Well, this explains everything.
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If you thought American voters were daft, check out the Phillipines, where Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr., a dictator's son, takes a huge lead in Philippine presidential election. Marcos Jr.'s father, Ferdinand Marcos Sr., ruled the Southeast Asian nation of 110 million for 21 years before being ousted in 1986. The elder Marcos tore up presidential term limits, imposed nine years of nationwide martial law, and brutally quashed political dissent. During his rule, tens of thousands were arrested and thousands of his critics and opponents killed, while political allies benefited from rampant cronyism. He and his wife, 89-year-old Imelda, were also estimated to have embezzled up to $10 billion from state coffers until a popular uprising drove the family into exile in Hawaii, where the elder Marcos died in 1989. Let's hope dear old dad wasn't a role model.
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Singer/composer Sonny Curtis is 85 today. In addition to "Love Is All Around" (the theme of The Mary Tyler Moore Show), Curtis also wrote "Walk Right Back" and "I Fought the Law" and was a member of Buddy Holly's Crickets.
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Candice Bergen is 76 today.
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Billy Joel is 73 today.
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"Book One" of the Church of Scientology, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, was published on this date in 1950.
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On this date in 1960, the Food and Drug Administration announced it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
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Are millennial leftists aging into right-wingers? It might depend on your life experience. I'm 67 and still an FDR Democrat.
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Rats return to NYC. Sightings are up, due to outdoor dining and eased Covid restrictions.
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Speaking of rats in New York City: "You lose. You have no choice. Not your body, not your choice. Your body is mine and you're having my baby!"
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Tweets and observations:
Ban Viagra.
If pregnancy is "God's will," so is impotence.
-@JoJoFromJerz
Next time the national anthem is played every woman and girl should take
a knee.
-J Not a bot
In an unanimous decision, The Supreme Court struck down a law ensuring a
35-foot "buffer zone" outside abortion clinics, ruling that it violated
the first amendment preventing free speech of anti-abortion protesters.
Then the Supreme Court erected a fence around itself. Got it.
-Outspoken
While we don't know who leaked the draft opinion, there's only one
person we do know of that had access to it, that would have no
impediment to doing almost anything, and feels justified because she-
yes, she- thinks the US is already at war. Maybe Clarence protests too
much.
-Duty To Warn
What kind of world is it where lawmakers want to arrest you for using an
IUD but make it easier to carry around a gun?
-Steven Beschloss
You know who had a heartbeat? Every child murdered in their school
because Republicans are the party of mass shooters. This isn’t about
heartbeats. This is about criminalizing women.
-Rep. Eric Swalwell
A protest march that the people in power approve of is just a parade.
-Robyn
Swirling
If Kavanaugh doesn't like the way people in his state are gathering
outside his house, maybe he can just take off work and drive hundreds of
miles to a different state.
-Samantha Bee
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