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The same Texas billionaire who treated Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to lavish vacations paid private boarding school tuition for Thomas’s grandnephew, a boy the justice has said he raised as a son, according to a new report that said Thomas did not disclose the payments. ProPublica reported that Harlan Crow, a prominent Republican donor, paid tuition at Hidden Lake Academy, a boarding school in Georgia, as well as at Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia, for Mark Martin. Thomas had legal custody of the boy. The publication cited a bank statement that showed Crow paid $6,200 in monthly tuition at Hidden Lake Academy in July 2009 and quoted Christopher Grimwood, a former administrator at the school, as saying that Crow “picked up the tab” for the entire time Martin was a student there, about a year. Grimwood also told ProPublica that Crow told him that he paid tuition as well for Martin at Randolph-Macon Academy, which Martin attended both before and after his time at Hidden Lake Academy. ProPublica said the exact total Crow paid for Martin’s education remains unclear. But if he paid for all four years at the two schools, the cost could have exceeded $150,000, based on public records of tuition rates at the schools, the publication reported. ProPublica said Thomas did not respond to questions about the tuition arrangement. Thomas did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday from The Washington Post. Neither Thomas nor the court’s public information office have responded to previous questions about Crow’s spending. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/04/clarence-thomas-tuition-harlan-crow/

And to think people are paranoid about Soros!

History is a pretty good guide.

And most importantly, to prevent groups of people from booing Putin.

Petition to ban the picture has already begun in Southern Manitoba, I'm sure.

Can't recall ever seeing him and Atomic in the same room.

"They all stink" attitude causes apathy and insulates people from critical thinking and examining policy or candidates. Frustrates the hell out of me when I see people on the left say it too. Buy a puppy if you need attention.

"There just aren't really any good choices anymore. They all stink" Telling people this has been a right-wing strategy for as long as I have lived. It just simply isn't true.

They thought the same thing about Eyssimont, apparently.

He was no slouch singing about America either. This is my personal favorite of his:

Bob Cameron was just rounding into form at 35.

Someone hacked your account.

When the so-called "elites" are attacked for long enough, the dregs of society will take over.

I am polite to a fault.

I'm beginning to question whether a certain poster is arguing in good faith.

You've already stated that you don't understand why this "person" is planning to do "this" this way. So you don't think this person is acting rationally - therefore this person is not rational. We agree on one thing.

Murdering the PC's vote chances in Winnipeg is not a crime.

Cameron Friesen lost the Portage-Lisgar nomination to an anti-vaxxer....a vocal anti-vaxxer. From the Free Press website: Former finance minister loses federal nomination bid Carol SandersPosted: 11:02 AM CDT Monday, May. 1, 2023Last Modified: 12:39 PM CDT Monday, May. 1, 2023 | Updates After resigning as Manitoba’s finance minister and his provincial seat in the legislature to run for the federal Conservative nomination in Portage-Lisgar, Cameron Friesen has lost the nomination to Branden Leslie. “Our campaign message was about experience, results and deep roots in the riding,” Friesen said in a post after losing the nomination Saturday. He resigned as the MLA for Morden-Winkler in February to seek the federal Conservative nomination in the seat vacated by Candice Bergen, the former interim federal Conservative party leader, who is now the provincial Progressive Conservative party’s election campaign co-chair. Friesen lost to Leslie, Bergen’s former campaign manager and Grain Growers of Canada manager of policy and government relations. Leslie has billed himself as the “right Conservative” for the socially conservative rural riding. Friesen did not say what he plans to do next. “We ran a campaign about ideas and looking forward instead of back, a campaign about moving beyond the divisions that linger in our communities. I am incredibly proud of the campaign team and volunteers who worked so hard, proud of the message we delivered, and humbled by the many supporters who rallied around us,” Friesen said. https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/05/01/former-finance-minister-loses-federal-nomination-bid#:~:text=“I am grateful for the opportunity to have served my constituents as MLA these past 11 years.” Look familiar? Can't wait for the Christmas family photo.

Big like selling 31 million dollars worth of assets and not reporting it?

Your best players can only be arseholes if they give everything they have every shift. Indifferent arseholes cannot be your leaders, no matter how many points they produce.

Charlie Day has pretty cool comedic mind. I'm not so quick to dismiss this.

Or it could be this: (also from reddit) damnburglar ·1 hr. ago I always tell people Wab Kinew once pushed me in No Frills but I feel like I should clarify. It was a Wednesday—the Lord’s day—and I had a hankering for the holiest of gourds: the spaghetti squash. I perused the produce aisle with only one thing on my mind when lo and behold Wab appeared before me, holding what would turn out to be the last spaghetti squash. He caught me looking covetously at his prize and his demeanour immediately shifted darkly. Before I knew it, I was lying face first in the discounted kale, unsure of what happened. Upon reviewing the security footage with the store manager, it seems that Wab was never there, but apparently neither was I. The mystery of this phantom memory has haunted me for years, and my story likely serves as a means for my mind to cope with whatever trauma I experienced that day. I hope that clarifies things…. but please do not let this extensive clarification distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.

Is it this? (from reddit): MilesBeforeSmiles ·2 hr. ago I saw Wab Kinew at a grocery store in Osbourne yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a ****** and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.