Current mood: amused

Recently, I had heard about one of our intrepid legislators referring to local radio station 770 KKOB-AM as “KKKOB.” Here’s the article in the Albuquerque Journal and the associated video clip.

Anyway, I ran a Google search on “KKKOB” NM, and learned that this gaffe from Eric the Red is merely the latest in a string of such comments, some of which go back years.

Here’s the earliest such that I found on the internet:

Talk radio could play a key public role, if . . .(Insight and Opinion)
The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM)
July 04, 1998
http://accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-108362053/talk-radio-could-play.html

Byline: Kate Nelson

I could call it KKKOB-AM.

I could tell you to listen to a different radio station.

I could recommend that fair-minded business owners yank their ads off its schedule.

But I won’t.

I’m not a speck shy about saying this: I regularly turn my tuner to 770 on the AM dial – not because Larry Ahrens is the always-on-target observer of the political scene and not because Chris Jackson is such an uplifting fellow.

Rather, I listen because I enjoy hearing what “people on the street” are thinking. I like getting regular updates of local and national news. I need the traffic reports to help me cope with my . . .

There’s these comments posted on NMFBIHOP – 19 December 2007, 3 March 2008 and 23 July 2008.

Over at Democracy in New Mexico – 3 March 2008 and 13 May 2010.

“eideard” posted on Kate Nash’s Green Chile Chatter on 28 July 2010.

“justaUNMstudent” posted a comment at N.M. Politics – 30 April 2010.

At DailyKos – 7 October 2009.

At stinque.com – 7 April 2009.

The SWOP blog – 1 July 2008.

At Walled-In Pond: 19 December 2007.

It isn’t limited to political discussions, either: here’s a link to a posting at The Lobo Lair – 24 December 2010

And it’s not just 770-AM that’s received the “KKKOB” nickname – it was applied to KOB-TV on 29 December 2006.

NOTES

1. Reposted –
   1. Personal blog
   2. KCUF Media
   3. The Weekly Sedition
   4. Tyranny Response Team of New Mexico
   5. New Mexico Liberty / Patriot Action Network / NMPolitics.org

Current mood: amused, cynical

Recently, I wrote an article about the recent public-employee-union protests against government spending cuts, labelling them the “Mad Dog 20/20 Party.” So far the Wisconsin protests have been the most striking example of this sort of behavior. Well, on Wednesday, 2 March 2011, the Mad Dog 20/20 Party came to Albuquerque.

I first found about the event here in Albuquerque when I saw a call for a counter-protest on Craigslist:

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So that morning, I went down to the intersection of 5th and Lead SW, as specified in the posting copied above. I arrived at 11:00 AM, figuring that there would be lots of people there, as with the 2009 and 2010 Tea Party rallies in Albuquerque. Wrong – the intersection was deserted, so I killed 45 minutes with a fruit cocktail (non-alcoholic) and iced tea at the Cafe Green, while reading this month’s issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.

At 11:46 AM, I left the Cafe Green and went outside. The Cafe Green is on the northwest corner of the intersection. On the southwest corner of that same intersection is Albuquerque’s Social Security Administration building, complete with concrete buffers along the curb to stop any potential Timothy McVeigh copycats from parking too close. At around this time, the Mad Dog Partiers started arriving in ones and twos (mostly just ones at this point). By 11:53 AM, there were all of 17 people in attendance. One guy in a light blue shirt and dark brown tie spent a good bit of time on the cell phone, one hand holding his sign, the other holding the phone to his ear.

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At 11:58 AM, some guy wearing a tan shirt with the SSA logo on the front came up to me and asked “Who are you?” He identified himself as a “retired SSA employee” after I told him that I’m a freelance writer (true – unless someone wants to give me money for this? Hint, hint – I’ll be happy with Federal Reserve Notes). He asked me if I wanted any “facts and figures,” I told him “No,” and he told me to “make it good.” Ha Ha Ha.

Anyway, this guy told me that of 500 people who are employed at this particular SSA building, 80 had signed up to be present for this event.

I should point out that although the Craigslist post called for a counter-protest, complete with signs, I was the ONLY person present there who was so inclined – thus I stayed on the north side of Lead Avenue and didn’t raise any stink – there was ONE of me, about 80-100 of the Mad Doggers by 12:15 PM, and well, the union crowd has been known to be physically aggressive at times^[1].

There were a few signs for the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the New Mexico Federation of Labor (NMFL), and one or two from the Communications Workers of America (CWA). I didn’t see any signs from Carter Bundy’s AFSCME, nor any other unions that have local affiliates in Albuquerque.

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On several occasions, vehicles painted in the colors of the “Federal Protective Service”, operated by the Heimatschutzministerium der Vereinigten Staaten, passed by on what appeared to be routine patrols. Funny how they didn’t seem to mind me (or anyone else) taking pictures and making video recordings of the marchers – they’ve established a bit of a reputation for arresting people for doing just that, and being rather obnoxious about it, to boot^[2].

Or maybe such photography didn’t constitute a “security threat,” however they make that determination (outside of whatever’s convenient for the U.S. Attorney’s Office?) – there was a guy with a professional-grade camcorder and matching tripod who set up his gear for several minutes, and went about his business unmolested. Or maybe this demonstration had the under-the-table support of the GSA and FPS supervisors?

By 12:09 PM, there were about 60 people in attendance. Some of those driving through honked their horns. Around this time, the guy with the camcorder went over to them, chatted a bit, got some close-up shots, that sort of thing. My first guess is that he was from one of the local TV stations, but don’t they usually show up with a vehicle painted with the station’s name and logo on the side? Yet nothing has shown up on the web about this event, aside from this short PR piece from the AFGE.

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At 12:11 PM, some of the gathered started singing “Solidarity Forever.” [YAWN] Again, no visible counter-protest was evident – I was it where those supporting limited government and fiscal responsibility were concerned.

Some of the signs held up by the protestors included:

• R U 1 OF THE 80 MILLION WE SERVE

  No, I’m one of the 230 million who get ripped off to pay for this racket.

• Hands OFF My Check!!

  Hey, toots, how about YOU get your hands off MY check for a change?

• Keep us working!

  What were these people supposed to be doing besides standing outside this building holding signs? Did this have the support, overt or under-the-table, of their supervisors? If they did, does this constitute tax-supported activity?

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At 12:20 PM, two teen-aged skateboarders were passing through the Cafe Green’s parking lot and were accosted by the Mad Dog Partiers. The kids responded with “Get the fuck outta the way.” So there IS hope for the up-and-coming generation, after all.

At this time, they started chanting, “Workers – united – will never be divided,” a few times, before splitting up into groups and going around the SSA building. [YAWN]. Was lunch time over? I left at 12:23 PM, as another round of chanting was dying out.

QUESTIONS–

• Were these people off or on the clock while conducting this picket?
• Why weren’t the roving FPS patrols harassing and arresting myself and the guy with the camcorder? After all, the event was in front of a federal building.
• Did this event have any kind of official support? Did they use premises of the SSA building to organize it?
• Did they have the proper permit from the City of Albuquerque? Back on 17 July 2009, Albuquerque Police Department chased the Tea Party away from the curb outside Tom Udall’s office on 3rd and Central for “not having the proper permit.”
• Since it seems that this event didn’t merit any media coverage, nor any coverage amongst the local unions on their sites^[3], what was the point of it all?

NOTES

1. Union thug at Atlanta moveon rally 2-26-2011
   MoveOn.org Protester Teamster attacks Tea Party member 2-26-2011 at Sacramento Capitol
   Madison police detain union operative who tried to destroy Tea Party sound system
2. Upholding the Law: Photography Rights are Routinely Ignored
   Photographer and Civil Liberties Group Sue Department of Homeland Security
3. Google search: SSA protest Albuquerque
   Google search: “SSA protest Albuquerque”
   Google search: “SSA protest”
4. Reposted –
   1. Personal blog
   2. KCUF Media
   3. The Weekly Sedition
   4. Tyranny Response Team of New Mexico
   5. New Mexico Liberty
   6. Patriotic Resistance

Current mood: amused, cynical

First came the Tea Party movement^[1], sparked by massive, peaceful protests in American cities. (2009 / 2010) The name comes from the Boston Tea Party of 16 December 1773, where the Sons of Liberty “disguised” themselves as Indians, boarded British cargo vessels docked in Boston Harbor, and threw the tea in those ships’ holds into the harbor.

What are the Tea Party principles? Here they are, as best I can determine:

• Individual rights
• Constitutionally-limited government
• Fiscal responsibility in government
• Free market economics

That sounds familiar! Wait a second here – Bill Koehler and I have been pushing the very same ideas on The Weekly Sedition since 1998. That’s thirteen years, off and on.

In response to the “unseemly” and “disrespectful” tone that many Tea Party protestors showed towards Congresscritters who supported ObamaCare, the “Coffee Party USA” was started. Its stated premise was (still is?) that “government is not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges we face as Americans.”

If there’s any doubt that “Coffee Party USA” is the Obamaton answer to the Tea Party groups, feel free to check out their mission statement or their “about us” page.

I don’t know about you, dear readers, but that sounds like Borg-speak to me – “Resistance is futile” and “Freedom is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant.”

Anyway, see just how the “Coffee Party” takes America by storm!

In a civil, non-confrontational manner, of course.

And then there’s the last protest movement to arrive on the American political scene. This one hit just recently, as public employee unions get all worked up over possible pay cuts, layoffs and furloughs due to budget shortfalls. Let’s call this one, for lack of a better name, the “Mad Dog 20/20 Party.” It’s named after the infamous low-end fortified wine named, of course, “‘Mad Dog’ 20/20.”

After all, they’re getting upset because the never-ending gravy train that they were promised seems to be running out of steam. More precisely, it’s running out of piles of FRNs, taxed away from Productive Class private citizens, that can be thrown willy-nilly into the “boilers.”

The difference here is that when some private citizen chugs a bottle of good ol’ Mad Dog, only one person gets drunk. But in the current situation with the public employees, while they get to run amok like drunken sailors (I know – I’m defaming drunken sailors, who only blow their own cash), it’s the rest of us that get that reeling, room-is-spinning feeling as we see the public debt (that somehow we are expected to repay?!) explode to new heights, and the value of each FRN these clowns leave us with drops correspondingly.

The most disgusting thing about the Mad Dog 20/20 Party is that some of its crowd have had the nerve to refer to themselves as being akin to the protestors in Egypt, who recently caused the resignation of Hosni Mubarak. Let’s see – the Egyptians were protesting about police brutality, corruption in government circles, election issues, and the economic malaise caused by the Mubarak regime.

In contrast, the Mad Dog 20/20 Party complains that they might be out of work, and after all, who will process the welfare handouts while they’re off the job? That’s when they’re not protesting possible cuts in pay.

I think that We the Taxpayers would make out much, much better if these people were actually drinking massive amounts of cheap alcohol on the job, as in they wouldn’t be as able to intervene in the economy as much, and there might be some “leftover” FRNs at the end of the year.

NOTES

1. Often confused with the Boston Tea Party, established in 2006, re-established in 2008.
2. Reposted –
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   2. KCUF Media
   3. The Weekly Sedition
   4. Tyranny Response Team of New Mexico
   5. New Mexico Liberty / Patriotic Resistance

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 / Xanga
   3. The Weekly Sedition
   4. New Mexico Liberty

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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.
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   2. KCUF Media – WordPress / Xanga
   3. The Weekly Sedition
   4. New Mexico Liberty / Patriotic Resistance

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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 – WordPress / Xanga
   2. KCUF Media – WordPress / Xanga
   3. New Mexico’s Consumer Advocate / The Weekly Sedition
   4. Darth Mike – WordPress / Xanga
   5. New Mexico Liberty

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amused, cheerful

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     79%   Ron Paul
     70%   Mike Huckabee
     69%   John McCain
     69%   Mitt Romney
     67%   Fred Thompson
     58%   Tom Tancredo
     49%   Bill Richardson
     48%   Rudy Giuliani
     46%   Mike Gravel
     43%   Chris Dodd
     42%   Dennis Kucinich
     38%   Barack Obama
     36%   John Edwards
     34%   Hillary Clinton
     32%   Joe Biden

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

I’d like to know how the fuck this quiz puts Mitt Romney and John McCain at 69% with me. AGH!

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From “Monty Python”

Perhaps one of the most interesting words in the English language today, is the word “fuck.” Out of all the English words that begin with the letter ‘f’ . . . “fuck” is the only word refered to as “the f word.” It’s the one magical word. Just by its sound can describe pain, pleasure, hate and love. “Fuck,” as most words in the English language, is derived from German . . . he word “flieken,” which means “to strike.” In English, fuck falls into many grammatical categories:

As a transitive verb for instance . . . John fucked Shirley.
As an intransitive verb . . . Shirley fucks.

Its meaning is not always sexual, it can be used as . . .

An adjective such as . . . John’s doing all the fucking work.
As part of an adverb . . . Shirley talks too fucking much.
As an adverb enhancing an adjective . . . Shirley is fucking beautiful.
As a noun . . . I don’t give a fuck.
As part of a word . . . absofuckinglutely -or- infuckingcredible.
And as almost every word in a sentence . . . Fuck the fucking fuckers.

As you must realize, there aren’t too many words with the versatility of “fuck” . . . such as these examples describing situations such as:

Fraud . . . I got fucked at the used car lot.
Dismay . . . ahhh fuck it.
Trouble . . . I guess I’m really fucked now.
Agression . . . Don’t fuck with me, buddy.
Difficulty . . . I don’t understand this fucking question.
Inquiry . . . Who the fuck was that?
Dissatisfaction . . . I don’t like what the fuck is going on here.
Incompetance . . . He’s a fuck-off.
Dismissal . . . Why don’t you go outside and play hide and go fuck yourself . . .

I’m sure you can think of many more examples. With all these multi-purpose applications, how can anyone be offended when you use the word? We say use this unique, flexible word more often in your daily speech. It will identify the quality of your character immediately. Say it loudly and proudly . . .

FUCK YOU!

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