Update

I'll be writing a little bit now and then for the next two weeks, then returning to my normal semi-regular posting schedule.

I just love to read the endless screeching from Longmont's self-appointed mouthpiece.

Keep talking about emails. There's SO much more to be said.

And it will be.

Notice

I will not be posting on D&H for some time. See my personal site for more info.

This is where property rights + guns leads

 

Outrageous.

So Much for 'Respecting the Troops'

"Well, if I had to choose — in terms of being a Republican — I’d go with Rush Limbaugh, I think. My take on it was that Colin had already left the party. I didn’t know he was still a Republican."
- Dick Cheney

The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

Here's who our ex-vice-president is dissing (from Wikipedia):

Colin Luther Powell (born April 5, 1937) is an American statesman and a former four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State (2001-2005), serving under President George W. Bush. He was the first African American appointed to that position.^[1][2][3][4] During his military career, Powell also served as National Security Advisor (1987–1989), as Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Army Forces Command (1989) and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–1993), holding the latter position during the Gulf War. He was the first, and so far the only, African American to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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This is 100% bona-fide proof that the Republican Party does not now, or has ever, respected our troops.

If Powell hasn't earned the right to speak his mind and get respect, who has?

Cheney, by any tradition, should immediately fall on his sword - oh, wait... that tradition is for real soldiers - who served and did something dishonorable - Cheney's just a shitty politician who lied and threatened his way -almost- to the top.

*SPIT*

Asleep at the Yoke

I thought DHS and our glorious chimperor made us safer.

Not so:

"Hackers have repeatedly broken into the air traffic control mission-support systems of the US Federal Aviation Administration, according to an Inspector General report sent to the FAA this week, and the FAA's increasing use of commercial software and Internet Protocol-based technologies as part of an effort to modernize the air traffic control systems poses a higher security risk to the systems than when they relied primarily on proprietary software, the report said.

Oh great.

Intrusion detection systems (IDS) are deployed at only 11 of hundreds of air traffic control facilities. In 2008, more than 870 cyber incident alerts were issued to the organization responsible for air traffic control operations and by the end of the year 17 percent (more than 150 incidents) had not been remediated, 'including critical incidents in which hackers may have taken over control' of operations computers, the report said."

Are these people asleep? I mean, WTF.

The Statue of Liberty flyby bullshit was just that, but this just proves more resignations are needed - now, before we have something much worse than 9-11... of course that could be the plan...

Old, Tired and Soon to be Extinct

The GOP has been losing altitude for a long time - both engines out and on fire, upside down and spiralling towards the ground - while Dubya and pals had a drunken kegger in the White House while his frat-boy pals raped and pillaged across the world.

But, as any sane person knows¹, sooner or later you have to take your underwear off your head, sober up and go home.

Trouble is during this last drunken power-binge the vicious GOPasaurs gorged themselves so deeply that virtually every creature on the planet with warm blood figured out they had to be stopped. The fate of the GOP is obvious from this chart at fivethirtyeight.com, the number of people willing to self-identify as 'Republican' drops off sharply below the age of 70 - so the kids that voted for Obama this time around will likely continue as Dems for at least the next generation. No wonder the lunatic fringe is scrawling poo on the walls even more than usual - no one can stand the smell of their Kool-aid, let alone the taste². The scams of the mega-rich and stupid-powerful keep getting exposed - it's enough to make a Rockefeller smash the good crystal. What's worse though, is when those pesky Dems start talking about having a little empathy. Good grief! Empathy? Caring? Showing some human kindness? Eveyone knows there's no profit in that. Trouble is, after Reagan and his pathetic bullshit of 'trickle down' and then Dubya's idiocy, the GOP brand is so smeared with shit no thinking person would even consider associating with it.

The mighty in the "Conservative"³ cause keep getting called out for their raging and agonizingly-obvious hypocrisy - by the very people they love to sell weapons to... so their balls are truly in a vice. Ouch, that's gotta hurt.

So it's absolutely no surprise that the vicious idiots that got them into this mess should keep on yowling the same stupid advice: stay the course! Lackeys can't make the same kind of retarded mistakes and expect to keep their jobs - dammit!

What has this country come to?!

I'll tell you what it's come to: a nation of laws, not men - but the outskirts are still filled with angry, bible-thumping idiots with guns and it's going to take another decade for them to either die or blow off enough fingers that they can't pull a trigger anymore.

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1. Longmont's Lunatic Fringe excepted of course - underwear on the head is high fashion to them.
2. Maybe it's all that added hemlock
3. I use quotes because the 'right' is anything BUT conservative, the only thing they 'conserve' is their genes by interbreeding

Major Wingnut's Do It Yourself Post

Since my favorite far-distant-and-flapping-loudly wingnut over at the Colorado Index offered:

"...I will let the reader write his own multiple choice blog entry."

So, using the choices available, this is what I chose:

This is a social conservative dominated district and I will find it hard to recruit people to help me. I believe I would find it difficult to qualify for the ballot via the assembly process. I have little money. Pro-Life voters are immune to campaigns on pocketbook issues. My campaign has yet to convince an independent to register Republican. I am worried sick about the fact that The Gazette is keeping my candidacy a secret from voters and its impact on my campaign. It really bothers me that the 20 or so Pro-Life blogs masquerading as center right blogs haven't acknowledged that I am a candidate. I count FTS* as a social conservative blog. This election will be a blowout and I will be embarrassed.

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Sounds about right to me.

Good luck Major, I'll keep a crying towel warm

(* Face the State, bought and paid for by the wingy-est of the wingnuts)