Are we giving up the other storyline on Cory Booker? You know, that when it comes to women, he really likes sandwiches?

I don't know if this is a Scandal!!! or a planted damage-control story.

At any rate, NSFW, because there are a lot of boobies (well actually the same two, over and over again), here's Cory Booker's DMing, flirty relationship with a stripper. A female stripper.

If you can't click, the story is that Booker follows a Stripper on Twitter and is known to have DMd her (she published a few of the DMs, which were flirty without being actually lewd or propositioning or anything).

She says that Booker was merely "flattering" her, and so nothing more should be read into it.

Except that the main avenue of expressing sexual interest is flattery and always has been and always will be.

On one hand, he is single, and is therefore entitled to do what he likes with whoever he likes; but, on other hand...

Eh! I guess there's not really an other hand.

I guess then technically, and actually, this Doesn't Matter. It especially doesn't matter in New Jersey, where people have adopted New York City's mores as a signal about their own sophistication in such matters.

I guess we can still crack jokes about it, though.

Even though, actually, anyone's texts like this would be pretty funny were they shared with the wider world.

Posted by: Ace at 01:39 PM | Comments (175)
Post contains 258 words, total size 2 kb.

Okay that headline I did juice -- but Politico decided to pull a sorta "Fact Check" by contacting a socialist professor who wrote a book about Dr. Seuss and Social Justice and asking him if Dr. Seuss would like Ted Cruz.

If he were still alive.

And also as if this is relevant to any point one could imagine.

No link for Politico.

Dr. Seuss wouldn’t have had much of an appetite for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) reading “Green Eggs and Ham” on the Senate floor, experts on the author said Wednesday.

“Not only would he be offended at the misuse of ‘Green Eggs and Ham,’ but he’d be offended at almost everything that Ted Cruz stands for, which is to remove the safety net from poor people, poor and vulnerable people, he’s clearly more power hungry than he is compassionate and he’s a bully,” Dr. Peter Dreier, a professor of politics at
“Without a doubt, if Dr. Seuss were still around today, he would be poking fun at and criticizing Ted Cruz,” Dreier said.

Dreier included Dr. Seuss — whose real name is Theodor Geisel — in his book, “The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame” and said Geisel would be “offended” at Cruz using the famous children’s book in his argument against Obamacare.

“‘Green Eggs and Ham’ is about trying new things and giving it a chance and being open to change, right? And here’s Ted Cruz trying to stop Obamacare, really before it gets going,” Dreier said.

#smarttake from the Bennington College Media.*

Thanks to @benk84.

* I'm just picking on Bennington because I think Brett Easton Ellis went there and he seemed to depict it as a very druggy, party-down school for the not-terribly-scholarly children of the Upper Middle Class or full on Upper Class. It's an expensive place. Apparently, if I remember Ellis' books correctly, the main majors are Pill Addiction and Gay Sex Experimentation.

Dr. Seuss Would Totally Approve of Republicans-- He Was Racist! Just kidding, but here's some of Geisel's eyebrow-lifting WWII propaganda work.

Via Dr. Spank, who I'm told is actually not a doctor but he is enrolled in a Ph.D. program and is just waiting for his dissertation to be given a passing grade.

Posted by: Ace at 01:02 PM | Comments (228)
Post contains 414 words, total size 3 kb.

Right now you're thinking I juiced the headline, and that he said no such thing.

Well the trick's on you.

The All Of The Lights singer hit out at what he perceived to be a racist response to his song I Am A God from of his latest album Yeezus, on Monday with an hourlong interview with BBC Radio 1.

Kanye said people might ask him who he thinks he is calling himself a god, but the rapper has an answer to that question: 'I just told you who I thought I was: A god. I just told you. ThatÂ’s who I think I am.

'Would it have been better if I had a song that said "I am a gangster" or if I had a song that said "I am a pimp." All those colours and patinas fit better on a person like me, right?

Ima let you finish but the best god is still Zeus, yo.

There's a parallel here with the Cult of Obama -- if you don't worship him like unto a god, then you're racist.

Really?

Okay.

Posted by: Ace at 12:31 PM | Comments (233)
Post contains 206 words, total size 1 kb.

I've heard of worse tactics.

I think she's overvaluing Sandwich Production at the expense of Horn Reduction, but at least she's got a plan.

Since last June, a young woman has attracted attention from culinary world icons such as Emeril Lagasse, Michael White and Ken Friedman with 300sandwiches.com, a beautifully photographed blog that documents her quest to woo her boyfriend with bread-and-meat creations. We now reveal that the woman behind the blog is our very own Page Six senior reporter, STEPHANIE SMITH. Here, she tells her story — and shares some recipes.

My boyfriend, Eric, is the gourmet cook in our relationship, but heÂ’d always want me to make him a sandwich.

Each morning, he would ask, “Honey, how long you have been awake?”

“About 15 minutes,” I’d reply.

“You’ve been up for 15 minutes and you haven’t made me a sandwich?”

To him, sandwiches are like kisses or hugs. Or sex. “Sandwiches are love,” he says. “Especially when you make them. You can’t get a sandwich with love from the deli.”

One lazy summer afternoon just over a year ago, I finally gave in. I assembled turkey and Swiss on toasted wheat bread. I spread Dijon mustard generously on both bread slices, and I made sure the lettuce was perfectly in line with the neatly stacked turkey slices.

Eric devoured the sandwich as if it were a five-star meal, diving in with large, eager bites. “Babes, this is delicious!” he exclaimed.

As he finished that last bite, he made an unexpected declaration of how much he loved me and that sandwich: “Honey, you’re 300 sandwiches away from an engagement ring!”

I paused.

Was our happily ever after as simple as making him a few sandwiches?

Apparently she's 176 sandwiches in, with 124 left to go.

Sounds like a movie. No, seriously. That Julia/Julia movie (or whatever) was based on a blog.

If you want to be a screenwriter, your best Breakthrough move is to do a silly, fun stunt that would make for a good script. Then they'll pay for your life rights and you can bargain to get paid as a the first screenwriter, too.

I look forward to seeing the 300 Sandwiches movie. Well not really. But I wouldn't object to it.

I think @mflynny sent this but now it's disappeared from my Timeline so I'm not sure.

Oh, Of Course: Liberal Outrage Building! Of course.

Of course.

Of course.

I failed to predict this. And this was obvious. My bad. My bad. This was such a Gimme. But my brain didn't even go there. My brain just failed to consider the Outrage the left could mount over a Sandwich Courtship.

More at the link.

Well, Chris Hayes at the link. But I'm sure there will be more Outrageous Outrage.

L to R: Abused Stepford Sandwich Whore,
Vicious Patriarchal Woman-Beater

Frankly I don't even really think this is entirely real. I think they're looking for a Life Rights deal.

And I hope they get it. It's a cute, fun thing they've Created for us.

Posted by: Ace at 11:40 AM | Comments (399)
Post contains 541 words, total size 4 kb.

He's a Democrat. I don't mind that he's a Democrat, but he's going around the country claiming to be part of the opposition party.

This is, essentially, the Democratic response: ObamaCare was duly passed, it was an issue in a presidential campaign that the GOP lost, end of story — whether or not there are 51 or even 60 votes in the Senate to defund this thing. He actually used the phrase “elections have consequences,” which must be the first time a member of the *minority* party has ever tossed that into a debate. Like Ramesh Ponnuru says, weren’t Ted Cruz and Mike Lee elected too?

UPDATE: (Jack M.)

Here's a blast from the past. 2002 to be exact. McCain's been a Democrat for at least 11 years, or so his one-time "chief strategist" seems to imply in this 2002 interview. In 2013, Weaver, apparently, is a Republican consultant again.

John Weaver hunches his angular frame over a Styrofoam cup
of coffee in the basement cafeteria of the United States Senate and
tries to explain what might seem--to an outsider--his peculiar
political loyalties. Once a loyal Republican strategist who directed
the presidential aspirations of uber-conservative Phil Gramm and helped
plot John McCain's maverick primary run in 2000, he has since
re-registered as a Democrat and severed consulting ties to all
Republicans except McCain, for whom he still serves as chief
strategist. "I only work for Democrats now," he tells me. Noticing that
he has overlooked the party affiliation of his most prominent advisee,
I helpfully add: "And John McCain." Weaver shrugs his shoulders and
grins, "Oh, right."

Update 2: Moar Context!1!

Here's some more relatively contemporaneous context. Granted it's from the New York Times in 2008, so grain of salt...but the players remain the same.

Mr. McCain had begun to ally himself with the Democrats on a number of issues, and had told Mr. Daschle that he planned to vote against the Bush tax cuts, a centerpiece of the new president’s domestic agenda. Mr. McCain often made “disparaging comments” about Mr. Bush on the floor of the Senate, Mr. Daschle recalled.

Still, Democrats were stunned one Saturday in late March when, by their account, John Weaver, Mr. McCainÂ’s longtime political strategist, reached out to Thomas J. Downey, a former Democratic congressman from Long Island who had become a lobbyist with powerful connections on Capitol Hill. In Mr. DowneyÂ’s telling, Mr. Weaver posed a question to him over lunch that left him stunned.

“He says, ‘John McCain is wondering why nobody’s ever approached him about switching parties, or becoming an independent and allying himself with the Democrats,’ ” Mr. Downey said in a recent interview. “My reaction was, ‘When I leave this lunch, your boss will be called by anybody you want him to be called by in the United States Senate.’ ”

Mr. Weaver recalls the conversation differently. He said that Mr. Downey had told him that Democrats, eager to find a Republican who would switch sides and give them control of the evenly divided Senate, had approached some Republican senators about making the jump. “I stated they couldn’t be so desperate as they hadn’t reached out to McCain,” Mr. Weaver said in an e-mail message last week.

Whatever transpired, Mr. Downey raced home and immediately called Mr. Daschle. It was the first step in what became weeks of conversations that April between Mr. McCain and the leading Democrats, among them Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and John Edwards, then a senator from North Carolina, about the possibility of Mr. McCainÂ’s leaving his party. One factor driving Mr. McCain, Mr. Downey said, was his bad relations with the Republican caucus.

So, yeah. As they use to say in the old NFL commercials: "You make the call!"

(End Updates)

Apparently they're working on a one-week CR that will let them have some time to argue about ObamaCare and such.

And Open Thread.

Oh, if this is an open thread, I should mention this: Sex Jihad.

It's bad. It's how women serve the Jihad -- by servicing the Jihadis, 20, 30, or more of them per tour.

more...

Posted by: Ace at 03:54 PM | Comments (614)
Post contains 718 words, total size 5 kb.

Now he's just trying to make people's heads explode.

Avik Roy meanwhile writes of ObamaCare's Sticker Shock.

Based on a Manhattan Institute analysis of the HHS numbers, Obamacare will increase underlying insurance rates for younger men by an average of 97 to 99 percent, and for younger women by an average of 55 to 62 percent. Worst off is North Carolina, which will see individual-market rates triple for women, and quadruple for men.

The map for females (at the link) is somewhat less red. But it's plenty pink.

Posted by: Ace at 10:36 AM | Comments (361)
Post contains 102 words, total size 1 kb.

We're still pretending, right?

Right.

Via Hot Air, even Politico, as AllahPundit says, sometimes is forced to acknowledge the smell of partisan farts.

From Politico:

When a Democrat like Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis filibusters against abortion restrictions, she is elevated to hero status, her tennis shoes become totems. When Sen. Cruz grandstands against Obamacare, he is a laughingstock in the eyes of many journalists on Twitter, an “embarrassment” in the eyes of The New York Times editorial board…

These portrayals may be accurate or inaccuarate — Cruz certainly has an elitist strain and he certainly has political ambitions. But that’s not the point: the point is that the coverage of Cruz has been critical, and in some cases unforgiving, from the outset. At least initially, Davis wasn’t viewed through a critical lens at all. Her willingness to stand for eleven hours was evidence of the American dream in action. Period.

Elitism is now a sin among the Credentialed Set? Well knock me over with a feather.

Yeah, Ted Cruz is an elitist. He's a self-made man who went to the country's most elite school (Princeton) and then the country's most elite law school (Harvard).

I'm sorry if this bothers the Bennington College Media. You know, expensive private schools which aren't really very selective or exclusive, except for the "expensive" part.

Posted by: Ace at 09:31 AM | Comments (451)
Post contains 299 words, total size 3 kb.

I did not expect him to have this level of endurance, to be honest. He has completely beat my expectations as far as determination.

This must be a difficult thing.

Here's a recap from National Journal.

8:53 a.m.: Ted Cruz: I'm Not Hip

Comparing himself to Rand Paul and Marco Rubio, Senator Cruz said that he is not hip. That he can't attract people with earrings and Birkenstocks. But, he says, he can still quote Ashton Kutcher. "I will take it as a given that there is no politician on the planet who qualifies as cool."

As he did on Tuesday, Cruz decided to cite from Ashton Kutcher's Teen Choice Awards speech. Video of the speech itself, and some background on it, can be found below.

"Always be sexy," Cruz said, quoting Kutcher. "I salute that message."

Reid is determined to retake the floor at noon.

But Cruz has set the record for the fourth-longest Senate speech.

Of course, if you're going to talk for almost 24 hours, you're going to have to talk about Star Wars at some point.

I don't know if he did that as a reference to Patton Oswald's filibuster on Parks and Recreation. Maybe, maybe not.
more...

Posted by: Ace at 07:47 AM | Comments (763)
Post contains 245 words, total size 2 kb.

• Still Filibustering
  
• Average Monthly Health Insurance Cost Will Be At Least $249 A Month
  
• VDH: Our Truest Lies
  
• Obamacare Will Increase Health Spending By $7,450 For Typical Family Of Four
  
• Obamacare...Well..Sh*ts Going To Be Expensive
  
• Christie Up 64-30
  
• NYC Is About To Elect A Wannabe Communist Mayor
  
• Chris Matthews Somehow Works Hitler Into Ted Cruz Story
  
• John Kerry To Sign UN Gun Control Treaty
  
• Gov't Shut Down Polls Not The Same As 1995-1996
  
• Hapless Obama Looks To Iran For A Second Term Victory
  
• Marine Blows Away Truck Thief Who Pulled Gun On Him
  
• HHS Watchdog Unsure If Obamacare Will Work
  
• China Pushing Russia Out Of Kazakhstan
  
• Hamilton Tried To Get Away With A Blacks Only And Whites Only Event
  
• The Islamic War On Christians
  
• Obama Claims He Quit Smoking Because He's Afraid Of Michelle
  
• Myst Is 20 Years Old Today
  
• Supercut Of Idiotic Pedestrians
  
• Ted Cruz Talks Star Wars On The Senate Floor
  

Follow me on twitter.

I'll get you the pick'em results tomorrow morning.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:20 AM | Comments (657)
Post contains 173 words, total size 3 kb.

Happy Wednesday.

Still going. When I got up a while ago, Sen. Rubio was talking about taxes, regulations, and debt. He's been on since around 6am. Sens. Lee and Cruz split the early morning hours. Cruz's speech will surpass the previous 5th-longest floor speech (counting all the time since he's started, including the time he's yielded to others, which is how they count in the Senate) at 6:55am.

In other news, Mitt Romney will headline a fundraiser for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli.

A Dallas zoo gorilla will get therapy for his sexist behavior.

A fake Apple ad that says iOS7 will make your iPhone waterproof has tricked several people into destroying their iPhones.

[ RSS]

[iTunes]

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 02:50 AM | Comments (370)
Post contains 128 words, total size 2 kb.