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Democrats Leave Benghazi Hearing Before Testimony From Families Of The Deceased
there are not enough words in the English language to adequately express my disgust and loathing for these cretins
-Jones in CO
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This speaks for me.

Maybe those who watch DC more closely than I can help me understand, how would anyone expect that such action can be seen in anything but the worst possible light? The vulgarity is matched by the incomprehensibility.

What could they think they're communicating except, 'we spit in the faces of the families of these heroes and victims'? Who supports such an act? What reasons of endorsement have the LaughingStock Media proffered? (Crickets?) (We've got an invasion of them. They're really loud. But the cats are having a great time.)

Top Gun maneuver on Iranian - definitely a feel-good anecdote FWIW

The New Scooby-Doo Movies (TV Series)
Morticia Frump Addams
- Wednesday Is Missing (1972) ... Morticia Frump Addams (voice)

...but other than The Addams Family, her only recurring roles were in the DC soap Capitol and Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman. -MPPPPPPppppp
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Queen Hippolyta = Morticia Addams! Did not know!

This is the kind of enlightenment for which I come to AoSHQ!

Ben dump is up. ... not

Changing sock. Had to put something.

Thor? Just another puny god.

You pool your money with thousands of other people, and the actuaries figure how likely you or someone else is to need a payout.... -Chi-Town Jerry
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Sure, sure. What a wacky, unworkable Ponzi scam! Shocking. Whoever came up with that must've been high as a kite.

FenelonSpoke's going to be absent for a while because of personal commitments, so no regular morning hymn for a while. -Mary Poppins

Thanks, I did miss that.

Meanwhile, if you'll all turn in your hymnals to page 879, we'll stand and sing, "How Hypnotically Droning and Incomprehensibly Archaic Is Our Song of Praise." Anyway, that's how it felt to me as a kid on sore knees in the rocking '60s. Then the Hip Folky Guitar-Playing Minister thing started and traditional hymns sounded a whole lot better.

...hands are scented with freshly ground coriander from the rub...it has a lemony scent, with maybe a licorice-y undertone.... -Gem
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Gem brings the morning's virtual olfactory stimulation. Mixing with the aroma of fresh brew.

AoSHQ - a multisensory blog.

If I were awake, my pithy remark would go here. My wake-up-early neural clusters don't care what time last night's mental efforts decided to go to bed.

Good almost morning.

Haha. They missed me. I have a minute.

9th grade. Big kid, kept back at least 2 yrs, always walked into State History class (last hour), bumping into people, knocking books on the floor, breaking pencils, ripping papers. The teacher always came in late, after his antics. Everybody just put up with the big greaser's crap.

Then one day I was standing at the back of the classroom, looking at some Science paper I'd just had returned with either an A or an F, unexpected either way, and I'm looking at the paper, and I hear the Bully come in.

He's in Special mode. I hear books crash to the floor. I hear people jostled. He grabs my paper out of my hands and rips it up. Without a look back on all these things, mind you. Goes on and knocks into somebody's desk.

That's when I snapped. This guy was a head taller than me, burly, and, well, I wasn't. But I went up behind him and slammed him chest-down on the top of a desk and held him there, flailing helplessly. (Kathy, girl who was in the desk, vacated swiftly.)

I just started speed-talking. Told him he does this every day and it has to stop. I listed his tricks and just emphasized that it had to stop. I told him I was going to let him up, then, but wouldn't fight him.

He, of course, was ranting and slavering, describing what he planned to do when I let him up. Honestly, I have no idea how I held him down except that my muses were Mania and Hysteria. Then I let him up.

His fists came up, my hands came up in the boxer's position Dad taught me, but palms open. I kept insisting I wouldn't fight him, while he was looking for an opening. While we squared off at the back of the class, the teacher came in and bade us seat ourselves.

"I'll get you after class, Mindful," he said. Yes, my exit route to the bus led past Behind The Cafeteria, where duels and beatings traditionally occurred.

So, at the bell, I had my books ready, and I high-tailed it out of the class, down the ramp, and onto the bus, with Bully in hot pursuit. "I'll get you tomorrow, Mindful," he cursed at me through the windows.

It was a long night. And a long day the next day, looking around every corner before turning, wary all day. Wary into the State History class. He wasn't there.

Then, of course, I knew he would be waiting for me after class, and I wasn't going to run this time. And after class, sure enough, there he was.

Oops, sorry, gotta go right now. Bye.

So, I read the post (well, not read exactly, but you know, got the gist, the way the style guide says), read backward through comments 383-300 (mean girls), and then forward 1 through 100 (eggs and farts). Somehow, I can't imagine 100-299 could top any of that. And since my Keepers are trying to catch me and put me in my cell for the night, I will have to forego finding out.

Ben Franklin was a great comedian. After all, he came up with the first humor periodical, "Little Richard's Almanac."

MIDDLEST!

Oh, must share this. I just stumbled across the ONT comment that ended,
"...yes, explaining the minimum wage and tax rates with these people is a futile exercise."
Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet
http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=343507#c21179551

Recommended reading - classic instance of 'what we're up against.' Math is har-rd.

Am I late? Good morning!

"Today is a black day in the fight against global warming" Squealed in horror, Senator Christine Milne the senate slag for the greens.

Sweeter than Piers Morgan's desperation over gun laws in America.

Well, we started with
http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=343505#c21179102
363 Great news for the Midwest:
http://tinyurl.com/kdm5mv7
Posted by: RS

Which article led us to Google-map Hawaii, showing that trail of hotspot residue.

Then we were talking about the Marianas Trench, caused by the subduction of the Pacific plate under the Asian plate, and how I read (IIRC) that everything along the edge of the trench could just fall in there any time.

Which led us to search for the classic xkcd "Lakes and Oceans." http://xkcd.com/1040/

But on the same search results page, we saw
What if you exploded a nuclear bomb (say, the Tsar Bomba) at the bottom of the Marianas Trench? http://what-if.xkcd.com/15/

Spoiler: not much... until you increase the explosion by several orders of mag-a-na-tood.

That's what I brought for alla you'n's today. Can I have this last chocolate chip cookie on the buffet?

Did that chocolate chip just move?

What I want to know is, why is it always the left sock that goes missing?

"I despair for America right now. The gun debate is so entrenched on either side, I fear nothing will ever get done." -PM

D'aawww. That's so sweet to hear, hims wittle despair.

Glad to see other monkeys at the keyboards have already done the binders joke so I don't have to. I can just lurk here showing how above that level of meme-mimicking I am.

Wait. Did I just type that out loud?

On the upside...

Ex-Guantanamo detainee dies fighting Assad in Syria... (Drudge headline)