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I&#8217;m appalled.&nbsp;Free Aung  San Suu Kyi from house arrest. Free Burma &#8230;.Only Sly Stallone  has taken an interest in this outrage&#8230;check the latest installment of  RAMBO.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khunrum emails: &quot;Booger Black History month&#8230;.I&#8217;m fuming that Spielberg has dropped out of the Olympics because of the &quot;suffering in Darfur&quot; without mentioning the suffering in Burma where military thugs have been repressing Democracy for years. 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