Cowboy Confessional

Cowboy Confessional
Writer, songwriter, political provocateur
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Gun Traffic

October 31st, 2007
NRA gets a lot more web traffic than the Brady Campaign

Is web traffic an indicator of public sentiment? If so, measuring the visitors of the sites for top proponents and opponents of the gun owner’s rights organizations might be an indicator of the changing appeal to gun control, a topic once again raising its slimy head among Democrats.

Compete.com indicates that the NRA receives more than six times to the number of unique visitors than the Brady Campaign. Worse still for Sarah Brady and other people of suspect character is that their web site traffic is dropping faster than congressional approval ratings, with people transit down over 60% in the last year (NRA up slightly).

Click on the image to visit the source web site.

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Stark No More

October 27th, 2007

Pete Stark is no longer my representative.

In Stark’s long and spotted political history, he has committed a number of unseemly acts. He instigated a ruckus in the senate cloak room to delay a scheduled vote. He has called a fellow congressman a “little fruitcake” and challenged him to fisticuffs during a Ways and Means Committee meeting. Stark branded a congresswoman was as a “whore” and left insulting voice mail messages on a constituent’s answering machine.

Stark even referred to Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Wade Sullivan, an African American, as “a disgrace to his race.”

Politics can create tension, and no person is immune from heated hyperbole. Yet Stark perpetually displays a level of vulgarity more suited to an Oakland shipyard tavern than the halls of congress. It is Pete’s good fortune that his fellow congressmen are more restrained than your average longshoreman, otherwise Pete would have had his clock punched years ago.

Now newswires are buzzing with Stark’s latest unstable rant, asserting that Bush sends our boys and girls “to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement.”

Ellen Tauscher attempted to cage Stark by taking to the house floor and reminding him that personal attacks are not permitted there. Alas, she was too late as Republicans capitalized on Stark’s eruption. “I always believe when your political opponents are committing suicide, there’s no reason to murder them,” was the tactic House Minority leader John Boehner chose.

Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan echoed that refrain saying “Pete Stark’s out-of-control rant is an insult to every American, Democrat or Republican. It is one thing to disagree with the war in Iraq, but it is another to go to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives and rave that the men and women of the United States Armed Forces are ‘[blowing] up innocent people.’”

Stark has clearly fallen into the spiral of a man with no remaining self control. Like a wino who cannot let go of a bottle, Stark has no other form of political dialogue than the idiocy of insult. Eloquence and persuasion have given way to bombast and back-biting. Damn the diplomacy, full diatribe ahead!

At a time when Americans are looking for common grounds on complex issues, especially a clean and well managed end to the war, Stark’s screeds are at best nonproductive, and at worst an impediment to the nation and world. Pete’s inability to control his tongue speaks volumes about the core of his soul.

That assumes he has one. Unlike the approximately 90% of Americans surveyed who believe in God, Stark is a plainly avowed atheist, putting Pete out of step with his constituents rhetorically, emotionally, and philosophically. In short, he no longer represents the thoughtful, deliberative and peaceable people of the east bay.

Thanks for your service Pete, but it is time for you to leave the political stage.

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Stupidity Solatium

October 25th, 2007

The one good thing about thugs is that they are about as bright as your average firefly … after being swatted.

Gangs and their moronic members have the quirky desire to advertise. Normally criminals — at least those outside of congress — keep a low profile in order to avoid being identified, arrested, incarcerated, and other multisyllabic words that the mob members are incapable of comprehending.

But not your average gang-bang guru. There have been instances of video tapes recovered from stolen cars that documented the criminal activities of (surprise) the people who stole the car. These videos have shown shootings, rapes, and other activities seen on America’s mean streets and within the Kennedy compound.

More advanced morons have discovered the Internet and are advertising their gang allegiances on web sites. In fact a thick-skilled ruffian was recently arrested for murder after his picture appeared on a MySpace web page for his gang. This 19 year old, who had previous problems with stolen cars and concealed weapons, was fingered when the cops scanned MySpace and found a page listing the gang and showing the suspect therein.

Cops = smart. Thugs = stupid. Any questions?

Well, just one. The future Lethal Injection candidate is the son of a cop. I know Oakland’s streets can corrupt even the most resilient citizen, but one would hope a cop’s kid would be arrested for littering and not the application of lead to a fellow teen’s skull. Perhaps that is too much to hope from Oakland.

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Rube’s Recantation

October 23rd, 2007

I’ll soon post more about the abusive nature of representative Fortney “Pete” Stark, a Bay Area desperado unfortunately holding a seat in Congress. I’ll report in passing that the best name I have heard Pete’s constituents call him is “rectal parasite”, though I hear tale that rectal parasites are unhappy with the comparison.

However, for once I agree with Fortney. Not for his originally psychotic utterance were he claimed the current leader of the free would got his jollies by having the heads blown off of his own soldiers. But this this snip from his belated mea culpa has minor merit:

With this apology I will become as insignificant as I should be …

I have only a grammatical correction for Fortney. “Will become” is in the future tense and implies that he has at some time or another been significant. This is clearly a mistake. After all, rectal parasites at least serve a purpose.

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Love

October 20th, 2007

Love is a non-profit operation.  You must give away your assets.

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