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BigOleDummy

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October 1, 2017

Didn't Puerto Rico .....

..... vote to become a State for the first time here recently? Could THAT be the "reason" our chump in chief and his acolytes have wasted time sending help? For the slamming of them on Fox and other right wing "news" sites? They vote pretty heavily democratic, correct? After this fiasco of letting them suffer and die while calling them lazy and/or whiners I doubt they are looking at "us" in the same way. Guess what I'm trying to say is........ is the (non)response to Maria a calculated thing? To keep another blue State from coming into being?

I've exhausted every RATIONAL idea I can come up with, could this be true?

September 11, 2017

I really needed to see this right about now ........

For the last hour or so I've been glued to reports about Florida/Irma. The suffering and fear were/are bad enough to see but then I went to the Twitter Irma thread and was sickened by the Trumpists/nutjobs posting racist things. By the pictures/videos of the abandoned pets. By the self serving politicians posting their crocodile tears. I was just about done in with sadness and disgust with the human race, I HAD to get away! ...... Then...... well then my first page after leaving all that horridness I saw this :

[link:http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/girl-6-opens-lemonade-stand-to-help-pay-off-her-classmates-lunch-debt/ar-AArCsWb?li=AAk6ORB&ocid=spartanntp|

....and my faith in humanity was restored, at least to a certain extent. If we as a species can produce little girls like this then maybe, just MAYBE we do have some redeeming values. You GO little Amiah ! You'll never know but you helped more than your classmate(s) with your selfless actions. You helped an old cynical man smile and feel good about humanity again. At least for awhile. Thank you

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