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Re: Patriot's owner Robert Kraft charged with soliciting a prostitute - Today

QuoteLemon Drop QuoteCarnos Jax The human trafficking part of the equation is what needs to be dealt with. You can't leave it to the 'johns' to determine who's trafficked or not. I would think there's some way to legalize and regulate it such that the traffickers are removed from the equation. Here's a good thread on that topic from last year. High income countries that legalize prostitution

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Re: Good morning. DOW back above 26,000 - Yesterday

Quotesamintx I'm still not at the point of pre-2018 Dec portfolio values. After Dec 2018 and the debaucle in 2008-9....I'm just happy I can still buy lunch at Arby's! (which incidently I'm going to do today. Reuben and Turkey sandwich. Yum) Surprisingly I am 10% above pre-2018 Dec....

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Re: From PBS: Who holds the power in potential U.S.-China trade war? - Yesterday

QuoteDazed & Confused I found this informative, thought it useful to share here for opinions. I hope this (but realize it probably won't) conversation doesn't go political and gets bumped to the "Dark Side" so please keep your comments to the PBS reporting. Is the reporting accurate, biased or just plain nonsense? TIA D & C Overall quite accurate. Kudos for object

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Re: Smirky McPrivilege-Face’s Parents Sue WaPo… - 2 days ago

Quotehal I think it's important to reflect on the fact that a big portion of the country jumped down this kids throat because of a misconception. Just like the hate mongering, stereotyping bigots here....

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Re: TPMS - 4 days ago

TPMS modules can get damaged during the tire changes if the change is not done properly...

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Re: Beauty in the eye of the beholder? - Airbus Beluga XL 1st flight - 4 days ago

QuoteCarnos Jax And that get's to the crux of the matter. There is no definitive or absolute choice when it comes to what the largest plane (or freighter) is...it all depends on the metric. And that get's to the crux of the matter, if you pick only one metric for a predetermined result. And picking "internal volume" as the sole metric in "the world's largest flying freighter&

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Re: Hey, it's Presidents Day - 4 days ago

Quote$tevie Still so hard to believe he got elected. Thanks, Democrats.....

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Re: Beauty in the eye of the beholder? - Airbus Beluga XL 1st flight - 5 days ago

QuoteLemon Drop Quotemax QuoteLemon Drop Yep the Boeing Dreamlifter came out 13 years ago and until Airbus released their version it was the world's largest flying freighter. Nope, Ukrainian Antonov An-225 Mriya is and was even back in the 80's... Yes the An-225 is a monster plane, no doubt. Boeing had the Dreamlifter built because marine containers, the normal 747 freighter, the An-225 a

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Re: Thinking about a new dishwasher... which of these models would you buy? - 5 days ago

Bosh, Miele, Siemens, Gaggenau, Thermador, Neff are all the same with a different nameplate....

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Re: Beauty in the eye of the beholder? - Airbus Beluga XL 1st flight - 5 days ago

QuoteLemon Drop Yep the Boeing Dreamlifter came out 13 years ago and until Airbus released their version it was the world's largest flying freighter. Nope, Ukrainian Antonov An-225 Mriya is and was even back in the 80's...

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Re: The best summary of Trump I've read yet. Brits. - 5 days ago

Quotedeckeda You forget that according to max, a vote for Sanders was not effectively a vote for Trump. Nice fabrication, deckeda, just like the rest of your idiotic conclusions.... QuoteGGD Quotemax Thanks vision, it is all true and quite well known before Trump's election. And that is why the Democrats shoulder the blame for Trump's election, by putting forth a candidate so disliked, disc

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Re: Convicted criminals applauded for breaking into car - 5 days ago

I was so bad of locking myself out, I had a coat hanger tied to my hitch as a permanent accessory. Usually it took me 15 to 30 seconds to pop the lock plunger or the lever. Practice, practice, practice....

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Re: The best summary of Trump I've read yet. Brits. - 5 days ago

Thanks vision, it is all true and quite well known before Trump's election. And that is why the Democrats shoulder the blame for Trump's election, by putting forth a candidate so disliked, discredited, warbent, utterly corrupt and phony that she lost against wreck of human faults described in the OP..... QuoteAcer Yeah, but Clinton was shrill once. perfectly illustrating how most of the D

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Re: To Yeast or Not To Yeast, that is the rising question of the day. - 6 days ago

Why toss? What do you expect it to turn into?.....

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Re: It aint MAGA country.... - 6 days ago

QuoteWild eep Trump max ...: Amazingly enough until the creepy troll brought in Trump into this thread, his name was not mentioned not even once, nor did he have anything to do with this discussion. The hate filled troll could not stay away from his two all consuming obsessions, again. And again, still not a word on the subject under discussion....

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Re: Trump claims Japanese prime minister nominated him for Nobel Peace Prize - 6 days ago

Quotep8712 Actually, sure... Quotebfd certainly not the Nobel Peace Prize. Certainly wrong again... Quotedeckeda LOVE Prime Minister Abe. I have zero doubt the letter is legit. Abe folded.... QuoteTOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize last autumn after receiving a request from the US government to do so, the Asahi n

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Re: My idiot rebel flag waving Trumper friend said he doesn't get his news from Fox anymore - 6 days ago

Quotecbelt3 And why would you wave a rebel flag ? It’s just a white cloth on a stick,right ? True dat...

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Re: Lee Radziwill - 7 days ago

She married into a princely family going back to 1300, Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, at one time they owned almost quarter of Poland...

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Re: Jussie Smollett Hires Lawyer - 7 days ago

QuoteCarnos Jax You guys have a bad racist problem Presumably you are addressing the left wing nutsos like the perpetrator of this racist hoax, or the wannabe progressive, self declared racist colleagues of yours, Carnos? Is that the reason for your desperate defense of their hate spreading advocacy? Or are you looking in the mirror, Carnos, not surprisingly seeing yourself and your racist fr

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Re: It aint MAGA country.... - 7 days ago

QuoteJoeH Then again the OP loves to rail against the "police state", except here in this case when it appears to fit his preconceptions. Then again the OP loves to rail against the "Police State", except here in this case, which has nothing to do with the concept, as your hero, the perpetrator of the racist hoax is still walking free, but it did not slow you down from reach

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Re: What's your relationship with email like these days? - 7 days ago

I live by email, but for China I have to use WeChat, Facebook on steroids. Over there email is just a marketing tool to reach backward markets....

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Re: Jussie Smollett Hires Lawyer - 7 days ago

Quotehal Bernie - why do you take pleasure at the idea that Jussie Smollett might have made up a story about a horrible racist attack? I find this joy to be just plain weird. Yes, Bernie, why do you have a problem with leftwing nutso racists pouring flammable liquid onto the racist pyre they built and lit all by themselves...

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Re: It aint MAGA country.... - 7 days ago

QuoteJoeH Then again the OP loves to rail against the "police state", except here in this case when it appears to fit his preconceptions. So this fits your racist preconceptions, Joe?....

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Re: The WaPo has a behind-the-scenes play-by-play on the spending bill today - 7 days ago

Quotedeckeda Knock it off. He was in the presence of the POPE when those pics were taken. That actually means something to some Catholics. Sure does, just like a good kaffir beheading actually means something to some Muslims....

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It aint MAGA country.... - 8 days ago

Playing left wing nutso racist scenario: Quote"This MAGA country n*****,” ties a noose around your neck and pours bleach on you?"....Smollett revealed he can positively identify his attackers from a surveillance photo the Chicago Police Department released at the end of January. The actor and musician was assaulted near his Chicago apartment on January 29 when two white men put a noos

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Re: New Oxycontin laws cost me money - 8 days ago

I just buy mine on the street, no test, no office visits and overall quite cheaper....

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Re: Neil before Zod?!.....Fox delays 'Cosmos' Season 2..... - 8 days ago

Re: Neil before Zod?!.. Good title...

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Re: Amazon cancels plans for New York City HQ - 8 days ago

Quotepdq QuoteLemon Drop Amazon probably thought they could count on the governor and mayor to shepherd New York state's largest economic development opportunity in history, but clearly they weren't up to the task. Exactly. “They” being Amazon. I read somewhere that this was a massive political failure. And they weren’t talking about the politicians. Amazon expected and wanted them

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Re: Shipping charges at OWC 1 day only poll - 9 days ago

QuoteM A V I C ... that happened over 20 years ago. Has it been thaaat long? What was it, Roadway Express?...

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Re: Shipping charges at OWC 1 day only poll - 9 days ago

QuoteBernie My beef may very well be with FedEx, but I can not complain to them. OWC is the customer that paid FedEx And truth be told, OWC has no weight to pull over FedEx. And FedEx is not the same nimble and responsive operation it was twenty years ago. They have become a self absorbed behemoth, that even if willing, cannot fix its own mistakes, or correct its own obvious missteps...

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