In a reverse of 2008 this time it's the grandparents trying to get the kids to vote for Hillary Clinton.

Courtesy of Daily Kos:

Remember in 2008 when Sarah Silverman made a video called “The Great Schlep” about visiting your grandparents in Florida to make sure they would vote for Obama? Well, now the tables have turned. 

A group called Bend the Arc Jewish Action has made a video where it’s “bubbes and zaydes who are stepping up to push the younger generation to vote for Hillary Clinton,” according to a story in Advertising Age. 

“Join the Jewish Movement to Defeat Trump,” says the group’s website, which uses the hashtag #WeveSeenThisBefore. In a video, Jewish grandparents promise to “Rise From the Dead and Haunt Their Grandchildren if They Don’t Vote for Hillary Clinton.”

Okay that last part with the sheet really cracked me up.

And all kidding aside this is something that really needs to happen, grandparents and parents explaining to their children just how much is on the line with this election.

3 year old shoots himself in the head with grandparent's unsecured gun. Just another day in gun loving America.

Courtesy of KHOU:  

The grandparents were babysitting the boy and said they had put him down for a nap in the master bedroom, according to detectives. 

"When they went in to check on him, he had apparently located a .380 semiautomatic pistol that was in the bedroom and had apparently accidentally shot himself in the head," said Sgt. Ben Beall. 

The boy was taken by Life Flight to Memorial Hermann Hospital. 

Detectives said it appeared the loaded pistol had been left on the nightstand next to the bed. If true, detectives said the grandparents could face a misdemeanor charge of making a firearm accessible to a child. 

The charge can result in a fine and up to a year in jail. 

Wow a whole year in jail, or a fine.

Somehow that does not seem to be nearly punitive enough for people who carelessly left a death dealing weapon within reach of a toddler.

Of course the police had an opinion about that: 

"There's nothing that the state of Texas can do to the parent or grandparent that's going to be anything close to what they're going to do to themselves." 

Perhaps that is true, but it still does not seem to be enough to deter other gun owners from leaving their weapons within reach of small children, as evidenced by the overwhelming number of "accidental" shootings involving young children almost every day in this country.

It should not take the injury or death of a loved one to convince a gun owner to take great pains to make sure that their weapons are locked up tight and out of reach of children. After all, by then it is too late. 

Dakota Meyer's grandparents will not talk about Bristol Palin but seem to confirm that their grandson is the father of her baby.

Courtesy of the Daily Mail:  

Family members have stayed silent over Bristol's pregnancy but Meyer's grandparents invited Daily Mail Online into their 150-year-old farmhouse to talk about their adored grandson. 

'We helped bring up Dakota and he has always been a very good boy,' said 84-year-old Jean who accompanied her grandson to the White House for the Medal of Honor ceremony. 

'We try not to talk about Dakota but we are so, so proud of him. We helped raise him with his father Michael.' 

A quick glance around the couple's living room adorned with numerous photos of Dakota in his Marine uniform is testament to their pride. 

Outside in the front garden a red Marine flag flies alongside the Stars and Stripes. 

However, when the subject of Bristol Palin and her pregnancy is brought up the couple are less forthcoming. 

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'We don't ever talk about Bristol Palin,' said Meyer's grandfather Dwight when asked about the pregnancy announcement. 

'We don't ever discuss her in this family.' 

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Dwight, 85, who uses a walking frame to aid his mobility, makes it clear he has no desire to talk about her. 

But when Jean is asked if she is looking forward to welcoming a great-grandson she seems to confirm Dakota is the father of Bristol's baby. 

She said 'It will not be the first. I have other great-grandchildren.' 

Holy crap! Is Dakota actually going to let himself get entrapped like this?

I'm telling you there is no damn way this baby is his, and if he does not get a paternity test and defend himself he will suffer at the hands of the Palins in ways that will make his time in Iraq and Afghanistan seem like a cake walk by comparison. 

Renegade Grannies sing about "Legitimate Rape." Oh yeah, THIS should start your morning off right!

You know I think my two now dearly departed grandmothers would have fit in just fine with that group. They were quite feisty as well.

You Tube viral video of the day: Gay Dads Learn They Are About To Be Grandparents.

I worried about posting this because of attracting some homophobic comments, but their joy is just SO infectious that I decided to take the risk.

Besides my daughter insisted that I put it up. So you know how that goes.

By the way let me point out to all of the homophobes out there who seem to believe that "teh gay" is contagious, and spread from one homosexual to a heterosexual like the common cold.

Clearly these two gay gentleman raised their child with love, acceptance, and a constant exposure to their alternative lifestyle. Yet despite all of that they still grew up to be a "breeder."

Clearly this whole "gay agenda" thing has a few bugs yet to be worked out.