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This news is BANNED in the UK
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RE: This news is BANNED in the UK
(April 18, 2016 at 1:52 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(April 18, 2016 at 11:40 am)Minimalist Wrote: People who successfully get laws written or re-written for their own benefit will use those laws.

Like the Kochs and Walmart and Goldman Sucks, Exxon and the NFL.

All excellent examples.
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RE: This news is BANNED in the UK
(April 18, 2016 at 4:52 pm)abaris Wrote:
(April 18, 2016 at 4:49 pm)Brian37 Wrote: There is a saying in "news media" "if it bleeds it leads".

Yes, sadly we have been robbed of gladiator fights and public executions. So we need something else to keep the blood pumping.

Were I drunk I'd probably say something pretentiously and nominally witty, like "my blood is always pumping, and nowhere to go". But since I'm drunk, I'll refrain.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: This news is BANNED in the UK
... bread and circuses ...

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