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State Department Preparing for Bombshell Benghazi Revelations?
Breitbart´s Big Peace, by AWR Hawkins
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 12/14/2012 9:21:26 PM
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| This week, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice withdrew her name from consideration as the next Secretary of State, while current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went from definitely testifying on Benghazi next week to a slightly less-certain "maybe" testifying on Benghazi next week. While Rice´s and Clinton´s respective announcements could be unrelated, it seems more than likely that they are connected. Moreover, it seems likely these developments are indicative of a State Dept that is preparing for bombshell Benghazi revelations to be released with or without Clinton´s testimony.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
wsdiego, 12/14/2012 9:43:31 PM (No. 9066432)
Nit -wit amateurs posing as know-it-alls´!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
privateer, 12/14/2012 9:44:15 PM (No. 9066433)
I see she is still wearing the phony blue contacts! Isn´t that sort of like a black person straightening their hair....or a white person pretending to be an indian. Dems are the definition of fake.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
janylou, 12/14/2012 10:16:36 PM (No. 9066478)
I hope there are some people disgusted enough with this bunch to blow the lid off of all their secrets.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
dr.lakerman, 12/14/2012 10:31:21 PM (No. 9066496)
Subpoena Hillary. Subpoena Susan Rice. Stop delaying matters, members of congress. Do your jobs.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bob913, 12/14/2012 11:47:26 PM (No. 9066570)
Where are the survivors? Where? It has been more than 3 months!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
otronome, 12/15/2012 12:07:43 AM (No. 9066595)
PIAPS won´t show until she thinks she can lie without fear of immediate contradiction by the facts.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
annie xango, 12/15/2012 12:15:59 AM (No. 9066604)
#5 I would lay odds they aren´t in the US..more like the military hospital in Germany, Landstuhl or one of those.I would bet they are on...lockdown...and the families probably has a little "visit" from the gubmint..clam up...eventually , (hopefully) truth will come out.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LadyVet, 12/15/2012 12:18:45 AM (No. 9066606)
Hillary will delay testifying until after most of Congress has gone home for the holidays. Once the focus has gone to family and the holidays, she´ll try to sneak it all under the radar of the media.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Spidey, 12/15/2012 1:15:17 AM (No. 9066649)
This picture alone should eliminate Hillary from 2016.
But anyway,I wouldn´t count on any earthshaking news to come out of this review. Obama has everybody in his back pocket. Oh,there will be some measure of condemnation but nothing firing squad worthy.Rice got out because there was too much proof she was a liar.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
KTWO, 12/15/2012 1:24:09 AM (No. 9066653)
The article seems to be mostly "could be".
i.e. inferring the motives of Rice and Clinton and what might be in a report we might never get to read.
It could be right, speculators sometimes are.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 12/15/2012 3:23:30 AM (No. 9066718)
The Hildebeast won´t testify until she personally scrubs that report and white washes it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
volksford, 12/15/2012 3:25:50 AM (No. 9066719)
Warning: Brace yourself if you click the article.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 12/15/2012 4:54:51 AM (No. 9066764)
What do Benghazi & Fast & Furious have in common? Both were operations intended to put arms in the hands of thinly masked terrorists.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
strike3, 12/15/2012 6:55:02 AM (No. 9066820)
Unarmed security. US weapons in the hands of terrorists. Enough military power standing by to flatten the whole city around the compound told to "stand down." Top level of government knowing there was grave danger to US lives before and during the attack.
What can be more shocking?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
saryden, 12/15/2012 7:06:47 AM (No. 9066832)
Time to impeach!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Nimby, 12/15/2012 7:16:21 AM (No. 9066841)
Bombshell alright !another spin
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
hamrman, 12/15/2012 7:40:07 AM (No. 9066876)
The truth will set you free!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
saucy, 12/15/2012 8:29:43 AM (No. 9066947)
Remember the Clinton M O:
Deny Delay Destroy
....been working for them for 20 years.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
qotw, 12/15/2012 8:33:26 AM (No. 9066956)
Remember, cabinet heads "serve at the pleasure of the president." O bloody bama is in this up to his eyeballs.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 12/15/2012 8:40:24 AM (No. 9066971)
The GOP should attack Clinton relentlessy in order to discourage any idea of ever running for president again.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LAW428, 12/15/2012 8:41:43 AM (No. 9066975)
FTA: ´Some are even saying that they´ve re-evaluated the release procedures for the report and "reject the notion that the final report on Libya [needs] to be shared with Congress at all.´
What the...? Release procedures? Just release the freakin´ report for crying out loud and of course it needs to be shared with Congress! Who are these people, anyway?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
stryker714, 12/15/2012 8:45:20 AM (No. 9066980)
Just look at that picture of her. That is one ugly ass woman! Geez already. One has to wonder what the environment was for her to get a look on her face like that. Maybe it was, "Who, crazy little old fish face me involved in dereliction that got Americans murdered? Nuts! Like me!".
Don´t be so sure nothing will come of the Benghazi debacle. Bamster has three new lost battles in his quiver since his, ahem, landslide election: The Illinois overturn of concealed carry, the loss by unions in Michigan and Rice getting kicked to the curb. More is to come.
Obama and Chicago thugocracy Inc might have everything wired at the national level but they have much to be desired at the state level. They are losing again and again and again as more uninformed Americans catch on to their ways. The lost battles will add up and take their toll. That´s a good thing!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Holeymoses, 12/15/2012 9:06:40 AM (No. 9067039)
Dare we give into our hopes or will it be a question of "let the whitewash begin?" We do need something to confirm justice did not die with Obama´s rule.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
gwmcclintok, 12/15/2012 9:27:07 AM (No. 9067093)
I am willing to bet anyone that every bust in the WH has been urinated on by its occupants. And, they are doing this to Congress as well, ´waterboarding´ every day,,,,with the Congress accepting it.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DoktorFranken, 12/15/2012 9:29:07 AM (No. 9067099)
Here is what the New Media should be hammering this administration on EVERY DAY:
- Watergate saw NO ONE get killed. - The Watergate cover-up did not HIDE 30 survivors from Congress and media questioning. - The Media hounded the Nixon White House EVERY DAY until Nixon resigned, for the sake of the country. - The Nixon tapes were DEMANDED and received by an Congressional investigation committee.
THEN, the New Media should show how THIS administration has lied, stonewalled, and covered-up at every turn.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Lonestar Jack, 12/15/2012 9:54:11 AM (No. 9067178)
I heard that the state dept (under the gorgeous Hillary) had to send out for a case of black markup pens because there was so much redacting going on.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
RancherJack, 12/15/2012 10:04:20 AM (No. 9067205)
Hell hath no fury like a woman whose past has caught up with her.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 12/15/2012 10:12:42 AM (No. 9067219)
Yikes! She must be practicing for her testimony by keeping her lips so tight that it makes it look like she misplaced her dentures. Put a pair of wire-rimmed glasses on her and she could pass for Granny Clampett. Well, except for the likeable and human aspect of Irene Ryan.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
P51DMustang, 12/15/2012 10:20:41 AM (No. 9067238)
Now hear this….all Rats man your life boats. Last Rat on board goes down with the ship…now hear this.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
ketchuplover, 12/15/2012 10:22:24 AM (No. 9067242)
Yeah, #30. Whatever happened anyways to: "The Buck Stops Here" and "The Captain Goes Down with the Ship"? We can only hope.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
sgtfox of the jarhead clan, 12/15/2012 10:33:57 AM (No. 9067265)
Cleverly crafted CYA stories take time to write . Teams of lawyers comb through it for inconsistencies and scrub anything that shows client guilt. Only when the final draft shows Obama as a squeaky clean hero will it be released to the little people.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Arby, 12/15/2012 10:45:40 AM (No. 9067284)
There have already been bombshell revelations. The LSM have either failed to cover them or pretended they didn´t mean anything.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
caddyjak, 12/15/2012 11:29:47 AM (No. 9067391)
The Clinton "modus operendi" is basic...Overwhelm the system with corruption. We can expect another outrage soon in an attempt to obfuscate Benghazi.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
tenncon231, 12/15/2012 12:33:08 PM (No. 9067498)
News alert Fox "hillary clinton fainted and fell incurring a concussion today at the state department, she will be recuperating and working at her home under Dr´s care for the next week"!!!
Leave it to the clintons to find many different ways to avoid a committee hearing under oath!!!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Distorted, 12/15/2012 12:42:39 PM (No. 9067525)
Hillary´s testimony will be obfuscation central. The real facts are best pried from the on-the-ground survivors and witnesses in subpoenaed hearings, under oath, and before cameras.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Rafter, 12/15/2012 1:21:16 PM (No. 9067643)
Hill-err-ee-ass Herself photographed for posterity... Most posteriors look better than her face... Youbetcha!
We now have our campaign photo for 2016... They tried it on Michelle Bachmann, remember... ?
Bammy probably spends all day rubbing Ben-Gay on his Benghazi problem... makes it feel better... Meanwhile, we´ll never be in the loop on the truth on this one... Obviously Obie´d lose his job pronto if we only knew what happened... He cannot let the Electoral College Electors know the truth... he might lose the official vote...
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Words have Meaning, 12/15/2012 2:24:38 PM (No. 9067751)
Hillary fainted,but we don´t know when, and suffered a concussion.
Now if she testifies at all she can say it might have happened that way , but she just can´t remember due to the seriousness of her injury.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Me?Opinionated?Nah!, 12/15/2012 2:25:39 PM (No. 9067757)
Us: “So, Mr. Obama, did you happen to look at your watch in order to note the time just before you issued the order to Stand Down!?”
Him: “Uh. Um. Er.”
Us: “Would you like us to repeat the question?”
Him: “Er. Um. Uh. No, I didn’t note the time. Don’t you know that the only person who wears a wristwatch on a golf course is Phil Mickelson?”
Us: “Oh! So you were on your cell phone at the time, calling from your Situation Golf Cart?”
Him:
Us: “Mr. Obama?”
Him:
Us: “Mr. Obama? Mr. Obama? Did you not deduce our question? Mr. Obama?”
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
belwhatter, 12/15/2012 2:45:28 PM (No. 9067788)
The place to get the ´low down´ is the Canada Free Press, Benghazi Part1, Benghazi Part2 and, best of all, the revelations in Benghazi Part 3. Know what is in there and expect nothing less when Congress sub-poena´s the perps.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Words have Meaning, 12/15/2012 2:50:18 PM (No. 9067794)
Even though Hillary will not be testifing, she wants to state for the record that she can´t understand that it is so easy for her to forget about Benghazi (due to her head injury) why can´t everyone else just forget about Benghazi as well.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
saucy, 12/15/2012 3:01:07 PM (No. 9067810)
After her concussion her mind really IS jell-o.
Talk about EXCUSES!!!!
She must REALLY be guilty on this Benghazi affair.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Shucky, 12/15/2012 3:45:58 PM (No. 9067870)
hillary´s "concussion" is a blatant lie, or she did it on purpose to avoid perjury.
this administration would do anything to avoid being brought to justice.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
pineledger, 12/15/2012 4:05:55 PM (No. 9067890)
This drama is like something a high school class would dream up. Except they would probably do it better.
Laughable.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
paral04, 12/15/2012 4:32:24 PM (No. 9067916)
Well Hillary has an excuse not to testify. She fell down, probably drunk, and claims she has a concussion. How convenient.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
cobieone, 12/15/2012 4:59:29 PM (No. 9067948)
#12, you said it! WOW!!!
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
Lawsy0, 12/15/2012 5:23:42 PM (No. 9067996)
Hospitalizatoin to avoid investigation or prosecution. A´la Jesse Jackson Jr.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
donnaclaire, 12/15/2012 5:23:59 PM (No. 9067997)
How convenient !...(as SNL´s church lady would say). Regarding that ´concussion´ Hillary suffered ´at home´, it certainly was a godsend for her to avoid testifying in the Benghazi hearing. Makes you wonder, doesn´t it?
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
Happy Trails, 12/15/2012 5:26:53 PM (No. 9067999)
"The bigger the front, the bigger the behind." With this rule as a guide, i would say that the cover-up is huge. Was there anyone who believed the cover story with Susan Rice? Send out someone who can testify she knew nothing? "That´s my story, and I´m stickin´ to it." Hillary is the bigger smelling , rotten fish, as we´ve known since her cookie baking days. Obama is the master baiter in this fishy story, and his tales all are based on lies. Since the republican´s think they have been already defeated for 2016, perhaps they could do something altruistic for the country now, and expose the game that´s being played on their innocent countrymen.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
fayebeck, 12/15/2012 5:54:24 PM (No. 9068024)
Absolutely nothing will become of this. No one will be held accountable. A complete nothing burger as the saying goes. Btw....what ever happened to that Issa guy and guns to Mexico. I also seem to remember something about an Able Danger....and what was that defeated congressman´s name. I seem to have forgotten it.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
amethyst, 12/15/2012 6:06:20 PM (No. 9068051)
# 49 Ten-4........two fish(deep in water)one bumps head and turns to the other and says what was that..the reply ..dam(n)..which one is Hillary and which one Rice
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
Philipsonh, 12/15/2012 6:44:31 PM (No. 9068088)
Mrs Clinton´s purported ailments are short-term. Congress should make it clear that they expect her to testify WHENEVER she can make the time. The newscast on radio stated she will be "working the phones". If she can take that action, then she can "answer the questions" before a Congressional committee. It is blatantly obvious that Mrs Clinton has been delaying testifying since the attack occurred. Just issue a subpoena and stop the nonsense that is under way. Otherwise next week her Christmas tree will fall on her and wipe out her memory. I am not disputing the fact that she may have in fact have had a virus, may have fallen, and may have incurred a concussion. Therefore, a week´s delay may be justified But, that is where it should stop. Otherwise, she is purposely delaying her testimony and Congress should take the appropriate action.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 12/15/2012 7:28:31 PM (No. 9068142)
Mrs. Clinton is using the oldest trick in the book to avoid testifying.
How many times have mobsters, financial shysters, or just plain criminals faked illness (the mob boss who roamed NY streets in a bathrobe, mumbling to himself, comes to mind) in order to avoid having to testify, or to stand trial?
She couldn´t remember Whitewater, the Rose Law Firm billing records, and numerous other things--but she was sharp enough to turn $1,000 into $100,000, and to be a Senator and a Secretary of State.
She will just run out the clock on testifying, and will get away with whatever she did or didn´t do vis-a-vis Benghazi.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
peterfleming, 12/15/2012 8:19:17 PM (No. 9068204)
Bilary´s upcoming hearing, testimoy is an espeeially big weight on her shoulders remembering Ron Brown´s death before hearing, Vince Foster´s death knew too much was getting nervous. Bilary knows insiders get killed, wacked, whenever it´s as big a death dealing cover-up as Obama´s idiotic attempt to pull off with Benghazi. She´s an insider on this terrifying death op, that´s not a good place to be. Yeah, she´s sick already. Let´s face it, most Washington insiders are sick, real sick.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
Billyc, 12/15/2012 9:23:05 PM (No. 9068274)
#4 etc subpoens immediately be sent to Obama ,Hillary,Rice, Panetta, Patreus, top Brass. Four patriots were left to die while being viewed for 5 hours on camera without help assistance whatever. There has to be a reckoning and the bereaved be told exactly why there loved ones were not saved.It´s so currupt ,weeping and theatrics on the telly is not convincing.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
larryp, 12/15/2012 11:15:28 PM (No. 9068384)
Here is a riddle: a plane crashes on the Canadian border with the US. where a re the survivors buried? I read that families of the BP blow-out survivors had to sign silence agreements or they would not see their relatives in the hospital...
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Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"
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Kim Jong-un Wants Phone Call from Obama - report
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Korea Broadcast Service, by Staff
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 6:56:50 AM
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North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is waiting for United States President Barack Obama to make a phone call to Pyongyang to discuss easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Russia’s news agency Itar-Tass. The report cited United Kingdom diplomats, saying Pyongyang was demanding the U.S. president personally call Kim Jong-un as one of the conditions to relieve the current conflict at hand. Itar-Tass also quoted the U.K.’s Sky News as saying North Korea currently has eight nuclear warheads.
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Christians, here´s why we´re losing our religion
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Fox News, by Craig Groeschel
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Posted By: STLstudent- 4/7/2013 5:13:55 PM
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
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Broadcasters worry about ´Zero TV´ homes
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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima
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Posted By: Ribicon- 4/7/2013 2:43:40 PM
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
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´Mickey Mouse Club´ star Annette Funicello dies at 70
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Los Angeles Times, by Dennis McLellan
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 1:18:00 PM
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Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV´s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ´60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70. Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said. Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from
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Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close door to public office
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USA Today, by Catalina Camia
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Posted By: jackson- 4/8/2013 10:23:20 AM
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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary
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Special ops veterans’ group calls for select probe of Benghazi attack
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Fox News, by Catherine Herridge
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 7:00:09 AM
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More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News. The letter from the group, “Special Operations Speaks,” supports the appointment of a special committee tasked with the single mission of investigating the attack that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, and shut down the CIA operation in an annex of the Benghazi consulate, in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack. “Congress must show some leadership and provide answers to the public
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Obama flying 11 relatives of Sandy Hook victims to D.C. on Air Force One so they can back gun control in person
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/8/2013 4:05:18 PM
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President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an
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Updated: White House, McCain blast Cruz for threatening filibuster over guns
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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 4:55:05 PM
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.
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North Korea´s Army Is Full of Jumping, Leaping, High-Kicking Martial Artists
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Atlantic, by Connor Simpson
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/8/2013 5:48:23 AM
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Amid all of the very real threats of war and stuff from North Korea, you´d think American intelligence officers want as much video footage of the enemy as possible. Well, here is one video featuring North Korean exercises and Kim Jong-Un holding a gun, and we´ll say this: they certainly get points for presentation. Remember the clap-happy report from Dennis Rodman´s diplomatic basketball vacation? This video comes courtesy of the same Youtube channel that gave us that Rodman video. It appears to be the same state news channel.(Snip for video)This latest dispatch from North Korea´s state television
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Gay Connecticut couple accused of raping adopted children will face trial
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New York Daily News, by Erik Ortiz
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Posted By: Drive- 4/8/2013 8:52:23 AM
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The case of a same-sex Connecticut couple accused of repeatedly raping and abusing two of their nine adopted boys is headed for trial. Married couple George Harasz and Douglas Wirth of Glastonbury were supposed to be sentenced Friday in Hartford Superior Court under a plea deal, but instead withdrew from their agreement with prosecutors. The men had already pleaded no contest in January to one felony count each of risk of injury to a minor — a reduction from even more serious charges related to sexual assault....
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