*Written by Rob Rimes.

Yesss! This absurd presidential race has finally come close to an official end! Newt Gingrich, like Rick Santorum two weeks prior, has dropped out of the race. It couldn’t have come at a better time for the man who looks like the 60-something version of Chucky the killer Good Guy doll. Considering that Mitt Romney swept five out of five states last night, Newt knew his days were numbered and decided that it was best to step out of the Romney steamroller’s way and to stop embarrassing himself. Don’t get me wrong, I like Newt as a personality and he brought some real fire to this long-winded and nearly endless contest. He was a good contender for the establishment neocons who pretty much dominate the Republican Party and whether you love him or hate him, he would’ve really been a thorn in Obama’s side if they had gotten the chance to debate. Granted, Gingrich like his neocon counterparts wouldn’t be that far off from Obama on most issues but their bouts would have been entertaining nonetheless and there most assuredly would’ve been a lot of low blows, illegal headbutts and busted faces. That’s a dream match us boxing fans won’t get to see.

Now with the man named after a slimy amphibious lizard creature out of the way, this is truly a two-man race now. Dr. Ron Paul still refuses to go away quietly and thank fuck for that. Frankly, Dr. Paul is going to now soak up all the delegates Mitt Romney has missed on his quest for the American throne. Can Paul win? Not at this point but his strategy of delegate collecting is working. I was doubtful about it but he outlasted everyone but the dominate frontrunner and now has the opportunity to excel further in an effort to take his message of liberty to an even higher level.

Unfortunately for Ron Paul, I don’t think that the media gives a shit (surprise! surprise!) and the people just aren’t listening. The Tea Party isn’t really partying anymore and even if they still gave two shits, they’re brains have been replaced with neocon-flavored slushy. The anti-Romney non-party-affiliated Tea Party is now unified behind the Republican Party candidate. Personally, I am fine with that though, us true Dr. Paul supporters saw that ship sinking as soon as Sarah Palin showed up to the party and spiked the tea. I’ve already tackled most of these points however and it should be apparent to everyone that the Tea Party has pretty much always been the Republicans’ grassroots machine even though it claimed vehemently that it wasn’t. What’s that old saying? Oh yes, “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist.” Well, the greatest trick the Tea Party ever pulled was to convince its members that they weren’t establishment Republican sheep. It doesn’t matter though, they don’t care either way whether they’ve been fully exposed or not. Honestly, even if they were down with the rhetoric they espoused, they still weren’t hardcore enough for me. As far as I am concerned, fuck’m all – bring the anarchy! Why wait for the shit to really hit the fan, let’s tear shit up now and get to rebuilding. It’s time to tear this elephant-sized band-aid the fuck off!

Sorry, I’m just completely fucking disgusted and tired of waiting for America’s slow death.

So this is where we are at. He have Romney and Obama going head-to-head with Paul and Johnson somewhere off to the side trying to remind us all why we are completely fucked. Romney’s wins in Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island were just five more bitter nails in the coffin that is sealing away liberty, freedom and prosperity. Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama are just standing there with shovels waiting to start burying the American Dream under six feet of worm-filled dirt. If that doesn’t anger you and make you wake up to the fact that we are going to lose big this year, then you are one of the bumbling fools that handed them the shovels to begin with.

Now Newt Gingrich, who was one of the half dozen or so anti-Romney candidates that really isn’t all that different from Ol’ Mittens, has now come out and endorsed the man who was his rival over the last ten-to-twelve months. Newtie Booty told the GOP faithful that it is time for the party to unite and stand strong behind Mitt Romney so that “Anybody but Obama” can take the White House in November. I love how all the establishment candidates who were the Tea Party’s antithesis to the other establishment candidate are all out supporting him now. Well, all of them other than Rick Santorum who is still swimming in a sea of his own infantile tears and anal juice because he just can’t stop licking his baby bitch wounds. That man couldn’t fade into obscurity any faster. Hopefully he never returns to the fold and I can one day laugh when VH1 features him on an episode of the future show “I Love the 10′s”.

Back to Newt. He’s gone, the world is better off and now he can sign whatever big contract he wants to star on whatever large mainstream media outlet that will compete for his services. He’s too charismatic and sharp to just disappear and I’m sure we will see the man on our screens for years to come. Honestly, I am fine with that. I don’t agree with him on a great many things but I don’t find him offensive or stupid, as I find most of the other GOPers who have already fallen like a herd of fainting goats. I honestly wish Newt the best and I like him being in the public eye. I once really disliked the man but he was a great debater and if there is any truth to how he feels about the Federal Reserve, he can’t be all awful, right?

Then again, there are a hell of a lot more negatives than positives with this guy, so fuck everything I just said. Fuck Newt, fuck Romney and fuck the establishment for once again turning their backs on the one guy who could get us out of this mess and actually beat President Obama. It’s been a long race thus far but we’re finally on the last leg of this marathon.

Now we’re left with Godzilla versus King Kong. Whoever destroys America first is the winner!

Mitt Romney laid claim to the fiercely contested Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night with a fistful of primary triumphs, then urged all who struggle in a shaky U.S. economy to “hold on a little longer, a better America begins tonight.”

Eager to turn the political page to the general election, Romney accused President Barack Obama of “false promises and weak leadership.” He declared, “Everywhere I go, Americans are tired of being tired, and many of those who are fortunate enough to have a job are working harder for less.”

The former Massachusetts governor spoke as he swept primaries in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York, the first since Rick Santorum conceded the nomination.

“Mitt Romney is going to be the nominee, and I’m going to support the nominee,” the former Pennsylvania senator said on CNN. He added he intended to meet on Wednesday with the winner’s aides.

Romney, speaking to cheering supporters, in New Hampshire, said, “The last few years have been the best Barack Obama can do, but it’s not the best America can do.”

CONTINUED at NY Daily News.

Aziz Ansari is bringing his new standup special straight to his fans. The “Parks and Recreation” star is bypassing cable networks to release his latest comedy special on his website.

Ansari’s “Dangerously Delicious” standup special will be available online worldwide for $5 beginning Tuesday.

“It seemed like the smartest way to deliver it,” the 29-year-old comedian said. Fans can download or stream the 60-minute show without commercials or restrictions.

Ansari is the latest entertainer to bypass the big guys and sell his material straight to his fans. Radiohead famously did it with their pay-what-you-wish download of “In Rainbows” in 2007, and comedian Louis C.K. opened the door for comics do to the same when he sold his “Live at the Beacon Theater” standup special online in December and brought in more than $1 million in the first two weeks.

(Radiohead didn’t reveal sales figures for “In Rainbows”, but experts estimate the band collected at least $2 million and as much as $10 million.)

CONTINUED at the Huffington Post.

I probably haven’t watched any type of Hollywood awards ceremony since I was five, but after seeing YouTube clips of British comedian Ricky Gervais’s performance hosting the Golden Globes last year and bashing those in attendance, I figured it may be worthwhile to watch his encore performance this year.

How wrong I was.

Gervais didn’t bring his A-game tonight, but here are his five best quips anyway:

5)  ”For our next category we have two presenters. One is in a huge international hit, ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.’ The second, as we’ve heard, made her mark in comedy this summer by defecating into a sink. Amazingly, that’s still less demeaning than what most of you have done to make it in show business.”

4)  “Our next presenter is the Queen of Pop. Not you, Elton [John]. Sit down. She’s all woman.”

3) “Tonight you get Britain’s biggest comedian, hosting the world’s second biggest awards show, on America’s third biggest network. Sorry, is it? Four. It’s four.”

2)  Speaking of Colin Firth: “What you don’t know about him is he’s very racist. Very. I mean, really nasty stuff. Also, I’ve seen him punch a little blind kitten.”

1) “Who needs the Oscars? Not me — and not Eddie Murphy. He walked out on ‘em. He said ‘no.’ Good for him. But when the man who said ‘yes’ to ‘Norbit’ says ‘no’ to you, you know you’re in trouble.”

Source: The Daily Caller.

Daniel Craig is set to become the longest-running James Bond of all time after producer Michael G Wilson said he’d love the actor to play the spy in five more films.

The 43-year-old has so far signed up to three Bond movies, ‘Casino Royale’, ‘Quantum of Solace’ and upcoming film ‘Skyfall’. Craig will overtake Roger Moore as the longest running actor to play the superspy if he signs a deal to film a total of eight movies, reported Contactmusic.

Moore currently holds the record with seven films, while Sean Connery took on six movies as Bond. “Daniel’s been a terrific Bond, a superb actor and a terrific man. The fans love him and I don’t think there’s a better actor to play the part.

“I’d love Daniel to surpass Roger’s record and do eight pictures. A lot of people have said Daniel’s been their favourite Bond since Sean Connery and I can’t argue with them. He’s doing a great job,” Wilson said.

Source: IBN Live.

*Taken from Prison Planet. Written by Paul Joseph Watson.

Opportunity Finance Network is backed by very banks who screwed struggling Americans by refusing to loan bailout funds.

Starbucks has gone on a charm offensive with the launch of its ‘Let’s Create Jobs For USA’ initiative, which will encourage people to donate $5 dollars every time they buy a coffee towards a fund aimed at helping poor people get loans.

However, the group running the scheme is funded by the very same big banks who received trillions in bailout funds that are still deliberately withholding loans from struggling Americans in order to make money off the interest on deposits held with the Federal Reserve.

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*Taken from USA Today.

Apple introduced the sequel to the popular iPhone 4 Tuesday, the 4S, which it says will be available to Sprint customers for the first time and will offer faster processing and downloads, a greatly improved camera and voice-activated assistance.

AT&T and Verizon Wireless customers already have access to the iPhone. The new iPhone 4S will be priced at $199 for a 16 gigabyte model with a two-year carrier contract; 32 GB and 64 GB models are $299 and $399 respectively.

The iPhone 4 will cost $99 and the iPhone 3GS will be free. Preorders will be accepted starting Friday. The 4S will be available on Oct. 14.

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*Taken from Reason. Written by Nick Gillespie.

It’s all debt limit, all the time, it seems. Everyone’s talking about what may or may not happen when the U.S. government finally butts up against its legal borrowing limit on August 2. That’s the datethat Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the feds will max out the credit lines that account for about 40 percent of all current spending.

A quick explanation for the uninitiated: The debt limit or debt ceiling concept dates back to 1917.Prior to that date, Congress had to specifically approve any new borrowing done by the federal government. For convenience’s sake, Congress then decided to periodically approve increases in its credit line so that the government could borrow without a vote as long as the total oustanding amount didn’t bust through the cap. The current cap is $14.3 trillion. The debt limit includes both debt held by the public (that is, by outside investors, which comes in at around $9.7 trillion) and “intra-governmental holdings” or debt owed by one part of the government to the other, which comes in at around $4.6 trillion). The debt limit has been increased more than 100 times since it was instituted and 10 times in the past 10 years alone.

The Washington Post‘s “Fact-Checker” column has recently called the debt limit a “MacGuffin,” a term used by Alfred Hitchcock to describe “a device used to propel the plot forward, even though it may be meaningless.” That’s because while the debt limit is important, it really represents the pretext of a battle over spending and revenue between Republicans and Democrats, with each side waving away the other’s claims. The Dems are basically saying that if the limit isn’t increased yet again, all sorts of horrible calamities will befall the United States. A minority of Republicans are arguing that the limit doesn’t need to be raised while most are using the looming deadline as a means of extracting concessions on spending and revenue issues down the line.

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*Taken from the Art of Manliness.

Dressing for work used to be simple. Men typically donned a full suit and there were rules to dressing that were passed on from father to son.  These dressing guidelines were reinforced by society and informative publications that educated men on dressing well.

Then things began to change–hats disappeared, jackets were left at home, and men’s magazines started focusing on fleeting fashion and designer clothing. Casual Fridays turned into casual weeks and somewhere along the way men forgot how to dress properly.

Let me be clear: You do not have to wear a three-piece suit to look great and conduct business; in fact, if you worked at a company like Patagonia or Google, this type of clothing could work against you.  And really no particular set of clothing does justice to what it truly means to dress sharp. Dressing sharp goes beyond any article of clothing. Dressing sharp is about taking pride in what you wear and controlling what your image says to those with whom you’ve never spoken.

Light, pleated khakis a size too big paired with a baggy dress or polo shirt…walk into any office today and you’ll see men dressed in this new uniform of business casual. But what you wear to the office doesn’t have to be boring, frumpy, and Dilbert-esque.

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*Taken from Yuma Sun. Video at link.

The suspect in a series of shootings around Yuma County is dead, police said. Carey Hal Dyess, 73, of Yuma, apparently shot and killed one person in Yuma and three people in Yuma County before shooting himself, according to a press release from the Yuma Police Department.

YPD Spokesman Clint Norred said the shootings are connected, and are currently under investigation.

An additional person was injured and flown to a Phoenix-area hospital.

Dyess was found in the area of Blaisdell and Highway 95 at 11:30 a.m. by Yuma County Sheriff’s deputies. He died from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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