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Tom's Journal. http://tomschuckmanjournal.blogspot.com/ tschuckman@aol.com I had 2 rude reviews/ "comments" from a couple guys concerning the last post I did on obama... and as usual the cowards never make their own home email address available nor any web site...LOL. I did pull that Blog post because I think that I should have checked it out more thoughtfully and vetted it. It is just that it hurts to see this ONCE GREAT country be ...
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