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Changed the color of his hat also. The photo is more true to life.

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Hyundai just bought Boston Dynamics for $921 million. Where's my leaping car! https://www.autoweek.com/ne...

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"Rendezvous at Nickleback Mountain"?

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The horse looks infinitely more intelligent than the rider. Nice touch, monsieur artiste!

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and he wears moccasins to the sauna, don't forget that.

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Bears Ears lost roughly 85 percent of its size, going from 1.35 million acres to a puny 201,000 acres, and Grand Staircase-Escalante, a radical liberal monument created by Bill Clinton, its acreage.

This is one of those things I wonder about, Could Biden undo this if he wanted?

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Another loathesome relic of the Trump era.

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I am a Greek mother, and so my compass needle is always pointing to "Here, eat this."

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Cotton has said the portrait includes a "nod to his respect of the native Americans tribes" (sic) in the hat band. Again, Zinke chose to shrink Bears Ears over the opposition of five tribes who hold the land to be sacred and originally convinced President Barack Obama to set it aside.So in this context, "nod to his respect" means the same sort of thing as "bless their hearts"?

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That's pretty good artbabble! Might want to jot that down for possible adaptation in case a Vogon starship captain asks your opinion of their poetry.

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Or you could choose not to make a joke at the expense of people with disabilities.

Please review the commenting guidelines, OK?

-- Yr friendly neighborhood moderator

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"I can't quit you!"

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Bleep, bleep, bleep, bloop, bloop

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Department of Fish and Ducks.

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That poor horse is going to have a sore back if his stupid rider doesn't straighten up and stop shifting his weight to the right. (The former riding instructor in me can't help noticing.)

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Between that and my new towel the sky is the limit.

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