Weird Wednesdays: The Beer Can House, Texas

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This month’s entry into weirdness is The Beer Can House in Houston, Texas.

John Milkovisch, a retired upholsterer for the Southern Pacific Railroad, started his project now known as the Beer Can House in 1968 when he began inlaying thousands of marbles, rocks, and metal pieces into concrete and redwood to form unique landscaping features. When the entire front and back yard were completely covered because he “got sick of mowing the grass”, he turned to the house itself and began adding aluminum siding – aluminum beer can siding, that is.

Over the next 18 years the house disappeared under a cover of flattened beer cans for both practical and decorative reasons. Garlands made of cut beer cans hanging from the roof edges not only made the house sing in the wind, but also lowered the family’s energy bills. Ripley’s Believe It or Not estimated that over 50,000 cans adorn this monument to recycling.

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  1. Morning All!
    at wolf’s this morning is an amazing story of how the author (Linda) used the fenben/ivermectin protocol and is now cancer free!

    My Cancer Journey (by Linda) and 20241204 Open Thread

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  5. Autism Capital 🧩

    @AutismCapital

    🚨MIKE BENZ: “There is no aid in USAID. It’s not an aid organization. USAID stands for US Agency for International Development. What it’s developing is all the activist organizations in foreign countries that the state department is building to gain influence. USAID was created to be a central hub that organized all the different foreign clandestine operations. It has a $50B budget. The entire intelligence community is only $72B. It’s more than the CIA and the State Department. Its a switch player to assist the pentagon, the state department, and the intelligence community.”

    Feisty Hayseed

    December 4, 2024 1:30 am

    “There is no aid in USAID” – What is USAID?
    

    🚨MIKE BENZ: “There is no aid in USAID. It’s not an aid organization. USAID stands for US Agency for International Development. What it’s developing is all the activist organizations in foreign countries that the state department is building to gain influence. USAID was created… pic.twitter.com/uTTCDvA42G

    — Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) December 3, 2024

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  6. Feisty Hayseed

    Feisty Hayseed

    December 4, 2024 1:31 am

    Our Federal Government (CIA, State Department, Defense Department, USAID, NATO) so thoroughly manipulated and controlled Ukraine that it is no wonder that Russia had to invade to stop us. Our Federal Government is crazy mad for control, money and power. Hopefully, President Trump will put an end to the madness.
    

    “The Senate Intelligence Committee could simply get a Gang of 8 and look at all CIA files that have the word Burisma in it. And I guarantee you if they did that, every single one of them would walk out white in the face at the sheer scale of what Burisma was being used for…” pic.twitter.com/Qh0f1wETAm

    — Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) December 3, 2024

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  8. interesting, but not sure it would work…using Vance (President of the Senate) as a weapon against the rinos.

    FTA

    And this is where President Trump needs to utilize Vance. According to the Senate’s website: “The Senate is governed by the Constitution, a set of standing rules, precedents established in the course of the legislative process, and special rules of procedure adopted by statute for particular types of legislation.” The Senators create and vote upon the rules. Unlike in the House, the rules apply from one Congress to the next. As such, those would be difficult to change without a rock-solid majority, something the President sadly doesn’t have.

    However, precedents are something altogether different. Here’s the thing, as we saw with the Supreme Court overturning Plessy and Roe: precedents are precedents… until they’re not. And there are a lot of them: 1,600 pages worth!

    At a minimum, Vance should eliminate Garner’s rule about the right of first recognition. From that point forward, he is free to guide the proceedings by calling upon whomever he chooses. Beyond that, Vance should scrutinize the Senate’s 1,600 pages of precedents and figure out which ones can be used to help support the president’s agenda (for example, committee assignments) and adjust them accordingly.

    But “Wait!” you say, “That’s not how that’s supposed to work!”

    Well, it is true that the Senate was specifically crafted to balance the passions of the masses as represented in the House and, to a lesser degree, the White House. That, however, was when States were considered equal partners in our federal system of government and appointed Senators.

    But of course, the leftists eviscerated the Founders’ original intentions about the Senate with the 17th Amendment. As a result, the Senate has become simply a more entrenched version of the House. Therefore, if a cabal of geriatric swamp-loving RINOs wants to try and shanghai the president’s mandate because the close balance of party power in the chamber allows them to do so, to paraphrase Sean Connery in The Untouchables, Trump should bring a constitutional gun to their knife fight and keep them from doing so.

    To those who cry that if we do it, they’ll do it later, I say, so be it. The reality is that Democrats don’t need this in order to try and destroy the Republic. They nuked the filibuster, which went back to our Founders. They were prepared to add Puerto Rico and DC as states to permanently alter the balance in the Senate. They yearned to pack the Supreme Court to turn it into a progressive rubber stamp. And, of course, they imported 30 million illegals in order to control the House. The Democrats don’t need precedent to do anything. They do what they want, period.

    The fact is that the Swamp is an existential threat to freedom, prosperity, and the Republic. Donald Trump must take advantage of this moment and the powers the Constitution provides to eviscerate it now. If he doesn’t do it now, when the winds of change are so strong and America’s desires so clear, it will never happen. He should not let a handful of geriatric RINOs stand in the way of exorcising the bureaucratic cancer of the swamp that menaces American citizens and ravages America’s prosperity. If he allows them to prevail, he will have betrayed the nation and go down in history as America’s greatest disappointment.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/trump_should_bring_a_constitutional_gun_to_the_senate_swamp_knife_fight.html

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  9. Good morning! Oh, my – what a fugly house! Just looks like a dump to me! Bright sunshine and 37 this morning – most of the snow is gone, thankfully. Wheezer was again waiting for breakfast.

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    1. Morning Filly!
      I am almost done making my roll out cookies–the last Christmas cookie of the season…lol
      just waiting for the last trays to come out of the oven.
      I agree. who would want to do that to their house???

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  10. My goodness! Wonder if Mayor Adams is suffering from whiplash???

    EXCERPT: “As the jury in the Daniel Penny case began their deliberations Tuesday in the second-degree manslaughter trial of the 26-year-old former Marine, a Saturday radio appearance by NYC’s Democrat Mayor Eric Adams is getting plenty of notice—because Hizzoner appeared to voice his direct support of the defendant.

    It was a failure of the system, Adams said, and Penny did “what we should have done as a city”: “Those passengers were afraid,” the mayor added. 

    “We’re now on the subway where we’re hearing someone talking about hurting people, killing people,” Adams said on the Nov. 30 episode of “The Rob Astorino Show.” “You have someone [Penny] on that subway who was responding, doing what we should have done as a city…..”

    “….Adams seems to have a different view than Bragg and said he hoped jurors came to the just conclusion: “We have to recognize we have a mental health crisis, and we’re not doing enough to solve it.”

    Adams went on to say that he hoped jurors would “hear all the facts” as they consider whether the 26-year-old former Marine was justified in restraining 30-year-old Neely — who had a history of mental illness and drug abuse — following his outburst on the crowded F train train in May last year.

    “Based on all the facts that’s laid out, a jury of his peers will make the right decision. I don’t want to prejudge that,” Adams said of whether Penny should be found guilty of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

    “That could have easily been a case where you saw three innocent people murdered on our street two weeks ago,” he added, referring to a recent deadly stabbing spree in Manhattan on Nov 18.”

    https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/12/03/as-jury-begins-deliberations-daniel-penny-appears-to-have-a-surprising-voice-in-his-corner-n2182774

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  12. EXCERPT: “It’s been reported that when President-Elect Donald Trump met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Mar-A-Lago the other night, things took an unexpected but funny turn. Trudeau said that new tariffs would kill Canada’s economy. Trump joked that if Canada can’t survive without ripping off the US by $100 billion a year then Canada should become America’s 51st state and Trudeau its governor.

    That got a lot of people thinking….”

    “What should we rename Canada as after we conquer it?”

    I Am Ken: “I just wanted to send all the disgruntled actors there and call it Cantcomeback”

    AmericaFirst: “Winterfell.”

    Dave, Ex-Democrat Trump Republican: “We make it into a Prison Colony and send all traitors, fake news media and liberals there. @grok recommends “Snowflake Sanctuary”

    Dave: How about ‘Canadon’t’ because after we conquer it, they won’t have a choice but to accept their new name! 🤣🍁”

    American Sublime: “The United States of Canada”

    Native Patriot: “Since we already have a New Mexico I say we call Canada Snow Mexico as our 51st State”

    More: https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2024/12/04/possible-names-for-canada-if-we-conquer-it-n2404627

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          1. Walgreens would be over $83 for 12 bags; Farm & Fleet – there are only 3 available, not a case of 12. If they did, it would depend on what they would charge for shipping. This is the only order I have with Amazon – it’s really easy to re-order and I almost always get them at least 1 day before the del date. I’m satisfied with them. Thanks for checking, tho. I did a lot of research on it way back when I started with them over a year ago.

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              1. Yeah, I just don’t want to open a bunch of accounts. I get things set and don’t like to change it. I don’t mess with things that work. LOL

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  14. “Lindsey Graham Is the Warmongering NeoCon Leading the Charge to Upend Pete Hegseth — Is anyone surprised that Senator Graham is working against Agenda 47?”

    JD Rucker, Dec 04, 2024

    “Pete Hegseth represents a shift away from the wokeness that has infected the United States military. This is possibly the biggest reason President-Elect Donald Trump tapped him to be the next Secretary of Defense and the vast majority of Republicans on Capitol Hill can support this, at least for the public.

    But Hegseth also represents a less-interventionist approach to our national defense and that’s a non-starter for the NeoCons. This is why some Republicans, led by Senator Lindsey Graham, are latching onto ridiculous claims by NBC News that he’s a drunk.

    As Libs of TikTok noted on X:

    Current and former co-workers of Pete Hegseth are defending him saying the newest hoax the Democrats are spreading about him is complete bull****

    According to spectacular independent journalist Nick Sortor, Graham is the driving force behind the push to upend his appointment:

    JUST IN: Capitol Hill sources tell me Lindsey Graham is the leading force to DERAIL Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense

    WHY ARE WE ALLOWING LADY GRAHAM TO DICTATE OUR ADMINISTRATION?

    Put him in his place!

    Conservatives have been coming out in full force to support Hegseth and denounce reports that at least six Republican Senators are against his confirmation.

    Legacy media does not get to choose who President Trump has in his cabinet. And while the U.S. Senate has the power to advise and consent, they do not have the ability to make the pick, either. That means it’s up to President Trump and Pete Hegseth to decide if they will move forward.

    Patriotic Americans across this nation support Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. It would be a huge mistake for President Trump to back away now and it would be an even worse mistake for Republican Senators to withhold their support.”

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  15. “Diversity Whack-a-Mole: Controversial DOD Employee Pops Back Up at Education Department”

    OpenTheBooks, Dec 04, 2024

    EXCERPT: “For the better part of two years, the Pentagon’s K-12 school system has been embroiled in controversy over its focus on adding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) to every aspect of the programming.

    It all began when the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) hired its first-ever Diversity Equity and Inclusion chief, Kelisa Wing. She was eventually exposed for her history of racially inflammatory statements.

    As Congress investigated how her office promoted oppressor-oppressed narratives and radical gender ideology in the classroom, the Biden-Harris administration agreed to shut down the DEI department. In a letter to Congress, they said they would re-assign her to a role that didn’t involve the neo-Marxist worldview.

    Well, re-assign her they did, but only briefly. A few months later, she had left DOD entirely and popped back up at the Department of Education, and at higher pay.

    Had Wing simply flown the coop to spread DEI elsewhere in the administration?

    Last year she made $152,937 as a senior advisor at the Department of Education, about $10,000 more than she made at DoDEA.

    Earlier this year, using her new title, Wing gave a talk called “The Backlash Against Equity” at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) conference. The talk was on how to pursue “equity” in education “in spite of the times we are living in.”

    Although the presentation used her professional affiliation, someone familiar with the matter told us she gave the talk in her personal capacity.

    BACKGROUND

    Wing made headlines in 2022 for Tweets she had written disparaging white people, stating a woman in a professional development session with her “had the CAUdacity to say that black people can be racist too” she continued that “she had to stop the session and give Karen the BUSINESS.” She also posted, “I am exhausted by 99% of the white men in education and 95% of the white women. Where can I get a break from white nonsense for a while?”

    Kelisa Wing was the first DEI chief of DoDEA, a subagency of the Department of Defense charged with educating around 65,000 children of service members stationed worldwide.

    The Tweets bolstered accusations of left-wing extremism at DoDEA.

    Open the Books then unearthed video from the subagency’s 2021 “Equity and Access Summit,” featuring a presentation by Wing. It showed teachers eager to discuss sexuality and gender ideology with children, revealed teaching training materials meant to make children cry, and promoted classroom content explicitly intended to turn students into social justice activists.

    During a Congressional hearing in March 2023 concerning wokeness at DoDEA schools, then-Under Secretary for Personnel Readiness Gil Cisneros announced that the Pentagon was closing the DoDEA DEI office and reassigning Kelisa Wing, stating she would no longer be involved in DEI initiatives.

    Rep. Stefanik questions Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness Gil Cisneros over Wing’s social media posts.

    The announcement was a head fake for multiple reasons. DoDEA created a secretive new “DEI Steering Committee” as the public-facing DEI department was dissolved. The nature of the DEI Steering Committee—who is on it, what they talk about, what power it has over the agency—is hidden behind heavy redactions in response to Freedom of Information Act requests….”

    https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/diversity-whack-a-mole-controversial

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  19. eilert (@guest_1377376)

    Online

    December 4, 2024 11:28

    DJT appoints a NASA Adminstrator who actually went to Space:

    https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113595378122687080

    Donald J. Trump / @realDonaldTrump    12/04/2024 10:58:33  

    ID: Not Available

    Truth Social: 113595378122687080

    I am delighted to nominate Jared Isaacman, an accomplished business leader, philanthropist, pilot, and astronaut, as Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Jared will drive NASA’s mission of discovery and inspiration, paving the way for groundbreaking achievements in Space science, technology, and exploration. Over the past 25 years, as the Founder and CEO of Shift4, Jared has demonstrated exceptional leadership, building a trailblazing global financial technology company. He also co-founded and served as CEO of Draken International, a defense aerospace company, for over a decade, supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, and our Allies. Jared’s passion for Space, astronaut experience, and dedication to pushing the boundaries of exploration, unlocking the mysteries of the universe, and advancing the new Space economy, make him ideally suited to lead NASA into a bold new Era. Congratulations to Jared, his wife Monica, and their children, Mila & Liv!

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  20. stop this ride…I wanna get off!

    Martin
    Martin
    December 4, 2024 11:18 am

    DECEMBER 04 2024

    U.S. Gov’t Giving Sex Change to Rapist Who Sent Bombs to U.S. Gov’t

    ‘The Committee has medically cleared Ms. Doe for surgery and has informed the Georgia Department of Corrections that the recommended treatment plan for Ms. Doe is gender reassignment surgery…’

    Cassady sued for a sex change as “Jane Doe” last December, and the DOJ filed an amicus brief in support in January — ironically, while Cassady was under investigation for bomb-making. Even more ironically, the inmate was under investigation for sending a bomb to 1400 New York Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.—a building that houses a DOJ office.

    In other words, the DOJ filed an amicus brief in support of an inmate who apparently tried bombing the DOJ, according to the DOJ. To add a drop of stupidity, the DOJ refers to Cassady as a female in the sex-change litigation, but calls him a man in the bombing case.

    Cassady was indicted on the bomb charges in April.
    His trial was set for next week, but has been indefinitely postponed.
    I wonder if he’ll get the sex change before trial, and how that will affect the case?

    https://headlineusa.com/scoop-u-s-govt-giving-sex-change-to-rapist-who-sent-bombs-to-federal-facilities/

    This man tried to bomb the DOJ

    Now his trial is postponed so Joe’s DOJ can provide him a sex change operation at taxpayer expense

    🤡🤡🤡🤡 https://t.co/dNoVhm0cqX pic.twitter.com/Wd9Crk5YFM

    — Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) December 4, 2024

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  21. Just The News: “Peter Navarro will return to the White House as Trump’s senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, the president-elect confirmed Wednesday.

    “During my First Term, few were more effective or tenacious than Peter in enforcing my two sacred rules, Buy American, Hire American,” Trump said. “He helped me renegotiate unfair Trade Deals like NAFTA and the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS), and moved every one of my Tariff and Trade actions FAST.”

    Navarro spent four months in jail this year on contempt of Congress charges over his refusal to comply with a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 Committee. 

    He left custody in time to speak at the Republican National Convention and Trump previously expressed interest in having Navarro return in some capacity.

    In making the announcement, Trump commented that Navarro “was treated horribly by the Deep State.”

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  25. “America’s Political Tradition Comes From The Constitution: The Trump Mandate Calls For A Restoration Of Its Original Meaning And Preeminence

    When Donald Trump offered a return to “basic common sense” on the campaign trail this cycle, he was yet again hearkening to this great American tradition of constitutional governance.”

    Paul Ingrassia, Dec 04, 2024

    EXCERPT: “The Constitution of the United States is the law of the land. It is the cornerstone of our system of republican government – and provides both the moral fuel behind the “rule of law” as well as our national self-conception as a free and liberty-bearing people.

    For many Americans, particularly new arrivals who have been insufficiently assimilated or those who have been indoctrinated by the school system in recent decades, the idea of the Constitution’s supreme authority may seem strange, even objectionable – or in the favored parlance of modern times, “problematic.”

    But the bitter pill to swallow for these types is that the only way political power and its dissemination in modern American society can be meaningfully discussed is by reference to the Constitution, which was written in 1787, ratified in 1788, and established three separate but theoretically co-equal branches of government.

    The first branch described under Article I is the legislature, comprising a bicameral Congress with two chambers: an upper house, the Senate, which is supposed to be the more deliberative, restrained body. Modeled after its Roman antecedent (where the name derives from) – the Senate was conceived as the more aristocratic of the two chambers. The Senate is broadly analogous to the British House of Lords. Senators have the power to offer advice and consent over presidential appointments, ratify treaties, hold impeachment trials, and, with cooperation from the House of Representatives, pass laws.

    The “house of Representatives,” in contrast, was originally the more democratic of the two chambers – it held exclusive power over the purse and was more directly accountable to the people who elected its members. Its members, unlike the Senate, are elected every two years, just one third of the time of the Senator’s enumerated tenure. The frequency with which House members are up for re-election was intended to facilitate turnover, and with that, inculcate a time-sensitiveness to congressional offices, offering motivation to pass legislation, in accordance with the people’s will “with all deliberate speed” – to borrow a favorite catchphrase from our legal discourse.

    The second branch of the government – aptly outlined under Article II, is the executive. The executive branch, under the Constitution’s very explicit original formulation (which, contrary to the overwhelming sentiment in today’s Washington is an article that has not undergone emendation – the Founder’s only enumerated mechanism for constitutional change) is vested entirely (in noticeable contradistinction to “mostly” or “largely”) in a (again, singular, one) President of the United States (“The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America” – is as clear a phrase as one will ever find in that occasionally abstruse text).

    In other words, of the three branches of government, the executive branch is the only one under our Constitution – which, again, is the law of the land – that is vested in a single individual. To continue our analogy from above, the President is roughly akin to a British King – a comparison made both favorably and unfavorably throughout the Federalist Papers, that handbook to aid constitutional interpretation and explanation, devised by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. In Roman times, though the analogy is far less apropos (for reasons that should be quite obvious), the American president would be roughly equivalent to the emperor-type figure….”

    https://paulingrassia.substack.com/p/americas-political-tradition-comes

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  26. Oh, Germany!!!! Shame on you!!!

    “NEW: A 20-year-old American woman has been charged in Germany for fatally stabbing an Eritrean migrant after an alleged sexual assault.

    The incident occurred on an escalator where the woman claims the man groped her buttocks, leading to a heated confrontation. According to prosecutors, after the initial assault, the woman brandished a folding knife and began making “stabbing movements” to deter her alleged attacker. When the man attempted to grab her arm, she reportedly stabbed him once, inflicting a fatal wound to his heart.

    The woman turned herself in to the authorities, claiming that the fatal stab was accidental and occurred as part of her attempt to defend herself.

    The Kaiserslautern public prosecutor’s office has now filed charges against the woman for assault resulting in death, rather than murder or manslaughter, rejecting that the woman’s actions constituted proportionate self-defense.

    She was initially detained but has since been released from pre-trial detention while awaiting further legal proceedings.”

    https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1864055886890598737

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      1. by design

        they trust the msm, no really connection with neighbors, mostly renting no home ownership, can’t build wealth, the graves are turned over every 20ish years yet japans are forever, oh and no pride in the flag. They are lost

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        1. Yup. Mom keeps saying thank goodness they never moved back all those years ago. I hardly hear from family which while a little sad is for th3 best. No helping them at all

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  32. Libs of TikTok

    @libsoftiktok

    BREAKING: a 13-year-old migrant was arrested in NYC after he and a group of accomplices stabbed a pedestrian for refusing to take their picture. The last known address of the migrant teen is the Roosevelt Hotel, which is a taxpayer-funded migrant shelter. Three other suspects are still on the loose.

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  35. Citizen Free Press
    @CitizenFreePres
    6 REPUBLICAN SENATORS WHO ARE WAVERING ON PETE HEGSETH.

    Susan Collins
    Lisa Murkowski
    John Curtis
    Lindsey Graham
    Mitch McConnell
    Joni Ernst

    And there are 3 others who have not committed.

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  38. Citroën DS21

    Sailors assigned to the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Springfield (SSN 761), pose for a photo Feb. 23. Springfield is one of several submarines assigned to Commander, Submarine Squadron (CSS) 15. CSS-15 is located at Polaris Point, U.S. Naval Base Guam.

    No fricking way!!! Nope – couldn’t pay me enough!

    Truman’s Air Force One

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