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I'm pretty sure that somebody else said that first, but Santayana couldn't remember it so he had to repeat it.

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iswydt. well played!

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Palin 3 years ago.

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He also appears to be self loathing and closeted.

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Thing is Richard Quest actually knows his shit. His stuff on CNN Business Traveller is good stuff, plus he hosts brainy industry-y stuff like this for CAPA https://vimeo.com/151195102

EDIT: his "Around The World In 8 Days" adventure is some of his best http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/...

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As has been pointed out, ISIS has not claimed credit for the incident, and they are real fucking fast at claiming credit for shit they do.

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Ms. Gnome and I rehab problem biter ferrets, so we've made it a practice of never letting them anywhere near our faces. Our policy would certainly extend to that activity.

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ISIS has been going hog wild blowing up public places in Iraq for the last week, but the 200+ they've killed have all been brown people, so the US media haven't noticed.

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88 because, well, you know...

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I don't find this difficult to masterbate to.

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Toby would crawl in bed and sleep with us, he was a sweetheart.

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Wait, allegedly, or fer real?

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It's looking like this tragedy was caused by a "technical malfunction", most likely a fire in a wiring conduit near the avionics bay, rather than an act of terrorism.Trump's classic statesmen-like tweet "Great hate and sickness" could come back and bite him in the arse.

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