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Gulf Coast Fever Dreams

by David Kurtz
05.18.15 | 8:43 am

My favorite part of the latest installment in the Jade Helm hysteria is that Keesler Air Force Base is located smack dab in the middle of Biloxi, so if the military wanted to impose martial law it wouldn’t need to sneak in under the guise of using an abandoned casino and closed school for “training.”

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