The Curr

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Feb 3, 2007
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Jeez, I just heard there was a package left outside the main police station in town this morning that contained something that was suspected of being anthrax. It wasn't in the end but I didn't hear a thing about it for hours.


I just posted this in the hockey thread by mistake.
 

X Æ A-12

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Sep 4, 2006
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Too much money in the drug trade.
How is that benefiting the U.S. Military tho? Is it because we are friendly with the major produces over there?

First of all Opium addiction is destroying the lives of millions of Afghan citizens, even entire families, living in rural villages. Meanwhile, allowing this policy to continue is basically condoning flooding the market with large quantities of cheap low quality heroin and since the U.S. consumes an overwhelming percentage of the world's elicit drugs most of it ends up on our shores or in Mexico to be smuggled over the border. It seems like a lose lose situation to me so I can't fathom why the military won't take action.
 

X Æ A-12

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Sep 4, 2006
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It isn't benefitting the US military at all. Keeping the drug trade going is good for bankers and prison owners.
I don't know about that, I think the Military's reasons are alot more selfish. In some regions of Afghanistan, areas that we are heavily involved in, farming opium accounts for almost 70% of the population's livelihood. If the military burned all of the poppy fields then half the country would be attacking them.

So at home we continue to pay the price for our continued presence overseas.
 

Delle Alpi

Chemical Dean
May 26, 2009
8,679
Those cops are completely idiots, and should stick to what they do best; eating donuts and carrying around their beer bellies. They overreacted big time and should be punished for their stupidity. The knocked the door yelling to open the door, but within 30 second they resorted to using force, how about you give the guy alittle more time to open the fucking door, then shooting a pittpull which was in a cage and a corgi. Fucking pigs
 

Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
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Half the country is already attacking them as nobody wants them there. It is just another bullshit war for control over certain commodities and to act as a base in the region for our presence.
 

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