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10mm is The Boom of Doom |
Other than oil and terrorists. God Bless and Protect the Once and Future President, Donald John Trump. | ||
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dates. cotton. tavors. uzis. other stuff. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Metals. Plastics. Cut diamonds. Textiles. Electronics. Pharmaceuticals. Fruit. Honey. Chemicals. | |||
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Unflappable Enginerd |
That covers Israel, the rest of the ME is mostly oil or assholes. __________________________________ NRA Benefactor I lost all my weapons in a boating, umm, accident. http://www.aufamily.com/forums/ | |||
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stupid beyond all belief |
Palm, What man is a man that does not make the world better. -Balian of Ibelin Only boring people get bored. - Ruth Burke | |||
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Persian rugs. ____________________ | |||
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The Main Thing Is Not To Get Excited |
A University of Washington prof is going to have a talk about everything that middle east immigrants have done for us but it's going to be in Olympia. I was going to go to overcome my various and sundry phobias but its an hour drive for what looks like a ten minute talk so I'm going to stay home and phobic. _______________________ | |||
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Lawyers, Guns and Money |
Violence? Religion? Obviously, these two are somewhat related. The Middle East has been the powder keg of the world long before the world became addicted to their oil exports. It's just that with oil money came expensive weaponry and the whole world got sucked into the violence. Without the oil money, they would still be fighting, but with sticks and swords. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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It sure seems that way. They were fighting over some of the most worthless land in the world before they knew that it had any value. | |||
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Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
Caracal pistol and rifles, maybe. | |||
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Turkey is usually considered as part of ME as well and it is a major economy in that region. Its exports are around $170B a year. | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
Turkey is part of the ME and has a more rounded economy. They build ships, they're #14 in the world for # of automobiles built (right behind the UK), firearms, and construction camps. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Freethinker |
MERS. ► 6.4/93.6 “I regret that I am to now die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.” — Thomas Jefferson | |||
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Mensch |
B-O ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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Oil, palms, dates, ores, tech, things of a biblical nature and the occasional liberated goat? We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ~ Benjamin Franklin. "If anyone in this country doesn't minimise their tax, they want their head read, because as a government, you are not spending it that well, that we should be donating extra...: Kerry Packer SIGForum: the island of reality in an ocean of diarrhoea. | |||
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Chip away the stone |
Not exactly the ME, but Kazakhstan is known for its high-quality potassium exports, and having the second cleanest prostitutes in the region. | |||
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Ammoholic |
Oh, they got the market cornered on that. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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Camel toes. _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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Slayer of Agapanthus |
Bon mot! "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre. | |||
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186,000 miles per second. It's the law. |
Oh man...I am laughing at a couple of these. Well done. | |||
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