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2016 Postmortem

DrBulldog

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2. An insane Supreme Court decision in December, 2000, to not allow counting of all the votes ...

Reply to RiverLover (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 6, 2015, 09:37 AM

Oct 2015

... ended up our not taking sufficient action to prevent 9/11, starting the two longest wars of our nation that killed over a million people, and causing the worst recession since the Great Depression.

Yes, this is history's butterfly effect that has recurred countless times in human history.

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