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Ignore them. Any response tells the bot system: “Hey Freddy! We got a live one!” I have a land line sans Caller ID, so I stay silent. If there’s no response, I hang up. A live person hit me the other day. I asked him if he were a professional fundraiser—no answer—so obvsly yes. I said: “If you can’t answer a simple question, you can go away.”

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DAMN. She's amazing!

https://www.aljazeera.com/f...

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Companies sometimes hire private dicks to gather evidence of malingering. I know this from personal experience. Remember, kiddos—there’s no statute of limitations on fraud!

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My favorite instrument! The washboard !

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The first time I was in London I horked down an entire full English (as you describe) with GR8 gusto - then had a big azz large order of fish 'n' chips for dinner, followed by eleventy pints of lager.

Ahhhhh - to be 15 again. Today, I think a full English would KILL ME. Dead.

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Huge, huge money maker for them. The politicians can even fund raise right in the church pews, and pretend it's not political, but religious.

We need to establish abortion is strictly a medical procedure, and not a religious act.

We also need to establish that America is not their church, and the total control of all women's bodies is outside their doctrine's purview.

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'flushing sound' as Amy walks into the chambers.

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With their refusal to hear Trump's emoluments case, ruled as 'moot', I think that ship has sailed.

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Statistics figured out that the red state citizen's use abortion services more, not less, than the blue states, when you factor in travel from other states.

A Pew survey asked if conservatives thought they had less teen pregnancies, abortions, divorce, infidelity, and they overwhelmingly said: Yes! Survey also showed that the opposite was true, mostly due to high rates of poverty.

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Anti choice people are really wrong for a lot of reasons, that usually don't stop with abortion.They include forcing their religion on others, taking away a person's rights over their body, forcing them to live an unwanted life, sometimes with an unwanted partner. 2nd class citizenship for the country's economic, educational, and social freedoms on one entire gender.

They basically want to re-implement an 18th C serfdom economy, with them running things.But when wealth, and the quality of life was no longer agricultural and rural, the country was never gonna be the same. In an industrial/technological economy, wealth would never be produced by a factory wage. You were never paid by how many kids you had to feed. The more the kids, the more the poverty, and the near enslavement of labour for what jobs there are.

For this civilization to survive, and because men think with their dicks, it has to be up to women to decide their life, if and when, childbearing or not, family size, who gets shoes next. All of it. So they clearly need the power to do it. To do it all.

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from the britcom My Hero:

"Is this a roast?""Sure is! Roast pork, roast chicken, and roast beef. So what do you think?""It's great! Fantastic! Just a bit much for breakfast.""But you always say you should start the day with a good meal.""Breakfast yesterday was good. Maybe you could try that again.""Coffee and cereal. Coming right up.""Only - in separate cups this time.""Right.""And remember - coffee isn't just coffee . . .""It's got water in it as well, right!"

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I think maybe they're trying to show Biden admin they don't need to add any new justices to balance out trumps court packing

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Oh yeah. There are a lot of smart people here, and helpful. I have never seen anyone ask for help here, go unanswered.

Granted, no one has ever asked why SU carbs on 1950s Brit cars get more slack as time goes on, but I remain vigilant.

(It's cause they are originally right hand drive with fair linkage with usual maintenance. But for US they also take it back to the left, in a cheap ass, Mickey Mouse manner. And who adjusts accelerator pedals anyways?!)

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But no canned clams.....

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"Oh baby, talk to me in the Mitch McConnell voice again!"

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you MONSTER !!!

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