If there's one thing Republicans can pride themselves on...

If there's one thing Republicans can pride themselves on, it's being fiscally conservative, right? Am I right? I'm wrong, aren't I? Let's see how wrong I am:



My favorite line starts at about 2minutes 16seconds in: "Sheriff Joe Arpiao, normally open to all media requests, declined to talk to twelve news on camera about this operation."

Yeah, so apparently the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department is too low on funds to buy basic office supplies, but they're sending county employees to Honduras to help train police there. I'm all for strengthening international relations, but this looks a little like Joe's sending his best employees on working vacations at Maricopa County expense... and shouldn't international relations be the federal government's job?

/Green Bandit Out.

At Least We've Learned from Our Mistakes...

Found this over at Tom Tomorrow's but the original article is here

MADISON, Wis. - The online gun dealer who sold a weapon to the Virginia Tech shooter said it was an unnerving coincidence that he also sold handgun accessories to the man who killed five students at Northern Illinois University.
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Eric Thompson said his Web site, [removed by Greenbandit], sold two empty 9 mm Glock magazines and a Glock holster to Steven Kazmierczak on Feb. 4, just 10 days before the 27-year-old opened fire in a classroom and killed five before committing suicide.

Another Web site run by Thompson's company, [removed by Greenbandit], also sold a Walther .22-caliber handgun to Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 people in April on the Virginia Tech campus before killing himself.

"I'm still blown away by the coincidences," Thompson said Friday. "I'm shaking. I can't believe somebody would order from us again and do this."

Removed links to prevent driving up his webtraffic (not that this site is going to drive a lot his way). If you're really curious about his websites, the original article has them linked. The skills needed to run a business don't really depend on what you're selling. If this guy is as shaken as he says he is, why not go into a different line of work?

Is this Election About Change?

Everyone says this election is about change. Even the Republicans are trying to run as change candidates. Let's see what they're offering us. From Think Progress:



And there's more over at Crooks and Liars.

My predictions

The other day, a webcomic creator asked on his LiveJournal what his readers/friends/etc thought would happen with the election.

I said something silly but I'm going to follow up to see how accurate I was. Here was my prediction:

"The Republican outcome could depend on the ME caucus this weekend. Whoever comes out ahead in terms of delegates just before Super Tuesday might get a big boost. The Democratic outcome will depend on the SuperBowl on Sunday. If the Patriots win, Hillary will get the nomination. Otherwise it'll be Obama."

This is a completely baseless, totally off the wall formula. We'll say I was trying to predict what the outcome of Super Tuesday will be (since my predictions for the outcome of the actual election are below) Although Romney won Main, but John McCain is still ahead in delegates, and so will get a boost on Super Tuesday. Because the Patriots lost, Obama will come out ahead after Super Tuesday.

Only time will tell.

EDIT: Some wording above was changed so that it would make sense.