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I'm still avoiding cable news. The time expended watching the latest round of chattering heads on the topic of the day as determined by someone who thinks I might be remotely interested in flogging away at right wing talking points, is better spent online finding out what's behind all the blather. For example, there's the " Immigration Debate ." Heaven help us this has been pretzeled into an alm...
Desert Beacon - 9:02 a.m.
Most of the time, I feel like I'm learning something when I read Ralston. However, today seems to be one of those exceptions. Why? Here you go . State Democrats have long lamented their gubernatorial contender’s last name, which has wounded him (perhaps fatally) and surely will be used in GOP media starring their U.S. Senate candidate. So now they are doing what any righteous political organiz...
Nevada Progressive - Wed 9:44 a.m. - 4 clicks 
Wow . In 2003, the Nevada legislature enacted a budget which did not include education funding, on the theory that they would take up a second bill which ensured that the public schools could remain open when the school year began. Because the Nevada Constitution requires both a balanced budget and the state to fund education, this second bill would include a combination of tax increases an...
DailyKos (Nevada) - Wed 8:43 a.m. - 7 clicks
So everyone is talking about Harry Reid 's new ad hitting Sharron Angle hard on her insane comments on our unemployed being "spoiled" by $400 per week checks as they look everywhere for new work... But you know what? Debra Harding isn't the only one hit hard by the " jobs deficit ". There are many more who have been pummeled by the recession, and who don't need Sharrontology lectur...
Nevada Progressive - Tue 3:24 p.m. - 4 clicks
( Also at DKos ) On Saturday, I enjoyed a full day of activism. I started out walking with my favorite State Senator, Joyce Woodhouse , and finished calling for her and for Dina Titus . I can't help it. I want to keep Nevada blue and keep good people representing me and my neighbors. :-) We've all been frustrated over what's happening and what's not happening in Congress. And ...
Nevada Progressive - Tue 8:25 a.m. - 6 clicks
(Originally from Nevada Progressive ) On Saturday, I enjoyed a full day of activism. I started out walking with my favorite State Senator, Joyce Woodhouse , and finished calling for her and for Dina Titus . I can't help it. I want to keep Nevada blue and keep good people representing me and my neighbors. :-) ...
DailyKos (Nevada) - Tue 8:25 a.m. - 5 clicks
I supposed it's time for us to meet Brian Sandoval, candidate for the governorship of Nevada, whom we last heard saying he didn't have any problems with Arizona's draconian law targeting Hispanic immigrants because, "My children don't look Hispanic." [ LAT ] He back-pedaled from that gaffe, but hasn't moved far from his equally draconian plan to address the Nevada budget deficit. There are three ...
Desert Beacon - Tue 7:00 a.m. - 8 clicks
Nevada Senatorial candidate Sharron Angle has been quite clear in her insistence we're all over taxed and under served: " In the Nevada State Legislature, Sharron Angle was consistently the only vote against unnecessary tax increases and voted against more than 100 attempts to increase taxes and fees." "Sharron Angle has signed the National Taxpayers Pledge to vote against tax and fee increases ...
Desert Beacon - Mon 5:02 p.m. - 8 clicks
As of 2006, the last year for which statistical compilations are available from the SBA, there were 48,569 firms in Nevada classified as small business, i.e. they had fewer than 500 employees. There were 174,492 "non-employers" in 2007. These numbers do, indeed, illustrate the importance of small businesses in this state, especially when we note that as of 2006 there were only 2,088 firms employ...
Desert Beacon - Mon 6:22 a.m. - 8 clicks
Sweetie, The Kids and I watched the Rory Reid / Brian Sandoval debate tonight. It was agreed by all that Rory owned the debate and pretty much kicked Sandoval’s butt. The best part was when Rory made the point that Sandoval’s “school choice” plan was merely sending taxpayer dollars to people who already have the means to [...] ...
Blue Lyon - Sun 9:02 p.m. - 8 clicks
This time, Heidi Harris tried to intervene ... But we know how that usually goes. ( Audio here !) HARRIS: They have gone back to almost a year ago, dug through a conversation you had with my buddy Bill Manders up there in Reno, the big talker up there, where he said that we have domestic enemies and he thinks some of them are in the walls of the Senate and Congress, and you agreed with him. D...
Nevada Progressive - Fri 9:47 a.m. - 13 clicks
There's a particularly silly argument offered by supporters of Nevada senatorial candidate Sharron Angle that contends because the Special Issue Securities are non-marketable they aren't "real." Therefore, the support for the Social Security Administration isn't real either. The securities only have the value the Treasury assigns to them. Let's try to address this non-issue very slowly. One...
Desert Beacon - Fri 6:20 a.m. - 10 clicks
(UPDATE: Media Matters debunks Sharrontology's latest lying ads and exposes her campaign yet again for trying to make us forget reality.) Virtually no change in this week's R-J poll ! And hidden behind the top lines (Reid 45, Angle 44) are some deeply disturbing numbers for Sharrontology . 66% of Angle voters say they'd prefer another Republican taking her place in the general election , a...
Nevada Progressive - Fri 5:04 a.m. - 10 clicks
(Also at DKos ) And come on, we know NONE of these are lies, or even exaggerations. Just look at everything she's publicly said ... Or at least everything she said back when her DC handlers weren't trying to hide the real Sharron Angle . We know that she refuses to acknowledge that well educated students means a stronger, more sustainable economy for Nevada. Hell, she even oppo...
Nevada Progressive - Thu 4:24 p.m. - 12 clicks
OK, I read Nevada senatorial candidate Sharron Angle's " open letter " (pdf) to her supporters, and here's what she had to say about Social Security: " We must repay the “IOUs”written to the Trust Fund and fund Social Security so that we can care for our parents and grandparents who have worked hard and played by the rules. I want everyone who has paid into the System and has been promised benefit...
Desert Beacon - Thu 9:42 a.m. - 12 clicks
So we all know about the ongoing Prop H8 saga in California... But will we also feel the effects here in Nevada? Most likely, in one way or another . There was outrage and celebration in California this month when a federal judge overturned the state’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. But as the case is appealed, first to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and then, almost inevitabl...
Nevada Progressive - Aug 26 - 12 clicks
You've seen the commercials. And yes, Sharron Angle is doing an impression of Al Gore's Social Security "lockbox" campaign promise. It's weird to say the least. To say that most, it's disgusting. However, since it's campaign season and Angle is a Republican, I suppose we should expect her to do her best "moderate Democrat impression" to try to take votes away from Harry Reid. Will it work? I bet...
Zeke Says So - Aug 26 - 13 clicks
Wouldn't it be a nice bright summer's day if Just Once a person could log on to national news and NOT find some Nevada Republican offering yet another basic balderdash proposal garnering nationwide attention? This round the dubious honor goes to Eureka, NV Assemblyman Pete Goicoechea whose proposal to tax food made it to the pages of Forbes Magazine , which picked up the story from the AP. Thi...
Desert Beacon - Aug 26 - 8 clicks
According to House Minority Leader John Boehner's speech on the economy, there are three "job killers" lurking amidst us. [ CSM ] Unfortunately, Minority Leader Boehner was as vague as his predecessors among the Republican spokespersons when it comes down to specific proposals for job creation. "We'll announce it later, after listening to the American people." " " We have to remember that, even...
Desert Beacon - Aug 25 - 6 clicks
Oh goody, Ralston is back... And he hits hard on the new "scandal" everyone in Carson City is talking about. I have been ruminating on what the proper reaction is to Steven Horsford’s “Money for Something and Your Access Ain’t Free” fundraising pitch. Or what the proper reaction to the reaction might be. [...] What Horsford did was crass, heavy-handed and arrogant. But it takes a spectacular ...
Nevada Progressive - Aug 25 - 7 clicks
Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-NV3) announced today: " Four high-performing local weatherization agencies in Las Vegas, Reno, Ely, and Carson City have been selected to receive nearly $7 million to install in-home energy monitors, photovoltaic systems, solar water heaters, heat pumps, and residential wind turbines; and to perform deep efficiency retrofits. The selections were part of nearly $120 mil...
Desert Beacon - Aug 25 - 10 clicks
Manhattan Mosque I don't live in New York. I don't want to live in New York. I don't know anyone who died in 9/11. And I know that Islam is not responsible for 9/11. This is a manufactured controversy. Every time the discussion comes up, the Conservatives win. Anybody's Divorce Tiger Woods. Jim Gibbons. Sandra Bullock. Anyone's. And why should we? Are our lives that boring? Are actual news stor...
Zeke Says So - Aug 24 - 7 clicks
Once more Nevada senatorial candidate Sharron Angle finds herself at odds with (a) facts and (b) reality. There was this memorable quotation from the New York Times interview with Candidate Angle: " Mainstream Nevadans are very, very concerned about the economy, our homes, our jobs. And we lay all that at Harry Reid’s doorstep. And certainly, it’s his policies, of his — you know, I’m trying t...
Desert Beacon - Aug 24 - 4 clicks
Republicans are having a tough time explaining their positions on the funding of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (AKA Stimulus), especially when speaking of the funds in Nevada as (1) totally ineffectual and "not creating a single job," or (2) merely "money for Democrats to spend." The arguments are mutually exclusive. Since the first argument can be dispensed with quickly, [ Rec.Gov...
Desert Beacon - Aug 23
Since 1975 Nevada voters have been given the option of voting None Of These Candidates for President/Vice President and all statewide offices. Sounds great doesn’t it? Given the sentiment expressed by many, I wondered, what would happen if NOTC actually got the majority of votes? Do they hold a new election? Leave the seat vacant? [...] ...
Blue Lyon - Aug 22 - 7 clicks
The writer says she sent this post to Harry Reid’s office. She should also send it to Sharron Angle’s campaign. He was a machine operator – a factory man. He spent his whole life employed in the factories that made business forms, water pumps, thermoplastic sheeting. After almost forty years as a dependable american worker [...] ...
Blue Lyon - Aug 21 - 7 clicks
Ironically, the race between Brian Sandoval and Rory Reid for governor of Nevada is by far the most important race going on in the state. Of course, since the national news media has been "trained" by both left and right to dial in on every "Majority Leader of the Senate" race, this time the Reid/Angle race, there isn't much buzz about the gubernatorial contest. After the census is completed, th...
Zeke Says So - Aug 20 - 4 clicks
The previous post noted that the Republicans are planning to reprise the Bamboozle Strategy of years past in regard to the expiration of the Bush Tax Cuts in 2001 (EGTRRA) and 2003 (JGTRRA.) They are assuming the public will accept their position that the tax cuts must all be extended or all be allowed to expire. False . Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) and other members of the Congressional leader...
Desert Beacon - Aug 19 - 3 clicks
There once was a bear named Sharron, who infamously disliked sharing or caring, She sat in her cave, Never campaigning by day, and only on Fox News ever appearing. Zeke Reno ...
Zeke Says So - Aug 19 - 3 clicks
So is this what we can now expect from Sharrontology ? In the span of a year, Nevada voters have encountered three different Sharron Angles. First came Primary Campaign Angle, who, trying to distinguish herself from a crowded Republican U.S. Senate field, talked to anyone, anywhere and was unafraid to declare her deeply conservative philosophy. Then she won the primary and voters met Down-in-...
Nevada Progressive - Aug 19 - 3 clicks
I explained what happened to Chile's seniors when military dictator Augusto Pinochet privatized the pension system supported by Chile's democratically elected government (that Pinochet overthrew), and Desert Beacon went into further detail on why Chile's system didn't work and left about half of Chile's seniors with absolutely nothing. And Sharron Angle thinks this is a "great id...
Nevada Progressive - Aug 18 - 2 clicks
There is already a plethora of evidence that Republican candidates are still waving the "Tax and Spend" flag in the run up to the 2010 mid-term elections. Nevada GOP senatorial candidate Sharron Angle's placed the issue front and center, " The fastest way to get the economy moving again is to cut spending, pay back the national debt, and make permanent the Bush Tax Cuts which are due to expir...
Desert Beacon - Aug 18
Okay. Yesterday I blather on about how dumb we are en masse. Governments and individuals are often completely wracked by the effects of unintended consequences of laws/decisions. Take Arizona for example. According to either side in the immigration debate, large groups of Latinos are leaving the state for Mexico or other US states. It is happening. But what will the kong term effects be? G...
Zeke Says So - Aug 18 - 2 clicks
(Also at Daily Kos ) OK, so I let him have it yesterday . Well, he earned it. And there was no good reason to badmouth an Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan. Last I checked, we have freedom of religion in this country... And it's not like most people are even all that concerned about it . So why can't I just kick Harry Reid to the curb? Well, it's complicated. I'd rather not hurt...
Nevada Progressive - Aug 17
Jon Ralston finds Nevada Senator John Ensign's (R-C Street) defense fund letter galling, [ TPMM ] and gets an "Amen" from this corner. CREW responded to Ensign's whining: " Senator Ensign had an extended affair with a campaign staffer, who happened to be married to his chief of staff Doug Hampton, fired them both, and had his parents pay them off without properly reporting it to the Fede...
Desert Beacon - Aug 17
(Also at Daily Kos ) For ruining my "mini staycation" with family. Just as I was enjoying a lovely day with the loved ones on the always fabulously sinful Las Vegas Strip, you had to open your mouth and say this crap about not wanting an Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan . Seriously, Mr. Leader, WHAT. THE. FUCK??!! First off, this is happening in New York City. Last I checked, t...
Nevada Progressive - Aug 16
Sharron Angle, candidate for the U.S. Senate from Nevada, needs a fact-checker. Not only is her comprehension of the way the Social Security system functions completely inadequate, she doesn't have any better handle on teacher salaries and deductions therefrom. [ TPM ] In fact, it's beginning to look like whatever the Right Wing Theme of the Day might be, we can count on Candidate Angle to jump...
Desert Beacon - Aug 16
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) commented that perhaps the site of the proposed Muslim community center planned for lower Manhattan might be reconsidered. [ TPM ] Of course, even that suggestion was sufficient to cause howls from the right wing fringe Islamophobes who appear to have taken over the microphones of the Republican Party. [ SlashP ] Aside from the perfectly obvious reason, that the GOP is...
Desert Beacon - Aug 16
God knows the press is making a big stink about the Reid - Angle race, and why shouldn't they? After all, by being the Majority Leader of the Senate has become the number two name in the wingnut chance "Obama, Reid and Pelosi... blah blah blah" for so many months. But seriously, does anybody think Sharron Angle REALLY has a chance of winning? I don't. And I know better. It's of course in the me...
Zeke Says So - Aug 16
Republicans are ever so fond of "demanding apologies," especially during their manufactured outrage moments; and, they appear to be thinking that Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) has instigated one of those sessions with his remark about why citizens of Hispanic heritage would want to be members of the GOP. [ DKos ] Not. So. Much. Frankly speaking, there's not much the Republican Party has done in the ...
Desert Beacon - Aug 16
Criticize Nevada senatorial candidate Sharron Angle's awkward permutations attempting to explain her position on privatizing Social Security, or note that she doesn't think its her job as potential Nevada senator to do anything about securing jobs in the Silver State, and out pop the right wing talking point people. The Talking Point People don't address the issues, they seem altogether more inte...
Desert Beacon - Aug 14
The very last thing on my list today was to post yet one more piece on Social Security and Nevada senatorial candidate Sharron Angle's complete, utter, and seemingly hopeless, ignorance of how the Social Security system operates. However, when she tells the state and nation that "we ought to privatize it" because, gee, it's already been privatized in Chile... [ video Nev Prog ] it's time to hit ...
Desert Beacon - Aug 13
Nevada senatorial candidate Sharron Angle has yet another explanation for her policy statements on Social Security. " When I said privatize, I thought we'd have to go to the private sector for a model" that would protect people's money, Angle said today. Angle said she now has learned that some public employees -- she named Reid -- have retirement accounts that also are safe from government in...
Desert Beacon - Aug 13
Now we have some more details of what's to come ... Because proponents fail to satisfy any of the factors necessary to warrant a stay, the court denies a stay except for a limited time solely in order to permit the court of appeals to consider the issue in an orderly manner. [...] Proponents replied that they have an interest in defending Proposition 8 but failed to articulate even one spec...
Nevada Progressive - Aug 12
It's nice to see more and more of our fellow Nevadans, even (perhaps especially!) Republicans, reject the kind of insane extremism Sharron Angle represents. In fact, I feel quite sorry for my Republican friends, family, and neighbors these days. Think about it. When did their party cease to represent smart conservative thought? And when did this party become "The Party of Batshit Cra...
Nevada Progressive - Aug 11
DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({articleID:"7476",playerInstanceID:" Now of course, the first sentence is being taken out of context and being misconstrued (again). Oh joy, another "Reid gaffe"! Never mind that he was right . “Sen. Reid’s contention was simply that he doesn't understand how anyone, Hispanic or otherwise, would ...
Nevada Progressive - Aug 11
Yes, my dears, that was really Dina Titus talking with us on Saturday at our Elect Equality celebration barbeque on Saturday! Since we all know Stonewall throws the best parties and Team Titus does the best BBQ, we figured it was also a good excuse to party it up in my 'hood here in Henderson. ;-) No, but seriously, we were so excited to see Dina win Elect Equality , and in turn ...
Nevada Progressive - Aug 9
©FauxNews July 15, 2010 Reno, Nevada - The Reno City Council voted yesterday 5-2 to stage a fake oil spill on the Truckee River. Council documents indicate that the plan will be executed to "bring free worldwide media attention to Reno" and also "Provide jobs for our citizenry while cleaning up the fake mess". Details of the plan include a secret contract with Lockheed to build a g...
Zeke Says So - Jul 15
© FauxNews July 8, 2010 - Ely, Nevada - In a press release this morning, Clark County Commission Chair and Democratic nominee for governor, Rory Reid officially changed his last name. The Commissioner had been running with poor poll numbers against fake moderate GOP nominee Brian Sandoval for several months, lately showing nearly 20 points behind the former extremist judge. "Hey, sorry dad. ...
Zeke Says So - Jul 8
I know some of you "newspaper reading type" people have seen the story about s almon flavored vodka that is being sold to commemorate Alaska. All the hipsters were talking about last night at the bar. But what about the real states ? You know, like Virginia and Idaho? You know, real states where actual people live? Fortunately, ZSS Corp. Distillery has announced a new line of state f...
Zeke Says So - Jul 6
© FauxNews - June 24, 2010 Mesquite, Nevada - Sources within the Nevada Republican Party announced this morning that the apparent victory in the Nevada primary two weeks ago by crazy, wingnut, angry, maligned Sharron Angle was actually an elaborate joke, perpetrated on The Republican National Committee and noted big frog, journalist Jon Ralston. Billy Bob Soutersmith, PR director for the NvGO...
Zeke Says So - Jun 24
