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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ fac·to·tum fakˈtōdəm/ noun noun: factotum; plural noun: factotums an employee who does all kinds of work. "he was employed as the general factotum" synonyms: handyman, jack of all trades; More assistant, man Friday, gal/girl Friday; gofer; informalMr./Ms. Fix-It "back then, these wealthy college boys made sure their personal factotums were just a whistle away" Origin mid 16th century (originally in the phrases dominum (or magister ) factotum, translating roughly as ‘master of everything,’ and Johannes factotem ‘John do-it-all’ or ‘Jack of all trades’): from medieval Latin, from Latin fac! ‘do!’ (imperative of facere ) + totum ‘the whole...

Google has abruptly killed off one of its April Fools' Day "jokes" after it caused outrage online, with multiple people claiming that it lost them their jobs. The premise of the joke was simple. In Gmail, next to the standard "Reply" button, Google added a "Mic drop" button. Using it would reply to the email, archive it — and also add a GIF of a "Despicable Me" minion dropping a mic. "Email's great, but sometimes you just wanna hit the eject button," Google wrote in a tongue-and-cheek blog post explaining its purpose. "Like those heated threads at work, when everyone's...

Frankly, it looks freakishly natural for him...

Earlier Tuesday, NBC News reported that President Barack Obama had shaken hands with Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe. However, the UK Telegraph's Josie Ensor reported that Obama "was asked to take his seat just before reaching Mugabe." Complicating matters, another article in the UK Telegraph also claimed that Obama had shaken hands with Mugabe--in very similar terms to those used in the NBC article. Breitbart News caught the discrepancy--and suddenly the NBC News article was corrected, with no notice. Before: On his way to the rostrum, Obama also shook the hand of Robert Mugabe, the strongman ruler of Zimbabwe, and hugged...

An abortion clinic staffer who worked at the House of Horrors abortion clinic Kermit Gosnell ran was also found guilty today. Gosnell was found guilty today on hundreds of counts, including three first-degree murder charges of killing babies in a gruesome abortion-infanticide method. O’Neill is on trial with Gosnell on charges of theft by Deception, Conspiracy to commit theft, Racketeering, Conspiracy related to corruption, Perjury, and False Swearing. She was found guilty Monday of conspiracy, participation in a corrupt organization, and two counts of theft by deception. Meanwhile, O’Neill was acquitted of five additional counts of theft by deception. During...

I have been wrong in assessing Obama's politics. After watching Onada work for Mubarak's demise; and looking at what he has supported nationally/internationally since he usurped the Presidency I'm convinced he is a fundamentalist Muslim terrorist. Onada is using the Marxists and their organization to advance the Jihadi agenda. Thoughts please!

Ok, it's only the WH fountain but still..

A Clinton aide asks why presidents don't learn that full candor is always the best policy Two recent television docudramas suggest lessons for how leaders can level with the public in a time of war. In one, Winston Churchill told citizens the truth about security lapses leading up to World War II. In the other, President Lyndon Johnson-certain that voters would not tolerate bad news from Vietnam-hid the true cost and trajectory of that war. PERHAPS THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE was watching the wrong one. The long-hidden warnings, given to George W. Bush, of possible Al Qaeda hijackings last summer...