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Egalitarian Thug

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15. Good advice. I'm working on that right now.

Reply to RobertEarl (Reply #14)

Thu Feb 6, 2014, 01:04 AM

Feb 2014

Our current dilemma is whether to buy a very small piece of a sane state, or a much nicer and larger piece of a borderline batshit crazy state that is showing signs of potential sanity, but also has a very long history of choosing badly.

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