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'Teen sex toy' reveals Prince Andrew foot fetish
Britain's Prince Andrew is a royal footman.
A 30-year-old former teen "sex slave" has shared with the National Enquirer the sleaziest details of her alleged romp with Queen Elizabeth's second son — featuring a toe-sucking session — when she was only 17.
The prince, whose other titles are Duke of York and, more colloquially, "Randy Andy," has vehemently denied the accusations.
But the accuser, Virginia Roberts, insisted in an interview published Saturday by the Enquirer that her tryst with the prince was paid for by her purported pimp, billionaire financier-turned convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who she said hired her as his "sex slave."
She claimed in the interview that the fancy footwork happened in the London home of socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.
"Ghislaine played one of her favorite guessing games," Roberts told the tabloid.
"She asked Andrew how old he thought I was. He guessed 17.
"They all kind of laughed about it, and Ghislaine made a joke that I was getting 'too old' for Jeffrey."
Authorities in the United States apparently tried to protect the prince from scandal back in 2008, by giving Epstein a sweetheart plea deal according to a second report, in the Sunday Times of London.
"Please do whatever you can to keep this from becoming public," a former senior counsel to then-President George W. Bush wrote in an e-mail to the US Attorney prosecuting Epstein...
Also read: Bizarre sex story involving Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz and Bill Clinton may be true
Jim and Greg discuss Obama's tough tone at the UN, Sarah Palin campaigning for Pat Roberts, and the elitism of David Brooks.
Oh, lawdy: Is this 'the most DavidBrooksian David Brooks sentiment ever?'
Maybe some context will help:
It's important in times like these to step back and get clarity. The truest thing to say is this: We are living in an amazingly fortunate time. But we also happen to be living during a leadership crisis, and a time when few people have faith in elites to govern from the top. We live in a vibrant society that is not being led.
We don't suffer from an abuse of power as much as a nonuse of power. It's been years since a major piece of legislation was passed, and there's little prospect that one will get passed in the next two.
This leadership crisis is eminently solvable. First, we need to get over the childish notion that we don't need a responsible leadership class, that power can be wielded directly by the people. America was governed best when it was governed by a porous, self-conscious and responsible elite — during the American revolution, for example, or during and after World War II. Karl Marx and Ted Cruz may believe that power can be wielded directly by the masses, but this has almost never happened historically.
David knows what's best for us.
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Obama's preemptive war
Shep Smith to Jen Psaki: You guys have basically adopted Dick Cheney's theory of preventive war now, huh?
Remember back in March when John McCain and Lindsey Graham crapped all over Rand Paul's epic 13-hour filibuster against John Brennan's confirmation as CIA director? McCain called Rand and those who stood with him "wacko birds." Graham actually switched from opposing Brennan to voting for him, admittedly to spite Rand Paul.
"I was going to vote against him until the filibuster, so he picked
up one vote," Graham said, laughing to reporters in the Capitol.
"I thought Brennan was arrogant, a bit shifty," he said, but added
that he was going to vote for Brennan because the vote had become a
"referendum on the drone program."
So it comes as no big surprise to read this from Politico:
Yet during one of Obama's toughest times as president, there was McCain, sitting down last week with him in the Oval Office for a private strategy session. At the urging of new White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, who has sought better ties with Republicans, Obama has had more substantive discussions with McCain in the past five months than he did in his first four years in office, according to associates of both men. Suddenly, the two are working together on issues ranging from immigration to the deficit.
"I'm getting nervous," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), McCain's closest friend in the Senate. "I told Denis McDonough, 'I don't know what you've done: You've hijacked him.'"
"Ever since the election, we've had conversations and phone calls," McCain told POLITICO in an interview. "And I think we share many agenda items that we can work on together, ranging from immigration reform, the prison in Guantánamo, to working perhaps on a grand bargain, security of our embassies and consulates. There are a bunch of issues that we share."
Last month, McCain was one of just four Republicans to vote for the failed bill to expand gun background checks, a centerpiece of Obama's agenda. McCain is a chief architect of the Senate immigration bill supported strongly by the White House. He's expressed deep reservations about GOP threats to filibuster Obama’s Cabinet-level nominees. He's slammed his fellow Republican senators for blocking Senate Democratic efforts to begin bicameral budget negotiations with the House. And he’s even suggested new tax revenues could be part of a grand bargain.
Lindsey Graham isn't getting nervous...he's getting jealous.
Click here to read Michael Walsh's comprehensive demolition of Maverick's legacy. Awesome.
