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22.4.11

A POST-MODERN PREDICAMENT.  Deconstruct the social construction of Our President's Kenyan nativity without privileging linear logic or any other technology of power hiding behind a masquerade of intelligence.
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"Cold Spring Shops" was the name of the primary repair and car building facility of The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company ... builders of trolley dining cars and the Christmas parade train ... perhaps I can be that creative too.

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