420 to the Extreme: Third Grader "Gives Teacher Some of Her Mom's Weed"! What Ever Happened to Apples? And Who Was the Teacher, Dr. Johnny Fever?

This one's from W-K-R-G in Pen-Sa-Co-La (among other sources):

I've heard of celebrating St. Fatty's Day, but this is a little rash, even by the typical standards of 420 observance:

Cops in Pensacola, Florida have launched a full-scale investigation into the whereabouts of a wayward mother after her 8-year-old daughter brought some of mama's marijuana to school this week and gave it to her teacher -- apparently as a damn gift!

Holy Smokes! Just a few days ago, we had that kindergartener packin' heat at a grade school in Houston, and now we've got a third grader packin' paca lolo! What's getting into these rotten little punks? And who the hell is raising them, anyway? Herb Tarlek and Jennifer Marlowe? I gotta say, I'm growing kinda tired of all this packing, town to town, up and down the dial.

At any rate: Cops say this tree-totin' tike whipped the weed right out of her pocket around 2 p.m. Tuesday and gave it to her third grade teacher at Lincoln Park Elementary School.

And that act wasn't without a little color commentary from this La La-lovin' lad: "This is some of my mom's weed," crowed the girl to her teacher!

This Reggie-carrying rug rat just couldn't keep her big Venus Flytrap shut and even offered a little third grade edumacation of her own to the teacher by explaining what the Hog Leg was for: "It's what my mother puts in blunts," said the little punk (in reference to the practice of hollowing out a cigar and cramming combustible herbage inside).

Now, how would you expect ol' teach to react? "Get your ass to the principal's office," maybe? (And I don't care if that office had real walls or not). But not here. The teacher reportedly waited until later in the afternoon "until the child was on the school bus" to report her little "gift" to the principal.

My first question: Did teach head to the Shithouse at any point during those intervening moments between (1) the gift and (2) school bus time? Just sayin'. Kub Coda (and Michael Lutz) wrote "Smokin' in the Boys Room" for a reason, after all. The time sequence here stinks worse than a Silver Sow award on a newsman's mantle.

Regardless, teach's little delay permitted that schwag-schleppin' stripling to make a successful getaway. Nice one, teach! If she'd just reported this thing to the Big Guy right from the Gordon Jump, then Phil the Dog wouldn't be barking. Well -- actually -- cops say the kid isn't facing any charges, so forgetaboutit.

But the Mom! Cops are all over her case like a bandage on Les Nessman. Only problem? They can't find the old lady. They went to her listed Bailey Quarters and found no mom. Apparently mama's lamming it, and cops so far have been unable to get a make on where that jib-jobbing Jackyl (allegedly) is holed up.

Now, neither the punk's nor the mom's name is being released by cops. But if we later learn that the kid's called "Pippi" and that mama goes by the name of Mary Jane Longstocking, let's just say that I ain't gonna be shocked over here.

Finally, I'm not big on lecturing people (other than slimeball partisans and politicians), so I'll let the cops do it for me. Said local sheriff's deputy Chril Welborn:

"A good many societal problems are a result of irresponsible parenting. Children are being raised in an atmosphere that drugs and violence are normal. It's sad that this child had access to the stuff and was actually able to bring it to school."

What he said. Hell Yeah, says Rev Theory. Couldn't have said it better if he was Andy Travis.

http://www.wkrg.com/education/article/third-grader-brings-marijuana-to-school/1206332/Apr-20-2011_3-34-pm/
http://www.pnj.com/article/20110420/NEWS01/110420034/Girl-8-brings-mom-s-marijuana-school?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cp
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/21/2178854/student-gives-teacher-some-of.html

He Was a Nicotine Fiend, Literally: Subway Hobo Allegedly Goes Joe Pesci, Slashes Up Woman's Face w/ a Pen, After She Asks Him Not to Smoke on Train!

This was like something out of the '90s motion picture Casino (video at the top). In that scene, Joe Pesci takes exception to a few choice words uttered by another guy at a bar and then proceeds to stab the guy about the head, neck and breast with a pen. (Amusingly, that scene was not even close to being the most violent scene in that film, but I digress).

That scene showed that it's never a good idea to insult a "Friend of Mine" of a Made Man, just like (apparently) it's a not good idea on the subway to try to stop a homeless bum from lighting up a cigarette. And I betcha 45-year-old Evelyn Seeger won't ever try that one again.

Cops in the Big Apple say it all started earlier this week when 35-year-old vagrant Caroberto Cordero tried to fire up a fag right there on the train. Mind you, smoking's not allowed on NYC subways, as you might've guessed.

Evelyn got wind of what this tobacco-tokin' tramp was trying to pull off and asked him not to smoke on the train. But all that accomplished was to get the ciggy-lovin' vagabond all riled up, turning him into one "All-American Nightmare" (allegedly)!

First he reportedly "produced a huge lighter" and "began waving a high flame in front of [Evelyn's] face." Said one eyewitness: "I saw the flame from the lighter - it was a few inches high. It was pretty hardcore."

This little cat-and-mouse flame game apparently went on for a spell, as one witness says "he was lighting the flame in her face, taunting her with the flame, and she was yelling 'stop it!'"

The next thing you know, Evelyn was reportedly all up in this flaming floater's grill and trying to snatch the huge cigarette lighter from his hands -- an effort that witnesses say was ultimately successful. But that's when all hell broke loose!

His lovable lighter now confiscated, witnesses say Coroberto proceeded to "throw a nicotine fit," "whipped out a pen, and plunged it into the woman's head." Witnesses say the "crazed homeless man" used the pen to slash Evelyn's face "right from her temple to her nose." This homeless hack the ripper also allegedly stabbed Evelyn in the eye just for good measure.

[The linked account from Britain's Daily Mail actually makes a joke about this deranged gypsy not having access to a Blackberry like the ordinary subway commuter, which forced the gasper-puffing gasher to "resort to more old-fashioned technology" when it came to his weapon of choice (allegedly). That's sick.]

With "blood gushing" from Evelyn's face, "pandemonium broke out as passengers desperately tried to get out of the way." Some of the passengers also ran to tell the conductor what had happened.

While I'd think that getting the quickest medical attention for Evelyn would have been the top priority, the conductor reportedly slowed down the train because he wanted to make sure the cops had time to get to the station before the train arrived there.

Meantime, Evelyn was still bleeding. Passengers reportedly ran from car to car shouting the proverbial "is there a doctor in the house," which apparently yielded no takers.

Ultimately, about the only medical attention Evelyn received on the train came in the form of some paltry napkins from fellow passengers "to staunch her wounds." She was finally taken to a hospital, where the latest reports list her in stable condition. "It was the craziest train ride I've ever had," spouted one passenger.

As for that coffin nailin' crazy, Cordero -- cops busted his homeless hide on charges of felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon. So it looks like this face-hacking hobo (allegedly) will be inhaling his cancer sticks inside a different kind of "pen" for quite some time to come. Maybe he can try his "big flame" trick on some of the cons and bulls when they inevitably order him to cease his little smoke job?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378744/Homeless-man-stabbed-woman-face-pen-New-York-subway.html#

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/crazed_homeless_man_allegedly_stabs_XnjbUDikIFMML96HaC9XlK

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/woman-stabbed-in-head-with-pen-during-fight-over-smoking-on-new-york-subway/story-e6frf7jx-1226042055851

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/20/national/main20055637.shtml

Civility School in Obama's America: 6-Year-Old Tools Up For School; TV Star Schools Rival in Fistfight; & Pizza Man Goes Old School in Knife Fight!

School's out. Just like the jury's out on the sanity of so many American parents and adults these days. It takes only a minute to scan the frontpage of Google News to see plenty of examples.

Tuesday the news included (1) a Houston kindergartener allegedly rolling like something out of "The Wire" (the HBO series pictured at the top) and trucking a fully loaded pistol to school (ultimately injuring three); (2) TV actress Paz de la Huerta allegedly pounding the hell out of a rival TV star; and (3) a Big Apple pizza mogul allegedly taking to the street for a knife fight over a dame. Oh my. Where to start?

Gunplay Amongst the Child's Play

I've heard of the oft-stated teacher phrase, "Young man it's time to polish the apple" (6th grade, Mrs. Clark), but I've never heard of it being "time to brandish the handgun" in the schoolhouse. But that's reportedly what happened Tuesday at a Houston elementary school. (Conjured up images for me of Badass Omar Little's death in "The Wire" -- picture at top; video at bottom).

School officials say a six-year-old kindergartener showed up to the school with more than just a crayon in his hands. Yep, this pint-sized pistolero was packin' more heat than an Alabama Shithouse in the middle of August.

When it came time for this grade school gunslinger to get his grub on, school officials say the loaded pistol fell out of his pocket in the cafeteria and (hitting the floor) fired off a damn round! Fragments from the bullet injured three -- two fellow students (one pictured on a gurney above) and the pre-adolescent desperado himself.

So this could have been a very dire situation, even though all three injuries ended up being reportedly "minor." I'm left to wonder what kind of parents would allow this babyfaced bandido to have access to a loaded pistol in the first place? Please give them some Rope -- they are coming loose.

She Never Acted Like This When She Was Banging Steve Buscemi!

Cops in Manhattan say "Boardwalk Empire" star Paz de la Huerta (pictured three times above on the show) went ape and all N.I.B. (here, meaning Nasty Intimidating Bitch) on former reality TV star Samantha Swetra of MTV's "The City." The brawl reportedly started after Swetra tossed the proverbial "a few snide remarks" in de la Huerta's direction.

De la Huerta allegedly clocked Swetra one right in the kisser. For good measure, she also heaved a glass in her fellow TV star's direction (allegedly). Swetra says she received a bloody nose and bruised mouth as a result of the alleged beatdown.

In an apparent take-off on the old busted celebrity line, "Do you know who I am?", de la Huerta reportedly spouted at cops, "I'm a real actress on HBO!" (As opposed to all the fake ones running around town).

But nothin' doing: Cops busted de la Huerta on charges of criminal possession of a weapon, attempted assault and harassment. Methinks even Nucky Thompson couldn't get her out of this one.

"They Got Sliced More Times Than a Large Pepperoni Pie"

That was the description in Tuesday's New York Post (you have to love the Post). Or, put another way: "This one's messier than a slice with extra cheese."

It reportedly all started when ex-con bagel slinger Benny Geritano (pictured above in police custody) accused "hot-shot pizzeria owner" Mark Iacono (pictured above holding the pie) of "trying to steal his girl." The end result was reportedly a wild-ass knife fight out in the street that left both men sliced up, one in the hospital, and one in the can.

The broad at issue is one 37-year-old Annette Angeloni, who reportedly starting "shacking up" with Geritano recently. Geritano, while most recently working at his family's bagel shop, is a parolee who spent hard time in the joint for his role in a nationwide bank job spree.

He's also been reported to have links to New York's Genovese crime family. In short -- not the kind of dude you probably want to be messing around with if you're a pizza man.

Iacono owns Lucali's Pizza -- "a restaurant that attracts celebrity customers like Jay-Z and Beyonce." According to Geritano, Iacono wanted to go messin' with his dame (Angeloni), setting off the "bloody brawl" out in the street.

Sure enough, the pizza man "got the worst of the blade battle" and is now recovering from surgery after suffering "wounds to the throat, back and legs." Meantime, the bagel man was not injured as seriously, as his moll, Angeloni, reportedly whisked him up off the street and to the hospital in her Lexus.

And these bloody street brawlers may have to start tossing their pizza and bagels inside the local freezer, since cops are now ready to throw the book at both of them. Each man is facing identical charges that include attempted murder.

Iacono's "mob-connected family," BTW, is reportedly none too happy about his arrest. In addition to the incident bringing the family unwanted "attention," the family is also upset that the ex-con may have to head back to the hoosegow just when the bagel-slingin' business was really starting to slice the right way.

As one family member said -- the family is "making more money selling bagels than they ever would have in the mob." Have things really gotten that bad for La Cosa Nostra? Looks like the aforementioned Buscemi picked the wrong week to earn his stripes by whacking out Joey Peeps.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/19/us-houston-shooting-idUSTRE73I5E920110419

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/041911-5-Year-Old-Fires-Gun-at-Houston-School-3-Hurt

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/boardwalk_empire_star_paz_hotel_7tnQcrws8zcAuaoP2k4twM

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/fighting_over_hot_tomato_JGYWlpVWQHoXvpvdFuolzN

Bad News on the Doorstep: For the First Time Since Pearl Harbor, "S&P Cuts U.S. Credit Ratings Outlook From Stable to Negative."

Even Obama can't so easily just laugh this one off. On Monday, the credit ratings agency Standard & Poor ("S&P") downgraded the United States' credit outlook from "stable" and issued a "negative" outlook on the U.S. government as a debtor for the first time since the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor 70 years ago (as famously described by Bluto Blutarsky in 1962).

This means that S&P is expressing very serious doubt that the U.S. government will ever be able to "get its fiscal house in order." While this move is not (yet) an outright cut in the United States' top AAA credit rating, it raises the very real possibility that such a cut will occur in the next two years.

S&P's reasoning: Politicians not being serious about cutting U.S. debt. Said S&P: "More than two years after the beginning of the recent crisis, U.S. policymakers have still not agreed on how to reverse recent fiscal deterioration or address long-term fiscal pressure."

My question: What frankly took S&P so long to come to this conclusion, which to me seems as obvious as a surface full of floaters in a Mississippi Shithouse.

The downgrade is significant and bodes grimly upon the future ahead. Right after S&P's announcement, the Dow plunged more than 200 points and closed down more than 140 points.

The reaction of the Obama administration on Monday? To act like a Twisted Transistor making Hawaiian Noises. They tried to spin it, downplay it, and accuse S&P -- a credit ratings agency and not a political organization -- of being "political." How nice.

Couldn't Obama do any better than that? Why not throw into the mix an accusation of S&P being racist for good measure? Or, why not just blame it all on Bush, Palin, global warming and S&P's lack of civility? Yep, I was most disappointed in the lack of creativity in Obama's response. Maybe he's getting as tired as the rest of us?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/42645647

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42643641/ns/business-eye_on_the_economy/

http://www.newyorkpost.com/p/news/business/cuts_us_ratings_outlook_to_negative_JpC4N6lfWYReVCH22wPnhO

"Yeah, Give Me a Package a' That There Pot Roast with the August 11 Expiration Date ... WAIT A DAMN MINUTE, Sam -- August 11, 2004?!?"

I definitely wouldn't want this Sam the Butcher bringing Alice Brady the meat. If you "Shake Your Rump" after this butcher sells it to you, something's liable to crawl right out of it. As the Old Man (Ed Wilson) on Natural Born Killers might say, "That meatman really cuts it!"

Cops in Naples, Italy have arrested a local butcher for not being totally forthcoming when it comes to his meat. And I'm only talking 'bout the Meat He Sells! To be precise, this Neopolitan nimrod was allegedy selling hocks, jowls and loins (and a lot of other things) that were 10 years past their expiration date!

They're calling this joint "the store of horrors," and the Year 2000-something meat being sold there was reportedly worm-infested and positively putrid. So why would anyone in their right mind buy meat with a 10-year-old expiration date?

Well, this mentally ill meat carver had that one covered, it seems (allegedly). Cops say he tampered with the meat labels and changed their expiration dates so that no one would get wise to his crazy cutlet caper. This demented meat dresser sounds like a real cut up, no?

And just to add insult to injury, this deranged sirloin sire allegedly had his meat hooks into a lot more than just fillet and foreshank. Cops say he was also trying to pass off really old non-meat products too.

Specifically, "shocked food safety inspectors discovered pasta and biscuits crawling with parasites, rotting meats and dairy products, and olives covered in mold in the store of horrors."

But now this chumpchops may have to trade in his butcherblock in the meathouse for a cell block in the ice house. Cops busted the rotten meatman (allegedly) for suspicion of endangering the public health.

Too bad "the public health" typically doesn't account for the welfare of maggots, worms and other parasitic creatures, since this meat-dressing moron was their biggest benefactor (allegedly).

Better watch that rump roast in the can, meatman -- no "Cryin' Like a Bitch" permitted there.

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpps/news/offbeat/italian-butcher-arrested-for-selling-decade-old-meat-dpgonc-20110415-to_12775721

Slimeball Sunday: What's Worse -- Threatening a Teenage Girl, Incinerating a Kitten, Or Killing People By Driving a Bus as Fast as It Can Possibly Go?

Maybe the Jimmy Carter-like current state of the economy (as discussed Saturday) is starting to get to more people than just me this weekend, as folks are absolutely wiggin' out!

When they're not tossing death threats at 13-year-old Internet sensation Rebecca Black (of "Friday" fame), they're pulverizing felines (allegedly) or driving buses like they were in the Daytona 500 (allegedly).

"Friday" Night Not Allright for Threatening

Sure, the song is trashy and annoying (watch the video below). And thanks to heavy use of the ol' Auto-Tune, Rebecca Black's voice is more altered than a Heidi Montag pin-up poster in a forest fire. (Hell, even I could carry a tune if I used Auto-Tune!) But is all that any reason to throw death threats Black's way, as cops in L.A. say has been happening? Obviously not.

"Friday" has been called "the worst performance ever committed to tape," but I find that description purposefully over-the-top and pretty difficult to believe (I've been called the "Worst Blog Ever," which had much more merit). "Friday" is annoying bubblegum stuff, yes. Like there's anything new about that. In any given week, at least half of the Billboard Top Ten isn't much better.

I hope they catch these scuzjackets who are sending these threats and let them do some singing of their own down in the joint for a long time to come.

They Oughta Fry This "Fur-Hating Thug"

No cat lover, here. This guy really hated kitties. Got his "Stray Cat Strut" on in ways that have to be described as, well, just a Big Bowl of Wrong (allegedly). Cops in New York say 26-year-old Garret Sloan "beat his girlfriend's kitty to death." They say this "beastly beau" first "snatched the kitty from her hands . . . and threw it to the ground."

But this cat-despising creep was only getting warmed up (allegedly). "As the tiny critter convulsed on the ground, [Sloan allegedly] picked it up again and slammed it repeatedly into the walls and stairwell" of the girlfriend's apartment building.

And this slime's animal animosity didn't stop there. Just for good measure, this cat-loathing lout reportedly admits that he then tossed the poor feline into the building's incinerator. But Sloan says that final barbaric act of domesticated detestation was justified since he claims the little kitten was already dead: "The cat died," purred Sloan the Sleaze (allegedly) to the cops.

Now Sloan may have to take his catnip in the can, since cops have busted him on aggravated animal cruelty charges. Hopefully his roomie in the ice house will be a big cat-lovin' Aryan.

Methinks He Saw "Speed" One Too Many Times

Either that, or he took fellow bus driver Ralph Kramden's expression of "shooting Alice straight to the moon" way too literally. Following a scene that must have been reminiscent of the '90s motion picture Speed, what kind of a deranged freak would push a bus to its maximum possible speed of nearly 80 MPH in a 50 MPH speed zone?!?

The National Transportion Safety Board says 40-year-old Ophadell Williams did exactly that, killing 15 people in the process in the Big Apple recently. No word whether this demented speed demon (allegedly) actually got the big bus airborne like in the movie.

The linked story doesn't specify the charges that this batty bus driver is facing, but I figure he's probably got at least a manslaughter charge hanging over his speed-lovin' head (allegedly), not to mention a one-way bus ticket straight to the hoosegow.

Maybe there, he can meet up with the "Friday" haters and the cat killer (allegedly) and have a big Speed watch party. I'll supply the Friskies, the "Friday" and the Bus Fuel. Talk about "Bad Company."

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/internet/cops-probe-rebecca-black-threats-645387
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/beastly_klyn_beau_busted_in_kitty_NWkXyPKHWfaLS1RVNmaW2J
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/deadly_bx_crash_bus_hit_mph_XX69pQjffIOipAoETBN3HP

[Postscript Note: I've also tossed into the video mix below (following up on Saturday's post) "We Are Family" by Sister Sledge from the Age of Jimmy Carter, 1979. This was the adopted theme song of the 1979 World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates, led by Willie Stargell. I love that memory, and I've always loved this song. It'd be kind a boring, after all, if all I ever did was rock out!]

He Is The King of the World! He's Pretty! He's a Bad Man! Congratulations Tonight of the Highest Order to Kansas City Area's Own, Victor Ortiz!

He's The Best!!! Ortiz just won his first World Championship tonight in the welterweight division with a truly Classic victory and Classic fight over/with Andre Berto. This guy Ortiz is KC media talking head Steven St. John's main man, and I've followed him closely too the past few years, being that he is a local guy.

Ortiz (from Garden City, Kansas) had a background that is simply put, all the way tough. Mom deserted him. The Old Man was an alcoholic. Yet he overcame, and is one of the most personable dudes that you could ever want to listen to.

He has a HUGE punch. But frankly, watching him, has reminded me a lot of the last KC-rooted fighter that I followed -- one Tommy Morrison back in the 90's. Morrison was known for the huge punch and the weak chin. At any moment in his fights, he could destroy or be destroyed. I had way too much Deja Vu with Victor Ortiz prior to tonight.

Because the so-called "book" on Victor was that he had the heavy-handed fists, but the allegedly questionable chin (and heart). We had seen the fight with Marcos Rene Maidana (an absolute buzzsaw of a badass, truth be told), where Victor didn't really seem to want to be there at the end.

Then we saw Victor getting robbed in his so-called draw with Lamont Peterson -- a fight he very clearly won. So we wondered where things went from here with this local guy done good and now transplanted into the L.A. scene with one Oscar De La Hoya a part of his management team.

And then we watched the beauty of his performance tonight. Overcoming being knocked down twice, overcoming absolute adversity, to win the World Title on national HBO television in one of the more brutal fights that a human being will ever witness.

These boxers have always been to me complete heroes. They lay everything they have -- their lives, their mental stability, their very existence -- on the line every single time they step in the ring. It's a very brutal sport, but there's also a "sweet science" to it. I so admire the men who partake in it. Could I do so? [Hardly, since while I may be 6'3", I have small soccer-player hands thanks to my Old Man's genes -- small hands and boxing DO NOT JIVE!]

Victor did exactly that tonight -- laid it all out on the line -- and he came out victorious. Although Morrison once held the minor league WBO championship, Ortiz is the first boxer with KC roots to hold one of the MAJOR (i.e. WBC) world titles that I can recall in a long time. Congrats, V.O.! You earned it, dude, not only with your performance tonight, but also with all that you've overcome during your life.

http://www.boxingscene.com/victor-ortiz-beats-andre-berto-grabs-wbc-gold-war--38192

'79 All Over Again? Obama's Approval Rating with Independents Tanks to a Pathetic 35%. He Does Realize that We Decide Elections?

Actually, I'm not so sure he does realize that. If not, bad move. Because it does feel a lot like 1979.

With rising gas prices, rising inflation as a result of his endless money printing, crippling national debt of $14.2 Trillion, and the monetary system and economy teetering on the brink of collapse, this idiot was out there this week lobbing partisan bombs and talking up tax increases, class warfare and the need for "cooler" phones in the White House. Two words: Welcome Back, Carter.

Frankly, that's an insult to Carter, who was utterly hapless as a president but not nearly as bad, in my estimation, as Obama and Bush -- who have both been much more destructive to this country than Carter was capable of on even his worst day. You might say that Obama and W have presided over an 11-year Symphony of Destruction.

It's really nearly gotten to the point where almost all hope is lost. (See the linked column by Pat Buchanan from wnd.com, describing the "maelstrom" we may be about to enter -- and I think Buchanan's even underestimating a bit the direness of the situation).

These two rotten parties are just going to keep fighting, bickering and accomplishing nothing -- save for the occasional break to conspire together to accomplish nothing under the guise of having accomplished something (e.g. this week's phoney and disingenuous $38 billion "compromise" on 2011 budget "cuts"). Meantime, that debt just keeps growing and growing.

I don't think I'm exaggerating in these sentiments. Get ready, people, for things to get real bad, and sooner rather than later (hope I'm wrong). Gallows humor would seem to be one of the few things we have left to cling to (sorry to end sentence in a preposition).

(Not to mention, the "Welcome Back Kotter" and the Willie Stargell-led "We Are Family" Pittsburgh Pirates of 1979 are very nice memories to re-live on a cold Kansas City night like this one).

http://www.gallup.com/poll/147140/Obama-Job-Approval-Tying-Low.aspx

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=287225
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/15/obama-disappointed-lack-cool-phone-oval-office/