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Gibbs: I was told not to acknowledge existence of drone program

The Ticket - Sunday, February 24, 2013


Robert Gibbs, President Barack Obama's former press secretary, says that he was once instructed by the White House not to acknowledge the administration's use of drones.

"When I went through the process of becoming press secretary, one of the first things they told me was, you're not even to acknowledge the drone program," Gibbs said on MSNBC's "Up With Chris Hayes" on Sunday. "You're not even to discuss that it exists."

Or, to paraphrase an oft-quoted line from David Fincher's 1999 film "Fight Club": The first rule of the drone program is you do not talk about the drone program.

Gibbs, who was recently hired by MSNBC as a contributor, called the proposition "inherently crazy."

"You're being asked a question based on reporting of a program that exists," Gibbs, who served as White House press secretary from 2009 to 2011, said. "So you're the official government spokesperson acting as if the entire program—pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."

Obama's former spokesman said that while the administration has recently expressed the need to be more transparent about its use of drones, certain aspects of that program are "highly sensitive" and will likely remain secret.

“I have not talked to him about this, so I want to be careful," Gibbs said, "but I think what the president has seen is, our denial of the existence of the program when it’s obviously happening undermines people’s confidence overall in the decisions that their government makes.”
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gibbs-drones-obama-talk-fight-club-174044860--politics.html

But the Cardinal is contesting this allegation. He has been the one fighting the Cameron government not to legalize same sex marriage. Hope it is not a case of 'when you want to fight corruption, corruption fights you back'.

ipromise: They should not have posted the pics nah? Are u thinking what im thinking? Very sad..

What are you thinking?

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Manchester United surely has so many haters.

If they weren't so good, the hate alone was enough to distract them from success. Unfortunately, the always prove haters wrong.

Why are Chelsea fans angry? I thought you people want City to win the League?

Manchester United making a statement that they are simply the best. Look at the gap. I wish Chelsea will just be beat City tomorrow or they share the points.

RVP out due to injury. Get well soon.

Vatican blasts 'false' pre-conclave reporting
By NICOLE WINFIELD | Associated Press – 31 mins ago

In this photo provided by the Vatican.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican lashed out Saturday at the media for what it said has been a run of defamatory and false reports before the conclave to elect Pope Benedict XVI's successor, saying they were an attempt to influence the election.
Italian newspapers have been rife with unsourced reports in recent days about the contents of a secret dossier prepared for the pope by three cardinals who investigated the origins of the 2012 scandal over leaked Vatican documents.
The reports have suggested the revelations in the dossier, given to Benedict in December, were a factor in his decision to resign. The pope himself has said merely that he doesn't have the "strength of mind and body" to carry on.
On Saturday, the Vatican secretariat of state said the Catholic Church has for centuries insisted on the independence of its cardinals to elect their pope. Now, it said, the "pressures of public opinion" is in play in a bid to influence their vote.
"It is deplorable that as we draw closer to the time of the beginning of the conclave ... that there be a widespread distribution of often unverified, unverifiable or completely false news stories that cause serious damage to persons and institutions."
It was issued as Benedict met for the last time with the Vatican bureaucracy before stepping down Feb. 28. The occasion was the final session of the Vatican's Lenten spiritual retreat, a weeklong series of meditations composed by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, himself a papal contender.
In one of his final meditations Friday, Ravasi denounced the "divisions, dissent, careerism, jealousies" that afflict the Vatican bureaucracy — divisions that were exposed by the leaks of documents taken from the pope's study. The documents revealed the petty wrangling, corruption and cronyism and even allegations of a gay plot at the highest levels of the Catholic Church.
The three cardinals who investigated the theft of the documents had wide-ranging powers to interview even cardinals to get to the bottom of the dynamics within the Curia — the Vatican bureaucracy — that resulted in the gravest Vatican security breach in modern times.
Benedict has referred obliquely to the Vatican's dysfunction in recent days, deploring how the church is often "defiled" by attacks and divisions and urging its members to overcome "pride and egoism."
On Saturday, in his final comments to the Curia, he lamented the "evil, suffering and corruption" that has defaced God's creation. But he also thanked the Vatican bureaucrats for eight years of work, love and faith and promised them he would continue to be spiritually close to them in retirement.
http://news.yahoo.com/vatican-blasts-false-pre-conclave-reporting-130526801.html

The first girl up there, what a beauty a beauty!

Is it every thing that must come to front page. This is so 'UGLIEST'. Picture of this picture of that. Getting too much.

There are many good topics hidden at the background.

Manchester United should try and win this to keep the sensational gap at the top.

Cardinal: Married Catholic priests a possibility

Associated Press - 12 hrs ago

LONDON (AP) — Roman Catholic priests should be allowed to marry and have children, Britain's most senior Catholic cleric said Friday.

Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who heads the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, said the requirement for priestly celibacy is "not of divine origin" and could be reconsidered.

He told BBC Scotland that "the celibacy of the clergy, whether priests should marry — Jesus didn't say that."

He said that "many priests have found it very difficult to cope with celibacy," and while he had never considered marriage himself, "I would be very happy if others had the opportunity of considering whether or not they could or should get married."

O'Brien, 74, will form part of the conclave of cardinals that chooses the next pontiff, following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.

Benedict announced earlier this month that he will step down Feb. 28 — the first pope to resign in almost 600 years.

The cardinal said that the next pope would be free to consider changing church policy on issues, such as celibacy for priests, that were not "basic dogmatic beliefs."

He said that "we know at the present time in some branches of the church — in some branches of the Catholic church — priests can get married, so that is obviously not of divine origin and it could get discussed again."

In recent years a number of traditionalist Anglicans opposed to the ordination of women and other changes have joined the Roman Catholic Church. The pope granted special dispensation for married Anglican clergy to stay married and be ordained in the Catholic Church.

O'Brien also said it was time to think seriously about having a pope from outside Europe.

He said he would be "open to a pope from anywhere if I thought it was the right man, whether it was Europe or Asia or Africa or wherever."
http://news.yahoo.com/cardinal-married-catholic-priests-possibility-172115510.html. ........

Mathew 19: 11-12Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word (celibacy), but only those to whom it has been given. 12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”

....... Cardinals like this are enough to give the Pope plenty headache.

The world is close to some serious end time events. These current confusions and blackmail at the Vatican are a pointer to the darkness that is enveloping the world.


No one knows what truth in all these. But people following Catholic prophecies know that there were messages which predicted a time like this to come; a time of confusion, a time where some satanic forces will try to ruin the church from within. It looks we have now arrived at the hour, and in a few months or years the Great Tribulation will commence.

The false prophet will fight his way to the top of the Vatican and finally fulfill the prophet Daniel where he said abomination will be seated in the most holy place. The false prophet will find reasons to justify changes he will bring to the church, he will change most of the traditional teaches and make the church circular as the world applauds. He will point to the Antichrist as the messiah. The world war will start, economies will collapse, chips will be inserted in humans as a means of control and tracking.

It looks like the world is on the verge of these events. The messages keep coming and are happening before our own eyes.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration outlined its argument on Friday why the U.S. Supreme Court should strike down a federal law that defines marriage as between a man and woman.
Solicitor General Donald Verrilli filed a brief with the court saying that section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional, expanding on the administration's approach to the controversial 1996 law, which it has formally opposed since February 2011.
Section 3 defines marriage under federal law as being between a man and a woman.
The law denies federal benefits to same-sex married couples that are granted to married heterosexuals.
The administration's position is that the law violates the guarantee of equal protection under the law.
In the brief, Verrilli said there was a history of discrimination against gays and lesbians that required the Supreme Court to take a careful look at any law that specifically targets them as a group.
He therefore urged the court to take an approach to analyzing the law known as "heightened scrutiny," which, if adopted by the court, could make it more likely the court would find the law unconstitutional.
"The law denies to tens of thousands of same-sex couples who are legally married under state law an array of important federal benefits that are available to legally married opposite sex couples," he wrote.
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in the case on March 27, the day after it weighs the constitutionality of a California law, Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in that state.
The administration has until Thursday to decide whether to weigh in on Proposition 8.
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-administration-urges-justices-overturn-anti-gay-marriage-045200354.html#

Her life style might be wayward, but she is beautiful. It was a 4 months pregnant Kim that came to Nigeria.

Every part of her body is just perfect. Many celebs have had more surgery but still far behind her.

I also do not support her lifestyle but most of the things they say about her are in the past. Let's try and hate less.

Another pic, when Kim was alleged to have occasionally dated CR7, and both of them were adjudged to be having best beach bodies. Kim was said to be suitable for modeling any brand, from bikini to swim wear, etc.

The whites know why they rated her so high, afterall most run way models don't have other talents. She is also claiming a model.

You people can now judge. Job made easy.

Some pics

Except I see both of them one on one, I can't talk. But if it were to be TV and pictures alone. Kim is far ahead. The face alone is enough to summarise. Even the body, though I don't know how much of surgery is there? How do we also know Juliet is surgery free?

The men who are posting pics of nude men and suggestive pics here have elements of gayism in them too. Lol.

There is one ex-Arsenal midfielder (not a striker) that is a confirmed gay.

A renowned Arsenal midfielder is a gay. He is no longer in Arsenal now.

This is no news because the reason for denying him visa is not stated.

GIRLS USED TO SAY:
1970>Love me But do not touch me.
1980>Touch me, but do not kiss me,
1990>Kiss me, But do not do any thing
more
2000>Do everything, But do not tell
anybody,
2013>Do everything, Otherwise I
will tell everybody that you can't do
anything.

My first time in joke session.

I like this.

'Picture of Timaya performing in London'

No audience, no crowd. No stage.

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