For those who missed it here is the audio from my visit with the folks over at Turn Up the Night.

As you can hear my I-Phone connection was not the best, and I clearly talk way too fast for radio.

But all in all I think it came out alright.

Last night's New Rules referenced not only the Alaska reporter who quit to fight for the legalization of pot, but also our very own quitter-in-chief.

I was happy to see that Maher covered Charlo Greene's dramatic exit, and therefore Alaska's efforts to legalize marijuana, but somewhat less than happy to see him use Palin to suggest that we are all just a bunch of quitters.

The hell we are! We are a dogged and determined bunch as will be more than obvious in the weeks to come.

By the way I could not find the entire New Rules segement on one YouTube video, so here is part two. It doesn't take a shot at Palin, but it is still pretty good.

SOTU open thread. Update!

I almost hate to admit it but I am a big fan of the State of the Union speech.

I even used to watch the ones delivered by George W. Bush. Sure I tore them apart, and ridiculed him afterward, but the important thing is that I watched.

Today's speech is the first one that I am going to miss watching live in quite some time, but sadly I have to do something called "my job" tonight, so I will be away from both my television and internet access which is going to irritate me. However somebody has to pay the bills around here and sadly that falls to me.

I will of course still have my I-Phone with me and will be able to update comments as they come in and of course when I am back in front of this computer I will embed the video of the speech so every poor slob, like myself, who missed it will have the opportunity to see what our President had to say.

P.S. By the way I trust that if the Secret Service is caught on camera pistol whipping Ted Nugent that you will all send me a comment immediately. I would certainly hate to miss that!

Update: Now that Palin's received a little attention she is going crazy on Twitter. Meth and Twitter simply don't mix! (Correction. I don't think this is Palin tweeting. It is too fast with too many links. and Right Wing factoids thrown in. I read more like RAM's old tweets to me.)

Update 2: Here is the President's full speech. (And here is the text version.)

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Update 3: And here is the text of Rubio's speech. (Warning does not include gulping from water bottle.)

Update 4: Here is the Rubio water grab courtesy of Business Insider.

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— Jon Passantino (@passantino) February 13, 2013

Welcome to Rubio's "Dean Scream."

Only three weeks after Sandy Hook NRA launches shooting game I-Phone app directed at young children.

Courtesy of America Blog: 

 In a somewhat creepy, and certainly tone-deaf, move, the NRA recently launched an iPhone game app that kids can use to shoot coffin-like targets. And the game is rated for kids aged “4+” – meaning, 4 year olds and up. Four year olds? Seriously?

The game, called “NRA: Practice Range,” was released on January 9, a little more than three weeks since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 six- and seven- year-old children were murdered in a spray of gunfire from a legally-bought weapon. Three weeks later, and the NRA is back is back in the business of peddling guns to kids. But it’s actually worse than that…

One of the options in the “game” is indoor target practice that has kids shooting at things that look like coffins. 

Just as troubling is the fact that this isn’t just a kid’s game – it’s part of the NRA propaganda machine, helping to push political criticism of the White House and Democratic members of Congress to impressionable children. 

Well, so much for the NRA blaming video games for the violence instead of guns, don't you think?

Let's face it the NRA could care less about shooting deaths, or the safety of children in this country.

Their only concern is to sell more guns and attract new members. And apparently they have learned from the church's example that indoctrinating them early is a sure way to create a lifelong congregant.

Rick Perry, the first Presidential hopeful to be mocked by an I-Phone app.

Folks who used the I-Phone app for Yelp, were recently greeted with this update:

In the past political candidates have been parodied on SNL, eviscerated on Comedy Central, and made the butt of jokes on late night talk shows, but I do believe this is the first time that anybody has been such a buffoon that they were ridiculed by an app sent out to millions of I-Phone users.

"Hey good news gang! My phone is not making fun of me yet!"

(H/T to TPM.)