Yes, that's the one. One of John Wayne's better movies.

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Good Party!
No Whiskey!

We go home!!

#3 | Posted by Mao_Content

Wasn't that out of a John Wayne movie where an old Indian chief was always asking Wayne to go drinking with him?

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What a lot of people miss in these discussion is that in many small towns, particularly in states like Texas, the ONLY library available to local residents is their school's library, which BTW, has already been paid for with their tax dollars. This is why many public schools allow not only students, but their parents and other people to check-up out books because this is often the only opportunity that these people will have for getting books to read free of charge.

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Let's see if this is something that happens in other police departments...

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And what was it about this series of books that caught the attention of whoever tried to get them banned? Was it because GIRLS were being shown writing computer code, something that I'm sure there are those who might not consider that being a gender-appropriate endeavor? Have we come so far that we're going to start banning books because they don't comply with our antiquated and apparently misogynistic views of what roles girls should be learning about in school?

I'm sorry, I worked nearly 35 years for a company that developed and sold engineering software products and a large percentage of the people developing this software were females. And for a period of about eight-years, our vice-president of software development was a women, and in fact I was one of her direct reports (I was on her staff, acting as a liaison between her organization and our customer base). Granted, our primary development site, where I worked and where my boss also had her office, was located in Southern California, so that might not have been indicative of what might have been found in other parts of the country, but...

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While I was reading this, I couldn't help but recall the plot of the movie 'Paths of Glory', staring Kirk Douglas. He portrayed a WWI French Army officer assigned to the front line. One of his superior officers had fouled-up an attack which had turned into a rout. So the high-command ordered the Douglas character to select three low-level soldiers at random, accuse them of cowardice, have them court-martialed and then publicly executed because they needed to punish someone for this military disaster and it certainly wasn't going to be the high-ranking, and well-connected, officer who was ultimately responsible.

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"61 percent of Republicans supported declaring the United States a Christian nation"

#2 | Posted by Zed

The irony is that in this same survey, they found that 57% of Republicans agreed that establishing an official 'religion', any religion, Christian or otherwise, would violate the Constitution of the United States.

So which is it guys, establishing a state religion or upholding the Constitution? It appears that at least some of you think you can have it both ways.

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Federal Judges can be impeached by the House of Representatives and removed from office after being convicted in the Senate.

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With the recent reports that DHS officials have aided and abetted the transportation of immigrants from places like Texas to Northern cities, and in fact providing them information that if they attempted to use, would make them subject to immediate deportation, it might be time to 'clean house'.

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I've heard that it was federal employees, specifically members of Homeland Security, who was providing these people with false information including fake addresses and other fraudulent data. Someone said this was done in the hopes that these people, when they arrived in Massachusetts would repeat these false statements and they could then be arrested for deceiving authorities, which would open them up to being immediately deported.

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We live in Southern California and our lights never went out. Granted, they cutoff our AC for three evenings, but then we're being compensated for that with a monthly rebate.

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We only had our AC shut-off three evenings during the week of the power 'emergency'. We're part of an AC cycling program where Southern California Edison can remotely shut-off our AC system for up to six hours at a time. For this, we get a partial rebate on our electric bill for the months from June thru September, whether they cycled our AC or not. Note that of the three interruptions last week, the longest was about four hours, and that these were the first interruptions that we had been aware of all Summer. So I guess the system worked as expected.

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You can't help but wonder if the data was deemed as not helping to support the recent moves by the Republican-controlled legislature nor the positions of the various Republicans running for office at the moment.

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Joe Biden has been warning people that if the Republicans gain control of Congress that one of the first things that they'll do is impose a nationwide restriction on abortions.

And now Lindsey Graham is making Biden's case for him...

And yet Republicans are wondering why their November prospects have been looking less rosy than a year ago.

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YOU THINK...

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Since America has NO official, state-mandated language, how can anyone make it a requirement that you be able to read a particular language before you can vote? They could just as easily require that you be able to read Mandarin or Latin, and it would be just as legally defensible.

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I thought it was us evil liberals who were supposed to be pushing this 'cancel culture' thing?

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Our son works for a company that comes in and 'saves' organizations that have been hacked and over the last few days, they've gotten contracts for some of the biggest ransomware attacks that they've ever seen, and it appears to have been the work of a single Russian hacking group. Now he says that they're not as sophisticated as some hackers, but they tend to go after really big operations and that it takes a lot of work to overcome these sorts of attacks. And they don't limit themselves to just corporations as they also go after governmental or public agencies.

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And lets not forget Trump Tower.

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The irony is that Fox News never actually 'ran' any of these adverts. The time slots were purchased by the 'Lincoln Project' directly from the local cable-TV providers to run on the Fox News channel in provider-controlled time-slots. And even then, they're only buying time from those providers who supply cable services in places like Bedminster, New Jersey, or Palm Beach, Florida. Those adverts are being produced for an audience of ONE, and it appears to be working.

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Just one more thing for Trump to obsess over...

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Actually, the National Archive has already created a 'virtual' Donald J. Trump Presidential Library:

Just another grift...

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And in the next breath, Trump called Joe Biden Satan...

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They've just reopened the newly remodeled bar on the ground floor of Trump Tower on 5th Avenue in New York. The newly renovated bar has been renamed '45 Wine & Whiskey' and appears to be decorated with a large amount of memorabilia from Trump's time in office, and if it weren't for the bottles of liquor behind the bar, and people sitting around drinking and snacking of cheese plates, it would look almost like some of the half-dozen or so Presidential Libraries that my wife and I have visited (we've actually visited nine Presidential Libraries). As for the stuff that's on display, much of it appears to be material that you would ONLY find in a Presidential Library, where they would still be the property and responsibility of the National Archives. With that in mind, we might have found another one of those 'empty classified folders' that were noted in the more recent detailed list of items removed for Mar-a-Lago by the FBI (see image below)