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• Perhaps he's still bitter about missing several years of Social Security benefits because he had already reached the age of eligibility long before the program was established in 1935. Then again, John Sidney McCain III's bitter hostility to the program may simply stem from a conviction that if deadbeat Americans want some measure of economic security in their declining years, then they should quit their whining, suck it up and go find an enormously wealthy if terrifying heiress who will always support them in lavish oppulence, like McCain did. Or perhaps because throughout the entire course of his astonishingly long adult life, he never worked a single day in the private sector, he never developed any regard for the program. Whatever the reason, Sidney the III says that Social Security is an "absolute disgrace" and so of course now America will have to bomb it before it destroys all our freedoms and forces all our women to wear burkas.
• The nation's worst governor's is a fan of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (NORM!). But of course he is.
• Speaking of tasteless Republicans who work hard every day trying to balance the competing pressures of appealing to a family-values base while repeatedly leaving their wives, Rep. Jon Porter says Dina Titus can raise all the money she wants and she'll never have as much money as he does because he's always done whatever he's been told by oil, health, financial services and insurance industries and those industries will give him as much money as he wants, so neener neener neener. And if that's not enough, Porter puppeteer, transnational warmonger and bitchy little area megalomaniac Sheldon Adelson will spend gazillions to tell lies about Titus, too, starting with robocalls that people are always so happy to receive. Well, at least that's how the Gleaner read this RJ story.
• Whatever your opinion as to whether coal makes us sick, surely everyone can agree that Susan Estrich does. Sun
• This year the Latinos are really going to show up to vote. No, really. Not kidding this time. While the RJ story accompanying that biannual assertion is not without interest, its comment thread is a small but earnest testament to Nevadans at their ill-informed xenophobic best.
• When Las Vegas Water Czarina Pat Mulroy says jump, a lowly state engineer can but only bow his head, tug his forelock and ask, "how high, ma'am." SLT, RJ, Sun
• John Ensign's, the nation's most out-of-touch senator, gets his ass kicked while Ensign's trusty sidekick, little Mikey Slanker, helplessly looks on. Politico

Comments

[Fun with Beers]

Looks like Bob Beers made a little
boo boo.

Fun comments thread over there, BTW.

[Goldy]

Gleaner Fans: a "forelock" is HAIR usually falling in a small curl on your head or the head of a horse or something. I had to look it up because in the context above, well, if you didn't know better...

P.S. Any chance of making Buckley's head LARGER in her ad on this page? Jefferson and Jackson already are giving her a look of fear; might as well scare them right off the page.

[Michael Green]

Unfortunately, that was the slightly saner Bob Beers, not the one in Senate District 4. Oh, well.

By the way, did John Ensign say what I think he said about Norm Coleman's access to money? That he can get Jews to donate? Oh, they must have all the money! Gleaner, you're falling down on the job. Shoulda caught that one.

[Nancy]

What???? Thought you were kidding Michael - he really did say that......... Well, Ensign's ability to cause me to gasp in disbelief is still alive and well.

[Mark$]

Here's one good way to respond to the Freedom Watch anti-Dina-Titus robo-calls .. Start making telephone calls yourself to the Venetian Hotel (like Freedom Watch, another enterprise of the Great & Powerful Shelduluh!) and tie up the operator's time asking stupid questions like "How's the weather in Las Vegas" or "What time does the Tiddlywinks Slots-a-Go-Go Tournament begin" and once you've exasperated the operator enough, politely inform her that, if Shelduluh can waste YOUR time with his insultingly inane Republican phone calls, then you sure the hell can tie up THEIR time. Imagine, if enough of us did this, all the rich people calling in to the Palazzo for their whoop-dee-doo reservations at Shelduluh's whatever $300 a person restaurant would not be able to get through. Pity ..

[Michael Green]

Kudos to Mark$. We should take it a step further. For example, if someone advertises in the R-J, call and ask if they agree with the R-J editorially--or don't bother to find out if they agree, just boycott 'em anyway. Don't patronize hotel-casinos that donate to Jon Porter or donated to Jim Gibbons. That would mean not being able to go to any hotel-casinos, but what's the difference when there's a cause?