HERE, now...

UNITE HERE, formerly The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) and UNITE, (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees), formed in 2004, asked Mitt Romney last week if he would consider speaking at their upcoming 2013 convention near their offices in New York City.

Mr. Romney stormed past the group in a huff.  “I guess that fellow is still upset about that video one of our members made last spring.”  Said one of the union officials.  Someone rescuing a stack of plates nearly knocked over by the hubbub exclaimed, “Hey, stick your foot up THIS, asshole!” flipping the international single digit.

Mr. Romney was reported to have been on his way to the Cayman Islands.

It’s always something…

Hair on fire

f'ing jackass

I thought I would share some Maddow today...

As of yesterday, the overarching question from the right was reduced to this: the talking points made available to U.S. officials four days after the attack were slightly edited, with the word "extremists" replacing the word "terrorists." This, Republicans have argued, is critically important because, well, just because. The "scandal" conservatives are comparing to Watergate has narrowed to a discussion over word choice.

On the Sunday shows, Republicans said identifying who changed one word to another is a question that demands an answer. As it turns out, the answer is now available.

The intelligence community -- not the White House, State Department or Justice Department -- was responsible for the substantive changes made to the talking points distributed for government officials who spoke publicly about the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, the spokesman for the director of national intelligence said Monday.

The unclassified talking points on Libya, developed several days after the deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, were not substantively changed by any agency outside of the intelligence community, according to the spokesman, Shawn Turner.

The talking point initially pointed to al Qaeda involvement, but officials didn't want to divulge too much in non-classified materials, especially in light of classified sourcing, so the word "extremists" was used. Who made the change? The intelligence community. Why did they make the change? For entirely legitimate reasons related to intelligence and national security.

Why is this scandalous? It's not.

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VAWA set to expire at year’s end.

Yes, the Senate actually approved, or reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in April of 2012 (no thanks to the 31 Republican men voting against it). 

Senator Patty Murray, the Democratic point person on VAWA, is trying to foster bipartisan support for the extension of the bill.  Having “fallen and hit a door” recently she is less enthusiastic that Republicans will allow the VAWA to be extended.

Steve Benen, from the Maddow Blog reported recently that…

” Republicans lost badly in the 2012 elections, thanks in large part to the largest gender gap in modern times, but if that changed GOP attitudes towards legislation affecting women, the party is hiding it well.

Remember, the House could pass the bipartisan Senate bill, co-written by a liberal Democrat (Vermont's Pat Leahy) and a conservative Republican (Idaho's Mike Crapo), but the House GOP is convinced the bill is too nice to the LGBT community, immigrants, and Native Americans, so Republican leaders won't even bring it to the floor.

But the weak, watered-down House version can't pass the Senate, and it's already sparked a veto threat from President Obama.”

WTF is wrong with the Republican Party?   Love the name, ‘Crapo’.  Oh, and hey, Patty - you really need to be careful with those falls and doors.

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WTF is that?

It was finally determined that the black, acrid plume of smoke emitting from the Nation’s capitol building today was coming from Senator John McCain’s ass. 

Still smarting from losing to Barack Obama in 2008 and his countless political gaffs (who can forget his choosing that cretin Sarah Palin?) since then, and now the hubbub about Benghazi, McCain has finally “let it all out” in a giant plume of hateful caustic black gas from his bowels.

McCain was seen tottering down the corridor to of the Capitol attic, leaking smoke out of his ass and muttering...”I hate that fucking Obama, I hate him I hate him I hate him….”

“My gosh, that fellow certainly has a lot of hatred built up in him.”  Said a senator who wished to remain blameless nameless.  “This is stinking up the beltway, and to stand out as a stink in the beltway it has to really, really stink.”

Originally folks thought the smoke might be coming from Grover Norquist’s office of Americans for Tax Reform over on 12^th street as he was burning democrat’s tax proposals and resumes from congressmen who had reneged on their pledge to His Majesty Norquist not to raise taxes. 

It is also rumored that McCain is in gastric distress about possibly being demoted from being co-chair of the Senate National Security Caucus.

It’s always something

See Y'all Later...

A letter to Texas.  Found this on FB.  Thought I would share.  Kinda blurry - click on the letter to enlarge it.

Wonder if they'll still have 'Austin City Limits'?  Maybe it will become the country of Mexas....

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A new America...

The state of Ohio has undergone revisions to its boundaries.  It has now taken on a facsimile to the outline of the United States.  This is because only those votes in Ohio will count and therefore it will essentially become “little America”.  Notice that the boundary revisions result in two coastlines, just like the original.

In the next election the only votes that will count will be from those living in Ohio.  The winner of the election will only need 11 electoral votes.  This was seen as prudent my most lawmakers and hailed by bipartisan pundits as a step in the right direction to unify America.  “Now you won’t have those stupid ass clowns in the south or the hippies on the left coast making important decisions for the nation’s leader,”  quoted one politician who chose to remain blameless nameless.  When asked about the possibility of a 10-10 tie, he answered, “Well, you know it’s been awhile since we’ve seen a good old-fashioned pistol duel, like Old Hamilton and that Aaron Burr fella.”

Other benefits to this sweeping change are many.  To name a couple, the candidates can save on fuel costs, only traveling across Ohio to campaign and US citizens can remain in bloodied fisticuff mode throughout the country but the only fighting that will have an effect will be the knock-down drag-out partisan fighting in Ohio. 

Some pundits predict that Ohio will see a surge of white folks moving there to take up residence so far as to establish residence.  They will of course, move out afterwards but this should bring a real boost to Ohio’s real estate economy.  It’s not known just how the Ohio hinterland will accommodate millions of new homes.  “Well, I expect that folks will build the cheapest ass structure they can if they’re just establishing an address.”  Says one Ohio senator.  “Hell, look at it this way; we may just see a whole bunch of white folks moving in and then renting to their families.  That way, the nation of voters who count can be mostly white again, which is the way it was a century ago.  We just don’t need all them people who are not like us having their say in our country’s politics.  You talk about ‘taking our country back’, now that’d be something.”

So, we’ll see how this all plays out in the next four years.   If Mitt Romney gets elected this will be the least of anyone’s worry or notice.  It’s unknown where all those children born out of rape will live though…maybe Ohio.

It’s always something…