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You say Gaddhafi, I say Quadaffi

Or any other variant of the 'afi' name tree. None of the nitwits except perhaps his own mother really knew what he was called. That said now the question on the table for all the moronic financial publications that are obsessed with ranking wealthy dudes and dudettes is - Was Khadafi the richest egotistic dude that ever lived? Some are ranking his wealth at USD 200B. Now whether that means anything is a separate debate (for profound thoughts read my discourse on value of money) but as far as we are playing the game this dead dude and many others in the uncivilized world might well be rich beyond the wildest dreams of the civilized (those that are counting the wealth supposedly).

That is to say the entire planet is full of these enigmas since there is truly no such thing as a civilized world - you get Tim McVeighs and Norwegian whackos and Osamas and Hitlers all over the land (anyone check the oceans recently?) since they all spread from some of the same genetic procreators when the earth had a single land mass. Good and Evil spread by laws of arithmetic.

Now back to the salivating idiots that are wondering how they can get hold of the undocumented millions that the Libyan guy owned. I am sure there will be multitude of conspiracies and untold stories how these monies which ideally could be used to rebuild a healthy Libya end up enriching more egos in the region and further the lunacy that is now evident in the wars in the desert.

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