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Demeter

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37. Might as well try to contain the Pacific Ocean

Reply to xchrom (Reply #27)

Thu Feb 21, 2013, 01:15 PM

Feb 2013

What a waste of time, money, and energy.

Does it ever occur to the Hawks that we are greatly outnumbered by the Asians? If China and India got together, they could sink us...and they did already, economically.

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