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Postby saxitoxin on Mon Jun 20, 2022 1:21 am

Today, in 1865, the Republican Party freed the last Blacks enslaved by the Democratic Party. (Except in Old Joe's home of Delaware, which continued to hold slaves until 1866.)

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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby ConfederateSS on Tue Jun 21, 2022 12:03 am

saxitoxin wrote:Today, in 1865, the Republican Party freed the last Blacks enslaved by the Democratic Party. (Except in Old Joe's home of Delaware, which continued to hold slaves until 1866.)

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------- Actually it is a little later for old Joe's home State.... Slavery was not taking off the books in Delaware untill 1908 A.D....
------- I am sure a charge of slavery holds more of a sentence...But Prostitution and Human Trafficking are also slavery...

------- Las Vegas Slavery is legal....
------- The open border policy...Human Trafficking you know slavery ....By the Biden administration...Are making Slave trade billionaires out of the Cartels.......Just give slavery a new name , Human Trafficking...

------- You know how people are being fired , because of something they tweeted or said when they were in Junior High...Now in their 30's...Their woke bosses ...Or bosses pressured by the woke...are forced out...
------- Well Abraham Lincoln...Before the Emancipation Proclamation...was known for saying...After the war...He wanted to send the slaves to Central America...Just like someone tweeting in Junior High...May have never said anything stupid later in life...But get punished for it... Because according to the woke...That is how it must be...
------ Maybe May 10th...Should be Juneteenth Day...For it is the Birthday of the one man...Who maybe Stopped Lincoln from carrying out his plan, of shipping African Americans to Central America...Sure Lincoln said the Emancipation Proclamation...But he also said he would ship the freed slaves to Central America... According to woke thinking... Lincoln said it...So he must always be thinking it... Who's birthday is May 10th...None other than , maybe the Greatest African American Hero of all time....John Wilkes Booth...Who kept Lincoln from fulfilling his Central America plan....Could be?... Lincoln said it at statesman Henry Clay's funeral in 1852 A.D....In August 1862 A.D. he ment at the Whitehouse with African American leaders, to discuss his plan... Frederick Douglass did not attend... Douglass couldn't believe Lincoln would have such thoughts...
------ History will have to wonder...But by woke thinking... Lincoln said it...he was going to do it...No matter what... O:) ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... O:) ...I've been working...Thank You Kindly Sax,and HitRed...and...
-------- HAPPY JUNETEENTH DAY and HAPPY FATHER'S DAY 2022 A.D...YES A.D., to the one Great FATHER =D> =D> =D> ...
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby jimboston on Tue Jun 21, 2022 6:41 am

ConfederateSS wrote:------- Actually it is a little later for old Joe's home State.... Slavery was not taking off the books in Delaware untill 1908 A.D....
------- I am sure a charge of slavery holds more of a sentence...But Prostitution and Human Trafficking are also slavery...

------- Las Vegas Slavery is legal....
------- The open border policy...Human Trafficking you know slavery ....By the Biden administration...Are making Slave trade billionaires out of the Cartels.......Just give slavery a new name , Human Trafficking...
------- You know how people are being fired , because of something they tweeted or said when they were in Junior High...Now in their 30's...Their woke bosses ...Or bosses pressured by the woke...are forced out...
------- Well Abraham Lincoln...Before the Emancipation Proclamation...was known for saying...After the war...He wanted to send the slaves to Central America...Just like someone tweeting in Junior High...May have never said anything stupid later in life...But get punished for it... Because according to the woke...That is how it must be...
------ Maybe May 10th...Should be Juneteenth Day...For it is the Birthday of the one man...Who maybe Stopped Lincoln from carrying out his plan, of shipping African Americans to Central America...Sure Lincoln said the Emancipation Proclamation...But he also said he would ship the freed slaves to Central America... According to woke thinking... Lincoln said it...So he must always be thinking it... Who's birthday is May 10th...None other than , maybe the Greatest African American Hero of all time....John Wilkes Booth...Who kept Lincoln from fulfilling his Central America plan....Could be?... Lincoln said it at statesman Henry Clay's funeral in 1852 A.D....In August 1862 A.D. he ment at the Whitehouse with African American leaders, to discuss his plan... Frederick Douglass did not attend... Douglass couldn't believe Lincoln would have such thoughts...
------ History will have to wonder...But by woke thinking... Lincoln said it...he was going to do it...No matter what... O:) ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... O:) ...I've been working...Thank You Kindly Sax,and HitRed...and...
-------- HAPPY JUNETEENTH DAY and HAPPY FATHER'S DAY 2022 A.D...YES A.D., to the one Great FATHER =D> =D> =D> ...


Really?

The greatest African American Hero of all time???

I mean… let’s just address the most obvious flaw in the statement first, and we can tackle the other flaws later.

… um… I’m not sure how YOU’D define the term “African American Hero”… based on how it’s written, the individual would have to be African American to qualify no?

So like I’d vote for Martin Luther King Jr. or maybe Muhammad Ali.

John Wilkes Booth was white… not sure if you knew that.

Even Nelson Mandela wouldn’t qualify… since he’s African but not qualified on the American part of that statement.

Now… if you actually were able to write proper English you could’ve rephrased this as “the greatest hero of the African American people”.
That phraseology would remove the racial requirement from your original comment and Booth would not be DQ’d for skin pigmentation.
(Though I’m sure we could find many other reasons why he would be a bad choice for anyone’s hero, excepting maybe a few diehard Secessionist Wannabe Racists.)
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby KoolBak on Tue Jun 21, 2022 7:38 am

Really wish people wouldn't use the quote function on posts by psychopaths.

But, since we're here....

If you look up the definition of Inductive Logic, there's a sample written by ol toothless:

Prostitution is slavery!

In Las Vegas, slavery is legal!


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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby jimboston on Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:49 am

KoolBak wrote:Really wish people wouldn't use the quote function on posts by psychopaths.

But, since we're here....

If you look up the definition of Inductive Logic, there's a sample written by ol toothless:

Prostitution is slavery!

In Las Vegas, slavery is legal!


Idiot.


Sorry… you have him blocked?

At least I removed the blinding bold/color/huge fonts.
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby mookiemcgee on Tue Jun 21, 2022 11:07 am

KoolBak wrote:Really wish people wouldn't use the quote function on posts by psychopaths.

But, since we're here....

If you look up the definition of Inductive Logic, there's a sample written by ol toothless:

Prostitution is slavery!

In Las Vegas, slavery is legal!


Idiot.


Ugh, I hate myself for even being this guy cus it's a stupid point but... Prostitution is not legal in vegas... common misconception. Prostitution is only legal in Nevada on a county by county basis, if the county population does not exceed 700,000 (so this excludes Vegas), and then only in state licensed brothels. That said there is tons of illegal prostitution in Vegas, and if you are really concerned about it you can drive about 15-20 min to get state approved sex.
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby HitRed on Tue Jun 21, 2022 1:13 pm

Sin is very popular.
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby mookiemcgee on Tue Jun 21, 2022 4:18 pm

HitRed wrote:Sin is very popular.


That's what Stormy Daniels says!
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby Dukasaur on Tue Jun 21, 2022 4:21 pm

Are the legal brothels more expensive than the illegal ones?
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby saxitoxin on Tue Jun 21, 2022 4:28 pm

mookiemcgee wrote:
HitRed wrote:Sin is very popular.


That's what Stormy Daniels says!


Since her lawyer -- and 2019 Democratic presidential frontrunner -- Michael Avenatti has been disbarred and is spending the next 6-11 years in a federal prison camp breaking rocks, she probably knows a thing or two about sin.
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby mookiemcgee on Tue Jun 21, 2022 6:59 pm

Dukasaur wrote:Are the legal brothels more expensive than the illegal ones?


I don't actually know, I had one buddy who a decade or so ago went to the one that had a TV show called the Bunnyranch. He said it was expensive, and the girls were 'disappointing' when it came to looks. He said you paid like an hourly rate, and then paid again for individual services
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby Dukasaur on Wed Jun 22, 2022 4:35 pm

mookiemcgee wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:Are the legal brothels more expensive than the illegal ones?


I don't actually know, I had one buddy who a decade or so ago went to the one that had a TV show called the Bunnyranch. He said it was expensive, and the girls were 'disappointing' when it came to looks. He said you paid like an hourly rate, and then paid again for individual services


First-world hookers are always disappointing when it comes to looks. To find really good-looking hookers you need to go to places like Nicaragua.
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby mookiemcgee on Wed Jun 22, 2022 4:42 pm

Dukasaur wrote:
mookiemcgee wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:Are the legal brothels more expensive than the illegal ones?


I don't actually know, I had one buddy who a decade or so ago went to the one that had a TV show called the Bunnyranch. He said it was expensive, and the girls were 'disappointing' when it came to looks. He said you paid like an hourly rate, and then paid again for individual services


First-world hookers are always disappointing when it comes to looks. To find really good-looking hookers you need to go to places like Nicaragua.


I've heard Eastern Europe is a hot spot

Aren't you in Czech right now?
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby ConfederateSS on Thu Jun 23, 2022 1:24 am

jimboston wrote:
ConfederateSS wrote:------- Actually it is a little later for old Joe's home State.... Slavery was not taking off the books in Delaware untill 1908 A.D....
------- I am sure a charge of slavery holds more of a sentence...But Prostitution and Human Trafficking are also slavery...

------- Las Vegas Slavery is legal....
------- The open border policy...Human Trafficking you know slavery ....By the Biden administration...Are making Slave trade billionaires out of the Cartels.......Just give slavery a new name , Human Trafficking...
------- You know how people are being fired , because of something they tweeted or said when they were in Junior High...Now in their 30's...Their woke bosses ...Or bosses pressured by the woke...are forced out...
------- Well Abraham Lincoln...Before the Emancipation Proclamation...was known for saying...After the war...He wanted to send the slaves to Central America...Just like someone tweeting in Junior High...May have never said anything stupid later in life...But get punished for it... Because according to the woke...That is how it must be...
------ Maybe May 10th...Should be Juneteenth Day...For it is the Birthday of the one man...Who maybe Stopped Lincoln from carrying out his plan, of shipping African Americans to Central America...Sure Lincoln said the Emancipation Proclamation...But he also said he would ship the freed slaves to Central America... According to woke thinking... Lincoln said it...So he must always be thinking it... Who's birthday is May 10th...None other than , maybe the Greatest African American Hero of all time....John Wilkes Booth...Who kept Lincoln from fulfilling his Central America plan....Could be?... Lincoln said it at statesman Henry Clay's funeral in 1852 A.D....In August 1862 A.D. he ment at the Whitehouse with African American leaders, to discuss his plan... Frederick Douglass did not attend... Douglass couldn't believe Lincoln would have such thoughts...
------ History will have to wonder...But by woke thinking... Lincoln said it...he was going to do it...No matter what... O:) ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... O:) ...I've been working...Thank You Kindly Sax,and HitRed...and...
-------- HAPPY JUNETEENTH DAY and HAPPY FATHER'S DAY 2022 A.D...YES A.D., to the one Great FATHER =D> =D> =D> ...


Really?

The greatest African American Hero of all time???

I mean… let’s just address the most obvious flaw in the statement first, and we can tackle the other flaws later.

… um… I’m not sure how YOU’D define the term “African American Hero”… based on how it’s written, the individual would have to be African American to qualify no?

So like I’d vote for Martin Luther King Jr. or maybe Muhammad Ali.

John Wilkes Booth was white… not sure if you knew that.

Even Nelson Mandela wouldn’t qualify… since he’s African but not qualified on the American part of that statement.

Now… if you actually were able to write proper English you could’ve rephrased this as “the greatest hero of the African American people”.
That phraseology would remove the racial requirement from your original comment and Booth would not be DQ’d for skin pigmentation.
(Though I’m sure we could find many other reasons why he would be a bad choice for anyone’s hero, excepting maybe a few diehard Secessionist Wannabe Racists.)


-------You take things to literally Jimmy B...Yes John Wilkes Booth(everyone knows he was white,that doesn't need explaining)...An African American Hero...Hero for/of 4 million African Americans who would have been sent to Central America, The Caribbean, Africa......By President Abraham Lincoln....You Jimmy B , are the one who sees race in everything....The FACT IS LINCOLN HAD THE IDEA TO DO IT...SO WHAT MAKES YOU THINK HE WOULDN'T!!!!
----------African Americans, Mexicans, Native Americans fought for The CSA.....For your liberal brain.....The current oldest participatory Democracy in the World.....Founded in 1142 A.D...The Indian/Native American Confederacy...The Great Law of Peace....Which led to The Articles of Confederation, the founding document of The USA.....Frame worked making The U.S. Constitution.....That Replaced the Articles of Confederation...Why??... Because the Articles of Confederation didn't allow for expansion.... Manifest Destiny....The CSA took the Articles of Confederation....The Indians/Native Americans allied with the CSA....
... O:) ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... O:)
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby Dukasaur on Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:44 am

mookiemcgee wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:
mookiemcgee wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:Are the legal brothels more expensive than the illegal ones?


I don't actually know, I had one buddy who a decade or so ago went to the one that had a TV show called the Bunnyranch. He said it was expensive, and the girls were 'disappointing' when it came to looks. He said you paid like an hourly rate, and then paid again for individual services


First-world hookers are always disappointing when it comes to looks. To find really good-looking hookers you need to go to places like Nicaragua.


I've heard Eastern Europe is a hot spot

Aren't you in Czech right now?


No, I've been back since the 15th.

Yes, Prague has become the world's porn capital, and it's certainly possible to find action there. I wasn't looking for any, though. For multiple reasons.
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby jimboston on Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:32 am

ConfederateSS wrote:[

-------You take things to literally Jimmy B...Yes John Wilkes Booth(everyone knows he was white,that doesn't need explaining)...An African American Hero...Hero for/of 4 million African Americans who would have been sent to Central America, The Caribbean, Africa......By President Abraham Lincoln....You Jimmy B , are the one who sees race in everything....The FACT IS LINCOLN HAD THE IDEA TO DO IT...SO WHAT MAKES YOU THINK HE WOULDN'T!!!!
----------African Americans, Mexicans, Native Americans fought for The CSA.....For your liberal brain.....The current oldest participatory Democracy in the World.....Founded in 1142 A.D...The Indian/Native American Confederacy...The Great Law of Peace....Which led to The Articles of Confederation, the founding document of The USA.....Frame worked making The U.S. Constitution.....That Replaced the Articles of Confederation...Why??... Because the Articles of Confederation didn't allow for expansion.... Manifest Destiny....The CSA took the Articles of Confederation....The Indians/Native Americans allied with the CSA....
... O:) ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... O:)


I don’t take everything literally… I’m perfectly capable to following nuance and sarcasm.

Your post is neither nuanced or sarcastic. Your post is just idiotic in soooo many ways. I just chose the first, most obvious error to highlight. Language is important, and if you want to communicate via the written word it’s important to make sure you have a solid grasp of how to properly express those ideas. Your ideas are vile, AND your ability to communicate those ideas in a coherent manner is retarded. I’ve replied to your posts trying to correct the ideas… no luck there; this post of mine wasn’t trying address the idea… only the manner in which you failed to communicate said idea.

Now… onto your new items…

1) There’s no “Native American Confederacy” that was established in 1142 and continues to operate uninterrupted as it did when it was founded. That’s a ridiculous idea. Maybe some people try to claim a link to a pre-existing confederation… but it’s just straight up baloney and bullshit.

2) Yes, black people and native Americans fought for the Rebels. There were also black people and native peoples who fought for the United States. Your point? I’m well aware that large numbers of Native Americans fought for the Confederacy. This is NOT because they shared some common heritage or believe system or ideal form of government. It’s simply because their leaders believed (likely erroneously) that they would get a better deal from the Confederacy. They also believed they would have a stronger hand, and be more likely able to establish their own government in a post-war world in which the USA was divided.

Manifest Destiny is an idea that became widespread only later… and the USA would’ve expanded West irregardless of the form of gov’t we had or the “legality” of said expansion
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby mookiemcgee on Thu Jun 23, 2022 10:39 am

Dukasaur wrote:
mookiemcgee wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:
mookiemcgee wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:Are the legal brothels more expensive than the illegal ones?


I don't actually know, I had one buddy who a decade or so ago went to the one that had a TV show called the Bunnyranch. He said it was expensive, and the girls were 'disappointing' when it came to looks. He said you paid like an hourly rate, and then paid again for individual services


First-world hookers are always disappointing when it comes to looks. To find really good-looking hookers you need to go to places like Nicaragua.


I've heard Eastern Europe is a hot spot

Aren't you in Czech right now?


No, I've been back since the 15th.

Yes, Prague has become the world's porn capital, and it's certainly possible to find action there. I wasn't looking for any, though. For multiple reasons.


Circling back to your original point, most LV escorts (illegal ones) don't work out of brothels. They are 'outcall' escorts who come to your hotel. I believe overall you can get a very high quality escort (they pretty and do 'lots of stuff') in Vegas this way for cheaper than going the legal route. I would imagine with inflation where it is the per hour costs would have to be on average $500/hour, with some poor quality options in the $200-400 range, and some 'you've seen me in porn, or in fashion shows' options going for $1000-$3000/hour. One thing I've always found to be an interesting loophole about American laws on the subject... paying for sex is illegal, but if it's filmed (consensually) it actually becomes legal. One cannot pay/be payed for sex, but one can pay/be payed to make a porn.

In order to be as accurate as possible, I also visited the website for the bunny ranch which offers fully legal services. while they did have a 'menu' available, it did not list prices at all anywhere. This leads me to believe that my buddys feedback from years ago was correct. There is a 'house hourly fee' and then each girl charges what they want for the services or packages you may choose in advance off a menu.
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby Dukasaur on Thu Jun 23, 2022 2:02 pm

mookiemcgee wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:
mookiemcgee wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:
mookiemcgee wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:Are the legal brothels more expensive than the illegal ones?


I don't actually know, I had one buddy who a decade or so ago went to the one that had a TV show called the Bunnyranch. He said it was expensive, and the girls were 'disappointing' when it came to looks. He said you paid like an hourly rate, and then paid again for individual services


First-world hookers are always disappointing when it comes to looks. To find really good-looking hookers you need to go to places like Nicaragua.


I've heard Eastern Europe is a hot spot

Aren't you in Czech right now?


No, I've been back since the 15th.

Yes, Prague has become the world's porn capital, and it's certainly possible to find action there. I wasn't looking for any, though. For multiple reasons.


Circling back to your original point, most LV escorts (illegal ones) don't work out of brothels. They are 'outcall' escorts who come to your hotel. I believe overall you can get a very high quality escort (they pretty and do 'lots of stuff') in Vegas this way for cheaper than going the legal route. I would imagine with inflation where it is the per hour costs would have to be on average $500/hour, with some poor quality options in the $200-400 range, and some 'you've seen me in porn, or in fashion shows' options going for $1000-$3000/hour. One thing I've always found to be an interesting loophole about American laws on the subject... paying for sex is illegal, but if it's filmed (consensually) it actually becomes legal. One cannot pay/be payed for sex, but one can pay/be payed to make a porn.

In order to be as accurate as possible, I also visited the website for the bunny ranch which offers fully legal services. while they did have a 'menu' available, it did not list prices at all anywhere. This leads me to believe that my buddys feedback from years ago was correct. There is a 'house hourly fee' and then each girl charges what they want for the services or packages you may choose in advance off a menu.


Not sure if I actually had a "point."

If I recall, I was just perambulating around a rather opaque thought. Most Canadian cannabis users thought that legalization would reduce prices, but in fact pot has gotten more expensive since it was legalized. I was kind of meandering along this line of thought, and wondering if a similar thing happens in prostitution: if people vote for it, assuming it will bring prices down, and then find out it actually brings higher prices. But it was a rather meandering thought and not really a "Point" in the sense of a "cohesive thesis to be presented."
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby mookiemcgee on Thu Jun 23, 2022 3:07 pm

fair enough... circling back to your question/thought would have been much better wording on my part.

I would say you still get a higher quality product at a better price illegally in Nevada... but it generates less tax revenue.

California has pulled itself out of the financial crisis the gov't was going through in 2008/09 over the last 15 years, that is at least in part due to the tax revenue of the marijuana ecosystem. It's taxed statewide, at the county level, and often also at the city level. While full legalization went live in 2018, the medical side has been active over 20 years and also involved alot of tax revenue. while it's a good amount of revenue generated by the state tax, it's really the county/city level taxes that have bailed out alot of the cities that were or were bordering on 'bankruptcy' after 2008. The money at that level goes into the general fund, so it can be used for almost anything... perhaps ironically alot of it has actually gone to beefing up the budgets of local police agencies around the state.

The gross price of pot is lower here than it was 15-20 years ago (adjusted for inflation), but the net price after tax is probably neutral or higher adjusted for inflation. Some of this is due to a tightening of regs around quality control that went into effect 3-4 years ago. That said, the quality and selection is much much better than it was when it was illegal. It's easier, safer, and maybe just a teeny bit more expensive. I think if you add in the costs of state/fed dollars spent on trying to mitigate use/distribution during the illegal years it's been a no brainer.
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby jusplay4fun on Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:44 pm

I find it odd and interesting that this thread on Holiday that recognized the end of slavery in Texas in 1865 has evolved into a discussion of legal vices: sex and marijuana.
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby jimboston on Fri Jun 24, 2022 9:35 am

jusplay4fun wrote:I find it odd and interesting that this thread on Holiday that recognized the end of slavery in Texas in 1865 has evolved into a discussion of legal vices: sex and marijuana.


How so?
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby jusplay4fun on Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:47 pm

jimboston wrote:
jusplay4fun wrote:I find it odd and interesting that this thread on Holiday that recognized the end of slavery in Texas in 1865 has evolved into a discussion of legal vices: sex and marijuana.


How so?


Do you have problems with Reading Comprehension, Jimmy-B?
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby jimboston on Sat Jun 25, 2022 6:38 am

jusplay4fun wrote:
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jusplay4fun wrote:I find it odd and interesting that this thread on Holiday that recognized the end of slavery in Texas in 1865 has evolved into a discussion of legal vices: sex and marijuana.


How so?


Do you have problems with Reading Comprehension, Jimmy-B?


Not at all… you said you found something odd, I was asking for clarification.

Are you unable to articulate why you find that odd?

(It happens all the time in this forum… it shouldn’t be odd at all.)
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Re: Happy Juneteenth

Postby jusplay4fun on Sat Jun 25, 2022 1:44 pm

jimboston wrote:
jusplay4fun wrote:
jimboston wrote:
jusplay4fun wrote:I find it odd and interesting that this thread on Holiday that recognized the end of slavery in Texas in 1865 has evolved into a discussion of legal vices: sex and marijuana.


How so?


Do you have problems with Reading Comprehension, Jimmy-B?


Not at all… you said you found something odd, I was asking for clarification.

Are you unable to articulate why you find that odd?

(It happens all the time in this forum… it shouldn’t be odd at all.)


I assumed the odd nature of what I stated was SO OBVIOUS that I did need to articulate that notion. After ALL, you called me Capt. Obvious. Do I need to make the obvious more OBVIOUS for you, Jimmy-B? Is your reading comprehension skill that weak?

Jimmy-B continues to show his true nature.
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