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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Thu Feb 13, 2014, 05:00 AM Feb 2014

Indian MP pepper sprays colleague

http://www.firstpost.com/politics/telangana-live-shame-cries-speaker-after-pepper-spray-attack-1387667.html

I would watch CSPAN more if Senators brought pepper spray.

(The politics of this are pretty opaque to Americans; this is about a push to divide Hyderabad's state into two states. )

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Indian MP pepper sprays colleague (Original Post) Recursion Feb 2014 OP

Good to know self-entitlement among the 1% is a universal quality. I'd hate to think it's a okaawhatever Feb 2014 #1

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1. Good to know self-entitlement among the 1% is a universal quality. I'd hate to think it's a

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Thu Feb 13, 2014, 05:18 AM

Feb 2014

uniquely American trait.

From the article:

Meanwhile BJP MP Tarun Vijay tweeted, "Still inside the House, Members shocked, bewildered, stunned and feel sad. Will govt take action against L Rajagopal, very very rich MP?

Another tweet read, "L Rajagopal is said to have given blows in side House to a fellow Cong MP Yakshi from Andhra, a highly sophisticated gentleman, he is.

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