In an online story: Chris Matthews lost it while 'interviewing' RNC Chairman Reince Priebus on Monday's "Morning Joe". Matthews' leg was 'tingling' again as he accused Romney of 'playing the race card'. * "I'm not going to get into a shouting match with Chris so you guys can move on," Priebus said. "Because you're losing, that's why," Matthews said. "Garbage, garbage," Priebus muttered. * "It's your garbage," Matthews fired back. * UPDATE: Priebus weighed in on the confrontation on Sean Hannity's radio show Monday afternoon, saying that it was typical for Chris Matthews to "play the role of being the biggest jerk in the room." -- Hmmm, what Priebus doesn't understand about Matthews is that Matthews isn't 'playing' when he's a jerk.

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Online headline: "The Most (and Least) Honest Cities in the U. S." -- Oooops, my bad. Thought this was another list that would infuriate Mayor Obamalinson.

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Online story: "JERUSALEM -- Israel Military Industries says it has developed a unique grenade that doesn't explode when hit by shrapnel, bullets or even if exposed to fire. * Moshe Elert, a senior official with the state-owned defense company, said Monday the new mechanism could save soldiers' lives. He would not elaborate on how it works. * He said it was developed after two soldiers were killed in 2010 when a grenade one was carrying was hit by a bullet and exploded. * Elert says there have been many similar cases around the world, and the new technology is being sold to other friendly armies. * He says Israel began using the new grenades in recent months." -- For our soldiers' sake, I do hope Israel has looked beyond King Arpege and considers the US as a 'friendly army'.

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HP is getting clobbered by the pundits... and it's well deserved. I wrote them off this Spring after my latest laptop purchase harddrive died at 9 months, and HP wouldn't honor its 12 month warranty, but before that, the last two inkjet printers I bought had too many features stripped from them. HP promised to send me a 'fix' for the software, but after 4 reminder e-mails and many empty promises, I just decided I will not buy any more HP products.

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Latest from barackobama.com: Hal --
The pundits and talking heads are talking about how badly we're being outraised by the other side. You've heard it from us, too. * The pundits are saying this is how we could lose the election. You know what I say? - Joe" -- We really would like to hear what gaffe Joe will say...As for the pundits, we pray they are right.

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7 years ago, Katrina bore down on New Orleans, and a deer-in-the-headlights DIM&DUMBERat Mayor and Governor, but it was POTUS Bush43 who got ripped waiting on the call from the Louisiana governor. It took 2+ months for King Arpege to get involved with the BP oil fiasco; what will we find out about King Arpege and this potential chaos (and with no Rahm Emanuel by his side to take advantage of it).

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Outside World is having a sale on Demos this week. Makes sense... the Republican's are having a convention this week, so a small business is bailing out on Demos in support.

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One thing pretty certain about voters who voted for a candidate last time and are wavering about that decision this time, you can bet they are looking for any alternative.

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L-E headline: "Parents urged to circumcise new borns". Drs. also think insurance companies should pay for it" -- To be or not to be...that is the question...NOT! The question is how much the Drs. can charge for putting a plastic cap on and letting nature take its course?

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L-E headline: "GOP Convention poised for anti-climatic opening" -- compared to what... the DIM&DUMBERat Convention when it arrives DOA IN North Carolina?

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Passed on by a fellow BCer:

Depending on your view, can you find the insult in this picture?

 

The insult I found was that King Arpege's tour bus has the Presidential Seal emblazoned on it, BUT does not have the American flag anywhere on it.

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Latest from barackobama.com: "GOP convention: Top 5 things to watch" -- Of course, there will be only one thing to watch at the DIM&DUMBERat Convention....YOUR WALLET!

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As the DIM&DUMBERat Convention gets underway, I hope Chick-fil-A delivers discount food coupons to every delegate. On second thought, maybe they'll parachute in a bunch of "CS" to augment the D&D "BS".

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Catholics everywhere are up at arms because of King Arpege dissing Cardinal Timothy Dolan. Thay's fair...why should Catholics be left off his 'dis-list'?

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Don't you think it was odd that the Leadership Convention would pick Margaret DeFrancisco, Georgia Lottery Director, to help present the "Blanchard Award for Outstanding Stewardship and Ethics" to Bill Turner? Do you think Bill Turner has ever bought a lottery ticket?

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Though I doubt it was the intent of the L-E, the L-E brought up an important point today. In its "Looking back" column, it mentioned that "Russell County's white teachers will assemble at the school in Seale at 8:30 a.m. (CST)". Whether the L-E wants to admit it or not, 'we've come a long way, baby'.