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some light reading....
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Reagan's '80s
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Pol-ly-an-na
The Literate Electorate
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TONS Of Current Democratic Incumbents Were First Elected By Primarying Corrupt Conservative Democrats-- But Cheri Bustos Wants That To Stop - *Henry Cuellar has earned a primary* By now, you probably read that the DCCC incumbent protection racket has made one of their old dirty tricks official po...
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And Into The Fire - We noted the other day that we don’t know squat about what is in the report, and I joked that we’ve gone from the pan into the pot (and had to break the st...2 hours ago
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WAITING. . . . - While we wait to learn what is in the Mueller report, some more speculation https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/22/mueller-report-analysis-1233091 The b...
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Northern Maverick Brewing Co., Toronto, ON - Gord and I had supper at Northern Maverick Brewing Co. this evening (on Bathurst Street just north of King Street W) before we saw *The Woods are Dark and ...
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David Brooks Gets In On That Magic Ruralism (™) Dollar - Magic Ruralism: noun: *a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of politic...
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The Mueller Report - *New York Times:* *Give President Trump this much: In the face of the biggest existential threat to his presidency, the special counsel’s Russia investiga...1 day ago
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Yellowing Up - Lesser Speaking of things I should know but don't, and I was just about to, here's a thing: there is a bird called a Lesser Goldfinch that I never heard of...
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Saturday Odds & Sods: Hand Of Kindness - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.1 day ago
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Some Legal Questions To Think About While We Wait For Mueller’s Report - In the days and weeks ahead, Congress will likely be the public’s primary source of information on the contents of...1 day ago
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How the Spectrum of Light Can Be Used in Landscape Architecture - *By David McCullough / San Diego UrbDezine / March 9, 2019* *Originally published in the author’s own blog under the title of “Spectrum of Light.”* Light i...1 day ago
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A Conversation with Tim Wise About White Privilege, Corrupt White Elites and the "Varsity Blues" College Admissions Scandal - Tim Wise is the author of numerous books including his most recent Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of A...2 days ago
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Beyond Prisons: Taylar Nuevelle On Knitting In Prison - Taylar Nuevelle joins Beyond Prisons to share her love of knitting, the space it created for her while in prison, as well as how it was used to punish he...2 days ago
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February’s consumer and producer prices and industrial production; January’s retail sales, construction spending, durable goods, new home sales & JOLTS; December's business inventories - Monthly economic reports that were released on their regular schedule over the past week included the February Consumer Price Index, the February Produce...6 days ago
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Note to the Dems: CHILL! - *I have to take a moment here to, once again, explain why I left the Democratic party nearly twenty-one years ago. The reason was their insatiable desire...
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Biased Judge Gives tRump Russia Colluder Manafort Light Sentence - Manafort's Judge, T.S. Ellis, Is a "Caesar" in His Own Rome ~ title of an 8.9/2018 NYT article by Emily Cochrane and Sharon LaFraniere. tRump campaign ch...2 weeks ago
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Six Pack Abs Workout - This Six Pack Abs Workout information is based on research and experience from Dr. Dave: The first step to get “six-pack” abs (or flat stomach) is losing e...4 weeks ago
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Mobil Sewa Termurah Di Bali Harga Mulai 200ribu - Sewa mobil bali di Buana Rental harga mulai 200 ribuan tentunya dapat menghemat budget Anda ketika liburan di pulau Bali. Meski mobil sewaaan kami murah,...4 weeks ago
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letter to Tom, cc'd to old friends - Hi Tom, Thanks to your note yesterday I finally got around to solving the problem I'd run into in not being able to comment on your blog posts. Yes, I di...
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There is so much I could say - But it's pointless. I finally got divorced. That's a relief. I have a decent job with benefits. I'm living on the cheap in a camper. I have some good fri...1 month ago
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Changer sa vie avec la loi de l’attraction - Comment changer sa vie , le témoignage de @Estelle.Estella3 months ago
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John McCain - John McCain was the sometimes Episcopalian, sometimes Baptist Christian, who got his religion the old fashion way— by praying in a situation where his as...6 months ago
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New : Farmhouse Tv Stand In Guelph - *farmhouse tv stand in Guelph* [image: COBRA] COBRA from farmhouse tv stand in Guelph Image source: pinterest.com [image: 27 best TV stands images on P...11 months ago
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What the Hell is the Point of This Ad? - The joy of riding on the World's Smallest Car Ferry? How does this work to sell anything? Torpedo, *Los*!
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Majestic Teacup pigs - Teacup pigs: Majestic Pets There are many names given to teacup pigs due to their cute and mini appearance. These are the smaller versions of…1 year ago
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Jordan Peterson debunks a lot of myths + lower cost health care - *SOFT FASCISTS - WELL MEANING BUT DANGEROUS* The tv host is typical of the weaponized activists who treat anyone with a different logic channel as undesira...
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If You Are Anywhere Near The Path Of Hurricane Irma, Get Out Now - Someone I know has relatives on the Virgin Islands that they have been worried sick about. For good reason. They finally got a call out on a satellite pho...1 year ago
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Wash, Rinse, Repeat - Republican, Modus Operandi They Lie, They Cheat An endless cycle Wash, Rinse, Repeat Pick any notion Watch their retreat Ask them a question Wash, Rinse, Re...1 year ago
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Border Patrol Raids Humanitarian Aid Camp in Targeted Attack - Border Patrol agent interrupts humanitarian assistance of migrants provided by No More Deaths. Thursday, June 15th, 6:00 pm, Arivaca, Arizona: As tempera...
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Life Story - Some people front-load their condition in life The what could have been’s the almosts The man who reaches across to me on the train needs connection with m...2 years ago
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Your Sex Pot Handbook - Sex Pots… And Pans The single girl’s to hooking her man-through cooking Howard 1970 Ladies! Are you worried about snagging that man? Today’s post features ...2 years ago
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Completed Transition and Export to Wordpress. - I've finally completed exporting this blog to Wordpress. The new location is undergroundunbeliever.wordpress.com My email will be changing shortly to an en...2 years ago
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#NotMyPresident - Lets fix this??? #NotMyPresident The electoral college does not vote until December 19th. We have 40 days. What does this mean? Right now, the presidential ...2 years ago
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Well, we're really screwed now... - The results are in. Now we have four years of this: And in case you thought it'd be okay, that their policies will affect someone else:
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Being Right and Wrong at the Same Time - The nation is emotionally raw today. Murders do that to people, especially when people choose up sides like a nightmarish game of dodgeball Continue reading →2 years ago
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Bagaimana kucing peliharaan sendiri - Baru-baru ini, keturunan anjing telah menjadi topik yang populer. I think it's super manis untuk berpikir tentang bagaimana kemitraan kami menyebabkan ...
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Hold the mustard! - Show me a sane man and I will cure him. ~Carl Jung Show me a cured man and I will show you a ham. ~okjimm Show me a cured man a...
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THE GRAND “GOODBYE” THAT CLARA OSWALD DESERVES. - THE GRAND “GOODBYE” THAT CLARA OSWALD DESERVES. Let’s discuss the real reason why “Face The Raven” was a heartbreaker. The episode wasn’t just sad because ...3 years ago
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Career Advice - Pursuing a career is significant investment of time and money, so really investigate whether this is what you want to do. Research the career to ensure it ...
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April 14, 2015 - Let me tell you about my week... Directing 2 plays for Elementary schools in Dunlap (performances this week, neither is ready). I was given one month of 1 ...3 years ago
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My Wife Wrote a Guest Post (Spoiler Alert: She Loves Me Too) - Ever since Oren started blogging he has asked me to write a guest post. I would be venting or kvelling about one thing or another and he always, under his ...
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Losing It - I've been losing words Old lover Why am I standing in the kitchen Lost Bad habits, good health Trying to gain weight Wanting loss to matter I cancel ancient ...4 years ago
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Oct. 24th Radical Movie Night - "30 Frames a Second: The WTO in Seattle" - October 24th Radical Movie NightSeptember's debut of the Las Vegas Radical Movie Night went well enough that we will now be doing two showings per month. ...
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Acrylic Nail Supplies - Acrylic Nail Kits Wholesale#Acrylic Nail Kits Nails schoolAcrylic nails suppliesAcrylic nails suppliesImproving the Beauty of Nails with Acrylic Nails Supp...
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WTF? - Ok so besides the FBI,CIA,NSA, DHS, we now have armed agencies including but not limited to IRS,NOAA, yep the weather people,of Course Border patrol howeve...4 years ago
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If you haven't heard this you Gotta listen. - Sorry about the ad. But awesome song,written by one of us! Hat tip to the Ghost,somewhere in southern Ind among other places. China III4 years ago
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An incredible thing is happening right now in protest of FCC plans to break the internet - A little bit of background: To cut a very long and technical story short, every time you connect to Netflix, YouTube, or your high bandwidth website of cho...4 years ago
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Cruelty, malice, and their far-reaching consequences - Someone once encountered and captured a relatively tame and docile forest animal. The person was, however, very sadistic. Despite initial kindness to win...5 years ago
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THE FLIGHT FROM DALLAS - From noon to dusk on November 22, 1963, history went dark, locked inside the closed and crowded cabin of Air Force One. Fifty years later, what happened af...5 years ago
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Holding Time.... - Taking a moment to really see the world....the Leaves changing...the crisp autumn sky...the blues...the wispy clouds...Yesterday part of my day was spent ...
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UGH. - *One Reason I Haven't Posted Much This Year* Yep. Just the thought of Senator Ted Cruz(R-TX)makes me feel like comedian Lewis Black just before his head ex...
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A Nation at War With Itself - On my last piece about Tennessee Current Events, one of my good blogging buddies offered up some sound advice to help bring me out of the doldrums: "get th...
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If The Right Wants To Legislate Video Games, They Might Ought To Consider "Freedom of Speech" - After Newtown, like after any great tragedy where lives are lost in a mass-shooting, you automatically know that the Modern American Right will blam...6 years ago
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NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre Provides His Solution For American Gun Violence - [image: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre Provides His Solution For American Gun Violence]6 years ago
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This blog is not currently active. - It was used for many years but I now blog at leftwingnutjob.net. Check it out. But this one is only a warehouse for old posts.6 years ago
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Everythings Coming Up Roses! - From the Desk of Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan’s Big Chief in Charge of Bragging, Boasting, & Corporate Victimization: Hey, kids! Well, our policies may be hurtin...6 years ago
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A Very Telling Quote - McDonough manages to say *exactly* what is wrong with Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Medicine in America in 81 words. Good job! So here's where I get radical. ...6 years ago
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Racism I Found Today: Non-Black Version of “The Talk” - I’m late hearing about this terrible and blatantly racist article. It’s written as a response to recent articles about “the talk” that black parents have ...6 years ago
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Great Depression II - From a N.Y. Times commenter: I'm... an independent who could not bring myself to vote for any of these republican candidates. In fact, I believe they would...7 years ago
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Come On Over to Our New Pad, MOMocrats.com - Hi! If you've come to us from the Washington Post article that mentions PunditMom (yay! also a MOMocrat and running the 2012 election coverage at iVillage)...7 years ago
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Maher: Indicative of an Asshole in Real Time. - Update: Thanks to reader @ribletsonthepan for tracking down the clip in question. I’ll try and find a more stable version, given that it may not remain on ...7 years ago
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Yeah, I am back again. But this may be the only one for a while. - Reading blogs today I found a reference to a blog post at DailyKos from 2005. Now I normally don't read much at the big orange anymore because I just can't...7 years ago
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Writing Tools: Idiots Who Think They're Great Because Other Idiots Respond to Them - I write for my local Patch*, a fun diversion that also pays a bit of extra pocket money so I can get my eyebrows threaded and keep Dilf in bon bons**. Fo...
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It's Time for the FCC to Investigate "Fox News" for False Advertising - Now that Rupert Murdoch's neo Nazi media empire is facing controversy and criminal investigations in Britain, it's time to consider the illegal activities ...7 years ago
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The Things Mothers Do For The Ones They Love - *"Don't worry Oscar, Lenny, Brenda, and Travis. If Mama's goin' down* (pun only partially intended, but not really because there are the offspring fish t...
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Now don't you wait or hesitate - Who is the best male Rock'n'Roll singer working today? Probably a stupid question; there are many fine ones. But I think a case can be made for this guy:
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Jane Harmon to step down - Jane Harmon leaving Congress to become the next President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. I'm sort of surprised, but it's quite a ...8 years ago
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Want What - A new poem.... Want What Sometimes I just want to separate Jump out This skin Evaporate Into thin air Into ether Into another body Who's happier than me So...
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Millionaire Matchmaker’s Patti Stanger should be a spokeswoman for damaged Black hair - I enjoy the Millionaire Matchmaker as much as the next couch potato, but there’s something about Patti Stanger’s “tough love” critiquing that irks the hell...8 years ago
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Blankie release party Oct 1st! - Join us to celebrate the launch of Blankie™! a new designer blind box series by design company Aarting. We’ll be hosting the official release party which...
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Final Blog - As most of you may have already heard, TheMom lost her long health battle on July 3rd. I am sorry I couldn't post any sooner than this but there have been ...8 years ago
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In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher'. - I left the democratic party today and registered in the Oregon Progessive Party. I encourage anyone in the state to also join the OPP. They need to get o...
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Odds & Ends Sunday - It's time to cook up a storm and restock the freezer with my homemade TV dinners...First thing this AM I made a tamale pie from a new recipe ...turned out ...9 years ago
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Politics Plus has Moved - Please join me at our new location. http://www.politicsplus.org/blog I’ll leave this site up, because it is where we have been, but I’ll be turning off com...9 years ago
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"I'll Take the Dreaded Opera Category for $500 Alex" - Turandot [The Village] must be satisfied by being begged for marriage and having her pre-requisite riddles answered and never challenged or rebuked. She’...9 years ago
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Blog is Dead. Long Live Blog. - Well, my inner defeatist has triumphed over my better intentions. Considering I have nothing to add in terms of half-enlightened commentary to this ongoing...9 years ago
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UFC 98 Happening This Very May 23rd - ...And oh what an event it threatens to be. Tapped for May 23rd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena (you can catch it on PPV starting 10 PM Eastern), this even...9 years ago
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Happy Birthday, BAC! - Darlings, it's BAC's birthday! I almost forgot, but Dr. Zaius reminded me. You simply must *go and wish her a happy birthday!*
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Sometimes There Are No Words - One of my favorite bloggers and frequent commenters has suffered a terrible loss. Fair and balanced commentary from a modest and reasonable conservative.10 years ago
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Good Reading and Good Blogs
- Al Jazeera
- All Africa
- all kinds of stuff (JohnK.)
- AlterNet
- AP/Reuters Photo Wire
- Beta News
- Bitter Lemons (Israel - Palestine)
- Bloomberg News
- Canadian Alternative
- Common Dreams
- Crooks and Liars
- CTV News (Canada)
- Daily Kos
- Democratic Underground
- Glen Greenwald (The Salon)
- Guerrilla News Network
- Haaretz (Israel)
- Inside Iraq
- Inter Press Service
- International Herald Tribune
- Iraq Blog Count
- Meet in the Lobby
- MSNBC First Read
- New York Times Politics Page
- Political Animal (Kevin Drum)
- political zazen
- Real Clear Politics
- Reuters Iraq Summary
- Roll Call
- Samachar (India)
- Slashdot
- Some Historical Perspective
- Ted Rall online (Comics)
- The Daily Dish (Andrew Sullivan)
- The Daily Voice
- The Nation
- The Onion
- The Smirking Chimp (Matt Taibbi)
- Truth Out
- U.K. Independent
- U.N. News Center
- U.S. News and World Report
- Village Voice
- Voice of America
Get off the couch
- An Enduring Legacy
- Any Soldier
- Boycott O'Reilly
- Bring Back Arrested Development
- College Dems
- End Animal Cruelty
- End the Death Penalty
- Foundation for Middle East Peace
- New Israel Fund
- No War in Iran
- NORML (Reform Pot Laws)
- Not Your Soldier
- P.I.R.G.
- Peace Now
- Picken's Plan
- Save Africa's Children
- Save the Whales--but Kill the Seals
- Save Tibet
- Students for Sensible Drug Policy
- The Climate Project
- The Color of Change
- The Green Foundation
- United for Peace
- We Can Solve It
- Why Tuesday
- Working for Change
Stuff We've Been Digging...
- 2008 Election Videos
- A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America -- Sen. Webb
- Aarting Designer Toy Competition
- Blackwater
- Body of War
- Fire Breathing Liberal (Rep. Wexler)
- Generation Kill
- The Great American Hypocrites
- The Great Derangement
- The Shock Doctrine
- Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed: A Judicial Indictment Of War On Drugs
* Another Victim of the Drug War *
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Well, there goes my summer....
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