for decades i would not watch

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Because it was ALL huffing and puffing and flubbing spectacularly. But today I was drawn in by a little picture, and what to my wonder but a 21-year-old Uzbek-American man lit me up. He's putting the art back into it and figured out how to leave the huffing and puffing and spectacular flubbing behind.

Truly, I was SO sick of the endless ugly setups for jumps that were not worth it, even if they did not go ass over tea kettle when they tried to land. It was so much carnage, punctuated by simpering or mincing careful bleh. The sport I'd found SO elegant and relaxing for so long had turned to outright shit.

This kid is putting some soul back on the ice.


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bobby's working hard

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And saving lives.


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clearly, clearly

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A ludicrous question....


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every pushbutton revolution

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On the planet has been paid for by US.


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whatever positive spin i'd thunk up

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Is all but utterly immobilized by this. Just EXTREMELY hard to find a trace of goodness, love, probity inhering such a jackassical move. I think the only positive shred left about it is that it might either kill or cure the UN... which has already wiped out most of its redeeming features.


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yes

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Yes....


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might be coming up time for my morning nap

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Yes, it's been an extremely long stretch of me sleeping in two 4-5 hours out of any 24 hour increment you pick. This started up creeping into my circus tent some forty years ago. So it's nothing new, but the duration of this cycle is starting to creep me out.


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pepe

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With Judge Nap on Iran, Russia, China....


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when i was a young thing

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I spent a LOT of time with geezers. Way more than a need for a paycheck could explain. Old people are, and have been since humans have existed, in fact, our only hope.


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dunno 'bout you

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But, yes, I can confidently report this is the real "new normal"....


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i don't mean to startle you

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But I'm a sucker for the fundamentally-true.


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our barbarism isn't shiny anymore

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Leadership only THINKS so.


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and there are levels to it

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They must've gone live too fast....


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always felt this cartoon

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Best characterizes my whole life....


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THIS is the truth

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It'll fish you right up out of your soup.


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i wonder how many of those patriotic mexicans

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Parading with their flags around on our streets will pick up and go fight, or how many of the mobsters growing dope all around me will charge home to fight? Or will they all just go postal where they are?

[Which is well and truly ALL over the United States now.]

I knew we were going to rue Donald's failure to heed MacGregor someday. It was the first thing he told him. Looks like that day's finally here.

Airspace closures along our southern border are alleged to have been lifted.


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sack up!

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Think of 'em like they're tryna kill the petro dollar....


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