I’m Sorry

I’m sorry if you suckers believed me when I said you could keep those crappy plans that you supposedly in your ignorance claimed you liked. Well, I’m really only sorry actually that people recorded me saying that ‘promise’ so many times.

There, now all is forgiven.

Genius

…and BALLSY AS HELL.

BRAVO, you guys!

Going Down Kicking and Screaming and Making Excuses

But going down none the less.

The truth? Obama told a whopper

…I don’t feel good about calling out the president’s whopper, since I support most of his policies and programs. But in this instance, he would have to be delusional to think he was telling the truth.

Eet’s A Leetle Complcated, No?

Zee customers, zhey like zee drapes. Zhey should be chosen to show off zee hroom

Two trendy Parisian restaurants have been accused of seating guests according to how good-looking they are to raise the tone of the establishments. Former hostesses have claimed that Thierry and Gilbert Costes — brothers whose group owns hotels, cinemas, restaurants and cafes in the French capital — have introduced a highly discriminatory selection procedure for guests of Le Georges, in the Pompidou Centre, and Café Marly, overlooking the Louvre.

“The good-looking ones are led to the good places, where they can be easily seen,” they told Le Canard Enchaîné, an investigative and satirical weekly. “As for the non good-looking ones, it is imperative that they be dispatched to the corners of the room.”

Failure to obey the rules was said to result in reprimands such as: “What are these ugly mugs doing at this table? Everyone can see them when they come in. It’s very bad for our image.”

… A member of the Georges restaurant “did not deny” the existence of such rules, according to Le Canard, merely saying: “It’s a little complicated to answer.”

I think lots of restaurants do something similar; this doesn’t shock or offend me.

I’ve gotten very used to eating by the restrooms.

Well I Hope Any Idiot Who Votes For Sarvis In Virginia Feels Real Smart Right About Now

Those 80,000+ votes may well mean “Gov. McAuliffe.”

Boy, y’all sure showed them.

We Had a Sneaky, ‘Stinking of Chicago’ Suspicion About This

…didn’t we?

A major Democratic Party benefactor and Obama campaign bundler helped pay for professional petition circulators responsible for getting Virginia Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Robert C. Sarvis on the ballot — a move that could split conservative votes in a tight race.

Campaign finance records show the Libertarian Booster PAC has made the largest independent contribution to Sarvis’ campaign, helping to pay for professional petition circulators who collected signatures necessary to get Sarvis’ name on Tuesday’s statewide ballot.

Austin, Texas, software billionaire Joe Liemandt is the Libertarian Booster PAC’s major benefactor.

He’s also a top bundler for President Barack Obama.

To A Small Mind It Looks Big

So I’m listening this morning to the radio as they’re talking about this gunman at the Mall up in Bergen County. It was the first I had heard of it as I spent last night reading about Charlemagne on my Kindle.

Well I was sipping some bourbon too I guess.

Anyhow, they had live coverage from the Mall and the Bergen County Prosecutor was giving a press conference as they had just found this kid’s body about an hour before (this was 4:30ish this morning) and he was asked about the gun. He said it was a “large caliber” weapon that had been legally modified to look like an AK-47, it was “not a handgun, it was a large caliber rifle.” He said this several times, which of course got the assembled Press very a twitter.

And then a few minutes later he said he believed the gun was “a .22 caliber.”

Huh?

These are our Leaders.

Oh, and of course the Press asked if he played video games.

A 3.7 Earthquake In Chicago?

zoinks

Update: now they are saying it was a quarry blast.

So Rick Scott’s Got His First Ad Up

Oddly enough, Crist is a goldmine of negative quotes from BOTH parties.

Autumn Colors

I was trying to remember a few weeks ago if a dry Fall or a damp one was better for the foliage.

Well, after the drought we had this October my vote’s for dry

The bright yellows, oranges, reds and all things combined therewith have just been gorgeous this year

I really can’t remember a prettier turning.

I’m Sure It Was INCREDIBLE Being In Notre Dame Stadium For My Blue Angels’ Flyover

…but THIS girl? Standing in the yard of her apartment building?

DAMN. She made me cry.

THAT’S what it’s all about.

How I feel EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Would You Like A Little O Suave Fanciulla With Your Coffee?

I love how Caruso doesn’t try to compete by belting out a high note at the end which so many tenors feel obliged to do today; he drops into a perfect harmony with a note by Melba that (as amazing as it sound on this crappy 106 year old recording on a wax cylinder) was described this way by someone who heard it in real life:

“The note came floating over the auditorium of Covent Garden; it left Melba’s throat, it left Melba’s body, it left everything and came over like a star and passed us in our box, and went out into the infinite. I have never heard anything like it in my life, not from any other singer ever. It just rolled over the hall of Covent Garden. My God, how beautiful it was! ….. That note was like a ball of light. It wasn’t attached to anything at all–it was out of everything.” — Mary Garden

“My God, how beautiful” is my reaction to it now, I can not imagine what it must have sounded like then.