Mitt Romney is getting intelligence briefings.  No, not the kind where he’s taught to add, make a sentence, and shut the hell up.  The secret stuff kind, which he will undoubtedly spurt out to his rich donors.

Mitt Romney received his first intelligence briefing on Monday, just days after he came under fire for his response to deadly protests against United States diplomatic missions in the Middle East.

The Republican presidential nominee spent roughly two hours behind closed doors at the U.S. Federal Building in West Los Angeles on Monday afternoon. His campaign did not disclose who briefed Romney—saying simply it was someone from the intelligence community, according to spokesman Rick Gorka.

Too late, Dude.  Way too late.

Thanks to MB for the heads up.

Mitt Romney, that great CEO, has screwed up just about everything he’s touched in this campaign.  Personally, I think he’s trying to bankrupt the campaign to take a tax write-off.  But, that’s just my viewpoint.  Thelma thinks that he’s trying to settle some psychological conflict in his soul as the son of an important man who never quite lived up to Daddy’s vision.  And we know the results the last time that happened.  Thelma has 3 hours of psychology at Galveston County Community College that she almost passed so she’s the local expert on these things.

First there was the foreign policy trip, where the word “trip” became prophetic when he almost caused 7 or 8 international incidents and two world wars.  Then there was a political convention that looked more like a funeral service.  Good heavens, have you ever seen that many like-minded people in a room so damn grumpy at each other?  Or just grumpy.  Period.

And now we know how he talks about us when we’re not in the room.  He doesn’t like us much at all.

So I’m wondering if maybe the Presidential debates should be Mitt Romney and Clint Eastwood’s empty chair.  Face it, Mitt would still lose.

Or maybe open door Mitt should debate closed door Mitt.

Y’all, I have a confession to make.  I think what we saw behind those closed doors is what all Republicans really think of us.  And God bless Mitt Romney for saying it while being taped.

Okay, so Romney says that 47% of the country doesn’t pay taxes, so they are dependent on government, consider themselves victims, and doesn’t take personal responsibility.

Is he talking about our friends in the military who don’t pay income tax because they don’t make enough money? Or, is he talking about himself because we know he doesn’t pay taxes and considers himself a victim of those of us who want to see his tax returns?

Goofy guy.

UPDATE: As of 10:25 tonight, I am told that Fox News still hasn’t mentioned Mitt Romney stepping on his winkie. They are concentrating on anti-American demonstrations overseas. They also didn’t cover his desperate press conference, where he looked like crap on a cracker.

Fox News announcing the campus evacuation at UT.

Honest to goodness, at least they got Texas right but that’s about all.

Okay, so he’s delusional, dumb, or dog dump.  Your pick.

Remember when Paul Ryan claimed he could run a three minute mile?  Okay, so I made that up but he did claim he ran a marathon in under 3 hours.  Turns out it was over 4 hours.

Now he’s claiming to have 6% body fat.

It’s those damn tricky numbers again.

According to Iñigo San Millan, a veteran cycling physiologist who has worked with numerous Tour de France teams, the lowest body fat he’s ever measured on a cyclist was 8.3 percent. That’s at peak fitness, racing shape.

The average man has 17 – 24% body fat and even top college age competitive swimmers have over 9%.

And then there’s his mountain climbing.

Also not showing up: any summit shots from Ryan’s claimed 38 trips up Colorado’s 14,000-foot-high peaks, or “fourteeners,” a claim that has also generated skepticism among climbers. In a nutshell, there was confusion over whether Ryan had climbed 40 of the state’s 53 fourteeners, as he seems to have led at least one local politician to believe, or (as a campaign statement later clarified) “almost 40 climbs” up 28 different peaks.

Y’all, I do not mean to be ugly about this or even the least bit tacky, but a man who constantly exaggerates his physical condition might also exaggerate about the size of his …. well, ability to add and subtract.  (No, I am not going to that other thought and neither are you.)

Thanks to David for the heads up.

Way to go, Boy Scouts!

After taking such a strong and ignorant stance against allowing gay scouts to join, come to find out …

Over two decades, the Boy Scouts of America failed to report hundreds of alleged child molesters to police and often hid the allegations from parents and the public.

A Los Angeles Times review of 1,600 confidential files dating from 1970 to 1991 has found that Scouting officials frequently urged admitted offenders to quietly resign — and helped many cover their tracks.

Volunteers and employees suspected of abuse were allowed to leave citing bogus reasons such as business demands, “chronic brain dysfunction” and duties at a Shakespeare festival.

I’m tellin’ ya, you cannot be homophobic and not be weird.  That is now becoming a proven scientific fact.

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.