Bobservations

July 27, 2016, _____, campaigning for the presidency:

"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."

That same day, Russian operatives targeted Clinton campaign emails "for the first time."

That’s all.

Now for some funny _____ … have you heard about the Fuck You _____ Brooch Play by Queen Elizabeth? I mean, we all know she barely gave him a minute, but she also showed, and shared her disdain for the man in her jewelry choices.

We know that the Queen cares about the details, and how symbolism is in the details. But maybe, maybe, the Queen was also being a little shady …. See, on the day _____ arrived in the UK, QEII wore a beautiful vintage green flower brooch—which just so happened to be a gift to her from former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.

Then, on _____’s last day in the UK, the Queen donned the Sapphire Jubilee Brooch— iven to her just last year as a special gift from Canada in what some see as a show of support for Canada and Justin Trudeau, who has suffered constant criticism from _____.

And there’s more …. royal-level state dinners are at invitation of the head of state, and normally Queen Elizabeth offers the invitation, but this time she did not. In addition, the dinner was held at Blenheim, the only actual palace in England not owned by the Anglican Church or the Royal Family.

Basically, Queen Elizabeth wouldn’t allow Don and Melanie in her house.

Shade.

Fans of Downton Abbey—and, yeah, that’s me—can rejoice: a feature film of the hugely successful TV series has been confirmed after much speculation and the original cast, all of them … at least the ones who didn’t die during the series … will return.

The Dowager Countess on the big screen? I’m in.

Vice President Mike “I’m Not Gay” Pence grew up in Columbus, Indiana, where his father built an empire of some 200 gas stations under the Kiel Bros. Oil Co. banner.

In 2004, that company collapsed and now Pence’s beloved Indiana—and Kentucky and Illinois—are on the hook for millions of dollars to clean up more than 85 contaminated sites in those states, including underground tanks that leaked toxic chemicals into soil, streams and wells.

If Pence can do that to Indiana and just walk away, what would he do to America if he ever took charge?

Impeach _____, then impeach Pence.

Ryan Murphy’s NYC ball scene series Pose has been renewed for Season 2; the show made history by assembling the largest transgender cast and crew of any show ever.

If you haven’t seen it, it’s pretty good, both at the balls and the look back at the early days of AIDS in this country, as well as the coming out experience, and the need for many in our community to create their own families.

Oh Deplorables, looks like your man is gonna cost you more coins for those hideous hats.

Those tariffs _____ imposed on products could double the price of the MAGA hats. And that wouldn’t have happened if the hats were Made in America. 

And please, Deplorables, note the irony of a Make America Great Again hat made in China.

I mean, if Deplorables could read …

In Racism Valet News… Camilla Hudson wanted to use a manufacturer’s coupon at CVS in Chicago last weekend, but the manager, who said he’d never seen such a coupon before, called the police on her.

Yes. He did. The manager, identified as Morry Matson, a Republican running for 48th Ward alderman.

Yes. He is. Now add that to the list of things black people in America cannot do in the Age of _____: redeem a coupon.

PS Matson is a gay man, so, you know, I’d like the Toaster Oven and copy of the Gay Agenda returned to HOMO HQ.

PPS He’s been fired!

My Husband In My Head, Armie Hammer was on The Late Show to chat with Stephen Colbert about his new Broadway play, Straight White Men, and the chat turned, as it should, to Call Me By Your Name. And Armie told Colbert that fans keep giving him peaches because, in the film, Armie, um, pleasures himself with a peach.

Lucky fruit.

Anyway, Hammer says nearly every night as he leaves the theater he gets handed at least one peach to autograph. He says most people don’t intend to eat the peaches, or use them the way they do in the film, but he says the fans say they’re going to “put that peach on a shelf…and in ten days it’s going to putrefy and their entire place it’s going to be full of fruit flies.”

Colbert remarked that it might be like an art installation, to which Hammer replied:

“Yeah. Watch it wither like Donald Trump’s presidency.”

Hot. Tall. Hot. And he hates _____? I couldn’t be more turned on by him.

Just sayin’.

Plus, any chance to show a photo of Armie ...especially with his shirt off.

Yum,

Cal Poly has rescinded the wrestling scholarship of Bronson Harmon, according to a school Athletic Director Don Oberhelman. Oberhelman did not comment on the reason Harmon’s scholarship was revoked, but the move came just three days after video surfaced of Harmon yelling a “Fuck you faggot” and offering an obscene gesture at a participant of the Families Belong Together March in Modesto.

Harmon can be seen in one video walking with his father Todd Harmon and a friend carrying a sign that reads “Donald Trump 2020”. Earlier in the video, Todd Harmon can be heard yelling “Send them back!” as he walks down the street.

Harmon now says:

“Saying what I said is definitely not the right thing. I am supposed to be there to help the community, be the best person I can be and represent the college the best way I can, but I still feel like my freedom of speech was taken away and I don’t think my scholarship should have been revoked over something like that.”

Honey, you have the right to Free Speech and the school has the right to end your scholarship because your speech is offensive, homophobic, hate-filled and stupid. But then you racist Daddy taught you well.

Good luck at community college, dick.

I was struck by several hot men of late … first up, top left, is Ramon Rodrigues who plays Allison’s new love interest, Ben Cruz in Showtime’s The Affair; hot Latino? You know it. 

Then there’s Ross Lynch, top right, who played Jeffrey Dahmer, in My Friend Dahmer; I don’t usually find serial killers hot, but this guy, well, he didn’t really kill anyone.

Bottom right is Taron Egerton, from the Kingsman movies; he plays a young lad, but he’s older and hotter with a rockin’ bod; plus, British and stuff. 

Lastly, whilst perusing HGTV, I came across Brett Phillips, bottom left, who has a show called Home to Last with his wife; I was able to ignore her and concentrate on this hot pocket man.

You know how I am.

Random Musings

Oh Ben Carson, you will never be president of this country; especially when one considers the Crazy Talk that falls from your lips. Which is what happened when you appeared on CNN this week and called ‘gay’ a choice — which leads to the question, when did you choose 'straight, Ben?

But I digress … see Ben says ‘gay’ is a choice because “a lot of people who go into prison straight, and when they come out they’re gay.” Yeah … he did. Only now he’s backpedaling, blaming his quote, blaming the actual words that came out of his asshatted mouth, on CNN:

“It was a 25 minute interview they chopped, and you see what part they emphasized. I did learn something very important: For certain networks, never do a pre-taped interview. Always do it live.”

But that’s a lie … too; a look back at the interview and you see that there were clearly no jump-cuts and no edits — just a straight back-and-forth about whether homosexuality is a choice.

So, Carson apologized:

“I realized that my choice of language does not reflect fully my heart on gay issues. I do not pretend to know how every individual came to their sexual orientation. I regret that my words to express that concept were hurtful and divisive. For that I apologize unreservedly to all that were offended."

We’re born gay, Ben, you made a choice to be a bigot, and a stupid one at that. Oh, and once more, you will never be president of this country, so sit down.

So the Benham brothers — David and Jason — those anti-gay-boys-who-were-gonna-have-a-show-on-HGTV-until-HGTV-found-out-they-were-bigots have announced that they’ve turned a gay man straight, y’all!

They claim to have saved a man from homosexuality simply by buying him tickets to see the Chicago Cubs play baseball. 

Well, it might work; I once turned a woman into a lesbian after giving her a Home Depot gift card. 

Sit down, boys.

We’re hooked on Empire. We love the show and all its WTFuckery storytelling, but this week I realized I’d seen the show before ….decades ago.

Then I realized: Empire is Dynasty set to hip hop. See, in Empire, there's this giant corporation — a record company — with a homophobic father, his troublemaking ex-wife, his gay son, whom he wishes wasn’t gay, a hard partying child, and one that’s slightly off-center, in this case bipolar and off his meds.

In Dynasty, there was this giant corporation — an oil company — with a homophobic father, his troublemaking ex-wife, his gay son, whom he wishes wasn’t gay, a hard partying child, and one that’s slightly off-center, in this case because he was a bastard child and his father never recognized him.

Now, I’m not saying it’s bad thing, I’m just saying what it is … but I’ll keep watching because, well, Cookie ... and Jamal.

Scary news earlier this week when word leaked that Dame Maggie Smith would be leaving Downton Abbey after its sixth season — set to air here in the colonies next year.

Now it seems to have all been a joke and a spokesperson for Milk Publicity says that Smith had long ago agreed to stay with the show “for as long as the [it] runs.”

I feel like we dodged a Dowager Countess bullet!

In addition to loving Empire, I also love Gotham. It’s not as dark as the Christopher Nolan films, and yet not as cartoony as the series, or some of the earlier versions of the film.

Plus, it also features Cory Michael Smith as Ed Nygma, who will be The Riddler one day.

He’s kinda nerdy on the show, but in that HGN [Hot Gay Nerd] kinda way.

Lindsey Graham, our Republican wingnut Senator from South Carolina, took a cheap shot at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi over her reaction to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech to Congress. Graham said Pelosi's frustration with Netanyahu was apparent throughout the event, making a comment about her appearance during the speech:

“Did you see Nancy Pelosi on the floor? Complete disgust. If you can get through all the surgeries, there’s disgust.”

Misogynist pig … when then non-apologized by saying it was a cheap attempt at humor.

Two things Miss Lindsey:

#1: Humor should be funny, yours wasn’t, and …

#B: For a gay man you have no Snarkability. Perhaps if you cane out of the closet you’d be better at it.

Now, sit down.

Why? 

A New Jersey man who suffered burns to his face and legs from a sizzling-hot steak fajita skillet while praying had his suit against Applebee's thrown out. The man claimed his server did not tell him the skillet was hot and as he bowed his head in prayer over the entrée the skillet splashed him with grease in the left eye and face, and then he knocked the plate onto his lap.

The court ruled that it was "self-evident" that a sizzling plate of food would be hot.

Um … duh?

The Dowager Countess' $35,000 Oops

Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock, AKA The Dowager Congressman, admitted his little oops; you know, the ‘oops’ where you realize that after you had your private offices redecorated like a PBS Masterpiece Theater set to the tune of $35,000 that you took the money out of the wrong account.

Schock’s office redecoration a la Downton Abbey became big news, huge news, last month when a quick tour, and a quote by his staff, showed that he was inspired by Lord Grantham’s red drawing room in redecorating his offices. And, while that’s all well and good, if you wish to redecorate, any way you want, but  then you should pay for it out of your own pocket, Mr. Congressman.

The original story seemed to suggest that decorator Annie Brahler had offered her services for free, and that The Dowager Congressman was only being charged for the objects, except … Schock didn’t tell anyone — even the media after the story broke — that his office had already paid $35,000 out of taxpayer funds.

It wasn’t until after the story broke that Annie Brahler reimbursed the United States Treasury the $35,000 and then Aaron Schock paid her the same amount from his personal account. But what galls me, and what I think makes Aaron Schock a thief and an embezzler and the exact wrong kind of person we need in Congress, is the statement released by his office after he got caught:

"As he said he would, Congressman Schock has fulfilled his commitment to pay for all the renovation costs of the 18th Congressional District office in Washington. Even though office expenses are often covered by the Member Representational Allowance, the Congressman believed it appropriate to pay these costs himself as part of the office review process."

As he said he would? He never said he’d pay for the expenses, and in fact, did not pay for them, until the story broke. Had no one ever seen that he wanted his offices to look like some vision from a Grand Hotel set he never would have paid for the design services himself.

Liar. And, in fact, this is nothing new for the Dowager Congressman. Schock has spent more than $100,000 of his taxpayer-funded accounts on office renovations in prior years, for things like leather furniture, hardwood floors and marble countertops in his district offices back home in Illinois.

People of his district? Are you aware that you’re paying for Aaron to work in luxury? Your dollars are making him feel like a Little Prince in his office? Are you good with that? I wouldn’t be.

The Dowager Congressman is exactly what’s wrong with politics today: Schock believes the rules don’t apply to him, and he can use your money for whatever he wants, until he gets caught, and then he makes a grand gesture of paying it back all by himself.

I’d keep an eye on him, and on what he spends your money on from here on out.

via USA Today

The Dowager Congressman Is In Hot Water

Y’all remember Illinois Representative Aaron Schock, right? He, of the turquoise belt and the gingham blouse as picnic wear? He, of the newly decorated Congressional offices done up a la Downton Abbey? Hence the title, ‘Dowager Congressman.’

Well, it appears that Schock’s lavish spending has caught up with him because he’s currently under investigation to see if he used taxpayer monies or campaign funds to travel the globe, throw lavish parties, take his staff to see Katy Perry, and buy himself a $75,000.00 truck.

And I fear it will get uglier before it’s over, and apparently so does Schock, as he has just hired a pair of big-shot DC defense attorneys — and a public relations firm — to respond to a potential ethics probe over how he pays for his fabulous turquoise belted life. And now come the rumors that Schock used his campaign and office accounts to pay for pricey first-class travel and accommodations on a trip he took to London nearly four years ago as part of an annual event featuring Prince Charles.

The Dowager Congressman is in full Scandal mode — where’s Olivia Pope, when you need her — saying, via a spokesman, that he is conducting an internal audit of his office staff to review his spending practices:

“After questions were first raised in the press, Congressman Schock took the proactive step of assembling a team to review the compliance procedures in his official office, campaign and leadership PAC. The purpose of the review is to identify any areas that need improvement and to assist with designing and implementing any changes. The congressman takes his compliance obligations seriously, which is why he took this proactive step to review these procedures.”

I love how they call it proactive; I mean, wouldn’t it have been more proactive had the audit been done before all the questions arose? This is more like backpedaling to cover one’s ass.

And this all started from that trip to London in 2011. Schock traveled with his longtime friend Shea Ledford — now on Schock’s payroll as a district special assistant — and stayed at Claridge’s, where the cheap rooms start at $500.00 a night. He also did some shopping Moss Bros., one of London’s more upscale clothiers, and attended the Royal Ascot, followed by drinks with then-U.S. Ambassador to England Louis Susman. He also participated in a Patron Dinner at the members-only club Annabel’s and was invited to formal dinners at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace … with Lord and Lady Grantham. Perhaps?

Oh, and he missed two days of Congressional votes during the trip.

To be fair, the trip included events organized by the nonprofit Prince of Wales Foundation, but it was not an official government trip and it was not reported as a gift. And even through their internal audit, The Dowager Congressman’s office would not, or could not, say if Schock personally paid for any part of the trip. Huh; you think that’d be easy to prove. Whip out a credit card statement; bring the canceled checks.

House rules require the Ethics Committee to sign off on any trip paid for by a private source, such as the Prince of Wales Foundation, a group which is refusing to comment on the matter at all. But, if the trip was approved by the Ethics Committee, Schock would have had to disclose the itinerary and who paid for it, and also declare it on his annual financial disclosure form.

Aaron Schock, the Dowager Congressman, never reported the trip.

Aaron Schock’s spending habits have been under the microscope for a while now, mostly due to his own need to post pictures of himself in exotic locations on his Instagram account, and it is now become clear that this London trip wasn’t the only glitch in Schock’s political spending kerfuffle.

Also in 2011, Schock took a 10-day trip to Saudi Arabia, along with Republican Representatives Marlin Stutzman of Indiana and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming; a trip paid for by Saudi Arabia’s antiquities and tourism commission.

House members and employees may accept travel paid for by a foreign government without review by the ethics panel, but, again, they must disclose such trips taken under the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act on their annual financial disclosure forms.

Stutzman and Lummis listed the trip; Schock did not.

It looks like Aaron Schock doesn’t follow the rules, as others do, and likes to take fabulous trips, and buy himself pretty clothes — though never again a turquoise belt — and eat at wonderful venues and go to fabulous parties all the while missing votes … you know, part of the job for which the people of Illinois elected him.

But then a Dowager Congressman would never assume the rules applied to him.

via Politico

Is Rep. Aaron Schock On The Down [ton Abbey] Low?

I have never been to the Rayburn House Office Building is Washington, DC, where many members of Congress have their offices, bit according to Ben Terris of the Washington Post, it’s your typical drab, beige, bureaucratic government building.

When a member of Congress moves into an office in the Rayburn, the rooms are spare and bare; furniture and computers are of the hand-me-down-from-the-last-tenant variety. But new members are allowed to paint, though they have limited choices that the House will provide: beige, eggshell, light blue, light gray or light yellow — that the House will provide. If you wish a different color, then the lawmaker must pay for that.

Which is how we come to Congressman Aaron Schock’s offices; y’all remember Schock, right? He, of the turquoise belt and gingham blouse, er, shirt, in the photo that went viral; the one that made us all wonder if he might be a little light in the Congressional loafers?

Schock’s new office — his outer office — is bold, bright red; there are gold-colored wall sconces with black candles; there’s a Federal-style bull’s-eye mirror with an eagle perched on top and, according to the woman at the front desk, it’s “based off of the red room in ‘Downton Abbey.’”

How very Dowager Countess. Terris was suddenly interested, and then another woman came out and asked if he’d like to see the rest; would he?

She introduced herself as Annie Brahler, the interior decorator whose company, Euro Trash, designed Schock’s new digs. She escorted Terris into Schock’s private office, another dramatic red room with a crystal chandelier, a table propped up by two eagles, a bust of Abraham Lincoln and massive arrangements of pheasant feathers.

Pheasant feathers. Terris was intrigued, but then he received a call on his cell phone: Schock’s communications director, Benjamin Cole who asked who told him that he could photograph the office. Cole said, "Stay where you are. You’ve created a bit of a crisis in the office.”

A staff member came in and asked Terris to delete the photos from my phone, but, well, that didn’t exactly happen and that’s when the story really took off.

See, Schock’s people wanted Terris to delete the pictures, and not do any story about the redecoration of his offices, but rather allow Schock to talk about any number of other things … like the six pack abs he proudly displays on the cover of Men’s Health; or his Instagram, which features him leaping for joy on a South American glacier — see that photo HERE — or smiling with Ariana Grande.

You know, political stiff. Not the gossipy stuff like what his new office is like.

Brahler, happy to let a reporter tour the office and see her work, was taken aback by all the fuss over the pictures. She’d met Schock several years ago, after he’d seen her work featured in magazines and offered her services for free, though Schock, according to Congressional rules, would have to pay for the furnishings.

So she decorated his old offices in the Cannon House Office Building, and when he moved into the Rayburn, he called again; she admits that, while his office looks kind of Downton-esque, it’s not a replica of the television show, it's just what Schock wanted.

Meanwhile, back to Benjamin Cole, recovering from the fit he threw that a reporter was in the office; he explained that Schock hadn’t seen the finished space yet and wondered if it was a bit unfair to write about it before the congressman had seen it. Terris agreed, though he asked if he could be there when Schock got his first peek-a-boo.

That was all well and good, until Aaron Schock decided he wasn’t interested in doing a whole story about how his office is decorated; he’d talk about anything else — well, not the turquoise belt — but would rather not discuss his offices.

And he sent Cole, his communications director, to make a point to Terris: the office is definitely not based on Downton Abbey because, well, maybe Schock doesn’t watch the show and he definitely doesn’t want to talk about it.

But someone does want to talk, and that’s the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington [CREW]  who have asked the Office of Congressional Ethics) to investigate whether Republican Schock violated House rules by accepting free interior decorating work for his not Downton Abbey inspired offices.

CREW reports, via press release:

 “Perhaps it’s not totally surprising that the same congressman who spent campaign money on P90X workout DVDs wanted to create a more picturesque setting in which to be photographed, but the rules clearly require him to pay for those renovations himself. Again and again, Rep. Schock’s seeming obsession with his image impedes his ability to conduct himself in ethical manner.”

House rules prohibit members of Congress from accepting gifts, which are defined in the rules as any “item having monetary value” — like interior decoration services — and the rules explicitly prohibit members from using “outside private donations, funds, or in-kind goods and services” — as in campaign contributions — to pay for their congressional office.

CREW is also asking that Schock be investigated as to whether or not he used campaign funds to pay for his office furniture. They state that in 2012 campaign paid $5,522 to Brahler’s company for what it described as “office equipment” but with the revelation now that Brahler redecorated Schock’s previous suite, they seem to believe that campaign funds were used to pretty up Aaron spaces — a clear violation of House rules.

Maybe Schock should have just asked Brahler to redecorate his closet; that way no one would have seen it except for him.

Just sayin’ … and then Aaron said, when cornered by NBC News to ask about his Downton Office:

“I'm different. I came to Congress at 27 … as Taylor Swift said, 'haters are gonna hate.'"

Downton-Abbey-Office-Working-Turquoise-Belt-Wearing-Shirltess-Congressman-Quoting-A-Taylor-Swift-Song.

So.Not.Gay.

sources:

Towleroad: Aaron Schock's New Office
Towleroad: Aaron Schock Ethics Charge
Washington Post
New Civil Rights Movement

Photo of the Week

I love Downton Abbey.

I'm a sucker what is essentially a soap opera about English aristocracy in the early part of last century.

But what I love most is the attention to detail; the costumes; the actual homes, er, castles that are used as sets; the old English villages that haven't changed at all and are used as backdrops; the costumes.

I loved this promo picture sent out ahead of the next season of the DA because I loves me some Lord Grantham and Edith Grantham and ... Wait.

WTF is that? 

A plastic water bottle on the mantle?

The Dowager Countess will not be amused.

Random Musings

So, we'll start off with some good news.

Last month we saw yet another case of an LGBTQ youth attempting suicide as a result of bullying when Austin Rodriguez tried to kill himself, but ended up, instead, in a coma. [original post HERE]

Now, Austin is off the ventilator; he's out of the coma. He's been awake for nearly a week. And he's been moved from the ICU and is in a private room in the hospital.

Austin took to Facebook, via his mother's account, to let people know he's doing better:

Hopefully this is a wake up call for Austin; for him to realize that suicide isn't an answer. And hopefully this will be a wake up call to parents and schools that bullying needs to stop.

Now.

Tony Perkins, Flying Monkey In Chief for the inappropriately named American Family Association, actually believe that the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell brought about the Secret Service Hooker Scandal.

That's quite a jump. Allowing gay men and women to serve openly in our military is the root cause of a bunch of Secret Service agents hiring Colombian hookers.

That Tony Perkins is just about the biggest idiot EVER!

Say it isn't so!

Maggie Smith reportedly wants out of Downton Abbey after next season, wishing to return to movies and the stage: "Maggie has asked Julian to write her character out...She is filming until August and then wants to leave, going out on a high. She thinks that three (seasons) is enough and she wants to get back to the stage and big screen."

That means that, should there be a fourth season of Abbey, the Dowager Countess, a master of the potent one-line put-down, will be gone.

I.Am.Crushed.

Mitt Romney may appear on Saturday Night Live to, um, dispel the rumors that he's as dull as dishwater and stiff as a board. But, if he does it, Mittsy asks one thing of the SNL writers.

No, don't make him wear flip-flops isn't the right answer.

No, don't make fun of his millionaire stay-at-home-mom wife isn't it either.

Mittsy asks that the show be........Funny.

Because Mittsy knows comedy. I mean, look at his political career and aspirations.

High-larious.

And, speaking of Mittsy, we all know that his opinions are like buses: a new one will be along in five minutes. But while he is the Flip-flopper of the Romney household, Ann Romney has quickly become the delusional moron in charge.

First was the horrid struggle she endured by choosing to be a stay-at-any-number-of-homes mom, and now she's said this:

'Memba when people were all outraged that the Romney family strapped the family dog, Seamus, into an air-tight crate, and then put him on the roof of their car for a twelve hour road trip in 1983? And 'remeber how Seamus defecated all over himself and on the windshield, but also thoroughly enjoyed the experience?

Yeah, that';s Ann Romney';s newest spin.

“The dog loved it,” Ann Romney says, “He would see that crate and, you know, he would, like, go crazy because he was going with us on vacation."

Ann Romney cares as much about average stay-at-home mothers as she does about the family pet, and for her to suggest that the dog enjoyed being tied down to the roof of a car and forced to sh*t himself is reprehensible.

Of course, Mittsy took up the call, too, telling Diane Sawyer that he would do that again: "Certainly not with the attention it's received."

See, he wouldn't stop doing it  because it's inhumane to do such a thing, he'd stopped doing it because people noticed.

The Romneys. So fucking out of touch it's unbelievable.

Is Rush Limbaugh back on the Oxy?

Well, he's certainly sounding crazier than normal.

Limbaugh says that while using his iPhone with a voice-transcription feature that turns spoken words into printed text, a mysterious message suddenly showed up:

“Obama’s minions are taking over and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

That missive left the moron radio host just dumbfounded--emphasis on the dumb--as he noted, “I hadn’t said anything like that!”

But, true to form, Rush has no proof that his iPhone is sending him threats from Obama's Minions because, um, “I was so discombobulated by what happened that I didn’t save what showed up on my iPhone. I can’t prove this, because I didn’t keep the transcriptions. I deleted them. I don’t even know if I actually deleted them. I just didn’t send them. They are not on the phone. I went and looked.”

Discombobulated means totally off your effing rocker.

Jose Canseco. Baseball player. Steroid rager. Global warming expert.

He has been Tweeting about how global warming might have saved the Titanic.

Oh, but he has:

source

Some new hotties crossing the screen these days.

Columbus Short, of ABC's Scandal

Henry Ian Cusick, also of Scandal and, of course, Lost

François Arnaud, of Showtime's The Borgias

Neal Bledsoe, the hot gay Republican on Smash

Christian Cooke, from Starz' Magic City