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Secretary of State Faints, Sustains Concussion
Associated Press, by Matthew Lee
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Original Article
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Posted By:JoniTx, 12/15/2012 12:30:18 PM
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| The State Department says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who skipped an overseas trip this past week because of a stomach virus, sustained a concussion after fainting. She´s now recovering at home and being monitored by doctors. An aide, Philippe Reines, says Clinton will work from home next week, at the recommendation of doctors. Congressional aides do not expect her to testify as scheduled at congressional hearings on Thursday into the Sept. 11 attack against a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DARling, 12/15/2012 12:31:54 PM (No. 9067497)
If she can work from home, why not testify by live link?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JAN, 12/15/2012 12:33:43 PM (No. 9067499)
There will be no testifying on Benghazi.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
aasilver, 12/15/2012 12:33:46 PM (No. 9067500)
A very ´transparent´ reason to NOT testify.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
melman, 12/15/2012 12:34:50 PM (No. 9067501)
Fall down drunk?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
horacer, 12/15/2012 12:35:12 PM (No. 9067502)
Isn´t that convenient. It´s going to be so hard to remember anything about Benghazi after this terrible blow.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 12/15/2012 12:35:50 PM (No. 9067503)
The faux-concussion has wiped her memory banks clean of any an all information about Benghazi. However, she does remember her offshore bank account number...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Newtsche, 12/15/2012 12:37:17 PM (No. 9067506)
The vapors
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
pickle1, 12/15/2012 12:37:35 PM (No. 9067508)
As usual, Hillary is playing games.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
previouslyon24, 12/15/2012 12:38:19 PM (No. 9067511)
Hillary´s latest iteration of "I don´t recall," which was her mantra during the Whitewater hearings. There´s a pattern here and with all Libs. They are cheats and liars, period.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Italiano, 12/15/2012 12:38:24 PM (No. 9067513)
Concussion. She must have landed on her butt.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
busterman, 12/15/2012 12:39:17 PM (No. 9067515)
Dennis Rodman couldn´t have ´flopped´ any better!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JustCause, 12/15/2012 12:40:14 PM (No. 9067520)
I had to LOL at this news as my first thought was exactly as Reply 5 and 6.
She finally discovered a better excuse than trying to explain why she couldn´t find the FBI Files.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Moritz55, 12/15/2012 12:40:28 PM (No. 9067521)
The saddest thing about this is that the media must see through it, yet they will still give her a pass. In fact, they´ll probably accuse anyone who doesn´t give her a pass of politicizing her "injury."
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
golfmann, 12/15/2012 12:42:14 PM (No. 9067524)
Just tell her fine.... we´ll be here, and waiting...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 12/15/2012 12:43:26 PM (No. 9067529)
Drunken fall similar to BJ Clinton´s fall at Greg Normans house. Its that new Russian Vodka called "Virus" (short for Viruskie).
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bamapreacher, 12/15/2012 12:43:58 PM (No. 9067531)
She fell and hit her head and sustained a massive amount of improvement.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Keekng, 12/15/2012 12:46:23 PM (No. 9067539)
How very convenient. @@
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
dr.lakerman, 12/15/2012 12:47:11 PM (No. 9067540)
Remember that ditty on rush limbaugh when hillary couldn´t remember much about whitewater? (to the tune of Try To Remember) "I can´t remember, my mind´s in a blender..."
This is so obvious I snort in derision.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
heartsurgeon, 12/15/2012 12:48:39 PM (No. 9067541)
when you have no shame, anything is possible..
she will never testify
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
bighambone, 12/15/2012 12:49:24 PM (No. 9067542)
Hillary Clinton is absolutely avoiding testifying about the Benghazi attack or doing any television news appearances where questions might be asked about the Benghazi attack. Whatever connection to the Benghazi security situation that she must have had must be really bad.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
youngtexan, 12/15/2012 12:51:09 PM (No. 9067545)
She´s doing everything she can to prevent from testifying in court. That´s all this is.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
The Advocate, 12/15/2012 12:51:51 PM (No. 9067547)
Maintaining her viability for 2016. Put her under Oath from home. This lying, corrupt woman has polluted the body politic from her time with watergate when she failed her dc bar and could not get a letter of recommendation because of unethical conduct. Hillary- the chickens are coming home to roost and you have the blood of four Americans on your hands-you ARE responsible.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
yo-yo, 12/15/2012 12:52:08 PM (No. 9067548)
FTA "...She´s known for her grueling travel schedule and is the most traveled secretary of state..."
However, she is better known for her penchant for lying under oath, and for being the most corrupt first "lady" in our nation´s history.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
mustang flyer, 12/15/2012 12:52:51 PM (No. 9067550)
Cripes! First she jets off to South America right after Benghazi, then she rushes back to catch her flight to Australia to ´test´ some wines...(did anyone see anything about which wine she liked best)meanwhile she is getting paid for all this...then she shoots off to the Middle East ´looking for peace´, she returns and as Benghazi heats up awaiting her testimony she ´sustains´ a concussion...not that she hasn´t had one since marrying old Bill...now she is ´laid´ up for a week...I guess next we will hear she is pregnant and can´t get out of bed for 8 months...TRANSPARENT MY A**!!!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
fhancock, 12/15/2012 12:53:12 PM (No. 9067552)
"I cannot recall"
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
mitzi, 12/15/2012 12:53:22 PM (No. 9067554)
No doubt there will be some memory loss from the concussion... /s
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Freeloader, 12/15/2012 12:57:09 PM (No. 9067562)
In the immortal words of Macon, Georgia´s most illustrious son, "Little Richard"..."Slipping and sliding...Peeping and hiding...Won´t be your Fool no more."
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
dixonnh, 12/15/2012 12:58:01 PM (No. 9067565)
Her testimony will be deemed unreliable due to head injury.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
vhs68, 12/15/2012 12:59:09 PM (No. 9067567)
Rush is gonna have fun with this come Monday!!!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
KTWO, 12/15/2012 1:01:03 PM (No. 9067570)
Been expecting her to leave just before Christmas for health reasons. It just made sense once Rice was out of the way.
And people really do get ill or hurt.
Sometimes.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
happywarrior, 12/15/2012 1:03:42 PM (No. 9067571)
Awwwww, now PIAPS will have to be a Pig In A Pajama Suit.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
nonsense, 12/15/2012 1:09:46 PM (No. 9067578)
Soros will help her to feel better by buying her a mansion at the location of her choice.
Faint, my aunt Fanny. Concussion, don´t make me laugh. What fakery.
Keep re-scheduling her testimony until she has no choice but to appear.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Twinkle93, 12/15/2012 1:13:10 PM (No. 9067582)
The House should state that they will not pass any appropriation for the State dept. until Bengazi has been fully investigated.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Psalm91:11, 12/15/2012 1:14:24 PM (No. 9067585)
They think we are stupid.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
jj1319, 12/15/2012 1:17:07 PM (No. 9067589)
There is a solution as I saw this very thing happen years ago:
Gilligan got bonked on the head by a falling coconut causing amnesia. The ONLY way to reverse this condition is to sustain additional head trauma, ie, another head bonk with a coconut. Throw her down the stairs.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 12/15/2012 1:18:15 PM (No. 9067590)
As much as it pains me, I agree with #30. People actually do get sick. She may have a hidden health issue that needs dealing with here.
I am willing to give her a very small benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise. After all, we expect same from libs when someone like Dick Cheney gets ill. (I know, I know, but hope springs...)
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Tanker76, 12/15/2012 1:18:44 PM (No. 9067594)
#31 has nailed it!!!
Too bad the fall won´t knock any sense into her addled liberal brain.......
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
LittleHoodedMonk, 12/15/2012 1:20:43 PM (No. 9067641)
Someone must have tweeted her the picture of Anne Hathaway seen round the world. Something about leather and those B&D "boots." Can one catch a virus from an item that went "viral" on the Internet? That would be the ultimate "mind control."
PIAPS has just found an excuse to return for more time in her pod before leaving the State Department without having to do anymore tiresome decision making. Testify? HA!
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
killerbee, 12/15/2012 1:27:58 PM (No. 9067651)
Slightly off topic: and true to form -- never let a crisis go to waste -- Obama chooses the execrable John Effin´ Kerry to be the next Secretary of State. While everyone is completely distracted with the horror in CT, the Won makes his move.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
snakeoil, 12/15/2012 1:40:32 PM (No. 9067663)
Was the ground injured?
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
mainelysane, 12/15/2012 1:42:17 PM (No. 9067668)
Atrial fibrillation secondary to dehydration and fatigue... is my Dx.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Scribelus, 12/15/2012 1:44:52 PM (No. 9067674)
Lucrezia Borgia!
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Spidey, 12/15/2012 1:45:57 PM (No. 9067677)
They´re sending subs to testify in her place but still this is way too convenient.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
leopardtwo, 12/15/2012 1:46:02 PM (No. 9067678)
Would the real reason be that Bubba finally hit HER with an ash tray?
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
harleynyc, 12/15/2012 1:47:11 PM (No. 9067681)
what a croc. she and obama are quilty of gun running to al qaeda.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
Dante, 12/15/2012 1:47:43 PM (No. 9067685)
This is how she escapes testimony, what a "lucky" break.
She´s a bloated, criminal liar right down to her festering core.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
Sheepfarmer, 12/15/2012 1:48:04 PM (No. 9067687)
Call me cynical...
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
RedLegLeader68, 12/15/2012 1:48:12 PM (No. 9067688)
Oh, Pah-leeze!! Her last name for lo these many yeas is Clinton. She was never going to testify, and now she´ll probably skate.
Interesting to see if any RINOS actually enforce her testimony after she "recovers."
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
halfnorsk, 12/15/2012 1:50:15 PM (No. 9067692)
The alleged smartest woman in the world gets an owie on her noggin. Rich.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
Sae4236, 12/15/2012 1:52:00 PM (No. 9067693)
What a pathetic joke she is. I can´t believe she could be the next president of the sheeple.
I´ll pray for her non-recovery.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
Griz70, 12/15/2012 1:52:37 PM (No. 9067696)
How many ways can you say BS. Sorry, but I don´t believe a word of this injury. Prove me wrong.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
M2, 12/15/2012 1:54:13 PM (No. 9067699)
Verify the concussion. Then we´ll talk.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
krause, 12/15/2012 1:56:29 PM (No. 9067703)
With her and all the top political minds on the left, and this is the best out they can come up with?
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
dman, 12/15/2012 1:58:14 PM (No. 9067707)
I share the cynicism on this thread.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46, 12/15/2012 1:59:58 PM (No. 9067710)
Folks, the fix is in! Time is all they need and time is working well for them with this latest outrage of right winger crazy gun wielders distraction. Yep- Benghazi is so last week!
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
Namma, 12/15/2012 2:02:20 PM (No. 9067713)
so what...a concussion lasts for weeks and weeks...I didn´t know that!!!!! must be mind altering...
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
ragu, 12/15/2012 2:09:35 PM (No. 9067729)
I want proof of a concussion.
Does anyone know? Can she be called to testify after she is no longer Sec. of State? Does she get a complete pass after she leaves office?
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
Beca, 12/15/2012 2:11:58 PM (No. 9067733)
Maybe now that she hit her head. She can remember a few things
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
franq, 12/15/2012 2:14:04 PM (No. 9067734)
Right, let´s see how taut her face is when she emerges from her "recovery".
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
LAW428, 12/15/2012 2:16:18 PM (No. 9067735)
My thoughts exactly, #17..."how convenient!"
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
woofwoofwoof, 12/15/2012 2:19:36 PM (No. 9067738)
It took a week for this to come out?
I guess that´s because she´s been telling everyone for months that she´s the QUeen of Hearts and screaming, "Off with her head!" about that Alice Rice girl, but everyone thought that was normal.
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
loosecannon1, 12/15/2012 2:20:00 PM (No. 9067739)
How can anyone with ankles that thick fall down when she faints? Wouldn´t her head just sort of drop?
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Reply 63 - Posted by:
Not your typical New Yorker, 12/15/2012 2:20:40 PM (No. 9067741)
How stupid do our ruling elite think the nation is....?
THIS STUPID.....AND MORE!
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Reply 64 - Posted by:
happy conservative, 12/15/2012 2:22:23 PM (No. 9067744)
#57, the proof was shredded along with the birth certificates, college records, passport, and the Clinton´s Whitewater files.
Nothing to see here, move along...
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Reply 65 - Posted by:
fleetusa, 12/15/2012 2:22:26 PM (No. 9067746)
Yes, #17, How convenient! Just like Clintons of old.
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Reply 66 - Posted by:
SouthSanAntonio, 12/15/2012 2:24:55 PM (No. 9067752)
It´s not the tesitying that PIAPS is worried about. She can lie there as well as anywhere.
But it´s having to put her hand on a Bible that scares her so much. She knows she will probably immediately catch on fire as soon as she touches it. Pure evil and pure good just can´t collide without some sort of massive reaction.
So she will do ANYTHING to get out of that nasty little swearing in part...
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Reply 67 - Posted by:
mozey, 12/15/2012 2:25:19 PM (No. 9067754)
Hill´s not going to take the fall for Zero. She just took her own fall.
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Reply 68 - Posted by:
redwhite&blue2, 12/15/2012 2:25:32 PM (No. 9067755)
Lets see...A flaming lefty liberal tells a lie or acts stupid (Obama, Biden, Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, Frank, Dodd, either Clinton, Rice) and the rump-swab willing lap dogs of the flaming lefty liberal media give them a pass. Amazing, isnt it?....NOT!
Do we have just ONE person who represents we conservatives with enough chutzpah to challenge ANY of the left´s many lies????
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Reply 69 - Posted by:
athina, 12/15/2012 2:25:42 PM (No. 9067758)
Better put some ice on that
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Reply 70 - Posted by:
novakid, 12/15/2012 2:27:07 PM (No. 9067759)
She has a concussion? How can they tell?
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Reply 71 - Posted by:
sheltee2, 12/15/2012 2:27:40 PM (No. 9067760)
Reminds me of Jesse Jackson, Jr. suddenly gets an illness when he is caught in his scandal.
Hillary needs to be subpoened and made to testify. Vince Foster, McDougal, Ron Brown, billing records, and on and on.
She has all the qualities Obama requires.
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Reply 72 - Posted by:
DCGIRL, 12/15/2012 2:27:42 PM (No. 9067761)
Call her to testify anyway. Who cares if she has a concussion.
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Reply 73 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 12/15/2012 2:29:24 PM (No. 9067764)
My brain´s in a blender, it´s jello, jello, jello.
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Reply 74 - Posted by:
pasco, 12/15/2012 2:29:26 PM (No. 9067765)
The fall was due to a high center of gravity.
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Reply 75 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 12/15/2012 2:30:04 PM (No. 9067766)
Did she have her panty around her ankles when she fell? Would be same as Bill´s fall at Greg Norman´s, with women causing both underwear drops.
Didn´t Hell take an oath of office as SoS? She never did as First Lady.
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Reply 76 - Posted by:
melanie, 12/15/2012 2:30:33 PM (No. 9067768)
So the brass breasted, titanium tushed, Amanonian Feminazi has the vapors? What a total crock. Feminism is truly as fraudulent as global warming. Can you imagine a man trying this???
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Reply 77 - Posted by:
melanie, 12/15/2012 2:31:53 PM (No. 9067769)
I meant "Amazonian"... just typing in a frenzy, I guess.
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Reply 78 - Posted by:
Daria, 12/15/2012 2:33:24 PM (No. 9067771)
Beats "The dog ate my testimony"...
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Reply 79 - Posted by:
planononna, 12/15/2012 2:35:03 PM (No. 9067773)
Her mind is like ´jello´
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Reply 80 - Posted by:
Grambo, 12/15/2012 2:35:10 PM (No. 9067775)
She´s shaped like one of those knock down dummies that keeps coming back upright. How could she fall down?
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Reply 81 - Posted by:
Lawsy0, 12/15/2012 2:46:54 PM (No. 9067790)
Reply #4 beat me to it and #80 has a good visual (Weebles wobble but they don´t fall down.) Drunk or sober, Hitlery can still throw a mean ashtray. Stay low.
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Reply 82 - Posted by:
WilliamTell, 12/15/2012 2:48:33 PM (No. 9067792)
As Gibbs of NCIS says: "I don´t believe in coincidents"
This is beyond the pale. I am not stupid Zero
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Reply 83 - Posted by:
jdmii, 12/15/2012 2:50:37 PM (No. 9067795)
Perhaps it is the result of a STD from one of her "advisors".
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Reply 84 - Posted by:
glcinpdx, 12/15/2012 2:54:12 PM (No. 9067797)
# 34, based on the results of the last election I say that proves them right...we...as a nation ARE stupid...
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Reply 85 - Posted by:
CaptainLibra, 12/15/2012 2:59:43 PM (No. 9067807)
Has Webb Hubble been called to her bed side?
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Reply 86 - Posted by:
fayebeck, 12/15/2012 3:01:12 PM (No. 9067811)
She fainted? Typical woman.
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Reply 87 - Posted by:
Teleologicus, 12/15/2012 3:04:24 PM (No. 9067817)
Besides being childish -"Mommy, I am sick and cannot go to school today"- this transparent maneuver strongly suggests genuine desperation about her responsibility for the Benghazi massacre. There must be something really, really bad they want to keep under wraps as long as possible in the hope the public will lose interest in the whole business.
It would be interesting to know if there is any precedent in U.S. history for the attempt by a Cabinet officer to evade sworn testimony before a Congressional investigating committee by claiming a concussive head injury. The Clintons are always breaking new ground and transgressing fresh boundaries in their never-ending war on truth, justice and the American way. Hillary may have the honor of being the first Cabinet level officer to pull a stunt like this. Americans really do seem to be getting dumber and dumber. No one would have dared to do something like this in earlier generations, because they would have known that the public would never fall for it. Now, though, with the dismal evidence of American voter incompetence before us in the form of -inter alia- the election and re-election of a character like Barack Obama for president, who can blame Hillary &Co. for thinking such a trick could very well work?
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Reply 88 - Posted by:
Aunt Agnes, 12/15/2012 3:14:08 PM (No. 9067831)
What #76 said - I know someone just like this & every time there´s hard work to do or if she just wants to be babied, she develops a "back problem" & takes to a wheelchair! According to her, she´s the world´s toughest feminist & keeps a poster of Rosie the Riveter in her LR. Her latest gambit is getting "food poisoning" every time she doesn´t get to go to the restaurant of her choice & is forced to eat home cooking. It is passive aggression - just like the smartest woman in the world saying, "I don´t recaaalll.. in that laconic way of hers.
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Reply 89 - Posted by:
Wendybird, 12/15/2012 3:30:14 PM (No. 9067846)
Unfortunately, all of the so far hidden and unidentified survivors have also slipped and suffered concussions.
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Reply 90 - Posted by:
Fiesta del sol, 12/15/2012 3:31:46 PM (No. 9067848)
An acute case of Benghaziosis. The symptoms are forcing underlings to lie on the Sunday Shows, and apology videos. The only known cure is total avoidance of testifying under oath.
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Reply 91 - Posted by:
steveracer, 12/15/2012 3:55:03 PM (No. 9067878)
Vince Foster was unavailable for comment.
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Reply 92 - Posted by:
xiphos, 12/15/2012 4:03:13 PM (No. 9067886)
She fainted alright, Bill came home WITHOUT lipstick on his ......... collar.
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Reply 93 - Posted by:
ufos4, 12/15/2012 4:08:44 PM (No. 9067891)
Hearings can be rescheduled. Testimony from a prominent cabinet member can require a postponement. This is such a farce.
Thank #35. I needed that laugh.
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Reply 94 - Posted by:
sailor43, 12/15/2012 4:08:52 PM (No. 9067892)
I think she hit her head long, long ago ... )
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Reply 95 - Posted by:
TnEm, 12/15/2012 4:16:11 PM (No. 9067897)
Out of sight for at least 2 weeks - long enough to get her eyes done and little nip tuck here and there.
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Reply 96 - Posted by:
mythman, 12/15/2012 4:36:46 PM (No. 9067923)
#95 says it for me. Remember Jon Fraud Kerry´s lie last summer that he had got his two black eyes playing hockey - coincidentally coinciding with a shiny new facelift? Serials liers, both of them.
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Reply 97 - Posted by:
sgtfox of the jarhead clan, 12/15/2012 4:59:47 PM (No. 9067949)
Lucky for her Huma was so close at hand and is experienced in mouth to mouth.
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Reply 98 - Posted by:
tulipwood, 12/15/2012 5:01:57 PM (No. 9067955)
How convenient.
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Reply 99 - Posted by:
ebuilder, 12/15/2012 6:04:26 PM (No. 9068045)
Perhaps the persian carpet didn´t agree with her.
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Reply 100 - Posted by:
formerNYer, 12/15/2012 7:39:04 PM (No. 9068159)
She only has to have sex with Bill once a year, tomorrow was that day.
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No doubt there are parents who have frank, frequent, open and easy discussions with their teens about sex. I’ve never met any. I do know parents, however, who were stunned to find their 15-year-old’s birth control pills in her pocketbook. Or who came home early to discover junior and a girl they’d never met frantically buttoning up. Or who found out — when their children were grown — what really went on when Meghan said she was sleeping over at Ashley’s. Such sobering tales of teens snookering mom and dad caused mixed emotions in me — a solidly pro-choice
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Amid school changes, giving voice to busing´s past
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Associated Press, by Bridget Murphy
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:26:19 PM
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Last fall, Ginnette Powell traveled from her home in Boston´s Dorchester section to her old middle school in South Boston - a journey of just two miles, but one that covered a huge emotional distance. Finally, she was able to leave the painful past behind. Powell endured the explosive battle over desegregation in Boston in the 1970s. Tears come to her eyes when she talks about how it took her decades to return to the place where she never felt safe as an African-American seventh-grader."It was scary because of what you were going into, getting bricks thrown at your bus.
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McCain: ´I don´t understand´ GOP filibuster on guns
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Politico, by Jennifer Epstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM
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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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History was made at Dealey Plaza long before the JFK assassination
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Dallas Morning News, by David Flick
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:13:43 PM
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A few years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lindalyn Adams was escorting visitors on a bus traveling down Elm Street near Dealey Plaza. “I was pointing out the John Neely Bryan cabin and the Old Red Courthouse, and suddenly I realized the whole bus was leaning towards the right as we were going close to the Texas School Book Depository, and the women [were] pointing and saying, “Is that? Is that? Is that?’” Adams recalled during an oral history interview. She knew, of course, what “that” meant. “That” was where Kennedy had been shot.
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WashPost Page One ´Scoop´: How Democrats Hope to Unseat Tea Party GOP With ´Non-Ideological Problem Solvers´
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Newsbusters, by Tim Graham
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 10:39:52 AM
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Here´s today´s sign the Washington Post is a Democrat rag. This story is on A-4: "Health-care law may backfire for some on Medicaid: Expansion threatens to oust thousands in states with generous programs." This story is on A-1: "Democrats seek infusion of new faces." Paul Kane´s front-pager passed along the DCCC´s new strategy of finding "problem solvers" that...don´t know how to solve problems yet. The central character is Kevin Strouse, a former Army Ranger with no set positions on the issues. "Immigration? Tax policy? ´Certainly I have a lot of research to do,´
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Central Jersey bracing for noisy, nasty nuisance of cicada invasion
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Star Ledger [Newark,NJ], by Mark Spivey
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 10:31:18 AM
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They’re big. They’re ugly. They’re noisy. And they’re coming. So get ready. The blockbuster brood of the periodical cicada, large insects that emerge en masse from the ground in 17-year intervals across the northeast, is on its way — and New York City’s largest public radio station is encouraging residents in Central Jersey and beyond to help track the invasion. “The whole idea came from our news director, Jim (Schachter, of Summit), who lives in New Jersey — he promised his wife that they would move from their home before the 17-year cicadas came back,”
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As Navy rape case unravels, questions of homicide appear
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Los Angeles Times, by Kim Murphy
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 10:27:22 AM
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The night began like many at Boorda Hall, a five-story barracks at Naval Station Great Lakes, the Navy´s premier training base on the shore of Lake Michigan in Illinois. Somebody announced a party, and the hard drinking and beer pong began. A 21-year-old Marine lance corporal, so drunk on rum and Mountain Dew she was slurring her words, went to look for Kyle Antonacci, a Navy seaman she´d been dating off and on. Antonacci soon texted his friend Mike Pineda to help him deal with her. Both men had sex with her that night. But what distinguished May 8, 2009,
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Kerry: Slain Foreign Service officer ´smart, capable, eager to serve´
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Carlo Muñoz
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 8:53:39 AM
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A U.S. Foreign Service officer was killed and four others wounded in Afghanistan while carrying out a goodwill mission in the eastern part of the country. The State Department team was delivering books to an Afghan school in the Qalat district of Zaul province when their convoy was hit by a suicide bomber, Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday. "She was everything a foreign service officer should be: smart, capable, eager to serve, and deeply committed to our country and the difference she was making for the Afghan people," Kerry said of the slain official.
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Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
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´My bangs are getting a little irritating´: Michelle Obama admits she already regrets her high-maintenance hairdo
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Daily Mail (UK), by Margot Peppers
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Posted By: pineledger- 4/7/2013 7:43:42 AM
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Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.
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Why Obama´s ´Best-Looking Attorney General´ Comment Was a Gaffe
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The Atlantic, by Garance Franke-Ruta
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/6/2013 6:51:15 AM
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President Obama´s biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as "the best-looking attorney general," but in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of power.What´s that, you say? Irin Carmon does a great job in Salon in laying out the bounds of propriety for when it´s appropriate to talk about a woman´s looks as a general matter. But I´ve long felt we lack a solid theoretical underpinning for easily discussing these issues, and why precisely it is that
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McCain: ´I don´t understand´ GOP filibuster on guns
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Politico, by Jennifer Epstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM
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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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Hillary Clinton Would Not ´Clear the Field´ for 2016
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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/6/2013 5:22:36 AM
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No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent
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Obama critic apologizes for his ´poorly chosen words´ on gay marriage
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/6/2013 12:18:19 PM
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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Mother Of Slain Benghazi Officer To Sean Hannity: ‘They Want Me To Shut Up’
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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
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Vanishing workforce weighs on growth
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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White House Blames Jobs Numbers on Sequester
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/5/2013 8:02:58 PM
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The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look
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The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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Obama Budget to Cap Retirement Accounts at $3 Million
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM
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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per
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