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I wonder which new personnel South Carolina schools got on their campuses. My guess is they got armed cops before they ever got mental health professionals, if they ever get those at all.

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If he still carries a pocket watch and listens to vinyl?Doesn't everybody?

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Not since the last time I looked upon a picture of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III have I seen a man who reminds me more of an old-time southern slave owner than McMaster does.

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"A marriage like they had in the Bible?"When the Sacred Law said a girl who was discovered to be other than virginal on her wedding night should be put to death, and if she was a priest's daughter, burned alive?Hallelujah ...

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Can't believe that you didn't link to one of Hooper's latest and greatest: https://www.wonkette.com/we.... Please keep us drinkers in mind. Otherwise, great post as always SER.

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what the fall of abortion rights has wrought.

as we all knew.

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One strong argument that might work with conservatives by the uniqueness of actually affecting them, marriages where the wife is significantly younger than her husband in a state with a lower age of consent could also go unrecognized in a state with a higher age of consent, opening the door for statutory rape charges.

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Actually a fairly standard conservative response. If it affects me personally, that's different.

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I fucking LOVED! Magnus Robot Fighter. Is my nerd showing? For some reason, I liked the fact that the flying cars were piloted from a prone position.

Edit: I just looked closer at the cover. For some reason, I never noticed as a little kid that Magnus was wearing a minidress. Someone didn't groom me correctly.

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My town hosts the Arnold, Arnold Schwarznegger's big bodybuilding thing. Over the years, it's expanded beyond bodybuilding to include a multitude of individual athletic competitions, as opposed to sports competitions. Fencing, for example, would be hard to classify as a girl sport or a boy sport, and a lot of these types are like that. Many require physical agility over strength or speed, putting a lot of men and women on an equal plane.

Of course, they also have a ballroom dancing competition, and I bet the Guv would have some good old-fashioned thoughts about that one.

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The cat litter and buckets are so students will be able to relieve themselves if they're locked down in an active shooter situation. Want to get rid of the litter boxes? Get rid of the guns.

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Unusually generous with the taxpayers' money as well when it involves people with guns.

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That's unfortunate. I spent the past weekend at a science fiction convention focused on music. Lots of good music, interesting people who hadn't gotten together in a while. Absolutely no one wanted to talk anything about politics and elections. It just didn't exist. It was rather delightful.

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He did say he was an old fashioned guy.

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Remember when Don Jr. took his kid's Halloween candy away and gave it to the poor kids to teach him what it would be like to live in a socialist hellhole? We thought he was a monster for that. Good times.

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