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Chocolate Poems - Poems For Chocolate
Poems about chocolate. You can read the best chocolate poems. Browse through all chocolate poems.
13.Chocolate (can`t help it)
It calls from the place where it may lie
Even if it's not visible to the eye
It's no matter what time of day
Or whether you`re at work or play
It always seems to sooth the mood
And it`s so much better than food
The problem is when it goes over our lips
With most of us, it goes straight to the hips
I`ll just have a piece or two
And just for in case another few
Only a few a though i would grab
But when i look I've finished the slab
Who would have thought so much joy it could bring
It just makes my taste buds start to sing
And now of course in my jeans i will no longer fit
A few extra pounds....it was worth it
I`ll make up for it tomorrow in the gym
Just a few exercises and I'll be slim
Again tomorrow the cycle will start
It seems never will chocolate and i be able part
And at the empty papers i stare
As if it were a vicious love affair
And every time i think I'll stop
Another piece in my mouth i pop
So chocolate it seems it`s just you and me
Forever together we will be read more »
14.Like My Grandmother's Chocolate Cheesecake
When you can not
See the forest through the trees,
And you can not run
Like Gump, read more »
Chocolate, chocolate,
Chocolate fudge,
Do I dare? read more »
16.Chocolate Hills
A young bird sat on tree branch,
looks here and there,
as if nothing to do
Confused whether to scream read more »
17.Chocolate to Die For *aka* Willy Wonka's Woeful Ways of Weeping
Vincent Smith II died yesterday,
Of a most peculiar way.
He was temporary worker loading cocoa in the Cocoa Service Plant in Camden,
New Jersey. read more »
18.chocolate for love
From the cocoa of Ghana
With the sugar from Cuba
Comes the sweet paste for the world
To build love for all read more »
19.Chocolate is Good for the Heart
Chocolate will never judge you.
Chocolate goes great with any occasion.
It is always there for you no matter the situation.
It is something you can count on to help solve your difficult problems. read more »
20.Chocolates And Kisses
You loved both,
Chocolates and Kisses.
Which one more,
I am not sure. read more »
21.Nut-ricious nutty poetry
Most people go bananas over chocolate
I'm well nuts about nuts as well
Stuff them in chocolate
ice-cream or sherbet. read more »
22.O Chocolate, My Chocolate!
O chocolate, my chocolate!
thou art truly the food of Gods
with tempting shapes and flavors
thy center a gooey warm paradise of caramel read more »
23.Sweet're the Dreams
As a boy
I always dreamed
How wonderful
It would be read more »
Chocolate eclaire
Creamy, dreamy confection -
Indulge if you dare! read more »
New Chocolate Poems
- I Wish I Were A Chocolatier, Angela Wybrow
- Chocolate, Ronald Chapman
- Chocolate Day, Jim Yerman
- You've Got To Love Candy Bars, Paula Glynn
- Chocolate Chip Day, Jim Yerman
- Chocolate Chicken Curry, Angela Wybrow
- Candy, Cassandra Jasmine
- Chocolate Cake, Franklina OwusuAnsah
- My Unapproved Love For Chocolate, Kazi Maisha
- Gold Chocolate Coins, Vera Sidhwa
- Sweet, Vera Sidhwa
- A Chocolate Dream, Yasmeen Khan
- James Bond, Ruth Walters
- Chocolates, Daleen Enslinstrydom
- Chocolate! Chocolate!, Sylvia Chidi
- My Chocolate Day, Patricia Kelley
- Chocolate Day, Patricia Kelley
- Four boys, gajanan mishra
- Festival Haiku - Paris Chocolate Show 2012, john tiong chunghoo
- Chocolate Is A Food Group, Rich Reitz
- My Chocolate Brown, Urshula Davis
- O Chocolate, My Chocolate!, Melpomene's Tears
- Sexual Category With Taste Of Chocolate, Ezna Stephna
- Happy Birthday!, Philo Yan
- Chocolates, Richie John Pais
- Chocolate, Katheryn Foley
- Chocolate, Kourtney Silver
- Chocolate Day, ramesh rai
- Chocolate Soul, Natasha McGee
- Chocolate Kisses, Heather Iverson
- HANDS ALL OVER, Aldo Kraas
- Bury Me With Chocolates, Raynette Eitel
- Cup of mocha, O Sudhir Janardhanan
- Icecream, MORGAN DIETZ
- My Chocolate Love Affair!, Lana Grissom
- Chocolates, Sunshine Poet
- Chocolate Cake, Sherbanu Molu
- Chocolate!, anju addanki
- CHOCOLATE, Sedart Namow
- I Love Chocolate, Nichole Kaci McKnight
- A Temptation For Us All, Nichole Kaci McKnight
- Is it over, Priscilla Brown
- OUT OF SIGHT, Aldo Kraas
- choclate of mine, estif Gebru
- Chocolate, Hans Ostrom
- My choclate, Luwi Habte
- Chocolate, Lydia Etzler
- It's all about the Chocolate!, Marilyn Lott
- For the Love of Chocolate, Dee Daffodil
- DreamDiet, Ted L Glines
- Wrapped In Chocolate, Ms. Anika Martinez
- Chocolate, kaavyaa kriday
- The Dark Temptation, Hansika Subramanian
- chocolate milk, chocolate syrup, chocola.., drew bailey golden
- Chocolate, Ross Bateman
- My Substitute, Tia Maria
- Eternity Of Passion, Bonnie Collins
- .5. Chocolate, David Threadgold
- Chocolate for Lovers, sherif monem
- love is a box of chocolates, keelie morgan
- genga i love yo forever more, stacey finley
- Chocolate Cake, Hannah Unknownnnnnn
- chocolates, RIC S. BASTASA
- lovely chocolate, shina lala
- chocolate tart XD, amy child
- A Chocolate Valentine, Charles Garcia
- 2008 American Presidential Election Poem.., john tiong chunghoo
- Chocolate Whispers..., Jay AndersonTaylor
- All That's Left, Wesley Gibbings
- Chocolate cake, Dana Georgekish
- IT IS TOO MUCH OF A TEMPTATION, Aldo Kraas
- Chocolate Love, RAVIKIRAN ARAKKAL
- Give Me A Chocolate Heart, Phoenix Rory
All Poems
- alone
- america
- angel
- anger
- april
- baby
- ballad
- beach
- beautiful
- beauty
- believe
- birth
- brother
- butterfly
- car
- carpe diem
- change
- chicago
- childhood
- children
- cinderella
- city
- courage
- crazy
- dance
- dark
- daughter
- death
- depression
- despair
- dream
- family
- fate
- father
- fear
- fire
- food
- football
- freedom
- friend
- frog
- funeral
- funny
- future
- girl
- god
- graduation
- greed
- grief
- haiku
- hair
- happiness
- happy
- hate
- heart
- heaven
- hero
- home
- hope
- house
- husband
- identity
- innocence
- january
- joy
- june
- justice
- kiss
- laughter
- life
- lonely
- loss
- lost
- love
- lust
- marriage
- memory
- mirror
- money
- moon
- mother
- murder
- music
- nature
- night
- ocean
- ode
- paris
- passion
- peace
- people
- pink
- poem
- poetry
- poverty
- power
- pride
- racism
- rain
- rainbow
- red
- remember
- respect
- river
- romance
- romantic
- rose
- running
- school
- sea
- sick
- silver
- sister
- sky
- sleep
- snake
- soldier
- sometimes
- song
- sonnet
- sorrow
- spring
- star
- success
- suicide
- summer
- sun
- swimming
- sympathy
- teacher
- thanks
- time
- together
- travel
- trust
- truth
- war
- warning
- water
- wedding
- winter
- woman
- work
- world

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The officer then realized Holmes wasn't since he wasn't running toward the theater.
The officer and a colleague testified at a preliminary hearing Monday that Holmes seemed detached and volunteered that his apartment had been booby trapped.
Prosecutors are laying out their case against the former neuroscience graduate student at the hearing.
Investigators say Holmes tossed two gas canisters and then opened fire during the midnight showing of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" on July 20, killing 12 people and wounding dozens.
The hearing is expected to last all week.
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The purported "end of the neocon consensus" has hardly meant an end to hawkishness in the GOP fold. With the Republican candidates virtually all gunning for Iran, backing right-wing Israeli policies toward the Palestinians, and stabling a passel of neoconservative advisers (Ron Paul excepted), voters have plenty of clues about what the foreign policy of a new GOP administration would look like. And while some of the candidates have expressed wariness with neoconservative notions of armed democracy promotion, all the signs indicate that if a Republican wins next year, we will likely be in for a bit if George W. redux.
Peter Certo, last updated: December 19, 2011
This past July, the New Republic's Eli Lake claimed to discern in the emerging 2012 GOP presidential field the "end of the neocon consensus." That peculiar blend of faux democratic idealism and unbridled militarism that had characterized establishment Republican thinking throughout the George W. Bush years and into the John McCain presidential campaign, Lake thought, was under assault from business-friendly, deficit-wary, and "isolationist"-minded politicos.
As it turns out, however, the main threat to the neocon consensus in the presidential campaign is the fact that U.S. foreign policy has receded into the deep background of public concerns and, consequently, of the rhetoric of most of the Republican presidential candidates. To the extent they utter views on issues like Iraq, Israel, or China, GOP candidates appear to be to taking many of their cues from long-worn-out neoconservative talking points.
Nevertheless, some of the candidates early on revealed a more cautious approach—one not so different from that adopted by then-presidential candidate George W. Bush during the run up to the 2000 election. In line with candidate George W., most of the current candidates seem to lack enthusiasm for building new democracies abroad. And the ostensible successes of President Barack Obama's hawkish policies in places like Libya have helped push his would-be presidential opponents to pay lip service to anti-interventionist opinions. Thus, while neoconservatives at the American Enterprise Institute and Commentary magazine criticized the Obama administration for its lack of vigor in Libya, many of the Republican candidates expressed outright opposition to U.S. involvement in the conflict.
But if some aspects of the candidates' evolving foreign policy visions cannot be characterized as expressly neoconservative, they can surely be dubbed hawkish. Scarcely months since Lake's eulogy for the neocon consensus, the GOP presidential field has unanimously—or nearly unanimously, with the perfunctory exception of Ron Paul—decried President Obama's drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq, effectively declared the Iranian nuclear program sufficient grounds for a new war in the Middle East, and stabled a passel of neoconservative stalwarts from the Bush administration as advisers. Several candidates, moreover, have showcased their own idiosyncratically militaristic tendencies: consider Rick Perry's faith-based "directive" to support Israeli policies toward the Palestinians, for example, Herman Cain's ineptly xenophobic butchering of "Uzbekistan," or Mitt Romney's platitudinal resistance to the notion of "apologizing" for the United States.
If his anemic poll numbers are any indication, the ostensibly dovish Jon Huntsman has failed to influence the party's conversation on China or Afghanistan—areas where he has been decidedly more moderate than the other contenders and even, arguably, President Obama—and has largely followed the flock when it comes to Iran, Israel, and Iraq. Ron Paul, who polls rather robustly compared to Huntsman, serves primarily as a foil for his GOP rivals when it comes to foreign policy, subject to the perennial "isolationist" canard but seldom to any actual engagement.
The GOP foreign policy standard that ultimately emerges will not be exactly what it was four years ago, but it will likely bend sharply toward the neoconservative right—as happened after candidate George W. became President George W.
"Dovish" No More
Last summer, a writer for U.S. News and World Report marveled that the GOP candidates were "going dovish on Afghanistan," citing the outright opposition of Huntsman to an indefinite U.S. occupation of the country and the unenthusiastic hedges from more hawkish candidates that they would "listen to the generals." Largely missing from the candidates' otherwise predictable criticisms were the full-throated endorsements of the U.S. mission that might have been reminiscent of the party's Iraq War posturing, which survived largely intact at least through the 2008 campaign. McCain acolyte Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor and erstwhile GOP candidate, seemed a lonely apologist (along with fringe candidate Rick Santorum) for the slog of counterinsurgency and nation-building in Afghanistan, declaring, "When America goes to war, America needs to win."
Only months later, it was President Obama's failure to negotiate favorable terms for a continued U.S. troop presence in Iraq—and subsequent announcement that "America's war in Iraq will be over" come the holidays—that showcased an apparently hardening attitude in the GOP field against winding down Bush-era wars. Excepting Ron Paul, every GOP candidate lambasted the decision, and no reporter read anything "dovish" in the tealeaves. Then-frontrunner Mitt Romney called the disengagement an "astonishing failure," while Rick Perry impugned the administration's "political" motives. Newt Gingrich, after initially (and curiously) assessing that "the president is right" to withdraw the remaining troops, only days later suggested Obama was ushering in "a decisive defeat for the U.S. in Iraq." Even Huntsman, who had earlier derided the notion that the United States should linger on in Afghanistan to "play traffic cop," called it a "mistake" "not to leave a small, focused presence in Iraq."
When it comes to Iran, the candidates' enthusiasm for confrontation has rivaled even the GOP's saber rattling toward Saddam's Iraq. Even as the Obama administration has insisted that the United States is already doing "everything that Mitt Romney [has] said we should be doing—tough sanctions, covert action, and pressuring the international community" with respect to Iran—the GOP field has piled on a litany of additional suggestions and threats.
Such calls have surpassed the usual pale of leaving "all options on the table." Romney has called for the placement of a U.S. carrier force in the eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf "to deter would-be aggressors" in the region, effectively doubling down on Herman Cain's bid to place new U.S. weapons systems in the Gulf (which he introduced by bidding Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to "make my day").
Such posturing in the Gulf region has given way to threats, overt and thinly veiled alike, against Iranian territory itself. Several candidates have taken particular aim at Iranian nuclear scientists. Gingrich, whose support for anti-Iranian CIA programs dates back to his time in the House, has called for "maximum covert operations to block and disrupt the Iranian program, including taking out their scientists, including breaking up their systems, all of it covertly, all of it deniable." Speaking to Jewish Republican activists, Gingrich assessed, "They [Iranians] only have one very, very large refinery. I would be focused on how to covertly sabotage it every day." He added that "regime replacement" should be a stated U.S. goal in Iran and Syria alike.
Rick Santorum has also implied his support for targeting nuclear scientists. Such scientists, he said at a campaign stop in Iowa, "are enemy combatants similar to the Taliban and al-Qaeda," before adding that he would also favor "working with Israel and being very clear with Iran that we are preparing a military strike, an airstrike, on those facilities." ThinkProgress writer Eli Clifton called such comments "troubling," pointing out that the International Atomic Energy Agency has still not concluded definitively that Iran is working on a nuclear weapons program. Thus, Santorum—along with Gingrich—advocates attacks on civilian scientists whose work may not have anything to do with nuclear weapons.
In a remark that has more or less set the tone for the party's line on Iran, Mitt Romney has boldly declared that "If we reelect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon. And if we elect Mitt Romney … they will not have a nuclear weapon." If there was any doubt that this should be read as a promise of military action toward Iran, it was removed when a Romney adviser told the Huffington Post that Obama "says that all options are on the table but doesn't really mean all options are on the table."
Huntsman has followed Romney's lead on Iran, telling a New Hampshire audience, "I cannot live with a nuclear-armed Iran. If you want an example of when I would use American force, it would be that." Huntsman later declined even to rule out a conventional land invasion of Iran, saying he "can't live with the consequences of not doing it."
For his part, Gingrich has indicated he would support an Israeli request for a U.S. invasion of Iran if it would prevent "another Holocaust," thereby injecting one of the neoconservatives' favorite leitmotifs—overstated existential dilemma—into the presidential campaign. Gingrich, who serves as a fellow at the quintessentially neocon AEI, promised ominously that such a scenario was "not very far down the road."
Niche Issues
With a readymade script to follow on Iran, the candidates have carved out various niches on other foreign policy matters in an effort to distinguish themselves. Unsurprisingly, these have often dovetailed with more domestic political concerns. Tapping into widespread economic anxiety at home, for example, Romney has advocated for a more aggressive approach toward Chinese currency manipulation (along with, of course, a more robust U.S. naval presence in the western Pacific). Huntsman, alongside vague comments about "taking China down," has devoted considerable energy to pushing free-trade agreements despite the Obama administration's evident support for them. (For more on the GOP's "China problem," check out Robert Farley's Right Web feature on the subject.)
A bit more off the beaten path of mainstream foreign policy discussions, Rick Perry has leveled his fire at foreign aid, perhaps taking a cue from Ron Paul and an aid-skeptical GOP House. At various debates and in newspaper op-eds, Perry has repeatedly asserted that "Zero is the right starting point for foreign aid," although he was forced to walk back that position somewhat when asked if it would also apply to Israel. Since then Perry has argued that he would actually increase aid to Israel, and has refined the talking point to appeal to more socially conservative GOP voters. In response to the Obama administration's decision to weigh a country's human rights record toward gays and lesbians when considering foreign aid, Perry issued a statement that said, "This administration's war on traditional American values must stop. Promoting special rights for gays in foreign countries is not in America's interests and not worth a dime of taxpayers' money." He has accompanied this messaging with a renewed emphasis on reinstating discriminatory policies towards gays and lesbians in the armed forces.
Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, meanwhile, have distinguished themselves by their unabashed antipathy toward democratic uprisings in the Middle East. Santorum—who is based at yet another core neoconservative institution, the Ethics and Public Policy Center—has criticized President Obama for "turning his back on" deposed Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, as well as for supposedly isolating Israel in a changing Middle East. The "recent dislocation of the old order in the Middle East will usher in a new one," Santorum surmised, "and anti-Israel elements are working overtime all across the world to take advantage of this opportunity."
Similarly, Bachmann has myopically explained the Arab Spring in terms of Obama's supposed weakness toward the region. "You want to know why we have an Arab Spring?" she asked a campaign audience. "Barack Obama has laid the table for the Arab Spring by demonstrating weakness from the United States of America." She likened the development to Jimmy Carter's failure to have "the back of the shah" of Iran in 1979.
Certainly, if such remarks suggest an Israel-centric view of the Middle East, it is no accident. Although Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has said he "can hardly remember a better period" of U.S. support for Israel than under the Obama administration, most of the GOP candidates have aggressively sought to paint the administration as hostile to the state of Israel, taking an overwhelmingly one-sided approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the process. Perry has certainly done so with the most fanfare—convening a conference of right-wing Jewish and Israeli leaders in New York to accuse Obama of "appeasement toward the Palestinians," and even publishing an op-ed in the Jerusalem Post to that effect—but he is hardly alone. Perhaps in a bid for votes among conservative Christians, Perry and Bachmann alike have touted their pro-Israel policies as a consequence of their Christian faith. Newt Gingrich, for his part, has called Palestinians an "invented" people and accused the Palestinian Authority, which favors a two-state solution with Israel, of harboring "an enormous desire to destroy Israel." Not to be left out, Mitt Romney has promised that his first foreign visit as president would be to Israel, accusing Obama of "chastening" the country.
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Although the 2012 GOP campaign has been replete with interesting foreign policy sideshows, much of the Bush-era establishment has slowly fallen into place behind Mitt Romney, long the presumed—but by no means anointed—nominee. In early October, Romney rolled out his foreign policy team, which includes prominent Iraq War backers like Dan Senor, Robert Kagan, and Eric Edelman of the Foreign Policy Initiative, a successor organization to the highly influential Project for the New American Century, among sundry other veterans of the Bush years. Also included is Walid Phares, a prominent anti-Islamic commentator with ties to far-right elements from the Lebanese civil war that were responsible for massacres of Lebanese Muslims and Palestinians.
As Herman Cain's campaign has imploded, Rick Perry's has stagnated, and the other candidates have struggled to attract votes, Newt Gingrich has emerged somewhat surprisingly as Romney's lone major rival. Gingrich lacks Romney's establishment support—and has indeed had a degree of difficulty holding on to staff—so has largely attempted to articulate himself those things that Romney has entrusted to his cast of advisers. But Gingrich has nonetheless been advised by Herman Pirchner of the right-wing American Foreign Policy Council as well as by former CIA director James Woolsey, a well-connected member of the neoconservative firmament. Seeking perhaps to associate himself with a bigger name in GOP foreign policy, Gingrich has vowed to appoint John Bolton—a former U.S. ambassador to the UN and an extreme hardliner on foreign policy—as his secretary of state.
Nor, apparently, will the Gingrich camp hurt for campaign funds. Although Gingrich has been overshadowed by Romney's prolific fundraising and massive personal wealth, Politico reportedrecently that billionaire casino magnate—and right-wing Israel supporter—Sheldon Adelson had promised a pro-Gingrich PAC an astounding $20 million for the presidential campaign. A spokesperson for Adelson later denied the report, but the $5,000 personally donated by Adelson and his wife to Gingrich's campaign—as well as the $7 million Adelson gave to Gingrich's American Solutions between 2006 and 2010—indicate that Adelson's hard-right views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may continue to influence Gingrich into the future. "You can be sure," writes commentator Richard Silverstein, "that every word out of Newt's mouth from here on concerning Jews and Israel will be personally pre-approved and scripted by Adelson."
Whoever becomes the GOP nominee, it is unlikely that either the GOP primary or the general election will hinge on foreign policy. Indeed, thus far, the GOP electorate has been remarkably forgiving of foreign policy gaffes; it took a compounding sex scandal to sink the candidacy of Herman Cain, after all, who had become reputed for his tenuous grasp of the world outside America's borders. Furthermore, as James Joyner notes at the Atlantic, whatever foreign policy emerges from the GOP race, it is likely to tack at least somewhat toward the center before the general election. "The 2012 candidates making the worst gaffes and most outlandish statements," he writes, "are also unlikely to be their party's nominee, let alone president."
Nevertheless, it is safe to say that given the slate of advisers racked up by Romney and Gingrich, the GOP race amounts at best to a choice between heartland outlandishness and beltway neoconservatism. Whatever the eventual outcome of the primary, these advisers serve as an important indicator of what awaits us if a Republican wins the White House in 2012. By the end of 2013 we could very well be awaiting the release of a sequel to James Mann's authoritative book, Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet.
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John Bolton, the notorious hardliner who served as President Bush's UN ambassador, argued in a recent New York Times op-edthat the United States should bomb Iran even as nuclear negotiations appear to be making progress. He then wildly claimed that "the United States could do a thorough job of destruction, but Israel alone can do what's necessary." He added: "Such action should be combined with vigorous American support for Iran's opposition, aimed at regime change in Tehran."
Clifford May is president of the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies. A stringent hawk and Obama critic, May recently lambasted President Obama for his efforts to peacefully resolve the Iranian nuclear dispute. He wrote: "At this point, it's all but certain that Mr. Obama is prepared to accept a deal that will be dangerous for America and the West—and, yes, life-threatening for Israel." May then made the outlandish claim that Shia Iran could give a nuclear weapon to the avowedly anti-Shia al-Qaeda, writing: "[I]n addition to worrying that Iran's rulers will use nuclear weapons or give them to Hezbollah, their proxy, there is now reason to believe they might provide a bomb to al Qaeda."
Sen. Ted Cruz is a Tea Party Republican senator from Texas who recently announced his candidacy for the 2016 Republican Party presidential nomination. A right-wing hawk on foreign affairs, Cruz has worked to sabotage negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. He was one of 47 senators to sign a controversial letter to Iran that he says was intended to "stop a bad deal," wildly claiming that the P5+1 thinks it is "perfectly acceptable" for Iran to have nuclear weapons.
The Philos Project is a Christian advocacy organization that promotes hawkish U.S. policies towards the Middle East. Backed by right-wing "pro-Israel" donors like Paul Singer, the group has called for the use of U.S. ground troops against ISIS, has strongly defended Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and has criticized efforts to peacefully resolve the Iranian nuclear dispute. Wrote one critic: "The Philos Project stands as an object lesson in the eagerness with which neoconservatives try to create the perception that their views are shared by a vast, diverse constituency, which in this case is warning Christians about the imperial designs of Iran and the dangers of a nuclear deal between it and the P5+1."
Bill Kristol has been a strong supporter of the Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), the freshman senator who was behind the controversial letter Iran's leaders that was signed by 47 Republican senators. Kristol's Weekly Standard has been a vocal champion of Cotton's work and his Emergency Committee for Israel paid out more than a million dollars in political advertising supportive of Cotton's 2014 Senate run. Kristol sees "a kindred spirit in Cotton's aggressive national-security hawkishness," reported The Atlantic, "and the men developed what Kristol describes as 'a bond beyond pure policy."
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Jeb Bush, presumptive 2016 Republican presidential candidate, says that his "support for Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu is unwavering," thereby helping confirm that multi-billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has effectively gained control of the Republican Party leadership.
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The Iran nuclear negotiations are similar to diplomatic efforts made with North Korea 20 years ago, which were also met with opposition from congressional hawks.
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With Netanyahu's dramatic election victory, the United States and Europe will have to exert enormous pressure on Israel to change its approach to negotiations with the Palestinians.
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A new report by Chatham House argues that if the United States seeks long-term stability in the Middle East, it must begin empowering opposition voices in the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf.
March 14, 2015
While the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies has lambasted Turkey for treating al-Qaeda affiliated fighters in its hospitals, it has turned a blind eye to Israeli medical support of the same militants.
March 10, 2015
The new face of the GOP war hawks, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)—who masterminded the controversial letter to Iran signed by 47 Republican Senators—has been a major recipient of financial donations from billionaire rightwing "pro-Israel" donors Sheldon Adelson and Paul Singer.
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she looks really pretty! :) Looks like she's having a great time working in this film. Oh and I can't wait until she start filming Buttercup.
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oh shallow shallow Skankolina fans who can't stand it if someone says something nice about Jennifer. i'm a skankolina 'hater' but i still think it's ridiculous when people say she's a bad mother or a drug addict.
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I like James Franco a little less now...
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Yet again, another crappy movie with the SAME hair and wardrobe. She needs to mix it up. She needs to take a break already. Better yet, go away all together.
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#4 smack the crap out of Brad Pitt for what? Honey it is almost 2011,move on! That said, Jen's hair is her best feature.
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Action figures galore take over this Shelf Porn from Toronto
If it's Saturday, it's time for Shelf Porn — our weekly look at one collector's pride and joy. Today's collection of action figures, comics and lots more comes from Ryan in Toronto.
If you'd like to see your collection here on Robot 6, you can find submission details at the end of this post.
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SDCC | Diamond reveals exclusive comics and collectibles
Diamond Comic Distributors and Diamond Select Toys have announced 22 exclusives for Comic-Con International, ranging from limited-edition variant covers to statues and busts to Minimates.
All of the items will be available, while supplies last, July 24-27 at the Diamond PREVIEWSworld booth (#2401):
The 'Guardians of the Galaxy' action figure line, circa 1980
Fans who remember checking the pegs at Target for the latest releases in Kenner's Star Wars action figure line can appreciate this: Eddie Utrata shares a mock-up of what a Guardians of the Galaxy action figure might have looked like in the 1980s, specifically the back of the card that holds the figure (which, if I'm being honest, was always my favorite part of browsing for action figures — looking at the back of the card to see what I was missing).
The box caught the attention of James Gunn, director of the big Guardians movie due in August:
Pop culture author shares his toys, trades and more
Happy Free Comic Book Day and welcome to Shelf Porn! Today's shelves come from Brandon T. Snider, author of The Dark Knight Manual, DC Comics Ultimate Character Guide and many other pop culture books. Brandon shares his collection of trades, toys, art and more.
If you'd like to see your shelves right here on Robot 6, you can find details on submitting them at the end of this post.
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A Batfan shares his toys, statues and more
Happy Saturday and welcome to Shelf Porn. Today's shelves come from Dan in Gotham City, as he shares his DC Comics-themed collection of toys, statues and other good stuff.
If you'd like to see your collection right here on Robot 6, you can find all the details on how to live that dream at the end of this post.
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Statues, graphic novels and more from London
Happy Saturday and welcome to Shelf Porn! Today's collection comes from Christian in London, who shows us his graphic novels, action figures, statues and more!
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A massive collection of comics, action figures and … squirrels!
Hello and welcome to Shelf Porn! Today Corey shares his "nerd cave" with us, where he houses his comics, artwork, an ungodly number of action figures and more — including a shelf that would make Squirrel Girl proud.
If you'd like to share your collection with us, you can find details at the end of this post.
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Shelf space is the final frontier in this week's Shelf Porn
Living in Northern California I can relate to the "I need more space" dilemma. When comic and video game creator Harold Sipe moved from Brooklyn to North Carolina, he found himself with a lot more room to display his collection. In today's edition of Shelf Porn, Harold shares his collection of comics, action figures and more, with a heavy dose of Star Trek, Star Wars and spinner racks.
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A love for the X-Men and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles turned into a lifelong hobby for Jason Klein, a New York doctor who shares his home office with us today. Check out his collection, which includes several crochet pieces made by his wife, below.
'Super Boys' author makes his Marvel, Micronauts and more
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Today we head to the hometown of Superman's creators to check out the collection of Brad Ricca, the author of Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster — The Creators of Superman (St. Martin's Press, 2013). Despite being the author of a book about the creators of Superman, Brad tells us he is "a Marvel guy, through and through," as he shows off his collection of Marvel Universe figures.
Check out his collection below, and you can find details on how to submit your own collection at the end of the post.
Stand up and salute this Captain America collection
After buying his first Captain America figure, Chris Raimo was hooked — and today the illustrator shares his love of Captain America with us.
"This is what I have dubbed 'The Cap Museum,' which resides in my home office," he said. "I have collected anything and everything Captain America since my first 90's ToyBiz 10″ Cap figure. Since then I have tried to get anything I can with the Super Soldier on it, from socks to jack in the boxes to toothbrushes. My favorite thing to collect by far is action figures, and my favorite item is The First Avenger figure from Hot Toys. I'm still actively collecting and hoping to one day attain a Mego Captain America in package."
Check out his pictures after the jump, and if you're interested in submitting your images you can find details on how to do that at the bottom of the post.
'They're called action figures for a reason'
Chris in Maryland is putting the "action" into his action figures. Today he shares his shelves of plastic-on-plastic violence, pitting The Teen Titans against Trigon, Mongul against the Justice Society and many more.
"I had a lot of fun posing many of the figures in fight scenes," he said. "It is embarrassing how much I enjoyed doing this."
Check out Chris' collection below.
Duane in Calif. gets a piece of the action (figures)
Duane in Orange County, Calif. is a man of action — action figures, that is.
"I have always had toys, but growing up I couldn't have nearly as much as I wanted," he said. "… Now, when I want something, I seek it out furiously. Unfortunately, as I get older the collectibles that I want get more and more expensive."
Check out his collection of action figures — Power Rangers, Doctor Who, DC Comics, Avengers and more — below.
Eleven-year-old shows us her Martian Manhunter collection
If you did a Venn diagram of 11-year-old girls and J'onn J'onzz collectors, it's very likely the intersection would be sparse — but it wouldn't be completely empty. Brad from Vermont — the "Green" state — recently shared some pictures of his daughter Taryn's Martian Manhunter collection.
"She is a fiend for the hero," her father told us. "She is the only 11-year-old girl who wears Martian Manhunter shirts to school. None of her friends know who he is but think her collection is cool."
Check out her collection below.
A small but growing collection from Kentucky
Hello and welcome to Shelf Porn! Typically the collections we showcase here are fairly well-established, submitted by fans who have been growing them for quite awhile. Today's collection, however, from Trevor in Kentucky, is still in its infancy, as he shows us his graphic novels, toys and more.
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I want to brew my first All Grain and I want to make Ed Wort's Haus.
My local home brew shop only carries Crystal 80L but the recipe calls for 10L.
Can I just substitute? whats the difference?
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The difference will be more of a caramel/toffee flavor from the 80. It will still be a good beer, just a darker, and with those flavors added, instead of the much lighter sweetness of the Crystal 10. It depends on how close to Ed's you want your brew to be, but the 80 won't hurt anything either.
If your brew shop has Cara Hell, it would be closer to the 10, though still a little darker (20-30L as opposed to 10).
To figure this out, first type in the original recipe with the 10l and that will tell you the srm and the og of the recipe. Then delete the crystal and switch with the same amount of the 80l...this will show you the change in those variable, then start backing off on the amount until you get as close as you can to the SRms of the original recipe..then if the gravit is drastically under the og of the original recipe, up the extract or the basemalt til you arrive at the og..
even though the color will be the same with decreasing, how about the flavor?
thank you. i'll run it through and report back with what I did
For example if your original recipe was 5 pounds of Bries amber extract and 3 pounds of crystal 10L that would produce a beer with a starting grravity of 1.051 and 10 srms.
To match those numbers you would have to reduce the amount of 80l to 7 ounces and raise the amount of liquid extract to 6 pounds, 12 ounces. Hope this helps.
Well I did it. It meant upping the 2 row from 8 pounds to 8.5 pounds and only adding 1 OZ of crystal 80 instead of the 8 OZ originally called for.
Is that 1 OZ of crystal going to do ANYTHING? Or is it pretty much just like removing it from the entire recipe?


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About 6 years ago, I replaced all the galvanized pipe in our house with copper. I also dismantled an old brass laundry-tub faucet (BBW 450), cleaned it in CLR, and replaced the washers. I also had to put on an anti-siphon device per code. Since that time, the faucets (both H and C) screech like an elephant at low-to-intermediate flow rates. (They don't screech at very low rates or with a robust stream).
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CinemaCon: Sony Shows First Footage of 'Monuments Men,' 'American Hustle'
LAS VEGAS --The Sony Pictures presentation at CinemaCon on Wednesday was the most laughter-filled so far, opening with a visit from an F-bomb dropping actor and wrapping up with extended footage of end-of-the-world comedy This is the End.
In between all the comedy the audience got first looks at plenty of films from Sony's upcoming slate, including David O. Russell's Abscam sting operation film American Hustle and George Clooney's The Monuments Men.
The presentation started with an interruption by a caravan of chariots and trumpets that brought Adam Sandler and Salma Hayek onto the stage. Along with them were David Spade and Kevin James.
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The group of stars plugged Grown Ups 2, which hits theaters on July 12.
"If you can get Grown Ups 2 as big as [the previous film], Ferrari for this one," Sandler said, pointing at Hayek.
"I don't know how to drive stick shift," she told the crowd, getting plenty of laughs.
Sandler threw out a few jokes about Sony's upcoming slate, dropping an F-bomb about the family-friendly sequel Smurfs 2.
"You overseas people are f---ing excited about Smurfs 2!" Sandler told the crowd of theater owners.
After the four actors left the stage, a long collection of preview footage was shown.
Trailers for Grown Ups 2, Smurfs 2 and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 were shown in the early part of the presentation.
The highlights of the presentation included extended footage of sci-fi pic Elysium, starring Matt Damon as a man who gets technology added to his body to fight against the upper class that has formed on a space station above Earth, and a longer look at Channing Tatum-starrer White House Down. Trailers for After Earth, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, MGM/Screen Gem's horror pic Carrie and the One Direction concert film were also shown during the 45-minute video.
The first footage of American Hustle, Russell's previously untitled film starring Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale, Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner was shown, featuring a blonde Lawrence looking stunning in a white dress.
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Some footage for The Monuments Men, George Clooney's directorial project, was also shown.
Before the clips from The Monuments Men, a video greeting from Clooney and producer Grant Heslov played. In it, they pretended that they were making a video about their Oscar-winning film Argo, even showing off their Oscars to the crowd.
Once they realized it was about their upcoming film, Clooney and Heslov said they were currently shooting in Europe, which was why they couldn't attend the presentation in person.
"Don't drink too much today because I know how you guys do," Clooney joked to the Las Vegas audience.
But the biggest laughs came from the extended look at This Is the End, the apocalypse comedy directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Footage included a long scene between James Franco and Danny McBride arguing over a dirty magazine, and Emma Watson making a group of male comedians fear her wrath. The comedy hits theaters June 12.
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