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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-08 03:20 PM
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Victim in 2001 anthrax (photo editor Bob Stevens)was an enemy of ...
the Bushies.

He published naughty photos of Jenna Bush

What ties the anthrax to Bush is the targets. They speak to motive. A few other people in the world, say in a CIA/Military cabal, might have had access to the cultures, to Level 3 or 4 Biosafety containment, and even to the classified information and anthrax bacteria necessary to make this form of weaponized anthrax but only Bush would have the motivation to hit these specific targets. The anthrax letters to the media are generally considered peripheral to political targets. I don't believe they were. I think the letters to the media show how personal the targets were.

Let's look the targets and their timing.

Sept. 18, 2001: Trenton Mailing of anthrax letters to NBC and NY Post and probably to the National Enquirer.
Oct. 9, 2001: Trenton Mailing of anthrax letters to Daschle and Leahy.

There were only five real targets. Everyone else who got sick, who died, did so as a result of cross contamination in the mail stream. The other victims were not targets. They were collateral damage. I believe their deaths were just as unimportant to Bush and the people around him as the deaths of innocents in Afghanistan or Iraq. They just don't matter to someone like him.

To identify a murderer the police concentrate on method, opportunity and motive. Other members of the right wing/intelligence community/military cabal might have had the method and opportunity, but only Bush had the motive to hit these particular people. They say a serial murder's first victim tells more about him than any subsequent killing so let's examine that first killing.

Florida anthrax letter: postal traces show that a letter containing anthrax must have been sent to the National Enquirer at its previous address, then forwarded to the AMI office.
http://www.fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxreport.htm








The trail of anthrax spores in postal machinery and equipment shows the letter was originally sent to The National Enquirer at its previous address, then forwarded to the AMI building, which contained offices for both The Enquirer and The Sun, and ended up in the hands of The Sun's photo editor, Bob Stevens, 63. Later investigations indicate he might have opened the letter while sitting at his computer, spilling spores over the keyboard.

FBI Ignored Letter in Anthrax Probe
By now, there should be no dispute as to where the anthrax that killed Bob Stevens and nearly killed Ernesto Blanco came from. If you follow the spores found by the EPA in the samplings it took at the AMI building, even the most obtuse investigator would have to conclude that they arrived by mail.

Begin at the Boca Raton, Fla., post office that serviced AMI. Anthrax spores matching those found at AMI were found there.

Once in the AMI building, the mail was sorted. Either because the letter was addressed to the Sun tabloid, or because Blanco determined that it should go to the Sun even if addressed to the National Enquirer, he put it on his cart and began his regular route.

That route is marked by a trail of anthrax spores. It begins at the mail room, wends its way up to the second floor and ends up at the Sun offices on the third floor, where it is given to a Sun employee. Anthrax spores found on Bob Stevens' computer keyboard show that he handled the letter.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/8/14/165224.shtml

It seems likely the letter that killed Bob Stevens was addressed to Photo Editor, The National Enquirer. But the address for the Enquirer was no longer current. They had moved to the American Media Building and so it was that the letter came into Bob Stevens hands. Was he the only photo-editor in the building that day? Did he sub for The Enquirer photo editor? Who would have had a grudge against the tabloid and the photo-editor? Well, probably a lot of people, but none of them with this particular weapon at their disposal. No one in the putative CIA/intelligence cabal seems likely to have had any grudge against The National Enquirer either. Except for one. Except for George W. Bush. The Enquirer had published the picture of Jenna Bush, falling down drunk and looking like she was humping another girl's leg.




For Bush it was personal. A picture of his drunken daughter made him look bad and brought up all his drinking, drugging and partying issues. And who knows, maybe he loves his daughter and was angry about the publication of a picture that made her look like a drunken whore. But I doubt Bush is capable of love, except self-love. This picture might have been an attack on that self-love, Jenna being an extension of himself, the child most like him, the party girl, not bright but fun, while daughter Barbara is the good child, the good student, the smart one. She represents Jeb in this equation. But even Barbara couldn't be attacked with immunity.



Go here to see picture:
http://www.newsgarden.org/columns/anthrax/anthraxtargets.shtml
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peace frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-08 03:24 PM
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1. DO you have a better link?
This one has been removed: http://www.fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxreport.htm
Thanks.
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-08 03:34 PM
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2. For * it was personal.....
Just as Iraq was personal for *

Anyone see a pattern here?
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-08 03:42 PM
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3. but that could also be from someone(s) who were infatuated with Bush
and hated to see him shamed. The people with the real Bush Derangement Syndrome, who continue to think he is a great man being torn down b the liberal media.
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skip fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-08 03:44 PM
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4. Could Ivins have "suicided himself" with help in order to shut down
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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-08 03:54 PM
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7. There are so many ways to "suicide" somebody, it is sickening. All
the fascists have to do is threaten family members or other loved ones, combined with poisons as happened to Vreeland's associate Marc Bastien. In Bastien's case it was first determined he died of an overdose of of dope and drugs then, after Vreeland's story got hot, they revisited the medical reports and determined he had been poisioned with clopazine.
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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-08 03:47 PM
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5. Here's some more stuff. This story is smokin'!
2001 Anthrax attacks trace back to U.S. Army lab
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 11:09am.
FBI destroyed the samples
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 10:41pm.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/45521/
Evan Derkacz at 9:17 AM on December 14, 2006

According to Sherwood Ross, the 2001 Anthrax attacks on congress "likely" emanate from an U.S. Army lab by someone with access to a special suit allowing the perp to manufacture weapon grade Anthrax without danger. According to Dr. Francis Boyle who drafted the U.S. Biological Weapons Convention of 1989:

"I believe the FBI knows exactly who was behind these terrorist anthrax attacks upon the United States Congress in the Fall of 2001, and that the culprits were U.S. government-related scientists involved in a criminal U.S. government biowarfare program..."

Before the culprit could be pinpointed, the FBI destroyed the samples. Read on to find out how the FBI agent in charge of the investigation was connected to the Moussaoui case...
<...>

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/3940

Plus loads of links at the Alter-net site

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Ooo I like this one...
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 10:45pm.

OK, lets look at the "facts" once again..... then maybe we can draw....

Posted by: Prophit on Dec 14, 2006 11:18 AM

.... some conclusions:

1. The ONLY person in FLORIDA to get that anthrax and died from it was a guy named Stevens. FACT His occupation was photographer reporter for the illustrious National Inquirer. FACT 30 days before he received the anthrax he published a photo of Jenna Bush falling down drunk in front of a club in Boca Rotan, FL. FACT One month later he is dead from the Anthrax FACT

2. Immediately after the attack on him, the anthrax appears at the newspaper offices, in the mailrooms of the congress and people start dying. FACT

3. The Anthrax letters were only addressed to democrats FACT

4. The anthrax was determined to be a bioweapon from the Ames Army bioweapons facility in Ames, Iowa. FACT (It was in the papers).

5. No one has been identified or caught as the perpetrator. FACT

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A true warehouse of information
UCLA Dept. of Epidemiology
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/Bioter/detect/antdetect_letters.html

"Amerithrax" Timeline

In order to get the big picture, I must include a bit of history, so I will begin at Bush41 Presidency and work forward.

During GHW Bush's Gulf War the miltary ordered 30 million Cipro tablets to protect troops against biological weapons.

Col. Arthur Friedlander of the U.S. Army's research center in Fort Detrick, Md., began testing Cipro, in combination with an anthrax vaccine -- on monkeys exposed to the aerosol anthrax.
Published results 1993, Journal of Infectious Disease

1997
Leahy's Law : The ability for congress to withhold funding from entities committing gross violations of human rights.

The law first appeared in the fiscal year 1997 Foreign Operations Appropriations Act, and has been attached to all subsequent acts.

The Leahy Law in the 2001 Foreign Operations Appropriations Act (Section 563 of Pub.L. 106-429) states:
“ None of the funds made available by this Act may be provided to any unit of the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary of State has credible evidence that such unit has committed gross violations of human rights, unless the Secretary determines and reports to the Committees on Appropriations that the government of such country is taking effective measures to bring the responsible members of the security forces unit to justice.

1998, BioPort wins an exclusive $29 million contract with the Department of Defense for controversial anthrax vaccine, increased by the Pentagon to $49.8 million and advances Bioport $1.7 million to cover it's debts. Bioport's largest investor, Saudi Fuad El-Hibri, friend of bin Laden family, former M & A manager of Citigroup, and with major shareholder Carlyle Group.

1998, U.S. FDA and the Centers for Disease Control -- working under a presidential directive, look for existing drugs to use after a mass exposure to anthrax.

1999, the CDC asks Bayer to have Cipro labeled for use in inhalational anthrax. Bayer is also asked to provide data that showed how safe Cipro is and results in children for treatment of inhaled anthrax.
Inhaled anthrax was almost nonexistent in this country, and Bayer could skip time-consuming human clinical trials.
"The DOD had done the critical studies," says L. Barth Reller, chair of the FDA advisory committee.

Sept 18, 2001
Seven letters

One to American Media in Boca Raton FL (30 days before published a photo of Jenna Bush falling down drunk in front of a club in Boca Rotan, FL), second to New York Post, third Tom Brokaw at NBC, fourth to ABC news, fifth to Dan Rather at CBS, postmarked Sept 18, 2001 in Trenton, NJ.

In October 2001, press reports reveal that White House staff had been on the powerful antibiotic Cipro since the September 11th terrorist attacks. White House staff, and President Bush as well, began taking Cipro nearly a month before anthrax was detected on Capitol Hill.

October 2, 2001 “anti-terrorism” Patriot Act is introduced in Congress, but is not well received by all..

October 3, 2001 Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D) says he doubts the Senate will take up this bill in the one week timetable the administration wants. As head of the Senate, Daschle has great power to block or slow passage of the bill. Attorney General Ashcroft accuses Senate Democrats of dragging their feet.

On October 4, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D) accuses the Bush administration of reneging on an agreement on the anti-terrorist bill. Leahy is in a key position to block or slow the bill. Some warn that “lawmakers are overlooking constitutional flaws in their rush to meet the administration's timetable.” Two days later, Ashcroft complains about “the rather slow pace …over his request for law enforcement powers… Hard feelings remain.”

October 9,2001
Two more letters

The sixth and seventh letters to Daschle and Leahy were postmarked October 9,2001 and contained a more refined and dangerous anthrax medium.

October 12, 2001 Iowa State (Ames Lab) college staff members removed the anthrax specimens from the laboratory and destroyed them. Dr. Jim Roth, an assistant dean, had contacted the F.B.I. and the Centers for Disease Control before killing the specimens. Both agencies approved the destruction.

October 15, 2001
The Daschle letter was opened on October 15, 2001, on the 6th floor of the Senator's Hart Senate Office Building, and all 18 people within the area of Daschle's office tested positive for anthrax, as well as 7 of 25 who worked on the 5th floor as an open staircase linked the two offices.

Leahy's letter was misread by an optical scanner and diverted to the State Department on Oct 15th, infecting a postal worker. At that time all mail was sealed in plastic to be searched latter.
The unopened letter was found on Nov 16, 2001 and opened in a lab setting Dec6.

22 cases of anthrax were most likely from these 7 letters and cross contamination during mail processing.

October 16, 2001 CNN/Health reports: Ninety offices of Planned Parenthood and at least 80 clinics of the National Abortion Federation receive envelopes containing powdery substances (not anthrax)

October 25, 2001
The Washington Post reports that the spores in the Daschle letter had been using technology so sophisticated that it almost certainly came from the United States, Iraq or the former Soviet Union.
Office of Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said, the bacterial spores that caused anthrax outbreaks in Florida, New York and Washington belong to Ames strain.

The Ames strain did not come from the sleepy Iowa college town of the same name, or from anywhere else in Iowa. It was a Texas strain, cultured from a Texas cow in 1979, federal officials now say.

The National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames serves as the diagnostic center for the entire nation; it is a repository for all manner of germs and diseases that afflict American livestock. That is why the U.S. Army wrote to the N.V.S.L. in late 1980 requesting a sample of an anthrax culture.

The Ames (Iowa State) lab made a subculture of the anthrax and sent it to the Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases --USAMRIID -- at Fort Detrick, near Frederick, Maryland..

Five labs received the Ames strain from USAMRIID, Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah; Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio; the University of New Mexico's Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque; the Canadian DRES; and Porton Down, UK.
CIA defensive biowarfare program has involved the use of Ames-strain anthrax. Battelle is a contractor at Dugway, which acknowledged making a powdered form of anthrax.

The trick of weaponizing anthrax is to make it breathable.
Purifying and concentrating the spores requires real laboratory skill. The pharmaceutical industry is the leader in this technology, and the interest in generating tiny particles for that purpose has only been the last 10 years.

Although a few 'persons of interest' have been investigated, no arrests have been made, and no one has been held accountable.
Complete 911 Timeline

The Anthrax/Patriot Act Timeline

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anthrax?
Submitted by jbenet on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 12:11pm.
What anthrax?

Like torture? What torture?
Re destroyed interrogation video tapes.
~`~`~`~`~`~
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Steven Hatfill awarded $5.8 million in anthrax lawsuit
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 6:33pm.
Your tax dollars at working bribing this man to keep his mouth shut.

Yahoo-Steven Hatfill's antrax settlement

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The deal requires the Justice Department to pay $2.825 million dollars up front and buy Hatfill a $3 million annuity that will pay him $150,000 each year for 20 years.

"Our government failed us, not only by failing to catch the anthrax mailers but by seeking to conceal that failure," Hatfill's lawyers said in a statement. "Our government did this by leaking gossip, speculation, and misinformation to a handful of credulous reporters."

The statement also blamed journalists for not questioning the motives of the government's statements or its tactics.

"As an innocent man, and as our fellow citizen, Steven Hatfill deserved far better," they said.

The Justice Department said the settlement was in the best interest of the nation.

"The United States does not admit to any violation of the Privacy Act and continues to deny all liability in connection with Dr. Hatfill's claims," Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said in response to the settlement.
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-08 03:49 PM
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6. NE also published Prescott was a Nazi
and shortly after that...no more NE
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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-08 03:57 PM
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8. Oh yea! I remember something vaguely about that. Nice catch. ...
how close in time was the story and the end of NE?

Thanks for this, you never know. This is another part of the story that could get legs. :hi:
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-08 04:53 PM
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12. the Prescott story was before the 2000
election...they were anthraxed in 2001 IIRC
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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:42 PM
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17. Do you know who did the story on this? I'd like to follow up to see
what if anything happened to him/her.
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 02:28 PM
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20. here are some links
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush

http://ecosyn.us/Bush-Hitler/

http://clamormagazine.org/issues/14/feature3.php
However, Prescott Bush's banks were not just financing Hitler as previously reported. In fact, there was a distinct business link much deeper than Mr. Higham or Mr. Loftus knew at the time their books were published.

A classified Dutch intelligence file which was leaked by a courageous Dutch intelligence officer, along with newly surfaced information from U.S. government archives, "confirms absolutely," John Loftus says, the direct links between Bush, Thyssen and genocide profits from Auschwitz.

The business connections between Prescott Bush and Fritz Thyssen were more direct than what has been previously written. This new information reveals how Prescott Bush and UBC, which he managed directly, profited from the Holocaust. A case can be made that the inheritors of the Prescott Bush estate could be sued by survivors of the Holocaust and slave labor communities. To understand the complete picture of how Prescott Bush profited from the Holocaust, it is necessary to return to the year 1916, where it all began.
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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 03:00 PM
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23. Thanks for those links. I'll check them out later.
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-08 04:00 PM
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9. the Dellafera Affidavit attempts to address the motive with respect to NBC and the Senate
No real connection that I could find to the AMI building.
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alstephenson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-08 04:06 PM
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10. Wow. Just wow.
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screembloodymurder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-08 04:30 PM
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11. I posted on this earlier.
Edited on Wed Aug-06-08 04:32 PM by screembloodymurder
The letter was addressed to the photo editor at the National Enquirer. What was Ivins motive?
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 09:05 AM
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13. Did Bush leave a calling card? From the link:
The Ames strain did not come from the sleepy Iowa college town of the same name, or from anywhere else in Iowa. It was a Texas strain, cultured from a Texas cow in 1979, federal officials now say.


It sure looks as if he WANTED his targets to know who was behind it.
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 09:28 AM
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14. And who got the clean up job? Rudy 9ui11iani, that's who.
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 09:29 AM
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15. For this thesis to be true, the Federal apparatus would have had to go to great links to cover
Edited on Thu Aug-07-08 09:31 AM by indepat
it all up and later point the finger at a now-dead Democratic scientist: one can't make up stuff this good. :D

Edited to replace Senator with scientist
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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 02:20 PM
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19. Its easy to cover things up if you have the morals of a psychopath and
the money to snuff out anybody who knows to much.
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 02:47 PM
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21. Chilling depiction of someone/a group who would do absolutely anything/stop at nothing
in furtherance of their agenda = scary stuff 'cause that's tantamount to an amoral/immoral/illegal no holds barred, take no prisoners, winner take all, win at any/all costs mentality. :P
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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 02:59 PM
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22. I'm just hoping that all of this public exposure will mess up their network. But its
going to be a long haul with no guarantees of success. :hi:
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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 11:50 AM
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16. i tell this to people, and they just shake their heads.



really, the enormity of it all is just toooooo much.
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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 01:44 PM
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18. That's the picture. Thanks
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