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Big story is the 3 women rescued in Cleveland and waiting on the Bengazi hearings.

SeanT (20b028) — 5/7/2013 @ 7:37 am

What’s news???

The Bulls beat the Heat with nothing but their bench, my 180-lb Saint Bernard has begun playing with cat toys, Derek Hough got screwed last night by a 6-time bitter old divorcee, and Obama a SCOAMF.

Other than that, we’re cool.

Note to self: pick up popcorn, set DVR to CSPAN

My Sharia Moor (7ede7d) — 5/7/2013 @ 7:44 am

Good for Gov. Christie. Going low carb would have worked for him but would have taken too long. Bonus!– With what he saves on groceries he can easily afford his new smaller clothes.

elissa (11728d) — 5/7/2013 @ 8:01 am

Here’s a fun story: brainless young musician blames her inability to pay taxes on the legacy of slavery:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/347596/hip-hop-artist-lauryn-hill-blames-slavery-tax-evasion

JVW (4826a9) — 5/7/2013 @ 8:20 am

Cue jokes about belt-tightening in New Jersey…..

Chuck Bartowski (11fb31) — 5/7/2013 @ 8:23 am

Nothing to see here;

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/3-explosions-heard-in-Tehran-near-missile-facility-312369

narciso (3fec35) — 5/7/2013 @ 8:27 am

Israel attacked a location in Syria, helping the rebel cause in spite of itself. (some elite troops were killed)

What wa sattacked last were some missiles Iran had shipped to Syria that had a much bigger range and more accuracy. They had been kept there for the politically appropriate moment to send to Hezbollah or for Syria to use itself. Israel wanted to destroy them for a while but was waiting till a good diplomatic moment came. Which was shortly after Syria was confirmed to have chemicall weapons somewhere.

Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 5/7/2013 @ 8:39 am

No they were North Korean supplied weapons, this is getting to be a pattern;

narciso (3fec35) — 5/7/2013 @ 8:40 am

Presiednet Obama is making the EXACT SAME MISTAKE about Syria that Bush made about Iran.

Which was thinking that the old regime was the only evil force you would have to deal with.

Bush assumed that, Obama is hoping that somehow comes into place. He stillo wants the rebels rtfo unite, I believe.

There will have to be two maybe three rounds in this civil war, if there is to be a good outcome. Striving for only one round is a completely wrongheaded policy. It’s too late for that.

Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 5/7/2013 @ 8:42 am

I heard something about north korea, but only a snatch. Something on the john Batchelor show about not forgetting Iran whiole watchingg north Korea and vice versa.

Now were they supplied directly by North Korea, or first sold to Iran?

Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 5/7/2013 @ 8:43 am

I really have no sympathy for Syria. They spent the last 40-odd years being Terrorist HQ, happily giving The Hizby loons every weapon they could get their hands on, providing a retreat for the Iraqi Baathist scum and sucking up to Iran and Russia.

Now they’re dying in droves, and all I can say is “good.”

mojo (8096f2) — 5/7/2013 @ 9:36 am

his excess skin folds will make a nice big tent

happyfeet (c60db2) — 5/7/2013 @ 9:51 am

I really have no sympathy for Syria. They spent the last 40-odd years being Terrorist HQ, happily giving The Hizby loons every weapon they could get their hands on, providing a retreat for the Iraqi Baathist scum and sucking up to Iran and Russia.

Not to mention crushing democratic impulses in Lebanon.

JVW (4826a9) — 5/7/2013 @ 10:08 am

The lesson here is clear, don’t do anything out of the box, even if it led you to Bin Laden.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-selects-new-head-of-clandestine-service-passing-over-female-officer-tied-to-interrogation-program/2013/05/07/c43e5f94-b727-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html

narciso (3fec35) — 5/7/2013 @ 10:11 am

I hope Christie makes it. He will still need to eat carefully and exercise. http://imgur.com/QfrB6OU

Re the ladies in Cleveland, Charles Ramsey wins quote of the year. http://imgur.com/WyqAv5Z

Both images safe for work.

nk the redditor (875f57) — 5/7/2013 @ 10:26 am

Good news for now;

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/06/obama-admin-gives-up-forcing-bible-publisher-to-obey-hhs-mandate/

narciso (3fec35) — 5/7/2013 @ 10:40 am

http://trib.com/opinion/columns/destroy-the-rape-culture/article_295d963a-df78-557b-a3c9-6c4ba30705b6.html

SarahW (b0e533) — 5/7/2013 @ 11:34 am

no means no take back the night hands off my uterus

happyfeet (c60db2) — 5/7/2013 @ 11:44 am

Cristie goes under the knife,
Losing weight just might save his life!
Great this sure sounds,
He will lose the pounds,
But Jay Leno with jokes will be rife.

The Limerick Avenger (3e4784) — 5/7/2013 @ 12:17 pm

Oh, Ok, Chris Christie gets lap-band surgery.

In the throes of my dyslexia I initially read it as “lap-dance therapy.”

Which would of course mean he had recently joined Al Qaeda and was about to kill a large numbers of Americans within hours of leaving the strip club.

Steve57 (da9e0e) — 5/7/2013 @ 12:17 pm

I will gladly pay
You Tuesday for hamburger
And lap band today.

The Senryu Avenger (3e4784) — 5/7/2013 @ 12:19 pm

When Christie runs for President, he’ll genuinely be able to say that as Governor, he has trimmed the fat !

Elephant Stone (e8548f) — 5/7/2013 @ 12:20 pm

What up Frey! Headed back to work here in a few weeks. Doing what I love….driving. Finally going to use my CDL License.

Thinking Americanist (f5b7f9) — 5/7/2013 @ 12:24 pm

Irony, quite crunchy;

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/05/irate-colbert-bush-lashes-out-at-sanford-over-release-of-her-arrest-record/#disqus_thread

narciso (3fec35) — 5/7/2013 @ 12:38 pm

Wow, does everyone in the Colbert family seriously have those big ears ?
Maybe they’re related to the ~~Dunhams~~ ~~Soetoros~~ Obamas.

Elephant Stone (e8548f) — 5/7/2013 @ 12:44 pm

“lap-dance therapy.”

Steve57 – There is a lot of that going on in New Jersey and points south. Ask Sen. Menendez.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/7/2013 @ 12:50 pm

26. Steve57 – There is a lot of that going on in New Jersey and points south. Ask Sen. Menendez.

Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/7/2013 @ 12:50 pm

Just as long as the gub’mint will pay for it.

The EBT card. Don’t wage jihad without it.

Steve57 (da9e0e) — 5/7/2013 @ 1:02 pm

“Just as long as the gub’mint will pay for it.”

Steve57 – I understand people can major in lap dancing at Rutgers, so yes government loans and grants are available for skill training.

EBT cards and cash or credit for customers unless they want to pull a Jerry Springer.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/7/2013 @ 1:11 pm

Reminds me of a Bloodhound Gang song.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/7/2013 @ 1:13 pm

…people can major in lap dancing at Rutgers, so yes government loans and grants are available for skill training.

I’ll drink to that. Allahu Akbar!

Steve57 (da9e0e) — 5/7/2013 @ 1:23 pm

I’m not 100% but I’d almost bet lap dancing perpetuates rape culture

happyfeet (c60db2) — 5/7/2013 @ 1:38 pm

Judge Wright decides re: Prenda. Make it so! Popehat I would have gone with the Buffyverse and a pounding with Olaf the Troll God’s Enchanted Hammer, myself, but he’s the judge.

htom (412a17) — 5/7/2013 @ 2:40 pm

The news about Lauryn Hill’s pathetic rationalization for tax evasion reminded me of one of my proudest moments in all my years of cyber-yakking: My response to former Los Angeles Times columnist David Ehrenstein, a gay, black/Jewish liberal whose claim to fame is the 2008 “Magic Negro” piece that inspired conservative satirist Paul Shanklin to record the parody “Barack, The Magic Negro.”

It was during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and Team USA basketball superstar Kobe Bryant — respected by many left-leaners for his fluency in at least four languages — made a somewhat unexpected statement: Not only was he proud to be an American, he thought the USA was the greatest country in the world.

Ehrenstein, who wasn’t impressed with Kobe’s quote, wrote the following in a response:

I was born into a country … that has consistently disappointed me for its craven blood-lust, immorality and greed.

As an African-American I’m well aware of the fact that sports, particularly basketball, is the only profession towards which whites would show such as I any regard whatsoever. I find this situation vomit-provoking.

Comment by David Ehrenstein (699cff) — 8/17/2008 @ 3:02 pm

This set off an exchange of posts between Ehrenstein and I, and in one of my final retorts, I took on the slave mentality that Lauryn Hill also suffers from:

[T]his is the problem with the mindset of Mr. Ehrenstein’s ilk: They never stop thinking in terms of “I’m a slave” even when they are receiving just compensation for their skill. It’s always there in the back of the mind, ready to called to the front at a moment’s notice.

Remember how rags-to-riches billionaire Oprah (no last name necessary) made an ass of herself when she mistakenly figured her wealth and fame should open the doors of Hermes — the snooty Paris boutique — after closing time? She fell back on race (“It was my Crash moment”) and made an international incident out of it. All it took was one quasi-rude French store manager, and BAM! Ms. Moneybags was back in the Deep South, with bare feet and a leaky roof.

I am slightly younger than the Obamas, and have accomplished no goals even remotely close to what either of them have. But I don’t blame anybody but myself for my failures or shortcomings. At times when the quick, easy answer might have been “racism!” I have analyzed each situation, and found that there are more reasonable explanations.

I can’t imagine [that it would make me a happier person to think] that forces I can’t identify or confront are keeping me down. Congrats if that works for you, Dave; it doesn’t work for me.

Comment by L.N. Smithee (a0b21b) — 8/18/2008 @ 10:23 am

L.N. Smithee (8dd57e) — 5/7/2013 @ 2:54 pm

More LN, por favor. I guess we need more open threads.

JD (283b0e) — 5/7/2013 @ 3:03 pm

It’s almost Billy Madison worthy, category error;

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/05/07/Bizarre-Left-Thinks-Obama-Ordered-Special-Ops-to-Benghazi

narciso (3fec35) — 5/7/2013 @ 3:24 pm

Well said, Mr. Smithee.

PatAZ (d0625f) — 5/7/2013 @ 4:00 pm

31. I’m not 100% but I’d almost bet lap dancing perpetuates rape culture

Comment by happyfeet (c60db2) — 5/7/2013 @ 1:38 pm

All the girls I meet working their way through college or law school by giving lap dances say it’s actually the sports team logos at the university that perpetuates rape culture.

But I could be wrong as the music was really loud.

Steve57 (da9e0e) — 5/7/2013 @ 4:08 pm

Chutzpah or some other equivalent;

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/347634/obama-syria-%E2%80%98red-line%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98international-community-has-pretty-good-sense-we-typically

narciso (3fec35) — 5/7/2013 @ 4:35 pm

The republic of Cambridge won’t take the body of speed bump.
He most definitely should be buried in that sanctuary city.

mg (31009b) — 5/7/2013 @ 4:38 pm

elephant’s parade
brown-nose big zer0 and
kick some donkey ass

Colonel Haiku (e3ac12) — 5/7/2013 @ 4:48 pm

Mark Sanford won 54-45.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 5/7/2013 @ 6:15 pm

Yay/meh. I still don’t like him. But I came to dislike Ms. Colbert-Buesch more. I feel sorry for the people of South Carolina. Well … the three that I know. 😉

nk (875f57) — 5/7/2013 @ 6:17 pm

And the RNC were a total bunch of a**holes to bail out on him over some silly post-divorce squabbling with his non-soulmate when Colbert-Buesch had even more squalid skeletons in her closet. What, did they think she would be better for the GOP? Sigh.

nk (875f57) — 5/7/2013 @ 6:22 pm

Yes, it’s not the first time, they get the vapors.

narciso (3fec35) — 5/7/2013 @ 6:28 pm

does Mark Sanford perpetuate rape culture or does rape culture perpetuate Mark Sanford?

I need a glass of chardonnay

happyfeet (c60db2) — 5/7/2013 @ 6:31 pm

By way of Larwyn, NiceDeb:

http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/audio-benghazi-drone-operator-to-hannity-we-were-not-allowed-to-be-armed-that-night/

So, the drone operator knew hours before, on take off, he was expecting action at Benghazi and was not permitted arms that evening.

The draw down was part of the setup, the order to ‘stand down’ in force at first reports of the attack. Stevens’ rushed to Benghazi for an consult just in time to be present.

gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 5/7/2013 @ 7:14 pm

With what he saves on groceries he can easily afford his new smaller clothes.

The one question that is rarely, if ever — or never — asked of obese people is how much money they spend per day, per week, on food. If they truly don’t lay out much cash at grocery stores or eateries, I can sympathize with their condition. Then they can say they’re affected by a very slow metabolism. But for the porkers who spend big bucks on food — particularly if they’re of modest income — I say “fuhgeddaboudit it.”

Mark (dd66de) — 5/7/2013 @ 8:16 pm

sometimes food is just expensive like the best dill pickled cost like $7 a jar at Ralph’s which comes out to over a buck a pickle but they’re really tasty and pro-biotic too and they don’t have hardly no calories – kimchee costs about the same probably cause they have to truck it in from hawaii

on the other hand you can get store-brand bricks of processed cheese product what have a ton of hearty calories for like maybe $4 if you wait til it goes on sale

but trust me stick with the pickles you’ll be way ahead of the game

happyfeet (8ce051) — 5/7/2013 @ 8:20 pm

*pickles* I mean

happyfeet (8ce051) — 5/7/2013 @ 8:20 pm

The news about Lauryn Hill’s pathetic rationalization for tax evasion reminded me of one of my proudest moments in all my years of cyber-yakking: My response to former Los Angeles Times columnist David Ehrenstein, a gay, black/Jewish liberal

I imagine that Hill, as is true of all the folks in the Obama administration who reportedly owe money to the IRS, is a true-blue, dyed-in-the-wool, unrepentant liberal. And not much of a leap in assuming that about her since over 90-plus percent of black folks in general — including the columnist you mention — are of the left. (And people wonder why creating social-cultural-economic stability in a large cross section of black America has been so difficult for several decades?)

If liberalism were a race or ethnicity, that would be the one “race” most important and worthy to such people. A very corrupt, destructive, self-destructive form of liberalism at that.

Mark (dd66de) — 5/7/2013 @ 8:26 pm

Sometimes a pickle is just a pickle. Sometimes it is not.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/7/2013 @ 9:46 pm

they’re pro-biotic!

happyfeet (8ce051) — 5/7/2013 @ 9:48 pm

Mr. Feets – You should try making your own pickles. I currently have six jars of various flavors number two son made for me chilling in the fridge. Suitable for serving when unexpected guests arrive and you’re out of fancy hors d’oeuvres.

daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/7/2013 @ 9:51 pm

you know that’s not a bad idea I think my sister in law can walk me through doing some simple ones then I can play around more

she might even know how to make mom’s bread n butter ones if not my aunt sure does

happyfeet (8ce051) — 5/7/2013 @ 9:53 pm

Unfortunately pickles taste like–pickles. No me gusta.

elissa (11728d) — 5/7/2013 @ 10:08 pm

well there’s sweet and there’s savory

also spicy like doing the spicy hot green bean pickles

happyfeet (8ce051) — 5/7/2013 @ 10:09 pm

you can also pickle okra

I don’t get enough okra here in stupid sunny fascist southern california

fascists positively loathe okra is why – they say it’s mucilaginous and southern

happyfeet (8ce051) — 5/7/2013 @ 10:11 pm

I bought and cooked okra once. Just once. It was mucilaginous to the extreme. No way we were eating it. When I tried to unload it on the poor trusting pooch, our dog who ate anything and everything absolutely refused to go near it. He was a northern dog though.

elissa (11728d) — 5/7/2013 @ 10:19 pm

well if you ever have a chance let the Indian peoples make their version they call it bhindi and it’s very very tasty honestly

the southern stuff – fried or pickled it’s good eats – but you can stew it too to good effect it’s just tricky

happyfeet (8ce051) — 5/7/2013 @ 10:31 pm

Okra is great fried or pickled. It’s also good as a thickening agent in gumbo.

My dad told me that when he was a kid, he would take my grandmother’s boiled okra and throw it to the dogs as a treat. I think he meant that he didn’t want to eat it.

Regardless, he said they would catch the okra, then look around to see where the treat went, not realizing it had slipped down their throats.

This was before TV and video games, so amusement may have been more rural.

Ag80 (19f299) — 5/7/2013 @ 10:31 pm

Pat Smith deserves answers from our treasonous leaders.
How can a mother not be part of the immediate family?
sheeshus cripes almighty.

mg (31009b) — 5/8/2013 @ 4:17 am

Okra is a high maintenance girl. It needs special attention. My father would make it like this. He would brown them crispy in olive oil in a frying pan on the stovetop. He would take them out of the olive oil with a spatula with holes in it. He would add them to the lamb and potatoes in tomato cinnamon sauce with garlic and bake the whole thing in the oven. I still didn’t like them.

nk (875f57) — 5/8/2013 @ 4:58 am

well if you ever have a chance let the Indian peoples make their version they call it bhindi and it’s very very tasty honestly

Bhindi is yummy. So is the middle-eastern way of cooking them in a tomato sauce.

Milhouse (3d0df0) — 5/8/2013 @ 2:26 pm

So, the death toll in the Bangladesh factory collapse has topped 800.

Kinda puts West, TX and the Marathon Bombing in perspective.

Leviticus (17b7a5) — 5/8/2013 @ 6:49 pm

Ag80,

Where I live, we still like to watch the sprinkler water the grass. We’ve even been known to just watch the grass.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 5/8/2013 @ 7:01 pm

Has it been three weeks;

http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-dagestani-relative-tamerlan-tsarnaev-prominent-islamist-171006979.html

narciso (3fec35) — 5/8/2013 @ 7:10 pm

I had fried Okra once, I forget where, but I actually was enthused about it because it reminded me of fried green tomatoes, which I love.
But since we haven’t grown tomatoes for some time and don’t have any green ones on the vine at the first frost, I’ve been out of luck.

Anyone ever eat a tomatillo? What do you do with it. Green tomatoes in their own little bag.

MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 5/8/2013 @ 7:14 pm

I don’t know, MD, tomatoes should be red, I’ve never had the green ones;

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/08/boston-bombing-suspect-widow-hires-criminal-lawyer/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fnational+%28Internal+-+US+Latest+-+Text%29

narciso (3fec35) — 5/8/2013 @ 7:16 pm

When you have green ones (not ripe) you slice them, dip them in egg, then cornmeal, then fry.
State fairs from MN to Texas know that just about everything is better fried.
But you need to grow your own, cause you can’t find green in the store.

MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 5/8/2013 @ 7:22 pm

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Water purification is the process of removing undesirable chemicals, biological contaminants, suspended solids and gases from contaminated water (7f52c5) — 5/17/2013 @ 10:05 pm

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