Gordon Pattie @GWPattie Twitter profile

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@karma2350 @ElyKreimendahl Welcome to nature. A co worker rescued an injured starling and to a wildlife rehab outfit. It was fed to the raptors.

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@LadyNaga_ L/D RN in Kelowna told me: A woman gave birth in the elevator on the way to L/D. She was mortified. I told her "Don't worry, 2 years ago, someone delivered on the hospital lawn." She: "I know. That was my first." Enjoy your birthing memory. 😄

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@DrJenGunter As someone with a degree in biology, I find it stunning that folks have such faith in embryology/fetal development always going right. IT IS A COMPLICATED PROCESS AND CAN FAIL AT 1000 POINTS. Sorry for shouting. Life is a amazing. Sometimes it fails to work out.

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Guy: It's time to change the govt. Me: Why? Gut: I don't like Trudeau Me: Why? Guy: (Mumbles without answering) Guy: They haven't done anything. Me: I list massive accomplishments. Guy: They have been in too long, people are tired. Me: Why? /1

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@slyardley From my front yard right now. Langford BC. Projecting from a Celestron 8 into a cardboard box.

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@kylegrantham @cbouzy @forensictoxguy @AmichaiStein1 BREAKING: Twitter user is corrected and politely acknowledges such. Twitterverse shaken

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@shoeshine @5gatos This is beyond disgusting. A life lost and humiliated as well.

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Me: You haven't worked for 20 years. You rode on the grace of people around you. You now get OAS and GIS so you have more income than you've had for years but you are identifying with tax issues for billionaires. Make it make sense.

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@KnifeNerd I get annoyed with that subsection of business owners who scream about CERB and/or EI without realizing that those recipients are their customers. No money, no purchases, no business. Blinkered view. CERB saved this country.

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@AggieViejo @ZoeSchiffer So, half a Scaramucci. 😂😂

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@thedoggeneral1 @JbthomJohn @TheRevAl @MSNBC @JoeBiden @realDonaldTrump Even George W. Bush stood and silently took it when families of dead soldiers screamed at him. He recognized that it was part of the job. Trump has no empathy and doesn't care if anyone else dies.

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@VishwaPrabhu61 1. There is no spot on Earth where Russia, Canada, and Alaska share a border. 2. The moon goes from “full” to “new”. That takes 14 days. 3. Moon is zoomed but Sun isn’t. A pretty fake.

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Me: Tell me the policies you want changed and CPC is offering. Guy: (Silence)

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@DavidColetto @DJChocolateMLK 😂😂😂 Old white male here. No one has harassed me for my appearance, expect long hair in the 70s. I've never faced job discrimination based on my colour. I am not (justifiably) wary of police. No one follows me shopping. These things happen to my visible minority friends.

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Mom passed away at 91 early this morning. The last member of her generation on both sides of the family. She is with Dad now. She was more than ready to go. Sigh 😔 My parents and all uncles/ aunts are gone. 18 people.

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@kellyjmccracken @knitmom1418 @carolhblack @DanielleCandela My grandmother made a heavy quilt from pieces of my grandfather's old suits. It was ideal as a beach blanket and I remember spending hours on it at Grand Beach. My parents used it forever and my elder brother has it now.

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@borogirl @Shitstrophy @themechelle @notcapnamerica @itkeekz This is how it is done. Nothing irreversible.

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@TheBreakdownAB "Crosshairs"?? Are you F**king kidding me? Danielle Smith should be taken down and arrested for threatening the life of a Federal Minister. This is beyond the pale.

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@1goodtern I have argued with my friends about this. They insist it will evolve to a milder strain. I point out that since it doesn’t kill a high percentage of victims, there is no pressure for this and any change will be random. I am the only one in the group that has a biology degree. 😉

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@JrPerry17 @MeltdownWRIF Troll/bot reported and blocked.

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@ve6dpa Arrest the drivers. Take their keys. Drive the trucks off the road.

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My wife does not have a Twitter account and asked me to forward her profound thanks to the people and governments of the US who have leapt forward to assist us here in BC by opening transport links and other actions. I second the statement. 🇺🇸🇨🇦

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@The2Margarets @MsMollyRachael I felt the same way about mountains. First saw the Rockies at 8 years old. I thought they were covered with grass and said so. Big laugh all around. 2 years later I got glasses and could finely make out the trees, and read the blackboard.

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@NatasjaYonce @soydeariza @NunyaBu82505438 @LauraSMark @prsgrlks @elisefoley @AlecMacGillis How dare you call yourself Christian! You'd make a good Pharisee.

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@ForsbergsHat Yeah. 🤣 Carbon tax goes up by 3 cents. Alberta increases fuel tax by 4 cents. Oil/Gas companies raise price in stages by 10 cents/25 cents/40 cents. But yeah, it's the carbon tax. 🤣

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@DuaneBratt Please note: Banff National Park was founded in 1885. Alberta was founded in 1905.

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@tamalama67 @SueSueCurious Peer pressure is an awful thing. Folks being too pressured to do the safe thing they want to do. I am old and disabled. I don't give a **** what folks think about my wearing a mask. I nod to others that do.

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@rechelon It will be fine. (continues hammering guillotine together)

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@AReallyCoolDog Remember that hummingbirds live at a way higher frame rate than we do. This may be a very slowly revolving restaurant to this bird.

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@_llebrun @DJChocolateMLK Hilarious that the bots are trying to prove you wrong by posting in this thread, proving your point.

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@GoodKingSolomon @dayn_does_comix I had knee issues that occasionally put me on crutches since I was 20. I made myself a full size staff for hiking years ago and was referred to as a "wizard" by my hiking buds. When osteoarthritis suddenly intensified at 66, I had no image issues or hesitation in grabbing a cane.

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@RonFilipkowski No congressional committee has ever acted like this.

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@TopJibrone138 The PM has a job to do. I have been here for 70 years and have followed politics for 55. PMJT is the best PM in my lifetime. He has had to handle more shit and pull the country through while fighting a foreign owned GOP/CPC press. The CPC would be a fucking disaster.

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@HandmaidAlberta The Federal government does not direct investments by the CPP. That is bullshit. Albertans beware. They are coming for your CPP and other pension funds. They will leave you with nothing in order to support the oil and gas industry.

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@AnnieWillTweet @fuzzymittens I was working on network equipment in the OR area and then left. While we were changing out of scrubs, a surgeon said "I don't know how you IT people do what you do." Me: "Thank you very much for that." Everyone on site did their job to make it work.

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@valerie_shealer @MichaelSkolnik This needs to be replayed until the laws are changed. He will be in grief for the rest of his life. You can try to change the laws or shut up.

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@BarnettMPH @LeilaCampagnuo1 Folks are welcome to come to Canada and become citizens but, we would appreciate you not voting for our Conservatives who want to impose the same conditions you are fleeing. 😘

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@privacylawyer @RCMPNS WTF do they see as a police issue?? If they cannot protect citizens from mob terrorism, they need to lose their jobs. They are useless. There are no "both sides" when people are being terrorized. These folks need to be arrested & the RCMPNS need to be fired. They're incompetent.

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@theJagmeetSingh You have lost my vote. The last two elections, I voted NDP as I have most of my life but no more. Very disappointed at the low scummy tactics the federal NDP has stooped to.

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@YEGlifer I only studied a bit of Economics, but the UCP really seem set on destroying Alberta’s economy. I don’t get it.

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@louisa905666 @gregbradyTO Clearly, you don’t know any and have never been a civil servant. Public sector workers are very aware of who they serve, though I would use the term citizen over taxpayer.

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@TomEngel18 This is not justice. This is just bitter revenge. This does no honour to the families.

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@KwikWarren @VoiceOfFranky Any civilized country would have had these murderers behind bars by now. The US stinks to high heaven. I can't say it any nicer way. When will you put a stop this crap?

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@Devilisdue Homelessness: Provincial Law enforcement and paying for courts: Provincial Try again.

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@Justin_Ling I really appreciate your coverage throughout this and especially enjoyed your spots on CBC radio. No bullshit. 👍

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@LJDEM @aengelbro @KylePlantEmoji Thoughts as words but memories as mostly visual. I sometime recall facts by recalling the image of the page I read it on. Occasional photographic memory.

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@mattgurney We shut down the big mental facilities and never replaced them with community support as promised. Now we live with the consequences.

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@dunfordmichael @PETERCOFFEEPOTS @victoriaxxviii One hospital I worked at had patterns on the floor that would lead patients away from the exits. One set of exit doors was painted to look like a forest. Another was a section of library bookshelf.

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@MaximeBernier And I guess Canada should not have helped free France from the Nazis in 1944. Is that also your view?

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@yvonne75898335 I grew up in AB. The population there has been subject to non stop conservative oil/gas propaganda for 70 years. There's no escape from the group think. I don't know how to break the spell. They get it at work, all media, in social groups, & home. STASI could take lessons.

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@BuzzardSays @mikewaug @leodude82 @AndyRichter @ChaseMit Yeah. Small arms owner stands off SWAT for 30-40 seconds before they are dead. Good luck RAMBO.

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@LukaszukAB @JustinTrudeau This kind of unfair criticism of the PM, when he is doing exactly what is demanded of a leader during a disaster, will likely help PMJT. Normal, decent people can see through unfair criticism and coverage. It's ganging up. Especially to behave this way in front of his kids. /1

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@LDCDee @MainLineMaven @celialilac @DaviSusan In any sane country, a school should not have to be a fortress. Issue is not bad school design but bad laws, or lack of good ones.

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@acoyne This man almost became Prime Minister. We dodged a catastrophe. (I was going to say "dodged a bullet" but we know how that would end.)

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@MisterHippity @classiclib3ral My Dad was named Alexander Mitchell Pattie. His Dad called him "Sandy". He hated it and went by Mitch. He got a dog and named it "Sandy" so his Dad couldn't use "Sandy" without calling the dog. My Dad was a smart ass kid. And a veteran.

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@maxfawcett Disagree. Many people who do physical work for most of their lives are pretty much done by 65 or earlier. I had to stop by 62 as my knees and back had gone from too much cramped work in IT closets. Life expectancy is no longer rising. Easy for white collar workers, not blue.

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@mclwebster @GetTheBrews @thiele_jon @DrGetafix @jessesingal Many years ago, my first cat was behind picket fence and a sparrow was in the middle of the road. The gaps in the fence were no wider than his skull. He teleported through the fence and caught the bird before it got more than 2 feet off the ground. I was horrified and amazed.

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@Refreshments410 @KrangTNelson @MaraWilson @bakedalaska They are just following history. The NAZIs kept great, meticulous records. Avoided any evidence difficulties at the Nuremberg Trials.

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Only took 2 or 3 tweets to get #blockedbyrempel today. She was spouting off about Trudeau interrupting a woman and I asked her why she doesn't speak up about the male CPC MPs who shout over female MPs from other parties. BLOCKED.

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@langley_dad @Garossino Clearly you were not paying attention during the campaign. Why wake up now?

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@MercedesGlobal Is it unreasonable to ask how they never noticed this before? Only when the back room folks wanted him gone? Was he signing the cheques himself?

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@StephenKing David Koch is dead. I will not grieve him. I believe that when the final numbers are tallied up, he and his family will be shown to be among the biggest killers in the history of mankind. For decades, this family has funded denial of the reality of climate change /1

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@pederpants @drdagly A lot of staff will need counselling when this is all over.

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@maxfawcett Yes. This is utter crap. Those rules have been in place forever. She just thought she could accrue hundreds of thousands of dollars in value and never pay tax on that? It is not her personal residence, just happens to be next door. It is still a good deal for the recipients.

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@Anthony86679791 @WaterlsScary This is the reason, not whales.

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@SteveW928 Troll Blocked.

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@Minervasbard @notmeanspirited @Robbiepierce @notcapnamerica Show kids science and explain it as such and their eyes will open wide. You may kindle a spark that never goes out. I spoke about marine biology to a young relative when I was an undergrad. My career only lasted 5 years but he became a cetacean prof with field work in Hawaii.

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@ruy_senpai @fasc1nate Yes, and the fact that the snow is not melting at all shows that the fur is keeping all the body heat inside.

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@jracorner @anne_theriault Had long hair in the 70's. Now Covid came along and I stopped getting it cut. I find I like it and, in a ponytail, it is less hassle than semi-short. Just passed my 70's length. Still rules.

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@TheJasonPugh @Frazzling CERB saved Canadians and the Canadian economy. It enabled Canada to bounce back faster than all/most of the G7. Some dirt bags abused it, including a lot of CPC and PPC supporters. CERB was the correct move.

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@NatasjaYonce @soydeariza @NunyaBu82505438 @LauraSMark @prsgrlks @elisefoley @AlecMacGillis Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Matthew 23:28

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@jakejakeny @RepSaraJacobs Strawman: Fake argument. It is not antisemitism to demand that Israel respect: Geneva Convention; UN rulings; basic human decency to not murder children. That is the crimes you defend. Israel has destroyed any credibility it had.

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@heygoodhuman @TheWoodsyOne The site was hacked and leaked to the Internet. It was not done by the government. We just all benefit from the anonymous act.

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@acoyne Allowing an extremely competent lieutenant to handle tough assignments. Seems like a good management style to me. Better than some previous PMs who wanted all the glory and trusted no one else's judgement.

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@DrSilviaMilana @IshatReza I worked with one woman and I struggled with her accent. I'd never heard one like it. Part Cantonese but not. I eventually learned that she was profoundly deaf. Without the ability to hear, she had learned to speak in Cantonese and THEN English. Wow. She was lip reading.

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@brucefanjoy @dianneathome @Dred_Tory She was one of the best posters on Canadian politics on this Hellsite . She knew her stuff. She was very balanced and not a partisan. I am on the Left Coast so I will not be able to attend. Please extend my utmost respect & the regret of a life cut short. RIP Scrib. Condolences.

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@jojofancyhat @KimNickells @PurpleDuckyDesi @Cheese_Gravy @Kokomothegreat They have "stand your ground laws" there. They just didn't expect them to be used on white people.

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@ChromaticChamel @mmpadellan Guy is stopping someone spitting on food for sale. That is a crime. Smacking some idiot to stop a criminal action is not assault.

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@theLUCASTDS @danaparish @sss46712 @suesselimone For what it is worth: Build a Corsi-Rosenthal box for ~$100. 1x box fan 4x MERV13 furnace filters 1 roll of duct tape. Use the box the fan came in to complete the job. Works as well as a $1000 filter.

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@conspiracyclow1 @ZerlinaMaxwell @MSNBC Shave yours.

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@VoiceOfFranky I am very concerned that the next one to try this won't be so inept. If a certifiable idiot could get this close to total power, it means we need way better protections in both the US and Canada.

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@bobbywesson @varindersingh24 Your "buddies" could have killed you. 21 shots could put you in lethal range. "Friends can be a mixed blessing." - Opus.

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@Calendula2016 @Vanda39560230 @TaylorRMarshall Clearly. I was there. It wasn’t romantic. People stopped having big families when birth control and pensions became common. And when infant mortality dropped.

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@profgennari @JakvarAustin @daveweigel "Prof shuts down all opinion he doesn't like. He keeps requiring crap like "citations" and other "justifications". "

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@maxfawcett @Unbranded63 Yup. The BC NDP government decided to finally make a serious attempt to fix the problem. We now have 20% more Family docs and more coming. We picked up significant numbers from Alberta. Perhaps we should send a thank you note to the UCP.

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@andrewscheer This has nothing to do with the Trudeau govt. Cheap smear. Is this how your leadership will proceed?

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As soon as any politician says "it's common sense", it means they have no evidence to back up their position or policy. If they had evidence, they would cite it.

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@CityRachelle "As peacefully as they can." The RCMP stood aside while Alberta redneck thugs assaulted peaceful protesters after threatening they would do it. This smug disgrace to his uniform should be off the force.

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@oliverdarcy @ddale8 Daniel Dale is an absolute treasure. We folks in Canada would love to have him back. He has work to do here. 😬

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@globalnews A cartoonist who is not getting backlash is not doing his job.

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@Stuthefarmer @alisonborealis Keep parenting. Hug that child every chance you have. And when they are older, sit and quietly listen to them no matter how boring it might be. You never know when your child may have something critical to tell you.

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@wtfsmurf6 @medicwithwounds @davidharsanyi @ZenMonken @RageOnThePage Because the military are smart enough to not allow people to walk around with guns on their bases.

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@keithbaldrey Not startling. Totally self-serving and opportunistic.

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@TheBreakdownAB I suspect she might have a little problem with the courts. These countries that she has the delusions about not having homeless issues deal with them by summary arrest, imprisonment, violence and summary executions. I think the Charter might have issues.

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@AngryBuffett @carlquintanilla Not if you are demonstrating that the inflation surge has probably peaked and is declining.

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@ChargeTheMoundx @louisekirsh @JMCwrites On a recent flight, there was an infant about 6-8 months a few seats away. 2 passengers nearby spent time distracting the little one and allowing mom some moments of peace. One male and one female.

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@deankurpjuweit This is like the NRA says it is not the time to discuss gun control after a mass shooting. It is the right time.

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@tylerwhat16 @fordnation Ford: “I’m tired of the fighting and I’m tired of things being so adversarial,” he told them. HAHAHAHAHAHA. Thug complains about people being adversarial.

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@RodKahx @DianSandraJ They are paid to give him uncriticizing coverage. The hedge funds want a CON government so Canadians get fed unchallenged lies. The journalists still working for Post Media have sold their souls. They report what the CEOs want to hear. I have lost all faith in the 4th Estate.

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@LukaszukAB @JamieSale What a horrible person she has become. Hatred destroys one’s humanity.

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