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Tough call: Buy a vacation home
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Cnn/Money Supports the Terrorists Who Are Trying To Destroy America Because we Are GOD HATERS And Bush Bashers Who are In League with Satan and are, as this article will show, actively offering Aid And Comfort to the Enemy In a Time of Tax Burden Transfers Unto The Unborn!!!or something that would make it clear that the authors, if they were expecting to stay honest to their BRUTAL AND VICIOUS acts of Treason!!! Have been, well, very UNAMERICAN by so blatantly Opposing THE Greatest Military Leader EVER!!! With their America Bashing Propoganda that the American Economy is anything but the Greatest That Has Ever Been!!! And will Ever Be!!! Because Today the Greatest Military Leader EVER!!! The Vicar Of God To The World, the Defender Of the Faith! The True Keeper of the Holy Majik Decoder Ring! has been called and set apart by God to Be All That He Can Be!!!
Clearly Americans MUST stop this form of Evil Terrorism!!! Or those Iranian Flying Saucers Will Come Back And attack again!!!