Donald Trump planning 2016 Presidential run, chooses Bat Boy as running mate

Late Thursday, TV reality star Donald Trump announced that, this time, he’s really truly running for President. To demonstrate his commitment to the race, he announced that he has formed an exploratory committee and has hired staff in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

“We have lost the respect of the entire world,” Trump said in a statement Wednesday. “I am the only one who can make America truly great again and I will do it with the help of Bat Boy, one of our greatest patriots!”

Donald Trump Takes Formal Steps Toward A 2016 Presidential Run.

Mitt Romney To Fight In Boxing Match Against Evander Holyfield

Is this from the Onion? The Weekly World News? Nope. it’s from TPM and the Salt Lake Tribune. Go figure.

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney plans to fight five-time heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield in May as part of a charity fundraiser, the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper reported Monday.

via Report: Mitt Romney To Fight In Charity Boxing Match Against Evander Holyfield.

In response to BITEME criticism, NY Gov. Cuomo backs down on email deletion policy

Hurrah for Cuomo who is now open to changing the “delete it before anyone can FOIL it” policy of getting rid of official NY state government emails before they can cause any trouble.

This was fueled by the mocking he received at Biteme.me. Next came a policy change at the offices of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. The last straw for Cuomo was, no doubt, a desire to not get swept up in the Hillary Clinton email scandal.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Considers Changing Email Deletion Policy.

Oklahoma state Rep. Todd Russ wants to take government out of the marriage business

Republican Oklahoma state Rep. Todd Russ, often thought of as an anti-gay blithering idiot, has finally come to his senses and introduced House Bill 1125 to get the state government out of the marriage business altogether.

The move stunned marriage equality advocates nationwide because it’s the first piece of legislation to embody what many have long been seeking: an end to the entangling of government and church in the sacrament of holy matrimony.

Under the Russ bill, judges won’t perform marriages and county clerks won’t issue marriage licenses. The ceremonies will be performed by clergy of the various faiths, who will then file a declaration with the county clerk. Those who choose to avoid clergy participation can simply file an affidavit of common law marriage with the county clerk.

Thanks to the enlightened Todd Russ, the Sooner State will not be known just for racist fraternity chants, but instead for leading the country toward a day when all people will be able to marry regardless of religion or sexual orientation.

Oklahoma one step closer to turning marriage over to clergy to spite gays, atheists.

“TRAITORS” New York Daily News dares to call out Senators

B_sydpOWQAAAWStWhen he heard that forty seven Republican Senators had sent a letter telling the Iranian leadership that President Obama’s negotiations could not be relied on, your Bitemaster went apoplectic.

He saw this as another Republican attempt to undermine the President they had sworn to defeat. It was, the Bitemaster thought, an act of treason, though he could not bring himself to say so in public.

Now the Daily News has done it for him, calling the Republican Senators “traitors” for their attempt to usurp the constitutionally-mandated foreign policy authority of the President.

Seeing the headline was a satisfying moment for the Bitemaster. At least until he read this in the Washington Post:

Administration officials insisted that the president doesn’t need congressional approval to make a deal with Iran and that Congress wouldn’t be able to alter the terms of a deal.

Just a moment. If the President were trying to unilaterally make a treaty, shouldn’t the Senate push back?

New York Daily News blasts Cotton, Cruz, McConnell, and Paul over Iran letter: ‘TRAITORS’.

On the other hand, Iranian Foreign Minister, Dr. Javad Zarif, responded that “in our view, this letter has no legal value and is mostly a propaganda ploy.”

It’s great to be white and rich in LA!

Conrad Hughes Hilton III (b. March 3, 1994), great grandson of the hospitality mogul, was flying to LA from London last July when he went totally off the rails. According to media reports, Hilton

  • threatened to kill several flight attendants and a co-pilot and get them fired
  • refused to turn off his cell phone
  • refused to keep his seat belt fastened
  • began pacing the aisle as the aircraft took off
  • launched into a series of tirades that had some children in tears
  • called other passengers “peasants”
  • smoked marijuana in the toilet

His attorney, Robert Shapiro, has negotiated the charges down from a felony rap to a misdemeanor with the prosecutor recommending probation.

If it were you or I, we would have probably been subjected to extraordinary rendition to some place like Yemen for “enhanced interrogation.”

Ain’t life grand!

Paris Hilton brother Conrad to plead guilty to plane assault – Yahoo News.

See also Salon, Inquisitr, and the Daily Mail. Read the plea deal for yourself!