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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 01:15 AM Original message |
Japan Nuclear Plant Operator Says Finds Crack in Concrete Pit; Radioactive Water Leaking into Sea |
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highplainsdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 01:30 AM Response to Original message |
1. Here's the Reuters article/link: |
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TacticalPeek (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 01:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. "preparing to pour concrete" |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 03:44 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Very sadly true |
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ElsewheresDaughter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 05:16 AM Response to Reply #2 |
12. well they better do it quickly!!! |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 09:49 AM Response to Reply #2 |
28. They could have sealed the entire thing off with concrete 3 weeks ago. But they didnt want |
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stockholmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 02:16 PM Response to Reply #28 |
50. they cannot entomb it until they stop the meltdowns |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 05:53 PM Response to Reply #50 |
75. Couldn't they have entombed it 3 weeks ago? |
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Taft_Bathtub (197 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:53 PM Response to Reply #28 |
65. You're speaking complete nonsense |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 05:52 PM Response to Reply #65 |
74. no i don't. but The first week, they explained on public television plans A b and C. |
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TNLib (683 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-03-11 09:39 AM Response to Reply #65 |
92. You don't know what you are talking about!!!! |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 01:47 AM Response to Original message |
3. "radiation in the pit measured 1,000 millisieverts per hour". More info from AP |
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sce56 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 11:19 AM Response to Reply #3 |
34. 1,000 millisieverts per hour = 1 sievert per hour! Use the smaller number to make it look like no |
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moonbatmax (290 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 01:46 PM Response to Reply #34 |
47. I don't know |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 07:34 PM Response to Reply #47 |
78. A dose of 6 or more Seiverts in a short span of time is quickly fatal. |
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DeadEyeDyck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 09:54 PM Response to Reply #78 |
88. Barlet Engineering is hiring |
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pam4water (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 09:22 PM Response to Reply #47 |
87. It means if you are in there for 5 hours you are dead for sure. The 1/1000 is to show how little |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 03:59 PM Response to Reply #34 |
54. A full work day there would be one's last day. n/t |
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Devil_Fish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 06:10 PM Response to Reply #34 |
76. I know, Why don't the say it's leaking .000001M Sv per hour? That should calm some nerves. NT |
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Scottybeamer70 (844 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 02:21 AM Response to Original message |
4. Oh, I'm sure |
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4saken (111 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 02:44 AM Response to Original message |
5. Let's just hope this is the only spot contaminating the seas so directly. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 02:56 AM Response to Original message |
6. Concrete way overdue. |
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caseymoz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 08:04 AM Response to Reply #6 |
24. Right, problem is . . . |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 11:23 AM Response to Reply #24 |
36. +1 |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 12:11 PM Response to Reply #24 |
41. I agree - I think this is a disaster. I don't understand why so many people paint |
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radhika (563 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 12:49 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. Thank you for the photo of Nabbous... |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 01:03 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. I became aware of him shortly before he was killed. I think it was joshcryer, in |
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caseymoz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 05:00 PM Response to Reply #41 |
67. The radiation to our coast so far isn't too much a threat. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 06:22 PM Response to Reply #41 |
77. Those people who considered the Worst Case Scenario.... |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 03:40 PM Response to Reply #24 |
52. We are helping. That's what the Putzmeisters are for. |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 09:49 AM Response to Reply #6 |
29. profits over life, once again. i've been saying that for 3 weeks. seal it up!!! |
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Adenoid_Hynkel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 03:02 AM Response to Original message |
7. pfft! you enviro wackos act as if this something to worry about |
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slay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 03:36 AM Response to Original message |
8. K&R |
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Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:02 AM Response to Original message |
10. "pour concrete to seal the leak" that's making the "burning" "radioactive puddles" |
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PCIntern (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:44 AM Response to Original message |
11. It's as though you dumped 50 bananas into the water... |
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jimlup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 05:24 AM Response to Original message |
13. Not to be flipant but this |
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PCIntern (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 05:40 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. It might have been the stone houses or radiation from watch-dials... |
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ElsewheresDaughter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 05:46 AM Response to Original message |
15. 24/7 Live stream News with english translation from Japan |
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JJW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 05:54 AM Response to Original message |
16. Dumb as a fence post, Reagan dead wrong |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 06:08 AM Response to Original message |
17. TEPCO sez, "We just wish we could have our lives back!" |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 07:41 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. My guess is they'd find him too watery. |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-03-11 08:14 AM Response to Reply #21 |
91. I don't know if he'd pass a break test but I'd say that before this is |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 06:44 AM Response to Original message |
18. i have to kick this |
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Raschel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 10:57 AM Response to Reply #18 |
31. Look, according to the experts around here you just don't know enough about science. |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 12:16 PM Response to Reply #31 |
42. it's not just the people on DU |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 07:58 PM Response to Reply #42 |
80. +++++ |
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paparush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 06:55 AM Response to Original message |
19. A leak, that's dumping deadly poison into the sea. Why does that sound familiar? |
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Thegonagle (548 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 08:12 AM Response to Reply #19 |
26. But, my friends, the ocean is self-healing, and the radioactive half-life of this particular |
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Sabriel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 10:51 AM Response to Reply #26 |
30. You forgot that radioactivity is diluted by sea water |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 11:50 AM Response to Reply #26 |
38. that's because industry and Randroid propaganda have saturated US culture |
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Moostache (905 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 02:08 PM Response to Reply #19 |
48. Because its another "profits-over-people" decision... |
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enough (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 06:57 AM Response to Original message |
20. Link to fairly long NYT article that went up half an hour ago: |
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plumbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 12:03 PM Response to Reply #20 |
40. From the NYT article: the "crack" is 8 inches wide! Some crack. |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:33 PM Response to Reply #40 |
57. I heard that 8" quote on the news this morning and thought, "8 inches is considered a CRACK?" |
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NobleCynic (991 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 07:43 AM Response to Original message |
22. Are any of these isotopes the type that organics are likely to absorb? |
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JesterCS (627 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 10:59 AM Response to Reply #22 |
32. just use corexit! it fixes everything *sarcasm* n/t |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 03:43 PM Response to Reply #22 |
53. Let me put it this way. An organic farmer has already committed suicide. |
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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 07:59 AM Response to Original message |
23. Oh well, we didn't need the Pacific Ocean anyway |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 11:01 AM Response to Reply #23 |
33. yeah, its not as if they all flow into each other or anythiing |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:27 PM Response to Reply #23 |
56. Oh, give them time, they'll destroy those too! |
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Stuart G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 08:08 AM Response to Original message |
25. What can one say??? |
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tblue37 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 08:15 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. The world actually has only one ocean. We just identify |
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sce56 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 11:21 AM Response to Reply #27 |
35. I was planing on cruising the Pacific ocean in my retirement now looks like it wont be healthy! |
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Taft_Bathtub (197 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:44 PM Response to Reply #35 |
60. You'll be fine |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
37. My usual 4 words fail me. |
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Brother Buzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
39. Junk Shot, go for the Junk Shot! |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 08:04 PM Response to Reply #39 |
81. Top Kill, Top Kill! I say, bro |
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ladywnch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
43. I'm not understanding something here.... if this is capable, as has |
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onecent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 08:51 PM Response to Reply #43 |
85. I have the same question Ladywnch, If it melts the concrete |
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MissDeeds (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
46. I grieve for the human toll |
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Taft_Bathtub (197 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:47 PM Response to Reply #46 |
61. What human toll? |
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plumbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 05:30 PM Response to Reply #61 |
70. These people don't count? Why? |
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Taft_Bathtub (197 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 11:29 PM Response to Reply #70 |
90. Because the nuclear plant didn't cause an earthquake/tsunami |
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 09:19 PM Response to Reply #61 |
86. That is an ignorant comment. nt |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
49. And no concrete building over top of it will help that problem. Between |
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stockholmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
51. the attempt with the concrete failed (see link for breaking news) |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:36 PM Response to Reply #51 |
58. Oh what a nightmare! n/t |
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BillyJack (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
55. Worse than Chernobyl....what a disaster!!!! |
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Taft_Bathtub (197 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:42 PM Response to Reply #55 |
59. Haha no it isn't |
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redwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:49 PM Response to Reply #59 |
62. Is it against the rules to call you obnoxious? nt |
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Taft_Bathtub (197 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:50 PM Response to Reply #62 |
63. Please tell me why |
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redwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:53 PM Response to Reply #63 |
64. What media hype? |
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Taft_Bathtub (197 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:57 PM Response to Reply #64 |
66. Are you kidding? |
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redwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 05:07 PM Response to Reply #66 |
68. You are right, you have totally convinced me. |
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Taft_Bathtub (197 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 05:18 PM Response to Reply #68 |
69. Amazing how you know these things |
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redwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 05:31 PM Response to Reply #69 |
71. That all of this makes you laugh says lots about you. |
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Taft_Bathtub (197 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 08:39 PM Response to Reply #71 |
83. No just the hyperbole |
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plumbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 05:37 PM Response to Reply #69 |
73. Amazing how YOU know these things. By your own analysis, I assume |
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Taft_Bathtub (197 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 07:54 PM Response to Reply #73 |
79. Really? Where do I say that? |
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plumbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 08:38 PM Response to Reply #79 |
82. Because you are simply exhibiting dishonest behaviors and will not |
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Taft_Bathtub (197 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 08:41 PM Response to Reply #82 |
84. I have no idea what you are talking about |
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plumbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 05:32 PM Response to Reply #59 |
72. Got any theory as to where the actual source of all energy on this |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 10:17 PM Response to Original message |
89. JFC block the sucker up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't take this anymore... |
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