Month: February 2011

  • Local iQ Takes the Plunge

    Current mood: amused, cynical

    Well, folks, it seems as though Albuquerque’s local weekly “alternative” paper, The Weekly Alibi, is getting a competitor for its audience of “leftist” oppressive and regressive types (also known as “Obamatons”).

    In the current edition of Local iQ, there’s an op-ed piece titled “EPA’s efforts have made Earth a better place.” (Local iQ, V.6 I.3 10-23 February 2011, p.15[1])

    This is something of a departure from what I had previously thought of as a non-political publication. Indeed, Local iQ used to be just about Albuquerque- and Rio Rancho-area nightlife, book clubs, recipes and such. And they do a decent job there, even if some of their picks are a bit on the pricey side.

    Now I’m sure that the paper’s editorial staff and publishers will contend that the article I’ve mentioned here is not in any way politically-intended commentary, and that they printed it as a form of “public service,” like those “public service” TV spots telling kids to avoid (illegal) drugs.

    Yeah, right.

    The fact remains that all of the EPA’s “achievements” listed in the article were (and still are, in some cases) politically-contentious issues, such as “secondhand smoke,” banning DDT and now “climate change.”

    I’m also sure that when this point is brought to the attention of the paper’s staff, they’ll blow it off with an elitist, snobby comment like “We ran that article because we care about the Earth. Don’t you care?

    I can only wonder if they’ll offer space for letters to the editor, so that opposing viewpoints can get an occasional airing.

    It would seem the logical thing for “Albuquerque’s Intelligent Alternative” to do – give the readers both sides, and let them make up their own minds.

    But if they don’t, that’s OK, too – it’s their paper, and they have the right to print (and not print) the articles, columns and such as they see fit.

    Just remember that an alternative exists in the New Mexico Breeze.


    NOTES

    1. I scanned the article and posted the resulting picture, as the paper’s staff didn’t post it to the web as of this time. After a Google search, I found the original article at the site of E – The Environmental Magazine“40th Anniversary for EPA”.

    2. Reposted –
      1. Personal blogs – WordPress / Xanga
      2. KCUF Media – WordPress
      3. The Weekly Sedition
      4. Darth Mike
      5. New Mexico Liberty


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  • Donald Trump on Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani

    In the video clip below, “The Donald” Trump tells CPAC attendees why Ron Paul is “unelectable.”[1]

    So if “The Donald” is (s)elected to be President of the United States, will Rudy Giuliani end up as First Lady?

    First Harlot is more like it, given Rudy-poo’s previous political career.

    No offense intended towards honest courtesans and sluts. Nor any offense intended towards any Liberty-favoring folks living the LGBTQ, kinky, poly, etc., lifestyles[2].

    Trump – YOU’RE FIRED.


    NOTES

    1. My preference for the GOP presidential nomination is for Gary Johnson. Picture this – Gary Johnson vs. Bill Richardson as the Democrat nominee. Two two-term governors from the same state – all the voters would have to do is compare the candidates’ track records as governor – Richardson would almost have to go negative in order to win, and the last time someone tried that against Gary Johnson (Slick Marty Chavez in 1998), it backfired big-time.

      As for Obama having the Democrat nomination locked up now, well, I’m sure that in 1967, Lyndon Johnson thought that he was a shoe-in for the 1968 nomination.

    2. For example, Outright USA and Pink Pistols.
    3. Reposted –
      1. Personal blogs – WordPress / Xanga
      2. KCUF Media – WordPress
      3. The Weekly Sedition
      4. Darth Mike
      5. New Mexico Liberty / Patriotic Resistance


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  • Gay Democrats, Gun-Owning Republicans

    Outright USA asked the question:

    What did you think of the LP statement that gay Democrats are like abused spouses who return to their attackers?

    The results at this time –

    Exactly right.
    75     41.7%

    I’ll believe the LP when they remove the pro-DADT and pro-DOMA members from their National Committee.
    50     27.8%

    I wish they hadn’t said that the LP ‘neither supports nor opposes gay relationships.’ It undermined the message.
    30     16.7%

    The analogy was generous to the DNC and an insult to spousal abusers.
    25     13.9%

    I wonder if the question were changed to the following:

    What did you think of the LP statement that gun-owning Republicans are like abused spouses who return to their attackers?

    What would the results be?


    NOTES

    1. Reposted –

      1. Personal blogs – WordPress / Xanga
      2. KCUF Media – WordPress
      3. The Weekly Sedition / Partisans of the American Southwest / Tyranny Response Team of New Mexico
      4. New Mexico Liberty


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  • Maxine on ObamaCare

    Current mood: ecstatic

    Let me get this straight . . . .

    We’re going to be “gifted” with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don’t,

    which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents,

    written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it,

    passed by a Congress that didn’t read it but exempted themselves from it,

    and signed by a President who smokes,

    with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes,

    for which we’ll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect,

    by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare,

    all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese,

    and financed by a country that’s broke!

           

    ‘What the hell could possibly go wrong?’

           

    Who voted for change?


    NOTES

    1. Reposted –

      1. Personal blogs – WordPressXanga
      2. KCUF Media – WordPress
      3. The Weekly Sedition
      4. Darth Mike – WordPressXanga
      5. New Mexico Liberty


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