I Told major dad He Could Back Off a Little On the Smoke

…next time.

How we went from backstroking in the rain to a brushfire just over in the fence in a month’s time is a chin-stroker.

TGI: Thank God It’s

…the CHEAP SHIT! Maybe we’ll make some moola!

NJ: BARS PUT CHEAP BOOZE IN PREMIUM LIQUOR BOTTLES

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Twenty-nine bars and restaurants, nearly half of them TGI Fridays, filled premium brand liquor bottles with lower-quality booze and sold it to patrons who thought they were buying the good stuff, authorities said Wednesday.

A yearlong investigation by the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, dubbed Operation Swill, found that the establishments had swapped out the good liquor in an effort to fool customers and increase profits.

Thirteen of the restaurants cited are TGI Fridays located in central and northern New Jersey.

TGI Fridays Inc. said in a statement it was working with the franchisee and owner of the TGI Fridays restaurants to investigate the allegations, which it called serious. The statement said the company had just learned of the allegations.

I’d demand a refund!!

But then I wouldn’t be in those dumps anyway. The TGI chain went to shit YEARS ago. Went from our GO-TO, outstanding funky food place in the mid-80′s to a sold-their-souls-to-the-Jack-Daniels-Grill, corporate devils’ unrecognizable/inedible menu. The staff training slipped horribly as well.

Sorry, sorry, sorry excuses of miserable shells of their previous existences.

Things Are Going to Expode

God DAMN the animals who did this. And God bless that poor soldier minding his own business.

And God help England survive what they’ve become.

London attackers shout ‘Allahu Akbar,’ machete man to death

A machete-wielding attacker and his gun-toting sidekick killed a man in the streets of London on Wednesday, and police are regarding the pair – whom they subsequently shot – as potential terrorists.

The prime minister called the incident “truly shocking,” and said police are investigating it as a terrorist attack, BBC reported. Witnesses say they saw a man walking down Woolwich Street, when he was attacked by two individuals. They also said they heard at least one of the attackers scream ‘Allahu Akbar,” meaning God is great, during the course of the attack, BBC reported.

A local police officer said the man who was killed was a soldier at Woolwich barracks, various media reported.

Police fired at the two suspects, who were subsequently taken to the hospital – one by helicopter, one by ambulance. One remains in critical condition, BBC reported.

The Associated Press reported that the attackers were out of control.

Things are going to rapidly spiral into just what the assholes here (read: OUR PRESIDENT and his leftist cronies/CAIR) claim has/will happen every time Islamic terrorist BASTARDS murder Americans ~ be it THREE THOUSAND or three ~ and NEVER does:

Masked English Defence League supporters flood Woolwich: Far-Right clash with police near scene of killing

*Officers formed cordon and men left immediate area after brief incident

*Some of EDL supporters gathered at pub and sang nationalistic songs

*Riot police with shields stood guard before moving back into their vans

*Elsewhere, two men were arrested after separate attacks on mosques

More than 100 supporters of the English Defence League tonight gathered near the scene of where a soldier was hacked to death by Islamic fanatics and threw bottles at police.

Officers formed a cordon and the men left the immediate area after the brief incident. Some of the EDL supporters gathered at The Queen’s Arms pub locally, where they sang nationalistic songs.

One local Muslim said that a brick had been thrown through a mosque during the march.

…The EDL men had first gathered at Woolwich Arsenal station in Woolwich, south-east London. Riot police with shields stood guard outside for a short time, before moving back into their vans.

The EDL group waved a flag of St George and chanted ‘no surrender to the Muslim scum’. Around 20 of the men wore black balaclavas with an EDL logo on the front.

Leader Tommy Robinson addressed the crowd, saying:

‘We have got weak leadership. They have allowed this to happen. People are scared to say the word Muslim. They are scared to offend them.

‘You know what? We are offended. People in this country are angry. They have had enough.’

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I feel we are in stand-by mode for a conflagration of epic proportions.

“And I Thought God Just Answered One of My Prayers”

“He answered two of them.”

WNEM TV 5

Like Emerging Into a Nuclear Winter

Megyn Kelly Looks Fit to be Tied

…when news breaks that THREE Fox News associates have been treated like CRIMINALS by our UNFETTERED DOJ.

And I Bet He STILL “Uh Uh Uhs” His Sorry Way Through It

The difference between Obama and Nixon is that Obama will require “I am not a crook” on prompter.

— Dennis Miller Show (@DennisDMZ) May 16, 2013

Don’t Look Now, But That LONG TIME AGO “Fast and Furious”?

It be BLOWING UP fast.

Justice Inspector General faults former Fast and Furious IG Dennis Burke for “egregious” violation…trying to undermine whistleblower

— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 20, 2013

John Dodson by improperly releasing confidential information intended to damage him..

— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 20, 2013

IG found Special Agent John Dodson, who provided significant info regarding Fast and Furious, was retaliated against…

— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 20, 2013

…through the unauthorized disclosure in late June 2011 of an ATF memorandum that he had drafted.

— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 20, 2013

IG determined that Dennis Burke, who was then US Attorney for Arizona, provided the memo to a news outlet… violating Department policies.

— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 20, 2013

Most importantly…

IG concluded that Burke’s disclosure was likely motivated by a desire to undermine Dodson’s public criticisms of Operation Fast and Furious.

— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 20, 2013

Helpfully fron Sharyl…

A refresher as to why some were out to get John Dodson. Here’s our first CBS NewsFast and Furious report with him: cbsnews.com/stories/2011/0…

— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 20, 2013

I have SUCH a GIRL crush on Attkisson. She deserves a Pulitzer.

I also hope she has at least FIFTEEN years of receipts saved…

I Was Sniffling Over This Story When major dad Found it On Fox This Morning

The video is a killer.

Thanks to Dave in Texas for that. Read the background on this ever so SCHWEET surprise here.

Marine reunited with dog he handled in Afghanistan in surprise ceremony

DES MOINES, Iowa – When Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach served as a dog handler in Afghanistan, he told the yellow lab who was his constant companion that he’d look her up when he returned home.

“I promised her if we made it out of alive, I’d do whatever it took to find her,” Gundlach said.

On Friday, he made good on that vow with help from some sentimental state officials in Iowa who know how to pull off a surprise.

God bless Iowa and the Elks.

Classic

IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office

The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation.

Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today.

There IS NO one responsible for ANYTHING in the Obama administration.

A Dear Friend of Ours

…won a Republican Primary last night ~ out of a field of six ~ to face the Democratic challenger in a special election in June for the Florida House District 2.

His name is Mike Hill and he is a TREMENDOUS individual. We just adore him.

But, in another troubling sign of the times for bitter clingers in the GOP, and ESPECIALLY from my neck of the REDneck Riviera, if Mike vanquishes the foe in June?

He will be “the first black legislator to represent Northwest Florida since Reconstruction.” Indeed.

We’re just adding more H8 to the fire, we are.

But I wanted to ‘fess up to our evil deeds before they came out anyway. Ask the President how getting “caught” feels.

Your “Holy CRAP!!!” of the day

Yeah. He DID that.

Why Are They Monitoring News Organizations?

Oh, I don’t know. Maybe it’s HOW they’re monitoring them…and what.

Why would Obama’s DOJ monitor #AP phones in GOP House press gallery and not the Dem Senate press gallery?

— Cuffé (@CuffyMeh) May 14, 2013

Bush, BushBushBush SIDESHOW!!!

Not News, But

…EXACTLY.

This Administration increasingly sees itself as above the law #Benghazi #IRS #AP twitter.com/DarrellIssa/st…

— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) May 14, 2013

Not a Two Way Street With This Guy

Saw this bumper sticker yesterday in Loudoun Cnty, Va: Obama called the SEALS and Bin Laden died; the SEALS called Obama and the SEALS died.

— Pundette (@pundette) May 13, 2013

And from Ace via Geraghty:

Holy crap, perfect graphic over at Ace of Spades: ace.mu.nu twitter.com/jimgeraghty/st…

— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) May 13, 2013

I hope Obama sees that. It’ll stick in his craw.

Tickles me to death.

Happy Mother’s Day!

Hhow ’bout a little Sharyl Attkisson on C-SPAN this morning?

Now I’m Not Sure That Getting a GED

…should have “educational” anywhere in the title.

WASHINGTON, May 10, 2013 ? Adult basic education and GED programs, with about 800,000 students taking GED tests each year, serve a segment of society that escaped government schools, including many homeschoolers. But the national propaganda effort called the Common Core Curriculum is spreading its tentacles to them.

While many may not take the GED seriously, calling it the “Good Enough Diploma,” consider that quite a few homeschoolers take GED tests as a way to cancel out high school attendance requirements and lessen the record-keeping burden on home educators caused by compulsory attendance laws in every state.

Thus, aligning GED with Common Core has the potential of erasing all the efforts and sacrifices the homeschooling parents have put in to protect their children from the centralized indoctrination.

“What’s he talking about”, you ask? What a doozy of an example he pulls from this GED test preparatory set, called the “GED Scoreboost™” series:

…Below is an excerpt from a larger Social Studies Extended Response, found on page 52 from Writing Across the Tests: Responding to Text on the Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science Test, entitled, “Does Foreign Aid Really Help?”

Those who support sending aid to poor countries do so because poor countries often have high levels of poverty, poor educational systems, an ineffective police and judicial force, and limited public services such as healthcare, transportation networks, and banking systems. They believe that when living conditions are this poor, crime levels tend to be higher. Poorer countries, because they have weak governments, often have areas that attract terrorist groups because no one is there to stop them from pursuing those types of activities. Thus, poor countries are often home to terrorist groups that are free to plan and carry out attacks on the rich, industrialized nations, without fear of being stopped. This is in fact [bold words are mine] what happened on 9/11 when terrorists from Afghanistan hijacked planes and carried out attacks on the United States. In this case, the terrorists originated in a country that had received large amounts of foreign aid from rich countries. Apparently, it didn’t work.

Whoa. DOG.

Read the whole article. Gobschmacking.

Quote of teh Day

THEME of the Foreseeable Future:

Wake up and smell the Chicago.

#War

Ted Cruz’s Twitter Feed Demonstrates Why Harry Reid Says Mean Things About Him

BWAhahaha!

About President Obama’s visit to Texas today… twitter.com/SenTedCruz/sta…

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) May 9, 2013

Oh, you’re KILLING me, Smalls!

He Had It On “Vibrate”

Musta missed that 3 a.m. call, thinking it it was Michelle’s snores shaking the bed. Didn’t she know he had a big fundraiser in Vegas next day?

The big Benghazi mystery: Where was Obama while 4 Americans perished?

…The Benghazi consulate was totally unsecured and unprepared, despite area terrorist attacks and months-long urgings of security personnel and Stevens himself.
In fact, a month before 9/11 when two security personnel used their weapons to fight off terrorist carjackers, most of the Special Ops security forces were ordered out of the country.

The first and last contact Hicks in Tripoli had with Stevens that night was an interrupted cellphone call in which the ambassador said, “Greg, we’re under attack!” No mention of any protest demonstration.

A special joint team of FBI-CIA-Defense-State crisis experts was ordered not to deploy to Benghazi.

Twelve hours after the U.S. Embassy wall in Cairo was stormed, no contingency military forces were prepared to assist there or anywhere else in the region. The nearest F-16′s in Italy were not even on alert and had no refueling tankers nearby.

As the four remaining Special Ops troops in-country boarded a Libyan C-130 to rush to help in Benghazi, someone ordered their colonel to stand down.

…What we don’t know is where the hell was the commander-in-chief all-night while two former SEALs, a communications specialist and the first U.S. ambassador in three decades were being murdered on-duty six time zones away.

We do know that then Secy. of Defense Leon Panetta claims Obama instructed him in the early evening of 9/11 to do everything necessary to protect Americans and embassies abroad.

We also know now that “everything” wasn’t really anything at all.

On This Day In History, 1781, Begins the “Battle of Pensacola”, Where Unheralded General Bernardo de Gálvez of Spain

…throws a monkey wrench in the works and darned if he didn’t wind up saving us.

On to Pensacola
His next target was Pensacola, the capital of West Florida. However, due to several hurricanes and storms, he had to wait until the next March to attack this target. Pensacola had a narrow entrance to its bay, and this entrance was guarded by a British fort. The first Spanish ship was fired upon and ran aground. The rest of the fleet retreated back to sea. Gálvez was head of the ground forces, but for this campaign Havana had sent Admiral José Calbo de Irazabel to be in charge of the navy. Gálvez kept urging the admiral to press the attack, but the admiral kept making excuses.

Gálvez knew that the British fleet was on its way, so he decided to take the matter into his own hands. He took his own four ships, hoisted his personal flag in the lead ship, stood on the prow with his sword raised, and ordered a 15-gun salute fired as he led his ships through the pass.

When the rest of the fleet saw this daring move, they urged the admiral to give the order to follow. Still, Irazabel hesitated. Finally he told the other captains, “Do whatever you want.” The other ships followed Gálvez. Irazabel returned to Cuba and was never heard from again.

After two months of fighting, the British finally surrendered in May 1781. The Battle of Pensacola was one of the longest battles of the American Revolution; yet, it rarely appears in our history books.

In July 1781 British troops began to arrive in Yorktown, the final engagement of the war. Think how much impact Gálvez and his troops had. Not only had he kept the British occupied on a second front throughout the war, but also imagine how much impact the loss of Pensacola had on the number of troops and ships the British could send to Yorktown. Imagine what course the American Revolution might have taken without the help of this able Spanish general.

Totally My FAVORITE Ray Harryhausen Scene EH-VAH

Damn, he was something else. Sleep well, dear sir, knowing how many of us loved you.

Chris Muir’s “Day By Day”

BRUTAL. TRUE.

She KNEW It Was A DAMNED LIE

…and yet, as Glenn Reynolds says, “REMINDER: HILLARY PUSHED THE “INTERNET VIDEO” STORY” over the caskets of those she abandoned to die.

It’s pretty amazing that we have a political prisoner in this country and seemingly nobody gives a shit. #benghazi

— Harry(@Tark31) May 6, 2013

How Do You Spell

…“awkward”?

Reports show gun homicides down since 1990s

WASHINGTON (AP) — Gun homicides have dropped steeply in the United States since their 1993, a pair of reports released Tuesday showed, adding fuel to Congress’ battle over whether to tighten restrictions on firearms.

A study released Tuesday by the government’s Bureau of Justice Statistics found that gun-related homicides dropped from 18,253 in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011. That’s a 39 percent reduction.

Another report by the private Pew Research Center found a similar decline by looking at the rate of gun homicides, which compares the number of killings to the size of the country’s population.

It found that the number of gun homicides per 100,000 people fell from 7 percent in 1993 to 3.6 percent in 2010, a drop of 49 percent.

Honestly, I’m shocked they reported it.

If only Piers Morgan HAD a brain to watch explode as he read this… More’s the pity.