Holy HELL, @bootbarn. My wife and I went into your Tualatin, OR store, + as we entered a family of five was leaving – none masked. Then the employee who greeted me (quite cheerfully!) had her mask under her nose...
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@bootbarn Then I counted six other maskless customers + another employee with a mask half-off.

We left immediately.

Because we're not stupid, we respect the law, and we don't want to die.
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@bootbarn Oregon law requires masks. I understand that some people see going maskless as a political statement, but it's the LAW.

And science is science. If my vet said I needed to mask to keep my animals safe from an infectious disease, I'd wear it. Because science is f*cking SCIENCE.
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@bootbarn P.S.: This is my wife and me. We've bought a LOT of gear from BootBarn. But we're both over 60, and have some health issues. And we don't appreciate your stores trying to kill us, or coddling lawbreaking customers who want to kill us.

Do better.
P.P.S.: Here's a supplement for the hundreds of trolls, useful idiots, and Russian disinfo actors who've flamed me for this thread, claiming that masks don't work, administrative rules and mandates aren't "laws," and calling COVID "flu":
PPPS: Blocked, of course, like a couple hundred others who freaked out over my desire that retail stores abide by mask laws. I am, however, exceptionally pleased to be called "the absolute hardest looking dude in America."

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• And it's unnecessary: U.S. defense $ exceed Russia + China + the next 9 countries COMBINED. ...
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@Sen_JoeManchin Some will argue, as @BroadbrainTV does here, that it's ok because "the defense bill is a jobs bill." And that's sort of true: the defense industry accounts for at least 800,000 jobs and 10% of U.S. manufacturing. is.gd/Brn8g0 ...
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@Sen_JoeManchin @BroadbrainTV But as a job creator, defense sucks. About 14MM people work in manufacturing; at 10% of total manufacturing, defense should employ about 1.4MM, but actually employs about half that, because defense toys' materials, research, etc. are expensive compared to labor cost. ...
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History from 2001:

The Taliban weren't involved with 9/11. A council of 600 senior AfPak Muslim clerics – essentially the Taliban's governing body – expressed dismay at the 9/11 attacks and offered to expel bin Laden from the country.

Bush said no. edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asi…
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The Taliban acknowledged that 9/11 violated Islamic law – but remember, bin Laden initially denied being behind the attacks. At the time, even the U.S. only labeled him a "prime suspect," stopping short of saying we were sure he did it.

That uncertainty was VERY significant.
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Muslim ethics require protecting guests from their enemies – UNLESS the guest has done something to bring trouble on the host. The Taliban COULDN'T surrender bin Laden without evidence he was behind 9/11 (ie, committed a crime while in sanctuary).
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Today's testimony by Capitol Police officers about the Jan. 6 insurrection is making me rethink the Boston Massacre, which in hindsight sounds more like 1/6 than a righteous revolutionary act.
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Eight soldiers guarding a government building were surrounded by 300-400 angry "patriots" hitting them with clubs, rocks, chunks of ice, oyster shells, lumps of coal; many in the crowd taunting the soldiers to fire, others warning them that if they do, the crowd will kill them;
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It's essentially nihilistic...
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I just read the Anglo-Saxon/America First Caucus statement of (so-called) principles, and it's clear that the writers used "Anglo-Saxon" only because "Aryan" already was taken. It's the Racist/Nativist Caucus.

Here are some thoughts about "our" "Anglo Saxon" roots:
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First, who WERE the "Anglo-Saxons," anyway?

Immigrants and invaders. Germanic ones. Nothing "native" about them.

"Saxon" = "Germanic." "Anglo" = "the subset of Germanics who ran England for a while."
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And those foreigners arriving unwanted on British shores didn't respect the culture they found when they arrived: there was "hostility between incomers and natives... violence, destruction, massacre, and the flight of the Romano-British population."
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This is a wonderful read. Some great quotes + stories. I'll thread a few of them (but not all):
“I got on a bus in 1982, from the hills of Tennessee. I had $1,200 sewn into my underpants by my mother and I arrived in LA and found West Hollywood, which is where I currently live.”
He trained as a jockey with Argentinian trainer Horatio Luro. “He was a lady’s man – he said to me once: ‘When I die, I want to come back as a lady’s saddle so I’ll be between the two things I love the most.’"

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