😆 Just saw it GGail! The game is at 7.45 this evening English time, so that’s ….. um …… 11.45 AM for you? I think. But you’re best not to watch, they’ll probably be CRAP again!1!1!
It’s only 9am (ish) on the west coast, and TOD is on the third thread of the day (!).
Excited about tonight’s SOTU.
Reminder (as if TOD needed some) of how MSM stay silent about GOP, yet #BlameObama for everything under the sun (unless it’s good news for Americans, in which case, bring out the Cone Of Silence.
Here’s @schultz44’s response to obvious GOP obstruction in @ryanjtracy tweet above (yet unacknowledged by MSM — this is why we’re forever grateful for the Internet and social media!):
For those seeking why Congress won't move to confirm Adam Szbubin, this seems like your smoking gun. https://t.co/K785Gpv4oK
“Well, I think from President Obama’s perspective, the best thing he could do would be to leave office early.”
posted on Jan. 12, 2016, at 10:51 a.m.
Rand Paul says he’d like to see President Obama announce in the State of the Union that he’s a failure and then resign.
“Well, I think from President Obama’s perspective, the best thing he could do would be to leave office early,” the Kentucky senator and Republican presidential candidate said on Good Morning with Dan Mitchell. “I wish that tonight he would announce, ‘hey guys, I’ve really been a failure as a president over the last seven years and I’m gonna take off early so cause I want to go play golf.’
“I really think Obama has got it all wrong about economy,” Paul added, more substantively, saying Obama likes deficits and market intervention.
“It would be nice if he could own up to that, but his world view is that government is the answer,” said Paul.
Paul, who was recently knocked out of the main Republican presidential debate due to low poll numbers, also addressed his boycott of participation in any so-called undercard debate.
Rand Paul should say he’s a failure and resign from the Senate, the different here is Rand Paul is a failure, POTUS is not. Anyone want to know why Capital Hill is so divided, it’s because of these Republicans like Paul, Cruz, Ryan, McConnell, all of them who hate this black President.
Shorter answer: there aren’t enough workers suffering, the air isn’t polluted enough, and there aren’t enough products blowing up in people’s faces (guns excluded) to feed the already bloated rich.
Baby Paul is envious because, like his father, he will never be elected President of the United States . Now I see why Christian theologians identified “envy” as one of the seven deadly sins.
Tavis Smiley is full of alot of Bull crap. It’s been tough for black folks for alot longer then ten years. My question what has Tavis done for black folks?
“Last year, an estimated 6 in 10 uninsured African Americans qualified for Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP), or lower costs on monthly premiums through the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Many shoppers found coverage for less than $50 a month and nearly 7 in 10 found coverage for less than $100.
7.8 million African Americans with private insurance now have access to preventive services like mammograms or flu shots with no co-pay or deductible
More than 500,000 African American young adults between the ages of 19 and 26 who would have been uninsured now have coverage under their parents’ plan.
2.3 million African Americans (ages 18-64) gained health insurance coverage, lowering the uninsured rate among African Americans by 6.8 percentage points.
If all states took advantage of new opportunities to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act, 95 percent of eligible uninsured African Americans might qualify for Medicaid, CHIP, or programs to help lower the cost of health insurance coverage in the Marketplace.” http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts-and-features/fact-sheets/aca-working-african-american-community/index.html
African American unemployment:
Dec 2014 – 11.0.
Dec 2015 – 8.3.
THIS IS NOT CHANGE S-S-S-S-SMILEY?
When he said this I jumped up and clapped, hooted and hollered ! The first salvo in having no more fucks left to give. Still one of my favorite PBO badass moments.
Just heard Paul Ryan say that bc of Obama policies the rich are getting richer??
Really?
He said this is liberal trickle down economics?
Really?
So.. Giving tax cuts to the rich and cutting food stamps for the poor will help people get ahead?
Got it?
No he isn’t. He couldn’t even help get Willard elected. And Uncle Biden trounced his creepy-eyed arse in the VP debate in 2012. The only reason he ended up being GOP speaker is that his competition was non-existent!
Right before, during and after PBO gives the SOTU address, I will be seeking out, posting, RT-ing and fav’ing posts like these. Let’s drown out the negative media, GOP, emoleft, PUMA, etc. contingents as we elevate our President in celebration and gratitude and TRIUMPH!.
Tonight the last #SOTU by the one @POTUS in my lifetime that most resembled my life experience, values, goals and hopes for the future.
Thanks GGail. And I hope other TODers can join as well. I won’t be posting any negative or snide tweets from the usual punditry (I’m looking at you Chris Cillizza from The Fix and others). That doesn’t mean I won’t respond to them on Twitter , but I just won’t bring their drivel here for tonight. 🙂
President Obama’s pay raise for the military is set to go into effect at the end of the week. Despite being the largest increase in five years, Republicans have refused to give credit where credit is due.
As the summer came to a close, Obama ordered an “across the board” pay increase for federal workers, with special attention being paid to those in the military. All federal civilian workers will receive an increase of one percent, while members of the military will get an increase of 1.3 percent. Over the last two years, the military increase was at one percent, while a pay freeze was in effect during 2011-2013. In addition to the raise, the recently signed National Defense Authorization Act has improved the way members of the military can access retirement benefits, as reported by the Chicago Tribune on Dec. 28.
As the Federal Times pointed out, Democrats in the House and Senate had originally proposed a 3.8 percent increase for federal workers, but the proposal died in the Republican controlled House. While pay for members of the military increases depending on length of service and rank, PayScale.com notes that the average salary for a solider is just over $40,000 a year, a number that most people agree is too low…\\\
Hard to disagree with David Brooks on any of this …
“Evangelicals and other conservatives have had their best influence on American politics when they have proceeded in a spirit of personalism — when they have answered hostility with service and emphasized the infinite dignity of each person. They have won elections as happy and hopeful warriors. Ted Cruz’s brutal, fear-driven, apocalypse-based approach is the antithesis of that.”
Which is a statement I rarely have ever made about anything David Brooks says/writes ….
It has been years since I was a practicing anything, but if your beliefs are rooted in brutality, unforgiving judgment and divisiveness, you are not, by definition, Christian. Oh, you may call yourself one, as many hypocrites do, and twist theology to fit your own sick needs, but it’s more to do with an oversize ego than anything Christ himself ever preached. Cruz has a pathological personality that, like Trump, is consumed with self. There is no “salt and light” in him, only an almost overwhelming ability to repel and disgust.
“New governor Edwards says he’s also seeking an increase in the minimum wage, particularly to ensure that women in the state are paid on par with men. That initiative may take some time.
But Louisiana will benefit from the Medicaid expansion within twenty-four hours.”
Thanks to the right wingers on SCOTUS for delaying years of preventive care, diagnosis, medicine and treatment for adults and children.
How many preventable illnesses and deaths is that?
Hello TOD on a Sunny Tuesday afternoon on 1-12-16.
Congrats to all the Gold ⭐ winners since last night, starting with this fine post.
On Election day, 3 Supreme Court Justices: Gingsberg, Scalia and Kennedy would all be 80yrs plus. In 2017, Breyer would turn 80yrs too. 2016 is Mighty Important!
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) holds a town hall at Praise Community Church in Mason City, Iowa, on Friday. (Patrick Semansky/Associated Press)
By Mary Brigid McManamon January 12 at 11:24 AM
Mary Brigid McManamon is a constitutional law professor at Widener University’s Delaware Law School.
Donald Trump is actually right about something: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) is not a natural-born citizen and therefore is not eligible to be president or vice president of the United States.
The Constitution provides that “No person except a natural born Citizen . . . shall be eligible to the Office of President.” The concept of “natural born” comes from common law, and it is that law the Supreme Court has said we must turn to for the concept’s definition. On this subject, common law is clear and unambiguous. The 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone, the preeminent authority on it, declared natural-born citizens are “such as are born within the dominions of the crown of England,” while aliens are “such as are born out of it.” The key to this division is the assumption of allegiance to one’s country of birth. The Americans who drafted the Constitution adopted this principle for the United States. James Madison, known as the “father of the Constitution,” stated, “It is an established maxim that birth is a criterion of allegiance. . . . [And] place is the most certain criterion; it is what applies in the United States.”
Tragic Gun Accident™ By Responsible Gun Owner Kills Her 8-Year-Old
A Georgia girl was killed in an apparently accidental shooting that also wounded her mother.
Marsha Lynch said she was braiding her daughter’s hair when a handgun fell to the floor and fired, striking her in the leg and then shooting her 8-year-old daughter in the head.
Sharia Lynch died from the gunshot wound before she could be airlifted to an area hospital.
Local law enforcement is accusing armed protesters who seized an Oregon wildlife refuge of harassment and intimidation.
In a statement Monday, Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward described an “uptick” in reports of “law enforcement officers and community members being followed home; of people sitting in cars outside their homes, observing their movements and those of their families; and of people following them and their families as they move around the community.”
Ward added, “While not direct physical threats, these activities are clearly designed to try to intimidate.”
Federal employees of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, the site occupied by the protestors, also reported “a number of uncomfortable instances” of “unknown” outsiders idling outside their homes, watching them and initiating debates about their employment.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
See ya later!
Noooooo! go back and read my last comment – PLEEEEESE!
😆 Just saw it GGail! The game is at 7.45 this evening English time, so that’s ….. um …… 11.45 AM for you? I think. But you’re best not to watch, they’ll probably be CRAP again!1!1!
Thanks, but I’m a brave soul and I have the hope, the kind you can believe in! 😀
😆 {{GGail}}
I dedicate this to you:
See ya in a bit!!
😀
way to root for your team. go man u.
Hey! thanks bro! 🙂
Hey Ms. Chips, Danny and Tod family, I hope all is well with everyone the SOTU message day.
Yup, murka. Good luck with those kkklowns.
Now off to my bs.
what’s bs?
zzzz’s
OH! LOL!!!
LOL @ the laughing joe and the morose bearded treasonist.
G’day all….am currently in hibernation mode but woke up because of the sounds MSM’s exploding heads are making with regards to the SOTU.
GM TODville.
It’s only 9am (ish) on the west coast, and TOD is on the third thread of the day (!).
Excited about tonight’s SOTU.
Reminder (as if TOD needed some) of how MSM stay silent about GOP, yet #BlameObama for everything under the sun (unless it’s good news for Americans, in which case, bring out the Cone Of Silence.
Here’s @schultz44’s response to obvious GOP obstruction in @ryanjtracy tweet above (yet unacknowledged by MSM — this is why we’re forever grateful for the Internet and social media!):
Spotify has David Bowie albums available for listening and now, I am 🙂
GM GGail.
Did you see this?
Highly recommend opening the link — the photos are stunning.
If you want to see what true love looks like — the way they look at each other, look so joyous, hold hands, embrace… sigh.
GM arapaho, yes, I viewed them yesterday. He really loved her and she loves him eternally.
In the first photo, Iman looks like the ancient Egyptian queen, Nerfatiti.
He couldn’t even make it to the big kid’s debate….
but, the duly elected PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
should resign..
PHUCK.OUTTA.HERE.
………………………….
Rand Paul: Obama Should Say He’s A Failure, Then Resign In State Of The Union
“Well, I think from President Obama’s perspective, the best thing he could do would be to leave office early.”
posted on Jan. 12, 2016, at 10:51 a.m.
Rand Paul says he’d like to see President Obama announce in the State of the Union that he’s a failure and then resign.
“Well, I think from President Obama’s perspective, the best thing he could do would be to leave office early,” the Kentucky senator and Republican presidential candidate said on Good Morning with Dan Mitchell. “I wish that tonight he would announce, ‘hey guys, I’ve really been a failure as a president over the last seven years and I’m gonna take off early so cause I want to go play golf.’
“I really think Obama has got it all wrong about economy,” Paul added, more substantively, saying Obama likes deficits and market intervention.
“It would be nice if he could own up to that, but his world view is that government is the answer,” said Paul.
Paul, who was recently knocked out of the main Republican presidential debate due to low poll numbers, also addressed his boycott of participation in any so-called undercard debate.
Rand Paul should say he’s a failure and resign from the Senate, the different here is Rand Paul is a failure, POTUS is not. Anyone want to know why Capital Hill is so divided, it’s because of these Republicans like Paul, Cruz, Ryan, McConnell, all of them who hate this black President.
Shorter answer: there aren’t enough workers suffering, the air isn’t polluted enough, and there aren’t enough products blowing up in people’s faces (guns excluded) to feed the already bloated rich.
I loathe them ALL.
Baby Paul is envious because, like his father, he will never be elected President of the United States . Now I see why Christian theologians identified “envy” as one of the seven deadly sins.
Too bad that Kentuckians didn’t have the will to avoid more GOP enslavement ….
this Kneegrow, here.
Wow! Being bitter sure made him age badly. lol poor poor Twavis. lol
Yup 🙂
Bravo, Bob! And this envious looser can’t even count how many years President Obama has been in office.
Tavis Smiley is full of alot of Bull crap. It’s been tough for black folks for alot longer then ten years. My question what has Tavis done for black folks?
Sitting on Fox putting down this President only help Tavis.
“Last year, an estimated 6 in 10 uninsured African Americans qualified for Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP), or lower costs on monthly premiums through the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Many shoppers found coverage for less than $50 a month and nearly 7 in 10 found coverage for less than $100.
7.8 million African Americans with private insurance now have access to preventive services like mammograms or flu shots with no co-pay or deductible
More than 500,000 African American young adults between the ages of 19 and 26 who would have been uninsured now have coverage under their parents’ plan.
2.3 million African Americans (ages 18-64) gained health insurance coverage, lowering the uninsured rate among African Americans by 6.8 percentage points.
If all states took advantage of new opportunities to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act, 95 percent of eligible uninsured African Americans might qualify for Medicaid, CHIP, or programs to help lower the cost of health insurance coverage in the Marketplace.”
http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts-and-features/fact-sheets/aca-working-african-american-community/index.html
African American unemployment:
Dec 2014 – 11.0.
Dec 2015 – 8.3.
THIS IS NOT CHANGE S-S-S-S-SMILEY?
Another envious nobody claiming to speak for Black for Black people.
Because before 2007 it was peaches and cream for Black folks. …..TS is truly on drugs or lives on another planet.
the picture of the crew at ‘I just killed Bin Laden’ Lane.
right wing racists haters loves that picture and so do I.
Kkk heads are Exploding.
Yea baby 😉
When he said this I jumped up and clapped, hooted and hollered ! The first salvo in having no more fucks left to give. Still one of my favorite PBO badass moments.
Oh, Chips! That cartoon is PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dumb MFs running on the GOP insanity and ignorance platform.
From 2009:
meta, thanks so much for posting these. I look forward to see each one that Pete will post 🙂
Just heard Paul Ryan say that bc of Obama policies the rich are getting richer??
Really?
He said this is liberal trickle down economics?
Really?
So.. Giving tax cuts to the rich and cutting food stamps for the poor will help people get ahead?
Got it?
He’s getting creamed for it on twitter.
He is? Good lord… If he’s able to twist that we are all screwed. Got to hand it to him… He’s a used car salesman for sure. Lol
No he isn’t. He couldn’t even help get Willard elected. And Uncle Biden trounced his creepy-eyed arse in the VP debate in 2012. The only reason he ended up being GOP speaker is that his competition was non-existent!
One of my favorite presidential debates EVAH.
Good Afternoon TODVille.
Does anyone know if Ben Carson still operates in the brain? That is, if the fever to be president has not annihilated his skills.
Ben Carson might need to operate on Tavis Miley.
Paul Lying Ryan has too much time on his hands. I still remember his debate with the Great VP Joe Biden.
Effing delirious that it is not you, Ryan, that we’re talking about.
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND…DIRTY MUNSTER BOY IS GOING TO GET A RETURN ON HIS HATRED,,,AND HE WON’T LIKE IT!
my first thought was — how old is he? smdh!
…
Matt Lauer asked President Barack Obama if he could imagine Donald Trump giving a State of the Union address. His response:
“Well, I can imagine it in a Saturday Night [Live] skit.”
…
:D:D
No Child Left Behind, I heard him say that. And I had to smile.
Right before, during and after PBO gives the SOTU address, I will be seeking out, posting, RT-ing and fav’ing posts like these. Let’s drown out the negative media, GOP, emoleft, PUMA, etc. contingents as we elevate our President in celebration and gratitude and TRIUMPH!.
HF, that’s a great suggestion and idea!
Thanks GGail. And I hope other TODers can join as well. I won’t be posting any negative or snide tweets from the usual punditry (I’m looking at you Chris Cillizza from The Fix and others). That doesn’t mean I won’t respond to them on Twitter , but I just won’t bring their drivel here for tonight. 🙂
🙂
I’m with you, hp!
Good for Gayle King. They finally toss Trump’s buddy Barbara Walters aside. I’m glad.
Gayle King is CBS and Barbara Walters is ABC.
Obama gives military largest raise in 5 years, GOP refuses to give credit
President Obama’s pay raise for the military is set to go into effect at the end of the week. Despite being the largest increase in five years, Republicans have refused to give credit where credit is due.
As the summer came to a close, Obama ordered an “across the board” pay increase for federal workers, with special attention being paid to those in the military. All federal civilian workers will receive an increase of one percent, while members of the military will get an increase of 1.3 percent. Over the last two years, the military increase was at one percent, while a pay freeze was in effect during 2011-2013. In addition to the raise, the recently signed National Defense Authorization Act has improved the way members of the military can access retirement benefits, as reported by the Chicago Tribune on Dec. 28.
As the Federal Times pointed out, Democrats in the House and Senate had originally proposed a 3.8 percent increase for federal workers, but the proposal died in the Republican controlled House. While pay for members of the military increases depending on length of service and rank, PayScale.com notes that the average salary for a solider is just over $40,000 a year, a number that most people agree is too low…\\\
As long as your feet take you to the polls comes November….
Well, here’s what my entire being says …
I tell you Bobfr, if VP changed his mind he would be elected.
Absolutely no doubt in my mind about it, nospin.
Hard to disagree with David Brooks on any of this …
“Evangelicals and other conservatives have had their best influence on American politics when they have proceeded in a spirit of personalism — when they have answered hostility with service and emphasized the infinite dignity of each person. They have won elections as happy and hopeful warriors. Ted Cruz’s brutal, fear-driven, apocalypse-based approach is the antithesis of that.”
Which is a statement I rarely have ever made about anything David Brooks says/writes ….
Laurence Tribe was on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell last night. Prof Tribe was Brilliant as always. I saw that this early morning.
Oh this is perfect, Bob. I love the sight of chickens coming home to roost.
Every once in a great while, David Brooks is not a jackass.
It has been years since I was a practicing anything, but if your beliefs are rooted in brutality, unforgiving judgment and divisiveness, you are not, by definition, Christian. Oh, you may call yourself one, as many hypocrites do, and twist theology to fit your own sick needs, but it’s more to do with an oversize ego than anything Christ himself ever preached. Cruz has a pathological personality that, like Trump, is consumed with self. There is no “salt and light” in him, only an almost overwhelming ability to repel and disgust.
ON MY RIGHT WING FB…I RENAMED IT THE CAMOFLAUGED CHRISTIAN!
LMAO.
Pf, the little ones are getting scared. The big, meany President is going to discuss his accomplishments and they can’t stand it.
it will be unfiltered,,,,everyone is streaming it,….it is international in scope…..i just love it
“New governor Edwards says he’s also seeking an increase in the minimum wage, particularly to ensure that women in the state are paid on par with men. That initiative may take some time.
But Louisiana will benefit from the Medicaid expansion within twenty-four hours.”
Thanks to the right wingers on SCOTUS for delaying years of preventive care, diagnosis, medicine and treatment for adults and children.
How many preventable illnesses and deaths is that?
Good for the people of Louisiana. Jindal is gone.
Sincere thanks to the new Governor Edwards.
And to President Obama for the ACA/Obamacare.
Spectacular good news!!!
Note to Republican run states: Vote for (D) and improve your life and the lives of everyone you care about.
AMENNNN
Now, Gov. Edwards has to dig Louisiana out of the hole left by this creep Jindahl.
She looks stunning! 🙂
Such character in that beautiful face!
VIOLA DAVIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE ACTRESSES!
Now, that’s a face and actress worthy of all of the attention in the world – long overdue!
I truly love this man. I so wish he would run.
Hello TOD on a Sunny Tuesday afternoon on 1-12-16.
Congrats to all the Gold ⭐ winners since last night, starting with this fine post.
On Election day, 3 Supreme Court Justices: Gingsberg, Scalia and Kennedy would all be 80yrs plus. In 2017, Breyer would turn 80yrs too. 2016 is Mighty Important!
I will keep pointing this out……Rafael Edwardo Cruz is Not eligible to be President.
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Ted Cruz is not eligible to be president
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) holds a town hall at Praise Community Church in Mason City, Iowa, on Friday. (Patrick Semansky/Associated Press)
By Mary Brigid McManamon January 12 at 11:24 AM
Mary Brigid McManamon is a constitutional law professor at Widener University’s Delaware Law School.
Donald Trump is actually right about something: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) is not a natural-born citizen and therefore is not eligible to be president or vice president of the United States.
The Constitution provides that “No person except a natural born Citizen . . . shall be eligible to the Office of President.” The concept of “natural born” comes from common law, and it is that law the Supreme Court has said we must turn to for the concept’s definition. On this subject, common law is clear and unambiguous. The 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone, the preeminent authority on it, declared natural-born citizens are “such as are born within the dominions of the crown of England,” while aliens are “such as are born out of it.” The key to this division is the assumption of allegiance to one’s country of birth. The Americans who drafted the Constitution adopted this principle for the United States. James Madison, known as the “father of the Constitution,” stated, “It is an established maxim that birth is a criterion of allegiance. . . . [And] place is the most certain criterion; it is what applies in the United States.”
I will stoop to their level and act as a birther to repeat again and again that the Cuban Ted Cruz is a natural born Canadian. LOL.
Check out #emptyseat
Not that I truly care, I simply hope that they will commit a mutual fratricide.
Katy Tur has Trump Stockhom Syndrome. She makes excuses for his behavior all the time.
#SOTU16
Perhaps one of the Dem candidates will prove me incorrect, but I doubt it ….
President Barack Obama walks through the Colonnade at the White House.
/waving/ Hello Mr. President 🙂
Hi there JER 🙂
Hello there GGail.
Another one…..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tragic Gun Accident™ By Responsible Gun Owner Kills Her 8-Year-Old
A Georgia girl was killed in an apparently accidental shooting that also wounded her mother.
Marsha Lynch said she was braiding her daughter’s hair when a handgun fell to the floor and fired, striking her in the leg and then shooting her 8-year-old daughter in the head.
Sharia Lynch died from the gunshot wound before she could be airlifted to an area hospital.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/01/tragic-gun-accident-responsible-gun-owner
Reminder!
NOW is the time to sign into the conference call with the White House and Edith Childs. Check your email for instructions.
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/01/12/7-years-of-progress/
POSTED WITH JUST THIS QUESTION…..
WHAT IF THESE ‘ ARMED PROTESTORS’ WERE BLACK?
UH HUH
UH HUH
………………….
Oregon Sheriff Accuses Armed Protesters of Intimidation, Harassment
by TIM STELLOH
Local law enforcement is accusing armed protesters who seized an Oregon wildlife refuge of harassment and intimidation.
In a statement Monday, Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward described an “uptick” in reports of “law enforcement officers and community members being followed home; of people sitting in cars outside their homes, observing their movements and those of their families; and of people following them and their families as they move around the community.”
Ward added, “While not direct physical threats, these activities are clearly designed to try to intimidate.”
Federal employees of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, the site occupied by the protestors, also reported “a number of uncomfortable instances” of “unknown” outsiders idling outside their homes, watching them and initiating debates about their employment.
10 AMERICAN SAILORS HELD BY IRANIANS……………………….