How Can He Lose Now?

Don't miss Sarah's full speech here.

How ‘bout the rest of us? Right wingin’, bitter clingin’, proud clingers of our guns, our god, and our religions, and our Constitution. 

And Cicero wept.

Greens For Donald?

Well, maybe not. It seems that even The Donald is not gonzo enough.

(O)ne of Trump's Iowa precinct captains has disowned his candidate's anti-Muslim comments on the grounds that 9/11 is an inside job and Muslims are thus not to blame 

Do Members of Vanilla ISIS Work?

This guy for instance seems to have a lot of time on his hands.

In the YouTube video, Jon Ritzheimer explained tearfully why he was going to miss Christmas with his 3- and 5-year-old daughters in Arizona to protest on behalf of ranchers in a remote corner of Oregon.

Don't worry about it Jon. I'm sure your wife has found someone else by now and your kids are calling him Daddy. I love that whole Tokyo Rose thing. You have to go and read the whole thing to get a feel for what a paranoid, neurotic, psychotic dickhead this guy is. 

From Oregon Live, what we need to know for Friday. The hostage takers were supposed to announce plans for releasing their hostages today. So far. Not so much. 

For anyone interested in doing so, here's a petition asking President Obama to please arrest these assholes and charge them with something. Anything really.

Here's Charles Pierce on the shipment of dildos to Oregon:

What is wrong with you people? Do you think people sent candy penises to Washington at Valley Forge? Do you think the Constitution was written with a dong-shaped quill pen? Do you believe Button Gwinnett was into vibrators, or Stephen Hopkins into leather? OK, you might have a point with old Ben Franklin, but that's no reason to take the fight against the tyranny of bird sanctuaries as lightly as this. They hand you freedom and you hand them a dildo? Ungrateful bastids, the lot of you.

I have no problem with the Gang being made a laughingstock, but I'd still like to seem some actual charges as well.

Elise Contracts Obama Derangement Syndrome

I actually got this story on Congresswoman Stefanik on Notcongressman Matt Funiciello's FB page. Hat tip to you, Matt.

In response to President Obama's address, Stefanik says while there is room for working across the aisle, she disagrees that the union is stronger than when Obama first took office.

Yeah, I can see someone who doesn't recognize that things are better now than in January 2009 is going to "work across the aisle."

Virtually every claim they made about Obama turned out to be wrong, whether it was how 

Obamacare was going to bankrupt the economy (not to mention kill off old people), how he was driving gas prices through the roof, hecouldn’t create American jobs, he was going to take away your guns, he was lettingIran obtain nuclear weapons and letting Ebola sweep our shores, how he gave the Benghazi stand down order, and unleashed the I.R.S. on his enemies.

All of it turned out to be wrong. (Obama being a Muslim and a socialist, too.)

Under Obama, the stock market’s up more than 9,000 points, the unemployment rate has nearly been cut in half, and USA Today reports that drivers in many states may soon see gas stations advertising $1 per-gallon fill-ups.

Mike Derrick, please beat her and become my congressman. While you're at it, make sure to call a loon a loon.

Thank you for supporting our campaign and joining our movement to bring common sense solutions to Washington.

Very nice! I stand with common sense over not common sense every time.

Random Gun Violence Post

Went to the Gun Violence Archive and looked at the last 72 hours. Since I'm interested in the Texas Experiment, I happened to click on this.

Someone tried to take the money from Oliver without exiting the vehicle.

However, Oliver, who was armed, pulled his weapon, and that's when people inside the car also pulled a gun and Oliver was shot, according to HPD. 

This was in Houston and he was making the money drop for McDonald's. Just give them the money! If he hadn't been armed he would likely still be alive. Is it reasonable to think the guy is going to take the money and then just shoot him for no reason.

And here's two recent cases where fear-mongering has left people less safe in their homes, or at least left their children less safe. In Florida, a woman shoots her daughter.

A Florida woman who fatally shot her daughter mistakenly thought the 27-year-old was a home intruder, authorities say.

The sleeping woman woke up when she heard a noise and saw a figure coming toward her late Tuesday night, said Sgt. Denise Roberts, of the St. Cloud Police Department. The figure was approaching quickly, Roberts said, and didn’t say anything.

“The homeowner fired one round at the subject,” a news release on the shooting states. “The subject was later identified as the homeowner’s daughter.”

In Cincinnati, a father shoots his son. 

A Cincinnati father accidentally shot and killed his 14-year-old son after he investigated what he thought was a burglary in his home Tuesday, police said.

Stop telling people they are unsafe in their own homes.

Link to Leonard Pitts piece at the Post Star. 

Bundy Gang Update

Just a few links from Oregon Live.

Here's Jon Ritzhimer having a fit over inappropriate gifts. Self-reliance isn't just an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson you know, Jon.

If I lived in Burns, I'd have to think about actually arming up myself.

Police and community members say the menacing is real and has been going on for weeks. 

There are a number of incidents at that link. It may not be the actual militia that are involved. It could just be that they draw a bad element. So, apparently on Friday they are going to let the town know when they'll stop holding it hostage.

The armed militants occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge announced Tuesday morning that they will drive into Burns at the end of the week to hold a community meeting and inform residents when they will leave.

BTW, I do think that Ammon Bundy would make a great running mate for whoever wins the Republican nomination for prez. 

Doolittle Link 

Checking In On Matt

I had to look back and see when my last Funiciello post was. It's been over a month, so I guess we're due. I try to limit it to one a month or so. Obsession behavior is never pretty. Note my many gun posts.

So, the Post Star has a short bit about a lady who has announced she's going to run as a Green Party candidate in the mayoral race in Glens Falls in 2017.

Patti Gray Whann recently enrolled in the Green Party as she solidified her decision to run for Glens Falls mayor in 2017.

“To be a registered independent, you’re not a party and you have no line,” 

To me that sounds as though it's possible that she's running as a Green because it's a low bar to entry onto the ballot. I could be wrong and it could be that she is dedicated to Green Party principles. Call me a skeptic when it comes to the fact that she has worked for the McCain/Palin and Romney/Ryan tickets.

Gray Whann was a local organizer in Saratoga Springs for Republican John McCain’s first presidential campaign in 2000, and she represented the Republican viewpoint at a presidential candidate proxy debate in 2004 at Crandall Public Library.

Now, of course I realize there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans. To some there isn't anyway. Kudos to Ms. Whann for driving an alternative fuel vehicle anyway. Moving on toward Matt.

 “Although I haven’t gotten my cute little postcard back from the Board of Elections yet, I filled out my (voter registration) paperwork and put it in the mail.”

I did leave a comment at the site and I'm proud of myself for resisting the urge to say something snarky about not asking MF for help on that. 

On Tuesday last, (Funiciello) went to vote and was told that "he didn't exist." It was unclear from listening to the show whether he was allowed to vote or not. (He wasn't) He wasn't on the voter rolls, but if he was actually registered, he should have been able to vote by affidavit. My belief is that he screwed up in registering and was not allowed to vote for that reason.

I could also have warned her about the conspiracy inherent in the Board of Elections against Green, Libertarian, Socialist, The Rent's Too Damn High and any other party not wearing blue or red jerseys.

So what I really wanted to get to here was MF's comment on the article. 

And I am very proud of her and happy to welcome her officially as a new member to the Green Party.

And I'm happy that he's happy. I did want to point out that she has run for office before. 

Gray Whann was a long-time Republican who became an independent in 2013, when she was considering a run for a Common Council seat in the 2nd Ward.

She was the Republican candidate for the 3rd Ward Common Council seat in 2009, and lost to incumbent Democrat Scott Watson.

Yes, she's run for Common Council and lost as a Republican and is now running for mayor as a Green. The nonsense is strong in this story. If you can't win running for the lower office, try for a higher one. But just to bring the nonsense on home, here's Matt!

Patti has done a great job with the GF Collaborative and, should she run for Mayor, she will certainly be doing so with my full support!

Matt Funiciello's radio show lead-in starts with some bullshit like, "take off your red or blue jersey because it's time for uncommon sense." Ms. Whann has announced, essentially, that she is going to run for mayor of Glens Falls. She has no announced opponents yet. 

Councilman at-large Dan Hall, a Democrat; Water and Sewer Commissioner Nancy Underwood, an Independence Party member; and former 1st Ward Supervisor William Brown, a Conservative Party member, have said they are exploring the race.

My question then is, mustn't you be wearing a green jersey if you are giving a candidate your full support based on nothing other than the fact that she is running on the Green Party line? He doesn't know what her positions or anyone else's are. And you have to overlook the fact that all the potential opponents at least have some experience. 

I'm big on word definitions. I always try to make sure a word, "means what I think it means," before I use it. So here's the definition of un. 

a prefix meaning “not,” freely used as an English formative,  

I hate nonsense and try to use common sense myself. I can only speculate that uncommon sense is the opposite of common sense and would therefore be not common sense. The more I look at the things MF says, the more I realize that the name of that radio show is impeccable.