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“It sounded like it was coming from the finest restaurant, but what we were actually getting served, it wasn’t too good,”

“Shame on you for wanting Christianity in schools!”

For the last couple weeks Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano has been sporadically leaking out some ash, but on Monday it gave up a huge shockwave. The Mexican publication the Informador (via Google Translate) reported Monday that villages near the crater and even southeastern Mexico City were put on alert for ashfall by the National Center for Disaster Prevention. The Ministry of the Interior put the eruption column at more than four miles high and spewing ash bits little more than a mile away. (...

“Tell your boss … tell your boss I owe him another friggin’ beer.”

“You have no rights right now, where is your g**damn camera?”

MIAMI (TheBlaze/AP) — LeBron James shrugged off a poor start to get 32 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds, Ray Allen hit a 3-pointer with 5.2 seconds to play to force overtime and the Miami Heat staved off elimination with a 103-100 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night. MIAMI, FL – JUNE 18: Ray Allen #34 of the Miami Heat makes a game-tying three-pointer over Tony Parker #9 of the San Antonio Spurs in the fourth quarter during Game Six of the 2013 NB...

“No, excuse me. Any other questions?”

“Incapable of spelling even the simplest of words.”

“It seems to me, that’s where our focus should be on how there could be a betrayal of trust and how a traitor could do something like this to the American people.”

“I want my money back, I want my money back now, and I want it fast!…There’s no cheese in hamburger!”

The so-called “Obama phone” has caught the ire of American conservatives for quite some time (after all, who could forget the infamous Obama phone lady?). And now, an explosive, new undercover video is set to reinvigorate debate, as it shows alleged corporate distributors of free cell phones giving the units out to people who pledge to sell them for drug money, to pay their bills — or simply to bring in some extra dough. As the Daily Mail reports, the Federal Communications Commission’s “Life...

“I am not French, [though] I do not have anything against the French people.”

“The left is only concerned with one thing: control. And they disguise this control as charity.”

“Previously, much of the Mercury’s surface was unknown as it is too far for Earth-bound telescopes to see clearly…”

“The war on women is alive and well.”

“a godless congregation that will meet on the first Sunday of every month to hear great talks, sing songs and generally celebrate the wonder of life.”

“We need to figure out how to create education better.”

“And it’s built apparatus to sneak into all of the good guys’ communications, but oopsy-daisy! It missed the Fort Hood mass-murder of our own troops, despite this Islamic terrorist declaring his ideology in numerous army counseling sessions and on his own business cards. But no red flags there.”

WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — An Internal Revenue Service supervisor in Washington, D.C., says she was personally involved in scrutinizing some of the earliest applications from Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status, including some requests that languished for more than a year without action. (Credit: ABC) The claims by Holly Paz that she reviewed 20 to 30 applications as a top deputy in the division that handles applications for tax-exempt status contradicts initial IRS claims that a small...

“Just for the record there are no fu–ing terrorists”

Former Florida governor and widely-speculated potential 2016 candidate Jeb Bush said there could be a “split ballot” within his own family should he decide to run for president. “I think we’ve got a split ballot amongst the Bush senior family,” Bush said in an interview aired Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “Pretty sure that’s the case.” His mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, said in April she doesn’t think her other son should run for the White House, saying that while he would be the most...

“Every second was surreal.”

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin scoffed at President Barack Obama’s decision to begin arming the Syrian rebels, saying that until the U.S. has a commander in chief that knows what they’re doing, “let Allah sort it out.” Former Gov. of Alaska Sarah Palin speaks during the Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority 2013 conference, Saturday, June 15, 2013, in Washington. (AP) “Militarily, where is our commander in chief?” Palin asked conservatives at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference ...

“We weren’t rallying for a politician or political event. To me, it was being supportive of my fellow human beings.”

Rowhani said that “a new opportunity has been created … for those who truly respect democracy, interaction and free dialogue.”

White smoke billowed skyward as a phalanx of riot police…tore down protesters’ banners, toppled a communal food stall, and sprayed tear gas over the tents

President Barack Obama marked Father’s Day by reflecting on his own dad’s absence from his life, and declaring that no political accomplishment will ever matter as much to him as his own family. Calling being a dad “the most important job many of us will ever have,” Obama said there’s no substitute for being present in a child’s life. “I never really knew my own father,” Obama said in his weekly address. “I was raised by a single mom and two wonderful grandparents who made incredible sacrific...

“…something I’ve never seen on the PGA Tour.”

“Technology in this world is moving faster than government or law can keep up. It’s moving faster than you can keep up. You should be asking what are your rights and who owns your data.”

“Not so fast Superman. We’ve got to talk to you about your dues.”

“I abstained based on cost concerns…We had some real cost concerns about the bill.”

“…they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population”

“He was going to be the most transparent administration in history and, as it turns out, it is the most opaque.”

“It’s sort of a tone deafness here from the NRA and, of course, the racial overtones come into play as well.”

“A smart fence which is what Sen. McCain and I want to build — since he’s from Arizona, I think he knows more about this than the senator from South Dakota who doesn’t have a border with Mexico, but only Canada and that is quite different.”

“I’m proud we are standing up for religious freedom in our state.”

It’s not the first time we’ve scene a rocket-powered bike, nor is it the first time we’ve seen a bicycle that flies. But these innovations come with a couple tech twists. First, three Czech companies teamed up to make a prototype of an electric bicycle that made its first successful remote-controlled, five-minute flight Wednesday in Prague. A picture taken on June 12 , 2013 at the hall of Letnany fairground in Prague shows a dummy sitting on the flying bike, a unique construction of Czech des...

A guide dog put his training in action Monday, alerting the people he was with to an out-of-control car coming straight toward them. The dog was being tested by two employees of the Guide Dogs for the Blind organization when a car hopped the curb and started down the hill. “It was just an unbelievable sight to see something going backwards, barreling down the sidewalk,” Todd Jurek, a training supervisor for Guide Dogs for the Blind, told the Marin Independent Journal. Jurek and Danielle Alvar...

It’s called “worming.”

“Sir, if you are going to call me a liar, you need to point out specifically where any facts are wrong.”

Bit personal there.

“The one ingredient you want when you vote for somebody…it’s their moral courage and the fire in the belly.”

“You cannot film the area…“[Y]ou have nothing more to do here except leave.”

“Disrupting normal social order.”

“I’ve had that bible at least 20 years…It meant so much to me.”