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The majority of Puerto Ricans don't want statehood at this point.

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The amazing thing about this is that when they tried to bribe the Insurance Commissioner, a Republican, he called the FBI pretty much as soon as they left the room.

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He also grew up in NYC at the time that Puerto Ricans first started moving there. They were despised even more than blacks back then.

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Who left who in the what now?

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think about the Chinese slave labor used to replace every flag with a 51 star one!

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Only if it's 1:1 scale....

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I know. PR used to vote consistently for governors who favored statehood, while (seemingly) all the PR nationalists had moved here to NYC.

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Think of the $ savings as well as the improved image of issuing a separate star on a seawater-blue background that is just clipped onto the bottom seam of the flag!

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What is "Fake News"? If it is not true, it's not news at all. It's either a Lie - if the teller knew it wasn't true or an error if he/she/it/they didn't . So to be Fake News it must be true. How does it differ from just "news"? The "Fake" attribute must refer to its applicability to the subject under discussion. For example if discusing aid to Puerto Rico, "they've already gotten $91 billion..." isn't Fake News, it's just a lie! "Puerto Rico is an island..." is Fake News. It's true just not relevant to the discussion at hand.

Intended as a rely to canis domum.

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I think it's Mexican pesos.

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Actually, that's the rural secret. Counties and states with almost no people and mostly large land masses have a truly overwhelming importance in our voting system. The fact that they were mostly colonized by white farmers and land ravagers who have since seen their ability to compete diminish with the loss of resources, and where minorities and former slave descendants have known better than to emigrate to, make them the most powerful voting areas in the country today...

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Hogan Gidley. That guy has a punchable face AND a punchable name.

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hmmm...a sponge can actually absorb stuff, like knowledge. How about President Blockhead?

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Steve Sailer is a confederate yankee. IOW, an open racist: "No, not even heritage. Just hate." So the Klan wannabe wants to "keep Puerto Ricans home," no surprise.

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Isn't he the guy who left the legless gal in the barn loft?...

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