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Award-winning author of mostly fiction, mostly mysteries, mostly shorts, mostly funny. Retired librarian. Folkie. Cyclist.
"The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state." - Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
09.11.2025 03:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
stuff trump said: Comey was one of the people, he wasn’t the biggest, but he’s a dirty cop, he’s always been a dirty, everybody knew it. And it’s, you know, as far as the case is concerned. He gave an answer, it was a strong answer. He then verified it a couple of times, because that was a very important answer.If he would have equivocated, if he would’ve been a little bit less sure, that would have been very bad for him. So he gave an an answer.
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08.11.2025 17:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
“Gravity is a hard habit to break.” - Terry Pratchett
stuff trump said: “The MMR, I think, should be taken separately. This is based on what I feel, the mumps, measles, the three should be taken separately. And it seems to be that when you mix them, there could be a problem. So there’s no downside in taking them separately,”
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08.11.2025 02:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
stuff trump said: I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead.
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06.11.2025 17:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
“Rome, meet Nike.” – Isaac Gilman
stuff trump said: the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs, that’s what’s illegal,”
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04.11.2025 17:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
"Everything goes back to Saint Hammett and Saint Chandler.” - Larry Kleinfeld
stuff trump said: Beautiful paper, the gorgeous paper," I said, throw a little more gold on it. They deserve it. "Give me — I want the A paper, not the D paper," he continued. "We used to sign a piece of garbage. I said, This man is going to be a general, right? Yeah." "I don't want to use this," he said. "I want to use the big, beautiful, firm paper. I want to use the real gold writing when you talk about the position. And they're beautiful. And — but how would you like to have that?"
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03.11.2025 17:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
“I’m not gonna die in 4/4 time.” - Moondog
Our local coop said that because of that rule ANYONE can ask for the discount. Therefore, SNAP users are getting the same deal as anyone else.
03.11.2025 00:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
"It’s not real because it’s real. It’s real because I made it up.” - Walter Mosley.
Malaprop for the Day:
"Well, that's making lettuce out of lemonade."
stuff trump said: Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady. You don't know anything about it. They're fighting for their life. Nothing is benefiting Argentina. They're fighting for their life. You understand what that means? They have no money. They have no anything. They're fighting so hard to survive. If I can help them survive in a free world, I happen to like the president of Argentina.
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01.11.2025 16:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
stuff trump said: “You know, the new thing is magnets. So instead of using a hydraulic that can be hit by lightning and it’s fine. You take a little glass of water, you drop it on magnets, I don’t know what’s going to happen,
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31.10.2025 16:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
"'Listen, three-eyes,' he said, 'don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." -Douglas Adams
stuff trump said: “The great George Washington, all the way to — well, I think we have to rate him above meSo less than great. Less than George. Somebody went up there, they say, ‘You’re the third best president in the United’ — this was on television — ‘third best.'And they said, who are the first two? ‘George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.’ And I got extremely angry at this man. It’s going to be tough to beat. It’s going to very tough to beat Washington and Lincoln, but we’re going to give it a try, right?”
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30.10.2025 15:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ive been on food stamps and welfare. Anyone help me out? No. Craig T. Nelson.
29.10.2025 00:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Most of my Thoughts For The Day come from my Unfamiliar Quotations page. I just updated it.
27.10.2025 18:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
stuff trump said: "So you have black women with MAGA hats on in Chicago all over the place."
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27.10.2025 16:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
