It’s not the right color blue, but screw it, I ain’t buyin’ a new helmet for comedy purposes.
I got the blues
Category: Deep political thought
The Trojan bicycle
Dan Maes is challenging Tom Tancredo for the title of Craziest Coloradan, and he’s making a pretty good show of it.
According to The Denver Post, Maes told a campaign rally last weekend that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper — whom Maes hopes to face in the governor’s race — plans to use Trojan bicycles to deliver the unwary residents of Denver into the Marxist mitts of the United Nations.
“This is all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed,” Maes told about 50 supporters who showed up at a campaign rally last week in Centennial. “These aren’t just warm, fuzzy ideas from the mayor. These are very specific strategies that are dictated to us by this United Nations program that mayors have signed on to.”
Maes said later that he was referring to Denver’s membership in the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, an international association that promotes sustainable development. About half its 1,200 member communities are in the United States, according to The Post.
The smoking gun here apparently is Denver’s B-Cycle bike-sharing program, funded by private donors and grants, and Hickenlooper’s support for alternative modes of transportation, bicycling among them. Because nothing says socialism, atheism and one-world government like folks getting around by pushing two pedals instead of one.
• Late update: One of the systemwide sponsors of this commuting-for-commies scheme is Quiznos, a Denver-based sandwich chain — would you like fries with your Russian sub, comrade? — which also happens to be the title sponsor of the eight-day stage race Colorado is supposed to be getting next year. Arise, ye prisoners of starvation — you have nothing to lose but your chains. Just ask Andy Schleck.
The empty chamber
http://www.youtube.com/v/CVE72Ae82Tw&hl=en_US&fs=1
Here’s a fun story from The New Yorker about how the U.S. Senate works, or mostly doesn’t. Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, who was appointed to his seat last year and is already running in defense of it, contributes a few comments that make me wonder why in hell he wants to stay there.
“Sit and watch us for seven days — just watch the floor,” the freshman Democrat told George Packer. “You know what you’ll see happening? Nothing.”
I appreciate that it should be difficult to create and pass legislation to fix things and help people. But it should not be impossible. And lately, it is. This is not encouraging if you’re among the growing fraction of jobless Americans that Paul Krugman fears are in danger of becoming a permanent underclass as Congress defines prosperity down.
Big Brother wants your Google history
As a judge strikes down parts of an Arizona police-state practice excoriated by the feds, the feds seek to do what? Expand a police-state practice of their own.
The administration wants to add just four words – “electronic communication transactional records” – to a list of items that the law says the FBI may demand without a judge’s approval. Government lawyers say this category of information includes the addresses to which an Internet user sends e-mail; the times and dates e-mail was sent and received; and possibly a user’s browser history. It does not include, the lawyers hasten to point out, the “content” of e-mail or other Internet communication.
“Our biggest concern is that an expanded NSL power might be used to obtain Internet search queries and Web histories detailing every Web site visited and every file downloaded,” said Kevin Bankston, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has sued AT&T for assisting the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program.
Lovely. As Kevin Drum said, “You know if I’d wanted Dick Cheney as president I’d have just voted for him.”
For real. This ain’t the change I was hoping for. C’mon, you guys — knock this shit off. Don’t make me stop this blog and come back there.
No joke(r)
Tom Tancredo, hands down the craziest Coloradan outside the walls of the state rubber room in Pueblo, will announce today that he will run for governor as the candidate of the American Constitution Party, according to The Denver Post.
Tancredo and GOP poobah Dick Wadhams apparently traded pleasantries on the topic during Peter Boyles’ talk show this morning, with Wadhams asking: “What’s your agenda? What are you going to talk about? Impeach Obama and bomb Mecca?”
To be sure, Dick old scout. And that’s just the beginning. If crazy were asphalt we could squeeze Tancredo like a toothpaste tube and patch every pothole in this cash-strapped state, with enough left over to make I-25 eight lanes in both directions from New Mexico to Wyoming.
Bibleburg being Bibleburg, I fully expect to see Tancredo signs replacing McIsn’t placards citywide within nanoseconds of the official announcement. Half the dingbats in this benighted mini-metropolis go to bed at night jerking off to pictures of Doug Bruce.
• Late update: The Bibleburg Gaslight views with alarm, and even quotes Ozzy Osbourne. The End Times are truly upon us.
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