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March 29, 2019

That Diss Song Known as 'Yankee Doodle'

You know that words can change their meaning ... let it happen by groups that seek to own insulting phrase by usurping those. Why attack liberal, progressive folks who use those words to fight back. Even our founders did so.


It’s not just any insult, either. With “Yankee Doodle,” the Redcoats were delivering the most puerile, schoolyard insult in the schoolyard insult book. They were suggesting that American soldiers were gay.

Gay and bumbling, actually.


“Such a figure, essenced and perfumed, with a bunch of lace sticking out under its chin, puzzles the common passenger to determine the thing’s sex,” wrote Town and Country Magazine in 1772. “And many a time an honest laboring porter has said, ‘By your leave, madam,’ without intending to give offense.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/sunday-review/that-diss-song-known-as-yankee-doodle.html
March 28, 2019

For the first time in the history of political commentary

... I declare all of my posts to be GENDER NEUTRAL ... if I use bitch or bastard ... forget gender ... follow the poetry ... LOL

March 28, 2019

Hey, why do we have many important regulations?

... BECAUSE BUSINESS IN AMERICA CANNOT BE TRUSTED!!!! WHY? Let's examine this flash point ... Why do poor repubs vote against their interests? Well, like a fish swimming free in a stream, they get hooked once in awhile. I believe that trump poor folks, those that are not racists, will join us. Want less regulation ... DEMAND LESS CORRUPTION

March 28, 2019

Guaranteed way to get trumpers to turn from trump

... tell them that the CHEM TRAILS have been loaded with Pro-trump Communist drifting magama (make America great again ... minus AMERICA) .... the commie brainwash is going to get them

March 28, 2019

We had a "Deep throat" to help out investigations now

in this turgid trump swamp ... we need a "Deep Moat" to come forward with in Mueller Report

March 27, 2019

Mrs. Bitchy DeVos, you could drop your purse

and $18 million could fall out , you would never notice. We all know what billionaire you are. I have an idea ... why don't you donate $1 billion dollars to provide for Special Olympics funding and feeding our "in need" students? Then maybe you might be able to fit through the eye of a needle.

March 27, 2019

Barr - the keeper of Pandora trump's box

. Pandora opened a jar left in his care containing sickness, death and many other unspecified evils which were then released into the world.[4] Though she hastened to close the container, only one thing was left behind – usually translated as Hope, though it could also have the pessimistic meaning of "deceptive expectation".[5]

From this story has grown the idiom "to open (a) Pandora's box", meaning to do or start something that will cause many unforeseen problems.[6] Its modern, more colloquial equivalent is "to open a can of worms".[7]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_box
March 26, 2019

Watch out who you donate hearing aids to

... scammer charities. Wanted to donate my Mom's hearing aids. She paid $5000 plus for her's. Lots of money for for scammers. Dem's must look into this secondary market abuse. Starkey's, a major producer of hearing aids has a donation site? Someone needs to look into this. Below is one org. that is legit.

https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/hearing-health-foundation/305


Contact & General Information
Hearing Health Foundation
363 Seventh Avenue
10th Floor
New York, NY 10001
hearinghealthfoundation.org
Tax Status: 501(c)3
Other Names
Deafness Research Foundation
Charities often solicit donors under multiple names. CharityWatch is aware of this charity soliciting donors using the above names.
RATING: A+

Is this rating different than what you expected based on what the charity reports about itself or what other raters report about this charity? Read about what makes CharityWatch's independent ratings different from other sources of information.

March 26, 2019

It's time for civilian audit of trumps tax returns

After 3 years, trump claims that he is being audited by the IRS and therefore can't release them? Time is up, the excuse is so over.

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