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Student loans conditional upon grades - Pebble - 2/23/2022 4:41:12 PM

Violent Extremism in Canada - RobVG - 2/19/2022 7:34:30 PM
- That's just wrong - podrock - 2/19/2022 8:04:51 PM
  - Yup. - RobVG - 2/19/2022 8:12:51 PM
    - Conan O'Brian said: - podrock - 2/20/2022 2:17:34 AM
      - Well said. - RobVG - 2/20/2022 7:34:46 PM
    - No worries - podrock - 2/19/2022 8:25:38 PM
      - How convenient. - ER - 2/19/2022 10:53:38 PM
        
        crossed my mind, too. - podrock - 2/19/2022 11:25:08 PM
        
        Feint hearted? - ER - 2/20/2022 12:43:51 AM
        
        trying not to be - podrock - 2/20/2022 12:45:32 AM

Is Vlad the Invader, or not.? - ER - 2/19/2022 4:06:36 PM
- Johnson thinks so..or does he? - Pebble - 2/20/2022 3:29:19 AM
  - Or got bought into? - podrock - 2/20/2022 4:36:39 AM
    - Quite likely - Pebble - 2/20/2022 6:01:59 AM
- fellow gang members - podrock - 2/19/2022 4:59:07 PM

Canadian Convoy donators - RobVG - 2/17/2022 6:23:13 AM
- US donors - podrock - 2/17/2022 3:38:07 PM
  - another view - podrock - 2/18/2022 7:44:54 PM
    - more agents of Kaos - podrock - 2/18/2022 9:44:27 PM
- You have to face the facts, Rob - ER - 2/17/2022 3:11:20 PM
  - Funny, - RobVG - 2/17/2022 3:29:18 PM
    - In my opinion - podrock - 2/17/2022 3:54:48 PM
      - It is known the Russians are pushing anti-vax propaganda, and the GOP is doing it as well- they are BOTH doing it with the SAME goal in mind... - RL - 2/17/2022 10:26:20 PM
        
        Yup - podrock - 2/17/2022 11:27:57 PM
- Canadian Convoy Organizers - podrock - 2/17/2022 3:04:49 PM
  - Some say racism will eventually die off. - RobVG - 2/17/2022 3:26:36 PM
    - Some critical race theoruy - ER - 2/17/2022 6:45:41 PM
      - The 'men' of the trucker protest... - RL - 2/18/2022 6:12:14 PM
- SO... - RL - 2/17/2022 1:26:43 PM

A way out of the Ukrainian Dilemma. Seriously. - ER - 2/15/2022 8:04:41 PM
- BBC live reporting - Pebble - 2/18/2022 5:01:46 PM
- Saturday ? - Pebble - 2/18/2022 2:15:16 PM
  - Well that's a risk the world doesn't need at this time - RL - 2/18/2022 3:18:57 PM
    - Pack a coat - podrock - 2/18/2022 4:26:34 PM
- I wonder what they need to be ready for ? <sigh> - Pebble - 2/16/2022 6:13:02 PM
  - Its a mind game - ER - 2/16/2022 9:24:32 PM
  - For anything, as usual. - podrock - 2/16/2022 7:20:16 PM
  - I imagine its more about sending a message than anything else... - RL - 2/16/2022 7:06:22 PM
    - Of course it is - Pebble - 2/16/2022 7:17:14 PM
      - When I was a kid - podrock - 2/16/2022 7:25:23 PM
        
        I know that noise well - Pebble - 2/16/2022 10:54:56 PM
- TASS reporting on the Ukraine - Pebble - 2/16/2022 11:40:52 AM
  - I am hesitant to trust anything from Russian media on this... - RL - 2/16/2022 7:05:47 PM
    - Of course…..again. - Pebble - 2/16/2022 7:18:03 PM
- agreed - podrock - 2/16/2022 2:12:30 AM
  - I thought long and hard about the Ukraine NATO concession. - ER - 2/16/2022 4:21:51 AM
    - Me too, and I don't like it a bit. - podrock - 2/16/2022 5:49:27 AM
      - Agreed. - Pebble - 2/16/2022 7:12:24 AM

Jesus Guns Babies - RL - 2/17/2022 10:42:04 PM
- image - podrock - 2/18/2022 1:47:41 AM
  - ? - RL - 2/18/2022 2:20:10 AM
    - The Fighting Jesus! - podrock - 2/18/2022 3:18:06 AM
- There was a time, not so long ago, when this sort of thing would have been roundly condemned by people of all political affiliation. - ER - 2/18/2022 12:33:08 AM

Reviewing the geography and geology of Ukraine. - podrock - 2/13/2022 1:38:44 AM
- Have a look at this - Pebble - 2/16/2022 1:45:34 AM
  - Nice find! Thanks. - podrock - 2/16/2022 2:11:17 AM
    - Thank you - Pebble - 2/17/2022 3:36:48 AM
  - That... could be very helpful to an intelligence analyst - RL - 2/16/2022 1:50:17 AM
- The Washington Post has a good overview - podrock - 2/14/2022 6:13:49 PM
  - This is old but interesting background - Pebble - 2/15/2022 1:05:56 PM
- A side note - Pebble - 2/14/2022 5:07:42 AM
- It's good tank country. - ER - 2/13/2022 4:17:41 AM
  - Until the thaw... - RL - 2/13/2022 7:53:54 PM
    - Or not - podrock - 2/13/2022 10:04:58 PM
- For reference, a size comparison - podrock - 2/13/2022 1:48:37 AM
  - I did a similar comparison, it’s pretty much the same size as Texas. - Pebble - 2/13/2022 6:56:19 PM
    - Oddly, though, even if there is a war there they will have fewer guns than Texas... - RL - 2/14/2022 6:55:28 PM
      - I suspect you are right about the unregistered firearms - Pebble - 2/14/2022 8:37:01 PM

temporal dislocation - ER - 2/14/2022 2:02:38 PM
- You are continuing a long tradition... - RL - 2/14/2022 3:22:52 PM
  - “Youth were never more sawcie, yea never more savagely saucie . . . the ancient are scorned, the honourable are contemned, the magistrate is not dreaded.” - RL - 2/14/2022 5:33:26 PM
  - The first derivative - ER - 2/14/2022 4:58:17 PM
- I missed the 1/2 time show on purpose. - podrock - 2/14/2022 3:11:29 PM
  - Hallowed ground of football - Pebble - 2/16/2022 11:45:38 AM

Ram Ranch - podrock - 2/15/2022 6:09:20 PM
- Excellent. - Pebble - 2/16/2022 7:13:58 AM

Oklahoma wants all pregnant women to register with the state... - RL - 2/11/2022 2:25:44 AM
- I’m just surprised it’s not Texas as well - Pebble - 2/11/2022 4:53:12 AM
  - In Texas they outsourced enforcement to vigilantes... - RL - 2/11/2022 5:56:46 PM
    - Texas or the DPRK ? - Pebble - 2/11/2022 6:00:47 PM
- The dominionists and their building seven pillars proceeds. - podrock - 2/11/2022 3:26:49 AM
  - Section V of this report is especially chilling. To the very marrow. - podrock - 2/16/2022 4:51:23 AM
  - In Salon today: - podrock - 2/11/2022 4:50:12 PM
    - Jesus wept. - Pebble - 2/11/2022 5:48:02 PM
      - And then, - podrock - 2/11/2022 7:03:42 PM
        
        And lo, the fig tree was, like, 'Dude, WTF?!' - RL - 2/14/2022 11:45:03 PM
        
        J: I want to talk to your manager... - podrock - 2/15/2022 12:34:41 AM
        
        It seems like a really dick move by the son of god... - RL - 2/15/2022 1:32:00 AM
        
        Low blood sugar will do that. - podrock - 2/15/2022 1:57:47 AM
        
        Are you suggesting he was 'hangry' - RL - 2/15/2022 2:55:50 AM
        
        Chuckle - podrock - 2/15/2022 3:52:28 AM
        
        My dad can smite your dad! - RL - 2/15/2022 2:11:19 AM

Anti vaccination protests in NZ - Pebble - 2/11/2022 5:54:39 PM
- News update - Pebble - 2/12/2022 11:44:47 AM
  - The use of Barry Manilow against civilian populations was banned by the Geneva Conventions... - RL - 2/12/2022 2:39:01 PM
    - It could be worse - Pebble - 2/12/2022 8:27:58 PM
      - The nuclear option - RL - 2/12/2022 9:14:06 PM
        
        They’ve upped their game with Baby Shark. - Pebble - 2/14/2022 9:32:29 AM
        
        Those monsters! - RL - 2/14/2022 2:50:39 PM
- The Canada truckers protest is an American export - RL - 2/11/2022 6:21:35 PM
  - There are others - podrock - 2/11/2022 7:00:51 PM
  - Hacked Facebook - podrock - 2/11/2022 6:50:09 PM
    - "They also do not appear to reflect the values of most Canadians" - RobVG - 2/12/2022 7:40:59 AM
      - Facebook comments on foreign sites: - podrock - 2/12/2022 3:30:56 PM
        
        Not disputing the evidence of foreign financing. - RobVG - 2/12/2022 6:27:36 PM
        
        No one here is disputing that these things can start in other countries on their own - RL - 2/12/2022 7:43:17 PM
        
        I've talked to a lot of Canadians and have seen things. - RobVG - 2/12/2022 8:23:54 PM
        
        Also it is not "clearly false". - RobVG - 2/12/2022 8:26:50 PM
        
        It is... - RL - 2/12/2022 8:38:28 PM
        
        Anti vaxxers are a miniority. - RobVG - 2/13/2022 12:03:34 AM
      - United states fully vaccinated: %64.6 Canada:%80.4 - RL - 2/12/2022 2:24:53 PM
    - I don't think its conspiracy-theory thinking to suggest... - RL - 2/12/2022 5:19:18 AM
  - Chaos is a friend to fascists, so they manufacture it in bulk. - RL - 2/11/2022 6:43:49 PM
    - I really dislike this - Pebble - 2/11/2022 11:26:51 PM
      - No- but I understand how it may seem that way... - RL - 2/12/2022 2:03:07 AM
        
        We will have to agree to differ - Pebble - 2/12/2022 4:04:59 AM
        
        As you say, it is not just mom groups. - podrock - 2/12/2022 3:55:02 AM
        
        The zone was not immune, as you well know - RL - 2/12/2022 4:25:25 AM
        
        Just one example why my words are harsh on this topic - RL - 2/12/2022 3:27:54 AM
        
        There is a lot out there on how these mom groups are being targeted... - RL - 2/12/2022 2:49:11 AM
        
        The problem here - Pebble - 2/12/2022 11:44:17 AM
        
        You seem to be reading my words through glasses that have been tinted from dealing with misogyny... - RL - 2/12/2022 4:16:58 PM
        
        Why do you think that is? - Pebble - 2/12/2022 8:29:24 PM
        
        Bravo! - podrock - 2/12/2022 10:42:48 PM
        
        :) That must have been fun - RL - 2/12/2022 8:55:08 PM
        
        It was very fun - Pebble - 2/12/2022 11:50:59 PM

Charity investigation - Pebble - 2/10/2022 5:10:00 PM
- Website to rate charities: - podrock - 2/10/2022 6:04:04 PM
- And some charities were never intending to do good - RL - 2/10/2022 5:18:40 PM
  - Rage. And more Rage. - Pebble - 2/11/2022 4:58:20 AM
    - And they are still at it - RL - 2/13/2022 9:58:41 PM

He was just as damaged as most of us assumed, and warned... - RL - 2/13/2022 12:57:16 AM
- There's a word for people witness a crime and don't report it. - podrock - 2/13/2022 3:19:22 AM
  - lock her up - ER - 2/13/2022 4:26:02 AM

Do you think the Nato threat justifies Putin invading Ukraine or is Russia simply exercising its power grabbing muscles? (n/t) - RobVG - 2/11/2022 7:23:58 PM
- "Ukraine women really knock him out, they leave the west behind" ? - podrock - 2/11/2022 9:09:03 PM
  - Did you ever see the Youtube video of the Paul McCartney concert in Red Square? - ER - 2/11/2022 9:19:32 PM
    - here it is. - ER - 2/11/2022 9:25:55 PM
      - I had not. - podrock - 2/11/2022 9:45:20 PM
        
        Þetta vídeó er ekki lengur tiltækt - Pebble - 2/12/2022 12:31:12 AM
        
        Skrýtið, eða ekki? - podrock - 2/12/2022 1:18:58 AM
        
        Þetta er allt grískt fyrir mér - RL - 2/12/2022 2:59:50 AM
        
        við getum ekki öll lesið íslensku ...það tók tæpt ár. - Pebble - 2/12/2022 8:26:02 PM
- No. - ER - 2/11/2022 8:41:58 PM
  - Thank you for that insightful post - Pebble - 2/12/2022 8:26:44 PM
  - Thanks for the insight. n/t - RobVG - 2/12/2022 3:10:17 AM
  - He yearns for the old days, with him in charge. - podrock - 2/11/2022 10:08:57 PM

Some Trump records taken to Mar-a-Lago clearly marked as classified, including documents at ‘top secret’ level - RL - 2/11/2022 2:16:59 AM
- New, not new - podrock - 2/11/2022 3:21:12 AM
  - The country can survive a fascist President. - ER - 2/11/2022 3:35:30 AM
    - They like bullies - podrock - 2/11/2022 4:01:30 AM
      - Yes, they love criminals, they admire those who steal from others. - ER - 2/11/2022 5:43:39 AM
        
        "What the left doesn't get" - podrock - 2/11/2022 5:08:00 PM
        
        They want to make somebody lower - Pebble - 2/11/2022 10:46:11 AM
        
        It is not the underclass that is attracted to fascism. - ER - 2/11/2022 2:22:57 PM
        
        Not in this country - Pebble - 2/11/2022 5:56:51 PM
        
        If not the poor, then who? - ER - 2/12/2022 3:55:34 AM

American Fascists - RL - 2/10/2022 7:34:57 PM
- Southern Poverty Law Center profile - podrock - 2/10/2022 8:19:48 PM
- Freikorps - ER - 2/10/2022 8:03:11 PM

Boris Johnson for Americans - Pebble - 2/8/2022 7:32:32 AM
- following on from the satire above.... - Pebble - 2/8/2022 8:08:16 PM

If Russia invades Ukraine... - ER - 2/6/2022 12:32:43 AM
- Or a day after they release a pee video. - podrock - 2/6/2022 2:23:30 AM
- I still believe Putin's threatened Uke invasion is a bluff. - ER - 2/6/2022 1:30:23 AM
  - Let me get this straight, - podrock - 2/6/2022 2:29:37 AM
    - Something like that - ER - 2/6/2022 4:49:52 AM
      - My Baltic blood says... - podrock - 2/6/2022 6:09:00 AM
        
        Yes really. - Pebble - 2/6/2022 11:03:38 AM
        
        I know all too well. - podrock - 2/6/2022 8:20:04 PM
        
        Yes. - Pebble - 2/7/2022 12:58:46 AM
        
        Geopolitik 101 - ER - 2/6/2022 7:05:34 PM
- Reminds me of hitchhikers - Pebble - 2/6/2022 1:16:57 AM

Estonia - Pebble - 2/6/2022 11:21:06 AM
- You know me and photos Podrock - Pebble - 2/6/2022 11:21:52 AM

Fahrenheit GOP - RL - 2/5/2022 3:23:11 AM
- Compare and contrast - RL - 2/5/2022 3:37:52 AM

The GOP today officially endorsed treason - RL - 2/5/2022 1:08:14 AM

Oklahoma bill would fine teachers $10k for teaching anything that contradicts religion - RL - 2/4/2022 4:06:30 AM
- The media - Pebble - 2/4/2022 5:25:43 AM
  - No tan calvo que se le vean los sesos. - ER - 2/4/2022 1:36:55 PM
- These guys are ready to do whatever it takes to pander to the Trogs. - ER - 2/4/2022 4:51:53 AM

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche - Pebble - 2/2/2022 6:49:38 AM

A chilling read - podrock - 1/30/2022 11:13:03 PM

Rule of law - RobVG - 1/30/2022 6:01:25 PM
- Pardoning the rioters means he will probably punish those who judged them. - ER - 1/30/2022 6:26:17 PM
  - Newt said that part out loud. - podrock - 1/30/2022 11:05:37 PM

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