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To: Battlestar

Your message would only work as in the battle against the Barbary pirates “I want any further messages to them to be sent from the mouth of my cannon.” (Ship commander Captain William Bainbridge agreeing with Thomas Jefferson who refused to pay the pirates. “Millions for defense but not one penny for tribute.”)


65 posted on 02/18/2026 6:31:36 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger

Is Cali attempting to set a record as to how many ways a state can suck???

LOL.


66 posted on 02/18/2026 6:34:01 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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