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Mistresses: "You don't get to choose who you love."

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Mistresses is a US TV show which premiered on June 3, 2013, and is a remake of the British series of the same name.  It's about four friends and their involvement in complex and of course, adulterous sexual relationships. "You don't get to chose who you love."  This is a quote by Yunjin Kim, one of the show's actresses, giving her opinion in an interview on her character.  Shortly after reading this I saw another review on the show in which actress Jes Macallan also declares:  "You can't help who you love." Yunjin Kim This got me thinking about their point of view.  They seem to be saying:   "Yes, adultery isn't such a good thing, but it happens, a lot - so at the end of the day we have no control over it and should accept it.  It's an understandable thing because we can't control who we fall in love with or who we end up having sex with so we are not to blame nor to be held responsible for any wrong-doing." I disagre...

Iranian cleric: "We could put down Israel in two weeks"

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BY: Adam Kredo A top Iranian lawmaker and cleric said that the country’s uranium enrichment program could allow it to build a nuclear weapon “in two weeks” in order to “put down Israel,” according to multiple reports in the Farsi language press. Iranian lawmaker and cleric Muhammad Nabavian said on Friday that Iran would be able to build a nuclear bomb in “two weeks” if it gets “access to 270 kilograms of 20 percent [enriched uranium], 10 tons of 5 percent, and 20 thousand centrifuges,” according to reports on Iran’s Radio Farda and in Fararu . “We are not looking for a nuclear bomb, but having a nuclear bomb is necessary to put down Israel,” Nabavian said, according to an independent translation of his remarks provided to the Washington Free Beacon . Nabavian went on to claim that President Barack Obama had courted Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in the lead up to nuclear negotiations with the West last year. Nabavian said Rouhani revealed in a ...