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I think Tulsi should just move to Moscow and be done with it. I can't imagine what the people of Hawaii were thinking when they elected her four times.


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Welp, the conservatives' bright idea of the UK leaving the EU has turned-out that be financial ruin for the UK. The Pound Sterling is as its lowest value in history. All because of "immigrants" migrating to Europe where also coming to Britain. That's quite some schadenfreude for racism and bigotry.

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I just read something hilarious: When the transcontinental railway was being built, the Western company (Central Pacific) and the Eastern company(Union Pacific) were offered incentives for laying track from Sacramento and Omaha. Congress never specified where they should meet, to make it competitive. So they both kept on going and laid about 250 miles of tracks in parallel, never meeting! Finally, the issue was settled, and they ran tracks to meet at Promontory Summit, Utah and drove the Golden Spike.

The Golden Spike was of course removed after the ceremony, and is now on display at Stanford University, founded by Leland Stanford, one of the original investors in Central Pacific. There was a LOT of skullduggery involved with both companies, common for those times. And the incentives were huge: 6,400 acres of land (later doubled to 12,800) and $48,000 in government bonds for every mile of track built. Kind of unfair that the Western guys had to get through the Sierras, so the Eastern guys laid a lot more miles.

Interesting fact: The bill authorizing it was signed by Abraham Lincoln. Almost all the Eastern workers were Irish immigrants and Civil War vets. Almost all the Western workers were Chinese immigrants. The head guys of each company took a swing at The Spike, and missed, probably because they were both hung over from the previous night's party. Railway workers had to drive it in, and later pull it out.


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Boris Johnson coming back? What a sh!t show. This is the guy who ran on and got elected promoting Brexit. Conservatives are so good at mucking things up. We have that history as well in this country. crazy


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Boris Johnson coming back? What a sh!t show. This is the guy who ran on and got elected promoting Brexit. Conservatives are so good at mucking things up. We have that history as well in this country. crazy

I used to believe Brits were smarter than Yanks but I guess it was just some subconscious response to the accent.


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Professional liar Sarah Hucksterbee Coloniel-Sanders, said during a debate today that Blue States are full of people mudering each other. Turns out, like everything Sarah says, Sarah's murder rate assertion is a lie.

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The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals tells Lindsey Graham to get his scrawny ass down to Atlanta and talk to District Attorney Fani Willis' Grand Jury.

Not sure what Miss Lindsey's problem is...he's only a witness.

Personally, I think that DA Willis needs to move Graham over to the target column. After all, GA SecState Raffensperger and his deputy Gabriel Sterling have implied that the senator pressured them to disappear Democratic ballots in two phone calls in November after the election.


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Russia considering major withdrawal. I wonder if this has to do with two recent failed nuke tests - one undersea and one underground.

My contention has been, if the money that was earmarked for keeping Russia’s military functional was grifted, I have suggested that probably the same for Russia’s nuclear program. Notice that Putin is no longer nuclear saber rattling?


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