So, I have been working on getting my mind refocussed on what is truly important in life and I think I'm finally getting there.
Getting ready for my life to change
7 years ago by markhinnebusch (26)
Getting ready for my life to change
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@prowler I will stop our robots. I apologize, I will start doing real blogs with good content. Can you please forgive me I promise I'll stop and I won't make our code or bots available to anybody. Can you please remove me from your watch list. I will play by the rules and I am truly sorry. I will post only blogs with good content and add to the community instead of tearing it down and I won't sell for offer anyone our comment bot. Can you give me one more chance. I have many medical bills and only started this to pay for my wife of 20 years doctor visits and chemo. That is the truth please have mercy on me and my accounts I'll immediately stop if I don't you can flag me again. I am a man of my word so I will certainly stop and I won't sell nor share our bot code. I will also report anyone I see doing this to you if you give me an email to contact you @prowler @spaminatore IM REALLY SORRY I PROMISE I'LL STOP, I'm begging you to give another chance. Please have mercy.
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?' - Patrick Henry, Philadelphia, 1836.
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