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Don’t know Shiite from shinola By Ilana

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Almost unanimous on the right is the mystifying notion that a reduced American footprint in the world, President Barack Obama’s doing, has brought about the “sudden” eruption across Iraq of a particularly savage fac-tion of Sunni fundamentalists called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). This small band of zealots has conquered a third of Iraq, including the metropolis of Mosul, from which 500,000 residents have fled. Tikrit too is under ISIS control. Fallujah fell in January.

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Odd too is the idea that ISIS, cur-rently barreling toward the capital, Baghdad, is somehow a new killer on the block. While the gang, led by new-comer Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is not as ancient as the Egyptian goddess by the same name—ISIS was previously known as Al Qaida in Iraq (A.Q.I.), re-flecting its earlier, more modest mis-sion. A.Q.I. was the brainchild of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, described aptly in the New Yorker as, “A Jordanian who had been a convicted thief and sex criminal before turning to radi-cal Islam.” Commensurate with its morphing, expansive ambitions, A.Q.I. changed its name to ISIS. Whereas “Al Qaida was originally envisioned as a kind of Sunni foreign legion, which would defend Muslim lands from West-ern occupation,” writes New Yorker staffer Lawrence Wright, “Zarqawi had a different goal in mind. He hoped to provoke an Islamic civil war.” George W. Bush’s invasion primed Iraq for Zar-qawi’s purposes. “There was no better venue than the fractured state of Iraq, which sits astride the Sunni-Shiite fault line.”

So savage and extreme is ISIS, al-ways has been, that it had been “boot-ed out of the Al Qaida consortium,” at-tests Wright. Remember the “Dear Al (Zarqawi)” letter penned by Ayman al-Zawahiri to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in 2005? In it, Bin Laden’s Capo Bastone (Zawahiri) had asked the lieutenant (Zarqawi) to reconsider the wisdom of slaughtering so many Shia civilians in Iraq. Al-Z No. 1 broached the topic by counseling Al-Z No. 2 about the wisdom of bringing “the Muslim masses to the mujahed movement.” To that end, kill-ing so many of them was probably un-helpful. Yes, the Shia are a handful—theologically problematic—conceded Zawahiri. Suspect too was the Shia’s history of “connivance with the Cru-saders.” But while Zawahiri didn’t give a dried camel’s hump about his Shia brethren, he thought better of slaugh-tering them, preferring to forgive their “ignorance.” Besides, added Zawahiri as an afterthought, it’s impossible for the mujahedeen to kill all Iraq’s Shia.

While Zarqawi rejected Zawahiri’s soft approach, his personal odyssey has a happy ending. Zarqawi died, killed by Americans in 2006. But his legacy, like that of Bush’s invasion of Iraq, lives on in ISIS. Shia Iran, once a bitter enemy of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, now has pride-of-place in the Iraq that Bush built. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been galvanized to the aid of the Iraqi army. But it is not the 930,000 members of the Iraqi security forces that the Revolutionary Guard aims to rouse. Despite the princely sums ($25 billion) Americans spent to train and prepare it, in Mosul, this inorganic, ar-tificial creation of the Bush brigades fled before 1,300 ISIS fighters. To fight the marauding Sunnis, the Revolution-ary Guard will likely corral well-moti-vated, tribal Shia militias. (In Iraq, Shi-ites make up about sixty percent of the population. Sunnis comprise less than twenty percent.)

It is this cauldron of sectarian strife that Saddam Hussein kept from bub-bling over.

What’s unfolding in Iraq, with ISIS, is no more than a progression along a predictable continuum, the starting point of which was an American occu-pation that unseated an extremely ef-fective law-and-order leader: Saddam Hussein. Consequently, where there was once oppression and order, there is

the predictable progression of Iraq from (sectarian) rogue state to failed state to Islamic state, in the wake of the American occupation. There is no reason to expect me to best a column dated December 2006, titled “At Least Saddam Kept Order”:

“… If Iraqis appear ungrateful or dis-oriented, it is because they are busy … busy dying at rates many times higher than under Saddam. In the final days of Saddam’s reign of terror, i.e., in the 15 months preceding the invasion, the pri-mary causes of death in Iraq were natu-ral: “heart attack, stroke and chronic ill-ness,” as The Lancet reported. Since Iraq became a Bush object lesson, the primary cause of death has been violence. …

… Hussein’s reign was one of the more peaceful periods in the history of this fractious people. What a shame it’s too late to dust Saddam off, give him a sponge bath, and beg him to restore law and order to Iraq.

Secretly, that’s what anyone with a head and a heart would want. We could promise solemnly never to mess with him again—just so long as he kept his mitts off nukes, continued to check Iran (which he did splendidly), and minimized mas-sacres. To be fair, Saddam’s last major massacre was in 1991, during which only 3,000 Shiites were murdered. That’s less than Iraq’s monthly quota under “de-mocracy.”

No one is praising Saddam, yada, yada, yada. But even the Saddam-equals-Hitler crowd cannot but agree that Iraq

now only chaos and carnage. The law-lessness we brought to Iraq with our messianic, faith-based initiative has allowed the manifestation of divisions that have riven the region for four mil-lennia.

As I predicted in 2007, “Once we decamp, some Saddam-like strong-man will fill the power vacuum left. The dictator to emerge from the ruins of Iraq will impose Sharia, pray to the hidden Imam, and compel women to walk about in black nose bags. We had it good with Saddam because he was secular, an enemy of fundamentalist Islam. Can we have back what, in our folly, we fouled up? No.”

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She had no idea he turned down military life insurance

By Amy BushatzSurvivorBUZZ.com

Like so many of our service mem-bers, Lt. Cmdr. Landon Jones thought he was invincible. He was also the saver in his military home, squirreling away money for the future any way he could.

Which is why, in retrospect, it makes sense that he declined his Service member’s Group Life Insurance (SGLI) policy five separate times. Even though it could pay his family up to $400,000 if he died, it was a extra $27 he could pocket every single month. Plus, he wasn’t going to die so he wouldn’t need it anyway.

But then he did.Lt. Cmdr. Landon Jones and his co-

pilot Chief Warrant Officer 3 Jonathan S. Gibson were killed Sept. 22, 2013 when water hit the spinning blades of their helo after it landed on a small Navy ship. The aircraft hit the deck and broke apart. A search and rescue was launched to find Jones and Gibson and then called off.

After a horrifying notification pro-cess in which Jones’ wife, Theresa Jones, learned of his death via the Na-vy’s social media pages, she was floored when she discovered that she and her two small children would not be receiv-ing her husband’s SGLI because he didn’t have any. When a service mem-ber declines SGLI as Jones did five different time, the spouse is supposed to be notified in writing. And Theresa

was taken care of on his end.”Theresa has appealed the SGLI

situation in hopes of still being able to collect it because the Navy did not keep up its end of the bargain ac-cording to the regula-tion. She is also work-ing with her Congressman, Ander Crenshaw, (R-Fla.), to find a fix so this never happens to anyone else again. Still, officials with the Office of SGLI told her that just because the regulation was broken doesn’t mean she can collect.

“They say that regardless that it is law that I be notified, the failure of no-tification does not affect the validity of any coverage election,” she said.

In the meantime Theresa says she feels a lot of fear for their future. For the time being she has his $100,000 death gratuity and monthly benefits from the DoD, VA and Social Security. However, over times the payouts will decrease and she will transfer to Tri-care Retiree with its higher costs.

“While we are doing fine right now, I worry very much about future,” she said. “My sons were 6-years-old and 2.5 months old when my husband was killed. I have at least 18 years of being solely financially responsible for them. I was 33 when my husband was killed and have a very long life to live as well. So, while I am fine today and in the short term, I very much worry about

our long term financial security.”While Theresa works to fix her SGLI

situation, she hopes that her problem can work as a warning for others. Yes, your service member CAN decline SGLI and you may not be noti-fied. And if the worst hap-pens, you’ll be

left in even more of a rut.“What I want other spouses to take

away is obviously to have these hard conversations and to not assume any-thing. Be as proactive as humanly pos-sible in as much as your spouse’s career as they will allow you to be, and even more so when it comes to the realities of the dangerous job they hold,” she said. “And now I am left behind on this earth, with 2 young children, to deal with the ramifications of all of it. It is one big mess that I will deal with for the rest of my life. If I can prevent this from happening to another family with my story, then I know it wasn’t all in vain.”

Update – If you’d like to help the Jones family, contributions can be made in person at any Navy Federal Branch, through Paypal, or by mailing a check directly to Navy Federal. The ad-dress is 555 Saturn Blvd., Suite C, San Diego, CA 92154. Make checks payable to “Landon Jones Memorial Fund.” The Paypal account is [email protected], and the access code is 7406575. The access code is for Navy FCU, not Paypal.

“I feel this is embarrassing because I think people will look at me as a naive, idiotic woman

for not asking my husband about the status of his SGLI. I also do

not want to paint my husband in a bad light. He was a great husband,

wonderful father, and amazing pilot and Navy Officer...”

had never seen any paperwork or other documentation about her husband’s actions. And she had never thought of looking at his “page 2” – the part of his SGLI paperwork where he accepts or declines it.

“I don’t think he declined SGLI in an effort to hurt myself or our children,” Theresa told me. “I think he did it because he was a fru-

gal man who never believed he would die. He was trained to be a war fighting machine for the Navy. … While my husband may have taken his decision to save

that extra money each month to an extreme, and while he

may have been a little cocky in think-ing nothing would ever happen to him, and whether or not I agree with it, I can see his train of thought.”

Theresa had no idea that her hus-band could completely decline SGLI. Like many military spouses, she and her husband worked as a team tackling different parts of their home and fam-ily. And the deployment related paper-work was his part.

“I feel this is embarrassing because I think people will look at me as a na-ive, idiotic woman for not asking my husband about the status of his SGLI. I also do not want to paint my husband in a bad light. He was a great husband, wonderful father, and amazing pilot and Navy Officer,” she told me. “I am a very educated Navy wife and while I was very involved in my husband’s ca-reer, I did not have my hand in every facet of it. Every time we PCS’d, I left it up to my husband to take care of all the receipts and figure out the reim-bursements for each of the six moves we did in our 10 years of marriage. I did not sit down with him to figure that stuff out. Meanwhile, he left it up to me (mostly) to unpack the boxes and get our home life settled. We worked as a team and knew we each had a job we had to complete and did not microman-age each other as we did them.

Again, because I did not know that you could decline SGLI out right, I guess that was just something that nev-er popped up on my radar. I assumed it

was not a lawless society prior to our faith-based intervention. Even the war’s enablers must finally admit that under our ministrations Iraq has gone from a secular to a religious country; from rogue to failed state.

Put yourself in the worn-out shoes of this sad, pathetic people. Would you rath-er live under Saddam—who was a brutal dictator, but did provide Iraq with one of the foundations of civilization: order—or under a force made up of ideological terrorists, feuding warlords, and an “Ali Baba” element, all running rampant because they can, and where not even mosques provide a safe haven from these brutes and their bombs?”

SHINOLACont’d. from Page 3

“I wish the Americans had never come,” Baghdadi Mohammed Rejeb told veteran war correspondent Arwa Damon, a decade after the American Nakba (catastrophe). “They ruined our country. They planted divisions. They made us cry for the days of Saddam Hussein.” Wept another Iraqi woman, on that anniversary: “I lost hope six to seven months ago. You don’t feel it’s home anymore.” One after another, Iraqis all speak of the “corruption, sus-picion and tribalism” that have seeped into civil society since the invasion.

No. Iraq hasn’t suddenly “slipped back into” this backward and benight-ed state. It was bombed there by a mul-ish military power which didn’t know Shiite from Shinola.


Harry S. Truman33rd President of the United States

Served from April 12, 1945 (ascended) to Jan. 20, 1953

“You can accomplishanything provided that you do not mind who gets the credit.”

World events• Albert Einstein refuses presi-

dency of Israel• London smog kills 4,000

• Elizabeth II be-comes queen upon

the death of her father, George

VI.• Mother

Teresa opens the home for dying and destitute in Calcutta

• Big Bang Theory of

the creation of the Universe first pro-pounded

• South African police arrest Nel-son Mandella

• India holds its first general elec-tions

• Britain announces it has atomic bomb

• Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland

• Puerto Rico becomes a self governing commonwealth of the U.S.

• Military coup d’etat in Egypt headed by Nasser

• Winter Olympic games are held in Oslo, Norway

U.S. events• Polio epidemic kills 3,300• Live atomic bomb test at

Yucca Flats, Nevada, shown on TV

• California has its 2nd larg-est earthquake, rocking 100,000 sq. miles

• Communist teachers banned from teaching in public schools

• Charlie Chaplin refused entry

back into the U.S. after

living in Hol-lywood for 20 years

• Vice Presidential candi-date Richard Nixon defends himself on TV over allega-tions of secret cash fund

• Steel plants placed under presidential con-trol after steel unions threaten to strike

Sports• World Series: Yan-

kees over Dodgers, 4-3• NBA Championship: Min-

neapolis Lakers d. New York, 4-3

• Rocky Marciano becomes world heavyweight champion after knocking out Jersey Joe Walcott

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Technology• World’s

first passenger jet produced• First successful

use of a mechanical heart

• The first “Don’t Walk” sign installed in New York City

• First Holiday Inn opens in Tennessee

• Patent for bar code used to identify products

issued did not become the industry standard until the Universal Grocery Prod-ucts Identification Prod-uct Code or UPC was created

• First roll-on deodorant intro-duced, Ban Roll-On

Alben W. Barkley35th Vice President of the United StatesServed from Jan. 20, 1949 to Jan. 20, 1953

— Harry Truman

1952Ford

1952Streetcar

Mother Teresa

Clockwise:Nelson Mandela,

Queen Elizabeth II,Albert Einstein

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Popular films• Singin’ in the Rain• Against All Flags• High Noon• Man Bait• The Quiet Man• Stolen Face• Monkey Business• The Greatest Show on Earth• The Snows of Kilimanjaro

TV shows• Life is Worth Living• The Abbott and Costello Show• Hockey Night in Canada• Mister Peepers• Victory at Sea• The Red Buttons Show• The Ernie Kovacs Show• Adventures of Superman• The Jackie Gleason Show• I Married Joan• The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet• I’ve Got A Secret

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BORN THIS YEAR: Above right: Bill Bilichick, NFL head coach. Above left: George Strait, country singer; Jeff Goldblum, actor; Sharon Osborne,

reality star and Ozzie’s wife;Vladimir Putin, Russian president.

Popular culture• The “Diary of Anne Frank” published• The “Today Show” debuts on NBC• KFC franchise opens• MAD Magazine’s first issue

Inventions• Hydrogen

bomb• Mr. Potato

HeadGame

• Poliovaccine

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Popular music• “Blue Tango,” Leroy Anderson• “Wheel of Fortune,” Kay Starr• “Cry,” Johnnie Ray• “You Belong To Me,” Jo Stafford• “Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart,” Vera Lynn

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Pay caps are pay cutsIn this year’s defense budget, administration and Pentagon leaders requested

a military pay raise of one percent. That’s 0.8 percent below private-sector pay growth, the second-lowest pay raise in 50 years, and a second consecutive year of pay caps. Like last year, Congress doesn’t see eye to eye on the military pay raise. The House rejected the administration’s pay cap in favor of a 1.8-percent raise, while the Senate supports the cap of one percent. Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) says once the military pay-cap proposals are accepted, they continue until they have wrecked readiness and retention.

Solving VA care-delay crisis too costly?The Congressional Budget Office dampened some good vibes among lawmak-

ers who rushed to solve the access-to-care crisis for veterans last week. The CBO estimates the cost of requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide non-VA medical care to any enrolled veteran who cannot get a VA medical ap-

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By Heather SweeneyAre you thinking about buying a

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‘Star Spangled Babies’ brings baby showers to military families

Military parents-to-be often live far from their extended families and sup-port systems due to deployments and frequent relocation. That’s why Operation Homefront hosts approximately 30 baby showers per year at locations around the country.

The Star Spangled Babies baby shower program, is in place to build morale by providing baby showers to our service members and their growing families. In most locations, the families who participate are of deployed service members, wounded service members, and other junior and mid grade service members and their families who just need that extra support for their new arrivals. For more information, call Operation Homefront’s headquarters at 800-722-6098.

Starting this summer, a new Ap-plied Behavior Analysis (ABA) policy will cover all TRICARE beneficiaries with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) under a single benefit. The Autism Care Demonstration (ACD) will start July 25, 2014 and will run until Dec. 31, 2018.

All beneficiaries currently receiv-ing ABA under TRICARE will tran-sition seamlessly to the new benefit with no gap in coverage by Dec. 31, 2014. Currently, TRICARE beneficia-

TRICARE to cover autismries with ASD get ABA covered by one of three programs, depending on their sponsor’s duty status. The ACD combines these programs into a single benefit that will stay with beneficiaries if they move from active duty, retire or switch TRICARE plans. All ASD patients will have the same access to care, regardless of sponsor status or plan. For more information, visit the TRICARE Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) webpage at www.tri-care.mil/aba.


By Jonathan O’CallaghanHarley-Davidson is known for its big

touring bikes and iconic brand.But now the Wisconsin-based com-

pany is aiming to break new ground in a bold new move when it takes its first electric motorcycle, Project LiveWire, on a tour of the country beginning at an event in New York this week.

And President Matt Levatich said he expects the company to become a leader in developing technology and standards for electric vehicles.

The announcement is seen as taking the company in an entirely new direc-tion — they have not previously showed interest in electric bikes, instead pre-ferring to develop the iconic vehicle that has been a mainstay of American culture for nearly a century.

Harley will show handmade demon-stration models of the new e-bike at the invitation-only event on Monday, hav-ing given a sneak preview today.

The company will then take the bike down the U.S. Route 66 to thirty Har-ley-Davidson dealerships to give riders the chance to test drive the bike and provide feedback.

Harley will use the information it gathers to refine the bike, which might not hit the market for several more years.

Some see the venture as a risk for Harley because there’s currently al-most no market for full-size electric motorcycles.

The millions of two-wheeled elec-tric vehicles sold each year are almost exclusively scooters and low-powered bikes that appeal to Chinese commut-ers.

At the same time, Levatich and oth-ers involved in creating the bike pre-dicted it would sell based on perfor-mance, not environmental awareness.

With no need to shift gears, the bike can go from 0 to 60 miles (96 kilome-tres) per hour in about four seconds.

The engine is silent, but the mesh-ing of gears apparently emits a hum like a jet airplane taking off.

“Some people may get on it think-ing, ‘golf cart,’” lead engineer Jeff Richlen said.

“And they get off thinking, ‘rocket ship.’”

One hurdle the company has yet to address is the limited range offered by electric motorcycles.

The batteries must be recharged af-ter about 130 miles (210 kilometres), and that can take 30 minutes to an hour.

San Jose State University police Captain Alan Cavallo helped his de-

The bike was first spotted earlier this week on the set of the new Avengers

movie and has now been confirmed by Harley.

Here a stunt double for Scarlett Johans-

son is seen riding the e-bike during

filming for Aveng-ers: Age of Ultron at the World Cup

Sangam Digital Media City Express-way in Seoul, South

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Harley-Davidson goes electricpartment buy two bikes from Zero Mo-torcycles, the current top-selling brand, and said officers have been “super happy” with the quiet, environmental-ly friendly bikes made nearby in Scotts

Valley, California. But he said American riders who

like to hit the highway would likely lose patience with the technology.

“That’s the deal with the cars; you

can’t jump in a Tesla and drive to LA, it won’t make it,” Cavallo said.

He added: “People want the con-venience of ‘I pull into a gas station, I pour some gas in my tank and I go.’”

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ACROSS1. Puts on6. Immediately10. Scatters seeds14. Metal bar15. Murres16. Two-toed sloth17. A sport involving a ball and a net19. Remain20. No particular person21. C22. Cancel23. Proprietor25. Anxious26. Shock30. Chemical cousin32. Tallest mountain35. A baby’s room39. Covet40. Something of small importance41. Scrutinize43. Recurrence44. Temporary46. Large North American deer (plural)47. Navigational aid50. Little53. A musical pause54. Big wine holder55. Large indefinite amount60. Against61. Interlace63. Hissy fit64. Storage cylinder65. Embankment66. Rabbit67. Cards with 1 symbol68. Go on a buying spree

DOWN1. Opera star2. Nameless3. Not pretty4. Western tie5. Shorthand6. A type of large sandwich7. Vestiges8. Control surface on a plane9. Story10. Seditious11. Scallion12. Gulleys

13. Soft leather18. A type of evergreen tree24. Louse-to-be25. Latin name for our planet26. A Star Wars hero27. Baking appliance28. Not more29. Three-party31. Mongrel33. Construct34. Religious offshoot36. Wicked37. Hazard

38. Sweet potatoes42. Historic ship43. How old you are45. Urticate47. Collide48. Reddish brown49. Active51. Neither ___52. Cries of pain54. Brand of credit card56. Very intense57. Wash58. Not odd59. Sow62. Dawn goddessP

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SUDOKUThe rules to play Sudoku are quite simple. Fill in the blanks

so that each row, each column, and each of the nine 3x3 grids contain one instance of each of the numbers 1 through 9.

Just for

LaughsDumbest frog

Once upon a time a beautiful, in-dependent, self assured princess hap-pened upon a frog in a pond. The frog said to the princess, “I was once a hand-some prince until an evil witch put a spell on me. One kiss from you and I will turn back into a prince and then we can marry, move into the castle with mum, and you can prepare my meals, clean my clothes, bear my children and forever feel happy doing so.”

That night, while the princess dined on frogs legs, she laughed to herself and thought: Dumbest frog I ever met...

Beautiful?A lawyer was just waking up from

anesthesia after surgery, and his wife was sitting by his side. His eyes flut-tered open and he said, “You’re beauti-ful!” and then he fell asleep again. His wife had never heard him say that so

she stayed by his side.A couple of minutes later, his eyes

fluttered open and he said, “You’re cute!” Well, the wife was dissapointed because instead of “beautiful,” it was “cute.” She asked, “What happened to ‘beautiful’?” His reply was “The drugs

are wearing off!”

David’s brother DavidA woman went down to the

Welfare Office to get aid. The office worker asked her, “How many children do you have?”

“Ten,” she replied.“What are their names?” he

asked.“David, David, David, David, David,

David, David, David, David and David,” she answered.

“They’re all named David?” he asked “What if you want them to come in from playing outside?”

“Oh, that’s easy,” she said. “I just call ‘David,’ and they all come running in.”

“And, if you want them to come to the table for dinner?”

“I just say, ‘David, come eat your dinner’,” she answered.

“But what if you just want ONE of them to do something?” he asked.

“Oh, that’s easy,” she said. “I just use their last name!”

Gonna be a good dayQ: How do you know when it’s going

to be a good day at work? A: When you see your boss’ picture on the side of the milk carton.

Walks into a bar…string style

A string walks into a bar with a few friends and orders a beer. The bartend-er says, “I’m sorry, but we don’t serve strings here.” The string goes back to his table. He ties himself in a loop and messes up the top of his hair. He walks back up to the bar and orders a beer. The bartender squints at him and says, “Hey, aren’t you a string?” The string says, “Nope, I’m a frayed knot.”

Walks into a bar…the ballerina

A good looking woman walks into a bar wearing a tube top. She raises her hand to signal the bartender for a beer, revealing that she does not shave her armpits. Meanwhile, a sloppy drunk on the other side of the bar signals the bartender, “Buy that ballerina over there a drink on me.” The bartender replies, “What makes you think she’s a ballerina?” “Because,” answers the drunken man, “any chick that can lift

her leg that high has GOT to be a bal-lerina.”

Walks into a bar…talking dog

A dog walks into a bar and hops up on a stool. He looks the bartender in the eye and says, “Hey, guess what? I can talk. Have you ever seen a talking dog before? How about a drink?” The bartender thinks for a moment and says, “Sure, the toilet’s right around the corner.”


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