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| Aqua Letifer | Jul 30 2011, 01:45 AM Post #1 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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| Mikhailoh | Jul 30 2011, 05:08 AM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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In some ays you have to admire the stance on corruption. Steal from the people? One to the back of the head. Zero tolerance. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| apple | Jul 30 2011, 05:19 AM Post #3 |
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one of the angels
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I have never seen this use of the word 'graft'.. what does it mean exactly? |
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| Axtremus | Jul 30 2011, 05:19 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Wouldn't be a bad idea to do a "Hall of Shame" of our own ... list all the corrupt corporate fat cats that have been convicted of large scale fraud. S&L, Enron, Madoff, mortgage fraud ... lots of candidates. |
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| Axtremus | Jul 30 2011, 05:19 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Corruption, receiving bribery, nepotism. |
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| apple | Jul 30 2011, 05:22 AM Post #6 |
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one of the angels
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I've read so much (in the history of many countries) of the prevalence of corruption on many levels of society.Are we so evil? I guess so.. from rape in the Congo to the burning of wives, exhorbitant taxation on the poor, religious prosecution, the destruction of the Jewish population. |
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| Mikhailoh | Jul 30 2011, 05:58 AM Post #7 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Not evil in most cases I think, just weak in the face of temptation. |
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| Red Rice | Jul 30 2011, 08:47 AM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Canada just concluded an extradition deal with China to ship back corrupt Chinese officials who fled to Canada with their ill-gotten gains. The US and China are working on a similar deal. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jul 30 2011, 05:27 PM Post #9 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Yeah well the problem is that they often hold similar penalties for their artists and critics. And noting the number of corrupt officials I'd say their policies aren't doing a damn thing. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jul 30 2011, 05:31 PM Post #10 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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It's an American usage, oddly enough. Slang term that came about in the 1850s. (Thanks, AHD!) |
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| Mikhailoh | Jul 30 2011, 06:51 PM Post #11 |
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They misspelled it. Was supposed to be Grant. |
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I've read so much (in the history of many countries) of the prevalence of corruption on many levels of society.
4:51 PM Jul 10