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05-18-2013, 02:31 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread What the Benghazi emails reveal in The Bilge

I knew it ! I've said it all along! Now things have been put right (as it were) America can rejoin the world in progress.

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05-18-2013, 02:26 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread Obama Administration Claims Power to Wage Endless War Across the Globe in The Bilge

Psst on you if you don't denounce The War Chimp.

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05-17-2013, 04:11 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread IRS Scandal in The Bilge

Why not just do away with them?

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05-17-2013, 03:59 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread New Orleans shooting in The Bilge

Don't know exactly what you mean by blaming the gun but I blame both. The reason there are so god damn many guns is that any fool can go buy one. ...

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05-17-2013, 03:52 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread New Orleans shooting in The Bilge

I agree with Horace that things are different in the US. Huge areas, especially in the west, are hardly policed at all. In other areas, such as the...

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05-17-2013, 10:57 AM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread New Orleans shooting in The Bilge

All I remember is that is was maybe three years before Katrina.

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05-16-2013, 01:38 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread The reasons for school shootings: abortion in The Bilge

Ties in with the Federal Reserve -- ?

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05-16-2013, 01:33 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread New Orleans shooting in The Bilge

It was dark. I wasn't driving. I was in the back seat. I had been drawn into a controversy involving a six pack of daiquiris. Good to know...

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05-16-2013, 01:30 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread Benghazi: The beginning of the end in The Bilge

I forgot to say, with a S load of who knows what kind of weapons with who knows whose fingerprints on them, in the hands of who knows who . . . etc....

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05-16-2013, 09:17 AM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread Benghazi: The beginning of the end in The Bilge

Each new round is trumpeted as being the one that will bring down the President, blow the lid off, cause the American people to go wild, etc. When...

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05-16-2013, 09:12 AM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread Benghazi: The beginning of the end in The Bilge

One of many, or you could call this one the same mistake repeated in different contexts. When Kaddafi is overthrown by who knows who, and how,...

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05-16-2013, 09:05 AM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread New Orleans shooting in The Bilge

Louisiana is kind of a special case. Couple years ago I came across this story. A long bridge goes all the way across Lake Ponchartrain, N to...

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05-15-2013, 10:27 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread IRS and politics in The Bilge

" . . . in the next few years."

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05-15-2013, 10:24 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread IRS and politics in The Bilge

You must be joking, this time.

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05-15-2013, 10:18 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread Benghazi: The beginning of the end in The Bilge

He's deliberately conflating moral justice with legal justice, a big mistake.

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05-15-2013, 10:17 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread Benghazi: The beginning of the end in The Bilge

Under the laws of the host nation.

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05-15-2013, 02:31 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread Benghazi: The beginning of the end in The Bilge

How would the MIC expect to benefit from these hearings? Seems a rather blunt instrument. Causes negative attention for both the Pres and the...

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05-15-2013, 02:25 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread IRS and politics in The Bilge

Muslim foreign students as a group don't make threats or behave aggressively, as a rule, whereas elements of the American radical right egg each...

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05-14-2013, 02:25 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread IRS and politics in The Bilge

The right, as for example hanleyclifford, want to know why the government didn't spy on and apprehend the Boston Marathon bombers before they struck...

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05-14-2013, 02:01 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread Benghazi: The beginning of the end in The Bilge

I've been wondering where exactly "the Syrian rebels" have been getting the arms to keep the Syrian national forces at bay for months. Meanwhile,...

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05-14-2013, 01:47 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread Benghazi: The beginning of the end in The Bilge

For the umpteenth time, what is it about the Benghazi attack that makes it special? Apart from the fact that it proves that Obama is a socialist, I...

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05-14-2013, 01:45 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread Benghazi: The beginning of the end in The Bilge

Of course, I hope you didn't think my comments were aimed at you. If the shoe was on the other foot you could bet your life that the...

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05-14-2013, 01:40 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread Benghazi: The beginning of the end in The Bilge

At what point are you going to admit that the cost of the next increment of "truth" is too high?

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05-13-2013, 05:46 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread Benghazi: The beginning of the end in The Bilge

Plausible and quite likely indeed, but without specific proof, I refrain from promoting it from a probability to a fact, because only ***holes do...

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05-13-2013, 05:39 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread She's baaaack! (Well, maybe) in The Bilge

You're gonna wear that dummy around your neck til the day you die, pal. Keep The Chimp company.

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05-13-2013, 05:06 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread Benghazi: The beginning of the end in The Bilge

Sorry, I still don't get it. Clever, how?

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05-13-2013, 05:05 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread Benghazi: The beginning of the end in The Bilge

Or it could have had the opposite effect. Thinking that the United States was making war on their country, they might figure, I'm gonna get my licks...

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05-13-2013, 04:53 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread Benghazi: The beginning of the end in The Bilge

I don't get it. Relevant to what? I thought we were talking about security of diplomatic personnel. Are we talking about the security of spies? I...

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05-13-2013, 04:31 PM

Osborne Russell replied to a thread Benghazi: The beginning of the end in The Bilge

That means it should have more security? I don't get it.

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