The RoanokeSlant

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Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a
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The Democrats, the US Government and their PravdaMedia have run into yet another exposure of their collusion in promoting lies and squashing highly likely alternative hypothesis they don't like.
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The driver behind the reign of harassment and denigration of the Wuhan Lab hypothesis and its proponents was Fauci, the highest paid employee in the US government and most visible ‘so called expert’ for over two critical years.
He orchestrated the Federal Government, PravdaMedia and DNC hostile response to any suggestion that the lab escape was equally or more likely than natural development from bats; probably because he was responsible for US taxpayer funding of that lab.  The Real Deniers!
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Now, after two and half years, the DOE has flipped on ‘the suppressors’.
Probably now because the Rs gained the House and can compel those responsible to appear before Congress under oath.
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The China-Wuhan-Lab CoronaVirus CoverUp
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-china-wuhan-lab-coronavirus-coverup.html
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ChinaCovid Origin CoverUp: Science At Its Worst
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/06/chinacovid-origin-coverup-science-at.html
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FauciGate Starts To Open
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/06/faucigate-starts-to-open.html
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After Fauci’s horrific history in the HIV+AIDS pandemic, how could he possibly become the head of the US health bureaucracy?
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HIV and AIDS A Public Health System Debacle
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/06/hiv-and-aids-public-health-system.html
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Dr. Anthony Fauci reflects on 40 years since the first case of HIV: ‘I thought it was a fluke’
https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/dr-anthony-fauci-reflects-40-191825793.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/06/40-years-of-hivaids.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 12:04 PM

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Newspapers Drop ‘Dilbert’ After Cartoonist Calls Black Americans ‘Hate Group’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/newspapers-drop-dilbert-after-cartoonist-calls-black-americans-hate-group-21348ce1?mod=hp_lista_pos4
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Talk about self-inflicted serious wounds:
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Clearly Scott Adams was way off base and having an incredibly bad moment.
Clearly his Dilbert creation has Not reflected that totally unacceptable statement; instead his focus has been on wrong-headed managers and organizational and liberal foolishness in the work-place.
Clearly Adams should have immediately apologized and withdrawn that wrong and hurtful statement.
All that said:
Adams has been under The PravdaMedia’s skin for years and they must be elated and celebrating that they now have a valid reason to terminate him and thereby truncate whatever influence he may have had.
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In reflection they, the PravdaMedia, have been quite forgiving and issued many second chances for many of their left-wing friends and associates.
Not likely in this case!
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 1:29 PM

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Alex Murdaugh completes testimony in trial over 2021 killings of his wife and son
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/24/us/alex-murdaugh-murder-trial-friday/index.html
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Watching the Alex Murdaugh trial is like a flash-back to the OJ trial.
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A very smart and cleaver defendant who deserves an Academy Award.
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A prosecutor who conducts a cross-examination as if it’s a deposition.
Asks open-ended leading questions and then lets the defendant talk as long as he wishes, redefining the question to his liking and then answering it to his advantage, totally obscuring the real point.
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The acting is superb, better than any recent soap-opera movie.
Tears, sobbing, quivering lips, the works – Hollywood quality.
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Will the FACTS sink-in with ALL the jurors?
Mega-Liar to family and friends and business partners and associates.
Multi-million thief and crook.
Major long-term hard-drug addict.
In massive multi-million unsustainable and unrecoverable debt
World closing-in with no visible way out of personal and professional crash
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A potential item involving his corrupted mind:
his wife and son were 'on his case', finding his pills and 'imploring him' to stop his drug habit.
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/rehab-guide/addiction-and-violence
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The Smoking gun:
He had to make ‘critical changes’ to his story and statements because he was surprised later by son’s video at the scene of the murders that put him there, at the time of the murders.
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Had corrupted state-of-mind
Had corrupted morality
Had motive
Had opportunity
Had means
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BUT like in OJ case – Jury will probably be hung!
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 4:40 PM

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Last year’s news released this year.
Something about a tree falling in the forest.
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Death, of shot Clinton aide, with Epstein ties found tied to tree ruled suicide
https://nypost.com/2023/02/22/death-of-clinton-aide-tied-to-jeffrey-epstein-ruled-suicide/
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Shotgun discovered near (30-feet from) body of former Clinton aide Mark Middleton
https://nypost.com/2023/02/23/shotgun-was-found-near-body-of-clinton-aide-new-details/
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How many shotguns used in fatal suicides wind-up 30-feet from the body?
How many gun-suicides bodies are tied to a tree?
Just asking for a friend!
Move along folks, nothing to see here!
Wonder what Sharpton would say if the guy was black?
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Clinton body count conspiracy theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_body_count_conspiracy_theory
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 4:39 PM

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The National Weather Service warned of a “cold and dangerous winter storm" through Saturday 2-25-23.
https://www.aol.com/weather/california-could-face-floods-blizzards-101401185.html
As much as 5 feet (1.5 meters) of snow could fall in some mountains near Los Angeles, which could create whiteout conditions as winds gust to 75 mph (120 kph) and an increased risk of avalanches, forecasters said.
The weather service issued rare blizzard warnings for Southern California mountain areas and urged drivers to avoid dangerous roads.
Storms already have battered the Plains states and northern regions of the country for days and the National Weather Service predicted continuing problems from ice, snow and freezing rain into the weekend.
In the Pacific Northwest, much of Oregon’s largest city was shut down after almost a foot (30 centimeters) of snow fell unexpectedly.
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In addition to the US view of the Weather
There’s a Big Picture view of the Climate
15th International Conference on Climate Change
https://heartland.org/events/15th-international-conference-on-climate-change/
IS THE TRUE CRISIS CLIMATE CHANGE … OR CLIMATE POLICY?
WATCH THE LIVE STREAMS
https://climateconference.heartland.org/
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Roanoke News-Weather People Ecstatic Over Warm Temperature
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/02/roanoke-news-weather-people-ecstatic.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 4:39 PM

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Carmakers Are Switching to Cheaper EV Batteries, But There's a Big Trade-Off
Rivian, Tesla, and Ford are embracing LFP batteries, which are cheap and abundant but offer lackluster range in cold weather. And customers generally aren't told which type they're getting.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/carmakers-are-switching-to-cheaper-ev-batteries-but-theres-a-big-trade
Sub-par performance in cold weather is a known EV issue, even with LCM batteries that power the majority of EVs today. Multiple lawsuits claim brands like Tesla(Opens in a new window) and BMW(Opens in a new window) overstate vehicle range given they are simply not achievable in cold temperatures. In PCMag's own testing of a brand-new Tesla this winter in Chicago, the vehicle got half the advertised range.
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Most automobile changes over the past 120-years have been Evolutionary and Not Revolutionary.
Up until the 1970’s most changes were driven by entrepreneurs and auto manufacturers and not The Government.
In the 1970’s The Government started imposing environmental and safety mandates like seat belts and exhaust-management and later fuel mileage ‘targets’; these mandates have blossomed as government mandates are prone to do.
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We now have entered a new and very different phase in which The Government is mandating and directing a totally new and different propulsion system:
Electric motor propulsion supplied by batteries and charged from the grid.
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These changes are so profound and far reaching that literally no one knows nor can foretell the changes and impacts that will result to the vehicles and the infrastructure.
However, our ‘leaders’ are embedding these major changes into law with total abandon.
Why not – they sound really great, projected to save the world as we know it, and these ‘leaders’ will be long gone before the results hit the road and the consumers.
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A prime EV accommodation in Seattle is that you may run electric charging cords across public walkways from your house to your curb-side EV car. Really! What could possibly go wrong with that plan and who pays the forthcoming falling law suits?
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Is EV Rivian’s Battery Light ON?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/05/is-ev-rivians-battery-light-on.html
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The Auto EV Demolition Derby
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-auto-ev-demolition-derby.html
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The EV-Charging Stations Are Coming
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-ev-charging-stations-are-coming.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 9:47 AM

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Msnbc: Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘calls out’ colleagues' refusal to hear criminal case
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/ketanji-brown-jackson-quartavious-davis-rcna71576
Jackson's dissent came in the case of Quartavious Davis, who wanted the court to hear his claim that he was denied effective counsel because his lawyer failed to initiate plea negotiations with prosecutors. The issue that his case raised is how a defendant shows that he's “prejudiced” or harmed by his lawyer’s failure, because people need to show not only that their lawyers performed deficiently but that they were harmed by that deficiency.
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Ms Jackson has been on the SCOTUS for less than a year and she is “calling out” the other Justices of the Supreme Court! Really!
As my grade school teacher said to me on more than one occasion:
“Young Man…..Who do you think you are?!”
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March 2022: Vicious Democrats Want Civil Hearing On Jackson – Really?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/03/vicious-democrats-want-civil-hearing-on.html
The Democrats have executed the most vicious and malicious processes against Republican candidates for the SCOTUS starting with the ‘Borking’ of Judge Bork and then the “lynching” of Judge Thomas and
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/13/flashback-joe-biden-wrote-the-playbook-on-borking-a-presidents-nominee/
up to and including Judge Cavannaugh.
Now they want a ‘cake-walk’ for their candidate – Really?
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 7:19 PM

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The Foreperson of The Georgia Grand Jury looking into potential election irregularity has destroyed any semblance of justice or fair-play associated with this jury and this case.
Apparently she ‘made the rounds’ of the PravdaMedia so called news shows bubbling over with ‘inside jury information’ that by law is secret until the trial judge releases the transcripts after decisions are made relative to potential charges in the case and in many situations not until after the trials.
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This because Grand Juries are Not trial juries.  Jurors are Not vetted.  There is No defense presented. There is no cross-examination. There is just a one-sided prosecution case.  Something about 'a ham sandwich'.
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This has all the appearances of a ‘hit job’ indented to smear Trump in the media in the event that charges are not brought, or if they are, there are no guilt findings.
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CNN reporters agonize over Trump grand jury forewoman's bizarre media blitz: 'Prosecutor's nightmare'
Anderson Cooper said he was 'wincing' over Kohrs' 'eagerness' to 'hint at stuff'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-hosts-agonize-over-trump-grand-jury-forewomans-bizarre-media-blitz-prosecutors-nightmare
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CNN reporters agonized over Emily Kohrs, the forewoman on Georgia's special grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump, who sat down for multiple interviews with the media about the grand jury's recommendations.
"First of all, why this person is talking on TV, I do not understand. Because, she’s clearly enjoying herself, but, I mean, is this responsible? She was the foreperson of this grand jury," Cooper said.
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 4:52 PM

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Many entities have a ‘center of competence’ for resources and assistance with organizational challenges.
We now are observing that many cities have a ‘Democrat Center of NonLearning’ that results in minority children living in ignorance unable to qualify for a job and not competitive for higher learning opportunities.
Prime targets for gangs, crime, violence and a sad ending.
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1969: Click for : Elvis' "In The (Chicago) Ghetto"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ox1Tore9nw
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This sad situation assists Jackson, Sharpton et al to perpetuate the story-line that black children are still being racially disadvantaged by the white-man who’s not giving them enough money and support.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/08/roanoke-times-embracing-cummings.html
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Booker T. Washington would be sad and angry observing what his decedents are doing to their children.
What a contrast to the large statute at the entry to Tuskegee University in Alabama:
‘Lifting The Veil Of Ignorance From His People’:
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Chicago Democrat sounds alarm as 55 schools report no proficiency in math or reading:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-democrat-sounds-alarm-55-schools-report-no-proficiency-math-reading-serious
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An alarming report has revealed that dozens of Chicago schools claim no students are proficient in either math or reading despite the state and federal government funneling billions of dollars into education in the Windy City.
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Damning report finds there are 23 public schools in Baltimore where NONE of the children understand basic math - as parents blame Dem-led city's 'fraud and corruption'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11747209/Report-finds-23-public-schools-Baltimore-NONE-children-understand-basic-math.html
Davida Allen said she was angry the CEO of Baltimore Public Schools, Sonja Santelises, was earning a base salary of $333,125 - which rose to $444,875 with allowances - yet students were still failing.
They found that not one student among the 2,000-strong student body was reaching the required math standard in 10 high schools, eight elementary schools, three Middle/High schools and two Elementary/Middle schools.
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MLK And BTW Disappointed With Their Heirs
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/04/mlk-and-btw-disappointed-with-their.html
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Reconstruction offered a glimpse of equality for Black Americans. Why did it fail?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/reconstruction-turbulent-post-civil-war-period-explained
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 3:53 PM

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The Mexican Illegal’s have found the Socialist State of Vermont – How Appropriate!
There they can join comrade Bernie and enjoy Vermont’s bounty of social goodies and a generous social cornucopia.
What a draconian comparison to the old ‘Green Mountain Boys’; And the New Hampshire ‘Live Free or Die’; and it will be great being next to Massachusetts’ own Pocahontas Warren.
Settle in – you’ve reached the Promised Land!
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Border Patrol now begs for help to stop 800% surge of migrants sneaking in from Canada
https://nypost.com/2023/02/21/border-patrol-begs-for-help-after-record-migrant-surge-from-canada/
Help is needed to control the “strain caused by the surge” of “primarily Mexican migrants with no legal documents,” Swanton’s Chief Patrol Agent Robert Garcia wrote in a memo obtained this week by Fox News.
“Due to the increased numbers, stations are task saturated with processing large groups, which has contributed” to more migrants being able to slip into the country, the memo notes.
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Bernie’s Victory Speech = The Communist Manifesto
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/02/bernies-victory-speech-communist.html
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Bernie A Top Two Percenter Not Paying Fair Share Of Taxes
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/04/bernie-top-two-percenter-not-paying.html
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Obama’s “Red Guard’s” Attack Female Professor At Middlebury College VT
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/03/obamas-red-guards-attack-female.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 3:52 PM

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posted by Lars Hagen  # 2:35 PM

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The Democrat Education Legacy
Two years of education missed by all our students
Quarter-million now can’t be found in any school
Returning Teachers now focused on Wokeness and Race
Not Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
Result:  Very dull lights in the socialist city on the hill
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WSJ: America’s Missing School Children
A new study finds that a quarter million students can’t be accounted for.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-missing-school-children-stanford-study-associated-press-pandemic-school-closures-54b3ccd9
America’s Missing School Children
A new study finds that a quarter million students can’t be accounted for.
Declining public-school enrollment during the pandemic has been well-chronicled. Hundreds of thousands of students learned at home or switched to private schools with more in-person learning. But especially alarming is that tens of thousands of students can’t be accounted for, according to a new study
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Teacher’s Unions And Not-Teaching
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/01/teachers-unions-and-not-teaching.html
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Democrats Diminishing Public Education
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/08/democrats-diminishing-public-education.html
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How Much Ransom To Open Public Schools?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/02/how-much-ransom-to-open-public-schools.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 11:46 AM

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Strategic Petroleum Reserve was established to ensure that in the event of a major disruption in oil supply, the US would have a stop-gap supply to avoid a massive national shutdown and energy hostage situation.
A situation similar to the 1973 embargo by the Saudi’s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis
And
Iran Attack On Saudi Oil Spikes US Prices
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/09/iran-attack-on-saudi-oil-spikes-us.html
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Biden and his “Congressionally Mandated” dumping of our “RAINY DAY OIL” is indicative of a totally irresponsible cabal of Democrats that are placing US energy supplies at risk on purpose!
Apparently they can’t remember the 1974 Oil Embargo!!!
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/oil-embargo
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In accordance with the laws, DOE will release up to 26 million barrels of sweet crude oil from two SPR storage sites, with deliveries beginning as early as April 1, 2023
DOE Issues Notice of “Congressionally Mandated” Sale to Purchase Crude Oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
February 13, 2023
https://www.energy.gov/ceser/articles/doe-issues-notice-congressionally-mandated-sale-purchase-crude-oil-strategic
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 2:16 PM

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AOL: Nikki Haley not 'in her prime'? Don Lemon's comments spotlight a political reality for women candidates
https://www.aol.com/nikki-haley-not-her-prime-173922149.html
CNN anchor Don Lemon's dismissal of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has sparked a furor not because his attitude toward women and aging is so unusual. While his comments have been derided as offensive, women in politics say his views remain remarkably common.
At an age male politicians can be viewed as gaining authority as they add gray hairs, female politicians are sometimes seen as hitting their expiration date.
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Thesaurus.com -- note: AOL chose Not to use any of these terms that they are quick to use for trespassing-Republicans!
synonyms for anti-feminist · sexist · chauvinist · male chauvinist pig ·
If you're someone who believes women belong in the kitchen and shouldn't be accorded the same respect as men, you might be a misogynist.
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Don Lemon’s locker-room reference to Nikki Haley’s persona, femininity and intellect resulted in other media chastising him for his shallow and pathetic and childish statement.
However, the above AOL article gloss’ over and marginalizes this chauvinism with an ‘all the boys do it’ excuse – Really? --- Actually ‘all the boys’ do not disparage or demean Nikki Haley who towers over the likes of little Don Lemon.
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Ms Haley is a female-minority and is the past Governor of South Carolina and past US Ambassador to the UN and is highly qualified to be the POTUS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley
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What is Don Lemon qualified to do, other than dumb-talk?
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CNN staffers call for Don Lemon’s ouster after ‘self-serving,’ tone-deaf apology
https://nypost.com/2023/02/17/cnn-staffers-call-for-don-lemons-ouster-after-self-serving-apology/
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 1:37 PM

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How can states just now start protecting our children from sex mutilation crimes that were judged at Nuremberg in 1945?
How can the federal DOJ not be prosecuting child molesters under the Civil Rights statutes?
Where is our Humanity? Where is the outrage? Where are the churches?
What happened to "suffer the little children NOT!)
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NBCNews: South Dakota becomes the 6th state to restrict “gender-affirming care” for minors
Gov. Kristi Noem said the bill seeks to protect minors from “harmful” medical procedures.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/south-dakota-becomes-6th-state-restrict-gender-affirming-care-minors-rcna70592
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“Gender Affirming Care” – Really?
They are castrating and neutering and disfiguring children for life – crimes for which the The Doctors Trials at THE NUREMBERG CODE were held:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5719679/
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https://www.nus.edu.sg/research/docs/librariesprovider3/references/nuremberg.pdf?sfvrsn=b67333a0_2
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As Arkansas bans treatments for transgender youth, 15 other states consider similar bills
(Consider? What the hell are they considering?)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/08/states-consider-bills-medical-treatments-transgender-youth/7129101002/
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Biden’s US TaxPayer Funded Child Sex Mutilation
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/04/bidens-us-taxpayer-funded-child-sex.html
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Google results for search: "Age Consent" in USA?
All this, BUT, apparently performing sex abuse modifications on children are OK! Really?
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Google: legal age for tattoo in usa 18 years old
However, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have statutory laws requiring a person receiving a tattoo be at least 18 years old. This is partially based on the legal principle that a minor cannot enter into a legal contract or otherwise render informed consent for a procedure.
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Google: Age consent for sex in usa
In the majority of states (34), it is 16 years of age. In the remaining states, the age of consent is either 17 or 18 years old (6 and 11 states, respectively).
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Google: Age consent to join military in usa
Recruits must be 18 (or 17 with parental consent).
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Google: Age consent to possess a handgun in usa
Minimum Age for Gun Possession: Subject to limited exceptions*, federal law prohibits the possession of a handgun or handgun ammunition by any person under the age of 18.
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Google: Age consent to get married in usa
18 years of age in all states except Nebraska, where the general marriage age is 19, and Mississippi, where the general marriage age is 21.
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Google: Age consent to drive a car in usa
The legal age to drive a car in the United States is 16
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Google: Age consent for an abortion in usa
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/teens/stds-birth-control-pregnancy/parental-consent-and-notification-laws
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 11:37 AM

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Biden refers to Maryland’s first Black governor as ‘boy’ in speech
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/feb/15/joe-biden-refers-marylands-first-black-governor-bo/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=evening&utm_term=evening&utm_content=evening&bt_ee=spXBWDaQ6LwzdFyoufVO9jHzk41YLLX6XEnpWdZisqF%2BzyPwu
“You got a hell of a new governor in Wes Moore. He’s the real deal and the boy looks like he can still play,”
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Image the PravdaMedia retort IF a Republican had used that term, but it’s just good-ole Joe – so he gets another pass.
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Perhaps Biden was experiencing a flash-back to his good-old-days and buddies:
Vice President Joe Biden Eulogizes Former Member of the KKK, Robert Byrd on July 2, 2010.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqO_LiKjJjk
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No proper person referrers to a black man as “boy”!
Not even an “Atta-Boy” has been acceptable!
Biden clearly knows the history of the term used to describe black men as ‘boy’ until their hair turned gray at which time they were called ‘uncle’ ie: ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’.
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 9:56 AM

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The Biden Balloon Fiasco would be funny IF Not so serious and dangerous.
Biden has Not just made himself look even more stupid, but, has now made our national air-defense the brunt of world-wide jokes and exposed how limited our defense systems have become post the DEWLINE- SAGE-BOMARC systems of 50-years ago.
Next he'll have D8-Caterpillars mowing the white house lawn.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/02/balloonmania-sleep-tight-your.html
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Cruz responds after Biden allegedly authorized $200 million fighter jet to shoot down $12 science project
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cruz-responds-biden-authorized-200-million-fighter-jet-shoot-science-project#
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Small pico balloons typically range between $12 and $180 while an F-22 Raptor is estimated to be around $200 million
Cruz, R-Texas, joked that Biden’s decision to authorize the $200 million fighter jet to use a $400,000 missile to shoot down what may have been a $12 balloon serves as a "powerful deterrence" to high school students interested in creating their own at-home science balloons.
The comment came after the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade’s (NIBBB), an Illinois-based hobbyist club, said their pico balloon that was floating off the west coast of Alaska went missing the same day a Lockheed Martin jet shot down an unidentified object matching its description.
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Will China Win By Attrition?
It appears likely that we will run out of sidewinders before China runs out of balloons! You Think?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/02/will-china-win-by-attrition.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 9:14 AM

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South Park episode 'skewers' Harry and Meghan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vniitRKu0os
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“It continues with the appropriate skewering of them running around the world saying ‘please don’t look at us but look at us’.”
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The Prince And The Not So Pauper
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-prince-and-not-so-pauper.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 8:44 AM

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Liberty Energy boss Chris Wright rails against what he says is an alarmist call for a transition away from fossil fuels
https://www.wsj.com/articles/energy-ceo-fights-climate-science-and-linkedin-north-face-too-11675522739?mod=hp_lista_pos5
Talking to LinkedIn, he said, was a way for him to broaden his audience.
Then LinkedIn took the post down.
The social-networking site for professionals, which is owned by Microsoft Corp., MSFT -1.13%decrease; red down pointing triangle
said the post went against the platform’s policy on misinformation, according to emails Mr. Wright shared with The Wall Street Journal.
Mr. Wright appealed LinkedIn’s decision, and the platform replied that the video violated its policy on spam and scams. The next day, LinkedIn informed Mr. Wright that it had concluded that his post didn’t actually go against its policies, and that it had restored the video.
Some Republican lawmakers are calling for hearings this year to explore what they say is a pattern of tech companies cracking down on conservative speech.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-energy-transition-will-fail-11661547051
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How can silencing dissenting views be a good thing?
It wasn’t good when the Church shut-down Galileo’s views on the sun being the center of the universe, Not the earth.
‘High-Priests’ are still dictating scientific dogma today.
Still Not a Good thing!
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This is especially true of a subject as diverse and complex as the solar cycles, earth’s geology, global warming, climate change and massively variable weather.
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Hardly mentioned but very important is that we are in the latest InterGlacial period that has followed other drastic earth moderating changes shown in a simplistic comical way by Disney’s Ice Age series as one-thousand feet-high ice melted off Old Faithful and the land bridge to Asia came and went and sea levels rose by 340-feet.
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Hardly mentioned are the extensive northern hemisphere glaciers that made massive retreats from 1700 to 2000 without a potential CO2 cause-effect.
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There are massive amounts of government money supporting and extending and enabling the AGW-Alarmist communities and their messaging of imminent Armageddon; be afraid, be very afraid and give us your money!
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Perhaps as we prematurely shut-down our fossil and nuclear energy sources, and overload our existing electric grid, we’ll discover that solar and wind need massive amounts of back-up energy for all those extended times when the sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow; resulting in duplicate costs that will overwhelm customers, especially the poor.
This In-addition to the impacts of electrifying all our vehicles and buildings.
What is the total world's impact on theses changes?
How will all this "actually" effect global temperatures and climate change?
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“There are three kinds of men.
The ones that learn by readin’.
The few who learn by observation.
The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
Will Rogers
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Global Warming Turns Into Arctic Hell
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/02/global-warming-turns-into-artic-hell.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 3:00 PM

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Just when you thought censorship was waning, the thought-police at Google have decided that four posts in the RoanokeSlant are “illegal activity posts”!
Really?
Should one view this as a “red badge of courage” or as a significant imposition on ‘free speech’, to which Google has never signed up.
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How could a personal blog focused on current events, targeted for senior folks, possibly present a threat to Google’s sensibilities? Really?
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The RoanokeSlant was started in Feb 2005, has had 7,605 posts and 1,011,090-views.
How could that possibly be a threat to the left-wing-liberal propagandists who would cry and complain to Mother Google? Really?
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Received on Valentine's Day!
from: Blogger <no-reply@google.com>
“Why was your blog post deleted?
Your content has violated our Illegal activities policy.
We encourage you to review the full content of your blog posts to make
sure they are in line with our standards as additional violations could
result in termination of your blog.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/02/sen-kamala-harris-legalizing-hooking.html.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/01/ny-hooking-ok-threading-not-so-much.html.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/10/roanokers-march-for-what.html.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/07/looking-for-symbols-to-destroy.html.
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Perhaps Google should adopt this publishing policy:
In The Friends of Voltaire, Hall wrote:
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
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Some views of FakeNews and Censorship that Google should review:
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Soros-backed ‘disinformation’ group under fire for blacklisting conservative media outlets
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/feb/13/george-soros-backed-global-disinformation-index-un/
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Censoring The 2020 Campaign
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/10/censoring-2020-campaign.html
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Lies Fly And Morph Into Fake-News
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/03/lies-fly-and-morph-into-fake-news.html
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Twitter’s Revolution Hypocrisy
Twitter’s Thought Police have exercised dominion over primarily conservative postings.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/10/twitters-revolution-hypocrisy.html
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Opening Twitter’s Kimono By Elon Musk
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/12/opening-twitters-kimono-by-elon-musk.html
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Back To Fahrenheit 451
The plot and message is reflective of Orwell’s 1984.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/07/back-to-fahrenheit-451.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 11:24 AM

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Fortune: Marc Andreessen says remote work has ‘detonated’ the way we connect and it’s young professionals who will suffer the most
https://fortune.com/2023/02/11/marc-andreessen-remote-work-has-detonated-way-we-connect-young-professionals-will-suffer/?showAdminBar=true
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Remote Work: Mentoring and Exposure to the business environment are lost and young professionals are the big losers!
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Those working on very specific defined and repeatable tasks can work anywhere where they can communicate.
Examples:
Dispatchers can often dispatch resources from a remote site.
Order-takers can receive and post orders from a remote site.
But those who have significant dependencies on other team members in a dynamic environment need an interactive team relationship.
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The future leaders of an organization require mentoring and exposure not isolation. Opportunities to grow often require experiencing the depth and breadth of an organizations customers, processes, personnel and activities; hardly available to one seated at home in front of a display.
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ReJoin The Team – Get Back To The Total Job!
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Note: Remote learning and schooling doesn't work either!
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 11:24 AM

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It appears likely that we will run out of sidewinders before China runs out of balloons! You Think?
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And with a $33-TRILLION Debt and massive costs of F-35’s we also may run out of taxpayer’s money ….. Bankrupt! You Think?
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For the F-35 airframe and mission equipment only, the Lot 15-17 cost of F-35s ranges “from $70.2 million to $69.9 million for the F-35A, $80.9 million to $78.3 million for the F-35B, and $90 to $89.3 million for the F-35C,” a Lockheed spokesperson said.
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Compare that to:
A $1-million spy air balloon!
or a $100- project balloon!
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U.S. Jet Shoots Down Flying Object Over Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he and President Biden had ordered the object violating Canadian airspace to be taken down, a day after another object was shot out of the sky near Alaska.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/us/politics/unidentified-object-canada-alaska-pentagon.html
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Also – what’s with shooting at “unknown objects”?
Every gun and hunter training program stresses to Not shoot until you positively know what you’re shooting at and that there are No ‘objects of concern’ behind your target!
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Biden: We Have Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself! ….. Really?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/02/biden-doing-fdr.html
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BalloonMania! Sleep Tight Your Government Is Awake?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/02/balloonmania-sleep-tight-your.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 7:55 AM

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Vice Chair of FL GOP Christian Ziegler: Only 17,000 of the Net 1 Million Moving In Registered D.
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2023/02/04/vice-chair-of-fl-gop-christian-ziegler-17000-net-1-million-moving-state-registered-democrat/
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Not clear what has caused this major change in political views from 20-years ago.
Clearly Democrats moving from Democrat cities to rural Republican areas, like into Colorado from California and UpState NY from NYC, kept their Democrat Ideology and converted whole states to Blue.
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Florida was a major Democrat stronghold with Democrats moving down from NY, NJ and New England and bringing their politics with them, totally forgetting why they moved.
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Most newborn kittens open their eyes between the ages of 2 and 16 days. During this time, their vision gradually improves, though the two eyes may not fully open at the same rate.
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Young political-kittens usually don’t open their eyes until they have worked and paid taxes and observed the socialist-democrat-state for some period of time.
Some never fully open their eyes and continue to depend on others for their milk and bread.
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Obama's Naive Youthful Followers
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/obamas-naive-youthful-followers.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 8:33 AM