In another political environment, Sharron Angle would fill this category of the strange debris of political applicants.  But leaving aside her various political positions, there is one thing we can give her.  You’ve got to admire a candidate who, in respect to Yucca and the situation of turning the mountain into the nation’s nuclear waste depository, puts up the counter-point to “NIMBY” and declares “YES IN MY BACKYARD!”  We had better start seeing a lot of donations being dumped into the Sharron Angle campaign from the zip-codes around Hanford and similar spots of great Nuclear Waste spots.
Though, with Sharron Angle the one great concern comes in what I perceive to be something of a contradictory position with the Environmental Protection Agency.  Wouldn’t that be a pre-requisite for stuffing nuclear waste in your backyard — to maintain a caprice-free and workable EPA?
But call me crazy.

Alas, the Orly Taitz boomlet fizzled badly.  It was too good to be true, wasn’t it?  But, South Carolina has handed up a few good nuggets.  In an election season where the Republican Party touted a slew of black candidates in largely marginal campaigns that have not done terribly well — well, one did all right last night.  Tim Scott will be rolling into a Primary run-off and off to face up against — wait for it — Paul Thurmond, the son of Strom!
No comment needed.

And then there’s Alvin Greene.  I haven’t any truck with this guy.  Here’s the thing — he’s getting blasted about for such a thing as this logic:

Asked if he thought it was a good investment to spend so much of his own money in a two-way Democratic primary to run against a popular Republican with millions in campaign cash, Greene replied: “Rather than just save the $10,000 and just go and buy gasoline with it, just take [it] and just be unemployed for [an] even longer period of time, I mean, that wouldn’t make any sense, um, just, um, but, uh, yes, uh … lowering these gas prices … that will create jobs, too. Anything that will lower the gasoline prices. Offshore drilling, the energy package, all that.”

This is more altruistic than the logic of Carly Fiorina’s massive million dollar campaign dump for a relatively piddle-sticks paying job — spending a fortune as further investment into gaining new fortunes after affecting the Laws.
Something a bit amiss in South Carolina — Bob Conley in 2008.  Alvin Greene in 2010.  I will note that Conley received 43 percent of the vote, more than Greene’s supposedly more legitimate primary opponent can expect.

There are two stories circulating in the national media from out of the city of Portland.  One is a sad case that everyone hopes turns out well.  The other story mostly bores the Hell out of me.

Missing seven year old child.  Seen in various photographs in front of his science fair project.  Dropped off at school.  Never appeared again.  What is there to say?  I hope for the best — though for the life of me I can’t think of what that would be — and expect something less than the best, though hope it’s not the worst — which I don’t want to think about.  Have you seen that child?  If you have — you know where to turn.

Go to the comments section of the story above and you see the useless speculation firing out … uselessly.

I have a horrible feeling that he is somewhere on the campus, hidden from sight. Secret areas of the school a janitor might know about? Another thought that keeps popping into my mind has to do with the child’s science fair project. He was presenting on a tree frog. Is it possible that he took off to a nearby creek to try and find this “frog” to show along with his project? I realize that the science fair had already taken place, but generally the kids turn their project into their teachers after the science faire, to present before the class. Maybe he has tragically fallen into water somewhere? I have a 7 year old son in 2nd grade, that’s why this hits so close to home for me. 🙁

Well, I guess I now do have the answer to what my hard to come up with “Best Case Scenario” would be.  Safely in a closet.  More armchair unhelpful commentary on the state of the mother’s marriage  relationship comes through in the comments here.

Also available, right now on the front page … well, there’s that worst case scenario I guess.

The other news story that is making the national rounds… Anarchist Coffee House kicks out Police Officer customer.

… Wait.  The comments to this section get downright hilarious.

He just lost my business.

Surely you jest?

Does anyone the URL for this dumb bitch’s blog… I hope it has a comment section open when I find it!!!!!!

FIGHT THE POWER, DallasGBoy.

Hm.  Here’s a Stupid Local Radio Host Stunt, which is just as well — but:

The Red and Black, according to this morning’s Zero, has had a record amount of business since the cop was asked to leave a few days ago. That is all well and good and the Red and Black owner should enjoy his new-found notoriety while he can. This will turn out to be just a flash-in-the-pan. I will not be at all surprised if the joint is out of business by the end of the year, or at least by this time next year, and the resident anarchists, enviro-wackos, cop-haters, and the other various and sundry neer-do-wells that infest the place will have to find another rock to crawl under.

Supposing for a minute we consider its existence dates back from before this time last year – I guess it’s been operating there since two years before this post –   

Hm.  Armed services veteran and Beaverton waste services business owner P.J. Mulcahy came to the cafe and press conference today as well. He wore his veteran’s jacket and seemed to be there to see whether he would be thrown out.   When asked about his guide to political confrontations, he evoked Saul Alinksy, I suppose.
Hey!  A wacky Facebook group.  It evokes the name of Emma Goldman!  And here I thought I would be bored looking at this story.

Regrettably, this page has found itself to an orgy of links to things about the incident, when just a short while ago it only served to let everyone know some background on all the symbolism associated with the Red and Black Cafe — surely getting to the root of Comintern and exposing the International Communist Conspiracy.

For the record, as we watch the youtube video from the Oregon Tea Party person — no, they too hate Obama.  The insinuation at the 1:21 mark is a sign of ignorance to your Anarchist Bretherns.  I will bet dollars to donuts that the woman who blogged about the incident — and thus started this unwarranted bout of publicity to the store and to the police — voted for Obama, though.

Okay.  I’m bored with that story again.  Nothing much to see there.  Flip back to the start of this blog — the Missing Child — Hope he is found safely — don’t all that much care about the fate of the coffee space one way or the other.

I, of course, will be watching the California election result to read the tea-leaves on which direction the War with the British Empire is going — off the heels of Kesha Roger’s victory in March, a Summer Shields win over Nancy Pelosi will be an unmistakeable sign that the British are just about down for the count, whereas Pelosi winning mean the final consolidation of the British forces.

Okay.  The truth is that primary contest is being lost in the shuffle as people look over the California Primary Contests.  The race that has everyone abuzz is, naturally, the one for Secretary of State — a race where there is no clear favorite and which pits some guy who is not campaigning very aggressively against…

“It’d be a disaster for the Republican party,” says James Lacy, a conservative GOP operative in the state. “Can you imagine if [gubernatorial candidate] Meg Whitman and [candidate for Lt. Gov.] Abel Maldonado — both of whom might have a chance to win in November — had to run with Orly Taitz as secretary of state, who would make her cockamamie issues about Obama’s birth certificate problems at the forefront of her activities?”

“There is no Republican candidate for statewide office that would be willing to have her campaign with them,” says Adam Probolsky, a spokesman for the Orange County Republican Party.

But longtime California GOP strategist Allan Hoffenblum, who publishes the California Target Book, says a Taitz victory is entirely possible. “It will be a complete embarrassment if she wins, but these things can happen,” he said. […]

Taitz is running against Damon Dunn, an African-American former professional football player. As with Obama, she’s turned to lawsuits to challenge him, arguing that Dunn’s brief time as a registered Democrat in Florida — from his playing days with the Jacksonville Jaguars — disqualifies him from the California ballot and amounts to fraud. 

“Our country will turn into a banana republican until we disclose information that is related to voter fraud,” she told POLITICO.

Dunn says he’s relying on his own biography and endorsements from a variety of mainstream GOP organizations to carry him through June. “I’m not running a primary campaign against Orly Taitz,” Dunn says. “I’m just going to take the high road.”

Not everyone is convinced it’s going to work.

“Dunn has not done enough,” Lacy said. 

“For professional Republicans right now, the main tactic in regards to Orly Taitz is prayer,” said Jack Pitney, a political science professor at Claremont McKenna College and a longtime observer of California politics.

Well, it’s all over but the praying for both sides — the Republicans who don’t want to be embarrassed, and the Demcorats who want the Republicans to be embarrassed.  I have to ask Orly Taitz’s primary opponent — former Jacksonville Jaguar Damon Dunn — how he can say he’s relying on his “Biography” — which, I guess means — fond memories of his 1 yard touchdown run in the 1996 Sun Bowl?  I’m sure everyone recalls his stellar play for the Los Angeles Xtreme during his XFL days.  (Wikipedia does not consider the man notable, apparently.  Did Orly Taitz delete the entry?)

The “National Writers Syndicate” has endorsed Orly Taitz.  The Daily Californian has endorsed Damon Dunn.

I will go with the “It’ll be interesting to see how this turns out” blandishment.   I wonder if this blog post dampens the Orly Taitz cause by throwing in a bit of awareness to the race, which hinges on an “awareness”.

Y’know… there are a couple ways of looking at the Sunday Morning gabfest with Arriana Huffington and Elizabeth Cheney.

HUFFINGTON: George, the truth is that right now we have precisely the regulatory system that the Bush-Cheney Administration wanted — full of loopholes, full of cronies and lobbysists filling the very agencies they’re supposed to be overseeing —
WILL: So it’s Bush’s fault.
HUFFINGTON: — the industry.
WILL: Just clear this up.
HUFFINGTON: It is absolutely 1000 percent Bush-Cheney’s fault, plus the fact that the Obama Administration has not really done enough fast enough to change what’s happening at the MMS agency, at all sorts of other agencies. Not just when it comes to the energy problems, when it comes to Wall Street, all over, we are seeing the complete success of the kind of regulatory system that Bush-Cheney wanted. And we’re seeing this is the inevitable result of what they wanted.
CHENEY: You know, it’s truly amazing. I mean I actually heard George Bush was responsible for the breakup of Tipper and Al Gore’s marriage too. I mean it’s incredible the extent to which people are now trying to shift blame. And frankly —
MOULITSAS: Did you fact check that?
TAPPER: We’ll get that fact.
CHENEY: I heard it. I don’t know. I think it was on “The Daily Kos.” But at any rate, I think that, you know we got to look at what’s happening going forward, and you’ve got to look at the facts. I mean, the left is going to try — you guys —
HUFFINGTON: This has nothing to do with the left.
CHENEY: — have for years been demonizing Bush and Cheney, and I’m sure you will continue to demonize them for years going forward, but we have got now a catastrophe on the Gulf Coast, a catastrophe that happened on this administration’s watch which this administration is failing to clean up and be responsive and lead, frankly.
And it is a problem we’re seeing with this president across the board. A president with no leadership experience.
HUFFINGTON: Right here, we have the poster child of Bush-Cheney crony capitalism. Halliburton involved in this, and we haven’t said about that. They after all were responsible for cementing the well. Here’s Halliburton, after it defrauded the American taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars —
CHENEY: Arianna, I don’t know what planet you live on, but that’s not —
HUFFINGTON: — it’s involved again. I’m living on this planet. You’re living in a planet that is —
CHENEY: — it’s — Arianna, what you’re saying —

I know how the apolitical, or the structured concerted bi/non partisan.  It is the televised biopic or the various conservative news magazine articles and books that put the blame of 9/11 squarely and forthrightly on the malfeasance of Bill Clinton, though as always things are quite a bit more complicated.  There is a certain mind-set that will, quite understandably, put these two lines of argument as an equivalence.  And it is there that a reference to “Bush De-regulatory mess” problem comes across as even if accurate analysis — for policy uses in where we must proceed, somewhat evasive and sometimes ineffective politics.  The sense is quite understandable that we are just  running from a partisan “Blame Clinton First Crowd” to a “Blame Bush First Crowd”.

It’s sometimes hard to reset the continuities and failed incontinuities from one administration to another.  That the Obama Administration was only now setting its sights on conquering the problems of the Minerals Management Service — bringing to mind the re-curring thought “God, that was a bad President we had” — may look badly on the current president and his lack of aggressiveness in breaking from that past.

But there I drop back to — okay, Clinton… Bush… lead up to 9/11… where was that fumbled?  More to the point, weren’t Cheney’s cohorts making that case?

“The first day the McCarthy Committee set up on campus, 650 people signed up.  And the moment we began to act — to act directly against racism and imperialism — the McCarthy buttons disappeared.” — Mark Rudd
“We manufactured the issues.  The Institute for Defense Analysis is nothing at Columbia.  Just three professors.  And the gym issue is bull.  It doesn’t mean anything to anybody.  I had never been the gym before the demonstrations began.  I didn’t even know to get there.” — Mark Rudd.

I have long been wanting to place up an excerpt of some kind from Emanuel Josephson’s “Strange Death of Franklin D Roosevelt“.  But the question would be what exactly — to open the book at random is to find something appropriately hullucinatory.   (Leave that to the Paultards — I don’t know why, Josephson holds the Gold Standard in low esteem as an economy of scarcity.  What does he advocate?  Apparently Father Charles Coughlin had the right idea, even if his ideas had some fatal flaw, and what we need is something called the “Yankee Plan”.)  
Incidentally, you know Smedley Butler’s alleged “Business Plot” — as told to John L Spivak?  That itself was double-agent conspiracy plot to fool the public.

Regarding “Strange Death”, I’ll flip about and go to… the geneology of Harry S Truman’s Health Care policy?

Bismarck and Marx were the guiding spirits of Nazi Germany. They had foreseen the docility of the Ger. man worker and the absolutism it made possible.  Nazism or some other form of dictatorship and slavery were the inevitable consequences of Marxism and of the “welfare” program of the “New Deal” launched by Bismarck. Its development was guided by Hitler’s “Brain Trust”, Professor Haushofer and his Geophysical Institute. The class hatred of Marx was converted into another equally absurd hatred-the Aryan. Marxist “internationalism” translated itself into Aryan “internationalism”. The war on Capitalism logically as. sumed the form of raping of other lands.  For Marx’s definition of “capital” in final analysis is “the other fellow’s property”. Restriction of the supply of labor is most effectively obtained by slaughtering workers. The philosophy of Marxism and of Nazism is obviously identical. Nazism is the active tense of Marxism. And it is but natural that Communism should take over where Nazism left off.

The first of formidable competitors of Germany that succumbed to the propagandized Bismarxian program was England.  The Fabian Society was the chief agency of the propaganda.  A few years before the World War I, Great Britain was forced by the agitation of the working classes to swallow the whole bait, hook, line, and sinker.  Thereby were set in operation forces which are now speeding the disintegration of the British Empire. Premier Ramsay MacDonald in an address before Parliament in 1929 frankly blamed the welfare, dole and health insurance laws for the insoluble economic problem presented in England by the unemployment situation. […] 

From the point of view of American affairs, even greater significance was lent to the situation when the wholly alien ideas were given an aura of respectability in the eyes of American Tories by their adoption in England.  This was accentuated by the fact that British industry was now in the same position with respect to the cost of the “welfare” program in its competition for world markets. It became of interest also to British industry that the United States should adopt an identical handicapping program.

It was not long before Sir Arthur Newsholme, representing the British Ministry of Health, began to visit this country to lecture systematically on the advantages of the “Security” and “Socialized Medicine” plans.  He joined forces with the local agitators for the adoptors of the program, in spite of the fact that it has resulted in England in a steadily rising death rate that culminated in 1938 in one of the highest death rates in the civilized world.

Russia was the next to succumb. In the stalemate of World War I

Oh, forget it.  The only interesting part of this paragraph is the word “communazi” (see it here), a sure sign that something demands your respect.
Skip to the end of the book.  We’re all screwed.  All of the prospective presidential candidates up in 1948 are Coummunazi Puppets of Rockefeller.  Dewey.  Our good friend Stassen.  MacArthur.  Eisenhower.  Taft.

For the record, the “Obama Joker” sign pictured here — which I think is being posted to align to the statement about signs coming from Larouche – is not Larouche’s.  I associate, somewhat it with Alex Jones — though the totality with which you can attribute it to him (he popularized it to some extent, but didn’t create it) is not the same to which you can attribute the Obama Hitler Mustache poster to Larouche.

The campaign season is heating up.  The primary contest pitting Nancy Pelosi and Summer Shields will happen on Tuesday.  I’ll try to muster up a retrospective montage of campaign moments next week.  In the meantime, I’m looking long and hard at his campaign website, and for the life of me I cannot see a mention of their biggest name endorsement — that of Right Wing Radio Personality Michael Savage. 

I missed this Campaign event as we speak.

Wonder how the event went.

Saturday June 5, 2010
Coffee Oasis
4550 NASA Parkway
Seabrook, TX 77586
1-3 pm

At least she’s campaign in Texas, which is better than running in France.

Wait.  The name of Kesha Rogers is reverberating around the country, as she gets compared with other candidates.  SHE IS HAVING AN EFFECT!

My initial thought on the story of the blown call — the last out of what would have been a Perfect Game for Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga — was sardonic.  “Those things are becoming a dime a dozen these days, so who cares?”  I refer to this statistic:  Over the 135 years of Major League Baseball history, there have been only 20 official perfect games by the current definition.  And Armando Galarraga would have thrown the THIRD Perfect Game this season, making three out of twenty-one games happening in the 2010 season from a period stretching back since — well, I guess the mid 1870s.

Clearly something is amiss, and I think I can pin-point the problem.  Remember the avalanche of Home runs that happened through the 1990s and into the Oughts?  I remember laughing at Mark McGwire breaking the Home Run record in 1999, and annoying some sports fans by uttering the forbidden word, seeing something that seemed clearly there where everyone else pretended not to see– “Steroids.”

So, Bud Selig has thrown us into a new Steroid Busting Regime.  Those things are reigned in.  Now, granted, pitchers can make good use of steroids — allegedly some guy named Roger Clemens — drop in the word “allgedly” to cover one’s butt.  But it’s effect does not lead toward the perfect game.

Clearly something was amiss in what has come to be referred to as “The Steroids Age” of Baseball.  And clearly something is amiss now.  The balance has been thrown off, and baseball needs to recalibrate its approach, loosen its Steroids strictures somewhat.  The Perfect Game is in danger of becoming as meaningless as a 70 Home-run season.

A few days ago, The Weekly Standard website — Bill Kristol actually — broke the story — and who knows where their sources came from for this one — that Sarah Palin’s facebook page was about to be updated with her views on the situation with the Gaza flotilla and Israel.
The mind boggles.

I guess if Palin’s facebook messages and tweets are considered news, it’s a “get” when you get the information before it is posted.  Sadly, I wasn’t privvy to her next news burst, so I had to stand behind everyone else to get the news.

Extreme Greenies:see now why we push”drill,baby,drill”of known reserves&promising finds in safe onshore places like ANWR? Now do you get it?

Sarah Palin can “tweet” that with a straight face.  Though, it was basically cribbed from Charles Krauthammer.  I will give them one thing: at least they acknowledge the Oil Gusher’s existence, and problematic nature.  You would think we have come a ways from some early considerations — Mississippi Congress guy Gene Taylor, for instance, or Fox News broadcaster Brit Hume who demanded to know “Where’s the oil?”

Don Young from Alaska makes the new contrarian point of order.  “This is not an environmental disaster, and I will say that again and again because it is a natural phenomenon.”  I have the sense of “I guess” around about those parts.  I was bracing myself for these considerations, and I knew that lewrockwell.com would bring their own slant to a scientific magazine that explains oil brekdown.  Look — I am as big a fan of George Carlin’s classic “The Planet is fine” bit as anyone, and I do not cry for the fate of the Planet at the hands of humans.  Yep, the Earth will reorganize its ecosystems quite well.  Sure, all we really care about is our home-land, with consideration for  Wild Life remaining in terms of Museum Pieces.  Happy now?

It’s just that I don’t know if we can get all that excited by the prospects of building a new theme park.

The La Brea Tar Pits Company has bought the Gulf of Mexico for its newest theme park. You can’t believe the petrified bird collection they’ve already assembled for the viewing public! And the whole thing is in 3D, just like Avatar.

Pretty soon everyone will want their own La Brea Tar Pits pretty shorty, so the Gulf of Mexico might as well start the trend now!

Some days into the spill, the Wall Street Journal reported: “Wildlife rescuers are treating the first oiled bird.” It was a northern gannet, in case you’re keeping a wall chart. Then, on Saturday, the Associated Press had further oily bird news: Apparently “several birds” were spotted diving into the Gulf’s oil-fouled waters.

Thousands of crude-coated creatures will probably appear in news pictures by the time this column runs, but so what? It’s only an oily and organic substance which, by the way, bubbles to the earth’s surface all the time without human assistance.

The La Brea Tar Pits in central Los Angeles have been sucking down precious animal life for thousands of years.

With proper grooming, we might get to this sight in an eon.  Here’s the description from the title character in Daniel Pinkwater’s The Neddiad.  A good future, I suppose for Planet Earth — as good as any.

Artur Davis, a man who was once considered a possible “First Black President”, has lost a Gubernatorial battle, and — counter to posts at the National Review — has called it a career.
His loss makes perfect sense.  He made this Telegraph list of “Influential Conservatives” and “Liberals” as a liberal.  But he was defining himself for the perceived Alabama electorate, and I have no idea why anyone would consider him a “liberal”.  Artur Davis compiled a “Blue Dog Democrat” voting record in one of the most heavily Democratic districts — which Nate Silver at 538 calculated made him the “most useless” Democratic Congress member (in terms of enacting a Democratic platform).  With polls showing that either Sparks or Davis getting creamed in the general election, the one message he was hanging onto — “Electability” — looked like a joke.

It may be that Artur Davis presented a more acute example of the Harold Ford Problem in forging some credibility with white conservative southern voters — Alabama is more so than Tennessee.  And one more thing to add to Davis — this, the case of conservative Democratic “Legacy” voters as against the current party.

In the meantime, the media crack team of political analysts give us very cookie-cutter analysis, which trips up quite quickly.

As in Utah, Pennsylvania, Florida and other states, these voters are demanding party fealty, making the political center look slippery, at least for now. While energizing spring campaigns, their passions may cause headaches for both parties in November, when independent and moderate voters will be far more plentiful. […]
Democratic voters in West Virginia rejected 14-term Rep. Alan Mollohan, although ethical problems muddied the picture there. And in Arkansas they have forced two-term Sen. Blanche Lincoln into a tough runoff primary next week after she angered union activists over health care and other issues.

Also, they voted against a candidate who voted for Obama’s Health Care plan in favor of someone to the right of the Democrat’s most conservative member, the Tea Party backed Walt Minnick, which completely throws the whole thesis of this article overboard.