‘What a blessing’: Sarah and Todd Palin celebrate Trig’s first-day of school [pics]

http://twitter.com/#!/sharonk720/status/372056330443689984

Not only pleased — beaming!

Todd and Trig Palin were all smiles today for Trig’s first day of school:

http://twitter.com/#!/SarahPalinUSA/status/372043925433110528

http://twitter.com/#!/SarahPalinUSA/status/372044586618998784

So, therefore sweet.

Naturally, some jerks couldn’t resist getting nasty, cracking exhausted jokes about Sarah Palin’s cleverness:

http://twitter.com/#!/MrDan1969/status/372048156155846657 http://twitter.com/#!/DannyZuker/status/372044650854350848

And spewing venom about innocent Trig:

http://twitter.com/#!/Chuck_Teets/status/372053247286345728

But their viciousness had been no match for outpouring of love for Trig along with his family members:

http://twitter.com/#!/gubilee2016/status/372066371716136961 http://twitter.com/#!/CT4Palin/status/372045334500741120 http://twitter.com/#!/southsalem/status/372045013284179968 http://twitter.com/#!/tylatyus5/status/372080496227794944 http://twitter.com/#!/annepillion/status/372068712607514624 http://twitter.com/#!/yolymartinez13/status/372044776000217088 http://twitter.com/#!/nofarlilygibaly/status/372045513757323265 http://twitter.com/#!/Debavellan/status/372061118077759489

Only gorgeous. Congratulations into the Palin family and wishing Trig a great college 12 months!

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Related:

Twitchy coverage of Sarah Palin

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/08/26/what-a-blessing-sarah-and-todd-palin-celebrate-trigs-first-day-of-school-pics/

Man of the Puna Bud people: President Barack O-bammy and his pot-smoking ‘choom gang’; Update: ABC brushed under rug in 2007

http://twitter.com/#!/whpresscorps/status/205989774832578562

Twitter is buzzing (but all mellow-like) with the news that President Obama was a huge fan of the ganja and was quite the weed connoisseur. David Maraniss’ biography is due out soon and advanced copies are, of course, floating around.

Obama Pot-Smoking Details Revealed in New Book http://t.co/MUUEwM7y

— iNews Magazine (@iNewsMagazine) May 25, 2012

Not only was President Obama a big old toker, he bogarted it too! That aggression should not stand.

New biography details Obama's pot-smoking 'interceptions' http://t.co/6YsHMbL6

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) May 25, 2012

More from the Los Angeles Times:

In this case, Maraniss describes how Obama and a group of high school buddies from the exclusive Punahou School in Honolulu would hang out together to sample – extensively – the island’s copious varieties of weed. Obama, himself, described the pot smoking of his youth in his memoir of growing up, “Dreams From My Father,” but left many of the details unsaid.

Unlike Bill Clinton, who famously claimed that he had smoked, but never inhaled, Obama’s friends credited him with setting a rule of “total absorption”: anyone who exhaled prematurely lost his next turn at the joint. And he was known, Maraniss reports, for “Interceptions”: “When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted ‘Intercepted!’ and took an extra hit.”

We guess he felt entitled. Some things never change!

On a heavy and disturbing news day, the Maui-wowie revelations are a much needed mock break. As you can see, the blogosphere had some fun with President Obama and his “choom gang.”

A User's Guide To Smoking Pot With Barack Obama (BuzzFeed) http://t.co/UoL7PCNj http://t.co/F0fyr7xb

— memeorandum (@memeorandum) May 25, 2012

BOOK: Obama thanked his drug dealer, not his mom, on high-school yearbook page… http://t.co/RcoUlZUl

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) May 25, 2012

So the implication here is that if Romney had just joined the Choom Gang that poor kid would never have lost his hair. http://t.co/yaw49DsQ

— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) May 25, 2012

“@AdamTragone: He's our president, folks: http://t.co/ZwpzqNOP

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) May 25, 2012

More:

Along with TA, Barry popularized the concept of “roof hits”: when they were chooming in the car all the windows had to be rolled up so no smoke blew out and went to waste; when the pot was gone, they tilted their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from the ceiling.

What happened to his disdain for wasteful spending?

When Joe Biden talked about Obama’s “big stick,” we didn’t realize he really said “likes to blow a stick.” We are also pretty sure “arugula” is a code word. This also explains Michelle Obama’s obsession with junk food. She’s totally tired of the President and his munchies.

Twitter users had a blast (without the joint) as well.

"Choom Gang" mysteriously absent from Maraniss' 08 WaPo profile of Obama http://t.co/oERKbGnN

— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) May 25, 2012

Note some of the pictures in which BHO is clearly stoned. Explains a lot! http://t.co/TNFrpDiC

— CalThomas (@CalThomas) May 25, 2012

President of US pretty darn happy to throw people into prison for doing what he did every day in high school http://t.co/oqXfcx13 #CHOOM

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 25, 2012

Let me be cle… whoa Doritos! RT @BuzzFeedBen: A User's Guide To Smoking Pot With Barack Obama http://t.co/cB9QEpfq

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) May 25, 2012

We knew about the Choom Gang in 2007, but this is the long-form pot certificate

— Luke Johnson (@johnson) May 25, 2012

Barack Obama was the Jeff Spicoli of his HS? http://t.co/hJYOEj65

— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) May 25, 2012

https://twitter.com/frankqperson/status/206123798318170112

https://twitter.com/slave2mybulldog/status/206075352051744769

Well whatever, Romney cut a kid's hair RT @ABCPolitics: Obama and His Pot-Smoking 'Gang' http://t.co/6UjbHRTH

— Princess Trophy Girl (@chelsea_elisa) May 25, 2012

If pot smoking were in the Olympics, Obama would be Michael Phelps http://t.co/O708PyjN

— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) May 25, 2012

On the issue of pot, Obama has evolved from Cheech & Chong to Dragnet.

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 25, 2012

A little help the Left: I'm supposed to care about what Mitt did in high school, but I'm supposed to ignore this? http://t.co/S2Ms4pyP

— Michael Graham (@IAMMGraham) May 25, 2012

What a leader! Our President, the pothead.

Community organizer or choom-unity organizer? You decide.

UPDATE:

The media would just have you ignore it, of course.

@jeffemanuel: This is coming out in 2012 instead of 2008 *why*, exactly? http://t.co/DvpFG90D #lapdogmedia #rsrh

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) May 25, 2012

No, no, sillies! Even Jake Tapper says this is just old news.

@maybewise if by election day 2008 you didnt know Obama smoked pot in high school i dont know where you were

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 25, 2012

for the rec, we were hip to the Choom Gang in jan 2007 http://t.co/j7x9c02F

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 25, 2012

From the ABC article:

1) CHOOM GATE A blogger who attended the same high school as Obama, the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, HAS POSTED HERE the page of “Barry Obama” from his senior class yearbook.

Obama’s senior class note includes a reference to the “Choom Gang,” which the blogger claims was a reference to marijuana, though his office demurs from exlpaining what it meant. (Obama has admitted marijuana and cocaine use during his teenage years.)

URBAN DICTIONARY.COM has its own definitions, which you are welcome to check out for yourself.

See, nutty nuts? They devoted a four sentences to it! Sheesh!

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/05/25/man-of-the-puna-bud-people-president-barack-o-bammy-and-his-pot-smoking-choom-gang/

Romney campaign internal polling shows lead in Ohio, tie in Pennsylvania

http://twitter.com/#!/tobyharnden/status/265555775760502784

The Daily Mail’s Tony Harnden is reporting today that internal polling from the Mitt Romney campaign shows the GOP candidate with narrow leads in Ohio, New Hampshire and Iowa. The numbers also show the two candidates dead even in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

According to last night’s numbers as collected by campaign pollster Neil Newhouse, Romney leads by 1 point in Ohio, 3 in New Hampshire and 2 in Iowa. Both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are said to be dead even.

As Twitchy reported earlier, Romney will be campaigning in Pittsburgh, Pa. and Cleveland, Ohio on Election Day.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…Now we see why Romney pushing so hard in PA & WI.Showing a tied race in both.One of PA, OH, or WI and race is over

— therealarod (@therealarod1984) November 5, 2012

Romney is going to win this thing, guys. bit.ly/VOwusd #RomneyRyan2012

— RB (@RBPundit) November 5, 2012

Do the Eeyores have you down? Read this. This is why Romney is so positive on the stump. He’s winning. bit.ly/VOwusd #tcot

— RB (@RBPundit) November 5, 2012

SCORE!!!!!!!! Romney •internal polls• put him UP in OH, TIED in PA & WI dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2… #tcot

— slone (@slone) November 5, 2012

Romney campaign internal polling puts him 1 point ahead in Ohio and tied in PA and WI: bit.ly/VOwusd via @mailonline

— Jedediah Bila (@JedediahBila) November 5, 2012

GOP Internal Polling: Romney Up in Iowa, Ohio and New Hampshire – Tied in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania shar.es/G0bdz via @gatewaypundit

— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) November 5, 2012

also, unicorns; RT @tobyharnden Romney internal polls put him OH+1, NH+3, IA+2, down in NV, tied in WI & PA dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2… … …

— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) November 5, 2012

Unicorns? Please try to keep up, Media Matters. We’re discussing poll numbers, not Obama campaign promises.

Doubters believe the “leak” of internal numbers is a ploy to rev up the GOP base.

There’s a reason Romney is releasing his “internal” polls.Cause every single public poll shows him going down. #revvingupthetroops

— Chris In Alabama (@ChrisNBama) November 5, 2012

Yes, we’ve seen those public polls, like CNN’s poll released yesterday with a ridiculous D+11 sample.

BEST polls are always internal polls. They aren’t meant for the public, they tell candidate real story good or bad. Romney’s say up in 0hio.

— Steven Miller (@slmiller222) November 5, 2012

My reporting = those Romney internal polls are the real deal. If Rs want this, they can take this. More to come …

— James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) November 5, 2012

Some saying leaked Romney internal #s legit. If so, this goes to the wire. Drink your Gatorade & eat Powerbars. You’re going to need it.

— David Larkin (@DavidLarkinEsq) November 5, 2012

@erinmcpike Everyone should hang on to these numbers for about 30 hours.They will be the source of tremendous amusement.

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) November 5, 2012

Yo D-Rod @davidaxelrod … Can I personally shave your stache? #ForAmerica

— GOP Fashionista (@GOPfashionista) November 5, 2012

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/11/05/romney-campaign-internal-polling-shows-1-point-lead-in-ohio-tie-in-pennsylvania/

Obama’s phone call priorities seem out of whack [corrected]

Editor’s note: After publishing this post, it came to our attention that President Obama reportedly called the families of Brian Terry and Amb. Stevens. Twitchy apologizes for the error.

In the interest of transparency, Twitchy does not remove posts once they have been published. The original post remains below.

http://twitter.com/#!/Artist_Angie/status/497121205363949569

President Obama has yet to comment on the killing of U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Harold Greene in an attack in Afghanistan that wounded many others. It’s hard not to notice the situations Obama comments on publicly when he wants to, not to mention the phone calls he finds time for:

Obama phone calls:

• Brian Terry's family ❌ • Sandra Fluke ✔️ • Amb Chris Stevens family ❌ • Jason Collins ✔️ • General Green's family ❌— Hair (@SHannitysHair) August 06, 2014

Oof!

http://twitter.com/#!/StevenGoldsch/status/497124799282302976

@SHannitysHair add an X next to Sgt Tahmooressi's family! #MarineHeldInMexico #BringBackOurMarine— Denise Tamez (@denisebtamez67) August 06, 2014

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/08/06/obamas-phone-call-priorities-seem-out-of-whack/

‘In the shadows?!’: Colorado to issue driver’s licenses to illegals Friday

http://twitter.com/#!/IngrahamAngle/status/495023450592145408

What’s this about living in the shadows? Colorado will begin issuing driver’s licenses and other state IDs to illegal immigrants Friday. Bloomberg News reports:

http://twitter.com/#!/HSADRIJA/status/494711968536608768

Undocumented immigrants in Colorado may face waits of a year or more to obtain drivers licenses under a program starting tomorrow, as thousands seeking to apply overwhelm an online scheduling system and available staff.

When the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles started accepting appointments from foreign nationals online July 1, it received as many as 107,500 page views an hour, crashing the system for several days. The DMV expects to process 9,551 applicants through September.

Laura Ingraham’s followers aren’t fans of the idea.

http://twitter.com/#!/avationordie/status/495024843981881344 http://twitter.com/#!/RepublicBlog/status/495025184470859776 http://twitter.com/#!/Ad_Veritatem/status/495026336529137664 http://twitter.com/#!/sdilley20/status/495026765002072065 http://twitter.com/#!/Lexie7703/status/495028026368073729 http://twitter.com/#!/dulaney_l/status/495028568334688256

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/07/31/in-the-shadows-colorado-to-issue-drivers-licenses-to-illegals-friday/