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07-20-2014, 02:28 AM
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trying hard to be a better person
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If my husband hadn't had his breakdown rant and cancelled a trip to the UK, he would have been on that flight.
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07-20-2014, 05:13 AM
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Encroaching on your decrees
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Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland
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What a close shave, Ali!
Sent by thought transference
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07-20-2014, 07:21 AM
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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Holy crap Ali, are you serious? That's terrifying.
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07-20-2014, 10:16 AM
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I love it when a plan comes together.
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So, your plan backfired. Instead of getting rid of your husband by driving him insane, him trying to adjust caused you inadvertently save his life when you could have been a merry widow right now.
Bwahhahahaha! |
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07-20-2014, 10:26 AM
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polaroid of perfection
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Location: West Yorkshire
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Shit, Ali.
Too close for comfort. |
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07-20-2014, 12:49 PM
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still says videotape
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Whoa!
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07-20-2014, 02:36 PM
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Person who doesn't update the user title
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shit...
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07-22-2014, 06:23 AM
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Read? I only know how to write.
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Extreme and so called news services are again blaming Obama for this. Meanwhile other new services keep quoting Obama as if the US is relevant to this event.
If providing news, then we should be hearing what Presidents/Premiers of Netherlands, Malaysia, and Australia say every day. Instead, we hear almost nothing from these relevant countries. A list of relevant countries should include every EU nation. Are those leaders being ignorant or afraid of confronation? Are they saying anything? A country that lost less (Australia) sent a Foreign Ministrer to appeal to the UN Security Council. Why are the leaders of Netherlands and Malaysia not angerly speaking out every day? Or are they and our mainstream press is not reporting it? Well at least David Cameron finally said something. As usual, only Merkel of Germany bothered to speak for the EU and push Putin at the start. Where are all these other leaders? Why are they not publically pressuring other nations such as Brazil, El Salvador, India, and Japan to also speak out? One would conclude from the news that Obama is the only national leader willing to fight for basic international protections and laws. |
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07-23-2014, 10:26 AM
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Location: Arlington, VA
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I was reading an article this morning, and it brought up an incident I had completely forgotten.
Back in 1988, the US accidentally shot down a civilian airliner in the Persian Gulf, killing about the same number of people. We weren't even at war then. We just screwed up and misread the radar. I remember it now, but had completely forgotten. We're so good at pointing fingers. Of course it was probably the separatists, and the missile was probably supplied by Russia. Of course. But we supplied Syrian rebels with arms, including anti-tank missiles. They are probably even less trustworthy than the Crimean rebels are. What will our narrative be when those weapons are used on civilians or US troops? I'm sure the arms manufacturers are pretty happy though, getting to test out all this equipment in the big Middle East sandbox. |
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07-23-2014, 10:39 AM
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Werepandas - lurking in your shadows
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MH17 should not concern us. We don't have a dog in that hunt. I think a lot of the reporting on it is a smoke screen to divert our attention from the border.
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07-23-2014, 10:50 AM
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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Quote:
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07-23-2014, 01:48 PM
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Person who doesn't update the user title
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In today's superconnected world, everything affects us. History also shows that we regularly stick our noses in places where we really shouldn't have.
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07-23-2014, 11:11 PM
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The future is unwritten
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Netherlands.
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07-24-2014, 05:41 AM
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still says videotape
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Sad business.
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07-25-2014, 04:38 AM
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Junior Master Dwellar
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