Young skolars for Rick Perry!

This goes back to a 2010 rally in Houston in which Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin were in town to support Rick Perry. Still, it's priceless.  Houston Press photo.

After drinking all that tea, GOP not so grand anymore

Wyoming GOP will be bringing some monstrous Tea Party bills to the 2012 Legislature.Stay tuned... 

WY Democrats take aim at GOP Presidential candidates

And it's such a big, juicy target.

Chairman of the Wyoming Democratic Party Chuck Herz takes advantage of Mitt Romney's visit to The Equality State to handicap the Republican presidential hopefuls. Here’s a great quote about the difference between social justice Democrats and the ignorant Know Nothings who make up the bulk of the Repub field:

"Whether we are going to have an extreme approach that considers government almost always the enemy, thus doing away with way with many, many protections that we have, not only Social Security, Medicare, but regulations that protect us and protect the natural world that we like to hunt and recreate in here in Wyoming."

 WPR: Wyoming Democrats take aim at GOP Presidential candidates (2011-08-18)

Many ALEC funders do business in Wyoming

The list of ALEC funders include names of corporations that do business in Wyoming. One of them, BP, brags that Wyoming is the site of its largest onshore oil and gas holdings (Sweetwater and Carbon counties). Not sure why Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF) needs to fund an organization that is vehemently anti-union. Perhaps the company's CEOs resent the salaries paid to those who keep the company running. Peabody digs tons of coal from the Powder River Basin and loves the cozy relationship it has with our Republican legislators. Some of the richest members of the Walton Family Foundation live in Wyoming. Union Pacific Railroad -- shame on you. No more black-and-white 1950s TV shows named after you! Encana has huge energy extraction holdings in the state.

That's just the beginning.  

Thanks to Infinity at Daily Kos for providing the names of ALEC funders. More info at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/18/1008120/-ALEC-Boycott!


PRESIDENTIAL LEVEL

BP
Reynolds American
Takeda Pharmaceutical

CHAIRMAN LEVEL

Allergan
Altria
American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity
American Electric Power
AT&T
Bayer
Chevron
ExxonMobil
EZCorp
Lumina Foundation
Peabody
PhRMA
Shell
State Farm
State Policy Network
UnitedHealthcare
Visa
Walmart
Walton Family Foundation

VICE-CHAIRMAN LEVEL

CashAmerica
Entergy
FedEx
Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity
Freepont-McMoran Copper & Gold
Intuit
Johnson & Johnson
Koch Industries
LouisDreyfus Commodities
Louisiana Seafood
McMoran Exploration
National Rifle Association
Pfizer
Sanofi
TogetherRX Access
UPS

DIRECTOR LEVEL

Amazon.com
Atmos Energy
BlueCross BlueShield Association
CenturyLink
Chesapeake Energy
ConocoPhillips
Dow
Encana
Energy Transfer
Gulf States Toyota
International Paper
Jacobs Entertainment
LouisianaTravel.com
NetChoice
QEP Resources
StateNet
TimeWarner
WellPoint

TRUSTEE LEVEL

American Federation for Children
BlueCross Blue Shield of Lousiana
BNSF
Cleco
CN
Cox
CSX
Genesee & Wyoming Inc.
Harris Deville & Associates
HP
Kansas City Southern
Kraft Foods
Lilly
Louisiana Chemical Association
Louisiana Railroads Association
Louisiana Realtors
Merck
Norfolk Southern
RestoringFreedom.org
Society of Louisiana CPAs
Southern Strategy Group
Spectra Energy
The Capitol Group
Union Pacific
USAA
Walgreens


For all the latest info on how ALEC brings right-wing muscle to bear on your state legislature, go to http://www.alecexposed.com

River City's got trouble with a capital "T" and that stands for Tea Party

A billboard ordered and paid for by the North Iowa Tea Party shows President Obama, Adolf Hitler, left, and Vladimir Lenin, on South Federal Avenue in Mason City, Iowa. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/13/iowa-tea-party-billboard-compares-obama-hitler/#ixzz1VFmr5OK0 (even Fox thinks this is a bit much). Meredith "The Music Man" Wilson would be proud of his hometown of "River City." We got trouble, right here in River City, trouble with a capital "T" and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for "Tea Party." (The billboard was removed a month ago -- I was a bit late on this one but it deserves long life on the interwebs.)

Is Department of Ed effort to make all employees at-will the start of WY anti-public worker effort?

On Monday, the AP reported that

"the head of the Wyoming Department of Education wants all new hires to be classified as at-will employees who serve without job protections."

At-will state employees usually are in management positions. Nothing particularly wrong with that. They get bigger salaries and take bigger risks. It's much different to try to classify all of your employees as at-will. That means that anyone can be fired at any time for any reason. State employees would have no job protections once they complete the one-year probation in which you can be fired without cause, If all of us are at-will, we could conceivably be fired any time for any reason by any of our superiors.

If this sort of anti-public worker effort looks familiar, that's because it is. Think Wisconsin. Think Minnesota. Think Florida. In fact, think of all those states that were taken over by Repub Govs and Republican-dominated legislatures in 2010. Some (WI) are heavily union states. Some (FL) are so-called Right to Work states. It doesn't seem to matter. If your state got an infusion of Tea Party politicians in 2010, public workers are under the gun.

Wyoming is a so-called Right to Work state. There is a union for public employees but workers don't have to join. On Sunday in the Casper Star-Tribune, Wyoming Public Employees Association Director Betty Jo Beardsley noted that there are 1,600 union members throughout the state. This represents a minority of those eligible for union membership. Betty Jo did say that she's had a number of new sign-ups from the Dept. of Ed since January, which is when the wacko 2011 Wyoming State Legislature began its session. That began with a battle over tenure for teachers and their Wyoming Education Association union, with 6,500 members. Some Tea Party Republicans had some less than nice things to say about teachers and other public workers. Cooler heads prevailed and the anti-teacher bills were defeated.

Those bills will be back in the Legislature again, courtesy of right-wing anti-public education groups and other outside agitators such as the American Legislative Education Council (ALEC).

The WEA summed up its success against these Know Nothings with excellent ass-kicking videos by Ron Sniffin. Here's how Ron's vid summed it up:


The Education Legislative Session from Ronald Sniffin on Vimeo.

This time around, public workers will be the target. Cindy Hill's attempts to transform at Dept of Ed jobs to at-will status is the opening salvo.

List of Wyoming legislators with ties to ALEC

Want to know where the wackiest bills will come from in the next session of the Wyoming Legislature? Look no further than the Wyoming legislators with ties to ALEC. Wondering how many of therm are in New Orleans this week getting their marching orders from richy-rich right wingers the Koch Brothers, major funders of ALEC. Note that Dem Sen. John Hastert is an ALEC member. And he's a Democrat? Cross-reference these names from the Wyoming House list and the Wyoming Senate list. Lists courtesy of ALEC Exposed at the Center for Media and Democracy.


Wyoming House of Representatives

§  Rep. Peter Illoway (R-42), State Chairman 

§  Rep. Allen Jaggi (R-18)

§  Rep. Lorraine Quarberg (R-28)

§  Rep. Richard L. Cannady (R-06), ALEC Civil Justice Task Force Member

§  Rep. Lisa A. Shepperson (R-58), ALEC Civil Justice Task Force Member

§  Rep. Carl R. Loucks (R-59), ALEC Civil Justice Task Force Member

§  Rep. Dan Zwonitzer (R-43), ALEC Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force Member

§  Rep. Rosie M. Berger (R-51), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Member

§  Rep. Charles P. Childers (R-50), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Member

§  Rep. Bryan K. Pedersen (R-07), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Member

§  Rep. Tim Stubson (R-56), ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force Member

§  Rep. Lorraine K. Quarberg (R-28), ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force Member

§  Rep. Thomas E. Lubnau, II (R-31), ALEC International Relations Task Force Member

§  Rep. Kathy Davison (R-20), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member

§  Rep. Thomas Lockhart (R-57), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Member

§  Rep. Matt Teeters (R-05), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Alternate and Education Task Force Member

§  Rep. John Eklund, Jr. (R-10), ALEC Education Task Force Member

§  Rep. Allen M. Jaggi (R-18), ALEC Education Task Force Member

§  Rep. Pete S. Illoway (R-42), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Member

§  Rep. Jon A. Botten (R-30), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Member

§  Rep. Clarence J. Vranish (R-49), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Member

§  Rep. Sue Wallis (R-52), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Alternate

§  Rep. Amy L. Edmonds (R-12), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Alternate

§  Rep. Pat Childers (R-50), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Alternate

Wyoming State Senate

§  Sen. Grant Larson (R-17), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Member

§  Sen. Bruce Burns (R-21), ALEC Civil Justice Task Force Member

§  Sen. Stan Cooper (R-14), ALEC Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force Member

§  Sen. Curt E. Meier (R-03), ALEC Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force Member

§  Sen. John M. Hastert (D-13), ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force Member

§  Sen. Eli D. Bebout (R-26), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force and International Relations Task Force Member

§  Sen. Leslie Nutting (R-07), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member

§  Sen. Dan Dockstader (R-16), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member

§  Sen. James Anderson (R-02), ALEC Education Task Force Member

§  Sen. Cale Case (R-25), ALEC Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force Alternate and International Relations Task Force Member

§  Sen. Henry H. Coe (R-18), ALEC Education Task Force Alternate

Putting Wyoming in charge of health insurance will work as well as putting Wyoming in charge of energy policy

From the New York Times:

The Obama administration will soon take over the review of health insurance rates in 10 states where it says state officials do not adequately regulate premiums for insurance sold to individuals or small businesses.

Wyoming, of course, is one of these states. Here's a quote on the subject from Sen. Dr. Barrasso:

Senator John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming, complained that federal officials were stripping states of the freedom to run their health insurance markets. 

“In Wyoming, state leaders have chosen to let the free market work,” Mr. Barrasso said, “ The president and his administration have no idea what is best for the people of Wyoming. The people of Wyoming know what works for our state better than any Washington bureaucrat.”

Imagine putting our Know Nothing, gubment-hating, Republican-dominated state legislature in charge of our health insurance choices? Sheer suicide. And Dr Barrasso knows this. Seems like he is suggesting assisted suicide for all Wyoming residents. More than suggesting it -- he's advocating it. Maybe this is better (with a nod to Rep. Alan Grayson during the Congressional health care debates): Hurry up and die, Wyomingites. Hurry up and die. 

FMI: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/health/policy/26health.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23

Congressional Republicans just want to watch the world burn

From Meg Lanker . I know that Sen. Dr. Barrasso is in here somewhere with all these OWGs from the GOP.

Do Leftie bloggers really hate Christians or their un-Christian attitudes?

Seems that I will always have material for weekend blogging as long as the local Radical Christian Right is on the job.

Harlan Edmonds wrote an op-ed in today's Wyoming Tribune-Eagle. Mr. Edmonds has hit those pages before -- and hit them hard -- with screeds against abortion, Liberals, immigrants, RINOs -- you name it.

I don't mind screeds as I sometimes engage in those same tactics. But shouldn't they make sense or present some solid evidence for the Average Joe (or Mike) to latch onto.

His target is "Tough Enough to Wear Pink" day held Thursday at Cheyenne Frontier Days. On that day, burly dudes in pink wrestle steers and ride bucking broncos. In Thursday's parade, Gov. Matt Mead wore pink, as did Secretary of State Max Maxfield. Members of the CFD committee wore pink. This was a statement advocating increased funding for breast cancer research for all those women in our lives faced with the disease. The CFD's charity of choice on this issue is the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundations. Christian Right activists contend that some of the money donated to Komen MAY end up being donated to Planned Parenthood which MIGHT use it to counsel poor women to have abortions.

In the name of Christian purity, Mr. Edmonds and Mr. Wall contend that not a penny of our money should go to a wonderful charity which saves lives and will some day help to find a cure for women afflicted with breast cancer. They may be our wives or daughters or co-workers or someone we don't even know.

How very un-Christian of you Christian gentlemen.

But that's not the point, is it? Mr.. Edmonds will believe what he believes and logic will not shake him. He spends most of his column with ad hominem attacks local Christian minister and fellow Leftie blogger Rodger McDaniel. Mr. Edmonds says that the Rev. McDaniel "managed to squeeze more anti-Christian bigotry into a single WTE piece recently than Mullah Omar could fit in a four-hour fatwa."

I always like it when Christian fundamentalists try to equate Lefties with Muslim fundamentalists. As we all know, Fundies of all stripes believe in the same basic philosophy -- literalism. This is one of the reasons that some of my fellow Leftie bloggers label the American Christian Right "the American Taliban."

And I just did the same thing. Oops!

Lefties have learned a few things during the past 40 yars or so. Literalism is a dead end, whether it applies to the Bible or to The Communist Manifesto, the Koran or Mao's Little Red Book, the Book of Mormon or The Port Huron Statement. Living your life by the tenets of one little book penned by humans (and possibly inspired by God) eventually backs you into a corner.

It's also un-democratic (small "d"). The humanist principles upon which America was founded call upon citizens to continue to continually think and grow. Fundies, by nature, reach a dead end in their personal growth. All they are left with is a striving toward the End Times and eternal salvation. The hell with society. The hell with my fellow man and human. The hell with cancer cures and global arming solutions and universal health care.

In the end, they are anti-life.

In its efforts to aid humankind, CFD advocates life over death. I have a feeling that there are a few Christians within the CFD leadership ranks. And you can't swing a cat at a rodeo without knocking down a Christian cowboy or cowgirl. I know because I tried that last year and burly security guards wearing pink threw me out of the rodeo grounds.

SECURITY GUARD: "We don't cotton to your kind around here."
ME: "Leftie bloggers?"
SECURITY GUARD: "No, guys who swing cats."

I left, chastened.

Another thing I've noticed about fundamentalists, whether they be Mullah Omar or Harlan Edmonds -- they have no sense of humor.

I strive for humor and sometimes succeed. Maybe that's why I was inspired to wear pink fairy wings during my turn as emcee Thursday evening at the Atlas Theatre's old-fashioned melodrama. The pink wings looked great with my cowboy duds. "Tough enough to wear pink fairy wings!"

Take that, you close-minded fundies.

America's own Taliban -- Al Jazeera English

We have some of these strange people in Wyoming. They advocate the destruction of Native American religious artifacts. Go to America's own Taliban - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Poll: More trust Obama over Republicans in Congress on debt, deficit issues

Listen up, Wyoming Sen./Dr. John Barrasso and Sen. Mike Enzi -- the clock is ticking on your Radical Right agenda: Poll: More trust Obama over Republicans in Congress on debt, deficit issues - The Hill's On The Money

Let 'em buck -- but don't dress 'em in pink!

Local Radical Right scold Richard Wall writes an op-ed in this morning's Wyoming Tribune-Eagle.

What is Richard incensed about now, you might ask?

I already knew, since his anti-Susan G. Komen letter to the CFD has been circulating for a week. It was first illuminated among the local blogosphere by the always-alert Jeran Artery at Out in Wyoming.

Mr. Wall's op-ed skills are quite good. He takes his time working himself into a lather over the real message. Condom posters in Frontier Park restrooms! Public drunkenness! Scantily clad photos of Miss Frontier and her Lady in Waiting! Dogs and cats, living together!

Forget the last one. I just had a "Ghostbusters" flashback.

Wall's main target is the relationship between Cheyenne Frontier Days, "The Daddy of 'Em All," and the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation. CFD works with Komen to promote the fight against breast cancer. To that end, Thursday's CFD activities carry to motto "Tough Enough to Wear Pink."

There were lots of cowboys and cowgirls wearing pink for cancer research the last time I attended the CFD rodeo. They looked pretty tough to me riding buckin' broncs and racing steeds around barrels at breakneck speeds.

Wall objects to Komen's alleged ties with Planned Parenthood and stem cell research. He contends that "25 percent of the money raised by its local affiliate go to Komen's national offices, which permits or takes part in these abuses." He is not clear what those abuses are, but he does say that it involves those "who respect all human life... must steer a wide berth around the Komen organization."

"Respect human life?" Code words for the anti-abortion movement. When they say "all human life," they mean "fetuses."  Once that fetus is actually born, they wash their hands of its fate unless its 80 years later and that sick and aging person is on life support (like Terry Schiavo) and should never be taken off to end the suffering.

These same people support the death penalty and pointless wars that kills innocent civilians including pregnant mothers and their fetuses. They also want to do away with the government's social safety net that prevents starvation in mothers and children. Every sperm is sacred!

They don't like gays either, dressed in pink or not.

How I do go on.

Please read Mr. Wall's screed and let CFD know that they shouldn't cave in to to the Radical Right, especially when our 115-year-old tradition carries such a proud legacy of supporting local causes.

O.K., CFD isn't perfect, especially if you're a vegan or a PETA member or Sheryl Crow or you just don't like mainstream country music. But if we're going to apply a purity test to CFD or any of our organizations, none will come up smelling like a rose. We Lefties are goofy on this too. We have shows such as "Portlandia" and numerous blogs to remind us how strangely human we all are.

Wall is human so give him a break, eh? I would, but he's attempting to insert his narrow-minded agenda into a place where it doesn't belong. Let him talk and write op-eds. But let's not let him bully our CFD.

Question of the day: "Has the G.O.P. gone insane?"

From Paul Krugman's excellent column in yesterday's NYT:

A number of commentators seem shocked at how unreasonable Republicans are being. “Has the G.O.P. gone insane?” they ask.

Why, yes, it has. But this isn’t something that just happened, it’s the culmination of a process that has been going on for decades. Anyone surprised by the extremism and irresponsibility now on display either hasn’t been paying attention, or has been deliberately turning a blind eye.

Bachmann’s Husband Calls Homosexuals ‘Barbarians’ Who ‘Need To Be Educated And Disciplined’

Bachmann’s Husband Calls Homosexuals ‘Barbarians’ Who ‘Need To Be Educated And Disciplined’

When trying to figure out where presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) gets her stringent, anti-gay views, you only have to look as far as her husband. Dr. Marcus Bachmann, who has described himself as his wife’s “strategist,” runs a Christian-based counseling center in Minnesota that has been rumored to offer reparative treatment for those looking to “ungay” themselves.

Who needs Rainbow Family Rocky Mountain gatherings when you have the Koch Brothers Platinum Lovefest?

A brave coterie of protesters gathered outside the recent Koch Brothers Right Wing Lovefest in Vail, Colorado. CommonBlog has a list of corporate aircraft that flew Right-thinking corporate CEOs and pundits to the conference. Thanks, planespotters. Target is on the list. See if your favorite corporation is there. For more, go here.

Me and Harvey the Progressive Donkey invite you to sit a spell here at hummingbirdminds

My pal, the Dem donkey

Life is strange for a progressive living in a Republican state.

I sometimes feel like the family's eccentric uncle.

Uncle Mike says the darndest things. The President was born in the U.S. and not Kenya? Next thing you know, he'll be saying that gay marriages should be recognized in Wyoming, or that women deserve equal pay for equal work. He did say that? That Uncle Mike... 

Ha, ha, ha. Maybe I am the eccentric uncle. Elwood P. Dowd talked to an invisible rabbit named Harvey and the powers-that-be in the play locked him up for it. Elwood didn't think it was strange. "Let me give you my card..." He was a nice man, too, quite happy with his P.O.V.

I have a bit of Elwood in me. I seem quite happy with my P.O.V. My invisible rabbit seems to be a donkey. As long as that donkey stays invisible, all is right in Republican-dominated Wyoming. But if I or any of my fellow Dems acknowledge the donkey, we're eccentric.

Felt a bit like that at the Recent SuperDay! event in Cheyenne. Some people seemed quite shocked that there was a group of Democrats will to be out in public bragging about their county party. And they had a cardboard cut-out of the "Made in the U.S.A." president! You know, that guy from Kenya. Thing is, we were having fun and promoting those causes that we believe in. Maybe we were awakening from the 2010 shellacking at the polls. It's possible that the openly mean-spirited Tea Party shenanigans at our State Legislature freed us to make public our presence and our beliefs. One young father pushing a stroller with his toddler aboard looked at me and my Laramie County Democrats with a sardonic smile. "I'm surprised you haven't been tarred and feathered." I thought it an odd thing to say, a throwback to a time when charlatans and mountebanks and Harold Hill and the Duke and the King in Huck's tale were tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail. The young father said that he was kidding but he didn't take one of my pretty brochures.

It's odd, isn't it, to live in a state where just having a "Proud Wyoming Democrat" bumper sticker on your bright red Ford is a radical act.

At public gatherings, people assume that you are a Republican. They will say the darndest things believing that you think the exact same way that they do. I used to let those things slide, but don't anymore.

Maybe I would if I was a business owner in Cheyenne. I've had more than one Democrat tell me that they keep their Liberal leanings secret so as not to alienate potential clients and customers. I don't blame them. If I owned a little bistro, I wouldn't put an "Obama in 2012" in my front window. You might find new customers that way, but it probably is not a great marketing strategy in a state where registered Democrats are outnumbered more than 2-to-1 and many of those Democrats are moderate or even conservative on some issues and might have voted for Obama but don't brag about it.

The other day, a legislative lobbyist who is a Democrat said that he dare not say anything negative about Rep. Cynthia Lummis or Lummis will hear about it through the Republican grapevine and never, ever do anything for the lobbyist's clients on the national level. Ditto for Dr. Sen. John Barrasso. That's probably predictable in a legislature that has 76 Republicans and 14 Dems. Our entire U.S. Congressional delegation is Republican. All our state electeds are Republicans. That's one extensive grapevine. No wonder progressive lobbyists have to be discreet. But in the end, does anyone in Wyoming expect Rep. Lummis to ever do anything in Washington, D.C., for any progressive cause?

When I arrived in Wyoming 20 years ago, moving from a state that is more purple that blue or red (Colorado), I was shocked to hear Democrats say that they register as Republicans so that they can vote in primaries that matter. I thought that was absurd. I acknowledged that I would never register as a Republican. There was that time that I registered as an Independent, a move that was totally pointless. And I have since learned that Wyoming voters can switch party registration on the day of the primaries and switch back on their way out the door. That happened frequently in the 2010 primaries, when hordes of Dems switched to "R" to vote for Matt Mead against Tea Party fave Ron Micheli. Not surprising that one of the items on the Republicans' legislative agenda this year was to change this user-friendly polling registration system. Now we're seeing a national effort by Republicans to make registering and voting as difficult as possible.

Me and Harvey the Democratic Donkey invite you to linger a bit here at hummingbirdminds and we'll chat. You say you'd rather yell than chat? Guess that's O.K., but Harvey has big ears and sensitive ones. He's big too, really big for a donkey. And he knows karate. Did I mention that he has a blog?

Talking about Netroots Nation Monday night at Laramie County Democrats meeting in Cheyenne

Van Jones

If I can get my laptop (and myself) to function properly, I will be showing a few clips from happenings at the recent Netroots Nation conference during the monthly meeting of the Laramie County Democrats at the IBEW Union Hall, 810 Fremont St., Cheyenne, on Monday, June 27, 7:30 p.m.

Although I have an entire composition book filled with notes, I thought that a few vids might be a lot more fun than a reading a batch of my scribbles from the event. I am especially fond of Jill Sobule's new song about the Tea Party that she debuted at the conference. There's a rousing speech by Van Jones and a wry, deadpan address by Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota, Minneapolis hometown boy. And if we get bored, we can always look at footage of Wingnut Andrew Breitbart trying to crash NN11 because The Right Online conference across the street was so bloody boring.

So come on out. All are welcome. It's free, although LarCoDems' treasurer Gary Roadifer may badger you for spare change. Sometimes we have cookies. Get more info at www.laramiecountydemocrats.org

Wyoming Tribune-Eagle: "Some angry about Wyoming's High Plains Initiative"

Land-use planning? We don't need no U.N.-sponsored Agenda 21 land-use planning in Platte and Goshen counties! Read article here.

Jill Sobule: "They say they want their America back, WTF do they mean?"