Republican Governor of South Carolina Mark Sanford Gets a 5.8 on the John Ensign Affair Scale

The John Ensign Affair Scale (with 10 being found in bed with a dead woman or a live boy):
John Ensign Affair 8.4
Mark Sanford Affair 5.8
Bill Clinton Affair 5.3
Larry Craig Bathroom Incident 1.7
Honorable Mention - Mitt's Vacation Trip with Seamus 0.0

Apology Hall of Fame Slide Show

Mark Sanford's Mistress (one of many): María Belén Chapur:

Rachel Maddow: Nevada's Senator Ensign Easily Bests the Craig and Clinton Scandals - Yeah! Nevada is Number One! Those Other Guys are Rank Amateurs

Rachel Maddow on John Ensign:


A Republican Affair and its Straight!:


Its got it all: hypocrisy, payroll payoffs, cronyism, talk of extortion of a US Senator and best of all - good old hard, slam bam, thank you maam sex, not some measly groping in a bathroom stall or weak cigar action. Larry Craig and Bill Clinton are not even in your league! I now have a new found respect for you, Senator John Ensign. Should you resign? Hell no! You made us proud senator; Vegas always comes through! I never have voted for you, but you got my vote now. Guaranteed. Can't wait to see you up here at the Mill again in Reno; we are going to give you a well deserved high five and slap on the back! We're even gonna pick up your check in the coffee shop, anything you want on the menu. We love ya man. Read about Senator Ensign and "the Family", they like to keep secrets. Ground zero for Republican sex scandals.

John Ensign and Washington's secretive religious power sect, known as "the Fellowship" or "the Family":

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More on the secretive "Family" - Part One:


More on the secretive "Family" - Part Two:


Douglas Coe and "the Christian Mafia":


The Family hosts the National Prayer Breakfast. Douglas Coe and the 25 most influential evangelicals in America.

The John Ensign Affair Scale (with 10 being found in bed with a dead woman or a live boy):
John Ensign Affair 8.4
Bill Clinton Affair 5.3
Senator Craig Bathroom Incident 1.7
Honorable Mention - Mitt's Vacation Trip with Seamus 0.0

Cindy Hampton and John Ensign and spouses: Ok, everybody smile, all at once now, say "family values":















Darlene and John Photo Album:

Comedian in Chief Makes an Appearance at the 2009 Radio and TV Correspondents' Dinner: No Flies Were Hurt Making This Broadcast

The Comedian in Chief:


Humorist John Hodgman:

President Ninja Swats Fly: PETA - "All We Are Saying, Is Give Flies A Chance"; Obama Orders Haircut for Colbert; News - Romney Has Not Had An Affair

Here we see the Leader of the Free World deal with a pesky fly. Iran, North Korea and terrorists everywhere: Beware! Mr Miyagi is a real amateur compared to our President of the Flies. The Fly Swatter in Chief has Ninja Leader written all over him. Good thing we did not give him a bad time when he visited our favorite Biker Bar in Reno:

The Commander in Chief orders 4 star general Ray Odierno to give Stephen Colbert a haircut in Iraq:


Congratulations: Mitt Romney has not had an affair, but he did have that Irish
Setter vacation scandal (see below). I think they made a movie about it with Chevy Chase. We are still holding to our prediction that Mitt will be the Republican nominee and he will win the White House in 2012. Who cares if he is a Muslim, Mormon or Methodist. Mitt is no theologian or religious zealot, just born and raised a good Mormon and there is nothing wrong with that. We met all the candidates and this democrat likes Mitt!

JFK on his Catholicism and the religious affiliations of our Presidents:

We have to wonder about Mike and his blog the Third Eye on Reno. Now Mike has a great looking blog with lots of visuals. He has some pictures of nude paintings by appropriately named artist Dave Cherry that are on display now in Room 203 over at the Cortez Hotel. Mike is not showing us the really pornographic stuff, so you will have to go over and see it for yourself. Cherry's art is part of the Nada Dada art event. Great pictures here of Nada Dada. We ran into Mike at our local coffee shop. He told us about the monthly blogger dinners. What do bloggers talk about when they get together, we wonder? But after getting to know him for awhile we are suspicious. Mike worked on the Obama campaign and had an hour and a half meeting with Obama in person. What did you talk with Barack about Mike? Why did you post a UFO sighting report near Peavine Mountain in Reno on your blog? Come on Mike, quit being disingenuous, we know you know much more than you are letting on. No mention of the secret base and the earthquakes? Trying to smoke folks out Mike? Sixteen years ago this July (Monday, July 5, 1993) you marched in front of the White House for the peoples right to know, whats changed Mike? When did you go to the other side, or even worse, were you with them the whole time? Mike can be clearly seen 1:31-1:37 in the video below carrying a long banner wearing a striped shirt, white pants, glasses, mustache and long hair:


UFO Base near Ruth Mine in Ely:


A few days ago we met Paul the Writer, he has a blog called Hippo A Go-Go. He just posted a very poignant story of a bus driver not letting a young girl and her even younger brother ride the bus because she could not prove she was a student. The bus driver left her on the curb crying. Citifare, you suck! Seems like everyone in the coffee shop has a blog. Another blog we just discovered is Vegas Tea Room (we do coffee in Reno, unless its happy hour in the bar). Mike said the Guy By the Door was kinda snooty to him once, but at least he allows unmoderated comments. Another comment or two from us and that probably will change. But we like the pornographic writing style and the blog has a decidedly anti Bob Beers perspective. We remember covering the Republican state convention in Reno whose chairman was Bob Beers. They had a state convention that Robert Mugabe would be proud of - no delegates were selected there, the state convention was shut down at 5 PM Saturday, apparently it was past Bedtime for Beers. The State Central Committee later choose the delegates. No wonder Nevada went Obama. We remember that weekend, even God was displeased giving us a 4.7 earthquake (check out our earthquake prediction over at the UK Skeptics Forum - we got it all right but the magnitude, prayer does work! - eat your heart out "remote viewer" Ed Dames). 45 showed up at the convention, but he couldn't wait to get out of Dodge. No wonder, the Nevada Republican Convention turned out to be a real national embarrassment to Nevada. 45 (Mitt Romney of course) is going to be one of the better presidents, wait and see. All this talk of pornography has us worked up so we are heading over to room 203 at the Cortez and maybe later get on a certain bus. But before we go, here is a picture we stole from one of the more interesting if hypersensitive bloggers out there, Guy By the Door, with our own caption added to it (and thanks for the razz-berry):

We are a small state so we should vote out Harry Reid in 2010? Folks he is the Senate Majority Leader, tell em where to go Harry:















Old News on the Nevada State Republican Convention held in Reno (good job Mitt on getting out of there fast. 45 was overheard saying: "Lets get out of here, NOW, I'd rather be varmint hunting!"):
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Why Nevada is a Blue State now (Mike says we are not red or blue, but purple, click on to enlarge):









Not only is 45 a skilled varmint hunter, but he knows how to hunt polar bears:


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The Worst Dirt (in this case, Doo Doo) we could dig up on "45":

After looking and looking, this is about the worst we have found out about Mitt Romney, other than he speaks French with a Parisian accent. In 1983, Romney's dog made a 12-hour trip from Boston to Ontario in a carrier (it had a windscreen) lashed to the top of the family station wagon. The dog was not hurt as far as we know and Governor Romney said that his dog liked being on the roof. "He scrambled up there every time we went on trips," Mitt said. Time reported:

Before beginning the drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family's hulking Irish setter, in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon's roof rack. He'd built a windshield for the carrier, to make the ride more comfortable for the dog.

As the oldest son, Tagg Romney commandeered the way-back of the wagon, keeping his eyes fixed out the rear window, where he glimpsed the first sign of trouble. ''Dad!'' he yelled. ''Gross!'' A brown liquid was dripping down the back window, payback from an Irish setter who'd been riding on the roof in the wind for hours.

As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust, Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station. There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back onto the highway. It was a tiny preview of a trait he would grow famous for in business: emotion-free crisis management.

Mitt speaks French:


Adult Commentary: Jackie and Dunlap on the Mitt Romney Shaggy Dog Scandal (the dog was never hurt or in any danger) (foul language, potty humor):


Mitt and Ann with the station wagon without Seamus:














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Why We Like 45 Reason #17 - Super Mitt! - Romney to the Rescue:

By Ronald Kessler

Mitt Romney was faced with a crisis in July 1996. The 14-year-old daughter of Robert Gay, a partner in Romney's new venture capital firm, Bain Capital, had disappeared. As it turned out, she had attended a rave party in New York City and had become high on ecstasy. Three days later, her distraught father had no idea where she was.

Romney took immediate action. He closed down the entire firm and asked all 30 partners and employees to fly to New York to try to find Gay's daughter.

Romney set up a command center in a conference room at the LaGuardia Marriott just outside Manhattan. He hired a private detective firm to assist with the search and established a toll-free number for tips, coordinating the effort with the New York City Police Department, but he still wasn't satisfied. He raced through his Rolodex and called everyone Bain did business with in New York. He asked them to help his company find their friend's missing daughter.

The company's accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and its law firm, put up posters on street poles with a photo of the missing teenager. Cashiers at Duane Reade Pharmacies, which was owned by Bain Capital, put fliers in the bag of each shopper.

Romney and others from the Bain Capital posse trudged through every part of New York, even scouring Central Park, and talked with everyone they could - prostitutes, drug addicts - anyone who may have seen her. They also made rounds at the local nightclubs at 3 a.m., hoping someone somewhere could identify her.

The same day the Romney team came to New York, the hunt made the evening news. Television cameras showed photos of the girl and video of investment banker types prowling through Central Park.

The next day, a teenage boy she was with phoned in. He asked if there was a reward. But the boy got nervous and quickly hung up. Luckily, the police traced the call to a home in Montville Township, N.J.

Gay's daughter, when they found her in the basement of that home, was shivering through detox after a massive dose of ecstasy. Doctors later told Gay that he was indeed fortunate - his daughter probably would not have lasted another day.

"It was the most amazing thing, and I'll never forget this to the day I die," Gay says, adding of Romney's intervention, "I'm not sure we would have gotten her back without him."

It is often during a crisis that we gain insight into a person's real character. Romney's action demonstrated leadership, loyalty, and selflessness - attributes that Americans just might like to see in a president of the United States.

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The top ten reasons Mitt dropped out in 2008:


After winning Nevada, the real reasons 45 dropped out in 2008:

No. 10: There weren't as many Osmonds as he thought.
No. 9: Got tired of the corkscrew landings of his campaign plane while under fire
No. 8: As a lifelong hunter, I didn't want to miss the start of varmint season.
No. 7: There wasn't room for two Christian leaders in the presidential race
No. 6: I was upset that no one bothered to search my passport files.
No. 5: I'd rather get fat, grow a beard and try for the Nobel prize.
No. 4: Got tired of wearing a dark suit and tie, and I wanted to kick back in a light colored suit and tie.
No. 3: When my wife realized I couldn't win the GOP nomination, my fundraising dried up.
No. 2: I took a bad fall at a campaign rally and broke my hair.
And the No. 1 reason Romney dropped out: His campaign relied on a flawed campaign strategy that as Utah goes, so goes the nation.

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Not for the squeamish: Does this interview make you squirm? Ron Paul being interviewed by Bruno:

President George H. W. Bush Jumps From a Plane Today on His 85th Birthday! Invading Iran, Hannity, Conforte, Delorean and The Misfits

President Bush plans to do another jump when he is 90:


Today Iran reelected its president. Why we may not want to invade Iran:


Visit Nevada! We will leave you smiling. Sean Hannity at the Bunny Ranch:















Hookers and Hannity Video:


Former Mustang Ranch Owner Joe Conforte in Brazil:


Now that GM is Government Motors, lets watch this John Z. Delorean documentary:


Scene from The Misfits: Clark Gable died right after the filming was over in 1960, this was Marilyn Monroe's last complete movie. This movie was filmed in Nevada, mainly Reno but these scenes were filmed in the Black Rock Desert. Clarke Gable did his own stunts in this movie:


Making of The Misfits:


The Misfits, Behind the Scenes, narrated by John Huston:


The Making of the Misfits, Part 1 of 6


The Making of the Misfits, Part 2 of 6:


The Making of the Misfits, Part 3 of 6:


The Making of the Misfits, Part 4 of 6:


The Making of the Misfits, Part 5 of 6:


The Making of The Misfits, Part 6 of 6


The Implosion of the Mapes Hotel in Reno, Nevada:


Nevada in Ten Minutes:


The Misfits Movie Poster:



















Wild Horse Annie (Velma Johnston)

Velma Bronn Johnston (Wild Horse Annie) at Wikipedia



















The Top Ten Most Outrageous Stock Market Scams of All Time

The Ten Greatest Snake Oil Gadgets of All Time

Thank You Vets! Happy Memorial Day! Goodnight "Chesty" Puller, Wherever You Are!

Chesty Puller (1898-1971) quotes:

"Paper-work will ruin any military force"
- Lieutenant-General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller

"You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em."
- Lieutenant-General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller

In Korea, when an Army captain asked him for the direction of the line of retreat,
Col Puller called his Tank Commander, gave them the Army position, and ordered:
"If they start to pull back from that line, even one foot, I want you to open fire on them." Turning to the captain, he replied "Does that answer your question? We're here to fight." - Chesty Puller at Koto-ri in Korea

"The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the
Air Force has accomplished during the war."
- Chesty Puller in a letter to his wife while in Korea

"Don't forget that you're First Marines! Not all the Communists in hell can overrun you!"
- Chesty Puller motivating his men at Chosin Reservoir

"Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't
be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our
women and breed a hardier race!"
-Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC

"Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines". "
Major General Chesty Puller, USMC - while on a Battalion inspection.

"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem."
- Attributed to Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC

"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of
us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time"
- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC

"They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an
enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!"
- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC
When the Marines were cut off behind enemy lines and the Army had written
the 1st Marine Division off as being lost because they were surrounded by 22
enemy divisions. The Marines made it out inflicting the highest casualty
ratio on an enemy in history and destroying 7 entire enemy divisions in the
process. An enemy division is 16500+ men while a Marine division is 12500 men.

"They are a damn site better than the U.S. Army, at least we know that they
will be there in the morning."
- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller when a journalist asked him about being surrounded by 22. enemy divisions

An Army officer once chided Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller: "Ever since that flag-raising picture on Iwo Jima got published, I'm convinced you Marines would rather carry a flag into battle than a weapon." Puller replied icily, "Not a bad idea," he growled, "a man with a flag in his pack and the desire to run it up on an enemy position isn't likely to bug out!"

For two weeks Puller had commanded the rear of the First Marine Division, cut off in the Chosin Reservoir region by hundreds of thousands of Chinese communist troops. The Colonel was visiting a hospital tent where a priest administered last rites to a Marine wounded when a messenger came: "Sir, do you know they've cut us off? We're entirely surrounded."
"Those poor bastards," Puller replied. "They've got us right where we want 'em. We can shoot in every direction now."

"There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment
from going where ever they want to go."
- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller

American war casualties:

Revolutionary War

(1775-83) 4,435

War of 1812

(1812-15) 2,260

Mexican War

(1846-48) 13,283

Civil War

(Union Forces only - 1861-65) 364,511

Spanish-American War

(1898) 2,446

World War I

(1917-18) 116,516

World War II

(1941-46) 405,399

Korean War

(1950-53) 36,578

Vietnam War

(1964-73) 58,209

Persian Gulf War

(1990-91) 382

Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan)
682*

Operation Iraqi Freedom

4,299*

*casualties as of last Thursday

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Korea - War Stories With Ollie North, Battle for the Frozen Chosin:


Korean War, Battle of the Chosin Reservoir - Part 1


Korean War, Battle of the Chosin Reservoir - Part 2


Korean War, Battle of the Chosin Reservoir - Part 3


Korean War, Battle of the Chosin Reservoir - Part 4


The Chosin Few:


The Korean War:


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The Fortunate Son (not to be confused by another song called Fortunate Son made famous by Creedence Clearwater Revival) is a song by Bruce Hornsby about Chesty Puller's son, Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr. (1945-1994) who served as a Marine officer and was badly injured by a land mine in Vietnam. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his book "Fortunate Son", was an attorney, ran an unsuccessful campaign for Congress from Virginia and tragically committed suicide:



Lyrics to Fortunate One:

I'm sitting wondering, watching the parade
In my ever-present chair
People laughing and smiles all around me
Balloons and paper in my hair
There's a man in a car with the top down
Waving wildly at me
"The poor son of a gun", I know he's thinking
Better him, him than me

I've stared down the devil, and had to look away
Called out to the angels, but no-one ever came
Laid down odd and even, but double zero played
That's alright, I'm a lucky one
Such a fortunate son

I was always taught well, taught well
To be the strong one and keep it inside
But sometimes I sit beside the freeway
And howl out at the dark, dark sky
I might just have to go out and burn one
Have a drink or a few
Fade away in a cloudy haze of smoke
And give the old man's best salute

I've stared down the devil, and had to look away
Called out to the angels, but no-one ever came
Laid down odd and even, but double zero played
That's alright, I'm a lucky one
Such a fortunate son

Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr. killed himself on May 11, 1994, three years after this interview:





















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Goodnight Chesty Puller, wherever you are. Lt. General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller, USMC Pictures:

Stand-Up in Chief Delivers at the White House Correspondents Dinner

President Obama:


Comedienne Wanda Sykes: