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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
The Deal to End All Deals
Burt Prelutsky
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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Gun Salesman in Chief Raises Firearm Production by 140% 
Barack nObama is proud of his numerous "accomplishments," but on the issue of gun control, his success rate is admittedly off target. "[T]he one area that I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied … is the fact that the United States is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient, common-sense gun safety laws," he lamented last week — a reality made more bitter by the fact Democrats strategically, and unsuccessfully, blame every nefarious shooter's behavior on the weapons used to inflict harm. Their continuous gratuitous assault on the Second Amendment has America's gun owners equally if not more frustrated. A new report by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has found, "[U]nder President nObama, gun production has spiked 140 percent to 10.8 million firearms in 2013, the most recent year for which data is available," The Hill reported. If the Left's goal is to reverse gun figures in America, it's utterly failing. Erich Pratt, a spokesperson with Gun Owners of America, quips, "The ATF report confirms what we already know, that Barack nObama deserves the 'Gun Salesman of the Decade' award. People have been rushing to buy firearms because they're afraid that nObama will take away their Second Amendment rights." And for good reason. The administration is attempting to prohibit Social Security recipients from owning firearms if they are judged mentally incompetent. "[T]his amount[s] to the largest gun grab in American history," according to the National Rifle Association. In his final 18 months, nObama will do all he can to ensure his legacy won't go down as a gun salesman but as a gun confiscator. And that's all the more reason to remain vigilant.
-The Patriot Post
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EPA Extends Deadline on Clean Power Plan
The Environmental Protection Agency is beginning to realize that it might be asking a bit too much from the American economy. Sources at the EPA have told The Washington Post that it is extending the deadline for when coal plants must reduce their greenhouse gas output. The EPA has yet to release the final version of the regulation, but it said coal plants have until 2022 instead of 2020 to conform to the gospel of green and avoid too much stress on the electrical grid. By ceding ground, the EPA admits the Clean Power Plan demanded too much. On a related note, the new ozone standards that the EPA is working on would set the standards so low on the naturally occurring gas that Yosemite National Park and the Grand Canyon would be in violation, according to the National Association of Manufacturers. Things have gone too far when an agency supposedly established to protect the environment finds nature in violation of its decrees. -The Patriot Post
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nObama Spends $6M to Fly Air Force One to Africa
In the age of sequestered military spending — reduced forces, grounded Thunderbirds, Blue Angels stripped of their wings and even blockaded memorials — Barack nObama thinks nothing of pulling nearly $6 million from the Air Force budget to fund the 29-hour Air Force One flight to and from Kenya and Ethiopia. Presidential trips abroad are classified information, and no one quite knows how much nObama spent on this trip to visit his extended family and attend the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit. When he visited Africa in 2013, the trip cost an estimated $100 million. Typically, presidents spend more time abroad in their second term. Currently, nObama is not the executive with the most frequent flyer miles — that platinum membership belongs to Bill Clinton — but nObama is close. Michael Tasselmyer, policy analyst at the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, wrote, "The last official accounting of any Presidential travel was conducted over a decade ago in GAO's 1999 report on President Clinton's trips to Africa, Chile, and China. … There are understandable security considerations to keep in mind, but until more information is made available, there can be no public debate on the costs and benefits of international travel." It's not so much the travel money, it's the priorities. -The Patriot Post
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Olympic Size Price Tag Too Much for Boston Everybody loves the Olympics, right? The grit, the feats, the glory, the decathlon champ who later decides he's a woman. All kidding aside, every two years (summer and winter, respectively), the world gathers its best athletes to compete for sport and national pride. But is it worth the price of admission?
Boston and the International Olympics Committee (IOC) came to an agreement of sorts: No, it isn't worth the enormous cost for Boston to host the 2024 Olympic Games.
It's revealing that both parties agreed because neither wanted to be liable for the inevitable cost overruns. Boston Mayor Martin Walsh refused to sign a host city contract with the United States Olympic Committee that would put Boston's taxpayers on the hook for the extra costs (i.e., absolving the IOC), so the committee cut Boston out of the running. Walsh said, "This is me letting the taxpayers of Boston know ... that I will not sign a document that puts one dollar of taxpayers' money on the line for one penny of overruns for the Olympics." -The Patriot Post
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> Strategic Command Focused on Hypersonic Missile Threat
{Bill Gertz} ~ China and Russia are developing maneuvering high-speed strike vehicles that pose new threats to the United States, U.S. Strategic Command leaders said Wednesday... Adm. Cecil D. Haney, Strategic Command’s (Stratcom) senior leader, said during remarks at a nuclear deterrence conference that despite arms control efforts, hypersonic weapons are among several threatening strategic trends emerging in the world. China has conducted four flight tests of a 7,000 mile-per-hour maneuvering strike vehicle, and Russia is developing high-speed weapons and reportedly tested a hypersonic weapon in February.
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If We Still Had A Republic...
{rickwells.us} ~ Mark Levin told his producer “Let’s start from the top,” which is really upper portion of a very deep hole that has been dug for America by the traitors who have hijacked our government, most notably Hussein nObama, Valerie Jarrett, hanoi John Kerry and the DOE hippie yard gnome Ernest Moniz... Mark Levin plays a clip of hanoi John Kerry being questioned about the secret side deals that have been hidden from the American people and Congress in which National Security Adviser Susan Rice proclaims that she’s seen them and will let Congress in on the secret shortly. hanoi Kerry’s playing dumb, which is not a difficult task for him, saying that he doesn’t believe that Susan Rice is telling the truth, that she’s seen the deal. He says he hasn’t seen it, an obvious protective ploy to prevent being questioned further, and says he’s been briefed on it. That’s an equally obvious attempt to dispel the natural concerns that he’s committed the world to arming a terrorist nation with nuclear weapons and he doesn’t know what the heck is going on.
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hanoi Kerry: We Can't Reveal Contents of Secret Side Deals...
{Daniel Halper} ~ Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry testified on Capitol Hill today the U.S. government will not be revealing the contents of secret side deals with Iran to the American people... Senator Tom Cotton wanted to know why it can't be made public. "I'd like to stick with you, Secretary hanoi Kerry," Cotton said. "Why can't we confirm or deny the content of these agreements in public? Why is this classified? It's not a sensitive U.S. government document. "Because we respect the process of the IAEA and we don't have their authorization to reveal what is a confidential agreement between them and another country," said hanoi Kerry. Cotton said, "So the ayatollahs will know what they agreed to but not the American people?" I think its time to stop the deal on its tracks.
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New Report Confirms Findings of Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi
{Roger Aronoff} ~ Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi (CCB) member Clare Lopez, believes that in 2011 Hilly Clinton’s State Department was orchestrating its own gun running operation to the Libyan rebels... and that arms dealer Marc Turi has been set up to take the fall for these “illicit arms deals.” “The Justice Department has charged Turi with lying on an export-license application, alleging he hid his intent to ship weapons and ammunition to Libya in direct violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 170,” reports Jerome Corsi for WorldNetDaily. “Marc Turi was set up and framed for something he didn’t do, while others, who actually did collaborate with Qatar and the UAE to deliver the weapons under U.S. and NATO protection and supervision, are not only not prosecuted like Marc Turi, they’re not even mentioned,” Lopez told Corsi.
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What nObama is allowing to happen to our allies against ISIS...
{Lt. Col. Allen West} ~ Maslow’s hierarchy of needs places self-preservation at the top of the list – that is true about individuals, and of nations. It’s important to look at the actions of a nation with a careful eye, because patience will reveal its intentions... And these days, you don’t have to wait very long to ascertain what the objectives truly are. Of course, when it comes to Iran, the black-robed crazed clerics tell you exactly who they are and their intentions – as it is with Islamic jihadists. And now we know exactly what the country of Turkey is up to. You see, just within the past week, Turkey granted permission for U.S. warplanes to utilize Incirlik Air Base to engage ISIS. Now you have to understand we’re not heavily bombing ISIS anyway. And I still have a little beef with the Turks since 2003, when we were supposed to enter Iraq from the north, and the Turks pulled their landing and basing rights at the last minute, forcing our entire 4th Infantry Division Task Force to shift, and our equipment to endure additional time at sea – saltwater isn’t good.
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Op-Ed: nObama Knows Iran will Use its Nukes on Israel
{Mark Langfan} ~ At first, nObama said we couldn’t talk about his Iranian Nuke Deal unless it was finalized. Then, nObama said we couldn’t talk about his Iranian Nuke Deal unless we read it all - and simply didn’t disclose all of his side-deals... Now, he says Mike Huckabee’s comparison of shipping the Jews of Israel to the new ovens of the Iranian Auschwitz-Nuke is “ridiculous.” Perhaps nObama wants to wait until Iran nukes Israel for it to be politically correct to call Iran’s wiping Israel off the map a “Holocaust.” But, make no mistake, nObama knows full well that Iran intends to wipe Israel off the map with its nObama-blessed Nukes. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/17299#.Vbo2nqRVikq
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Will voters let Hilly get away with this?
{Judge Andrew Napolitano} ~ In a column I wrote in early July, based on research by my colleagues and my own analysis of government documents and eyewitness statements, I argued that in 2011 and 2012 then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton waged a secret war on the governments of Libya and Syria... with the approval of President nObama and the consent of congressional leadership from both parties and in both houses of Congress. I did err in that column with respect to an arms dealer named Marc Turi. I regret the error and apologize for it. I wrote that Turi sold arms to Qatar as part of Clinton’s scheme to get them into the hands of rebels. A further review of the documents makes it clear that he applied to do so but was denied permission, and so he did not sell arms to Qatar. Other arms dealers did. I also erred when referring to Qatar as beholden to Washington. In fact, Qatar is in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood and is one of the biggest supporters of global jihad in the world – and Clinton, who approved the sales of arms to Qatar, expecting them to make their way to Syrian and Libyan rebels, as they did, knew that. She and her State Department caused American arms to come into the possession of known al-Qaida operatives, a few of whom assassinated U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/will-voters-let-hillary-get-away-with-this/
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AMERICA'S NEW WORLD DISORDER
{Erik Rush} ~ Two weeks ago in this space, I posed the question of why some think Hilly Clinton is unelectable as president due to crimes committed while serving as secretary of state, when the same pro-left media spin machine and gutless Republican leaders are on the scene now as in 2008... when Barack Hussein nObama was elected. Over the last six years, the comportment of GOP leaders in particular, given the unprecedented threat represented by this administration, speaks to a dramatic alteration in course and intention on their part, not unlike that which occurs when the ship captain’s cabin door bursts open and the roaring mutineers pile in. It’s as though the entire Congress, the executive branch, the press and to some extent even the federal judiciary have become a sort of Supreme Soviet (as in the former U.S.S.R.) body of government. Therein, we now have our very own Councils of Ministers, Politburo and Secretariats among elected officials, federal courts and innumerable government departments, bureaus and offices.
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Palestinians: A Rare Voice of Sanity
{Khaled Abu Toameh} ~ It is almost unheard of for a prominent Palestinian figure to hold the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas equally responsible for corruption and abuse of power... Dr. Ibrahim Abrash, a former Palestinian Minister of Culture from the Gaza Strip, recently surprised many Palestinians by publishing an article that included a scathing attack on both the PA and Hamas, holding them responsible for the continued suffering of their people. In his article, Dr. Abrash also holds the two Palestinian parties responsible for the delay in rebuilding thousands of houses that were destroyed or damaged in the Gaza Strip during last year's military conflict between Israel and Hamas. He points out that Hamas and the PA have been holding each other responsible for the suffering of Palestinians. "Sometimes, they also put all the blame on Israel for all that is happening in the Gaza Strip," he said.
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STILL BLIND TO THE COSTS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
{Bruce Thornton} ~ Donald Trump’s blunt and clumsy comments about illegal immigration sparked the usual firestorm of criticism from the well heeled of both parties... Particularly vocal were those Republicans who think that an amorphous, make-believe category comprising “Hispanics” or “Latinos” will vote Republican if only Republican meanies like Trump would stop insulting them by complaining about illegal aliens. As usual, willful ignorance or blindness about the costs of illegal immigration underwrites these dubious ideas. Trump’s comments about crimes committed by illegal aliens, for example, were attacked by the usual denial and obfuscation. Various statistics, some mixing illegal and legal immigrants, were touted as showing illegal criminal activity was proportionately less than that of the native-born. But as Brietbart reported, while illegal aliens are 3.5% of the population, based on federal sentencing data they represent 12% of murder convictions. Add state crime data, and according to an analysis at American Thinker illegals commit 10 times more murders than do citizens.
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The Deal to End All Deals
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{Iburtprelutsky.com} ~ n his hour-long defense of the indefensible deal that had the Ayatollah Khamenei dancing in Tehran, Barack nObama called for Congress and the American people to consider it from every possible angle. But then our own Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah nObama, went on to say that he would veto any attempt to scuttle it, no matter what we all decided..
To do what he threatens would require that 34 Democrats in the Senate rush to uphold his veto. Were that to happen, each of them should be regarded as a Quisling and be forced to ring a little bell whenever he or she ventured out in public, alerting decent people that a plague carrier is in the vicinity. Right now, I am shopping for just such a bell so I can send it to Mrs. Clinton, who quickly endorsed the treaty that pretends not to be a treaty.
To do what he threatens would require that 34 Democrats in the Senate rush to uphold his veto. Were that to happen, each of them should be regarded as a Quisling and be forced to ring a little bell whenever he or she ventured out in public, alerting decent people that a plague carrier is in the vicinity. Right now, I am shopping for just such a bell so I can send it to Mrs. Clinton, who quickly endorsed the treaty that pretends not to be a treaty.
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At the last minute, nObama allowed Iran to remove the ban on ballistic missiles, but did nothing to compel Iran to release four American hostages. He then got his nose out of joint when a reporter dared to ask him why he didn’t even try. After several seconds spent seething at such impertinence, nObama said it might have scuttled the deal. It’s my guess, however, that it was because all four are Christians and none of them are black. Time and again, he has shown that blacks and Muslims are the only Americans with whom he sympathizes.
At the last minute, nObama allowed Iran to remove the ban on ballistic missiles, but did nothing to compel Iran to release four American hostages. He then got his nose out of joint when a reporter dared to ask him why he didn’t even try. After several seconds spent seething at such impertinence, nObama said it might have scuttled the deal. It’s my guess, however, that it was because all four are Christians and none of them are black. Time and again, he has shown that blacks and Muslims are the only Americans with whom he sympathizes.
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A friend of mine was surprised that the Ayatollah didn't demand that nObama release more prisoners from Gitmo. I told him that the bigger surprise is that nObama didn't offer it as a signing bonus.
A friend of mine was surprised that the Ayatollah didn't demand that nObama release more prisoners from Gitmo. I told him that the bigger surprise is that nObama didn't offer it as a signing bonus.
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In discussing the $160 billion that we will be releasing to the regime that bankrolls most of the terrorism taking place in the world, Sen. Ted Cruz cleverly and correctly referred to it as the jihadist stimulus bill.
In discussing the $160 billion that we will be releasing to the regime that bankrolls most of the terrorism taking place in the world, Sen. Ted Cruz cleverly and correctly referred to it as the jihadist stimulus bill.
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♦ Jack Engelhard, writing in Arutz Sheva, managed to find a few silver linings in the agreement. To begin with, Israel is once again being recognized as David to Iran’s Goliath, and can no longer be depicted by the anti-Semites as a gigantic ogre lording it over the Hamas-dominated Palestinian swine.
♦ Jack Engelhard, writing in Arutz Sheva, managed to find a few silver linings in the agreement. To begin with, Israel is once again being recognized as David to Iran’s Goliath, and can no longer be depicted by the anti-Semites as a gigantic ogre lording it over the Hamas-dominated Palestinian swine.
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Two, the deal even managed to unite Netanyahu and Herzog, the recent opponents in the Israeli election, in their mutual condemnation of the agreement. Moreover, Saudi Arabia and the other Sunni states finally came to recognize, at least temporarily, Israel as a partner, and not merely a scapegoat.
Two, the deal even managed to unite Netanyahu and Herzog, the recent opponents in the Israeli election, in their mutual condemnation of the agreement. Moreover, Saudi Arabia and the other Sunni states finally came to recognize, at least temporarily, Israel as a partner, and not merely a scapegoat.
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And finally, if the Democrats in Congress actually link arms to defend their president, having decided that partisanship counts for more than Israel’s survival and our own nation’s security, everyone will understand that they care more about nObama’s well-being than America’s. They will also belatedly grasp that it wasn’t just a few malcontents at the 2012 presidential convention who were booing loudly every time that Israel was mentioned.
And finally, if the Democrats in Congress actually link arms to defend their president, having decided that partisanship counts for more than Israel’s survival and our own nation’s security, everyone will understand that they care more about nObama’s well-being than America’s. They will also belatedly grasp that it wasn’t just a few malcontents at the 2012 presidential convention who were booing loudly every time that Israel was mentioned.
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♦ I believe that those who support Chris Christie in his pursuit of the GOP nomination should keep in mind that if another hurricane hits the Jersey shore anytime soon, the schmuck will go rushing back into the arms of nObama.
♦ I believe that those who support Chris Christie in his pursuit of the GOP nomination should keep in mind that if another hurricane hits the Jersey shore anytime soon, the schmuck will go rushing back into the arms of nObama.
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♦ While watching the video of the creature from Planned Parenthood, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, the group’s senior director of medical services, noshing on her salad and sipping her glass of wine, I nearly upchucked my own dinner. While discussing how carefully their abortionists go about crushing embryos in order to avoid destroying the tiny body parts they harvest for re-sale put some in mind of another doctor, Josef Mengele. For my part, I was reminded of Hannibal Lecter’s insistence on fava beans and a nice Chianti being the proper accompaniment to dining on human flesh.
♦ While watching the video of the creature from Planned Parenthood, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, the group’s senior director of medical services, noshing on her salad and sipping her glass of wine, I nearly upchucked my own dinner. While discussing how carefully their abortionists go about crushing embryos in order to avoid destroying the tiny body parts they harvest for re-sale put some in mind of another doctor, Josef Mengele. For my part, I was reminded of Hannibal Lecter’s insistence on fava beans and a nice Chianti being the proper accompaniment to dining on human flesh.
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♦ Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby, who has spent the past several months demonizing and persecuting police officers over the death of Freddie Gray, has defended herself all along by insisting that she has no bias against the police because, after all, she hails from a family of cops. But it only recently came to light that her father, mother and uncle, had all been booted off the Boston police force for criminal behavior!
♦ Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby, who has spent the past several months demonizing and persecuting police officers over the death of Freddie Gray, has defended herself all along by insisting that she has no bias against the police because, after all, she hails from a family of cops. But it only recently came to light that her father, mother and uncle, had all been booted off the Boston police force for criminal behavior!
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It would be like Al Capone’s kid claiming he would make a great district attorney because his father had had longtime dealings with law enforcement.
It would be like Al Capone’s kid claiming he would make a great district attorney because his father had had longtime dealings with law enforcement.
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♦ Speaking of law enforcement, Joaquin Guzman, the 5’6”drug czar better known as El Chapo (“Shorty”), crawled out of a mile-long tunnel that just happened to originate below his shower stall at the Altiplano Federal Penitentiary. Nobody can explain how it happened, least of all the prison guards, who are now driving around in new Lexus SUVs, sporting Rolexes and dating Mexican starlets.
♦ Speaking of law enforcement, Joaquin Guzman, the 5’6”drug czar better known as El Chapo (“Shorty”), crawled out of a mile-long tunnel that just happened to originate below his shower stall at the Altiplano Federal Penitentiary. Nobody can explain how it happened, least of all the prison guards, who are now driving around in new Lexus SUVs, sporting Rolexes and dating Mexican starlets.
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♦ It used to be that when people wanted to state how obvious something was, they’d ask a rhetorical question, such as “Is the Pope Catholic?” or “Does a bear poop in the woods?” In recent times, the questions have been updated to “Is the Pope a Communist?” and “Does Barack nObama poop on the Constitution?”
♦ It used to be that when people wanted to state how obvious something was, they’d ask a rhetorical question, such as “Is the Pope Catholic?” or “Does a bear poop in the woods?” In recent times, the questions have been updated to “Is the Pope a Communist?” and “Does Barack nObama poop on the Constitution?”
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♦ A reader recently asked me how I would sum up liberals without using obscenities. I acknowledged it would be difficult, but that I would give it a try. I came up with the following: A liberal is someone who thinks 14-year-olds should be able to have abortions behind their parents’ back; that eight-year-olds should be able to have their genitalia altered on a whim; and that marijuana should be legalized; but think nicotine is a weapon of mass destruction; that cigarette smoking is an act of terrorism; and believe there should be a 12-step program for those who drink soda pop.
♦ A reader recently asked me how I would sum up liberals without using obscenities. I acknowledged it would be difficult, but that I would give it a try. I came up with the following: A liberal is someone who thinks 14-year-olds should be able to have abortions behind their parents’ back; that eight-year-olds should be able to have their genitalia altered on a whim; and that marijuana should be legalized; but think nicotine is a weapon of mass destruction; that cigarette smoking is an act of terrorism; and believe there should be a 12-step program for those who drink soda pop.
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♦ Another reader asked me if I noticed that the camerawork in movies and TV has become very quirky. I admitted I hadn’t. Mainly what I’ve noticed is that directors and cinematographers are under-lighting every scene, including daylight exteriors. It’s as if they’re suffering under the delusion that they’ve re-invented radio.
♦ Another reader asked me if I noticed that the camerawork in movies and TV has become very quirky. I admitted I hadn’t. Mainly what I’ve noticed is that directors and cinematographers are under-lighting every scene, including daylight exteriors. It’s as if they’re suffering under the delusion that they’ve re-invented radio.
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♦ Over the past couple of decades, the language Gestapo has done everything in its power to emasculate English, turning perfectly legitimate words into linguistic eunuchs. These days, like a child learning to cross streets, you are being warned to look both ways before opening your mouth.
♦ Over the past couple of decades, the language Gestapo has done everything in its power to emasculate English, turning perfectly legitimate words into linguistic eunuchs. These days, like a child learning to cross streets, you are being warned to look both ways before opening your mouth.
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Oddly enough, the NAACP is the one place where it is still acceptable to refer to blacks as Colored People. And inasmuch as the word that the same-sex marriage crowd enjoys clubbing the rest of us with is “homophobia,” I guess that means we can finally take a deep breath and return “gay” to its former meaning of happy and joyous; and once again refer to the sodomites as “homosexuals” or even “homos,” for short.
Oddly enough, the NAACP is the one place where it is still acceptable to refer to blacks as Colored People. And inasmuch as the word that the same-sex marriage crowd enjoys clubbing the rest of us with is “homophobia,” I guess that means we can finally take a deep breath and return “gay” to its former meaning of happy and joyous; and once again refer to the sodomites as “homosexuals” or even “homos,” for short.
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♦ Finally, I think that most of us are at long last aware of the fact that when nObama vowed to radically transform America, he meant it exactly the way Bruce Jenner meant it when declaring that he is now and forever Caitlyn.
♦ Finally, I think that most of us are at long last aware of the fact that when nObama vowed to radically transform America, he meant it exactly the way Bruce Jenner meant it when declaring that he is now and forever Caitlyn.
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