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Triana

(22,666 posts) Mon Feb 3, 2014, 09:31 AM Feb 2014

'Against all enemies, foreign and domestic'...

(not quite. not really.)

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'Against all enemies, foreign and domestic'... (Original Post) Triana Feb 2014 OP

"seize" jberryhill Feb 2014 #1

And of course the Kochs have sold oil equipment to Iran through one of their foreign okaawhatever Feb 2014 #2

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

1. "seize"

Reply to Triana (Original post)

Mon Feb 3, 2014, 10:41 AM

Feb 2014

"Seize", like "weird", is one of the exceptions to "i before e, except after c, unless sounded as ay, as in neighbor or weigh".

It turns out that rule sucks.

okaawhatever

(9,462 posts)

2. And of course the Kochs have sold oil equipment to Iran through one of their foreign

Reply to Triana (Original post)

Mon Feb 3, 2014, 11:32 AM

Feb 2014

subsidiaries. Why aren't the people so concerned with the middle east and Iran protesting that? How "American" are two American brothers when they ignore sanctions on one of the largest sponsors of terrorism?

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