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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Weiner gal: He said he loved me
[NYPOST] He broke her heart.

Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner
...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City...
told his sultry young sext partner that he loved her -- and she believed the serial online cheater.

"It literally disgusts me," teary-eyed Sydney Leathers said, of the pack of lies she bought from the horny pol. "It makes me feel physically ill. I'm disgusted by him. He's not who I thought he was. "
That does rather depend on what you thought he was...
Leathers, in an exclusive sitdown with Inside Edition that will air in full tomorrow, said she's "barely been able to eat" since news of her illicit cyber tryst with the married mayoral candidate broke earlier this week.

She said she and Weiner grew so close during their online fling --
...and you can imagine just how close two people can be in an online fling...
which began after he resigned in disgrace from Congress and ended late last summer -- that the politician even consulted with her before deciding to run for mayor.
He was in love with her for ... her political acumen. Yeah, that's it, her political acumen!
"I cared about him a lot. He was very important to me," the 22-year-old former tanning salon employee and political blogger said.
"He was my meal ticket!"
"You told Anthony Weiner that you loved him?" asked Inside Edition's Jim Moret.

"Yes," Leathers said.
She lied...
"Did he tell you he loved you?"

"Yes."
...and he lied too. They're perfect for each other.
Leathers said Weiner described himself to her as "an argumentative, perpetually horny middle-aged man."
Where's the lie in that?
"Yes, he is," she told Moret.

Friends and coworkers of Leathers have said the former Obama campaign organizer talked about selling details of her relationship with Weiner for as much as $100,000.
Weiner should get into licensing...
Asked if Inside Edition ponied up cash for the Leathers interview, a show spokeswoman said, "Like most media outlets, we occasionally license photos and other material from an interview subject and we have in this case."
Shorter answer: yes...
Leathers believes Weiner should bail out of the mayoral race.

If she could speak with him, Leathers said, her message would be, "Stop lying, embarrassing his wife and get help."
"And stop texting women like me."
Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I have to wonder how Huma feels about one of her [many?] prospective rivals being just 22-years old???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/26/2013 1:14 Comments || Top||

#2  But no cigar!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/26/2013 1:49 Comments || Top||

#3  I have to wonder how Huma feels

"I've got him right where I want him."
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/26/2013 5:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Forgive my insensitivity, but what manner of man did someone who calls herself "Miss Leathers" expect to attract?
Posted by: RandomJD || 07/26/2013 6:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe she can write a book? "Weiners and Leathers"
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/26/2013 7:53 Comments || Top||

#6  OK. I can't resist anymore. It's stronger than I am.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/26/2013 8:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Having been raised in the Glorious Time of Gurl Bands all I can say is....


Tell him that you're never gonna leave forward him
Tell him that you're always gonna smudge him
Tell him, tell him, tell him, tell the world right now




Sometimes things are just meant to be, this will age me... but lawz who ain't like the Exciters?

Posted by: Shipman || 07/26/2013 10:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Y'know, I'm pretty sure if you're using an alias like "Carlos Danger" or "Sydney Leathers" you probably don't have a heart in the usual sense.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/26/2013 10:46 Comments || Top||

#9  LOL - "Sydney Leathers" is this twit's ACTUAL name
Posted by: Frank G || 07/26/2013 13:04 Comments || Top||

#10  destined for a life pole-dancing
Posted by: Frank G || 07/26/2013 13:05 Comments || Top||

#11  Mee-ow!

The legendary Carlos Danger may be a boiling cauldron of masculinity on the outside, but on the inside, he has some insecurity issues. One might even say he’s Mucho Desperado. He’s also apparently a glutton for punishment, reportedly asking Leathers, who is a progressive activist and blogger, “If I met you in a bar and tried to talk to you, would I have a chance?”

Here, Weiner is no doubt looking for a validation of his smoking looks and his smoldering sexuality, not the content of his character. Again, poor Sidney disappoints: “Absolutely! You’re such an amazing man. I still can’t believe someone like you would pay attention to someone like me. It’s literally a dream come true.”

Here is where I call shenanigans. We all know that if Anthony Weiner was not a prominent national political personality, and was instead, say, an accountant from French Lick, Ms. Leathers would be running for the exits, hiding in the bathroom, or maybe even calling the police. She was attracted to power, pure and simple.


That's the only part I don't understand: what power? Presently, he's an unemployed git, on the fast track to his mom's basement.
Posted by: RandomJD || 07/26/2013 13:16 Comments || Top||

#12  Thanks, #6 grom!

I'd forgotten about that one. :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 07/26/2013 13:51 Comments || Top||

#13  This is why we are doomed. There are too many of these zombie freaks who think and say things like: "your health care rants are sooooo sexy." Like the woman reporter some years back who said she'd be glad to service Clinton for "keeping abortion safe." Doomed, I say...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/26/2013 13:53 Comments || Top||

#14  The potential for power. He was an up and coming all star brought up from the minors, with a weird media blitz all of a sudden while he was still fed. He has to potential to be mayor of one of the premier world cities.

All she was doing was putting chips down on the chips table, just in case. Official mistress to the mayor of New York City would make a lot of money in cush jobs and blackmail, with proof of misconduct lawsuits in case the checks stop coming.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/26/2013 13:56 Comments || Top||

#15  "If I met you in a bar and tried to talk to you, would I have a chance?"

"Absolutely, I'd like a mojito and an order of chips and salsa."

Could be one of those chronic liar things, trying to get the victim to commit to an obvious lie.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/26/2013 14:03 Comments || Top||

#16  You've probably pretty much covered it, swksvolF.

Or, she's an idiot.
Posted by: Barbara || 07/26/2013 14:03 Comments || Top||

#17  “Okay, there were no more than 14. And I haven’t texted anyone since this morning.”

- Anthony Weiner
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/26/2013 19:22 Comments || Top||

#18  stupidity on parade, Exhibit one
Posted by: Frank G || 07/26/2013 20:31 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords
[NEWS.CNET] The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users' stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed.

If the government is able to determine a person's password, which is typically stored in encrypted form, the credential could be used to log in to an account to peruse confidential correspondence or even impersonate the user. Obtaining it also would aid in deciphering encrypted devices in situations where passwords are reused.

"I've certainly seen them ask for passwords," said one Internet industry source who spoke on condition of anonymity. "We push back."

A second person who has worked at a large Silicon Valley company confirmed that it received legal requests from the federal government for stored passwords. Companies "really heavily scrutinize" these requests, the person said. "There's a lot of 'over my dead body.'"

Some of the government orders demand not only a user's password but also the encryption algorithm and the so-called salt, according to a person familiar with the requests. A salt is a random string of letters or numbers used to make it more difficult to reverse the encryption process and determine the original password. Other orders demand the secret question codes often associated with user accounts.

A Microsoft
...producers of Windows, Office, and the late Microsoft Bob, contributed $852,167 to the 2008 Obama campaign...
spokesperson would not say whether the company has received such requests from the government. But when asked whether Microsoft would divulge passwords, salts, or algorithms, the spokesperson replied: "No, we don't, and we can't see a circumstance in which we would provide it."

Google
...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign...
also declined to disclose whether it had received requests for those types of data. But a spokesperson said the company has "never" turned over a user's encrypted password, and that it has a legal team that frequently pushes back against requests that are fishing expeditions or are otherwise problematic. "We take the privacy and security of our users very seriously," the spokesperson said.

Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, AOL, Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner
...contributed $624,618 to the 2008 Obama campaign...
Cable, and Comcast did not respond to queries about whether they have received requests for users' passwords and how they would respond to them.

Richard Lovejoy, a director of the Opera Software subsidiary that operates FastMail, said he doesn't recall receiving any such requests but that the company still has a relatively small number of users compared with its larger rivals. Because of that, he said, "we don't get a high volume" of U.S. government demands.

The FBI declined to comment.
Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hallo I am calling from the govermet we know what you thnk, and we approve.

(Mis-speinngs intentional, speaking in a thick accent, probably Indian)
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/26/2013 1:05 Comments || Top||

#2  A second person who has worked at a large Silicon Valley company confirmed that it received legal requests from the federal government for stored passwords. Companies "really heavily scrutinize" these requests, the person said. "There's a lot of 'over my dead body.'"
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/26/2013 1:10 Comments || Top||

#3  legal requests

Warrants? They have to be filed someplace. As much as the bureaucrats, to include LE, may like to say 'such and such a law' gives me authority, if it's not Constitutional, it's not legit. The problem is latter when they try the old "I was just obeying orders" defense. It'll mean something when they're caught up to later and their pension disappears. Particularly middle managers who don't have 'friends' to take care of them in their old age.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/26/2013 8:11 Comments || Top||

#4  P2k, Warrants?? We don't need no steenking warrants!!

Due to the current level of my cynicism I am not surprised by this. I do think that we are getting closer to the point where the liberty tree will get watered.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/26/2013 8:28 Comments || Top||

#5  I recursively hash the password many times.

I have NO CLUE what my users passwords are.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174415.aspx

I've seen one company (spideroak) hash on the browser using JS, so it's never transmitted, v clever.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/26/2013 8:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
College Republicans denied entry into Obama event over 'security reasons'
So is it the White House staff who are the fascists here, or merely the university's senior management?
[CAMPUSREFORM.ORG] A group of college republicans say they were denied entry into President B.O.'s speech at the University of Central Missouri on Wednesday for security reasons.

Missouri College Republicans State Treasurer Courtney Scott told Campus Reform on Thursday that an unidentified police officer told the group they were barred from the event for "security reasons and for the president's protection."

"You will not be allowed any further," the officer allegedly told the group of six College Republicans, dressed in republican and tea party clothing, as they attempted to enter the event.

Scott said each member of the group had a ticket to enter the event and that they arrived early complying with all rules.

"Obama was scheduled to speak at around 4 p.m., so around 3:30 pm we gathered our stuff up," said Scott. "They had announced that there were to be no posters or anything so we dropped our stuff off. We were not carrying anything. We followed all the rules."

Scott said the officer's reasoning for stopping them seemed a bit odd.

"I hate to make allegations but it was just very suspicious that we were not allowed in," she said.

Scott added that she was disappointed she was unable to hear President B.O. speak in person.

"Regardless of one's political party it would have been a great opportunity to hear from the president. I would never want to turn down that opportunity and am disappointed we didn't get to see him in person."

A spokesperson for the university was not available for comment by the time of publication.
Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's normal. (For a shithead like Obama, EVERYONE who's not a certified Dem gets on his shit list.)
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/26/2013 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  We followed all the rules."

Don't take it personally Ms. Scott. Champ changes the "rules" as he goes along.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/26/2013 1:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Must have been a photo op inside.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/26/2013 2:49 Comments || Top||

#4  So is it the White House staff who are the fascists here, or merely the university's senior management?

Yes
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/26/2013 8:07 Comments || Top||

#5  No reason it can't be both Proc. In fact it's quite likely.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/26/2013 8:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Demonization.
Posted by: Omavimble Stalin3583 || 07/26/2013 9:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Like Instapundit says, sue the bastards.
Posted by: Raj || 07/26/2013 10:44 Comments || Top||

#8  besoeker says:
Champ changes the "rules" as he goes along.

There ARE no rules under this regime. Rules are determined before hand, this clique does whatever they want whenever they want. Rules and laws are for doofuses, not the elite.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/26/2013 10:56 Comments || Top||

#9  ....because Cmdr. Zero feels insecure if there are people nearby that disagree with him....
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/26/2013 11:04 Comments || Top||

#10  You didn't have the proper re-education yet. Please report to your assigned camp.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/26/2013 13:43 Comments || Top||

#11  Bingo, Uncle Phester.
Posted by: Barbara || 07/26/2013 13:54 Comments || Top||

#12  The college republicans should astroturf a few members as Democrats for this sort of thing.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/26/2013 14:43 Comments || Top||

#13  Social Tensions, Bushitler and bad weather, what's a POTUS to do?



FORE!
Posted by: Shipman || 07/26/2013 17:01 Comments || Top||

#14  The college republicans should astroturf a few members as Democrats for this sort of thing.

The CRs at my school suggested that, but I don't think anyone was willing. Just having to sit through another communitard lecture is painful enough. It's not like they'll miss anything new or surprising.

The main value in attempting to attend is to publicize how often CRs are barred from leftie speeches on "security" grounds. Which is very often - and very curious, given lefties' proclivity to burn, harass, intimidate, demonize, sabotage, and shut down every instance of unorthodox speech on campus - with zero consequences. Death threats from "pacifists" were especially entertaining.

As they say, Projection isn't just a river in Egypt.
Posted by: RandomJD || 07/26/2013 18:30 Comments || Top||


Pelosi Slams Weiner, Filner
[Real Clear Politics] House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
Bay Area, born into a family of politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...

smacked two of her former male fellow wardheelers currently embroiled in sex scandals with some tough advice: "Get a clue."
Looks like the internal polls are back and it's not looking good for the Democratic brand right now...
Pelosi called the recent actions of New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner
...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City...
, who admitted to sending lewd pictures and messages to a young woman after he resigned from Congress for similar behavior, and San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, who is accused of sexually harassing female staffers and colleagues, "reprehensible."

"It is so disrespectful of women. And what's really stunning about it is that they don't even realize it," the first woman speaker of the House told news hounds at a presser Thursday. "They don't even have a clue. If they are clueless, get a clue. If they need therapy, get it in private."

Weiner served six terms in Congress before resigning in 2011 after tweeting pictures of his privates to women online. This week, a blog called "The Dirty" revealed that Weiner had continued the behavior, sending sexually explicit messages under the pseudonym "Carlos Danger" nearly a year after he left Congress and a few months after his son was born. Weiner addressed the issue in a presser this week, but said he had warned upon his resignation that such information would come forth.

Weiner has refused to drop out of the race, even amid calls to do so by the likes of the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
editorial board.

A new Wall Street Journal-NBC4-Marist poll taken after the most recent revelations found Weiner slipping to third in the race for the Democratic nomination, 10 points behind City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

In 2011, Pelosi and other Democrats called for Weiner to leave Congress. But the minority leader stopped short Thursday of encouraging the disgraced candidate to leave the mayor's race. "That's up to the people of New York," she said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!...
a third woman came forward this week to accuse Filner, Pelosi's former Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, colleague, of sexual harassment. Filner, who left Congress in 2012 after 10 years to run for mayor of San Diego, has refused to resign, saying only that he has "failed to fully respect the women who work for me and with me." He has also admitted, "I need help."

Pelosi has previously refused to weigh in on Filner's actions until now, though she told news hounds last week, "Don't identify him as my former colleague."
Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yokay, I'll bite - "Carlos Danger" = "Danger Close", as oppos to "Clueless Danger" or "Clothesless Danger", "Cloth Daaanger", etc.???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/26/2013 1:19 Comments || Top||

#2  She must not be getting any 'sexts'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/26/2013 2:53 Comments || Top||

#3  naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret (Horace)


You can expel nature with a pitchfork, but it always comes back
Posted by: Willy || 07/26/2013 11:58 Comments || Top||

#4  remember she was going to "drain the swamp". This is obviously decades of exposure to swamp gas
Posted by: Frank G || 07/26/2013 13:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Pelosi has previously refused to weigh in on Filner's actions until now, though she told news hounds last week, "Don't identify him as my former colleague."

Because he (and Weiner) are not in a position to benefit her.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/26/2013 13:51 Comments || Top||

#6  "Don't identify him as my former colleague state the facts - you know I hate that!"

Posted by: Barbara || 07/26/2013 14:00 Comments || Top||

#7  yOU KNOW wE AIN't GET MUCH hORACE ANYmORE.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/26/2013 17:04 Comments || Top||

#8  And yes I expelled Nature but she came back with her 16 year old 300 lb boyfriend and a sack of kittens.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/26/2013 17:06 Comments || Top||

#9  DepressiveBlogger69 @AceofSpadesHQ

Weiner softens image by taking underprivileged kids to the movies; it's a heartfelt, moving image, and Oh Shit his dick is in the popcorn


3:05 PM - 26 Jul 2013

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Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/26/2013 22:19 Comments || Top||


Government
Champ: Social Tensions to rise unless Pubs get on board
Deploying the rhetoric of class warfare against congressional Republicans, Champ warned Wednesday that "social tensions will rise" if Washington doesn't take steps to reverse the growing gap between wealthy Americans and the middle class.
The only rhetoric Champ knows.
In a campaign-style speech at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., the president proclaimed that America during his presidency has "fought its way back" from a recession and called on voters to "pressure Congress to invest in our future" by spending more on such items as education, clean energy and infrastructure.
"Invest" = regime codespeak for more TAXES.
If congressional Republicans resist his plans, he said, the nation's social fabric will begin to fray as resentment builds among lower economic groups.
Begin to fray ?"
The position of the middle class will erode further," Champ said. "Inequality will continue to increase, money's power will distort our politics even more. Social tensions will rise as protected groups various groups fight to hold on to what they have, start blaming The Man somebody else for why their position isn't improving. That's not the America we know."

The address was the first in a series of planned presidential speeches on a common socialist theme focusing on fear and intimidation the economy as Mr. Obama sets his terms for looming battles this fall with House Republicans over spending priorities and raising the country's debt limit. It was also an attempt to breathe new life into his second term, which has been sidetracked by phony scandals including surveillance by the National Security Agency and abuse of power by the Internal Revenue Service.

Campaign themes again.
Klik here for Obama patriotic music
Posted by: Flock Phaper2079 || 07/26/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Whats the Fed gonna do - tell FEMA + DHS to buy massive quantities of hollow-point bullets???

Oh wait ...
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/26/2013 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  More work for the DoJ Community Relations Service brown shirts. We make tensions rise.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/26/2013 1:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Tensions will continue to rise. But, not to worry, Obama can save USA from race war --- for a price.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/26/2013 1:45 Comments || Top||

#4  At some point in the future, it won't make any difference. The Left has already launched the country to an end state that will result in a major social civil war. They overestimate their abilities to win. Special interests groups can only provide so much cannon fodder. Urban areas, like New Orleans in Katrina, are unsustainable without the constant flow of resources which will shut down as soon as things go south. NIMBY bites hard. Real bases of power will reveal themselves and it won't be stuffed or rigged ballot boxes. Let the Plantation owners bring it on.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/26/2013 8:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Urban social upheaval is required to enable the setting aside of the Constitution, elections, confiscate firearms and other property.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/26/2013 9:09 Comments || Top||

#6  One of the key problems in history is the ruling class/cabal/tribe/interest group that believes that crisis will deliver them power, only to have their 'dogs' turn and say 'why should you have power and not us'. The 'dogs' far more often then not, are the ones that end up running things.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/26/2013 10:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Last year he waited until August to deliver this tripe.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/26/2013 13:48 Comments || Top||

#8  He wants repubs on board, At least he SAYS he does,(So he can say "WE" and (Pretend) To mean it.

Sorry not buying it.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/26/2013 14:30 Comments || Top||

#9  Champ: Social Tensions to rise unless Pubs get on board

(A.K.A. Indirect Executive Order to da hood.)
Posted by: Omavimble Stalin3583 || 07/26/2013 14:36 Comments || Top||

#10  looking for a real race war, isn't he? Nevermind the damage and lives lost as long as he mobilizes his base. Asshole
Posted by: Frank G || 07/26/2013 14:51 Comments || Top||

#11  Sounds like a threat to me!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/26/2013 14:56 Comments || Top||

#12  Just today I got an e-mail from Michelle thusly -
There's a lot of noise and talk and back-and-forth going on in Washington, but hardly any of it seems to be about the struggles that middle-class families face.

When I was growing up, a family like mine -- living on my hard-working father's salary at the city water plant -- could build a solid life without much debt and without relying on any form of public assistance. Today, for too many families, that American promise is no longer within reach.

Barack is working to fix that, to give all families a fair shot. And he needs solid Democrats in Congress to help him.


I was touched by her plea. So I sent her every dime I could afford - after taxes. Sorry Moochelle, It's tough in the middle class!
Posted by: Bobby || 07/26/2013 15:10 Comments || Top||

#13  Social tensions will rise as various groups fight to hold on to what they have, start blaming somebody else for why their position isn't improving. That's not the America we know."

Isn't this what 'Community Organizing' is all about?

  1. Find some real or imagined slight. Doesn't really matter what it is but extra points of its about something the 'victim' cannot control (race/gender) but anything (like lack of a job) would do.

  2. Blame 'the man' - corporations, religions, conservatives, whatever your enemies are. Don't take any personal responsibility yourself! (For example it is not your fault you are too damn lazy to get off your ass and get a job, get educated, apply yourself!)

  3. Threaten 'the man' with 'Social Tension to Rise unless....' they give you want you want

  4. Profit!

  5. Repeat! You can even use the same imagined slight.


Otherwise known as extortion
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/26/2013 15:50 Comments || Top||

#14  Hey CF, it's worked quite effectively since Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty"...some 50 years on now.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/26/2013 16:03 Comments || Top||

#15  Now its not very veiled threats about race war if he doesn't get what he wants!

Every tired, shopworn plea for more stimulus and "investment" is rife with hidden taxes and all, all of the expenditures are for Democrap allies, especially the unions, requiring union scale and union bidding and a whole range of disclosures to bid major contracts. Every tool of public power has been turned to the advantage of this devious, narcissistic adolescent. I never imagined the depth of the rot he could and already has accomplished. God save the Republic, cause this POS certainly won't.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/26/2013 16:04 Comments || Top||

#16  If he defeats McCain/Romney, he'll have to govern from the middle.
- author unknown, but frequently heard
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/26/2013 16:32 Comments || Top||

#17  In, France "the middle" means ythe pĂȘople belonging to organized crime
Posted by: JFM || 07/26/2013 18:01 Comments || Top||

#18  NUTS
Posted by: newc || 07/26/2013 19:42 Comments || Top||



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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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Fri 2013-07-26
  Officials: Cafe Bombings, Attacks Kill 42 In Iraq
Thu 2013-07-25
  Hezbollah commander killed in Syria
Wed 2013-07-24
  Reports: Top Syrian Army Commander Killed In Battles With Rebels
Tue 2013-07-23
  Report: Egyptian Army Arrests 18 Terrorist Planning Embassy Attacks
Mon 2013-07-22
  Qaida Suspected as Iranian Diplomat Seized in Yemen
Sun 2013-07-21
  At Least 32 Killed In Baghdad Car Bombings
Fri 2013-07-19
  Suspect in Justice Baqar case dies
Thu 2013-07-18
  Kurds expel cannibals jihadists from flashpoint Syrian town
Wed 2013-07-17
  AQAP: Arabian Al Qaeda's Number Two Confirmed Dead
Tue 2013-07-16
  Egypt prosecutor orders arrest of Brotherhood figures
Mon 2013-07-15
  Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief found guilty of war crimes
Sun 2013-07-14
  B/Haram: Shekau denies ceasefire
Sat 2013-07-13
  Security operatives raid Boko Haram's den in Sokoto
Fri 2013-07-12
  Report: Al-Qaeda Killed Free Syrian Army Commander


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