In the latest edition of Intellectual Frog Legs, Joe Dan Gorman wrestles with how to reconcile his faith with his political beliefs, and wonders aloud whether some of his liberal church brethren have engaged in the same degree of soul-searching. If so, he asks, why won’t they fight the good fight of faith to uphold Christian values and to oppose the removal of crosses and the Ten Commandments from public places?
Setting the stage for Clint Eastwood tonight, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez wowed the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, with an account of her days packing heat while working for her parents’ security firm. “And at 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic church bingos,” Martinez related. “Now, my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum. Yes, that gun weighed more than I did.”
She sure fired a bull’s-eye Wednesday night!
Sourcefed presents “The Top Ten Most Badass Republicans.”
Dick Morris delivers high praise for Paul Ryan’s speech.
Jon Voight outlines his support for the Romney/Ryan ticket and says he’s not the only conservative in Hollywood, just one of the few willing to speak on the record.
With the election deadlocked between Mitt Romney and President Obama, time for dead voters to rise from their graves and claim their rights. Satirist Jack West takes up their cause in a song inspired by Randy Newman’s “Short People.”
al-Qaeda has a new refuge… the deserts of Northern Mali. This report captures the food crisis and exodus of half a million people, caused by the Islamist enactment of harsh Sharia Laws in the north of the country. There, al-Qaeda has driven out the struggling national army, seized their weapons and is now fly the al-Qaeda flag. “We’re frightened because there’s no government we can trust to protect us from the armed groups,” says Maulud Ibrahim, a Tuareg refugee.
“When we’ve conquered France, we’ll come to the USA, we’ll come to London and conquer the whole world,” says a military commander from the local al-Qaeda ally, Defenders of the Faith. For Tiebile Drame, the former Foreign Minister, the situation is getting serious. “The rest of the world should not stay just to look at the situation, we should be helped unless they would like to see another Somalia or another Afghanistan.” H/T Journeyman.TV
A gumshoe with an overactive imagination sets out to rescue the kindly granny living in the apartment upstairs. Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis co-directed this animated short while attending the Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida. Their work won a bronze medal for animation in last year’s 38th Student Academy Awards. Visit Geller’s website at http://avnergeller.blogspot.com/ and Lewis’ website at http://chocosweete.blogspot.com/
Robot chefs that make sliced noodles have become a common sight in Beijing restaurants and noodle bars. The Chinese restaurateur who developed the robots says they are extremely efficient and also less costly than paying for human help to make noodles. The robots sell for the equivalent of about $2,000 US dollars. Wonder how long before we see robot chefs in the United States? And will they look like Fembots, Autobots or Decepticons? H/T Geek Press
Meanwhile, in Tokyo’s Red Light District, the Japanese have opened the ultimate robot restaurant — with bikini-clad girls strutting their stuff and riding around on giant robots, also wearing bikinis, in a cabaret act that took three years and $125 million to create.
While Carling reached its peak as an American beer, it’s originally a Canadian lager, first brewed beginning in 1840 in the city of London, Ontario Province. In 1880, an American brewery in Cleveland, Ohio, acquired the rights to produce the Carling brand beers and lagers stateside. The Carling formula: To offer a high-quality lager, at budget prices. To accomplish that, Carling would be bottled regionally at eight or so brewing plants scattered around the United States.
The brand enjoyed its greatest success in the 1950s and 1960s after hiring Jeanne Goodspeed, a New York actress and model, to appear in TV commercials as “Mabel,” the smiling waitress ever-on-the-ready to serve Black Label, while a popular jingle drove home the message — “Hey Mabel — Black Label.” After Goodspeed retired to become a mother, Carling didn’t hire a replacement, but instead created a cartoon likeness of Mabel.
Carling ceased to exist as a stand-alone US brewery in 1979. Since then, other breweries have maintained the line, the most recent being Pabst.
The scantily clad Justin “Nordic Thunder” Howard shows off his chops as he wins the Air Guitar World Championship this past weekend in Oulu, Finland. Howard, one of two Americans in the final rounds, defeated 17 other competitors for the top prize. The contestants came from as far away as Japan. Local favorite Jaakko “The Colossal” Härkönen of Finland placed fifth.
And, here’s a look at a few of the also-rans.
Dick Morris predicts a 3-4 percent bounce in the polls for Mitt Romney based on Ann Romney’s speech Tuesday night.
Utah Congressional hopeful Mia Love fires up the Republican delegates in Tampa. If elected from Utah’s 4th District, Love will be the first Republican woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. She’s pitted in an uphill race against six-term Democratic incumbent Jim Matheson.
Rumors are swirling that Clint Eastwood will be the GOP’s “mystery speaker” on Thursday night. Go ahead, make my day.
Code Pink Vaginas protest the Republican National Convention. Sure signs that the protest was anemic: Presence of dude “ringers” and most of the participants, regardless of sex, look like they should be packing Poligrip instead of lube.
Alfonzo Rachel believes Republicans are missing the boat by overemphasizing an economic message to the exclusion of celebrating the party’s history as a force backing civil rights. The result, he says, is a GOP convention that could be snooze-worthy due to the absence of vital speakers such as Allen West, Michelle Bachman, Alan Keyes and Sarah Palin. Likewise, he recommends that the Republican website receive a facelift. Instead of looking “like a property management page,” the Republican portal should include pictures of Booker T. Washington, Sojourner Truth and other GOP abolitionists who first championed freedom for all Americans. Hear more in Rachel’s latest ZoNation. H/T PJTV
