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-- Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake joking during the confirmation hearing for Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) to become Secretary of State.
Flake is an advocate of lifting the Cuba travel embargo.
His comment offended acting committee Chairman New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez (D), who is Cuban and very much against lifting the embargo. "To suggest that Spring Break is a form of torture to the Castro regime. Unfortunately, they are experts in torture," Menendez said.
Video edited by NBC's Domenico Montanaro.
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Also at today's hearing:
Steve Benen, MSNBC:
For reasons that only seem to make sense to Johnson and conspiracy theorists, the far-right Wisconsinite remains preoccupied with preliminary intelligence reports from September that there were protests in Benghazi before the deadly violence erupted. Today, during John Kerry's confirmation hearing, Johnson wanted the Democrat to commit publicly to help him "find out what actually happened." Kerry explained that we already know what actually happened.
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Anybody want to run for the Senate? We need to clean house. Both parties.
Pat - you have to take an IQ test to run for certain seats in the Senate - especially the far-right seats. If you score too high - you fail. As you can see many Republicans have had no problem with passing the test!
Seeking, LoL!!
Too Funny Seeking !! :) And Too Right !
This guy fits the bill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPPBnciNAqI
bcwc - he'd appeal to the far right - has that yachty look!
As Calvin Coolidge once said, I paraphrase, even idiots/morons should be represented, I guess.
In all fairness, the preliminary reports of intelligence concerning the Wisconsinite turned out to be completely wrong too... You'd think with his first-hand experience he'd be a little more understanding...
Really? We all do know what happened?
Apparently, Pat, you believe this.
So, tell the class, what was Obama's orders and why didn't the State Dept respond to the the repeated requests for more security?
What did the autopsy of Stevens conclude?
Why has no one been arrested (except for the ring leader aka "the film maker") or killed over the incident?
Why did it take nearly 6 weeks for the FBI to be sent to Benghazi? They were in Mali within 48 hours.
When will the survivors of Benghazi be allowed to talk to the press? Or Congress for that matter?
Was the Libyan security team paid off/intimidated/voluntarily to leave/left their charge?
Is Hillary so incompetent that she would not have read the intel concerning the hot spot known as Libya?
Tell us Pat. I can't find these answers anywhere. Someone should have stood up and gave her a raspberry for her poor acting and then called for her arrest on charges of incompetence leading to manslaughter. At the least.
SimpleTheory - if you can't find those answers, you're incompetent because they are easy to find.
Oh, but hey let's all arrest Bush/Cheney/Rumsfield, Condi Rice for gross negligence and total incompetence!
We have denied our own citizens the right to vacation and score the world's best cigars long enough...
However, Canada thanks you for your restrictive policies.
And please allow us to thank you for Martin Short...;-)
... and James Naismith. We should get hoops of praise for him.
Was he the one with the knit cap from the Monkees?...
Many "great" Americans are actually Canadian, and I don't just mean Alan Thicke...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFAT8_5hPWA&lc=bOSEo3K0vGndKShkP7POpZvKIJ9ffeVvmbeMVW6RwaY
re ... must be a cuban video as ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFAT8_5hPWA&lc=bOSEo3K0vGndKShkP7POpZvKIJ9ffeVvmbeMVW6RwaY
"This video contains content from FOX, who has blocked it on copyright grounds."
Damn you Mark Cuban! Boy those FOX guys have a pretty tight sphincter with their content...but we can get over that FENCE too...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_bhVSGKEg
James Naismith did leave something behind for us up here, a sport that even short people can play ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikt9zd9xsV0
Is that a Canadian song?...;-)
(I would have though there were a lot of Robin Sparkles" fans here.)
People up here sit and fidget when the anthem is played, but when it comes to Bum Darts, it's a stand up crowd. Even Jimi Hendrix would have passed on "we stand on guard for thee".
I'm all for annexing Cuba and hanging the Castro Brothers.
I'm sure many Cubans would love it.
Aw c'mon, that was pretty funny. And since when is a "get tough policy" the same as "torture?" Lighten up, senator!
Really? A GOP/Teabegger named "Flake." There are so many 'flakes' in the Teabegger Congress. That is is difficult to keep count. Just do not let little "Richie Rich Ryan" do the math. Now that is priceless!
How times change.....so am I the only one who read this headline and wondered why he was joking about Julian and Joaquin instead of Fidel and Raul?
JoAnne - that was my first thought too. I had to read through to realize it was Cuba. I now immediately associate Castro with Julian and Joaquin! Love those guys!
Ditto that JoAnne!
How's the old knees feeling?
Bunch of navel gazing Yankees.
"How's the old knees feeling?"
Old.....really, really, old. If I had to do Inauguration Day all over again......hey, I'd do it all over again. In a heartbeat. But next time I'd be at least 20 years younger! :)
JoAnne---one of the things I like about a Clinton/Castro ticket is that we could watch the folks on the right go nuts AGAIN over names. Like the whole "Hussein" thing that has entertained them for the past 6 years and meant nothing to the average American. They could go birther on Julian Castro and claim he was a distant relative of Fidel.
Steeler - and after Clinton's 8 years we could have a Castro/Castro ticket! What fun! Their little heads would spin like the Exorcist!
Seeking---perhaps Chelsea Clinton would be old enough by then and we could have Castro/Clinton. They could run against Tagg Romney.
Steeler - oh my - we'll have them totally losing it!!! LOL! Vut, remember, Tagg won't really want to be President!
But not vut!
Steeler Fan -
Hey, it's not just the names - can you just imagine the wacky birther conspiracies they could dream up with identical twins?
And hey, thanks for an excuse to trot out my favorite sign once more from Jon Stewart's Sanity Rally a few years back: I SUPPORT BARACK "WHO'S SANE "OBAMA!
I like that...Barack "who's sane" Obama. I hope you don't mind if I use that to split the heads of the right wing nut job Fascist wannabes.
Adler -
You'd have to ask whoever came up with that sign in the first place - I just saw the picture and adopted it myself! Hey, here are some more good ones - hope Stewart does this again sometime; I'm sorry I missed it!
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/compost/2010/10/best_signs_spotted_at_the_rall.html
The Senator from Arizona is living up to his name. He is surely a FLAKE.
Gun rights are civil rights I will not get to the back of the bus thank you. Background checks are not infringing on rights, but magazine limits and AWB's most certainly are.
Torture Castro with Spring Break? Ohh, that's a good one Flakey. Priceless. Like that hilarious joke you made about how the National Science Foundation should only be allowed to research things that you and your fellow right wing politicians want them to. So funny, I couldn't stop laughing for days. Or that time he voted against education and job training for vets or Iraq and Afghanistan? Hooo-eeee, that was classic. Or when he pledged to serve no more than 3 terms in Congress...back in 2000? What a joker. What a comedian. What a maroon.
Hey Cool, does that mean I can have a shoulder fire missle then?
Just because its leagl for you to own your "toy" now
doesn't mean a thing in the future
Sen. Flake could have expressed himself in a more appropriate manner, but the bottom line is that history has shown that the best thing for a repressive regime’s longevity is to become subject to economic and political sanctions by the US. North Korea, Cuba and Iran are examples. Libya is too, with the closer that it didn’t take too many years after lifting sanctions against Libya for the regime there to collapse.
I was tortured for almost 3 years by the FBI and their friends onlybecause 85 years old man, Roland, H Sibens(chicago)now he is 88, convinced them that Iam a terrorist. I was tortured for working on my prosthetic legs inthe basement. I done absolutely nothing illegal or wrong. They thoughtthat in theory it is possible to hide bomb in them. They saw anopportunity to get famous, so they were trying to torture me till Isign their insane story. They tortured me using more than 100different torturing methods and trust to me waterboarding is not howthey torture nowadays. I dont know where to find justice.
I think that after 9/11 things got out of control. Freedom fightersbecame tyrants. In 1945, most Germans had an opportunity to learn about Nazis deathcamps. I hope that one day American citizens will get chance to learn about peoplelike me, who were tortured with no reason for years.