David Gregory in the Wood Shed

“ Why people hate NBC’s David Gregory [...] What’s the matter with David Gregory? And why don’t people like to watch him? I could have saved the honchos at NBC News a lot of time and trouble. The first answer is: David Gregory is a phony. The second answer is: He’s a jerk. [...] Gregory is the anti-Russert. His boorish behavior around DC is legendary, from his juvenile tantrums with the Bush press staff to his drunken radio appearances to his diva snit fits with innocent bystanders while filming news segments. One of the most telling and notorious anecdotes involves Russert himself, who reportedly reprimanded Gregory in 2008 for going ballistic on a poor waitress while the two TV stars dined at a DC restaurant. But “Gregory still treats most of … the newsroom like s–t,” an insider told the Web site Jossip. “Amazing how NBC cares more about food servers than about the people who have to deal with Gregory’s arrogance every day.” Since Gregory doesn’t have the intellectual heft to carry in-depth interview segments the way Russert did, “Meet the Press” producers have reduced substantive exchanges to a few minutes and larded the rest of the show with fluff and stunts. That means: If it’s Sunday, it’s “Meet the Jerk.” Why people hate NBC’s David Gregory-Full When Gregory was verbally abusing Bush, I saw in him a then Dallas CBS affiliate reporter,  Dan Rather,  being similarly disrespectful of President Nixon.  The nation was shocked and upset by it, but CBS brass (Cronkite, in Rather's case) liked the cut of his jib.  It was no surprise then that Gregory was given "Meet the Press."  The Liberals who control our media are - all together now - arrogant, condescending, and utterly clueless assclowns. And wayyyyyyy left-wing. ”

Green Bread

I am not making this up In my bachelor days I saw this in my fridge every day.

Maryland wants California's spot ....

“ Mirror Mirror ... The most corrupt state of all is—??? Using Occam's Razor, plain common sense, or a jumper cable  genital clamp;  the only reason on earth to adopt .... .... Is Early voting Voter fraud Online voting Voter fraud No ID requirement Voting Voter fraud Unrestricted absentee voting Voter fraud I know I missed one Voter fraud Have you heard the latest scheme by the one-party state of Maryland? Today, the State Board of Elections will vote whether to adopt Internet voting in our state. This means they will be hiring software vendors to set up a “secure” website intended to facilitate voting for Maryland citizens. I learned that in Montgomery County, for example – a County that prides itself on “clean” elections – the Board of Elections delivers the machines to schools a full week ahead of the elections, where they are guarded by SEIU union members. And then people wonder when the results on the machines don’t track with voters’ stated intentions? If you think that is going to work, just look at the State’s failed health care exchange, a boondoggle that was supposed to be Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown’s signature “achievement.” Oops, guess he’s not talking much about the waste of $300 million of taxpayer dollars these days. But this is more than just a boondoggle and a waste of money: it is an open door to massive voter fraud in our State. Ken Timmerman ”

Washington D.C. Whore, etc.

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Murder Bay View of Red Light District on C. Street, N.W., near 13th, with Griffin Veatch, who was showing me around. No. 6 Special Messenger Service, 1223 New York Ave., N.W.; he lives 1643 Cramer St., N.E. He said he commenced the messenger service at 11 yrs. old. Has worked all night a couple of years, and now works until 10 P.M. Is known to Truant Officers. Family has had trouble with him. Says he is 17 but doesn’t look it. Quite profane, but (apparently) not very wise about this district although he says he goes to these houses occasionally. Location: Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia. (Library of Congress) Illustration of a perceived scenario of sexual misconduct in 1883 Tommy "Mann Act" Mann sent this delicious retrospective that he titled "Some things never change."  Actually they do change, a little.  Today, more often than not, it would be a male page sitting on Mr. Representative's lap.  And, there are no longer "close to 100 houses of prostitution" just east of the White House. Only 10, or so. The article itself is about an area of D.C. once called the "Murder Bay;" a 'hood with all the tone and tenor of Jack the Ripper London. Then the streets were unpaved, except certain of the principal thoroughfares; the houses were for the most part mean and straggling, while the moral atmosphere was almost in accord with the condition of the town itself. Gambling establishments, some of the highest order, and descending by gradations to dens of the lowest character, where life itself was frequently sacrificed on the turning of a card. Thieves and unprincipled men and women, as ready to cut a throat as pick a pocket, flourished and walked the streets in certain sections in open daylight, while at night they frequented the haunts of vice and selected their victims from among the unsophisticated without fear of law or justice. In those sections it was unsafe for any one with the slightest appearance of respectability to enter after nightfall. There were, of course, the respectable sections, and numbers of people lived here and mingled in society who knew little or nothing of the darker localities, except as they were brough to their attention through the newspapers; but to the people who saw down-town life, as it may be termed, after the town was buried in darkness, except for the straggling rays from dim street lamps or the light from the saloons and gambling places, Washington was a wild and weird place.    I've been around D.C. all of my life, sometimes, and never heard of Murder Bay.  I know about Bloody Point on the Cheasapeke, but not this.   Horry Clap.  I can find no mention of why Bloody Point os called Bloody Point.  Now I'll have to do that work too.  Stay tuned. Sheesh. Full Murder Bay

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Nancy Cantor

Eric Cantor; Oh My

Vote Straight Line Teaparty (and oust  faux  TPs elected last time)

A lovely teacher and an unborn baby

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Two story lines that will elicit uniformly predictable male response.  (Unless you're an abortionist, and then also predictable) more

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Footprint

Today's Footprint

Obama's perjury

May the court please ... Michael Shrimpton, who faces a Nov. 10 trial, also appears in a 2008 video that began re-circulating earlier this year on the Internet in which he claims to have been privy to shocking intelligence information on Obama’s origins. Shrimpton contends to this day that the CIA collected DNA from then-Sen. Obama and a grandparent, establishing that Stanley Ann Dunham was not Obama’s biological mother. He intends to subpoena from the CIA and British intelligence any records either agency may have on Obama’s DNA.  [Full story] A few months ago, Tom Marr, a WCBM (syndicated radio) talk show host challenged a caller who wanted Obama impeached.  Now Marr, who is nothing if not a solid Teapartier, insisted that the caller name one, just one! offense that  passes impeachment muster;  and then shot them down in order.  We all have lists, and mine is probably larger than most—and I disagreed with Marr—but that's not what this is about.  Sort of not, anyway. The Obama birth certificate imbroglio boils down to one absolute.  It's not that Obama is ineligible because he wasn't born on US soil, or to an under-age mother without the then legal right to confer U.S. citizenship to a foreign born child.   All of that may be true, but it's arguable.  What is not arguable, even if Obama was born in Hawaii, is that over a period of years Obama has presented a series of counterfeit certificates of live birth.  As each in turn was shown to be counterfeit, it was replaced with the defect fixed. Again and again.  In 2011 he released a long form birth certificate.  It was immediately exposed by experts as being photoshopped.   There have been no responsible replies (Snopes does not qualify) to the myriad of highly qualified document analysts who have collectively left zero doubt that it is a forgery. Obama's impeachable offense then—supplying provably false documents to prove his eligibility to hold his office.  Perjury. That's all it takes. Ask Bill Clinton.

Where There's Smoke ...

What I See                           “ E-cigarettes have become a source of consternation for anti-smoking lawmakers who quiver at the very thought of someone lighting up a tobacco product.  This knee-jerk reaction to the dramatic increase in the use of e-cigarettes in public is manifesting itself in places like Los Angeles opting to treating e-cigarettes as if they were tobacco.  The fear of second hand smoke amongst those who have waged a legislative war on tobacco is one of the guiding principles behind these governmental prohibitions with the City of Los Angeles even going so far as to prohibit using e-cigarettes in outdoor public places and parks. But what is the truth about the vapor emitted from using e-cigarettes?     In order to understand this issue, one needs to understand that e-cigarettes do not involve lighting a paper wrapped tobacco product and pulling the smoke through into your lungs, as is the case with actual cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes on the other hand are not lit, and are essentially little more than a plastic tube which turns nicotine into a flavored vapor that can be consumed by a user.  The vapor does not contain any of the characteristics of a burning cigarette.  Whereas a cigarette left burning in an ash tray produces a haze that lingers throughout a room or building, the vapor from the e-cigarette doesn't have the same effect, as it doesn't emit vapor unless it is being used by a consumer. When being used, the e-cigarette vapor is only emitted into the atmosphere when the consumer exhales.  The e-cigarette vapor itself has been found to be primarily comprised of nicotine, propylene glycol, glycerin, water and flavors.  This is an important distinction between the vapor exhaled by an e-cigarette user and a tobacco smoker.   Blah-Blah-Blah I think our great problem as a nation is a sense of  having no personal identity; a sense that we are really just a bump in a statistics table.   I think it explains the recent tattoo obsession;  a way of  expressing individuality, achievement and rank.   I think it may explain the over-the-top eco, vegan, global warming, and other silliness ne plus ultra.  We need God. We need a sense of mission.  Eric Hoffer observed that people with no sense of self worth will look for a movement to latch onto.  It will be their religion, and they willing martyrs in its defense.  That's what I think about this electronic cigarette silliness. People trying to leave a footprint in a pail of water. ”

Who is that with Tom Cruise?

3 Schmucks and a Girl

The Warship Gabby Giffords WTF

“ Yoo Hoo! Ahoy There! Homer Simpson–  “Hey, do we get to land on an aircraft carrier?” Helicopter Pilot– “No, sir.  The closest vessel is the U.S.S. Walter Mondale; it’s a laundry ship.  They’ll take you the rest of the way.” In a daring daytime operation, apparent domestic terrorists have lured US Navy Capt. Joseph Tuite, Supervisor of Shipbuilding (SUPSHIP) Gulf Coast into a local Denny's where they are holding him hostage with unlimited coffee refills and complimentary Moons over My Hammy.  Captain Tuite is a mission critical asset to the official keel laying ceremony for the USS Gabrielle Giffords.  Reacting swiftly, the Obama administration awarded the now POW Captain Tuite with the Silver Star and announced that Vice President Biden is ready to negotiate for the Captain's release.  [satire by Rational Gun] I breakfast here on the quarterdeck of the USS Gob Smacked, and wonder at the silliness of naming a warship after a anti-military Democrat congressperson, to honor her for being wounded  by a kindred spirited " left wing political radical" gunman, Jared Loughner.   Where are Monty Python when you need them?   Scent via Tam ”

Superhero Tricks

Oh My

JEWS

 

“The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.

Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese--and no one says a word about refugees.

But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.

Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.”
― Eric Hoffer 1953

IRS, The Hunter

1000 ...

Trapper John (The Good One)

HLLYWD “ constipated by their own ideology "I mean, you read Andrew Rosenthal [the op-ed page editor] in the New York Times, I mean, he's an apologist. These are people who are constipated by their own ideology, that they cannot see that this man is telling a bold-faced lie right to their face....Nobody nails this guy. And when you read, as I said, if you read the op-ed page of the New York Times, you'd think you were living in a different country. These people don't do anything." It's no secret that most Hollywood celebrities are enthusiastic supporters of President Obama and his liberal policies, but on Fox's Cashin' In on Saturday, 1970s M*A*S*H star Wayne ("Trapper John") Rogers, now a successful businessman and investor, tore into the news media for shielding the President. [Wayne Rogers (Trapper John)] ”

THE SENATE 2014

SENATE DEMOCRATS FORCED TO DEFEND MORE SEATS A recent USA Today poll found that those opposed to ObamaCare were more enthusiastic about voting this November. In addition, a recent AP poll found that, since Obama's reelection, there was been a 10-point swing towards Republicans in voter self-identification. Today, 41% of voters consider themselves Democrat or Democrat-leaning, while 39% now say they are Republicans. Democrats had a 12-point advantage at the end of 2012. Verily I say unto you; what good to win the Senate but lose our soul by electing RINO? The Republicans need to pick up 6 seats to take control of the Senate. The party appears half-way there, with almost certain wins in West Virginia and South Dakota and a big advantage in Montana. Until recent months, most observers assumed that control of the Senate would rest on four deeply-red states; i.e. Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana and North Carolina. Under that scenario, the GOP would need to win three of those four contests to take the majority. In recent weeks, however, the Senate battleground has expanded at the expense of the Democrats. Democrat retirements in Iowa and Michigan have made those states very competitive. A recent poll in New Hampshire, which is home to many transplants from Massachusetts, put former GOP MA Sen. Scott Brown just six points behind incumbent Dem. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. In Colorado, popular GOP Rep. Cory Gardiner is challenging freshman Dem. Mark Udall in the swing state. The Democrat party is on the defensive in Colorado after two Democrat state Senators were ousted in recall elections last year as a result of their push for gun control. A third Democrat state Senator facing recall resigned, as her ouster would have given Republicans control of the state Senate. [etc] The GOP senate primaries are critical.  Where (true) Teapartiers are nominated; wins happen. And change happens.  For a few years anyway. Then they all ... you know, have to be replaced by true Teapartiers themselves. Say Amen.

I think I can, I think I can

My New To-Do Goal

l know;too old. But if you don't keep trying new stuff you just shrivel up.  OMF BACK!

BLOWING UP

Must Eat Brains                      “ Blowing Stuff Up When a woman gets a vibrator, it's viewed as a bit of naughty fun.  BUT when a guy orders a 24-Volt Sunbeam FKCU Master Pro 5000 blow-up latex doll with six-speed pulsating vagina, elasticized anus with non-drip semen collection tray, together with optional built-in realistic orgasm scream Dolby surround sound system, with huge breasts and pink nipples,............. he's called a pervert. Cuzzin Ricky  I'm reminded; watched a bit of a movie titled Lars and the Real Girl on Netflix last year. Dude falls in love with a sex doll and brings it with him to social affairs.  It actually disgusted me. Of course, that's obviously due to my inability to appreciate real art. Despite not earning back its initial budget in theatrical release, Lars and the Real Girl was critically acclaimed. It earned an Academy Award nomination for "Best Writing (Original Screenplay)", while Gosling received a Golden Globe Award nomination for "Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy" and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for "Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role". Wiki The sickest characters?  Them what tried to show their capacity for diversity by accommodating this sick freak's depravity.  Since I only watched about 20 minutes, however, it could be that they were all blown-up in the end, and I've misjudged.  Let me know. ”

End of Lent

Just guessing here boss I didn't bother to post any data to Fit Bit yesterday.  This is a guess.

One American News Network

“ OANN Dear Rodger, I was surprised to learn of this news network from a nephew and wondered if you'd heard of it. One America News Network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_America_News Fios 116 Regards, Tom (Mann) No, Tom, I'd never heard of OAN.  I do have Verizon FIOS, so I immediately dialed in 116.  I saw what appeared to be a BBC style news program; rapid fire news being delivered by news readers; deadpan expressions; no voice inflection editorializing.  Below are the news topics covered for 20 minutes and 20 seconds, beginning at 7:39 AM 0n April 21, 2014. At one point a news reader advised, "Remember, if you see any area of the news that is not being covered, contact us at ... ." Here's what The Daily Beast has to say. “The news used to be you would confirm your source multiple times, you would report the fact, and you would leave it up to the viewer to determine what we should or should not do. That is missing,” he (founder Charles Herring) said. Soon Rupert Murdoch’s behemoth won’t be the only conservative cable news station around, the founder of One America News Network, set to be unveiled at CPAC today, tells David Freedlander. A new right-wing news and talk station is coming to cable boxes later this year, The Daily Beast has learned.[...] One America News Network, on the other hand, has a two-tier mission: providing opinion-free straight news reporting and right-leaning talk shows. I'll let this commenter to the Beast column sum up. Apr 20, 2013 TheresaEaley Judging by the majority of the comments on here I find it quite amusing how threatened people (mostly libs, progressive, and Dems) seem to be by the thought of this new conservative news channel. Maybe they are worried that some of their ilk might watch and start questioning things. Thanks Tom ”