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    bass4funk

    That is so sad. James was a great actor, not only for his most famous role as "Tony Soprano" but his stage performances where great as well. RIP, you will be really missed. Gone way too, soon.

    Posted in: 'Sopranos' star James Gandolfini dead at 51

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    bass4funk

    @lost

    I agree.

    Posted in: Van Halen opens first tour of Japan in 15 years

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    bass4funk

    @yabits

    "Frank Zappa?" Ok, "Bobby Brown" was interesting. Yeah, he wrote a few good songs, like Iggy Pop, but if you like that more abstract kind of music fine, but don't say VH is a generic band. Pound for pound VH wrote some incredible music, not to mention Eddie was a pioneer of varies playing style techniques. You can actually hear it in many musicians today that they have copied some of Eddies licks. Tapping, hammer-ons, heavy distortions, classic Eddie sounds. I don't think Zappa could pull off what Eddie did for Michael Jackson's "Beat it." He has his own monitors "EV" one of my schools use them in their gymnasium. Eddie is no joke, also, he's not fat, he could actually gain a few pounds.

    Posted in: Van Halen opens first tour of Japan in 15 years

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    bass4funk

    @Fadamor

    ROFL

    You got some serious skillz!

    Posted in: Van Halen opens first tour of Japan in 15 years

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    bass4funk

    @cleo

    Before the invasion of Afghanistan the Taliban cut opium cultivation by 94% to a total of 185 tons. After the invasion, by 2004 cultivation had jumped to a higher-than-ever 131,000 hectares, producing 4,200 tons - a smaller yield than expected due to bad weather, not as a result of any attempts on the part of the invading military to persuade farmers to grow other crops.

    Yes, this is true, but as a fact, the US has been paying these farmers off as much as they can to find other alternative crop to grow, but often every time they leave, the Taliban sneakingly often try to come back, so they are in a kind of cat and mouse game. But the effort is, they are trying as hard as they can.

    So when are your forces going to move into all the other countries where women are routinely subject to forced marriage, genital mutilation, acid attacks, lack of education and total subordination to men?

    Good question! I ask myself the same question, we are bogged down, so how about other International forces from other countries take that part of the responsibility, I am in total agreement.

    @slum

    I have to agree here. I don't think the allied forces were ever in Afghanistan to protect women. It might be a good by-product, but it don't think it was the reason.

    But they are, it may not be the main reason, but now it is an important one and they are. Like I said, my kin is there, I trust my own blood who's in the ditches before I trust Any reporter that is judging from the sidelines.

    Posted in: U.S., Taliban to start talks on ending Afghan war

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    bass4funk

    Love VH, too bad, they won't be playing in in Fukuoka. Wolfgang looks like he's proving to be a decent formidable bass player. I still miss Michael Anthony, he's from my home down, I remember when he wasn't touring he would give guitar lessons and he is fanatic about Japanese cuisine, he'd regularly visit my girlfriends restaurant with his wife at the time (this was the early 90's) and order a ton of food. Nicest funniest guy you'd ever want to tal to.

    Posted in: Van Halen opens first tour of Japan in 15 years

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    bass4funk

    @kiyoshi

    USA will never leave afghanistan. Their opium farm

    I hope you do know, the Taliban are the ones that are pushing many of these farmers to grow the poppy plants in exchange for security from some of the other ethnic rebel tribes. The US has been trying to offer these farmers lots of money to destroy and to encourage them to grow something else. My cousin 3 years ago was helping with that. Sorry, the last thing the military wants is to bring Opium and more Heroin to the states.

    @zur

    no matter how courageous your cousin in, he is just one man. The whole invasion and 12 year war is a total and absolute failure. The Russians failed and now the US. Nothing is gained, only losses.

    It is a conundrum, ill give you that, but it doesn't mean that we should move all of our forces and especially with what's going on with women in that country.

    Posted in: U.S., Taliban to start talks on ending Afghan war

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    bass4funk

    @luca

    Good luck to your cousin and for once I wish I could agree with you. But listening to an interview with an ex-UK ambassador to Kabul, the situation sounds pretty grim.

    Thanks, I appreciate it.

    As for your concern, to a point I agree. My cousin and I when I see him, always talks about how cool the people are, but how scary and terrible the Taliban really are and that sometimes, they have to escort girls to school, just so that they can get an education and I he has 3 daughters, so he takes it very seriously. I told him, I am always worried about him and he replied to me, "someone has got to get involved, and help these women." And most don't want to get involved, so should we just abandon these women. It is a very grim paradox.

    The Taliban are "at the gates" of three major cities, including Kabul, just waiting for the allies to pull out, and the local forces who are supposed to take over are corrupt and actively cooperating with the Taliban in the laying of IEDs.

    Ordinary Afghans, particularly women, are pretty much in despair....

    I totally agree. I'd wish they'd do something about that weasel Karzai!

    @jeff

    @bass4funk

    That link is 14 years old. Um, nice try. How many bombs have the Taliban put on airliners since then? The answer: zero. The Taliban don't even care about the West. Their activities are confined to Afghanistan and the surrounding region, which has NO strategic importance to the US. "You walk away from Afghanistan, you walk away with nothing," an analyst once said.

    Yeah, I know it is, it was big as day. But it doesn't matter, the story and the results are the same. I know, I have a cousin there. If you choose not to believe it, but I know firsthand, so....

    So basically, just screw the women, leave them to their fate and so be it if the Taliban, rape, cut off their noses, torture, castrate men, do honor killings, cut off people's heads. Just flip them and leave? Are you crazy?!

    Who were they funded by? Mainly wealthy Saudis and other members of the Al-Qeada, generally oil money, and a few Muslims in the West.

    You keep forgetting the one with the biggest pockets, OBL.

    We did No you didn't. Al-Queda has been most strongly concentrated in Saudi Arabia and on that peninsula. So please, tell us all about the US military invasion of Saudi Arabia, then.

    Let's try that again...

    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/asia/afghanistan/alqaida.html

    Between Pakistan and Afghanistan most of the Taliban were found here and have the strongest concentration.

    But thanks for trying.

    I agree the Taliban are a nasty, nasty bunch. But how do its policies on girl's education in rural Afghanistan, etc. pose a threat to the West, exactly?

    If you don't get it by now, i am afraid that you never will. As I said, my cousin has been there firsthand, so before I believe ANY media reports, I will believe him first, because for the past couple of years, Afghanistan has been his home.

    Posted in: U.S., Taliban to start talks on ending Afghan war

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    bass4funk

    @jeff

    What??

    The Taliban were never a threat to the West. George Junior's war has been a horrid waste of lives and taxpayers money.

    Sorry, that dog don't hunt. Afghanistan is Obama's war, he said, Bush (supposedly made a mistake at looking for the enemy in Iraq) and that the REAL war is in Afghanistan and wanted to relocate and focus on getting OBL and the Taliban in that country. So please blame Obama.

    By the way... http://www.meforum.org/483/its-official-taliban-pose-a-danger-to-the-united

    The 9.11 bombers were wealthy Saudis. 7.7 bomber were middle-class British Muslims.

    Who were they funded by? OBL and the Taliban, which made even more sense to go into Afghanistan and root them out, thanks for making my point for me.

    Wage your "war on terror" on them, the real terrorists, not a bunch of tribesmen who couldnt find NY or London a map anyway.

    We did and people like my cousin are fighting so that girls have the right to go to school and get an education and to stop the Taliban from Cutting off women's noses or throwing acid in their faces, stop public beatings, castrations and terrorizing people with Sharia law, so YES, soldiers like my cousin will remain in Afghanistan for the time being and to make sure these things will not happen.

    Posted in: U.S., Taliban to start talks on ending Afghan war

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    bass4funk

    @LFR

    It is our business. It's everyone's business to ensure that the principles we claim to uphold as a free society are indeed upheld. Those who would simply shut their eyes to such egregious breaches of Constitutionally protected personal privacy as PRISM represets simply for a perceived sense of safety are far greater traitors to the constitution than Snowden will ever be and cowardice of the highest order. Furthermore, the kind of complacent lemming attitude it takes to boil this issue down to somethig so trite as Spy vs. Spy is embarrassing.

    This is so mind-numbing! How is it bothering your freedom?? They are not checking your phone calls and even if they did, who cares. you didn't do anything wrong, right? So what and why should you care? The NSA can listen to me at anytime, I have nothing to hide. You will not eradicate it, but I worry about the people in the field and people like Snowden will make the jobs of the DOJ, NSA more difficult. If in the future we God forbid get attacked or they bomb a plane or a building our enemies know exactly how to bypass our security protocols and why because people like you want our NSA and the DOJ to spill all our secrets, so we are totally are defenseless, thousands of people die, but as long as everything is out in the open and your privacy is protected, who cares, right?

    @Chris

    We do need whistle blowers. Otherwise we might never find out what our government is doing to us. Might I point out that he did not make any money of of this that I know of and he knew the danger to himself. In all governments national security usually means hiding the illegal things he government is doing to its own citizens. Only rarely is it about any so called enemies,

    Seriously? We don't need to know that deep as to how our government keeps us safe, just as long as they do. Snowden didn't make ANY money as of yet! That doesn't mean that he WON'T or never will! The information that he has in his head, the guy could fetch millions which is a small price for gaining that kind of info. Again, if Snowden were innocent, then why run, why run into the arms of our enemies! Yes, he knows the rules and the consequences of his betrayal. He signed all these documents, signed them, knowing that he can spend the rest of his life locked up in a prison cell or worse, depending on how they government sees how much damage he can cause. The guy needs to caught ASAP!

    Only rarely is it about any so called enemies,

    Are you on their payroll, how to you know this and how can you pass that as fact when you have No truth of this?

    Posted in: Is Edward Snowden who blew the whistle on vast surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency that trawl through telephone and Internet records a hero or traitor?

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    bass4funk

    @nostromo

    the US supported and armed the Taliban during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan ...

    Yes and we did the same to Iraq with Saddam and now with the Syrian rebels, so what's your point. Do you remember the old, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend?" Then Afghanistan turned with the help of OBL and we went in looking for him, killed many Taliban's that were Hell bent on killing us.

    @Simond

    Not true, the Taliban are trying, TRYING, but there will be a small force that will stay there, My cousin is over there right now and has been there for about 6 years. With making sure they comeback and the humanitarian needs and economical needs are met accordingly.

    Kiyoshi

    Worse thing to ever happen to afghanistan is the United States.

    The worst thing to ever happen to US was 9/11 caused by OBL who fled and for a long who was hiding in the hills of Afghanistan.

    Posted in: U.S., Taliban to start talks on ending Afghan war

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    bass4funk

    Not at all. It merely proves people who cannot listen to her voice cannot listen to her voice. There is plenty of other J-pop that people may be able to listen to and even enjoy. I tend to prefer people with talent, and who can sing, write their own lyrics, and play instruments. They are unfortunately grouped into the same category as all the Johnny's assembled bands who can do none of the above. Kamyu has some originality, but her voice is still as pleasant to hear as a few forks across a chalkboard at the same time. And to be put in a Star Trek soundtrack? talk about a mis-match! (and I'm not a Trekkie, by the way, nor do I like Western artists 'shaking their boobs' or whatever you said).

    Exactly, couldn't have said it better, even if I wanted to.

    Posted in: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu to sing theme song for Japanese release of 'Star Trek Into Darkness'

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    bass4funk

    Being in the spying business is not an easy thing, to follow up and to listen to your enemies. Every nation has been doing it, nothing new, however, divulging that information is something totally different. Most nations will always have a system in place for safeguards. They spy on us, we spy on them, same old, same old. It is NOT for idiot traitors like Manning and Snowden to take it upon themselves to tell the world our secrets. Liberals are funny people, they think Benghazi is not a cover up, Clinton and Obama had nothing to hide, but Snowden comes out and Yes, the government has everything to hide. Again, selective, nitpicking.

    Posted in: Is Edward Snowden who blew the whistle on vast surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency that trawl through telephone and Internet records a hero or traitor?

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    bass4funk

    @bertie

    I think the U.S.A. has a death wish.

    NOT us, but Snowden it seems like.

    It's made enemies in just about every nation in the Middle East, seems bent on doing the same thing in Asia and now with the covert operations of the CIA and NSA, it's even making enemies in its own people.

    Oh, so you think because of our involvement in the Middle East that is the reason why they don't like us, then it means you really don't understand the real history behind it, that is NOT the main reason. Do you understand the purpose of the CIA and the NSA. I have an uncle that works for the CIA and when we get together, I always have tons of questions that I really want to know about, but he says, he cannot ever divulge what goes on, the papers and documents that they have to sign promising to never give out any information, not even to their spouses. I understand, doesn't stop my curiosity though. Snowden is the worst vile of filth out there. As I said before, this guy could open the door and have us all killed, millions of Americans and for what? His own selfish personal gain. This man, decides to think for the entire nation that it is ok to go to our enemies and divulge every single vehicle we use to protect ourselves and he goes and tells the Chinese???

    And it doesn't seem to be the slightest bit aware of what it is doing to cause it.

    You just don't get it and you don't see the serious repercussions of this thugs actions.

    Sure, Manning, Snowden and a few others are brave enough to stand up to them, but if a few more don't do it and start to create some freedom, there isn't going to be any more left.

    I wouldn't call it brave, I call it the highest level or cowardliness and treason. If these people were innocent, why not get a lawyer go with your lawyer on TV tell the nation what you, set yourself up for a good defense, yes, you will be arrested, but stand your ground, always stand your ground if you believe you have nothing to hide, that's how I was raised. That's also how you tell what a real coward is, Snowden fleeing, Manning hiding proves just that. They left us open and vulnerable and I do hope and pray this thug gets his due justice by any means. Bertie, what the Hell are you talking about Freedom? What Freedom was taken from you? If your Freedom was really taken or being threatened, then you wouldn't be able to write these outlandish posts.

    Posted in: Is Edward Snowden who blew the whistle on vast surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency that trawl through telephone and Internet records a hero or traitor?

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    bass4funk

    Putin is worse that Bush!!

    Wow, I can't believe I am hearing this. But yes, I agree!

    Posted in: Putin, Obama face off over Syria; rebels get Saudi missiles

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    bass4funk

    @oginome

    You had no right to go in and invade a sovereign nation. The US does not have some divine right to go invade any country it wants. This is the arrogance I'm speaking about.

    Sorry, but yes, we did. Bush unlike Clinton ( he just went and bombed Kosovo to try and get Milosevic) went to the UN to ask to draft up the article resolution 1441 in hopes that Iraq would comply with the IAEA to allow inspections of his weapons facilities and to avoid having to be forced to avoid any military conflict by the US but Saddam violated it 14 times and we were not going to take at that point a wait and see attitude from a man that could possibly harbor weapons and allows in his country terrorists to train, NOT an option. Bush followed protocol and went in and neutralized the threat. We don't need anyone's permission to defend ourselves and personally, I could give a fig whether ANY European likes us or not. We're not begging for Europe to embrace us.

    If Europe has this 'we're the epitome of the world' then it would have invaded the US by now, just like your country does in the belief that the American way is the only way.

    We never think like that. That is pure European, propagated fabrication.

    The 'nations of 'entitlements', entitlements aren't what led the EU into the mess its in now, the countries that continue to have the strongest economies also have the most robust social safety nets, it was reckless lending from the banks that caused the chaos.

    If that were really true though....

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/10/25/european-socialism-why-america-doesnt-want-it/

    http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/the-myth-that-entitlements-ruin-countries-busted-in-1-little-graph/259056/

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/9595165/Europe-and-Britain-sinking-under-weight-of-welfare-costs.html

    So 'progressives' is negative word in your dictionary? Says everything.

    Considering how they have been running the US and Europe...Yup.

    @jayman

    Fox news is some of the best comedy going. It is brilliant that GOP have their own propaganda opinion channel.

    Sorry, it's not Fox, if you want propaganda, go to msnbc, I worked for its parent company NBC news 12 years and if you want to what real propaganda is Phil Griffin is the poster child of it, I saw it, lived it, know the politics inside and out of that corporation. Fox was shorter, but I saw more fairness and integrity than any other liberal outfit that I worked for. I didn't have to fabricate or stretch a story, just for ratings. Contrary, to what many people think, There are a lot o liberals that work for Fox, a lot of them! So NO, it is NOT a propaganda channel, do they tilt a bit left, yeah, a bit, but you have only one channel that is devoted to allow conservatives to have a voice, ONE. Before Fox, conservative, libertarians and traditionalists, didn't have a voice at all, most just talk radio and how is that fair?? There are many sides to the political spectrum, not only liberal and progressives.

    I can sometimes watch for whole minutes before I retun to real news elsewhere. I wonder if the low-brow republican masses will flock to watch Palin.... sweatpants and bucket of chicken wings,...six-pack of Bud. Classic stuff!

    Palin, does draw huge crowds that is something she does well, it pisses off the left to see her, when you resort to calling someone ad hominem names constantly, it means on a subconscious level, the person pisses you off. She is doing her job. But at least, she is being watched, unlike our President that pretty much no one is watching these days...even with a six pack.

    Posted in: Sarah Palin back at Fox News

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    bass4funk

    A reason to invade Iraq not for getting Sadam but for the oil. USA destoryed Iraq and Haliburton have a contract to rebuild it. Only the stupids cannot analyze the true facts and ploy.

    Right, so I'll do it for you. The Shiite v. Sunni problem started when the grandson of the Prophet was killed by one of the Prophet's companions who h to the top spot when Mohammad died. That grandson was named Hussain ibn Ali and he was killed because he was thought to be a challenger to the authority of the successors of the Prophet. Hence Shia are 'partisans of Ali' and Sunnis are loyal to the centuries long succession of companions of the Prophet.

    The bitterness of Ali's ruthless death (his party was surrounded by the Caliph's men at the battle of Karbala, showered with thousands of arrows, and his head was rolled across a carpet to the feet of the Caliph to prove the pesky grandson was dead) has continued unabated since the seventh century. It was the reason for the hundred thousand deaths in Iraq when we got between the two sides after the invasion to dislodge Saddam. The root cause was sectarian, NOT from the US liberating, that is a small, minuscule reason. 60% of the Iraqis are Shiite and about 40% Sunni But I know, it's easier to say Bush and Cheney were responsible, the same old liberal text book mantra.

    Yes, U.S. didn't find WMD in Iraq after Powell went to United Nations. It turn out to be a big lie.

    Based on faulty intel, not only by the US, but from CIA, Britain, Russian, Israel, Egyptian and French intelligence. Everyone seems to always forget that one.

    Let's make that clear, they all exchanged intel and based on those premise and after Iraq violated article resolution 1441 about 14 times to open up to the weapons inspectors and was non-compliant, allowed us to go in.

    http://www.un.org/depts/unmovic/documents/1441.pdf#search='iraq+resolution+1441'

    I suppose it is not that they hate Americans but they strongly disagree with the American government's foreign policy. I do not think it is fair to blame people for disliking Americans because of their President or their Government policy.

    I really don't give a fig if the world likes us or not. Seriously, I never thought it was a popularity contest.

    However, America is democracy, the government's policy is supposedly reflecting the American people's sentiments. Most of the Americans have strong oppositions or opinions to U.S. middle east and far east policies, which has been the continue problem. How do expect U.S. military keeps spending $700 billion a year to patrol the world? It is not substainable.

    Yes, with Obama cutting our defense budget, no doubt.

    @bertie

    Yes, I thought that too.

    Course, it doesn't apply to you, Bass, does it?

    I work in the media, so I rely on different sources. Do I watch Youtube, of course, but I don't always use it as the main source of my overall analysis.

    So most of the media is wrong.

    The Liberal media, YES. Which makes up of about 98%

    Posted in: Cheney defends U.S. spy programs

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    @oginome

    Other countries don't like the US because of its war-mongering foreign policy and its distasteful habit of invading sovereign nations and creating wars.

    If you are referring to Iraq, we had every right to go in, I'm not even going to do this and leave it at that. I was there, I was reporting at the time working for NBC. You are 100% wrong.

    Moving on..

    Has nothing to do with these other countries own 'shortcomings'. Please try and keep up.

    I do and Yes, Europe, always has this, we are the epitome of the world, so we know what's right and how everyone thinks. We are the nations of entitlements, so the US has to follow lock step and be like us, even though we technically dependent on the US.

    Palin epitomises this ugly, dangerous aspect of US thinking, the idea that the rest of the world is fair game for America's bombs and armies to take over. Disgusting.

    For liberals and progressives, I think you are totally right.

    @habid

    Palin causes a stir because, like Michelle Bachmann, she's a dumb person in a position of power and influence that projects ignorance to people who don't know any better. That quote about "Allah" sorting out Syria...very progressive. Does she realize that's her god, too?

    She's a Christian, and Christians never refer to God as Allah, it's the same in theory, but our religious ideologies are different, so she is right.

    Posted in: Sarah Palin back at Fox News

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    bass4funk

    Cheney is a war criminal and why he, Bush, Rumsfeld and Rice are still walking around free, I don't know.

    In order to be arrested you need to commit a crime first.

    Well, try Googling, "Cheney war criminal," or "Cheney war crimes," and see how much information you come up with. There is simply too much to post here.

    Since most of the media is liberal, they never liked Cheney, solely based on that, never gave him or Bush a chance, from day one. Not even a "let's see how they govern first attitude" they were just slaughtered from the beginning. Obama comes along and the media treats him like a rock star. So basically, Americans want a celebrity in the WH, not a politician. You think Obama is doing a great job now with all that's going on with these scandals?

    Cheney defends spy programs, he also defends torture and it was he who suppressed any real investigation of 9/11.

    The current admin. Defends spying at the highest level, but I guess, you haven't been reading the news lately. The IRS targeting conservatives, the DOJ, NSA. So you are essentially saying, Obama does it, it's fine, Cheney does it, it's bad. And surprised what REAL 9/11 investigation? Don't go Charlie Sheen on me now, please!

    China and Russia are your enemies?

    I don't see us taking windy walks on a Caribbean beach together. Let's say, we are tolerable of each other and depending on the issues, we have a lukewarm relationship, but outright trust, NO. If the Russians and the Chinese (especially) could understand a lot of our military technology and get it anyway they can, anyhow they can, they would. In a nutshell, they are enemies, if you think in China's case, they would never, ever think of attacking us, then you really need to study more about Geopolitics.

    Check it out.

    This is the problem with society nowadays, everyone thinks all the answers are on youtube or the Internet, instead of doing real research and leg work, you think just with a mouse click and some fantasy crap someone uploaded, it's true. Sad to say, a big chunk of it is crap.

    @open

    Trying to understand that and find solutions to the root problems would be a big step. I am not naive, but USA exaggerate by far everywhere in the world where you can find a barrel of oil.

    Hmmm, I think the US has done that over the years. You say, you're not naive, but you talk as if the previous admin. Just didn't know how to reach out.and your the smartest person in the room with alll the answers. And stop with the "they wanted only the oil crap" everything in your life in your home has some element of oil in it. Every country needs oil, everyone. Yes, the US, Russia mad China need and use more oil, but we are bigger nations, therefore, we need more oil. But yes, you need it too, so please don't start with that childish oil argument.

    Posted in: Cheney defends U.S. spy programs

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    bass4funk

    Had no idea she is still relevant.

    Posted in: Avril Lavigne pulls out of Hiroshima A-bomb concert

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