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Octafish

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8. Conservatives rule.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sun Jan 27, 2013, 06:55 PM

Jan 2013

The tobacco companies kept the research on their product's link to cancer secret for decades -- killing untold millions in the process. Not a single executive went to jail, not that it was a criminal conspiracy or anything.

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NYT: What We Don’t Know Is Killing Us [View all] babylonsister Jan 2013 OP

Without congressional action his executive approach is meaningless ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2013 #1

Maybe the homicide rate is the same because you can't change people. dkf Jan 2013 #2

horseshit. Schema Thing Jan 2013 #3

I guess there is just no way we could fix the "gun" like you can fix a car? rgbecker Jan 2013 #4

I really wonder. Kids shouldn't be playing with guns period. dkf Jan 2013 #5

That is Right Wing ideological BS. Odin2005 Jan 2013 #6

If the homicide rate is "almost exactly the same as it was in 1950" ... spin Jan 2013 #7

Conservatives rule. Octafish Jan 2013 #8