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Wasn’t this the most obvious guess?
He also owns a school in Vegas that has their kids pledge allegiance to the USA and Israel every morning.
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In Texas, all students have to pledge to Texas too.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the next William Randolph Hearst.
Adleson will use his Chinese Mob-Money from his Maccau Casinos to start a war with Iran if it’s the last thing he does.
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The scary thing is, I don’t know if that’s snark or not.
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And Macau
It has a semicolon in it.
https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/flagpledge.html
But do they really recite it?
Dunno. I think by law they are supposed to say it after the pledge of allegiance to the flag.
given that political ads mean nothing any more (ask JEB$!) , it’s hard to imagine owning a newspaper is going to help.
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Color me surprised. I didn’t even know anyone in a public school said the pledge of allegiance anymore.
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commie
The beauty of being very public about your political views and then buying a newspaper is that you don’t really have to do anything to influence the content. Everybody who wants job security and the possibility of advancement will just do their best not to antagonize their new owner. That means, of course, that Adelson’s ownership was only ever intended to be a secret from regulators until the sale was final.
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Nope, but I was born in a communist country. Guess that’s why I never said the pledge, even when I was supposed to after coming to America. Too much propaganda soured me on any forced pledging to anything.
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joking
Ahh hell, I was all ready to go off on your ass for calling me a Commie! 
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Christie did jump 6% points in NH after the Union Leader endorsement, so there’s that.
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I was in college with these Russian guys back in the 80s and they were going on and on about having to be in some communist youth org. with neckerchiefs and badges. They were hilarously recounting it and all the silly, pointless things they had to do to prove they were good Soviet lads. I asked why they would do that, and they said, “Oh if we didn’t go, our parents would get fired from their jobs.”
I think the GOP is taking us to just such a future.
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NIce haircut, Shel. Shit, you’re only a billionaire in Asia. You using Wen Shampoo?
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Is it just me or does anybody else think of Jabba The Hutt every time they look at Sheldon.
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