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Reports: Egypt to dissolve Brotherhood as NGO
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Poll: Majority Of Americans Approve Of Sending Congress To Syria
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 09/06/2013 17:04 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ....the comments, are for the most part, worth the read....
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 09/06/2013 18:34 Comments || Top||

#2  ....oops.....gotta go here for the comments...be careful, however, they are kind of nervous.... ;-)
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 09/06/2013 18:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Too bad this is fake...
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/06/2013 21:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Why just Congress, how about throwing in the Exec, its bureaucracy, and the Judiciary while you're at it. Term limits with teeth.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/06/2013 23:20 Comments || Top||


Europe
Oh! The picture of Hollande that AFP put a 'mandatory kill' notice on is glorious.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Photoshopped.
Posted by: JFM || 09/06/2013 5:53 Comments || Top||

#2  I very much doubt that.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/06/2013 7:48 Comments || Top||

#3  We all make goofy faces now and then, especially around kids.

Still, I think that's his new portrait for the 'Burg...
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2013 8:36 Comments || Top||

#4  What's happening under the table...?
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 09/06/2013 9:12 Comments || Top||

#5  The Hollande Daze.

With very available hi-def digital video, finding a goofy face is easy. In a way, it is now easy to discount an oopsie photo with what the intent is of the editor.

I'm not a fan of this tax monger, but even I can take a picture of a desk of people making a funny face and crop it down to make one person's absurdity. Could even adjust the hue and saturation to make him look greenish like he just had a school lunch.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/06/2013 9:19 Comments || Top||

#6  The Hollande Daze

Or "Are you f---ing kidding me?"
Posted by: Pappy || 09/06/2013 11:05 Comments || Top||

#7  No Fred. Politicains don't make goofy faces unless they are alone in secret nuclear bunker dug in some desert island in the middle of the Pacific.

Also the smile is far too large to have been made spontaneously. Alos in s areal smaile that wide the liops would bestretched sidewise not upwards.

My diagnostic is that someone used photoshop to stretch Hollande's smile. It is very easy. Some years ago I did it too except it was in order to shorten a skirt. :-)
Posted by: JFM || 09/06/2013 12:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Bright Pebbles might correct me on this..but I believe the proper caption would be "gormless"
Posted by: Unineger Barnsmell4545 || 09/06/2013 19:14 Comments || Top||


Government
Congressional Black Caucus Instructed to Hold Tongue on Syria
As an increasing number of African-American lawmakers voice dissent over the Obama administration's war plans in Syria, the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has asked members to "limit public comment" on the issue until they are briefed by senior administration officials.
Oh, I see, special separate briefings for special political separatists ?
A congressional aide to a CBC member called the request "eyebrow-raising," in an interview with The Cable, and said the request was designed to quiet dissent while shoring up support for President Obama's Syria strategy.
Stay on the plantation. Don't listen to your ears, the massa needs us.
The CBC, a crucial bloc of more than 40 votes the White House likely needs to authorize a military strike in Syria, is scheduled to be briefed by White House National Security Advisor Susan Rice on Monday. Until then, CBC chairwoman Marcia Fudge has asked colleagues to "limit public comment until [they] receive additional details," Fudge spokeswoman Ayofemi Kirby told the cable.
Additional perks details await you.

When asked if the White House requested the partial gag order, National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said "the Administration is reaching out to all Members to ensure they have the information they need to make an informed judgment on this issue." Kirby said it was her boss's request and was aimed at keeping members informed rather than silencing anti-war members.
Appears most members have enough information and have already decided. Are CBC member not able to comprehend the facts and issues as well as everyone else?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2013 02:05 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "know your place"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/06/2013 9:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Step-n-fetch-it!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/06/2013 10:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Wait, I thought the military infantry was like 90% poor black urban kids who were suckered and lured into the military by police arrests and the gun lobby to fight The Man's wars?

Com'on CBC, fight the power!

"Don't speak unless you say what I tell you to say"
"Yes Boss"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/06/2013 10:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is heading the Congressional Democratic antiwar group. Be interesting to see what comes.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/06/2013 11:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Probably trying to figure out how to make this an issue about race.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/06/2013 11:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Any instructions for the Congressional White Caucus?
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/06/2013 12:05 Comments || Top||

#7  That would be waycist.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/06/2013 13:19 Comments || Top||

#8  And they do as they are told...
Posted by: Elmearong Gurly-Brown5896 || 09/06/2013 13:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Susan "YouTube" Rice is gonna brief 'em?

At what point are these people gonna realize they been had?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 09/06/2013 13:47 Comments || Top||

#10  Us Pigfordians gotta stick together.
Posted by: Throlet Theling4573 || 09/06/2013 17:52 Comments || Top||

#11  "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

Still waiting...
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 09/06/2013 18:10 Comments || Top||

#12  Who is the 'house negro' now?
Posted by: SteveS || 09/06/2013 18:12 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2013-09-06
  Reports: Egypt to dissolve Brotherhood as NGO
Thu 2013-09-05
  Egypt's Minister Mohammed Ibrahim survives bomb attack
Wed 2013-09-04
  Spain Arrests Suspected Jihadist Leader
Tue 2013-09-03
  Syria asks UN to 'prevent any aggression'
Mon 2013-09-02
  Taliban target U.S. army base in Nangarhar, attack ongoing
Sun 2013-09-01
  Leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Badie suffers heart attack in jail
Sat 2013-08-31
  Breaking: Obama hands the ball off to Congress
Fri 2013-08-30
  Egypt Police Arrest Senior Islamist Beltagi
Thu 2013-08-29
  Report: 20 Injured In Another Chemical Attack In Syria
Wed 2013-08-28
  DEATH SENTENCE FOR Maj. NIDAL HASAN
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  Belmokhtar, MUJAO launch new jihadist group
Mon 2013-08-26
  Security forces claim seizure of 500 kgs explosives in Khyber
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  Hungry Boko Haram hard boyz turn cannibal
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  Twin blasts at Lebanese mosques kill at least 43
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