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See also Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis's con-man/manager en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel...

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MoH is basically the equivalent of the VC.

Knighthood might be more like the honorary Colonel in the US en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel...

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19 dudes, cuz the cook's in the scuppers with the staggers and jags

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So jailing the poor may appear stupid and expensive, but it is God's work.

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But so very necessary-- for if the poor are not poor because they are sinful, then it is possible the rich are not rich because they are righteous. And that is unthinkable.

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damn this quote about london from the 1200s makes it sound so epic????

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There's also Martians Go Home by Fredric Brown

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I would imagine the FBI guys will be as obvious as they were last time around. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when the whole pronouns thing comes up. Then they gotta learn to pronounce "intersectionality" and use it correctly in a sentence, which might be a challenge.

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Uh, speaking for a friend, AA largely remains a cash in the basket affair. Too many members have banking issues for anything else, and most groups are too poor for card services. There are exceptions of course... Landlords (mostly churches) are used to getting rent in dimes and quarters....

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"Anyone visiting the camps can see and hear these messages. They are everywhere. Anyone not hearing and reporting them is lying to you." A fantastic must-read report on student encampments for Gaza:

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Yes, the first order of any business for any spontaneous student protest should be to set up nominating, screening, oversight, and elections committees. Then the platform, campaign, fundraising, bylaws, and so on committees. That's how you do a spontaneous protest movement! Young people, amiright?

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My best librarian "SHHHHHHHHHHH!" Damn, they found out. Who the hell invited a republican in anyway? And some republican actually accepted it, what is the world coming to, I ask you?

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The rage of Amira Haas, seen here straining against newspaper conventions that stifle her, in conveying truths too desolate for language:

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Not in Canada. Still full price on amazon.ca. As near as I can tell .ca never has sales on anything.

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Well *I'm* even cooler because I post to tell people that they are interested in the the things I'm not interested in in the wrong way

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"But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind... The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law." Ambrose Bierce, INADMISSIBLE in The Devil's Dictionary

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I'm in my 60s now, let me tell you it only gets worse. "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awe-full grace of god." --Aeschylus

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Having worked in the system for a while, well, there are no good answers really. Treatment is pretty effing far from an unmixed blessing, and knowing what I know, if I had a diagnosis you can bet I too would be pretty paranoid and no doubt perceived as hostile and treatment resistant myself.

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I've often thought that the Roman Empire was essentially built on the extreme fecundity of med & late republic Roman women. There never seemed to be any shortage of manpower, no matter what happened. There must have been MOBS of little Romans-to-be running around.

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Yea, but he hath given the Lions redemption that passeth understanding

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You might be doing him a favour if you reached out to Pathways to Housing - Radius radiushealth.ca/services/pat... they likely know him, or should know him anyway. They can't say so of course. But they might appreciate the head's up, or know who should get a head's up.

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I'm in the Southern City,was on the outreach team for a decade. My best guess is the system is likely very aware of this guy. Under Canadian & AB law, forced hospitalization is a pretty steep hill to climb. But anyway guns are very controlled.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

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It is also a good day to remember that there is no immunity. It does not matter how old or young you are, how rich or poor you are, how loved or successful or fit you are. There is no immunity and no-one is special. Just like with any other disease: anyone *can* get ill, and anyone *can* recover.

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Exactly my experience, except making the connection out loud in front of an English Lit Seminar. Almost 40 years ago now, but I still feel the burning shame every time I think of it

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