Tag: Fast and Furious

Guns! Sex! It’s ‘Today in U.S. Politics!’

Republican presidential candidate, Herman Cain, fired back at his first of four five accusers of sexual misconduct to publicly come forward. The candidate took to email today, courageously reaching out to the public that happens to subscribe to a Herman Cain email newsletter.

In the email, Cain denied Sharon Bialek’s story that he groped her when she asked for employment help, not realizing she wasn’t applying for a job as a sex worker. He laid out her history of financial and legal problems, implying that she is looking to get rich quick. Cain further added that he will address this and the other allegations “head on,” and that he is willing to even go so far as dust under Ms. Bialek’s skirt for his fingerprints.

In Other News:

Attorney General Eric Holder assured the Senate Judiciary Committee that an operation like the botched Fast and Furious “must never happen again,” in part because there are no assault weapons left in the U.S. to sell to Mexican drug cartels.

Who says the U.S. Senate can’t agree?

Ask any person what’s wrong with the country, and inevitably they’ll answer, “The Kardashians.” But, if you press harder and say, “Yeah, I know, but really?” Then they’ll say it’s our dysfunctional Congress.

And who can blame them? Almost every Senate vote of the past three years has been threatened with the filibuster, and even when a bill does pass, it only does so by a narrow margin on the basis of party lines. And seriously? Paper visual aids.

But, something amazing happened on the Senate floor Tuesday: not one, but two unanimous votes.

The first was to keep potatoes on public school lunch menus as part of an amendment to the 2012 agriculture spending bill. Co-sponsored by Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.), the amendment prohibits the Agriculture Department from setting “any maximum limits on the serving of vegetables in school meal programs.”

And the other? A 99-0 vote to prevent the Justice Department from selling guns to Mexican drug cartels ever again, which means more for us, yay!

MasterChugs Theater: The Value of an Education

Some coworkers of mine and I get together every so often to have Bad Movie Night (henceforth known as BMN), an idea I first heard from Chris Taber some time ago on the Crankcast. To me, it’s a glorious concept: get some friends together, pop on some bad movies, crack open some beers and let rip on the film. Keep in mind that you won’t be watching The Godfather on BMN, but you just might watch The Godfather III. As long as the movie’s not one of those you’d find in the March Mort or Awful April categories, it can still be fun enough. And hey, you get to introduce people to movies they may not have seen!

How can it go wrong?

It can. Oh, it can. Continue reading MasterChugs Theater: The Value of an Education