Holy crap! Did you watch that whole thing? I don’t usually suggest watching anything on the internet in it’s entirety, but that is awesome. I imagine it’s what getting a tattoo is like; painful, yet enjoyable.
That guy is named Joseph Maturo and he is the mayor of East Haven, Connecticut and he is awesome in the stupidity of his answer and his making-matters-worse attempt at backpedaling. This is the story the reporter is asking him about, from this story:
The public fiasco began Tuesday with the announcement by federal officials that the FBI had arrested four East Haven police officers on charges that they conspired to deprive some residents, particularly Latinos, of their constitutional rights. The charges include multiple counts of excessive force, false arrest, obstruction and conspiracy.
“What are you going to do for the Latino community?”
How about something like: If the charges are true, we will work with the police department and local community leaders to ensure nothing of this sort happens to anyone.
Nope, he goes with: “I may have tacos for dinner.”
The State of the Union is where the President of the United States has to go in front of Congress and the Senate and be on television to talk about how great of a job he is doing. Which is good. Obama does a terrible job at promoting his successes. But he gives amazing speech.
Except he dropped that stupid “spilled milk” line. By my calculations that cost him 456,789 votes. Really?! Fuck me, that was terrible. That better have been a bet. They put in that crap about milk farmers and that old hokey guy in the room who can’t help but say the terribly obvious joke probably said that line about crying over spilled milk, and later Obama and the younger guys were probably sitting around the Oval Office talking shit on the spilled milk guy and Obama would be all like, “I should say that, in the speech, ha!” And the other guys would be all, ‘Yeah, right, whatever.’ “What, bitch? You don’t think I’d do it?” ‘There’s no fuckin’ way.’ “Oh, I’m gonna do it.”
Newt Gingrich, some guy who wants to be the President of the United States, went for the win-win with his second wife. From this story:
His second wife, Marianne, said in the interview that he asked her in the late 1990s to tolerate an affair he was having with congressional aide Callista Bisek, who is now his third wife.
“He was asking to have an open marriage and I refused,” she said. She has spoken publicly before about Gingrich’s behavior during their 18-year marriage.
Whatever. Dude wasn’t into his wife, wanted some strange, and basically gave her the option: We can stay together, and I’ll bang my aide, or we divorce, and I bang my aide, then probably marry her, and then most likely cheat on her too. What’do’ya say? No? Alright… See ya!
People are giving the guy a hard time for this; I say he should be commended. He could’ve slept around with his wife knowing, as per usual, but he was honest. And aren’t the building blocks of a marriage made from honesty. Yes, I do believe they are.
If you don’t know what ashleymadison.com is – uh, yeah, me neither – it’s a website that sets up people to cheat on their spouses or whatever. And because websites don’t give a shit about anything but getting attention, they’ve endorsed GOP hopeful and chronic-spouse-cheater-on’er (more like ON HER, am I right, or am I right?) Newt Gingrich.
The site — www.ashleymadison.com, which dubs itself “the most recognized name in infidelity” — announced its support for the thrice-married former House speaker on a billboard.
A picture of the sign [billboard], which was installed in the key swing state of Pennsylvania, shows Gingrich with his finger over his mouth and declares him: “Faithful Republican…Unfaithful Husband.” (yahoo)
Kim Jong Il is apparently dead. It’s not like I saw the body, and I’ve heard the media lies to us to make sure we buy houses without money, and have abortions to save the earth from becoming a balmy 70 degrees year round… or something like that, I don’t really pay attention. Whatever. If it’s true, who is going to lead this luxurious nation?
North Korea’s state news agency KCNA has called dead leader Kim Jong Il’s son Jong Un a “great successor” in what appears to be the first such mention of the late leader’s youngest known son, who had been groomed to take over power.
Jong Un is the “great successor to the revolutionary cause of Juche and outstanding leader of our party, army and people,” KCNA said. Juche is the North’s homegrown political ideology of self reliance. (msnbc)
And don’t be worried about one of the world’s biggest military being in the hands of a 27 or so year old – no one knows how old he is – because he is a four star general. Though, he was appointed a four star general just so that he could take the place of his dear ol’ dad if needed. And if you were rooting for the North Koreans to get nuclear weapons, that should stay right on track as well. I’ve got a really good feeling about this, because I don’t live in South Korea with this nut-job next door. The moral of all this, be next to countries run by Drug Lords and Canadians.
