“…but if y’all want to feel something hard, Ah’m your man,” Sanford did not say while winking and flicking his lizard tongue.
“What I’m going to do is, in essence, look under the hood at a whole host of things,” he said. “What are y’all wearing?,” he did not say while breathing hard.
(The Hill)
On Wednesday, AT&T announced that it was dropping the price of the HTC First smartphone, which comes with Facebook Home built in, from $99 to 99 cents. Think about that: a new smartphone, priced to jump off the shelves at Dollar General. It’s a great deal, but it is also hugely embarrassing for Zuckerberg.
[snip]Even worse: More than half of Facebook Home’s 15,000 user reviews give the app just one star. A typical review:
Uninstalled after 1 min
Just takes a nice phone and ruins the interface. Waste of time.
So it was a solution looking for a problem.
The song is meh and NSFW. The video is wild with graphic violence. Despite the title screen, it is not full of sexual scenes. Not much different than a lot of big action movies, but the first person view really changes the feel.
The new and improved Third Amigo, Kelly Ayotte (R-NRA), is filling in Traitor Joe’s shoes very nicely. Instead of being in the pocket of AIPAC, she’s sitting comfortably in the pocket of Wayne LaPierre, having voted to kill off the very weakened background checks legislation and whatnot, even though 91% of her state was in favor of them.
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Quid Meets Quo
LaPierre, to thank her for her efforts, put up this very deceptive ad when polls showed that Ayotte’s favorability rating almost instantly fell by more than 50%:
But it didn’t seem to do much good: her poll numbers remained depressed.
The Plot Thickens
So in steps the American Future Fund to lend a helping hand:
Except… those everyday, ordinary New Hampshire voters are Republican activists per Think Progress:
Jayne Millerick is billed in the ad as a “New Hampshire mom” and says “Those attack commercials are partisan and deliberately misleading.” But Millerick is actually a Republican strategist who served as Chairman of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, a New Hampshire Republican Delegate in 2008, and was a member of New Hampshire Women for Mitt coalition in 2012. She is now a professional political consultant.
Judy Brown, another “New Hampshire mom” from the ad, served alongside Millerick in the Romney campaign and volunteered for Ayotte’s campaign in 2010. In 2013, she was named as the Nashua City Republican of the Year.
Barbara Dutile, a “Law Enforcement official,” is the wife of a Republican Sheriff in Grafton County who was Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) New Hampshire delegate in 2008, campaigned for Romney, and served as an alternate delegate. In 2012 she received an award from the Republican Party of New Hampshire.
The other individuals featured in the ad Richard Crate, Russ Larry, and Christopher Connelly, are all part of a group of law enforcement officials who have backed Ayotte and are featured on her Facebook page.
So what does it all mean? Well, like Traitor Joe who famously to be relevant, Kelly Ayotte wanted to be a power player in the Senate, but she poorly choose her issue to betray her constituents; they hate her, they really hate her. I can hardly wait to see who steps up next to prop her up.
Famous baby-mill operator One-L tells us that 9/11 And Benghazi were God’s judgment
“As someone with a doctorate in communication theory who spent years analyzing presidential speeches and studying political rhetoric, I’ve never seen a presidential speech that was more repulsively self-centered and insidiously self-serving; nor has a previous president operated in campaign mode so unrelentingly throughout his presidency, regardless of the occasion or circumstances.”
Janet Shaw Crouse was apparently asleep all during the Chimpy McStagger years. (American Thinker)
“What if it were… Malia and Sasha pinned down with morters coming in… wouldn’t we be asking different questions?”
Put Eric Bolling’s snuff-porn fapping aside, do these rhetorical questions have any relevancy at all? This is our free and unfettered media hard at work.
Radio Ink reports:
Then, a very high ranking Cumulus [the network carrying Limbaugh] official sent the following statement to Radio Ink, and asked not to be sourced. “Forty-eight of the top 50 network advertisers have “excluded Rush and Hannity” orders. Every major national ad agency has the same dictate.” That’s a stat Premiere Radio [Limbaugh's distributor] flat out denied. “That statement is completely inaccurate. A number of the top spenders in the medium use talk radio to promote their brands and sell product, and many of them use The Rush Limbaugh Show and The Sean Hannity Show as the driving force of their marketing efforts.”
This is essentially what drove Fox to push Glenn Beck off the air. You can still have a popular show, but without money coming in from advertisers, it doesn’t matter. If the top 50 advertisers have exclude orders in place, it means that Junkie Limbaugh’s show is selling premier airtime for less than a premium on a highly rated show. Supply-demand, invisible-hand, call it what you want, but that show is on a death spiral if this is true.
(Fact-Free 5ive) BENGHAAAZI! So, Fox is now making ads to give away to GOP?
Our long-time pal Zen Comix needs a helping hand in a cartooning contest, so it is time to vote:
Voting is free and easy, and won’t take much time. Visit the page with my submission, “Truth or Consequences”. On the right side of the page is a red button that says “VOTE”. Click on it, and they will ask you sign up and log in with your email address. I’d really appreciate it if you’d vote for my cartoon and spread the word! Thanks!
UPDATES: Please Note–Only votes placed on the contest website will be counted (Facebook “likes” are not included). Voting is open until 3pm ET May 16.
From what I can understand, you can only vote once. So please vote, but only once.
…need a little more air:
Jeffrey Skilling, the convicted former Enron Corp. chief executive officer, may get out of prison in as little as four years if a judge approves a deal with prosecutors over objections by victims of one of the biggest corporate frauds in U.S. history.
Yes, former CEO of Enron and current Federal Prisoner Jeffrey Skilling decided to buy his freedom by giving “up all claims to $40 million in forfeited assets.” Which when you consider Enron’s initial bill for fraud was $40 BILLION makes it, oh… 1/10 of 1% of his ill-gotten gains.
That’ll learn him.
(Petunia and Pals) If it’s Thursday, it must be Malkkkin. Also, too BENGHAAAZI!
Do your Jazzercize for Jeebus of Xanadu!
(Hat tip: @Argylestyle and @kelleibrat61 on Twitter)
Notorious baby mill operator, future resident of Bedlam, McCarthyite witch hunter, self-confessed confident of God, Miss November, the noted Constitutional Scholar, Bachmann-the-Nut is in settlement negotiations of a lawsuit that alleges that senior members of her presidential campaign stole a proprietary e-mail list of home-school families from the computer of an Iowa campaign staffer.
I’m sure one of the clauses will be that One-L admits no guilt in the matter. And another is that Marcus gets to keep the Judy Garland albums, but we are only guessing about that last part.
(TPM)
(Petunia and Pals) BENGHAAAZI!* Fox News analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters says that The Kenyan is “telling so many lies” that “they make Nigerian phone scammers look like paragons of integrity.”
Full disclosure: I went to High School with the late Ambassador Chris Stevens.
Tony Perkins, the Xristian Xrazie leader of the hate group Family Research Council, says that Chris Broussard, the sportscaster who claimed that Jason Collins was rebelling against God, was the one who showed “real courage.”
“WASHINGTON, May 7, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ — On the eve of the special election for a vacant U.S. House seat in South Carolina the chairman of the very conservative Government Is Not God – PAC has very publicly refused to endorse the confessed adulterer who as Commander-in-Chief of South Carolina deserted his post for several days for a “hook-up” he had arranged online.”
This is allegedly the window cleaner at a children’s hospital. Too cool. That’s wonderful.
(via the Twitters — Link from Scissorhead Dimitrios in the comments.)
In his column today, Glenn Reynolds wonders why the current economic malaise is not generating start-ups, they way that they did in the Carter years, when Apple, Microsoft, and others began:
When the economy was last this bad for this long — back in the dreaded Jimmy Carter era — there was one upside: While inflation raged and unemployment stayed troublingly high in America’s big businesses, a lot was going on in America’s garages. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were starting Apple, Bill Gates and friends were starting Microsoft and a variety of other new entrepreneurial ventures were lining up for takeoff.
So you might hope that there’s a similar silver lining in today’s economic Slough Of Despond. But so far, that hope would seem to be unjustified.
At any rate, the latest data indicate that start-ups are becoming rarer, not more common. A new report from JPMorgan economist Mike Feroli indicates that employment in start-ups is plunging. New jobs in the economy tend to come from new businesses, but we’re getting fewer new businesses. That doesn’t bode well.
Reynolds then goes on to blaming European-style socialism (taxes and regulation) for crushing the entrepreneurial spirit, and of course failing schools (ie, teachers unions). He says that the problem is cultural:
But I wonder if the biggest problem isn’t cultural. Since 2008, this country hasn’t celebrated achievement or entrepreneurialism. Instead, we’ve heard talk about the evils of the “1%” ” about the rapaciousness of capitalism, and the importance of spreading the wealth around. We’ve even heard that work in the public sector is somehow nobler than work in the private sector.
Well, Glenn, the problem might be more accurately described as a product of the policy of the United States. My friends in the start-up world have told me that as part of the agreement to get funding from the Venture Capitalists up on Sand Hill Road they must have a plan in place to not hire their engineering talent in the United States.
And why should they since the Clinton Administration forward there have been tax incentives and other incentives to move operations offshore? That’s policy, Glenn, policy that you promoted. And so in one swoop we are not only ensuring the rise of unemployment here in Silicon Valley and the rest of the country, we are also enabling low-wage countries to continue to exploit their workers. We’ve made the mistake of thinking of these low-wage countries as our partners, when in fact they are our competitors.
You decry that American kids are falling behind in math and science, and I agree, but I also see why. Here in the Valley, kids have grown up watching both of their parents work 80 hour weeks, forgo the family vacation because there is a new product release coming up, a tight schedule, a thousand reasons to work nights and weekends. They’ve watched their parents split up and get laid off, chewed up and spat out.
One of my friends from long ago, a brilliant man with a Computer Science degree from an A-list engineering college now works for Best Buy selling flat panel teevee machines, instead of designing them. So these kids, who should be the most likely to go into engineering and science, can see that it is a dead-end road. Kids are not stupid, Glenn. Why would they make the same mistakes as their parents?
Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey has had surgery to help him lose weight:
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent gastric band surgery in February to try to lose weight at the urging of his family.
The father of four agreed to the surgery, in which a tube was placed around his stomach to restrict the amount of food he can eat, after turning 50 in September, he told The New York Post for a story in Tuesday’s edition. He said he wasn’t motivated by thoughts of running for president.
“I’ve struggled with this issue for 20 years,” he told the newspaper. “For me, this is about turning 50 and looking at my children and wanting to be there for them.”
…and of course, the speculation of a bid in the 2016 Goat Rodeo is running amok, along with a revival of the fat slob meme.
You know, body image shaming is not just for women, men get a fair amount of it, too. Some see it as a puritanical failing, giving in to the sin of gluttony, of being out of control. Some see fat people and immediately feel morally superior, without even knowing that person’s history.
Can we just stop it please?
I tend to believe Christie when he says that he is doing it for his family. I hope that there is not some image consultant saying that no one will vote for a fat guy and fat-shaming him into having a faily controversial procedure just for the sake of body image. If that’s the case, it’s pretty appalling.
Chris Christie is still a jerk, his policies are retrograde, his personality is abrasive (OK, he’s an asshole); there are a thousand reasons to dislike him and damn few to vote for him. But his being fat is not one of them.
“[If the Boy Scouts don't maintain their anti-gay policy] then what do we stand for as a country?”
–Rep. Steve Palazzo (R-MS)
Palazoo is such a schmuck, he’ll probably get his dick caught in the zipper of his body bag. Only guessing, of course.
(Fox’s Fact-free 5ive) “The media are basically the college pals who are tossing Obama’s backpack,” says media personality.
Rev. Fishsticks says that The Kenyan is setting up the stage to take guns away from Xristian Xrazies and classify them as terrorists.
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