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Question About That Bachelor Party Barack Obama Attended for FIVE Hours

By Debbie Schlussel

 

Were there strippers at the five-hour bachelor party Barack Obama attended on Monday? And were they female . . . or male?

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So he did not go back to Washington for business, but instead to party?

 

Midway through his vacation, Mr. Obama briefly returned to Washington for deliberations on Iraq and Ferguson, capped by a briefing room statement on both.

 

In addition to golf, the president's vacation scorecard included three dinners out, two beach days, one bike ride, a jazz concert and a fund-raiser for Senate Democrats. Not to mention a five-hour bachelor party Monday in the Washington home of former White House chef Sam Kass.

 

 

 

 

Its a good thing I am not the sort of person given to making snide snarky comments that are on the edge of good taste....otherwise.

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Why comedians and ‘SNL’ are shielding President Obama

http://nypost.com/2014/08/24/why-comedians-and-snl-are-shielding-president-obama/

 

At last, we know the reason why comedy writers don’t make fun of President Obama much.

It turns out the man is completely unmockable.

We learn this from Jim Downey, the longtime “Saturday Night Live” specialist in political japery. “If I had to describe Obama as a comedy project, I would say, ‘Degree of difficulty, 10 point 10,’” the writer says in the expanded new edition of the “SNL” oral history book, “Live from New York.”

“It’s like being a rock climber looking up at a thousand-foot-high face of solid obsidian, polished and oiled,” Downey says. “There’s not a single thing to grab onto — certainly not a flaw or hook that you can caricature. [Al] Gore had these ‘handles,’ so did Bush, and Sarah Palin, and even Hillary had them. But with Obama, it was the phenomenon — less about him and more about the effect he had on other people and the way he changed their behavior. So that’s the way I wrote him.”

 

Got that? The charter Choom Ganger, confessed eater of dog and snorter of coke. The doofus who thinks the language spoken by Austrians is “Austrian,” that you pronounce the p in “corpsman” and that ATMs are the reason why job growth is sluggish. The egomaniac who gave the queen of England an iPod loaded with his own speeches and said he was better at everything than the people who work for him. The empty suit with so little real-world knowledge that he referred to his brief stint working for an ordinary profit-seeking company as time “behind enemy lines.” The phony who tells everyone he’s from Chicago, though he didn’t live there until his 20s, and lets you know that he’s talking to people he believes to be stupid by droppin’ his g’s. The world-saving Kal-El from a distant solar system who told us he’d heal the planet and cause the oceans to stop rising. The guy who shared a middle name with one of the most hated dictators on earth.

Nope, nothing there to mock. No way to get a grip on this polished, oiled obsidian. So comedy writers didn’t and mostly still don’t. Jim Downey isn’t in dereliction of his comedy duty to take down the high and the mighty, or so he begs you to think. He’s just too obtuse to see Scrooge McDuck quantities of comedy gold when they’re sitting right in front of him.

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OH NO... We are all gonna die...

 

... because of MMCC (Formerly known as Man Made Climate Change) but now determined to be (Microbe Made Climate Change).

 

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Methane Is Bubbling Up From Hundreds of Places Along the U.S. East Coast Seafloor

At hundreds of places deep beneath the ocean surface along the U.S. Atlantic coastline, scientists have discovered plumes of bubbles streaming toward the surface that may contain methane, a heat-trapping gas many times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

The discovery, published Sunday in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience, of about 570 methane-leaking sites between North Carolina and Massachusetts shows that methane seeps -- the name for the sites where methane is bubbling up -- are far more common than previously believed.

“Widespread seepage had not been expected on the Atlantic margin," Adam Skarke, the study’s lead author and a professor at Mississippi State University, said in a news release. "It is not near a plate tectonic boundary like the U.S. Pacific coast, nor associated with a petroleum basin like the northern Gulf of Mexico."

It's also a powerful greenhouse gas, more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, so scientists also are concerned about how these seeps might contribute to GHG concentrations in the atmosphere as the planet continues to warm.
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While methane from reservoirs deep in the ground is tapped for natural gas at drilling sites around the world, the methane at these sites is produced by microbes in shallow settlements -- not the kind that's suitable for drilling.

Methane has likely been seeping from these sites for at least 1,000 years, the scientists who conducted the survey said. Because of their depths, the methane also is probably not reaching the atmosphere, but rather is dissolving into the ocean.
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OH NO... We are all gonna die...

 

... because of MMCC (Formerly known as Man Made Climate Change) but now determined to be (Microbe Made Climate Change).

 

WeatherUnderground

 

 

Methane Is Bubbling Up From Hundreds of Places Along the U.S. East Coast Seafloor

 

At hundreds of places deep beneath the ocean surface along the U.S. Atlantic coastline, scientists have discovered plumes of bubbles streaming toward the surface that may contain methane, a heat-trapping gas many times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

 

The discovery, published Sunday in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience, of about 570 methane-leaking sites between North Carolina and Massachusetts shows that methane seeps -- the name for the sites where methane is bubbling up -- are far more common than previously believed.

 

“Widespread seepage had not been expected on the Atlantic margin," Adam Skarke, the study’s lead author and a professor at Mississippi State University, said in a news release. "It is not near a plate tectonic boundary like the U.S. Pacific coast, nor associated with a petroleum basin like the northern Gulf of Mexico."

 

It's also a powerful greenhouse gas, more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, so scientists also are concerned about how these seeps might contribute to GHG concentrations in the atmosphere as the planet continues to warm.

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While methane from reservoirs deep in the ground is tapped for natural gas at drilling sites around the world, the methane at these sites is produced by microbes in shallow settlements -- not the kind that's suitable for drilling.

 

Methane has likely been seeping from these sites for at least 1,000 years, the scientists who conducted the survey said. Because of their depths, the methane also is probably not reaching the atmosphere, but rather is dissolving into the ocean.

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"Task Force Black" Mission: Cap ISIS Command Structure

 

SAS and US special forces forming hunter killer unit to 'smash Islamic State' http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/sas-special-forces-forming-hunter-4097083

 

Task Force Black will aim to “cut the head off the snake” by hitting the command structure of the Islamist terror group responsible for a trail of destruction.

 

Elite British and US special forces troops are forming a hunter killer unit called Task Force Black – its orders: “Smash the Islamic State.”

 

The undercover warriors will aim to “cut the head off the snake” by hitting the command structure of the Islamist terror group responsible for a trail of atrocities across Iraq and Syria, reports the Sunday People.

 

PM David Cameron has told the SAS and UK spy agencies to direct all their ­resources at defeating IS after a video of US journalist James Foley being beheaded shocked the world.

 

British special forces will work with America’s Delta Force and Seal Team 6. The move sees a rebirth of top secret Task Force Black, which helped defeat al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq.

 

This time the counter-terrorist ­experts will be targeting Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi, leader of IS and now the world’s most wanted terrorist.

 

A source said: “We need to go into Syria and Iraq and kill as many IS members as we can. You can’t ­negotiate with these people."

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“The SAS and US special forces will do untold damage to them."

 

“They’ll focus on the high command. This is going to be a long campaign, probably lasting years."

 

“And it will be like nothing the West has ever had to confront before.”

 

The new task force will comprise a squadron of the SAS, special forces aircrews from the RAF and agents from MI5 and MI6.

The operation will be led by America’s CIA spy agency.

 

One of the first jobs will be to identify the British Muslim shown on an IS video released last week apparently cutting Foley’s head off with a knife.

 

UK intelligence sources confirmed that the killer, believed to be a British-born Pakistani from London, is already at the top of a CIA “kill list”.

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Photographer Captures Scientists' Frightened Responses To Climate Change Discussions
The Huffington Post | By Priscilla Frank

08/25/2014

 

We've read the daunting headlines. We've seen the bleak predictions. We know in our minds that climate change is putting our Earth's future in danger. And yet there's something uniquely frightening about this artist's attempt to transform global warming data into visceral, human responses.

 

In his black-and-white photography series "Scared Scientists," Nick Bowers captures a raw element not often associated with scientific knowledge. For the series, Bowers interviewed a selection of scientists in varying fields, capturing the frightened looks on their faces while they contemplated their findings. The photos are minimalist but intense, each wrinkle and crease pointing to a human unease we can all connect with.

 

Bowers told The Huffington Post he hopes to convey "the humanity and vulnerability of the scientists" through his work. "That they are as individuals concerned by climate change, separate from the scientific realm."

 

The artist also had his daughter in mind while creating the series, hoping to use his artwork to create hope for a brighter future. "I constantly hear the word 'wealth' and the importance of passing this on. I'm inspired to pass on a better, more sustainable future," he explained.

 

On his website, Bowers combines a striking portrait with the specific field, educational background, and future predictions of each scientist. Although their powerful words provide an interesting context for their expressions, we think the faces alone say more than enough.

 

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