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Call Molly Burker @ 202-863-7132 (in Obama's campaign HQ at the DNC) and demand a refund of your Obama campaign contributions.
Obama On Rick Warren Pick: We Have To Be Able To Agree To Disagree 2009
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EDITOR: Is is time to show solidarity with Scotland and boycott American brands such as McDonalds, Burker King and the like?
Monday morning update. Brown still whistling in the dark. Time to boycott US firms? Thatsnews 2009
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EDITOR: Is is time to show solidarity with Scotland and boycott American brands such as McDonalds, Burker King and the like?
Archive 2009-09-01 Thatsnews 2009
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If he take a walk in the country, there's the Vagrant Act; and if he has not a penny to hire a cellar in town, he's snapped up by a Burker, and sent off to the surgeons in a sack.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832 Various
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I sat the night through, pondered the question carefully, looked at it from all points of view and -- decided that Burker must die.
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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One day Burker was unexpectedly absent and I took the drill, finding myself quite competent and _au fait_.
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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"I won't run from Burker, nor from a hallucination," I replied.
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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And let God remember how that opportunity came so convincingly -- so impellingly -- and if He would judge me and ask for my defence I would ask him who sent Burker here, and who placed him on that fatal spot?
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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Of Burker I had no fear -- but I was perturbed by the _fact_ that the dead could ride with the living.
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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I replied that I had accused her of nothing at all, and merely offered advice in the matter of correspondence with Burker.
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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