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If this is what the Reich has

GregorZap — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 05:49:33 +0000

In reply to Holy Hatred, Batman. America

If this is what the Reich has to offer, they will not attract the middle, where elections are won and lost. I don't believe, or maybe I do not want to believe, that there are enough people attracted to this sign who will vote and make a difference. I believe quite the opposite.

How much reason does one need to see this ad and reject what they are selling? I am optimistic most people take government more serious then this.

Well, it seems to me Sharon

GregorZap — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 05:45:56 +0000

In reply to How Sharron Angle Raised $14 Million

Well, it seems to me Sharon figured out from buying one of those late-night get-rich-quick schemes that suggest if you put a little classified ad in lots of newspapers, people will send you money and this could add up to thousands of dollars. It's a fact that ANY request for money will receive money and it you reach millions of viewers it is inevitable some of them will send you money. It's the sad reality of having millions of viewers. But when one actually does the math of how these millions of fewers only got her $40,000, there were very few percentage-wise who donated.

Gee, it must be shocking to

GregorZap — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 05:39:17 +0000

In reply to Wow! This is a truly

Gee, it must be shocking to know that you are new to an environment and after crtiticizing these people they took umbrage, or is that, umm-Bridge? And is that a bridge or the game of bridge? Umm, I do not know, but I am not asking for help and neither was Dick Day.

Stick around, Steve. Mr. Day is a regular and well-liked by many, many people. So we just get pissed off a little, or shall I say again, we take umbrage, at folks who come along and crap on him. It's not about where you came from, it's what ya did when you got here. Shortly, I anticipate Mr. Day may check back here and laugh at himself, but we, his friends, take him much more seriously then he takes himself and we suggest whether you read something well-spoken but poorly written, you try and focus on substance and not the abuse of such things.

PS - Is this as punny as I think it was?

I was going to mention that

kgb999 — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 05:15:45 +0000

In reply to In regards to that $14M,

I was going to mention that as well. It looks like she spent at a minimum $5 million for the direct mailing service.

In regards to that $14M,

LisB — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 22:31:25 +0000

In reply to How Sharron Angle Raised $14 Million

In regards to that $14M, here's an interesting piece from Political Animal today. Worth a read, for sure (pun intended).

But there was a catch that wasn't evident when the Angle campaign made the announcement, and it's an interesting story.

Not long after winning her primary with almost no money at all, Angle hired a controversial fundraising firm called Base Connect, which has a habit of raising huge sums for its GOP clients, and then taking exorbitant commissions/fees for itself.

God, that's utterly and

Doctor Cleveland — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:59:00 +0000

In reply to Holy racist caricatures,

God, that's utterly and depressingly insane. It's the visual equivalent of listening to a paranoid schizophrenic elucidate his conspiracy theories in a bus depot.

I'm with acanuck in that it's so deeply committed to the painter's strange world view that it doesn't make any attempt to reach people outside it.

It may have been at

we are stardust — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:02:58 +0000

In reply to Right in front of the Mexican

It may have been at Coloradoindependent I read that each player has a hand of three sixes, and yes, the impication is 'the devil'; they said thre's a Constitution and a Bible, too, and the Statue of Liberty: 'all up for grabs' is the theme. A real knee-slapper; the dude who painted it said he wished some Republicans could have been included. Wow.

Right in front of the Mexican

acanuck — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:27:36 +0000

In reply to Dude, your eyes are better

Right in front of the Mexican guy's ammo belt. But maybe it's just a soldier in desert camo. That would make more sense (if anything in this mash-up can be said to make sense). Notice that everybody's card hand features the six of hearts. A subtle allusion to 666? What a cornucopia of crazy!

Holy Hatred, Batman. America

we are stardust — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:23:06 +0000

In reply to Holy racist caricatures,

Holy Hatred, Batman. America for damned sure needs some blessings right now; hard to see where they'd come from, or if she deserves it. Didn't want to just paste these images into your blog without warning, but I figured you would.

What with the death of contract law explained by a friend via email last evening, and the utterly bleak economic future ahead (if not catastrophic), and the poisonous atmosphere in DeeCee, not to mention the prevalance of the dark hatred in much of rural America depicted here (the gun stores can't even keep up with the orders), I could only stare at this in wonder. (I just deleted some thoughts; they're only half-baked, anyway.)

I'd imagine sometime today better images will be available so we can read the signage we can't see now. I right-clicked it to a photo file, but enlarging it just pixillates it. OS,OD. GJ sucks at all times, but remember that Colorado had been celebratedly been turning blue. Now, not so much.

If this isn't an argument for

DF — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:53:40 +0000

In reply to Too new? You're in denial

If this isn't an argument for Real ID, then nothing is.