Janus Online

Our fabulous Senate candidate has a brand spanking new web site, with issue papers, a cool events section, a place to share and read personal stories, personal fundraising, and lots more. Check it out!

Jump in the time machine for a minute--I had forgotten what a big deal Mark's race was nationally in 1998. It was being used as a predictor of whether impeachment would bring the huge Republican gains that the fringe-right base was predicting. Instead, it was the beginning of the end for the Republicans. Mark won in 1998 (and Tom Udall beat a Republican incumbent in New Mexico's 3rd district that same year), and the Democrats took the Senate in 2000. And were it not for Tom DeLay's national gerrymandering campaign after the census, Republicans likely would have lost seats in 2002. There should be a lesson in that for the fringe-left these days, but they won't hear it.

From 9News:

Denver voters have already started receiving their ballots for the November 6 all-mail election, but the ballots do not include information about how much postage to include.

But here's the key piece of information:

[Because] the election seal is on the envelope, it will get back to the office, even if the postage is incorrect.

Put the minimum amount of postage and teach the city a lesson by making them pay the difference. But the better solution to make sure your vote gets counted and not lost in the mail:

Voters can also drop off their ballots starting October 29 at the following 16 locations:

* Athmar Recreation Center, 2680 W. Mexico Ave.
* Barnum Recreation Center, 360 Hooker St.
* District 3 Police Station, 1625 S. University Blvd.
* Eisenhower Recreation Center, 4300 E. Dartmouth Ave.
* Glenarm Recreation Center, 2800 Glenarm Pl.
* Green Valley Ranch Recreation Center, 4890 Argonne Way
* Harvey Park Recreation Center, 2120 S. Tennyson St.
* Hiawatha Davis Recreation Center, 3334 Holly St.
* Montbello Recreation Center, 15555 E. 53rd Ave.
* Montclair Recreation Center, 729 Ulster Way
* Scheitler Recreation Center, 5031 W. 46th Ave.
* Tattered Cover Bookstore, 1628 16th St. * Tattered Cover Bookstore, 2626 E. Colfax Ave.
* Wellington Webb Municipal Office Building, 201 W. Colfax Ave. * Westerly Creek Elementary School, 8800 E. 28th Ave.
* Elections Division Office Lobby, 303 W. Colfax Ave. (Colfax & Court Place)

Everyone I know who visits India talks about the traffic. Here's a sample:

And I doubt you have, the site now looks totally different.

I had been meaning to make a change, but I wasn't planning on doing it haphazardly or using a canned template. But, you see, I installed MovableType 4.0 beta, and let's just say it was slightly more painful than I had hoped. The old templates were basically unfixable, so I'm using the stock templates now with one of the many canned themes available out there.

That being said, I love MovableType 4. It's a beta...very beta... but it has promise.

Keith Swain, writing for The Denver Post, opines:

Reflecting the growing dilution of the gay rights movement in the name of diversity, Denver’s PrideFest, of which the gay pride parade is a part, and the other pride marches across the country have followed the trend and have lost their ability to educate the public about the general gay community. PrideFest now is part protest, part parade, part political theater, part circuit party, and part street fair. In other words, in its attempt to meet the needs of such a diverse community, it tries to be everything to everyone. Sadly, as a result, it has become nothing to anyone, except the sexual fringe communities. The gay men and women I know stay away from PrideFest, not out of discomfort for being gay, but because current PrideFest participants are not reflective of them or their values.

Tell that to the quarter million people who show up, Keith. Tell that to the three-block long contingent of political leaders and candidates who wouldn’t have touched us with a ten-foot pole a decade ago.

PrideFest is far more a celebration of how far we’ve come than a protest of how far we haven’t. It’s Denver’s Mardi Gras and Carnivale rolled into one. PrideFest is a commemoration of the Stonewall riots—those were drag queen riots, Keith. They weren’t a protest of sodomy laws, they were a protest of being hassled by cops who would come into the bar one night to get laid and the next night to arrest everyone in sight.

We have 364 other days in the year to advance our rights. You and your friends must live under a rock. I’ll be there, and so will all of my friends, young and old, marching with Colorado’s Democratic congressional delegation. So go ahead. Stay home and mope. It’s a free country.

PrideFest is a party. Stop crapping on it.

The slob is me. Except for the abs. Only problem is that the slob is also my husband, also without the abs—though he’s definitely above the coffee cup maneuver, which i am not. Anyway, this place is always a pig sty, which is why we never have anybody over. Oi.

What is it? That Rudy Giuliani is a moron of colossal proportions, and the only way he’ll be at inauguration day is as a spectator.

From Rudy’s flip-flops on all of Dobson’s pet issues to his unabashed support for torture, to his own Gonzales-esque stripping of New Yorker’s Fourth Amendment rights, to Bernie Kerik, everything about the guy says that he has toys in the attic.

But his latest takes the cake. His claims that he “usually” hears Democrats blame America for 9/11, and his retort to Ron Paul that it was “absurd” to suggest that the US presence in the Middle East was the reason Al Qaida launched an attack, plainly identify Rudy as an unmitigated fool.

Let’s make this so simple that even Rudy can understand it: If you punch a bully in the nose, you’d better be prepared to defend yourself from the counter-punch.

I’m not going to defend the merits of the US military presence in Saudi Arabia in the 1990s, nor the low-level war waged on Iraq for ten years. It doesn’t matter if the cause was 100% just and the intentions 100% pure. You can’t drop bombs without pissing somebody off. And to ignore the pissed off people, despite ample warning, and allow the deaths of 3,000 people by failing to defend ourselves means—by any stretch of the imagination—that the destruction of the World Trade Center was America’s fault.

The DNC issued an appropriate reply:

There Rudy goes again trying to use scare tactics to win votes. Rudy should focus on explaining why it is that he didn’t face the reality after the first time the world trade center was attacked and improve communications equipment for first responders, and why he failed to protect the health of the ground zero workers and re-opened sections of lower Manhattan when he knew that the air was toxic? What kind of leadership is that?

And let’s not forget that he insisted against all the advice of NYPD and several other agencies to put the crisis command center for all of New York City in the World Trade Center, where it was swiftly bombed out of existence on 9/11. Whose fault is it that the command center is no longer there? Rudy couldn’t have made it any more vulnerable if he had painted a big red target on it that said “crash plane here.”

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go sucker punch Mike Tyson and then close my eyes and hope he doesn’t hit me back. But when I come back bloody, you’d better not blame me for my broken face. That would be unpatriotic.

Jerry Falwell is now in Heaven, population 1,656.

Or not.

WBC will preach at the memorial service of the corpulent false prophet Jerry Falwell, who spent his entire life prophesying lies and false doctrines like “God loves everyone”.

There is little doubt that Falwell split Hell wide open the instant he died. The evidence is compelling, overwhelming, and irrefragable. To wit:

1. Falwell was a true Calvinistic Baptist when he was a young preacher in Springfield, Missouri, and sold his soul to Free-Willism (Arminianism) for lucre.

2. Falwell bitterly and viciously attacked WBC because of WBC’s faithful Bible preaching — thereby committing the unpardonable sin — otherwise known as the sin against the Holy Ghost.

3. Falwell warmly praised Christ-rejecting Jews, pedophile-condoning Catholics, money-grubbing compromisers, practicing fags like Mel White, and backsliders like Billy Graham and Robert Schuler, etc. All for lucre — making him guilty of their sins.

Falwell is in Hell, Praise God!!

Apparently Heaven has an even smaller population.

Meow!

Note to the Democratic presidential candidates: This is how you should respond. Attack! No more whining about how uncouth the Republicans are when they say Democrats enable terrorist attacks. Pull the rug out from under the sick bastards and ask, “where the hell were you when the writing was on the wall for 8 months?”