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with votes though...remember, with votes.

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I know right? It's a good thing Adolf was such a dick or else one might start feeling sorry for him.

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It's far snootier than that. They perfectly understand why the Greeks might want them back, they just don't think the Greeks can be trusted to preserve their own antiquities. After all, they really let the Parthenon go to crap.

Also, "you gave them to us, you can't have them back now (OK so it wasn't you, but it was someone at the time claiming the right to speak for you, maybe)"

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I'm Bacile!

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I'm guessing he replied something like "argle bargle rights blurgle FREEDUMB!"

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Yeah, my immediate thought when I read this yesterday was to think of the cases involving families of victims of the Holocaust recovering plundered artwork - cases that <a href="http:\/\/plundered-art.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/repatriation-of-looted-antiquities-to.html" target="_blank">are</a> still <a href="http:\/\/www.commartrecovery.org\/content\/mission" target="_blank">ongoing</a>.

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Giving new meaning to the term "trailer trash".

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i like it better when rand paul wears little lord fauntleroy shorts.

it suits his intellectual musings.

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I'm pretty sure they're the same. National SOCIALISTS?

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Give Senator Paul a little credit for neural firing in the cerebral cortex. Hannity says "1939;" Sen. Paul says, "Nazis."

Get Glen Beck in there with a chalkboard so we can have <a href="http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Executive_Order_6102" target="_blank">FDR in bed with Hitler plotting to steal everyone's gold</a>.

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