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... Early on in my military career, way back when I was a PFC, my Battalion would occasionally have “Fun Runs”. A Fun Run is just like running for several miles. Except that it’s fun. Because people that outrank you say so. This is pretty much the Army equivalent to declaring “Our office is so much fun! On Friday we get to wear Hawaiian shirts!” It’s awesome if you happen to love Hawaiian shirts, but just kinda sucks if you have taste. One of the features of the Fun Run was that afterward the Battalion would gather together and hold...

See here.I'm going to be completely honest, I've lost track of how this will offend liberals. Is it sexist because I applied the female gender to the "ette" part of his middle name? Is it transphobic because he's wearing a skirt Is it ageist because Robin's nickname is "Boy Wonder?" Or is it just plain offensive to acknowledge the existence of gender at all?

September 29, 2015 Hilarious Epic Fail: Anti-Trump Activist Tries To Swarm Trump Tower With Mexican Flowers… by sundance A woman attempted a protest against Donald Trump using a huge batch of yellow dahlias, the Mexican state flower. Not exactly sure the goal, because what follows is the hilarious fail of the attempt. Worst.Protest.Ever.Watch it all the way to the end. This is way too funny.[Spoiler: Pro-tip, don’t have anything in your mouth at the last two seconds. Obviously Trump Tower security have a GREAT sense of humor]

Big Guy took his cracker jack team to the United Nations yesterday…Cracker Jacks vs. the JV team – now upgraded to “apocalyptic cult.” No, wagering please.He addressed the assembly, and blamed Assad for making him draw that red line in the first place… Damn you Assad!…which forced him into giving al-Assad a harsh stare when he had the audacity to cross it. And then he chastised those who had the audacity to imply that he, Barack Hussein Obama, might possibly bear some small responsibility for the result of that whole Arab Spring mess:  “Let’s remember how this got started.”The only...

There couldn't be a more obvious choice... Babies bottoms are sand paper by comparison. In fact the only thing softer is his resolve...

Hillary (and Bill) blame the vast rightwing conspiracy (again) for all her troubles (lies) .Boehner blames the “false prophets” (in the Republican party) for all his troubles. Putin, however, blames nobody. He just deftly grabbed the reins of world power after they were tossed aside by Big Guy. After a summer that saw joint Russian and Chinese military exercises around the world, and numerous Russian fly-byes over U.S. waters and territories, Vlady stepped forward to confidently announce his coalition with Syria, Iran and Iraq against ISIS. What the heck, somebody had to do it. And it sure as heck wasn’t going...

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”― Jacques DerridaHillary does not lie, she simply deconstructs:She deconstructed her name such that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary.She deconstructed Chelsea’s jogging around the World Trade Center on 9/11.She deconstructed landing under sniper fire in Bosnia – because everyone deconstructs being in mortal combat, right Brian?And she deconstructed the terrorist attack in Benghazi into a bad video gone viral.And then of course there is that whole, ongoing, email mess that has been deconstructed so many times it’s beginning to resemble a Jacques Derrida erector set.In...

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I have a dream Unpublished Work © 2005 Mike Swagerty 1966-67 USMC There was a time I thought I’d live forever, I was too damn tough to die But after all these years of abusing myself I’m damned if I know why And it’s looking like my living days will soon be in my past But there’s one thing, Lord, that I need from you, before I breathe my last. I’ve probably asked for too much while I was taking up my space But, I need to ask for one more thing, before I leave this place. If you’ll...

The Pope wrapped up his New York visit with a Mass at Madison Square Garden.  Earlier in the day he appeared at the UN where, to the delight of Gaia worshipers everywhere, he declared that the environment is a person too thereby endowed with certain unalienable rights (unfortunately not recognized in other parts of the world such as China and the Middle East, to name two): “It must be stated that a true ‘right of the environment’ does exist,” Francis said.“Any harm done to the environment, therefore is harm done to humanity.” The environment joins with humans and animals in...

Reports that US military personnel in Afghanistan have been ordered to ignore Afghan troops' "bachi bazi"—the ritual kidnapping, imprisonment and rape of child sex slaves was defended by the Obama Administration as "a necessary compromise in the war on terror." "The practice of holding and abusing under-aged boys as sex slaves is an ancient tradition in Afghanistan," US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter observed. "It is not our place to interfere." The Secretary drew a parallel with this country's alliance with the Soviet Union during World War II. "The Soviet Union was an oppressive tyranny run by a paranoid psychopath,"...

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At the moment there's little confidence that whoever replaces Boehner him will be better, but that's a damn low bar. There's a lot of meme's out there about the guy, but virtually none of them are pro-Boehner. In fact, here are 9 that appear to be made by those on his own side. This is what a refusal to lead on behalf of your voter-base looks like. If you don't have your base then you have nothing, because your enemies aren't going to pick up your slack. The next Speaker of the House would do very well to remember this....

Hey, it wasn’t all bad! Here are my key take-aways from Pope Francis’ address to Congress: Sanctity of Life – he still upholds.  Which means he’s still opposed to abortion (to the consternation of the progs, butt they chose to ignore that point) and now apparently is also opposed to capital punishment for the rapists/murderers on death row, regardless of their immigration status (the progs applaud loudly). No comment on the torture and slaughter of Christians/Jews and other infidels at the hand of ISIS and other Muslim sects. Perhaps that will be the next encyclical. Capitalism - opposed – especially...

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I wonder with all of the logical twisting and turning the left has done with gender if this is something they have a right to be offended about.

Jeb tells us they come for love, the Pope tells us they come as pilgrims. “The Church in the United States knows like few others the hopes present in the hearts of these ‘pilgrims.’ … I tend to side with the Pope on this, although I don’t think he means what he thought he meant:The pilgrimage (Hajj) has been the scene of deadly disasters in the past, including stampedes, tent fires and riots. –The UK TelegraphSo while the Pope may call the illegal immigrants pouring over our borders a pilgrimage; some of us would call it an invasion.There’s a huge...

 This fast-food minimum wage campaign has the potential  to go down as an all-time EPIC bonehead move by the left-  what if it make clear economic sense to replace workers at $7/hr, too?  Sure, McDonalds sees the writing-on-the-wall, and has the financial war chest to deal with it. They've already opened a fully robotic Mickey D's in Phoenix, with plans to roll-out 25,000 more by just next year... But what about the little guy? The legislation recently seen in New York, LA, San Francisco, and Seattle inflicts large minimum wage increases on restaurants employing more than 30-or-so people- but that...