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Saturday, May 23, 2009

What?!!?!? His Middle Name Isn't Tiberius?!? 

...having just finally engineered an opportunity to get the nucular family (all due homeage to G. W. Bush) to a theatrical big screen showing of "Star Trek", I have to admit I'm all fired up about the idea of zinging around in outer space. It is in this particular emotional context that I sit down in front of my cranky ol' laptop to find that Charles F. Bolton, Jr., has been nominated by President Obama to be the new head honcho at NASA...

Bolton is a guy with a personal history of the sort that you would expect to see characterized in some movie about courage and service and sacrifice down at the multiplex on a Saturday night. He's a Naval Academy graduate who went to the
Dark Side of Marine Corps aviation as an A6 Intruder pilot and who flew into space as either pilot or mission commander on four separate Shuttle missions...

It will be interesting to see what sort of games the Republic-Fascist minority will want to play with this Democratic nomination in an effort to demonstrate that there is 'something' wrong with that nomination. There may well be 'something' that they can hook onto, if only because there is always 'something' these days for the minority party to refer to, whether or not it actually matters to real Americans...

If the last several weeks provide any glimpse of the future, this is what we know: somehow, sometime soon, Mitch McConnell will be explaining to us, courtesy of the MSM, why his own remarkably meager military service leads him to a clear understanding as to why a long-time Marine Officer with 100 combat missions and four trips into space in his log book isn't just exact the sort of person that needs to take over the national space agency. Let's face it; Bolden's middle name isn't "Tiberius", so it's hard to imagine any Republic-Fascist supporting him as NASA administrator if there is any even faint hope that James T. Kirk is somehow available...
Posted by: Jack K. / 8:37 PM 0 comments

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

What "Turning A Corner" Looks Like In Wingnut Land 

...apparently, in the sweaty, twisted world of the Republican party, there is heartening evidence that they have finally Turned A Corner. Or at least this is the mindset in the especially sweaty, twisted, and oh-so-very-threatened world of (for the time being) Republican National Committee chairman Michael "Laugh-A-Minute" Steele, if his speech today is any measure...

It's a curious corner-turning that Steele claims to be seeing, if the next route segment is supposed to be a resurgence of the Republican Party. In just the last couple of weeks, the party over which he has only a nominal and rapidly diminishing influence has:

A) lost a special congressional election in New York's traditionally Republican-dominant District 20, a contest that only the most starry-eyed liberal pundits predicted the party stood a chance of losing...

B) watched as a very senior member of its Senate Caucus leave the party because he, as an admittedly 'feet of clay' moderate who tended to vote with the party about 97% of the time, realized that his kind of mealy-mouthed parsing of issues from a so-called 'moderate' standpoint would be a stone cold loser in a primary contest...

C) embraced the whole "tea-bagging" revolution, even though many of the people who showed up for these little protests were the sorts of fiscally conservative Ron Paul supporter/libertarian folks to whom the Republican party has only paid lip service over the last two decades while engaging in its firm effort to focus on feeding that social issues beast that has been its core...

D) decided to get back to some "new" message that isn't any different from the message it has been pushing for over a decade, even though the party hasn't ever carried through on the promise of consummating that message after several years of control of all the branches of Federal Government and has been bleeding party-registered supporters because of that quite singular failing...

This isn't 'Turning A Corner'; this is mistaking a shadow for a corner and - on making that turn - smashing face-first into the wall that's sitting where you thought was the empty space on the other side of the corner you thought you were turning. When it comes to the Republic-Fascist party, this is a corner-turning that I can fully support...
Posted by: Jack K. / 8:15 PM 0 comments

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