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-Lurid Crime Tales-
IRS watchdog reveals Lois Lerner missing emails now subject of criminal probe
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
's inspector general confirmed Thursday it is conducting a criminal investigation into how Lois G. Lerner's emails disappeared, saying it took only two weeks for Sherlocks to find hundreds of tapes the agency's chief had told Congress were irretrievably destroyed.

Investigators have already scoured 744 backup tapes and gleaned 32,774 unique emails, but just two weeks ago they found an additional 424 tapes that could contain even more Lerner emails, Deputy Inspector General Timothy P. Camus told the House Oversight Committee in a rare late-night hearing meant to look into the status of the investigation.

"There is potential criminal activity," Mr. Camus said.
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2015 11:50 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Only took 'em 2+ years...
Posted by: Pappy || 02/27/2015 13:28 Comments || Top||

#2  The IRS used to operate at the inter-agency, LE, and intelligence levels via compartmented 'focal points.' I will always believe Lerner was a focal point person which the White House simply tapped into and exploited. She's been given a pass for a reason, and I suspect it involves more than a bunch of bootlicking White House staffers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2015 13:37 Comments || Top||

#3  The key phrase being criminal probe. One of these days there will be a new boss in the White House, and it's likely he will have several bones to pick with the IRS... and a mandate to pick them clean.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/27/2015 16:17 Comments || Top||

#4  I am curious as to the EMails between Lerner & Obama
Posted by: BigEdLB || 02/27/2015 17:07 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Clinton talks about her fall, no lingering effects.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2015 11:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, one lingering effect is that she is still amongst us.
Posted by: Blackbeard Elmereck7359 || 02/27/2015 12:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Contemplating another 4-8 years of the Clintons reveals how totally messed up our electorate, political thinking, and process really is.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2015 13:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Nothing but a little drain bamage.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/27/2015 18:51 Comments || Top||

#4  The vaterloss Volkers have chosen;
The surface of Hades is frozen...
It's the triumph of Hill!
Now she'll show us and Bill
Who's fittest to wear lederhosen.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 02/27/2015 19:22 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Obama to ban bullets by executive action, threatens top-selling AR-15 rifle
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] As promised, President B.O. is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic, with a ban on one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this month revealed that it is proposing to put the ban on 5.56 mm ammo on a fast track, immediately driving up the price of the bullets and prompting retailers, including the huge outdoors company Cabela's, to urge sportsmen to urge Congress to stop the president.
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2015 11:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Blackbeard Elmereck7359 || 02/27/2015 14:32 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Attorney General Says His Critics May Be Partly Driven By Race
[POLITICO] Attorney General Eric Inaction Jackson Holder
... aka Mister Fast and Furious...
plans to push, during his final weeks in office, a new standard of proof for civil-rights offenses, saying in an exit interview with POLITICO that such a change would make the federal government "a better backstop" against discrimination in cases like Ferguson and Trayvon Martin.

In a lengthy discussion ranging from his own exposure to the civil rights movement of the '60s to today's controversies surrounding the shootings of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, Holder also acknowledged that he felt some of his own struggles with Republicans in Congress during his six years in office were driven partly by race.

"There have been times when I thought that's at least a piece of it," Holder said, adding that "I think that the primary motivator has probably been political in nature ... [but] you can't let it deflect you from ... your eyes on the prize."
"Eye on the prize".... yes indeed. That would be the day your sorry arse is finally removed from office and banished.
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2015 11:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  no, Eric, I's not me... it's you.
Posted by: Albert Pelosi2674 || 02/27/2015 12:10 Comments || Top||

#2  It had a lot to to with race because Holder is a racist.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/27/2015 12:17 Comments || Top||

#3  I believe Gov. Wallace had the same opinion.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2015 12:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Nope.

You are just a partisan hack and a fuck up.
Race has nothing to do with it.

Now go away.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/27/2015 14:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Oddly enough Conservatives hated Janet Reno as well. Perhaps Democat Attorney Generals that stretch beyond the constitution is the problem.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2015 14:37 Comments || Top||


Obama Dares GOP: Go Ahead, 'Have a Vote on Whether What I'm Doing Is Legal--I Will Veto'
[MRCTV.ORG] Pres. Obama is daring Republicans to vote on whether or not his executive actions are legal.

Discussing opposition to his executive amnesty orders at an immigration town hall Wednesday, Obama said he would veto the vote because his actions are "the right thing to do":

"So in the short term, if Mr. McConnell, the leader of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House, John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner
... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans...
, want to have a vote on whether what I'm doing is legal or not, they can have that vote. I will veto that vote, because I'm absolutely confident that what we're doing is the right thing to do."

Obama argued that he has merely "expanded my authorities" -- not broken any laws:

"What we've done is we've expanded my authorities under executive action and prosecutorial discretion as far as we can legally under the existing statute, the existing law. And so now the question is, how can we get a law passed."
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Truth be told, I rather see this from the Bammer than for US GOP-Dem Politicos to keep voting or supporting Amnesty for illegals decade after decade, Admin after Admin, etc. while calling it everything or anything but Amnesty.

I HAVE TO RESPECT THE BAMMER FOR THAT.

Its what the Country gets or deserves for routinely re-electing Wafflers as National Leaders.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/27/2015 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Repubs leadership is gutless. McConnell especially is a d**kless wonder - he got folded over like an envelope.
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/27/2015 0:26 Comments || Top||

#3  FOAD
Posted by: newc || 02/27/2015 0:38 Comments || Top||

#4  IMHO, the Republican electorate is comprised of intelligent and see-through-the-BS people but with incredibly inept leadership. The Democrats have the opposite set of circumstances.

So far, this has worked very well for the Dems.
Posted by: Blackbeard Elmereck7359 || 02/27/2015 9:15 Comments || Top||

#5 
No. We don't go there.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/27/2015 10:15 Comments || Top||

#6  So if he vetoes that vote, along with him going against what a judge rules on immigration, wouldn't that pretty much be saying that the whole checks and balances thing is over with?
Posted by: chris || 02/27/2015 10:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Some things take time. This is going to be one of them. Among other things, to vote in people with the right attitude, who will eventually replace the current leadership.

The system was designed to be evolutionary rather than revolutionary, which is why at the the moment our senior politicians as a group are considerably more liberal than the voters. On the other hand, look how many of the most liberal have been voted out in recent years, replaced by conservative Republicans, many with military experience, persons of colour, females, etc.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/27/2015 11:44 Comments || Top||

#8  In the past this would have been labelled a constitutional crisis and impeachment would have been the remedy. Unfortunately, our Dear (Loss) Leader is the equivalent of what the tort lawyers call "judgement proof", by virtue of his tan.
Posted by: Albert Pelosi2674 || 02/27/2015 12:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Have a Vote on Whether What I'm Doing Is Legal

...except that the immunities of office disappear when rampant and blatant disregard of the law occur. Subjecting the individual to suits* and prosecution upon leaving office.

* remember o'Bill claimed immunity too. Didn't work out that way in the trial.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2015 12:22 Comments || Top||

#10  Republicans need to stop sending him money. They need to stop worrying about what the press will say if the government shuts down due to lack of funds. This is important enough that they need to stop worrying about whether or not they will get re-elected and do the right thing. I myself cannot keep voting Republican for exactly the opposite reason that many of them seem to fear. I want them the shut the damn thing down. But it seems they want amnesty just as much as Obama does so they won't do anything. I'm finished with them. The Republicans have lost me.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/27/2015 12:25 Comments || Top||

#11  I'd like to suggest that Republicans need to take the gloves off with this guy. It's nice to talk about remaining civil and respecting his office, but when he openly declares his contempt for such things, and the rule of law in general, then you have been handed a free license to fight dirty. Use it. Or lose.
Posted by: Iblis || 02/27/2015 12:59 Comments || Top||

#12  It's like a bunch of suburban school boys found themselves in a Chicago back alley. They don't have a clue.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/27/2015 13:46 Comments || Top||

#13 
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 || 02/27/2015 20:21 Comments || Top||

#14  The Bammer wants to see iff his GOP-DEM rivals will take the matter to the Fed Courts, i.e. Fed District Court, + ultimately the USSC as only the USSC can decide on the Contitutionality of Presidential Executive Privelege/Action.

IMO the Bammer doesn't care about any Capitol or Congressional vote - as long as his Admin are not taken before a Fed District Court or espec the USSC, HIS EXECUTIVE ACTIONS ARE LEGAL, + ARE CONSTITUTIONAL, HENCE HIS POLICIES + GUIDELINES ARE SUCH ALSO. AS LONG AS HIS ADMIN CAN SHOW THAT HIS EXECUTIVE ACTIONS DOESN'T VIOLATE "SEPARATION OF POWERS, CFR, US CONSTITUTION, ETC. LEGAL PRECEDENTS, THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH = FEDERAL AGENCIES WILL HAVE TO FOLLOW-N-OBEY HIS DECISIONS.

NO ANTI-BAMMER USSC DECISION = OBAMA + ANTI-US GLOBALISTS WIN.

POTUS Eisenhower followed US Law at the time + wasn't afraid to deport illegal immigrants ASAP or en masse' - didn't even think about it. NO such thing as waiting 10 or 20 years or entire Lifetimes to decide iff an illegal was an illegal.

Nowadays the Deadly Hollow-Points are for use agz Americans; while Amerikans + Domestic, Foreign Jihadis merit the Rubber Bullets + Tasers.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/27/2015 22:11 Comments || Top||


Ben Carson charges Democrats with taking advantage of blacks
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Dr. Ben Carson grabbed the Democratic Party's third rail with both hands Thursday morning, launching a political attack based on his complaint that liberals are 'making people dependent' in majority-black American inner-cities.
It took a brain surgeon to figure this one out ?
Race politics have been the near-exclusive domain of the Democrats since the civil-rights era of the 1960s, and Barack Obama
We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us...
's successful White House bid in 2008 solidified their position.

But Carson -- the most prominent black Republican in the 2016 presidential picture -- told the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, D.C. on Thursday that the Democrats now see African-Americans' support as an entitlement -- choosing to 'keep them suppressed and cultivate their votes.'
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Someone finally speaking the truth of how blacks have become philosophically enslaved - unthinking blinkered bloc vote for whoever their self-appointed press-anointed "leaders" say to vote. Step n fetch and be an obedient little negro, you'll get taken care of by your masters.
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/27/2015 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Wasn't it LBJ who said "I'll have those N-words voting democrat for the next fifty years!"
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/27/2015 1:03 Comments || Top||

#3  LBJ: 200 years.
Posted by: Percy Shearong1083 || 02/27/2015 7:03 Comments || Top||

#4  There is one number that succinctly embodies what's wrong with the black community.

71% of non-Hispanic black children are born to unwed mothers.

The most effective, and despicable, method to keep them n*****s down was the total destruction of the black family by Democrat policies.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/27/2015 7:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Black Republicans seriously attacking Democrats. Real Republicans taking battle positions.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 02/27/2015 11:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Think of were we would all be today if Dr Carson had been our first black President. Yeah weak on international policy but he would have hired somebody like Condi Rice. Putin is terrified of her.
Posted by: Jiggs White1864 || 02/27/2015 18:46 Comments || Top||


Government
Pubs Divided On Net Neutrality
[NATIONALJOURNAL] As Internet activists celebrated their net-neutrality win Thursday, Republicans were already plotting their Dire Revenge.

GOP politicians were virtually unanimous in expressing their outrage about the Federal Communications Commission's vote to reclassify the Internet as a utility. But there is widening disagreement within the ranks about just what flavor of Dire Revenge the party should ultimately pursue, such as compromise legislation, a congressional resolution of disapproval, or a fight over FCC funding.

"There's going to be a lot of Republicans in both the House and Senate who are going to want to express their opposition to what the FCC is doing," Sen. John Thune, who chairs the upper chamber's Commerce Committee, told National Journal moments before the FCC vote took place. "If we can't come together behind a legislative solution, I suspect that those other options are on the table."

Thune, the Senate's No. 3 Republican, has been at the forefront of his party's efforts to pursue legislation that would essentially enforce the meat of the FCC's net-neutrality protections without designating the Internet as a "telecommunications service." Though Thune has had some success earning the interest of a handful of moderate Democrats, such as Sens. Bill Nelson and Claire McCaskill
...Now, why would I pay taxes on my airplane? Send the bill to the taxpayers!...
, most Democrats have shown little interest in the proposal.
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2015 12:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  1. Government creates monopoly ISPs.

2. Monopoly ISPs piss off pretty much everyone.

3. Government declares market failure and regulates the ISPs.

Sounds like government at its best. Create the problem, then spend the next 100 years 'fixing' it.
Posted by: Iblis || 02/27/2015 12:55 Comments || Top||

#2  My guess is there will be nothing 'neutral' about net neutrality.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2015 13:21 Comments || Top||

#3  That's the irony. Feds created a situation so bad that many people think a government takeover would be an improvement. Same thing they did with healthcare.
Posted by: Iblis || 02/27/2015 13:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Remember Pubs once out in the open, its tough to put back in...

Posted by: Grusotch the Florid7905 || 02/27/2015 18:26 Comments || Top||


Obama Remembers Trayvon Martin at African-American History Month Event
[Breitbart] Thursday at the White House, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama hosted a reception in recognition of African-American History Month.

Obama said, "Today, on the third anniversary of Trayvon Martin's death, showing all our kids, all of them, every single day, that their lives matter."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2015 05:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Simply no way he could honor REAL American heroes as the last of them pass into history, he simply cannot relate.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2015 6:27 Comments || Top||

#2  IMO, improvement on Numia Abu Jamal.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2015 8:08 Comments || Top||

#3  There are black Americans who could be honored; honoring a black thug is an insult to these black Americans.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/27/2015 9:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Well the National Socialist made a pimp and street thug their martyr, Horst Wessel. Even made a spiffy tune that went to number one in Berlin (with a bullet).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2015 9:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Choom gang member of the year award.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 02/27/2015 10:19 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm an Irish guy from the suburbs - the first Black man I ever worked for was Senior Master Sergeant Dickens. Every night at guard mount he would inspect us, shake each of our hands and tell to be careful on post and come back in one piece. Then during the night he would come out and check on each and every one of us. Thanks for giving a shit about me Sarge.
Posted by: Jiggs White1864 || 02/27/2015 13:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Very thoughtful tribute Jiggs. Says a lot about a man, things he remembers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2015 13:56 Comments || Top||

#8  When they start to really address black on black crime and the black culture that is tearing itself apart I'll start to consider them as serious on race. As it is now they are not much better than Sharpton.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2015 14:36 Comments || Top||


Regulators OK 'net neutrality' rules for Internet providers
[APNEWS.MYWAY] Internet service providers like Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile now must act in the "public interest" when providing a mobile connection to your home or phone, under rules approved Thursday by a divided Federal Communications Commission.

The plan, which puts the Internet in the same regulatory camp as the telephone and bans business practices that are "unjust or unreasonable," represents the biggest regulatory shakeup to the industry in almost two decades. The goal is to prevent providers from slowing or blocking web traffic, or creating paid fast lanes on the Internet, said FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.
It's not about 'injustice or fairness'... it's about control, but we all knew that.
The 3-2 vote was expected to trigger industry lawsuits that could take several years to resolve. Still, consumer advocates cheered the regulations as a victory for smaller Internet-based companies which feared they would have to pay "tolls" to move their content.
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Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Had to pass it to find out whats in it - significant portions were NOT available for public comment before passage.

Have we learned nothing? Will the courts put a stop to this executive branch overreach - lawmaking without the legislatiors?
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/27/2015 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  So now AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and others who spent BILLIONS running cables to each and every house must allow the likes of Google to ride that very expensive infrastructure for a 'reasonable cost' (meaning practically for free).
How socialistic...
And pretty soon Fred will be required to have half the content on rantburg come from the likes of moveon.org and MSNBC - for fairness. And of course using them as a chew toy wouldn't be allowed. Not Politically Correct.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/27/2015 0:48 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2015 1:08 Comments || Top||

#4  The regime pushes for more control over the economy by administrative fiat. Obama is pushing for "ammunition control (essentially gun control) via an executive order as well. More over-reach here.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/27/2015 9:20 Comments || Top||

#5  We don't need no stinkin' Congress.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/27/2015 12:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Does this mean I have a right to an internet connection at my home? Can I get ATT to run a line there? At somebody else's expense?
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/27/2015 12:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Soon Internet access will be classified as a basic human right and those on welfare will be entitied to Gigabit broadband at government (or rather ATT/Comcast/Verizon) expense while us working fools have to take whatever remains at high prices since we have to subsidise the drug dealers and gang-bangers.
Posted by: Crazyfool || 02/27/2015 13:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Crazy ~ It would only be fair. We.... 'net privileged' should be held accountable !
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2015 13:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Obama killed IEEE P802.1p

Not catchy, but probably true.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/27/2015 17:05 Comments || Top||

#10  >
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 || 02/27/2015 20:53 Comments || Top||


Docs reveal State Dept. Knew Immediately that Assault on Benghazi was Armed Attack
[Judicial Watch] Washington, DC -- Judicial Watch announced today that on February 11, 2015, it uncovered documents from the U.S. Department of State revealing that top aides for then-Secretary of State Hildebeest, including her then minder - chief of staff Cheryl Mills, knew from the outset that the Benghazi mission compound was under attack by armed assailants tied to a terrorist group. The documents were produced as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State ((No. 1:14-cv-01511). The documents make no reference to a spontaneous demonstration or Internet video, except in an official statement issued by The Hildebeest.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hillary knew,. No big deal. People died due to her bad decision making - now THAT is a big deal.

Biggest deal of all? Hillary lied to the public and covered up her role in the deaths.
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/27/2015 0:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Susan Rice got promoted for her lying; Hillary is looking for her promotion in 2016. The media, the RINOs and the sheeple are ready to give it to her.
Posted by: Airandee || 02/27/2015 7:00 Comments || Top||

#3  The question is: Will Jeb Bush have the guts to talk about it during the election campaign?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/27/2015 12:10 Comments || Top||

#4  I still suspect there is more behind this than simple political ass-covering lying. Thinking the lying was to hide activity of the Iran-Contra style.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/27/2015 12:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Another question is whether or not this matters to an increasingly growing group of the electorate who has moved on to other matters (Madonna's pratfall, last episode of Parks and Recreation, etc.).
Posted by: Blackbeard Elmereck7359 || 02/27/2015 13:14 Comments || Top||

#6  We have reached the tipping point. A sufficient number of the electorate has now been purchased. With food stamps, wine, and MJ in hand, they care nothing about Benghazi or the deaths of brave warriors.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2015 13:18 Comments || Top||

#7  MJ in hand

I don't know that that lot will bestir themselves to actually vote about anything lss urgent than a threat to the possibility of losing that MJ...
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/27/2015 14:29 Comments || Top||

#8  Might've been all the gunfire and incoming mortar rounds that clued them in.
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/27/2015 16:57 Comments || Top||

#9  islam is peace.

But when they needed cover for Benghazi, the most believable story they could come up with was a video lampooning islam.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2015 17:22 Comments || Top||

#10  Fear notteth, Amerika, the ACLU will righteously sue "NRA Vlad" for NOT sending in the Russian Airborne to save Amerika from Americans, + Domestic-Global Jihad.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/27/2015 21:35 Comments || Top||


Head of Chicago Teachers Union: Rahm is finished.
[Politics & City Life] It's the day after Election Day, and most of the analysis undoubtedly will center on what exactly happened that forced Rahm Emanuel into a runoff election against Jesus "Chuy" Garcia on April 7. And while that may be the biggest headline, one other shade to this year's municipal elections is just how much the Chicago Teachers Union flexed its muscle.

This morning I called Jesse Sharkey, the 45-year-old former high school teacher who took over as head of the CTU when Karen Lewis was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor last fall. (She has since returned to work.) For more on who Sharkey is and what drives him, read my interview with him from last November (part 1 here, part 2 here).

Sharkey was on his way to work and tired--out late at Garcia's victory party--but exalting in Garcia's victory, not to mention the slew of victories (or at least forced runoffs) of CTU-backed aldermanic candidates. Garcia will be the next mayor, Sharkey says, adding that politics in Chicago has changed forever.
I'd have to see that to believe it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Starkey better watch out for the elite building inspector assault squad
Posted by: Shipman || 02/27/2015 7:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Rahm is finished? Couldn't happen to a nicer guy (sarc).
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/27/2015 9:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Can't they elect Jerry Garcia instead of Jesus? It's Chicago, so if Jerry can get all the votes of the dead he should win, right?
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/27/2015 12:58 Comments || Top||



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Bright Pebbles
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Gloria
Fred
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Frank G
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Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2015-02-27
  Third alleged accomplice in Copenhagen shootings arrested
Thu 2015-02-26
  Islamic State video shows destruction of ancient Iraqi artefacts
Wed 2015-02-25
  SECURITY MoD: Iraqi forces liberate most of al-Baghdadi, Anbar
Tue 2015-02-24
  ISIS executes three of its leaders for cowardice in Diyali
Mon 2015-02-23
  Libya: ISIS claims it bombed Iran envoy's residence
Sun 2015-02-22
  Hotel staffers arrested after deadly bombing
Sat 2015-02-21
  Dozens Dead in Shebab Attack on Mogadishu Hotel
Fri 2015-02-20
  45 dead in eastern Libya bombings, Islamic extremists claim responsibility
Thu 2015-02-19
  Rebels report death of 195 pro-Assad fighters in Aleppo
Wed 2015-02-18
  IS launches attack to regain Yazidi city of Shingal
Tue 2015-02-17
  Islamic State militants 'burn to death 45 in Iraq'
Mon 2015-02-16
  Egypt launches air strikes against IS militias in Libya
Sun 2015-02-15
  SECOND Copenhagen shooting at synagogue
Sat 2015-02-14
  21 Coptic Christians slaughtered in Libya
Fri 2015-02-13
  Thousands expected at funeral for 3 Muslims killed in US

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