Trump's Version of Peace
Rushing to get this done. I've been able to stay awake, pretty much, while I write this Web page, but I keep nodding out. Anyway, he's a small bit of what we did on this program. More to come.
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Last weekend Donnie Bonespur
Trump texted the Prime Minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Store, Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.
I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States,
The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT.
Is he really so ignorant that he doesn't know that the government of Norway doesn't handle the Nobel Peace Prize, that a committee of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a five-member committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway. The actual government of Norway does not award the Noberl Prize, and how in hell would nay valid committee award Donnie Bonespur
Trump a peace prize after he's spent month being a serial killer in international waters, and then invading Venezuela?
In the end, Trump went TACO on Greenland. He said he was no longer pressing for it and was not going to take it by military force. Then he started saying there was a big deal that would get him everything he wanted. He said he's let people know about it in about two weeks. This is something Trump ends to do. When he goes TACO he says that he'll have a big annoncement that'll show how great he is and he'll put out the announcement in about two mweeks or so. Apparently he thinks no one is going to check up on his promise in two weeks, but those who do usually find that he's just skunk away in failure. Either he'll So nothing more about Greenland or he'll bring up the 1951, asgrement between Denmark and the United States of America that give us pretty much a free hand to build and operate military bases in Greenland and he'll claim, loudly, that he had produced that great treaty to give America better national security. It was suggested by a columnist in The New York Times that maybe Trump will name the treaty after himself.
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One open list that no longer exists was the WBAI-specific Goodlight
Web based message board. It was sometimes referred to on Back of the Book as the bleepin' blue board,
owing to the blue background that was used on its Web pages. This one had many people posting anonymously and there was also an ancillary WBAI people
board that was just totally out of hand.
In June 2012, I ended up having to salvage the bleepin' blue board, and so I was the moderator on it for its last seven years, until it got too expensive.
Sometimes we used to have live interaction with people posting on the Goodlight Board
during the program.
Our very own Uncle Sidney Smith, whose program Saturday Morning With the Radio On used to alternate with us, has a blog these days. You can reach his blog here.
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