Here is a nice remembrance of George McGovern from his friend, Bob Dole. (“BOB DOLE!”) It is one of those pieces where old men talk about how things were so much better in their day, when after a long work sesh, Tip O’Neill and Ronald Reagan would get together, drink some Cosmos, and go bum-hunting. That’s all well and good. Those hoboes aren’t going to chase down and murder themselves! But buried in Dole’s opinion-editorial whatsit is some disturbing news for Republicans: not only did Bob Dole (“BOB DOLE!”) not try to murder the last living liberal, George McGovern, when he had the chance, but there used to be Republicans who tried to expand food stamps and school lunch. How will today’s GOP go on, knowing that it is descended from Kenyan anticolonial socialist Ho Chi Minhs?
Blah blah blah, we both killed some Jerrys, yadda yadda yadda “BOB DOLE!” We would both come to understand that our most important commonality — the one that would unite us during and after our service on Capitol Hill — was our shared desire to eliminate hunger in this country and around the world. As colleagues in the 1970s on the Senate Hunger and Human Needs Committee, we worked together to reform the Food Stamp Program, expand the domestic school lunch program and establish the Special Supplemental Program for Women, Infants, and Children.
Beg pardon? Did Bob Dole (“BOB DOLE!”) just say he helped establish WIC? And that like Bill Clinton was the first black president, Bob Dole would have been the first Food Stamp President? Oh, GOPpies, it gets worse.
More than a quarter-century later, with political ambitions long behind us, we joined together again. Soon after President Bill Clinton named George ambassador to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in 1998, he called to ask for my help in strengthening global school feeding, nutrition and education programs. We jointly proposed a program to provide poor children with meals at schools in countries throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. In 2000, President Clinton authorized a two-year pilot program based on our proposal, and in 2002, Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed into law the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program. Since its inception, the program has provided meals to 22 million children in 41 countries.
That’s right you guys. Bob Dole (“BOB DOLE!”) helped export the red tide of Communism.
Inpeach!
[WaPo]
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Why did you post a photo of George McGovern and Dan Hedaya?
Because saying one "Hey dey-a!" in a Yonkers accent is worth a thousand "D'oh! it's Dole" 's.
Still the best screen Nixon.
Bob Dole couldn't get it up that morning, Bob Dole.
Depending on your memory of pop culture from the 90's, both Bob Dole and Dan Hedaya will yell at you for sitting in his chair.
Where's the outrage?
Compassion is a liability in today's conservative party. If you aren't sending underpaid factory workers and welfare mothers to the Iron Maiden you are a RINO
God, so true.
When did pure evil take over the GOP? Was it Newtie's Contract on America?
Reagan.
Well, let me rephrase that: Reagan opened the door to the beast that was the Christian Coalition.
Umm, Nixon and the "Southern Strategy"(recruiting segregationists) might have had something to do with it.
Most political discussions I have with my kids start off with something like, "Now, there was time, not too long ago, when the Republican party was not completely evil…"
It's just the little blue pills talking.
Down, boy.
It "stands" to reason that a Viagra salesman wouldn't be all bad.
As long as they don't stiff him on his paycheck.
But once you let them in, they just keep coming and coming.
Bet they get to eat chickin nuggets and Red Bull.
"We jointly proposed a program to provide poor children with meals at schools in countries throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe."
Well, that's okay. Just don't try none of that commie free lunch shit here in the good old USA!
I can't believe I live in a world where Bob Dole is now the good, reasonable guy.
Joe Fucking McCarthy would be a reasonable guy in this world. Its fucking insane, makes me want to just run away somewhere, this rampant craziness, I cannot take it anymore thats when I want to run away.
You cannot run away, I need someone to pick me up at the airport. Settle down Francis, it's gonna be all right. Excruciating to deal with, but you know, just wait. Bitchin Camaro of Liberal Justice and whatnot.
Also, rampant.
Settle down? You say settle down? Like that is possible?
If your admiration for Bob Dole lasts more than four hours it could be a problem.
Bob Dole is no fucking communist, Richard Fucking Nixon is the world champion communist, Richard M. Fucking Nixon was communister than Marx and Lennon combined (ha, I said Lennon!), he was planned economier than Stalin, he must have caught the commie off that Kruschev fella when they were touring the kitchen of tomorrow. Fucking EPA and, and, and, wait for it, THE WAGE/PRICE FREEZE! Planned economy, gubmint intervention, invisible hand anathema!
Richard Effing Nixon went to Chiiiiina!!!11!! What could be more communister than that??
Plus he went to China while they were transshipping surface-to-air missiles from Rooshia to North Vietnam where they could be used to shoot down Panamanian strongman Juan McCain.
Soon after Nixon went to China he got his biggest illegal campaign contributor Ray Kroc a very lucrative lead in to hundreds of McDonalds all over China. Chinese peasants hopped up on beef, high fructose corn-syrup and monosodium glutamate? Who thought out that disaster.
Ha ha, and Kroc's widow Joan was a total leftie, sold off the pathetic Padres, gave $200M to NPR, financed a hippie peace institute at the University of San Diego.
I essentially boycotted McDonalds for over twenty years over what I call the “Ray Kroc Minimum Wage” law which was passed under Nixon in early 1969 and removed a lot of people from Federal Minimum Wage Protection and by extension protection in many states. It also provided regulations which made it easier for employers to deny workers compensation in many states for many classes of employment. Some of those changes exist to this day. I really needed some kind of work when I got out of the Army and went to college. But even the fast food places wouldn’t hire me because I was over 21 and (in Pennsylvania) had to get the minimum wage). One guy in a Pittsburgh McDonalds even told me that was why he wouldn’t hire me. He even apologized because his assistant let me fill out the entire application without clueing me in.Of course, after I had a child in the 1980’s it would be considered child abuse not to let him go to McDonalds occasionally to get all that swag they hit the kids up every Saturday morning.
Juan McCain didn't need no stinkin' commie missiles, he crashed most of those 5 U.S. planes all by hisself, except for the last one that landed him in a V.N. rice paddy, and Charley got an assist for that one.
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And he had the idea that everyone should have access to health care, and he proposed to expand Medicare/Medicaid!
That's where the commie idea of everyone being "entitled" to health care came from!
Gosh, was he our greatest President?
Peace in our time!
Peace with honor.
Bob Dole helped feed the poor, and then Bob Dole helped them and Bob Dole get Bob Dole some Viagra.
Bob Dole had a little prob with Bob Pole.
Show Bob Dole on the Bob Doll where Bob Dole touched Bob Pole.
♫ A Dole bob-nana
is a great bob-nana
and it's great
because it's Dole
Because it's Dole!! ♪
But it says Libby('s) on the label!
I will reluctantly be closing down my Blog site dedicated to demanding a recount for the 1972 election. Rest in peace Senator McGovern and thank you Senator Dole.
If Nixon had lost in '72 we wouldn't have had the glorious August '74.
Our editrix has failed to notice that most of these Bob Dole accomplishments occurred after Bob Dole had discovered that Bob Dole had erectile dysfunction.
And Bob Dole thought ED was a spinal injury caused by bad posture.
The last half-decent Republican alive.
…relative to the others.
Dan Evans (R-WA) is still around. I bet he doesn't recognize his old GOP anymore, however. And not because of dementia or anything like that.
He was a good guy, too, but at least we now have Maria Cantwell occupying his old seat.
there used to be Republicans who tried to expand food stamps and school lunch.
It wouldn't fly with today's wingnuts since the new rightie is mostly an "OMG Paul Ryan is HAWT" closet-nailed-shut GOPer as well as being a “starving poor people gives me a BONERZ” sociopath…
What's their down side?
It's not the actual starving of poor people that cause the erection. It's the amount of money freed up to bomb Iran (and a country to be named later) that causes that rush of blood to the head.
I hear Canada has lots of oil…
When you've got Elizabeth waiting for you back home, you'll do about anything to stay at the office.
It's like coming home to The Joker's creepier sister.
Yeah, that is one chick who refused to age gracefully. Scarier than Joan Collins.
I imagine she's the kinda wife that starts yelling at you the second you walk in the door while never taking her eyes off of the Tivo.
What? When did Elizabeth Dole become hell on earth? I must have missed that one.
This could not have helped, let's just say
Bob Dole calls himself Bob Dole. That's what I call him, too. That's bipartisanship.
Dob Bole… crap!
Bob and George were also paid medical volunteers during the tests that were conducted during Pfizer's development of Viagra.
McGovern was a liberal, so I'm sure he never had a problem satisfying his wife.
His first, and only, wife. Unlike BobDole.
Those "family values" Republicans just wanna have as many families as they can squeeze in; that's all.
As many women as they can squeeze, in or out…
That was in the old days, before Republican faith-based economists discovered that hunger can be alleviated by tax cuts and military spending. It was like anaesthesia before the discovery of ether, where you just bit on a leather strap until you passed out. Or, as NakedBunny would put it, Thursday afternoon.
It's Bob Dole Appreciation Day. We all must speak in the third-person.
Are we not amused?
NO.
Actor212¹ approves
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(¹Actor212 is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Actor212 Enterprises, a Cayman Islands corporation)
Clearly the RNC is not sending out its daily "Messaging Memos" to its own retirees, in order to demonstrate how all retirees should be abandoned and discarded.
You Know both of these men wore onions on their belts. (sorry, .. had to)
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I think they are experimenting with some kind of automatic moderating software here. Never seen that one before.
We had a bunch of those a few months back. Some folks were affected & others weren't. Rebecca did something magical (white-listed commenters? threatened some key ID personnel?) & things got better. I haven't seen that comment since then.
So the laugh's on me. I went & edited another comment that had already appeared & then got the reply that my comment was in moderation. I hadn't seen that wording before…
That one got me a time or 3 last week, and I wasn't even being disrespectful to any of $arah's offspring.
If you mean this earlier one of yours:
Bob and George were also paid medical volunteers during the tests that were conducted during Pfizer's development of Viagra.
well duh you can see perfectly well can't you that "Pfizer…Viagra" in the same sentence will reconstruct into their most recognizable anagram "TRIG SPASM"
Dang, this is starting to get entirely too opaque and byzantine. And I work for the government!!
But how can today's political parties work together when a certain party insists on including blacks, gays and the non-penised?
Think, people!
The GOP is just longing for the days when they could pull of all their "dirty tricks" and get away with them (well, other than Watergate in that particular campaign).
when they could pull of all their "dirty tricks" and get away with them
(looks back at last story) seems like these are the good old days – seem a little over-hyped, if you ask me.
Holy shit. A realist, not some petulant child who believes if they hold their breath long enough that the world will be only 6000 years old, evolution wasn't happening, that ladies can be selectively preggers and that tax cuts will save the ecnomize.
Oh, he was petulant enough when he was campaigning against Clinton in 1996. His biggest line was, alluding to the fall of the Warsaw Pact and the dissolution of the USSR, "When so many other countries are going our way, why does Bill Clinton want to go their way?" among other sly allusions that Bill was gonna turn us all into commies.
"Bill was gonna turn us all into commies. "
Bob Dole didn't realize that we Dems were secretly waiting for The Kenyan to take care of that .
So you're trying to tell me that women can't select the times they get pregnant?
Be. Right. Back.
Mitt Romney should start talking in the third person.
Also, past tense.
It'd work for him–corporations are people too, my friends.
He already does, the other two are corporations……
Bob Dole is alive. Bob Dole. Bob Dole must be 97. Bob Dole. Can't wait for the Bob Dole movie, starring Powers Boothe as Bob Dole. Powers Boothe is going to love getting tapped to be Ford's running mate. Powers Boothe starred in Red Dawn, so Powers Boothe knows a little something about fighting communists, just like Bob Dole.
(“BOB DOLE!”)
"Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all." — Bob Dole
On this, Bob Dole and I are in complete agreement.
Bob Dole.
Bob Dole just wants lots of people on the Dole. Seems reasonable- isn't that what the Viagra's for?
30 years from now Steve King will memorialize Keith Ellison, talking about all the do-gooder stuff the former Congressional buddies did together after leaving office.
Haha, no.
30 years from now Stephen King will memorialize Keith Ellison in a novel called "Muslim."
Like allowing dogs to fight each other on their own accord?
Bob Dole died? When?
Bob Dole! is going to McGovern’s funeral to retrieve the knife he left in his back.
McGovern was a pretty hep cat. Bob Dole – well, I don't give a pineapple chunk about him.
Next is he going to admit that Jimmy Carter actually wasn't History's Greatest Monster?
I heard that one time BOB DOLE paid taxes!
Hey! Yay! You better now? Whooping coughed out, or over-vaccinatedly ill or what have you? I missed you.
I was lucky enough to be one of the small percentage of people who get sick from the vaccine. Ran a slight fever for two days, which would not have been a big deal but I was running around after a three year old. Aaaaand five days later my arm still hurts. Aaaaaaaaaaand I'm pretty sure I'm autistic now. But thanks!
Nah, you've always been autistic.
Slightly OT, but how to Bostonians distinguish between painters and people with this condition?
I'm pretty sure I'm autistic now
Now you can run for Congress!
It was just an accounting error. Relax.
It was a moral imperative to get enough of the calories, vitamins, and minerals to develop enough brain growth and body mass, to raise enough cannon fodder capable of defending (and extending) the hegemony of Murica.
Remember, this was during the era of "Murica, the bulwark" against its anti-thetical opposite, Red Communism, so it was Okey-Dokey to adopt the methods of the enemy to defeat the enemy. Hearts and minds thingee.
To Bob Dole, this was a national defense program, no different than Eisenhower's Autobahn-clone program. Purely pragmatic and nothing about common decency, just the numbers.
Feed 'em well and educate to the level to understand basic commands and authority. Slam a rifle in their hand and ship'em out! That's the way its done!
Autobahn clone, I think not. Do US interstates have places to pull your B-52 over to the side after landing it so you can stay out of the lanes of traffic? No, because they were built using commie government monies!
Bob Dole. (“BOB DOLE!”)
Actually, the way he said it, always came out as "Bobdole".
Hi, this is Bobdole saying I'm very glad to be here and I hope in November you will decide to vote for Bobdole.
Remember, that's Bobdole.
Has anyone seen my pencil?
He was also in the Rogers Neighborhood in the roles of Bob Dog and Robert Troll.
Sometimes I catch myself walking with "Bobdole hand."
Did anyone ask what Bob Dole thinks?
I've always believed that the Old Guard Democrats (read: Humphrey and the Unions) sold McGovern down the river to keep control of the party and set the stage for Reagan and, later, the Teatards.
Just my 2¢…
I dunno. That would imply they had some hand in Watergate, since Muskie was the prohibitive leader up until the Canuck letter and the crying thing in New Hampshire.
Granted, there was a pretty strong "Anybody But McGovern" movement in the party, but Humphrey could have run again in 1976, especially given he narrowly lost to Nixon in '68 in the popular vote and could easily have won after Watergate.
In fact, I was pretty surprised he didn't, altho it's possible he knew he had cancer already.
History's greatest monster! He actually believed that a "government" is a legitimate thing capable of positive good! Burn him!
Hey, is that Ol' Barney – the Barnegat Lighthouse? For a while I was using the Great Beds Lighthouse as an avatar. That was when I was seriously considering making a bid for it. Surprised me by going for only $25,000.
It is indeed, taken just a week ago!
I wonder what the older lady who took said picture would think of said use. "It's on a WHAT kind of site? Where people talk about buttsex? I never!" I like it.
Oh hell, she would have been appalled by every fucking thing about the whole scenario of it all.
At least you’re getting around. I haven’t been on Long Beach Island in years, been bowling past it on the GSP many times.The last time we had a place on Long Beach Island the in-laws all came. Ms. Curley’s mother was taken up to the Barnegat light and almost all of us claimed it. Helen asked me (coming from Pittsburgh and never seeing a lighthouse up close) “Does every state have one?” I told her “I don’t think they have any in Wyoming.”
For whatever oddball reason, lighthouses were mentioned in all the confederate state's declarations of secession, they did for slavery and because the North was always taking their taxes and building "aids to navigation."
The free market could have fed those kids more efficiently.
If it wanted to.
Compassionate conservatism is now vindictive conservatism.
Hunger and Human Needs Committee
If that doesn't scream Socialism, nothing does. Surprised it isn't the Dictatorship of the Proletariat Committee
there used to be Republicans who tried to expand food stamps and school lunch.
And then came Fox News.
There was a party
All the rich fucks were there
And all of them went crazy
At exactly the same time…
Help me out. I thought you were including more lyrics from Byrne's tune but I must've been wrong~
Just making up my own, since our editrix was kind enough to provide a bit of the refrain for me to hitch a verse to.
At first I thought you were working Ricky Nelson.
Ha — I'd rather drive a truck.
Meh, these farm-state senators were all in favor of government programs that would cause the gummint to buy up a lot of corn and wheat and give it to the Poors. Primaried-out-by-wingnuts RINO Richard Lugar was just the same, a staunch opponent of Big Government except when Big Ag stood to profit from it.
McGovern was the real thing, though, and a good guy.
Dole, huh? Isn't that what they call WELFARE over there on Knifecrime Island? Communist is right!
Bob Dole was so cranky becuzz he, having only one working hand, could never get any strange….You just know his Harpy-Wife was NOT giving it up, don't you?
His second wife, which means by definition, he was getting strange at SOME point.
Well, he wasn't born with that bad mitt, it was “Made in Germany”.
I think she and BobDole married in 75. She's thirteen years younger than BobDole
As is my bride of 32 years…Than me, not Dole!
I recall that Dole's arm was injured when he was being pulled from the line of fire by a corpsman. Dole had, and admits, he was felled when a grenade he threw bounced off a tree and came back.
I don't and never did diminish his service and sacrifice for that. But when I was doing some research during the Swiftboating of John Kerry I came across a statement by Dole that he was bitter and angry at the corpsman for years. He once stated that when the guy sought to contact him early in his congressional career he, Bob Dole, wrote a scathing and reviling reply which he said he much later regretted.
I can't fault the guy, war is Hell.
True story: when Liddy was head of the Red Cross, she happened to be on a plane I was on from Charlotte to DC. She had a young aide with her, and they were seated in the first row of first class (as was I, thanks to zillions of punishment miles on US Airways). As soon as Liddy was comfortably seated, the young aide got up and went back to coach with the other peons so Liddy could have a whole row to herself.
Remember when she ran for president? Neither does anyone else.
…or, maybe the aide was OD'd on smarm and hypocrisy that day.
I do, but then I was doing everything I could (which was very little) to stop Dubya and until Dole realized the Republican machine was never going to support a female candidate when Dubya wanted it, she had a fairly close poll position to Dubya. I think the period and the Republican National Committee activities are covered in "American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush" by Kevin P. Phillips
I'm sure this can all be fixed with some well crafted lies.
Ah, back in the day before the anger virus consumed the Republican party. And when the Democrats had spines.
So easy to romanticize the past, which won't come back, and to speak well of the dead, who can't talk back. I'd be a lot more impressed if Bob Dole would be the one Republican to take a public stand about the fascistic insanity that has taken over his party today, now, and whose leaders just sit there and let it happen.
If you ever wonder why there's a 100,000-acre Army installation in Junction City, 1500 miles away from either coast, with three or four brigades of infantry and zillions in new facility construction, just remember what they call it in Kansas: Fort Dole.
I thought that place was named after Bill O'.
That's the job of a midwestern senator or representative: bring home some of that money from Washington. It doesn't really matter what gets built or bought.
…and then shriek about pork and wasteful spending.
Dole probably extended its existence considerably after the earliest attempts to eliminate reduncdancy. But I was there in 1968 prepping to head to Vietnam stationed at Marshal Air Field across the Republic river..
Ft. Riley goes back to the horse Calvary and, in fact, is the base from which Gen. Custer launched many of his raids and his "WTF invited all these Indians to my picnic."
When its usefulness as a fortress type of fort was diminishing after WWII it was revived with the expansion of Marshall Field as a US Army Air Force base. It became in the early fifties the major site at which helicopters as combat weapons were developed.
What use it serves these days I am not sure but I learned recently that the unit I went to Vietnam with, the 158th Aviation Battalion is now back there and serves as a jump off point for many tours into Iraq and Afghanistan. Took a look at the Google Map image and it has vastly increased in facility sized since 1975 the last time I went through Junction City.
And then you libruls wonder how 50% of the federal budget is wasted on fern aid, duh!
What the hell is this, some kind of tube?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqWuwZElgDg
Bob Dole doesn't like this:
http://simpsonsgifs.tumblr.com/post/656901960/bob…
The sound of one hand clapping.
(I'm going to hell for that one)
I have always thought that the central mistake, error, misperception, myth, the underlying false premise of all of modern "movement" conservatism, is that its based on pining for an imagined past that never was. Its based on a mythologized "history" and desire to return to this imagined golden age that never fucking was ever, not even close, to how they think.
This same dynamic is behind the spiraling extremism of the last 10 or even 20 years, since Clinton, anyway. These clowns today are trying to be as "conservative" as they only imagine that their very own conservative icons were. They have now mythologized conservatism itself into some kind of idol really, a 'fetish" in the sociological sense (dirty minded fuckers), and they are spiralling out of control because they have lost all touch with even their own supposed roots, their own anchor. Its horrifying to watch people believe and act on this "philosophy" that is based on just a fantasy, on myth, on raving idiotic misunderstandings of their very core beliefs. They're doing it wrong. The words they use, its always the case, do not mean what they think they mean.
The greatest irony is that today's radical conservative pines for a past and conservative idols from forty years ago whose main ideology was pointed to a past older still.
Spiraling. Yeats said something about spiraling once, I think, gyres.
“… and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe”Beware the Jabberwocy from Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass
WAIT, did Bob Dole die too?
What would have happened in 1972 if the presidential race and politics had been on the up and up? For that matter, what would happen now if the presidential race and politics were on the up and up?
Bob Dole and George McGovern were quite the scandalous pair, weren't they?
Dole is now a Viagra-chomping homo.
One of the few items my son took when his grandma died was her McGovern '72 T shirt. He's wearing it today under his suit I hope.
Everyone should take a moment today to honor and remember George McGovern–literally, and realistically, one of the best politicians in the United States during the past half-century. His views were intelligent, grounded, based in common sense, based in caring and compassion, correct, successful–and connected to most sane, intelligent Americans' beliefs, values, sensabilities and views. George McGovern was a great war veteran, statesman, politician, humanitarian, leader and activist. Politicians and statesmen and activists working today would be wise to base much of their work on the successful and honorable career of George McGovern.
Bob Dole was incredible at constituent services. A soldier in my unit in Germany was denied re-enlistment and hastily discharged because he was overweight (our XO was a fitness freak with a Napoleonic complex and the CO was away on leave). They strung him along to the point where all he could take with him was his duffel bag. I had to inventory his stuff for shipment to his home of record. Within 48 hours he was in the Navy with the same rank and a six year contract which would take him to his retirement. I happened to be at HQ when the call from Dole's office came in and was much impressed with the awesome power of the senior Senator from Kansas.
Oh, and it's Cavalry at Ft. Riley, KS, not Calvary. Calvary is a fictional location in a popular religious fantasy. Cavalry is an attitude, not a branch.
I voted for George McGovern in my first election. He was a fine man, a great American, the kind of man who makes the whole nation look a little better.
Ave atque vale, Senator.
Did Bob Dole ever ask George McGovern to lend him a hand? Just asking…..
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Bobdole needs help! LaRouche won't stop with the knock-knock jokes!
who the hell is this bob dole anyway to mess with our fond memories of the gop
"It's hard to imagine
Any place at all
Could be so exciting
Without 'sex-and-violence'…" ♫
Sax and Violins? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FJ8x6wnZy8
; )
Exactly: was just coming back to edit w/ a hyperlink ~
Until Wookies pointed it out to me recently, I had never caught the double-entendre before, even though I've enjoyed that song for over 20 years..
Had to. Can you imagine the severe disadvantage the Confederacy would have if the Union had militarized the lighthouses outside every southern harbor while the Confederates were trying to figure out whether they had a navy.
Ha ha, not take kids to McDonalds…you might as well not let them have any Disney.
Try as we did, he learned about McDonalds, Disney and Power Rangers from that hot bed of hedonism the public play ground.
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