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I have been alive for 22 different American presidents and vice presidents. Is it a coincidence that of all 22, though I have honestly loved several of the men who held these offices, I have only felt that one truly spoke for me? Is it a coincidence...
by rflctammt
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on Sun Oct 15, 2023 at 10:43 AM PDT
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14-year-old Connor Halsa of Moorhead, Minnesota was fishing with his family on Lake of the Woods, a massive lake straddling both sides of the US/ Canadian border. “We were doing a walleye drift, so we stopped the boat, put some spinners on, and just...
by Tevye
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on Sun Sep 17, 2023 at 03:22 PM PDT
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There has been considerable debate lately over whether we should be angry with the nazis, white supremacists, and false Christians who are relentlessly and remorselessly attacking everything decent ...
by hontonoshijin
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on Tue Jul 18, 2023 at 08:01 AM PDT
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( Some of the events here took place a few years ago. I believe that such moments transcend space and time. If you disagree, please consider yourself forwarned. Thank you. ) What is it like to live in a society with such respect for the tradition and...
by Tevye
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on Sat Jun 03, 2023 at 03:08 PM PDT
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This is a profound and extremely moving video in my view. It's the best such video I have ever seen. I found it literally took my breath away several times. Anything I have to say is better said in the video. The more people who watch it, the better. Wow.
by Dem
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on Tue Mar 07, 2023 at 10:00 AM PST
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Respect. Rodney Dangerfield lamented that he couldn’t get it. Aretha Franklin pleaded for just a little bit of it. It’s universal. We all want it. We all know the pain and humiliation of its absence and the satisfaction of getting it. While respect is...
by acamins
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on Mon Mar 06, 2023 at 08:35 AM PST
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Progress in Naming When I was real small It was "Injun." A little older, enough, To play games outside It was "Cowboys and Indians." Later, when I latched onto Environmentalism With a desire to lead A simpler, more spiritual life, I turned to the...
by Paul Frea
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on Sun Feb 26, 2023 at 01:35 PM PST
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This essay has been entirely generated by me. I am an Artificial Intelligence Generative Pre-trained Transformer named Xpghdlivgnrfhf, which is a permutating name based on a random number generator algorithm that I decided was an effective way of...
by old 60s radical
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on Sat Feb 25, 2023 at 09:13 AM PST
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Many of us, probably most of us, maybe even damn near all of us saw the January 6th medal ceremony which was a demonstration of character and integrity and a complete repudiation of Republicans and their craven, weak subservience to Trump from his...
by Dem
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on Wed Dec 07, 2022 at 10:07 PM PST
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UPDATE: Saturday, Nov 12, 2022 · 11:04:09 PM +00:00 · CameronProf UPDATE:I fell down last night and injured myself. I have been waiting all day for them to bring an x-ray machine to our nursing home and be prescribed pain meds. I can not wait any...
by CameronProf
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on Sat Nov 12, 2022 at 10:21 AM PST
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I am ashamed and appalled by the treatment some of the Kos folks are giving indigenous American people. While the original article in question by Rebecca Sager was respectful and well-written and a good peek into the ever imploding Herschel Walker...
by HuoMao
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on Fri Oct 14, 2022 at 04:30 AM PDT
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The Bidens Leave A Stunned Sir Elton John In Tears. And How Crocodile Rock Was A Key To Joe's Heart. In Joe’s 2017 memoir and homage of his family, ‘Promise Me, Dad’, he mused about singing ‘Crocodile Rock’ to both of his two young boys, Hunter and Beau, as he drove them to school every day. Every day. For years. And decades later, every night, at the...
by Tevye
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on Sun Sep 25, 2022 at 03:49 PM PDT
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As I watched the unveiling of the Former President and First Lady Obama portrait’s, I reminded myself of what true words and thoughts should every true American take into the voting booth. Hope instead of Hate Equality instead of Exclusion Fairness...
by Vetwife
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on Wed Sep 07, 2022 at 12:29 PM PDT
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�These are scary times for a lot of us. A not-insignificant segment of American Christians are positioned to impose their beliefs on all of us. In many states they already are. Extreme restrictions ...
by A Pagan in Arizona
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on Tue May 24, 2022 at 02:00 PM PDT
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I will say gay. I will say gay for those folks in my life who fearfully suffered being closeted.For Uncles and friends, for “confirmed bachelors” as they were called. I will say gay for my handsome cousin who died way too young of aids and whose family...
by gimmie truth
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on Mon Apr 04, 2022 at 12:02 PM PDT
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On shopping trips, I try to remain vigilant against people rushing by on the right and careening around as if they’re in races to save the world from nuclear Armageddon. Judging by how many people race around here, there seem to be a lot of villains,...
by greenandblue
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on Thu Mar 03, 2022 at 11:49 AM PST
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Rep. Madison Cawthorn is a pathologically insecure, charisma-free, pathological liar. It’s the new breed of GOP representatives: young, ignorant, willing to say and do anything to attract social clicks, because clicks mean money. It builds off of the...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Jan 20, 2022 at 01:31 PM PST
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Below I will list some of the names of musicians who passed away in 2021. It will be a solid list, and I’ll link to larger and more robust obituaries throughout, but it’s almost entirely made up of American artists and people who found success in...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Dec 31, 2021 at 06:00 PM PST
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Thanks to all who enjoyed my comic dystopian tale, “Fake News”, and thanks really to the person who noted they were following me. I’ve never been followed in my life! Well, by store security, but that’s not something we need to go into now… Anyway,...
by Trollheart
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on Wed Dec 15, 2021 at 08:34 AM PST
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It’s a simple idea: how we refer to someone makes a world of difference. Is your friend “Tommy,” “Thomas,” or “Thomasina”? Consistently choose the wrong one, and that friendship could be over. My brother tells the story of a college friend who gladly...
by Ravenclaw
22 comments
on Tue Dec 14, 2021 at 09:48 AM PST
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