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Apr 15, 2023Liked by Don Surber

In catching up with the Royal Gossip, Prince Harry will be attending the Coronation alone. How dare the King schedule it on Archie's birthday :P

We were right about Meagan Markle too. Another grifter suffering a narcissistic personality disorder suffered by many in the lame Democratic Party. Me, Me, Me ! Wants all the glitz without any of the work. Sounds like Michelle Obama to me.

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Meagan Markle is being sued by the Kardashians for infringement of their copyrighted obnoxious behavior... Somehow, the Kardashians have made a billion dollars doing what they do, and MM is going down the financial tubes. Go figure.

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Apr 15, 2023Liked by Don Surber

I fear Californians moving to "Almost Heaven" is akin to locusts swarming to the next patch of green.

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Locusts do less damage, take longer to destroy, and their destruction is not permanent.

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Beatles Trivia: I thought #1 was "Love Me Do' and it was all down hill from there.

#1 Rahm Emmanuel said "never let a crisis go to waste". They'll use this leak to ramp up more heavy handed treatment of the citizenry.

#2 NPR takes its twitter ball and goes home. They really are an immature bunch there.

#3 I'm all for allowing California immigration to West Virginia. We need the population growth to get our Congress representation and electoral college votes we had. I would just require they pass a patriotism test in order to spend more than a week here.

#6 At least that paper reported the important part. Some outlets, like MSLSD would have left it out altogether.

#17 I'd say that student is fortunate to avoid attending an Ivy League school. He'd likely come out worse on the other end.

Highlights made for great Saturday morning entertainment.

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Apr 15, 2023Liked by Don Surber

Re #17 - I say Amen to your comment!

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City College of New York produced 12 Nobel Laureates (11 in hard science; 1 in economics) from its classes of 1933 to 1954. All Jews rejected by the Ivies, so you are absolutely right

My favorite was Arno Allan Penzias, a Kindertransport kid, who helped prove the Big Bang Theory. He escaped Hitler AND Harvard....

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25 - I wonder how many of the 10,000 will have votes cast in their name in the 2024 election?

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I know one couple from Kansas who vote early here, then rush to Florida for the winter and vote there as well.

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Report them. That's illegal, and they should be made to pay the price.

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I did, nothing was done. They're "connected ".

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Let's play name that party.

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In NY and every state they drove through on their way down to Meatballville, FL.

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8 - if only there was some data to give us a clue. And if that data was in a chart, that would be even better. Nah. It must be racism.

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In forty years of teaching, in both country and city schools, in single sex and co-ed schools, in private and public schools I found only one consistent indicator of future academic, sporting or indeed life success. Did they do their homework?

That is, the ability to stay on task, work unsupervised, and complete their assignments.

Nothing else comes close.

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After 40 years teaching math, language arts, and music let me add four more related indicators of academic success: 1) children live with mom and dad; 2) parents who value and support learning of their children; 3) a book rich home. Parents who read books to children, age appropriate books children read on their own, and parents who model reading; and 4) learning to read music, in particular, playing an instrument--preferably the piano as a child learns to read both clefs and independent but coordinated hand movements.

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You are absolutely correct of course. The most likely reason that a child regularly completes their homework is because they have loving concerned parents who value education. This in itself does not guarantee success but certainly improves the odds in its favour.

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Apr 15, 2023Liked by Don Surber

Love the Hank Johnson reference. He is a strong competitor for dumbest member of Congress. But he has stiff competition.

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He's in a 213 way tie for first at the moment.

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3 - I pray for you, Don and all other Mountaineers that read this post.

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As a failure as a writer, do you have any friends???

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Apr 16, 2023Liked by Don Surber

#1 I'm not buying this story for a minute. That poor kid is the fall guy to distract the public from the real culprits.

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Apr 15, 2023Liked by Don Surber

What’s next, a transsexual spokeshuman for Corn Nuts?

If you don’t want Californians moving to West Virginia, make “Deliverance” the official state movie ( Yes, I know it was mostly filmed in Georgia, but they won’t know that.), and make banjo lessons mandatory for all new residents.

Vis a vis the Beatles, if you play any Joe Biden speech backward after doing LSD , you can hear “ Cornpop was a bad dude. Hunter gave me the CCP money.”

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Apr 15, 2023Liked by Don Surber

#8. I'm stumped, how can blacks be stupid when they get their homework done in 1/3 the time those oh-so-smart Asians take? Now we know why the he ivy league schools are shafting white and Asian students for Chicago's finest.

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Apr 15, 2023Liked by Don Surber

Sir: I can't post the turtle meme here (Turtle is disappointed in you) but those puns were awful. I'm day drinking now at 7 am to hope to forget.

Something in the way she moos? Really?

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Don't wanna leave her now

Even though she's just a cowwww.

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There's your new side hustle... rewriting song lyrics for Weird Al Yankovik.

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Homer and Jethro or maybe Ben Colder. Two great acts from our better years.

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ooh my head hurts/stop

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10 - looks like they are Bashing King.

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Apr 15, 2023Liked by Don Surber

"Instead of expanding the Pentagon’s power to read my email, how about court-martialing the chain of command that failed to guard classified material?"

Anyone who believes a 21-year-old E3 Airman in the Massachusetts Air National Guard had any kind of access to Top Secret/Compartmentalized intelligence, please PM me. I have some very lucrative investments to offer you.

This is a psyop. We are being played.

Again.

My guess is that this is a key piece in Biden's exit strategy, though I don't know how that would work. And neither does Biden.

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Apr 15, 2023Liked by Don Surber

#16. All the Constitution requires is that punishment not be cruel and, repeat AND unusual. If every child rapist is fed feet first through a wood chipper, that satisfies the requirements.

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Trivia - I got number 1. Johnny Russell was from Mississippi and wrote/sung one of the greatest titles songs of all time - Red Necks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer. It is a very good song as well.

Trivia 2-4 - very punny!! Especially the cartoon for number 2.

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Just noticed your avatar. You look a lot like that guy from "Good Times"

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Been meaning to update it. Used it when we had cable and it was non-stop JJ and Joe Namath hawking Medicare insurance in between ads from ambulance chasers. Several friends used that when we wanted someone to CALL NOW!!!

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Apr 15, 2023Liked by Don Surber

Item 8 I suggest that all non-asian students be required to identify as Asian and have plastic surgery on their eyes. That will bring the average down.

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No surgery needed. Did Lia(r) get his nuts cut before becoming the top NCAA swimmer? You can lead by opening the Jimok authentic Chinese restaurant and serving pizza and hot wings. I'm considering opening an Oriental driving school.

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