Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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<p><span style="font-size:18px;">"Helping a Hero"</span></p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-veterans-charity-george-bush-charged-100000/story?id=32251253'>ABC News reports</a>:</p>
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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'proxima-nova', arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;">Former President George W. Bush charged $100,000 to speak at a charity fundraiser for U.S. military veterans severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, and former First Lady Laura Bush collected $50,000 to appear a year earlier, officials of the Texas-based <strong>Helping a Hero charity</strong> confirmed to ABC News.</p>
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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'proxima-nova', arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;">The former President was also provided with a private jet to travel to Houston at a cost of $20,000, the officials said.</p>
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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'proxima-nova', arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;">The charity, which helps to provide specially-adapted homes for veterans who lost limbs and suffered other severe injuries in “the war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan,†said<strong> the total $170,000 expenditure was justified </strong>because the former President and First Lady offered discounted fees and helped raise record amounts in contributions at galas held in 2011 and 2012.</p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'proxima-nova', arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;">“It was great because he reduced his normal fee of $250,000 down to $100,000,†said Meredith Iler, the former chairman of the charity.</span></p>
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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'proxima-nova', arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;">However, a recent <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/on-talk-circuit-george-bush-makes-millions-but-few-waves-118697.html'>report by Politico</a> said the former Presidentâ€
s fees typically ranged between $100,000 and $175,000 during those years.</p>
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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'proxima-nova', arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;">One of the wounded vets who served on the charityâ€s board told ABC News he was <strong>outraged that his former commander in chief would charge any fee to speak on behalf of men and women he ordered into harm's way.</strong></p>
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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'proxima-nova', arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;"><strong>“For him to be paid to raise money for veterans that were wounded in combat under his orders, I donâ€t think thatâ€s right,â€</strong> said former Marine Eddie Wright, who lost both hands in a rocket attack in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004.</p>
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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'proxima-nova', arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;">“You sent me to war,†added Wright speaking of the former President. “I was doing what you told me to do, gladly for you and our country and I have no regrets. But itâ€s kind of a slap in the face.â€</p>
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<p>Well, wasn't Blair an envoy to the Middle east after his premiership? Us Brits are just as good as anyone else with this kind of shit.</p>
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Fuck I love pixie caramels!
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="MajorRage" data-cid="501737" data-time="1436842758"><p>I've always said HK folks are far too addicted to their smart phones, but this a new level..<br>
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<p>Get off my stage</p>
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<p>Ouch!!</p>
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<p>Although, that guy came across as a bit of a pretentious tool. Anyone who starts a sentence with "i have worked in the industry for..." is generally a bit of a piston wristed gibbon. </p> -
<p>So we're having "Antarctic Vortex" here at the moment - which is a term coined by News Ltd. The point is, its a bit fucking nippy for Australia.</p>
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<p>Areas that don't <em>usually</em> get snow, but have in the past, are getting it in rare quantities, including Stanthorpe a few km north of the NSW/QLD border. Its up fairly high (800m) and all down the ranges through Armidale, Tamworth, etc. Look, just fucking google it if you don't know where they are, OK?</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/snow-chaos-closes-hume-highway-the-main-road-between-sydney-and-melbourne/story-fnizu68q-1227445204442'>http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/snow-chaos-closes-hume-highway-the-main-road-between-sydney-and-melbourne/story-fnizu68q-1227445204442</a></p>
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<p>Major roads have been closed west of Sydney, including the Hume Highway to Melbourne.</p>
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