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Can someone explain how this happens? I thought it was ok to be gay in Paris.

Long Night at Today

And for this he wakes up at 4 a.m.?

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By Joe Hagan Published Mar 24, 2013 ShareThis

(Photo: Gillian Laub)

The knife springs open with a satisfying snap.

Matt Lauer, the co-host of the Today show, turns it over in his hand, marveling at the blade.

“Come to papa!” he says.

Sitting at his glass-topped desk on the morning-show set, Lauer, meticulously outfitted in a green-gray plaid suit and a burnt-­orange tie, has asked the crew for props for a segment on new TSA rules allowing small knives on commercial airliners. A crewman offered up this specimen from his belt holster.

“You know how long it is?” inquires a producer who sits alongside Lauer with a sheaf of notes.

“It’s long enough to get right to your heart, is what it is,” says Lauer.

I casually try snapping a picture with my phone.

“Whoa!” Lauer yells, suddenly serious, pulling back the knife with the reflexes of a practiced fighter. For a moment, he seems unsettled. “Here’s Matt with a switchblade,” says Lauer, imagining the caption. “Great.”

If Matt Lauer doesn’t want to be seen with sharp knives, it’s because last summer his co-host Ann Curry was discovered with one in her back. She was swiftly replaced by a younger, more genial woman, Savannah Guthrie. Ever since, Lauer has been the prime suspect in Curry’s virtual demise. Five million viewers, the majority of them women, would not soon forget how Curry, the intrepid female correspondent and emotionally vivid anchor, spent her last appearance on the Today show couch openly weeping, devastated at having to leave after only a year. The image of Matt Lauer trying to comfort her—and of Curry turning away from his attempted kiss—has become a kind of monument to the real Matt Lauer, forensic evidence of his guilt.

http://nymag.com/news/features/today-show-hosts-20...

Will you be glad to see him go or does anyone even watch that program?

Do you think this is a good idea?

SPRING BREAK: Sasha, Malia Obama vacation at Bahamas' 'Atlantis' Resort

Is it true they will be on Girls Gone Wild?

Do you think their mother will be on there too? Is that something you'd like to see?

Do you think this will effect the outcome?

QUESTIONS ABOUT JUSTICE KAGAN'S SEXUALITY

What do you think she is?

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Being from California, this really hurts me way down deep inside.

How about you?

You know, Nancy Pelosi - Grandmother hired to come in and clean up the house? You remember that one?

Pentagon tells military recruiters to accept gay applicants

Pentagon tells military recruiters to accept gay applicants

Pentagon tells military recruiters to accept gay applicants

Islamic militants raid Chechen parliament, 6 dead

By MUSA SADULAYEV | Published: 2:23 AM 10/19/2010 | Updated: 6:10 PM 10/19/2010

A woman works to clean up debris after the attack by Islamic insurgents at the Parliament building in the Chechen regional capital, Grozny, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Islamic insurgents including a suicide bomber stormed Chechnya's Parliament on Tuesday, leaving several people dead and more than dozen injured in one of the most brazen attacks on the provincial capital in months, officials said. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)

GROZNY, Russia (AP) — Islamic insurgents attacked Chechnya’s parliament Tuesday in a brazen suicide raid that left six people dead and 17 wounded, defying Kremlin claims of stability in the volatile southern region.

In a clear challenge to Moscow, the raid occurred just as Russia’s interior minister was visiting the provincial capital of Grozny.

The three attackers drove to the tightly guarded parliament complex and got inside. One militant blew himself up at the doors and another two ran into the building shouting “Allahu akbar!” — “God is great!” in Arabic — as they opened fire on the people inside, said Chechen police spokesman Ramzan Bekkhoyev.

The regional chief prosecutor’s office said the remaining two attackers also blew themselves up after exchanging fire with police, while other officials said they were killed in a gunbattle. Two police officers and a civilian government employee were killed in the raid and 17 others were wounded, prosecutors said.

http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/19/reports-gunmen-s...

Islamic militants raid Chechen parliament, 6 dead

By MUSA SADULAYEV | Published: 2:23 AM 10/19/2010 | Updated: 6:10 PM 10/19/2010

A woman works to clean up debris after the attack by Islamic insurgents at the Parliament building in the Chechen regional capital, Grozny, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Islamic insurgents including a suicide bomber stormed Chechnya's Parliament on Tuesday, leaving several people dead and more than dozen injured in one of the most brazen attacks on the provincial capital in months, officials said. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)

GROZNY, Russia (AP) — Islamic insurgents attacked Chechnya’s parliament Tuesday in a brazen suicide raid that left six people dead and 17 wounded, defying Kremlin claims of stability in the volatile southern region.

In a clear challenge to Moscow, the raid occurred just as Russia’s interior minister was visiting the provincial capital of Grozny.

The three attackers drove to the tightly guarded parliament complex and got inside. One militant blew himself up at the doors and another two ran into the building shouting “Allahu akbar!” — “God is great!” in Arabic — as they opened fire on the people inside, said Chechen police spokesman Ramzan Bekkhoyev.

The regional chief prosecutor’s office said the remaining two attackers also blew themselves up after exchanging fire with police, while other officials said they were killed in a gunbattle. Two police officers and a civilian government employee were killed in the raid and 17 others were wounded, prosecutors said.

http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/19/reports-gunmen-s...

Islamic militants raid Chechen parliament, 6 dead

By MUSA SADULAYEV | Published: 2:23 AM 10/19/2010 | Updated: 6:10 PM 10/19/2010

A woman works to clean up debris after the attack by Islamic insurgents at the Parliament building in the Chechen regional capital, Grozny, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Islamic insurgents including a suicide bomber stormed Chechnya's Parliament on Tuesday, leaving several people dead and more than dozen injured in one of the most brazen attacks on the provincial capital in months, officials said. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)

GROZNY, Russia (AP) — Islamic insurgents attacked Chechnya’s parliament Tuesday in a brazen suicide raid that left six people dead and 17 wounded, defying Kremlin claims of stability in the volatile southern region.

In a clear challenge to Moscow, the raid occurred just as Russia’s interior minister was visiting the provincial capital of Grozny.

The three attackers drove to the tightly guarded parliament complex and got inside. One militant blew himself up at the doors and another two ran into the building shouting “Allahu akbar!” — “God is great!” in Arabic — as they opened fire on the people inside, said Chechen police spokesman Ramzan Bekkhoyev.

The regional chief prosecutor’s office said the remaining two attackers also blew themselves up after exchanging fire with police, while other officials said they were killed in a gunbattle. Two police officers and a civilian government employee were killed in the raid and 17 others were wounded, prosecutors said.

http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/19/reports-gunmen-s...

If you do, how do you feel about Blair cancels book signing in London?