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For obvious logistical reasons, crossdressers don't belong in the military.

We don't permit mentally ill people serving, and we don't permit people who need ongoing medication like diabetics to serve. It has to do with combat readiness and logistics like availability of medication when deployed.  It's really a no-brainer but from the howls of the transgender activists and their enablers who cry "transphobia" at every turn.




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More of why Kamala Harris hasn't a shot of being president:



But another part of her life had a significant impact on her career: In 1995, she began dating Brown, then Assembly speaker and one of the most powerful men in California politics. Brown put Harris on the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the California Medical Assistance Commission, part-time posts that supplemented her prosecutor’s salary with nearly $100,000 in extra annual pay.

The December night Brown was elected mayor, Harris joined him at center stage in a longshoremen’s union hall and gave him a blue cap that said, “Da Mayor.”
Criticism from local politicians is one thing, but she cannot withstand the scrutiny media vetting and GOP dirty politics will do now that she is running for national office.
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The deadline was always a bunch of shit regarding the ERA.  Congress moved it once, in 1979 to 1982, and it can certainly move it again.
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Obituary:  Noted actress and comedian Kaye Ballard, 93, has died.  She was known for the two-season sixties sitcom The Mothers-in-Law, produced by Desi Arnaz.

It is one of the series I plan to get on DVD.  She starred opposite Eve Arden.

Ballard had one of the most illustrious careers in show business in the mid-20th century. She first exhibited her talents in Cleveland, where she was born Catherine Gloria Balotta to Italian emigrant parents. She was doing impressions of French entertainment legend Maurice Chevalier at age 5. She developed into a painter, singer, actor, musician and comic impressionist.

Ballard was offered a scholarship to Cleveland Art College, but chose to perform instead in vaudeville. A stage producer in Detroit was so impressed by her multiple talents, he recommended her to Spike Jones, the most popular comic big band leader of the Swing Era. Jones, who had novelty hits like "Cocktails For Two" and "Yes, We Have No Bananas," invited her to look him up if she ever got out to Los Angeles. So Ballard bought a one-way plane ticket to L.A. and landed a job as a singer and a comic tuba player with his band.

She was performing with the Spike Jones Orchestra at the posh Trocadero supper club in L.A. when Mel Torme came in to sing with Nat King Cole in the lounge, Ballard said. Torme had written a new Christmas song that started with, "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire ..."

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Another obituary:  Maxine Brown Russell, the last of The Browns, has died at the age of 87.  She died in hospice care.

Russell was born into her musical family on April 27, 1931, in Campti, Louisiana. She performed with siblings Jim Ed and Bonnie Brown as The Browns. The siblings' first chart single, "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow," peaked at No. 7 in 1955, and in 1956, their recording of "I Take the Chance" hit No. 2 on the country charts. However, The Browns were most known for their sweet harmonies on “The Three Bells,” which was released in 1959.

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The Covington Catholic High School brat at the center of Saturday's controversy digs himself even deeper.

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As always, Judith Butler is full of shit.  She has a LOT to answer for. 

She should be fired from her position at UC Berkeley.

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