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I'm traveling this week.  I do not want to see this.


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I'm writing this blurb at a Wawa at 4:17 this morning.  The Internet has gone down at Sinkhole Estates since yesterday.  This post will go out but will be abbreviated.  I'm sitting with a couple of the Army and gave one of them a five to get some coffee.  My price of admission to sit here and use Wawa's free Wifi, and invade their outside tables.  My apologies for this post but times as they are.  P.s. One of the guys reached into his backpack and pulled out a pair of shoes for the guy I'm sitting with.  There but for the grace...

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Whizbang Week 3



Both fighting over Alfred's blanket.  I don't want to gross you guys out but I'm sure there has been overlap.



Almost like a scene out of The Exorcist.




For Sale:  cute box opener.  Needs fed daily.

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Team work and parental responsibility.

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Thanks heavens that's all over.  Pack up your bags Mr. Mueller, Rudy says Liberty Valance is innocent.

By the way, I was thinking about trump and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.   MWSLV is a great western with John Wayne, maybe my favorite.  Hmmm.  Lonesome Dove vs. MWSLV.   That's a tough one.  Ah, prolly Lonesaome Dove for sheer length, but both are very very good.  Anyway, the similarity to todays political situation is too obvious.  

 Liberty Valance takes over the territory in lawless brutality and bullying.  In rides law and order in the guise of new lawyer Jimmy Stewart's Ransom Stoddard.  Valance doesn't take too kindly to the prospect of Stoddard taking steps to make the Territory a State, thus bringing in Law and Order.  Read: Jeff Sessions recusal.  So Valance destroys the local newspaper, almost kills the editor and threatens harm to anyone who goes along with it.  There is the great showdown and we learn that Stoddard had a benefactor in Wayne, aka the Constitution.  

 So, I will start referring to trump as Liberty Valance.  I am willing to refund any subscription upon request for those of you who don't like it or who lack a sense of humor.  





By the way, for those of you have not seen MWSLV, SPOILER ALERT!!!


The bad guy dies and law and order is restored.  The Constitution capped his ass.  
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I almost wish old H.W. would have kicked the can after Barb died.  That would have been a better end to the love story than him in and out of the hospital for the next year.  Right?

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Me and my iPhone camera.  Lousy sensor and screws up often, but it gets the job done.

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Brazilian rainforest destruction.
Once again, folks, if you are a climate change denier, you are an idiot.

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That National Central is going to be fun this summer.







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