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FraDon

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August 22, 2022

That's why we make the sleeves so long we can wrap them around

the dangerous and deeply insane person, buckle him in and haul his ass off to the asylum. That's what civilized society used to do to crazy people. This is what we said we should have done to Hitler (Stalin, Mao, George III, etc.). Take these ruthless criminals OUT of polite society, and off to the asylum.

August 15, 2022

Odd phrase

I'm 73 and just got hearing aids. I'm suddenly struck by the phrase "hard of hearing". We don't call people with a limp "hard of walking", or folks with a speech impediment "hard of talking". Where does it come from?

August 3, 2022

We have been assured for years that the National Security Agency collects and secures

ALL phone calls, emails and texts. Remember John Poindexter and Total Information Awareness? All of these 'missing' records should be recoverable. What am I missing here?

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