Millionaire Mitt Romney Out of Touch with Average Americans. An Average Joe Carries Around & Flashes a Big Wad of Jack in a Giant Roll...

Over the weekend, "Mr. Obama pulled out a wad of bills that looked almost large enough to make a dent in the national debt as he browsed for pork treats [again with the pork this month] alongside Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2207301/Is-deficits-hiding-Obama-whips-massive-wad-cash-pay-sausages-deli.html

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Who's the "Boss"? Hot Pics of Ex-Wife Camille Turn Kelsey Grammer Into a Real-Life Version of His Hot-Headed Chicago Mayor TV Character!

He's Mayor Tom Kane. And he's one of the craziest and most ruthless and hot-headed politicians you'll ever want to see.  When his Chief of Staff leaks some unfavorable information to the media, the Mayor has the guy whacked out!  When a local union leader won't play ball, the Mayor tries to twist his damn ear off!  When his daughter is using drugs, the Mayor rats her out and sends her ass to the hoosegow, just because it benefits him politically.  What a piece of work, this guy!

And in a classic case of life imitating art, actor Kelsey Grammer this week became his Mayor Kane character from Starz' "Boss" series after getting a load of some hot photos of ex-wife Camille Grammer (pictured above and below; link below).  It seems that Kelsey was in the CNN Building getting ready for an interview on Piers Morgan when he took a gander at some hot Camille pics (used in the show's open) and reportedly stormed his way right out of the joint and out on to the street!

The tantrum left Morgan completely in the lurch, without a guest to interview in his next segment.  Meantime, Kelsey was outta there, never to return.  "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Camille, BTW, is 13 years Kelsey's junior.

And it seems pretty clear to me why he got so hot under the collar over there at CNN:  Dude must have thought, "WTF was I thinking when I divorced those -- errrr -- that broad!"  But I can't blame him for going ape.  Hell, who wouldn't blow their stack over that rack?

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/09/kelsey-grammer-walks-out-on-piers-morgan/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2206021/Camille-Grammer-shows-ample-cleavage-bikini--ex-husband-Kelsey-flees-building-picture-her.html

Call Her Big Fatty with a BAD Case of the Munchies: Lady Gaga Tokes on Marijuana Joint, Gets Really Fat in Holland. Good Grief!

For cryin' out loud, she could give us a break, get a bigger outfit, and try to hide it like Elvis did! I was shocked to see these pictures from a concert in Amsterdam this week showing a big fat Lady Gaga struttin' her portly new stuff after taking a big drag off a damn doobie! (Links below; pics above)

The Tuesday concert first had the 26-year-old Gaga up there on stage rifling through a sack of presents from fans and finding a baggy with a big, long Reggie inside. "Is it real?," Gaga reportedly asked the crowd.

And since there was only one way to find out, apparently, Gaga fired up that Fatty faster than George Foreman ordering a platter of cheeseburgers and "took several long drags before throwing it back into the audience."

Pictures from later in the concert (she changed costumes several times) appear to show the frightening consequences well known to any devoted la la, limbo-likin' Lord of the paca lolo: Those damn pesky post-Pato munchies! 

From the sorry looks of it, Gaga has recently packed on dozens of extra pounds to her formerly short, skinny frame. At first blush, I thought this was actually a Kelly Osbourne concert before reading the UK Daily Mail's headline. At least Kelly was Born This Way.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/19/lady-gagas-latest-antics-to-scandalize-fans-is-smoking-marijuana-on-stage/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2205629/Lady-Gaga-shows-new-fuller-figure-gaining-30lbs-favourite-carnivorous-creation.html

At Least the Tea Partiers Have Largely Beat It: Leftist "Occupiers" Make Jackasses of Themselves on "Birthday." These Goofs Need to Get Some New Material!

I'll say one thing for the deranged right-winger tea partiers: After cropping up in 2010 and raising a ruckus, they've since mostly crawled back into the tea bag. Same can't be said, unfortunately, for the leftist 20 percenter devotees and other freaks comprising the so-called "occupy" movement...

Purportedly celebrating their one-year "birthday," these fools descended on the Big Apple this week, much to the amusement of civilized human beings everywhere (links below).  "The protesters sure acted like a bunch of babies," crowed the New York Post. And too bad the past 12 months haven't provided them with much in the way of new or clever ideas, either...

"From temper tantrums to taunting cops with doughnuts" (so highly original), these louts "allowed their infantile antics to overshadow any message against corporate greed," noted the Post.

In short, the only leftist card these rocket scientists still had left to play was to try to provoke the cops ("Over here, copper!"). And then to try again. And again. And again. And again...

Many of the protesters, reports the Post, "spent the day provoking cops," first by "holding rods dangling doughnuts from fishing lines" (pictured above).  And since donut-and-coffee jokes about cops have never been tried before, these creeps doubled down, setting up a "doughnut-laden table" with a sign reading, "NYPD Welcome Center."

For good measure, these nuts also trotted out one of their molding oldies from 2011, unleashing carefully concocted chants of "Fuck the Police!" 

For that one, I'm just wondering if the surviving members of legendary rap group N.W.A. have ever tried to sue these occupier punks for unauthorized use of that phrase? But, truth be told, how would you ever serve a civil lawsuit summons on a creature who's already had the ol' cuffs slapped on him?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/over_here_copper_mmm_HRBg7c1n8kYXjphAYA9WZO
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/occupy-wall-street-a-frenzy-that-fizzled/
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/09/17/occupy-wall-street-anniversary-hundreds-gather-in-new-york/

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Obama: "If [gop-ers] Want Me to Walk the Dog or Wash the Car, I'm Happy to Do It!" But Methinks Rather gop-ers Should Enlist a Few Broads...

And regardless of what such foolishness from Obama and his democrat party even means (don't know, don't care) or why an American president is spouting it, I have a slightly different proposal for the leftist individual we currently have as a  president...

I don't really care how dirty the car is these days down at One Pennsylvania Avenue or how much the dog may need to go outside -- just load up that ride, including that dog (Luke, Beau, Roscoe, whatever it's called), and head straight out to pasture somewhere back in Illinois, "Mr. President".

Hell, I might've even considered voting to send you directly on this little roadtrip myself, if only Romney wasn't the hapless alternative come November.  But don't worry, I won't be voting for you either, Barry.  No matter how much manual labor you offer to perform over the next six weeks.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-if-republicans-want-me-walk-dog-or-wash-their-car-im-happy-do-it_652499.html

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Mite Court: "Bug-Infested Witness Shuts Down Detroit Courtroom"!

Some members of the public just don't get it.  It's called courtroom decorum.  It means there are standards for how you dress and carry on in a court of law.  Shabby clothes -- highly discouraged.  Large cleavage displays and other forms of frontal nudity -- not permitted.  Cursing -- forgetaboutit.  And walking in the joint with a big mess of bugs crawling all over you -- generally frowned upon as well...

But that reportedly didn't stop one Detroit man from recently getting his bug on right there in a local courtroom (link below)!  And we're not just talking about a few gnats circling around this bugman -- we're talking "bug-infested" from head to toe when he "showed up for proceedings."

This dragonfly dude apparently needed to be in court to appear as a witness, but even that didn't stop the judge from quickly "evacuating" the courtroom and having all personnel bug out for home "after a bailiff spotted the man with insects crawling on him."

The waspy witness's daughter says her old man's bug issues stem from a bedbug infestation at home, but it doesn't sound like court workers are necessarily buying that line of vermin.  In particular, one court staffer told local WWJ Newsradio 950 that "it's not yet clear what kind of bugs were on the man," stating that the human bug infestation spotted on the man may have included "cockroaches and fleas."

The court, meantime, is making its best effort at remediation, with "a pest control company [being] called in to spray."  However, the jury's still reportedly out on when in the future the courtroom might be able to reopen.

But let me take this opportunity to put a bug in the ear of young law students everywhere:  Never call a fleabag as a witness. And if your case depends on the testimony of a giant stinkbug with human legs, then think long and hard about the possibility of dismissal.  With prejudice.

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/08/23/bug-infested-witness-shuts-down-detroit-court-room/

Pork Dork: St. Louis Man Allegedly Whacks Out His Own Uncle in Argument Over a Damn Plate of Pork Steaks!

43-year-old John Cunningham (pictured above) really knows his pork steaks.  And so when this mean-ass meatman is fixin' to toss a platter of pork steaks on the ol' grill, don't you trying telling him that said steaks are really pork chops or some other cut of swine. Lest you want this pork afficionado to go all butcherblock on your ass (allegedly)!

It actually sounds like this story began lovely enough, with Cunningham paying a nice little visit to the house of his uncle (44-year-old Lessie Lowe) and other family members to cook up some eats late Sunday night (link below). But alas: Enter pork steak. And all hell broke loose from there...

As Cunningham prepared to cook up a big mess a' meat, a thorny point of porky pig contention reportedly reared its ugly pork snout: Cunningham maintained that the meat cuts at issue were pork steaks, while Uncle simply did not agree, retorting that nephew was in fact totin' a slew a' pork chops.

Apparently not being familiar with the tired but true old phrase, "we can agree to disagree," the two men took to fightin' (reportedly) and "had to be separated by someone else in the home." But Nephew Cunningham, being ever the prideful porkbelly that he is, wasn't about to let this meatball matter lie...

But what's a piss-and-vinegar porker like him to do? Maybe re-engage Uncle in oral argument? Or resume the fisticuffs? Or even give Uncle a little chumpchop cheapshot? Nope, none of those things. Instead, Nephew chose the next most logical option -- meaning he allegedly scurried off "to another part of the home," got his meathooks on a shotgun, and came out blastin'!

Clipped by the piece, Uncle allegedly hit the floor faster than a porkshank at a Vegan convention -- later dying at the hospital. Meantime cops have slapped a meaty murder charge on Nephew's pork carver ass, while also taking the time to the inform the media that Nephew Cunningham was correct that the meat in question was, indeed, pork steak. Glad 5-0's around to clear that up for us. Hate loose burnt ends over here.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-louis-police-jennings-man-shot-uncle-to-death-over/article_a281ed60-fc21-11e1-b1fc-001a4bcf6878.html#.UE-j_z3xBwU.facebook

[Postscript: Thanks to Joe G in St. Louis for passing this story along.]

A Day Late & $5 Trillion Short: Obama's Response to the Egypt & Libya Embassy Attacks Epitomizes His Failed Presidency...

How convenient.  When Obama finally trotted out mid-morning Wednesday to grace us with his thoughts on the Tuesday 9/11 attacks on U.S. territory abroad (the U.S. Consulate in Libya and the U.S. embassy in Egypt ), he focused entirely on the later-occurring Libyan attack with not a mention of Tuesday morning's Egyptian attack!  The attack in Egypt, of course, was the one where radical Islamic thugs overran the U.S. embassy, burned the American flag, and hoisted their own Al Qaeda-inspired flag atop the joint.

I can only surmise that Obama's deliberate ignoring of that attack and his complete focus on the later-occurring Libyan attack was intended to give him political cover for his disgraceful failure to say anything about these attacks on the day they actually occurred -- which, BTW, just happened to be 9/11.  By treating the Egyptian attack as if it had never occurred, he and his minions (including his complicit lapdog "mainstream" media, all in line!) were able to claim Wednesday that he had simply waited "until all the facts were in" on the Libyan attack before he said anything.

What a laughable load of bunk! [I actually just laughed!] That's because the Egyptian attack did occur, and Obama should have had his ass out there on TV on Tuesday afternoon condemning it.  As it stands, he still hasn't said anything about it! Not to mention, the Libyan attack also occurred during the day Tuesday, and we first knew that at least one person had been killed there by the early evening (also) on Tuesday.

For Obama to have said absolutely nothing Tuesday about either situation was completely deplorable and embarrassing, as noted in this space Tuesday night (Wednesday post).  As Obama and his surrogates seemed so fond of saying back in 2008, you can't put lipstick on a pig, Mr. President.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/obama-statement-on-attack-on-libya-consulate/2012/09/12/2460a58c-fcd2-11e1-98c6-ec0a0a93f8eb_story.html

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Anniversary of 9/11, Two U.S. Embassies Attacked in the Middle East, One American Dead: So Where's the American President on Tuesday?

M-I-A. Just like so much of the past 4 years.  Off campaigning somewhere.  Too busy to speak on such things on the day they occurred.  And too busy with his political schedule (reportedly) to grant a requested meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a potential (probable) Israeli strike on Iran lurks dangerously close.

You know, I've said this before: If you don't intend to vote for stand-for-nothing gop-er presidential candidate Mitt Romney, I get it. I don't intend to vote for him either (I'm goin' third party candidate)...

But what I also don't get is how any American who's not a part of the leftist 20 percenter base of the democrat party (i.e. about 20% of the American population) could possibly vote in 2012 for the reelection of the individual we currently have as president.

He's been that awful as a Commander-in-Chief.  And I'm convinced that he will ultimately go down (along with W Bush) as one of the worst, most ill-qualified presidents in American history.  30, 40, 50 years from now -- do you really want to look back as having voted for this individual's reelection?  I think I'll take a pass on that particular distinction.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j6DacmYa1ZQojLmahnf_JisGWVjg?docId=CNG.fa3469febe41919ad806e34a5f19827b.4b1
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/09/11/cairo-us-embassy-protesters-prophet-mohammad/70000126/1#.UE-AdkbCz8A
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/white-house-declines-netanyahu-request-to-meet-with-obama.premium-1.464328

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WHACK the Scuzjob: "Murderer Who Kidnapped & Raped His Teenage Victim Begs Judge for Death Penalty." Agreed!

I'm on record over here as generally being opposed to the death penalty because sometimes innocent criminal defendants get put to death (which I think is an intolerable result in a civilized society)...

But when it comes to confessed Subhuman Sewer Slimes like this 34-year-old William Davis in Florida, who admits raping and murdering 19-year-old Fabiana Malave in 2009, I say give him his Whacking Papers yesterday. 

Now, I'm not saying he needs to be tortured first or placed on the rack or drawn 'n quartered or anything like that. Since after all, we do in this country have an 8th Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment...

But: Firing squad; a good hanging; or even a clean beheading -- any of those work for me; quite like the much, much worse horror that he inflicted upon his poor innocent victim worked just fine for him.  Bye, bye, Sleaze-Swine!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2201397/Bipolar-murderer-begs-judge-death-penalty-knows-bad-happen-goes-meds.html

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"He's a Very Sick Man, He Needs a Lot of Help": Peeping Tom Admits to Setting Up Camp Under Floorboards of Woman's Trailer Home to Watch Her Use the Toilet!

A Salem, Massachusetts woman thought she heard a critter scurrying around beneath her trailer recently. She says she knew something was down there, so she took a gander down the floor air duct in the trailer's crapper.  But what the startled woman saw down that duct was a head -- a human one -- and wouldn't ya know that the head looked her square in the eye and starting talkin'!...

"Hello," the courteous head reportedly said to the woman (links below). "What are you doing? Watching me go the bathroom?", she shot back.  But the head was quick to reassure her that the head's eyes hadn't yet had time to get a good peak:  "No, no, no, I just got set up [and] I didn't see anything yet," confided the head.

Cops have since placed the head upon the shoulders of 44-year-old Christian Hobbs of Orleans, Massachusetts (mug shot above). Hobbs has reportedly admitted that it was him down there under the shithouse (pic of trailer below). 

He also stands accused of setting up a "lewd network of video equipment" down there, aimed at spying on the female resident and her four-year-old boy (including one alleged recording where the boy was nude).

Cops says Hobbs became smitten with Mama when he was performing some handyman work at the trailer a few weeks earlier.  But alas, Mama rebuffed his advances and his requests for dates.

So, naturally, it was off the crawl space for Hobbs (what else is a jilted handyman pervert to do?) so that he get as close to the broad as he possibly could without a date.

And just for special added weirdness, Hobbs allegedly lived multiple days down under the trailer -- "living off power bars" and various "beverages" as he illegally surveilled Mama and the kid. He even reportedly had a good stock of "tissues" down there, although I don't even want to speculate or go there...

Suffice it to say: "He's a very sick man, he needs a lot of help," said Mama, as Hobbs now faces a bevy of criminal charges from the incident, including manufacture of child pornography. And for that charge especially, this creep should really be looking forward to his hoosegow stay -- since inhabiting low places appears to be right up this skunk's alley.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120816/NEWS03/708169913
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2190210/Christian-Hobbs-Woman-catches-peeping-tom-spies-her-toddler-son-hole.html

Grades from the Final Night (Thank God) of These Two Parties' Conventions: Barack Obama, Joe Biden & John Kerry...

First it was the republic partisan party last week, then the democrat party wrapped up its national convention Thursday night. But the only party I'm concerned with today is the one I intend to throw now that these two annoyingly grating and endless events are finally and actually over.  I feel like I just completed a two-week-long marathon in the Sahara desert followed by 12 rounds in the ring with each of the Klitschko brothers.  To paraphrase a line from the old Muppet Show, it's like some kind of torture to have to watch these clowns...   

1.  John Kerry (losing 2004 democrat party presidential candidate & current US Senator):  C-.  The word disingenuous comes immediately to mind (e.g., Obama keeps promises, has led on Iran, has a big supporter in Bibi Netanyahu, hasn't pursued any neo-con "nation building" like Romney will, blah blah blah), as well as fairly bitter and mean-spirited.  You know, watching this goof rant on and on at the top of his lungs only reinforced for me the fact that is the God-awful presidential choices that these two rotten parties have foisted upon us like a hoosegow warden for the last four elections:  John Kerry (with sleazebag John Edwards as the running mate)?  Al Gore?  W Bush? Tired Old Man McCain? O-Freakin'-Bama? Stand-for-nothing, King Flipflopper Mitt Romney?  Jeezal peezal, talk about a pathetic motley crew.  A Parade of Horribles.  A damn Creepshow. Little wonder this country is in the sick state it's in (sorry Jeeves to end a sentence on a preposition).

2.  Joe "Hope and Chains" Biden (walking gaffe reel and the most ill-qualified vice president since Dan Quayle):  A- (!!!).  My highest grade given to any speech in this convention.  And Biden earns it for one simple reason and one reason alone:  Despite a fair amount of stuttering and stammering about and almost as much shouting and screaming as John Kerry (collectively earning Biden the "minus" in my grade), Biden actually made it all the way through a speech without any major gaffes! (At least that I heard). And over the span of almost 40 minutes! After witnessing something miraculous like that, the grade given needs to match the special nature of the occasion. 

3.  Barack Obama (hands down one of the two worst presidents of my lifetime, along with W Bush, and I'm old enough to have lived through Jimmy Carter):  C.  Not a bad speech by any means, but also mostly the same type of speech I've heard over and over from this guy for years now.  To wit: Lots of generalized, non-specific, and seemingly nonpartisan and/or centrist lofty rhetoric from a hyper-partisan who's perhaps the most left-wing president in American history.

For me, I didn't buy that act in 2008, and by now it's just tired, old and hollow.  This stuff works decently enough at motivating the politically ignorant to "feel good" emotionally, but accomplishes little else.  Far fewer swing voters in 2012 are as susceptible to that playbook as they were in 2008. That's why this election will be incredibly closer than 2008 -- I'm thinking more and more Obama wins by winning the electoral college while Romney wins the popular vote. Not that I have any dog in this Fight (of the partisan Assclowns).

And I'm actually now in a very good mood: Four more years before I have to sit through another round of these week-long partisan freakshows. That's Exhibit 1 for any non-believers out there -- there is a compassionate God above.

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Wed Nite at the democrat party Convention: Grades for the Speeches of Slick Willie, Cherokee Chief Dan George, & Birth Control Broad...

This night, publicity build-up wise, was all about Bill Clinton's speech.  Very telling that Obama (who definitely does not like the Clintons) would permit the Old Man to take such a prominent role at this (Obama's) convention.  It shows most starkly Obama's realization that he's in real danger in the November election, even if he does still cling (in my opinion) to about a 55% chance of winning reelection even despite his terrible presidency (the reasons for that are multi-factorial and well beyond the scope of tonight's post).

So this was "Big Dog" Windbag's night, and it got me thinking: Does anyone else reading this post even know whom the other speakers are (Sandra Sponge Fluke and Medicine Moll Elizabeth Warren)???  I do, but I follow this crap every day ("God" help me for that -- as boos, hisses and catcalls suddenly emanate from the democrat party convention floor). If you couldn't care less about Fluke and Warren, then feel free to skip on down to #3 below for my thoughts on Slick Willie tonight...

1.  Sandra Fluke (Obama surrogate, prophylactic fanatic, and Georgetown law student):  C-.  Very short speech, with very little memorable, for better or for worse.  Methinks the democrat party wisely limited her so that she would have little time to gush much in the way of provocatively left-wing social policy blather.  These folks at the democrat party, after all, are very good at hiding whom they really are and what they truly believe and want to accomplish.  Yet, I still noted a few nuggets from Fluke in her seemingly 2-minute speech:  She broadly cast the gop-er party as being made up of a bunch of "bigoted extreme voices."  Pot meet kettle, BC babe!  She also credited Obama as "having our back."  That's actually a very true statement from her perspective.  I've often said that if you're an American leftist 20 percenter (i.e. the base of the democrat party), then Obama's probably been a pretty good president for ya.  But what about the other 80% of us?!?

2.  Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts U.S. Senate candidate and proud Native American):  C+.  Now here's a bona fide devout leftist 20 percenter.  Remember when Obama told us that if you have a successful small business, "you didn't build that" -- rather the federal government necessarily played an integral role?  Well, Obama stole that line of thinking straight from Warren, who first spewed it a year or more earlier.  (She should tell Barry sometime, "Get your own damn material!").  But Obama could come right back at her, as she used Obama's favorite leftist catchphrase, "fair share," over and over tonight.  But I'll say one thing about Warren as a speaker: That she really believes in the leftist agenda definitely comes across, and very sincerely. It's a world view that I have long ago eschewed, but if you can look me in the eye and convince me that you truly believe all that stuff, then at least I won't ya a liar (all highly sketchy past Native American ancestry claims aside), and I'm also liable to add a "+" to your speech grade.

3.  Bill Clinton (President Slimeball himself and probably the most talented pure politician and political performer that I've seen in my lifetime):  B+.  To this day, the sleazy yet talented and hugely popular Bubba remains the only presidential candidate from either party for whom I have ever voted (albeit that was back when I was just a stupid, only partially educated kid in 1992).  Clinton tonight was his usual charismatic (and usual highly long-winded) self, doing his best to conjure up old images and sounds from 15-20 years ago concerning the successful aspects of his 1990s presidency (and the reasons for them), as well as to apologize for Obama's failure to create any such successes himself (e.g., balanced budgets, bipartisan welfare reform, etc.).  (My favorite line from Clinton tonight was "[we can't afford a] double down on trickle down" -- an outstanding catchphrase that I wish I'd thought of and written myself, frankly).

Only problem?  Clinton and Obama are two radically different presidents.  Clinton, largely a non-ideologue, was driven always by the polls and his own popularity, by an incessant fixation on whether history would remember his presidency as a success.  So when the gop-ers roared to a shocking House majority in 1994 as a rebuke to the policies of the first two years of Clinton's presidency, Clinton made a sharp turn to the political center and bipartisanship, resulting in his easy reelection in 1996.  Obama, when faced with a complete 1994 repeat in 2010, took the opposite approach: He doubled down on his leftist agenda much like the devoted leftist ideolgue that he is, quite content to allow the two years that followed to be an illustration of some of the very worst Washington gridlock in American history...

Listen folks, we won't reach a balanced budget or ever start reducing our stifling $16 trillion national debt until we have two willing parties in DC full of conviction to get those things done.  The right-winger gop-er party has showed scant interest in achieving such results in recent years, but likewise has Obama and his far-leftist controlled democrat party.

I think Clinton is a scuz, and I don't like the man, but after the two terrible presidents we've seen the past 12 years, I've resorted to saying in the past few years, "I'd actually take Clinton," at least compared to what we've had.  I doubt much of any statement could possibly be more telling concerning the pathetic double whammy these two shameful parties have foisted on us for 12 long years now.  Will America ever recover, I often ask nowadays.  Ain't lookin' so good, truth be told.  And no amount of dusting off of old fossils like Bill Clinton is going change any of that.

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Last Week the gop-ers, This Week the democrat party, Gets the Full Rager Treatment for its National Convention. Grade Card Time from Tuesday Night...

I figured I better give a little equal time, a little equal consideration, a little equal opportunity, to the leftist 20 percenter democrat party this week at its national convention and the speeches that I have a chance to see.  I want them to receive their "fair share."  Because the democrat party is just that special.  Especially on the very day when the U.S. national debt surpassed $16 trillion ("Un-American!", as the ultra-bipartisan visionary Barack Obama might say (and has said previously)).  Let's Get It On!...

1.  Kathleen Sebelius (Obama HHS secretary and Kansas redlegger):  D.  Last week I referred to several of the right-winger gop-er convention speakers as the "Boring White Guys" and gave them all collectively a "D" grade.  Well, Sebelius is a very "Boring White Woman," both generally and as a speaker.  Completely cliched defense of the Obamacare monstrosity that a majority of Americans hate.  They couldn't get the hook out fast enough for this broad.

2.  Rahm Emanuel (current Chicago mayor and former Obama DC enforcer/Chief of Staff):  C+/C.  "Once in a generation president," Emanuel trumpeted Obama.  I couldn't disagree more, since there have been two presidents from the years of my generation and lifetime who have equally stunk up the White House: (1) Barry and (2) his predecessor, W.  Still, however, I gave Emanuel the grade I did since he sounded like Lincoln and Douglas all rolled into one in comparison to Sebelius' speech right before him.

3.  Martin O'Malley (Maryland governor):  C-.  This guy offers more stupid grinning per minute than Pat Robertson at a Joker comic book convention.  What the hell?  Only escapes a "D" because this goof did seem to be enjoying himself up there.  Glad someone was.

4.  Julian Castro  (San Antonio mayor; pictured above):  A-/B+ (a "90," which I believe is the same I gave to gop-er Marco Rubio last week).  Castro generally spoke in fairly innocuous political terms throughout (coupling his staunch support for Obama by actually using words and phrases such as "God," "rugged individualism" and "bootstraps," which surely made the leftist 20 percenter democrat party base absolutely cringe and probably want to take out some PAC Ads against this young Hispanic).  The generic rhetoric made it difficult for me to gauge where the hell this guys stands on much of anything -- reminding me very much of 2008 and pre-2008 Obama speeches (although I knew exactly whom that guy was back then given his voting record).  Still, though, the personable-seeming Castro came across as a very talented speaker with a bright political future.  I'll be interested to see more of substance from this cat going forward.

[Quick aside:  Does the democrat party have any talented young up-and-comers who aren't city mayors?  (See Castro and Corey Booker).  If so, whom?  Realize, before blathering any response to me, that my definition of "talented young up-and-comer" is probably not the same as the typical leftist or right-winger partisan.]

5.  Michelle Obama (the First Dietician; pictured at top):  B.  A decent enough performance (she seemed proud to be speaking to her country tonight), but missed out on the opportunity to lob very many tacit bombs the way of the opponent, quite unlike Ann Romney (who fired off plenty and fairly effectively).  As a result, I found the speech a bit boring, if admittedly well-delivered (and she did look quite attractive and positively stunning), as I slammed down a big carryout plate of fried fish and chips from the joint down the street... 

Truth be told, I had this one down for a "B-" until Michelle actually provided a big laugh near the end of the speech with this absurdity: "For my Barack, there's no such thing as us and them -- He doesn't care if you're a democrat or a republican or none of the above."  The hell he doesn't, ma'am. The hell he doesn't.  And that's why he fails.  (But from me, extra credit always goes to those who make me laugh).

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"Touching You, Touching Me" Lyric Puts the Kibosh on Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" at Penn State Football Games. A Blessing in Disguise?

Penn State has reportedly decided to ban the playing of famous karaoke-type favorite "Sweet Caroline" at all school home football games.  The ban will extend for at least this season, if not longer (link below). The obvious reason: The Neil Diamond standard's use of the lyric "touching you, touching me" in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse and molestation scandal.

Now, while Sandusky (and the inactions of former PSU head coach Joe Paterno) have absolutely buried Penn State and its football program, I wonder just how many students and alums will be losing any sleep over this latest piece of fallout (i.e. the "Sweet Caroline" ban)?

They may call Neil Diamond the "Jewish Elvis" (a cool moniker, truth be told), and I may like a number of Diamond songs, but "Sweet Caroline" is the pits -- one of the most positively annoying rock songs in the genre's history.  I cannot stand it! Even hearing its Intro starts to make my blood boil. And it's only made worse by the fact that one can't ever attend a karaoke event without the damn thing playing!

However, and leaving completely aside the Jerry Sandusky scandal, the current news item from Penn State should at least result in one positive by leading to universities and pro teams nationwide taking a fresh look at banning highly annoying rock/pop songs from sporting events...

Start with these five (right after "Sweet Caroline"), why dontcha:  (1) "Start Me Up," The Rolling Stones;  (2) "Hey Baby," Bruce Channel; (3) "Who Let the Dogs Out," Baha Men; (4)"Rock and Roll, Part 2," Gary Glitter; and (5) "Don't Worry Be Happy," Bobby McFerrin. 

I mean, c'mon, college and pro teams: There's plenty rotten in the world right now already.  Make the world a little better place.

http://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2012/08/27/penn-state-wont-play-sweet-caroline-during-football-games-this-season/

Final Grades from the Final Night of the gop-er Convention: "Clint, Marco & Mitt" -- Might Sound Like Something from a Bad Canceled Soap Opera, But Also Entailed Some of the Better Speeches of the Convention...

The grades tonight picked up dramatically from the first two nights of the republic partisan convention, but that's to be expected:  The last night's always for the big guns and the nominee.  And while I'm not exactly sure Clint Eastwood deserved an "A" (as discussed below), I openly admit being more in the tank for the old gunslinger than the "mainstream" media at an Obama press conference. So let's get to it...

1.  Marco Rubio (U.S. Senator from Florida):  A-/B+ (a "90").  Two words:  Political heavyweight.  I've said that about this Cuban-American cat from the jump.  He's a devout right-winger, and therefore not exactly ideologically my cup of tea party.  But Rubio has the skill that his young gop-er contemporary, Paul Ryan, doesn't have to nearly the same degree: Delivering the prepared speech most adeptly (Ryan's much bigger skill is communicating with people off-prompter and contemporaneously).  Like him or not, I predict Rubio will be president of the United States some day.  And yes, you can make book on that.

2.  Clint Eastwood (my favorite film star of all-time):  A*.  The asterix is because while I'm unbiased when it comes to gop-ers and democrat party people (I don't much care for any of 'em), I'm not unbiased when it comes to Clint.  So maybe I should've recused myself from giving him a grade?  Nah. Don't think that's really necessary. But good grief is ol' Clint gettin' old, and it showed at times.  But still plenty of funny lines and zingers from the old fart.  Personal favorite: Regarding Joe Biden, "He's kind of a grin with a body behind it."  Nailed it.

3.  Mitt Romney (I call him stand-for-nothing King Flipflopper, but you know him as the 2012 gop-er presidential nominee):  B/B+ (an "87").  Still don't think Romney stands for much of anything, but one reason why he's a danger to the individual we currently have as president is because Romney's a fairly talented performer.  He's a natural at giving speeches, even if that same aforementioned "individual" is even a bit better (at least on those occasions when Barry's engaged).  And from the gop-er debates I witnessed (all 732 of them), Romney's a dude who's typically fairly solid (if not spectacular) on his feet and off-prompter, whereas I'd only describe Obama as being mediocre in that skill (although as a consolation for the leftist 20 percenters, Reagan too was very mediocre off-prompter).

So here we are.  One of the two worst presidents of my lifetime (Obama, with the other being W) pitted against this Romney character whom it's hard to get excited about after witnessing eight terrible, destructive years from the last president the republic partisans offered up to us.  I have no dog in the fight, think it's (yet again) an awful choice these two pathetic parties have given us, and will be voting third-party as I have in every election since 1992.  But, it should be fun to watch, because this is likely a very close election, possibly with a 2000-repeat involving one side winning the popular vote, but not the one (the electoral college) that counts.

And before I hear any cliched "pick a side" cat-calls from the peanut gallery, I'll say this:  I very much worry this country will never recover from the economic and other destruction wrought over the past 12 years by Barack H. Obama and George W. Bush.  Given that track record, why in the hell would I consider voting for either of these two parties ever again?!?  Feel free to get back to me on that.

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