Reno and Beyond: What Are We Playing At?
Photos courtesy of Scott Schrantz at AroundCarson
- I was thanked for my efforts to carpool and help relieve some of the congestion on Reno roads today by being towed from the parking lot I use in lieu of an actual park and ride lot. The $200 bucks it took to bail out my car would’ve bought a lot of vodka. This is the kind of thing I am talking about when I complain about the lack of mass transportation infrastructure.
- Is there anyone who actually takes anything Bush says seriously anymore? If so, its simply an effort to document each lie he tells. That will be his legacy. George W. Bush: Big Fat Liar. Is someone writing that book yet?
- Nevadans say they’d have less of a problem voting for a woman or black man, but Mormons are different. All of which is funny because Nevadans have elected lots of Mormons and very few women or black men. I’ll explain it for you. All those people who quietly voted for Bush in 2004 (and wouldn’t admit it to the pollsters) are the same people who say that they’d vote for a woman or a black man with no problem. However, when it comes down to it, they’ll vote for the well-groomed white guy.
- What? Clark County officials think that some Vegas billboards are too big and bright? According to this Sun article, the county only allows signs that do not “illuminate with such brilliance as to blind or dazzle the vision of travelers.” Who came up with that ordinance, Liberace?
- Steve Fossett is missing from the Carson City whereabouts.
- I had a friend who went through a Larry Craig situation. Her father was arrested in a rest stop sting in Virginia and finally had to come clean about his double life. I’m not sure that anyone is happier, but they are more relaxed. I do feel very bad for Craig’s family and I’m not sure why he thinks pursuing his case publicly at this point will help anyone. It won’t. And it seems that the police in Virginia and Minnesota definitely have better things they could be doing.
- Olbermann hits the nail on the head with last night’s commentary. Bush has finally admitted that he is using the troops to reach your political ends. Its disgusting. He will never resign. We must impeach:
Scott Schrantz can always be depended upon for some amusing local history. One of Reno’s legendary arches was given/sold to Willits, California and now says “Gateway to America’s Redwoods.”
But this president has ceased to listen. This president has decided that night is day, and death is life, and enraging the world against us is safety. And this laziest of presidents, actually interrupted his precious time off to fly to Iraq to play at a photo opportunity with soldiers, some of whom will on his orders be killed before the year maybe the month is out.
Just over 500 days remain in this presidency. Consider the dead who have piled up on the battlefield in these last 500 days.
Consider the singular fraudulence of this president’s trip to Iraq yesterday, and the singular fraudulence of the selling of the Petraeus Report in these last 500 days.
Consider how this president has torn away at the fabric of this nation in a manner of which terrorists can only dream in these last 500 days.
And consider again how this president has spoken to that biographer: that he is “playing for October-November.” The goal in Iraq is “to get us in a position where the presidential candidates will be comfortable about sustaining a presence.” Consider how this revelation contradicts every other rationale he has offered in these last 500 days.
In the context of all that now, consider these next 500 days.
Mr. Bush, our presence in Iraq must end. Even if it means your resignation. Even if it means your impeachment. Even if it means a different Republican to serve out your term. Even if it means a Democratic Congress and those true patriots among the Republicans standing up and denying you another penny for Iraq, other than for the safety and the safe conduct home of our troops.
This country cannot run the risk of what you can still do to this country in the next 500 days.
Not while you are playing.
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In my opinion, I think people feel bad voting for a Muslim because they don’t know what he’s about. Did I say Muslim? I meant Mormon. Caffeine free coke at communion? He might as well be a Bahai. St. Louis as the Holy Land? Is there a Mormon-Monster Pig connection? It just seems like a sideshow as much as a religion. If they think mainstream Christians are infidels…what’ll they think of baby-eating Mormons, in my opinion.
Mormons=Muslims-Masons
Only a Mormon would name a kid “Mitt.” They’re unstable, in my opinion. That and having multiple underage wives doesn’t help, either, in my opinion. It means somebody in his family got some literature from some lunatic off the street, read the pamphlet and decided to base their life around it. Bad decision-making skills. Yuck.
Myrna - I’m no Bush fan, but I am a Devil’s advocate.
Bush is not going to be impeached. If there’s one thing the Democrats learned from Bill Clinton, it’s that Congressional rebukes of the Chief Executive are huge timewasters. It derailed the Contract With America, and it would derail the New Direction. (That’s not to say there aren’t plent of Dems in the Congress who wouldn’t make that mistake, however.)
Furthermore, Bush-basing is an entertaining strategy - and remarkably successful in 2004 - but Bush-voter-bashing is unhelpful rhetoric. “All those people who quietly voted for Bush in 2004 (and wouldn’t admit it to the pollsters) are the same people who say that they’d vote for a woman or a black man with no problem. However, when it comes down to it, they’ll vote for the well-groomed white guy.”
Probably, that’s true. We do know that voters lie to pollsters. We know that they lie to cover up their racism. It seems to me, however, that your purpose here is not to chastise them for their misleading of political metrics. You’re upset with them for supporting Caligula, Most Hated of Presidents.
Even Hitler only got about 1/3 of the electorate - and Bush ain’t no Hitler. Approximately half of this country has selected him twice for various reasons. Though Bush may be an idiot, accusing half of your neighbors to be idiots-by-association does not raise the debate above Rovian vitriol. It just substitutes it for a left-wing version. Ultimately, I feel this is a disservice.
Rovian? I can handle Hasselhofian, but there I draw the line.
DID half of the country vote for him TWICE? That’s still debatable.
I take one of your points. And I don’t even think Bush is an idiot, well, not really. You may be right about impeachment but I don’t think so because the circumstances are so different. Adultery versus desecration of the Constitution?–not even in the same baseball stadium. Do I think it will actually happen? No, but I believe that the more people say it out loud, the possibility that some more of these criminals and traitors will actually be convicted of their crimes and that is what I want. So I am going to keep the discussion going for that reason if for not any other. What is most disturbing to me is the way that Bush and crew are furiously working away on their legacy at our expense. I need to do whatever I can to counteract that rhetoric in the public sphere.
George Washington was a founding father. George W. Bush= A losing mother.
There are also rumours that the Shrub and his loyalists may flee the country after his term to avoid prosecution. These came up after news reports that Bush and/or his aides had inquired about purchasing a ranch in Paraguay. To the best of my knowlegde, Paraguay has no extradition treaty with the US……
Paraguay. Ol’ Georgie wants to be closer to the nose candy, eh?
Strongest words yet from Olberman!
Bush and Cheney, like Nixon and Kissinger see our soldiers as nothing more than expendable pawns - but, the real problem is they just don’t get it!
Cheney is playing Chess - and Bush thinks it’s just a game of Checkers?
Are you sure its not Brazil?
Must’ve driven under that arch at least 11 times since 1993. Thinking now that somehow that driving under that arch had something to do with getting me to move to Reno, NV against my will.
Heavy stuff.
I remember it being in the news, and actually mentioned by Olbermann on Countdown, kind of a blink-and-you-miss-it thing. But it would almost certainly be Paraguay, where the Shrub’s passable Spanish would work (not to mention the extradition thing), instead of Portugese-speaking Brazil.
But now that I think of it, there are pockets of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Chile that don’t speak the local language, or use it as a second language, due to the wave of immigrants to that area after WW2. But they spoke German, Italian, and Japanese. Defeated people, folks.
Sounds just like the Shrub, eh?
Where to start. Impeachment! Conspiracies to leave the country! And to top off the crazy sundae, we get a comment from the crazy cherry himself JLA! Well done.