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Rush (Limbaugh) announced yesterday he had lung cancer. Big surprise, he smoked cigarettes until 1984 or so and cigars since then. I know a little about his history, I’ve listened to him for over 25 years. He’s going to be going through what a lot of ordinary people go through everyday. Like with Kobe though, some people forget 8 others died in that helicopter. For some reason sympathy is in direct proportion to the dead person’s cash holdings.

Rush put country club Republicans on the map. The Trump supporter he ended up being is not where he started. Like Sean Hannity, they went through an evolution in their thinking. Whereas I liked Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul 25 years ago, he didn’t. Rush was very suspicious of movers and shakers. He was very good distraction through the work day, usually.

But I guess what hit me today was his long love affair with cigars. A magazine I never would have heard of except for him, was ‘Cigar Aficionado’. What I gathered was that was where you heard about the fine cigars of the day. What cigar went well with what “adult beverage”. Smoking a cigar on the golf course. Smoking a cigar after a fine meal. Stuff the average person would never have known about cigars.

How many people did he turn-on to cigars? People who got addicted? People who might come down with cancer themselves in 25 years or so? Rush the super-millionaire made smoking cigars cool. Fashionable. But he did end up with lung cancer. So in the end, how smart was it to smoke cigarettes for 15 years and cigars for 35? After he made it sound so cool for so many decades, is he now going to do ‘quit smoking’ PSAs?

My how times have changed. The above picture is the rock group The Who singing ‘We Won’t Get Fooled Again’, which is clearly not true. Their rock anthem was sounding the alarm not to trust anyone in the government or over the age of 30. Now Lefties want total government! The day of the Iowa Caucuses causes many thoughts to run through the mind. One of the most egregious is the Democrat candidates insistence on open borders.

In 2001 we let 19 Muslim visa overstays use airplanes to kill 3,000 Americans. Congress in response to not enforcing existing laws, naturally enacts new laws. All this was done in the name of a “war on terror”. Terror being the politically correct name for Muslims being Muslims. 2 days ago it came out the FBI arrested an important Al Qaeda member hiding out in Arizona, no doubt having waltzed across the wide-open southern border. In the 19 years since the ‘war on terror’ began, I never was sure how that war could be prosecuted with no control of who comes in the country?

I figure Democrats (and a good many Republicans) are absolute morons. That’s the only explanation I have for this absurdity. Just staggering. Half the country follows these morons. Half the Republicans are stinking RINOs that believe the exact same thing. It means me and a few others are surrounded by 3/4ths stupid. Its a scary thought.

In the previous 100 years when Republicans nominated one of their chumps for President, when the primary was over and conservatives were shafted once again, the refrain was, “Its time to unify behind the candidate!” (minor exception for Reagan) Why, we were one Big Tent! “Put the small differences aside, in the end, we’re all Republicans!” So went the chorus.

Funny thing though, once the 2016 primary was over, the never-Trumpers just doubled down. When the 2016 election was over, the RINOs just got more vociferous in their hatred of the Donald. When the Inauguration was over his own party STILL hated him. Let alone the riots and impeachment over nothing from the Democrats. What happened to coalescing? What happened to unification? What happened to putting our personal feelings aside? What happened to winning one for the Gipper?

I am baffled, I am stymied, I am confused! What happened to the big tent? Why did you take your ball and go home? Why is this time different?

Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in the latest poll is leading in New Hampshire by 12% points. This is dismissed by the media because he is from “neighboring Vermont” (and they don’t like him, which is also a key ingredient). I discovered this phenomena is 2016, this rule that a win doesn’t count if your home state touches the one in which you won. Now I know for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker they didn’t apply this rule. He should have won Iowa, he didn’t.

He also should have won Minnesota, Illinois and Michigan (you may think Wisconsin doesn’t touch Michigan because of that big ol’ lake, but I got news for you bucko, it does. Its called Michigan’s “upper peninsula”. Which brings in another question does the theory still hold when separated by a body of water? And at first blush I would have to say ‘terra oozing’ of votes couldn’t apply. It seems votes only transfer over ground, not water).

John Kasich would have seemed to be a sure thing being from “neighboring Ohio” (it touching 5 other states, and large ones at that). The heart of the country and all that. But all he picked up were hotdog eating trophies, with the odd pizza eating contest thrown in. Now the ideal candidate would seem to be the one from Tennessee. That state touches 8 others! And if this political cooties theory really held true, you’d think all President’s would come from there.

No Bernie seems to be in the worst position to benefit from geographic resonance, Vermont only touches 3 states, New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire (if you even want to count them as a real state). Though it would seem to explain the lack of Presidents from Alaska and Hawaii.

[Yes I did delve into the absurd in this post. On purpose. I was attempting to highlight the absurdity of the way the media went over the top to dismiss Sanders. They patently ignored him in 2015 until December of that year. He was drawing crowds of 25,000 and Hillary couldn’t draw flies. Then at the Iowa Caucus they wouldn’t release the raw vote totals, which makes me pretty confident Bernie won.]

Dear Citizens of Maine:

I regret to inform you that your right to vote is hereby rescinded, effective immediately. We had hoped it wouldn’t come to this, but your insistence on continually electing Susan Collins to the Senate, cannot be tolerated. We can tolerate Democrats, and we can tolerate Republicans, but this whole ‘Benedict Arnold’ thing has to stop.

You will be glad to know you won’t be the only State to lose this Right. We are in the process of removing all voting booths from Arizona, Utah, Kentucky and Alaska as well. This sort of dipshitery cannot be tolerated or allowed to spread. We must nip it in the bud!

You’ll get over it, and will likely find something else to do with your time. People of your intellectual ability should have no problem with finger-painting or binge watching episodes of The Kardashians. Your water supply will be tested to see if that’s what’s making you so damn stupid.

Signed;

The Committee to Stop Dipshitery

So 6 months ago I went to the free side of WordPress. The transition for the first blog I did that with went okay. Iowa Life took awhile to pick up steam, but it did okay. Everything was still functional. Editing, previews, the ability to ‘Like’ and follow other blogs. This time WordPress out did themselves in the screw job. The address makes no sense, they threw in a ‘dot’ where it makes no sense. I can’t return the favor and hit ‘Like’ when someone does it to mine, their blog doesn’t recognize my credentials.

In fact when I do enter the very email address I used to sign up to WordPress, it issues a “invalid address” message. I can’t view a preview of my post before I publish. I can’t even “Like” my own post! You get what you pay for. You quit paying that $26 dollars a year and you got a target on your back. Between that and the Google search bias on conservative site, you are screwed.

Gab was all excited this morning with a YouTube video that said, “We need a new party!” This gentleman was convinced that the Republican Party wasn’t getting it done (true) and that the answer was a new party! One that followed the Constitution by gum! Evidently being slightly older my memory stretched back a little further and I was forced to rain on this man’s parade.

We’ve had a Constitution Party 25 years ago! We had a Reform Party. We had a US Taxpayers Party (USTP). We had a Libertarian Party, a Natural Law Party, a Tea Party, we’ve had the best parties there ever were! And they were ignored. Just like any future party would be. Probably the best idea of the past 25 years was the organization that didn’t run candidates at all, the Tea Party.

They were a facilitating entity within the Republican Party. They were promptly coopted and subverted by the establishment within just a few years, but they scared the bejeebers out of the RINOs for a couple of years. Tossed a couple out on their ass in primaries. I understood the guy’s sentiment, wanting a new party, Lord knows I do.

But building a good party doesn’t make the voters any smarter. Building a library doesn’t inherently make people smarter. Building a bank doesn’t make people richer. Building a fitness center doesn’t make people more physically fit. Nope, voters are as dumb as they come. They couldn’t vote themselves out of a wet paper bag.

Perhaps my favorite right now is the State of Utah. Aside from that traitorous son of a bitch Mitt Romney, they also elected Mike Lee. He is allegedly a United States Senator, although right now he’s doing his damnedest to give American jobs to Indians. How do you elect someone like that? Its just incomprehensible. How are you a member of Congress and fight for another country’s workers?

Nope, the answer isn’t a new party, its smarter voters. But how the hell do you accomplish that? No way I know of. The John Birch Society has thought for 60 years that voter education was the key. Doesn’t seem to be. Voters seem to be terminally stupid, ignorant and selfish. There ain’t no cure for that.