Speaking of Jet Setters and Photoshop…

Obama needs to fire his photoshop crew, and hire someone a little more competent. twitter.com/GringoTJ/statu…

— Richard Hartley (@GringoTJ) August 8, 2012

ths update: Clever AliceH in the comments debunks this as GrandMa behind them.

Parkway Jim

Jim’s one of the nicest folks I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting, and I’m so glad that I can share with you this picture from his recent vacation:

(thanks to the secret agents at Maggie’s for the photo)

Oh, By the Way: The Woman Mitt Romney Killed

…had health insurance through HER employer.

What scumbags. #War

Just Announced: Jimmy Carter To Address Democratic Convention

First Lie-A-Watha, and now the most reviled President in modern history?

A round of applause for whoever is scheduling these folks. Keep ’em coming.

Happy Birthday to My Most Marvelous major dad

Ebola and me, we just adore you and don’t you ever forget it, pal.

Then again, most everybody does. 🙂

38 Years Ago This Morning…

…we woke up to a little Elf dancing in the sky

Merci, Philippe.

Duuuudddeeee! Take a Tip From Michael Phelps

…and get your stoner urges out of the way YEARS before the Games.

American judoka Nick Delpopolo thrown out of Olympics for testing positive for THC

American judoka Nick Delpopolo has been expelled from the Olympics for testing positive for tetrahydrocannabinol, or as it’s more commonly known, THC. It’s the chemical found in marijuana and hash.

According to a statement released by the USOC, Delpopolo is embarrassed and blamed the positive test on an “inadvertent consumption of food that I did not realize had been baked with marijuana.”

That’s either an amazing excuse or Delpopolo is cursed with the worst friends on the planet.

Brownies…POT BROWNIES?!?! You got thrown out of the Olympics for POT BROWNIES?

Are you SHITTIN’ ME?!?!

One roundhouse to the head too many with that lad.

The Unbridled Joy Of Youth

A young lady has qualified for the US Women’s Amateur.

A young lady of 10

Latanna qualified by shooting a two-under 70 in a regional qualifier. Her handicap is a plus-one. She drives the ball 225 yards. And she does not play from the red tees.

The USWA is August 6-12 in Cleveland, where Latanna will compete with the best female amateur golfers in the country. She’s the youngest to ever qualify for the tournament, though it really wasn’t a fluke.

The best quote from the interview goes roughly like this:

Reporter: What’s the most strokes you’ve ever given a guy?

Latanna: Um, 14 I think.

Reporter: Did you win?

Latanna: Well duh.

She’s precious.

In NASA Parlance, I Imagine That’s Known as “Pucker…”

“…and RELEASE”

NASA celebrates successful Mars rover touchdown

OUTFRICKIN’STANDING!

They did that, yes, they did.

Spam Of The Day

I think this one is from Al Gore…

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RNC and NYT Agree! Harry Reid = Dirty Liar

…“As far as Harry Reid is concerned, listen, I know you might want to go down that road, I’m not going to respond to a dirty liar who hasn’t filed a single page of tax returns himself. Complains about people with money but lives in the Ritz Carlton here down the street,” Priebus said. “So if that’s on the agenda, I’m not going to go there. This is just a made-up issue. And the fact that we’re going to spend any time talking about it is ridiculous.”

HAH! Reince Priebus scorches Dirty Harry to Stephanopoulos. (And ABOUT DAMN TIME.)

Of course, Priebus SHOULD be going after the sleezey geezer tooth and nail, but!

When you’ve lost the Shady Grey Lady’s Frank Bruni, too?

Truculence Before Truth

FOR the dwindling few out there who still believe that big accusations require a little foundation and that truth — as opposed to conjecture — matters, here’s an update:

As last week drew to a close, Harry Reid, the Senate’s Democratic majority leader, had backed up his claim that Mitt Romney didn’t pay taxes for a 10-year period with absolutely nothing more than some vague reference to some unnamed guy who said something of the sort to Reid during some phone conversation some time ago.

That’s it. That’s all. But for Reid, it was enough not only to level his charge but also, as the days pressed on, to double and triple down on it, his language and manner growing more righteous even as his evidence grew no more detailed or persuasive.

The claim appeared first in an interview with The Huffington Post that went online Tuesday.

“Now, do I know that that’s true?” Reid said in the interview, which also included his mention of the phone call, supposedly from an investor in Bain Capital. “Well, I’m not certain.”

No biggie! Full steam ahead!…

…Reid was unbowed. Inconsistent, too. At one point he told reporters from his home state of Nevada that “a number of people” had whispered to him of Romney’s alleged tax evasion, while at a subsequent point he issued a statement citing only “an extremely credible source,” singular. In neither instance did he hang any flesh on these bones.

“I don’t think the burden should be on me,” said Reid, whose history of intemperate, borderline adolescent remarks was detailed in The Times by Michael D. Shear and Richard A. Oppel Jr. “The burden should be on him. He’s the one I’ve alleged has not paid any taxes.”

So if I just decide to allege that Reid levied that accusation under detailed and persistent instructions from the Obama campaign, the burden would be on him to provide all of his office’s e-mail and phone correspondence in order to contradict that?

This would only matter, of course, if I hadn’t heard that Dirty Harry Reid was a ZOMBIE PEDERAST! It explains how he can be so completely without morals, scruples or any sense of remorse at his despicable actions, or, in fact, how he hasn’t the brains to resist making these incredibly ignorant, unfounded, vile and libelous accusations to begin with.

I always thought he looked like a cadaver in motion.

Are the rumors true?

ths update: And BOOM! Filthy, dirty Harry Reid has lost Bob Schieffer as well:

Bob Schieffer Compares Harry Reid to Joe McCarthy

Did anyone else hear Ted Strickland was a pederast, too? I mean, he’s saying the EXACT SAME THING as Filthy Dirty Harry Reid! How strange, disturbing and peculiar is that?

Is it true?

Happy Burfday Crusader!

Make “Gangnam Style” STOP

Enough Division Among Us for the Moment, Please

Let’s take a love break, shall we? Say, like, sending the President a birthday card for tomorrow for starters.

Here’s some of their healing selections:

(And one of my personal favorites:)

Oh, GOSH! There’s TWENTY of them! GO pick your own, add your personal message and SEND THAT SUCKER OFF!

There! Don’t you feel better?

It’s like a BIG Kiss-In.

“Tastes Like Hate”

Amazing how the “loving” Liberal Left can scream at the drive-through girl, or the “Kiss-In” crowd brings out the best in people:

Chick-fil-A ‘kiss’ day marred by ‘Tastes like hate’ graffiti

On a day that some gay-rights activists are planning a “National Same-Sex Kiss Day,” a Chick-fil-A in Torrance was vandalized overnight with hateful graffiti.

Chick-fil-A employees were greeted Fridays morning with the words “Tastes like hate” scrawled in large black lettering mimicking the chain’s advertising across the back wall of the restaurant at 182nd Street and Hawthorne Boulevard in Torrance.

With media helicopters hovering overhead and police officers on the scene, one employee said, “I’m just trying to sort everything out.”

As opposed to just quietly standing in line, or waiting at the drive-through to purchase your sandwich in a show of support, I mean. Remember, THOSE folks are the “bigots”.

ths update: Apparently, the hate-filled bigots employed at Chik-fil-A’s all over the country have been bringing ice-cold water out to hot, thirsty, love-filled protestors protesting said hate-filled chicken bigot businesses.

Plenty of pictures at the link.

Jobless Rate Has an Upward Trajectory in the Obama Adminstration

I guess that’s how Obama can say “It worked“:

Economy Creates 163,000 New Jobs but Rate Rises to 8.3%

The U.S. economy closed out an otherwise weak second quarter by creating more jobs than expected, with 163,000 new positions added, but the unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent.

By that measure, his magic healing pawprints on the U-6 dynamic is FUUUUGLY:

‘Real’ Unemployment Rate Shows Far More Jobless

While the national unemployment rate paints a grim picture, a look at individual states and their so-called real jobless rates becomes even more troubling.

…The numbers in some cases are startling.

Consider: Nevada’s U-6 rate is 22.1 percent, up from just 7.6 percent in 2007. Economically troubled California has a 20.3 percent real rate, while Rhode Island is at 18.3 percent, more than double its 8.3 percent rate in 2007.

Those numbers compare especially unfavorably to the national rate, high in itself at 14.9 percent though off its record peak of 17.2 percent in October 2009.

Only three states — Nebraska (9.1 percent), South Dakota (8.6 percent) and North Dakota (6.1 percent) — have U-6 rates under 10 percent, according to research from RBC Capital Markets.

Election battleground states paint a picture not much more flattering. Florida’s U-6 number is an ugly 17 percent, though Pennsylvania and Ohio are both around 14 percent, below the national U-6 average.

Living the Hope and Change dream.

Yeah, baby.

ths update: Just for shits and giggles, let’s walk down Memory Lane, while humming “Promises, Promises!”

#wherearethejobs RT @jimpethokoukis: In 2009, Team Obama predicted 5.6% unemployment rate in July 2012 w/ stimlus, 6% w/o stimulus

— Team Boehner (@TeamBoehner) August 3, 2012

Someone’s A Little Touchy

The umpire makes a questionable call, the organist has a little fun and the rest is history

Remember, Kids, as this and Mr. Chick-fil-a stud puppy shows us in The Age of Interquarius your doucheyness will live forever.

Be guided by this thought in your actions.

Gonna Be Hard to Explain to the Unemployment Folks Why a Hot Shot CFO

…needs that $240 a week now.

Douchebag has left the building.

Vante of Tucson, AZ Regrets Actions of Former CFO
Employee Has Left the Company

TUCSON, AZ–(Marketwire -08/02/12)- The following is a statement from Vante:

Vante regrets the unfortunate events that transpired yesterday in Tucson between our former CFO/Treasurer Adam Smith and an employee at Chick-fil-A. Effective immediately, Mr. Smith is no longer an employee of our company.

The actions of Mr. Smith do not reflect our corporate values in any manner. Vante is an equal opportunity company with a diverse workforce, which holds diverse opinions. We respect the right of our employees and all Americans to hold and express their personal opinions, however, we also expect our company officers to behave in a manner commensurate with their position and in a respectful fashion that conveys these values of civility with others.

We hope that the general population does not hold Mr. Smith’s actions against Vante and its employees.

“Conveys these values of civility with others”

Jeez. What a sincerely BEAUTIFUL sentiment.
No, as a matter of fact, we salute Vante and whatever the hell it is they do.

Mr. Smith, on the other hand, might well have some ‘splainin’ to do to the little woman.

And might well nigh be unemployable for the foreseeable future.

Sen. Scott Brown Nails It

The dear friend I’m privileged to work for embodies these very traits

Entrepreneurs did ‘build that’

‘You didn’t build that” is the new refrain of the extreme left. The good news is that they are finally revealing how they feel about free enterprise. The bad news, if you run any kind of business, is that they’re talking about you — and it’s their way of saying that government is entitled to more of what you built.

This anti-free enterprise attitude, epitomized by Elizabeth Warren, the liberal Harvard professor who has made it the calling card of her Senate campaign against me, is that every achievement in life is a collective effort. If you started a business and it has any success, “you didn’t build that” — government gets the credit, too. Small-business owners might remember it a little differently, given that most of them worked long hours, risked their savings, took on personal debt and gave up their weekends and vacations to become successful.

…In hard times, more than a few have sacrificed their own paychecks to make sure their workers get theirs.

You know what else I’ve found? These business owners tend to be pretty grateful, too. They’re not the sort to take things for granted. They appreciate their customers. They remember the people who gave them a break or bit of encouragement along the way. They’re glad to have had a chance in life, and they love to provide a chance to someone else.

…If they say they built it by themselves, or made it on their own, they’re only saying that no one worked seven days a week in their place, no one showed up in their place to open the door at 5 a.m. or no one did their planning, working and sweating for them. Is it too much to give them that?

Only the most rigid ideologue would come along and insist that these men and women — the ones who do most of the hiring in America — have failed in some duty to their communities or to their country.

America’s entrepreneurs have built great things on their own. If only leftists like Warren and all Occupy protesters weren’t so wrapped up in taxing and regulating them without end or in denigrating their achievements, these men and women would do even greater things and hire even more workers.

And in this slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression, that would sure be a big break for “the rest of us.”

The Squawking

…should have been a dead giveaway to RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!

Pensacola Goes Whole Hog Eating Mor Chik N

It appears Pensacolians have no beef with the chain. Kinda thought so.

Chick-fil-A supporters flock to Pensacola-area stores

Chick-fil-A restaurants across Northwest Florida and the country are overflowing this afternoon with customers showing support for the company president’s stance on gay marriage.

At Pensacola’s Nine Mile Road location, the line stretched through the restaurant and out the door, where at least 50 people waited to get in. The drive-through line wrapped around the building and down the street. Employees are handing out water bottles to people standing in line.

Traffic is backed up around all area Chick-fil-A locations.

I especially liked what one young man said when he sent along a picture (included in the article) of his Ft. Walton Beach Chik-fil-A to the local fish wrap:

Arc J. Thames of Pace took this photo at a Chic-fil-A on Beal Parkway in Fort Walton Beach. The building was surrounded with cars, and people were parking in other parking lots and walking over.

“I’m a Christian, but I also have close friends that are gay. For me this is more about a person’s right, no matter who they are, to be able to speek freely. It’s our right and one of the reasons I’m proud to be an American,”

Thames said in submitting this photo. / Arc J. Thomas/Special to the News Journal

You betcha, kiddo.

ths update: Self righteous, ill-mannered ASS example in 3…2…1…:

Oh, gosh. You beat up on the DRIVE THROUGH GIRL. WHAT a BASTION BASTARD of ALL that is RIGHT and MASCULINE you are and a FINE EXAMPLE of the LIBERAL LEFT.

Thank you for making our point, douchebag.

Looking at this weasel’s YouTube channel, he’s got several young children and lives in Tucson, out there by Ebola. THIS is how MINDLESS these idiots are. He’s getting eaten alive in the comments and all I did was look at his own stuff to figure out who he was and where. How about if someone ripped one of his sweet little boys working the drive through at In-N-Out like that, just out of the blue, for something they disagreed about with the owner (who lives in California, for God’s sake). He’d go BATSHIT BERSERK.

Don’t they THINK before they run their hateful jibs and POST them for the world to see how CLEVER they are?

Never mind. I answered that.

Bingley Update:
Poor widdle douchnozzle, I mean Brave Valiant Rights Avenger, removed his video because, er, people rightly told him what a DOUCHENOZZLE he was and the lovely girl was properly deluged by marriage offers as a result of her grace and class.

But once you post something it’s forever…

ths Update Redux: From Twitchy, some Chik-fil-A Day Liberal Love. Lots of these dickweeds probably’ll wish they were as bold as “beat-up-the-drive-thru-girl-guy” after seeing his adventures, when they just settled for badass “hope you choke on your fat laden fried chicken, homo haters” Tweets.

Headline Juxtaposition

Drudge is of course the undisputed Master of this, but I have to admit I laughed when I found this pairing on nj.com yesterday (while looking for this story)

Someone’s been watching too much Python…

Layers of editors! The Professionals!