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Guest Post by Loki

If there ever was any doubt about the vitriolic hatred the media has for Sara Palin (R) the recent release of her emails while governor confirms their bias.

Anthony Weiner’s (D) escapades are softly reported and his actions defended by the media. Boys will be boys, it wasn’t actually cheating, he’s just a man, he didn’t do it on government time, all excuses put forth to defend Weiner. No big investigation, no calls for all of his emails to be released. Hardly a ripple of the news cycle beyond the sexual titillation.

Yet the desperation of the media to indict Palin has them calling for volunteers to search her emails for anything to indict her policies and her personally. They have gone through her garbage and harassed her continually since the announcement of her run with John McCain (R).

The only intelligent conclusion is that the media is biased and will do anything it can to bring down a Republican while defending Democrats. All while claiming to not being biased. Beware, the media is on the hunt to destroy Republicans at all costs.

You put your right foot in, You take your right foot out

The Georgia Democrat Party summed up the news of the mutiny in Newt’s campaign rather succiently…

Campaign staffers of Newt Gingrich’s flailing presidential bid walked off the job en masse today, demonstrating the power of organized labor and teamwork while serving in a hostile work environment… On the other hand, Republicans are taking ‘job-creation’ seriously by making dozens of new jobs available …

Is this why we call it “Silly Season”? It will be interesting to see who’s still standing by Christmas. Who do you think will make it to the primaries?

Imagine my surprise when I opened my email this morning and found a letter addressed, not to me, but to the Chairman of the State GOP from obviously disgruntled “Republicans”. It was probably a bad idea to open this message before the coffee had finished brewing, but I wasn’t fully functional when I clicked on the envelope. Poor Roland and Annie – guess they didn’t know they’d be tap dancing on my last nerve.

They start out by announcing that they are DONE contributing to the Republican Party. Done, I tell you, done! DONE, DONE, DONE.

Well, whoop-de-doo. According to Follow the Money, they haven’t exactly been fiscal pillars of the organization, having contributed a whopping $120 so far this century to the Montana Republican Party. Now we all understand that no organization can afford to alienate donors, and any loss hurts, but golly, gee, when you’re making threats, you ought to take into account how significant a loss you may be inflicting if you want to be taken seriously. In this case, I think the party can recover nicely.

However, since our correspondents weren’t finished with their rant, I will continue with mine…

They next assert that their disaffection is due to the party’s failure to attain their standards of ideological purity and offers as proof the party’s support for Rick Hill over Ken Miller, and the legislature’s failure to pass some of their favorite bills, including SB167 – Greg Hinkle’s bill to prohibit assisted suicide, HB 516 – Kris Hanson’s discriminatory anti-gay rights bill, and various anti-abortion bills. They go on to disparage Denny Rehberg, Rick Hill (again) and for good measure take a swipe at Jim Shockley because they just aren’t conservative enough, and then finish up with a rousing slam at “RINO’s” in general as they wrap themselves in the flag, the Constitution, and “conservative values”.

Let’s set the record straight: The Republican Party hasn’t endorsed or supported any candidate for governor. The fact that Rick Hill seems to be the frontrunner is because more PEOPLE support him!!! Even though Miller has been running months longer than Rick, he’s only raised about a third of what Rick raised in half the time. Montanans know both Ken and Rick and the jury’s back – Rick’s a winner, Ken’s a loser – and a sore one at that. Ken’s juvenile temper tantrum after the 2004 primary is one of the main reasons that Brian Schweitzer is sitting in the governor’s office right now. So, Roland and Annie, when you get yourself all wee-weed up over what bills did or did not pass the legislature, just remember that “Republicans” didn’t have a veto-proof majority in the Senate and we didn’t even have a RINO at the east end of the capitol. Fighting to pass a bill without bipartisan support is generally an exercise in futility unless the guy with the veto brand is at least willing to listen to you. So when a “member of the Senate leadership” told you that a certain bill or group of bills “didn’t poll well”, it wasn’t an acknowledgement of either his or the Party’s support or lack thereof – it’s an acceptance of a political reality. By the time you’re dealing with a bill in the legislature, ideology is a concept that is no longer useful – it doesn’t matter how avidly you support an issue or a bill – if you can’t get it through the legislative and the executive branches, it won’t become law. Period. End of story. The 2011 Legislature spent thousands and thousands of dollars giving your issues fair hearings and due consideration. Don’t blame the legislators or the Republican Party because your issues didn’t haven’t enough support to carry the day. They didn’t fail – you did! You couldn’t, or didn’t, generate enough support from the citizens of this state to carry the day. That is not the fault of the Republican Party.

Let’s discuss this whole ideology thing a bit more. Just because our friends Roland and Annie think they have all the right answers, it doesn’t give them (or anybody else for that matter) the ability to impose their will on the rest of us unless they can get a majority of the voters to agree. Which brings us to those pro-life bills that they are so passionate about. God love ’em. I agree, the right to life is a fundamental cornerstone of our republic – and the platform of the Republican Party at all levels. But the fact of the matter is the leaders of the RTL movement have failed to persuade the majority of the voters in Montana that the anti-abortion and anti-assisted suicide laws they support are best for the state. I submit it’s not for lack of dedication, fervor, or commitment, but just that a majority of Montanans don’t agree with Roland and Annie’s positions on those issues. If you don’t have the support of a majority of the voters, expecting the legislature to pass your agenda is not only naive but literally, unAmerican. It’s that whole “majority rules” thingy that you were taught in grade school. Like it or not kids – your position on abortion is not shared by most of your fellow Montanans.

So what is Roland and Annie’s response when the issues and bills they deem ideologically right and proper fail? Do they re-evaluate their own strategies and double-down on their efforts to change public opinion? Nope. They throw their own temper tantrums and threaten to take their toys and go home. The email concluded with the following threat:

“Many of us who have voted the lesser of two evils in the past will do that no longer. The way we look at it, this country can die a quick death under Democrat leadership or a slow death under compromising Republicans. Either way, it will die.”

Politically speaking, that sounds like assisted suicide to me.

So much for ideological purity, huh?

In case you were wondering why they really buried Osama at sea…

Coming on the heels of last night’s post lauding the new poet laureate of the political blogosphere is the latest left-wing kerfuffle over a statement made by that totally irrelevant and stupid Sarah Palin about Paul Revere and his ride to alert the colonists of the approach of the British Regulars.

It seems that those death-defying JournoListers who were forced to sacrifice life and limb to trail behind the Palin Tour bus thought their efforts to capture the perfect “gotcha clip” had borne fruit of the sweetest kind when Gov. Palin asserted that Revere had told the “British” that armed Americans were going to fight for the freedoms they believed were their God-given rights. Well, the highly educated members of the fourth estate practically wet their knickers with glee* as they raced to alert the citizenry that Sarah didn’t know her history, which of course, they did because MIss Whatshername in fifth grade made them memorize the Longfellow poem, “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere”, proving once and for all that Sarah isn’t smarter than a fifth grader.

HA!

Turns out that most Americans actually did learn everything they thought they knew about the Revolutionary War in elementary school – and they’ve forgotten most of that since then. But Gov. Palin apparently DOES know what she’s talking about and evidently did a little post-graduate research on the real version as opposed to the romanticized lyrics that most of the LSM bitterly cling to as fact and substance.

It’s hard to decide which is more amusing – watching the LSM fall all over themselves trying to discredit and dismiss Gov. Palin – or watching a true master manipulate the media. So far, the media isn’t coming off as the mental giants they think themselves to be. In their mission to destroy a legitimate political voice, the leftists have more frequently exposed not only their bias but also their own lack of knowledge and gravitas. These are the people who get their news from Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert and attribute to Palin a line from a comedy sketch, and yet still expect that those of us who learned from a true giant to “Trust but verify” will believe whatever tripe they toss our way. Like Sarah Palin, we have gone beyond fifth grade. We get our history from the works of scholars, not poets. We get our news from several sources – and we don’t believe everything we hear and read from those mental midgets in the LSM.

Listen my children and you shall hear
A non-fictional story of Paul Revere
When accused by the press of misstating the facts
The governor shared what the poetry lacks

When sounding alarms that the British were coming
Revere was caught and hauled in at gunpoint to explain to the Commander what the hell was going on with the Colonists and, by the way, where had they stashed their ammunition…
(Screw iambic pentameter – that’s for fifth graders. Read Paul Revere’s own words here.)

The lessons to be learned from this incident are many, but the main one should be:

Sarah – 1, LSM – 0 — AGAIN!!!!
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* Okay – it really wasn’t “glee” that they wet their pants with, but it rhymes, and since we’re talking poetry here, go with it – even though there have been far too many crotch jokes this week already.

Ok – so I’ve been more gone than not for the past couple of months. Too much going on in other areas of my life. Or at least that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. But now the session’s over and I’ve returned from the big conference in Las Vegas so I’ve run out of excuses to avoid posting here.

While I haven’t been writing much, I have been reading and lurking around the internets and I have discovered a great new blog: The Bard of Murdoch. Absolutely fabulous! Politics and poetry in the same package. Ogden Nash meets Ann Coulter. Be still my beating heart. I’ve put a permanent link on the Blogroll, but go ahead and take a peek now. Let me know what you think.

Closer to home, one of my former favorites, The Viceroy’s Fuguestate seems to be back on the scene. You might want to keep an eye out for this one too.

So, the hiatus is over. Whether you missed me or not. Onward. Upward. Forward.

Guest post by Loki

I am not a believer in man-caused global warming. It is still just an unproven theory as far as I am concerned. And I am not interested in our government spending billions on an unproven theory.

Many I argue with keep bringing up how there is a consensus of scientists who believe in AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) which somehow is considered proof. Oblivious of the fact that there is a difference between proof and consensus the believers insist that this country rush to spend billions on ineffective solutions.

However I am bored arguing the ‘truth’ or ‘junk science’ of AGW. We keep forgetting that science is a process of theory, testing, fact finding and proof. And that the theories are often reworked or proven wrong and that the wastepaper basket is the scientists best friend. So today I wish to reflect on some past predictions that were crammed down our throats with dire predictions that needed billions in government money that were wasted when the predictions proved false or at least over blown.

H1N1 Flu – Cost, over 7 billion to the US. No big outbreak.

Bird Flu – Still lurking, still no huge outbreaks. Cost to the world, trillions. But the outbreaks have not been the world wide pandemic as predicted. Did the fight to control bird flu save us or were the predictions too dire?

Y2K – Predictions were for the entire US economy to collapse, planes fall from the air, all banking records lost. This was true hysteria. Can we say firecracker? The cost to the US was huge. Most of the spending was unnecessary.

New Ice Age – Prediction was the entire earth would enter a new ice age. I love to bring this one up to the AGW believers. Costs, I don’t know but I’m sure some scientists got grants for studies.

Eggs and Cholesterol – The effect of eggs and cholesterol were greatly exaggerated. There were calls for taking eggs off the diet. Today if you have high cholesterol you are advised to limit your intake of eggs. The egg industry has spent millions defending their product.

Aspirin – Common analgesic that is the most widely taken medicine in the world. Aspirin has been on a rollercoaster ride. Because of links to Reye’s syndrome there were calls for banning its use. Now it is considered the first responders best treatment for a heart attack. When taken correctly it is probably the world’s safest medicine.

Inoculations and Autism link – Junk science pushed by a former Playboy bunny. No proof of a link exists. Other studies have pretty much shown this was a fantasy. However lawyers got rich on lawsuits and children got sick with some dying because their parents refused to get them immunized.

In conclusion there is the quote of one of the worlds greatest scientists, Alfred Einstein, who said, “there is not the slightest indication” that atomic energy will ever be possible.

Science, hysteria and government coffers should never be mixed. And scientists are often wrong.

Loki

Editor’s note: The following is submitted as empirical evidence of Global Warming. Make of it what you will…

I have been reminded that I have been negligent in tending to my duties here, for which I humbly beg your indulgence. It is, however, way past my bedtime. So in lieu of any pithy insights on the events of the last few – OMG! weeks – I will share this, for any of you you may have missed it…

Guest Post by Loki

It is time we all start demanding an absentee ballot. Too many of us either do not take the time or are unable to get the time to vote. We should avail ourselves of our right to vote and vote in each and every election. There is no excuse for twenty five percent of the population deciding a school election.

Because many of us do not have children currently in school we think that we don’t need to vote. This means that the school board election is decided by mostly teachers and parents. Each year another ten-dollar-levy is added here and there. Pretty soon it starts to add up. Just look at your property tax bill. It is absolutely ridiculous that a minority in this state are deciding where the majority of our money is spent.

If you can’t get to the polling booth demand an absentee ballot for next year. I want to see more than fifty percent voter turn out next year. It would be great to see eighty percent or higher turn out for every election in this country.

I would hate to see this country collapse from apathy and disinterest.

Loki

p.s. If you don’t vote don’t complain.