Note To Self: Don’t Let Peruvian Wife…

…find out about Peruvian mistress

Whoa: James Gandolfini Has Died

He was only 51

Actor James Gandolfini died suddenly after a suspected heart attack while on holiday in Rome to attend the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily. He was 51. Gandolfini will be forever known for his portrayal of mob boss Tony Soprano on the seminal HBO series The Sopranos, which eventually won him 3 Emmy Awards and a $1,000,000-an-episode paycheck.

RIP, my fellow New Jerseyan.

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Feliz Junteentho! To celebratero, el ÑYPD esta giving outo free stop y friskos!

— Miguel Bloombito (@ElBloombito) June 19, 2013

Pets for Patriots

…is having a t-shirt fundraiser.

They don’t just find strays homes with former service members. They actually work to find foster homes for active duty pet owners who get called up and can’t find someone to board their animals with for however long they’re deployed. So , rather than have to give your beloved family member up, they try their damndest to find a place for them until you get back, God bless them.

Quote Of The Day

Reflecting on the success of the marriage, Ron, now a 91-year-old grandfather, humorously said, “We promised to love, honour and obey, and I did all the obeying.”

A very very sweet story.

The Big Question

Via Zero Hedge

If everything is so wonderful why is the Fed continuing to pump billions every week…What Are They Afraid Of?

What The White House Twitter Feed Looks Like RIGHT NOW

I shit you not.

CB…Oh, baby! http://t.co/mXHzro9Zty #ImmigrationReform, pic.twitter.com/Ip13Ox88W1

— The White House (@whitehouse) June 19, 2013

Memes?!?!?!

Somebody needs to be fired.

Founder of Men’s Whorehouse

…suddenly not looking so good…

Men’s Wearhouse ousts founder, pitchman Zimmer

Apparently, Men’s Wearhouse Inc. doesn’t like the way its founder looks anymore.

In terse release issued Wednesday, Men’s Wearhouse said it has fired the face of the company and its executive chairman, George Zimmer, who appeared in many of its TV commercials with the slogan “You’re going to like the way you look. I guarantee it.”

The timing was even odd —the announcement happened the morning the company’s annual shareholder meeting had been set to take place. The company delayed the meeting but didn’t give a new date.
Men’s Wearhouse gave no reason for the abrupt firing of Zimmer, who built Men’s Wearhouse from one small Texas store using a cigar box as a cash register to one of the North America’s largest specialty men’s clothiers with 1,143 locations. The company generated revenue of $2.48 billion in its latest fiscal year ended Feb. 2.

The company said the purpose of postponing the annual meeting is to re-nominate the existing board of directors without Zimmer. It said the board expects to discuss with Zimmer the extent, if any, and terms of “his ongoing relationship” with the company.

The news shocked analysts and corporate governance experts, who tried to speculate what happened.

“This is very rare to fire a founder. Founders are generally entrenched in the company,” said Eleanor Bloxham, CEO of The Value Alliance, a board advisory firm.

The difference between “founder” and “flounder” is just “l”, you know. Like Flo says in the commercial, “These are troubling times in the kingdom”.

Bloomberg and His Mayor Friends Define “Killed By Gun Violence”

…With the group’s “No More Names” bus in the background and parked in front of the state capitol plaza, the reader flipped through the names of gun violence victims,

including Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

A pro-gun protester shouted, “He’s a terrorist,” according to the Union Leader.

Details, details. They still SHOT him, you clingy HATER.

DUH.

“A Brutal Sobering Up”

Welcome to our world

The last time President Obama paid a visit here, as a candidate in 2008, he was cheered on by 200,000 Germans eager to see the back of George W. Bush and, as one member of that crowd recalled Tuesday, “full of wholly unrealistic expectations of what kind of miracles Obama could work.”

When he arrived here on Tuesday evening ahead of a full day of talks — capped by a speech at the Brandenburg Gate — the reception was far more restrained.

Almost five years later, Germans have undergone “a brutal sobering up” with regard to Mr. Obama, said Ralf Fücks, who heads the board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, a nonprofit political organization in Berlin.

We are all Fücks now.

Only some of us knew it in 2008.

Why Does This Make Me Think Of Mr. Magoo?

This is simply amazing

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An engineer killed in a fiery train collision in the Oklahoma Panhandle last year suffered from serious vision problems for much of his life, underwent several corrective procedures in the years leading up to the crash and even complained that he couldn’t distinguish between red and green signals, a doctor told a federal oversight board Tuesday.

Despite his failing vision, the engineer continued driving freight trains and was guiding one of the ones that collided June 24, 2012, near town of Goodwell, killing him and two other railroad workers and causing about $15 million in damage.

…According to McKay, the engineer suffered from glaucoma and cataracts for much of his life, and in the three years leading up to the crash, he made about 50 visits to eye doctors and underwent about a dozen procedures. He had even complained about not being able to distinguish between the red and green stop and go signals that govern train traffic, she told the board.

50 eye doctor visits in three years…and he was still allowed to drive the train.

And thereby killed himself and two other people.

There Ain’t Nothing Like A Dame

And there ain’t gonna be any anymore

(CNSNews.com) – In line with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s order for troops to have their workplaces searched for “degrading or offensive” materials — part of an attempt to curb sexual assault in the military — the Navy will inspect even its bathrooms.

While what’s degrading or offensive is open to interpretation, the material can include song lyrics and “inappropriate cartoons.”

Sorry, Miss Forbush.

Tying One On

It seems someone Down Under has an issue with handsome men in blue ties

Religion Used To Be The Opiate Of The Masses

Now it’s cellphones

Undercover video shot in May by a conservative activist shows two corporate distributors of free cell phones handing out the mobile devices to people who have promised to sell them for drug money, to buy shoes and handbags, to pay off their bills, or just for extra spending cash.

The ‘Obama phone,’ which made its ignominious YouTube debut outside a Cleveland, Ohio presidential campaign event last September, is a project of the Federal Communications Commission’s ‘Lifeline’ program, which makes land line and mobile phones available to Americans who meet low-income requirements.

Lifeline was a $2.19 billion program in 2012.

The people need their daily soma ration.

Spam Of The Day

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I really have, I swear.

Big “Thar She Blows!” in Mexico Today

Oh, You Said “Take A Tuque!”

My bad! I thought you said “toke”

A Canadian mayor caught up in a scandal over a video purportedly showing him smoking crack cocaine has fired his chief of staff.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford dismissed Mark Towhey yesterday and gave no reason for his sacking.

It comes as the mayor faces increasing pressure over the alleged crack smoking video.

Marion Barry when asked said “The bitch set him up too.”

Headline Of The Day

Well if they’re smart it will be on Pay-Per-View

Greek coalition wrestles to avoid collapse

Fathers Are Like That…

OMG ~ Do I LOVE My Husband or WHAT?

I’m going to sit through “Prometheus” AGAIN.

Not piss and moan once. Even load the BlueRay for him.

Lemme tell you ~ that’s L.O.V.E., ’cause I can’t STAND that frickin’ movie.

Photo Of The Day

Fire fighting…in a DC-10

Keep the folks in Colorado in your prayers.

Hey, Here’s A Great Idea!

Let’s get involved in another dung pit in the Arab World

McCain and Graham were just on the Senate floor doing their usual spiel. McCain says they’ll hate us forever if we don’t help. Well, they seem to have us for “helping” in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maybe they just hate us (which is ok because…right back at ya).

Graham said some really dumb stuff too.

What could possibly go wrong?

I mean, assuming you ignore ALL THE STUFF THAT HAS GONE WRONG EVERY OTHER TIME.

There is no reason, at all, for us to get involved.

What We Have Here…

This Is Cute

Why Does This Not Surprise Me?

Obama’s NSA program spied on everyone, everywhere…except, of course, mosques

Homeland Insecurity: The White House assures that tracking our every phone call and keystroke is to stop terrorists, and yet it won’t snoop in mosques, where the terrorists are.

That’s right, the government’s sweeping surveillance of our most private communications excludes the jihad factories where homegrown terrorists are radicalized.

Since October 2011, mosques have been off-limits to FBI agents. No more surveillance or undercover string operations without high-level approval from a special oversight body at the Justice Department dubbed the Sensitive Operations Review Committee.

(I’m not sure what an “undercover string operation” is though; maybe some type of push-up bra?)