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Where is This?
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
67 responses to “Where is This?”
Tibet
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Not Tibet, but I see why you would guess that.
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Plus, I am not sure how many palm trees there are in Tibet.
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Laos is my guess.
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Laos is CORRECT, and Tina is the winner!
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Buddhist temple, Dw,
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I thought about that but they don’t want China to know they have palm trees.
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Congratulations to Tina. We now know that in addition to American churches, she is an expert in Buddhist temples.
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You take up,many hobbies and adventures , Bl, when you retire.
I never been there, but they have impressive plants, flowers, and trees.
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Tina you’re on a real roll in competing with GF for the ”geography finder.”
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Tina, was it the palms , plants or the structure that gave it away for you? Nice job!
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Damm, I was going to guess Oriental.
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Best take on MS NOW is from Sarah Huckabee…
NO ONE WATCHING
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Fla the temple.
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I hate the Anti-Defamation League.
Headline:
Anti-defamation League Names “America First” a Hate Term
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would they accept “America Second?”
Third?
I think its incumbent upon them to tell us which ranked number is acceptable. Or is the only acceptable option “America One-Hundred and Ninety-Third”?
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https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1811563973027859
Discussion of the two autopsies of George Floyd.
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I guess Laos.
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I see that my long thread of why I am opposed to mail in ballots generated ZERO discussion.BELOW are 9 states that now mail out a ballot to EVERY registered voter.
Bold print indicates a Dem (Blue) state in today’s terminology.
YYY indicates that the state also allows for people to register to vote, and then vote, on Election Day. Twenty states, plus Washington, DC. allow for election day registration/voting shenanigans. These include those below with the YYY plus ID, MT, WY, NM, MN, IA, WI, IL, MI, MD, VA, ME, NH, CT
Washington, D.C. (temporary) YYY
California (permanent) YYY
Colorado (permanent) YYY
Hawaii (permanent) YYY
Nevada (permanent) YYY
New Jersey (temporary) YYY
Oregon (permanent) ***
Utah (permanent) YYY
Vermont (permanent) YYY
Washington state (permanent) YYY
“Request-required mail-in ballot systems, traditionally known as absentee voting systems, mean eligible voters must initiate the process of receiving and casting mail-in ballots. Dozens of states allow voters to mail in their ballots without specifying why they are doing so…
On the other hand, automatic mail-in ballot systems, sometimes called all-mail voting systems, require that elections officials automatically send mail-in ballots to all eligible voters ― who can then return their ballots by mail or via designated drop boxes.”
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A number of states (including WV) have now pulled out of the multi-state compact that shared info with one another to catch and prevent people registered and voting in different states in same election.
With all the people moving about the country (high mobility), it is no wonder that state voter registration rolls become quickly outdated.
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“With all the people moving about the country (high mobility), it is no wonder that state voter registration rolls become quickly outdated.”
THEREBY adding YET ANOTHER REASON why mail in ballots (as opposed to absentee ballots) should go the way of the dinosaur.
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I should have apologized in advance for, in my posts on mail-in ballots, not calling anyone vile or disparaging names.
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The pro-genocide group called the Anti-Defamation League Names Trump’s ‘America First’ a Hate Term
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/08/19/anti-defamation-league-names-america-first-a-hate-term-n3805851
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Apology accepted, Retlaw, LOL! I think the universal mailing out of ballots with almost no controls, as outlined in your post is very problematic and needs to be addressed. However, since I moved down here in Florida and observed their process, which requires an application, signature verification and certification, as well as a requirement that all ballots get received prior to Election Day , I’ve changed my views on it. It seems to work well and Florida is able to tally every vote on election night without a hitch. The ballots must be sent in within a specifically issued envelope, coded for each ballot , that also is traceable and auditable. The system seems to work well and is a far cry from the fallen chad days down here.
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I oppose mail in ballots because you don’t really know who used them to vote.
But let’s face it, in the future probably everyone will have a password and you will be able to vote by facial recognition or similar technology, and that will ensure the person who is registered is voting. I think going back to 100% paper ballots at this point is somewhat anachronistic.
I recently returned from a international trip and for the first time never showed my passport. The Global Entry kiosks were deactivated, we just stepped in front of a camera, and a guy at computer said “ok good to go”. A couple people in the line got told to divert to the conventional passport control booth, but I would say 98% were waved through.
I think that is the future of voting too.
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Note to Trump – Slavery was ALL bad. It was actually worse. Focus.
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UP AND AT ‘EM!
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At least Walt is awake.
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Note to Bitter – stop watching MS-NOW for your news
Trump never said or implied anything remotely close to “slavery wasn’t all bad” like the leftist news media is saying. Here is his exact quote –
””The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future”.He added, “We are not going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed my attorneys to go through the Museums, and start the exact same process that has been done with Colleges and Universities where tremendous progress has been made”
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I read the Daily Mail.
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Since 2017 or so, what I’ve done when I see sensationalist articles about Trump in places like the daily Mail, cnn, msnbc or any msm network, is to go to his actual quotes and read it for myself. What I’ve found is invariably, like with this instance, the media has misquoted or taken Trump out of context to spin a sensationalist story.
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“how bad Slavery was”
It is amazing how the Cult gets upset and tries to say Trump did not say what he said even when you quote his words.
I believe that history is messy and want the good and bad presented. For example, I think the Tuskegee Airmen should be highlighted in the history of World War 2. The Colored Troops were a significant part of the Union victory. Any problem with that?
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I think Washington was a great man, a great leader, not a great tactical general ( lost more battles than he won), and an evil slaveholder. Good and bad.
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The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was
Trump’s words. Presenting the facts that show how bad slavery was is not being out of control. His point about woke institutions gets lost in that quote by including slavery. That is why I said to focus.
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Bitter, you’re joking, right?
what Trump is clearly stating is that every exhibit is about how bad slavery was. His complaint is that not EVErRY exhibit should be focused on this or race based issues. The Smithsonian should also have exhibits anbout our nations greatness as well.
if you have been to the Smithsonian in the past 4 years, you will know that he’s right.
Trump’s statement is no way saying or implying what you wrote – that slavery wasn’t bad. Maybe your TDS is preventing you from comprehending basic English. Not a very good trait for a purportedly experience litigator
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Here is an actual exhibit included at the Smithsonian. It was within a section that had nothing to do with race and is blatantly racist –
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TDS in somebody who gave Trump the vote 3 times? Zzzzzzzz
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How about just posting this?
””The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is,and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future”.
His writing style is terrible but this change makes his point without the distraction about how bad slavery was.
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Sorry Bitter, you can’t hide behind the fact you claim to have voted for him. Your comments speak for themselves. Only someone with severe TDS would chose to read that quote as Trump doesn’t think slavery was that bad and not a complaint about the QUANTITY of exhibits focused on the horrors of slavery, race or “the downtrodden”, and the lack of any exhibits highlighting Americas “success, brightness, and future”like he clearly wrote. Yep definitely TDS, particularly since a purportedly trained lawyer would know how to read basic English. Only TDS would prevent that.
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We went from grifter to Muh slavery in a day.
There needs to be a pivot back to Muh inflation.
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No need to re write it bitter. It’s plain English. I even pulled the Daily Mail article and they never drew the false conclusion you did.
Here’s a suggestion for you, why didn’t you just post the article instead of your misinterpretation of it.? They never said or implied that Trump was saying slavery wasn’t that bad. The title was “’OUT OF CONTROL’ Trump threatens to go after ‘WOKE’ Smithsonian museum for focusing too much on slavery”
Notice the difference between them and you? Focusing too much on slavery? They correctly read his quote right as an issue of QUANTITY. I guess the writer of the article is t a TDS purported lawyer that voted for him multiple times, LOL!
Here’s the rest of the article so my fellow HHR friends can read how blatantly our TDS bitter misinterpreted the article to fit his trump derangement –
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15015451/OUT-CONTROL-Trump-threatens-WOKE-Smithsonian-museum-focusing-slavery.html
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Trump is his own worst enemy. He really needs somebody to read his posts before he hits send. The Cult thinks he is a genius but he could help himself by being more focused and not handing his enemies ammunition.
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Sorry bitter, not on this one. It’s plain as day what he wrote and your source material even got it right. I think your TDS is your worst enemy for drawing such a ridiculous inference from that quote
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Zzzzzzzzz. I quoted his exact words. He was unfocused.
You feel like you have to worship Trump. Never a critical word from you. I’m not in the Cult. He got my vote. I don’t have to do any more than that.
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ZZZzzzzzz. You took his words out of context and misquoted both his statement and the article you claimed to have drawn that false conclusion. Your TDS prevents you from seeing this. You’ve also not properly read what I’ve posted here. But that’s also part of your TDS. You can’t hide behind a claimed vote. Your posts speak for themselves.
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If I had TDS, why would I host a Cult blog? HHR is a Cult echo chamber now and I pay for it.
None of your posts and attacks on me get edited or deleted.
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Here’s a suggestion for you, why didn’t you just post the article instead of your misinterpretation of it.?
Bitter prefers his “interpretation” to facts, when facts dispute what his interpretation is. This morning some news jockeys in N CA also complained about how museums have become more indoctrination centers, dealing with climate change, distorted historical facts, Marxism, than mainstream information sources.
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It’s not a cult echo chamber. It’s a blog with Republicans that express the widely held general opinions of Republicans. The full spectrum. Look, not lookin to beat a dead horse. Everyone here can read your comments and mine and draw their own conclusions. Let’s just leave at that. Oh, and thanks for paying to keep this blog going. You got that going for ya
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replica s = republicans – typo on the iPhone
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If I had TDS, why would I host a Cult blog? HHR is a Cult echo chamber now and I pay for it.
The “cult” you derogatorily cite is like Fla described —-> a full spectrum of opinions that don’t always jive with your own. Yes, you don’t edit or delete comments you find disagreeable, you simply package them in one word (cult) which you then deride.
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I fixed it for you.
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Jan thinks quoting Trump’s exact words is “interpretation.”
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A typical exchange on today’s Hedgehog Phoenix edition:
Trump says something stupid – and Bitter criticizes Trump.
Fla2025, in defending Trump, makes a personal attack on Bitter.
All hell breaks loose and the discussion devolves into mudslinging and vicious attacks.
It is hard to believe – most of you are adults, you all frequently have intelligent things to say, but you seem to enjoy rolling around in the mud more than engaging in civilized discussion.
I would hope you would all agree that DJT has done a lot of good things since he was elected – in essence, he has turned the ‘ship of state’ around and sent it in a better direction.
While doing that, he has made some mistakes and said a bunch of dumb things. Any statement that seems to suggest that there is too much emphasis on slavery being bad is tone deaf at the very least. There are millions of people who believe that the legacy of slavery still controls outcomes today, and all of them would likely be offended by Trump’s comment.
Attacking a sitting member of the FOMC – whose term lasts until 2034 – is not very smart, even in the service of putting more pressure on the Fed. When you add the fact that she has impeccable credentials and is sympathetic to the goal of lowering interest rates, the attack is incomprehensible. Finally, closely following the slavery remark, he chooses to attack the first black woman to serve on the FOMC; that adds a racist tinge to his recent actions.
Perhaps he should just sit back and relax for a minute or two.
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Schiffty forms legal defense fund.
Buffune should strip him of all committee assignments.
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What is the over/under for the free passers to contribute to said fund?
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New Thread
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BillW , you’re entitled to your opinion. However, at least get the facts right. You state that in my defending trumps statement, I make a personal attack on bitter. However, you ignore the fact that bitter attacked first with his “cult” comment and my personal attack was in response to his. Here is Bittets first response after I posted the actual statement –
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Bitterlaw
August 20, 2025 at 8:49 am
“how bad Slavery was”
It is amazing how the Cult gets upset and tries to say Trump did not say what he said even when you quote his words.
I believe that history is messy and want the good and bad presented. For example, I think the Tuskegee Airmen should be highlighted in the history of World War 2. The Colored Troops were a significant part of the Union victory. Any problem with that?
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I only return fire after he made the “cult” insult . I have never made a personal insult that wasn’t a response to someone doing the same to me first. Bitter is a big boy. If he can dish it out, he certainly should be able to take it. What do they say here? No free lunch.
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A typical exchange on today’s Hedgehog Phoenix edition:
Trump says something stupid – and Bitter criticizes Trump.
Fla2025, in defending Trump, makes a personal attack on Bitter.”
The problem is with moronic cultists is that since Trump is always 100% right (even if it goes against what the moronic cultist used to believe here) if you say ANYTHING remotely critical about ANY of his policies you are automatically slated for attract.
Even if you quote Trump verbatim, you must be “missing” what he was really thinking, which of course could never be wrong.
And some people say brainwashing doesn’t work.
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Bill, FLA2025 is a brainwashed blood sucking parasite imbecile who never had an original thought in his life, except when he thought he was actually reinventing the basic laws of economics.
To him, there is only one deity, and that is Trump.
If a lesser deity like God, for example, admonished Trump for something, FLA2025 would be here calling him names.
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LOl! The dick from the internet has returned!
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Bitter, who attacked me for a year for not voting for Trump in 2016, and several times since then, has TDS?
LOL
I guess its worth some points, but I discount it 50% coming from an imbecilic moron.
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That was a good analysis, BillW, right on target.
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It’s not a cult echo chamber. It’s a blog with Republicans that express the widely held general opinions of Republicans.”
Hilarious.
Republican? zzzzzzzz…
Let’s get real.
FLA2025 is a Trump Cultist first, second and third and all the way to tenth,
Republican might come in 11th, conservative probably like 25th.
If Trump abolished the Republican Party tomorrow and called it the Trump Party, FLA2025 would step on his mother’s neck to be the first one here to declare it the best thing that happened since sliced bread.
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Something to think about…
Could not sleep last night…so was laying there thinking about how the if the close 1960 election turned out and Nixon won rather than JFK…could have had far reaching changes in what happened I history…
Prior to 1960 we had multiple consecutive presidential terms, then 8 years of republican president. Then period of election turmoil and back and forth in the next bunch of elections.
Prior to 2000 we had 8 years of Dem. Clinton, then 8 years of Rep. GHB, Then 8 years of Dem Obama, then period of elections turmoil and back and forth in next several elections.
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If Nixon won that close one in 1960…
–the secret U.S. plan to overthrow Castro in Cuba would have been successful and Khruschev in USSR would not have felt emboldened
–no Cuban Missile crisis in 1962
–no JFK assassination in 1963
–No Vietnam war, (as JFK was stung by his in Cuba Bay of Pigs failure to stand up to communism and his failure to stand up to Communists building Berlin wall, was looking for a place in the world where he could show he was willing to fight back against communism…)
–Probably no NIxon Watergate Scandal in 1972
–and who would have been elected president in 1964 or 1968? Certain would NOT have been Nixon.
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2020 election. If we avoid a Biden victory… and if instead Trump gets the win, then we probably have:
–no disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal
–no Russia invading Ukraine
–no open borders and flood of countless millions into U.S
–POSSIBLY no Hamas starting war with Israel?
–And Trump would have finished his 2 terms and we could have had _?_ ads president today and have moved well beyond the TDS we see today as Trump as president would be in the rear view mirror…so we would have had no Trump assassination attempts….
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Another thing I thought about while trying to go to sleep was the top FOUR mysteries that still bother me:
–First, the JFK assassination, number of bullets fired from bolt action rifle at moving target, etc. etc. who was behind it/involved in it (other than Oswald)
–Second, how so many people over so many decades got caught up in the Global Warming scheme.
–Thirdly, how many UFO crashes, objects, etc. have happened that the U.S. govt. gathered up and analyzed.
–Fourthly, What REALLY happened in the 2020 election. How much double voting by people registered in 2 states, how many mail in ballots cast by people other than who it was addressed to, what all went on regarding contested ballots and who finally was awarded that vote, how much of lots of other things….
I have read (not sure of accuracy) that Trump won 18 of the 19 historically key bell weather precincts across the nation in 2020 that almost always determine who would win nationally.
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India
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