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bendejo

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  1. Yeah, so those GOP zealots lining up at trial weren't just competing to be VP, they were getting face time in the possibility that the candidate-apparent exits the running, for whatever reason. Anticipating same-party fireworks at the GOP convention next month, will be wild.
  2. This pic was taken when he was explaining to Eric how babies are made?
  3. I remember watching Al Jaz in LOS during the campaign, and at the very end of the clip, for maybe 5 seconds, they showed people at rallies holding up signs depicting the O family as monkeys. Never saw that on any Western channel; imagine, Fox judging something as too low!
  4. I wasn't aware of this, thanks for the post. Perhaps this has something to do with it: Rod Blagojevich: Why did Trump just free a jailed Democrat? .
  5. Let's not forget the gag-order business involved in this trial. The judge has kept the violations separate from the trial itself, allotting their own segment of the court's time and keeping all business concerning them in written form, as opposed speaking about them. They are a case of their own, and I anticipate that when the sentencing is in session the defendant will be sentenced for them in addition to the case at hand. If he's remanded on July 11th he won't be able to attend the GOP convention. "Sorry folks, our candidate cannot be here today, he's in prison."
  6. Jail to the chief! Congrats, boss, you got all 34 counts -- you get to collect all the marbles!
  7. So are North American and European feminist types who are anti-Israel going to ally themselves with Al-Qaeda?
  8. It was the VN war that put it on the map, US military guys returning with tales of sensual adventures and knock-out marijuana in LOS. There was a movie (French, I think) called Emmanuelle that pushed the reputation of it being a flesh pit. The word backpacker (for such travellers) wasn't used yet, and there were a lot of young people doing the overland route through Asia travelling from Oz and NZ to UK, and back. Even then, Bkk was known as one of the best places in the world for cheap air tickets -- maybe it has changed now, but it was not possible to cross into Burma (now Myanmar) by land. The mid-1980s or so amped up the backpacker thing; there was no KSR before then, most of the cheap places to stay were around Hualumpong, but there was nothing like what KSR has become. Something else that happened in the 1980s was Nepal became a big sports-adventure destination, offering white-water rafting, which I don't recall being offered in the 1970s. I suspect a lot of people flew into Katmandu via BKK.
  9. And next week will be infrastructure week, and always will be.
  10. Spent a lot of money on menthol inhalers, for himself and the rest of the temple.
  11. Do they know that a Palestinian state would probably prohibit alcohol?
  12. Hamas said, back when this current chapter started, that there is no accord that will make them stand down. There has been nothing done in the past decades to imply otherwise.
  13. IMO if/when the GOP cleans up its act they will purge all those who were part of the MAGA farce. It will be like in the doomsday movies where the survivors who turned cannibal will be killed off. But things are going to get a lot worse for the US right-wing before they get better, and the Dems seem to be playing it smart (for a change): back off and let them devour each other. The present GOP is bothered by this, it really irked them that during McCarthy's SOTH fiasco the Dems were laughing and boozing it up while they were wringing their hands. On the other hand I do not at all cherish the arrival of the New GOP headed by the likes of Liz Cheney, but I may not live to see that (Cheney 2032?). It looks like Nikki will not be allowed into the new fold. BTW I still stand by the possibility that by the time November comes around neither of the two major party's current candidates will be in the running.
  14. She's just kicking up dust, show the orange she's working. Prediction: Regardless of how the jury delivers, I think the judge just might give the defendant a small sampling of government accommodation for behaving like such a jackass during the trial. Just a few days, maybe a week. No warning, no "report the next day," just take him down right from the courtroom.
  15. Clear as mud. Miss Mod sounds the name of a girl with a penis of her own.
  16. I thought that meant it was a place where it is ok grab 'em by the . . .
  17. My take-away lesson from 2016 is that I will never again say "nobody is THAT stupid." "When they go low we go high." Well, that didn't work. When they go low it means next time they are going to go even lower.
  18. Does he even know what a Libertarian is? He once branded Nikki Haley a globalist, saying "she likes the globe." https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4392896-trump-ups-attacks-haley-iowa-america-first/ Hey, this is from The Hill! For conservatives their word is the Lord's gospel truth!
  19. “Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.” ― Groucho Marx
  20. Sometimes these things need to be viewed with a sense of humor
  21. It's Cannon's case, and like I've been saying this case will be thrown out or remain open until either she retires or DT croaks. The real hero of this sick piece of US history in the making may turn out to be DT's health: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/wellness/is-donald-trump-s-health-collapsing-ex-prez-sparks-concerns-after-dripping-in-sweat-coming-from-cold-courtroom/ar-BB1mRHSh?item=deferred_page:1/1000
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