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Ken Burch

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10. Sounds like Huck Finn's response to Tom's Sawyer's Aunt Sally when she asked if anybody had died

Reply to cactusfractal (Reply #1)

Thu Nov 22, 2012, 07:37 PM

Nov 2012

in the steamboat explosion:

"No ma'am"...killed a n____r"

To which Aunt Sally(thinking she was talking to Tom instead of Huck, and supposedly setting a good example to a family member)said in reply

"Well, that's good. You know sometimes people get killed.&quot emphasis added).

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Israeli soldier dies of wounds from Gaza violence [View all] Omaha Steve Nov 2012 OP

One soldier dies... BREAKING NEWS! cactusfractal Nov 2012 #1

Did you miss that single throw away line at the end? KimonoGirl Nov 2012 #2

There have been scores and scores of articles cali Nov 2012 #3

And there will be equivalence when each gets their own article. bluedigger Nov 2012 #4

What you said... cactusfractal Nov 2012 #15

Like the "Kill a Turk and rest" yurbud Nov 2012 #5

Ones a tragedy, 161 is a statistic Bill Drat Nov 2012 #6

Was it 161? Archae Nov 2012 #7

Sounds like Huck Finn's response to Tom's Sawyer's Aunt Sally when she asked if anybody had died Ken Burch Nov 2012 #10

Yes - the Palestinian deaths have received no coverage at all oberliner Nov 2012 #12

How many thousand Palestinian civilians will they murder in retaliation? Odin2005 Nov 2012 #8

Do you have another Nazi comparison you can use? oberliner Nov 2012 #13

I will paraphrase the usual line that Israel trots out when someone points out deaths Piazza Riforma Nov 2012 #9

One thing in the OP made me smile azurnoir Nov 2012 #11

An OP about a dead Israeli makes you smile oberliner Nov 2012 #14

Did you not read my comment? what made me smile had nothing to do with the dead Israeli azurnoir Nov 2012 #17

I did read it oberliner Nov 2012 #18

ah so the POTUS 'lobbying' Netanyahu for peace did not make you smile azurnoir Nov 2012 #19

when are those american christians going to stop trying to dictate Israeli foreign policy? Mosby Nov 2012 #16