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Hobby Lobby’s $1.6 million Gilgamesh tablet has been forfeited to the U.S.
CNBC ^ | JUL 27 2021 - 5:07 PM EDT | Sarah Whitten

Posted on 07/28/2021 9:02:33 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

Will be smashed to bits or tossed into a concrete foundation upon re-entering Iraq.


21 posted on 07/28/2021 9:36:15 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free
The museum is literally mentioned in the fourth paragraph of the main article. You FAIL to read:

The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet was seized by law enforcement agents from Hobby Lobby’s Washington, D.C.-based Museum of the Bible in 2019. In a complaint filed in May 2020, prosecutors said the 5-by-6-inch tablet is considered the property of the Iraqi government and should be returned. The arts and crafts company cooperated with the investigation.

22 posted on 07/28/2021 9:39:14 AM PDT by newzjunkey (America First - bring on Giant Meteor in 2021)
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To: Red Badger

DOJ: “Forfeiture is not enough. These arch-criminal hybrids of foxes and pigs knew that this was properly the property of the Iraqi government and they stole this tablet, this patrimony of the Iraqi people! They deserve the highest measure of social defense! The Department of Justice demands that these mad dogs be shot, every last one!”


23 posted on 07/28/2021 9:42:24 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Red Badger

The Brits also have a piece...

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_K-3375


24 posted on 07/28/2021 9:43:37 AM PDT by Rio
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To: frnewsjunkie

James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.


25 posted on 07/28/2021 9:44:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
"Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s Office announced the sale of a one-of-a-kind album by the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan that was once owned by Martin Shkreli..."


26 posted on 07/28/2021 9:53:23 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Whatever Works

What are you saying was a mistake here? The Elgin Marbles?


27 posted on 07/28/2021 10:01:18 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: redgolum

To return the tablet to Iraq is to cast a pear to swine.


28 posted on 07/28/2021 10:13:07 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: frnewsjunkie
WHY DO WE PUT UP WITH THIS?

That's simple. Peaceful slavery is much preferred to dangerous freedom to the American public.

29 posted on 07/28/2021 10:23:56 AM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: frnewsjunkie

Hey Boomer!
Me too, I will turn 65 in September, if I live to see the birthday, which is expected as I am in reasonably good health etc.

It is difficult in that I know what I could do to help, if people woke up, if vision replaced fear.

It is difficult having read so much history, not that I could write a book mind you and correctly and effectively compare our demise with the fall of Rome or something, but because I really see where this ends, and I know when and how others in the past turned it back. I seriously think we passed a fail-safe point long ago.

It is difficult because all or at least too many of those who understand the philosophical basis behind 1776 and 1787, are sick, dying, or already with the Lord. How YOU feelin’ lately Junkie?

It is difficult because while you could teach some youngsters how the Constitution is supposed to work, there would never be enough of them, a critical mass who could carry through the reform. Are they even intellectually capable of handling the vocabulary? (Never mind the praxis.) These people who think that saying, “OK...Boomer!” is a substantive debate argument?

It is difficult in that while I understand the “3%” thing, it is an unacceptable oversimplification of a minor truth. Granting the point for the sake of argument, it becomes irrelevant as soon as you try to start counting Patriots among the youngsters. They are...(A tear comes to my eye, “Oh God, ...let me be wrong!) They are, as you said, “apes”, though you spoke of the leaders and I speak of their young supporters. 2 Peter 2:12


30 posted on 07/28/2021 10:31:13 AM PDT by BDParrish (God called, He said He'd take you back!)
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To: Red Badger

Sure hope they took detailed images of it, because it will be destroyed if our criminal government gives it to iraq.


31 posted on 07/28/2021 10:44:11 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Skywise

Yup.🤔


33 posted on 07/28/2021 11:44:31 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Red Badger

The tablet was likely looted from a museum following our invasion of Iraq. If so, shouldn’t the U.S. government buy the object from Hobby Lobby and return it to Iraq?


34 posted on 07/28/2021 11:48:06 AM PDT by attiladhun2
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To: Red Badger

Obviously, our DOJ and FBI do what they want, when it comes to transferring valuable and important material and items —

https://thenewamerican.com/mueller-s-role-in-delivering-uranium-to-russians-raises-questions/


35 posted on 07/28/2021 12:01:33 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: Red Badger

It will be on display in the DOJ Building while it is waiting to be shipped back to Iran.


36 posted on 07/28/2021 12:11:15 PM PDT by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOW)
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To: BDParrish

I can’t go out and fight for anything.. I am past that in my life. But the fight inside me is still alive. I have commented this next, before... I go back to WWII. My family fought in that war and the freedoms they have today was paid for with great sacrifice..

They came off the ship and took a boat to Normandy’s shore. They didn’t hesitate.. they knew there was a more than fair chance to be killed as soon as they set foot on land.
Some were boys.. most were men with families back home.
They were told to run.. keep running.. do not stop to help a fellow soldier... keep running.. you can grab a gun if is on a dead soldier... but keep running...

I don’t know the percentages.. but the goal was to get as many on shore with the sacrifice of so many men. Today there would be a revolt... but the shores of Normandy was important ... win the war we did! My father landed on Normandy.. he did not talk about it for years. He tracked across France, wet and cold... sleep in a fox hole once in awhile...no shower...miserable...

Today those ungrateful generations that don’t care about much... have the privilege to live in freedom that was paid with blood... fathers, sons, brothers... who never came back.

Yes it irks me to see the ungrateful lot of younguns.
I raised 5.. 4 sons.. and all are grateful... all are patriotic citizens.. the 60s was a time when we lost 2 generations... Kids were raised to be rebels.. dumb. there is a lot of dumb.

today, we are feeling it. It’s evil against good... the devil and angels who went with him... against God. They attack all good... and let the guilty keep doing their destruction.

Yes, I am frustrated. When one sees truth and the other does not at all.. where is there any truce... there is none. As Rush used to say... you can’t deal with them... you have to destroy them.


37 posted on 07/28/2021 12:33:56 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: dware

And that is what is wrong. Just shake them all... they do not deserve the freedom that was paid for with the lives of men.. WWII, fathers, sons, brothers... gave that we might live free....


38 posted on 07/28/2021 12:36:39 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: Red Badger

They scoff at that.. yes, we who belong to God.... know truth ..


39 posted on 07/28/2021 12:37:49 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: frnewsjunkie; BDParrish
OK, you two old farts, I'm right there with you. It sure does seem that we are looking at the imminent end of a most wondrous Nation, one that has been a beacon of hope for the entire world. It seems most of this happened in the schools, where the youth were indoctrinated rather than educated. The horror inside my mind tells me we let this happen by failing to monitor what was going on in the schools and by failing to do anything about anything peculiar we might have seen along the way.

People in Europe and South America pour out into the streets and make changes occur from time to time. In our Nation only the commie/liberals seem to do that. We were busy making a living for our own families, and for the deliberate jobless as well. We never voted malfunctioning representatives out of office, always content with the same old stupid faces.

I honestly don't feel like giving up without some kind of fight. There must be a way we can rally against those forces which undermine the Founding Principles that have been bought and paid for in blood so many times. We old farts have something our young ones don't seem to have: wisdom and knowledge. How do we force that back down their scrawny necks?

40 posted on 07/28/2021 1:37:51 PM PDT by GingisK
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