Bonnie and Clydes? "Bank-Robbing Stripper" Allegedly Leads Gang of Two Brothers on Violent Bank Job and Multi-State Crime Spree...

...although apparently she was fully clothed when she and her gang knocked over that bank (allegedly).

Her name is Lee Grace Dougherty, and cops in Georgia say that when the this stripper isn't showing off her unadorned assets at a Florida strip club named "Cheaters," she allegedly has a different kind of teaser in mind:

Cops she's now hooked up with her two brothers to wreak havoc across two southern states. Talk about a moll with some ball(s). Just listen to what this 29-year-old apparent Bonnie Parker wannabe has to say on her Flickr page:

"Act like I'm 17 most of the time. I love to farm and shoot guys and wreck cars. I'm a redneck and proud of it. I like milk and German engineering and causing mayhem with my siblings."

Mayhem indeed, and this is not a gang that I'd be too anxious to run across, even if sissie was buck naked at the time. Cops say the gang hit a bank in Valdosta, Georgia last week, with subtlety and discreteness not exactly being their calling card.

In short, no nice little notes or polite requests for "all your money" here. Instead, the gang allegedly "stormed" the joint with "guns a' blazing" -- making mincemeat of the bank's ceiling and escaping with a bag of loot.

It probably doesn't help that this alleged strippin' bandita has a couple of apparent badasses for younger brothers. The youngest one is 21-year-old Ryan, a registered sex offender. Cops say the gang had to hack off Ryan's ankle surveillance bracelet before embarking upon their crime spree.

The other brother (26 years old) gives Dylans everywhere a bad name, having been previously busted for totin' & tokin' el paca lolo. But Sister Sprigger ain't exactly Mother Theresa herself over there, having been charged (among other things) for DUI and a "hit-and-run crash and battery" earlier this year and prior.

No word whether the stemmin' algorithm Lee Grace was also behind the wheel when the gang allegedly led the cops on a high speed car chase the day of the bank caper. That little hot pursuit reportedly ended with one of the Dougherty brood shooting out the tires of the pursuing squad car.

The gang is now on the lam (in the past few days possibly spotted in Tennessee and Colorado), with Georgia cops spouting the obligatory "we're a' lookin' fer 'em and close to catchin' 'em." I wonder if the gang will be dumb enough to try heading back to their one known hideout -- an underground "bunker" and "lair" that neighbors describe as a "den of illegal activity" down south.

Now, if you happen to spot this threesome, cops say to consider them "armed and dangerous" with a suspected "arsenal of weapons" that includes an AK-47. And if you really want to be cute, try asking Lee Grace back to her bunker for a private lap dance, a little German engineering, and a happy ending.

I bet the ending will be anything other than satisfying, but at least you'll suffer a large degree of pain knowing that you courageously busted the balls of the Great Cowgirl Moll of the South (allegedly)!

[8/10 p.m. UPDATE: The "Dougherty Gang" has now been caught & arrested tonight in Colorado following (what else) a wild police chase and crash. No serious injuries. The accounts I've read said there have been "media comparisons" to Bonnie and Clyde. That's funny, because I didn't see any such comparisons until I made one in this post early today. Copy cats...]

http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/204450/250/Georgia-bank-robbers-may-be-Zephyrhills-suspects
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023997/Police-close-Dougherty-siblings-tip-off.html
http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/205141/8/Lee-Grace-Dougherty-who-is-woman-involved-in-sibling-crime-spree

Ex-Obama Economic Adviser Christina Romer: The United States "Is Pretty Darn Fucked!"

The exclamation point, BTW, comes from the news account (link at bottom) and wasn't added by me. Which begs the question: Was Romer's statement (from the Bill Maher HBO show following the S&P credit downgrade) made with a certain sense of glee, or was it just gallows humor? But even that's largely irrelevant.

Because regardless of the intent, Romer pretty much nails the truth in a single phrase. Damn pesky brevity. Incessantly the soul of wit, and all. Even more so when teetering on the edge of a cliff.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023655/Ex-Obama-aide-says-U-S-pretty-darn-f--d-credit-downgrade.html

Another Sign of the Rotten Economic Times:Man Allegedly Tries to Knock Over a 7-Eleven with a Giant Tree Branch!

Have things in America really gotten so bad that common street hoods can't even afford a decent robbery weapon anymore? Seems that way, as cops in New York state say that a 31-year-old man there was forced to resort to cutting a big switch off a tree last week before he tried to pull a stick-up job at the local 7-Eleven (link to full story at bottom).

Maybe Michael Zimmerman's (pictured above) credit has also been recently downgraded, since he was allegedly so down on his luck that the best weapon he could muster up for a convenience store owl job was the aforementioned tree appendage. And he allegedly needed it too:

Cops say Zimmerman hit the joint just before midnight -- armed only with a "large tree branch" -- and demanded money from the clerk. When the clerk played hero and refused the request, Zimmerman allegedly took to beating the clerk about the head, neck and breast with his giant piece of wood!

After the alleged big-branch beat-down, cops say Zimmerman tried to blow the scene on a getaway motorcycle. Only problem, apparently: Being armed with nothing other than a big tree arm doesn't exactly strike a ton of fear in the hearts of Joe and Jane Passing Good Samaritan:

Cops say that as Zimmerman tried to scurry away, a small band of store customers (plus the clerk) gave chase. Then an off-duty cop reportedly entered the fray and managed to block and hold Zimmerman until other cops could arrive.

Now Zimmerman may have to break his next bough in the Black Hole, since he faces a charge of attempted first degree robbery. And the lumber work ain't nearly so lucrative down in the ol' calaboose, where I hear the going rate in the wood shop is running around 50 cents a day.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/08/05/police-ronkonkoma-man-robbed-7-eleven-using-tree-branch/

Unholy Hoosegow: "Sheriff's Deputy Turned Jail Into Female Orgy and Operated Party-Like Atmosphere"!

Barney Fife, he wasn't (allegedly). And he's created quite the Stir down Broward County, Florida way. Cops there say male deputy Mason Chibnick turned the local jail and its female inmates into his own little Ice House of Pleasure. In case you ever wondered why they call correctional officers "screws":

Chibnick stands accused of transforming the joint into a huge "orgy," complete with bachelor party-style topless dancing acts and inmates "performing sexual acts on each other." He's also accused of at least once ducking into a broom closet for a little hanky hoosegow with one of these bonded broads. I guess they don't call it the "Pokey" for nothin'.

The "wild, party-like atmosphere" also allegedly involved games of inmate Truth or Dare and secret sexting and donging between Chibnick and his lockup ladies. But these dames' party in the can didn't end when their bits expired. Nope, Chibnick was reportedly just getting warmed up when some of these ladies were released.

Cops say Chibnick scoured Facebook for his former female inmates, apparently looking for a re-up on their previously caged affections. He even allegedly went full-length Anthony's Weiner, sending a picture of his human billy club "beside a toothbrush" to a cousin of a former inmate.

I can only guess the toothbrush was to provide scale to the pic; either that, or he just wanted to demonstrate that he practices good oral hygiene even when he's behaving like a gorilla (allegedly).

Regardless, it looks like Chibnick will now have to schedule any future orgies with the Aryans and their competitor gangs, since his ass has been shipped a Final Mile down the road to an all-male slammer. An extended vacation would have seemed more appropriate.

But the ol' county has let him know, in no uncertain terms, that they are very, very, very disappointed in him -- citing him for "failure to use good judgment" and "conduct unbecoming a deputy." I mean, what would he have been cited for if he had knocked up one of these babes? "Conduct really, really unbecoming a deputy"?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2022905/Sheriffs-deputy-turned-jail-female-orgy-operated-party-like-atmosphere.html

THE SHOT HEARD 'ROUND THE WORLD:S&P Downgrades U.S. Triple-A Credit Rating. Blame BOTH Parties Equally...

Friday night's downgrade means higher interest rates, international embarrassment and diminishment of global standing, and Lord only knows what else. Gee, thanks democrat party and republic partisans!

As documented in this space in the past few weeks, S&P made it very clear to these slimeball politicians what they needed to accomplish in the debt ceiling bill in order to protect the federal government's AAA bond rating (the top rating, which the U.S. has never lost before).

Simply put: They needed to pass a bill that included a minimum of $4 trillion in cuts to deficit spending over 10 years. The bill that these scuzwad politicians on both sides passed -- and which the clueless so-called "leader" Obama signed -- fell well short of that number. So did all of the various other bills that both parties lobbed about during that time period.

In short, don't blame gridlock, the tea party or the loony left. Because neither party proposed any bill that would have cut the amount of deficit spending that S&P was calling for. Instead, both parties simply paid no attention to S&P.

As further commented in this space recently: Given such a monumental failure and these parties completely ignoring what S&P was telling them, why in the hell would you ever vote for either of these two parties again? I won't be. As usual, I'm going third party until the damn cows come home.

And where now are all of the partisan hacks on the right and left who said -- after the debt ceiling bill passed -- that such a downgrade would not happen anytime soon? (Actually, I know where they are tonight: Coming up with bullshit spin and propaganda on how to blame the other side for the downgrade).

You see, when I predict how things are probably going to go, based upon everything that I've read and seen, the funny thing is that I usually turn out to be right. Too bad few ever listen to me or the few other reasonable non-partisan voices out there.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/sandp-considering-first-downgrade-of-us-credit-rating/2011/08/05/gIQAqKeIxI_print.html

Gas Tax Woes: "You May Want to Consider Investing in Some Good Shock Absorbers For Your Car This Fall."

That quote above was the lead sentence from a purported hard news story on CNN.com Thursday (first link below) concerning how some lawmakers loyal to the tea party may oppose renewing the federal gas tax, "which is used to maintain our nations highways."

This wasn't an editorial. It wasn't "news analysis." It wasn't something I found on dailykos or drudge. Rather, it was presented as a hard news story on CNN.com by someone named Steve Hargreaves.

And as hard news, it of course felt the need to weigh in with an opinion on the facts reported by warning you to get some new shock absorbers for all those unattended potholes that will surely be cropping up if the domestic terrorists get their way. (And don't call me Shirley).

You know, I sometimes wonder why I don't take my University of Missouri journalism degree and just toss it in the rubbish bin. It truly isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Not anymore, leastways. Today's "media" has seen to that.

On a brighter note, check out the hot ladies on GasPumpHotties.com (second link below), the source of the above pictures. That would be a much better use of your time than reading any of the propaganda and advocacy pieces masquerading as journalism on so-called "news" websites like CNN.com.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/04/gas-tax-may-be-next-tea-party-target/
http://www.gaspumphotties.com/picture-gallery.php

Happy Birthday to Me! It's Lavish Party Time for His Majesty, But Forget Any Outrage; Instead Ponder: Is This Individual Politically Braindead?

It doesn't take an Ivy League edumacation to figure out that you don't throw a big gala birthday bash as president when the economic news has been going from bad to worse for weeks. Or when even the one small badge of your presidency starts to rust, as stocks continue to tumble on Wall Street. Or when the pathetic debt ceiling bill that you just signed off on has now caused China to downgrade the U.S. credit rating, with credit rating agencies like S&P possibly not far behind in the weeks and months to come.

I'm not even going to complain or shout. We've seen the out-of-touch, condescending and aloof nature of this individual many times before. Instead, my observation here is a different one: What an incredibly stupid political move! Who's advising this individual, anyway? H.R. Haldeman and Bad, Bad Leroy Brown?

As I read the accounts of this Royal Affair -- with the various millionaires, billionaires, celebrities and corporate jet owners in attendance Wednesday night at Chicago's swanky Aragon Ballroom (pictured above) -- I'm left with one thought:

I may now just have to rethink my long-held political opinion that this individual (regardless what you think of him) probably wins re-election in 2012. The way he's going, he may not be electable as the Deputy Head Cleaner at a South Side shithouse down on Halstead Street.

http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/08/03/obamas-50th-birthday-massive-campaign-event/
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/obama-birthday-chicago-126648603.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021286/US-debt-ceiling-deal-President-Obama-celebrates-Jennifer-Hudson-50th-birthday.html

"Been Around the World and Found That Only Stupid People Are Breeding; the Cretins Cloning and Feeding"...

No, those aren't deleted scenes from "Sarah Palin's Alaska" nor staged photos from the video of the old Harvey Danger song, "Flagpole Sitta." Instead, they are the real photos taken by deranged parents, as compiled on the website ParentFails.com.

I saw yesterday that Obama is ordering health insurance companies to cover contraceptives. Leaving aside the whole issue of the federal government being in the business of decreeing what private insurance companies must cover -- just think of the parents who snapped the pictures above. Free condoms and birth control pills? Maybe the leftist 20 percenter is on to something there for once.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021452/How-parents-fail-Website-exposes-bum-mums-bad-dads-questionable-parenting-skills.html

You Not Getting Them Damn Keys, Daddy! 8-Year-old Allegedly Tries to Drive Old Man Home As Daddy "Slept Off Bender in the Backseat"...

I'm certain this isn't what M.A.D.D. has in mind when it recommends that drunks always arrange for a designated driver before they head out to booze it up on the town. Cops in Louisiana have busted 28-year-old daddy Billy Joe Madden (pictured above; do all people in the Deep South have three names?) for allegedly having his 8-year-old son try to drive him home from the bars early Saturday morning.

Madden allegedly needed to sleep off his "bender," but apparently also really wanted to get home in the meantime. So enter his young son, who (after all) had two eyes, two hands and two feet -- all the prerequisites for driving his trashed old man back to the homestead.

Cops got the call when a motorist reported seeing Madden's pick-up truck driving erratically on Interstate 12. When cops pulled the reckless runaway truck over, they found the 8-year-old at the helm of the vehicle. Cops say the old man was drunk and sleeping, while another of his kids -- a 4-year-old daughter -- was also along for the ride.

The boy's little two-state joyride allegedly began in Hattiesburg, Mississippi (known for having some of the nicest shithouses in all the South) before coming to an abrupt halt near the Louisiana town of Holden. The little driver had reportedly been tasked with getting his plastered old man all the way to Dallas before cops pulled the rig over and put a stop to that.

Just for good measure, cops say Daddy had a cold one open in the car while sonny tried to drive his sorry sloshed ass home (allegedly). But no need for any designated drivers where Daddy may now be headed -- the local hoosegow. Papa's been busted on charges of child desertion, allowing a minor to drive, open container, and two counts of lack of child restraints and seatbelts.

So let me get this straight: If the old man had just bothered (1) to install a child seat in the driver's seat for little sonny and (2) to make sure the tot was wearing a seatbelt, then Daddy might now be facing a little less time in the ol' cooler? There you have it. Click it or ticket, next time you have sonny take the wheel, Daddy-O.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020717/Son-wheel-Dad-snoozed-8-year-old-boy-drove-highway.html

The Worst Nightmare of the gop: Donald Trump Again Floats the Idea of Running for President as an Independent...

The latest pronouncement from Trumper has him saying he will strongly consider tossing his hat into the ring as an Independent if the economy "continues to be bad" and if the republic partisans "pick the wrong candidate" as their nominee (link at bottom). As I've said before, I'd love him to jump in.

I question whether I could ever actually vote for him. While he's part crazy like a fox, he's also part just plain crazy. He's also very volatile and prone to politically stupid moves (see embracing the "birthers"). But it's just that unpredictability that leads me to encourage him to run.

Can you imagine the high entertainment that the normally snooze-fest general election debates would become with the Donald in there? Him mixing it up with the sorry likes of Obama and whatever stiff the republic partisans nominate would be something I'd pay money to see.

And yes, I'm fully aware that Trump running as an Independent would basically guarantee Obama wins re-election. I couldn't care less. As I often say, while Obama is one of the two worst presidents of my lifetime, guess whom the other is?

That's right, his republic partisan predecessor W Bush. I have absolutely no confidence that whomever the republic partisans nominate will be any less destructive and any better than Obama and W. So let Obama win if it means we get to see Trumper raisin' a ruckus in the general election. It's worth the price of admission.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020716/Donald-Trump-run-president-economy-stays-bad.html

Just What I Said on Thursday: "Neither [the democrat nor gop] Debt Ceiling Plan Protects the Nation's AAA Credit Rating," Says Moody's. Pathetic.

While this pronouncement of credit rating agency Moody's came this weekend (link at bottom), the worst part is that Standard & Poor has been telling both of our pathetic political parties the same thing for over a week, and yet the partisan slimeballs on both sides ignored the advice.

Simply put, neither the Boehner republic partisan plan nor the Reid democrat party plan cuts nearly enough from future deficit spending to ensure that the federal government's Triple A bond rating continues.

That means that all this partisan venom of recent days over the two competing "plans" has been insulting to the intelligence, largely irrelevant, and not worth a minute of your time to pay attention to. These slimy parties will likely reach a "deal" very soon to increase the debt ceiling, but the "deal" will very much risk a downgrade in the U.S. credit rating.

There are no winners here. No good guys. Don't give either party any credit whatsoever when they reach their "deal." And most certainly don't afford an ounce of credit to Obama -- who never offered his own plan in this whole debacle and showed all the leadership ability of a swamp slug. If ever there was a need for a strong third political party in this country, it is now. But it's almost too late.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/801-economy/174447-moodys-neither-plan-protects-the-nations-aaa-rating

Holy Chameleon: Just Listen to Some of the Things Coming Out of the Mouths of the Deranged Right-Wingers on this Debt Ceiling Crisis...

Talk about a broken record. From the congressional floor:

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit."

Can't the republic partisans do any better than that? The same tired old talking points as they try to hold the American people hostage. This is about saving life on this planet as we know it, and these creeps are out there spouting sound bites from 2010 stump speeches?

Oh wait. I think I got this wrong. That's actually a quote from Senator Barack Obama in 2006 as he explained his opposition to George W. Bush's desire to raise the debt ceiling at that time. Sorry about that. Feel free to disregard.




http://redwhitebluenews.com/?p=18346

17% of Likely U.S Voters Actually Say the Country Is Heading in the Right Direction...

Hey, I don't call them leftist 20 percenters for nothing.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/right_direction_or_wrong_track

The Debt Ceiling Crisis Puts on Full Display America's Two Rotten Political Parties and Why You Should Never Vote For Either One Again.

Let me say first: The corrupt, extremist-controlled (1) democrat party and (2) republic partisan party will probably reach some sort of "deal" in the days to come to raise the debt ceiling and decrease some federal spending. But even so, such "deal" will likely be one that threatens to result in a downgrade of the US government's Triple A credit rating. Here are the simple facts of how these two God-awful parties have put politics first and America last during this whole process:

This ain't rocket science. These slimy politicians have been told by S&P that in order to protect that credit rating, the parties need to come up with a plan that trims $4 trillion from national deficit spending in the years to come -- a fairly meager figure given our $14.3 trillion national debt and the fact that Obama and the democrat party have been running annual deficits of around $1.5 trillion. Yet, the two parties are lobbing around so-called "plans" that don't even come close to a paltry $4 trillion in deficit (NOT DEBT) reduction.

When earlier this week the leftist 20 percenter democrat party (or at least Dirty Harry Reid) seemingly abandoned the absurd and doctrinaire demand that tax increases (during a terrible recession) be included in any "deal," I thought the way was then paved for the two parties to reach a decent agreement. But not so fast. We are dealing with democrats and republic partisans, after all.

Instead, this thing has continued to drag on and, moreover, any plan that does emerge now with bi-partisan support will likely fall short of assuring that our Triple A credit rating continues. Say hello to higher interest rates. Say hello to market downturn. Possibly say hello to the initial chain of events leading to the American monetary collapse that I've been fearful of for over a year (long before "EndOfAmerica[Insert new number of the week].com" ever talked about it).

This destruction is all in the name of politics, with both sides being more worried about whether or not Obama has to deal with another debt ceiling hike in 2012 than protecting America's Triple A bond rating. And all because these two out-of-touch parties can't even fathom a plan agreeable to each side that would trim a modest $4 trillion of deficit (NOT DEBT reduction) spending.

How should we react? Not by trying to blame one side over the other. They are equally to blame. They are both equally corrupt, rotten and, quite arguably, evil. There are no good guys here, rather only unseemly conductors intentionally presiding over the demise of America.

My solution is simple, and it's the approach that I've followed most of my adult life: Never vote for either one of these parties if it can at all be helped. Vote for third-party candidates as a protest vote. Refuse to try to make "lesser of two evil" choices -- because that's what they want you to do.

And in the meantime, curse these two parties, insult them, take them on, and stand up to their partisans every waking hour of every day. These two parties and their politicians do not deserve your respect or to be treated with an ounce of dignity or respect. They don't even deserve to be called the names that they've chosen for themselves (therefore, I don't). That's my approach. That's what I do. What's your excuse?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59997.html