This Kill My Career?’ Actor Laurence Fox Comes Out as Pro-Trump!
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/01/17/watch-will-this-kill-my-career-actor-laurence-fox-praises-trump/
There is a really good interview video at this site
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There is a new post
https://spawnyspace.wordpress.com/2020/01/18/young-men-understand-value/
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A Colorado Border Collie
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she’s home! Baby went home today 🙂 🙂 🙂
pics of Dad holding her – he looks like a pro … sooo precious!!!
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That was fast
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Oh look some Galah has called me an idiot. I’m too polite to call you an idiot so I’ll call you a boofhead instead you flamin dill.
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I thought so, too, FB. I don’t think they’ve been telling me everything. I found out on Facebook 10 hours after the fact that they were home. My sister gets weird with info like that.
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