“I told you if the Hope N Change thing happened again in 2012 things would be twitchy”

Last week in California a Democrat Senator, Leland Yee, is arrested for attempting to sell shoulder fired missiles from al-Qaeda to undercover FBI agents.
This week in Kentucky the FBI is warning local law enforcement that over 200 well armed Middle School kids are planning domestic terrorist activities.
Also this week, in Nevada a cattle rancher is under a military-style attack because he won’t pay the federal government to put him out of business.  And his supporters must stand in First Amendment “Zones” or risk getting shot.
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Sometimes all it takes is a glance at someone’s youthful photo to grasp that certain je ne sais quoi that made them famous.  Other times fame needs a nepotistic kick in the pants. In young Jeremy’s case, I’m guessing it was the later.

Follow below the fold for the answer as to what made this child irresistible.  (*Hint*….the initials FF.)
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Earlier in the day Ytz4Mee had sighted a potential menace.

With extensive research we have been able to identify the culprit
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Check below the fold for even more NEW emoticons!
SMILE:  The new emoticons have arrived!

See the complete listing below the fold.  (Surprise…there’s even a “burrito”!) (more…)

Fox affiliate KDVR shocked presenters and viewers alike on Tuesday morning when it accidentally aired a photo of a man’s penis during a broadcast about the helicopter crash in Seattle.   The station has blamed staff in the control room and says it has taken steps to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.
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(Via WeaselZippers)  Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) has issued a fatwa stating that kangaroo meat and grasshoppers are “halal” food, but Islam bans eating “badgers, martens, weasels, beavers and sea otters.”
“Islamic scholars agree that ‘halal’ animals that are not mentioned in the Quran and in the hadith [the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad] are those that don’t eat feces and carcasses, and which are therefore neither wild nor coarse,” the Diyanet’s High Committee of Religious Affairs said in response to a citizen’s question.
As such, the fatwa continues, kangaroo is classified in the same category with other “grass eating, clean animals like deer, gazelle and antelope.” Grasshopper is also categorized as “halal” because “there is a special provision in the Sunnah,” it adds, referring to the way of life prescribed as normative for Muslims on the basis of the teachings and practices of Prophet Muhammad. (more…)

By now almost everyone is aware that Kerry Kennedy, the daughter of Robert Kennedy, decided to take her Drugged-Driving case to trial in order to escape her DUI charge.

Together with her attorney they decided to use the “Affluenza Defense”. 

New York – “She is a daughter of Ethel and Robert Kennedy and a niece of our past president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy,” said Kerry Kennedy’s lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, to jurors in the packed White Plains court room.

He added that his “religious” client had two daughters who attended Ivy League schools.   She should be found not guilty of driving under the influence of a sleeping pill because she’s a human-rights activist whose life-saving work would be severely  curbed if she was sidelined by jail.

Testifying in her own defense, Ms. Kerry Kennedy wasted little time before playing the “Daddy” card.   “Daddy was the attorney general during the civil rights movement and then a senator,” the 54-year-old testified, supposedly explaining why she grew up in Virginia, but coyly invoking the memory of her slain father, Sen Robert F. Kennedy. (read more)

However, we have just been given a bootleg copy of smuggled, and super-secret video of the jury, and one juror specifically.   The video was recorded while Ms. Kennedy was testifying in her own defense.   We rec’d the video with an attached note written in mysterious code; however it seems to indicate the video segment was at the exact moment the above quote was stated. (more…)

(KANSAS)  These are the child prodigies who used up all  the available words at a spelling bee, forcing organizers to stop the showdown  until they could find more.

When Sophia Hoffman, 11, and Kush Sharma, 13,  buzzed through the list of words over 47 rounds during Saturday’s Jackson County Spelling Bee, organizers had to pull  more from a dictionary.

But after blitzing the extra 20 words,  organizers decided to postpone the competition until March 8 because people were  too tired to continue.

‘It was legendary,’ said Mary Olive Thompson,  spelling bee co-coordinator said. (more…)

Concerned about the potential to be highlighted on a “Kiss Cam”…. He Came Prepared:

North Carolina’s Durham Academy Head of School Michael Ulku-Steiner and Assistant Head of School/Upper School Director Lee Hark announce that school will be closed Feb. 13, 2014.

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