A Chicken Is Not Pillage

Maybe Eric Can Recruit Them To Guest Post

(WARNING,  some of these links will be to the websites of neo-Nazis.  Follow at your own discretion.)

A sweeping hat tip to Matt for posting this first.  Our state just became a little more bright ... oh wait, that's a little more "white", with the arrival of the Gaede family, or is it the Harrington family now?  Either way, Kalispell's newest celebrities are the dynamic duo of Prussian Blue.  That's right, those little precocious Aryan tykes, now call Montana home.  Excuse me while I throw up a little, in my mouth.

If you don't know who these dynamic voices for white supremacy are, then you haven't been paying attention. I've posted about them before.  But it seems our girls have grown up a little and recognized the appeal they have to the pedo crowd.  As they say on their blog ... who said the revolution wouldn't be pretty (you know, except for all the dying and the hangings and all that.)  Yes, our darlings of the Reich have learned their lessons well, and remain Hitler's tATu, recruiting martyrs for the race war, with the promise of their simple white prettiness.  And now they're doing it from Montana.  I couldn't be more proud ... ~hurl~

News Of The Racist (and totally stupid).

I'm certain that I'm not the only person ever to notice a certain synchronicity to things.  Just at the time that the more reality based web users are seeing a growing influence of anti-Semites in the so-called "War on Christmas", the Bozeman Chronicle presents us the story of a former Bozeman High student standout, who was caught committing one of the stupidest crimes possible.

A 2004 Bozeman High School graduate attending Columbia University in New York City was charged with a hate crime Saturday and accused of vandalizing dorm walls with swastikas and anti-Semitic imagery.

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Other hate speech written in the dorm included "racial epithets and homophobic slurs," Columbia spokeswoman Susan Brown said Wednesday in a phone interview.

Searles and Brown were also seen trying to paint over and clean the graffiti.

I can just see the party conversation that night:  "Yo, dude, we're trashed.  Let's fuck with some joooos and homos.   ... Uh, wait man, we might be getting some shit for this ..."  Don't get me wrong, I've done some dumb-ass shit in my life, and fortunately gotten away with it.  But how fricken stupid do you have to be to commit a felony crime just because of an alcohol induced explosion of racist sentiment?  "I love you man, know let's piss people off by liken' on Hitler."  I'll be honest here, I don't think these crimes were committed out of a sense of racist anger, more so out of a sense of racial entitlement and the stupidity which leads to such.  But they were, in point of fact, hate crimes, and the penalty is severe.  I've  always said that stupidity should be legally actionable, and I'm glad that in this case, it is.  If you're gonna throw your life away, at least do it for something, not for the terrifying thrill of demeaning others.

But looky here; apparently, competitiveness and mean spirit is enough to bring out the stupid feelings of racial entitlement and superiority.  As if Colorado University Boulder didn't have enough problems with its athletic programs, we have here a couple of student athletes that walk the path of stupid, by threatening another athlete based on his race.

Police said that O'Neal and Zeigle sent the messages to Greg Castro, calling him a "river rat," "border hopper" and "bean eating peace (sic) of s***." The message also threatened to drag Castro behind a car.The police report also accused the couple of sending a message to Stephen Pifer, a bi-racial friend of Castro, telling him to "stick with your own kind."

How fricking moronic do you have to be to think that a racially assaulting message is somehow better than a punch in the face?  Here's a clue:  It's The Same Thing!  And the consequence will hopefully bear that out.  These two geniuses have thrown their reputations and aspirations right down the toilet, because some "bean eating peace (sic) of shit" needed to be put in his place.  Well fricken' done, assholes.

Incidents like this really begin to make me wonder what the hell is up in the West, that this kind of thought gains traction here.  In the Colorado case, it could be (and notice I did say COULD)  that the story tellers have been  through.    The folks from the National Alliance were through Boulder just recently, dropping their flyers, and helping young athletes realize their destructive potential as hate criminals.  Booya!  Why, just last month, we saw some of that UC white love at work.

Campus police told 7NEWS that a racial hate letter was e-mailed to Mebraht Gebre-Michael, one of three students elected to lead the student government.The e-mail, which Gebre-Michael received Tuesday, began by stating that black students "don't belong" and should "disappear off our campus."It concluded by threatening Gebre-Michael's life: "You will die if you run for student government again," the e-mail said.

<sarcasm>  Yeah, our campuses are overrun by liberals, alright!</sarcasm>  This is going to get worse before it gets better.  I'll take bets on that.

But, on the lighter side, at least one humane charitable effort is causing head-assplosions among the National Assholes Alliance.  It seems that Director Scott Wegener is making a movie of the Beowulf legend, and he takes the idea that Beowulf traveled to England from Africa ... rather literally.  Ya' see, Beowulf is played by (GASP!) a black guy.  Trust me, I'm loving the reaction from the white worshipers.  The NA is all up in arms about this "historical travesty".  One of their minions has even started a blog to document this horror.

The entire effort is to raise money for the American Cancer Society,  but God forbid one should take liberties with white identity in such an insulting way!!!  Truthfully, I've no idea whether this movie will suck or not, but I want to see it, just to piss off the racists.  So, if you get the chance when it comes out, see Beowulf, Prince of the Geats.  Who knows, it might be a remarkable film.

Oh, and, not that it has anything to do with the hugely grandiosely stupid and cowardly, but did anyone else notice that Right On Helena no longer allows comments?  I'm just thinking, their not too long for this world, are they?  Cowardice doesn't tend to go over well in Montana.  Yeah, cowardly is not so good.  Don't be cowardly, cause that's pretty much the path of the coward.  Yeah, cowards.

Blog Against Racism Day - Know The Enemy

Due to what can only be described as an awful day, I've been left with next to no time to thoroughly present what I really wanted to expose for "Blog Against Racism Day".  So, I will attempt to be brief, and offer apologies if this seems more like just puking-o-the-links.  My betters have already done a terrific job of exposing racism's forms and functions, and I've no intention of retreading their work as my own.  Please go read their offerings, and attend Chris' master list when he posts it.

What strikes me is that to blog/write/bloviate against something is to acknowledge an opposition, a very real enemy that must be spoken against.  Most posters on the topic focus on the combatant ideal ... racist intellectual underpinnings, racist behavior, racist actions.  I'd simply like to remind you all that, as we accept that racism exists and continues, it does so in the hearts and minds of people.  These are folks who must be dealt with everyday, as coworkers or perceived prophets, as pundits or just another gaggle of websites.  But they're out there, and shouting every bit as loudly as we are, and often with more focus.  It's often more comforting to deal with the abstract, but I'm just not so into comfort right about now, so kindly allow me to present the face of the enemy.

The National Alliance is up in arms because David Irving has been arrested in Austria for "speaking the truth".  Most anyone who reads Orcinus is well acquainted with Mr. Irving and his form of the truth.  He advocates Holocaust denial, and I offer you one of his more charming quotes:

"I don't see any reason to be tasteful about Auschwitz. It's baloney, it's a legend. Once we admit the fact that it was a brutal slave labour camp and large numbers of people did die, as large numbers of innocent people died elsewhere in the war, why believe the rest of the baloney?" Irving said.

He added, "I say quite tastelessly, in fact, that more women died on the back seat of Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than ever died in a gas chamber in Auschwitz."

He went on, "Oh, you think that's tasteless, how about this? There are so many Auschwitz survivors going around, in fact the number increases as the years go past, which is biologically very odd to say the least. Because I'm going to form an Association of Auschwitz survivors, survivors of the Holocaust and other liars, or the ASSHOLS."

He was arrested on November 11th for the crime of holocaust denial, which is legally actionable in Austria.  The NA would like us to believe that this is a free speech issue, but I strongly urge you to read the rant posted at the National Vanguard  (painfully poorly written as it is).  You will notice the acceptance given that Irving speaks the truth, and hidden within the overstated and utterly dense argumentation is this small nugget of fact:  the only way that ideas can be punished is if the power structures will it to be so.

In America, where we have Constitutionally granted right to free speech, that thought is as scary as hell, and it should be.  But the tiniest little assumption can morph the frightening into the something paranoid and fallacious.  Just because the Austrian government arrested Irving, there is no evidence at all that he has written or spoken the truth.  Rather the opposite in fact.  From a criminological standpoint, Irving has commit ed a crime against established truth and Austrian law.

I imagine about now, y'all are kinda wondering what this has to do with racism.  You shouldn't.  As I've indicated, opposition requires an enemy object, a person (or persons)  upon whom blame can be laid.  So it is in the case of David Irving.  It's not enough to those who hold a particular fear that Irving was arr rested for breaking a stupid law.  They create a story, a fable, of how an enemy group manufactured their dread, and holds their icons accountable out of a corrupt sense of knowledge concerning their own evil.  That's your face of racism, right there.  It's not so much about the preconceptions as it is about the proofs that those fantasies are real.  Anyone can find themselves distrusting others qualities (skin color, religion, gender), but it takes a story to make those fears germinate into racism, the backlash against the fear.

And that is the role of the enemy, the mask worn by the racist Shaman, to make the fear real, and to offer twisted proof of just how nigh the end really is.  It is the revisionist that carries racism forward, not some nebulous relic of common thought.  When someone burns their hand on a stove believed to be cold, they tend to remember, until a story is woven that makes the stove believably malicious.  The story tellers rewrite the form and function of the stove, and the result never ends well.  And the story tellers are out there; David Irving is only one.  Allow me to offer another (Who needs Niggers?), and another  (Christian persecution is on the way), and perhaps another (Hollywood pushes Interracial marriage).  I had a list of about 20 blogs that push racial fear, and tell the story of how it's "their fault", but alas, time is short.  You can find the story tellers; all you have to do is look.

It is in consequence that the story tellers (monster makers) lose their power.  Bill O Reilly's private war of monster making is foolishness, compared to the hate and terror spread by Charles Johnson.  Yet O Reilly may face consequence for his stupidity.  We need to make certain that the other story tellers do as well.  Austria is offering that for David Irving.  His minions may see him as a martyr, but they will lose his voice, and his focus.  And you never know, denial may be his savior yet;

British historian David Irving was denied bail on Friday and will remain in an Austrian jail through the holidays on charges of Holocaust denial. His attorney says that Irving will not contest the charges, but his agent sends word that his next book will argue that Austria has no jails.

Hitler's tATu 2, Holy Toledo Version

It seems that NTodd and Atrios have finally discovered the charms of Prussian Blue.  Do check out that charming picture that NTodd has posted.  They're a little late to the party, as far as I'm concerned, but I'm glad that a bigger spotlight is being cast on the Lynx and Lamb Hate Jamboree.   (Warning: things got a little ugly in the comments to that post, but I don't censor commentors, except for the truly inanely stupid. You can argue that the racists are indeed that very thing, but I would argue that that position is decidedly dangerous.)

As my beloved was surfing channels the other night, the Geade girls were being shown in performance on some channel, but I was busy and couldn't cajole my wife to flip back and check it out.  If any reader knows what that show was, I'd appreciate finding out.

If you want to see where the danger of not taking the white supremacists seriously comes to fruition, then you'd best read yesterday's post by David Niewert.  After the Toledo riots last weekend, several prominent righty bloggers were ever so quick to wring their hands about the dark skinned criminals who violently showed disrespect for our good old fashioned American way of life.  They looted, they pillaged ... oh the humanity.  Yeah, I'm talking about Chaz (shriveled sack) Johnson, Michelle (I'm white, really I am!) Malkin, and a host of others, lamenting the fact that darkies just can't be peaceful.

David, in a post the likes of which I intended to write, points out the facts far more clearly then I ever could have, complete with pictorial evidence.

That's what neo-Nazis specialize in: invading communities and wreaking havoc. That is, after all, their entire agenda.

Because, while everyone has focused on the terrible damage wrought by the rampaging crowd -- and there is no point in minimizing that horror -- it has to be understood what inspired it.

Neo-Nazis are not just radical racists. The very heart of their agenda is the eradication and subjugation of other races, including African Americans, though most particularly Jews; as well as the elimination of white "race traitors".

They intend to achieve that goal by creating as much havoc as they possibly can -- not by inspiring whites, but by provoking minorities into violence. They believe that other whites will join up with them soon enough.

Cox and Forkum had an obscene cartoon where a black gang banger was shaking hands with a neo-nazi, and they congratulated each other on their successful enabling of the other's agenda.  The agenda of the neo-nazi was to drive sentiment their way.  The assumed agenda of the black man was to destroy as much of "whitey's" stuff as possible.  This seems to be the prevailing attitude coming from much of the right side that has commented on this tragedy.  But ask yourself this:  if you agree with the agendas glibly assigned in that cartoon, aren't you already agreeing with the neo-nazis?  Isn't that a tacit assumption that all the darkies want is to destroy?  Let's refer to the eminent mental giant, Misha, and get his take:

You mean they expected the black community to behave like civilized members of homo sapiens and protest peacefully like, I don’t know, somebody not looking for an excuse to behave like a herd of stampeding wildebeests or, say, a bunch of bloodthirsty brownshirts re-enacting the Kristallnacht?

Looks like they did.

Looks like they were wrong too.

Let’s hope they don’t make that mistake a second time.

You should be proud of yourselves, making even fucking disgusting scum like neo-Nazis look good.

But Misha is nothing but fair, and he is certain to proclaim his disdain at the neo-nazis:

Pathetic, irresponsible, violent, racist, vandal, primate savages.

And I’m not particularly fond of the Nazis either.

Now tell me, who's making who look bad here?

I Wonder What That Was All About?

And here I was, lamenting the fact that we hadn't heard any juicy tidbits about our resident racist, Kevin McGuire ... and lo, he ups and gets himself arrested.

McGuire, 23, of Bozeman, entered an apartment on Allison Street without permission and asked to speak with a woman, Belgrade Assistant Police Chief E.J. Clark said.

He was allegedly asked to leave the apartment and refused. He then challenged people to a fight and told them they couldn't force him out, Clark said.

No details, yet, about what precipitated this behavior.  But I'll be happy to pass them on when they become available.

Must Read Comments

Had enough, Whitey? What if America was controlled by Americans instead of by Jews?

Alternate title:  Peak Oil and the Angry White Man.  I've stated my admiration for David Neiwert's website, Orcinus, many times.  Recently, he has taken the border militias to task for their cozy relationship with the racists/white supremacists.  What has resulted in his comments is must read material.  David has attracted the attention of a National Alliance goon calling himself  "Border Ruffian".  The above quote is one of his pearls-o-wisdom.

David, in the next post, points to his new found commenters and reminds us all,

These aren't people you can negotiate with or engage constructively (though people like Observer, it should be noted, are not as far gone as dedicated racists like Ruffian); they only view your decency as a kind of weakness. The best you can do, really, is shove their fists back in their faces. It's the only language they understand or respect.

(...)

Because you're right. There's no point in playing nice with Nazis. And someone needs to start shoving back on those fists somewhere.

I couldn't concur more.  However, I must strongly reiterate that you should get to know your enemy; you need to know what you're up against.  They're not monsters, they are human ... all too human.  The racists can be dealt with, but only if you understand the root fears and delusions that they accept and celebrate.  So I strongly urge all to go read the comments from both of David's posts, in their entirety.

If David or another doesn't beat me to it, I will post more at a later date concerning the apocalyptic rants of Mr. Ruffian with regard to Peak Oil as the spark of the race war, because I find the concept intriguing (and amazingly similar to the Talibangenical view of Rapture driven Armageddon).  But I've no time now.  Please, go read those comments.  After all, how else can you learn that,

Good riddance to the Republican Party. There is no more Right Wing or Left Wing, but only the Jew-Wing of Amerikwa.

McGuire Goes Down

As others have already noted, Kevin McGuire went down in defeat yesterday, in Bozeman's school board election.  He received 157 votes.  I have to admit, that's about a hundred votes more than I thought he would get.  Needless to say, I'm not thrilled with that result.

I'm left with two very significant questions, that I am not likely ever to get answers to.  The first:  How many McGuire voters were, like me, first time voters in a school board election.  I suspect that many people, either for or against, came out to vote in this election.  The number of those who did so just to see  Kevin win would be  ... interesting.

The  second question, much more significant to my mind, is this:  how many voted for him to see if they could stick it to the gays (as opposed to buying the whole racist claptrap of the National Alliance).   That's it's own brand of hate, and I'd like to know exactly what temper of support it has.

The White Death Of Dance

An absolutely "must read" letter appears in the Bozeman Chronicle today.  The ramification's of Kevin McGuire's agenda are far reaching indeed, as he would have us put an end to modern music.  Quinton King asks the question that I am dying to have an answer to:

So what exactly do McGuire and his Alliance have in their iPods?

Well Kevin?

What He Wants To Do

Finally.  I've been waiting for the Bozeman Chronicle to actually print an article showcasing the School Board election platform of Kevin McGuire.  And now they have.  You might remember our friend Kevin from such past hits as this, and this.  So let's us take a look at this high profile platform of reform, 'kay?

"We're (the National Alliance) not motivated by hate, we're motivated by love of our own people and our desire to survive as a people. We are strictly non-violent, 100 percent legal at all times. ... Our message is about self-love and pride.

Then perhaps he can explain this?

The National Alliance, one of the largest neo-Nazi organizations in the world, is subject to 51 FBI investigations alone, according to the report.

Maybe they're just misunderstood ...

"We know each individual culture has its own intrinsic beauty.

That is so sweet.  I'm betting Kevin has a big ole' humanitarian heart beating in that hairless white chest of his.  I can feel that multi-cultural love just oozing from him.  (PDF files, slow to load.)  Yeah, those alliance types are lovers, not fighters.

In McGuire's view, public schools often neglect European-Americans, and he would ensure they "get their fair share."

Define "fair", Kevin.  Just askin'.

George Washington and other founding fathers are put on the back burner, or described as racist slave owners, while students spend a full month learning black history, and are taught "Martin Luther King saved the whole world," McGuire said.

The irony is overwhelming, here.  Every kid in school knows who George Washington is, and what he did for our country.  Jefferson, Gallatin, Madison ... its impossible to get through the Montana school system without studying their achievements, and why our most promoted  rivers are named for them.  But we obviously spend too much time in our schools on such overbearingly well known folks as Booker T. Washington and Jefferson Davis.  (Are you catching the nominal irony here, yet?)  That a month, A WHOLE MONTH!, should be devoted to guys like ... them ... well that's just absurd.  And I don't know about you folks, but when I was growing up, the only person that I was taught saved the whole world was a Jew named Jesus.  And I sure as heaven and hell didn't learn that in history class.

Students can't learn Christmas songs, but they learn about Jewish Menorahs and Kwanza, he said.

Um, I'd never even heard of Kwanzaa until I was 25 and re-entering college.  I guess the Montana school system isn't quite as good at multi-cultural indoctrination as Kevin might have us believe.

McGuire advocated returning control of education to local parents, instead of "a lot of born-again beatniks in Washington, D.C., who are dictating to our local schools."

Though he didn't attend Bozeman schools, McGuire said he believes they teach, under dictates from federal "socialists," that homosexuality is acceptable.

The HORROR! that there are fags among us, schools are acknowledging that, and they're even okay as people!  The schools have failed ... failed, I tell you ... that homos might be missed for the masquerading monsters that they really are.  And it's people like Frist, DeLay, Santorum, Burns and Rehberg who are at fault for this hideous deception.  Damn beatniks!

He would reverse the "dumbing down" of public schools, and institute more challenging curricula. He would demand respect for teachers and discipline in classrooms, which now operate like "zoos." He would have brighter students taught separately, and mentor slower students, so all can reach their potential.

Shorter McGuire, he wants your children beaten.

Asked if he thought Bozeman High School's African-American principal is unqualified, McGuire replied there are bright individuals in every race, and Bozeman schools are some of the nation's best, so it appears he's doing a good job. It's easier in a school that doesn't have big crime, drug and gang problems, he said.

My, how gracious of Kevin.  "The Boy", he be doin' an okay job, as long as he don't be spreaden' the pestilence or rapin' the white women.  Now, if'n Bozeman be haven' a real school, why that princ'pal, he probably be sweatin' his job, or out there wit'  the boys rapin' the white women.  Just to be certain, why don't we get's us some seperation of the races, fire his ass, and send him away from the white worshipin' homeland we want to build here.

Look, satire aside, you can't have it both ways.  Kevin has pronounced his desire for a white's only environment in Bozeman, Montana.  Of course, he's not a hater or violent (wink, wink), but as a school board member, he has control over the job of the Principal.  Seriously, would you vote in your own boss, knowing that he is predisposed to send you packing?

McGuire said his group has a lot of support here, though some are afraid to express it publicly.

He said he has been threatened a few times, since coming forward as one of those dropping National Alliance leaflets ("Missing -- A future for white children") at night in Bozeman neighborhoods. Now he's distributing campaign fliers, featuring a photo of himself in a cowboy hat.

"I think what I believe in is worth fighting for," McGuire said. "I'm not going to be be stopped by fear."

OOHhhh, Kevin's been threatened.  By whom?  People pissed that he's been trespassing in the middle of the night?  Small fricken' wonder.  As for him having support from those who are afraid to "express it publicly", he's probably right.  He does.  We'll find out just how many in May.  I'm betting not too many at all.  But here's the really interesting thing:  Kevin McGuire's particular brand of crap is playing very well right now.  There are many who do believe our school systems are administered according to a particular brand of PC style dictated by Washington, DC.  There are many who believe that the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy is on the verge of achieving its Jewish controlled ends, and many who believe that the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy is in the pocket of the Zionist oppressors.  Truth is, very few of us trust our neighbors without a seed of doubt gnawing at our beliefs.  In Montana, for the most part, we have a particular arrogance that lends itself to believing the unbelievable.  We tend to accept that those in control do not have our interests at heart, and those who fight the power just might be right.

Don't get me wrong.  If Kevin McGuire's electoral support were sugar, he wouldn't have enough to make a weak cup of coffee drinkable.  But the NA is on to something here, tapping into distrust, replaying the ideas that many of us have had concerning the status quo, and making those ideas work for themselves.   I still think this will be a fun election.  I'm just glad we finally got a good look at what we have to vote for.

 

No, Craig, This Will Be Fun

Craig says, "This Will Be Interesting".  I don't think that interesting covers it.  I think it's gonna' be a hoot!  It seems that Kevin McGuire, our local outspoken white supremacist, is going to run for the Bozeman schoolboard.  The article refers to Kevin as a "white separatist", but I personally reject that terminology.  A Giraffe is not a horse, private sector accounts controlled by government mandates are not personal accounts, and someone who believes that the white race is superior to others is not a "separatist".  Yes, I would dearly love to argue that out with Kevin some time ... and blog about it afterwards.  But, I digress.

You can read more about Kevin McGuire here, here and here.  It seems that Kevin, emboldened by his recent celebrity, has decided to take firm political action against the mudification of our fine white minds, by making sure that Bozeman school children will receive a proper white education.

"Our children are taught about the histories and cultures of Blacks, Latinos, Asians, Jews and Native Americans but any sense of White racial solidarity or White racial pride is condemned as White racism; and that is not right," McGuire wrote.

 

Personally, I don't think this is going to play that well with Mr. and Mrs. Bozeman Parent, but you never know.  The National Analliance is on the move, you know.

In related news, the town council of Bozeman, Montana has officially condemned National Alliance activism in the area, despite the solid arguments delivered to them personally by local Alliance member Kevin McGuire. Mr. McGuire appeared before the city commission in Bozeman to clarify the purpose and goals of the National Alliance. His truthful statements may have had some effect, as the Alliance was not specifically named in the city commissions resolution "to end silence and stop the spread of hate."

Montana has been a hotbed of National Alliance activism throughout 2004. Towns that have been visited recently by Alliance members include Helena, Great Falls, Kalispell, and Anaconda. If the level of activity on the part of the Montana Alliance members during 2004 is any indication of future events, the National Alliance will build a firm foundation there in 2005.

Well, there you go.  I'm sure that many of you thought me insane when I posted this angry rant back then.  That was then, and now the National Analliance is calling Montana a "hotbed" of activism.  So fine, says I.  Let's put them through the crucible.  Let Mr. McGuire run for the schoolboard, and judge our reactions on how well his campaign fares.  Who knows, due to apathy for schoolboard elections, he may win.  And like John Sinrud before him, the quotes he proffers will afford many laughs to come.

Anyway, a rather trollish commenter over at Craig's place raises the ugly question of who actually signed the petition for Kevin to get himself on the ballot.  I can only answer for myself, but here is what I feel:

Speaking for myself, as a Gallatin Democrat, if Kevin McGuire had presented his petition to me, I’d have signed it for two reasons. The first is that I still (God knows why) believe in freedom and the Democratic process. Signing a petition such that someone may run for an elected position is supporting those values, regardless of how loathsome you find the beliefs of the candidate. An overt attempt to keep someone off a ballot defeats the system and tries to hide from what shouldn’t be hidden. Expose the loathsome values. Let him run. The second reason is more simplistic and political. With McGuire on the ballot it makes it easier for his opponents to win, simply because of the extremist views that Kevin holds. His credibility is on the line in an election, and I rather enjoy the thought of its plummeting value after he loses.

By the way, anyone who knows me would know that I am fascinated by the fact that they have found soft tissues of a Tyrannosaurus from the Hell Creek dig, complete with blood nucleii from which a genome can be extracted.  Unlike most people blogging the event, I WANT a T-Rex to be cloned, bad idea though it might be.  I'd love to see such an animal.