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Dick Hoagland: "There is no viable geological model to explain a sixty thousand-foot-high, sixty thousand-foot-wide, four million-foot-long “wall” … spanning an entire planetary hemisphere … let alone, located in the precise plane of its equator! "

James Nicoll: "Well, except for this one."

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Churchgoer stabs 5 after listening to sermon

‘He kept saying the pastor was wrong’

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"24 Hour Fitness" not only isn't open 24 hours a day, but they might just lock you in over a long weekend.

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Bush admits that stopping all efforts to find Osama Bin Laden, disbanding CIA group devoted to tracking him, aiding Bin Laden family members in evading questioning, supporting Al Qaeda's monetary backers, refusing to follow up on leads, openly allying with dictators who are openly allying with Al Qaeda, all probably not all that productive a way of catching Osama Bin Laden.

This, of course, leaves aside the entire issue that the USA has been doing Al Qaeda's recruiting for it, in orders to torture, rape, and murder civilians, coming all the way from the top.

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CIA counsel nominee Rizzo said in response to a question asked by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI): "I'm trying to be responsive . . . without getting into a detailed explanation. We believed then and we have believed throughout this process that the CIA program, as it was conceived, when taken in toto, justifies the conclusion that the program was, from the outset, and remains conducted in a humane fashion."

Murat Kurnaz was more direct. "In Kandahar," he said, "they hanged me by my hands."