An interesting look at how the Texas Democratic party is handling the two problematic run-offs … one being David M. Alameel versus Kesha Roers for their Senate nomination, the other being Paul Hogan versus Kinky Friedman for Agriculture Commission.

We see here Upshur County – sitting with a small county party and horrible returns in the primary, are backing with a gasp of “god help us” Kinky Friedman and then pointedly rejecting Kesha Rogers.  A reluctant acceptance of one candidate, who came in second in the primary, and the other they won’t touch with a ten foot pole.

Sooo…

When a senior Democratic Senator, Diane [sic] Feinstein, goes after Obama on the floor of the Senate for interfering with her committee’s investigation of Dick Cheney’s torture program, one has to wonder, who or what, is Obama really supporting? Will the Texas Democratic Party now attack Feinstein as ‘not a real Democrat’?

The answer is no.

All of which gets us to perhaps the stupidest fact check — KESHA ROGERS IS TOO A DEMOCRAT– since… maybe since uncovering that Chris Christie lied about Scooby Doo.  Yes.  Kesha Rogers meets the technical definition of being a member of the Democratic Party, which roughly means that she checked the line for “Democratic Party” on her registration form.  What the hell is this fact check?  Look, leaving aside the Larouche factor, charges of “Not a real Democrat” or “Not a Real Republican” are pretty boilerplate in party primary campaigns.  The Republican Incumbent just beat back the charge of “RINO” — Republican in Name Only — from a cartoonish congressman with a cartoonist definition of what it means to be a “Real” member of his party.  But such thing have to be brushed back … David Alameel … not my preference on the list of candidates, but has to be your preference now.

The Dallas Democratic Party tweeted today, “We hear Kesha Rogers is in town today. Friends don’t let friends vote Kesha Rogers in the Primary Runoff.”
Do we really want this ‘nut’ in the Senate? Texan voters…S.O.S…

Finally.  A lingering question I’ve had on the big Democratic Party primary … how did Kesha Rogers do in her home base, the county where she won two congressional nominations?  The answer is… not all that much better than statewide…

The main conclusion I’d draw from this is that people seem to have gotten the message about Kesha Rogers. None of the districts had any surprises. Even in the African-American districts, where one might be concerned that Roger’s name could earn her some votes in a low-information race, she scored only 27%, not much higher than her 20% overall. Straight up against David Alameel, she got about 35% in the African-American districts. I was already feeling pretty good about the runoff, and the data here reinforce that.

Cool!  (More impressed is this person than both I and he.)
So, if it’s not Harris County… just is where “Kesha Rogers County” in Texas?  She’s moving around the boondocks…

Rogers spent the day Friday on Judson Road near Burlington Coat Factory raising awareness of her campaign and talking to voters — many of whom pulled over because of photos bearing the image of Obama with a mustache much like the one warn by the German dictator Adolf Hitler. (As opposed the mustache warn by late 18th century Austrian explorer Adolf Hitler?)[…]
Among Gregg County Democrats, Rogers pulled in 49 percent of the vote. In Harrison County, her “Impeach Obama” campaign attracted 41.68 percent of the Democratic primary vote. She secured 31 percent in Smith County, 23 percent in Upshur County and 25 percent in Rusk County.
And what crowds!
After standing on the roadside, Rogers met with about eight supporters in Panera Bread for an informal meeting.
It was not attended by any leadership of the Gregg County Democratic party, a trend Rogers has seen commonly across the state.
Too busy meeting with Kinky Friedman.

Kesha Rogers, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. John Cornyn, will meet with supporters today at Panera Bread in Longview.

“Democratic outsider seeks FDR, JFK role in leadership“… The march from FDR to JFK continues apace.  Ignoring the history, making up your own.  And so too we continue the march into right wing radio, whose predecessors would have been joining in with Larouche to assail JFK…   Is Mark Dankof’s America YOUR America?  Probably not.

And here’s your disappointing Democratic Representative of the Moment:

 Lauren Roblez, a senior political science major from Midland and president of TSD, said the candidate running for U.S. Senate supported by the LaRouche group, Kesha Rogers, is not at all a representation of the Democratic Party.
“The group runs their candidates under the Democrats,” she said. “Kesha Rogers is part of this leftist organization that wants to impeach Obama, that’s, like, their main priority. They want to bring back JFK style policies. The National Democratic Party does not affiliate themselves with the LaRouche candidates.”
This is like a representative of the parodic view of Democratic opposition to the Kesha Rogers candidacy.  “Bring back JFK style policies”… uh huh.

“And you’re saying that President Obama is moving at the direction of the British,” said Rabb.  “Yes, he supports that,” said Rogers.
Words fail.

OK, I can listen to Kesha a lot longer than I can listen to you know who but she does come back to British Imperialism and didn’t she mention the truth about 9/11? I did not know that Larouchians are also Truthers (or is that optional?) I will take Ms. Rogers over the current batch of extremists who haunt the Democratic Party but I think she would wear thin quickly.

Meanwhile, in Illinois… with 435 Congressional districts, and a lot of one party districts, we will end up with congressional candidates from the major parties like this one (and for that matter Kesha Rogers — differing interpretation that that seen by global research), which will result in some schadenfreude.  Meet Susanne Atanus, candidate in Illinois.  The schadenfreude (response to this schadenfreude) is a tad misplaced, as explained here.

The party spotted the problem with Atanus and tried to denounce her, just as the Texas Democrats tried to keep LaRouche cultist Kesha Rogers out of the runoff in this year’s Senate race. They failed.
Ed Kilgore, responding to some of this, makes the right point.
There are so many GOP elected officials and major candidates for office espousing such views that who needs to run the risk of being accused of inflating a marginal wingnut?

Meanwhile, the other big “fact check” in the campaign contest… Kesha Rogers’s is pumping up Alameel’s Republican background, factcheck cries out.  It’s in the eye of the beholder, I suppose.

ITEM NUMBER TWO:  Rense!
Onto the Jeff Rense Show, and not taking the particular gripe of this person too seriously (Larouche is a disinformationalist agent for the Zionist Conspiracy), still worthwhile this analysis of things said.

8m – Claims Cheney covered up 9/11 that Saudis did with British backing
20m – Said European Union is a colony of the British Empire
28m – Said the only thing stopping Obama going to thermonuclear war are generals around him
29m – Rense asked about Biden taking over, but LaRouche said forget about him, it goes beyond personality
31m – Says the British Empire is the new Roman Empire – says it was designated so when we (U.S.) went to war against them
32m – Said it’s a fact that most U.S. presidents were agents of the British Empire
33m – Said President Wilson was a wild Ku Klux Klaner
34m – Said FDR was a good president
38m – Said we can defeat long period of death of civilization if we pass Glass-Steagall and have a thermonuclear fusion project

Yeah, well… we also see this from Henry Makow…
According to a report by Lyndon Larouche’s Executive Intelligence Review, the ADL is a lobbying and intelligence arm of the Rothschilds. THE HOLOMODOR (LITERALLY “KILLING BY HUNGER”).
Big figures in Jeff Rense’s universe.  (And then there’s this  response.)
Larouche and David Chase Taylor from truther should be sent off to a deserted island and both could try to scare each other day night with their ridiculous theories.

It is amusing the generational churning… see FDR turning into JFK.  Everything goes to pot no longer with Roosevelt’s death and the rise of Truman over Wallace, but with Kennedy’s death and…

Join Jason Hartman for an interesting interview with Harley Schlanger, the Western States Bureau Chief for the controversial and interesting LaRouche Pac. Harley defines the purpose of LaRouche Pac, describing it as based on the intersection of philosophy, history and science, looking at economics as physical processes and not just monetary. Lyndon LaRouche stands for a sovereign state in the United States and has been warning of the smoke and mirrors politics that have been going on since the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Lyndon Larouche hated Kennedy in the 1970s.  I don’t know when he started hating Bertrand Russell.

Harley Schlanger… also on Dr. Deagal.   2014/03/26…  As he was in February when this was posted…
It does sadden me though when Mr. Larouche calls for Rand Paul to be thrown out of office over his statements on Bill Clinton. We need all these different groups to unite to combat the autocrats.

ITEM NUMBER THREE: Diane Sare kicks off new run.

In the 5th District, seven-term U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett will run unopposed in the Republican primary and face one of two Bergen County Democrats in Roy Cho or Diane Sare in the Nov. 4 general election.

Well… she can’t poll much worse than she did in her 2011 gubernatorial bid.  It is a horribly corrupt state… she has things to work with… too bad the message gets entangled in with some British Alliance.

The big question… will Diane Sare snag the big “Mark Quick” endorsement for the third straight campaign cycle?

ITEM NUMBER FOUR:  Russia

I can’t wrap my head around this Question and Answer.

How is Vice going to cover, say, monetary policy?

That’s a good question. We’re not going to cover monetary policy. For us, we embed with Occupy Wall Street, the communists, the young people.

Watch out, Occupy Wall Street, Communists, and Young People.  Or are these all one thing?

And then after his defense of sending Dennis Rodman to North Korea, we get back to the Kids today…

You believe that young people worldwide are disenfranchised. Do you think popular uprisings will fix things?
No. I’m actually worried, because I believe that it’s going to get worse. Look, economic disparity is bad. But we’ve already tried having governments redistribute wealth. We tried it in Russia and China to disastrous effect.

… Who need to know their history of Russia and China, damnedit.

Hm.  As Edward Snowden says positive things on some NSA and administration’s policy changes, we see that On Edward Snowden.   Jimmy Carter would pardon the man.  Obama simply wouldn’t execute him.  So we have an interesting stylistic approach.

Also note:  NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander has denied that the spy agency has any interest in the former president.  “We’re not” tracking him, Alexander said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday. If the NSA were snooping on Carter, he added, that would be “illegal.”

So Carter’s not being watched.  The man’s just paranoid.

A t-shirt I own, have worn in the past, though not for a while.

Question:

Would it be inappropriate and in poor taste if I were to wear it right about now?

Some interesting government censor stories…

Item… Government Agency in Turkey tries to block Twitter, doesn’t hold.  Everyone takes to Twitter to complain and kvetch.

Finally fed up, Mr. Erdogan tried to shut Twitter down on Thursday — 10 days before important local elections — after lashing out at the social network at a rally in the western town of Bursa, saying that he did not care about international reaction if national security was at stake.

“Twitter, mwitter!” (the rough equivalent of “Twitter, schmitter!”) Mr. Erdogan said. “We will root out all. They say, ‘Sir, the international community can say this, can say that.’ I don’t care at all. Everyone will see how powerful the state of the Republic of Turkey is.”

Nonetheless, the ban appeared to backfire, fomenting a loud and raucous backlash on Twitter, with the hashtags #TwitterisblockedinTurkey, #occupytwitter, #turkeyblockedtwitter, and #dictatorerdogan quickly becoming popular trending topics globally.

According to Twitturk, which records the statistics of Turkey’s roughly 12 million Twitter users, more than half a million tweets were posted in just 10 hours, despite the ban. Statista, a New York statistics portal, lists Turkey as the fourth-largest Twitter community in the world after the United States, Britain and Japan.

One posting circulated featuring a flock of Twitter’s blue birds pounding Mr. Erdogan’s head with bird excrement. Another superimposed the prime minister’s face on a campaign poster of President Obama, with the slogan, “Yes we ban.”

Then there’s … Pakistan... where, this is actually an age old item.  It happened in Batista’s Cuba when they needed to squelch reports that Fidel Castro was alive.

An article about Pakistan’s relationship to Al Qaeda, and its knowledge of Osama bin Laden’s last hiding place within its borders, was censored from the front page of about 9,000 copies of the International New York Times in Pakistan on Saturday, apparently removed by a local paper that has a partnership to distribute The Times.

An image of the front page — with a large blank space where the article appeared in other editions — traveled rapidly around social media on Saturday. A spokeswoman for The New York Times, Eileen Murphy, said that the decision by the partner paper, The Express Tribune, had been made “without our knowledge or agreement.”

The partner was recently the subject of an attack by an extremist group, she said. “While we understand that our publishing partners are sometimes faced with local pressures,” she said, “we regret any censorship of our journalism.”

Though the article appeared to have been excised from all copies of the newspaper distributed in Pakistan, the story seemed to be available to Pakistani readers online, Ms. Murphy said. There was no answer at a number listed for the partner paper’s parent company, the Lakson Group, on Saturday.

It can’t be this story, as it was in the New York Times Magazine … alongside a piece about bi-sexuals having to prove their worth in the gay community as actual bi-sexuals.  Hard to picture which story would offend and enflame the political religious climate more…

Two points to anyone who can find the most absurd or insane protest / picket staged by Westboro Baptist Church.

Maybe Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson?

Have they ever picketed an Abba Cover band?

I suppose this is the absurd response that they’re getting now, as in… why bother going to the high ground?  It doesn’t matter, I suppose… they don’t know what he’s saying because… Fred Phelps was ex-communicated last year.

Hm.

Near the end of CNN’s special primetime report on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Wednesday, anchor Don Lemon read a pair of tweets he received from viewers suggesting the plane’s disappearance could be the result of a “black hole,” Bermuda Triangle or an occurence akin to the television series “Lost.”

Lemon then turned to Mary Schiavo, former inspector general of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and said, “I know it’s preposterous, but is it preposterous, do you think, Mary?”

“It is,” Schiavo replied. “A small black hole would suck in our entire universe. So we know it’s not that. The Bermuda Triangle is often weather, and ‘Lost’ is a TV show.”

“Right,” Lemon said.

They’re mocking this at the Alex Jones site.  Mostly because it doesn’t correspond to their theories, but whatever the case… 24 Hour News Networks are pretty useless, and are prone to slip and slide into a “throwing out whatever” mode.

Or… you know… reading tweets.