Sorry this one is late.___________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/australia-wildfires-1.5357430 Gee! This is even worse than California as Australian cities are in even greater danger.It makes me so glad to know that our Conservative…
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He will be impeached in the House. But the Senate will not remove him, of course. Doesn’t matter. It will increasingly obsess him and his team, it will drain their…
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