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    Fairness means applying rules equally. Would it not then be 100% fair to prevent all women from athletic competition? If they want to compete, let them crochet doilies, or vacuum a sofa ! [/satire]
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    Difficult to get 100%. But long tenured postal patrons can become familiar to, recognized by their local postal workers. And those postal workers know whether the individual subscribes to Better Homes & Gardens, or American Rifleman. BUT ! Ballot suppression needn't only be perpetrated...
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    The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

    Ugh! The gun nuts ... "Firearms stand next to the Constitution itself. They are the American peoples liberty teeth, & keystone under independence." sometimes attributed to George Washington, but this source says no...
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    HEADLINES: 2026

    Era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ is here, UN report says Overuse and pollution must end urgently as no one knows when whole system might collapse, says expert Damian Carrington Environment editor / Tue 20 Jan 2026 13.00 EST The world has entered an era of “global water bankruptcy” that is...
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    Photos, vids, etc ....

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/politics-cartoons-slideshow#a886bcd5-d175-5d28-809c-ab4bba06bc78
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    HEADLINES: 2026

    HEADLINES: 2026 C o l d & I C E
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    Quotable Quotes

    "Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." Benjamin Franklin The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. Will Rogers
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    HEADLINES: 2026

    The three branches of U.S. federal government are: legislative (Constitution Article #1), executive (Constitution Article #2), judicial (Constitution Article #3), Demonstrating the "separate but equal" character of these 3. Just what enumerated Article #1 obligation is Speaker Johnson...
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    HEADLINES: 2026

    The notion that a policy holder will ever get the better of an insurer seems illusory to me. In the short term paying off a large claim might seem to put the policy holder ahead. BUT ! Long term, the payments on such insurance policy increases, right? Seems like another example of "punish the...
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    HEADLINES: 2026

    $800k ? And where does that $money come from? The taxpayers? Do the "women of color", the ones harmed here, get any share of that $800k ? Why not doc the sheriff's deputy's pay $20% until the $800k + $interest is fully repaid ?
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    Does this offer any insight into what we can expect from the mid-term elections this November?
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    (at least as they understand it)." S2 #1,268 is the key. They're less interested in persuading public opinion than they are getting their preference, regardless of right or wrong. And pseudo-cons are characteristically dismissive of subtle distinctions. In vivid contrast "liberals" are not...
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    Thanks S2, indeed so. BUT !! Let's not miss the broader point here. Disagreeing with any organization that buys its ink by the gallon (if you'll pardon the journalistic anachronism) is a daunting task. Anyone can oversimplify as FOX has done in #1,265. The result: it's chum for the sharks...
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    W W Y D : What Would You Do ? Where ethics, pragmatism, & law meet ? Collide ?

    Hours before dawn you're riding a crowded passenger train through the desert when suddenly through your window you see a meteor storm as thousands of meteors streak through the night sky at once. Your fellow rail passengers are asleep, or distracted. Should you awaken the passengers in the rail...
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    Thank you S2. From FOX https://www.foxnews.com/
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    Not to defend Nazi methodology, but to expose Nazi ideology: the Holocaust was not about turning the Earth into a graveyard, but was eugenics, Germany's industrial method of purifying the human genome. And where did those dreadful Nazis get this hideous eugenics idea? From the United States of...
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    - trivia -

    This is a reference to Archbishop James Ussher, a professor at Trinity College in Dublin, calculated Earth's birth-date using clues from the Bible: 4004 BC ... https://stardate.org/podcast/2022-10-12 Sir Isaac Newton, among the most brilliant scientists of all time, clarified into concise...
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