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they bought it from a company called tishman speyer. tishman was the founder and speyer was his son in law. weird coincidence

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On the other hand, if Qatar also threw in a patent license for Ivanka's shoes...

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Cutter. As in Cutter's Way

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Wait, the Qatar Sovereign Wealth Fund? There was a Russian billionaire who has money in that... and weren't they the ones who arranged the 19% stake in Rossneft, the Russian state oil&gas industry?

Well, that all seems on the up and up.

Why can't Anonymous break into the Quatar Sovereign Wealth Fund, and d/l their real (as opposed to the for-show-to-regulators) books? That could be really, really interesting....

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"Hell no, we ain't got no humpbacked bitches!" - Jamal, New Wave Hookers

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Oh yeah, there are definitely plant snobs! I only use the binomials when I'm with other people who work in the field(Heh!). But the reason for using binomials is not necessarily snobby, for instance, there are 3 native plants here whose common name is "Meadowsweet." They're 3 different genus and species. It helps when a customer can come in with at least a vague description of the plants they want. Most people know a lot more binomial nomenclature than they think they do; Hyacinth, Tulip, Narcissus, Impatiens, Coreopsis, etc. I've worked at a plant nurseries a few times, and I was amazed at the landscapers who came in not knowing even the common names of some plants...one guy didn't even know what a petunia was called. "It's one of those plants that will spill over the edge of the container. Their stems are fuzzy, and the flowers are sometimes stripey and sometimes solid coloured."

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It's actually worse that that. It's the stench that keeps me from visiting. The developers ran a sanitary sewer down the middle of the creek so every time it floods, the sewer over flows. Some years ago the EPA did order a cleanup but now we have Scott Pruitt so...

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Yet Chelsea Clinton taking the helm of the Clinton Foundation was a bridge to far.

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"Only his mohel knows for sure!"

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Hah! Yes, I've heard that as well. I was trying to reference Jared Fogel, the pedophile sandwich dude.

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Tiffany is behind it all. Nobody notices her, she's got years of resentment, and she knows better than anyone else just how fucking stupid they all are. And exactly how to play them.

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Pharmabro lawyers are watching this and thinking they got off easy.

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Congrats! Jealous.

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Thanks, but don't be jealous. I lost a house in Hurricane Katrina that was paid for and had to start over from scratch. Talk about annoying...

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One should never place food over a good rocket motor. Some things are just too important. - Mr. While E. Coyote.

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"Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears." - Robert Sarnoff

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