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  6. Loose Change 9/11

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    emmm most people thought it was very interesting,general vibe was that Gov was covering up something big or small.

    Dubya aint the most popular round these parts. Tony Blair has fallen out of power cause of his association with Bush.French dont like him either.

    Americans can be very arrogant; if they've seen something on the 6 o clock news or read about something in the Sunday newspaper then...BY GOD....it has to be true. It's pathetic. I've worked with a lot of people from all over the globe, including many europeans, and have been fortunate enough to have had some fairly in depth discussions with them...and they, imo, tend to be a lot less gullible than the half wit sycophants that occupy space in this "great" country.

    fah q

  15. Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies

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    He was a true genius :'(

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/04/12/obit.vonnegut.ap/index.html

    Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84

    POSTED: 1:46 a.m. EDT, April 12, 2007

    Story Highlights• Author had suffered brain injuries in fall weeks ago

    • An iconoclast, he exhorted audiences to think for themselves

    • As POW, he survived WWII firebombing of Dresden, Germany

    • Dresden experience formed basis of "Slaughterhouse-Five"

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    NEW YORK (AP) -- Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," died Wednesday. He was 84.

    Vonnegut, who often marveled that he had lived so long despite his lifelong smoking habit, had suffered brain injuries after a fall at his Manhattan home weeks ago, said his wife, photographer Jill Krementz.

    The author of at least 19 novels, many of them best-sellers, as well as dozens of short stories, essays and plays, Vonnegut relished the role of a social critic. He lectured regularly, exhorting audiences to think for themselves and delighting in barbed commentary against the institutions he felt were dehumanizing people.

    "I will say anything to be funny, often in the most horrible situations," Vonnegut, whose watery, heavy-lidded eyes and unruly hair made him seem to be in existential pain, once told a gathering of psychiatrists.

    A self-described religious skeptic and freethinking humanist, Vonnegut used protagonists such as Billy Pilgrim and Eliot Rosewater as transparent vehicles for his points of view. He also filled his novels with satirical commentary and even drawings that were only loosely connected to the plot. In "Slaughterhouse-Five," he drew a headstone with the epitaph: "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."

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