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Life™ takes it’s toll, once again, and deprives you all of my wicked pissah insights. Well…let’s see what I throw together here between meetings…
-What is Ron Paul up to? From James Antle:
Rick Santorum has already dropped out of the Republican presidential race. Newt Gingrich is expected to do so this week, Wednesday at the latest. Mitt Romney is virtually guaranteed the nomination.
But Ron Paul supporters continue to fight on at Republican caucuses and conventions. Last weekend, they won at the Louisiana caucuses even though Paul managed just 6 percent of the vote in the state’s primary earlier this year. The Paulites carried the 1st, 2nd, 5th, and 6th congressional districts. According to one count, 74 percent of the delegates elected to the state convention Saturday were Paul supporters.
Now, some folks think he’s doing this just to guarantee that his name will be put in nomination, others that he is planning some kind of hanky panky at the Tampa Convention. Why not both? And why not add to the mix this: pressuring Williard to choose Rand Paul as his running mate.
Well…no matter what the answer turns out to be, at least they’ll be at least one interesting thing going on at the Convention.
-John O’Sullivan recently attended what he thought was a damn fine performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Utopia, Limited in New York. At one point, he comments:
Coming home afterwards, I went onto YouTube to track down some performances of “Utopia, Limited” and, of course, like Alice going down the rabbit hole, I found myself trapped in an amazing wonderland of G&S across the five continents. I’m going back in a moment, and I may be gone for some time, but so far I have discovered that lovers of Gilbert and Sullivan are not confined to the Anglosphere, as one might have suspected….
Indeed, I’ve been amazed to discover the same cross-cultural appeal when I mention that I am a fan of their work.
Mr. O’Sullivan’s favorite work is Iolanthe; mine is The Mikado.
If you have never seen one of the works, I highly recommend that you do. They’re satire is still relevant today and the music is wonderful. If W.S. Gilbert had been born in the mid-Twentieth Century, I have no doubt he would have been a member of The Goon Squad or Monty Python.
-Is Barack Hussein Obama cool?
Yeah…he’s cool…if you’re a metrosexual beta male.
GatorDoug, being a man of few words, answers the question with a telling picture.
As does Curmudgeon over at Political Clown Parade, but she also offers some astute observations of the ‘errand boy sent by grocery clerks’.
-I’ll try to update later, after the meeting.
-It’s now later [1745, to be exact]…
-It’s heartening to see the Navy SEALS fighting back against the disgusting displays of arrogance and vanity being perpetrated by the Narcissist-In-Chief and his minions on the anniversary of the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Toby Harnden of The London Daily Mail talked to a few. A highlight:
A serving SEAL Team member said: ‘Obama wasn’t in the field, at risk, carrying a gun. As president, at every turn he should be thanking the guys who put their lives on the line to do this. He does so in his official speeches because he speechwriters are smart.
‘But the more he tries to take the credit for it, the more the ground operators are saying, “Come on, man!” It really didn’t matter who was president. At the end of the day, they were going to go.’
Of course, while Obama has mentioned the SEALS occasionally, his remarks so far [and those of his toadies] have been like this:
‘I said that I’d go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him, and I did,’ Mr Obama said. ‘If there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they’d do something else, then I’d go ahead and let them explain it.’
‘I, I, I, I , I, me, me, me, me, me…’ — what a sorry excuse for a man…and shame on any of you that voted for this waste of human flesh.
-And God bless and protect the Navy SEALS.
-Best of luck to Don Surber, who has quit blogging. Always ready with often witty insights, he was a generous practitioner of Le Art de Link. Perhaps, one day he will return and grace us with his presence again — we can hope.
-How about a few pearls from Allen West [courtesy of Doug Ross / tip of the fedora to Paco]:
“Although he has never served our country in uniform, or risked his life to defend its freedoms and liberties on distant shores, it seems President Obama understands a thing or two about weaponry,” West said on the House floor. “But in the president’s case … the current weapon of choice is tax policy, and the enemies are small businesses, investors, entrepreneurs and corporations, who seemingly are deemed undesirable.
“President Obama seems determined to punish and wipe out economic success in this country, leveling tax weapons of mass destruction on all taxpayers.”
-The producers and casting agents on the series Magic City, which is set in late 1950′s Miami have a problem, as Paul Thompson explains:
The makers of a TV series set in 1950s Miami have had trouble casting female extras – because all local women have had boob jobs.
Producers of the series Magic City wanted to make the series as authentic as possible and sent out a casting call for women with natural breasts.
But most of the actress and women who turned up to be cast for the series had undergone breast enhancement operations which were not around in the 1950s
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[Casting director Bill Marinella] said they had to tour Miami until they found women who had not gone under the knife so they could be used in the film.
‘We did a lot of research and reached out to burlesque clubs and just finding people on the beach and literally walking up to them on the street and saying, “Hey, you look like you’re right out of The Great Gatsby”.’
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In one notice sent to local modeling agencies casting director Marinella emphasized what they were looking for
The notice read: ‘GIRLS HAD FULLER FIGURES BACK THEN SO NO SKINNY MODELS. ALL-NATURAL — NO PLASTIC SURGERY/BREAST IMPLANTS.’
Miami in southern Florida ranks as the third city in the US where residents favour cosmetic surgery with breast enhancement operations among the most popular procedures.
Hey Billy Boy!…I got yer natural broads right here. Let old Bobby Bel solve all your problems — for a reasonable fee, of course.
-Live Well My Friends….
