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A 16-year-old's MAGA hat was blurred out of his high school yearbook.

Jeremy Gebhart says the move violates his First Amendment rights.

Brian Newberry says "THINK AGAIN KID!"

No one's preventing this Trump Supporter from wearing his hat or promoting Donald Trump.

Gebhart can say and wear anything he wants.

But the high school yearbook is not Jeremy Gebart's personal property, and the 16-year-old Trump Supporter cannot force the yearbook publication to promote a political ideology to which they're opposed.

If a gay couple cannot tell a baker how to decorate cakes, then 16-year-old student JEREMY GEBHART cannot tell a High School how to edit yearbooks.

A yearbook isn't an ordinary news publication. It's a commemorative work, more sentimental and artistic than raw data.

Regarding 'the gay wedding cake' - Solicitor General Noel Francisco wrote - "a custom wedding cake is not an ordinary baked good; its function is more communicative and artistic than utilitarian,"

"Accordingly, the government may not enact content-based laws commanding a speaker to engage in protected expression: An artist cannot be forced to paint, a musician cannot be forced to play, and a poet cannot be forced to write."

....to which I would add, a High School Yearbook staff cannot be forced to promote political ideologies.

Why Dogs Now Play a Big Role in Human Cancer Research

Dogs get some cancers that are very similar to those in humans, and now with a new infusion of funding, researchers are exploring treatments that could save the lives of both dogs and people."

Five recent canine studies are using immunotherapy to prime the immune system to kill off tumors.

They include clinical trials in both humans and dogs (at the University of Alabama at Birmingham) using a genetically engineered virus that infects tumor cells and stimulates the immune system to destroy them.

Brian, playing his bagpipe synthesiser.

SCARBOROUGH FAIR by Simon & Garfunkel

Audio Podcast

Commentary by FBI veteran Clint Watts, CIA officer John Sipher, Senator Mazie K. Hirono, Dept'y AG Rod Rosenstein, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, and others.

A chronology of the events investigated by THE MUELLER REPORT, this programme is presented as an audio podcast with actual news clips, congressional testimony, supplemental narration, music, and sound effects...

Reminds me of listening to NPR.

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"WHY DON'T THEY GO BACK... [TO THE COUNTRIES] FROM WHICH THEY CAME."

- Donald J Trump, Sunday, 14 July 2019 at 8:27 am EDT

Turkey Accepts Russian S-400 Missile System, Rankling U.S. And NATO

Under such optimal conditions - why WOULDN'T the Kremlin use Turkey to research vulnerabilities of US military aircraft?

RUSSIA HAS THE FULL CONSENT OF TRUMP SUPPORTERS.

Those who support Trump's close ties to (& secret meetings with) Vladimir Putin, they "support" Trump abandoning our Kurdish allies in Syria, and our European allies in the Iran Nuclear deal.

Those who support abandoning our allies in South Korea while Trump cancels live fire war games, as he publicly salutes North Korean military officers.

Because as Donald Trump says - insulting our enemies "is not good for our country", and when Turkey (not the US, but "Turkey") orders US troops out of Syria - Trump quickly complies, of course with the full blessings of his "supporters".

Those who "support" Trump's relentless attacks against Europe and his publicly refusing to support NATO's "one for all and all for one" policy....

To "support" Donald Trump is to support an attack against the U.S.

Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX)

Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI)

The Curious Case of "AIR EAST 31-K"...

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"If I were king, I would not allow people to go about burning the flag. However we have a 1st Amendmentwhich says that the right of free speech shall not be abridged - and it is addressed, in particular - to speech critical of the government.

"I mean, that was the main kind of speech that tyrants would seek to suppress. Burning the flag is a form of expression.

"Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea -- 'I hate the government', 'the government is unjust', whatever...

"The provision reads - "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech."... [Flag-Burning] is just saying we dislike the government.... I sleep very well at night knowing that I'm doing... what I am supposed to do, which is to apply the Constitution.

"I do not always like the result. Very often, I think the result is terrible. But that's not my job. I'm not king. And I haven't been charged with making the Constitution come out right all the time. "

- Justice Antonin Scalia, 18 July 2012

From 2018 - This 4th of July nearly 14,000 new citizens will swear allegiance to the United States as part of their swearing in ceremony.

Breaking with tradition - this year - NOT ONE will be administered by the President.

Brian's Take: I'll forgive any FORMER Trump Supporter if they acknowledge unconditionally they were mistaken, and express genuine remorse for supporting Russia's attack against the U.S.

Otherwise - I concur with Kathy Griffin. And just to be clear - that goes for ALL "the people involved", regardless of occupation and social status.

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Just because...

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What type of father OPENS HIS MOUTH to kiss ANY PART of his daughter's body??

"YEAH, SHE'S REALLY SOMETHING, AND WHAT A BEAUTY, THAT ONE! IF I WEREN'T HAPPILY MARRIED AND, YA KNOW, HER FATHER..."

- Donald J Trump, 3 August 2016

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We miss you, John McCain...

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A salute to US military personnel, from athletes of the NFL.

The Cruel Shoes

by Steve Martin

“Blah, blah, blah. If you’re trying to silence me through the Hatch Act, it’s not going to work. Let me know when the jail sentence starts.”

- KELLYANNE CONWAY, 29 May 2019

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"HIGHEST C02 IN HUMAN HISTORY"!

Don't blame Donald Trump. Trump's just doing what ignorant demagogues do.

Blame the filthy "Deplorables" who support him. They're doing this to us.

Anyone who supports Trump. Truck drivers, softball coaches, office workers, and when appropriate - even our neighbors and relatives...

84° near the Arctic???

Regardless of how one voted 3 years ago - those who CURRENTLY support Donald Trump -they are wholly responsible for whatever horrors he ("it") unleashes on us. Clams are literally cooking in their shells.

But of course Trump Supporters know there's no such thing as Global Warming!

And even though EVERY scientist on the planet has peer-reviewed evidence to the contrary - Trump & his Supporters know better!

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This isn't some clever double entendre or taken out of context.

This is Donald Trump Jr setting up a secret meeting with "the Russian Government".

Steve Bannon says 2016 Trump Tower meeting was 'treasonous'.

Bannon: "They’re going to crack Don Jr like an egg on national TV."

Donald Trump Jr gladly accepted “very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”

10 May 2017

WARNING:

This pictures were not photoshopped.

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These pictures provided by Russia's TASS News service because Trump prohibited any US media, while warmly embracing the Russians.

Minutes before Trumps's secret meeting with Russian officials Sergey Lavrov (left) and Sergey Kislyak (right).

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Both Trump's hands are visible, yet neither is touching his wife....

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'ARE THESE REAL PATRIOTS?

Trump teases most deployed division in the Army over first pay raise in years.

Trump joked the soldiers didn't really want the pay raise, suggesting they're too patriotic to desire more money for national service - and we quote him:

"We are proudly giving our troops the biggest pay increase in a decade, and I know you don't want it because you're very patriotic. ... Does anybody not want it? Please raise your hand," Trump said.

When there wasn't much of a response from the crowd of soldiers, who belong to the Army's 10th Mountain Division (the most deployed division in the Army), the President then said, "What's going on here? Are these real patriots? I don't know, general, I don't know..."

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"SHE'S ACTUALLY ALWAYS BEEN VERY VOLUPTUOUS... SHE'S TALL, SHE'S ALMOST SIX FEET TALL AND... SHE'S AN AMAZING BEAUTY."

- Donald J Trump, October 2006

Audio Drama

Law & Order - Big Bang

Synopsis: When a letter bomb kills a woman in her Greenwich Village apartment - detectives turn their attention to a mad scientist seeking revenge!

Quote by Donald Trump

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Streets of San Francisco

INFERNO

Synopsis: San Francisco Detectives Mike Stone and Steve Keller team up with Fire Inspector Jack "Jacko" O'Malley join forces to track down a cold-hearted Contract Arsonist.