The owner of the iconic image which depicts three firefighters raising an American flag over the rubble of the World Trade Center are jumping mad that Sarah Palin, who believes in the free marketplace, flat out stole their picture.

So, they sued her patootie.

“It’s important to enforce our copyright on this iconic photo,” Jennifer Borg, general counsel of the North Jersey Media Group, told CNN. “When neither Ms. Palin nor her PAC responded to our demand letter to remove the photo, we were left with no choice but to seek redress through the courts.”

I know this is Barack Obama’s or Katie Couric’s fault but they haven’t figured out how yet.  Probably witchcraft.

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Thanks to David for the heads up and John for the graphic.

In case you haven’t heard, Ted Cruz is running for President.  The reason he’s doing it is to prove that Texas Republicans have a deep bench when there’s crazy involved.

So, he’s scheduled to speak at the Iowa Republican Party Reagan Dinner on October 25th.  Tickets haven’t been selling like solid gold AR 15s with a food storage cartridge  at a survivalist convention.  Hell, they haven’t even been selling like underpants at a nudist camp.  They ain’t been selling at all.

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That’s right, there’s a 25% discount for a ticket to hear Ted Cruz.  I’ll bet ya my best pair of pink boots that by October 10th they’ll be paying people to come.

Hell, if you want to hear crazy, Glenn Beck is free and you can wear your wife beater t-shirt and drink your Pabst Blue Ribbon beer in peace with none of that praying crap involved.

Question.  If Ted Cruz was in the woods and he fell over but nobody was there to hear it …. would four psychiatrists in Ames, Iowa, look at each other and say, “There’s been a great disturbance in the force”?

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up and John for the funny picture.

Last night on his teevee show Mill Maher introduced a new word to the dictionary – Blacktrack.

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Simply stated, it is the reason that Sarah Palin went sashaying around the country feeding children Ding-Dongs after Michelle Obama said she wanted children to eat healthy foods.

It is a scientifically proven dead solid certain fact that Republicans will be totally against anything and everything that President Obama or Michelle Obama advocate.

Let’s play that game for all it’s worth.

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Let’s see how long those suckers survive without water.

Look, I’m not saying that God is getting even for the State of Colorado’s recall election over guns, guns, we want more guns election.

I’m not saying that because I don’t believe that God extracts justice that way.  However the right wing does.  So …. maybe you gotta believe them.

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Texas Attorney General and Gov Wannabe, Greg Abbott, has signaled that he’s taking the high road in this race.

Less than a month after boosting a tweet that called State Senator Wendy Davis “a retard,”  the Abbott campaign is doing the limbo under the good taste bar again.

Today they are calling her “too stupid to be Governor.”  Now, this in in comparison to Rick Perry, mind you.  Dave Carney is Abbott’s top political adviser.

The Executive Director of the Texas Democratic Party, Will Hailer, issued a statement.

“It’s clear that Abbott’s advisers are following a strategy of offending every woman voter in the state of Texas. A woman who worked her way from a trailer park to graduate from Harvard Law School with honors is anything but stupid. Women throughout the state know what it’s like to have their intelligence ignored and made a joke. It’s never been a good idea to mess with Texas women. And come November 2014, the women of Texas will make clear that the joke’s actually on Republicans who find it okay to reference such a hard working and smart woman as stupid.”

No shoot, Sherlock.  Thank you, Mr. Hailer.

In this case, stupid is what stoopid did.