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Just four short months after "normalizing" relations with Cuba and just days after meeting with Dictator Raul Castro in Panama, President Barack Obama will reportedly strip the country of its terrorism sponsor status. It was just last year when the Center for Security Policy publishing the detailed connection Cuba has to Venezuela and Iran in its support for terrorism around the globe. It should be noted that Iran is the world's most prolific state-sponsor of terrorism through Hezbollah, the world's largest terror organization responsible for more American murders than any other group before 9/11/2001. Iran, Cuba and Venezuela have developed a close...

The first round of puns I posted a while back were well received (you can see them here), so here's some more.(h/t to Freeper tacticalogic for #6)

I come across a lot of memes that make me laugh because they're so punny (ha. ha. ha.). So, I started collecting them...Happy Hump Day!

Just Because Day When : August 27th Today is Just Because Day. Finally, you have a chance to do something without a rhyme or reason. Most often in life, we do things because we have to, or we want to, or it's expected of us. None of those reasons apply today. Is there something you'd like to do, but there isn't a reason or logic for doing it? Well, today is the day to go out and do something "just because". It is most enjoyable if it is an uncommon, or unexpected activity or action. Perhaps, you have something...

A cassette tape of a "drunk" John Lennon recording a cover version of a rock 'n' roll song has sold at auction in Los Angeles for $30,000 (£20,200). The six-minute recording, made in autumn 1973, is of Lennon performing Lloyd Price's Just Because. "Debauched lyrics" improvised by "a drunk Lennon" include "just a little cocaine will set me right", auction house Bonhams and Butterfields said... Lennon's "slurred warbling" included, "I wanna take all them new singers, Carol and the other one with the nipples, I wanna take 'em and hold 'em tight," Bonhams and Butterfields said. "The background band speeds...

The pages seem to load so very quickly. I don't have to click the refresh button at all. It's very unusual.

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind makes moan, Earth stands hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow has fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, Then I to my computer go. Then I do my computer go, to Free Republic land, Electronically to take my stand, There to post thread on thread, thead on thread, Until some folks might wish me dead. O let us raise a cup of cheer in honor of this place Even though as days go by and we ne'er meet face to face, O Let me say to one and all, one and all,...

Just for fun. Why not discuss something everyone is doing? Just post your choice of Valentine's Day gift(s)for the one(s) you love so everyone can compare notes. I bought chocolates for my wife and two daughter. Told them sweets for my sweet. It made them happy, which makes me happy. (Romance isn't exactly my strong point, but they don't seem to mind much.

Police: Suspect Said He Wanted To Kill Someone WEST MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania man is charged with shooting the pregnant wife of a soldier in Iraq, just because -- according to police -- he wanted to kill somebody. Police said Noel Gomez (pictured, left), 19, shot the woman late Sunday night.Julia Cook, 21, of New York, remains hospitalized at a hospital in York. She is listed in serious condition after being shot in the head with a shotgun.Cook's husband is currently serving in Iraq.Gomez said he didn't know the victim, but was just was looking for someone to...