Rare is the video when you can show EVERYTHING that is wrong with pinky ring wearing, crust less sandwich eating, mealy mouthed, wish-washy, go along to get along, Decepticon Republican party.     But MSNBC Joe Scarborough personifies all of those attributes into one ridiculous narrative….
….. This guy is just a flat out idiot.   He’s an idiot.  Period.

EGYPT – The Egyptian defense minister has ordered the repair and reconstruction of all churches that suffered damage in the country’s violent demonstrations since the Egyptian military removed President Mohamed Morsi from power last month.
Defense minister Col. Gen. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi intends to fix the damage to Coptic churches at Rabaa Adaweya and Nahda squares, according to a report by the Mid-East Christian News.
Dozens of churches were attacked and burned in riots after thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities to demand the end of what they call military rule, following the removal of Morsi on July 3. Many of Morsi’s supporters have voiced criticism at Egypt’s Christian minority for largely supporting the military’s decision to oust him from office. (more…)

Why haven’t we had a joke thread in so long? We used to have such a good time with it. Bring out the big guns, guys, it’s time to have some fun. Keep it PG rated, and if you have thin skin, pop on out of here now. We ain’t gonna allow y’all to spoil our laughs.
Here is Stella’s funny for the day, and then one of my favorites to start us off.
There was a Scottish painter named Smokey MacGregor who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down his paint to make it go a wee bit further.
As it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the local church decided to do a big restoration job on the outside of one of their biggest buildings.
Smokey put in a bid, and, because his price was so low, he got the job. (more…)

Just in case you haven’t heard of it, The Woodward Dream Cruise has been an annual event for the past 19 years in suburban Detroit.  One Saturday in mid-August Woodward Avenue (Michigan Highway 1), is once again the home of Detroit muscle cars, and other unusual domestic and foreign vehicles.
“The Cruise”, as we in the neighborhood refer to it, is a free event that stretches along Woodward Ave. from the State Fair Grounds, which is located inside Detroit just south of the city line (8 Mile Rd), continuing on a northwest path, terminating in the center of Pontiac, MI.  On it’s route (roughly 15 miles), it passes through the communities of Ferndale, Pleasant Ridge, Huntington Woods, Royal Oak, Berkley, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, and Pontiac.  In 2013, August 17th is the Big Day! (more…)

I’ve been looking for a way to aptly describe all the recent events in Egypt.   Then I saw this recent picture courtesy of Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit.   It appropriately describes what the U.S. media is desperate to avoid:

The average Egyptian is not an Islamist.   To the contrary they are moderates – having lived with ‘westernized freedom principles’ amid the presidency of Hosni Mubarak.   Sure, there were elements the average citizen did not like about Mubarak – and the absence of technological investment in their economy was a source of constant irritation.
However, they did not want to devolve into an Islamist State.   Initially the Muslim Brotherhood promised not to run for election – but they reversed their position and being the only organized political group in Egypt they quickly moved to manipulate the election and the electorate.   The outcome was President Morsi. (more…)

(Via Breitbart)  Buried within an article on Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s run for U.S. Senate, Edward-Isaac Dovere of Politico admits “the irony that in the age of Obama, Republicans have done a better job than Democrats of bringing diversity through their ranks.”
That is a reality ignored all too often by the mainstream media in its rush to declare Republicans, and especially those from the Tea Party movement, as racist, white, male, and old.


In fact, the emergence of the Tea Party helped bring black and female candidates to the forefront of the GOP, as political newcomers seized (and created) political opportunities–often in opposition to the Republican establishment. (more…)

A black lady, Mona Nelson, kidnapped a 12 year old white boy, Jonathan Foster, from his home on Christmas eve 2010.   She tied him up with twine and then burned him to death with a blowtorch.   When she was finished she took his burned lifeless body out to the woods and threw him in a ditch.    Her trial began this week.  
The national media continues ignores the story….  We share it because no-one else will.
HOUSTON (KTRK) — On Wednesday, the  mother of a little boy who was allegedly kidnapped and later turned up dead had to relive that day in court.  On Thursday, Jonathan Foster’s grandmother had to do the same.
In tears, Mary Gifford testified about Foster, her grandson, coming home to Texas after living with relatives in Mississippi and Missouri in 2010. (more…)

[…]  we all sought refuge in the Treehouse, in our darkest, most isolated hours.   Sometimes feeling guilty for doing so. Sometimes feeling shunned because we were seen as a liability, […]  for our association with the Treehouse.
But you guys were the only ones who truly cared about […]  and saw things as they were.   It was difficult not being able to tell the other Treepers, […], what was really happening.

Dear xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx, it’s not about right or wrong.
I’m not right, and you are not wrong.
You are asking for that which we cannot deliver. Because, you are asking for ‘forgiveness’….. where there is nothing to forgive.
First, forgive yourself – I think that will give you the key to what I am about to share.
Have you heard the phrase:

“to err is human, to forgive – divine” ?

Think about that, because it is correct. To trespass is human, the forgiveness for such a trespass is “divine”…. meaning from ‘That Who is divine’ – that’s not us. (more…)