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Hooray! I can finally upvote you.

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Apparently they helicoptered in Marines based elsewhere.

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Maybe a candy BAR.

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You see what he did to the Kurds.

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It already reeks of gunpowder. And all my doors are closed.

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OTOH, if society does turn into some kind of Mad Max hellhole, it's nice to know that the billionaire scum boltholes will be the first to be pillaged by the ravening hordes.

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No one should live this way. Hopefully you will have better days ahead, Werewolf.

When you have the current pain flare-up under control, consider talking with your doctor about a referral to physical therapy, especially the kind that can be done in a heated pool. Two years ago, I did a six-month course of prescribed physical therapy specifically for my lower back. It was expensive, even with insurance, and exhausting, but it absolutely worked for me. At the end of the six months, I was 100% pain-free.

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That's the ticket!

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the fact that he's trying to get in front of this(before any of us heard anything about it) says he screwed up and is afraid it will be compared to benghazi.

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Jackson, Mississippi on a Saturday night.

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They were told to by the leaders of the protest. It could have easily gone south.

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A monstrous betrayal.

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Better than Chef's salty chocolate balls!

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I paid them lots of money for 4 peices of toilet paper.

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I still prefer Pacific Rose (that one, I think, is damn near the perfect apple), but Cosmic Crisp is really close to that. Red Snap Dragon I didn't like as well, but it got here (east coast) before Cosmic Crisp (and is from the same WSU initiative, to develop apples that aren't covered in restrictive and proprietary grower agreements).

But yeah, if it gets stocked well, it's gonna be a go-to here, too.

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Huh?I mean, I know nothing about Peter Thiel, but I naively thought weird billionaires obsessed with becoming immortal were only in the pages of SF novels like Spinrad's BUG JACK BARRON.I always wished that back when the novel first appeared, a movie of it had been made with Warren Beatty as Barron and Lee Marvin as mad cryogenics tycoon Howards, but that never happened and it's by the way.Once more we see that nothing in fiction outdoes the (alleged) real world.Thiel is minor league weird beside Trump and Giuliani and the entire Republican party, anyway.

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