Tag: Humor

What some people do for money

This one just makes me shake my head….

The Story:

Shepard Smith, the endlessly endearing (and easily angered) Fox News anchor, has likened the right-wing channel to a “family,” with president Roger Ailes as its domineering father. Which makes it only slightly awkward that in early 2012, the 49-year-old anchor started courting an attractive young production assistant who worked under him on Fox Report With Shepard Smith. Now they are a couple.

Gawker has learned that Smith is dating a 26-year-old Penn State grad and Fox Business producer named Giovanni “Gio” Graziano. According to multiple sources with knowledge of their relationship, the couple met sometime after Graziano started working at Fox Report in October 2011 as a production assistant. He’s the man with whom Smith frequents Bathtub Gin.

“Yes, that’s Shepard’s boyfriend,” Katya Minskova, the Bathtub Gin waitress Smith berated in March, confirmed to Gawker when shown a photo of Graziano. Another source who had seen them together at the Chelsea speakeasy confirmed Graziano’s identity as well. Both sources say they saw Graziano and Smith together at the bar on multiple occasions, and that they appeared to be romantically involved.

While Smith and Graziano’s boss Roger Ailes, a notorious homophobe, was apparently kept in the dark about the relationship—“higher ups had no idea,” a source close to Graziano said—the pair doesn’t appear to have gone to great lengths to keep the workplace romance from their co-workers.

via Shepard Smith’s Office Romance: A 26-Year-Old Fox Staffer.

I know, I said I was going to clean my act up here a bit; but this one here, is just too darned easy:

This story just brings this little pre-rap days tune to mind, this is from 1984:

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Others doin’ it for the money :  Erik Wemple, Joe. My. God. and The Other McCain

Obviously they did not ask me this poll question!

Personally, I would take the sex myself. 😀

Our love of coffee is so strong most people would rather have a caffeine fix when they first wake up than sex, a new survey has found.

The study by Le Méridien hotel group discovered that 53 per cent of its guests favored coffee over sex as the perfect way to start the day.

The research showed worldwide addiction to coffee was so great 78 percent of respondents would abstain from alcohol, social media or sex with their partner for a year rather than miss out on coffee for the same amount of time.

via Survey finds most hotel guests prefer coffee in the morning to sex | Fox News.

In other news: Shepard Smith spaces out, and AllahPundit admits the obvious

First Shep:

and Allahpundit:

In an age where the hallmark of bleeding-edge tech is smallness, he chose to boldly go where no anchor has gone before with 55-inch touchscreens, which must be murder on the eyes of the staffers huddled over them two feet away. I will say, though, that the sheer volume of content they appear to be sifting through reminds me a lot of the evolution of the blogging experience over the last six or seven years. At first I was a cable-news and RSS man; then came Facebook; then came Twitter; and amid it all, new news sites and blogs worth monitoring seemed to sprout up every day. Trying to juggle it all while cranking out posts sort of feels like the bit here where Shep starts scrolling aimlessly through remote video feeds while keeping up a semi-coherent monologue. So there’s my official excuse for half-assed content going forward. It’s not that I’m an idiot, I’m just really distracted. (And kind of an idiot.)

Heh. I have no commentary for that one. 😆

UPDATED: Man, I leave for a few hours and what happens????

People go all crazy and stuff! 😯

Police chase ends with shots fired, woman killed or injured and police officer hit by car!

Memeorandum Blogger roundup

The good news is that the Government shutdown, is, well, still shutdown.

I tell ya, it was funny. I went with my dad over by I-96 and Livernois; we were over there, Dad was working on one of his friend’s boat and the guys were telling me that someone was shooting at the white house. I thought they were talking about this little incident here.

They were like, “No man, check your phone, someone is shooting at the white house!” So, I did; and I start thinking, “I leave for a couple of hours and everything goes crazy!” 😆

Anyhow, I’m glad to see that no one at the capital or at the White House was seriously hurt. I understand the police officer is not doing so well; so, prayers for him.

Not to make light of serious incident; but, dang! I sit around here for a week and nothing big happens, I leave for a few hours and all heck breaks loose! 😆

Hope nothing else happens, I mean, I can only handle so much excitement in one day. 😉

Update: Video from the Incident from WaPo:

Better video via CNN:

More video via Fox News:

 

More Video via Fox News, of presser, isolated incident:

Eyewitness video via CNN:

CNN is reporting that the suspect, a female, is dead.

….and of course, this useful idiot, who is, in my opinion, a disinfo agent for suspect sort. — is accusing the US Government of executing an innocent woman: 🙄

http://youtu.be/nfVS2DvAEsI

Some people have no shame, at all. 😡

Update: Photo of suspect, who had a history of mental illness. (don’t they all?)

Another Pic: (via New York Post)

Her name was Miriam Carey. Prayers for her family. God Bless her, she was most likely off of her meds, and flipped out. So sad. 🙁

Update #2: …and of course, there is this here. 🙄

 

 

 

“Stay the hell out of Syria!” Says, HotAir.com?!?!?!??!

I happen to be checking out one of my many blogs that I read on a daily basis here,  and I happen to see the following:

From a strictly strategic point of view, why not let Hezbollah fight al-Qaeda affiliates and let them drain each other of strength?  That has to be a better outcome than victory for Assad or for the Nusrah Front and its AQ allies.  An American intervention that tips the scales towards AQ would be absurd, and yet that seems to be exactly what Republicans and Democrats in Washington want from the Obama administration.

If we are going to intervene, it should be with a heavy footprint that ends the Nusrah Front’s control of wide swaths of Syria.  That will take years, hundreds of thousands of troops, and probably trillions of dollars — but it’s the only way to intervene and keep Islamist terrorists from taking over large parts of Syria like they did in Libya, after a 30,000-foot intervention by Obama and NATO.  If we don’t want to pay that kind of price for intervention, then let’s stay the hell out of Syria in the first place.

Now, who would make such a statement? Lew Rockwell? Ron Paul? Rand Paul? The Editors at The American Conservative? Patrick J. Buchanan?

Why, No.

It was none other than Ed Morrissey at HotAir.com.

For what it is truly worth, Ed has a good point. This whole neocon idea of controlling the entire arab world is absurd and would come back to bite us anyhow. We lost a good deal of American treasure in Iraq and for what? Some bad intelligence that no one could be bothered to verify? As Ed basically said here; lets not make that same mistake twice. We cannot afford it anyhow, and I just happen to believe that America is war-weary anyhow, any sort of military action would a disaster for the Democrats and for America in general.

So, hats off to Ed Morrissey for speaking a truth, that might not be that popular in his own circles. Being a truth-teller in politics, especially in Conservative circles is a really hard thing at times. I am sure that he took it on the chin to speak that truth on that blog. My thoughts are with him, because, as I well know; speaking from the heart and shooting from the hip is not easy sometimes.