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auburngrad82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-07-04 02:36 PM
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I love the Onion
Small Group of Dedicated Rich People Change the World

RNC attendee Stewart Malmough is unremarkable at first glance. His name rarely appears in print—outside of the occasional Forbes 100 list—and his face isn't one many citizens would recognize. But he wouldn't have it any other way.

"I'm not looking for glory and acclaim," Malmough said, his face a study in optimism and resolve. "I just care about this land, and how much of it my children and their children's children will own."

Malmough isn't afraid of hard work. Just last year, he spent countless hours making a covert, trillion-dollar deal among the six major petroleum-producing nations to keep prices and supplies fixed to an optimum standard.

http://www.onion.com/news/index.php?issue=4035
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-07-04 02:40 PM
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1. Also:Many Lack Potable Water
http://www.onion.com/wdyt/index.php?issue=4035


"When I was a kid growing up in Love Canal, we didn't have uncontaminated water. Did we complain about it? No. We just shut up and got cancer."


"I'm sorry, but if these people are too lazy to refill their Brita pitchers..."
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-07-04 02:46 PM
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2. In it's own way, the Onion is a great souce for news...
It's very revealing in ways that the mainstream corporate couldn't possibly do!

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elfin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-07-04 03:08 PM
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3. Many Daily show writers are Onion alums eom
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