An Experiment in Adjusting an Alcohol-based Reality Filter.
The more beer you drink, the more the world seems to make sense. I'm not sure if this is the beer's fault, or the world's. Experiments proceed.
For pigeonholing purposes, I consider myself a South Park Conservative: I believe in Loose Women and Tight Borders but I'm getting anime porn and legally mandated lounges for day laborers...further adjustment to the model may be needed.
e-mail me at slayerdaddy-AT-yahoo.com
Here's a lesson seared into all of us: in elections, there are no do-overs.
We only get one shot to keep the Tea Party from taking over the White House.
We only get one shot to send progressive leaders to Washington. We only get one shot to do our job in 2011 so the DSCC can do its job in 2012.
And 2011 will be over in a matter of hours.
The stakes are huge and there's no room for error or apathy: Ten Senate races are toss-ups. Our majority is a thin four seats. The DSCC is $185,000 short of its year-end goal. And this could be your last chance to do something about it.
When we hit midnight on December 31, it isn’t just the end of the year. It’s the beginning of a mad dash to the finish line. Take it from someone who’s seen a lot of pages flip on the political calendar: When it flips to 2012, we won’t be able to win if we’re not ready.
It will start with the Iowa caucuses on January 3 – and it will only get more intense from there as Mitt, Newt, and the rest try to out-Tea-Party each other and Karl Rove cranks up the volume on the attack machine aimed at our star progressive recruits and Democrats nationwide.
The DSCC is committed to fighting back in 2012, calling out GOP lies and holding Republicans accountable for their radical agenda. But that won’t be possible if we miss our goal in 2011.
Without our majority, we’ll have no way to stop their agenda: from rolling back women's rights to a vicious tax hike on middle-class families. And one smear attack could tip any of those ten toss-up races – or even the majority – if we’re unable to respond.
So consider this an urgent warning from someone who knows the political calendar pretty well. Things are about to get intense. We have only a few hours left to prepare.
As the primary season wends onward, I wish you the best of luck in your quest for the ambassadorship to Vanuatu in the sunny South Pacific, from whatever candidate you ultimately decide was the best-one-all along-no-really-this-time-it's-love...
But prior planning prevents piss poor performance, as someone forgot to tell Herman and Newt, so allow me to suggest that it's time you start planning ahead in terms of your embassy staff.
Now of course you'll have the dauntless USMC detachment tasked with the actual protection of the embassy, but you're going to need a larger protective staff than that, a Legation Constabulary, if you will, that can be tasked with more flexible missions concerning the interests of US citizens and corporate interests in Vanuatu.
To that end, I would like to offer my services in the formation and command of this organization. I have prior service with a military unit with a notable record in this field, the 1/71 INF NYARNG, formerly the 71st Volunteer Infantry, who made an immortal name for themselves in Cuba during the Spanish-American War and in particular the epic charge at San Juan Juan Hill:
This proud tradition can be put to good use in your service as you maintain American interests in Vanuatu, particularly as pertain to those business partners you are at present in discussion with, such as Dole and the United Fruit Company...
This experience and service will stand me and my subordinates in good stead both in
maintaining your safety and more sophisticated civil affairs contacts with the general populace...
Of course, we must not lose sight of the fact that Vanuatu is an island chain,
so you will need to maintainsubstantial nautical assets for that aspect of your de facto rule ambassadorship.
And I'm sure we both know just the man to manage them.
I'm sure I don't need to sing Smitty's praises to you...
but I don't think you're fully aware of his distinguished sea service in this particular field,
or the crack ships he's served upon:
The USS Kahtadin, the last torpedo ram built by any naval power,
twenty years in the construction, that's how good it was!
The USS Terror, a monitor of such puissance that it
reminded eyewitnesses of the Civil War just thirty years before!
And of course the USS Panay, a ship of such distinguished service
on the Yangtze that the Japanese insisted we leave it there as a memorial...
So don't worry, Stacy! Between us Smitty and I can make your Ambassadorial term both the diplomatic triumph and the life-enriching experience you always hoped it would be!
Gallant Dick Lugar, who has never met anyone who needed him he couldn't betray, from Filipina election workers threatened by Marcos' secret police to his own constituents, today claimed that Tea Party challengers cost the GOP their Senate Majority in 2010.
Never mind that they had already lost it in the elections of 2006 and 2009.
Lugar has made a career of thwarting efforts by the GOP on judges, gun control legislation, bank bailouts and appointments out of a McCainesque sense of self-importance and urge for media praise. If he seriously thinks the GOP would have done better with the likes of Castle and Crist, he's not only out of touch with the American people, he's out of touch with what's going on in Washington.
Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock is Lugar's Tea Party-endorsed opponent in the primary. Mourdock's campaign site is here.
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