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He'd have been better off saying that it isn't widely read in the South Bronx.

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Ah, I see what you're driving at.You want to define beer as medication.You want porn as the foundation for education.And trial by combat would simplify the justice system.

[ducks, covers, and runs]

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But will the hydroxybonercream help with my intermittent incontinence, rickets, lumber lung, slight incline ramp vertigo, unscheduled anal discharge, ingrown warts, widow's hump, greasy thumb, penile vitiligo and inner ear osteoporosis???

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I ... don't know! But I think you should run for PREDNISET!

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Yup.The financial success and domination we attributed to "hard work" and Yankee ingenuity" was based on all the industrial countries but the US & Canada being blown to smithereens.

As kid I watched Warner Brothers cartoons where "made in Japan" was a punchline. As a teenager I watched my older brother driving his new 1967 Datsun around. The cars my dad and all his friends drove had mechanical clocks in the dashboard that didn't work. In the Datsun, I noticed that it did, and thought "uh-oh".

Then for years we tried to fight the Japanese invasion (it was called that) via laws. Finally (finally!) we started fighting back by improving our cars. Took a while.

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Oh yeah, we would still have shit cars. A neighbor had a '67 Toyota. He called it a little tank.I myself had to have a '59 MGA. I loved it. Bugs-on-the-teeth roadster.I learned a lot with that car. Mostly about the English sense of humour.

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Republicans think about gay sex more than gay people do. I wonder why?

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Thanks for throwing Cuomo out there. If you're in a guy government workers union (police, firefighters) he's your best buddy, but if you're in one of the chick unions (teachers, public employees) he's spent his whole career trying to shiv you in the back.

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Funny thing is that Quaker announced today that they're dropping the Aunt Jemima brand and will be introducing a new line of pancake products under a new name. No word on Uncle Ben yet,

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History shows again and again

How nature points out the folly of men

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Co-prez of my local NYSUT. Cuomo and Gates “reimagining” public education ramps my shivers up to eleven and breaks off the knob.

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Awww....shucks. Shuffles feet, blushes.

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Isn't New Orleans all private schools now? A niece was hired by teach america, where they are paid minimum wage and not given supplies, she paid for hers herself., she did it for as long as she could because she liked the kids and did not want to abandon them to so many of the bad under educated teachers in the school. t was horrible, but it was a non-profit school because the administration /owners took huge wages and got bonuses at the end of the fiscal year so there was no profit. the schools there stink pretty much, may be some good ones, but not many.

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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In my part of Bushwick, you will have to search far and wide to find an NYT in a bodega.

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I've seen lots of people screaming on Twitter about "The Dems are weak and whiny and getting rolled by Trump, they should hire Project Lincoln to do all their ads!"

That is of course Project Lincoln's real agenda. Burning down the Trump GOP by turning the Dems into the Dubya-era GOP.

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