Good Morning Campers… All I can say is….
holy cow!

You guys are awesome!  The letters, cards, well wishes, comments, donations, naked pictures, marriage proposals…they’ve all been fantastic, and quite frankly, a bit overwhelming. 

Lethal and I have discussed this at great length.  And we have decided that, with your support like we’ve been getting, we will do our best to continue to deliver to you a quality product, albeit, at a slower pace.  We’ll see what we can handle, but I expect you will see Dragon and Leprechaun Laffs at least once a week from each of us.

Now, I need a little help here…the only “thing” Lethal could find to hire as a secretary for me, that wasn’t afraid of being fired with no notice, or eaten, was a sphinx!  This thing is huge!  It’s taken over my desk, my bed, and put a litter box where the secretary’s office is SUPPOSED to be!  No one is ever sure if it’s growling or purring and believe it or not, Lethal’s afraid of it!  Are there any Sphinx killers out there?
No?
Then, let’s laugh.

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A refuse collector is driving along a street picking up the wheelie bins and emptying them into his compactor.

He goes to one house where the bin hasn’t been left out, and in the spirit of kindness, and after having a quick look about for the bin, he gets out of his truck goes to the front door and knocks. There’s no answer.

Being a kindly and conscientious bloke, he knocks again – much harder.

Eventually a Japanese man comes to the door.

“Harro!” says the Japanese man.

“Gidday, mate! Where’s Ya bin?” asks the collector.

“I bin on toiret,” explains the Japanese bloke, a bit perplexed.

Realizing the little foreign fellow had misunderstood him, the bin man smiles and tries again. “No! No! Mate, where’s your dust bin?”

“I dust been to toiret, I toll you!” says the Japanese man, still perplexed.

“Listen,” says the collector. “You’re misunderstanding me. Where’s your ‘wheelie’ bin?'”

“OK, OK,” replies the Japanese man with a sheepish grin, and whispers in the collector’s ear. “I wheelie bin having sex wirra wife’s sista!”

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Yup…. it’s a cake!

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This one is GREAT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5lbNXNn3CI&feature=player_embedded#at=24

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Traffic Stop South Texas

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This one sure is special. Now this is a Commander-In-Chief, whether you agree with his politics or not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=8TiGYDvc4lU&sns=fb

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Excuse me?

Well, I suppose it is only fair…

Accuracy in advertising is everything!

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Here’s another good one. This guy gets it! I could listen to him all day.
http://dotsub.com/view/6474921d-8943-443b-9128-de62aa3b3e54

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This happens to me, all the time!

 

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The Invention of the Copper Wire
Do you know how copper wire was invented? 
Two lawyers fighting over a penny.

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To fuck up this badly, definitely requires a dragon’s help!

All the time…you guys do know who I work with, right?

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30 Years of Audio Format!  Amazing!

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Today’s Last Word…is a topic that really pisses me off!  Chaps my ass!  Scores my wingtips!

okay….

sorry …

I guess you get it.  But it’s wrong!  Obama’s illegal, immoral, and just plain wrong “Dream Act” has been defeated like what? 27, 28 times?  And now the sad excuse for an American is going around it yet ANOTHER way!

Republicans Decry DHS Deportation Review as

‘Amnesty’

Republicans accused the Obama administration of instituting “backdoor amnesty” after officials announced they would launch a case-by-case review of illegal immigrants slated for deportation in an effort to thin the list and focus resources on kicking out criminals.

 

The move would likely grant a reprieve to many would-be DREAM Act beneficiaries and thousands of others. The DREAM Act is a proposal in Congress to give illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children a chance at legal status if they complete two years of college or military service. Though the bill has not passed, Thursday’s announcement could serve to carry out its provisions.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, one of the president’s toughest critics on border policy, said the move amounts to the administration implementing an immigration overhaul “via executive fiat.”

 

“This plan amounts to backdoor amnesty for hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of illegal aliens,” the Republican governor said in a written statement. “We need to remind President Obama that we elected a president that serves beneath the law and did not anoint a king that is above the law.”

 

Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul said the plan circumvents Congress.

 

“It is just the latest attempt by this president to bypass the intended legislative process when he does not get his way,” McCaul said. 

 

But Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a letter to Senate Democrats that it would “enhance public safety” by focusing deportation efforts on those “who pose a threat.”

 

Under the plan, DHS and the Department of Justice will review all cases in removal proceedings as well as any new cases to make sure those who are deported meet the kind of criteria established in a June 17 agency memo.

 

The memo from Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton instructed staff to consider 19 factors when exercising “prosecutorial discretion” — or the discretion an ICE attorney has in deciding whether and how to pursue an immigration case. The list includes factors similar to those in the DREAM Act, like whether someone arrived in the U.S. as a “young child,” is pursuing an education or has served in the military.

 

Thursday’s announcement goes beyond the memo by establishing a process to flag and exempt certain illegal immigrants from deportation. A team of attorneys and officials will be tasked with reviewing the more than 300,000 cases in the system.

 

Cecilia Munoz, White House director of intergovernmental affairs, wrote on the White House blog that the review would “clear out low-priority cases on a case-by-case basis and make more room to deport people who have been convicted of crimes or pose a security risk” — while ensuring the low-priority cases are kept “out of the deportation pipeline in the first place.”

 

Describing groups of people similar to those targeted in the DREAM Act, she said the low-priority list would include “individuals such as young people who were brought to this country as small children, and who know no other home,” as well as “individuals such as military veterans and the spouses of active-duty military personnel.”

 

She said that with more than 10 million people in the country illegally, the strategy is meant to focus limited resources on those who pose the greatest risk.

 

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid praised the decision.

 

“This new DHS directive will help prioritize our limited enforcement resources to focus on serious felons, gang members and individuals who are a national security threat rather than college students and veterans who have risked their lives for our country,” Reid said in a statement. “I am especially pleased about the impact these new policies will have on those who would benefit from the DREAM Act. … We lose a lot by sending them back to countries they do not know.”

 

Reid said Congress should still pass immigration reform legislation.

 

Napolitano also stressed in her letter that the new process “will not alleviate the need for passage of the DREAM Act or for larger reforms.”

 

But the Federation for American Immigration Reform described the announcement as a complete overhaul of immigration law without approval by Congress.

 

“Having failed in the legislative process, the Obama administration has simply decided to usurp Congress’s constitutional authority and implement an amnesty program for millions of illegal aliens,” FAIR President Dan Stein said. 

 

Yes, I added the yellow highlights because they so accurately express my own feelings.  If you make it known that anyone who comes in and doesn’t commit a major crime gets a free pass, then the place will be even more overrun with illegals than it is now and we’ll be feeding and housing ALL of them!  NO AMNESTY!  That’s my opinion!

LOL great minds and all that (seems so very strange & wrong to be calling the Dragon’s mind “great”)…ok so then, ”like thinking minds”, (yeah that’s much better and doesn’t make me feel like I have the IQ of a Dragon). I wrote these comment below very early this morning and forwarded them the Impish for his review before posting thinking he might want to add his two coppers to them. Turns out he had a similar notion but posted them first and then said hey go see what I wrote.

I’d like to quickly respond to a few comments. In no particular order (or better yet sort of in the order the comments appeared on my screen)

Dee65, George R, Pat C, Paul. Toni & Chuck – Thanks to you and the rest for all your comments that made us think it over and by all means keep commenting. The apparent apathy of our readership was part of our decision process as we thought there would not be much of an outcry over our shutting down. Your enthusiastic response to our tentative plan(s) is greatly appreciated and shows us that considering other options was a better plan all along. Thanks for the encouragement and for sticking with us.

Toni- By all means go and pray for miracles. The world desperately needs many many miracles. Peace between Arab & Jew. Peace between Islam and the rest of the world. An end to radical fundamentalist religions of all denominations. The realization of our OMG dream (Obama Must Go). Impish or I (preferably me) hitting the lottery so that we can both retire and devote ourselves full time to this effort and have the sort of funds we wish to take this even farther and make it more fun (We dream of being able to have a meet and greet the Dragon & Leprechaun weekend someplace spectacularly fun like Vegas or on a cruise.) A few days gentle soaking rain for Texas. Heath, wealth and amelioration of pain and suffering for all DragonLaffs readers. Consistent four digit readership numbers. Lower coffee, Irish whiskey and Guinness pricing. I suggest you take a list so you don’t forget any!

Steve H & Kris M- The Paypal link is still functional or contact Impish directly if your offers of financial aid were sincere.

Please rest assured that ALL proceeds received go into defraying the costs of keeping the blog going. None of it gets frivolously spent or wasted. I bought a refurbished Laptop in January which was an unplanned expense which is primarily used to create Leprechaun Laughs and receive e-mails related to the blog because my ancient Frankensteined desktop (circa 2001 and upgraded 3 times) was showing signs of failing and would just not support anymore software upgrades due to system limitations.

Sadly I have learned that its highly likely that this referb was so cheap because the motherboard contains fatal design flaws dealing with the video system. It too is now failing. I am no longer able to see videos on sites like Youtube to check out before posting them. Eventually I will have to replace this or throw in the towel until I can afford another non work related machine. The Dragonlaffs URL, blog hosting, our computer system maintenance and repairs, defraying the cost of our ISPs, ear plugs to tune out family complaints about us constantly working on our posts, these are all the sort of things your kind and generous donations go towards. Not one penny is wasted ever.

They say “laughter is the best medicine” even at Steve’s $10/year donation level I defy you to find another medicine that lasts all year and comes at such a cheap price.

Here is a thought we have been kicking around a goodly while now. We feel like beggars coming to you and asking for donations. If there was something you could purchase, a coffee cup or a T~shirt or the like, where part of the price went to us and part (unfortunately the largest part) went towards the price of the item would that make you guys happier?

Please either leave your comment or e~mail us on the subject and let us know your feelings please!

Good Morning Campers,

As my dear friend Lethal announced yesterday, we are in negotiations to bring Dragon and Leprechaun Laffs to you on a (less) regular basis.  That’s not an easy task.  As I was informed yesterday by Lethal, the entire staff was let go at once, amongst many grumblings, moonings, and out-right threats.  Severance checks were cut, bonuses paid, pension funds raided and it’s difficult to get all that back to work again. 

Our kitchen staff has been replaced (temporarily) by a bank of snack machines because it was deemed too dangerous to hire the original kitchen staff back for fear of being poisoned.

All the Dwarves in the printing press cavern are still off on a drunken tear somewhere and most of the printing press itself was disassembled and reassembled in the shape of a gallows with a likeness of a dragon hung in effigy. 

My virgin supply is gone.  Kaput!  Rumor has it that they are now all safely at work on a small, privately owned island for a small green man, with a tall hat, but that is just rumor as it is well understood that if I find said island I will burn it to the waterline. 

Seriously now …

The out pouring of love and friendship from all of you was, quite frankly, overwhelming.  And we are re-evaluating our time and energy and we will most likely come up with a plan that both of us can live with.  We knew we were important to some of you, but we had no idea how many of you that really was. 

A blog runs on two things…feedback and money.  There are a few ways that you can get each of those, some reputable and some that make it difficult to shave in the morning because of having to look yourself in the mirror.  Mrs. Dragon likes it when I’m not all scratchy, as I’m sure Molly does with Lethal, so we’re kind of limited on what we can do.  Neither one of us wants to put advertising on here because we believe it’s tacky and takes away from the fun.  We also don’t want to seed our website to other places in the hopes of generating feedback and thus growing the blog because, quite frankly, we don’t have the time to even do the blog, much less publicize it elsewhere.  So, if this blog is going to succeed these two things need to be handled by you guys.  Tell your friends, spread the word, grow the blog.  If the blog gets big enough, we get sponsors that allow us to hold our heads up.  And, if you feel inclined and have a buck to spare, hit the donation button at the top of the right column and let us know in that way that what we are doing is worthwhile.

We hope to have this campground back to working order by the weekend.  Keep watching this space for further developments.

Cheers,

Impish Dragon

 

Lethal here folks~

First I’d like to echo Impish’s sentiments of gratitude for the words of support that are finding their way still into the comments section on a daily basis. Though we may not be commenting rest assured we see and read every one of them, in fact if we do not for the most part they do not get approved and appear. Your kind words and outpouring of support is much appreciated by both of us.

Appreciated so much so in fact that Impish and I have begun to second guess our decision (well primarily his decision) to shut things down totally. Several of you have made comments and suggestions ranging from re~posting issues from the past to holiday and special event posts, only to once a week posts. In each case the underlying point was that something, anything was better than nothing at all and that while you all understood where we were coming from and the pressures upon us you wished there was another way besides shutting down totally.

While I cannot say what exact steps Impish and I are going to take at this exact moment as our plan is a best very rough, I can say we have found a renewed sense of commitment to not letting this thing die off entirely, at least not quite yet and not without one final attempt at preserving the 10 years of hard work and laughs that have gone into this.

This may again mean changes to the way we do things. the URL (http://Dagonlaffs.com) is something that we have to buy annually and pay for. Impish has received notice that the renewal is about 90 days out and that it has to be paid for 30 days prior to the current one expiring. At $50/ year it’s sort of hard to justify the expense for anything less than a full time blog and given the economy, even harder to pry out of already bare bones budgets. Things are in fact so tight here at Firebase Leprechaun that I’ve instituted voluntary coffee rationing and cut my coffee consumption by 75% and they are likely to get tighter still before things get better.

The point is hang in there and believe you have not heard the fat lady sing quite yet or as Yogi Berra said, “It ain’t over until it’s over” and (at least as it applies to this blog) “The future ain’t what it used to be.”

I strongly suspect that you will see more about this subject and exactly what shape things might resume under posted by Saturday or Sunday at the latest so keep watching and keep your comments coming.

 

My dear, dear camper friends.

Thank you ever so much for the wonderful and heartfelt sentiments that have been expressed both in the comments section and in private.  The outpouring of love and blessings has been overwhelming.  I’m speechless.  And you’ve no idea what an accomplishment that alone is.

I believe it is necessary to answer a few questions…

No, I’m not dying…at least, not any faster than I ever have been.  My health problems are more along the line of, “Man, that friggin’ HURTS!” rather than the, “I’m very sorry Mr. Dragon, but you only have another 120 years to live.” (A very short time for a dragon, indeed!)

As has been suggested, a weekly, monthly, holiday, special occasion, every-now-and-then issue is not out of the question.  I will not close the blog on the off chance that myself or Lethal might have something to say.  I also don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up, but those little guys in the picture above are kinda hard to ignore.  So, let’s make it an official, we’ll see.  And if I have anything I want to say, this will be the place where I’ll say it.

Thanks for the fun, thanks for the love and yes, please continue to send both as often as you like.  I’ll still enjoy the contact and interaction of friends this blog has generated.

Be well.

Cheers,

Impish