A Short AHNC

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Boehner Does Damage Control: Benghazi Probe Was 'Never' About Clinton
WASHINGTON -- Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) started damage control on Thursday, seeking to quell calls for Republicans to disband the Select Committee on Benghazi.



Every time someone calls something as a "Katrina" or "a Mission Accomplished moment," I'm again amazed by the magnitude of Bush's disasters.- LOLGOP

GOP Benghazi Probe Now Longer than Watergate, Pearl Harbor & JFK Assassination





Email
Subject: Pope and Kim Davis meeting

How about that Pope. Think it's true. I'll never understand it if it is. A man telling a woman to defy the Constitution for her religious beliefs when his religious beliefs doesn't recognize her marriages, any of the four. We're living in Bizzarro World. Best to you.​
Jimmie

Thanks Jimmie.
In her religion they speak in tongues--which just writing that phrase made me cringe. The religious right are the same as the religious right in the Middle East--intolerant.

Someone remind Pope Francis that in the next few years the Vatican will need gay Catholics more than gay Catholics will need the Vatican.- John Fugelsang

BREAKING: Congressional Republicans decide not to shut down government out of spite. At least until December 11th.- Tea Party Cat

'Obama handshake' triggers anger in Iran parliament
Tehran (AFP) - The Iranian foreign minister's reported handshake with US President Barack Obama triggered chants of "Death to America" in Tehran's parliament Wednesday and a warning against "another kind of spying".








Throw Back Thursday

After their meeting got off to a tense start, Obama and Putin wound up talking for 90 minutes, and Putin described the talks as "surprisingly open." Putin said it was the most productive conversation he'd ever had with someone who wasn't tied to a chair.- Jimmy Fallon

BREAKING: 15 Shot Dead, 20 Wounded
At least 15 people are dead and 20 injured after a shooting at a community college in Oregon Thursday morning, officials said.
The shooter was reported as "down," with no further details immediately available, said Douglass County commissioner Chris Boice.

Mass Shootings Since Sandy Hook
In December 2012, a gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 20 children, six adults, and himself. Since then, there have been at least 986 mass shootings, with shooters killing at least 1,234 people and wounding 3,565 more.





How's that misinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment working for you America?- Ann Telnaes

Throwback Thursday

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Thank you all! Over halfway there! Maybe a new laptop by the weekend? Be still my heart.

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Blocking Neighbor's View Not Allowed In Vermont
THETFORD, Vt. (AP) — A former Vermont gubernatorial candidate is taking down a 60-foot by 24-foot screen she built to block her view of her neighbor's home




Time To Deflate Photo

A salesman having his motorized roller skates refueled at a gas station (1961) . I wonder why that never caught on.

Peace.

Laptop Woes

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Houston, we have a problem.

I am convinced that the high heat, humidity and dust has been the cause of my 3rd laptop to have motherboard problems since 2012. The tech agrees. He said he sees this all the time.

Now that AHNC is located in a much cooler place, with infrequent high humidity, so hopefully my electronics will fare much better.

Thank you viewers for the great purple tablet, at least I can get online. But I need the power of a laptop to run graphic programs for AHNC or I will have to resort to writing boring columns, like this with a few low resolution graphics!

My touchpad began having problems when I lived at my last place, it was very hot there. Around that time my DVD player stopped working and eventually the USB connections, by the time I relocated. Its current state is not being able to turn it on.

I must say, I do work my laptop hard as I produce many editions a year using 1000s of graphics.

Please be patient. I will be back to normal once I get a working laptop!

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Time To Deflate Photo

Audrey Hepburn in red. Photograph by Richard Avedon, 1961

Peace.

House Republicans look to draft Benghazi-obsessed congressman as new majority leader

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House Republicans look to draft Benghazi-obsessed congressman as new majority leader
The US congressman who is leading the public inquiry against Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server could continue his rambunctious rise to Washington power, if a drafting effort by the Republican far right succeeds in the wake of John Boehner’s shock resignation.




According to The Washington Post, when Clinton ran for president in 2008, she was 5'5" according to a height report from the Clinton campaign. But now, news sources say Hillary Clinton is 5'7" tall.If Hillary continues to grow, think how big she'll be when she finally reaches the Oval Office. We won't have to worry about Iran because mega-Hillary can swat missiles out of the sky!- Stephen Colbert

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Obama says fight against Islamic State group will take time
• New US sanctions illustrate sprawling Islamic State network
• Taliban attack airport after seizing northern Afghan city
• Hungary to propose world quotas for migrants flooding Europe

If America had to choose between the Republican Party and Planned Parenthood, It would be nice to not have a Republican Party.- LOLGOP

Martial Law Declared In The House
For the second time in a month, the House on Tuesday invoked "martial law" to allow more expeditious consideration of a stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown this week.




Republican Shenanigans

• GOP committee chair opens hearing by suggesting Planned Parenthood funding helped kill his parents
• 'Nightly Show' Panel: 'We Still Have To Convince GOP Racism Is Real'
• Huckabee Turns Planned Parenthood Controversy Into A Benghazi Meme 
• Lawyers For Kim Davis: Yeah, That Peru Prayer Rally Photo Was Fake After All 
• Trevor Noah mocks GOP ouster of ‘too liberal’ Boehner: It’s like crack telling meth it’s not addictive enough
• WATCH: Alabama KKK member tells horrified British reporter Auschwitz was ‘summer camp’ for Jews
• George Zimmerman Tweets Photo Of Trayvon Martin's Body

Actual train wrecks take all the fun out of watching George Zimmerman's life.- John Fugelsang

The Womb Wars 
The radical anti-abortion group Operation Rescue steered the Republican congressional majority toward a government shutdown after driving a related group’s attacks on Planned Parenthood.
GOP lawmakers threatened to hold the government hostage as leverage to cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood after a series of misleading videos were released this summer by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress (CMP), which a new report shows is essentially indistinguishable from the controversial group.





The Republican Party. What happens when guys who don't believe in sex education try to legislate women's health.- LOLGOP

Hold Off On That Cuba Trip You Were Planning Until The GOP OKs It!
Cuban leader Raul Castro again told President Obama that full normalized relations cannot be resumed until the United States lifts the economic embargo on his country and abandons its naval base at Guantanamo Bay, officials said Tuesday.



Rock The Voter News

• Obama praises Secret Service after long week 
• Poll: Hillary Clinton’s image improves among democratic voters
• Big Boi Supports Bernie Sanders

I'll sign on for results-based pay for teachers the day Congress gets the same deal.- John Fugelsang

Jeb Bush said last week that Democrats often win the black vote because they tell people “we’ll take care of you with free stuff.” Whereas Democrats actually win the black vote because Republicans keep saying stuff like that.- Seth Myers

That awkward moment when liberals cheer that John Boehner quit and then every single person who could replace him is crazy, stupid, or both.- Tea Party Cat

Business/Tech News

• Oil jumps 2 percent on hopes for U.S. inventory draw
• US market steadies as health care stocks climb
• House Republicans advance bill to undo health law
• MillerCoors Closes North Carolina Brewery, Cutting Over 500 Jobs

The Bush tax cuts on the rich created no jobs and led to deficit & wealth inequality crisises.
GOP candidates: They just weren't big enough. - LOLGOP

All New One Armed Bandits With Dazzling Visuals To Empty Your Pockets!
Move aside one-armed bandits. The casino floor is making room for game zones with oversized popping dice, digital spinning Big Six wheels and virtual roulette, with an eye on adding arcade-style video games in the not-so-distant future...game-makers and casinos are keen on coming up with the next big thing to keep people playing.




Next month Delta will begin opening company spas at certain airports so that employees can get a massage. And if passengers want a massage, they can just leave their keys in their pockets when they go through security.- Jimmy Fallon

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The Reason I Have Been Posting So Late
Yep, my laptop is dying a slow death. It's the motherboard according to the tech. Head in hands. I am still using it when it works and the rest of the time I am using the backup tablet, which isn't as powerful as a laptop.

So, dear readers, I need a new laptop, please help if you can. If you can't, just high five me for the good vibrations!

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Odd News

• Cops: Owner puts dog into idle truck, dog sends it into lake
• New Jersey woman told to quiet down her parrots
• World's Smallest Land Snails Discovered In China
• Did Pentagon employees try to expense strip club, casino bills?

Time To Deflate Photo

Huntington Peak, Alaska. Gee, I don't see any ski trails.

Peace.