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France is mad at Obama for not being at the Charlie Hebdo rally. He tried to go but didn’t make it past airport security. It’s messed up when your president fits the profile.

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A rug has been removed from a sheriff's office in Florida after it was noticed that it read "in dog we trust" instead of "in God we trust". The $500 (£329) mat lay at the entrance to the office in Pinellas County for two months before someone noticed, a spokeswoman said. The error was made by the rug's manufacturer and it is being replaced. Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said they were looking at auctioning it for charity, the Tampa Bay Times reports. There have been several offers to buy the misprinted rug . "I'd buy or donate to a charity...

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The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office has gone to the dogs. Well, at least its rugs have. [snip]

Kat Blanchett: Say nothing. They'll blame it on the dog. Bird feeding dog: The Most Beautiful Horse in the World: Mare-lyn Monroe: Adorable Slow Loris: Tiny deer: Something good about 'ol Harry Truman you didn't know (even though he was a Demorat: Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 32 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House. The only asset he had when he died was...

Kat Blanchett: Say nothing. They'll blame it on the dog. Bird feeding dog: The Most Beautiful Horse in the World: Mare-lyn Monroe: Adorable Slow Loris: Tiny deer: Something good about 'ol Harry Truman you didn't know (even though he was a Demorat: Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 32 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House. The only asset he had when he died was...

The travel company Expedia conducted a poll asking fliers to name the most annoying types of airplane passengers. Jimmy was going to just read the list, but he thought it would be more interesting if the great Sir Patrick Stewart acted it out.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, said on Monday that giving identification cards to illegal aliens allows them to feel like citizens and enjoy some of the same benefits as actual citizens. "We don't want any of our fellow New Yorkers to feel like second-class citizens,” de Blasio was quoted as saying in a National Public Radio website article. “We don't want them to feel left out.”

Okay so I recently hired a few recent college grads in technical roles and a conversation was struck up at the end of the day. The conversation was a result of a missed movie reference during another conversation earlier in the day. The type of thing where you assume some level of common culture so you don't have to explain in more detail. What follows in my comment was the result and follow-on question for my fellow Freepers.

Top Ten Things That will Happen in 2015 * * * It has become our New Year tradition to team up with Will Beria, our Listmaster of Things that Didn't Happen, and make an official statement. See our lists for the years of 2012 and 2013. This time, however, instead of a summary of things that didn't happen in the past year, we are offering a list of Top Ten Things To Come in the coming year. 1. Recovery will reach escape velocity and escape the economy altogether2. All executive orders will be declared constitutional by executive order3. Robert Kennedy...

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Liberals have been attacking the 2nd amendment for years. THE CONTEXT HAS CHANGED! IT WAS FOR HUNTING! In this video, James Madison sits down to write exactly what they think it is that he wanted. This one's going to sting!

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From Rush Limbaugh Facebook page:Lt. Col. Ralph Peters had a great line about Obama. He said (paraphrasing), "He's like one of these college kids that ran around wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt, who's still wearing it, who has never graduated, never gone beyond being a big idolizer of Che Guevara."

Playoffs - Conference Championships SUN, JAN 18 Green Bay at Seattle 3:00 PM FOX CenturyLink Field Indianapolis at New England 6:30 PM CBS Gillette Stadium

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Sinclair C5 enthusiasts have been celebrating the 30th anniversary of the vehicle's launch. In Bournemouth, owners gathered on the promenade on Sunday morning before riding from Boscombe Pier to Sandbanks. The electric tricycles were launched by entrepreneur Sir Clive Sinclair on 10 January 1985 at Alexandra Palace in London. Enthusiasts also gathered at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, Hampshire, on Saturday. {snip} 'Drive to the pub' Bournemouth C5 owner Paul Grice, who organised the seafront trip, said: "I started collecting them about six or seven years ago because I liked the look of them. "I was actually looking at...

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