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The ALS #IceBucketChallenge Controversy
Seems like everyone’s doing the ALS #IceBucketChallenge. Well, not quite everyone. Not the Catholic Church, not anymore. Not since someone discovered that…
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This has been an awful week and now the Krim children have been brutally murdered by their nanny. I am emotionally and…
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It doesn’t matter if You are an Ass or an Elephant, this Election is about Humans
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Immigration Laws that Allow us to Shoot Kids on Sight
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