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The Big Benghazi Theory - "If"

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Patti's Comment:I just laughed & laughed when I watched this!

 

Fox News can't understand why America isn't as outraged as conservative media-fueled Benghazi hysteria suggests it should be. 

Jim Schaefer: A Winnie the Pooh with a backstory

Excerpt from: Detroit Free Press (click for full article)

 

There's that guy in the Pooh Bear suit again. Riding that big tricycle.

Maybe you've seen him lately. Near Comerica Park on Opening Day. Outside the federal courthouse in downtown Detroit. Even out on Michigan Avenue near his home in southwest Detroit.

Don't you wonder about him? If you could find John Villareal, 40, what would you ask him?

QUESTION: First question ... full-grown man. Pooh Bear suit.
What gives?

ANSWER: Um, my sister and them got it from the Salvation Army, and they had it put up. And one day I decided to put it on and drive around the neighborhood just to make kids smile and girls laugh.

What do you get out of it?

Just to make kids happy. Some people say I'm an idiot. Like, I got family members, they say you're an idiot. You're a jackass. You're stupid. You know what? I'm doing me. You know what I'm saying? And if me means riding in a Pooh Bear suit ... like, if I wasn't doing Pooh Bear, I'd be riding my bike through the 'hood, and you'll never know who I could run up to. And it's all negative. I don't want to be around negative anymore.

School Plays Bieber's 'Baby' As Fundraiser: Students Pay To Make It Stop

Excerpt from: Huffington Post (click for full article)

Patti's comment: "What a creative fund raising idea- I know I would contribute!!!"

A suburban Chicago high school fundraising to save a popular arts center is motivating students to donate with an earsplitting incentive: pay up and they'll stop blasting Justin Bieber's "Baby" during passing periods.

Evanston Township High School seniors Charlotte Runzel and Jesse Chatz convinced school administrators to let them play the popstar's biggest hit over the loudspeakers for one week, or until they'd raised $1,000, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Within three days, students had coughed up enough cash to silence the Canadian singer's repetitive single.

Between Monday and Wednesday, the pop song, which features tween idol Justin Bieber singing the word "baby" 54 times, played through around 20 times in between classes, NBC Chicago reports. The school reportedly rebuffed student complaints, encouraging ETHS kids to play along and donate money to make the music stop.

 

Humor and Chronic Pain: A Top 10 List

Excerpt from: Psych Central (click for full article)

 

The Top 10 Clues You Live with Chronic Pain:

10- You wish there really was a Dr. House, M.D.

9- You watch every medical drama and understand the medical jargon, the differential diagnosis and worse yet, half the cases sound like they could be yours.

8- Your doctors talk to you like colleagues, instead of patients, because you are so well-educated on your condition(s).

7- The “middle of the night” for you is actually more like 2 o’clock in the afternoon because you deal with “sleep issues.”

6- Doing your chores, sometimes literally means just getting out of bed and taking a shower.

5- Everyday feels like PMS. (For Women)

4- You carry more pills than a pharmacy.

3- Your moods change…frequently.

2- You forget things like…wait, what was I talking about?

1- Your doctor sees you and touches you more than your spouse! (Ba-Dum-Ching)

Yiayia's homemade food

Yiayia keeps feeding you

Greek Seasonings

Picking Horta

'Obama' explains sequester effects on Saturday Night Live

Excerpt from: Don't Mess with Taxes (click for full article)

 

We're starting our first full week of sequestration 2013. Before the $85 billion in spending cuts kicked in on March 1, the White House issued fact sheets detailing what sequester might mean to each state.

For folks who haven't read those predictions yet, Saturday Night Live's Obama, portrayed by Jay Pharoah, boils down what areas might suffer in this weekend's opening skit.

Urban Word of the Day: Congressional

Excerpt from: Urban Dictionary (click for more information)

Patti's comment: I get a definition sent to me every day from Urban Dictionary….. It is my favorite Dictionary!  This was the best definition I have read on the site in a while (the last one was Euro Trash and/or Burn Out)-- ! Enjoy!

 

1.	congressional	2257 up, 1682 down
	January 3, 2013 Urban Word of the Day

to act infantile and obstinate; to reject common sense in favor of self-interest regardless of consequences

"My, you are sure acting congressional today. Shame on you."