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The right wingers have turned on each other and are eating their own.

Witness the events of the CPAC convention:

Andrew Breitbart and Max Blumenthal got into a big shouting match because Max called Jimmie O’Keefe a racist and then said he didn’t.

One speaker, introducing conservative hero and role model Grover Norquist, made a joke about Joe Stack.  Later, congressman Steven King (R (of course) –Iowa), in an unrecorded conversation, said that he empathized with Stack and that people should implode IRS offices.  This isn’t really an example of the right eating their own, because I didn’t hear anybody on the right issuing a condemnation or a call for an apology, but it’s a clearly reprehensible position and will hurt them badly with the general, non wing-nutty population.

Ron Paul won a presidential straw poll, with 31% and the crowd booed.  Their leading candidate is hated by almost 70% of them.  Sarah Palin had less than 10%.

The costumes were ridiculous, especially that OBAMA FAIL WHALE which looked more like Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street.  Seriously, if the delegates watch this event on home video, after they get home, and are not embarrassed, they are even shallower than I thought and that is pretty fucking godawful shallow.

But CPAC is a sideshow, not much more relevant than the Teabagger convention which preceded it.  The real sign that the right is falling apart was Scott Brown’s vote to allow cloture and a floor vote on Obama’s jobs bill, and the reaction to it in the twittersphere.

Nasty messages galore, calling him a lying RINO and a lot worse.  Facebook friends are defriending him at a record pace.  Contributors are swearing to never contribute again.

The American right wing’s love affair with Ron Paul is over.  The American right wing’s love affair with Sarah Palin is over.  The American right wing’s love affair with Scott Brown is over.

It’s over.

Some people think I am too quick to believe in conspiracy theories.  Actually, I don’t so much believe in conspiracy theories as I invent my own.  Sometimes they are very similar to other people’s, of course, because great minds think alike and some things are just bloody obvious.

Lyndon Johnson was behind the Kennedy assassination.  When I first started saying that, I got reactions that ranged from outraged to amused.  Now, I generally get a “Well, could be…”

The World Trade Center had bombs in the basement.  Does the name Marvin Bush ring a bell?  In my head, it fucking sets off an alarm.

Guy Fawkes was framed.

First off, cui bono.  Lyndon Johnson.  Oh, hell, yeah.  He wanted to be president so bad he was ready to do anything.  Marvin’s big brother George.  James I.

And the evidence they have against Guy Fawkes is his confession, which was obtained by torture.

But I digress.  The reason for this blog post is that I was just reading a blog called Immoralminority, which is based in Alaska, and dedicated to exposing Sarah Palin.  Specifically, the premise in the post I read was that there are two Trigs.  Photos taken a few days after the birth do not match photos taken when he was 5 months or so, on the campaign trail.  It’s in the ears.

The blog also rehashed stuff I’ve heard before, but has been woefully undercovered in the MSM, i.e.  the long flight from Texas.  Now, I don’t know exactly what the airline regulations are but I believe they do discourage women from flying who are more than 8 months or so pregnant, which would include someone whose water has broken.  I’d like to hear from some airline employees who were on duty that day.  I’d like to hear from some other passengers on that flight.  I’d like to hear from some doctors – is this acceptable behavior?

And, of course, I’d like to hear from some staff at the hospital because I just don’t believe that Sarah was pregnant or gave birth on that day.  I’m not too sure about her motives, because cui the hell bono, as they say.  She wasn’t the Vice Presidential candidate at that point.

First let’s figure out if she did it and then worry about motive later.

I have no idea how to proceed, but my new favorite blog is immoralminority.

The War on Terror is

The war on terror is over.  Robert Gibbs just ended it.

When failed computer nerd, loser in love and American kamikaze Joe Stack flew his plane into the 2^nd story of a 7 story building in Austin, Texas, the local  headquarters of the IRS, after posting a long suicide note on the internet blaming the IRS (Internal Revenue Service – the tax people) for all the problems of his life, it seemed like the textbook definition of a terrorist attack.  Plane flying into building.  Check.  Crazy pilot with a political agenda.  Check.  Suicide note clearly stating his reasons for flying a plane into a government building and stating what he hoped to accomplish:  “ a knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are.”  Check.

So why did Gibbs say this had no connection to terrorism?  Because terrorism is whatever we say it is.  By calling this a crime and a terrible tragedy, an isolated incident committed by a person who was not of stable mind and whose opinions and convictions therefore can, and should, be considered irrelevant, Gibbs (who speaks for Obama, of course) said we’re not going to indulge in hysteria.  And that, of course, is all the war on terror ever was.  Institutionalized hysteria.  9/11, 9/11, Patriotic Act, Homeland Security, Orange Alert, Shoes Off, Everything’s changed, WMDs,WMDS, Yellowcake, Mobile Labs, Must Bomb Now, Must Bomb Now, Flags Here, Flags There, Flags, Flags Everywhere, Flag Pins, Flag Pins, Why Don’t You Wear A Flag Pin, Soft on Terror Arugula Eater,3 a.m., UnAmerican, Birth Certificate! Birth Certificate!, Teleprompter!  Feet on Desk!

And now it’s over.  Because if this isn’t an act of terror, then nothing is. And if the right wingers insist on calling it an act of terror then they may win the battle but they will definitely lose the war because this bozo was clearly one of their own.

By reacting calmly and rationally, Gibbs (Obama)  has refused to grant Joe Stack his last request of “a knee jerk government reaction that results in more stupid Draconian restrictions….”  And that means the terrorists have lost.

My daughter has about 10 million dolls.  She has plush dolls and plastic dolls, baby dolls and Barbie dolls.  She has so many dolls, I don’t think she has formed a close personal relationship with any one. 

A couple of weeks ago we caught her cutting the hair off one of her Barbie dolls.  After freaking out a bit and thinking we were raising a psychopath, a bad seed, that we had our own little Linda Blair, we asked her why she’d done it.

It turns out she’d been watching the episode of Mr. Bean (like about 40 times in a row.  I really should have figured this out) where Mr. Bean goes in to get his hair cut and then while the barber’s out of the room he cuts a couple of customers’ hair and pockets the money, but of course he totally butchers them and then sneaks out, with a poster of Prince Charles covering his face, while the irate customers yell at the actual barber.  It was pretty funny, the first 9 or 10 times.

So, dolls can be a useful tool for parents.  It lets you know what your child is thinking.  Of course, within some limited parameters, she’s pretty good about letting us know what she is thinking anyway.  She can scream pretty loud for a 3 year old and, in my experience, most 3 year olds can scream pretty loud.  She smiles and laughs a lot, too, but for appreciating the subtle nuances of her mind, dolls do serve a purpose.

I frequently ask her what her doll’s names are.  At first, that question drew blank stares.  Then, she would just say “Dolly.”  One day, she was holding two dolls and I asked her their names and she said one was Dolly and the other was Panenka.  (Panenka is Czech for Doll)  Lately, they take on the names of babies we know.  The next door neighbor or her cousin, for instance.  She’s making progress.

I must admit, we’re horribly old-fashioned parents as far as sexual stereotyping of our kids go.  We have our son enrolled in both football (or, as you would say in America, soccer) and hockey.  I think it’s basically a character building thing, good exercise and he’s making lots of friends, but there’s a worrying aspect to it, too.

He’s actually as interested in watching as in playing, and he’s just as interested in the teams’ logos, the fans’ chants and team songs and stuff like that as he is in the actual game.  He was watching a video in support of some Bulgarian team the other day and I saw some White Power symbols.

I tried to talk to him about racism and why it was bad.  But he still likes the songs.  It’s scary.  He’s 7.

Mitt Romney got into an argument with another passenger on an airplane the other day.  We don’t really know much more than that.  Oh, we know they were sitting in coach, the plane hadn’t taken off yet, Romney asked the guy to unrecline his seat and he “became violent.”  Yes, the quote marks were in the original story.

We don’t know who the guy was, whether he knew who Romney was, what exact words were used and what “became violent” meant.  I’m guessing he didn’t actually strike the former governor and mega-millionaire, or they probably would have reported that.

Once again, the main stream media (MSM) is not doing its job.  Back when I was studying journalism at El Camino Community College, I’d have got a failing grade for a story like this.  How old was the man?  Where was he from?  Did he have any reason for being angry?  Had the flight been delayed?  Was alcohol involved?  Did other passengers witness this?  What did they have to say?  How was the “violent person” restrained?  And, the question I would really like to know the answer to, why was a man whose net worth is between a quarter and a half a billion dollars flying in coach?

I’ve got a guess on that last one, which some would say is a conspiracy theory, but in the absence of any actual facts, what the hell.  Romney was flying in coach so he would be seen flying in coach.  Of course, it does no good if it doesn’t get in the papers.  So, when the person in front of him put his seat back, Romney probably said “Excuse me, could you put your seat back up (sotto voce) you pudding headed Canuck.”  Or something like that.  It’s even possible that the whole thing was staged, that Romney bought the struggling young actor a seat just to stage the whole kerfuffle.  (Unsurprisingly, Romney is not pressing charges.)

Some will say that this is a rather far fetched interpretation of events, that I have no reason to suspect such a thing, but…if that were Romney’s intent, it worked.  The comment threads across the internet were filled with comments (possibly placed by Romney staffers, but quite likely some not) saying “Gee, Romney flies coach.  What a rare politician.  I think I’ll vote for him.”

Besides that, I suspect it just because I think it’s the kind of thing that politicians do.  When they’re not planning on running for office in the near future, they fly 1^st class or take a private plane.