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MattSh

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30. So, is there something out of the ordinary weirdness happening in the USA...

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 03:11 PM

Feb 2015

during the last two weeks? Something well beyond the usual weirdness and stupidity?

Over the last couple of weeks, it seems my family is starting to worry about me again. I could understand last January and February, with the riots going on in Kiev. The war in the east has been going on for 8 months now, so it would seem weird that people all of a sudden started to pay attention to that.

Is the media or are the politicians whipping up some beyond the normal stupidity about Ukraine during the last two weeks?

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