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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Under the Fedora: Entering NixonLand



Last Wednesday before a house committee Lois Lerner stated that she did nothing wrong, and then proceeded to invoke her 5th amendment right against Self incrimination.
Ms. Lerner’s lawyer suggested she should have not been called as a witness today, saying that as she has already informed the committee she would not be testifying it would only serve to embarrass her.
I’m sorry I don’t think it’s possible to embarrass a person who is willing to publicly declare their innocence to the American People and then almost in the same breath invoke the 5th.
The IRS scandal was already the most dangerous of the new Obama scandals to this administration, because it is so easy for even low information Obama voters to understand.   Unfortunately for the Democrats in 2014 someone pleading the 5th when declaring they’ve done nothing wrong is something the average person can understand.
I was not in front of the TV when Ms. Lerner took the 5th.  I had promised my wife a day in Maine to check out Fabric Stores for her quilting hobby.  I am in fact sitting on a folding chair in Sanford Maine at a local chain called Mardens typing this as she checks out the large fabric section before we hit our next quilting store.
I’m sorry I missed the sight as I was driving and I suspect thanks to the continuing coverage of the Disaster in Moore OK the media will have an excuse to bury this a bit if they so choose.  Luckily for me and every single other person in America who did not see it camera were rolling and as we get closer to the midterm elections GOP candidates nationwide will be kind enough to show that replay over and over again.
The People at Outside the Beltway made a point to stress that taking the 5th is not Evidence of Wrongdoing. Before a court of law that is entirely correct,  taking the fifth is not evidence of wrongdoing and can not be used as such before a court prosecuting her for crimes as the lawyers for any of the Five Families in NY would have remind you.
In every other setting than a court of law an unwillingness to answer such questions is evidence of something to hide and in the court of public opinion,  political belief  and common sense this screams “coverup”.
Even people on the left are now calling for the resignation of Eric Holder can anyone explain why they think he is any different than he ever was?
The DCCC used Michelle Bachmann’s announcement that she was not seeking another term as a fundraising pitch.  While she was in office they used her presence in congress as a fundraising pitch.
When will people figure out that the parties have basically become charities that support hacks?
It’s why I’ve never given a penny to a political campaign.


Rep Steven Lynch seems generally outraged, by what is going on at the IRS and is demanding action.  That might explain why Massachusetts Democrats didn’t support him in the Primary for senate and instead choose a man who can’t remember a tax increase he opposed in 36 years.
As Michael Graham said, the perfect senator for Massachusetts

Stacy McCain has been writing a bit about the Kaitlyn Hunt case out of Flordia.  For those of you who don’t know she is the 18 year old girl who seduced a 14 year old and has become a cause celeb in the gay community and beyond.  Stacy has made the point
See? You deviant weirdos thought Jailbait Lesbian School Girls was just a popular DVD title, but now it’s a civil right.
And the only people who disagree are bigoted religious zealots — including the authorities in Indian River County, Florida:
Oddly enough if instead of having set with the underage girl, if she had filmed her in a state of undress she would be guilty of a federal crime and perhaps wouldn’t have 140,000 people signing petitions on her behalf and $25K plus donated.
And if you don’t’ think Kaitlyn Hunt is the 2nd coming of Rosa Parks the Gay Rights mafia will get you no matter who you are:
A gay couple on the Treasure Coast is afraid to show their faces because they say they’ve been attacked personally for their opinions opposing Kaitlyn Hunt. They fear backlash from the “Free Kate” campaign that is 52,000 members strong on Facebook as of Tuesday night.
“I’ve already been vilified for my opinion on social media.”
But this isn’t a low profile gay couple, up until a few days ago, both men held high ranking positions in a Treasure Coast LGBT advocacy group.
This is where the country has gone in only five years.
BTW I think this whole thing is a trap for the LGBT movement that they would be well advised to avoid

Riots have shaken Sweden this week and nobody seems to want to say the word “Islam” in connection to them.
This is a huge mistake, because what happens when you don’t take care of this kind of thing with civil authority sooner or later people take the law into their own hands like in Myanmar:
More than 1,000 Muslims who fled Myanmar's latest bout of sectarian violence huddled Thursday in a Buddhist monastery guarded by army soldiers as calm returned to this northeastern city, though burnt out buildings leveled by Buddhist rioters still smoldered.
Buddhists?   You don’t hear the words Buddhists rioters often, what set them off?
The rioting began Tuesday after a Muslim man splashed gasoline on a Buddhist woman and set her on fire. Buddhist mobs responded by burning down several Muslim-owned shops, a mosque and an Islamic orphanage. Roving motorcyclists continued the violence on Wednesday, leaving one person dead and four injured.

I say thug is a thug is a thug no matter if they are Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or secular.  Perhaps if the authorities saw it that way it wouldn’t reach this point.


In my last column I mentioned the St. Louis browns, if you had to name a Basketball team with a compatible history of failure it would be the Los Angeles Clippers    From their first season in 1970 through the 2009-2010 season they had managed 6 playoff appearances  till 2011 they managed only six winning seasons an average of just better than one every six years.
For the 2011 season they hired Vinny Del Negro as their head coach and the team improved every year  going from 29 wins to 32 in his first year, from 32 to 40 in his second and their first playoff appearance since 2006 and then this year to 56 wins not only the most wins in the franchises entire history but their first ever division championship.
So naturally the Clippers fired him:
Following one of the best seasons in franchise history, the Clippers said Tuesday that Del Negro won't be offered a new contract when his current one expires at the end of June.
Del Negro is just the second coach to leave the team with a winning record, following Larry Brown in 1993.
"This was a difficult decision, but we feel this is the best decision for our franchise moving forward," said Gary Sacks, the Clippers' vice president of basketball operations.
Say what?  This is how you reward the guy who turned your team from a joke to a contender?  This doesn’t come to the level of the Yankees firing Yogi Berra after losing to the St. Louis Cardnials in seven games but it’s still s shock.
BTW after firing Berra the Yankees would not return to the playoffs for 11 years the longest playoff drought for the team at the time since their first World Series in 1921.
To continue the Orioles comparison at least Baltimore  waited till Hank Bauer team dropped to 6th the next season and was sitting in 3rd before firing him in July of 1968 less than two years after winning the Series.
Then again, Bauer was replaced by Earl Weaver who would lead the team to their glory years.  Maybe the Clippers can do the same.
At the top of the post I mentioned taking <a href="http://datechguyblog.com/2013/05/25/quilt-trip-in-sanford-maine-marsens-maine-sewing-machines-kathies-quilt-shop/">DaWife to quit shops</a>.  It's actually quite interesting as evidenced by this video recorded at <a href="http://www.kathiesquiltshoppe.com/">Kathie's Quit Shoppe</a> in Sanford Maine:
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Guys take note, little things like this are the best marriage insurance you can buy.

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Finally the 5th of the 10 Doctor Who specials have aired on BBC America.  The remaining 5 will be the only original Doctor Who we will see until the 50th anniversary special.
This was the first special that every companion of the doctor who appeared with the lead (Peter Davison)  took part.  The next three specials should be interesting there were only two companions for the 6th& 7th Doctors and only the Movie for the 8th Doctor ever shown.  I’m hoping they will start to bring up the Big Finish Productions which are still being produced today.
We’ll see.






Tuesday, May 21, 2013

3AM Hang Up Call

by Amy Lidster

When the 3am call came from Benghazi, Shrillary Clinton was too busy scrubbing and spinning and POTUS was catching his beauty sleep to do much more than punt a stand down order.  Conservatives have known this since it happened. Now safely ensconced into his second term and the dumbing down of America progressing nicely, the White House released 100 emails regarding Benghazi on the heels of the IRS scandal and the firing of that acting agency head.
100 documents released? Only 24,900 to go and nothing so far on a farfetched YouTube Video. What we do know is the White House bus rolled Shrillary for the second time and shows the State Department scrubbed the original emails from the CIA. What we don’t know is why. What we do know is when. September 11, 2012 to be precise, two months before a very tight election when the narrative was GM is alive and Al Qaeda is dead. Turns out, not so much.
In his Sept. 12th 2012 statement Obama claims to have called this an act of terror but if you blinked you missed it. After lauding the Libyans for carrying Chris Stevens body to the hospital where “he died”, decrying lack of religious tolerance ostensibly in reference to the YouTube video at the very end he makes a general statement to not tolerating acts of terror, but never directly said the Benghazi attack was a terrorist act.  His claims otherwise earned him four Pinocchio’s in Water-carrying Washington Post.
Daddy Dearest paused from passing out birth control to make dutiful fools of Susan Rice and Shrillary Clinton, chirping nonsense about YouTube after lying about Ambassador Stevens dying in a hospital, the pictures and logic prove otherwise.
President Obama has never acknowledged the full atrocities visited upon Ambassador Stevens, but he sure saw fit to smear Mitt Romney with the tragedy when the candidate spoke out against the act of terror when called upon to do so.
Acting as an extension of the White House press office, MSNBC blames outraged Republicans for not letting this die.  But I wonder, are there no decent Democrats here who are equally outraged? If no, why ever not? Obama is not dismissing last week’s hearings as a sideshow and this is outrageous. Sneering paternally at Republicans politicizing the deaths of 4 Americans at Benghazi, is incongruous compared to how much he has milked from the tragic deaths at Newtown at every possible turn.
A quick perusal of the home pages of the mainstream media on 5/15/2013 at 7:00pm PST shows it to be in complete disarray. Only Fox and ABC have both the IRS and Benghazi scandals as headlines on their home pages. MSNBC has a spin feature where not ONE republican was interviewed and shown in the hilariously named Hardball featuring Chris Matthews.  What is most incongruous is why no democrats are outraged that President Obama and then Secretary Clinton lied about the attack upon our embassy. Our ambassador was murdered, raped and his body defiled. The Four brave men were pinned down,denied aid before they succumbed. What Difference would it have made had the nearby CIA operatives been sent in? We will never know, but the fact they were ordered to stand down, we will never forget.




Saturday, May 18, 2013

Under the Fedora: Orioles, The IRS and the game's not over



Ok NOW I understand why so many business’ that seemed to sympathize with what my blog and Radio Show were hesitant to advertise in 2011 & 2012.
This week reminds me of the 1966 World Series between the Baltimore Orioles &the LA Dodgers.
The Dodgers had made the trip to the post season in those pre-playoff days regularly 1947 &featured one of the greatest 1-2 punches in Baseball history with Sandy Koufax & Don Drysdale. 
The Orioles on the other hand had never played in a world series.  Their one trip as the St. Louis Browns was at the height of World War 2 when the best players were absent.
Conventional wisdom was the Dodgers would take the Orioles apart and when journeyman  Moe Draboskey came in to relieve Dave McNallywith the bases loaded and nobody out in the 3rd things looked grim.
Six innings later Draboskey& the O’s won Game 1 on their way to a sweep of the vaunted Dodgers but were about to start their period as one of the dominant teams of the American League.
Last week at this time President Obama was riding high, Kelly Ayotte was under constant attack for her vote on Manchin/Toomey,  Mark Sanford had just won election on sc-1 ensuring a flock of stories hurting the GOP and talk of the immigration bill was not IF one would pass, but what type of bill would finally make it through congress and how much it would hurt the GOP when it did.
Meanwhile the press was uninterested in Benghazi, the IRS scandal was considered the paranoid ravings of tea party fanatics, and the press knew that their love for Obama was returned.
A lot of things can happen in a week, and there is every chance the media will pivot to something else if they can find an excuse to do so.

One of the things people forget about the IRS scandal is the multiplier effect.  How many people didn’t join the tea party, or give , or talk to other people about the tea party because of  fear of audits?  This is the real scandal, the intimidation of those opposed to this administration.
I wonder if the press that is upset about the chilling effect of the AP being tapped understands this, or are they thinking:  Serves you right.
The outrage of the press and congress  on the targeting of the right is rather amusing to me.  For the last three years they have called the tea party every name in the book, implied they were violent astroturf (unlike occupy everwhere that was supposedly a wholly organic peaceful movement  that never did a violent thing in their lives).  Let’s not forget the moment the Bombs went off in Boston the media was speculating that it was the fault of right wing extremists.
If the press wants to blame someone over this they should look in the mirror.
BTW do you think for one minute the IRS scandal happens if the people involved thought for one moment the press would report on it before the election?
Speaking of the Boston Bomber also known as the young heartthrob of thousands of women.Jahar apparently left a note behind in the Boat where he was taken detailing his grievances against the United States for its crimes against islam and calling the innocents killed “collateral damage”
I’d be angrier about those girls in denial over Jahar, if the MSM wasn’t so much in denial about Islam.
Oh and speaking of another odd coincidence:
Massachusetts state police say they and the FBI are investigating a trespassing incident at the Quabbin Reservoir but have no evidence of terrorism.
The central Massachusetts reservoir supplies drinking water to Boston.
Why would Terrorism even be suspected?
Procopio said they are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Singapore with addresses in Amherst, Cambridge, Sunderland and Northampton, and New York City.
And the explanation for being there at 12:30 AM?
The men told police they are recently graduated chemical engineers curious about the reservoir.
Oh I’m sure there is absolutely nothing going on that has anything to do with any religion that doesn’t have anything to do with terrorism, or even Cigarette Smuggling.
Bob Woodward was on Morning Joe this week.  We haven’t seen much of him lately since his last clash with the administration.  When asked about Benghazi Woodward went off the reservation again:
"You were talking earlier about kind of dismissing the Benghazi issue as one that's just political and the president recently said it's a sideshow," said Woodward. "But if you read through all these e-mails, you see that everyone in the government is saying, 'Oh, let's not tell the public that terrorists were involved, people connected to al Qaeda. Let's not tell the public that there were warnings.' I hate to show, this is one of the documents with the editing that one of the people in the state department said, 'Oh, let's not let these things out.' And I have to go back 40 years to Watergate when Nixon put out his edited transcripts to the conversations, and he personally went through them and said, 'Oh, let's not tell this, let's not show this.' I would not dismiss Benghazi. It's a very serious issue. As people keep saying, four people were killed. You look at the hydraulic pressure that was in the system to not tell the truth, and, you know, we use this term and the government uses this term, talking points. Talking points, as we know, are like legal briefs. They're an argument on one side. What we need to get rid of talking point and they need to put out statements or papers that are truth documents. Okay, this is all we know."
Woodward got a lot of grief over hitting this administration earlier this year.  I wonder how much payback was involved there.
Last week we had Dr. Paul Byrne on DaTechGuy on DaRadio talking about Brain Death & Organ donation.  If you only listen to one of my shows.Listen to this one.

A little more sports, How bad are the Houston Astros?  As of May 16th just 41 games into the season they are 4 ½ games behind the LA Angels.
That doesn’t sound so bad, until you realize the Angels are 11 ½ games out of first.  Teams all over the American League are just dying for the Astros to come to town, they’re a winning streak just waiting to happen.
The same thing must be going on in the NL when Miami comes to town.

The Boston Bruins made an almost impossible comeback against the Toronto Maple Leafs to finish the first round of the NHL Stanly cup playoffs.  Down 4-1 in the 3rd period they managed three goals to tie, two of them while playing with an empty net , then eventually win in overtime.
Paying with an empty net when you are down is usually an act of desperation.  It’s rare that it works to score once, it’s almost unheard of to have it work twice in one game.
That photo spread of Emma Watson made me feel VERY old.
Some Doctor Who news.  According to reports the season finale was accidently leaked to fans in America when Blu Ray sets of  7th season  were shipped early accidently.
I tend to disbelieve it as during the week not a single spoiler managed to make it on the net.   In this internet age that’s practically unheard of.
Me If I was a hacker wanting to take control of computers I’d have had an infected torrent with the preview spliced into it as soon as the news came out.  I’d have control of half of England’s internet by now.

See you next week.
 





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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Under the Fedora: On and on and on...



It just a few weeks out from Boston but Bill Ayers continues to defend his time in the Weather Underground and hasn’t changed his views on America at all:
The United States is the most violent country that has ever been created, Ayers said.
U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., committed daily war crimes in Vietnam “and I get asked about violence when what I did was some destruction of property to issue a scream and cry against an illegal war in which 6,000 people a week are being killed,” Ayers said. “Six thousand a week being killed and I destroyed some property. Show me the equivalence. You should ask John McCain that question … I’m against violence.”
Only a generation as ignorant as ours could fall for someone like this.

Ever wonder how Anthony Weiner manages to finance his comeback?  Wonder no more
Weiner touted Parabel as one of his clients in a recent news article outlining his success as a business consultant. Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, reported earning $496,000 last year, mostly from his earnings.
What Weiner failed to mention was that on Jan. 13, Parabel transferred nearly all of its assets to a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands — on the same day a United Arab Emirates firm pumped $15 million into Parabel, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission document.
It really comes in handy to have a wife involved in the Female side of the Muslim Brotherhood.  They tend to support their own.
I wonder if any of that money found its way to any of Weiner’s defenders online?

I saw a story at the Orange County Register that really appealed to me:
Of course, some immigrants still come for venerable reasons, such as the freedom to worship. Christians, who make up some 42 percent of Asian-Americans, face surveillance and repression, particularly, in China, where religion is tightly regulated, and dissent from the party line can land adherents in jail. Over half of Asian immigrants, Pew notes, cite freedom of religion as a key advantage of living in America. New faith-based migration could also be seen soon among Christians fleeing increasingly Islamic regimes in Egypt, Syria and other Middle Eastern countries.
This was a primary reason for many of the first settlers of the Americas from Europe.  Some things never change over time.

I was surprised to see the Washington Post make an argument that I made weeks ago concerning Mark Sanford in SC-1:
A Sanford victory puts that guy in the House Republican Conference. That means that not only do the late-night jokes start again but, more importantly, every GOPer in the House and Senate will be asked whether they support Sanford and what they think of serving with him.
That reality is why the National Republican Congressional Committee essentially washed its collective hands of Sanford once the trespassing revelations went public. The party establishment wanted (and wants) to make clear that they have nothing to do with Sanford.  It won’t matter.  The narrative that Republicans have a woman problem will have new life — with little the GOP leadership can do about it.
That’s actually not true, I wasn’t all that surprised to see that argument at a point when there was nothing anyone could do about it and now, of course  with Sanford winning by 10 this might just be a question of sour grapes.
North Korea has returned it’s missiles back into storage, no explanation given.
I’m sure that North Korea’s decision to back down has no relation to Japan’s reaction to  the North’s threats and the fact they (Japan) can be a nuclear & chemical weapon power in less time that it takes to read Under the Fedora this week.
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Vodka Pundit has an interesting take on the Euro’s trouble and what will be it’s  eventual failure:
In America, our regional differences are surprisingly enduring, given our labor mobility. But, let’s face it, our differences are cute and quaint and, in the end, not very important. A Californian can make himself into a Texan just fine. In the end, we’re all Americans. There are plenty of Yankees in the South and lots of Southerners in the West and Westerners are heading back East. It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up country — but it works.
But a Greek can’t become a German can’t become and Irishman can’t become a Spaniard can’t become a Finn. There’s no such thing as “a European.” Regional differences matter in Europe, in ways they never mattered here, not even during the Civil War.
Whenever I think of Germany and the Euro I think of the Doctor Who episode The Sunmakers and the line from the Collector to the Doctor when he complains about economic imperialism:
We’ve tried war but the use of economic power is far more effective.
I’ve never stopped  thinking the Euro was Germany’s way of conquering Europe without all the earth shattering KaBooms.  The real question to ask is, given the Germans are busting their butts to support everyone else, why would they want it?

Bishop McManus of Worcester is having a bad year, first there was the Robert Spencer issue and now he’s been picked up for DUI:
McManus was arrested at 10:32 p.m. Saturday on charges of drunken driving, leaving the scene of an accident, and refusing a chemical test, Narragansett Police Captain Sean Coorigan said. McManus is to be arraigned Tuesday in district court in Wakefield, R.I.
“I made a terrible error in judgment by driving after having consumed alcohol with dinner,” McManus said in the statement. “There is no excuse for the mistake I made, only a commitment to make amends and accept the consequences of my action.”
People often forget that just because a person is a priest or Bishop or even a Cardinal they don’t sin.  People don’t stop becoming people when they have holy orders, even the Pope has a confessor.
Robert is a big man and I doubt he is taking glee from the Bishops troubles but I suspect he is taking immense satisfaction from this story concerning a blogger who had hit him and Pam very hard over some of their Rick Perry stuff:
And then we saw Texas public schoolchildren made to dress in burqas and declare that "Allah is the Almighty God." Yet no retractions, no apologies came from any of the Perry cult members who denounced us in 2011. And they won't come after this, either:
"Hollywood conservative unmasked as notorious Holocaust revisionist," by Rory Carroll in The Guardian, May 3 (thanks to all who sent this in):
You don’t get a story like that every day

Pamela Geller weighs in here; Big Fur Hat has a terrific takedown of Ace and Weasel here, and Zilla has another here. Big Fur Hat gets right to the heart of the matter: "Ace and Zip pointed and laughed at Pamela’s vetting of Perry while heavily relying on the work of a guy they never vetted. The work of some closeted neo-nazi jerkwad was 'good enough' in order to smear Geller."
Pam also takes a victory lap
After I wrote extensively on the Islamic Texas curriculum, the right wing blogos went nuts. Vicious and unhinged, they attacked me for exposing their dream candidate, Rick Perry. Their sole source for refutation was David Stein. This man from out of nowhere -- with no history or blog cred or anything was the club they attempted to use.  David Stein, who today was exposed as Holocaust Denier David Cole (more here).
And Zilla notes something I’ve seen a lot of:
I’ve noticed a pattern with the attacks against Geller and Spencer over the years that others would do well to remember next time they think they have some big ‘gotcha’ that’s going to take my friends down: while those attacks may inflict some damage and be a temporary needless hassle to Pamela, Robert, and others in the counterjihad, time has a funny way of bringing out the truth and that truth is invariably on the side of the truth tellers. Over and over again the attackers implode and their enablers are left with egg on their faces and a steaming hot plate of crow to eat – and they can choke on it, along with their lies.
Speaking of Confessing things  I confess I don’t understand why people continue to doubt Pam Geller and Robert Spencer.  A supporter of the pair once told me he could never do what they do as he couldn’t deal with the death threats & the need for security.   People forget Pam & Robert could have a much easier life and be able to lose the bodyguards if they only shut up and I’m sure the Saudi’s would make them rich if they did.

If you want to know why I don’t give a lot of weight to psychics here is one reason:
She wants answers. “Can you tell me…Is she out there?” Berry’s mother Louwana Miller asked. “I hate when they’re in the water,” Browne said. “She’s not alive honey.” It was bad news from the world-renowned psychic. It’s what Miller didn’t want to hear. “So you don’t think I’ll ever see her again,” Miller said. “Yeah in Heaven on the other side,” Browne responded. “I’m sorry.”
I’ll believe in Psychics when people walk through their door and they instantly say something like:  “Yes he’s cheating on you  $20 please.”

Some sports,  If you took my advice and took a bunch of bets on the Red Sox at 100-1 odd in Boston in March, you're sweating a bit now aren't you?
This Article on Tim Tebow inability to find a team caught my attention
Since playing in a pair of playoff games 16 months ago, Tebow, whose only off-the-field baggage comes in the form of his cult-like following and the media frenzy it provokes, hasn't been afforded the opportunity to show that he sucks.
It's certainly possible that he's simply not up to NFL standards, and never will be, but wouldn't it be nice to get some conclusive proof before this story comes to a meek and unfulfilling close?
If you're a franchise like the Seattle Seahawks, San Francisco 49ers or Carolina Panthers — teams with young, athletic quarterbacks who should absolutely feel secure in their starting roles — wouldn't you think about bringing in Tebow as a similarly mobile backup?
The article suggests the reason temas are passing is the "circus" Tebow would bring.  That never seemed to stop teams from signing all kinds of miscreants before.

I’m running pretty long this week so I’ll close with a quick Doctor Who remark.
This week’s episode the Crimson Horror may be the best of this season and easily make the top 10 episodes of the revived series.  Along with great writing and the usual fine performance of Matt Smith this episode featurs Diana Rigg & her Daughter was a joy.  Both were superb and  the characters of Madame Vastra, Jenny, and Strax were never better used then they were in this episode.
Make sure you see it.
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