Stupid Republican idea of the day

[SteveG1]

Here you go: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/5410658/DHS-Report-on-Right-Wing-Extremism

I don't think it's a big secret that right-wing extremists go after veterans or anyone else with military training. I also don't think it's a secret that veterans lean right.

Thanks for the link. I'm relieved it was a short report, too many reports just go on and on and on.

So as far as I can tell, it was saying that "this is the situation and here's how extremists may try to take advantage"

War veterans would be attractive "recruiting targets" I suppose, because they already know how to shoot, or how to hande "demolition". How successful the recruiting effort is, would be an entirely different story. I think (and hope) the success rate would be abysmally low. There are always a few nut jobs out there, but that doesn't mean everyone is one.

 

[Bayard]

I don't know if this is the right thread for this. It's too minor to merit its own thread but too funny to pass up entirely.

Newt Gingrich's 537 organization, American Solutions for Winning the Future (ASWF), apparently gives out Entrepreneur of the Year awards to a deserving businessperson from each of the 50 states. This year, the worthy recipient from Arizona was Allison Vivas. Don't know her? You guys in the back are just pretending not to know her, aren't you? All right, if I have to: she's the president of the porn studio Pink Visual. She was invited to an "intimate dinner" with Gingrich, where he planned to solicit her opinion on Cap and Trade and Obama's tax policies.

ASWF is claiming that they sent her the letter in error. Which is almost certainly true.

The best part, for me, is that the award -- had Vivas received it -- is a replica Speaker's gavel, signed by Gingrich. Vivas "said in her release that the gavel would 'make for a pretty cool prop for a Couples Seduce Teens episode.'"

 

[Rhythmdvl]

... for a while this past election day it looked like it might happen, but he pulled it out at the last minute.

I know there's a joke in there somewhere... maybe involving his sire?


I wonder if there are people out there who truly can't tell the difference between "an issue that won't die" and "an issue that we're not going to drop." Probably not if they stick with Fox news.

 

[Alienhand]

Huh.... Well, I'm glad I was just dreaming that day.

 

[SteveG1]

The thing is, he didn't spend anything on buying the dog at all. Bo was a gift from Ted Kennedy. The Obamas spent nothing to adopt him, except for whatever personal donation they made to a shelter in DC to make up for not getting a shelter dog.

If this is the hot subject of the day, all I can say is



hahahahahahah gasp hahahahhaahaha sniff hahahahhahaha wheeze hahahahahaha guffaw

 

[fish]

I don't feel like starting a new thread, but apparently CBS golf analyst David Feherty decided to slur our military by claiming: "if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Osama bin Laden, there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death."

Naturally. Party before country, after all.

 

[jayjay]

The continuation of that train of thought is that if she is not elected, not on the Federal payroll, and has not been confirmed by the Senate, she should not be in charge of anything.

I wasn't aware that she was in charge of anything. My impression has been that she's been mostly Obama's PR stand-in, which IS a traditional "First Lady duty".

 

[Damuri Ajashi]

If I thought they were being legit (which I do NOT):
1) Fight to keep the nepotism laws in effect
2) Reaction to Hillary's secret health care committee

In reality, it is partisan politics - but there is an argument that if the First Lady is going to be involved in running things, there should be some types of controls in place.

The President of the United States needs Senate confirmation for official positions but he has never needed Senate approval for personal advisors.

 

[Really Not All That Bright]

Yup. Anyone in this day and age who doesn't see why those terms would be racially offensive is so willfully blind as to be by default a racist. I very much doubt that ol' Zell, given his age and background, is anything but a fossilized relic of a time when such thoughts were mainstream and just fine.

Miller is a bit confusing. He was a wholehearted segregationist in the sixties, but has spoken against segregation and Jim Crow many times since.

 

[Really Not All That Bright]

War veterans would be attractive "recruiting targets" I suppose, because they already know how to shoot, or how to hande "demolition". How successful the recruiting effort is, would be an entirely different story. I think (and hope) the success rate would be abysmally low. There are always a few nut jobs out there, but that doesn't mean everyone is one.

War veterans tend to make a large contingent of the really right wing groups anyway.

Bo Gritz is a good example. The problems with the "far right" nomenclature are that (1) it's not always clear whether the crazy person is a right winger- Gritz, for example, worked with liberal groups to force the Reagan Administration to do something about US POWs he believed were still being held in Southeast Asia; and (2) they're so far off the map that they won't support Republicans any more than Democrats.

Some writers use the term "Far Middle" to describe these groups; I think "off the wing" makes more sense.

 

[Squink]

"He threw his dirty used condoms on my driveway,":

Former GOP committeeman sentenced to jail

Blake Hall quits Republican party post, loses job The leading Idaho Republican resigns from the GOP National Committee after his stalking conviction.

Idaho Falls police reported that witnesses said Hall disposed of used condoms on the lawn of the woman's house. Nineteen condoms, collected on 10 dates, were turned over to police, according to a police report. Hall and his lawyer acknowledged the condoms belonged to him, police reported.

Between March and August, Hall repeatedly followed the woman to restaurants, stores, the movies and her home, and he ignored her repeated requests that he leave her alone, according to police and court records.

The victim, 37, testified Friday that Hall, 56, once followed her to a Walmart and took her car keys and would not return them until she agreed to "hear him out" concerning her marriage, the Idaho Falls Post Register reported.

"I was so tired of being victimized," the woman said. "It is unimaginable that a 56-year-old would be so deviant."

 

[Equipoise]

Of course you're right! Much better.

 

[Trion]

I think I'd give Rep. Jenkins a pass too.

Rex Rammell? Not so much. It may have been a joke, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a stupid thing to say.

 

[Really Not All That Bright]

Elsewhere, Byron York doesn't think black people are people too.

York: Obama is

 

[Voyager]

Other than just pitching a complete fit anytime Obama does anything, what do they hope to gain from this?

They want him to start doing cheap Bill Clinton dates, no doubt.

 

[Merijeek]

I'd be highly interested in hearing if any Republican is stupid enough to attack Mr. Spooner. There just can't be any THAT stupid, please?

Umm...remember the Congressman who lost 3 limbs in Vietnam being called a coward?

-Joe

 

[Maus Magill]

There is a quite massive, entirely awesome church complex almost directly across the highway from me here in the exurbs of Charlotte created entirely by money donated from people who listen to the prosperity-from-donating-your-money message. Then there is the mansion the guy who runs the thing is building upstate: $5,000,000 worth of it.

I know who prospers, alright.

Did you read the Charlotte Observer series on this guy? Talk about Robin Hood in reverse.

 

[Claptree]

Back in my day, serenading under a window was how it was done. This newfangled condom-tossing sounds a bit decadent.

 

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

She only resigned as governor of Alaska; I doubt we've seen the last of her, unfortunately. I'd like to know why she quit before I decide if it's stupid or not.

According to certain sources it's because there are Federal indictments looming over her:

Alaskan Sarah Palin authority (and occasional BRAD BLOG guest blogger) Shannyn Moore, who broke the news at HuffPo today, tells me she believes, with good reason, that there is an "iceberg scandal that's about to break. She's doing damage control."

She says Palin is "resigning as part of damage control" due to a scandal that is "not of a family nature." ...

"The governor would not be able to continue her job when it comes out," she told me on the phone just now, before adding: "Why would Mark Sanford not resign, but Sarah Palin did? Her family didn't even know about the resignation until they were standing with her by the lake" when she made her announcement.

[snip]

Okay, I've now been able to get independent information from multiple sources that all of this precedes what are said to be possible federal indictments against Palin, concerning an embezzlement scandal related to the building of Palin's house and the Wasilla Sports Complex built during her tenure as Mayor. Both structures, it is said, feature the "same windows, same wood, same products." Federal investigators have been looking into this for some time, and indictments could be imminent, according to the Alaska sources.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

His chronology of what? Nothing happened. Nothing "disappeared" and "reappeared."