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Cops Uncover ‘Catastrophic’ Plot to Blow Up FL High School on First Day of Class

Florida Teen Charged with Plot to Blow Up High School

TAMPA, Fla. (The Blaze/AP) — A Tampa high school principal says he was shocked and scared after learning a former student has been arrested for plotting to blow up the school on the first day of classes.

Freedom High School Principal Chris Farkas said Wednesday threats are common in large schools, but most aren’t real. After hearing that police confiscated fuel, shrapnel and other materials from Jared Cano’s home, the principal said “fear set in.”

Farkas said Cano’s plan may have been thwarted because the 17-year-old had been expelled from the school and would have been “red flagged” as soon as he stepped on campus.

Cano was arrested Tuesday and faces several charges including possessing bomb-making materials. Police say they also found a marijuana growing operation at his home.

Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor also weighed in on Cano’s plot to kill 32 people, including two principals on the first day of school. Castor says police found a “manifesto” outlining Cano’s plan minute-by-minute:

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  • rangerp
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:51pm

    Mr Conservative Teacher.

    The farther you go back in U.S history, the more biblical our population was, public schools instructed bia creation, they prayed before lunch…..

    Once we got away from the Bible, once we got away from punishment of disobedience, is when the violence started. Show me where I am wrong.

    Dr Spoc was wrong. Our society shows it.

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  • sooner12
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:48pm

    Seriously, what causes children plan and/or bomb schools, shoot other students at schools, etc. these days. No one in my generation would ever EVEN think of doing such an act.

    I’m only interested in serious dialogue.

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    • On The Bayou
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:52pm

      Well your in the wrong spot

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:59pm

      when was your generation? see my comments below. You can not teach kids “if it feels good do it” and not expect such actions as this.

      Not very far back in our history, a teacher could take a kid down to the principals office, wear his butt out with a paddle, send him home with a note, where his dad would not explode, call the ACLU and start a law suit. Instead, he would take junior out back, and tear his butt out of the frame with his belt. We used to expect children to mind. We no longer do. now we have time out, and stuff that does not work. This nations is in a mess. read end time Bible prophecy, and see that when it talks about the end times, it over and over claims that children will be disobedient. Mr conservative teacher on here may hate the truth, but truth is universal. you can have your own opinion, but not your own truth.

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    • Wannabfree
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:09pm

      In our days, there were consequences for behaving badly. We go spanked, the paddle, our parents, etc. Today, the criminals have more rights than anyone else so there are no real consequences – even if they go to prison it is better for most than what they have at home.
      And if that is not enough, the trial lawyers have convinced everyone that it is always someone else’s fault.

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    • On The Bayou
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:16pm

      Calm down there RangerPee, kids will be kids. At some point they start doing their own thing. The only thing you can do is give them guidence. You can`t control their evey move with a paddling. We got our butts torn up by my mother on a regular basis, but we still did things that they would not approve of and that I`m not that proud of today. It`s called crowing up.

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    • taebaggranny
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 6:54pm

      @ SOONER12 You must be from my generation..We dreaded any calls, notes or teacher conferences if we had done something wrong..My Mom spoke softly and carried a big stick..None of us got into trouble (except me) I fought other kids that made fun of my sister just older that was crippled. THAT I didn’t get in trouble for tho..My own kids started school in the late 50‘s through the early 70’s and I saw a definate change in both the curriculim and the teachers. Neither were an improvement. Then I had grandkids in school, and it was even worse. LIBERAL teachers were uninterested in the fact that they had students that were failing the basics, math, english, spelling, reading, etc. They were more interested in teaching their LIBERAL agenda and propaganda then seeing that the kids got an adaquate, well rounded education that would help them get a higher education . American History was changed, No physical activity classes. nothing of real use in todays world taught any longer. Liberal_teacher is probably one of those that are paid to teach but runs the halls instead and lets her Class Aides do what little teaching gets done.

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    • Carol Ingian
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 7:21pm

      I started school in the 70′s. Most kids really wanted to do well, and the big punishment for someone in trouble was “the bench”. It was outside the principal’s office. The troublemaker had to sit there (not sure how long) and when other kids passed by, the embarressment was overwhelming. But that was back in the day when most people wanted to do what was right. I never got in trouble myself, I avoided it like the plague. But why do some go bad? I think it’s no values at home combined with personal tradgedy, like abuse or a death in their life.

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    • poweruser19
      Posted on August 18, 2011 at 1:45am

      well there are many things that could and would cause this, but lets start with the parents(not agreeing on important issues in the home),then we can say peer presure,and how about some stupid laws that prohibit anybody saying anything offensive to them(dont want to hurt their feelings).

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  • got243kids
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:45pm

    Thank God. We can chalk this up as the “Lone Wolf” terrorist attack. What’s Obama going to concentrate on now?

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  • On The Bayou
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:44pm

    When we were in high school we were getting high, but I can`t ever remember wanting to kill people. We were more concerned about when we were going to get layed.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:01pm

      exactly, you spent time getting high, and getting “laid”, and you bore the heathen today that have no respect of authority, and kill each other.

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    • On The Bayou
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:07pm

      Easy there rangerPee, I didn`t say I was still getting high that was in the seventies. I have wonderful children just so you know. This guy is someone elses kid.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:22pm

      On the Bayou –
      Let me rephrase then. those that ran around getting high, spitting out kids from their less than moral hook-ups have no spawned a generation or two of kids that no no discipline.

      Best to you and your kids, hope you take them to church

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:23pm

      On the Bayou –
      Let me rephrase then. those that ran around getting high, spitting out kids from their less than moral hook-ups have now spawned a generation or two of kids that have no discipline.

      Best to you and your kids, hope you take them to church

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  • conservative_teacher
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:43pm

    I’m not going to do your homework for you, ladies and gentlemen. But seriously, if you want some evidence to qualify my statements, you need not look farther than the reply to it by the likes of RANGERP. ROFL! Come on, man. Are you people serious?

    “Not enough punishment, and being held to a Biblical standard of obedience”

    “not enough belt across his butt”

    “Another case of model parents.”

    “Not enough hugs as a child!”

    “He was probably abused as a child…we should give him a ribbon, and some medical marijuana, let him go home…”

    Etc, etc.

    Give me an effing break. Crazy is crazy…and this thread is just heating up. Mark my words, it will get more crazy as more bible thumpers join in the crazy-chorus.

    But I’m expected to defend my statements? LOL! Kiss my a$$.

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  • freedomofspeech
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:40pm

    wonder what his summer read was? Florida coming out with the freak lately? I am so relieve they caught him before he went through with this terror. and so young too. Cutos to the law enforcement:)

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  • The_Almighty_Creestof
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:40pm

    I noticed that his left eye seems sunken in a bit…just like Loughner’s

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  • Oddness
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:40pm

    I read on this earlier from the local source. Glad this was stopped , anyone interested can possibly glean additional info here:

    http://www.970wfla.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=124415&article=8982922

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  • SREGN
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:33pm

    Thank you very much. A day without making a liberal’s head explode, is like a day without sunshine.

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  • AZ5-0
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:32pm

    Chalk one up to another fine bit of investigative work for our fine police officers. Now let’s see how long before we see a comment of how the police violated the rights of this kid and “the police state is upon us” nonsense. Kudos to Tampa PD for a quick investigation and resolution in this case and the prevention of a national tragedy.

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    • conservative_teacher
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:45pm

      Thank you. Thank you for making an intelligent, non bible-thumping crazy comment on this story. You are in the minority.

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    • Locked
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:47pm

      “Chalk one up to another fine bit of investigative work for our fine police officers.”

      “Police say they received a tip on Tuesday morning from an unnamed citizen that Cano was planning the bombing. When they went to his residence they found a diary detailing a minute-by-minute plan of action for the attack.”

      I’m not really convinced that investigative work helped bag this one. Sounds more like we should be thanking the anonymous tipster who averted a tragedy.

       
    • rangerp
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:54pm

      Conservative teacher –
      You my friend are the minority. You are a lib troll in a pool of conservative thinkers who know that getting rid of discipline is the cause of much of the riotious (did I spell the right mr teacher) heathen youth. You should change your name to liberal indoctinator.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:20pm

      Conservative teacher – or should I say liberal indoctrinator

      One of my favorite hobbies is submission fighting, even did a little MMA a few years back.

      I will take your last comment as a “tap out”. Looks like you failed to put anything with any substanance together. Typical of a lib, all talking points, no ability to argue and prove a point. I feel sorry for your students, and hope thay have more heart and brains than you. You might want to give the huffpo a try, it may be a bit more your speed.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:29pm

      Yeah AZ5, that sure was a boatload of gumshoe work done by the cops. Another punk rats out the psycho and they go arrest the kid and search his house. Yep, that sure took a lot of effort. My cat could have closed out that collar just as quick. You are obviously a big govt loving type. Praise the govt for doing next to nothing. They have zip on the kid except for growing grass. But, you can tell the kid is a dangerous freak just by looking at him. I’ll give ya that.

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    • Mike N
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:53pm

      @ Locked . . .

      You are so right . . . someone else’s well-raised son or daughter probably stepped forward knowing full well that this kid has a perverted sense of how to achieve one’s goals. My guess is he has acted out many times before, and decided the manner in which he had done so was not extreme enough to effect the change he sought.

      He is probably under the delusion that such an attack will validate whatever arguments he has made in the past, and help him change the world for the better . . . just like Kazinksi, McVeigh, Ayers, Bin Laden, etc. All of them were sufficiently incapable of accepting that their ideas would not be broadly accepted, so they decided to use force.

      Thank the informant . . . more importantly, thank his or her parents, and pray that they raised more good children into this world.

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    • AZ5-0
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:15pm

      @locked you really need to look up the definition of an investigation a trip came in and the police investigated the complaint. Like it or not there was a police investigation and the police did a good job. @mildot you do not have a clue. It has nothing to due with big government at all. This was an investigation that saved lives. If you are able to determine one’s views based off of a statement why did you not inform the police first as you can read minds. As for both of you the police did a good job like it or not. Get a clue do a ride along with your local police or sheriff’s department and maybe you will figure it out.

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    • Locked
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:47pm

      @AZ5-0
      “you really need to look up the definition of an investigation a trip came in and the police investigated the complaint. Like it or not there was a police investigation and the police did a good job”

      Sure. But without said tip, the police would have been late to the show and nothing would have been done. It wasn’t like there was a trail leading to this kid – it was a run-of-the-mill follow-up on a tip that led to the arrest. It was nothing out of the ordinary from what I read. The tipster saved lives; the police just did their job, and I give them kudos for that.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on August 18, 2011 at 9:55am

      @ AZ5
      I HAVE ridden along with cops before smart guy. HA ha ha ha. You are a pro govt prog. Ha ha ha ha……..The FACT is , that the cops didn’t know squat if the punk was not ratted out. Fact boy.

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  • rangerp
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:31pm

    Mr Conservative_Teacher-

    Pontificate please?

    do yourself a quick study (google is great). Find out the exact time that school shootings and such started to happen in America. You will notice that it coresponds with just about the time we took creation out of schools, and added evolution. We got rid of “thou shalt not kill” and replaced with “if it feels good, do it” You will also notice that around the same time, we had this new music that became real popular with the youth. Fill in the blank for me. Drugs, sex, and ____ _____? If you guess Rock and Roll, you guess right. Why were these three lumped together? They are tied to rebellion. We took away prayer, creation, added music with a heathen beat from the jungles of Africa (thus the reason people claimed Elvis was the first white man that could do the black mans music), and next think you know, we got schools full of long hair freaks, kids who are out of control, and kids who kill each other. This did not exist prior to 1962.

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  • I Love Howie Carr
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:30pm

    Um, he’s 17. His parents didn’t notice a grow operation in the house? The parents should be arrested too.

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    • Karlsan
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:07pm

      Dad’s pot plot in the basement…hmmm….liberal hippies for parents?

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  • Dumpster Baby
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:29pm

    He’s just an excitable boy.

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  • scarebear83
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:29pm

    The fact that “they also found a marijuana growing operation at his home” speaks plenty. If we would go back to the days of warning kids drugs are indeed harmful to one’s body instead of glorifying it or even shrugging our shoulders at marijuana or even wanting to legalize the recreational use of it, things like this might be fewer. I know some people who smoke and if they are having mental issues it can make it all the more worse. Please say no to drugs, teach your kids that this stuff is not cool. Because we all know those “cool” people who use drugs are in jail, suffering mental/physical problems, or even have died as a result of it.

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    • Locked
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:49pm

      Yeah… I’m sure you know of plenty of people who died from marijuana. This kid had serious issues, and I highly doubt they were caused by pot. He had previously been arrested for burglaries and weapon possessions (which is why he was expelled). Obviously he has issues, but I can’t see smoking weed being the cause… just a potential symptom. If he had a pot farm at home, he was growing it to sell, not just use.

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    • scarebear83
      Posted on August 18, 2011 at 2:01am

      @ Locked, re-read my statement please, I went from talking about pot to drugs in general. Thus people have died as a result of drugs, being a broader meaning.

      As far as him growing it to sell, I do not doubt that and would almost certainly agree he probably was but rarely does one sell a product they themselves have not partaken of. This teenager definitely had problems and I almost have no doubt that marijuana worsened it and not helped it.

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  • atlantaguy111
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:29pm

    I would agree on comments made on other articles, but this one? Making accusations like that based on what I can see as 1 poster’s comments (RangerP) makes YOU appear to be the idiot, Mr. “Conservative Teacher.” Really.. defend your accusations.. They’re bold and full of anger, so prove your point based on the 12 comments so far in this article. Otherwise, go mow your grass and chill out.

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  • copatriots
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:28pm

    Wow! Who are you conservatively teaching? And is that simply a blanket summary statement. Or do you have a particular post in mind that you object to since there happens to be a total of 10 other posts besides your beautiful piece of work demonstrated here?

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  • Christian Kalgaard
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:28pm

    the natural result of liberal education !
    or another false flag. maybe both.

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    • Locked
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:57pm

      “the natural result of liberal education”

      Yeah, especially the part about how he was expelled and hadn’t been to the school in a year and a half. Totally the fault of the school, right? Definitely should have kept him there after he was arrested for robbery and firearms charges before!

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  • Eliasim
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:28pm

    It sounds to me like this child is another one whose father didn‘t let fall down the stairs to have him see his father’s word is good.

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  • Tankertony
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:28pm

    lock em’ up, throw away the key

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  • Christian Kalgaard
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:27pm

    shut it, fake-o. Seminar caller. Infiltrator.

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  • WASTEDROCKRANGER
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:25pm

    MSNBC will manufacture an affiliation to the Tea Party shortly in order to back-up all the “terrorist” comments.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:36pm

      got any loto numbers you can send my way? I think your ability to tell the future is pretty accurate

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:24pm

      As soon as I heard the story being trumpeted by the MSM, I knew it was a white kid. Yeah, he looks deranged, probably is. If it was a black kid or an illegal alien or other minority, you would never hear about it. It is designed to smear white people as terrorists. Part of the Obama plan.

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  • SREGN
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:15pm

    Where do these people find time to write these manifestos?

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  • microace
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:12pm

    He was probably abused as a child…we should give him a ribbon, and some medical marijuana, let him go home…

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:16pm

      He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

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  • MODEL82A1
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:02pm

    He‘s 17 years of age and didn’t actually hurt anyone. My bet is that he’ll be a free man within a year or two.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:13pm

      I will bet his parents are libs, I will bet he never got his butt tore up when he did not behave, I will bet he listens to the MTV filth, I will bet he spends much time playing video games, I will bet he did not walk through the doors of a church with his parents, or attend Sunday School. I will bet his dad did not spend quality time with him doing activiteis like fishing, hunting, sports.

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    • bboatmanable
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:20pm

      My bet is he’ll be tried as an adult. He’s clearly aware of his actions and their ramifications seeing as how he had a manifesto. Like so many of our young men and women these days, he’s never been taught HOW to be, or even WHAT a real man is. Real men of courage and integrity need to stand up and start leading our families, or stories like this (already common place) will become an all to common norm while things never thought of will become common place.

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:22pm

      I will bet his parents are conservative, I will bet he always got his butt tore up when he did not behave, I will bet he never listens to the MTV, I will bet he spends NO time playing video games, I will bet he spends Sundays in Bible Study at church with his parents and he attends Sunday School. I will bet his dad spent quality time with him doing manly activities like hunting, target shooting and reloading. I bet they make him get refreshments when the Tea party meets at their house.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:07pm

      @MONICNE

      Just watch the news and you will be enlightened. Your foolish posts do not impress folks, and we know who and what you are. Like I said on another post, you are an old fat, hairy man, with homosexual ways, sitting in your mom’s basement in your yellow stained underware, pecking away your lib lies on a borrowed computer.

      He will be like the rest of the school shooters and will come from a liberal background. His facebook page shows that he is a fan of Obama, so you already got one strike against you.

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    • copatriots
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:12pm

      Moni, such bad bad news for you. Check out Jared Cano’s Facebook page. He’s one of your ilk……a Barack Obama fan. Nice try though.

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    • toto
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:13pm

      RangerP is exactly right.

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    • Sleazy Hippo
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:30pm

      It seems like Monicne was just parroting back RangerP’s post! (Exact same sentences with opposite pronouns?)

      But I still don’t get how Obama Facebook entries would nullify her bets! (Did I miss some deleted posts?)

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  • Quagaar Warrior
    Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:02pm

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    Not enough hugs as a child!
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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:13pm

      Another case of model parents.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:18pm

      not enough belt across his butt

      He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:19pm

      Not enough punishment, and being held to a Biblical standard of obedience
      He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

      rangerp  
    • MONICNE
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 4:23pm

      Ranger P had a tough childhood, like Governor P.

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    • MrJones
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:07pm

      His parents did erreth by repeatedly spareth putting a boot up his ass.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:28pm

      @MONICNE
      Nope, I think not. Had a good upbringing, with much discipline and much love, a much church.

      By the grace of God, never arrested, never drunk, never used drugs, never divorced, no kids outside of my marriage, have well behaved chidren, love my wife, have a great Godly mother, 24 years of military service, three trips to combat, two college degrees, and even my dog minds well.

      Sorry, hate to disapoint you.

      Tea? goes well with crow

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