Grow a Pair and Grow the Fuck UP

Just FYI, at no time have I ever used an anonymous pseudonym - my identity on all boards/comment streams I've published on has been quite clear - and the winger attack machine has been relentless - all the while using pseudonyms themselves and crying about why they think they must (for fear of being attacked - how ironic).

Anyone using a fake name isn't me.

It's that simple.

The fact that I've simply been too busy to scream back at the assholes on line lately makes them sure I'm using a pseudonym -

- because that's what they do.

Ghosts of Cheney Past

It's funny, but the bodies always seem to float to the top.

It would be the best Christmas present of all to see Bush and Cheney tried for REAL WAR CRIMES.

Some people think that backups only work FOR YOU.

(waves)

Boy Whores

Well, they've gone and done it.

Created every sixteen-year-old's dream job.

I wonder how long till GOP scandals start swirling around this.

Courtesy of the Drudge Retort.

GOP = bigger national debt

Bottom line - the GOP is running the US into the ground with debt.

Vote them out and KEEP THEM OUT.

The new council members in Longmont are no different - they'll figure out a way to rape the taxpayers if we don't stop them.

CAP and (plea) trade

From the Times-Call (and oddly nowhere else...)

Former CAP officer takes plea deal


LONGMONT — A former Civil Air Patrol cadet officer accused of using his position to elicit sex from subordinates in the program has accepted a plea deal with prosecutors.

Mitchell Bain, 21, faces between two and 12 years in prison and is due for sentencing on Feb. 12. On Thursday, he pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of children, and prosecutors dismissed two counts of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust.

He was arrested in March on suspicion of using his position as a lieutenant with the Civil Air Patrol to influence a 14-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl into having sexual relationships with him at his Longmont apartment.
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Wow. 14 and 15 year olds? That's excruciatingly sleazy. Have to wonder how many times he got away with it before getting caught. You'd think something as prestigious at the Civil Air Patrol would attract a better class of thug. Guess not.

I wonder if it's the fumes from the aviation fuel... or oxygen deprivation from flying too high (more meanings there) or maybe he was just playing with his 'joystick' too much.

Two years in prison? Yipe!

He'll never be able to watch an in-flight fueling video calmly again.

Cowardly Council

DaVinci Quest came to our glorious new Council (complete with an investment-advisor mayor who helps people decide what risks to take) with a great green idea - the Smarter, Safer, Greener House Contest.

And they chickened out... so much for all that vaunted skill. *yawn*

One of the usual suspects had this to say in the TC's vitriol-soaked comments:

I think this is the best possible outcome. DiVinci will still run their contest and the people who want to risk being involved can - and maybe it'll be a great success and maybe it will fail, but either way the city can only benefit as if it fails, the city won't have any responsibilty and if it is a huge success then the city will reap the rewards via taxes and fees for the building and materials, not to mention any positive press should this be a big hit. Win-win.

Yep, take the credit but don't do shit to help - that's the story of the GOP. Talk about 'leaning vs lifting'.

Councilwoman Katie Witt said she thinks the contest is a great idea and would be happy to lend her individual support to it, but she isn’t comfortable opening the door to the council endorsing for-profit entities.

Oh? 4C much? Or is that profit okay because it puts money in the (far) right pockets?

“If you want to pursue this, I think that’s a wonderful pursuit, but asking us to put a rubber stamp on it is inappropriate,” Mayor Bryan Baum told Dakin.

Absolutely Bryan. You'll want to save your teeny little rubber stamp for your wingnut pals.

But Councilman Sean McCoy said a large part of the contest is to drive economic development, and endorsing it is similar to endorsing an organization like the Longmont Area Economic Council.

Yep, that's right. But the problem is - anytime the Greenies win one, the wingnuts would sooner gouge their eyes out with a grapefruit spoon rather than notice it.

After the recent purge of progressives from every single board and commission this action comes as no surprise. The new Council is doing exactly what you can expect a group of right-wing ideologues to do - purge, block, hamper and otherwise muck up the gears of our government. Oh, and turn their refined noses up at anything that the Grand Olde Obstructionists disagree with.

Mission Accomplished. I wonder if we can sue the Council members for damages when this project goes big and we're locked out of any juicy deals. I mean, screechers have been threatening to sue WIIFL for saving Longmont from the LifeBridge Union project (which is a non-starter and a guaranteed turkey to boot). Folks need to remember their words are going to haunt them the next two years. Might pay to keep certain elder Longmont statesmen away from the tantalus.

"Never leaned left" = More Bullshit

From the Boulder Weekly:

According to the Boulder County Clerk’s office, Democrats now outnumber Republicans in Longmont, though the largest single block of voters are unaffiliated with either party.

So much for Longmont's 'conservative majority' - when only 28% of the voters VOTE and 51% of THEM are wingnuts it can look a bit one-sided.

So, as usual, when the facts don't line up the way they want, the wingnuts just make shit up.

I guess it comes from having their heads full of it.

This past election simply underlined the fact that when you've got rabid loons willing to outspend you by any amount needed, they can swing the independent voters.

The real problem is going to be keeping them.