HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!

                                                                                                                   Cartoon by William Warren

                                                       

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Storms Over The Capitol Over The Fiscal Cliff

Update: Fiscal Cliff talks at a standstill - Dems balk at GOP proposal to stop Obama & company from spending any money gotten from tax hikes. Obama had always touted using tax money to bring down the deficit. Read More: Democrats Stall Talks

Can the president and Congress get it done in time, or will we fall over that contrived fiscal cliff?
 Either way, it matters not,  for taxes on everyone will go up one way or the other. Whether it's a hike through the abolishment of the Bush tax cuts, or through the many hidden taxes in Obamacare...tax increases are in our future. It's the Democrat way and our president is hell-bent on putting them into play. Grab onto your wallet and hold on for dear life.

All the ballyhooing and grandstanding on the part of the president over getting something done to avoid the fiscal cliff is nothing more than Greek theater. If the truth be known, the president would rather we fall over the cliff. Why? He gets the tax increases he wants (albeit on everyone and not just the rich) and he gets major cuts in defense not have to agree to spending cuts.
In actuality, we have a spending problem in this country, not a revenue problem as the president likes to say. So, the theatrics continue.....

Sen. Mitch McConnell            Sen. Harry Reid

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell vow to scramble over the weekend to produce a new bill aimed at averting the fiscal crisis, following a high-stakes White House meeting — though there was no breakthrough, Obama said he's 'modestly optimistic.'  Read More: The Ball is in the Senate's Court

One Lawmaker seems to agrees with me: 
"Any time you announce a meeting publicly in Washington, it's usually for political theater purposes," Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said on Thursday on Fox News.
"When the president calls congressional leaders to the White House, it's all political theater or they've got a deal. My bet is all political theater," said Graham, adding that he did not believe an agreement could be reached before the deadline.







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Al Queda Poses New Threat To War On Terror

President Obama has refused to acknowledge we are involved in a War on Terror.
The president  has insisted that the terrorist group Al Queda is on the run and weakened. There is speculation that the lack of response and security in the Benghazi, Libya U.S. Consulate incident that killed the U.S. Ambassador there and three other Americans was due to the Administration assurtion about Al Queda. 

                                                                Reuters

Now, despite the president's claim to have put Al Queda out of business, there is new evidence that it is stronger than ever with its focus on North Africa and the United States is getting involved.

 Fox News reports that  "A U.S. Army brigade will begin sending small teams into as many as 35 African nations early next year, part of an intensifying Pentagon effort to train countries to battle extremists and give the U.S. a ready and trained force to dispatch to Africa if crises requiring the U.S. military emerge."  Read more:  New Al Queda Threat











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True American Heroes Pass On

Gen Norman Schwarzkopf & Pres.George H.W. Bush

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who commanded the US-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991, dies at 78.

























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Through Heaven's Gate....

twas' 11 days before Christmas, around 9:38

when 20 beautiful children stormed through heaven's gate.

their smiles were contagious, their laughter filled the air.

they could hardly believe all the beauty they saw there.

they were filled with such joy, they didn't know what to say.

they remembered nothing of what had happened earlier that day.

"where are we?" asked a little girl, as quiet as a mouse.

"this is heaven." declared a small boy. "we're spending Christmas at God's house."

when what to their wondering eyes did appear,

but Jesus, their savior, the children gathered near.

He looked at them and smiled, and they smiled just the same.

then He opened His arms and He called them by name.

and in that moment was joy, that only heaven can bring

those children all flew into the arms of their King

and as they lingered in the warmth of His embrace,

one small girl turned and looked at Jesus' face.

and as if He could read all the questions she had

He gently whispered to her, "I'll take care of mom and dad."

then He looked down on earth, the world far below

He saw all of the hurt, the sorrow, and woe

then He closed His eyes and He outstretched His hand,

"Let My power and presence re-enter this land!"

"may this country be delivered from the hands of fools"

"I'm taking back my nation. I'm taking back my schools!"

then He and the children stood up without a sound.

"come now my children, let me show you around."

excitement filled the space, some skipped and some ran.

all displaying enthusiasm that only a small child can.

and I heard Him proclaim as He walked out of sight,

"in the midst of this darkness, I AM STILL THE LIGHT."

                                                         Author Unknown

                                    

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HO! HO! HO!

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22 Ways The Government Wasted Your Money in 2012

                           22 of the Worst Government Expenditures of 2012

                                     .... And More To Come In 2013

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Marine Released From Mexican Jail....No Thanks To The U.S. Government

Cpl Jon Hammar

Ex-Marine Jon Hammar spent four months in a Mexican jail for what was basically an administrative problem. The happy side of the story is that Cpl Hammar has been released in time for a Christmas reunion with his family. Read More from Newsmax.com


The sad part is that that the two U.S. Government officials who should have been all over this from the start sat idly by - President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The job of the government is to protect American citizens. The question to be asked and needs to be answered is "Why did President Obama and Secretary Clinton not get involved and pressure the Mexican government for Hammar's release?" This is a gross neglect of office. As we all know, Mr. Obama loves making daily appearances before the TV cameras, but not once has he made mention of Jon Hammar's plight and what he was doing about it. Apparently taxing the rich is more important to this president.

President Obama & Secretary Clinton

The so-called mainstream media, aka. NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC and various print media have given limited lip service to the story. They, like the government, should have been all over it. Why did they ignore it? The media is no longer in the in the business of reporting the news. They have become mouth pieces touting the liberal ideology. As such, to push the story would make their liberal friends, (the president and secretary of state) look bad, and they simply are not going to do that. Jay Carney, White House press secretary said just days ago that he knew nothing about the case! Amazing!  To be fair there is some indication that the U.S. consulate  in Matamoros, Mexico, where Jon Hammar was being held, was in contact with Hammar and his family from the beginning.  

Bill O'Reilly

The Fox News Channel, on the other hand, took the bull by the horns on this case. Bill O'Reilly, host of the O'Reilly Factor on Fox, led the charge and was instrumental in getting Jon Hammar released.  Click for Video:  Fox News Instrumental in Marine's Release

Unfortunate that a news organization has to do the job of the administration. Thank God, though, Fox was there...and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Jon Hammar and his family....I'm sure it will be.

Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

The Bill of Rights

The 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution,as part of The Bill of Rights, was  passed by Congress on December 15, 1791, ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State, reads:
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

In the wake of the senseless killing of 20 small children and 6 adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., politicizing the tragedy began within hours after the incident ocurred. The liberal media and politicians led the charge as usual as they did after the the April 20, 1999, shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado where 12 students and one teacher were gunned down, or the the Virginia Tech  school shooting that took place on April 16, 2007, killing 32 people and other such incidents. 

  President Obama is using the bully pulpit to push for stronger gun control measures, but he has flip-flopped somewhat in the past on the issue. Jennifer Bendery recently wrote in the Huffingtonpost.com that 'Obama was a vocal advocate of gun control in his early days as an Illinois politician, and during his term in the U.S. Senate, he routinely backed gun control bills. It wasn't until he became president that he went quiet on the matter; in fact, the only two gun measures he's signed into law actually expanded gun rights.'

President Obama & Vice-Pres Biden

Todd Cefaratti editor of the Tea Party News Network (TPNN) believes President Obama's appointing VP Joe Biden to come up with a solution to the gun control controversy will go nowhere.  Read More: Task Force is a Joke 

Piers Morgan

Liberal media running amok again over gun control. Read More: CNN's Piers Morgan Out of Control


The National Rifle Association (NRA) prepares response to the latest liberal push for gun control in the wake of the Newtown, Conn. shootings. Read more from Newsmax.com


Should teachers and other school personnel should have access to guns in an emergency?
Read More: Teachers Unions Weigh In

                 TAKE AWAY GUNS AND ONLY CRIMINALS WILL HAVE GUNS
      





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Report On Benghazi - The Buck Stops...........Where?? The Cover-up Continues

UPDATE: Was Hillary Clinton Warned of Security Problems Before The Attack?

Washington – A top State Department official acknowledged Thursday that cables warning of serious security concerns at the U.S. compound in Benghazi went to department headquarters – and possibly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s office – in the months leading up to the deadly Sept. 11 attack.  Read More From Fox News

The mandatory State Department internal inquiry into the deadly Sept. 11 terror attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, slams bureaucrats for "grossly inadequate" security but says that poor leadership could not be punished under department regulations.
Read more: Benghazi Report Shows Leadership Failures

While the report lists State Department miscues, it doesn't point the finger at any one individual or group. Even though the report says there was inadequate security at the mission and leadership and management deficiencies and negligence at top levels” of the State Department, there is apparently to be no punishment, despite the loss of life at the consulate in Libya. 

Charlene Lamb

Three State Department officials have resigned as a result of the report - Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Eric Boswell, Deputy Assistant Secretary Charlene Lamb and an unidentified official from the agency's Middle East bureau. Question: Were these resignations forced? Are they being thrown out there as scapegoats?

 The State Department officials had turned down repeated requests from diplomats on the ground for more security, both at the embassy in Tripoli and in Benghazi. This is nothing new. Everyone knew this from the beginning, security was virtually non-existent. Ms. Lamb had testified before Congress that she, in fact, was responsible for denying the request. 

A lot of the responsibility lies at the doorstep of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. After all, she stated that on October 

Secretary Clinton

16th that she takes "full responsibility for security" at the Libyan consulate and other U.S. Embassies around the world. Having said that, and after saying she would testify before congress on the incident in  Benghazi, she seems to be backtracking. First the flu and now a fall resulting in a concussion has sidelined her. Mrs. Clinton has announced she will be stepping down from her post effective in January, and as a private citizen and unless subpoenaed by Congress, she is not compelled to testify. Congress may still try to get her to testify before she leaves office.

 One wonders if Benghazi had not happened, would she be quitting. Is she running for political cover?  It's believed she has future political ambitions, the presidency in 2016, and while Benghazi will still hang over her head, testifying may be more damaging to her run for the White House. 

The report by the State Department investigating the State Department really said nothing knew. Congressional investigating committees will be asking tough questions. It appears the cover-up, orchestrated by the White House, continues. If the Administration has its way, we may never know what really happened and who is responsible for the the gross ineptitude in Benghazi, Libya that resulted in the deaths of four Americans.

Obama Cut School Security Funding $$

Beneath the expressions of grief, sorrow and disbelief over the Connecticut school massacre lies an uneasy truth in Washington: over the last few years the Obama administration and Congress quietly let federal funding for several key school security programs lapse in the name of budget savings.
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Morgan Freeman: Why theTragedy in Newtown, Conn. Happened

Morgan Freeman
(Actor)

"You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here's why.

It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single *victim* of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.

CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.

You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news."

GOD Is Banned !

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UPDATE : Tragedy In Newtown, Conn.

“Evil visited this community today and it’s too early to speak of recovery. Each parent, each sibling, each member of the family has to understand Connecticut — we’re all in this together.”
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy


Update: NEWTOWN, Conn. — President Obama will arrive here Sunday to meet family members of those killed in Friday’s shooting rampage, carrying out the awful rituals of mass death and national grief for his fourth time in just four years as president. Read More: President Visits Newtown

Update: Government officials told the Washington Guardian on Friday night that two Justice Department programs that had provided more than $200 million to schools for training, security equipment and police resources over the last decade weren't renewed in 2011 and 2012, and that a separate program that provided $800 million to put police officers inside the schools was ended a few years earlier. Read More: Obama Admin Allowed Federal $$ For School Security To Lapse

Vicki Soto

Update: 'She put herself between the gunman and her students,' her cousin Jim Wiltsie told the Daily News. 

Read more: Teacher Died saving Her Students




Update:  NEWTOWN, Conn. – Connecticut State Police say a gunman who massacred 26 children and adults at an elementary school before committing suicide forced his way into the building. 
Read more from FOX News: Police: New Evidence In Shooting

Following the shooting, families of victims grieve outside Sandy Hook 
Elementary School.
                                                                            (Adrees Latif/Reuters)

click link:
Gunman Takes The Lives of 20 Children, 6 Adults










                                                                                                    

Conn. State Police officers evacuated frightened students to a
 nearby firehouse
 (Shannon Hicks/AP)

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What We Know       

President Obama says he grieves about the massacre as a
father first.
 (Larry Downing/Reuters)

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An Emotional President Addresses The Nation













                                                                               

The Connecticut state police said the Newtown police called them shortly
after 9:30 a.m

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                             Gunman Recalled as Intelligent But 
     Shy

A candlelight vigil held in Takoma Park, Md. to honor victims of the school massacre. (Sarah L. Voisin/Washington Post)

At the Washington Monument, flags fly at half-staff to honor victims.
(Jonathan Newton/Washington Post)

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A Stern Message from Mr. Boehner to Mr. Obama & Voter's Lament

Click to Hear the Speaker's Message to the President

                       Somehow I fear the president isn't listening, Mr.Speaker

Post election blues

WASHINGTON — Forget the post-Election Day tradition of a more upbeat America in the weeks after voters go to the polls and make clear what they want from their leaders. A new McClatchy-Marist poll finds that people are gloomy about the economy and Washington’s ability to make it better anytime soon. Read More: Voters Gloomy Over Future

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/12/11/177090/what-election-day-bounce-voters.html#storylink=cpy

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Boehner: The longer the White House slow-walks this process, the closer our economy gets to the fiscal cliff

The top two Republicans in Congress demanded Tuesday that President Obama explain exactly what spending he would cut as part of any deal to avert the looming fiscal crisis....Read More:  Ball is in Obama's Court

The deadline for resolving the fiscal crisis could be much closer than previously thought. Read more: May Be Just Around the Corner

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: Democrats aren't going to make an offer on spending cuts....Read More: Fiscal Cliff Deal Unlikely

The argument here is that Obama really does want to engage in entitlement reform and tax reform....Read more: GOP: No Faith In Obama Promises

Obama: " I'm pretty confident that Republicans would not hold middle class taxes hostage to trying to protect tax cuts for high-income individuals,"
 ...Read More: Obama Says Republicans Will Cave



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Paying The Healthcare Bills Of Those Who Abuse The System

On August 23, 2009, the Jackson, Mississippi Clarion Ledger published a letter to the editor a letter from Dr. Roger Starner Jones, an emergency room physician at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Dr. Jones letter was published under the title, "Why Pay for the Care of the Careless?" It reads as follows:

Why Pay for the Care of the Careless? 

During my last shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with a shiny new gold tooth, multiple elaborate tattoos and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B tune for a ringtone. 

Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid.

Dr. Roger Starner Jones

She smokes a costly pack of cigarettes every day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer. 

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And our president expects me to pay for this woman's health care?

Our nation's health care crisis is not a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. It is a crisis of culture - culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. 

Life is really not that hard. Most of us reap what we sow.
Starner Jones, MD
Jackson, MS

Apparently there were some public critics who took exception to Dr. Jones views saying he drew his took  conclusions on a single incident. He defended his original statements in a follow-up letter to the same newspaper five months later:

America is Still the Land of Opportunity-For Everyone 

Starner Jones, M.D.

Jackson, MS
January 11, 2010 

I continue to receive numerous phone calls, letters, emails and face-to-face comments about my letter ("Why Pay For the Care of the Careless") which appeared in your newspaper a few months ago. 

Most people express highest approval for the opinion set forth. Indeed, the truth has an illuminating quality all its own. 

However, a few have disagreed and all of them falsely assume that a person who holds the views which I espouse must have been raised in a privileged home. Nothing could be further from the truth. 

I grew up in a lower middle class, single parent home in the rural hill country of Pontotoc, Mississippi. While attending public schools, I paid attention in class and did my homework. I ran with the right crowd and stayed out of trouble. My dedication in school resulted in a full-paid scholarship to the prestigious University of the South in Sewanee, TN. After college, I left to go to medical school with everything I owned in three bags. The rest is history. 

Motivation, not entitlement, is the key to personal success and happiness in life.

Dr. Jones may or may not have drawn his conclusions based on one incident, but how many of us have been privy to something similar...such as standing in line in a grocery store watching the person in front of us by beer, cigarettes, candy etc., and then see this person hand the cashier food stamps as payment? Not all that uncommon. 

Is The President Serious? And Ignoring The Crisis led To The Crisis

President Obama

The train wreck known as the "Fiscal Cliff" is fast approaching. Should Congress and the White House continue down its do nothing path, we will plunge over the cliff come January 1, 2013. Despite his daily harpings to the contrary, it appears President Obama wouldn't mind the country taking the fall. After all, he still gets his prized tax increases. The only difference is they will hit all taxpayers, not just the rich as he proposes. Then he will blame the Republicans for the crisis and, taxpayers, gullible as they are, will buy it. But is the president sincere in wanting to solve the the problem and keep us from going into a double-digit recession, or does he have an ulterior motive?

Charles Krauthammer

Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer says "Obama’s objective is to fracture the Republican majority in the House." Mr. Krauthammer, as usual, nails it.  Read more: Obama's Power Play

But how did we get here in the first place?  Read More:  What Led To The Fiscal Crisis?


                                              There is a quick fix!

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The World's Oldest Profession gets A Make-Over and More

We Take a break from the daily routine of mundane politics and the nonsense perpetrated by our government officials in Washington D.C. in search of other mundane nonsense...we found it courtesy of the world's oldest profession..

The Zurich, Switzerland city Government is making it easy for its prostitutes to apply their trade 

Read More: New approach to the world's oldest profession

And in a tiny town in Northern Spain, prostitutes wear reflective safety vests so they can be seen...not exactly sexy attire, but it makes them easy to find!

Read More: New attire for Spanish hookers






...And this oddity...

Twin Sisters, Sexagenarian Prostitutes: 'Meet the Fokkens' The Movie

Read More:  The Fokkens

While prostitution is legal In Sweden (but it is illegal to use the services of a prostitute), the ladies of the evening have earned the rights to certain benefits...like sick days (huh?)

Read More:  Prostitutes in Sweden Have Work Benefits









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The Arrogance That Is Barack Obama

The guy must think he's a king, or even God, maybe. After all, he did promise to begin to slow the rise of the oceans... and to heal the planet..Right? Watch It here. 


In the October 24, 2012 of the the Baltimore Sun we find the following opinion:

Webster's defines arrogance as the "offensive exhibition of assumed or real superiority," an "overbearing pride," an "imperious" nature. One only has to look to our government to find the embodiment of arrogance — in our elected officials, our Congress and our president.

Arrogance is not exclusive to liberals, moderates or conservatives. Arrogance is usually accompanied by one form of superiority or another. The arrogance of the ignorant "nobody" is as dangerous as that of the intellectual "somebody." Both deserve each other's company. The difference is the decisions of the "some bodies" can affect all the other "nobodies."


At no other time in the last 40 years have Americans witnessed the levels of political arrogance and swagger as are now collected in the marble halls of the U.S. Capitol and the White House. And no other person in high office displays more audacity than President Obama; he even wrote a book on the subject.

It has become abundantly clear since taking office that President Obama is not the great "fixer" of what is wrong with America; he has become the lightning rod for racial division, liberal zealots, conservative animosity and tea party action.

From his apology tours, government takeovers, looming tax increases, socialized health care, bank reforms, deficit spending, unsustainable debt, immigration lawsuits, unemployment woes, green energy fiascoes, and Benghazi cover-ups, President Obama's handling of matters has placed America in peril.
Anthony Lambros, Fallston

And  now the height of arrogance. The country is in economic peril. If a deal is not reached between congress and the White House by December 31,2012, taxpayers will see on New Years Day one of the largest tax hikes in history along with a host of other changes that will affect their  pocketbooks and the nation's economy and throw us into a deep recession.

 It is up to the President of the United States to fix what has become known as the "fiscal cliff" before we fall of it on January 1. Former presidents John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. and George W. Bush...even Bill Clinton would remain at their desk to make sure that cliff is not realized. But not President Barack Hussein Obama. His arrogance, his audacity, his penchant for thumbing his nose at the American people (at least those who didn't vote for him) won't allow him to remain at the White House and do what needs to be done. 

Instead, he is off to Hawaii for a 17 day vacation at a disgusting cost to the taxpayers of $4 million. To be sure, we don't begrudge the president a vacation with his family. His is a thankless job, downtime being part of the job description. But...there are two problems here. The first previously noted in the economic crisis the country faces. Second is the cost. At a time when people in the Northeast are suffering from the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy...many homeless, without power, food and clothing. And a  TRUE jobless rate of 14%, some 23 million people out of work...The president is once again showing his arrogance by ignoring his presidential duties during a time of crisis and taking an elaborate vacation with an exorbitant price tag....why? Because his arrogance would allow him to say, "Because I can!" 

(PS...wasn't there another recent crisis where Mr. Obama, rather than remain at home and handle it, instead the next day flew off to Las Vegas on the campaign trail? It was called.......Benghazi, I think........just askin')



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