” From my point of view I would ban religion completely.”

Great advice from a deadbeat, to the tune of £26,818,728.  I don’t dislike Elton John because he’s gay, I detest him because he’s a clueless blowhard who’s full of himself.  

Tip from the Drudge Report.

Update (12 November).  van der Leuen came up for air and got out on the road this week. 

It’s 49ers weekend in Death Valley and the RV culture has shown up in
their multitudes. … In the main it looks a lot like the streets of the Las Vegas
strip, but without the neon and Elton John.

I knew there was a reason I preferred Death Valley to Las Vegas!

Then he said perfectly what I could only hint at in an earlier post

And, if you could, as I did yesterday, look out over the Owens valley
and coast down into the small town of Bishop and watch the men come out
at dusk to furl the American flags that line the sidewalks by the
hundreds, you’d know, beyond a shred of a doubt, that the states of our
union are still strong, and will survive, no matter what happens in the
Happy World of our coastal cities, our capitols of culture and
corruption, into which, in the course of the decades, everything cheap
and corrupt and loose has rolled.

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