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Jay Hansen (I.C.E.B.U.R.G.)'s avatar

Mike Lee is my senator. Hypocrisy is his stock in trade. Punching him in the nose is an item on my bucket list, but a recent medical scare may render that impossible.

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Swampay's avatar

It's a twofer! An irresponsible Black woman drug user and negligent mom AND an opportunity to argue for more/continued easy access to guns! Floor wax/dessert topping!

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Enter Ranting's avatar

Works for me. And for PAB, I'm sure.

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TundraGrifter's avatar

I'll argue the gun laws in Tombstone when Wyatt Earp ran the town were more strict than they are today.

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RefillingThorsBeer's avatar

oh, it was not in any way of service to anyone, it was out in the woods and had rotted completely through... only small remnants remained... there was no landmark sign, no caretaker.... just a rotted old thing like the Confederacy, well into the dustbin of history.

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oafishcad's avatar

Whomever ends up Senator, California will be better off. We have an embarrassment of riches.

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Louise James's avatar

These assholes stopped hiding their Nazism as they rode in to the mainstream on Trump's coattails.

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David Brown's avatar

Just getting to this, no argument. Earp was still around in the 1920s, and he said LA was rougher than Tombstone ever was.

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Megan Macomber's avatar

Privileged white people (Lee and Blackburn) use a Black woman for their purposes without paying her. Hmmm...

What is it about systemic racism they're so afraid we'll expose?

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Schrodinger's Hooman's avatar

IRS auditors are required to complete a certain number of audits in a period of time. Big ones take too long. There's no credit for the amount of money recovered. It's easier to go after 20 single parents claiming EITC for a couple of thousand dollars each than to go after a millionaire who can hire tax attorneys for a few million.

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M_Like_Magic's avatar

Needless to say more resources and assets were directed at finding 5 wealthy men then all the souls on the Malaysian plane that vanished. And of course, the migrant tragedy last week

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

May I just say I'm glad Gary is doing more posts here?

Also, Mike Lee is a lying sack of shit.

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Dirty Work's avatar

Just got the phone alert:

"Life threatening baseball size hail" fallin on your azz!

Yikes!

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Zap's avatar

Yep. Kinda like.

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TundraGrifter's avatar

Earp had the good fortune to outlive almost all of his contemporaries (some he shot, of course) so when Stuart Lake wrote his biography he could pretty much tell his story any way he wanted and there wasn't anyone to refute it. The great Western historian Edward Bartholomew did a great deal of research into Wyatt and the Earp Gang, and he was more or less run out of Tombstone because the facts didn't match up with the legend. There are remarkable similarities between the OK Corral Gunfight and Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

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cambridgeknitter's avatar

That is extremely disturbing.

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