…but then you already knew that these holier-than-thou brats are lying and hypocritical SOB’s, didn’t you?

Soldier calls parents from Afghanistan, accidentally redials during firefight and the whole thing was recorded by his parents’ voice mail.  FYI, the soldier is okay but the audio is amazing.  Click here for story, includes the phone call and interview with his parents

Live webcam from a falcon’s nest under the Dunn Memorial Bridge in Albany, NY… click here for falcon cam

“Pictures are updated every minute during daylight hours.

Eggs in the clutch or group of five began hatching on the morning of April 28, and by the end of the following day, there were three chicks and two unhatched eggs. A fourth chick hatched May 1, but wildlife biologists do not expect the last egg to hatch.”   Albany Times Union - click here  for story

Headline ripped from FARK (MarkTalk only steals from the best!) because it is the only thing funny about this story.

This a where you can pave over a freeway’s carpool lanes with toll roads, and few will complain. You can propose a 40-story skyrise in the center of Hollywood, and hardly anyone two miles to the west will take notice. You can squander public money, close down the ports and flatten landmarks, and many residents of this sprawling metropolis will simply yawn and move on.

But “Taco trucks are iconic here,” said Aaron Sonderleiter, a teacher from the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles and one of the petition founders.

Read the article

Sign the petition here

MarkTalk has already signed.  These exotic roach coaches are not only monuments here in sunny CA but mini UN’s.  Mexican food from a black Korean guy parked on the road side.   Banning them here is the equivalent of telling Jimmy’s that they can’t sell cheese steaks, closing down New York City’s hole in the wall pizza by the slice joints or ordering the local greasy spoon to clean its grill of all the crud that gives the food its flavor.   Just unimaginable.  Like we should all eat at Olive Garden or something.

You bet your ass they gave him a medal!

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Quick!  Get those invitations to the pool party  out to Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson!

Inching ever closer to being the white guy on COPS being dragged out of his house trailer after a few beers and a knock down drag out with his big booty wife, Bubba puts his finger on the problem with the Hillary presidential campaign in today’s NY Post… it’s the candidate.