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Bender's NFL LIVE THREAD Week 16 Saturday, Dec 23, 2017 (All times Eastern) Indianapolis at Baltimore 4:30 pm NFLN M&T Bank Stadium Minnesota at Green Bay 8:30 pm NBC Lambeau Field Sunday, Dec 24, 2017 Atlanta at New Orleans 1:00 pm FOX Mercedes-Benz Superdome Buffalo at New England 1:00 pm CBS Gillette Stadium Cleveland at Chicago 1:00 pm CBS Soldier Field Denver at Washington 1:00 pm CBS FedEx Field Detroit at Cincinnati 1:00 pm FOX Paul Brown Stadium L.A. Chargers at N.Y. Jets 1:00 pm CBS MetLife Stadium L.A. Rams at Tennessee 1:00 pm FOX Nissan Stadium Miami at Kansas...

Bender's NFL LIVE THREAD Week 15 Thursday, Dec 14, 2017 (All times Eastern) Denver at Indianapolis 8:25 pm NFLN (& NBC) Lucas Oil Stadium Saturday, Dec 16, 2017 Chicago at Detroit 4:30 pm NFLN Ford Field L.A. Chargers at Kansas City 8:25 pm NFLN Arrowhead Stadium Sunday, Dec 17, 2017 Arizona at Washington 1:00 pm FOX FedEx Field Baltimore at Cleveland 1:00 pm CBS FirstEnergy Stadium Cincinnati at Minnesota 1:00 pm CBS U.S. Bank Stadium Green Bay at Carolina 1:00 pm FOX Bank of America Stadium Houston at Jacksonville 1:00 pm FOX EverBank Field Miami at Buffalo 1:00 pm CBS...

Bender's NFL LIVE THREAD Week 14 Thursday, Dec 7, 2017 (All times Eastern) New Orleans at Atlanta 8:25 pm NFLN (& NBC) Mercedes-Benz Stadium Sunday, Dec 10, 2017 Chicago at Cincinnati 1:00 pm FOX Paul Brown Stadium Detroit at Tampa Bay 1:00 pm FOX Raymond James Stadium Green Bay at Cleveland 1:00 pm FOX FirstEnergy Stadium Indianapolis at Buffalo 1:00 pm CBS New Era Field Minnesota at Carolina 1:00 pm CBS Bank of America Stadium Oakland at Kansas City 1:00 pm CBS Arrowhead Stadium San Francisco at Houston 1:00 pm FOX NRG Stadium Dallas at N.Y. Giants 1:00 pm FOX...

Bender's NFL LIVE THREAD Week 13 Thursday, Nov 30, 2017 (All times Eastern) Washington at Dallas 8:25 pm NFLN (& NBC) AT&T Stadium Sunday, Dec 3, 2017 Denver at Miami 1:00 pm FOX Hard Rock Stadium Detroit at Baltimore 1:00 pm FOX M&T Bank Stadium Houston at Tennessee 1:00 pm CBS Nissan Stadium Indianapolis at Jacksonville 1:00 pm CBS EverBank Field Kansas City at N.Y. Jets 1:00 pm CBS MetLife Stadium Minnesota at Atlanta 1:00 pm FOX Mercedes-Benz Stadium New England at Buffalo 1:00 pm CBS New Era Field San Francisco at Chicago 1:00 pm CBS Soldier Field Tampa Bay...

Do you think 2017 has been a pretty challenging year for the world? You’re not alone. Dictionary.com named its “word of the year” today. It’s choice? Complicit. The site announced its word of the year with a Trump joke, first suggesting it had selected covfefe for this year’s honor, although this year’s word choice is certainly Trump focused. The site defines complicit as an adjective that means “choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others; having complicity.” Interest in the word spiked on April 5 of this year when Ivanka Trump told CBS This Morning...

Bender's NFL LIVE THREAD Week 12 Thursday, Nov 23, 2017 (All times Eastern) Minnesota at Detroit 12:30 pm FOX Ford Field L.A. Chargers at Dallas 4:30 pm CBS AT&T Stadium N.Y. Giants at Washington 8:30 pm NBC FedEx Field Sunday, Nov 26, 2017 Buffalo at Kansas City 1:00 pm CBS Arrowhead Stadium Carolina at N.Y. Jets 1:00 pm FOX MetLife Stadium Chicago at Philadelphia 1:00 pm FOX Lincoln Financial Field Cleveland at Cincinnati 1:00 pm CBS Paul Brown Stadium Miami at New England 1:00 pm CBS Gillette Stadium Tampa Bay at Atlanta 1:00 pm FOX Mercedes-Benz Stadium Tennessee at Indianapolis...

Bender's NFL LIVE THREAD Week 11 Thursday, Nov 16, 2017 (All times Eastern) Tennessee at Pittsburgh 8:25 pm NFLN Heinz Field Sunday, Nov 19, 2017 Arizona at Houston 1:00 pm FOX NRG Stadium Baltimore at Green Bay 1:00 pm CBS Lambeau Field Detroit at Chicago 1:00 pm FOX Soldier Field Jacksonville at Cleveland 1:00 pm CBS FirstEnergy Stadium Kansas City at N.Y. Giants 1:00 pm CBS MetLife Stadium L.A. Rams at Minnesota 1:00 pm FOX U.S. Bank Stadium Tampa Bay at Miamin 1:00 pm FOX Hard Rock Stadium Washington at New Orleans 1:00 pm FOX Mercedes-Benz Superdome Buffalo at L.A....

Impy Presents: Bender's NFL LIVE THREAD Week 10 Thursday, Nov 9, 2017 (All times Eastern) Seattle at Arizona 8:25 pm NFLN University of Phoenix Stadium Sunday, Nov 12, 2017 Cincinnati at Tennessee 1:00 pm FOX Nissan Stadium Cleveland at Detroit 1:00 pm CBS Ford Field Green Bay at Chicago 1:00 pm FOX Soldier Field L.A. Chargers at Jacksonville 1:00 pm CBS EverBank Field Minnesota at Washington 1:00 pm FOX FedEx Field New Orleans at Buffalo 1:00 pm FOX New Era Field N.Y. Jets at Tampa Bay 1:00 pm CBS Raymond James Stadium Pittsburgh at Indianapolis 1:00 pm CBS Lucas Oil...

As Democrats and Left-wing “progressive” anti-gun activists continue to push for gun bans and other erosions of the Second Amendment following the terrible mass shooting in Las Vegas on Sunday, it is well to remember that, once upon a time, a pair of notable Democrats did their best to ensure that kind of violence occurred as often as possible south of the U.S. border. Early in President Obama’s tenure, he and Attorney General Eric Holder cooked up a scheme to send thousands of U.S.-based “assault weapons” — that is, semi-automatic rifles which cosmetically resemble real assault weapons — into the...

Bob Graham won't discuss the classified information in the 28 pages, he will say only that they outline a network of people that he believes supported the hijackers while they were in the U.S. Steve Kroft: You believe that support came from Saudi Arabia? Bob Graham: Substantially. Steve Kroft: And when we say, "The Saudis," you mean the government, the-- Bob Graham: I mean-- Steve Kroft: --rich people in the country? Charities-- Bob Graham: All of the above. Graham and others believe the Saudi role has been soft-pedaled to protect a delicate relationship with a complicated kingdom where the rulers,...

Muslims are boycotting Prevent, the British government’s anti-radicalisation programme, with community leaders accounting for less than a tenth of extremism tip-offs. The vast majority of tip-offs are instead coming from public services, such as schools and hospitals, or the police. The Times reports that although the figures include extremism of different varieties, including far right, they show the hostility in Muslim communities towards the so-called Prevent programme, and raise concerns that police are being denied information that could prevent terror attacks. Earlier this month, the Waltham Forest Council of Mosques, which represents tens of thousands of worshippers in east London,...

Two Republican leaders in the House Judiciary Committee have reached out to the Department of Justice as they investigate the Planned Parenthood scandal. Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia and Arizona's Trent Franks, the chairman of the Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee, sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch inquiring about the laws regarding partial birth birth abortions and the sale of fetal tissue. Planed Parenthood has come under fire for a series of videos that show employees at the government-funded agency discussing the sale of fetal body parts from abortions. "The House Judiciary Committee has launched an investigation...

The more we learn about the Holocaust, even as it recedes into the “mists of time,” the more my blood boils, the closer I come to tears. Last night, I traveled far out into Syrian-Jewish Brooklyn, where there are not only Syrian shuls but Egyptian, Lebanese, and Iraqi shuls as well—sometimes two or three on a single block. […] Retired lawyer and filmmaker Robert Krakow was screening his film Complicit, which is about America’s and FDR’s refusal, in 1939, to allow the Jewish passengers on the German ship, the MS St. Louis, to enter the country. More than 900 Jews...

A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss military action by a partner nation, said the Egyptian government had not provided Washington advance warning of the strikes, which were launched on Monday in response to the group’s beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians on a Mediterranean beach.

On Monday, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Guatemalan president Otto Perez Molina held a joint press conference in Playas de Catazaja, Mexico, to officially announce an agreement to make it easier for those making the illegal journey to the United States from Central America, to cross into Mexico. The Southern Border Program to Improve Passage, will provide for more border checkpoints along Mexico's border with Guatemala, and offer more protection and even emergency medical care to those making their way north. The illegal aliens will receive a so-called Regional Visitor's Card, according to El Universal. Officially, the program will...

The Fishwrap of Record has finally seen fit to tell its readers about the latest ACORN scandals (the San Bernardino tapes, which don’t get a mention, are beyond belief). True to form, the New York Times commits grievous sins of omission that whitewash the paper’s own role in deliberately covering up ACORN’s illicit activities before Election Day last November. The Times article by Scott Shane casts the ACORN stings as a purely partisan game: “Conservatives Draw Blood From Acorn, Favored Foe.”

LONDON (AFP) – The head of Britain's foreign intelligence service said Monday his agents were not involved in torture, amid allegations of British links to mistreatment of terror suspects held overseas. The head of MI6, John Scarlett, said his officers were committed to human rights and democracy as they protected Britain against terrorism threats. "Our officers are as committed to the values and the human rights values of liberal democracy as anybody else," Sir John told BBC's Radio 4 in comments posted on its website Monday. "They also have the responsibility of protecting the country against terrorism and these issues...

MEXICO CITY: US lawyers for a former altar boy plan to grill Mexico’s top Roman Catholic clergyman next month as part of an effort to sue him in a California court over claims he protected a suspected pedophile priest. Cardinal Norberto Rivera faces an Aug 8 deposition in Mexico City, one of the world’s largest Catholic dioceses, Jeffrey Anderson, the plaintiff’s lawyer, said on Tuesday. Rivera and Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony are named in a US civil suit filed by Joaquin Aguilar Mendez in Los Angeles. Mendez says a priest named Nicolas Aguilar raped him in Mexico in 1994...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam, Feb. 14, 2007 – The Iranian government is complicit in improvised-explosive-device attacks on coalition and Iraqi forces, Marine Gen. Peter Pace said today in Jakarta, Indonesia. However, he said, officials are unsure what level of Iranian government is part of this complicity. Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is visiting U.S. Pacific Command areas. As Pace spoke to leaders at the National Institute of Resilience, the Indonesian senior military college, leaders at the institute asked him about proof that Iran is sponsoring IED attacks in Iraq and supporting Shiite terrorist groups....

Once again, ‘the official government story’ is leaking like a colander. I just read the August 12th ‘Kean-Hamilton statement on ABLE DANGER’ from the 9/11 Commission…henceforth to be referred to as ‘Commission CYA Addendum (Revised)’. Recently two separate groups of 9/11 widows articulated their shock and horror that the 9/11 Commission ignored significant and critical evidence. Duh! Hell-o? The 9/11 Commission’s decision to flat out ignore testimony that military intelligence had identified Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi in 1999 as terrorist threats already in the U.S. but was specifically ordered not to tell the FBI suffers an adequate adjectives to...