At least eight dead and multiple people injured as Home Depot rental van speeds down New York City bike path.

BREAKING VIDEO: Shooting/car ramming incident Manhattan, multiple injured. Warning Graphic content pic.twitter.com/s6sELaTU2P

— News_Executive (@News_Executive) October 31, 2017

Courtesy of ABC News: 

At least seven people (now eight.) are dead and others injured after a truck driver made a "purposeful turn" onto a jogging and biking path in lower Manhattan in New York City, police said. 

The sprawling crime scene runs about 10 blocks along the West Side Highway, a few blocks away from One World Trade Center.The suspect is in custody, police said. 

The incident is being investigated as a possible terrorist attack, a source confirmed to ABC News.

A vehicle -- a Home Depot rental truck, according to the company -- entered the West Street pedestrian and bike path north of Chambers Street, hitting multiple people on the path, leaving some dead and "numerous people injured," New York City police said, citing preliminary investigation. 

The vehicle kept driving south until it hit another vehicle, police said. At that point, the suspect, who was "displaying imitation firearms," got out of the vehicle and was shot by responding officers, authorities said.

That other vehicle this individual hit was a school bus full of disabled children. Which even for a terrorist is pretty shitty.

According to the news the man driving the van jumped out wielding a pellet gun and yelling "Allahu Akbar" before he was shot by police.

His name is Sayfullo Saipov. And yes he is Muslim.

All in all it was a pretty fucked up thing to happen at all, but especially fucked up that it happened on Halloween when parents were preparing to take their kids around for Trick or Treating.

It seems that now we are doing a pretty good job of stopping the largest terrorist attacks but there is really no way to keep these smaller, low tech attacks from occurring.

And for whatever reason these terrorists seem to really focus on New York City.

Pro-Trump Mother of All Rallies humiliated by a gathering of clown faced Juggalos.

Photo courtesy of HuffPo.

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

America is a country of weirdos! Celebrate it!” shouted one of Saturday’s marchers in the gathering of so-called “Juggalos” — fans of rap band Insane Clown Posse — before sweeping up reporter Daniel Dale in a hug.

The group marched in Washington, D.C. Saturday to protest the FBI’s decision to label their fan community a gang that warrants federal law enforcement officers’ attention. 

Months after the Juggalos announced that today would be the day of their protest, supporters of President Donald Trump said that they, too, would be holding a rally in Washington, the “Mother of All Rallies” on the National Mall.

Sadly for the Trump supporters all of the video, photos, and tweets from the day show the Juggalos outnumbering the Trump folks by quite a margin.

That might no have been so bad if the organizers had not set the bar so ridiculously high.

'Mother Of All Rallies' (#MOAR) that called for 'millions' to come show support for Pres. Trump, seems to have pulled a crowd of 1-200 pic.twitter.com/jgRCraWdpd

— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) September 16, 2017

The most forgiving estimate I have seen is around a 150 participants.

But that is still incredibly pathetic.

#MOAR vs #WomensMarch .. and half of #MOAR are counter protesters. pic.twitter.com/AfCIb0iVf1

— Shiala (@PrimRoZLane) September 16, 2017

That's not to say that the folks who showed up to support Trump did not have a message to unite around.

"guilty of being white" shirt at the Trump rally pic.twitter.com/9nXdJAzaXq

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) September 16, 2017

And of course the ammosexuals were well represented.

Oathkeeper / III%er militia types guarding the perimeter at Trmp rally on the Mall pic.twitter.com/h4d3R24trW

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) September 16, 2017

Just goes to show that even when competing with other clowns, Donald Trump simply cannot compete anymore.

Dakota Meyer has become completely Palinized now.

So pumped to share my new brand with you guys! #ownthedash #dakotameyer

A post shared by Dakota Meyer (@dakotameyer0317) on Sep 6, 2017 at 2:36pm PDT

I THINK this is some kind of fitness lifestyle though it seems a little slapped together and poorly defined.

Ultimately of course it is just a way for Dakota to make some money off of the mouth breathers.

You know I really thought that the eventual goal for Sarah Palin was to polish this hillbilly dipshit up and get him involved with politics, but it may just be that he is too fucking stupid for even Republican voters, so now he is reduced to pimping crappy products on Instagram instead.

And yes Bristol is still hawking that stupid weight loss tea as well.

What can you say, a family of grifters have got to grift.

Just a heads up, the Crying Nazi does not like to be called the Crying Nazi.

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:  

Christopher Cantwell is not happy being labeled "the crying Nazi." 

The white supremacist got the moniker after he recorded a tearful video upon hearing he was wanted for arrest after pepper-spraying protesters at the University of Virginia on August 11. That was the night several hundred torch-wielding white nationalists chanted “Jews will not replace us” and then encircled a few dozen protesters gathered at a statue of university founder Thomas Jefferson. 

"When I come down here for a permitted demonstration, championed by the ACLU, where the police are supposed to be clearing our enemies from our path, and then I find myself involved in a riot facing 20 years in prison, I got emotional, shockingly enough," Cantwell told The Daily Beast in his first interview from jail. 

"One minute I'm a fucking white supremacist terrorist and the next minute I'm a fucking crybaby?" he asks. "I'm a goddamn human being."

Actually you're a fucking racist who bragged about being a badass and hurting people, and then cried like a little bitch when you realized you might have to do time.

That is several steps back down the evolutionary trail from being a human being.

Currently Cantwell is being held at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail in solitary confinement to keep him safe from other human beings who would like to show him how not tough he actually is.

By the way here is once again the vidoe which will forever brand this POS the "Crying Nazi."

Yep, that is definitely going to stick. 

Sarah Palin is so lazy that she is not even PRETENDING to write her own blog posts anymore.

So as you can see this is a screenshot from Palin's brand spanking new website.

Now in the past the posts on there were clearly ghostwritten, but they at least had her name on them.

Not anymore.

This post, and a number of the newer posts are written by Young Conservatives writers Andrew Mark Miller and Mary Kate Knorr.

Which essentially means that Sarah Palin is even too lazy to pretend to run her own tiny ass website.

Gee, no wonder Donald Trump did not choose her to be a part of his administration.  

This article itself is essentially just bitching about the fact that former President Obama, now no longer on the job, went golfing.

For some reason that just pisses Sarah Palin and the conservatives off that this man would have the temerity to golf after eight years of working his ass off to make this country a better place to live.

I think that somebody should explain to Palin, and her two ghostwriters, that when people work hard, they are ALLOWED to have some leisure time.

Unlike some people who quit their job and attempt to live off of donations from the dumbest people in the country for almost a decade. 

At this point one has to wonder if Bristol Palin is ASKING to be mocked?

B.F.F. ❤️🐢

A photo posted by Bristol Palin (@bsmp2) on Apr 8, 2016 at 8:35am PDT

Bristol of course is a grown woman, chronologically at least, so she can do what she wants on social media. But encouraging Tripp to participate in her desperate attempts to emulate the Kardashians is just pathetic.

By the way Sunny Johnston sometimes shares pictures of Tripp as well, however hers are more along these lines.

Just pointing out the difference.

P.S. And before you ask me what is up with the Johnston-Palin hyphenated name, I have no idea.

I totally sympathize with this little girl. Update!

Courtesy of YouTube: 

Adorable little girl sobs realizing Obama is leaving office.  He's the only president she's ever had in her life. Her grandmother comforts her by telling her that they'll write him.

Trust me when I see what the choices are in 2016, I wish President Obama could run for a third term as well.

Update: President Obama responds to his little girl because...well because he is President Obama.

Courtesy of HuffPo:  

In a Facebook comment on the video posted by the girl's grandmother, Caprina Harris, the president told the young girl, who shares a birthday with Obama, that once he left office, he wasn't going anywhere. 

"Caprina, tell her to dry her tears, because I'm not going anywhere. Once I leave the White House, I'll still be a citizen just like her," Obama wrote. "And when she grows up, she can get involved right alongside me. In the meantime, I'll keep an eye out for her letter, and we'll always get to celebrate our birthdays together!"

And now I'm going to miss him even more. 

Jeb Bush shows off his little metal manhood and it is just as unimpressive as you might imagine.

America. pic.twitter.com/TeduJkwQF3

— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) February 16, 2016

Well I think we all now know why Jeb! is running for the presidency, he is clearly compensating.

So this is what Jeb Bush thinks symbolizes America?

Well that certainly helps to explain his brother's two terms in office. 

Now Jeb Bush is begging for applause.

Oh that's just....sad.

Of course I don't like Jeb! even a little bit, but if he doesn't drop out of this contest pretty soon he's going to break my heart.

He's becoming like one of those sad kitties you see on the internet.

Yeah like that one.

Of course I imagine that the kitty did not have a brother who started two unnecessary wars and almost bankrupted the entire country. And who only became President because the kitty cheated the system to help him win.

Just saying.

Watching Ted Cruz get cock blocked by Huckabee staffer during release of Kim Davis might be my favorite thing ever.

Courtesy of the New York Times: 

When Mr. Cruz, who met with Ms. Davis, exited the Carter County Detention Center, a throng of journalists beckoned him toward their microphones, but an aide to Mr. Huckabee blocked the path of the senator, who appeared incredulous. 

Soon after, Ms. Davis emerged, apparently wearing the same clothes she had worn in court Thursday. Mr. Huckabee stuck close by her side, along with Mr. Staver and her husband, Joe, as they approached the reporters and cameras. Ms. Davis remained silent, letting Mr. Staver and Mr. Huckabee do the talking.

Damn you know this must have REALLY pissed Cruz off.

Here he flies all the way to Kentucky and he is left standing on the sidelines, watching Huckabee jam his lard-ass into the spotlight.

A very sad Ted Cruz, not on stage. pic.twitter.com/MaAM6lvA4A

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) September 8, 2015

However before you get too sad for Rafael, you should know that he got his time pandering to the religious right as well..

Praise God Kim has been released! https://t.co/Ev47wkemvD #ImWithKim pic.twitter.com/pHRqajimE3

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 8, 2015

Still it was Huckabee that got to announce, along with her attorney, “Kim Davis is free.” And then of course offer himself to be jailed in her stead.

Sarah Palin shares a mash letter she received from one of her fans. A 90 year old fan.

"I've still got it!"

Courtesy of Palin's Facebook page:

Received this very kind comment from 91-year-old Iwo Jima veteran Mr. George Monta… 

"Sarah, you are precious to me, a Iwo Jima Veteran, 91 years old and hoping you know how much America needs you!" 

Of course I'm kind of teasing about the mash letter part, this seems like a genuinely nice old man, however I am not joking about the age of the folks who still believe that Sarah Palin is worthy of their respect or affection.

Of course due to this man's military service and history, Palin's ghostwritten response was syrupy sweet: 

Mr. George Monta, YOU and your fellow veterans are the heroes America has always relied on. You kept us safe and fought selflessly for our freedoms, and literally brought the world back from the brink. The Greatest Generation is truly that; our leaders in Washington and those seeking to lead must be mindful of the true American spirit within you. YOU are precious to our great nation. God bless you, sir.

Now I agree that Mr. Monta is indeed a hero and deserves our respect. 

However I would suggest that the entire reason Palin made such a big deal about receiving this comment is because, well first because it makes her feel wanted, and secondly because she thinks that it helps paint her as a supporter of the military.

However in truth she, and her fellow conservatives, are constantly looking to start some shit in the Middle East to find reason to send our soldiers into the middle of some firefight in a god forsaken desert where they can die for the "glory of their country."

People who support our military members do not constantly look for ways to end their lives. Just saying.

Sarah Palin is no supporter of the military. She is an opportunist who believes that associating herself with soldiers, and ex-soldiers, somehow makes her seem knowledgeable about war and foreign affairs. (Spoiler alert: She is knowledgeable about neither.)

And yes she dresses like this in order to carbonate the hormones of men, most of whom have not been able to get their little soldier to salute in decades, and to make them feel similar to the way strip club customers feel when the dancers rub boob glitter on their faces during a lap dance even though there is no way in hell they would ever go home with them.

And personally I am sickened by the fact that men like Mr. Monta, who really should know better, are so easily fooled by the magically inflatable chest, the store bought hair, and the poorly applied patriotic camouflage.

Ted Cruz makes a political advertisement that doubles as a cry for help concerning insecurities about his manhood.

Courtesy of Mother Jones:  

The new video produced, by IJ Review, the conservative media outlet that brought you such hits as "How To Destroy Your Cell Phone with Lindsey Graham," features Cruz demonstrating how to cook bacon the way he claims they do it in Texas. In the video, Cruz wraps a strip of bacon around the barrel of a machine gun, covering it in tin foil, then shooting at a target until the grease starts to drip onto the cement. Cruz then unwraps the tin foil and takes a fork to the sizzling meat. "Mmm, machine-gun bacon," he says. Then he tilts his head back slightly and laughs.

I don't want to get too Freudian here but did anybody else notice how carefully,  and yes even gently, Cruz wraps that pig flesh around the barrel of his gun?

You know if I went to school with a guy who attempted to convince that this was how he made his breakfast every morning, all it would do is convince me that he would be giving me his lunch money every day until graduation.

I have no idea how a man who is so clearly lacking significantly in the penile area was able to produce enough sperm to father two children.

That my friends is a mystery. 

Wonkette takes notice that there have been no new videos on the Sarah Palin Channel for two weeks now. Gee, I wonder why?

Courtesy of Wonkette:

For two weeks running, Sarah Palin has not bothered to publish any new videos—and her subscribers have begun to take notice. In the Sarah Palin Channel’s comment sections, they speak to each other in the tones of people who just blew $20 on carnival games and didn’t even win a giant stuffed panda for Jenny Sue.

Ooh, ooh, we do, we do! Poor Pammers strikes as the kind of person who watched the final scenes of “The Usual Suspects” and wondered who was going to clean up all that spilled coffee. 

Other commenters, like this grandmother, are far more direct and far more fed-up.

Threatening to take your foldin’ money elsewhere are fightin’ words in Palin’s grifter paradise. But then you’ve got true believers like this guy, who will happily tell you that the evidence of absence is not the absence of evidence.

 "She would NEVER leave us hang. IF she knows that she is not running, she would have announced so."

I am going to have to leave it there or risk getting a case of the giggles that will incapacitate me for the remainder of the day. However if you want more just click the Wonkette link at the top.

I have been doing this for such a long time that you would think that I would have lost the ability to be amazed by the stupidity of the Palin-bots, but just when I think that is true I learn that they have yet another level for self deception.

I swear that without Palin to focus on these people would be wandering the streets careening from scam artist, to scam artist, in a constant need to waste their money on get rich quick schemes, magical elixirs, and phony fortune tellers.

The Daily Mail has a photo of Sarah Palin with Dakota Meyer in Kentucky, and it's awesome! Update!

Sarah Palin unloading on Dakota Meyer in Kentucky.

Courtesy of the Daily Mail:

The eleventh hour cancellation of Bristol Palin's Memorial Day Weekend wedding left mom Sarah with little alternative but to go ahead with the already planned reception - although significantly her daughter chose not to attend. 

The bizarre set of circumstances mean't that while the former vice presidential candidate hung out with her daughter's ex-fiance and ex-Marine Dakota Meyer and his family in Kentucky, Bristol made a very public showing of her non-attendance by posting a series of photos of her enjoying a 'weekend getaway' back in Alaska with her best friend who is an exotic model. 

....


But the 'celebration of life' appears to have quite heated at one point as this photograph showing Sarah Palin raising her finger in what appears to be a heated exchange with the man who was supposed to have become her son-in-law. 

Days earlier Meyer had put out his own statement on Facebook page around the same time as the elder Palin and bearing striking similarities to her message, suggesting a concerted public relations offensive. 

But if both sides were supposed to be maintaining a united front someone forgot to tell Bristol.

The Daily Mail then shares with its readers the same pictures of Bristol with Marina that we shared with you on Saturday, and even goes into detail about Marina's exotic moneymaking pastime.

Bristol and Marina, with some folks I don't know identified only as "family."

They also point out that this attempt to re-package the now called off wedding as a "family picnic" failed miserably with only about a hundred people showing up and a rather less than festive environment.

They even mentioned that Palin parked her " massive 'Dynamax Cruising Tour Motorhome' right on the party lawn. Alaska plates and all."

Way to blend in.

All in all it was fairly clear that his was a public relations ploy designed to save face for Palin, and that it failed miserably.

Like I said, I could not have planned this outcome better myself.

Update: Sorry I used the wrong photo.

 This is actually the one with Marina in it.

SarahPAC releases newest pro-Palin YouTube video: "Catch me if you can."

As you can see this entire video is made up of fragments of the confused coverage that Palin received during that 2011 bus tour to nowhere.

I think the point of the video, if I had to make a guess, is that Palin is awesome because she kept the media off balance and never let them know what she was up to during the aimless bus ride.

However what they seem to forget is that we know how it came out, and ultimately it turned out that the only thing she was up to was spending SarahPAC money and trying to get media attention while actual GOP presidential candidates were declaring their intention to run.

This is not the first time that Palin and her PAC have attempted to mythologize the bus tour.

Last month she talked about it on her internet channel that nobody watches, and she said this:

"Knowing that reporters didn't know...we made their job fun cause they didn't know where we were going next, they would just follow us and we would show up at say the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. and we would publicize what it represented and how important it was for other Americans to get to be there. And if they couldn't be there, then live vicariously through us while we were there that day and we'll talk about it and educate America, cause too often, especially our young people, they're not getting that sense, in our schools, of the importance of so many of these historical sites. So it was a blast to be on bus getting to travel the country to see these places. I would do that again in a heartbeat."

However sadly for her SarahPAC does not have that kind of money to spend anymore, so all she can do now is have SarahPAC show us slides of that great vacation they paid for back when they thought they were paying for the start of a presidential campaign.

How fulfilling that must be for them.

Vanity Fair brings you a day in the life of convicted criminal Dinesh D'Souza. And it is even more pathetic than you imagine.

"The conservative accepts that the world is a dangerous place. I’d rather pull the bandwagon than sit in the bandwagon, and I think that’s probably what distinguishes me from a lot of other people."

Well that and being an unbelievable douche-bag. 

Here's Wonkette's take: 

See Dinesh walk the mean streets of L.A. with nothing but a latte and a camera crew for protection! Watch Dinesh shave! Observe as he ties his shoes! See him flash gang signs while dressed up as a fashion magazine’s version of a cholo!

Damn there is so much to mock here I quite literally do not know where to begin.

Everything about this video screams "I am a pathetic pretentious loser, pity me." While at the same time trying to convince us that he plays an important role in the fight against liberals and their agenda.

Personally I am torn as to what is more pathetic, watching him being dressed as an extra in "The Wire" or watching him shave around where his chin should be.

The world has lost perhaps its most famous icon for promoting logic and science. Mr. Spock aka Leonard Nimoy.

Courtesy of The New York Times:

Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut “Star Trek,” died on Friday morning at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. He was 83. 

His wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, confirmed his death, saying the cause was end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 

Mr. Nimoy announced that he had the disease last year, attributing it to years of smoking, a habit he had given up three decades earlier. He had been hospitalized earlier in the week. 

I am one of a vanishing breed who remembers actually watching Star Trek when it made its first appearance on television in the sixties.

I, of course, was too young to pick up on the not so subtle messages inserted in each episode against war, against organized religion, and against racism. Instead I was incredibly fascinated with the whole beaming of people on and off the Enterprise, and of course the space monsters, aliens, and green skinned women.

However as the years have gone by, and I have seen every TV episode multiple times, and each of the movies at least once, I have become incredibly impressed with the concept of the show and its amazing cast.

And of course for me the most impressive cast member was always Leonard Nimoy.

For an awkward, precocious child trying to make sense of the world, and questioning the "facts" being presented by the adults, I always found myself relating to Mr. Spock most of all.

But let's face it, EVERYBODY loves Spock.

Even the President of the United States.
 
I personally have always thought that this Mr. Spock quote was his best:

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."

And one I should mention that I have adopted as a personal creed. Which of course puts me at odds with certain political ideologies I could name.

Finally I would offer Mr. Nimoy the traditional Vulcan send off of "Live long and Prosper" but considering the circumstances that would be.....illogical.

Here is Jon Stewart announcing last night that he is leaving the Daily Show.

Click image to play video

I have to say, even though I knew it was coming, it hit me kind of hard.

Jon Stewart to leave the Daily Show. Update!

Courtesy of the AV Club:  

Ending one of the most venerable and trusted careers in making a complete mockery of the news, Jon Stewart has announced that he is stepping down as host of The Daily Show. According to sources who were there (some of whom are already passing word along on social media), Stewart let the news slip at the taping of today’s episode, telling those in the audience that he’s retiring. No word yet on when exactly he’s leaving, whether this means he’s ending his time in the anchor chair to focus on being a Serious Movie Director now, or just how much this is Brian Williams’ fault. Presumably all of this information will be revealed in time—and delivered by Stewart himself tonight on your television. We’ll update when we have more.

After this article was written Comedy Center confirmed the news on Twitter:

Thank you Jon. pic.twitter.com/yPdxjnkuLw
— Comedy Central (@ComedyCentral) February 10, 2015

There is really no way to convey what a profound loss this is to those of us who have relied on Jon Stewart and the Daily Show to find humor in the most terrible of circumstances, hope when everything seemed hopeless, and sanity when it felt like we were all trapped in the bowels of a madhouse.

As a reminder of this man's genius here is Jon Stewart's first show after 9-11.

THAT was what finally pulled me out of my funk. For that alone I owe Mr. Stewart more than I could ever repay.

Update: I don't actually think this is related, but today Brian Williams was put on unpaid suspension for six months.

New GOP ad sets out to convince Americans that Republicans are people too. Nice try.

Courtesy of Mediaite:  

A new video from a veteran of Mitt Romney‘s 2012 campaign seeks to end the “partisan vitriol” aimed at the GOP by helpfully informing people that there are Republicans out there who read the New York Times in public, drive hybrid cars, have dark skin, and/or have a beard and tattoos. They also sometimes purchase and then put together Ikea furniture.

Well according to this advertisement Republicans are just like the rest of us, and supposedly they have feelings too.

Really? Then how do you explain this guy?

And here's the thing, if you have to actually create an ad to convince people that you are also people, doesn't that say something fundamental about your humanity?