Even the elevators are turning against Trump. Or is it his security detail?

Courtesy of ABC News:

The Colorado Springs Fire Department says that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had to be rescued from an elevator that was stuck between the first and second floors of a resort. 

In a statement released Saturday, the department says that it was called at 1:30 p.m. Friday to rescue about 10 people, including Trump, trapped inside the elevator at The Mining Exchange, A Wyndham Grand Hotel & Spa resort. 

The department says the firefighters opened the top elevator hatch and lowered a ladder into the elevator. Trump and the others used the ladder to climb out of the elevator to the second floor. The department says no injuries were reported.

I don't usually like to take joy in the suffering of anybody else, but I have to admit that I am taking a little joy here.

Just the image of Trump having to haul his huge ass up a ladder to get out of a contained space with nine other people is an image that I find quite enjoyable.

Made even more so by the fact that this was NOT a mechanical failure.

Trump's security team was given control of the hotel's elevators during the event, said Perry Sanders Jr., an attorney who co-owns the hotel. 

"The party were model guests but security insisted on having manual control of the elevators," Sanders said. 

After the occupants were rescued, technicians for the company that services the elevator determined that the machine became stuck because someone turned the manual key while the car was in motion, Sanders said.

So somebody working directly for Trump, left him stranded in an elevator stuck between floors.

And with that the image just became even more enjoyable.

P.S. By the way the "security team" they reference may or may not be the Secret Service, but if it is the SS they might be rebelling against Trump's treasonous attitudes and attacks on the military.

Stephen Colbert takes on the Charlie Daniels NRA ad.

Not only was that hilarious but Colbert's Charlie Daniels impersonation was spot on.

I don't think that Ted Cruz's campaign staff are doing him any favors.

Take a moment and Google "TRUS."

Here I'll do it for you:

A transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) is an ultrasound technique that is used to view a man's prostate and surrounding tissues. The ultrasound transducer (probe) sends sound waves through the wall of the rectum into the prostate gland, which is located directly in front of the rectum.

So essentially the ad suggests that we anally probe Ted Cruz.

Which if you think about it makes perfect sense, because I am pretty sure that is where his ideas originate.

(H/T to the Daily Kos.)

I cannot think of a better way to close out 2015 than a video of President Obama with Jerry Seinfeld appearing on "Comedians in Cars getting Coffee."

Okay I am positive that the conservatives are going to have all kinds of nasty things to say about this, but just speaking for myself I think Obama is the coolest cat around.

My favorite part was the President's admission that sometimes he has to cut loose with the four letter words when the stupid gets to be too much to handle. We are so alike.

Now all I want before I die is to go get coffee with Barack Obama.

P.S. Here are some great photos of the President just in case the video was not enough Obama for you this evening. 

P.P.S. If they block it again go here.

It's Thanksgiving! You know what that means! Time for the great Sarah Palin turkey massacre video!

Gosh has it been seven years already?

You'd think I'd get tired of seeing this, but nope. It still makes my day.

P.S. And for those who like their turkey slaughter with a little Keith Olbermann commentary here you go.

Grandmas smoking weed for the first time may be the cutest thing you will see all day.

I cannot tell you how big the smile is that this puts on my face.

I would love to hang out with these ladies. They seem a like a real kick in the ass.

You know towards the end of my grandmother's life she was in a great deal of pain.

In order to help her alleviate that pain my uncle, her son, brought pot over to my mom's house (That's where Grandma lived.) so that she she could smoke it and ease her suffering.

For some reason Grandma was really concerned that I would be angry as I am the non-drug user in the family.

So I came over to talk to her, and I essentially said "Grandma you are in your late seventies, and I know you are in a lot of pain. Hell as far as I'm concerned you can be mainlining heroin and I would have no right to judge you. Whatever you have to do to make yourself feel comfortable, that is fine with me."

And I have to say that, much like these ladies, my grandmother stoned was a hell of a lot of fun to hang out with.

Megyn Kelly offers perhaps the best, and most accurate, Fox News gaffe ever.

Courtesy of Addicting Info:  

Fox News host Megyn Kelly welcomed former Governor of Arkansas and current right wing propaganda artist, Mike Huckabee, to her November 10 show in a hilarious way. 

Huckabee currently hosts his own show on Fox News, which is named after himself. 

When Kelly attempted to introduce him as ‘the host of Huckabee on Fox’, well, things didn’t come out quite right . . . 

She welcomed Mike Huckabee, host of “F*uckabee,” which is actually pretty hilarious.

I like how Huckabee's face pruned up after the gaffe. 

Well I don't know about everybody else, but I know what I am going to be calling his show from now on.

I cannot think of a better way to end the day than a little Robin Williams.

The above is a portion of Robin's first Tonight Show appearance that I referenced with my earlier post.  There is more but sadly I cannot find it.

There have been a lot of tributes to Williams today, but honestly I have made a choice not to watch them. I always get irritated when entertainment shows and cable news outlets interview everybody even remotely connected to a recently deceased famous person and ask them to put aside their grief and share something that will increase their ratings.

I have my memories, and that is enough for me.

I noticed that one of the people who expressed her condolences today was Sarah Palin. (Though she used the post to also pimp Brancy's blog.)

And that is fine, everybody has the right to express their feelings without regard to political leanings or a possible lack of sanity.

However I could not help but remember how Robin fest about the Wasilla Wendigo, and thought that was probably worth sharing as well.

From his Weapons of Self Destruction special. (Kind of an unfortunate name considering the circumstances.)

"Did Ronald Reagan have a kid with Vanna White and drop it off in Alaska? And it was raised by wolves?"

So good.

And so, so going to be missed.

My favorite moment from last night's Golden Globes.

I laughed way too long and hard at this.

In my defense the audience that was there did the same.

(P.S. Here is the opening.)

I am still not sure what Chris Christie was feeling during his 107 minute press conference on Thursday.

Yeah, still not sure.

Sometimes cats are just dicks.

I had a cat once that was a holy terror.

He waited in the hallways for us kids and scratched at our feet as we walked by. Such an asshole.

However our little terrier was taking none of that from a cat and she chased that cat, who was much bigger, all over the house.

But the best deterrent we had against a takeover by the nine cats that my mother had in those days was my dog Kino.

Kino was a 120 pound part husky, part German shepherd, part wolf hybrid and he did not suffer crap from the animals lower on the food chain in any way.

I remember once watching a cat sneak over to his food bowl in the corner while he slept on the floor by the door. It took the cat about ten minutes to finally, slowly work his way over to that bowl.

Once the cat was positive that Kino was too deeply asleep to catch him he started to eat.

But Kino was not asleep. His eye opened and he very slowly rose to his feet, walked up behind the cat, and let go one baritone bark that sent that cat right into the wall behind the bowl.

At first I thought maybe the cat had broken its neck, but it quickly scrambled to its feet and ran up the wall and onto a nearby cabinet, and from there across every surface up off the ground until he had made it down the hallway and away from the terrifying beast.

Kino then sniffed his food and walked over to his former spot to continue his nap.

Disgraced due to charges of plagiarism, and with no credibility remaining, where could Rand Paul possibly get a job writing a column? Go ahead, take a guess.

"I'm back!"

Courtesy of Breitbart:

Breitbart News Network is pleased to announce that it will be the new home of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's editorial column. 

Did you guess? 

Of COURSE Breitbart is willing to take Rand Paul! After all where else are journalistic ethics and the use of facts as frowned upon as much as over at Andrew Breitbart's stillborn hate child?

I swear I don't know how sites like the Onion can stay in business with reality being so much like parody these days. 

Update: This could be Paul's header for his pieces in Breitbart.

Seems fitting.

Just walk it off.

Have you ever laughed really hard at something while at the same time feeling really badly for doing it?

Well you have now.

That awkward moment when you realize that the cover for your book on conservative Biblical child rearing features the family from a sitcom celebrating same sex parenting.

Courtesy of HuffPo:  

Fundamental Evangelist Doug Sehorne got a nasty shock when he realized that the image he had chosen for the cover of his e-book, "Bible Principles of Child Discipline from the Book of Proverbs)," was in fact a picture of a famous family from a "wicked TV show involving a gay couple!" according to his Facebook page. 

Yep, he put the much-loved Dunphys from TV show "Modern Family" on his book cover, who aren't beloved at all by many fundamentalist religious groups. The show was once called the "next big thing for gay rights" for positively depicting a gay couple with an adopted child, which makes it "wicked" in Sehorne's eyes. 

He furiously ranted about the mix-up on his Facebook and Twitter pages, condemning "Modern Family," gay couples, TVs, TV shows, Google Images, and sodomy:

 Trust me when I tell you that I laughed so hard at this that I had to wipe my eyes afterward.

So much awesome in this story.

Apparently the book has now been removed from Amazon which is a shame because I am sure that many fans of Modern Family would have loved to have bought it and sent it as a gag gift to their friends.  

Russian Tampax commercial.

Okay be honest, is the fact that I laughed at this for almost five minutes make me a bad person?

It does right?

James Lipton of the Actors Studio interviews Tina Fey in character as Sarah Palin. Oh, you HAVE to see this!

Courtesy of Mediaite:  

James Lipton, the long-time host of Inside the Actors Studio, often asks his guests if he can interview them as one of their most famous characters. So when he invited Tina Fey onto the show last night, it was a not-so-surprising delight that he asked her if he could speak to Sarah Palin for a few moments. Fey happily obliged, showing off her sharp improv skills by answering questions as Palin and offering unique insight on some of the biggest issues facing the country. 

On guns: “I believe that if everybody had guns, then there would be fewer guns in the stores.” 

On same-sex marriage: “Well, the bible says it’s gross, and I don’t judge. A lot of the amazing, wonderful people I met in the audience at Dancing with the Stars seem to go that way. But, no, marriage is meant for people who wear different kinds of swimsuits.” 

On being a woman in a man’s world: “I don’t think of it as a man’s world or a woman’s world, unless again we’re talking about marriage. But I think of it as people being mavericks or not being mavericks.”

That was awesome!

I swear the ONLY time I can stomach Sarah Palin is when Tina Fey is channeling her.

Do you know what we need this Sunday? A little Betty White.

I am SO going to watch this show when it premieres next Tuesday!

There are some on the Right that are so desperate they are seriously suggesting the Sarah Palin become Speaker of the House. Oh yeah, THAT should help!

Sarah Palin for House Speaker! (Technically, one need not be a member of Congress to serve as speaker.)
— Don Fredrick (@Colony14) January 2, 2013

Cantor is a RINO. Palin as Speaker would cut thru the doublespeak, message well & garner enough attention. Plus, a great negotiator.
— Sharon Schwarz (@WooHooYoo) January 2, 2013

Courtesy of Politicususa:  

Conservatives think that the problem with the House is John Boehner, who also happens to be the last shred of common sense remaining in the House GOP leadership. Conservatives answer to the problem of a House majority that has been rendered irrelevant through their extremism is to get rid of the sane guy, and replace him with Sarah Palin.

Yeah, like THAT would solve anything!

Could you imagine a Congress run by Sarah Palin? There would be meth addicted and pregnant Congress people as far as the eye could see.

You know this is the kind of thing that I think Palin waits for. She simply figures that once people become desperate enough, and have scraped THROUGH the bottom of the barrel, that suddenly she won't look so bad anymore.

You know just when you think the Right Wing simply CANNOT be any crazier they start with this kind of talk.

By the way there was an actual rumor that Boehner would step down tonight.  However since it was supposed to happen several hours ago, and we have heard nothing about it, I'm guessing it was ONLY a rumor and nothing more. (Or perhaps wishful thinking on Palin's part.)
 

It's Thanksgiving morning, so you know what THAT means!

I swear this interview of Palin's sill NEVER get old.

I remember when it first happened watching it on TV with my jaw literally on the floor. I thought I had seen her at her most clueless, but boy was I wrong!

I cannot even begin to tell you the number of versions I have watched over the last four years, and some are VERY imaginative. (Here is one of my favorites.)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY!

Google knows.

I heard some talking heads trying to explain that this was because Romney said he was "completely wrong" when he made his infamous 47% comments, but I don't really think that is enough to explain this outcome.

Go ahead try it yourself.