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"Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait." -- Honoré de Balzac

The original is a bit more subtle: "The secret behind great fortunes having no apparent source is a crime, undiscovered because it was properly done."

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"It wasn't actually illegal at the time" is a popular one.

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You have to admit, very few people had the good sense to choose Sam Walton as their dad, the way these billionaires did. Why not reward such genius?

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*rimshot*

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You're in Monkey County too? Small world, here on the Wonkette

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"I look at the roster of teabagger politicians and check how many of them inherited their money."

I look at who <a href="http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20020913052026\/http:\/\/www.usteaparty.com\/" target="_blank"><i>created</i></a> the fucking Tea Party. (90% of brain-dead teabaggers don't know it, or don't want to know it.)

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I'm always a little wary of the word "genius", but I spent my work career in Silicon Valley, so I can tell you that there are some people who became rich primarily because they were very smart.

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I always had a suspicion that Lanza not having guns might have helped, somehow. Can't really prove it; just a feeing I have.

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Yeah . . . why can't we have one to play with every now and then? Just because we'll leave it dead and mangled on your doorstep?

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Lovely book . . . it covers every fundie/creationist argument ever made. Clearly, they use this book as a guide. (Whoops...)

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Must suck if you're one of the billions that God Hates, per the Westboro Batshit Church.

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So if we can still impeach Ronald Reagan that would shut down his library, right?

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