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Zipgun

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1. About time.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat May 10, 2014, 04:20 AM

May 2014

There are so many side benefits to what NASA does that it is almost criminally stupid NOT to fund the agency. Unfortunately none of those benefits include blowing up brown people, so it's not a priority with the tea baggers.

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