Jeb Bush gets his mommy to help him against that big bully Donald Trump.

Just when I'm convinced that the Jeb! campaign simply cannot get more pathetic.

You know I remember when I got my mommy to come to the playground and handle the bullies for me.

Oh wait that never happened, because my mother would have told me to handle it myself and stop being such a pansy ass.

I can see Jeb's next campaign commercial now:

"Jeb Bush. Sure he's a pathetic wimp, but damn his mother's a tough old bird."

Well Sarah Palin's back in Alaska spending time with her kids. Whether they want her to or not.

Hey look, she's still sporting Bristol's ring.

So yesterday's Facebook post from the Grizzled Mama features her showing up for Piper's graduation from middle school, and celebrating. Trig's last few days in kindergarten:

Celebrating the last day of school! What a GREAT day! New chapters in life, always unfolding.

Problem is of course that Trig simply cannot seem to be bothered with her attempts to use him as a prop anymore.

Jesus stop touching me, I hardly know you!

I was just remembering when we all started to notice that Trig seemed to have no connection to his "mother," and then there were those reports of him hitting her in the face.

Back then the Palin-bots were quick to jump to her defense and claim those were "liberal lies." But let's face it, all evidence points to the fact that we were well ahead of the curve on recognizing that there is no real mother-son connection between Palin and her most famous political prop.

And clearly she cannot force the little guy to fake one.

As for Bristol, well she is clearly back in Alaska and hanging out with her siblings.

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Notice the ring finger is still bare, which does not exactly support the wishful thinking of those who want to believe that the wedding of the century is only "postponed."

Kentucky Deputy's gun exercises its 2nd Amendment rights all by itself, when it shoots his mother after falling out of his jacket.

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

A western Kentucky sheriff’s deputy was placed on paid leave after accidentally shooting his mother during a wedding ceremony. 

Detective Cory Golightly, a McCracken County sheriff’s deputy, brought a personal weapon over the weekend to the wedding at Bardwell Baptist Church in nearby Carlisle County, reported WPSD-TV. 

The weapon fell to the ground and fired – striking Golightly’s mother — as the deputy adjusted his jacket, investigators said.

His mother, by the way, is listed is stable condition and should recover fine.

I'm sure that everybody is going to jump all over this poor deputy for shooting his own mother in a church, but maybe she was asking for it. We don't know the story.

Kind of tricky of him to say the gun did it by itself though.

But we're not fooled, because as the NRA keeps telling us, "Guns don't shoot and almost kill people in a church, people shoot and almost kill people in a church."

Nice try Deputy.

"Mommy's shot."

Courtesy of KJRH:  

A Tulsa woman is dead after her toddler son accidentally shot her in the head, police say.

Christa Engles, 26, was pronounced dead at an area hospital just after 5:30 p.m. Monday after being transported from her east Tulsa home in "grave condition." 

Police say Engles was found by the children's grandmother, who arrived home to find the victim in the front room of the house with a gunshot wound to the head. 

Police say it appears she was changing the diaper of her 1-year-old daughter when she was shot by her 3-year-old son with a semiautomatic handgun.

According to the news report the young child discovered the gun under the couch, apparently there were several guns in the house, and he accidentally shot his mother to death.

Afterward the child kept repeating the phrase "Mommy's shot."

Just another tragedy brought to us by the American "gun culture."

Guns are not tools.

Guns are not accessories.

They are instruments of death, and they need to be treated as such.

Before they prove that to people the hard way.

Accidental shooting takes life of mother and her unborn baby. It seems that the pro-life rights and 2nd Amendment rights cannot always coexist.

Courtesy of Tampa Bay Times:  

Katherine Lynn Bryan grew up in New Port Richey, the youngest in a tight-knit group of four siblings. She recently got married and became Katherine Hoover. At the age of 25, she was five months pregnant. The new baby was going to be her second son. 

Instead, a tragic gun accident at a friend's house left the young mother and her unborn child dead Sunday. 

A stay-at-home mother who had recently moved from New Port Richey to Inverness, Katherine Hoover died in a hospital emergency room early Sunday. 

She was shot in the head Saturday evening while being shown a gun at a friend's house in Brooksville, authorities said. 

She and her husband, Carson Hoover, had gone to visit friends at 20079 Suncrest Drive in northwest Brooksville, just outside the city limits. 

Sometime around 6:45 p.m. inside the house, William DeHayes was showing the Hoovers some of his guns, including a .22-caliber revolver. The gun accidentally fired and shot Katherine Hoover in the head, according to the Hernando County Sheriff's Office. 

Hoover was rushed to Bayfront Health Brooksville and then airlifted to Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point. 

Her unborn child could not be saved. Shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday, physicians removed the 5-month-old fetus from his dying mother in a last-ditch attempt to save him. But he was pronounced dead just after 8:30 p.m.

Something that has always confused me is the idea that the rabid Right to Life movement, is invariably made up of the same people  who also support the death penalty and the 2nd Amendment.

One would think that if you were so focused on every fetus's right to be born, you would also be against having a lot of guns around which might take their life as a child or as an adult. Or does "pro-life" concerns end once the child successfully navigates the birth canal?

Guns do NOT protect life, guns take life.

And in this case they took two innocent lives.

Does that make anybody feel safer?

Never too young to appreciate music. Baby's response to her mother's singing is precious beyond belief.

Mom has quite a set of pipes, and the baby's roller coaster of emotions is somewhat amazing to watch.

Something to think about the next time you are considering how much to tip your waitress.

This comes to you courtesy of my sister who has worked her entire life as either a waitress or a bartender, and in honor of my mother who raised three children while working as both a waitress and a bartender.

I have only ever once forgotten to tip my waitress. It happened the night of my prom, while eating at the restaurant my mother was working at.

Our waitress was her best friend, and somehow between three couples none of us remembered to leave a tip, even though two of us were working as busboys at the time.

The next morning my mother burst into my room and started yelling at me, telling me that I had made her friend cry because she thought she had done something wrong and that I was mad at her.

I was both horrified and embarrassed.

Needless to say she got her tip, and it was quite generous, I have NEVER once forgotten to leave a tip since.

And I never will.

Romney campaign forced to stop using story of slain Navy SEAL after mother complains. Update: Now friend weighs in as well.

This from Buzzfeed:

At a town hall here Wednesday, Mitt Romney re-told a story he first revealed earlier this week about meeting one of the Navy SEALs who would later be killed in the attacks on the Benghazi consulate. 

Romney has used the account in recent days on the stump to demonstrate the courage of Americans, in particular the troops: Upon hearing that the consulate was under attack, Glenn Doherty, 42, headed toward the action to try to defend it. 

It's a compelling story, offering a surprisingly personal link between the candidate and the tragedy in Libya — but it's one the SEAL's mother wants him to stop telling. 

Wednesday morning, NBC's Boston affiliate reported that Doherty's mother thought Romney was taking advantage of her son's death. 

"I don't trust Romney," Barbara Doherty told WHDH 7. "He shouldn't make my son's death part of his political agenda. It's wrong to use these brave young men, who wanted freedom for all, to degrade Obama."

Obviously the mother is NOT a supporter of Romney's and obviously found his use of her son's name for political gain as repulsive as the rest of us did. Her response resulted in Romney's people telling their candidate to stop using the story at campaign stops immediately.

Asked whether Romney would continue to tell the story, a campaign aide told BuzzFeed he would not, now that he knew the mother's wishes. 

Kevin Madden added, "Governor Romney was inspired by the memory of meeting Glen Doherty and shared his story and that memory. We respect the wishes of Mrs. Doherty though."

Of course Romney's use of his connection to this Navy SEAL is part of the Republicans newest attempt to smear the Obama campaign by claiming they were complicit in the death of Ambassador Stevens, and the Navy SEAL's there to protect him. And are also currently launching another Congressional witch hunt led by their favorite attack dog, Darrell Issa.

You may remember Issa as the same vicious asshole who tried to use the Fast and Furious debacle to smear the President, and even went so far as to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for not allowing himself to be bullied. Eventually of course Holder was cleared of all of the trumped up charges against him.

When I first heard Romney tell of his very tenuous connection to this dead soldier, and then squint his eyes a bunch of times in an attempt to produce a tear or two, I felt sick to my stomach.  This soldier's mother is quite right not to trust Mr. Romney, in that he will essentially use ANY means, no matter how disgusting or devious, to win this election.

Update: Navy SEAL's friend recalls meeting with Romney much differently:

But one of Glen Doherty's best friends remembered Doherty's impression of this meeting much differently. 

He last saw Doherty a week before the final mission to Libya. "I stayed in his house (in California), we paddled out in the ocean together, spent some good quality time." 

Ellefsen said Doherty recalled meeting Mitt Romney years ago, but the account was much different from what the Presidential candidate retold in Iowa. 

According to Ellefsen, Romney introduced himself to Doherty four separate times during the gathering. 

"He said it was very comical," Ellefsen said, "Mitt Romney approached him ultimately four times, using this private gathering as a political venture to further his image. He kept introducing himself as Mitt Romney, a political figure. The same introduction, the same opening line. Glen believed it to be very insincere and stale." 

Ellefsen said Doherty remembered Romney as robotic. 

"He said it was pathetic and comical to have the same person come up to you within only a half hour, have this person reintroduce himself to you, having absolutely no idea whatsoever that he just did this 20 minutes ago, and did not even recognize Glen's face." 

Ellefsen described Glen Doherty as a humble, non-political guy, and said it was ironic for him to be used during a presidential campaign. 

"Whether it be Republican, Democrat, Green Party, Libertarian, it doesn't make a difference. Because this guy is using our great friend, our humble, and honorable great friend...who is truly larger than life...He has become part of the soapbox routine for politics in a presidential race."

Jesus Christ just how low will Romney go in this election?

Shameless prick!

Judge who sent disgusting e-mail joke about President's mother sends apology letter

Here is the apology letter, courtesy of the Huffington Post, that Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull sent to President Obama:

Letter To Obama

"I sincerely and profusely apologize to you and your family for the email I forwarded," said Cebull's apology letter, which was dated March 1. 

"I accept full responsibility; I have no one to blame but myself." Cebull said he requested that the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit review the situation. 

"Honestly, I don't know what else I can do," Cebull wrote. 

After reading something as disgusting as that e-mail concerning our President, it is fairly hard to give this guy a break, but I have to say that this letter sounds sincere to me. And it definitely sends a message to others who may feel they can openly disrespect the President without suffering a public backlash or private shaming.

Your thoughts?

Colbert Report suspended possibly due to illness of Stephen's mother.

Courtesy of the Huffington Post: Multiple outlets have cited a family illness as the cause of the suspension of "The Colbert Report," and now a person who has a business relationship with the show has told Huffington Post that the host's mother is seriously ill, and the show will remain suspended until he can return.

As many of you no doubt know Colbert's father and two brothers died when he was quite young and, since he was the youngest and his other siblings had moved out already, after that tragedy he and his mother lived alone together until he left for college.

Obviously they were extremely close, as you can certainly discern from this rare interview with Mrs. Colbert in 2008.


In my opinion Stephen Colbert is a national treasure and  we are very lucky to have him. For that all of us owe his mother a great deal of thanks, and to let her know that she is in our hearts.

I don't pray, but I certainly would not hold it against any of you for doing so.