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Billions in dollars in arms sales to the Saudi princelings. As famed fighters, at least on the slopes of Gstaad, the stuff’s unlikely to be used. Certainly it’ll never be deployed against the Great Satan Iran unless operated by mercenaries, US canon fodder, or whomever else they’ll buy before fleeing back to the slopes. I understand the goodies have to be stored far out in the desert so that the population won’t be able to get near it should they finally throw off the yoke of the “House of Saud.”
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Does Roberts’ benign idiopathic seizure give us hope? In his early 50s, he otherwise promises decades of reactionary activism on the Court, breaking the back of civil rights, returning women to their place, making the rich richer, and completing the turn-over of American democracy to the CEOs. Fall some more, Johnny-boy. More likely, they’ll just dope him up and have his little Federalist Society clerk/assassins write his hateful opinions.
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Speaking of Frankenstein monsters, I missed the results of the search for Cheney's heart. The President for tax cuts, torture, and pollution needed a new battery evidently. His last words before they put him under: "Must destroy democracy! Must destroy democracy!"
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They're going to bust down a retired general for the Pat Tillman Show?? Oooooo!