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sasha031

(6,700 posts) Wed Dec 19, 2012, 02:25 PM Dec 2012

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Former Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork dies

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Bork became a hero to conservatives and a symbol of the heated debate over issues such as abortion.
Robert Bork, whose unsuccessful Supreme Court nomination made him a hero to conservatives and a touchstone in the culture wars over abortion and civil rights, died Wednesday. He was 85.

Bork's son and namesake told the Associated Press that his father died of complications from heart ailments at a hospital in Arlington, Va.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2012/12/19/robert-bork-judge-dies-supreme-court/1779473/

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Former Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork dies (Original Post) sasha031 Dec 2012 OP

You know you've had an impact when your name becomes a verb Fumesucker Dec 2012 #1

Fumesucker

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1. You know you've had an impact when your name becomes a verb

Reply to sasha031 (Original post)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 02:27 PM

Dec 2012

That bad tank of gas borked my engine.

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