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    Trump vs farmer

    Tonight on ABC News there was a piece on a Scots farmer, Michael Forbes, whose home and farm are in the center of land Donald Trump would like to develop into a golf course on the North Sea. Forbes refuses to sell. He was wearing his blue and green tartan kilt throughout the piece with a white hair sporran with 3 tassels.

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    I think the world has enough golf courses. Stand firm Mr. Forbes.

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    yeah, i agree! trump needs to spend his money elsewhere, like helping people who need it(me,lol).

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    *Sighs* Trump and his darn golf course again!
    He wants to build it on a spot of significant natural importance, too.
    People for it keep talking about the jobs it'll create, but not about the lives and livelihoods it will destroy.

    Good on Mr. Forbes.

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    Trump tried to build here in Phoenix but the people spoke up and he wasn't allowed to do what he wanted. So he just moved on maybe that will be the case here. No more golf course, if it ruins lives.

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    Looks like Mr. Forbes is wearing his clan (Forbes) tartan, in what looks like the "ancient" hue. Hold fast Mr. Forbes. I think George Carlin's point of view on Golf Courses (do a Youtube search on "George Carlin Golf" and you'll find it) is a good one for this.

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    One of my favorites:

    “Golf courses and cemeteries… the two biggest wastes of prime real estate.”

    -Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield) “Caddyshack”
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    Back to the "Kilts in the Media" part - when they showed the family kitchen, wasn't Forbes' brother kilted as well?

    Of the two bald guys, I'm rooting for the one with the better fashion sense.
    (If you can't tell, he's the one with the pelt on his sporran, and not on his head.)

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    I was just in the vicinity of the current Trump project in Chicago: a building that will be much much taller than anything else around it. Can anyone say "ego"? This sucker will blot out the view of a very elegant Mies Van Der Rohe building and takes the place of a rather nice Art International style low rise building that was home to The Chicago Sun Times. This in a time when mortgages are being foreclosed all over the country. Must be nice to be a tycoon.

    Anyway, I see that Mr. Forbes is wearing the appropriate gear to go into battle. Perhaps Mr. Trump ought to get himself a kilt.


    ...on second thought...what was I thinking?....please...forget that last sentence...

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    Trump - you're fired!

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    In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.

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